and was established in 2006. they're set to expire on june 30th, 2020. executive director ran doll scott is here to present today, for the fiscal year '17-'18, they had executive director troy campbell, who left and took up a new position with the calistoga chamber of commerce. direct identity, street operations, beautification order, administration and corporate expenses. the same for all c.b.d. automaker, bench mark two, the variance for their non-assessment requirement is 5% for the landslide. the c.b.d. met all benchmarks, management plan versus annual budget for both sides.

their assessment revenue, they were also able to raise over 31%, which greatly exceeded their benefit requirements. they met benchmark three, budget versus actuals for both land shied and port side. and they indicated their carry-over in the annual reports. our recommendations and findings was they were successful in exceeding their general benefit requirement. they have hosted successful events and have partnered with the broader community to make the area a destination for locals. they'll sunset on june 30th, 2020. and have begun their renewal campaign midway through fiscal '17-'18. they have fourth of july fleetwood war fest and maintained a super active community board of director. are there any questions? i would like to present randall

scott to present on his portion. >> good morning, chairman mar, supervisor brown, supervisor peskin. as mentioned, i'm the current executive director, '17-'18 troy campbell, my predecessor. so these are actually his slides. he prepared it, as the nice guy he is, before he left. i'll quickly take you through it. '17-'18 removed 25,000 pounds of trash. very active in cleaning graffiti, removing a lot of unwanted items from the sidewalk. we do track '17-'18 public disturbances, our ambassadors did a really good job of taking care of the safety on the street. of course, hospitality is the underlying thing at the wharf. so 20,000 incidents our f-of ambassadors talking to people. street operations, beautification, the retail strategy. s.f. rec and park. you know, maintain tree lights, you know, we do -- they do a

very good job. we do a very good job of making sure everything is beautiful and in order. marketing. we have a robust marketing budget, it's like 30% of our budget. treasure hunt was created, it's been very successful. for our media tours, sponsor the usual events, fort of doctor fourth of july, wharf fest, tell of tell high, the crab feed, national night out. and a lot of big partnerships with the merchants' association. other items, district newsletter, travel industry newsletter, consumer newsletter. the brochures, the marketing plan. and website, something for eauto. we rank number two just behind the merchants' association, that's primarily because -- they have the name fisherman's wharf.org. we are visitfisherman's

wharf.org. and our market -- annual marketing plan strategy, we produce this every year. and through partnerships with our -- both the property owners and the businesses to execute throughout the year. fiscals. i have already gone over from the oewd. we maintain our budget and exceed our fundraising efforts. and that's '17-'18 there. are there any questions? >> okay. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> are there any members of the public that wish to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> mr. chairman, i would move that we send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> great. done. thank you. [gavel]

mr. clerk, please call item number 5. >> resolution receive around approving the annual report for the ocean avenue community benefit district for the fiscal year 2017-2018. >> welcome back up, ms. mar. >> thank you. >> so ocean avenue is an initial assessment budget of $239,578. first established in 2010 and set to expire on june 30th, 2025. their staff is executive director daniel weaver, the service areas are safety and community ambassadors, cleaning program, administration and corporate operations. we reviewed the same benchmarks for ocean avenue c.b.d., variouses in benchmark 2, they're required to raise 1% of the non-assessment revenue from -- i mean, the total budget from non-assessment sources. for all of the four benchmarks,

they were able to meet them. management plan versus annual budget, they met this requirement. they met their assessment revenue versus other income requirements. their budget versus actuals and they indicated their carry-over in their annual reports and designated a spend-down plan. in inclusion, they have conformed well in implementing the service plan in the district. they implemented all recommendations recommendations from fiscal year 2017-2018. they partnered with o.34678i. culture project, a high school to begin ocean avenue arts bazaar and a monthly event series in unity plaza. they worked with small business facade program to make over two storefronts. they maintain several subcommittees and a board of directors. and i'd like to invite up mr. dan weaver.

>> good morning, supervisors. this is an area map of the c.b.d. basically we're along ocean avenue we also provide services to the city college campus there at the eastern end of the district. we have two very active committees, street life committee, focusing on activation of the retail district and the business committee, concerned with small business growth or attraction, growth and retention. this is a list of our partner organizations and non-profit sector.

