appreciation for your presentation and the information to be presented in the discussion today and also appreciate all of the work that you and the other community advocates had done over the years in a good faith effort to really partner with these companies and despite the frustrating outcomes. thank you. colleagues maybe we could move to public comment. >> thank you very much for holding this hearing. >> one point of housekeeping before public comment. we have received a temporary committee assignment memo from president yee assigns supervisor haney. it is the three members behind

the committee rostrum. >> so quorum these three members if super visor brown has to leave we still have these members present. >> thank you. if members of the public wish to testify, please line up. you have two minutes for public comment. >> i have to go. >> come on up. >> i would like to have time like everybody else. >> come forward. >> public comment is limited to two minutes. >> first of all, this is tax evasion, money laundering and

bank fraud. >> step up to the microphone. >> you talk interest somebody spending time to take care of accident. i went to internal revenue to get the correct for to file a complaint for the inspector general. i will deal with my federal contacts. you are in violation of the rico act. you are running a corrupt enterprise money laundering and bank fraud. when i finish my thesis this will be part of it. $55 million of tax free money. here. twitter. $91 million in that quarter. twitter. $733 million tax free money. that is tax evasion. as a result the city and county of san francisco ends up with an

$88.2 million negative cash flow in the last several months. lee projected $262 million was a deficit that was going to take place over the next two years. on top of that you have got a projected shortfall of $643 million deficit because of the way you are taking care of business. by the same response it is further projected that $5.5 billion in the general fund in the expenses for the city is to grow to $1.4 billion. that is included in the complaint. townshipter is making fools -- twitter is making fools of you. it is going to chicago building a skyscraper. >> thank you.

next speaker. >> next speaker, please approa approach. >> you are as bad as twitter treating me like that. then you have city college $32 million negative cash flow, too. another problem with city college. >> mr. right, please. >> this is an assault on my intelligence. you let everybody else speak for five or two minutes. i am the best god dam speaker

showing where the money is wasted. i told you about twitter two or three years ago. you wouldn't do a thing about it. now you want to do something about it. >> will the next speaker please begin. >> thanks for calling this important hearing. i appreciate the questions and content of information produced today. we have heard a little bit that some community benefits are being produced and some ta tax revenue generated. bright line has worked on local hiring policies we believe work force policies are key to economic development. we would love to remain engaged in the discussion. it is important to ensure that in the future when we have these

policies that provide the carrot to companies to come to san francisco that we don't create a locust environment where they come in to take advantage of san francisco and not generate job growth for key communities displaced. in hoping this discussion will continue we will continue to track local hires and call for greater transparency from these companies. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i just want to say highly likely a lot of people who work in the it sector would be introverted rather than extroverted. asking them to go out and leave buildings takes more energy and more focus. it takes focus away from the work they would probably prefer

staying near work where they can focus rather than going out to look for something, yeah, i mean what they say the schools, society is built for extroverts. i don't think you you should force people out what they naturally prefer and do better. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i am the planning and policy manager and one of the co-chairs of market street along with sam dennison. i appreciate the opportunity to speak today about this issue. i particularly want to focus on the issue of gentrification in the tenderloin. woe can't derm cause -- we can't determine causality. i have all of th -- i have also-

i don't know if this works. is it possible to use the projector? this is a little data from the said data source, which is the rent board, as we saw earlier. it is hard to see here. in the topgraph the orange line is the notices of eviction in the tenderloin. in 2015 it had the same number of evictions as the mission with a larger population. the data is old but you can see below the climbing rate of notices of evictions from 2011 to 2015. this is validated from what we have heard from people in the community. sam spoke about the adrian hotel a similar process has unfolded in the bristol hotel and the

whar field. the landlord let the buildings degrade. now they have updated. now the bristol will be affordable housing. whar field is a place for tourists. thank you for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i have been a san francisco resident since 2010. i moved in before the twitter tax break. i cam to see the benefits that it gave to the community. all i hear are vague answers. i wish there was more specific things. that tells me if you want come up with very specific benefits

the community has, then it hasn't done anything for you. i got involved in the community four years ago. between 2011 to four years ago, there is more problem. there are more pressures for the neighborhood. let's think about the long-term benefits that could come to the communities like the neighborhood in the tenderloin. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am curtis bradford, co-chair of tenderloin people's conference. i lived in the tenderloin for 10 years. i was aren't when we created market street for the masses and the cac started meeting. i remember the disaster.

