thank you for joining us. for the record, this is june 12, 2019 treasure island development authority board meeting. item number 1, call to order. [roll call] we do have a quorum. in this case, the next item. general public comment. this is to members of the public to address the treasure island development authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction and do not appear on today's agenda.

public comment will be held on each item on the agenda. members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. you while hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. please state your name and organization you're representing, if any, for the record. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today and for your many years of service to our community. my name is jim hancock, i'm the president of the san francisco sailing science center, a project to create a museum framed around sailing. i'm very pleased to announce today that in the month of may

the san francisco sailing science center received confirmation of its 501-c-3 tax exempt status from the federal government. this launches us into a new phase of our project and we're already planning exciting events and initiatives for the coming months. for the past year we've held office at the treasure island administration building down stairs from the tida offices and have been developing relationships with people in treasure island, the treasure island yacht club, the sailing center, treasure island news and elsewhere. with our new status, you'll begin to see much more activity from our team as we endeavor to build community and be good members of the community on treasure island. thank you. >> president tsen: thank you, jim. next, please. >> hi, my name is park all-rick.

i'd would like to defer my time to my partner. >> hi, chair. so my name is meeusen. i am the owner partner of mer say resident. i'm this is what i consider myself a citizen of treasure island. thank you to my partner, best friend, for yielding his time to me. i usually panic and then i talk too fast and don't get my point across. i'd like to thank you, board president tsen and supervisor haney, and the board of directors and director beck for the opportunity to speak. my partner park and i are here not to discuss issues about the tolls or the many other issues on the agenda. i'm here because often times fear of the unknown is what

drives anger and hostility and when we speak and come from a place of fear, it often manifests itself in ugly ways. do the tolls scare us? yes. we don't know how it will affect our businesses when it implemented. it will effect our vendors, employees and guests. for now, we are grateful for the enormous opportunity, the honor and opportunity to be part of the seminole moment of the development of the island. we're honored to serve and contribute to the citizens of the island, how ever long that may last. we cannot effect progress, we can only be asked to be given a voice and hope we can come to reasonable resolutions on any negative issues that might impact us. as a new restaurant owner, my

partner is an expert. i've learned important and humbling lessons. we received negative reviews on yelp and it has opened my eyes to the needs that people have. guests believe there are injustices because their french fries are too cold, they don't like the pricing. they voice their anger through a public medium like yelp and often times blaming and attacking me personally. what is offset, their negative reviews, are the guests who love their experience and actually speak up on behalf of the employees. so, supervisor, haney, we're incredibly grateful you've reached out to our community and shown us that we matter to you. but i'm also here to speak positively of the great work of the tida board and their staff. and bob beck and his team.

director beck and his team have supported us through the many challenges of building on the island. they've championed us with the police department when car break-ins were more frequent than we'd like. when the sewage system backed up, it was bob beck standing out in the streets working with puc to try to continue to resolve a bad situation. and i'm aware of many other occurrences in which they have helped other businesses. they supported the hot dogs, so whatever location is needed to succeed in the construction phases, that supporting tammy with the waffles and bicycle business. we've employed as many residents on the island as possible, helping to source and hire residents like former veteran

with the program utilizing toolworks for the janitorial service. being one of the restaurants on the island, we opened our doors and invitation to the residents. when there was a circus, we ensured there were free shows for the residents. when someone wanted to do a movie, the residents had free movies. even now we have a major health company holding an event and they want to make sure the residents on the island get free flu shots. we supported the coast guard during the government shutdown and many other examples of things we've made possible. while the benefits on the surface appear to be separate, they're all strengths for the residents that was made possible because of the support of the board and bob and his team. and his staff. >> president tsen: thank you. >> we've observed the board and represented the island and we

