we will come to order.

mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please make sure to silence all phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will appear on the february 11 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> chair ronen: and can you please read item number one. >> clerk: item number one is a motion to appoint catherine stefani to the transportation board for a term ending june 30, 2021. >> chair ronen: and i will excuse supervisor stefani.

and is there any public comment on item number one? seeing none, wupublic comment closed. is there a motion? >> yes. i move to appoint catherine stefani to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board. >> chair ronen: thank you and we can take that without objection. [gavel].

>> chair ronen: would you please read the next item? >> clerk: item 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, indefinite term, to the children and families first commission. >> good morning. miss armstrong brings a wealth of information overseeing our child health program, particularly for our african american families. in the coming years, we're hoping to bring other initiatives into even greater alignment. there's also several exciting opportunities coming down from the state in home visiting so we're hoping to explore those together, so really excited about the work ahead of us, and again, just really strongly encourage you to support miss armstrong's nomination to our commission. thank you. >> chair ronen: wonderful.

thank you so much. >> chair rone is there any public comment before i hearing a motion on this? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: is there a motion on this item? >> supervisor stefani: i would like to forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation for -- let's see -- i should put my glasses on -- ellie armstrong. >> chair ronen: thank you. we can do that without objection. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, would you please read the next item. >> clerk: item three is a

motion approving president norman yee's nomination of maria theresa imperial to the planning commission for a term ending july 1, 2020. >> chair ronen: okay. do we have anyone who wishes to speak on this item? >> yes. my name is maria theresa imperial, and i go by theresa. as part of my community work in 2009 as a volunteer to manila town heritage foundation, as a result, i learned the rich history of manila town and the

filipino heritage in san francisco. in 2009, i also volunteered and worked together with other community members and cofounded a housing program in order to provide tenants' rights, education, and access to affordable housing which we believe was a gap in our community and citywide. it is in my community work where my issues are deeply grounded. socioeconomic issues are always grounded in people of color communities, especially in issues of equity and access. when i look back, i always look at the elders in the filipino community and others who have

affected my position. i am deeply honored to be considered for this position, and i have not told my family about this yet. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. are there any questions? supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: yes, thank you chair ron thank you, chair ronen, and thank you, miss imperial for wanting to be one of our commissioners. i just wanted to follow up with a few questions, and i wanted to make a few points before getting into the questions. as we discussed our growing homelessness issue and sky rocketing housing costs in san francisco, it is clear that we know that we are experiencing a housing shortage, and it's been my position, of course, that we must take responsibility and act locally to move the city in the right direction to provide

housing for people at all levels. that's why i advocated for 3333 california, i advocated for 133 permanently affordable homes for low-income seniors, and why i advocated recently for the lucky penny project that i recently talked about, and thank you for indulging me on talking about all of those issues. i wanted to just follow up on a few of the questions that we had discussed. i talked about the fact that there are about 72,500 units that have been entitled that have gained approval from city department and planning commission but are not being built, and it's something that i mentioned to you with regard to the lucky penny site. i'm wondering again, what do you think we should be doing to ensure that homes in the pipeline actually get built? we talked about it a little bit, and i just wanted to see if you've given that anymore thought. >> yes. in terms of the 72 housing

pipeline and in terms of already entitled, we know that there is that -- there is a big affordability crisis. definitely in terms of, like, as to where our 72,000 housing are being built, that is something i will look into, including where is this being built, in which neighborhoods? because i've seen the housing development report and there's much more happening on the eastern side than the western side, and there's much more affordable units on the eastern side being built than the western side being built. so that's something i would look into, of course. i would look in the housing report, and the balance of where housing units are actually being built. >> supervisor stefani: and these are units that have been entitled, and they go through

the process and they're approved. they go through e.i.r. challenges at the board of supervisors, and yet, the time it takes to get through the planning department and the department of building inspection, by the time they get through all that, construction costs have sky rocketed and they're not able to build. so that's something of focus that i think that you should be aware of that planning commission focus is on, as well. another focus of the planning department is to provide proposals to the board of supervisors. and again, we talked about transit-rich corridors and housing and zoning and -- when we met. i'm wondering if there are any other places in the city along transit corridors and those types of things that you believe that zoning should change to allow for greater kinds of housing.

>> yeah. i'm glad we had that discussion when it comes to transit-oriented construction. i believe before we do that, we need to look at infrastructure proposals. so if we're going to change the zoning, we need to look at the infrastructure around that area. i believe our issues in our community, the south of market community and the issues that i have seen in the mission, as well or the eastern part of the city, as well, we create these kinds of zoning amendments, but there's actually no planning when looking into not just the planning, but transit, as well. even the effects of climate change, and even the effects of it historical. so definitely in all of the zoning amendments, there will be studies, and i would look

into studies, you know, sufficiently. >> supervisor stefani: okay. thank you. the charter also tells us that one of the primary responsibilities of the planning commission is to provide the mayor with at least three qualified candidates for director of planning and we're in that search right now, selected on the basis of administrative and technical qualifications with special reference to training and knowledge in the field. again, we went through your resume, and your work has been great, but if you would go through the process that you would select as planning director. >> i would like to see a planning director that has experience in working with people of color community and has a racial and socioeconomic lens. that's how i would like to see the planning director. >> supervisor stefani: okay. and also, i wasn't extremely

familiar with your organization, bishop before, and it's a great organization before meeting you last week, so i took some time to better familiarize myself over the weekend with it, too, and i notice that bishop helps people find and stay in affordable housing, which is great. and also for advocating for and against legislation. and what -- if you could just give me some examples of your advocacy work and whether or not bishop -- i know there's a lot, and whether or not bishop opposes or supports individual projects. >> you mean, in the past, for bishop? >> supervisor stefani: in the -- continuing. >> so my work, maybe let's start with the work. i've done a lot of housing -- advocacy when it comes to housing legislation and when it comes to community development -- or community

planning, as you can say it. i worked in the ellis act campaign, also in creating the housing balance report. also in the creation of an antispeculation tax. also, the copa tax that was passed last year. also, in the loan and finance for rehabilitation for -- you know, for small sites. in terms of, like, right now, you know, bishop in the past, we have -- yes, we have -- i mean, we have advocated against a development that leasing is going to be detrimental in the south of market community. that -- one example is the shadow impact around the -- on the victoria manila park.

even though the shadow will be, like, in certainly parts of the year, but it's still going to affect the youth program in the south of market. which, you know, d-6 doesn't have a lot of open spaces. in terms of right now, we are not working or talking, so it is in our -- actually in our mission is not to -- not to meet with developer, so we don't make deals with developers. we believe, you know, in community planning process. but in terms of like, you know, any kind of projects that are being put forth in planning commission, no, we are not doing that. and i have also talked to the city attorney in terms of what, like, bishop can do and what i can do. >> supervisor stefani: okay. that's great. and these are questions asked of most planning commissioners that come before us. i think we've seen other

planning commissioners before us have rigorous questioning, as well. and i just want to make sure, given your advocacy work and a lot of projects going up to the planning commission, do you think that you will be able to remain neutral when projects come up before you? this is a question i'd ask of anyone. >> you mean, neutral in terms of recusing myself? >> supervisor stefani: no, neutral in terms of projects that come before you? >> oh, yeah. you have to look at a lot of things. one is the community input. they're the expertise in the community. the second is the analysis and the reports that are being given to me by the planning, as well. so i would look into the code compliance in that neighborhood or in that corridor itself, and, you know, definitely there's going to be a lot of

factors you need to weigh-in. but you know, there's the community input and the information being given to me by the planning department. >> supervisor stefani: thank you. i have nothing else. >> chair ronen: thank you. supervisor mar? >> actually, i just wanted to thank supervisor yee for putting such a qualified individual before us for the planning commission and also for your dedication to housing and the at risk communities in our city. it's obvious that you bring a depth of knowledge in planning and housing issues, particularly in the south of market neighborhood which has been ground zero in the tech

tech development boom that's been playing out here in the last decade, but also that you're a resident, and i think that's good information that you bring to the role of a planning commissioner. i just wanted to ask your role in the west side and the role that the west side can play in addressing the housing availability crisis. on one hand, we have sb 150 which are trying to provide ke blankets, but then, on the other hand, as you mentioned, when we actually look at the data and something like our housing balance report, we see that the west side and my district, for example, has by far the worst housing balance

in the city in market rate versus affordable housing development. and we're also seeing high rates of displacement and loss of rent control units in district 4 and district 1. so -- actually, and one final point. you know, we -- recently, the board of supervisors passed legislation that -- that was sponsored by myself and supervisor fewer that expanded priority areas in the city because there is opportunity for development there, such as -- yeah, we'd like to -- actually, i'd like to hear a little bit more. >> yeah. i mean, that's -- i've been living in d-7 for the last ten years. i believe i lived there back in 2010. the -- as you have mentioned, the housing balance report, when it comes to the west side, there's actually not much or

not at all when it comes to housing units being built, and that's something i would like to see. i hope the community would like to see that, as well. but we know that there's affordable crisis in the city. i know that there's a lot of renters in the west side, and which is hard to see it in the rent board when you look at units being taken out. that's why i would like to defer a lot in terms of community people, especially on the west side, in terms of, like, how many communities are being taken out. if there is a disproportionate review on the west side being taken out, i would definitely defer to somebody living there. because we cannot afford to take a unit out, especially if it's rent control, and there is

no affordable buildings being built, whether it's a renter or home ownership. so that's something i would like to see more of, as well. >> thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. i really appreciate you for being willing to take on this role. we know that it's a huge commission to be a planning commission. it's not a paid position, it's a volunteer position. and anyone who's willing to put in the countless hours per week is really -- is dedicating themselves to the city in a way that needs to be commended, so i just want to thank you for your willingness to do this job which is so important to us. so my -- one of my questions is about map 2020. it grew out of the eastern neighborhoods plan, and the

fact that so many folks in the mission district were being displaced from the community and to try to figure outweig w to impact the displacement that's occurring there. but we have sb 50 and the housing accountability laws and the state laws that are really limiting the power of local jurisdictions to play a role. so i'm just sort of wondering your vision of how you're going to deal projects that might deal with further displacement given all of these constraints that we have around us. >> i think that's when i would also get your help as supervisors, as well. yes, there are the statewide

