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>> are those interior or exterior? >> interior walls where the garage is and it leads like if they were moving in. garage leading upstairs into the levels. >> we do take into account all the materials. they're life cycles, the finishes, we tend to look at finishes between a matte and glossy an eggshell finish. all those are further refinements but for sure keeping something fresh and knew they're all things we take into account as we start to specify all the finishes in the next iteration of the design process. >> commissioner: thank you so much. and the last thought and it may not even apply to this session,
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but had you thought about the street naming? i see the m street and 9th street. had you considered that that it was declared the art district and it would be great to bring in history win the street names. >> these the street names we've been using in our schematic designs and i just tried to stay consistent but i can get back to you on updates on the vote names. >> thank you. that's it for me. >> great, thank you, dr. scott. >> like joe montana and clark way drive. i was there for that.
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i was interested in the height variance. my assumption is if we grant the variance this will set a new standard for height. >> this is something we spent a bit of time on and specifically this variance would be for an increase for the tower screening specifically. but our design staff and general council are actually looking into updating the information and the d for d so as we design the towers the d for d will have the information we need so they can be designed like they need to be so as an example the size of the tower requires a certain size of mechanical that's going
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to be on top of the building. and project areas like trans bay have already updated their standards to accommodate screening like this. the d for d in candlestick has not yet been updated. that's something that's going to be coming before you in the future and something we're considering so we don't have to ask for a variance for each tower. >> i'm more of a variable person. when you say it's the signature power people will see and folks coming in from san josé or airport it's front and center. this will be candlestick and this is the tower.
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>> this will be the one that can be seen from all angles. zwloe don't understand the >> i don't understand the blank wall variance other than understanding the wall is blank. what's the policy before we talk about the variance, what's the policy objective of a blank wall? why are there limitations on that? >> the idea is at the ground floor where pedestrians are walking by the building, we want there to be activation for people to be able to interact with the building so on one side you have a lot of interaction on ingerson where it's all retail. it will be shops or restaurants or whatever so people can
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interact and go ib and out. on -- in and out. on the other side on harney is the b.r.t. so you can't have curb cuts or stopping along the way so that's a restriction there. and then on another side we have a mid block break which is more of a pedestrian experience with people walking along there. so the 20% maximum is to make sure as people are walking in the neighborhood that there interacting with the design that they have a pleasant experience and see something nice when they walk by. that's the experience and we don't want there to be a lot of blank walls and not interactive space around the building at the ground floor so we put limits on it. in this case, however, you still
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need spaces where pg&e have access and that put us in a position where we had to locate all the utilities on one side. >> would it be appropriate to think of art, for instance, to give it a more cohesive experience like an aesthetic experience? so if we're grog to grant a variance and i understand the reason now, thank you for why we don't want a lot of space staring at people i saw something in the design and i don't know if this is illustrative but the birds in flight is beautiful. i think it gives it a calming
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impression but there's a ton as we have wonderful artists. >> and the design team actual by put in a bit of work in thinking through that and one thing they're planning is to do a mural so that's one of the art selections and just work the building articulation to make sure it's not just a blank wall. see something visually pleasing so that's something they're thinking about. >> commissioner: beautiful, thank you. so on the b.m.r. topic, these are for sale. do we not -- this is a question because in my memory we tend to have lack of successful applicants that are krvmentd c.o.p. holders in my experience
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and we have to do more than the normal. and we want candidate to the extent folks are from the neighborhood. and we need a robust thoughtful plan and i'm talking about the commissions policies a lot of is we don't know and how do we know. it's crazy people don't know. that's part of our conditions of approval and the developer agreed to and committed to with the early outreach with an emphasis on the certificate of
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preference holder. it's not limited to c.o.p. holders but there'll be an emphasis to bring them with the early route -- outreach they'll work with the ocii staff who have become experts and you heard from before and will submit an early outreach plan 30 days after even construction begins. that still leaves plenty of time because the building won't even be completed or near completion when they actually start the process to figure out how they'll bring people in for the below market rate units >> commissioner: i appreciate that but on this one we may want to start earlier than that. we have a survey and have dalia.