believe we face development challenges ahead that we're grateful and thankful and stand behind the board and bob beck. and we just -- that's my positive yelp review. thank you. >> president tsen: thank you for that. i just want to also say that lucy has been such a great addition to the treasure island community and, meeusen, and you, park, have been such great community members, building community on treasure island. you are the type of entrepreneurs we want to support on the island. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. president tsen, directors of the treasure island development authority, i'm the executive director of the treasure island sailing centre. i want to thank you again for continued support of our programs. we're in full swing right now and have about 900 kids registered for our program for the summer. i was handed a copy of the

proposed revisions to clipper cove rules and regulations late last week. which is on the consent agenda today. at first glance i noticed nothing unusual, but upon closer look at the language i realize that the ability to restrict the shoreline of yerba buena has been eliminated. the leaning of the revision does not give definition for times that would necessitate restrictions. while there may be times that access to the cove and shorelines need to be restricted, it's my opinion that some outlying definition should be adopted without some appropriate language to define the need for restriction, the decision to restrict would be unchecked and public access could be taken away without a appropriate cause. there appears to be no length of

time defined or remedy to oppose a restriction. it also describes no communication plan to advise of any restriction. the current language gives absolute authority to whoever tida appoints. depending on the timing, any restriction could inhibit the delivery of programs and access to resource for the bay area youth. we're only a small portion of the population who uses the beach. as many boaters from around the bay take advantage of this little oasis in the middle of the bay. i would ask you to define the nature, scope, communication, and remedy whenever any public access is being limited. we have little precious area to recreate and limiting access for any reason should be a decision that is not taken lightly, nor by any one group or person. thank you very much for your

time. i submit this letter for the record. >> take that under consideration. thank you very much. nobody else? then let's go to the next item. item number 3, report by treasure island director. >> thank you, chair tsen, supervisor haney, members of the board. i'd like to invite sherry williams to give an update on treasure island programs. >> good afternoon, with one treasure island. with the vertical development starting on ybi and anticipated the first affordable project happening in calendar year, 2020, we're going to be ramping up our construction training program. and hopefully we'll be getting a lot of people, low-income san franciscans into the trades and union work in developing these

new housing units. so we're pretty excited about that for this coming up calendar year starting july 1. and then also we have our drivers education program which we are working with oewd as part of their driver-build program to increase the number of drivers that is woefully needed in san francisco. we are assisting them getting their class b licenses and one of our efforts is going to be to try to partner with the operating engineers so we can get folks into that union. so aside from that, we're also updating the family resource guide that we hope to have out to the community by the end of this week, early next week, that will indicate all of the various opportunities for families and children for the summer. and then we'll update that next year.

so aside from that, i'm not sure there is too much else to say, but we're busy and we thank you for your support. >> thank you, sherry. just an update on island events. the northern california junior lacrosse association had tournaments on the island on the weekends of may 4 and 5. and may 18 and 19. the may treasurefest was incident-free and well attended. also on may 25, last weekend in may, treasure island museum held their talk from geology to horticulture on treasure island. and their next lecture will be on june 29, the last saturday in june. the ecology hosted their three item for district 6 on the island on may 25 as well.

don't have statistics yet on the amount of material that was collected, but was well attended. one treasure island, speaking of sherry, had their grand opening event for the gather garden on thursday, may 30. although it was a cool day, there was free shaved ice for attendees and other refreshments. we have our project poll intern who started with us yesterday and we'll have a second coming on next week. on the housing front, we have good news in that the staff from the strategic growth council has recommended that the mercy catholic charities project be awarded an h.s.c. grant based on our application. it's not officially an award yet, but all signs are very positive. yesterday, ybi, the team had an

event to recognize the design team for the ybi residential work and to celebrate the start of construction activities. on may 29, we had in conjunction with arws, we had open house for pre-dda households. we had 67 individuals from 42 households turn up, including four households that had not responded to prior outreach efforts. of the 23 households that we had not been able to engage as of our last meeting, arws was able to have interviews with six of them this past month. we have also confirmed that two of those households no longer have a pre-dda tenant, so they're post dda households. so we have 15 households that we are still seeking to engage,

