stepping in a way that we actually turn a sea level rise challenge into a recreational -- not recreational, a public opportunity. the central plaza, just to orient you, what you're looking at is on the north side of building g, this is in the middle of the site. this is a central plaza that almost is a living room of china basin park. it's where the bay trail comes in and meets the food and beverage building. it's where the lifted grove comes back down into the elevation of the park. it's where the coastal gardens and access to the waterfront is pulled further south. so we see this as being a really central gathering area. we're looking at different paving opportunities and options along the ground plain of this plaza to indicate that it's a

special, unique space. we're also looking at different areas. this is just a placeholder really for that food and beverage pavilion. but there's some very fun ideas that we're exploring around tucking that food and beverage pavilion under some of the raises in our lawn which i'll go into in the future and being able to create an incredible experience where the infrastructure and the natural environment are integrated together into one. the paseos are pedestrian only in between the buildings, in between the residential and the office buildings. we have two paseos. they have been designed -- they're largely infrastructure. it's almost like an extension of the street, but we want the park to feel like it's coming down

into this. so we're knitting together the feeling of a street with a park. again they're pedestrian, but they're protected areas. they do serve as important emergency vehicle access for the park, but they're designed to feel welcoming and almost an extension of the park. you see here an image which is looking right into one of the residential buildings and how we have the public area and the staircases and access to the lobbies and to the public parts of the building, very integrated with the design of the park. so these things are working together and, in fact, our design teams meet often together to make sure that we don't have any issues in terms of coordinating those. this is a bird's-eye view of the two paseos. well, the shared public way which is now officially called plank road. is it official yet? so on the left, plank road, and

on the right bridgeview way. and you see how we have important infrastructure elements, but we're integrating with the park design. the promenade of the buildings is another important piece of this, again for infrastructure. some of our utilities are under that promenade, but we want to make sure it's integrated into the design of the park itself. and the cross-section that you'll see here in front of building a, you get a sense of that lifted grove coming back and then lifting up into the promenade and in front of building g into our grand lawn. the promenades will also be lined with retail, so we may have some café tables and chairs outside. the great lawn is a key feature of this site that has remained very much at the forefront of the design in terms of providing a recreation opportunity that's currently missing and that's

part of the waterfront and celebrating the incredible views of the bay. we've designed it to be a little bit more multi-use process. the grading allows for flexible public programming and events. you can imagine a pick-up soccer game during the middle of the day. when night falls, you can put up a screen and have a movie night for the community. the left-hand or the western part of this lawn is also what i was mentioning we are looking at. that will be pulled up a little bit and we can tuck that food and beverage pavilion underneath that. really an incredible layering of view quarters that come from the different elevations of the park, as you see by this section. our stormwater gardens has been consolidated and brought together into the eastern part of the site. this is an incredible resource.

environmentally all of the stormwater runoff will be treated here. so these are performing infrastructure. and we have designed to allow for these boardwalks that walk over, perch over the stormwater gardens. it's important that there's not public access inside of them because they are performing important work, but that we get a sense of connection to them and we can use this as an educational opportunity telling a story around environmentally and sustainably designed. there is a dog run also here for many fun afternoons. and the knuckle wharf and the pier water access as well that comes off of pier 48 has been integrated here. this also is the start of where the bay trail comes from the terry francois condition into china basin park. so ensuring that we have enough

right of way so that we can have multiple different types of uses on that bay trail and ensuring it's well signed is a big goal of this corner intersection and entrance to the park. finally i'll touch on the coastal gardens. they're my favourite feature and they're new from when we may have last reviewed the park ideas around design together. this is the long china basin, the northern part of this site, across from the ballpark. and we see this idea that san francisco is a city on the bay, but there's only a couple of places you can actually access the bay as a person. a lot of the parts of the waterfront you're raised up on the sea wall, on the soon to be newly done sea wall, and you feel a little bit disconnected

from the water itself. we asked ourselves can we provide an area at china basin park where you can actually get down and experience that water, experience what it means to be a bay city? so the tidal shelf -- and this is just a picture of a lot of the activities that do go on inside china basin today, they have to be pre-planned, you can't assemble on the waterfront. you have to know that you're going down and make the plan to take the boat and get out there. the idea was creating a family friendly and easy-to-access part of the waterfront here. we want it on the northern side because we're sloping down towards the water. it's also well protected from wave action. so this is a nice entry point to the water. so we have tidal shelves that go

down at different elevations. they'll experience tidal pools, they'll experience different tides of water at different times of the day and they'll enter into a coastal garden and a teach area. we're still working out the details around that material to make sure it's safe and accessible, but the general idea is that we're sloping back down into the water here. the plantings there will be focused around saline tolerant planting and the incredible thing is that we've seen through these types of project, the reintroduction of native habitat and species because we've seen the type of habitat that they rely on. even different elevations in a couple of feet of the tidal shelves, you'll see vastly different species populating

those areas. pretty ecological work here and we think an opportunity for education and for telling the story of the waterfront. this is a few of those tidal shelves from the bay shelf. that is my presentation. my team and i are available for any follow up. >> thank you. >> so moved. >> second. >> there is public comment. shelly carol. >> hello, director forbes, president brandon, commissioners. i am shelly carol. i've been living in this area for 20 years. i've been going to many meetings. i want to complement the port and the giants for giving us the opportunity to be part of this for ever.

i enthusiastically support the project and hope for your vote for that and remember. >> and you're a giants fan? [ laughter ]. >> bruce. >> my name is bruce aget and you can tell i'm very much in support of this item, so much so that i provided my public comment early. so on item 10 instead of item 11 a. so with that said, with all due respect to port staff, the commission, to members of the attendees here, the public here, i'll just pass on my comments and not go through them again. but, please, i am definitely in support of this item to move this development forward. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is

closed. commissioner gillman. >> thank you, fran, the mission rock team, and staff. this was a very thorough presentation. i have one macro question about the stormwater garden and meckling wharf. the grading that we're seeing on here, will people be walking on that? i know it's a very in-the-weeds question. >> the grading -- >> when you look at the slide, all the shading that's gray, i assume that's in the circle. >> right, yes. the gray area, the concept is a boardwalk that will be accessible by the public. >> so my only comment and maybe i'm the only person who has shown up in your games in high heels, i've gone flying when my heels get caught in grating all

over the financial district. there is grating you can put in that won't do that so it's safe for everyone to walk on. >> thank you. well noted. i'm wearing my only pair of heels today. >> i get caught in the bridge all the time. >> yes, the bridge. >> i'm so enthusiastic for this project to move forward and the activation and the open space. this is great for the existing community. this will be wonderful for the office workers and the new residents that are moving in. thank you again for having the housing in phase one. i can't keep thanking you for that and it's a benefit for all of san francisco, so i'm supportive of the item. >> thank you. >> commissioner. >> i have to say this has been a very exciting and a very comprehensive presentation. i think that we want to thank the giants for putting this forward. i think it's going to make it

exciting to have this whole park. i listened to your presentation and listened to the absolute detail in terms of thinking about the division of the park, the various constituents, the various -- and i think during the times of day who will be there, that it will change. you have morning joggers who want to come through the bay trail and it will be a different trail throughout the day and you will have dog walkers. i wasn't sure if it would be pet friendly until i saw the dog run. are you going to have little dog waters holes at their level. i think that you're going to have your dog walkers, the families come out at certain times, the office workers. i have to commend you for really thinking through all the different demand levels and the different times of the day. and i like the fact that you have -- it's not a flat park, that it does have its different

levels so it will be interesting. i think it's going to be one of the most exciting parts that we have seen not just for the city, but this is an award-winning park once you execute it. so i really am very excited to see how much work has gone into it, particularly since this is a public benefit. we know it's very important. the idea that we can have a lot of activation which we talked about early on, not just in terms of developing a green lawn and leaving it and saying there it is, but there will be continued activation, particularly what you did with your popoff and how you introduced that concept to the neighborhood will be well utilized. i think everyone is very excited and you will attract a lot of tourists. it won't just be for the local neighborhood, but this will be one of the most innovative parks we've seen in a long time. i am very excited and look

