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disabilities on people in san francisco, and still, we're doing the same thing over and over and not making any progress. by the same progress, this article shows that existing beds for crisis people -- you've only got 183 for acute indigent bed. you've only got 132. for residential substance abuse, 94. for detox and appetite beds, you've got 174. this is why you've got to have housing in a location where they're paying 30% of their income for rent, and you can provide services for in-home care and the mental health and detox services that they have and to deal with the mental health disability that they have. it just goes with my
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demonstration. this nurse practitioner, i repeat that study after study shows that programs that provide long-term stable housing with additional mental and medical support services improve performances of mentally ill homeless patients by having patients on the street and you're running around talking to them and making an appointment to meet them out in the homeless area where you're giving them advice and services, it's counter productive. >> chair fewer: thank you, mr. wright. any other public comment? >> hello, supervisors. my name is jay curran. i'm with the san francisco examiner. i appreciate you giving me a moment here. san francisco examiner is the highest circulated in san francisco city and county. it's the only newspaper printed and published locally.
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our commitment to printing locally means 69 jobs, and millions of tax dollars. we pride ourselves on being the heartbeat of the community. our editorial team focuses on coverage for the city and county of san francisco. it's important and relevant to the residents of san francisco. as a free newspaper publication, both home delivered and available in 830 rack locations in san francisco, it reaches deep into our cities. our readers get tremendous access to local san francisco businesses through our advertising as well as local community events that we sponsor. even with the exponential increases in news print, we have still not raised our advertising rates for the city and county of san francisco. we are committed to continuing the same publication schedule for the city and county of san francisco. we provide flexible deadlines
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for the clerks of the board and other departments. thank you very much and if you have any questions, i'd be more than happy to answer them. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. thank you for being the heartbeat of the community. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i'd like to make an amendment to include the sing tao daily and world journal publication of san francisco. i'd like to make a positive recommendation to 4 and 5 as amended. we can take that without objection. thank you very much. i forgot to make a motion to excuse supervisor stefani. if i can take that -- >> clerk: your intention is to excuse her from all the previous votes up to this point? >> chair fewer: yes. thank you very much. >> clerk: would we have to
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rescind the votes for each of those? previously she's listed in each of the previous votes as absent. >> chair fewer: so do i need to make a motion to excuse her? >> clerk: if you want to list her as excused if absent? >> chair fewer: no, absent is fine. i think she'll be joining us shortly. i think we're on item number 7. >> clerk: that's correct. >> chair fewer: thank you please call item 7. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. so we have mr. dan wade,
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director of water capital projects for sfpuc. >> good morning, supervisors. >> chair fewer: good morning. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here to present the mountain tunnel improvement management services. it's contract number pro-0096 with aecom technical services. may i have the slides, please. so the mountain tunnel is a 19-mile long tunnel that transmits water from hetch hetchy reservoir within yosemite national park, part of the system that transmits the water 167 miles across the state to 2.7 million users in san francisco and the bay area. this map shows the location of the tunnel circled in yellow, and again, it's a 19-mile long
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tunnel that takes water from early intake after the canyon power tunnel to priest reservoir prior to down through the valley. mountain tunnel was constructed in 1917 to -25, and it's been in service since that time. it transports water from early use to priest reservoir. there's about 12.5 miles that was lined with concrete lining that was installed when the original tunnel was constructed. over time, deterioration in the lining has been noted. there was an inspection in 2012 that caused significant concern, and so since that time, we have been planning
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additional inspections, which we've done in 2017. we did two contracts at that time. one was to do urgent repairs on the tunnel in preparation of -- we did a full inspection of the tunnel, and we also did some urgent repairs on the most significant deterioration in the tunnel. we did another phase two of those urgent repairs in 2018 and 2019. so as part of that inspection, we were able to approve the mountain tunnel improvements project, which is a project to improve the tunnel and ensure operation for the next 100 years to provide reliable performance standards and provide water to the san francisco bay area. the base bid is estimated at about $140 million. that's not including
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construction contingency. the reason the construction term is so long is it has to be done during outage periods so we can continue to supply water to the customers. this is a picture of the tunnel during the 2017 inspection when the tunnel was drained, and you can see repairs being made to the lining. the scope of this particular agreement is to provide construction management services for the seven-year construction contract, and the services are listed here. i won't read three all of these, but if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. our request is to authorize the sfpuc to execute contract 96 with aecom construction with a not to exceed contract value of $24.5 million and a not to exceed period of eight year.