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there's a feature in dalia that connects opportunity with interested party. that's something our technology should be able to do. the real estate folks have it. we do it on the local business side. we should be able to match them to the opportunity veep -- even if it's two years out and know ahead of time. if people have issues on the down payment and assistance, the city has a lot of tools available to get people in and sooner the better. people challenged the dalia system to begin with. you may have interesting parties to the paper process and trying
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to get them fluent on the dalia system. we need to start earlier than normal. and this might be a question too early to answer but do we have a contractor selected? not yet? >> i'm from five point. we don't at this point. for the construction we'll be selecting one in the upcoming years as we go forward and of course they'll be part of the ocii policy with hiring sub-commitees. >> we'd like to encourage associates and venders at the g.c. level. >> commissioner: i just want to underscore what she brought up regarding the outreach with the certificate of preference holders and i mentioned folks in
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the edition were removed because of where the lived and the color of their skin not their credit score. i'd hate for us to continue to put barriers for people that wasn't their choice to leave. they had no choice. so when we're looking at outreach, we have to start now. we have to get people's credit scores to a certain level and they have to be saving money. and a hope we don't just provide lip service to people and authentic and not being hypocritical by saying we want certificate of preference holders when we don't make that extra step or make the extra effort to reach out to people
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who rightly should be back home in san francisco. it's more of a question for us and ocii and maria benjamin's shop. we can't just provide lip service to people. if we have a great building like this and then as we get ready to open we're told there weren't enough people, then something's wrong with that. i know it's not you. i'm just throwing this out there as an organization and agency here with a conscience. then we have to do something radically different because then we're just being hypocritical and i don't think any of us here
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want to be that. i just want to underscore that. and then the last comment or second to last is i really appreciate five points' effort with the 50%. it could always be more. we'd appreciate that. i'm sure a lot of people would but getting people to build the community from the community, you'll get that extra special love from the people from the community building the community. thank you for that. and second, lastly, i talk about the wow factor i think the last time we had seen a building coming into us from that area and this is phenomenal and stunning. i think you did an excellent job of working with the community but to me this is going to be an
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anchor building. it's not only a wonderful thing to see but a statement to the community that things are beginning to move faster. all those decade of waiting for us make it happen is happening. with that wiee'll have a lovely beautiful building and want to fill it with people who deserve to be there. i don't know whether we need another meeting with maria but we have to start like last year basically on buildings people will have to purchase. we have to get them up for success rather than for failure. dr. scott, you wanted to say something? >> just throwing this out, pam, again, i want to say how much
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though we have barriers but how much dalia is working. dr. honeycutt and i during passion weekend to make an announcement and give out cards and the reception of that was so huge. the problem is having individuals to navigate through the process. each step gets a little more difficult. if you're buy yourself doing it you can almost give up but it works if you can keep moving with it but you definitely need help. i would even say i have to ask what are they having for here? i had to ask and call. if i had to do it, those who
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have trouble with a little bit of literacy or just processing information like that after giving the cards out i got tons of responses and what i got was help. they were interested and ready but need help. i was thinking and i think i may have mentioned this the last time, the churches giving them an incentive to get persons to help in the sin dogs, the churches, the school system, help with filling that paperwork out and helping them in the process. something like the non-profit organizations we that are here would be great help if they can offer something to get teams of persons aboard to help with that. >> i'm a senior development
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specialist at ocii. maria heard you when you mention the churches and she has already started to do her outreach her and her staff. we're going to start implementing that piece and how we'll roll it out we don't know yet but we're starting the process. in the interim i hope everyone knows there's several housing agencies an counselors and they repeatedly come into the o.c.d., ocii offices to get training on dalia and the inclusionary manual and how to go through the application process and what is needed and the proof.
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and they're handheld to go through the process and i hope individuals take advantage of the housing and the expertise to get them through the process. also and a hope people understand this too i'm always available. o.c.d. staff is available if anyone has questions about the dalia system and navigating the process. >> they're available. i sent tens of people to them but they're overwhelmed and they don't have the staff and they're not able to answer the phone or make an appointment and the appointment is so far down the road the individuals run out of time and they run out of time moving to the next person.