forward to seeing this executed. >> vice president. >> i think my commissioners have said what i felt. but i will say clearly to the team, great work. this is due diligence. what i really like about this, this is visionary. this is cutting edge. what we're seeing happening in front of us is a new san francisco. you're shaping the future and taking us to a new place we've never been to. you mentioned karin, and i'm so glad you mentioned karin because she was the conscience of this commission because she was also here, but also to the late mayor lee and how he thought and felt about this. to see this thing come to fruition, but the due diligence that the team has done, the nuts and bolts, i tell you this will change the culture of san francisco. and as i said before, if anybody wants to do business in san francisco, they need to look at the giants' model of inclusion. >> fran and dan, thank you very

much for this report. this was wonderful. very detailed, very exciting with china basin park and crane cove park coming online, they're going to be great additions and bringing people to the waterfront. thank you so much for this. just a couple questions. when you did the public review and you had the community open house and the seawall presentation, what were the comments? were they all favorable or were there any concerns? >> i was on maternity leave, so i'm going to ask one of my colleagues to join me. roscoe or julian, would you like to join me? >> congratulations on the new baby. >> hi, good afternoon. executive director roscoe maps. at the open house we had invited the public to comment on some

design. we had them comment on the programming they would like to see in the different areas. we set up the open house so that the general area had different stations that reflected the unique areas that fran had anticipated. so with each area, the general public got an opportunity to comment on specifics. some of the things we had heard were excitement about yoga classes and being able to touch the water. there was some questions about how we're going to manage the park, a little bit about security. there were a couple of questions and comments about tents and encampments that we're experiencing city wide and how we were going to handle those. they were all really, really helpful as we continue to think through this park. >> right. is there any intention to do a presentation before the flat? >> we would be happy to. >> i'm just wondering why we

haven't. >> we would be happy to. >> i think it would be great to include everyone along the southern waterfront who will be able to enjoy this park. >> i agree with you. >> who is on the design advisory committee? >> i believe we did go to the swac on this. >> we have. we went to the swac to provide an overall in-depth view of the entire project. >> but not the park specifically. >> we talked about the park, but not in this [ indiscernible ] -- >> thank you. >> commissioner dan heart. the members pointed out when the open house was up, all the advisory groups were invited to that. so it was an inclusive meeting where everybody gets to hear and see what everybody is saying, and i commend the giants to that approach. so there was some good outreach done on that. the advisory design committee

pulls from the waterfront design advisory committee which is set up, but it doesn't cover this area. it stays north of china basin the way it's laid out in the city planning code. the members on this one are marsha maiden, katherine lor, chris wosney, and jimmy chan. i believe we had three of the five available and we hope to have all five when we look at the further design details of it which are a natural progression of going through a design process. >> they were pulled from where? >> three were pulled from the waterfront design committee. jimmy chan and chris wozney are new. two of the five come from the waterfront design advisory committee and the committee was supported by our executive director. >> and the other two came from?

>> knowing people in the community who have participated. i think chris wozney was with the central waterfront advisory group. jimmy chan is a landscape architect locally and laura kresenamo did the urban design for development for pier 70 and is a well-known voice and also participates in some other contracts with port. >> great. thank you. >> i want to highlight one thing i want to comment on, and that is i want to commend you for the biodiversity effort near the tidal stream areas. i think we're all very sensitive now in terms of understanding environment and the fact that you are picking on the biodiversity of plants that thrive in san francisco is great and i think it is an educational opportunity as you mentioned. i hope that gets mentioned so people can come to the park to understand that.

and you'll have some explanation there for people to see the biodiversity because that's becoming a more popular thing to be focused on. >> thank you, yes. and jeffry miller who is here from our associate landscape architect spent a lot of time on this, even down to the organisms that thrive in the bay mud, you can go deep on biodiversity. >> did anyone from the community ever say anything about congestion and how we deal with congestion? were there any concerns raised about that? because that is a problem in our city, congestion, right, and traffic flow. did anyone say anything about th that? i'm sure you worked with the different agencies and stuff like that, but how is it going to flow? >> i can take a shot and please add if i miss anything.

so in the recent outreach that's been focused on the schematic design for china basin park, i don't think that's come up specifically. but certainly over the years as we've talked about developing here and in this part of town, accessibility and circulation has been a topic of conversation. in recent years with the third street bridge under construction and closed for substantial parts of many weeks, it gets even heightened. so it's definitely something that the neighborhood is aware of. i think that the focus on pedestrian bicycle circulation and focusing on different modes of transportation that can help alleviate some of the congestion that's on the streets is helpful in terms of mission rock. and then also when we look at congestion, it can often be -- it kind of means a whole number of things, right. it's an umbrella for just sort

of ease of access and getting around. so the way we've designed our streets which have general dropoff and loading areas. so if there is a car, a ride share that you're in, it can pull off out of traffic, it can get off the street for a safe access point. all of these details of the design alleviate congestion so cars aren't double parked on third street. it is something we talked to and that our design responds to. roscoe is more up-to-date on that. >> actually, when we were at swac, the question of traffic and coninvestigation came up as a concern for the community. we walked them through our entire program and mitigation measures that we're looking to do. one of the things we've done early is hire a transportation

director to start looking at these things in depth. over time we will implement a lot of these mitigations that we talked about in our documents. >> i would like to follow up just to know -- because you're talking about street and street congestion and what to do about that with bicycles and pedestrians. within the mission rock, maybe you can refresh our memory in terms of what you will have, in terms of water landings and maybe not at this scale of ferry, because there are other things going on, but in terms of smaller craft water landings and taxi landings and the plan for that. that can help, even in the immediate vicinity, particularly people coming from the ferry building working at mission rock, maybe they can find another way to get there instead of surface transportation. what are the plans in that regard? >> absolutely. i agree that water access is an

untapped resource. the public dock that is on my screen right now, i'm not sure if it's showing on your screens, it will come off of the knuckle wharf in pier 48. that will be a lower-level dock more for a water taxi vessel. the rehabilitation at pier 48 will serve for larger vessels such as ferries and the temporary ferry facility at 48 has been a step in that direction. we're adding on a new level of dock here so it can be used for things like a water taxi service or personal, small craft. >> any other questions? all in favour? >> aye. >> resolution 20.03 has been approved. >> 12 a request authorization to advise for competitive business for construction contract

new brunswick 2813, 19th street extension and georgia street.net extension and georgia street.on street extension and georgia street.lnew brunswick 2813, 19t street extension and georgia street.new brunswick 2813, 19th street extension and georgia street.no. new brunswick 2813, 19th street extension and georgia street. b extension and georgia street. 2813, 19th street extension and georgia street. >> everybody's leaving. [ laughter ]. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is erica peterson and i'm the port manager for the crane project. i'm here to request authorization to request construction -- sorry. we're here to request authorization to advertise construction contract 2813 which

is 19th street extension and georgia street construction, which is part of the overall crane project. in this presentation i will talk about how this contract meets the port's strategic objective, climate change, a bit about the background, discuss the scope, budget and funding, local business enterprise goals, versus v.b.e. goals, and the proposed schedule. this contract supports the goals of the port's strategic plan as follows. the project will extend the blue-greenway by constructing a sidewalk and bike path connecting 20th street to crane co park. it will provide accesses to the main plaza of the pier 70 shipyard. the federal funding for this contract does not allow for local business requirements, but the project promotes living wage

jobs by requiring the contractor to participate with disadvantaged business enterprises. i'll talk a little bit more about that. the overall crane cove park design include best management practices for stormwater management and energy-efficient lighting. the project will provide new and approved access along with providing improved access to the pier 70 area. the funding for this comes from an external source grant. the roadway is designed to remain functional for up to 28 inches of sea level rise. this contract is part of the larger crane cove park project that you are all very well aware of. it's been split up into five construction projects. the end product will be the park which includes building 49, a parking lot, and then this road. contract 1 and 4 in the table on

the slide have been completed. contract -- package 2 is currently under construction and anticipated to be complete this spring. this is number 3 in the slide. contract 5 was bid in may of 2019 and the bids were rejected. the strategy for building 49 has been to value engineer and reduce the scope in order to lower the costs. and more detail on the strategy for building 49. completion will be discussed on a later slide. the scope of work for this 19th street extension and georgia street project includes new roadway and sidewalk along with streetlights, fire hydrants, and a combined sewer. the roadway will be divided into two segments. the first one is a 700 foot extension, after which the road makes a 90-degree turn and a 200-foot-long segment of georgia