laws that limiting ours, and i heard, you know, that, you know, the state center is also pushing forward with new legislations, but that is something that i -- you know -- you know, what i see, you know, what i will bring in the planning commission is what i see in the ground and what the people says in the planning commission. and in terms of, like, you know, how to -- you know, what if a development is using a state -- you know, a state law, you know, i will speak out of my expertise and what i see, but i will also need help from your offices and how to counter that, as well. in terms of will the city be willing to go against a state legislation, so that's something i definitely would have to work with you guys on that. you guys represent the constituents, so -- and i will bring what i see in the ground,

yeah. mm-hmm. >> chair ronen: and then have you had the opportunity to learn about the planning department's racial and social equity initiative? >> no, not yet. i'm not -- i'm going to -- not yet. i would -- but the thing is, i would like to read that, yeah. >> chair ronen: okay. and then, i serve as the board's representative to the metropolitan transportation commission, the m.t.c. and i would love to see more direct interaction between the city planning department and regional planning efforts, and i'm wondering if you have any thoughts on how to make that happen? >> actually, i am aware of the m.t.c., the plan bay area 2030 -- now it's turned to 2050. i know that the city nominates, you know, a proxy at the

m.t.c., as well, and if -- you know, if there's a way, you know that, you know, whoever we nominate in the m.t.c. also has a background here in san francisco, that has worked in sfric san francisco, you know, that would be great. because in terms of -- what i'm thinking is, in terms of the transit and the housing. what i would like to bring or what i would like to envision of the planning commission is to provide -- you know, provide input or analysis or something that would be taken or considered by the m.t.c., as well. i will have to study in terms of like -- or, you know, have to study the dynamics or processes around it. and i have to admit, i am new to this, but i'm not new of, like, the way of issues that

are surrounding san francisco. so i would definitely have to, of course, learn this process along the way. >> chair ronen: and then, last question before we turn it over to public comment. it -- i know you are knew new lot of these concepts, haven't working with the nitty-gritty of the planning department, but you have unbelievable experience working in the communities and fighting for housing for residents of the city, for working people and for their families. just wondering why you think you're the best person for the planning commission at this point in time? >> yes. i believe i'm the best person -- it's kind of weird. i'm not a -- you know, i'm a pretty lay low type of person, really, and it's weird for me

to be in this position, but at the same time, you know, i know i have my experience. i see what i see, i know my truth. i know what my community says, as well, so -- and i have been at the planning commission hearings many times, and there are times that i feel like the planning commissioners don't really ask substantial questions that actually impact the every day life of people. when we look into the amendments of the codes or even if it's just discretionary review, that affects every day life. that affects a mental health of a person. so with my work in the community, and, you know, i was the first case manager in bishop. like, the every day interaction is really important, and i think it's something that needs to be heavily considered in the planning commission hearings, you know, when there's a

development coming in, did the developer think about this, did they think about life in the streets? simple as that, you know, did they think about the pedestrian? did they think about -- you know, as minuscule and really, as broad. the planning commission is a very unique position is it can go in every day life and in the bigger picture, so you have to balance the details and see in the bigger perspective, as well. so yeah, i do feel that, you know, i have that, you know, lens of background because i have deeply worked in the community. and also, i have learned about the history of, through manilatown, the history of urban development and how it impacted our community, and that's why we're here today, unfortunately, so yeah. >> chair ronen: thank you. and then, i think supervisor stefani has a question.

>> supervisor stefani: yes, thank you. one last question. this is something that i talk about a lot, the fact that in san francisco, really, even on the board of supervisors, we have so much more in common than we don't. what divides us is not as much as what, i think, unites us. and on the planning commission, things can get heated. you've been at the planning commission several times, and maybe between your colleagues on the planning commission. and for me, given what we see happening at the federal level, given what we see happening sometimes here in san francisco, i think it's so important that if we are in positions, whether or not being on elected or appointed commissions, i think we can disagree without being disagreeable. how do we deal with major conflicts and differences of opinion? honestly, i believe this because what i see going on in

washington and what i see going on sometimes here is the fact that if people disagree, instead of looking at it through our lens, it's easy to point fingers and demonize and think that because they think differently than me, that, therefore, it can cause a lot of issues. so for me, it's really important that we have people in these positions -- and you will disagree, because you have passion, which i think is great -- and i don't know you that well, but this is something that i say to everyone -- that you will be able to have cordial relationships with your planning commissioners and be able to disagree without being completely disagreeable. i wonder how you would handle that. >> yes.

i've had those experiences, as well. every community has issues and, you know, not even in our own communities, we agree, you know. i think we are all aware of that. i also -- lately, i've been taking meditation a lot, you know, and it's a way to -- it's a way for me to really reflect and also a way to -- great wisdom in all of this that's going on. i know that people have impression about me that i yell at the planning commission. i actually don't do that as much. i try to make sure that when i go to the planning commission, i'm straight to the point about housing. i'm nice, but i'm firm at the same time. there will be -- i can foresee that, and i will see that in my own communities, too, that we will be agreeing and disagreeing, but at the same time, you know, what matters the most are people's lives,

and that would -- i know -- you know, that's how i would look into things. in terms of dynamics, you know, i try not to think of things personally, you know? i do -- you know, in the buddhist philosophy, you learn how to detach and be attached at the same time, and so really balancing that, that yin and yang of life. >> supervisor stefani: no, and i understand. you can be firm and balanced at the same time. >> chair ronen: i just have to appreciate your comment for screaming but you don't think you're screaming, you just think you're being honest and straightforward and firm. often when you're honest and firm, other people interpret it as screaming. so i want to reflect back to you how much i appreciated that comment. thank you so much for your

time, and we're going to open this up for public comment. if there's any public comment, be sure to lineup to my right, your left. each member of the public will have two minutes to speak, and john, why don't you start us off. >> good morning, supervisors, madam chair, good morning. my name is john jacobo, and couple weeks ago, a group of community members that i think will be speaking today got together because we were attempting to try to have a very balanced race and socio equity lens when we look at a planning commission seat. months ago, we got together to have a similar conversation about the previous commissioner that was appointed and prior to that, for the planning director that we hope will be selected soon. it's incredibly important for us to have strong advocates

that understand and have the framework that i think has been missing on the planning commission for far too long. theresa imperial will bring that to the planning commission. she has the knowledge that we think she will not only make our coalition proud, make san francisco proud. so you will hear from many other speakers, but honestly, strongly, we are here to support our sister, theresa imperial. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is raymond castillo. i work for the south of market

neighborhood action or somcan for support. we are happy to support theresa. she has shown she has the unique ability to understanding the planning and development issues that affect communities of concern which are often not represented equitably on the planning commission. as a filipina immigrant who works directly in the community to serve low-income individuals and families, theresa will bring much needed experience of working on the ground to the planning committees. as a member of the community on the front lines of the struggle against displacement, theresa bringing a much needed perspective to the planning commission that would help advance the goals of planning, equity, and socioeconomic

justice for communities. we need someone that knows the impact of planning regulations on individuals in san francisco. we need someone who has a strong commitment to racial and socioeconomic and gender equity in her long service, so vote in support of theresa. thank you. >> good morning, commissioners, madam chair. my name is cynthia gomez, and i am the president of local 2. we are happy to join many of our allies that are here this monday morning to support theresa's nomination to the planning commission. her work impacts san francisco and people of color. there are situations where certain individuals tend to get hit first by the strategies and policies of the planning

committee. it's good to have the experience and lens that theresa brings. as someone who knows my work knows that it takes me before the planning commission week after week. again, i'm very happy to have someone with her lens to be sitting on this body, and i'm also very happy to see someone who has community -- that is a community organizer that has such a rich history and deep roots of fighting for tenants' rights and fighting for displacement. again, as you can see by all the people lined up here to speak, that is a tremendous asset to the planning commission, and we ask that you please forward her nomination on. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name's gabriel medina. i'm an officer with the latino

democratic club. also, i want to speak -- first of all, thank supervisor yee for his great choice and thank you for your consideration. theresa imperial, she's someone with such long dedication with the bishop housing project for ten years. that's hard to do, as well as working with the community on a daily basis, hearing their cases and working with them to resolve their problems. theresa has the most honesty and integrity that i can speak of. i think when it comes to those planning commission hearings, she understands what the community feels. you know, she's been there. she's testified, so i think she can help bring that with the planning commissioners, and she can help bring that forward -- she can bring that for the homeless, as well.

she worked with the western regional advocacy project, and she's worked with people that have housing as well as no housing at all. one of the things that i appreciate the most about theresa is she keeps her mind firm, and she knows all about these policies because she helped advocate for them, so please support theresa imperial. thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is maya, and i am with the council of community housing organizations. i am here in support of the nomination of theresa imperial to the planning commission. i am so, so thrilled to be here in support of her.

i've had the pleasure of working alongside her for the past 1.5 years, and she is just amazing. she works alongside others, and she has the passion that we need on the commission. and she -- yeah, i could not have picked a better person to be on the commission. she sees beyond the architecture of our buildings and sees the persons who over the years created and recreated our neighborhoods. so she's extremely qualified. she cofounded a housing

program, which you heard about. i am here really in support of theresa. >> hello, supervisors. my name is honey lau, and i work for the office of civic and immigrant affairs, doing interpretation work during the day. i also want to echo the fact of theresa being in the filipino community. i have shared space with her in more contentious planning commission meetings, but i have also shared spaces with her in other events, and i can personally attest to theresa's leadership, which is something we need here now and in the planning commission. i just want to express support for -- i want to echo the comment about her equitiability

and sound decision. i know she will make decisions about her most impacts communities at heart. i feel like she's a leader that we needed a couple of decades ago, but yeah, we're moving forward, so thank you so much. >> good morning. my name is paul. i'm with the soma filipino heritage in the south of market. it's 100 years of history. unfortunately, part of that story -- a significant part of that story is unisex displacement, displacement of our ways, so it's great for our

community that somebody like theresa would receive this nomination. we're proud of san francisco, we're proud of theresa, and we ask you to support this nomination. thank you. >> hello, supervisors. david wu with soma filipinas. soma filipinas is excited to support the appointment of one of our community leaders, theresa imperial, to the planning commission. as a filipina immigrant who works directly in the community to support low-income individuals and families, she will bring experience of working on the ground to the planning commission. theresa's experience gives her the understanding of the challenges around housing rights, displacement, and the impact that inequitable has on

working class families in san francisco. as someone who has done the advocacy work and is working with people on the ground day-to-day, theresa bringing a much needed perspective to the planning commission in the process that is largely lacking that would help advance the goals of social and economic justice for san francisco's historic communities. we need commissioners that know the real impacts that land use decisions have on every day people in san francisco. again, thank you so much for considering theresa, and we really look forward to seeing her on the commission. thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm joseph, chair of the somcan organization. having worked alongside her for

many years, i hold her in high regard and always keeps in mind the needs of the residents and communities she represents. it is always important to bring the perspective of being an immigrant and somebody who supports housing rights and immigrant policies. hopefully, she receives a recommendation today and looking forward to working with her as a new planning commissioner. thank you. >> chair ronen, commissioners, i think it's a very important time for san francisco. we, as i know, a few of you,

when you look at specialized boards, you wonder what's missing? women, women of color, women able to lead with a strong, bold voice. you have a woman of color able to lead with a strong, bold voice today. as many of you have said before, you have an immigrant, exciting because it's somebody who came here, had to navigate all of the strange customs and interesting conventions that american life brings to those of us that weren't born here. you have somebody who's dedicated her life to service by working with the folks that even though we try very hard to build affordable housing as quickly as we can and in every district, as was mentioned here, it still often is a really challenging opportunity for many to access.