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i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. so i think there is a b.l.a. report on this. >> yes. the board of supervisors is being asked to approve a seven year contract -- actually an eight-year contract between p.u.c. and aecom for $24.5 million. this is for project services for the mountain tunnel project which was been well described. aecom was selected through an r.f.p. process. we summarized it in our report. the total amount is for $24.5 contract. $23.5 million is for actual labor charges, which we show in our report, and we are recommending approval. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. and i just have a question. the total project amount is 231,918,000, so you're asking us today for an allocation of
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that money to be put towards the first phase -- is this the first request that we've had out of this project budget? >> no. so as part of the capital improvement program that this project is a part of, the sfpucs capital plan for the water enterprise and the power enterprise, this project has been approved as part of that plan in terms of the allocation of funding. this contract is a portion of that funding to -- to authorize the instruction management services. now the construction contract itself would not be authorized or approved by the sfpuc until the ceqa process is complete, so there'll be another opportunity for discretionary action at that time. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 7? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a recommendation to move this forward with a positive recommendation to the board.
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take that without objection. thank you very much. please note that supervisor stefani has joined us. >> clerk: that's right. >> chair fewer: and mr. clerk, can you please call item number 8. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. i believe we have carolyn mccormick from the mayor's office of housing and community development. >> hi. i put folders in the inbox right there. >> chair fewer: thank you very
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much. >> all right. good morning, supervisors. my name is carolyn mccormick with the mayor's office of housing and community development, and i work on our small sites program. and today, i am requesting your approval of a not to exceed loan amount for six small sites projects for a loan amount not to exceed $48,656,000. your approval is necessary on these projects because the loan term on the loans is 40 years. as background on our small sites program, we -- since we launched our program in 2014,
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our portfolio has grown to 29 buildings, 211 residential units, and 13 commercial spaces, and we currently have 18 buildings, 164 units, and 20 commercial spaces in our pipeline. the core of our program continues to focus on acquisition and rehabilitation of five to 25-unit buildings and s.r.o.s, and we facilitation this by acquiring loans to rehabilitate the building. so a little bit about who we serve with our program. the target a.m.i. for small sites is 80% building wide average while also allowing an individual household to go to 120%, so that's sort of the max program cap, but we require the
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building to maintain an 80% average? you'll note from this graph that 75% of the households in small sites buildings are below 80% a.m.i. average. our average is 50% a.m.i. we ensure these community assets remain affordable by recording a deed restriction with a term of no less than 75 years. they retain ownership by the sponsor, but we record that deed restriction on it. all six of these will be leveraging the seismic loan program as senior financing. the past program will enhance mohcd's ongoing preservation work under the small sites program. this resolution is also approving use of past funds. by replacing the more expensive conventional debt with low cost
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long-term senior path financing, the city will significantly reduce borrowing costs and the need for other public resources such as f.f.p. i'll provide a little bit of background on the six projects that this resolution addresses? between june and august of this year, mohcd expects to close on transactions with c.c.cdc and a for a total of 69 units and 12 commercial spaces. you can see the locations of those buildings as well as the number of units in this map.
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the buildings have already been acquired by meta and ccdc using bridge financing so that they could move quickly on the transactions in a competitive market like s.f.? and now mohcg is coming in to provide the permanent financing on these projects and also the deed restriction. the population serves in these buildings include seniors, low to moderate income households, monolingual households, and school aged children. the b.m.i. is between 40% and 45% a.m.i. so we have a lot of projects, and i'm not going to run through a deep dive of every single one, but just a few examples, this is 421 green. it's currently occupied by
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long-standing monolingual multigenerational households, and mohcd has addressed tenant safety as well as quality of life improvements. you can see the before and after. in addition, they are constructing an accessory dwelling unit on the ground floor of the building, so there are increasing the supply of affordable housing. we'll have one extra unit here. and then, a second example -- i'll do a little bit more of a deep dive on. got 4830 mission street. meta is the sponsor. district 11, it's 21 units and six commercial spaces, and this building was built in 1990, so it wasn't subject to rent control, so we're really proud that we were able to put a permanent deed restriction on this one and preserve it for
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low to moderate income households in the future. and then i'll just run through quickly. you've got 1201 paul, 17 units, one commercial. 3280 17th street. 1411 florida street, six units plus one a.d.u. being added, as well. and then, 65 woodward, six residential units in d-9, also meta. so with that, i recommend your approval of the resolution so that we can -- so mohcd can provide the permanent financing necessary to preserve these buildings as affordable housing, and i'm happy to answer your questions, as are my colleagues.