street will be constructed. this will provide access to the pier 70 shipyard, a greater development area, and primary access to the new 19th street parking lot that is currently under construction. the engineer's construction cost estimate including a 10% contingency is $4.3 million. this is based on port staff evaluating a 90% and an 100% design cost estimates from two different estimators. because the estimates came in higher than previously budgeted, we have been evaluating the remaining budget for the project and developed a strategy to fund the remaining projects for crane cove park, which is this project, the roadway, and building 49. this plan will maintain the current scope and schedule, but delay the finishing until the

completion of this contract and the bidding of this contract. until that time we will have more information about the remaining budget for building 49. the costs and funding are shown in this table. the projected costs for the roadway is $4.3 million. the costs for building 49 is $2.87 and $3 million. the funding sources are cal grant, port capital, and potentially the port contingency project fund if required. the potential additional funding source sources are also shown on this slide and that could add up to $950,000. with this strategy in place, the 19th street and georgia street is fully funded through the federal grant and port capital. as briefly mentioned before, cal trans does not allow for contracts to have local business enterprise requirements nor does it allow for local hiring

requirements. this is subject to cal trans d.b.e. your staff report says 29%. i just received an e-mail where they confirmed they advised it to 18%. that's why i corrected it on the slide here. but despite the requirement for only d.b.e. firms, the port will perform outreach to contractors and invite them to the meeting. we've also looked at what d.b.e. firms are in san francisco that have relevant trades for this work. there are 17 that i've found and 14 out of those 17 are in dog patch and bayview neighborhoods and also they're also l.b.e.s. we'll make sure to do outreach to them and make sure they're at the pre-bid meetings. all necessary approvals and permits for this project will be secured prior to start of this construction.

we will be on track to have substantial completely by april 2021. we request that you approve this resolution to advertise for competitive bids. mike bellson and other staff are here to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner. >> so this -- i guess i'm just trying to make sure i understand the scope of the contract. i can't seem to understand the building and the roadway. >> this contract is just for the roadway and we just wanted to give you information on the overall crane cove project and how we will be funding the

remaining contracts. >> currently what's there in the space that's contemplated as the new roadway? >> currently, i have a good picture. it's a dirt lot/ -- i want to see if one of these has a good picture. you can kind of see in this picture it goes through part of crane cove park and then continues through what used to be the old shipyard and is currently storage for a bunch of contractors' equipment i believe. and then georgia street itself is a functioning road that you can drive on and it provides access to the shipyard and some of these development buildings here, some offices. >> my only reaction is i just had a road repaved in my house in napa and it was about half a

mile, so not something too dissimilar in terms of length. i didn't pay $5 million. but in terms of the amount of basin, i did learn a little bit about roadways. the amount of basin and everything else because obviously a private road is different than a public road. but i just find the contrast in terms of cost quite enormous. i think whatever you all estimated in the beginning was probably more accurate. i'm just hoping that this cost is really justified because i just find for a roadway this is a lot of money. >> commissioner gillman. >> thank you. i'm excited to see it move forward. i have no questions. thanks for your presentation. >> vice president adams. >> i agree. it does cost a lot of money. i will support it. i wish i had known a little bit more about it, but i will support it.

>> i do have to say this is very confusi confusing. if it was part of the overall project, it would be great to see numbers for the overall project. we have a $36 million park. is this $4.3 million out of this $36 million or $7.1 million or in addition to? >> it's not in addition to the overall budget. it's -- what's happening here is the original cost estimate was much lower on the roadway, as the commissioner had said, it seems like a better number. but staff has done a lot of work with cost estimating and has concluded that it was too low and it will cost more to construct this road. of course this will come in lower and that will be a very happy fact for building 49. so we haven't added budget to the overall park whatsoever. but what we've done here is acknowledged that the roadway will likely cost this amount and

that the part of the park that will need to be rethought and come in for less is building 49. so we're still waiting, once the bid goes out and we know the actual figure, staff will know the real plan for building 49, but we're planning to scale down for 49 because the road is looking to be more expensive. >> okay. so originally we had $1.2 million for the street and how much did we have for building 49? >> around $3.5 million. >> so the additional, what is it, $3 million to $4 million. >> so the business for building 49 came in, the average of them was $6 million. and then -- well -- >> i guess what i'm trying to figure out is last time we saw the total budget and we had the numbers for the street and for

the building which were all included in those numbers. and now we have totally different numbers. so how does that really affect the overall budget? and if we approve one after this, what does that really mean as far as -- because the $4.3 million is more than what we've budgeted for the street and the buildi building, if i'm hearing you correctly. >> i think what would be -- the bottom-line number hasn't moved. so when we came to you for all of crane cove park, the bottom-line figure is the same. but we don't quite yet know how to accomplish building 49 within our budget because the road is looking to be much more expensive. i think what would be best for us to do is a side-by-side walkthrough from where it was from commission and where we are today. we are settling for a shortfall

in the crane cove project and we're making a policy decision figuring out what to do on that and the improvements in building 49 because we believe the roadway is essential to the park, but the plan for building 49 we feel we have more room to value engineer and make decisions that won't affect the operation of the park. >> okay. i'm going to just mention my limited knowledge of roads. i understand in california we mostly do asphalt. like in the state of texas they do concrete, which is a lot more expensive. are we doing asphalt or concrete? >> we're doing asphalt. >> i guess i still find this number -- >> is very expensive. >> do you want someone else to speak to it? our colleagues have been looking closely at the engineer's estimates and the analysis so that if you can explain why this is such an expensive road. >> this is a short distance.

>> exactly. the problem here, the expense i think is trying to figure out how the contractors have priced this. there are varied utilities. it's been a shipyard for over a hundred years. there are unmarked utilities along this stretch that we believe the contractors will put -- include in their price to develop the road, and they're going to say, well, we're got -- we don't know what's underneath here. we need to protect ourselves and our bid. this is what we think the price is to actually do the roadway. >> so given that, can we -- because they're saying they might find -- they dig up the road, they're going to have to, they're going to find utility or

lines -- and if they don't, how can we make sure that they feel they have to cover themselves, but in the event that they don't run into the complications or complexities in digging up to prepare for the road because -- how are we going to be paying for something we didn't have to pay for? protect ourselves? >> i think we have done some pot-holing of the defined utilities in the location, but you can only do so much of that. and i think that information will be available in the bid documents. i'm not exactly sure how we can ask contractors not to bid the risk of this. >> i'm sorry. are we also including in this similar to other projects in the

city. the city has the three-shovel rule, when you're paving a new street, you're looking at p.e.c. utilities. is any of that included in this bid? >> not really because this street has been a porch street and there aren't any p.u.c. utilities under that street. >> i thought we just said when we open up the street because the maps are old we might discover things the contractor has to remove. >> that would be port utilities from the shipyard. another item that has -- that is probably adding some costs to this street and making it more complicated, that we are requiring the contractor to allow for shipyard access throughout the duration of the project and access for the tenants in those buildings along 20th street. so they essentially -- well, this is what we recommend. it's going to be up to the contractor to decide.

but they're going to have to potentially only do 19th street segment and then the adjacent street segment which makes it difficult to separate those out. >> the reason i'm asking is i was asking something last night and m.t.a. was saying how the cost has skyrocketed. the maps are old and when they opened up the street they found debris and things they had to deal with. is this a similar scenario? with the shipyard, the maps are inaccurate. is that part of the rationale you're pricing the bid the way you are? >> that is true. to add to that, that brings up another thing. we have discovered on crane cove part some of the soil is contaminated and has to be disposed of in a certain way that's more expensive. they had done studies in the

past that gave us an idea of how much contamination there was, but of course you're not going to know until you start digging. for this contract we added in some allowances that paid for [ indiscernible ] that soil. there is a potential that they might not counter that and we wouldn't have to pay for that. >> if you could break it down, what is the cost per square foot. taking the removal of the hazardous materials, are we also comparing with what d.w.p. would know about roads? because i would think they would know a lot about roads, comparing what they typically see in pricing? >> i have looked at some information i've received from public works' information. i could not tell you off the top of my head the square foot costs

because my mental math will be off. >> i would be interested to know what that is. >> i have to make a correction. when asked about the total budget, staff has added $1.6 million as a potential new source here as a contingency. the port c.f.o. just pointed this out to me. it's something that's been budgeted and appropriated by the commission for projects when they go over and it's a potential funding source. i misspoke when i said the budget has not moved at all. president brandon, those two numbers are more, the roadway is more than the budget for the two building and roadway as previously discussed. i did want to clarify and correct that. >> right. so i think we need to have an update of what's going on at crane cove park because i think we were very specific. >> about that budget, agreed.

