public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. for members of the public who wish to make public comment the phone number to use is (415)655-0001. the access code is 146 099 1107. then press pound and pound again. when your item of interest is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. you may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. item number 1, call to order. director tsen. director tsen, you're muted. >> here. >> clerk: director dunlop. >> here. >> clerk: director richardson. >> here.

>> clerk: director kwon. >> here. >> clerk: director shifrin. >> here. >> clerk: supervisor haney. we do have a quorum. >> good. thank you. thank you, directors, for joining us. i know sometimes it's technical difficulties with this technology. but i hope that we'll be able to get through the agenda quickly and efficiently. thank you all for being here. the last board meeting was in october. and what a difference a month makes. now that we're in november. we have a new president-elect. so it is, i hope -- okay. so let's go forward with the first item. >> clerk: item number 2, general public comment. this item is to allow members of the public to address the treasure island development authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the authority

board and that do not appear on today's agenda. in addition, to general public comment, public comment will be held during each item on the agenda. members of the public may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. members of the public who wish to address the board on matters that do not appear on today's agenda, please dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. >> are there any members of the public? >> clerk: there are no members of the public in the queue. >> let's go on to the next item, please. >> clerk: item number 3, report by treasure island director. >> director tsen: good, bob. >> sorry. unmuteing myself. likdirector tsen, members of the board, i'd like to offer sherry williams with one treasure island, the opportunity to say a few words about their food

pantry and other operations. >> yes. good afternoon, commissioners. i wanted to say that, you know, since covid cases are surging, we're not planning any special holiday events. we're doing some small things around the weekly food pantry. we had a small, very safe halloween event that residents really appreciated. we had over 60 kids come out with costumes and their families. and that was very nice. with things surging, we are not going to be moving in that direction. yesterday at the weekly food pantry, a very hefty food distribution with lots of extra food that was handed out at the pantry. and our housing partnership on the island and catholic

charities will be handing out additional food boxes to their residents for the thanksgiving holiday, as is the ymca going to be handing out some food boxes for their 36 families that in their learning hub. and we also understand that there might be additional needs on the island. we're looking to set up a system to help meet those needs without duplicating any services. we are planning to do a few small cheerful activities at next week's thanksgiving pantry, next tuesday. we'll be doing a pie raffle and handing out candy cornucopias and doing the thankful cards that residents can take to their home and write what they're thankful for, put on the doorknobs and create a sense of -- a sense of community connectiveness digger the thanksgiving holiday. and then for the winter holidays, we are going to

continue, of course, the weekly food pantry and are going to be handing out a ham or a turkey for those who signed up pe pantry. and we'll be doing some small festive activities at the pantry, kind of like next weekend for the thanksgiving food pantry. so that's where we're going to help us get through this time. it's challenging. just trying to keep things, you know, make sure that, you know, needs are being addressed. and also keeping, you know, spirits up as we move through the pandemic. thank you very much. >> director tsen: thank you. thank you, sherry, and all that one treasure island does in building community on treasure island. thank you. >> thank you. >> in addition to the regular food pantry on tuesday afternoons, the department of public health has been doing

free flu shots at -- during the food pantry hours, beginning in late october and they'll be continuing that -- or wrapping that up next tuesday at the november 24th food pantry. also next tuesday, in addition to the flu shots, d.p.h. will be offering it free covid-19 testing during the same hours of the food pantry from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. testing, the flu shots and the food pantry operations will all take place in ship shape parking lot with appropriate separation between activities. and sherry didn't mention it, but just -- sherry had one more thing to say. i think i'll let her speak again. >> yeah. thank you. i just wanted to also mention

that we had a really great day on the day of voting day. the ship shape is the site for polling. and so we were trying to manage to make sure that people could safely vote, safely get their food pantry and, you know, bags and distribution. and we had just wonderful outpouring of volunteers for the food pantry and great poll workers devoting place. so everything -- all of the space was used around the ship shape and the outside area to make it safe and to make it a good experience for people both to vote and to get their -- their weekly food pantry offerings. so i just wanted to put that out there, that it was a very positive voting there on treasure island. >> and, sherry, i think you also you wanted to say something