although two of those we have arws has made contact and they've declined to undertake an interview at this time. since may 1, we've had -- when we opened the window, we've had eight households make contact to request information. and three have filed in lieu payment applications. on the construction front, geotechnical improvements are complete north of california and treasure island community development is mobilizing to install wick drains behind building one as the first step moving the work south of california. demolition of structures to make way for the new waste water treatment plant is complete. processor is processing the debris and we'll move conflicting utilities. construction of new ferry improvements are also expected

to begin. on ybi, the demolition of the 1 million gallon water tank is complete and the realignment of the road is advancing. on may 13, phase three of the permit -- infrastructure permit to public works. so our goal from here is to get to final approved plans, permits, and final subdivision maps by march of 2020. the first final transfer map is being planned for submission to the board of supervisors for consideration at the july 9 meeting of the board. on the environmental front, the navy has issued land use draft land use controls and draft for site 24, the former dry cleaning facility. assuming timely review and finalizing of those documents with the regulators, site 24 is

anticipated to transfer this summer. the miss dig in site 12, the various locations, chemical radiation is ongoing. the navy has demolished two vacant buildings and that should wrap up by end of july. that concludes my report for this month. >> president tsen: thank you very much. let me -- yes, supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: thank you, director beck. i had a couple of questions. i was contacted a few times over the last month as it related to power outages and i wonder if you could talk a bit about, you know, what your involvement is in the response? i believe there were two. and what is being done to prevent further outages and

mitigate the impact on residents and businesses on the island? >> we did have two outages this past month. i believe in both cases, the p.u.c. was unable to identify the source of the outage. typically that means that something probably came in contact with transmission lines and caused a surge, causing the switch gear to trip out. so it's a matter of resetting the system. so in both cases, the power was restored within two hours. p.u.c. is lead agency in response when we have a power outage on the island. and with the exception of this past presidents' day weekend where we had extended outage, the average duration of an outage has been two hours over the last year and a half. in terms of the biggest improvement to the island is

going to come with the installation of new switch gear, serving the entire island. the new switch gear is to be installed same site where the waste water treatment plant is developed. the debris is being removed from that location now and the expectation is that is delivered by june of 2020, with completion of geotechnical improvements so that by the end of 2020, we'll be on new switch gear for the island. and that is the most significant thing to be done to improve the reliability. because it's the fault tolerance of the primary switch gear that is the primary source of outages on the island. >> supervisor haney: thank you. in terms of mitigation, often residents will respond and say, you know, is there some sort of temporary thing, is there a

generat generator? what about people who have health needs? are there particular things we're doing around supporting people who may have emergencies? obviously, the two-hour one is one thing, but there was one, i guess, a couple of months ago that was much more extended? >> yes. for the island as a whole, we do have generators that are capable of keeping both treasure island and yerba buena island up, however, those generators operate through the existing switch gear. so if there is a fault on the distribution system on the island, those generators aren't able to power the system. they're primarily there if there is a problem with the supply from oakland to the island. we are exploring the possibility of adding an emergency generator to the ymca as a facility that

we could stand up in the event of an extended outage to provide power for people who might have devices that require power, if we have an extended on-island outage. >> supervisor haney: it hasn't got to the point -- for that last extended outage, where those generators were activated? or you weren't able to do that? >> because the problem was within the distribution system on the island, those generators rely upon that distribution system. so -- >> supervisor haney: they can't run independently? >> yeah, they can only bring the island up -- they're only there as a resort if the supply from oakland is cut off. or, for example, if pg&e were to create a regional shutdown as they do for the current firestorm season, we would still be able to keep the island up on those generators, but if the

fault is within the distribution system on the island, then those generators aren't able to supply the power to residents. >> supervisor haney: got it. and just one more quick question. so i appreciate, i know that you provide the 311 request during your monthly reports. do you keep track of or have regular access to be able to report dbi related requests? >> if we, dbi notices of violation? >> supervisor haney: yeah, like inspection stuff, if someone has, now e, in terms of -- you know, in terms of habitability types things, or anything like that? >> we've occasionally had a notice of violation on a property if a commercial tenant has made a change without a permit. and we work to get those