and we know it in the chinatown community where i work, we know is in the soma town community, we know it in your communities where these efforts result sometimes in not a lot of folks from our communities or neighborhoods are able to access affordable housing. so i think you have somebody with an incredible perspective, with a bold voice, and with the -- with the experience we need on the commission, an experience of being in front of the commission. i was, you know, reminded that oftentimes, we try to find the perfect person who appeals to everyone, and that's challenging. but i think theresa is fair and smart, and she'll do well. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm here as a proponent of

theresa imperial and also to make a point sometimes as young folks having representation at the next level is something that, you know, is key characters, and i guess the land use dialect of san francisco politics is not often -- the knowledge is often not there, and so i'm here for those folks. so yeah. it's interesting how many people my age can come to a rules committee at 10:00 a.m., so i'm here for those guys, and i ask you to support the nomination. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is charlie, and i'm a district 11 resident, and i'm here on behalf of poder. and this board of supervisors has heard about the need to have equity champions on the planning commission. theresa imperial is one of those equity champions, and i hope the first of many more. she really has these kind of

triple super powers. i've known her for many years and see her as someone with a high level of integrity, extremely principled, really strong community based relationships. she also has the second super power, which is a lot of know-how. she knows policy, she can navigate it, community policy, community relationships, experiences is something she will do. and the third is really just a high level of leadership. and when she comes to the planning commission with your blessing and the board's blessing, i believe she will not just ask the right questions and say the right things, she will really have the right conversation and move the conversation in the right direction, so i hope you support her. thank you very much. >> good morning. my name's krista.

so first of all, thank you, norman yee, for selecting theresa for planning commissioner. i agree, i don't know of a better candidate to show racial equity in this year of 2020. it's amazing. theresa, i think i can speak more to what affects theresa. she has done a lot of this work. bishop was actually not staffed. she volunteered and would do that after work every day and make it happen until we finally were able to raise money for it. and bishop, i know you're not familiar with it, but it is one of the only organizations that helps residents get into b.m.r., below market rate

housing. i actually see it as her implementation. she looked at the policy and figured out how to make it work when things didn't fit. we have these great ideas, but we don't know how to do that. i think it's important to have someone like her for all people in san francisco. whether you're a business, whether you're a senior, whether you're a parent. she also has a great big view picture. i sometimes get caught in the weeds and she would pull me out and check me because there's a bigger picture, and her wisdom -- for being as young as she is, she's old, an old soul. and i would imagine everyone can see that. and i think just the quality of people who support her, it speaks testaments to who you see on the day-to-day, and who came out here and is giving honest testimony about what she can do, who she can speak to, who she's going to listen to,

which is everybody, but also make sure that some people are not going to be thrown off to the side because it's not business as usual, and this is something -- this is like one of your -- one of the greatest all time honest public servant candidates we've seen in a long time, and i'm really proud of all of you for doing this. actually, i think uncle bill would be really proud of you all supporting her, so thank you very much. >> good morning. my name is jessie fernandez. i'm a district 11 resident, and i'm here with communities united for health and justice in support of theresa imperial who has demonstrated an ability to wrestle with issues that affect our communities. oftentimes, when i am in a meeting wrestling with the

small sites acquisition program, with the dalia program, issues on tenants' rights, development or design, i can count on theresa to be a voice of authority both because of her hands-on work directly with stakeholders. also because of her analytical rigor and her holistic approach. i just want to say on the heels of our racial and socioeconomic equities, i'm pleased to support theresa for the planning commission. >> good morning, commissioners. peter papadopolous with the economic planning committee, and i'm here to support theresa

for the role of planning commissioner. i've known her for sometime. she is a passionate advocate for housing protections and legislative work, as well. [please stand by]

advisor, my name is rena tolo, i'm a direct 7 resident, and i also work in d-11. i'm here in strong support of teresa. i would like to tell you that while she has all of the qualifications that satisfy the technical requirements, i think we should see she also has a strong community connection that we have asked you for, and she has a lot of in tegrity. thank you.

>> buenas días. [speaking spanish] >> prime minister trudeau[speaking throughinterpr] hi, i have worked at the cause for the past nine years. [speaking spanish][speaking thrh interpreter] i'm here in support of teresa because she knows the community. and the work that she has done at bishop gives her the capacity to be able to make strong decisions.

and i ask for your support in appointing her to the planning commission because she has a really strong ear to the community. mucho gracias.[speaking through interpreter] thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i've been politically schooled in the mission, and i have a deep, deep love for our city. i'm with a group of community organizers, racial equity activists, and neighbourhood activists, to support him for commissioner. i thank -- and i thank so much supervisor yee for

selecting her. he had a lengthy list of qualified candidates, who are steeped and versed in our communities, and teresa just floated to the top because she is so amazing. i can't even -- i'm not going to add what folks have already said. i think, for me, it is so refreshing to have a young, brown, and down woman to serve on the planning commission. i think that young javier said it best in terms of, like, i've been around for a minute, grinding myself around planning issues and affordable housing, and to have a new generation lie like javier -- when i first started coming here, javier was like this, maybe. so it is beautiful to see this resurge nce of young

people of color. hook who she rolls withlook who. those are the people who will be counselling her and lifting her up so she will be successful. so i thank you and i hope you move her recommendation forward. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. is there any member of the public who still wishes to speak who hasn't? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> chairwoman: i just wanted to thank everyone so much for coming out today. this is why i love split appointments to commission because we get candidates that represent different communities, that are appointed to these positions of power, that really make a difference

and change the history of our city. and the planning commission is one of the most important commissions in the city and county of san francisco. and having an appointment like teresa imperial representing voices that are so often here to say that working folks, communities of color are not being prioritized, and their needs are not being met by the development in the city. and that something needs to change in order to make that happen, that it is the job of policy-makers to write laws to lift up these communities and to make sure that everyone's interests and needs are protected and lifted up in the city. and to me, what's been made clear today by ms. imperial and her

supporters is that she will be a champion of those needs and those voices. it is exactly the type of leader we need on the planning commission at this point in time in our city. and so i will -- i want to thank president yee for having put in ms. imperial. i am extremely supportive of this appointment and just really excited for you, hopefully, once your hopefully appointed by the full board of supervisors, excited for you to get to work. i wanted to see if any of my colleagues had any comments or wanted to make a motion, or i'm happy to make it myself? i did get a call from president yee asking not to move this item forward as a committee report -- the reason that he originally asked that i

schedule it as a committee report was because they're having core issues at the planning commission, and there is the urgent need of appointing a director -- or moving forward three names to the mayor to appoint a director to the department, but he said that, you know, this is such an important appointment that he wanted to give the regular time. so we will -- i will be following his wishes and moving this forward not as a committee report, but as a regular item, to not this tuesday's board of supervisors' meet, but the following. but -- sure, i will make a motion. let me just go ahead and do that. i would make a motion to approve -- to amend this item to move forward the nomination of teresa imperial with positive recommendation, to approve the nomination, and move it forward with positive recommendation to the full

board of supervisors. did i say that correctly? >> yes. so, in essence, we're deleting the word "rejecting "-- >> chairwoman: yes, to remove the word "rejecting," and keep the word "approving" with strong recommendation to the full board of supervisors. if i can take that without objection, that motion passes unanimously. >> recommended as mentioned. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. mr. clerk, is there any other items on the agenda? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> chairwoman: then the meeting is adjourned. thank you. [meeting adjourned at 11:

>> chairwoman: i will just start momentarily. i'm not sure if our meeting is going to be shown live or not. it looks like we are. okay. good morning. today is wednesday, january 29th, 2020. this is a special meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to please silence your cell phones and all electronic equipment. the first item on the agenda is roll call. president mccarthy? >> yes. >> chairwoman: commissioner alexander? >> here. [roll call]

>> chairwoman: we have a quorum. our next item is item 2, discussion and possible action on a proposed budget of the department of building inspection for fiscal years 2020, 2021, and 2021/2022. >> good morning, taras madison. before you is the department's proposed fiscal year 2021 and 2022 budget, and i'll go over some of the highlights. i'll go over revenues first, and if you have any questions, and then we'll move on to expenditures.