about the group -- the graduation that occurred this past month as well. it seems like a long time ago. >> yes. that happened this month, too? oh, okay. sorry. you know, as you know we pivoted and doing the construction training program online. and we had 14 more people graduate and so since covid started, we've had two cohorts. and i just heard yesterday that of the two cohorts, 28 people that graduated from the program, 80% of them are either working now or have been offered employment. so we feel pretty excited that we're able to even during these times, keep people getting jobs and keep employment moving forward. so thank you for raising that, bob. we're already organizing for our next one in february. thank you. and recruiting for it for folks out there looking for that kind of opportunity, especially for

treasure island residents. >> thank you, sherry. this past monday the board of supervisors rules committee voted to recommend the reappointment of mark dunlop to the tida board and julia to the tida board. the committee also recommended the appointment of residents hope williams and barkley sanders, as well as sailing advocate jim hancock to the tida citizens' advisory board. all of these appointments should be taken up by the full board of supervisors at their next meeting on december 2nd. i also wanted to recognize me sun boyce with mer sigh restaurants. she connected with a network of volunteers to assemble desks for treasure island residents having to home school during covid. and an event was held last

sunday with san francisco fire department to distribute the desks. i believe director tsen were in attendance. there were 12 desks distributed on sunday and others were provided to the ymca to provide to kids in the learning hub. also at the ymca, the word to remodel or set up a kitchen area has been completed. and i will share some images on my screen. so this is a floor plan of the ymca, the large space is the basketball court. the area that was remodeled is towards the rear of the facility. >> bob, excuse me.

bob, oh, there it is. okay. we didn't see it before. >> okay. it was up -- this is the main gymnasium that funds 9th street. this is the area that was remodeled towards the rear of the gymnasium. this is the wall with the mural that faces the ship shape. on the left this is the way the space was continued. there was some restrooms and showers in this area that were not utilized. those those walls and pictures were taken out, along with the small office here and a new entry to the space was established. and this shows the planned operational layout with refrigerators and prep tables to prepare. this space is intended to be used to distribute the san francisco unified milk programs.

it could also be used to support other food programs on the island. and this is the finished space. it's got a lot of great light. this is the area where the sinks are to be installed and the refrigerator is on the opposite side. and just a little bit of the work that was done, the current fiscal year budget by the way ymca. i'll stop sharing.

also during past months with the reopening citywide, the treasure island playgrounds and dog parks were also reopened with new signage, posting of additional restrictions and requirements for those facilities during the current -- the city's current covid-19 health order. tida staff, the department of environment staff and landscaping are also working with the literacy for environmental justice to set up several yerba buena gardens. there is one outside of the life learning academy, one along the sidewalk adjacent to merced and adjacent to the ymca. on construction, the hillcrest

i-80 interchange project, managed by the transportation authority, is fully mobilized, with the impacts of construction, there's no bike access from the bay bridge to treasure island, except on weekends. during the weekend the access # bicycle access is via mccollum road. on treasure island -- the focus continues to be on the installation of new utilities in northern california. the kickoff meeting was held on monday of this week for the contractor, who will be doing the utility isolation work in the stage 2 area, which extends east from building one. there's remediation program. there's field work under contract. their next contract, to continue

the excavation and the solid waste disposal area west side, will mobilize in early 2021. the navy had requested the villages to vacate two buildings to facilitate this next phase of work. and eight of the ten households in those buildings have been relocated to new units and two are scheduled to move before the end of the year. in the complaint that was filed against the navy, tida one treasure island, the developer and others, the environmental program, there was a hearing originally scheduled for november 5th, which was postponed initially to tomorrow, november 19th. but yesterday the judge issued a notice stating that the hearing would not be necessary for him