corrected. but i'm not aware of complaints that are made to dbi by commercial or residential tenants. i can look into that. >> i want to make a note here. i was going through the package, and thank you, you have a lot of information here that can accumulate on what we've been asking from the staff. let me dive in quickly to some comment that i have. could you please, there is 1116 hutchins street. apparently this household, it has a problem there. could you please make a note on that? there is ongoing mold and i don't know what is going on there.

but i think that we might need to come back with a report here on this particular unit. it's recorded. okay. yes. moving on. in the frequently asked questions, number 8, someone said the question we have here, if i'm not eligible for new unit, how soon my housing be impacted by development of the island? the answer here is that, well, in 2024. that's when you have so many years. i would like for that language to be changed because people cannot wait until 2024. san francisco right now, i know there are almost 60,000 residents of san francisco that are on the waiting list somewhere in the this city. if you're living on the island and you're pre-d.d.a., those are the ones that we have primary obligations. if you are there, you should take advantage of what is going on in san francisco. putting your name on the list,

attending the workshops. because if you show up in 2024, you're going to bump against people who have been attending work shops in 2018 and their names are there. you will not be able to make that transition. so changing this for that particular frequently asked question. you need to start making your move now because you're a resident of san francisco. san francisco is building this up and no one is guaranteed. if you live on the island, that's your primary opportunity. you need to leverage what the city is doing. that needs to be changed. number 3, in the outreach to the pre-d.d.a., in particular you mention here that there are two residents that are refusing interviews at this time. i want to say that, because we

also have the supervisor here. those that are refusing to be interviewed, this process started almost two years ago. i think we need to send them a letter, because not only do you have residents that have responded and we need to move them along, they cannot be held hostage while we're still out here. those two residents need to know the implications why it is important for them, at this junction, for them to be responsive. that way we are capturing them and the burden is on us to write a letter to them to say, hey, we realize, knock on your door, sending e-mail, gave you a call and you're still refusing, however, this is not an open-ended process. at some point we need to move to phase 2. my recommendation you need to show those two. and there are also 13 that continue to be nonresponsive?

we had asked before that in the universe, there are 200-something plus residents overall. there should be case management for them so when the supervisor want, any particular information, we can point to the resident and say this is the status of who is who. it's going to come handy because some of these nonresponsive, at some point down the line, when you move onto the next phase, they're going to be a point of contention and we need to make sure we're able to do that. that would be my recommendation there. and there are two lease holders, that have vacated their unit. i think you should just put case is closed. and the implication there will be no dda. so that anybody reading the document will know it's closed. nobody knows what post dda is.

thank you, again, for providing a detailed report. thank you, sir. >> president tsen: comments from the board? i would also add, mr. beck, that this was a full report. we appreciated it given our last comments. so i'm glad to see more information. i would also like to note that on the handout that went out residents, it says the time, the year, in which we anticipate the affordable housing projects to be built and ready for occupancy, but it definitively says in 2022 for the ccbc project and in 2024 for the mercy housing. i think we should say it's anticipated that is when it will be, but knowing construction and development timetables, in fact, it's better to couch it into the

language that is our anticipation. >> next item. >> item 4, communications from and received by tida. >> president tsen: any directors would like to comment on this item? hearing none. next item, please. >> item number 5, ongoing business by board of directors. >> president tsen: do the director have issues they want to bring up? hearing none, next item. >> item 6, consent agenda. all matters listed here constitute consent agenda are considered to be routine by the authority board and will be acted upon by a single vote of the authority board. there will be no separate discussion of the items unless a member of the authority board so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered as