>> and about bringing it in that budget. so now we're significantly over budget because at this point we don't know what the business are going to come in at. >> right. >> so we're now taking money from other sources along the waterfront to put into this $36 million park that's already funded. >> there's two choices. we could have an information on the overall of crane cove park or we could bid this contract and see what it will actually cost and, with that information, figure out what next steps are. >> okay. so this contract is just for 19th and georgia street. >> yes. >> >> nothing else? >> nothing else. these improvements -- >> 50% over what we thought -- 100% over. >> yes. it's significantly more than we thought it would cost, yes. >> is the caltrans grant particularly for that work? >> it is. >> the grant can only be used

for this work? >> correct. >> and does the grant expire if we don't take action? >> yes. >> when does the grant expire? >> well, my understanding is i'm supposed to -- they have to -- the grant is through m.t.c. and they have to let us use the money and i need to get caltrans' approval on this project by january 31 in order to -- for them to appropriate the money for this year. otherwise, we could still get the money, but we'd have to -- we would be in a list of other people who are requesting it. >> do you need us to take action for you to do that process? >> i -- well, yeah, we need to approve advertisement. so i need to have your -- obviously your approval to even do the contract. and then also i will be getting caltrans' approval. that's separate from this.

>> i'm going to finish asking my questions and i'm going to ask you guys if you have any questions. so $1.2 million is caltrans grant and $3.1 million are our funds, but yet we have to go with the d.b.e. program, not the l.b.e. program? >> correct. >> so do we need to separate these or explain to me how the d.b.e. program differs from the l.b.e. program and what our limitations are. >> so what i've been told is any time federal money is touching your contract, you have to use the federal requirements. so the d.b.e. program is somewhat similar to the l.b.e. program. you apply through the state and you are applying as a disadvantaged business. they have all their technical

definitions of what a disadvantaged business is, but it's usually somebody coming from a socially or economically disadvantaged background. so then they apply and become a d.b.e. when i was looking at the list of d.b.e.s in the san francisco area, a lot of them -- in fact a lot of them were also l.b.e.s so you can see they overlap. >> i can explain more about the program. the local l.b.e. program includes bid discounts or preferences. so competitors who are local small businesses receive bonus points or reductions in price, depending on if you're talking about a low bid process or a qualifications process. so it really encourages local small businesses to come to the table and compete. the d.b.e. program doesn't include that part of the program and it's based on percentages of

businesses that are available and you have goals set based on those percentages. it's a best, safe effort standard. so our san francisco program has significantly more teeth to it than the d.b.e. program. in terms of compliance, it's required. when you have an 18% or a 20% requirement, you have to meet that goal in order to move forward with the contract, whereas the d.b.e. program is a best efforts standard. they don't want us to discriminate -- i'm not sure if that's the right word to use, but to put preferences on businesses located in san francisco versus oakland versus alameda. they specifically say you may not use local preferences in selecting firms. instead, we just want a diversity of firms. that's the big difference between l.b.e. program and

d.b.e. program. >> why was it lowered from 28 to 18? >> i'm not sure. we calculate 28%. we have a calculation based on the availability and then we send it to caltrans and they have internal staff reviewing it. they have more resources to determine what the actual availability is. they sent us back the 18% number. >> okay. i personally would like to continue this, but i really need to understand the delay, what that would cause. because we don't want to lose the $1.2 million, but i really need to understand where we're going here at crane cove park because we can't just continue to spend money. >> there's one thing that's

definitely to your advantage that we decide we need to move forward, we will not award the whole contract. a couple of questions for you in terms of scheduling and getting the roadway in and the grant. we need to know what is your timeline in terms of when we want to break ground and have those roadway improvements in for the park and the developments that are going on at pier 70 and what is the specifics related to the grant dollars and when you need commission action. are those two questions you can answer, maybe with katie's help or rod's help? >> so my understanding is i need to award -- they -- i need to advertise in march because -- the deadline for caltrans are to get their separate approval, which is separate from this. and then we need to break ground or issue the first invoice for

the contractor in the summer. i can't remember. i'd have to look that up. and so that's why bidding in march is important to have the contractor hired then. >> what was the january 31 deadline that you gave us? >> that's for caltrans to approve our construction document package and then they give us instruction to advertise. >> so they need to look at our packet and they need to approve it before we can advertise. they need to look at that packet by january 31. do you need our approval to advertise -- i have several questions. question one, do you need our approval to be part of that packet that you submit to them by january 31? >> no, i do not. >> so that means we have the ability to, if we wanted to,

postpone this item without jeopardizing the caltrans grant? >> correct. >> question two, we could advertise this as is, receive all the business, and make a decision not to move forward because we think it's economically not feasible? >> correct. >> we in some ways have two options as a commission. >> i would like to add some provisos to the second one. normally we put out and say up to x. obviously i understand from what i heard, you've covered the bases in terms of what if the contractor finds hazardous material, what if the contractor finds utility issues in terms of preparing to pave the road. i think i'm interested in seeing how can you structure the bid so that if these issues don't come up to the max, as we might anticipate, that we might not expect all that money and that we could be more economical. i just want to know the base price for actually paving the

road. if we could structure it so if the contractor doesn't run into it -- otherwise we're paying for it and we really didn't need to if you understand what i'm saying. >> i do. i believe we've tried to structure the bid items like that as much as possible. the risk with the utilities is hard to piece out as a separate item and like rod mentioned, they're probably going to be including that in their base bid, but we have separated out the soil. >> okay. and i guess we're also doing the finishes on the road because apparently i understand there's different ways to finish roads. so we're doing everything, everything including oil, something or other. they're choices. i've learned now, there's choices of what you want to do with a road. so we're doing everything to finish this road, because it also depends on what you think the traffic is going to be on the road and how much finish you want to put on it. >> right. we're designing it to city

standards, so yes. >> and this road will be accepted by d.p.w. when it's complete. >> that's something we will have to work on. >> any more questions? >> you know, i want to go back to what president brandon and all the commissioners said. it's funny. this whole project has been an a acheles' heel. we have two options. are we better to hold this thing over or to vote it. i just feel like in a lot of the questions there was a lot of headsation not knowing and uncertainty in the way questions were answered and stuff. i'd like to make sure we're right. >> i personally would recommend we move forward with it because i think we'll know more when we get that bid in terms of what we want to do than not having that

information. so i think putting the business out there and knowing what the road will really cost and looking at the side by side in terms of where we were with budget and what the key elements are is going to present a much -- a better set of facts for us and for you to grapple with in terms of how to close the park. so i would suggest we move forward with the bidding, get the number, and we would come back anyway to award, but at that time we answer all these key questions and figure out how to come across the finish line in the park. >> but i think what's at issue is the funding and where we're getting these dollars from even if we bid it, understanding where the dollars are coming from and what the total budget is now. >> yes. >> so at this point if we bid it out, is it the lowest bid? is it best value? what is it? and is it up to a certain amount? how is it being bid? >> we are bidding it low bid and

then we get to decide if we have the budget. >> so where does best value come from? i thought that -- >> we had done best value on the building 49 business back in may. >> they came in very high. so we tried the best value approach with building 49 and the business were very, very high on building 49. here because it's a simple road construction, i think the low bid is the way to get the best price. this would go out as a not to exceed $4.3 million bid and the lowest price. is that what you said? >> i don't know how it works with "not to exceed." in the business in the past we say "engineer's estimate," and they give us their estimates. sometimes they come high or low. >> that figure would be the engineer's estimate and we would let the contractors tell us what it costs. the lowest-qualified bidder we