to rule on the motion. but it's not immediately clear when that ruling will be forthcoming. we're waiting on the court on that matter. and that concludes my report. >> director tsen: thank you. did any of the directors have any questions or comments that they would like to make on the director's report? >> yes. i would like to make two comments. do i have the floor? >> director tsen: yes, please. >> yes. thank you so much, director beck for that capture. i want to comment on two things that you stated in your presentation. one, congratulating sherry williams for one treasure island again. we're supplying the critical workforce, construction in san francisco. and i-80 is so impressive, out

of the -- 80% of the candidates already have, you know, been enlisted, you know, to start work. and i would just encourage that we know that there are shortages of construction workers and that 20%, the rest of them, you know, partnering with city agencies to kind of help to fill them. and that say to me again, we need to -- in 2021, mr. beck, i understand this very well. thank you. if you conduct more of the trainings, i think this is going to be one of the defining legacies of the commissioner's on treasure island. because this is part of equity. it's training people. and so i would like for these again when we issue our report to the city, that all of these kinds of great things that we are doing are prominently

identified, so that we can -- so that tida can get the credit for that, more importantly to let people know that as we develop, we are also taking care of people. the second one also, commissioner fei tsen and supervisor mr. haney were on the island on sunday. and again congratulations to fei tsen, who is -- [indiscernible] she is doing a fantastic job. i wish that commissioners could see those desks and to be giving to those kids. again we're going beyond the call of duty here. and people that work with us, with the resident of treasure island, so i just wanted to put out a statement. thank you. >> director tsen: thank you, linda. and, yes, that event on saturday was organized by sue boyce. i also like to give a shout-out to the two men who started this

project on their own time, you know, with their own resources. and it's mike and paul, who built those desks for kids and to the fire department for bringing their fire engines so that they could deliver to the kids as well. we certainly appreciate people who really -- it embodies the spirit of community. and we appreciate the efforts. thank you. any other comments? okay. hearing none, next item, please. i'm sorry. dom we have -- do we have any public comment on the director's report? >> clerk: members of the public, dial star 3 if you would like to make a comment. we have one caller. >> caller: good afternoon, everyone.

hope williams. it's great to be before all of you. i want to thank you for the report. i do have a concern that i wanted to raise to the board. i don't know how much influence the board would have. but as you know, we're beginning to roll back with covid-19. and in march, we didn't have a plan or action plan on how we would be able to support the neighborhood. so i just recently sent an email to bob beck, to the ymca, to one treasure island-- requesting sud financing to see how we can prepare the island, if there is another rollback. as, you know, the majority of the people on the island are essential workers. and i would hate for us to have another repeat of where we're struggling to feed the neighborhood. we're struggling to get the

resources. so i've asked the ymca to contribute $5,000 toward gift cards to be able to feed families on the island with $25 gift cards. if you don't know, we still have our sfusd meal program. and i recently secured donations for groceries that feed residents and families. the donations are received only covering about 50% -- 50 families weekly. and there's 300 students on the island and some families have eight people in the household. so i'm just considering this -- the tida board would put on their agenda item an action plan that we can sit down and plan out what our next steps are, because if there's a rollback, that could be devastating for treasure island residents.

i don't know if we could survive another shutdown without a solid plan. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. [bell dings] >> director tsen: yes. yes. >> caller: hello, this is barkley sanders. i have a quick comment, question. and i don't know if you can answer it in these public comments. but i'd like to update in rega regards to just the director's report. i was wondering if we're still on track on treasure island to have the switch gear installed in january? that's just my basic question and comment. >> director tsen: thank you. thank you for those call-in comments. i don't know, mr. beck, whether you'd like to quickly --

>> commissioner sanders' comment, we'll be have an update on the electrical system later on in the agenda. there's been some delays in the schedule right now. we're prompting it will be installed by the end of march. >> director tsen: thank you. we'll hear that later in the agenda then. >> yep. >> director tsen: okay. so then let's -- seeing no other callers? >> clerk: no more callers. >> director tsen: then we'll go to the next item, please. >> clerk: item number 4, communication from and received by tida. >> director tsen: okay. are there any director's questions or comments on communications received? okay. hearing none, we can go forward to the next item. >> clerk: item number 5, ongoing business by board of directors. >> director tsen: directors, are there any ongoing business that you would like to bring up?

