now i'd like to recap the requests for the variances beginning with the tower screening height. this variance request is to increase the tower screening height to accommodate the mechanical and roof-mounted equipment. it would be an increase from 320 feet to 350 feet. and this is for an exception to the blank wall restriction. currently it allows for a maximum of 20% of the total facade of blank walls. in this case, the building is subject to other design restrictions on three other sides of the building. these include a b.r.t. or bus rapid transit line along harney street, the required for a pedestrian retail along ingerson

avenue and retirement of active uses of a pedestrian nature along the mid block break and along with the uses and requirements have required the need to increase in necessities on m street and the blank wall allowance. the final variance request for the non-habitable projection and i said it many times but saying it is difficult and request of the length of two balconies and a canopy that will protrude approximately 10 feet from the building space to avoid potentially hazardous wind conditions within the project area.

the team present the schematic design at three meetings, one was a housing and sub-commitee meeting and a meeting for housing in 2018 and the full meeting in 2018 and the six members present at the full 2018 meeting unanimously recommended the commission approve the schematic design as presented. ocii staff will continue to update the c.a.c. as the project progresses. and as a review of the action, requested today for your

consideration authorizing an exception to the design for development standards for tower screening height to increase the maximum height limit from 320 to 350 feet. authorizing an exception to the design for development standards for blank wall restrictions to increase the black wall limit from 20% of the total facade length to approximately 34% to accommodate the m street frontage. authorizing an exception to the design for development standards for non-habitable projection limits of 15 feet in length and three feet over to the property line it allow two canopies that protrude approximately 10 feet from the space as well as conditionally approving the schematic designs.

with your approval today the team will move forward to complete the design and construction document. here's the anticipated schedule with the start of construction in 2022. and completion in 2024. i'd like to take a quick moment to thank who worked dill againstly on the project to present you with a great design and background information required of the ocii design team and general council, aaron foxworthy and the five-point team. thank you. that concludes my presentation and we're all available for questions. thank you.

>> commissioner: madame secretary do we have any speakers? >> clerk: we have one. oscar james. >> thank you. it's always a pleasure to come and speak but it gives me great pleasure to speak on this project to support 100%. if i could support it more than that, i would. this brings back history to me. my grandfather filled most that in laying out there by candlestick. most of that was water . from gillman park we used to skid rocks out there. i have a whole history. i used to ride my bike out there. sometimes ride a stick horse with no head but i'm glad to see

this project coming to fruition. i'm glad the african marketplace will be located around there. it's just a pleasure but i do have some problems with it even though they have 21% low income housing. the next project i wish it had more than that. all in all, i support it 100% and i just want to thank five points and lenar and making sure the community benefit. you know a lot of times people sit up here and talk about the negative but i see a lot of positive out there. most of you weren't here when i used to fight lenar because i didn't know what their intentions was but they've proven themselves to me. and i'm a native resident. been here 73 years.

and just do see this coming to be, a lot of people in my community was born and raised out there will welcome this wholeheartedly. thank you very much and keep up the good work. >> clerk: no more speakers. >> commissioner: is anyone else wishing to speak on this item? please come forward. please state your name. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm gidria smith also a member of the c.a.c. thank you for allowing us to have the presentation and they did come out to the community where the community had the opportunity to speak and say whatever they wanted to say at that time. again, we want to thank five points and lenar for all their support and ask your support for this to go ahead and move forward. this is something we're excited about. this is something that's going to bring jobs to the community again where they can transfer

out of one job and others in the community to go ahead and move forward into this job opportunity. we're asking from the community part for your support for this to move forward to the next phase. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. anyone else wishing to speak? hearing none, seeing none. [gavel] >> hi, good afternoon. i'm dr. honeycut the c.a.c. from the shipyard and i'm always happy to see you. this say beautiful design and well thought out and i love the community benefits. beautiful d well thought out and i love the community benefits. beautiful dl thought out and i love the community benefits. beautiful d thought out and i love the community benefits.i beautiful l

thought out and i love the community benefits.s beautiful well thought out and i love the community benefits. beautiful d well thought out and i love the community benefits.a beautiful well thought out and i love the community benefits. i love 50% of the construction will be awarded to qualified bayview hunters point residents getting the community involved in the building of this marvelous creation. i'm delighted to see the e.m.i. spread across the middle-income and low-income folks. people will talk about everything going to low-income folks and five different types are being pressed out of san francisco and we need to accommodate everyone is my point. i particularly like the 0.5% of the sales building to the community benefits fund which is called exactly that. but which we in the community know as the legacy fund. as chair of the legacy fund, when we have more money, we can do more.