a separate item. a, approving the minutes. b, authorizing and approving the clipper cove rules. c, resolution approving the execution of a professional services agreement for a month to month term commencing july 2019 in an amount not to exceed $262,000. d resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a professional services agreement between the treasure island development authority and rubicon enterprises commencing july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2020. 6e, resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a professional services agreement between the pressure island authority and one treasure island. f. resolution authorizing the treasure island director to execute a grant agreement with the boys and girls club of san

francisco for the purpose of funding boys and girls clubs camp mendocino tuition for all on-island youth residents for summer 2019. g. resolution authorizing the director to enter into a lease for and enter into a funding agreement with bay area toll authority for operation, maintenance of the sfobb pier e2. h. resolution authorizing the sharing maintenance of state highway outfall. i, resolution approving the board of directors regular meeting. >> president tsen: any items the directors would like to remove for separate discussion? >> motion for 6b to go to the regular calendar. >> and i will make motion for

approval, except b. >> i would like to remove 6e. >> 6b and 6e. >> i will make a motion for the rest. >> president tsen: do i have a second. >> second. >> all those in favor? opposed? the ayes have it. on the rest of the consent agenda, however, we will -- are there any members of the public who would like to address the board on these consent agenda items? >> my name is steve jeffrey with rubicon enterprises. i wanted to give thanks for approval of our contract. and continuing our long-term relationship. and running our training program while providing services on the island. thank you. >> president tsen: we haven't yet approved it, but thank you for coming up and showing your appreciation.

so all those in favor of -- do i have a motion to pass the consent agenda? >> yes, the motion except those two items. >> president tsen: all those in favor say aye? opposed? all right. let's discuss them. 6b. so this is an item which travis already commented on. and i'll open it up to the board as to whether they would like to continue this item or whether they would like to have a discussion and move on this item separately? yes? supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: it sounds like as we heard there are some continuing questions from the sailing center that still need to be resolved, so i don't know if there is further comment on

that now, but it seems like we should give them additional time to review, respond and hopefully work out the issues before we vote on it. >> president tsen: all right. so, then, let's take the action on 6b -- excuse me, mr. beck? >> i just wanted to provide a comment of clarification on that. i'm not objecting to continuing the item, but that particular edit to the language of the regulations made reference to buoys that had been placed in the cove by cal trans and have since been removed by cal trans. it's estimated in this the future tida may cause to have replacement buoys set and that was the intent of the language, to replace the cal trans that have -- the buoys that have been historically in the cove. but that was the intent. perhaps the language was not

crafted clearly enough. just provide that clarification. >> president tsen: thank you. >> director lai: yes, so i was actually just moving to move that 6b item to the regular calendar, not necessarily to continue it to a future hearing. i just wanted a little bit more, maybe an opportunity to discuss with staff what the comments really meant, because i'm not sure that i understand all of the environmental implications that are being commented on. i wanted to provide opportunity to give that background on the regular calendar. >> president tsen: so could we move that to a regular item on regular calendar? >> yeah, we can put it on the regular. that's fine. >> i move, yeah. >> president tsen: let's have a motion. >> director richardson: i make a

motion to move that item. >> i'll second that. >> president tsen: the ayes have it. 6e, please. supervisor haney? you requested this be removed from the consent agenda? >> supervisor haney: yes. i just had a question maybe for you director beck, for maybe for ms. williams, are there any services provided from one treasure island, either with support for affordable housing -- i know they're not the ones who are doing the direct outreach in terms of some of the providing people with information about what opportunities they have, but is there any support or information or services as it relates to housing opportunities that you all provide to post-d.d.a. residents? is that part of the work in any way? >> that is not part of one treasure island's scope.