would recommend for award. what we have is the original crane cove park budget except for a potential of $1.6 million which you have previously appropriated as a project contingency for the port to use whenever projects go over across the board and the decision -- and i'm not certain how high that contingency is, but the decision here is to potentially use $1.6 of that contingency for the roadway. so it's essentially a budget increase to crane cove park. >> is that contingency $2 million or $10 million? >> using this $1.6 million will close out the remaining funds in the contingency that we've appropriated through the current fiscal year through 2019-20. the expectation is we come to you with our capital budget for the two-year cycle we're working on right now, we would refund

the contingency at a level that we can afford with in the capital budget for the next two fiscal years. so this -- using this $1.6 million will wipe it out. >> so we would have no contingency through june 30, 2020. >> part of me is curious to see, since we're not advertising it, we're not committing to funding it, i feel some of what we're -- we have the engineer's best estimate at $4.3 million. i would be curious to see what we get, with the caveat that we might take no action unless we think how that would hurt our reputation from a contracting perspective, i'm curious to see what we get. >> how does it make us look putting these out and they keep coming in over. >> we do routinely reject

business because they come in too high. you mentioned how difficult this park has been, commissioner adams. the construction climate is very hard. we often get business that are all over engineer's estimates and we have to reject all of them. we reject more business than you see. >> i can just add that we understand that this is a big concern to the port. we can understand it's public money. we have taken extra measures to get different cost estimators and different points of view for these projects and for other projects. we are taking an extra step to get independent cost estimates. >> okay. i'm okay with moving forward. i just want to say, as i said before, we don't have any more money to spend on this park. we do not have any more money. so even though we're taking this $1.6 million contingency to put

into this park and we still don't have a play structure -- we don't have any amenities. we're just building a park. we can't just keep dumping money into crane cove park, we can't. so i really need to say the plan for how we're going to bring this park in with the budget that we have. so we can advertise all we want, but if it's not within our budg budg budget, i don't think i can support it. >> right. >> okay? >> okay. all in favour? >> aye. >> resolution 20-04 has been approved. >> could i ask, do we have any idea how much the mission rock park is going to cost?

>> rosco, do you have the budget for the mission rock park? he's going to make us look good fast. come on up, we'll get that to you in writing. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> item 13, new business. >> i have an item for new business. first of all, i'd like to -- i guess he's not here, but we'll congratulate tim wonderland for becoming the new chair of wheata. i was excited to read about his vision and strategy. i would like to request that we ask him to come to present to the port commission when he feels appropriate, when he thinks he's got a little bit of sea legs under him in terms of his plan because i think he would be a great partner for us to work with, given that he is going to push wheata to move faster and more ostensibly.

it may be time to hear from our friends at our other regulator bcdc, just to hear what their plans and strategy are since we've been moving forward with our waterfront land use plan and it's good to know all of our partners that we need to work with to execute, because we can't do it all by ourselves, we need these others to be in agreement, that we also hear from them and they also hear from us. i would like to suggest that as a future agenda item. they don't have to be at the same meeting. obviously you can schedule them. >> i also have a new item. i would like to in february after public comment get an update on what's happening with the club. public comment indicated they've been working with us for several months and their perception is they're caught up in some bureaucracy. as a non-profit organization, i'd like to get an update in

february on where we are with them and their improvements. >> i have two items. first i know president brandon and commissioner gillman know more, but i want an update on the navigation center. i'd like to know what's going on with that. i live only a block away, but i would like to know what's going on with that. secondly, what's going on with the shipyard and where are we going to go from there? and then an update on ferries and water taxis and stuff, what we're doing with that. thank you. >> is there any public comment on new business? seeing none, can i have a motion to adjourn? >> second. >> all in favour? >> aye. >> 5:20. >> that's a record. [♪]

>> the commission meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. my name is ben bleiman and i'm the president. there are speaker forms to fill out on the tables and you can hand them to staff or you can come up to the microphone when i call for public comment. we ask that everybody turns off their cell phones including commissioners and staff. i want to thank sf gov tv for sharing this meeting with the

public. we can start with a roll call. [roll call] >> the first orer of business is general public comment for any item not listed on the agenda today. does anybody have anything to say? seeing none, general public comment is closed. the next agenda item is number two, approval of the minutes for december 17, 2019. we will need a motion to approve. >> i move to approve >> second. >> any public comment on the minutes from december 17, 2019? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner perez -- [roll call] all right. the meeting minutes have been approved. the next agenda item is a report

from our executive director. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. it's been since november since i've seen you all in this setting. so this is fun to be back. happy new year. and i wanted to take a moment and thank senior analyst rice, dylan, just for being commission secretary tonight while crystal is on a well-deserved vacation. my only update for you all this evening is relative to new year's eve. this is one of our biggest evenings of the year that we prepare for and we provide information to all of the other city agencies for situational awareness about the events that are going on across the city that evening as well as on new year's day. i believe i shared that with all of you as well so i hope you found that helpful. i wanted to thank our

enforcement team for working diligently also along with senior analyst rice to put together the list of events for this year. our inspectors were really important in this role as well because they went out in advance of new year's eve and distributed 350 posters that we partnered with the department of emergency management to produce. and those are letting all of san franciscans know they can sign up for alert sf and it's an evergreen code that they can use essentially nyesf and receive alerts about incidents that may be occurring, areas to avoid and hopefully we will never have to deal with anything major. this year went out without a hitch. those 350 posters were distributed to 85 venues across

the city that we had identified within our list of events. we got really positive feedback from our stakeholders, the permit holders, managers. venue were really positive. a few said the text alert program was really helpful and they were excited to have that service during their parties so we'll continue to work with d.e.m. to come up with those short codes for pride and for halloween and these future big weekends that san francisco has historically a lot of events. on new year's eve itself, the inspectors went out and conducted site inspections of events at 20 venues into the morning of the new year, they worked until about 4:00 a.m. and everybody was in compliance. and we found that everybody was being responsible and just having a great time. so a good night all in all. and we had very little complaints that evening, this is great, and we'll get into our

enforcement report in a moment. we only had four complaints in total. one complaint was received via 311 around 2:00 a.m. gnu year's morning regarding an intersection where there were no permitted venue, and another about the space cowboys block party on the afternoon of new year's day and this is an annual one-time event so we are communicating with the event producer about that. and that's about it. do you have any questions for me? >> i have a question. on the text alert, how does that work if i sign up for it and i happen to be out and about and there's something going on near where i'm at, it will tell me to stay away from that area? >> yeah. so i encourage everybody to sign up for it just using the regular short code. i can send that information to you. because i receive alerts all the time, essentially, just if you

sign up with 88877, i believe it is, i receive alerts for anything in the outer sunset when there's an incident occurring where i live and they let me know avoid whatever intersection there's police activity, sometimes it's more detailed. and so with the new year's eve one, it was anybody who signed up for new year's eve-related text. if there was anything to avoid or have concern about. >> so they have to know based on my gps coordinates where i am that there's something going on around where i am >> exactly. pretty smart technology. even when i'm at work it will let me know when there's something going on around civic center. >> is it activated heavily during new year's eve? >> was what activated? >> this system. were there a lot of incidents that happened? >> no, there weren't.

it wasn't a significant evening for incidents. i believe people just received texts like wear warm layers and get home safe and ride muni because it's free. it was a good night. >> all right. awesome. thank you. >> no questions from me. thank you very much. is there any public comment on our deputy director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. the next item is number four, which is a report from deputy director azevedo. >> thank you, president bleiman. good evening, commissioners. i want to go through the highlighted notes here from our enforcement report. starting on page one, you'll see i've highlighted 26 and i've highlighted this venue again because we are still receiving complaints. we are actively working with sfpd mission station and director bleiman and i are arranging a meeting with the

owner. and sfpd as well. so we will be going to meeting with them in person to discuss how we can resolve the ongoing issues. i want to note our enforcement team is out there every weekend. and we are observing that they are clearing the sidewalks and folks are loitering, so we want to get to the root of this problem. taking you to page three, i've highlighted revolution cafe. we are still seeing complaints come in about this premises and this friday inspector -- senior inspector roberts will be going out to revolution cafe to have a meeting on-site with the coner to discuss possible sound abatement solutions and do a new sound test. so we are hoping that we can give them a more realistic sound limit. i also did have a sit-down with the owner to discuss their programming. so we are taking steps hopefully in the right direction with this venue.

i have highlighted the space cowboys block party which director touched on. we did receive complaints about that and #in contact with the event managers. the last highlight i have for you is on page ten, regarding eltribl. it was the llp we permitted last hearing. just letting you know their first night of entertainment they did go past their llp time. so we did issue a citation for that. this is their third citation since july. and i have spoken with the owner. and i hopefully made it very, very clear the entertainment needs to end at 10:00. i'm happy to answer any questions that you have.