okay. hearing none, let's go to the next item. >> clerk: item number 6, consent agenda. all matters listed hereunder constitute concept agenda, are considered to be routine by the authority board and will be acted upon by a single vote of of the authority board. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the authority board so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the consents agenda and considered as separate item. proving the minutes of the october 14th, 2020 meeting. b, resolution authorizing the treasure island directer to enter into a memorandum of agreement between the treasure island development authority and the san francisco county transportation authority for project management and oversight engineering, and environmental services to implement an infill infrastructure grant for the widening of hillcrest road on yerba buena island. 6c resolution approving fiscal

year 2021-2022 minimum monthly rate rental rate. >> so moved. >> the motion is to approve. >> director tsen: okay. is there a second? >> i'll second it. >> okay. it's been moved and seconded. we'll have the vote by roll call. [roll call] >> director tsen: okay. so the ayes have it. let's have the next item, please. there was no public comment in the queue. >> director tsen: thank you. >> clerk: item number 7, resolution approving the election of the officers of the treasure island development authority and the appointment of the officers to the

infrastructure and transportation committee and the sustainability committee, as nominated by the ad hoc nomination committee to serve a 12-month term of office, commencing january 1st, 2021 and ending december 31st, 2021. >> director tsen: okay. so there was a separate meeting, an ad hoc meeting that happened earlier today. do you have a list of -- >> yes, i do. i'm very glad to report for the purpose of listeners and watchers, that are just tuning in, we -- as the chair of the ad hoc committee, my committee we held our meeting about 30 minutes ago. and out of that committee, we elected the officers for the treasure island development authority. president is again going to be commissioner fei tsen and we appreciate her leadership and

ongoing leadership spearheading the treasure island and the yerba buena island development. vice president is commissioner ike kwon. treasurer is ruby shifrin. and secretary will be commissioner mark dunlop. for the treasure island infrastructure and transportation committee, chair will be commissioner linda fadeke richardson and for the sustainability committee, the chair will be commissioner ike kwon. and so i present to you our officers for the next year of treasure island development authority. thank you. congratulations to everyone. >> director tsen: thank you. this is an action item. so we will need to have a motion to approve the recommendation of the ad hoc nominations committee. do i have a motion to approve?

>> moved. >> director tsen: do i have a second? >> i'll second it. >> director tsen: okay. ike has seconded it. so we will have a vote by roll call. >> clerk: all right. director tsen. >> director tsen: aye. >> clerk: director dunlop. >> aye. >> clerk: director richardson. >> aye. >> clerk: director kwon. >> aye. >> clerk: director shifrin. >> yes. >> clerk: there are four ayes. >> director tsen: okay. so then the ayes have it. thank you very much. next item, please. >> clerk: item number 8, treasure island mobility management agency update on congestion management. recommendations. >> director tsen: this is an information item. it's not an action item. >> yeah.

ray hyatt from treasure island mobility management agency will present. >> good afternoon, directors. rachel hyatt. the treasure island mobility management agency. good to see some of you again. and meet some of you for the first time. i have information to share that was meant to be presented and actually was shared with the timma committee in -- for our meeting yesterday. however, that meeting ended up being canceled. and so the committee has been briefed on this material, but it hasn't actually been presented to them yet. that will happen now probably at a december meeting. so you should -- i believe i'm sharing my slides now.