we'll start off with the budget instructions. the mayor's office is projecting a $400 million fund deficit, and therefore they instructed general fund departments to reduce their budgets by 3.5% ongoing general fund support for the next two budget years. d.b.i. is completely funded by a fee, so that doesn't apply to us. the mayor's budget priorities are housing, shelter, and services for those in need, clean and safe streets for everyone, and healthy and vibrant neighbourhoods. in addition, the mayor also continues to focus on accountability and also equitable outcomes. all departments were given those instructions. the next slide as the departments' organizational charts. we have the building inspection commission, the director's office and three areas, permit services and section services and administrative services. and our budget is pretty

much developed around these three main areas. next, our strategic plan goes: basically all departments are required to have a strategic plan,p th,and the budget is to be based on those strategic plans. we want to address the goals of issuing permits, performing inspections, delivering high-quality customer service, implementing effective and efficient administrative practices, and then also proactively engaging the public and educating the public, also. in addition to those kind of high-level goals, we also want to focus on some specific things e in the in the upcoming budget. we continue to budget on the mayor's housing directors. and we continue to focus on emergency preparedness. and we're really trying to speed up and do a lot more

code enforcement. and obviously, once again, based on the mayor's priority, also making sure there are equitable outcomes and serving our most needy residents. we'll start off with revenues because revenues are very important because we don't get any general fund support. so what we collect in our fund balance is what actually helps to fund us. basically this first revenue is a revenue summary, we have department license fees and expenses recoveries. and they are monies we get from other departments because we provide other services for them. the total revenue amount now is at 87.5%, that's what we're proposing. if we go to fiscal year 2021-- although this is a two-year budget, it is a roll-in two-year budget so primarily focused on the first year. if we go to the first slide, you'll see the revenue details. sorry for the quality of

the spread sheet, but there are so many of them, we tried to squeeze them on one page. these are all about revenues. and most of these are charges for services. so when you look at the revenues, you see that we have -- i have highlighted two: plan-checking revenues and building permits revenues. because basically those two together -- if you go to the next one, sharon -- if you look at the pie chart, they make up 59% of our revenues. and those two are based on valuation. it is the valuation of the permits. our success, or the amount of revenue that we collect very much is dependent on these to revenue sources. overall what you've done is you see we've budgeted those two at the actual same year request. and the reason we've done that is because a couple of things have to happen. but we have adjusted a couple of the other ones. for instance, if you look at vacant and abandoned

buildings at the bottom, we've increased that because code enforcement is focusing on going out and working on the commercial storefront, and so we've seen an increase in fees in the current yeeyear, so we've increased those. so next slide. as i said before, our proposed budget currently maintains revenues at the base level. currently, because we're projecting about $69million in revenues -- and our expenditures we'll go over later, and it will be a little more, and we'll have to use about $17 million in fund balance. the department does have a fund balance, and we've been able to have a fund balance over the past couple of years and we've been using thosemore and morthose more andmore to balancr budget. which means the full 17 million won't have to happen. first of all, it is interest. which is budgeted at

$985 million, but last year we collected over $3million in interest. the problem is the controller's office does the entry, and we don't know how it is calculated. so we don't have an exact number. right off the bat, we assume we're at $2 million. and then, as i said before, because our two major revenues, plan review and building permits, over the next two months we'll be revising those estimates, and it will be based on current year collection, because so far we only have six months. but as you're aware, we have the 100% affordable waive and fee program. which was just implemented in october. we're going to work with m.i.s. to see what the current impact is. there will be a reduction, and then also just to note that the impact is normally not going to be just in this fiscal year.

for the larger projects, those projects happen over multiple years. so some projects you may follow in this year, but you may not get your permit issued until three years from now. so we have to balance that off and see what the impact will be this fiscal year versus next fiscal year. so i fully expect to have revisions when we come back for the second hearing. if there are any questions on revenues? okay. so expenditures. we'll start off with expenditures. similar to all departments, our salary and fringes make up the bulk of our budget. we have overhead. and we have non-personnel, and that includes travel and training. it includes i.t. systems types of things, professional services. we also have a line item of community-based organizations because we work very hard to work on the equitable outcomes and

also to work with those in needs. and it includes our programs for emergency preparedness. so we have a seismic safety outreach program that is in every neighborhood in the city. we do training to get people ready for earthquake preparedness in different languages. we reach out specifically to lower income neighborhoods, and so we have that program. we have the single-room occupancy program and the code enforcement outreach program that is actually managed by the housing inspection division. and that is crucial to our code enforcement effort and our housing preservation effort, once again, working with the most vulnerable citizens of san francisco. finally, we have equipment, and then we have services of other departments. so if you go to the next slide, you'll see a pie chart. basically salary and fringes at 38%, and the services department is sat 26%. they are, once again, work

orders that we pay to other city departments, the city attorney, the department of together, the department of environmental, the a assessor's office. next slide. thanks. here are the expenditure details. so you can see them down to the temp salaries, retirement fringes, and we're at $87.5 million. and this is just giving you a detail of what those individual expenses are. so expenditure changes, so for our salaries and fringes -- this is our department's largest expenditure, and the reason for the increase that you see now is because of colas, and retirement health benefits are going up, and we'll probably see some changes at the next meeting because we're reviewing our positions and we're going to lower our

attritions. once again, as we said before, we want to work on housing initiatives and code enforcements. currently we have a budget of about 300 positions, but the city has something walled attrition, and last you're our attrition was increased by the budget analyst, based on our vacancies. so we're going to propose to lower those at tritions so we'll be able to fill more positions. in professional services. we have an increase because we had to do a fee study. the last study was done in 2015. in october 2015, we had a new fee table. we lowered our fees. we are committed to changing our fees about every five years, and so we added money to do a fee study beginning next fiscal year. and we have some i.t. projects we want to work on, updating the web, doing some oracle upgrades, and that's where the increases are in professional services.

and we also have increase in equipment. as a field inspection department, we have to make sure that we have a fleet that is green, and also reliable. we've been working over the past few years to green our fleet completely. the goal is to get rid of all compressed natural gas and go into a plug-in hybrid. and so we're proposing to replace 15 vehicles this year, and then in addition to that equipment, we're also going to be doing some data processing equipment. we have to get some things from i.t., some scan pros for records management. that's the changes in our equipment budget. and similar to prior years, services of other departments, once again, is our second largest, at $22.7 million. and the huge increase is because of 49 south van ness. and they were one-time work orders that will be going away. there is a $7.6 million work order that was funding everything from the move to supplies to

furniture, all of those things, and that is going owe way. that's onaway. and we're going to be a may 1 department. although there are two-year budgets, every other year d.b.i. and a few other select departments will actually present their budget with the true fixed two-year departments. so instead of us presenting our budget, instead of the mayor presenting the budget on june 1, our budget will be presented on may 1. we will be working with the mayor's office. we expect expenditures to change. a lot of the work orders in particular are not really done at the department level. they will be done based on kind of a formula, and then they'll be updated. >>updated.and so as that happen- although you will approve a budget at the next budget hearing, probably the budget will change somewhat when it goes to may 1. i normally come in and

give updates as the changes are made. so let's go to the next slide. so this next slide, i tried to -- this is all at the department level, so i tried to give you a sense of at the division level what the budgets are. as i said before, we have these three major programs, three major service areas. and underneath that is basically the divisions that are under each of those. and every place that you see a change is primarily because of the salaries. so the colas, the retirement, the health benefits going up. in addition, inspection services, any field inspection division, there is also a change because we included vehicles to do those replacement vehicles. so just a summary of the division expenditures, 52% of all of our budget goes

to inspection services. 22% to permit services, and the administration is at 26%. since i'm in administration, i want to put the caveats with that. part of the reason why administration is higher than permit services, because a lot of department-wide items are budgeted there. a lot of the work orders are budgeted there. a lot of the professional services are budgeted there. we don't budget it at a division level or something like that. so it is that we have so much administration staff, it is just a lot of the city-wide or department-wide architecture tistdepartment-wide actually budgeted there. and the next slide is the service of other departments. so that is just showing you all of the different work orders. you can see in the second group, you can see that $7.6 million reduction for that one. and then, finally, we have our d.b.i. budget schedule. as i said before, we are going at may 1, so we have

this first special hearing. we'll have another special meeting on february 13th. our budget is due to the controller and mayor's office on february 21st. between february and may, we'll be working to finalize the budget. may 1, the mayor will submit the budget to the board. some time in may, we'll be having our budget hearings with other departments. and july 31st -- and the june 1 departments will come in, and then by july 31st, the full budget will need to have been approved by the board of supervisors, and we'll have to submit a letter basically saying our budget meets our needs. i'm happy to answer any questions now on expenditures or anything.

>> is it possible to parse out the fees for affordable housing? >> that would be broad because we don't have affordable housing fees. we have building permit and fees. now what can happen, because we have this fee waiver, and basically what we've done in our system is that we track it, and we put a tickler "affordable." i can come back and say this is what an affordable housing project would have to pay and the building inspection fee. >> if that is possible? >> i can do that. >> great. thank you. >> i have a number of questions. my first question is: in terms of looking at the expenditure summary for

the community-based organizations, i see that there is not a cola or a coda. do we have a policy for when we apply a cola or a coda to any of our contractors? >> oh, sure. there actually will be an increase in there. the 5.3 that we have budgeted, because for,, we have some savings usual in the 5.3. yes, there is something called a minimum. there may be a cola, and that is discussed at the mayor's office. so normally that gets loaded in later. if there is going to be a cost of doing business -- i think they call it a "cost of doing business." that normally happens afterwards. and there is something called the minimum compensation ordinance, and that happens with the controller's office. we've done it in this fiscal year, and we're

usually able to cover it because thr there is usually savings from the non-profit, but if there needs to be additional funding, that is where it would go. >> thank you. >> any other commissioners? >> thank you for this. just a question about one of the last slides, about the services of other departments. i notice we have an increase in rent to van ness, which makes sense. wouldn't there be a deduction on the current property -- or do we own that property? i'm not sure. >> yes, so let me find that. do you see leases paid to real estate, the $4 million. you notice how that is going buy 2.3, and the 49 south van ness, they created a new account so we can distinguish between the two. >> i see. gotcha. thank you.