i was disappointed to see how the city and the tech companies treated the community. and how they were so respected. they lost the support of the community. the community saw how use less and pointless it was to participate with the cac. that is unfortunate. they had an opportunity to build relationship. they stone walled this is what we felt like. things have gotten worse in a lot of ways. we have seen a big increase in the number of people on the street. there is a lot of evidence of displacement and gentrification. i saw the food numbers. food sales have gone up on market street. if you can afford to shop in the

market i am sure they have done a great business. the people moving in don't look like the people who have been living here. the incomes is different. we didn't get any benefit from it. i don't know anyone who got a job as a result of the twitter tax break. i hope we don't do that again. next time there needs to be benefits before we even offer it. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you. heather from care for touch institute. one of the things. this is not an question but an observation. listening to the director of

larkin street youth and positive allowance speak last week. the thing i hear over and over from the non-profits we partner with and our own non-profit. what is one of the components right now is the non-profits are not making livable wages themselves. with the bigger companies maybe there is a way to bring that up. nonprofits have to be financially structured. we are all here to pay people within the organizations a livable wage is very important. you know, it is wonderful that the meetings that i have been able to get with some much these companies have been interesting. the number one thing i notice is they want to send their staff to organizations to help out with

volunteer hours. with an organization such as ours working at mental health through the massage therapy, we can't accept volunteers because our craft is very specialized. you have to be certified and have insurance. my main thing is an observation, just kind of interested in pointing that out so when you are talking with organizations you can maybe have that on your mind. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i am working in the tenderloin for 14 years. i was around during the time when the twitter tax break was being discussed. listening to the presentations today, i am noticing that it

really shouldn't be a surprise that we had the outcome that we had, that some had described and that we had the lack of outcomes for people living in the tenderloin. once it became clear it was a done deal this tax break was going to happen, the community was working hard to set up the tax benefits. because of the politics at the time that wasn't able to happen. it wasn't a mistake that the lack of outcomes that actually benefit people living in the tenderloin and that could have been a better community process were there. it was engineered to be so we weren't going to be able to see and have teeth to some of the things we wanted to do. that is another point of learning.

i remember working at the nonprofit i worked at. one day twitter invited us over and i think to teach us to tweet. the non-profits came to their office and they went around the room and all of the newly hired people at twitter. every single person went around in the 20s lived in the city for three months or so and came from new jersey and boston and elsewhere. i remember looking around the room and saying if these people are in the tenderloin, they are kidding themselves. >> thank you. anyone else from the public who would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. soon pesupervisor haney.

>> i want to thank all of the departments who came out, and also everybody from the community. i think, you know, i think it is pretty clear what went wrong here and unfortunately it is something that often happens even when there isn't a tax break like this in place. there are a lot of promises about how a particular development or a particular company is going to benefit everybody and then a couple years go by and we look back and the actual consequences are quite to the contrary. i think for us what we have learned from this is that, one, you can't just assume things will be worked out without having them clear, concrete and enforceable. there was a lot of data that we should have got from the companies we were not demanding

as part of this. there wasn't ongoing follow-up as this process went on. the scale of expectations when you have this sort of thing happen needs to be much higher in terms what the companies can contribute, and if we involve the community, which we always should. they should have the real support and power from the city to make these things a reality. the fact so many great ideas were put forward and ignored is one of the greatest shames and disappointments of this whole thing. i know that oewd that we are tasked to sort through the next steps. i am committed to working with all of you and i am still possessing what we learned today and it sounds like there is more information we will get.

supervisor mar and i are thinking about corporate responsibility that is more enforceable and don't just rely on hope and prayers. if we continue to do it this we are going to get what we guilty which is a lot of feel good stuff and a lot of impacteds on the community that are not positive. thank you all for being here and thank you for holding this hearing here, supervisor mar. >> thank you supervisor haney for calling the hearing and thanks for your presentations and the community advocates. i think this hearing highlighted how this policy was a poor policy that was poorly implemented by the city. it resulted in a hand out of

$70 million to a small number of corporations that resulted in very little benefits to the community in the immediate neighborhood. not only was there a lack of any meaningful community benefits provided to the central city neighborhoods, this policy really played a key role in the broader economic and social changes that played out in the neighborhoods and in our entire city over the past decade during this tech driven development boom. this was helpful and starting to reflect on what played out specifically in the central market area with the twitter tax break and it is part of a broader process happening in our city right now and re-setting

our policies how we as a city engage with large corporations here, particularly in the tech sector and what our expectations are around that. i do want to say that there is also very what i feel some constructive discussions directly with the tech companies that i have been engaged in and others here as well. i know this is not the intent here despite maybe the tone at times. the intent is not to demonies the tech sector or blame them for problems. it is an important moment in 2019 to reflect on what is played out during the tech driven development boom, how that was driven by policy decisions at the board and city hall, how it is important to reset policies and reset

expectations and our relationship with large businesses in the tech sector. i guess we can move to close this. before i do that i want to excuse supervisor peskin and supervisor brown who had to leave for other meetings. is that good? then i guess can we file this hearing without objection? great. mr. clerk, any further business? >> clerk: no further business. >> thank you. the meeting is adjourned. it.