so just to set up this presentation about the mobility management program, because at least for me this is the first time i've had the opportunity to speak with some of the board members about the mobility management program. our approach here is to really try to achieve these great opportunities that are before us, to have treasure island be a real transit-first community, as envisioned in the development agreement. a model of environmental sustainability, as envisioned in the development agreement. and also equitable and we don't think that those are contradictions. there are, of course, challenges and risks. and so we are -- [indiscernible]

you know, ways that that wouldn't be exacerbating bridge construction, if the development worsens in grey. considering-- congestion. people can't get by without a car or the program is not being financially viable for the long-term. there's really significant expectations for the program. in the development agreement about the program being financially self-sustainable. so to really try to achieve the opportunities, the development plan includes very significant amount of transit by buildout, that will be phased out as development phases in. but ultimately in addition to more muni service, provided by the city, it's timma's responsibility, through the program, to provide new regional transit service, which is something that other development

areas near san francisco, don't have as part of their development program. new water transit service that timma is committed to deliver, new east bay transit service. and there's also a very unique, you know, call for an equitable transportation system to support all of the below-market rate housing that will be on the island. and to keep those through means that -- that support all modes of travel, including transit passes and discounts for shared services like car and bike share. but also for driving. and that brings us to the topic today, is how we can support

affordable travel by driving. on the list, though, just to close out there, in doing all of this, we want to make sure that we don't compromise, you know, the objectives of sustainability and a transit-first neighborhood in san francisco. so we want to will be able to achieve that call for treasure island to be a place where there's multiple modes of transit that are good choices for people, as well as affordable choices. and that those things are affordable to all of the treasure island residents. well, for this board then on to today's specific topic with the overview in mind, this board, as well as the timma board has called for us to develop and

affordability program, togy go along with the congestion management component. so congestion management, call for the development agreement to place congestion charge on driving during daytime periods, congested periods. and to then use that revenue to fund the new regional transit. and it is a means to achieve both the congestion management objectives of the development and like responsibilities of the development, as well as the transit options and significant new transit services objectives. so we have been working on that on a number of fronts, though, to make sure that, you know, respond to the need for this charge on driving to be equitable. the first policy that this board

and the timma board have adopted is an exemption for current residents, who did not opt into the program. and that policy was approved in 2019. and we've since been -- about a year ago now. we've since been working on options for how that is implemented. and how people receive that benefit. we have also been working on support for nonresidential users that are currently on the island. and have an update to share about that today. something in the third piece that will need to be brought before both boards, but doesn't have recommendation yet is policies to support affordability for future households on the island, who aren't there yet, but will in the future. and are low-income. so in the below-market rate

housing or otherwise low income. the purpose of the work that, you know, we've been doing on the current residential exemption and the non-resident support is to get to a picture of how these programs would operate. you know, how would people be able to access the benefits, you know, making sure that the people who -- the benefit is intended to serve, are able to get it with, you know, minimal barriers. and that the administrative sort of procedural burden is minimized, both for the beneficiaries as well as for on the agency side. we are able to manage the process and the costs and have a

predictable program that can be well managed. i'll start with the current resident exemption to the toll. i was going to present two options for, you know, ways that people might be able to receive this benefit. but for both the options, the eligible beneficiaries would be the same group. so they are people who are -- have a lease that it dated on or before the policy was adopted. so that was november 2019. and we do know that there is folks who are being moved into their new units. so this benefit would carry with those lessees to the new unit. so we -- we will need tida's

help. there would be a partnership with tida here to verify the eligible leases. but just want to make it clear that we intend for the benefit to continue on with the household, even as they move into their new unit. the policy that the timma board adopted in 2019 calls for this to be evaluated and revisited in -- at the 4,000-unit milestone of development. so the first option for the benefit would be a tag-based option. in other words, a fast track-based option. with that approach, if someone already has a fast track transponder, timma can associate that toll tag i.d. and account with a treasure island benefit.