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thank you. >> the board of supervisors is being asked to approve loans up to 40 years and up to $48.6 million for the six properties that were described by the representatives from the mayor's office. we show on page 28, table 2 of our report, we show the six properties in the loan amounts. so the loan is for about $48.4 million. our understanding is this includes a 10% contingency in case there are unforeseen site conditions that would require a greater loan amount. the other -- on page -- table 3, page 30 of our report, we do show the per unit cost of each of these projects that would be funded, and because some of these projects -- actually, the funding amount is over what was advertised in the notice of funding availability and over sort of the terms of -- for
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each type of loan, we are considering this to be a possible matter for the board of supervisors. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. let's open this up for public comment. any members of the public like to comment on this item? hello, mr. wright. >> you know, this is another example of how jacked -- two of you coming up here and talking about affordable housing. affordable for who? people in the same bracket as you? s.f. viewer, please. i'm real tired of this. you claim affordable housing, and you set the lowest requirement at the housing scale. that's $68,500 a year in order to be able to move into that apartment complex. so everybody's income that's
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below that's below $68,950 a year is not included in the opportunity coming out of the mayor's office of housing. you're so deeply involved in your god damn discrimination, you discriminate against people with your own skin color because they're not the in the same income. i can't get you under skin color, but i can get you on discrimination for income. every housing that comes out of the mayor's office by making it too hard for most people to get
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it. $103,450 in order to be a tenant in the building. you've got information from h.u.d., cite that says that every apartment is -- 15% of every complex is supposed to be for low-income or very low-income people, and you don't include that -- >> chair fewer: thank you, mr. wright. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. this is a policy matter, and i checked, and i see no representation here from those supervisors where they're in their district, i move to continue this item -- oh, that's not how it works, i think. >> supervisor mandelman: coming in hot. >> chair fewer: the comp exceeds the original amount by
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$4.2 million, but not the original cost. so can there be a motion, please? >> supervisor mandelman: i move that we forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation with the unanimous sense of all three of us that we would love to see some of these projects in our districts. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. we can take that without objection. thank you very much, mr. clerk. mr. clerk, can you read agenda item number 9, please. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. i think we have colleen del rosario with the mayor's office of housing and community
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development. >> i am here today to request the authorization of expenditures of the soma community stablization fund dollars in the amount of $919,954 for services that address the destablization of residents for fiscal year 2019 through 2020. the c.a.c. unanimously approved the list of funding recommendations that you see before you in may. if approved, there would be a remaining balance of about $729,000. on behalf of mohcd, i respectfully request you approve the resolution before you, authorizing $919,954 in soma community stablization
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funds, and if you have any questions about our projects or about our history, i'm happy to answer those, as well. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. could we have a b.l.a. report. >> the board of supervisors is being asked to approve the funding allocation for one year, $900,000 for the soma community stablization fund. the r.f.p. process and who bid and what their scores were are shown on page 34 and 35 of our report. the actual selected funding allocation for fiscal year 19-20 is shown on page 35 and 36 of our report. we recommend approval. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 9? >> this, too, is a further demonstration, and how come there is no type of stablization to provide housing
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for the 8,011 people that are homeless out on the street with a combination of both mental and physical disabilities? you can't pain and claim the first thing that you're going to help the homeless when you're running for office? to answer supervisor stefani's question, what are we going to do? i showed you a project that houses 22,871 people. building trades will be working on this. when the census bureau goes out and does their count for homeless, there won't be any homeless in san francisco. but you keep doing the same thing. every stablization bond, every
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housing bond is only for homeless. it took me years to stop you from giving hundreds of millions of dollars to twitter. they don't need no god damn break. the homeless people out on the street that i'm speaking out for all the time and you claim that you want to help, that's who i'm speaking out for. when are you going to stop this? you've got instructions at that mission rock that say 15% of that 1,500 apartment units is supposed to be for very low and low-income bracket people. 15% of 1,500 is 225, but yet, when it comes time to put in application, you make the lowest income about 45,000 $45 $55,000, and you make it a hispanic female, and you know she can't pay it.