>> i had a question or two. i saw may's pop up back leer. i feel like long ago they had had some issues and then they've kind of melted away for a bit. is there any insight on that? >> you are very correct in that statement. they have been off our radar for quite some time. they popped back up for two complaints pretty -- i mean, as you can see, they are five minutes apart on that one night. so the inspector did respond to those complaints in realtime. he went earlier in the evening when initially spoke with the manager and then went back later and spoke with an owner and watched their closing time procedures. and so the plan of action here is i do intend to have a conversation with the owner just regarding their closing time

procedures with the folks outside. >> i also think that this time of year is strange because the streets are so quiet and if you have one venue that has a lot of activity going on in it, it it can cause a different outcome than normally. questions? >> no. >> all right. thank you very much for the report. is there any public comment on deputy director azevedo's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. the next agenda item is number five, which is hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. i would like deputy director azevedo to please introduce the consent agenda for the evening. >> thank you. so we have two permits on the consent agenda. both are use permits. there was no opposition from

anybody for either of the permits. and their permit officers had no permit conditions that were out of the normal regular conditions offered. and so that's why they are on consent. i'm happy to answer any questions you have about these locations. >> so, this space is really kind of a special event space. so it's not all the time? >> which one are you referring to? >> how many are there? there's only one, right? am i looking at the right one? consent cal ripken, jr. darr. the little creatures -- the consent calendar. >> it is a bruiery restaurant. >> it's interesting how they put 10b officers in there.

>> their standards conditions from southern station, we get them every time. >> yeah. well, i mean usually 10b is, like, major. >> it's an alternate. so sufficient security or 10b. >> how dig is the place? >> i can tell you their capacity. give me one second. 250. >> okay. i never see 10b on there, but -- >> yeah, that's a standard southern station condition. we actually worked our deputy director azevedo worked with commissioner falzon and p.d. to pair down. it used to be a dozen conditions and now it's just a few. >> the approval of the consent calendar. >> i'll second. >> before we vote, is there any

public comment on the consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. [roll call] congratulations, if you are here, the consent calendar has been approved. please follow up with our deputy director at your earliest convenience. thank you. all right. and moving on. we are going to introduce the regular agenda. if deputy director can do that as well. >> the only permit on the regular agenda is for a place of entertainment permit at bow bow cocktail lounge at 1155 grant avenue. the applicant is coming in to compliance by applying for this permit to continue hosting karaoke inside the bar. the owner candy has been in

business for 30 years. included is a letter submitted by the neighbors. there was no opposition. they did submit signatures of support. they have been included in your file for review. i want to give you background about the recommendation from central station. so this is submitted to me today. bow bow has been operating for over 30 years without the need of a security guard. they have 49 people. there has never been issues regarding security. central station did recommend they bring on one security guard. and i wrote back to officer that that might be a bit of a challenge because it's not a normal practice for their business programming right now. and we came to the revision of having one security on friday and saturday nights from 9:00 p.m. to 2 a.m. and so i'm just putting this, the ball is going to be in your court as a decision to be made, it might be a challenge for the

permit applicant to accommodate the security recommendation. and so now i will also turn it over to the owner candy and her associate rickey. >> hi. good evening, commissioners. my name is rickey. i'm a member of the bow bow cocktail for three years. candy is the owner of the bow bow for almost 33 years. her husband opened up with her. unfortunately her husband passed away two years ago and i try to help candy to do all the paperwork. so we are hoping -- bow bow has been serving and entertaining chinatown which is one of the landmark of the city of san francisco for over 30 years.

and we have no trouble at all in the past 30 years whatsoever. so tonight i'm here and hoping the commission to approve the p.o.e. permit so we can continue to enhance our business in san francisco. thank you so much. >> should be easy, right? welcome. kind of different now, huh? 30 years ago. >> 33 >> 33 years ago, chinatown. for the police to actually recommend a security, i mean in the three years you've been manager, have you had any? i kind of know that part of town, and i know broadway can be a challenge, but i really never hear any incidents from your bar. i'm just curious, would there be

some idea that maybe just being overcautious? >> well, we do have one on-site manager on friday night, saturday night when it is so crowded, so we can have him to kind of watch out. >> does he check i.d.s? >> well, most of the customers been coming to the parlor for the last 30 years. >> sure, i know. >> i don't see any underage people to go in. >> but obviously if you see -- >> i mean -- >> tourists want to come in and -- >> the bartender always asks for i.d. anyway. they do that all the time. >> your bartender has been there many years? >> over 30 years. same thing. >> if the manager, if things get loud, he can shut the door. >> this permit says when you are running entertainment you have to shut the doors. >> yeah, we do.

we play the karaoke just shut the door and shut the window. >> right. okay. i mean, that's -- i don't -- i mean, well i guess we can talk about but but i don't see a security guard needed. this manager has no security training at all, right? >> right >> how long has he been there? >> five years >> five years? >> yeah. >> okay. that's all i have. thank you. >> hi. i've never been able to go to your karaoke lounge but i've heard so much about it from my friends. >> okay. thank you. >> so i know that you guys are one of the best kept secrets in chinatown in so many ways. so i understand you have your home grown crowd, and you also have tourists that kind of just

pop in. >> yes. >> with that said, i just wanted to kind of get an understanding around what are some of your barriers around why would it be hard for you to supplement having security on fridays and saturdays? so just to be clear, say on the record what are those barriers? is it financial or -- >> well, i would say the customers maybe not get used to it if you have a security guard outside kind of like they've been having karaoke for some time. i don't think some customers feel comfortable with that. >> the purpose of the security is to create an environment of safety. >> i understand. >> so i just want to understand

why -- we are the ones making the recommendation for this permit, so a condition around your clientele not feeling safe, i mean that's just an opinion, that's not necessarily factual but do you have real barriers? is it a financial issue? >> it's not a financial issue. >> okay. >> the question you are asking me why i don't want to have a security guard out there, because with any kind of reason, is that all you were asking me? >> well, we want to have a better understanding of why, like, because the police are making recommendations for a requirement. and so we have the opportunity to discuss it here and determine if it's something that makes sense, moving forward. i understand for the past 30 years there hasn't been any kind

of documentation of any police incidents at your establishment. i understand that. but the recommendation that's coming from the police is essentially a safety issue. and so i want to have an understanding, like a full 360 of why you would want us not to recommend that? >> well, actually the people come to the bar have karaoke just to kind of like at home. a big screen, a big party. so most of these customers, regular customers. they come there all the time. so -- and the owner, candy, she doesn't feel comfortable with a security guard outside at all. >> okay. so what if your on-site manager, would you be willing for your on-site manager to get some guard training so that they will

have -- >> i have to ask him. >> okay. but he's your employee. so as a business, you guys can actually -- >> it's okay. >> she says we required to have it, she will have it >> it's a commitment around the safety for your establishment, for you as employees and also for your customers. and so i'm just trying to get an understanding like what are some of the issues. >> okay. >> okay. >> we can get one on friday night and saturday night then. that's the most busiest day that we have. >> a security guard or the guard training for your manager? >> we just going to hire a security guard on friday night and saturday night >> but you also have the opportunity for your on-site manager to get the guard training so that person can provide that support.