and make that fast track toll tag into one that has exempt or limited trips, you know, for with no toll on and off treasure island. if a household does not have a fast track, then we would provide one. and that that would allow for unlimited travel on and off, you know, treasure island without incurring a toll. some things to know about how this would work or how this would work, we would need a partnership with tida to verify the eligible households or lease holders. and when i say lease holder, it just means we need a point of contact. it doesn't mean only one lease holder can make use of the toll tag. any residents in the household could make use of it. but we just need a person associated with the lease to be

our point of contact that we correspond with. and if we're using a toll tag that the household already has, that we are able to obtain that account information. or if we're providing the household with a toll tag, that we have a point of contact there. and we will need to associate the fast track i.d. and account, you know, with the -- with that lease. so there would be a licensed and use agreement involved with that. and we would expect that, you know, the folks, the people in the household would share it among their households, drivers as a they need. the second place is license plate based. and so the toll system will also

have license plate capture capability. that's really for enforcement as well as add another option to be able to have an account, by associating your license plate, having having a fast track transponder. that could be an option here, too. and so for, you know, each car in the household, timma would provide that account -- excuse me, a license plate information to fast track and the fast track system could then exempt those transponders. one selling here. i have -- one second here. i have got my low battery. okay. so, yes. let's see.

where did i leave off? one thing that this option means is that it would be households that have cars, that would be receiving the benefit. and we want to, you know, i think the intent of the policy is for current residents, even those who don't own a consider to be able to access the benefit. so for those households or leases that don't have a car on the island, we could provide a toll tag. so people could use that if they're getting rides, for instance. so this would have another step in it as far as verifying eligibility. we need to have a verification that the vehicle is -- it belongs to the household on

treasure island. they're registered. and so folks would need to be able to provide that -- there would be another step that we could do for that. we could use the distribution process for folks who don't have a vehicle. we would -- you know, if looking at some criteria like you know, does the benefit prioritize the need where the need is and lower administrative costs. toll tag approach we think would be -- definitely less administrative stuff.

we want to hear feedback from residents on these options. so we've been, of course, one treasure island, chair williams is always very helpful in giving us recommendations about how we could best reach people to get their input and we're working with her and her staff on that. we'll be doing some surveys or mailings over the coming winter months to get input. the incremental cost of this program is really marginal on the up-front capital side. we need to put in, you know, the systems in place to do the verification and the enrollment. but -- and we would actually

recommend offering, you know, that we provide the fast tracks, the toll tags rather. communicating with folks. it's really the -- the cost management and making sure the benefit goes to who is intended to receive it is really about managing the inventory on an ongoing basis of the tags. if it's tags. and this is the option number one, you know, the cost is understanding when -- like if a household moves off the island, we would look to timma to help, you know, understand when current -- if current resident households move off the island, fingertips. the second option has another administrative step. so there would be, you know, another burden of eligibility there. and there may be more vehicles associated with this. we're not sure.

but we can learn that through outreach that we do to better understand specifically, you know, these days how many vehicles do island households have and, you know, make sure that we're accounting for that in understanding the cost to do action number two. the other place we have an update today is some options for providing support to nonresidential current uses. and so again we have a couple different options here. and the eligibility is the same for back and forth. it's proposed as the same for both. focused on affordable housing nothousingnots, although i thine mean specifically is the

one treasure island agreement, and it includes a daycare, so which is not housing nonprofit. so the shorthand would be the one treasure island member organizations. we also know that we have some more learning to do about all of the travel associated with the nonprofits. there are trainees, for instance, that may not be employees -- or aren't employees and others who may not be direct employees that do have travel. so there's some outreach lear learning that we know we need to do to clarify questions, you know, about the eligibility. the other eligible set of uses would be commercial uses that are food distribution and food service establishments. that have a public opinion facing -- public-facing function

in food service. the effectiveness of the program and the need for any changes to the program sooner for the commercial -- excuse me, the nonresidential program. evaluating it and modifying it, asking the questions, should this be modified sooner than sort of mid-point of development, just because it may change -- there may be changes in the nonresidential landscape sooner than the 4,000-unit milestone. so the two options, the first one would be a cash-based subsidy, a cash subsidy. and so this would be a payment

from timma, you know, to these eligible nonresidential uses on say a quarterly basis. the amount of the payment would be scaled based on employees' accounts. soole amount of payment would be based on the number of employees that the institution has, because our understanding is that the aid from the primary costs, that the businesses are confronting. and the priority, you know, need. so, for instance, the $600 per quarter is based on taking an assumed peak period toll to trips, five days a week, over a

quarter. and, you know, summing that up over the period of the quarter. the thinking is to allow flexibility for the business to use it as they need. so if there is a worker or workers that live on-island and don't have a commute cost, they already receive the current resident exemption, then there would be -- those funds would be directed towards other means for deliveries or, you know, other nonemployee travel. this would need to be a partnership with the businesses to make this happen.