>> deputy director, i think i know the answer to this, but can we go to code enforcements, the city attorney's litigation part there. >> yes. >> i'm really curious about where do we come up with that number? is that based on previous years? >> so basically this is the 506 that was in the basin. it isn't based on previous years because as you recall, we actually collected a lot last year based on a couple of cases. in fact, i was just informed of another big case that is coming in. so this may need to be adjusted. but usually it is based on before we had a lot of these big cases come in, and so that is where that was based on before. because a couple of cases ended last fiscal year, we went back down to kind of a lower, what we felt would be something more reasonable. what we will do now, because i was just told of something that is coming

in in the current year, and we're basing on current year collections, we will look and i'll probably talk to the commission's secretary to find out if we're aware of any cases that will come in in 2021. >> so that may adjust for it? >> yes. >> and the seller issue that is ongoing, where -- is that stopped now? are you still paying to the seller? >> well, what i can say is the budget -- the current year budget included a reserve and some funding set aside for the project. and so in the next -- in the new budget, we haven't placed anything in there. and we haven't talked to the mayor's office to or d.t. about that. but because there is

already funding set aside in the current year, i'm assuming maybe that will be used at a later date. but i don't have any updates on specifically where we are with that specific project in general. just notice that it isn't necessarily reflected in the budget right now. >> that's my -- i know we're in limbo a little bit. the funds that you had from last year, they just sit there, but you don't lose them in this fiscal year if it is not line-itemed -- >> no, we don't lose them because a lot of our i.t. projects are budgeted in a bruchbudget, which means they're current. they automatically carry forward. >> in the land of milk and honey, and let's say we wake up five months from now, and everybody a walking back on this

project, where are the funds coming from? >> the money is currently in the project funds. >> okay. and does that have a dollar amount on it now? or we don't know? >> well...i think there was maybe a 2 or 3 million-dollar reserve that was set aside. and i'm not sure what has been used outside the reserve because d.t."holds t. holds the contract. >> is it safe to say whatever litigation is created is paid out of that account? >> i'm not familiar with that. i would defer to the city attorney on that. i don't know. >> i guess what i'm trying to figure out if this does accelerate under litigation of some sort, where would the no one come from that, if it is not in this? >> city attorney rob caplin. the money you would anticipate for litigation? >> yeah.

> if we don't have the answers, we don't have the answers. >> i would have to look into the answer, based on the contracts and how we have it determined we would apportion attorney's fees and costs. >> all right. so that's as far as we're concerned, whatever goes down doesn't reflect in our overall budget then, right? >> well, it doesn't reflect in our proposed budget. however, because there are already project funds, because, in fact, even if things were still on track, i'm not sure that means we would have to put new money in an annual fund because so much money was put in before. >> i apologize if it is an unfair question, but i'm trying to figure out -- >> that's okay. >> just a fullyu a a followup to

that, i noticed in legal fees -- or legal expenditures, you have the same as the last fiscal year, and perhaps that included the expenses associated with more than just code enforcement. could it be that we have some additional funds there for just simply matching last year's, when there was a lot of effort. >> can you tell me the account you're referring to? >> three-quarters down the left side, $3.5 million last year and this year, basically just a match -- is that just code enforcement or the other legal expenditures? >> that's all legal expenditures. in addition to code enforcement, the city attorney has to review all of our contracts and they sign off on all of our contracts, so all of those things are there. it isn't just code enforcement. any services that the city attorney has to provide to us. >> thank you.

>> so my question is about staffing and the attrition policy that you referred to. particularly regarding the policy of attrition for the permit technicians. and it is my understanding, or my memory, if it serves me correctly, is that over 10 years ago there were about eight permit technicians in the code enforcement housing program, and now i believe we're down to one, and hoping to fill two in the coming months. i'm concerned about the impact that this -- that the low staffing rate has on the public. >> uh-huh. >> the permit technicians, for those of the members of the public who are listening, there are more than 400,000 tenants in san francisco. when there is a lien put against a landlord for failing to meet a

requirement, such as heat, or something similar, it is the permit technicians who actually assess the lien. and when the problem is resolved, take it away. and then remove the lien. they're an important community resource. this is something i've gotten feedback about. and i'm concerned about -- i'm glad that the department is moving forward, and i thank you, director huey, for being very responsive, i know it has been a struggle to fill positions. but three is still a pretty low number. and my understanding is that housing inspectors are spending their time not doing their scope of work, but are actually doing this other clerical work. >> uh-huh. >> so i would like to see if this is addressed in here or if there is another way to address that. >> a couple of things. first, i'm not aware of what was 10 or 15 years ago, but i know that department-wide, during

the big downturn in 2008, the department lost, like, 30% of theirs. and so gradually the department has been adding more positions, but it is difficult to add those positions. attrition is not reflected solely at permit techs. in fact, it isn't even reflected by a job class. it is a number that you put in f.t.e., and then a system calculates it. no one is keeping permit techs vacant in order to meet attrition. and the third item is that the reason there is only one permit tech, once again, it is not because of attrition. it is because i believe three or four people went on to some place else, so we're back-filling it. we did send out a request to division managers, if they wanted to do a new initiative, or do something like that, and they had justification for it, to let us know to include it. i did not receive anything

about the permit techs. this is my first time hearing about this. if that is, once again, what we're doing is we will lower the number. so let's say the f.t. is 34 point something, our goal is to move it down to 20. here is the issue with us, and we've tried to do this before: we want to lower our attrition. our attrition has been increased before because we do have vacancies, and we continue to have vacancies. i've been here since 2014. i think every year we do at least 20, 30 positions, times 40 positions, but we're always playing catch-up. and the board says, we have these positions vacant, and so we're going to lower it again. so we're constantly trying to play catch-up. but we're willing to look because as i said before, housing is very important, code enforcement is very important. and so if there is a way

for us to make sure we have enough support staff, we're all for that. it is just that i'm not sure if the fact that so many are left at one time is basically -- it is simply an attrition issue, too. but we can look at that and i can follow up with the manager. >> thank you for your very thorough explanation about that. sure. >> i don't think there are anymore questions, other than to add, i know on the ramp-up we were doing on this attrition, we were trying to get people hired, and i know it is very frustrating because most of the people who applied for the different positions, to have to sit and take exams, and they expire, and then they go back again. what we've learned, as frustrating as it was, we were averaging it takes six or seven months to hire somebody. so it is very daw. it is very d. it is something we're

always nervous about when we go before the board of supervisors for approval of our budget. that's the low-hanging fruit that always seems to be taken. go ahead. >> i'm sorry, are you done? >> yep. >> in addition to that, besides, -- normally we do it internally. so you hire maybe three seniors or permit techs, but that ends up with three plumbing vacancies -- so besides the entry level, most all of our other positions are internally. we promote i internally. >> thank you, deputy director, for your presentation. there is no public comment on this, is there? >> there is a public comment on the item, but there is no public available. [laughter]

>> that's what commissioner moss has always said. >> chairwoman: in our budget meeting, we typically don't have a lot of public. okay. so is our next item adjournment. >> the next item is adjournment unless the deputy director has something else. >> chairwoman: did you have something else. >> make a motion. >> there is just to reiterate, as adapt director madison mentioned, we have a special meeting again for the budget on february 13th, at 1:00 p.m., and our regular meeting is on the 19th. >> chairwoman: so are they voting today or next -- >> i believe you vote on the second -- >> the 13th meeting is in here, correct?

>> chairwoman: at city hall, but in room 408. i'll remind everyone. so do we have a motion to adjourn? >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> chairwoman: are all commissioners in favor? >> yea. >> chairwoman: we are now adjourned. it is 10:42 a.m.

[roll call] >> clerk: we have quorum. >> chair haney: thank you, mr. clerk. will you please call the next item. >> clerk: item 2, chair's report. this is informational item. >> chair haney: thank you. and thank you, colleagues, for convening as the treasure island management committee. as you know, housing on treasure island is ever closer to reality. the first new homes are

anticipated on yerba buena island as soon as 18 months from now. significant construction is underway, and with that, the new year requires some important decision including toll policy for future workers workers -- current workers as well as residents and future workers. this month, i offered our full support for the water emergency transportation authority's innovative application to the california state transportation agency for the 2020 transit and inner city rail capital program. the requested funds will support the construction of an all-electric 99-passenger ferry vellve, and the required shoring infrastructure to serve

the new treasure island route, demonstrating the nation's first all electric zero emission ferry to the downtown san francisco route actually realizes the environmental roles for the treasure island development. it's to create a community that incentivizes clean transit in order to accomplish zero emission. with traffic on the bay bridge often at a standstill during commute hours, ferry service is a critical component of the island's transportation network to ensure residents the fastest and most environmentally friendly commute to downtown san francisco. with that, i conclude my remarks. are there any questions or comments on my remarks? any public comment on the

chair's report? seeing none, mr. clerk, will you please read the next item? >> clerk: item 3, director's report. this is an action item. >> thank you. our deputy director, rachel hyatt and i, presented at the island research board. we presented, along with a whole host of other cities, london, stockholm, milan, singapore, l.a., vancouver. it was a really great panel, and it was covered in the media, so this is definitely that we're not doing alone. it's something that many cities throughout the world and particularly now in north america are looking at, particularly after new york city decided to go forward last

year. i want to thank you, chair haney, and the director at weta for going forward. there's another grant, a sister grant for a vessel for mission bay if they are funded by calsta. meanwhile, we continue to work on the concept of operations and for the a.v. pilot. this is the autonomous pilot on the island. this is with the california public utilities commission and the deputy of motor vehicles, which are the permitting entities for autonomous shuttles. one of the benefits is the potential to serve as a near term bike link for the island. until we have the bike paths to

come from the island to san francisco downtown, the ferry can provide that path option for folks coming across the east bay to yerba buena and down to the ferry terminal and take the ferry over on their bicycle. so this work is being developed as part of the overall bike connection. the t.a. put $200,000 of prop k funds and our staff will come back to report on the yerba buena bicycle pedestrian path, and i know that eric cordoba is working with his partners on tida so that the bike pedestrian path can be incorporated seamlessly into that bridge project, as well. so with that, i'm happy to take any questions. >> chair haney: any questions or comment on the chair's -- or executive director's report? any public comment on chair's

report? >> hi. i don't have any comment. i'm your -- on your report, i'm sorry. i came very late. i'm on treasure island sometimes. i share custody with my children's father out there, and i'm just very disgusted about the idea of tolls. i was born and raised in san francisco, and like many native san francisca franciscans, i cd to live here. i spent many months in a shelter, and i come from an abusive home, including with my children's dad. there's a lot of low-income people, and who you're going to punish is the poor people. you don't charge people to go to pacific heights.

who you're going to alienate is the poor people out there. i can tell you my children's father is an alcoholic, just like many of his neighbors, but those are the people that need visitors, those are the people that need outreach. walden house is out there. it's just very disgusting to me that this is the san francisco that i'm living in. sometimes there's backpacks that are left, things that are left. sometimes i have to go back and forth, and you're going to punish my children's ability to visit their dad and their ability to have a good life. i think my two minutes are up. thank you so much for hearing me today. >> chair haney: thank you for your comment. any other public comment? public comment is closed. mr. clerk, will you call the next item. >> clerk: approve the minutes

of the november 19, 2019 meeting. this is an action item. >> chair haney: okay. is there any questions or comments? seeing none, can we have a motion to approve the minutes? motion by commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner mandelman. can we have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion to approve the minutes -- [roll call] >> clerk: we have final approval. >> chair haney: thank you, mr. chair -- or sorry. clerk. also, are there any public comments -- public comment on the minutes? all right. great. seeing none, can you call the next item. >> clerk: item 5, election of chair and vice chair for 2020. this is an action item. >> chair haney: great. so the nominations are now in

order for the office of the chair. are there any nominations for chair? commissioner mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: i nominate matt haney. >> chair haney: thank you. is there a second? all right. second from commissioner ronen. is there any -- are there any further nominations? uh-oh, somebody else want to do this? okay. thirded by commissioner yee. all right. seeing no further nominations, nominations are now closed. is there any public comment on this item? all right. can we have a vote for chair. >> clerk: we can take that -- oh, yes -- >> chair haney: same house, same call. all right. is there a nomination for vice chair? commissioner mandelman?