they work primarily with the member agencies, the affordable housing member agencies, catholic charities. and they have provided outreach materials to them about the relocation program, timing, f.a.q.s, et cetera. >> supervisor haney: just basically entirely focused on the residents who live in the affordable housing units. >> with regards housing opportunities, a broad range of services that one treasure island provides including the food pantry are open to all island residents. >> right, so, individual member housing member agencies, we provide all information to them. like catholic partnerships, and specifically about their future housing options. when it comes to broader information, we have hosted like

first-time homebuyer workshops that that been open to the entire island. so anybody who lives on the island, financial education workshops. our tax site. anybody that is low-income is able to participate in the job broker program. all of those are open to anybody, but when it comes specifically for the development of housing in the future, our -- our focus has been on our specific member agencies and their housing. >> supervisor haney: got it. thank you. >> president tsen: thank you. >> director richardson: thank you, supervisor, for that great question. so it actually mimics my statement before for post-d.d.a. they are san francisco residents and the mayor office of housing has a very, very robust outreach housing. they contracted some of these

nonprofit agencies. and they're constantly conducting workshops in many areas. i know i get a lot of that living in the bayview. so what we need to do right now is to inform them to be instructed to now begin to extend the outreach services to treasure island for the post-d.d.a., so they can capitalize on what is going on in the mainland and trying to leverage. so that is a very good question. you can help us to convey that. and mr. bob beck can do that. now is the time to really do that, because we do not have any obligation for the post-d.d.a., but they should not be left out on what san francisco is doing, all these opportunities for housing right now. their name should be on the list somewhere. thank you. >> president tsen: okay. i think that's the end of the

consent agenda item. and we'll go on to the next item number. >> i move to approve 6e? >> president tsen: oh. to approve 6e. that's right. so we have a motion to approve 6e? do we have a second? all those in favor? the ayes have it. >> item number 7, life learning academy dormitory update. >> i want to invite principal for life learning academy to come up and say a few words about their new dormitory facility. >> good afternoon. i am very happy to be here today. basically, because i'm sure you all see this beautiful house that i would just like to talk to you, that has been a long time in the coming. i've been the executive director of life learning academy for 20

years. we just had our 20th graduation. part of the unified school district that is a high school. it's a high school that reaches kids that are either dropping out, kicked out, bullied, don't do well in a big school. they come to our school and they thrive. and everything that a kid needs to be successful is why i will say that i believe that our school is more like a high-end private school, because all of the things we offer at this high school are things that you would get at a private school. award-winning workforce programs, so every kid that graduates ends up getting a job and/or in college. so we've been doing this for 20 years. obviously, we know our students really, really well. i, myself, am i graduate from dlansy street foundation, where i went in at age 20.

and actually, before that, had i not had the opportunity to leave the really negative violent environment that i was raised in, i think i probably would have ended up in the same way that my three best friends who were family, died of overdoses before age 21. i was lucky because there was someone that was looking out for me. as a result of that, dropping out of school in the 9th grade, going to san francisco, going into delancy street, save midnight life -- my life. i've always known there are a number of kids who must have safety and a place where they can call home. we have embarked, this amazing team of us, who have worked with these kids all these years, we have embarked and been relentless to build a home. right in the back of our school.

and many a time people would say that sounds like such a wonderful idea, but isn't that so expensive? yes, it is. but aren't our kids worth that? we now have built the building. the building is done. we have raised the money. we have borrowed the money. some of which we'll have to pay back in a year. and we have the kids and we're ready to move them in, in the fall when we come back in august. so we want, number one, to invite -- there is a few new members on this commission that i don't know, but supervisor haney and bob beck and some of the rest of the people that i consider life learning family, that have come up and been our friends from day one and supported what we're doing from day one, we're going to be having a celebration and move-in ceremony coming up in august. and it's going to be a big

event. we'll move in some of the kids. we believe that we will be the model for the country on how a small school on treasure island can make it their business to build a home for kids that are not living safe. we can house 24 kids. and what will we do when those 24 are housed? then we'll build another one. the goal for me is that this is a demonstration project of a larger project in mind, so that you will of life learning academy can become kind of a building for at-risk youth, for all boarding, for all of our kids. i'd like to invite those of you who haven't been to our school to come. you'll meet amazing dedicated students who have committed to nonviolence. we've never had a fight there in