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>> chair fewer: thank you, mr. wright. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. mr. clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: there is no further business. >> chair fewer: yea. meeting adjourned.
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shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if
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you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should
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shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.
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i'm derek, i'm hyungry, and ready to eat. these vendors offer a variety of the streets near you. these mobile restaurants are serving up original, creative and unusual combinations. you can grab something simple like a grilled cheese sandwich or something unique like curry. we areher here in the average eight -- upper haight. you will be competing in the quick buy food challenge. an appetizer and if you are the
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winner you will get the title of the quitck bite "chompion." i am here with matt cohen, from off the grid. >> we assembled trucks and put them into a really unique heurban settings. >> what inspired you to start off the grid? >> i was helping people lodge mobile food trucks. the work asking for what can we get -- part together? we started our first location and then from there we expanded locations. >> why do think food trucks have grown? >> i have gotten popular because the high cost of starting a brick and mortar or
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strong, the rise of social media, trucks can be easily located, and food trucks to offer a unique outdoor experience that is not easily replaced by any of their setting any worlwhere else in san franc. san francisco eaters are interested in cuisine. there adventuress. the fact theyuse grea use great ingredients and make gourmet food makes unpopular. >> i have been dying to have these. >> i have had that roach coach experience. it is great they're making food
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they can trust. >> have you decided? >> we are in the thick of the competition? >> my game was thrown off because they pulled out of my first appetizer choice. >> how we going to crush clear? >> it will be easy. probably everyone has tried, something bacon tell us delicious. >> -- people tell us is delicious. >> hopefully you think the same thing. >> hopefully i am going to win. we're in the financial district. there is a food truck right there. every day changes. it is easy and fun to go down. these are going to be really
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good. >> how are you going to dominate? >> i think he does not know what he is doing. >> i was thinking of doing [unintelligible] we are underrepresented. >> i was singing of starting an irish pub. that was my idea. >> one our biggest is the corned beef and cabbage. we are asking people what they're thinking in getting some feedback. >> for a lot of people i am sure this combination looks very wrong. it might not sound right on paper but when you taste it to or have it in your mouth, it is a variety. this is one of the best ways in creating community. people gather around and talk about it and get to know different cultures. that brings people together and i hope more off the grid style
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and people can mingle and interact and remove all our differences and work on our similarities. this creates opportunity. >> the time has come and i am very hungry. what have you got? >> i got this from on the go, a sandwich, and a caramel cupcake. i went with home cooking. what de think? >> i will have another bite. >> sounds good. >> that was fantastic. let's start with you. >> i had the fried mac and
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cheese, and twinkies. i wanted to get something kind of classic with a twist on it. >> it was crispy. >> i will admit. >> want to try fieried mac and cheese? >> was that the best twinkie? >> would you say you had the winning male? >> definitely. >> no. >> you are the "chompion." clair has won. you are the first "chompion." >> they know it iwas me
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because i got a free meal. and check a map on -- check them out on facebook. take a peek at the stuff we have cut. to get our -- check out our blog. good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for ma. our clerk is mr. alberto. can you please call the roll. (roll call).
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we have a quorum. >> next item please. >> clerk: chair report. this is an information item. >> this month we saw another round of coverage in the media of our tnc research after a paper by the university of kentucky was published in the journal of science advances. this data continues to inform our planning and policy work to help us target where to direct revenues for traffic safety and transit improvement should the voters pass the tnc congestion measure that i'm introducing today with mayor breed for the november ballot.