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we have the help of san francisco development and the others. >> we're trying. >> commissioner: is there a motion? >> seconded. >> commissioner: seconded by dr. scott. madame secretary please take roll. >> clerk: when i call your name. mr. chair the vote is three ayes. >> commissioner: thank you. motion carries. madame secretary, please call the next item. >> clerk: the next order of business is agenda item 5d. approving a budget for the period of july 1, 2019 through
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june 30, 2020 and authorizing the executive direct to submit the budget and interim budget to the mayor's office and resolution no.11-2019. madame director. >> the item before you is an approval for the budget for 1920 on april 16, the staff presented the informational workshop on the budget today you'll be presented with the slight reduction in the budget by 0.1%. and some comparisons to and submittal to the mayor's office. with that i'll turn it over to amina to present. >> and again i'm here to present
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on the budget approval action item. so just a reminder of the time line. in april we present the commission the workshop on the budget. we did a detailed look at all of our project areas on affordable housing and operations. today i'm presenting on the action item. i'll talk about some of the slight changes from our workshop and a comparison to our 1819 budget. subsequent for of your approval i'll submit to the mayor's office and board of supervisors by june 1. >> the changes from the workshop are a net reduction of .1% reduction and these changes are due to four changes three of
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which are technical which means they're really corrections or reclassifications and one is an actual programmatic change which say reduction in the folsom street scape transit cost by $3.4 million. at the workshop d.p.w. was considering different bidders and we wanted to budget the highest bid we had appropriated for. it wasn't the highest bidder. this decrease in the total project cost doesn't actually have a dollar on the budget. what we did was re-allocate the funds. our priority is to spend bond first and then fees and then property tax. the $3.4 million was initially funded by the proceeds but because of the project cost reduction we were able to re-allocate the funds to our parks and trans bay and that was
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previously paid by park fees and that dropped it. really it's no net effect on the budget just a change in the color of the money. and the decrease comes from the adjustment. we found out we were $.4 million lower they typically pay at the initiation of the project and bill us for the cost and we repay them from this. we just wanted to represent this updated cost in our budget. and the other two technical changes are reclassifications of our property tax increment and shipyard in mission bay from our prior period of fund balance and we knew we had incorrectly classified these as projects in 1920 but we'll be showing you this in subsequent years so just cleaning up the site.
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this shows those changes by uses. again, you can see all of those four changes i have discussed. >> here's a high level summary of the comparison from the action to the workshop you can see the changes are immaterial. this say summary of our -- is a summary of our 1920 budget. the primary source is a prior period followed by the balance and property tax and you can see the two new bond issuances which we discussed in detail at the workshop. here is our budget by our uses. the majority of our spending is
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on our direct program spending which encompasses affordable housing and infrastructure and other non-housing and community and workforce and as the 77.8% of the budget and the remaining 22.2% is for indirect programmatic fund spending. so this is our 1920 budget compared to our '18-'19 budget. we have a does he crease of $104.3 million from the '18-'19 budget and we've been paying down on our existing affordable housing loans and the second driver of the reduction is a reduction in the bond issuances this is due to delays in our affordable housing pipeline.
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this is a comparison of our uses. just highlights around the '19-'20 budget this is a 14% decrease from the '18, '19 budget. as we discussed in the workshop the operational costs make up $18.7 million of the budget. we have 55 positions which is unchanged from the current year. we will also be making $98.9 million in new affordable housing loans which encompasses two gap loans and development loans and we plan to issue two new bonds totalling 40. million. -- $40.6 million.
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again, so we are in the process we had the workshop in april and have the action item before you today and we'll be submitting this pending your approval. and then to the board of supervisors who will take action in july. any questions or comments we'd be happy to take. >> commissioner: madame secretary are there any speaker cards? >> clerk: no speaker cards. >> commissioner: is there anyone here wishing to speak on the item. seeing none i'll close public comment and turn to my fellow s for questions or comments. all right. so there's none. i just want to thank the staff for being so diligent with the people's money. i'm always proud of ocii and
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back in the day, redevelopment. you know how to do it right and why i think san francisco was the model in how things got done right in the state. i want to thank you for your hard work. may i have a motion. is there a motion? >> i move we approve the budget for the period of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2020. and authorize the executive director to submit the budget and interim budget to the mayor's office and board of supervisors. >> commissioner: thank you, is there a second? >> i second. >> commissioner: we have a first and second. madame secretary can you please take roll. >> clerk: commissioners please announce your vote when i call your name. the vote is three ayes. >> commissioner: motion carries. madame secretary please call the next item. >> clerk: the next order of
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business is item 6 public comment on non-agenda items. we have one speaker card for that. >> commissioner: great. >> clerk: oscar james. >> oscar james again. this is a non-agenda item. i want to speak about the homeless. i want to speak about the homeless classes in you're community. if you go down oak dale and you pass where the train goes across right next to the college you'll see a bunch of tents on that property where homeless people have tents. you go down other streets and
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you see tents being put up in our community. it's not only happening here but in oakland and by the kaiser in oakland. homeless people need to have housing. we're believe -- blessed who are housing but many people we know we went to school with don't have that and we have to fight for them and we have females coming home from jails who have done their time and don't have any housing in san francisco. they have to go to different cities and counties and what have you to get housing and they have families here in san francisco. it's a crisis that really needs to come up. and we talked to our supervisor in district 10, if you go to griffen and thomas street when i