>> supervisor mandelman: i nominate shamann walton. >> chair haney: all right. is there a second? commissioner ronen seconds the nomination. is there any public comment on election of vice chair? seeing none, public comment is closed, and we can also take this same house, same call. congratulations, and thank you, vice chair walton. excited to serve with you for another term. and with that, mr. clerk, can you please call items 6 and 7 together. >> clerk: item 6, seek final approval on first appearance, audit report for the fiscal year ended june 30, 2019. item 7, internal accounting report for the six months ending sept 1 seember 1, 2019. >> thank you, chair haney, for

allowing me to present this. the report for 2019, it was a clean audit. they had no recommendations or adjustments. this item is up for action. i'd also like to present the quarterly financial statements for the six months ending december 31, 2018. in terms of revenues, we have collected $1.2 million of revenues for grant funded sources for timma. we have also incurred $383,000 for expenditures for the first six months. both amounts are within the timma budget, and with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. and item number 6 is an action item, item 7 is an info item. >> chair haney: great. thank you. any questions or comments from colleagues? seeing none, any members of the public that would like to speak on -- commissioner yee?

>> president yee: so i looked through the financial report, which is great. it seems all positive, but this is an audit, and it's kind of odd that it seems like more of a program audit than a fiscal audit. >> this one is the fiscal audit. the program audit normally consists of 16 different compliance areas. that is audited with the t.a.s -- the san francisco transportation authority's audit. >> president yee: so generally, when i see audit on there, when it's a fiscal audit, that they have findings, and it doesn't say anything about findings or satisfactory or whatever, which is kind of odd. >> that will be covered in the opinion, in the first couple of pages where they say there's an

unknown modified audit, which is the opinion. where you see that is the t.a. audit because they only selected t.a. programs to audit this year. >> president yee: okay. got it. thank you. >> chair haney: any public comment on this item? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. and we can take this also same house, same call. >> clerk: house has changed. >> chair haney: oh, the house has changed. roll call. >> clerk: we need a motion and a second. >> chair haney: motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner mandelman. >> clerk: on item 6 -- [roll call]

>> clerk: we have final approval. >> chair haney: thank you. mr. clerk, will you please call the next item. >> clerk: item 8, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> chair haney: is there any new items to introduce, commissioners? seeing none, any public comment? public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, will you call the next item. >> clerk: item 9, general public comment. >> chair haney: is there any members of the public who want to comment generally? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> chair haney: mr. clerk, we can call the next item. >> clerk: item 10, adjournment. >> chair haney: thank you. this meeting is now adjourned.

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>> this is the fresher island authority sustainability committee. item one. call to order. >> let me welcome you to the first meeting. a special thanks for inviting me to chair this. i am excited. good morning to the fellow commissioners and staff. welcome. we hope this will move things forward and keep things sustainability. one note on sustainability given my day job, we have come at the academy of sig sciences to makee we are re-invigorating but under the sustainability term. i recently came back from a trip celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary.

i never can't my marriage sustainability. we want to thrive. that is the spirit of everyone here. thank you and welcome. (roll call). we have a quorum. 2. public comment. public comment will be held on each item on the agenda. >> any public comment? okay. seeing none. next item. >> 3. leadership in energy and environmental design. neighborhood development update. >> we thought that kicking off the sustainability committee would be good to start with an overview of the leed for

neighborhood design program and our status within that ranking system. i will turn it over to erin. >> thank you, bob. this is the review and discussion or reinvigoration and what was the other word? >> reactivation. >> i think that is a great principal. we are not just locking something down and not having it change. it is a sea environment. things will be changing for the lifetime of the project. i will try to give an overview of basically where we are to this point. that will be maybe 60 or 70% of my presentation. for the last couple minutes some ideas of suggestions for future areas of exploration. there are others but these have come out in our work with the development team, talking to kevin and bob and their team of

ideas that you might consider exploring, and then welcoming your other ideas to continue exploring to this committee in other ways. here is the review part of this. i gave a similar presentation to the tida board maybe three or four years ago when we first got the le. d certification. i am not sure if you were there. i know you have a long history with the project. this could be review for some of you and might be new material for others. this is to get us up to speed. the design for development back to 2011, i worked on this a little bit with perkins more like on the planning andy sign side. it is gratifying to see what was a big wild idea coming to fruition right now. it is exciting to think through the details what can happen. that really form the foundation for a lot of development work

occurring, which you all know. associated with that was a development agreement and sustainability obligations with the development greet in 2011. if you want to get into exhibit o of the gda. one of those was to achieve le id for neighborhood development. that is what i have been involved with achieving certification and implementing it. there was also transportation, infrastructure and energy and water that the project committed to. those are locked in and required by the development agreement and we are benefiting from or tearing off the commitments that were made years ago. there was a plan that pre-dated the design for development and was updated in 2011. there is good material in there and it is something to revisit,

maybe think of updated concepts how it could work. that is a nice resource. then a series of other plans and obligations habitat management, transport improvement. stormwater, infrom structure, housing plan. wastewater is here today. all of these topics have efforts predating or neighborhood development effort and we are rolled those into a standard with the commitment and implementation items for the island. we are not starting from scratch. we are following on the heels of great work done for the last 10 and 20 years. a little more about the leed. it is the most widely used green building in the world administered by the u.s. green building council and typically

used mostly on buildings. in the last several years they have been diversifying the late of rating systems. in the last 10 years is lead for neighborhood development certification that goes beyond buildings to look at the neighborhood scale development that are not in the system like streets, infrastructure, housing afford ability. policy issues, stormwater, how it works on the site. things you cannot touch building by building. this system attempted to inkoroperate that. that was appropriate choice for treasure islands. that is what i will talk more about the details. it is leed for neighborhood development. leed-nd. that is the system that we were certified under. not to say we can't do building level certification. i will talk about that.

that is the umbrella under which everything else will fall. a couple details what we have achieved. we achieved leed-nd platinum for treasure island as one project in 2016. it was the highest scoring lat numb project in the world -- platinum project in the world. i need to doublecheck that. it was also the largest and one of the first under the version four rating system that had just come out. version four is the most current in use. there might be 4. 4.1 but the bc structure is there. i know it has gotten press locally, nationally and something to be very proud of, and it is a very inspiring accomplishment to have done that. it is very rare to get platinum. only 7% of the projects get platinum. it is a very high standard that

we are trying to continue. i won't go into all of these credits. the way you get a certification is pick the list of tropical credits and get points. one or two points for a total of up to 100 or 110 with bonus points. this is the list. you can take it home and study it, but every topic here is where we scored points. generally it is three categories. one is smart location and linkage about where did you place the development, and some of the i guess foundational items related to location and transit in transportation connections. neighborhood pattern andy sign. second about urban design and building façades. green infrastructure and buildings is the more traditional or conventional green building topics like energy, water, infrastructure

efficiency answer materials in the third category. the points we scored highly in all three categories. often the project will do well on location right next to transit but don't have the money for green building. they score some pointses but not all. what was great about this project. great location, had excellent site plan for walkability and transit. it also followed through on a lot of amazing infrastructure. wastewater, things that a lot of projects will look at wastewater treatment and say, well, we will never get that point because i am not going to build a wastewater treatment plant because it doesn't make sense for my location. here it does. we are required to. we are benefiting from that aggressive program here. that is so far. what is next in terms of the

leed-nd status? we need to make sure we are delivered on the commitments we made in 2016. make sure we understand how they flow to the work plan for infrastructure, horizontal and vertical development. that is what we are getting into right now. second, and this is partially your charge is to continue exploring new strategies and implementation details. we might know that we want to achieve an energy efficiency target or renewable energy. exactly how, where, about technology to use there are open questions, and still things being discovered and explored. you have a nice moment of opportunity to get into those details. i am going to talk about some specific commitments so you know. i don't want to get into the

details because we have time to come back to this. we are getting credit for some of these things. some seem like black box claims that were sustainability, but you are like what did you do? we will come back at a later date. so you know i like to split it into a few credits or ways they play out on the site. several are inherent to the site plan. not to say you couldn't mess these up, but it would be very hard based on what we know is required and is happening on the island to miss the credits. the overall mix of uses and mix of housing types, a lot of that is locked in and just knowing what is built. you will meet the diversity of housing types credits. you can continue to improve on that. it is something to meet the requirement for affordable housing. you will meet that and get bonus points. you probably couldn't miss that

if you tried because you are not allowed to. the climate sea level rise topics are happening. we are benefiting from that. issues like flooding, requiring transit service. you can talk about what technology do you use? what is the frequency? the fact the service will be there is required. we get credit for all of those. this is a list of examples. location, previously developed. you get pointings for that. parks and open space. small block network which is walkable. diversity of affordability. transit. building reuse. naval officers are rehabbed. you will get points. habitat preservation and commitment to do local food production with the farm in the middle of the site. these things you are getting credits for.