and our government partner organizations. in fiscal year '17-'18, o.a.a. secured non-assessment grant funding, which brought our -- this augments our assessment revenue to bring our total revenue to $429,511, enables us to conduct projects connected to our goals of marketing, beautification, maintenance, and cleaning. focusing on our largest budget item, maintenance, cleaning and safety, we've employed clean scapes, which provides street

maintenance service six days a week. sidewalk and gutter, trash pick-up, pressure washing and cleaning and graffiti removal, when needed. an arborist now which maintains our urban forest. o.a.a. maintains sidewalk gardens, an increasing amount i must say. it's a very popular thing in the neighborhood. sidewalk gardens on ocean avenue and on perpendicular side streets. o.a.a.'s project utilize neighborhood volunteers for planting and garden maintenance. and o.a.a. maintains the ocean, geneva green space and a number of other spaces, which o.a.a. established through grants in 2017.

that's the wrong direction. yes. this is our best example of activating a public space. this is the new unity plaza. and this is youth art exchange, lake meridian high school and other neighborhood non-profits celebrating an event, annual spring event in the plaza for the first time. challenges we have in our district include ever-increasing high rents, design-challenged business spaces lead to

long-term vacancies. property owners and business owners underinvest in their storefronts, giving some facades a beat-up, shop-worn experience. and perspective development projects threaten to take away sidewalk-level storefronts. and replace them. opportunities. there's a high interest in the neighborhood for public art events and entertainment, as well as tree planting and landscaping, as i said. o.a.a. is working to program free public events and install new public artworks on the corridor. new businesses establishing an ocean avenue, to bring the potential for business owners to participate and advocating for the ocean avenue community.

development projects on ocean have the potential to provide new retail spaces in a variety of sizes. looking back from '17-'18, when this report was prepared, or focused on, our project and visions include continuing to develop activities around unity plaza, pursuing maintenance agreement for balboa park, bart station area, which is a big challenge for us. and other transit yards to make them attractive places and places that are well maintained and safe. successfully raise funds for a new sculpttural gateway, this will connect the ocean avenue sidewalk and be a pedestrian and

planned to be a pedestrian and bicycle route from the new balboa reservoir to the ocean avenue sidewalk and transit. develop and promote projects in the o.a.a.'s 15-year plan for the c.b.d. corridor, that focuses on transit station area, including the balboa park, bart station and the sfmta streetcar maintenance facilities. thank you. i just want to point out in this final picture the cross on the elray theatre tower. it's ideally going to become a focus on the western side of our retail district. although for many years it's been not available for people. and it has become very run down.

we are trying to work with the owners and developers and move this project forward as fast as we can. this was happening back in 1718. and it's still happening. that's it. do you have any questions? >> thank you, mr. weaver in any questions? any members of the public that wish to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues can we send this to the full board with positive recommendation, without objection? great. [gavel] mr. clerk, please call item number six. a resolution receiving and approving an annual report for the top of broadway community benefit district for 2017-2018. >> ms. mar? >> lastly, with we have the annual report report for top of broadway.

top of broadway c.b.d. is the smallest cracked we have in our portfolio. an initial assessment budget of $106,567. established in 2013, and is set to expire on june 30th, 2021. the staff is the executive director marco epantry and dominick lepantry. district identity, street operations, beautification and order. and administration, organization, and corporate operations. we reviewed the same benchmarks for top of broadway c.b.d. the only variance was they were required to raise 1% of the total budget from non-assessment forces. this -- the top of broadway c.b.d. met all following four benchmarks. their management plan versus annual budgets, assessment revenue and other income, they were able to raise 37.5 in

non-assessment revenue. the budget versus actuals and they had indicated their '17-'18 kari-over in the annual reports and designated a spend-downtime line. our recommendations and findings. the top of broadway c.b.d. met all four benchmarks. there was a significant decrease in the amount of contributions given to the c.b.d. the number would have been lower, not for a grant that the c.b.d. had received and utilized in fiscal year '17-'18. continued decrease would be hazardous to the c.b.d.'s long-term health and to the implementation of its management plan. the c.b.d. was able to maintain an active board of directors and committee members as well. are there any questions for staff? so i'd like to invite up mr. dominick lemandry to present on his statements. >> good morning. i believe i'm the last presentation on c.b.d.s today. so thank you. i'll make this brief. as helen mentioned, my name is

dominick lemandry. i'm the district manager for c.b.d. our mission top of broadway c.b.d. is quite simple. we're here to essentially increase the quality of life and entrepreneurial vitality. so just in general, background information on the district. it was formed in 2013. it started services in 2014. 39 parcels, over 100 businesses and operating budget of around $177,000 a year. and we provide seven-day-a-week sidewalk betweening between 8:0. a budget breakdown. as you can see, the majority of our income comes from our assessments, but we've been very successful in bringing in non-assessment revenue, sponsorships, donations and we've been able to leverage that to continue services, even though we have quite small assessment amount. and you can see our breakdown of our budget right there. the district identity, operations and admin.