>> i don't know if she wants to do that or not. >> you have the option of both. >> no, i understand that. but i don't think -- i don't know he wants it. >> it's an online training. >> oh, online training? >> it's a certification. it just saying somebody in your establishment -- >> okay. i thought he had to go to a class and get the training. just everything online to get the license? okay. thank you. >> all right. >> can i -- real quick. so to be clear, do you feel like you really feel unsafe or do you feel your customers are -- i mean there are some times public safety is an issue. we have a lot of challenges right now coming in and robberies. you never know. >> i know.

i understand. okay. >> it's being proactive. security guards can also be finally challenged because you don't charge cover charge and you are just charged revenue from the bar. so i guess is she trying to ask you are there barriers preventing you like maybe it's the cost? but if you feel that you agree with the police and you don't mind having a security, i mean, we all prefer everybody to be safe. so it's kind of up to you. and we can discuss that. but i think that's what commissioner caminong was doing, okay? right? anybody else? >> i think for me we work really closely with the officer and he's one of the best permitting officers in the city, but as with all police, they always try to be very safe. >> i understand. >> obviously you've been operating for decades without

problems but when they have an opportunity for you to become official, they always say we want a security guard. now, for my personal, because i own bars and restaurants in san francisco, personally i don't want to just add employees that are not necessary, because they are financially difficult sometimes. you have to pay every hour to an employee for something who may not be necessary for the business but also for the commission, to make sure we are safe and that you don't have any incidents now, but what happens if an incident does happen, has somebody been trained on how to confront it? so i would be very open to that idea as long as -- if we were to condition that, then you wouldn't need to hire a security person. you would just have to have somebody go through the training and maybe sure that person is there, not outside. so that's where we are coming from or at least where i'm coming from. >> okay.

thank you. >> anymore questions? you can have a seat. thank you very much. >> okay. >> is there public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we can discuss. put a motion forward and then discuss, whatever we feel like doing. >> it sounds like a motion to approve with the condition that there be a staff person with a guard card on the friday and saturday he was just. >> all right. so no security. but guard card training for your personnel and no actual security. >> so what i'm hearing is we want a motion to approve with the staff recommendation except no security officer required, instead we want to have a staff member with a guard card training on staff on friday and saturday night? >> yes. >> at least.

>> yeah, minimum. >> who is trained, yes. if more staff can be trained. >> just a question for you all. the officer was specific with time. he said 9:00 p.m. to 2 a.m. do you want to incorporate that? >> thank you. >> wait. you made the motion. >> i'll second. >> sorry. >> public comment? >> we did. >> all right. [roll call] congratulations, it's been approved. please follow up with deputy director at your earliest convenience and thank you for coming in. i hope for another 33 years. all right. that was a wam bam meeting. all right. we only have one agenda item left, i believe, number six,

which is commissioners comment and questions. happy new year, everyone. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. >> should we all say what we did on new year's? >> so embarrassing. [laughter] >> okay, well -- >> detective -- [indiscernible] >> they have lowered maximum rate parking. if you get a validation at one of the many restaurants you get a $5 discount. so you literally can stay in chinatown for ten hours for $3. so instead of worrying about

your car being accosted or whatever, broken in, you can go into a fairly safe garage and you can shop, dine -- >> go to bow bow. >> go to bow bow. go to mr. ju's, wherever you want to go, and only pay $3 for the validation. so hopefully that helps small businesses. hopefully businesses will take the same leadership. this car break-in stuff can get fixed. i think it's a good way of trying to make people who still want to come out feel safe and have their properties protected. it's not 100 percent, but it's the least, i would say 99 percent, pretty sure. so it's great. >> we will go ahead and post

that on social media too, because more people should know about that. >> seven days a week, yeah, seven days a week from 5:00 p.m. to 2 a.m but don't be late, because as soon as it hits 2:01 it goes back to regular rate. don't come to me and say what happened? you have to leave early and get your last call at 1:30 and run to the parking lot. >> although it's not agendized, i don't think it really matters, i did want to follow up with commissioner thomas who had a suggestion for these slower meet when we have less permit applications. i e-mailed all of you, commissioner lee, thank you so much for sending your ideas. they were great. but if anyone else has ideas for departments that they would want to hear from, presenting on their programs or anything relative to our world that other

folks are doing or having staff presentations on certain projects that we are working on, we are happy to accommodate starting february. i would like to get some more programming. so please let me know what you want to all hear about. sorry for the stutter. >> just one of the things i know we raised this during our planning retreat, but identifying ways to work with the department cultural district. i've had conversation with a number of people. there's now this new cultural district and just the overlap between entertainment and our many fantastic cultural districts around the city to just identify what are ways for us to partner with them around promoting entertainment as part of the culture in those districts and just maybe identifying a couple of cultural districts to start with and start figuring out what that kind of partnership could look

like or should look like before we roll it out to other cultural districts. i've had people from the castro and from the other cultural districts respond really enthusiastically to that idea. >> maybe that's where we will start then. >> that's great. >> great job, commissioner lee on the parking. i know it seems like it's a small thing, but it's actually meaningful addressing a problem in your community and taking it on. so kudos to you for that. thank you. i want to congratulate the staff on a successful new year's eve and new year's day. that was smooth. i know we got kudos from some people in city hall for all the cool stuff you did. so congratulations on that. it seems like business as usual but i think if you flashback 10, 15 years, you would see how exceptional this is you are

doing. so thank you so much for that. that's all b all i have. all right. is there any comments on our -- waxing poetic here? comments are closed and we will adjourn this meeting at 6:11 p.m. -

>> first of all, happy new year. it's definitely it is definitely a happy new year indeed for so many people who rely on access to safe, affordable housing in san francisco. it is our number one priority. when we look at the challenges that we face with homelessness and we are wondering why aren't we able to do more, it is because we need to make sure that we have housing, we have opportunities to do more. it is why i'm committed to opening up 1,000 new shelter beds to get people off the streets. it is why i'm committed to master leasing so many buildings that might be available like the abigail hotel where we are standing in, where we have access to 62 new units that will help people who are formerly homeless get a great and safe and affordable place to call

home without the social services , so it's not as expensive as someone who might need a lot more support and wraparound services. this is what some of us call in this world step up housing because sadly we know there are people who will -- the goal is to understand what the challenges are. do they need assistance with mental health? do they need assistance with their addiction? do they need assistance just to get a job and get back on their feet? often times, if we are able to transition them out of the shelter, it's usually into supportive housing where there is a network of people who are there to provide wraparound supportive services to get them back on their feet. and the great thing about the bristol in places like the abigail which we are here in

today, is those people have benefited from incredible programs and are ready to move on with their lives and are not in need of the social services that they want or are in need of that is great. we have to make sure they have opportunities to move to the next level. that is what today is all about. and really focusing on providing opportunities for people to step up and be in attendance and to be able to take care of themselves is important. we know affordability is challenging. it takes a village to make opportunities like this possible thankfully here in san francisco we are making investments in acquiring as many units as we possibly can to provide these opportunities. it does take partners like tipping point and daniel is here today who has been an incredible partner in raising the money and investing it and providing opportunities for people to get

help. today is an opportunity to do just that. let me just say that it's not just about the abigail where we have 62 units. we are going to be opening another place of 89 units at coast street which will be managed by the episcopal community services. one of our leading housing providers. and there are people there who are sadly in our shelters and will be able to transition to those units. that will make room for more people. i think that is what is great about the system that we are setting up and all the amazing partners that continue to work with us to provide these incredible opportunities, and importantly, the building owners deepak patel and sam patel, thank you so much for supporting and working with us here in the city to allow us to work with you to get access to these

buildings and thank you to all the service providers and the tenderloin housing clinic. i know randy shaw couldn't make it here today, but he is a firm believer in step up housing and he has been fighting hard for a long time to make this a reality for people. so when people talk about san francisco and the fact that, you know, there's homelessness, there's challenges of homelessness, we know that. it is not unique to san francisco. it is happening all over the state of california. the fact is, we had not done enough to build housing so that we have what we need to get people housed. we just haven't. so here in the city we are lucky because people care about making sure people are housed. the 600 million-dollar affordable housing bond passed by voters will be a great opportunity to invest in building more affordable housing , but we can't build it fast enough.