it is not to minimize, it is to say some of the work has already been done. then we get into the horizontal and vertical. how are these implemented on the ground. horizontal energy efficient streetlights. infrastructure item that the development team is figures out how to install to prep for actual vertical development. it also including stormwater management, i mentioned flooding is crossing over. wastewater treatment is a good example. it needs to be in place at horizontal level to enable vertical development. we have commitments on recycled content and infrastructure. there is material created. reusing that in road base there

are limitations what the city allows us to do. as a principal that is a target. providing street trees and walkings, which it is sort of good urban design. to say they are everywhere and they meet a certain standard is important. you want to make sure we don't miss that. urban farms, speed limits. transit stops. these are all happening across the island, and not just building by building. i should mention outreach and education. i will come back to that. that is one you can weigh in on. then we have the vertical specks flowing down from leed-nd, water efficiency and things around pedestrian oriented frontages. what is great is that leed-nd recognizes sustainability is about a beautiful pleasant place to walk because you designed it

that way. cross-checking architects' elevations to make sure there aren't huge 100-foot blank walls to walk next to that are not conducive to walking. then other things so water, energy, solar reflective roofing, there is some parking reduction commitments that we are going to meet, recycling, composting. all of these can be baked into the new building specs. some blend. renewable energy could happen on top of buildings, which is going to happen on some buildings. then it could also happen as more of a shared site-wide piece of infrastructure whether it is wind, solar, geothermal, battery.

there are new used around this topic. things like waste diverse. they have to do it if it is building or infrastructure. transportation demand management. what i went through is sort of like the dirty details of what we are getting credit for, including commitments. there are several things valuable topics but we aren't dictating through the certification. these are the building level things that happen through building design. some of the classics that you would see in a leed like indoor air quality, we aren't making requirements on those topics. it will come to the building level. bicycle parking, green power and actual coordination how we pull these off. it is not dictated. we say this is the standard and it is up to us to deliver on it.

we are organizing, trying to coordinate with project teams. transportation consultant, landscape, wastewater treatment consultant often only have three or four pieces of overall certification to worry about. we are trying to annotate which they are and describe how they apply to the site so there is a crosswalk between our big umbrella and what they are doing on the ground. that is a back and forth coordination reviewing site plans and we are be beginning that process as the work gets done for the first time. that was my first and the majority of presentation. that is quick and dirty. you can ask any questions afterwards, but i think as we pivot from what we committed to and what we want to do in the future, there are topics that there is a lot of flexibility or

opportunity, and some of these might be related to like earning leednd credits. they might be the right thing to do for the project. i mentioned renewable energy. onone thing that come up is maye there is the opportunity to have exciting interesting demonstration projects. there is land out there, there is the need for renewable energy, solar, wind, total. i worked in hawaii deep sea water cooling, battery storage. silicone valley battery companies are doing interesting things with energy storage. maybe they do the coolest and latest and uv talked to the california academy of sciences with a demonstration how this works on treasure island. that could happen. details. integrating the wastewater reuse concept.

we will hear about the waste water treatment at the top corner. urban farm. retention farms and open space. i think how those programs are linking with the availability water, how it flows through the site is stuff that other folks are much more well versed in the details, but just to raise it as a topic, i think, of consideration. this is one maybe you wouldn't score points on this. it is cool to tell your story. highly visible reuse. you are generating a lot of material, rubble, stumps you are unearthing, boulders, steel, pilings from the bay bridge, old navy equipment. the chip and container restaurant out there. there is a cool story to tell where you don't just bury the stuff, you can make it visible

and put it out there. here is a cool rendering of an art installation. i think the landscape firm pulled this together. sustainability transportation. like i said, we have commitments on service levels. exactly how the transportation demand management works and who is doing it. all of the new topics online in the last 10 years. electric powered vehicles, buses, ferries, scooters, bike scare, congestion pricing, bike pad transit needs an integrated transportation plan. there are new opportunities there. coordinating the building level performance targets. sometimes in a target this big, every building is done on its own pace with its own program. there might be topics for energy or water or materials where you want to look at how all of the buildings together are

performing. you can make statements like our buildings are meeting x level of efficiency across the board. sometimes it is communicating to the vertical developers. there are others where you leave it to the architect. there won't be possible to make them all uniform, but i think figuring out those and some checklists whether it is green point or leed buildings would be cool. sustainability education is a credit we are going to score. it could be something as simple as aligning with existing signage so there is signage around the island that highlights the sustainability performance. i think what i get excited about is finding potential partners. i am sorry i left your organization off here. there are a lot of them. the treasure island museum wants

to do something exciting and cool. they are a great partner. existing non-profits, save the bay, city art commission. some of this might happen individually or joint things. what if the exploratoryium was there and a lot of people will come out to the island and take the ferry to give themself guided tours, that type of stuff. the final piece is continuing the coordination to make sure we deliver on commitments and getting the final certification and continuing your work with new ideas and strategies, and to say also that we are taking notes and open to other ideas for how this can all come together. thank you for your time. i can answer questions and also listen to your comments.

>> a couple questions. thank you. this is really cool. three things unrelated. in terms of neighborhood planning. i am familiar with platinum leed. in terms of neighborhood that is new. walkability. what is the plan to having benches? senior citizens, one of the fastest growing segments. i don't know how many citizens will be on ybi or tbi near medical services. having benches to go to. are there guidelines or is that an add on? >> just going through my rating system in my head, it does show up in things like required benches for transit stops and those facilities in terms of regular benches on the public soacspace. i agree the idea of street

furnishing and benches is in the walkable streets credit. i don't think there is an actual requirement. >> i am not an expert in this area. >> i don't think there is a requirement but i endorse your concept. >> transportation. is that under your purview the vehicles? >> no specific topic is under my individual purview in terms of deciding what is going to happen. i am trying to link it. i think the concept is sustainable transportation. bike, scooter, tdm, transit. autoautonomous vehicles look wih other solutions and allow it as

independent not integrated with other transportation planning would be a problem. it needs to be integrated with the bucket of sustainability in transportation as the topic. >> the third thing and final thing. you had some of the reused falling len-- fallen wood. your view on the neighborhood is key. we want it a public attraction. a music festival and things will continue, but one thing we found in golden gate park. people come because we have a sustainability mission at cal academy. there is a bench cut out of redwood they want to post on instagram. we cut down a tree, and they carved it into a bench. that is one of the oddesting

public attraction. whatever draws people. instagram moments are increasing attraction to people to be drawn. i am glad you focus on the soft experiences within that realm. thank you. >> thank you very much forgiving us that overview. we need to be reminded that this project has actually received and is the larged le ed platinum certification in the world. is that right? we should be extremely proud of that fact that we have received this designation, which it is so hard to get. the plan was developed overall most a decade ago. it was very forward thinking at

that time. it was 2011. so much has changed since then and certainly the issues that we are facing in terms of sea level rise, climate change are even more urgent today. i am glad we have formed this committee for treasure island we are doing so many cutting edge things or we could be a demonstration project for cutting edge things. continuing to have that i am ths important. thank you for chairing the committee. the other thing the committee is important for is really propelling the education part of it. the sustainability education that we can in fact be a way of channeling community education,

getting alignments and collaborations with other institutions and providing information but maybe even public symposiums, community gatherings on these topics. even symposiums where we gather leading scientists working on these issues. i hope this committee will be that forum where we can do that thinking and planning. i want to say i am so happy we created this committee. as far as issues, and maybe we will discuss this later, certainly what is the latest in the thinking on sea level rise and climate adaptation and we ought to refer back to treasure island. when we were planning in 2011 sea level rise was sort of

thought of. people said maybe 24 inches, 36-inch chess, but now people are expecting much more by the end of the century. i would like to go back and revisit what we are doing at treasure island. we have actually been noted as one of the plans that the bay conservation development commission has used as an example how other cities should respond to creating reserve to deal with future climate change and sea level rise. i think that would be a good thing to bring back, especially new commission members may not know about it. infrastructure is something we are looking at constantly. stormwater and wastewater

systems put into treasure island. i am hoping we are going to be cutting edge on those. urban farms and composting. that is really, you know, that was part of our plan. we would like to look at the possibility of urban farms of native plants of the ideas. if they were allowed to pursue at pressure island, i don't know. it is something to explore. renewable energy. as you said perhaps some demonstration projects we can have on treasure island. finally the landscaping if it is sustainable or not is important in creating the ecosystem for this island which we are going to have almost 300-acres which will be open space and parks. all of these topics are very important today in today's

climate of concern and crisis so i am very glad we have this committee. this overview was really excellent. thank you very much. >> any comments? okay. thank you very much. >> thank you all. >> item 4. recycled water and wastewater treatment plan. >> mr. billing birmingham welcome. >> good morning directors. thank you for having me today. i am tom birmingham, project manager with the san francisco public utilities commission for the wastewater treatment plan we

want to call it water resource recovery facility. i am probably going to call it wastewater treatment plant at least 10 times today. we are trying to go forward to recognize opportunities to reuse what we are capturing in the plants, recycled water or biosolids. there are a lot of opportunities here. it is no longer taking wastewater from homes, dumping into a water body. we want to do positive things with the water as it comes in. i will give an update where we are today on the project. i will talk about the items we are doing with the rest of the development, walk through some architectural images of the direction we are going with the project and update where we are on the schedule.

if treatment plant will below indicated south of the existing plant. thathat is the odd-shaped gray blocks and the proposed plant is to is south. the reality is the planning documents are planning documen documents. >> can you point that out? >> yes, i can. >> you may have to know point to the screen. the laser pointer doesn't show up on the tv screen. >> the existing plant is up here. this is proposed. >> right next to it? >> yes. the old barracks were there and storage facility were there previously. those are demolished.