we would distribute this cash, you know, to the business itself. the point of contact at the business rather than timma working with the employees. it's the business or the nonprofit or the business who would distribute to the employees. we would, you know, need to have a representation of the number of employees that there are. and so that we scale the payment and based off of tha option. the second is not a cash-based option, it's a toll tag-based option. and the intent here was to really prioritize, especially the low-income employees, by providing them with toll tags for commute trips, similar -- mirroring the the toll tag

option for delivering the current residents toll exemption. so in this case, the amount of exempt travel on treasure island would be a round-trip, you know, five times a week, peak periods, five times a week. and in this situation, there would be more administration, you know, involved in that. so the business would, you know, need to indicate to us -- to timma how many employees they have or if this is low-income workers, which we would recommend focusing this on low-income workers. the number of low-income workers that they have and then the business would need to, you know, manage the inventory of these, you know, to -- when they have employee turnover to, you know, recover the tag and then give it to the new employees that come on, redistribute and we'd have a partnership with the

businesses in this case as well. but i think the level of effort for them would be -- there would be more involvement. we need to learn a bit more to really have a better idea of the incremental cost of this second option, this toll tag option, relative to, you know, the first option. i mean, the cash options -- we have a sense of how many employees are associated through tida. a sense of the number of employees associated with these uses. we need to do outreach again with folks and understand their employee count, to refine the estimate of the amount of cash. and for option until two, also understand the share of employees who are low income.

we would, you know, -- just from an administrative perspective, we would recommend the cash option. it's just the administrative burden is less there. and but like for the resident options, we know we need to do our outreach. and talk to folks and get some feedback for us on the preferences about these options and feedback on, you know, how that partnership would work best. so our next steps really would focus on outreach at this point. this is an informational item. we started reach willing out to the nonresidential uses and we are internally working on coming up with a method, a mailing

method or other maybe combination of surveying methods to reach current residents. and so we're getting feedback on the resident option. and so i'll pause there and look forward to your feedback as well. thank you. >> director tsen: thank you, rachel. i have some overall comments, but i'd like to give the other directors a chance, first, to have any questions or comments that they would like to make. since i cannot see everybody on my panel, i don't know who is raising their hands. so, kate, you're going to have to call on them. if there are any. >> clerk: so linda. >> director tsen: go ahead, linda. >> thank you so much, rachel. i think the plans that you have outlined are well thought out

and kudos to all of the work that you and your committee have been doing. so the first comment for me is looking at the -- option one seems to be viable and this is the one that has the toll. the challenge for that option is normally for people that do not drive, fit into that -- [indiscernible] again it's a great option. the majority of the residents i can see will fit into that. you need to now come up with the grey area of the people that may not have their cars and may not even have occasion of people driving them back and forth. however, within a month, they have, you know, subsequent trips or whatever, we need to figure out that one, you know, out.

the other one is the one treasure island. yes, you know, one of the projects that, you know, tida board -- you know for us that's very prominent, has to do with the construction training. we are getting at-risk individuals. we are training them. they are getting jobs. in fact, one that is really doing more in the city and county of san francisco. so this is a program that is going to be ongoing. and we support and we fund. and everybody, you know, supports. and the city. we need to sit down there and how we can accommodate them. and that also opens the full discussion then about low income in general. that are going to be coming from outside, you know, mainland of san francisco into treasure island. we need to look at that and again i know that supervisor