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was a little boy when they had the rodeo out there and the cows and what have you going to the slaughter, there's a big open space by yosemite and it's at least 20 acres. they can put housing or shelters for people to put campers. they're there temporarily now. we need to do something to give people decent place to stay. i know they have a big down in the embarcadero when mayor london breed tried to get homeless housing down there and all communities should have open space for homeless people but we in bayview hunters point we haven't. we have property out there. i'm not saying put it all over the city but we have to make sure people who grew up in our area have preference. people in the mission who moved to our area and a lot of those
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people who don't have housing. [bleep] bayview hunters point was not always black. people moved out and other races. they moved to westlake and different places like that. people not able to move are still stuck in the mission and you see people camping on the side of the road. see them on market street with tents or sleeping bags. we need to do something with that. if you only talk to the mayor and let them know what we have in bayview hunters point and i'll be riding around to find decent housing for them. that's my requirement obligation to find -- retirement obligation
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to find something for us. it could be me or all of us. thank you, guys. it's really important. thank you very much. >> commissioner: thank you, mr. james. anybody else wishing to speak on this item. seeing none or hearing none i'll close public comment for this item. madame secretary, please call the next item. >> clerk: the next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. mr. chair. >> commissioner: there is no report. >> clerk: the next order of business is item, report of the executive director. 8k an issue for request for proposal and parks and street scapes and property management purpose at the bayview hunters point and the mission bay south block 6 east marketing outcomes report a 143 unit rental development and one manager's unit in mission bay south for
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discussion. madame director. >> thank you, madame secretary. the intent to issue ta the intent to issue thesecretara the intent to issue the r.s.d. we have a presentation and we're requesting property management services for four of our parks hill top and hip point park and others. that's street scapes and a side office and it's slightly complicated. we issued an r.f.p. and we couldn't select them because one was late and one was incomplete.
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so it's the second time around and we motfide -- modified to have it realistic and we made changes with feedback and if you have no objections we intend to issue the r.f.p. for this. >> commissioner: thank you, are there any speaker cards nor -- for the item? >> clerk: no speaker cards. >> and i'll have a do a quick recap of the outcomes. >> good afternoon, commissioners. pam sims, senior development specialist at ocii. there were 113 units offered
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through the lottery. all together there were 142 affordable units which included 53 one-bed rooms and 43 three-bedroom units so it's a large development. and the units that were offered through the lottery are affordable to households to 50% and they reached a little higher a.m.i. level. 25c.o.p. holders applied. 10 have successful and i just want to note to you this is the highest c.o.p. success rate we've had since pacific point so you should be proud of that. for whatever reason and i think it's because mission bay's beautiful but c.o.p. holders are very drawn to mission bay. so i think six west will have the same kind of showing which is really exciting.
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we also had 16 displaced housing households move in and 87 live in households. the success stories were telling. one was from a c.o.p. holder as you read. one was a mom and son. they were over income at the time and the son decided to live on his own so the mom secured housing and is living with m.s. so she asked her son to move in with her as her caretaker and they're making that work. that's a really nice story. the second was from an d.t.h.p. household. the children, one of the sons had asthma and the carpeting in their unit was causing him to have attacks on a regular basis.
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she realized it was six months since her son had an attack because there's no carpeting at 626. some feel-good stories for you. that's it. >> commissioner: thank you, pam. anybody wishing to speak on the ite seeing none none i will close the public comment. >> i have a question. i found it interesting there was what i consider to be not an increase but a healthy representation of latino households. can you speak to that a little bit. >> yes, the funding that goes out through o.c.d. on the c.d. side, community development side, they're housing counselling grants that they give out. there is a targeted language component this time for the
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city's languages so that's mandarin and spanish and one other language. what we noticed and we've seen a spike in latino households and i think we'll start seeing that in our subsequent marketing reports so stay tuned. >> so do we work with because i saw in the budget we work with i know there's community-based organizations. >> the mayor's office works with meta. >> commissioner: i see if we have synergies of resources with the mayor's office of housing and other community-based organizations, then, a, more information. people get better access,
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etcetera and more diverse populations come in. >> absolutely. >> i'd like to help answer that for pam the coalition i'm working with we have a huge community of latinos and we're bringing them into it and even making them a part of moving with us for outreach with the christian society and community and we have the ethiopian community and asian community and the african american and african community as well as all the others that we're pulling in a coalition of clergy. and we're meeting and working together. we'll be meeting with the coalition again. yeah. >> commissioner: thank you, commissioners. madame secretary please call the next item. >> clerk: the next order of
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business is item 9, commissioners questions an matters. mr. chair. >> commissioner: anything? nothing? okay. call the next item. >> clerk: the next order of business is item 10, closed session. there are no closed session items. the next item is 11, adjournment. mr. chair. >> commissioner: fellow commissioners i need a motion to adjourn. >> i move we adjourn. >> i second. >> commissioner: great. we have a motion. and we are juniored at 2:27 p.m. thank you.
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