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are very excited because we are going to be a tenant in this new building 49 south vanness. how about a big hand for that. [applause.] i am also excited to be here to celebrate a major construction milestone. today is very, very exciting not just for public works but for the other nine city departments that will be relocated into this state-of-the-arts building upon its completion. at the end of our ceremony, we will raise the final steel beam into place to complete the structural framing of this new 430,000 square foot building. 430,000 square foot building. how about a big hand for that. [applause.]

it will house approximately 1-800-cit1800city staff to movet summer. this gives us a good reason to celebrate. i want to thank all of those forgetting us here today. thank you builders, the prime contractors. let's give them a big hand. the development firm and the architects worked on many projects. let's give them a big hand. public works takes great pride in the public private partnerships such as this one as they help bring the city's vision for a modern advanced san francisco to life.

i also want to give a special shout out to the project management team. let's give them a big hand. [cheers and applause.] all of this work would not happen, however, without the leadership from our elected officials who allow for capital infrastructure projects to be approved and implemented. with that said i have the pleasure of introducing our mayor london breed to say a few words about this project. welcome, mayor breed. >> thank you. you know, as someone who grew up in the city and someone who has had to get permits and get permits specifically for festivals and community events, it was often times frustrating works through did bureaucracy. one minute it is the planning

department in this building then to city hall, then down the street somewhere that you couldn't find, and the fact is this building what is so amazing. we are bringing 10 city agencies together in one building with a central permitting system that would make it easier to do construction projects, would make it easier for entertainment, easier for events and all of the things we do in san francisco that make san francisco such a great city. it is about making bureaucracy more efficient. that is what this building is about. i know people don't get excited around efficiency, but i do. because i know you all remember when it was taking us 18 months to build one accessory dwelling unit and putting out an

executive directive to bring in the fire department and planning and building department to work together. we completely reduced the time. now it takes up to six months. streamlining the process is critical to building more housing and making sure the festivals and events and nightlife that we are so excited to have in our city continues without delay because san francisco as we know is a special place, but we only work when we work more efficiently together. i am excited, and i know those over 1800 employees are excited to have new bathrooms and shower and places to park bicycles and the other great things we are adding to new buildings. i want to thank everyone who is building this place and the work you are doing to get this building built on time and hopefully on budget.

you know that is important to us. more importantly, how this is going to be one of the projects that really changes how we do business in san francisco. no longer will you have people going on line to those different places where they complain about the process and what they have to do to get a permit. what i want to see them going on line to say is, wow, the city makes it easier. they have a new permitting process to get permit online and it doesn't take that long. that is what this place is about. i want to thank all of you for being here today. i also would like to acknowledge which i think is absolutely incredible that we will have an on site child care at this location as well so that families who work for our city in those various departments have a place to take their children. this budget that i just announced last week also

including $7.7 million to digital the city permitter and create an electronic review process. san francisco is the technicaltal of the world but our city is a little behind schedule. we have to make the right investments to get to a better place. this is making bureaucracy more efficient. i want to thank all of you who have played a critical role in doing that. probably the only member of the board of supervisors who cares about efficiency the way that i do is my former colleague on the board who is supervisor for district 6. i want to ask supervisor aaron peskin to say a few brief words. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mayor breed.

i am the supervisor representing the northeast corner of the city, but i share with mayor breed the desire to have a one stopper hitting shop for everything in san francisco, and this floor print of almost an acre, 40,000 square feet, is precisely the right way to do it whether it is integrating planning and building and health and fire. this is going to be a huge step forward for the city and county of san francisco. thank you to related, thank you to public works. i cannot wait for it to be finished. [applause.] >> it is not easy to get projects done in our city. the person who is a leader to make sure we put forward the responsible policies and budgeting practices to allow an opportunity like this and