so having access to the abigail, having access to the post street -- post street site and the bristol where there is another step up housing, those are so important to getting people housed now. so i just want to thank everyone who is here today and all of your work that sometimes escapes under the radar and people are not completely familiar with everything that goes into making an opportunity like this possible. it is appreciated, it's going to make a difference for 89 people at post street and 62 people right here at the abigail. it's going to make a difference for so many people and i'm so grateful we have this opportunity to do just that today. how the person who has helped in our efforts to move the needle on homelessness, who probably every time i call him, and i

tell him about somebody, he not only knows the name of that person, with the whole story about their medical history and family, and when they came here and everything else, believe it or not, it's a tough job to manage our homeless department in san francisco, but jeff kaczynski does it because he cares and because he knows that last year when we helped 2,000 people exit homelessness, that's 2,146 people that are not sleeping on our streets tonight and that matters. ladies and gentlemen, the director of the office of homelessness here in san francisco, jeff kaczynski. [applause] >> thank you, mare breed, for those kind words and thank you for your leadership to expand critical resources that we desperately need to help people living in crisis on our streets.

she understands that shelters are only part of the solution. we have to create housing opportunities are all types of low income households, especially for people who are experiencing homelessness. every single night, the city houses nearly 10,000 formerly homeless people and every week we help 50 people of -- permanently exit homelessness. however, for every person we help exit homelessness, there's three newly homeless people coming behind them. obviously we have a lot more work to do. housing is a big part of the solution to homelessness. and thank you to mayor breed's focus on leadership on this issue, we have 1700 units of housing and housing subsidies in the pipeline in addition to those that we are celebrating here today. there's a lot more of these openings to come. it's also really important to remember that behind all of these numbers are people. each person with lived experience, each person who has struggled with homelessness has a unique story.

however, the one thing they all have in common is resilience and courage and taking the steps to move beyond homelessness. it's hard work and it's a challenge and it is a great honor for myself and for my colleagues to play a part, a small part really, in helping people overcome homelessness by bringing buildings like the abigail and the post online. doing this work, i don't want to diminish how hard it is, because it is tremendously difficult, it takes a lot of people, a lot of leadership, a lot of hard work, a lot of funding, so in addition to the mayor, i want to thank other people that she already mentioned, but i want to thank them as well. of course, i want to thank daniel from tipping point. tipping point community is contributing $3 million towards opening the next 300 units of housing including these two sights. we're very grateful for the support that they have given, and also want to thank not only deepak and sam patel, the owners of the post on the abigail.

there is more than 3,000 privately owned units that were masterly -- we are master leasing throughout the city. they're responsible for nearly half of the permanent supportive housing in the city and they are unsung heroes and very important partners. i want to thank them and their colleagues and all of the owners of the board for the 3,000 units that the city is master leasing. and i want to acknowledge all the amazing staff who have worked on this issue, all of my colleagues at the department of homelessness and supportive housing, my colleagues at the mayor's office, the city attorney's office, the mayor's office of community development, the real estate department, all of these staff work tiredly -- tirelessly on these projects. before i took this job, i spent most of my career running affordable and supportive housing in texas and in california and i know how hard it is to operate buildings like this and to do the work and turn housing unit into a home for

somebody who was experiencing homelessness. these sites operate 24/7 and the nonprofit organizations that run them do an amazing job of helping the people who are struggling to exit homelessness or to move on from permanent supportive housing to be successful and to become their best selves. i especially want to acknowledge and thank beth stokes from the episcopal community services and everybody who is here. tabitha and randy who couldn't be here from tenderloin housing clinic. they do an incredible amount of work making these projects happen and we are grateful to them and to everybody else who is part of this. thank you for being here today. >> thank you, jeff. again, as i said, we can't do it alone. we are fortunate to have an incredible partner in tipping point, and tipping point provided $3 million to help make this possible, which moves this project along sooner rather than

later and to speak on behalf of to think -- tipping point is daniel. >> thank you. thank you to everyone who is making this work possible. we started tipping .15 years ago with a promise to invest in the best solutions that prevent poverty, including housing, early childhood education, and employment. the silver lining to the homelessness crisis that we outlined is we know that -- what it takes to get people housed. that is permanent, supportive housing and it works. over 85% of people who enter permanent supportive housing never experience homelessness again. the opening of the post and the abigail exemplifies the role that philanthropy can play in supporting effective solutions in partnership with the mayor and the city department. tipping point is providing $3 million in flexible dollars

for a wide range of needs from apartment repairs to new furniture. these are funds that service providers can use to do whatever it takes to get units online fast. mayor breed, thank you for your leadership and your commitment to this issue. i want also think the tenderloin neighborhood development association for your tireless work on behalf of our most vulnerable neighbors. i want to thank everyone who is saying yes to solutions. we can do this, but it will take all of. thank you very much. >> thank you, daniel. randy shaw has been a serious advocate for step up housing and i'm really excited that we are partnering on the abigail to make this possible. we also partnered on the bristol , and so these are two

incredible properties for step up housing. here to represent tenderloin housing clinic, since randy couldn't be here is tabitha. >> randy sends his regrets. he really wanted to be here today. this is a really special project to him, a special building to him. he counts stories of the history of this building and him as an organizer in 1980 when he organized residents in this building to prevent the then owners from starting a bed-and-breakfast in this building and they were successful in doing that. he has very fond memories of that project and his work with this building. we are really excited to partner with h.s.h. and the city to open some additional step up housing. this is a really beautiful building. sixty-two units, all bathrooms. we will have a nice community kitchen and laundry room and community room for the residents here.

i also want to thank deepak, the owner, for this partnership and h.s.h. and the mayor for providing this opportunity for the residents that will get to move into this building. and then i also internally really want to thank our director of facilities who has spent countless hours on lots of time already on her work making sure that this building is a success in making sure that this building is going to be a wonderful building for the residents that move in. thank you. >> it is also really great to open up places like this because they provide opportunities, and almost every time we do it, episcopal community services, they are always at the forefront of not only helping with properties like this, but some of our shelters and navigation centers, and so we are grateful for their partnership and their work. here to represent the organization is beth.

>> thank you, mayor breed. i got an e-mail last week during the holiday week to see if i was available to participate in an announcement of 150 new homes. i was delighted. i was super excited to start the year off in 2020 with the announcement of new homes for our unhoused community members in san francisco. it is a great way to start the year. i'm so happy to be here for this announcement. i want to thank everybody who invited us to be part of the celebration and for the opening of the abigail and the post. it's truly a celebration of homes. i want to stress that. i want to thank the mayor for her continued leadership and unwavering commitment toward proven solutions towards ending homelessness in san francisco. it really takes vision and it takes a community. thank you. housing ends homelessness, right we know this.

yet supportive housing is a proven intervention for the most vulnerable, chronically unhoused in our community. providing needed housing and stability for folks to address they're overall health and wellness. quite simply, supportive housing is healthcare. i say that all the time. it effectively reduces emergency room visits, we know this, inpatient hospitalizations for our highest need neighbors who are living in homelessness today supportive housing works, as daniel said. again, we really believe this and we know it's proven. power board and our staff that are here thank you for being here and we are are super excited to partner with mayor breed and h.s.h. and sam patel. thank you. eighty-nine solutions to ending chronic homelessness in san francisco. thank you so very much. >> thank you. today we have a resident of the

bristol, mitch, who wants to talk about his experience and why this is so important. >> good afternoon. i'm a tenant at the bristol hotel and i would like to emphasize that supportive housing does work. i was in supportive housing for seven years and i got the opportunity to move to a newly remodelled bristol hotel. i love it. it's a home for me. i don't expect to leave anytime soon. i'm very happy with the whole process. and anybody who gets step up housing like the abigail is very lucky. thank you. >> thank you. thank you, everyone else for being here today and all the folks who helped to make this possible. again, the solution, as beth said to ending homelessness, is housing. it takes opportunities like this , it takes building faster, and thinking about ways that we can get more creative to get

more access to opportunities so we can get people off the streets and we can keep people who are vulnerable housed in the first place. that is our goal. that is the opportunity we are providing today, and i want to thank each and every one of you for being here. thank you so much. [applause] [indiscernible]

>> good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. welcome to the first meeting of the year, the january 13th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. i'm supervisor ronan, and seated to my right is supervisor catherine stefani, and seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. and we are joined by supervisor shamon walton. i would like to thank our clerk and those from s.f. gov. tv for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all electronic