20 years. that's not -- that's not a lightweight to take in. so i want to invite everybody to come by. i would like to answer any questions that anyone might have about this building or our plans. >> president tsen: thank you very much for the update. and for your passion. are there any questions or comments from the directors? >> supervisor haney: thank you so much for this. and i'm just, as you know, a huge fan of life learning academy and yours as well. i think you're just such a hero in our community and everything you've done against all odds to build this school. and now to put forward a model that hasn't been seen anywhere in the country, but one we need so greatly here in san francisco. i had heard, through the grapevine, maybe you said this already and i missed it, that

there was maybe some good news relating to some of your budget needs in the mayor's proposed budget. and i haven't had a chance to check in with you about that yet, but i wonder if this is something you can share so that i can make sure it stays in the budget. >> thank you so much for saying that. >> supervisor haney: and that you are able to build this extraordinary model and thank you so much and congratulations on everything and your staff. >> thank you. and the answer is, yes, we have recently been awarded -- it's in the budget, for what we've asked for, which is the city to pay for half of the operations cost of this building. which is $800,000 a year for 24 students. one kid in juvenile hall as you all know is $300,000 per kid. in our building, it's $30,000

per kid, free, and thriving with wonderful life and services. so we did get a promise in the budget for two years of operating -- half of our operating costs. so we were like just beyond excited to have this happen. >> director samaha: thank you for being here and thank you for all your great work. you are truly a star and thank you for all of what you do. i have a couple of questions. when is your opening event in august? >> this is craig miller. and i have jack scott, but craig miller will offer this. he's the c.o.o. we're basically the founders of the school. >> thank you. my name is craig miller. the question is about the move-in event. just recently i can announce

that we've heard that mayor breed will be attending that event. it's on august 7. everybody here will get a formal invite. this is all happening very quickly. but expect to receive electronically in the mail an invite to the event. it will be a morning event, along with mayor breed and mayor brown, who was the master of ceremonies for the ground-breaking event we had one year ago. we're very excited. we hope all of you can attend. to add to terry's comments, the city is providing half of the operating funds. we've raised the other half already. we're fully funded for year one. so it's a terrific public-private partnership with the city contributing half, linked in, one of our corporate partners making a major contribution. we were awarded one of the

battery powered grants recently. we were the largest recipient of that this year. and we're in final negotiations, due diligence with the tipping point foundation. and i expect soon that we'll have two full years of operating expenses in reserve, which is what our goal was to be able to open the program. >> just one other question. i know this is a new building. the dormitory. and, bob, how does this fit into our development plan? is this a temporary structure? what is the permanent structure in that location? >> this will be an interim location, interim use. we're still exploring with life learning academy where the best to integrate them into the permanent land use plan. the site where it currently sits is part of what is the future sports field area.

and so we're still exploring working with life learning academy on a permanent home and communicating with them about their visions for growth as well. >> director samaha: how many is temporary? what does that mean? >> it's going to be there for at least five years, but more likely ten years. >> director samaha: okay. >> director giusti: it sounds like a great program, very exciting. how do you pick the kids? it's too bad it's only 24. and do you have a waiting list? and what are the ages for the kids? >> so, they're high school students. i have right now -- because i don't constantly promise them when they can move in our building. so obviously, many of them have had to find other options. now they're like you know off the top four kids that are going to move in right away. they'll be the foundation.