recognizing we need to make the city more efficient and provide facilities that are safe and energy efficient is really the leader, one of the leaders of the city, our city administrator, naomi kelly. >> good morning. i have to say i am so honored to be here today. i want to thank mayor breed, supervisor peskin. they were with us in the beginning. we had to go to them to help with financing. part of that was selling off three city buildings to get into this one beautiful building that will have a one stopper mitt center. part -- permit center. why they supported us to open a restaurant you need 20 permits from 13 different city locations all over the city, not just one spot. if we get a one stopper mitt ste

permitting that is how we kick started this. i promised we are not just about brick and mortar co-location. we need to streamline that process to make the permitting process more customer friendly through digital. i want to thank the mayor and board through funding those opportunities. in this building is the department of public works, building inspections, city planning, environmental services. in the one stopper mitter shop in addition to those major departments it will include the fire department, public utilities, office of small business, entertainment commission and we are looking at other satellite departments to touch the building in here,

m.t.a., office of cannabis, disability. police, board of appeals and tax collector. that is all important. as the mayor talked about a.d.u. pilot and trying to streamline that process, let me drilling down what our team is looking at. as we currently before if you were an a.d.u. permit resident you needed five different departments, answer 516 questions and navigate multiple applications and forms, as we looked at that we want to unduplicate questions we are asking over and over. we needed 289 questions. we could stop asking the same question 227 times. that is what we are looking for. one clap is good government. that is the bureaucracy mayor

breed and supervisor peskin wanted eliminated. then we will make it digital. i am excited to be here today. thank you tom, john, stephanie and all of those and ken leading this out of my office and melissa white house. you have all been fabulous to make sure we are not thinking about this as brick and mortar but streamlining the process. thank you. next up our partner in the begins, matt woody is instrumental to make sure he works with us every step of the way. he works on many projects. this is one that is near and dear to my house. up next matt woody from related california. [applause.] >> thank you, mayor breed, city administrator kelly, director, i

am matt woody. we are overseeing the development of this unusual project. in the city like san francisco that is so land constrained, it is rare to find a 2.5-acre site, much less acquire it in the heart of the city close to public transportation and co-develop it. that is the reason we are here to celebrate. i would like to recognize the vision and leadership of our former mayor ed lee. many years ago as city administrator mayor lee began creating the one stopper mitt center to simplify the process. this including the food truck to a project like this, everything you need approval for in san francisco. this is less than a year away from realizing his vision. later on, as mayor, he was

instrumental in acquiring this site from goodwill industries in 2014. this is the type of thing we look to do. it is something we are going to be proud of it a year from now when it opens. i would like to recognize the people you have heard about from the supervisor and mayor. chief among them is john updike, josh keene, john ram, jeff jocelyne and dan snider from planning. edgar lopez at public works and charles sullivan from the city attorney's office who work with us to get us to this point. related has been partnering with the city and working in san francisco for over 30 years on large projects of this type. innovative public private

partnership is the type of challenge world class developments we work to do. 49 south vanness fillings the need to consolidate the city to one place as you have heard. by designing abconstructing both buildings at the same time we had the unique opportunity to plan and consider the needs for both buildings. i would like to kill out som and their team who work with us and the city to get these two buildings less than 200 feet apart to look as compatible as we can agree they do. the results of 1.3 million square folk and two magnificent buildings to bring 1800 city employees and apartment complex is unique in san francisco.

this mixed use is proof of what san francisco can accomplish when we work together with optimism. thank you very much. >> let's hear from the team on the ground getting this building done. come on up. >> thank you for introducing me. i am joe mckeown. i have the honor to stand up with this great group of speakers. i hope i can live up to their charm and wit. welcome. this is a place of pride for all of the workers. this is our daily life and family. we are here to work together to build this great building for the city and county of san francisco. we appreciate related california and the city and county of san francisco to build this building that will live on for the next 100 years to serve the city and

county of san francisco. a special thanks to the teams that show up every day and work hard building this building. [applause.] it is the skilled trades men and women behind me today that have worked over 260,000 hours on this building. they excavated 92,000 cubic yards ofvillsoil. today will hang the last beam of 2200-tons of -- 2300-tons of structural iron. i am proud to represent this team and i would like to ask you to join me in a great round of applause for the men and women behind me who are the heart and soul of this project. thank you.

[applause.] >> thank you. now, mayor, we will go sign the beam and we can get our signatures and it makes the journey to the 16th floor to complete the structural work, and next summer this building will be occupied with the city agencies you heard and the one stop to get anything you want done in the city. come in the door and someone will take care of you, right melissa? thank you. thank you. please take the

call? please take the [roll call] please note that executive director shireen mcspaden is present. at this time we ask that you silence all cell phones and sound-producing devices. >> thank you. before asking for approval of the agenda, i need to make an amendment.