so our strategic vision and plan for broadway is essentially can be bulleted down to a few point. create a safe environment for the neighborhood, increase the walkability of the neighborhood and different street scape enhancements, further integrate the community in the surrounding north beach community, jon square, get them rolling in the same direction, all, you know, have the same vision of what broadway can be. and we facilitate this mission and this vision through three separate committees, that we, you know, meet regularly to decide and collaborate. so the first committee is federal cooperations. you know, just like every other c.b.d. that's presented today, we sweep sidewalks, we pressure wash, we remove graffiti, remove needles. and we move illegal dumped materials. here's some highlights of our staff. we're able to provide near-total coverage last year of sidewalks on broadway, with is great, although we're small, we produce

a lot of trash on our streets. having the district look presentable day in and day out, definitely a shining achievement of ours. we are able to remove 9,000 bags of trash, over 1200 instances of graffiti. illegal dumping incidents did decrease, because i attribute that to increased effectiveness of d.p.w. of removing that off the street before our porters are able to report it and remove. we pressure washed the district 14 times. district identity. it's smaller committee versus federal cooperations. but we had big achievements last year. we put in ten historical markers in and around broadway. we put up lighting installation, l.e.d. lighting installation that wind ised over the steps to help illuminate the corridor. we can change it based on the season. so it's very exciting. we're able to collaborate to install cams in and around broadway, that are then serviced by north beach citizens.

it's a very collaborative effort and we're very proud of that. some community probables. the installation, we've got good press from hood line. i'm talking about the probably that we're doing and the north beach association did at the bottom of grant avenue. the historical marker project, putting ten blocks in and around broadway, the surf rider district-wide installations. we put ten cams around broad bray and the can placement, at the corner of kearny and broadway, based off our advocacy. district challenges. a lot of the similar challenges you see all around the city, homelessness continues to be a paramount concern. i can say that definitely has improved over the last two to three years. illegal dumping of commercial waste, as well as, you know, just residential belongings continue to pop up on our sidewalks. we do our best to get them off the sidewalks as soon as possible. and we have a couple of long-term vacancies on broadway unfortunately. those are continued sites of, you know, encampments and what not.

the bottom photos are the trees fallen over on broadway. that's all one tree. this is one of the biggest problems we had on broadway this past fiscal year. where we've had 40% to 50% of the trees on broadway put in after the broadway street scape improvement project. they've paved over or replanted. this tree in particular was reported for three weeks on about the dangerous leaning, until it finally fell over and laid on the sidewalk for 72 hours before it was removed. this is broadway. so this is not a side street. this is a very active thoroughfare. ness something that we continue to work with b.u.f. and d.p.w. on to make sure it doesn't happen again. part of our organizations, i mentioned a few of them throughout my mention. we couldn't do without help from helen and chris. they run this program very efficiently and very effectively so kudos to them. d.p.w., and we work very closely with central station and the captain there.

we have strong ties with the broadway community and the broadway cultural society. we work with the north beach citizens', north beach neighbor, north beach business association, t.h.c. and jackson square and, of course, supervisor peskin. thank you. do you have any questions? >> yeah. thank you so much. are there any members of the public that wish to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] and i would send this -- make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> all right. [gavel] mr. clerk, please call item numberhearing to receive the office of the chief medical examiner's annual report on staffing and accreditation updates, as required by admin code section 2a 30. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, chair mar. colleagues, i called for this hearing back in may, after it

came to my attention. actually a perennial issue now for a long time. this dates back to the beginning of this century, with a civil grand jury report in 1999-2000, that spoke to deficiencies in the medical examiner's office. i received complaints from individuals who have waited, what i think is far too long and beyond the industry practices, to get death certificates and final autopsy reports. there has been an ongoing chronic staff shortage, a lot of staff turnovers. as a matter of fact, right now we don't -- we have an acting medical examiner. our last medical examiner upped and left the medical examiner's office. it has lost its accreditation. there have been chronic problems with having their annual reports posted online. there is evidence that annual

reports have been changed after the fact. and so i want to delve into every aspect of this, with an eye not to be critical, but see if we can all collaborate together with the city administrator to fix it and make it a shining example of what a medical examiner's office can and should be. to that end, i would actually like to continue this to our first meeting on october, on october 3rd, to give my office a chance to sit down with staff at the medical examiner's office. so we can start a constructive dialogue in advance of this hearing. so subject to public comment, i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the 3rd day of october. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. let's do public comment first.

and are from any -- are there any members of the public that want to testify to this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to continue this to -- >> 3rd october, 2019. >> october 3rd. g.a.o. committee meeting. seconded -- motion made by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor brown. can we take that without objection? great. [gavel] and any further business? >> there is no further business. >> we are adjourned. thank you. [gavel]

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