the kids, the students, are the ones that will make this work. the students are the ones that commit to nonviolence. not bringing drugs to school. and know that they are in a community where they can thrive and go to college and do anything they want to do. so they take care of their school. >> thank you. >> president tsen: hearing no other questions, thank you very much for your update. item number 8, park operations and maintenance, planning for operating rules and regulations. >> thank you. board members, just wanted to bring this topic for discussion today as part of the work that we've been doing, miriam, martin and landscape team, about planning for the future operations of the parks. one of the things that we have been looking at is codes and rules and regulations and how to

best put those in place. so the -- just to clarify, background on the parks as we mentioned before, the parks are to remain tida jurisdiction, not the san francisco rec and parks department. and that we might work with the conservancy or contract out operations. the long-term funding source here for our parks is the community facilities district, which will continue on the island in perpetuity. but in our first two subphases, we have the six-acre hilltop park that will be coming online, as well as the open spaces and pathways on the rest of yerba buena island. as things are completed on treasure island, we have the city side park, building one plaza in the first block of the

clipper cove promenade. and so, just in terms of background. when i talk about codes versus rules, we had a conversation earlier today about the clipper cove rules and regulations. those are adopted by the tida board, but we also have authority under the police code to enforce certain codes on anchorage within clipper cove. so codes are adopted by the board of supervisors and typically there are established penalties. as opposed to rules which are adopted by the tida board and perhaps can be more readily adapted and/or enacted, but you know, would not grant citation

authority and wouldn't be appropriate if it was a matter that rose to a city-wide policy concern. that would be more appropriate to do through the code. so in san francisco, the san francisco parks code is really specific to recreation and parks properties. and grant certain authorities to the commission and general manager of the parks department. the current version of the code was adopted in total as a redraft in 1981, although it's been modified several times since then. and there are other areas of the city that the code has been specifically authorized to be enforced. so for instance, united nations plaza is technically public right-of-way, it's the continuation of lev-- left thers

a specific provision that grants the department of public works the ability to force the parks code in the united nations plaza. and similarly, the director of real estate, or real property, can enforce the parks code at halladay plaza. and then on a larger scale, the redevelopment commission can apply the parks code to yerba buena gardens and the transbay joint power authority can to the park. they've adopted the parks in total with some additional few provisions for specific concerns of, for instance, the transbay park about unauthorized athletic events. they don't want someone throwing a ball off the roof of the park. so but a different approach was taken by the port of san francisco. so the port code in the city's

administrative code, it's called the port code, but it doesn't apply to any of the port's operations other than their parks and open spaces. and it is a tailored down version of the parks code. and so we're looking at these two different models of adopting the parks code in total or doing what the port did, and trying to understand their rationale for having developed their own specific code. as two different models. so we're in the process of doing a thorough review of both codes to assess the differences between the codes and which provisions best align with division for treasure island's open spaces. and also, any unique obligations we may have that might conflict with either code. i haven't confirmed this, but one of the reasons that the port

may have not adopted the parks code, it has certain provisions relating to boat launching and marinas that are prohibited basically in the parks code, that the port may be has different requirements under the state water code or the tideland trust. so that's part of what we're assessing, is those types of issues. and then treasure island code obviously could be tailored to specific concerns of the island, but it might take additional time to draft and a more lengthy public process for vetting decisions that we might recommend, than a wholesale adoption of the parks code. in terms of rules and regulations, we do have some rules and regulations that we've adopted through the tida board in the past.

i mentioned the clipper cove regulations as well as permitting rules and regulations for special events, filming, drones, et cetera, on the island. and we anticipate having a combination of both of these things, you know, the rules would cover things that wouldn't apply necessarily across all of our parks. for instance, operating hours, on leash, off leash regulations, on trail, off trail. and rules are typically adopted to implement so that we may have a general permitting authority that is in the code, but then we would have rules about how to do the permitting process, detail that you would want to put into the code. so our next step, we're going continue to work on this over the summer and plan to give an update at the september board meeting. with potentially a recommendation of which of these

two paths the parks code, or the port code, which model to pursue. and an imization of things that we would also anticipate falling under rules and regulations, as well as certain things that we've talked about that may not be within the authority of tida or fall under the code for instance, the management of tour buses. that would be an m.t.a. activity. so things that we may need to look outside of the board of supervisors or the tida port authority to implement as well. and then we'll also be continuing our work, obviously, on operations planning and staffing evaluations and continue to bring you updates on that as well. >> president tsen: excellent. okay i'll open it up to the ec