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 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 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, 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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

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, 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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

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 $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 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 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 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 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. >> 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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meet with contractors, design professionals professionals, engineers and architects, along with city agencies and hundreds of booths on the main floor. attend one of the workshops at 11:00 a.m. the seismic safety strategies study. what you need to know is the city strengthens buildings 240 feet high and higher, and to get ready to the next -- for the next big one. 12:00 p.m., changes in the updated citywide vacant commercial storefront ordinance. 1:00 p.m., comply with the accessible business entrance program to enable everyone to enter your business. 2:00 p.m., home modelling process made stress-free, meet the experts and understand the permit review issuance and inspections process. 3:00 p.m., making the best use of the accessory dwelling unit and legalization program to at affordable housing. learn from these three workshops at the june 11th d.b.i. earthquake safety fair, and begin to get ready for the big one by taking immediate steps to

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notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we've got to wind block between the studs and we'll secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. >> i notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking we'll a xoich attach the

plywood. >> the third thing we'll attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the

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>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive.

i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a

richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly

favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye

, but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face.

with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have

to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long

as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself. follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. [♪] >> i am the supervisor of district one. i am sandra lee fewer. [♪]

>> i moved to the richmond district in 1950 mine. i was two years old. i moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [♪] >> when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. it seems so far away. for a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. the stress was storage of the birthplace of that. my father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. it just started to grow very organically. it is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the richmond district. as russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. so parts of the richmond is very

concentrated with the russian community and immigrant russian community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [♪] >> i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. they are beautiful barriers. the presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the pacific ocean. we also also have a national park service. we boarded the golden gate national recreation area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. but really families enjoying the beach and the pacific ocean during the rest of the time of year. [♪] >> and golden gate park where we have so many of our treasures here. we have the tea garden, the

museum and the academy of sciences. not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. this is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. the theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. it has been around for a very long time. is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. i moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. we would always go here. i love these neighborhood theatres. it is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the richmond district, but also in san francisco. small theatres showing one or two films. a unique -- they are unique also to the neighborhood and san francisco. >> where we are today is the heart of the richmond district. with what is unique is that it

is also small businesses. there is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. and providing for the neighborhood. this is what we love about the streets. the cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see small businesses even towards 32nd. at the core of it is right here between here and 20 -- tenth avenue. when we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the -- any other part of san francisco. there is traditional irish music which you don't get hardly anywhere in san francisco. some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. and then also, we see grocery stores. and also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving.

[♪] >> we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. that is a really great thing to see. i don't know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. i like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. the market is the place i like to come to once a year. once i like about the market as it is very affordable. it has fresh produce and fresh meat. also, seafood. but they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. a variety of rice that they have is tremendous. i don't thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. >> hi. i am kevin wong. i am the manager.

in 1989 we move from chinatown to richmond district. we have opened for a bit, over 29 years. we carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. we try to keep everything fresh daily. so a customer can get the best out a bit. >> normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. because they have really just really fresh crab. this is something my family really likes for me to make. also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. they cut it to the size they really want. i am probably here once a week. i'm very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier -- cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets,

which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. we don't speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. i do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. the staff here is very helpful. i speak very little chinese here myself. thinks that i'm not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need? is this what i should be making? and they actually really helped me. they will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. they are very knowledgeable. very friendly. i think they are here to serve not only the asian community but to serve all communities in the richmond district and in san francisco. [♪] >> what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west

side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. [♪] as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale.

>> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where

being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps u.s us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of

what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it.

>> a lot of tim times they don't represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into

the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part

of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color

and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss interesting. the common