i have a presentation of what is there now. that is the site for the future plant. it is a 10-acre site used for planning purposes. it is a rectangle 10-acres going forward. this is a little better image to show the existing plant and in the red is our proposed water resource recovery facility. directly to the east of the blue box is the proposed wetland site. we have gone to the state lands commission in august and the gray infrastructure is the red box that you see was pulled out of the trust. it was not a trust compatible use. the wetlands is trust compatible use. it remain in the trust. we were a bit constrained on his site like any site in the urban environment. we have fire training to the

south, existing plant north and tenants surrounding the rest of the site. this was the sand box to plan. we have worked with this site to move forward with the project. i will give a little background on the recycled water. in 1991, the city passed recycled water ordinance which in every new building that went up dual plumb inside. the purpling areas on the figure that includes treasure island around the edges of th the city. presidio and golden gate park. treasure island is included. in 2015, the city passed the

nonpottable water ordinance which stipulated all buildings over 250,000 square feet were responsible for meeting their own nonpottable demands. they had to capture gray, blackwater and treat it and provide the water for uses inside the building or irrigation. treasure islands was not included in this because it was approved prior to 2015 however it is looked at as a district with the single central treatment plant to produce recycled water for treasure island. this shows the blue circles. treasure island will be the first neighborhood to use

municipally recycled water for indoor and outdoor demand. we have a great opportunity to really showcase that. >> this shows the network of piping that will provide the water for residents, commercial uses and ball fields, urban ag and other items. the new water resource facility we are looking at 1.3mpg on average. peak flows about 4 mpg wastewater. we are anticipating 1:0 anticipk uses. every drop of water will be treated to title 22 no contact

restriction recycled water. if we are able to find additional water uses for recycled water on the island we will have that water for use. this shows we are part of the overall sustainable plan for the island. we are capturing waste, sending it back out as recycled water. we are going to use urban ag, dual plumbing in buildings, some of the green infrastructure on the island during the summer when it is not watered we will use it there. there are still more opportunities we will come up with. this is a rather detailed image

of the proposed -- recommended treatment. it is now at conceptual engineering 10%. what we try to do is identify a plan that will work, knowing as we go forward we will optimize that plan internally or externally depending on the project procurement. i want to show this because it shows right now because the plant is going to be serving small flees we are still hauling biosolids or sludge to the oceanside facility for treatment of the biosolids. while you may not think that is the most sustainable thing, it is nice ba because oceanside wil be treating to class a level which opens it to what they are used for farming in the central

valley, alternative cover on landfills, package it and sell to residents. there are a lot of opportunities. in addition to biosolids you capture the gas. the dythe boilers and things lie that. we now hall the sludge to ocean side. it is used by farmers in the central valley. they love it. we have great images that show when they use it and don't use it. it is great fertilizer. there is a lot of opportunities. in the future when the development is fully built out and there are more flows we do anticipate doing some kind of biosolid treatment on the island. we are reserving space for it. we don't want to build something now and mothball it for 15 years. it is not the best use of money. in the future we plan to do something on the island. it is not wise right now.

this shows our proposed footprint for the plant. two things to point out here. to the south or the right of image is the switchyard. the power is coming from oakland. it will reach the shore on the eastern shore to the south of here, come to the switchyard to distribute to the rest of the island. we anticipate the switchyard, which is a project not directly tied to the wastewater project but we ar we are co-locating top things together. we think that will be online by the end of next year or end of this year, sorry. it is already 2020. it will be online by the end of 2020. the power to increase the reliability of power for residents on the island. that is great important to the

residents out there. the wetlands are located to the east of the site. they are about 1 to 1.5-acres. they are not big but they are proposed to be nice. what they are going to be is hydraulic retention wetland. you are not going to get a lot of treatment. they are providing a hydraulic buffer for how we propose to get rid of did h of the effluent. many propose it to the river, ocean or bay. we propose tieing to the stormwater pipe that is from anyway. it discharges on the shore there. the water is so clean, there is no reason not to tie in and let it discharge on the shore. however, during the stormy

haven'ts when that pipe is full we need a place to leave the water. the wetlands if we see a large storm we close the valve to fill the wetlands with water. we will fill them to provide habitat and recreation for people to walk around. during the winter for a storm we plan so they provide a hydraulic buffer so we don't flood the island. as i mentioned before this is the site right now. i went out. this is probably a month or so ago. it was exciting to see things happening. they are installing drains. after that is done they will start compaction and surcharge work. we are designing our site for sea level rise in 2075 or so. we do that because that is about the life of the plant.

there is no reason to raise it for 2100 if the plant isn't going to be there any more. we are designing the site for 2075 sea level rise. 39 inches and 6 inches on top of that brings us to 45 inches. we are also capturing all stormwater on our site. every drop of stormwater falls on our site will go to a stormwater basin. that is the blue blob on the left side of your image to the north of the plant. there might be some treatment there, but what will happen is it will get sent to the head works. we don't want any contaminated rainwater to get off the site to the stormwater system. trastreasure island is separate stormwater and wastewater.

we want to keep the two from contaminating. we are coordinating with the developer on many, many touch points. i don't want to go through them all. there are a lot o. we are working on the switchyard to the south and sharing that it is not two projects. we want the public-facing part to be seamless. the fence and perimeter wall will look the same from the outside. that is very important to us and the arts commission as well. we are coordinating on the wetland construction and moving dirt around for that. the coordinating on the temporary infrastructure. as development starts we need to get to waste water to the new plant. we are coordinating on the pipelines around the plant. there are a lot of touch points

i can go into at a different time. there is a lot going on with the developer. the plant being in the wilds part of the island is an opportunity for us to treat as an educational experience for the residents of the island and the city. we want these wetlands to be a place to walk next to and learn about the effluent and how it moves through there. the statement with stormwater. we are in the outdoorsy park. we want to blend that. we are working with the public utilities commission, security team to make sure this is a secure facility. that is one of our most important parts. the walls will be about 10 feet

tall, nonscalable to make sure it is safe for the people working inside and so the equipment doesn't get stolen. these are the facilities to be part of the plant. we are early in the project, however, from previous projects working with the arts commission i learned they like for us to embrace the nature of what we are doing. don't try to put a piece of equipment in a giant brick building. embrace what is inside there. we are going to try to have as many things outside as we can so you can get the mechanical equipment feel for what is going on out there. that is why we need to make sure there are no odor issues. things with odors will be inside or have proper odor control. this provides a couple of viewpoints. the bay is on the right side of the image and east side avenue is on the left. if you are on the sidewalks or bay trial, what you might see looking in.

you will see the top of equipment and you will see the top of some acknowledges and from talk ? buildings. last week they want to make sure what is at the top of the buildings does match the feel for the rest of the island. we will be working with the engineering consulting team and architecture team. c mg is the architect and they have done the planning. it is great to have th the team. one idea for the perimeter fence because it is so long. it is above 22 to 2500 feet. it is a long fence. it is a long wall it would be miserable experience so they have come up with this waved fence along. you will have moments of a solid wall, moments to see through. you will have color.

it kind of breaks it up as you go along. there is a different look here. there is a landscape buffer between the sidewalk and the plant with some shrubs. we will have a few trees. generally speaking trees and wastewater treatment plants don't get along. you don't want leaves anabranches and needles into equipment and you don't want people climbing trees and hopping the fence. we want them to be the right trees for the application. another view. that solid wall provides an opportunity for public art. we are going to be working with the art commission on where our public art money gets spent. this is one opportunity that will be kind of neat. this is a view from the bay trail looking towards the trim

plant. those are the proposed wetlands right there. it is pretty neat the way we envision it is near chrisy field. it will be a low fence to keep dogs from going in the wetlands. if somebody wants to go into a cold wetland, then they will find away, but i don't know why you would. the low fence is to keep the dogs from running in there. the same fence going around that perimeter and scattered trees and berming. we want it to stand out so people recognize what is there. we don't want it to be an eyesore either. one more view. right now the cer was brought in last week. that is done. we are out there doing a condition assessment of the existing infrastructure getting

a better handle on how to move forward and keep it up and running as we go forward. we are looking at different project procurement methods. we went to our commission last year with a design-build operate procurement. we still have to go to the board of supervisors and we are working on those details. if we are able to go forward we would like to have the r.f.p. out this summer. if we need to change directions and go a different direction, the r.f.p. would come out a little later for the procurement. we think the important date is 11/1, that would be the start of construction and the 3/1, 24 would be the construction date. we believe that will hold true. with that i am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> commissioners.

>> thank you. most times wastewater is not a sexy subject, but i think it is very fascinating. i am so interested in how you are designing the wastewater treatment facility. i would just start with my first comment when you talked about art and incorporating a small part of the walls and having art there. i would really encourage robust engagement on using those walls and finding opportunity for artwork. we do have a committee at treasure island, not just arts commission. it is a joint treasure island arts commission committee looking at possible locations to

make treasure island a place to come to because there are surprises with artwork. when you have walls like that, if we can incorporate artists' works on those walls, you know, infrastructure, wastewater systems usually is like separated and hidden from view, but since you have those walls if you can make them into something which is delightful, which is is surprising which is something that people would want to see. [please stand by]

in general, though, it will go into the storm drain and out into the bay.

>> okay. i see. and then my final question is about the wilds, what is being labeled as the wilds, has there been some thinking as to what that will be? >> i don't know the answer to that. beyond the walls of the truman plant, i'm not quite sure what's planned for the wilds. i've been talking to c.m.g. they talked about having some urban camping out there. i believe there's a pier out there, there's going to be a little beach out there, windsurfing. everything i know has just been from listening to them. but we're not directly tied to anything outside of our walls. >> okay. great. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> any other questions? thank you very much. it was very thorough. >> sure. thank you. >> clerk: item number 5, discussion of touch agenda items

by detectors. >> well, i think that we've covered a lot of future discussion topics. >> yeah. i was taking notes on a number of topics that came up during the course of both presentations, as potential follow-on presentations. but if you have any further, i'd be happy to type up my sustainability education, recycled materials, sea level rise, urban farm, renewable energy landscaping. but if you have others, i'd be happy to follow up. >> i think we will determine them as they come up. but there's no lack of issues that we can talk about. and i think this forum itself is going to be a good education, both for the commissioners, as well as for the public. >> okay. >> well, one thing based on what you were saying, in terms of public art, there was someone -- a san francisco-based street

artist that did something for the p.u.c. in hunters point and bayview. the massive wall where they did sort of a san francisco environment-themed, with a giant turtle with the city of san francisco on its back. i don't know if you remember that mural? i'm not an artist. but that's something to consider as some sort of tie-in to the neighborhoods that reflects it. it was really well received and it actually held up very nicely. and it's been five years now since that came up. but speaking to the joint agency effort, you know, public art is great. to have something that might be kinetic over time. so it's refreshed over time. so as my colleague was saying, drawing people to the island to come see a new installation doesn't have to be a new sculpture, a new something, could be street art that reflects the city itself. just one note as we look -- as you work with the arts commission. >> yes.

absolutely. >> i'll look at the name of the artist. i think it's mowberg is his last name. >>that's all i have. >> clerk: meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> thank you all. ♪ good afternoon. and welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. for today, monday, february, 3, 2020. i am the chair of the committee,

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