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yesterday, i was quite pleased to see reporting in the "san francisco examiner" that a california appeals court affirmed a lower court's ruling that uber must comply with the city attorney subpoena of trip data. they agreed they must turn over illegal parking, disabled access to driver pay and extent of excessive driving. lyfl has agreed to comply last year. while the tnc provide the data to the california public utility commission, it is unclear what they do with it. the data is still not available to the public or local governments. we liable data is extremely important as this information can help the city effectively manage traffic, potential collision points and equitable access for riders.
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i appreciate the city attorney's office for leadership in seeking this data. our staff for their work on this and the courts for upholding the city's right to obtain this critical information. it is beyond time for the state to update outdated regulations and ensure the city and public can manage congestion. california public utilities commission i hope you are listing. another area is my work with supervisor wal walton regarding caltrain governance. we will vote on a resolution later today at the board of supervisors. i wanted to hear from the members of the public following the caltrain businessman which we support. we recognize faster caltrain from santa clara and san mateo and our county and acknowledges the clear coordination to meet
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ridership demand and support blended high-speed rail plans including the extension to the transbay transit center. as we consider ways to strengthen the agency with revenues discussed in the form of sales tax or measure it is important to establish the principal of dedicated caltrain agency with capacity to undertake expansion with the railroad and coordinate and manage the substantial assets including land assets. we look forward to collaborating to do this over the coming months to next year. with that i conclude my comments. any public comment on the chair's report. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner row ronan. >> i want to thank you for your incredible work on what you are introducing today.
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i think it was brilliantly handled and i appreciate you for that and would love to co-sponsor to be part of that. >> i would love to have all of you co-sponsor with me and mayor breed. i see supervisors mandelman, brown, haney, row nan, fewer and anybody else that wants on let me know before 2:00 this afternoon. >> commissioner ronan: i'm not done. sorry. that was just the beginning. both supervisor fewer and i sent our staff to washington, d.c. from april 27 to the 30th to participate in the people's action convention. it was a convening over a thousand advocates from across the country to share information and strategies to address pressing issues including climate change and be justice. our staff and here is the
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connection to my opening comment. our staff participated in round table discussions how communities are fighting back against private public transit. they shared how local transit systems have begun to partner with ride-sharing companies to perform public functions including ride sharing for seniors and those with disabilities. they shared concerns about this trend towards privatization and discussed pushing back locally my staff participated in the direct action at uber headquarters in dw demanding better working conditions and wages for uber drivers as a global effort to bring visibility to the low paid ride share workers. it is important to face challenges with ride sharing industry and i'm glad our staff was able to go and hear from the
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legislatures and community advocates. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner ronan. >> commissioner fewer: thank you, i agree. i think this trip was beneficial to both offices to connect with advocates and legislators working on policy issues on transit and energy and environment as we grapple with the challenges. staff learned from legislators and community members to build out division for a green new deal to benefit public transit at the municipal level, giving ongoing financing challenges that we are certainly sympathetic to in san francisco. they learned about protections for industry workers and made lasting connections with other legislators and policy workers to advance the critical issues at local and state level.