we're getting ready through the work of ocii to put out a scholarship to award $500,000 in college scholarships to residents in the community. that's huge. there's educational opportunities for folks. so we urge you to vote yes in terms of your commission actions and on the schematic design. thank you so much for allowing us to make our presentation. >> thank you, dr. honeycut. is there anyone else wishing to speak? seen, okay, i will close public comment. and we'll turn to my fellow commissioners for any questions or comments. dr. scott had one. >> just with all gratitude, to five point and lenar and bayview

hunters point shipyard, c.a.c. for all your eyes and ears and hands moving with them along the way. i cannot thank you enough. i appreciate you all so much the care and concern and how you've been so inclusive with the community. i'm just so proud of you. proud to be a part of you but proud of how you're moving on. one of the questions i have in light of the structure the millennium tower sinking, had you thought of anything like that to make sure there are preventive measures? i see you get the wind factor and i'm so pleased. that was one of my questions. i too like mr. james, grew up in that community in the '50s.

i know that area very well and how the weather goes. so i see you looked at that. i didn't hear anything about the structure of thinking about because it is landfill, the sinking of the building. have you done measures for that? i want it hear more about that. >> i appreciate the question. we're happy to have our structural engineer and i'll recognize nick and hardiv. they've done numerous high-rise projects in the city and the world. the next step we'll be evaluating the geotechnical information that comes back from that report. and from that report we will be

implementing a structural foundation that take into account the soils beneath the land and that is subject to revows. that's our next process but there's lessons learned ma make the process building and our building codes are built off the lessons learned. so our building department and others are very aware of what measures need to be taken as do our structural engineers. >> and for the paint inside and outside, have you considered the glossy paint for the inside of the walls opposed to a matte.

i was looking at alice griffen and before people could move in they looked old and tarnish just from janitors setting things up and their clothing and it was marred. >> 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, 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. 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 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. >> 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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 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, 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 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.

>> my biggest take away is that you can always find a way. most people who go into public policies really want to make a difference and have a positive impact on the world, and that's what i love most about my job. i feel like every day at the sfpuc all of the policies that we're involved in have major impacts on people's lives both here in the city and across the state and the nation.

in 2017, california senate bill 649 was released. it would have capped the fees that cities such as ourselves would be able to charge telecom companies for the right to use or poll for their cell equipments, and it also would have taken away city's abilities to negotiate what the equipment looks like, where they could be placed, and potentially we could even be in a position where we would not be able to stop them putting equipment especially on our light poles. my name is emily lamb and i am director of policy affairs for the sfpuc. i really am involved with a team of people and building a strong coalition of a team of folks. we are working very closely to get this bill defeated and ultimately vetoed by governor brown. >> emily is one of those people who is a bright star with

regards to her passion, her commitment, her tenacity and she's just a great, fun person. she's all of the things that you would want in an employee and an ambassador for our organization. >> my biggest take away is you can always find a way, especially when something is important and worth fighting for, if you put your heads together with people, and you collaborate, that usually you can find some solution to get to your goal. in this case, it was a bill that most people considered politically difficult to complete, and we didn't have a chance of doing it, but with a lot of strattizing with a lot of different partners, we got it done. my name is emily lamb, and i am the director of policy and government affairs, and i've been with sfpuc for 2.5 years.

>> if everyone would please rise and join us in the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ] >> roll call please. [ roll call ] >> why don't we call item number three please. >> action item closed session. >> we'll take public comment r there any mem o