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i think it was a positive trip and we appreciate the support of the ta to access these kinds of important spaces. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. seeing no additional comments from members, next item please. >> clerk: executive directors report item three. >> i have an update at the state level. high-speed rail project hit another obstacle. the federal government through the federal railroad administration are terminating $929 million grant for the project. this is not surprising. unfortunate but not surprising. this has been happening since the early part of the year. the governor did respond the administration's action they believe is illegal. the state would vigorously defend the grant in court. it has been appropriated by
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congress. we anticipate it will take time to be resolved. we are continuing to work on planning and the review work with high-speed rail and partners with the city and state as well as making sure elektrification is moving ahead. this will affect further enhancements to the blended corridor. i had the honor of sitting in for supervisor haney at the recent meeting of the transbay joint powers authority. we did hear a report from the american public transit association invited by the tjpa board to undertake a similar organizational assessment as we are doing here at transportation authority. i do recommend that report to you and i it is on your desk. essentially they found that the projects are very strong
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projects, however, the administration of these could benefit from both during the internal staffing of the tjpa, particularly in certain areas and overall capacity as well as to understand lessons learned from the phase one project to better understand how the construction management could be better administered and strengthening the oversight going forward for the downtown extension. we would be happy to ask them to come back and present perhaps next month or in the future as we conclude our report and these findings did inform the deliberations of our peer panel and they did resonate with them. the appeals court ruling that chairman chin was welcome news. we ensure the trip data can be
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made available for analysis and forming policy on vision zero, this is our major initiative to applease to ensure safety of the streets. we want that to be timely activities that we can bring forward to you. we will hopefully report back in the next month or two about the implications of the new ruling. on vision zero, mayor breed called for 20 miles of protected bike lanes for two years. we want to commit staff to helping achieve that goal. we were set to program over $11 million specifically for bite network improvements over the next five years over prop k. as you will hear this morning, the connect sf program is set to advance the bike net work through the streets and freeways planning effort. turning to the local level. i want to mention updates on the traffic program. the coordinator hiring is
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underway to support safe routes to school as well, we have traffic calming residential program taking applications from neighborhoods and those are due on june 28th. there is time to get the application in if you would like to apply for improvements on your streets. finally, the construction management association of america are doing a joint night for those interested in contracting opportunities may 22 and at 5:30 p.m. at the san francisco war memorial greenroom. we will be there with 20 other agencies to ensure there is good information on the procurements happening in the region. thank you. >> chair peskin: any questions for our executive director or public comment on the item? public comment is closed.
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mr. clerk please read consent agenda. >> clerk: five to seven were approved and are for final approval. they are routine. staff is not planning to present. it will present if desired. if any member objects they may be removed and presented separately. >> chair peskin: any public comment? seeing none it is closed. a roll call please on the consent agenda. >> could we get pay motion? >> motion by commissioner fewer, and commissioner yee. (roll call).
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>> clerk: we have final approval. >> chair peskin: next item please. >> clerk: authorize executive director to execute agreements and documents required for utilities and right-of-way property acquisition for yerba buena island south gate road realignment improvements project including offers to purchase for an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,534,760 and services agreement all with the united states coast guard and utility agreements with various providers in paamount not to exceed $750,000. >> this is phase two for south gate road realignment project. i want to direct you to the screen that shows the eastbound off-ramp that has been closed
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for 15 years. the goal is to reopen the off-ramp and realign south gate road from left to right. south gate road from the western slope will come into the interchange area, go underneath the off-ramp. the movements are grade separated. it is a much safer path for cars and bicycles and pedestrians in that regard. the project itself just as a reminder, we are finally at a pint for final approve els on the design and right away working with all entities, stick leo o particularly coast guard. they have worked with us through complicated right-of-way negotiations and agreements that, frankly, in a lot of respects are allowing us to move forward to the construction schedule this fall. we plan to advertise the project
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july, award by october, start construction in the fall and complete by the spring of 2021. we have been working actively with caltrans to add more the federal high bridge program and proposition 1b in terms of funding. it is a $51 million project we are right now ready to pursue the final agreements that we need in front of you. let's talk about the right-of-way applications. it shows quarters 8 and 9 in blue. that, in essence, we need for the construction project. other parcels of 1 are needed. what is important to recognize not only are we buying right-of-way for the project that we are going to construct we are preserving the
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right-of-way for future bike path on western side of the island as well as forest ready tour to allow access to and from the coast guard facilities. all parcels will be transferred to tida or caltrans. we need them to go ahead to have possession and use and transfer these either during the construction for the tida parcels and at the end with caltrans in the parcel in red. the recommendation is to authorize executive director to execute the service agreement. they are standard u.s. coast guard agreements we worked details out with them and prepare ourselves for future transfer of right-of-way to caltrans and tida. looking for executions for the deeds here. we have additional utility
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agreements. we want to make sure we put in the appropriate conduits and infrastructure for future development of the island. that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you chair for the report. i think i know the answer to this question. to get us ready for the future. is there a jobs plan in place in terms of the work force needed across the trades and types of subs for construction as we get ready for construction? >> yes, we are working with that right now. we will implement a jobs program in that regard. we just met with one treasure island in particular, and we will work towards executing a jobs program in that regard. we have federal fundings. we have to work out the details so we are not in violation of the federal law? >> is that something to send forward so we can see what trades are needed?
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