haney -- [indiscernible] so that again we can accommodate and how are we able to look at them. this is more for the supervisors. all of these plans, whether they are tailored to our residents or businesses, we need to have a built-in, forward-looking scenario. what are the benchmarks? because all this programs here, they have a duration. and i think from the onset, people that are on the island, whether they're a resident or businesses, ought to be able to have a timeline when this program that we are doing now at some point. what are the years we are talking about? it's not open-ended. let's give everyone the opportunity to know off hand what the duration of this -- i think it would be great. just know that. you don't have to give that

answer today. but it's something that i would like for you to really look at. forward-looking scenarios are very, very important. they guide everybody. do we reach a certain milestone in our development, then what happens. and then so what. and again thank you again for all of your work. and this is great. we are moving forward from here. >> director tsen: thanks. thank you, linda. ruby, i see that your hand is up. did you want to make a comment? >> yes. thanks. i have a couple of questions. i'll try to keep it brief. one is outreach plan that you were talking about, rachel. what outreach has been done currently? and what is the plan going forward to solicit more feedback and direct involvement? >> thank you. so pre-covid -- this was

actually leading up to the board's adoption of the policy in 2019. we did, you know, focused on residents as well as businesses and it was out of that outreach that the current resident toll exemption emerged. so the board adopted the exemption for current residents last november. and since then we've been looking at options on how to deliver that benefit. so our next step is the outreach. and so since we're in a socially distanced time right now, we need to reach people, you know, in a socially distanced way, although i know we do have the option to go to the food pantry,

for instance. but some of the suggestions for the plan right now are to do a mailing to the current residents who would be eligible. and solicit sort of survey-style feedback, either through a mail bag itself or, you know, by going to, you know, some place to fill out a survey. we can also publicize this through food pantry distribution and work with the one treasure island housing providers to sort of follow up with folks and make sure that they've received, you know, the mailing or the other survey to fill that out and send it back. we also, you know, know that -- i'm talking with one treasure island that there do continue to be the community meetings. and we could, you know, have this as an agenda item, the

offer would be to include this on the agenda at the community meeting. and get the word out that way. >> just a quick question on that. what's the timeline for this? how long -- [indiscernible] before it goes to -- for actual, you know, action? >> that's not calendared yet. yeah. it would be, you know, sometime next year, after we've been able to do the outreach and i think -- you know, synthesize what we've heard. >> yeah. and you're thinking the businesses? >> so for businesses, you know, we also -- we could also do a mailing, you know, with businesses honestly as well. we have contact information for businesses who have participated in our previous outreach. so we had a -- some outreach

events again last year in the lead up to the current resident exemptions adoption. and so we -- we'll return to those folks who participated and have more one-on-one. honestly we were thinking more one-on-one type of discussions or small group discussions with the businesses, you know, versus a survey. but we could also do that, actually now that i come to think of it. but what we have been thinking of was just really direct conversations with the businesses. yeah. >> yeah. it would be great to have this as a future agenda item, because sounds like the engagement plan is still not really solid. i think getting clear on that is essential, right. like mailing i don't think will be sufficient. people won't mail that back, right. i think generally that tends to have a lower touch point, just in my experience of engagement. and community meetings, surveys, small focus groups, one-on-one,

those are more tried and true models. one, it's good data for you to collect, you know, making sure that we're being inclusive, also listening to folks. also designing a program, saying that you did a six-month engagement process. everyone is like i haven't heard of this. >> yeah. >> so it would be great to have a future item -- a real plan on how you're going to do engagement. how many numbers, what percent do you want to engage with. having some targets would be really great. and then, you know, the other question i had was the -- so you talked about the milestones around -- [indiscernible] 2500, which is great.

[indiscernible] we have a moment to look at this again. so i don't know if you know those off the top of your head? assume not. >> the information we have from the developer is -- it amounts to basically a 500 units every year on average. yeah. >> yeah. that's great. because i think that will really help inform kind of a little bit -- around whatever policy decisions are made. [indiscernible] and just the last comment is the ferry and bus service updates. we all know, you know, to have

-- [indiscernible] [audio is fading in and out for speaker] i didn't see anything about the ferry or bus services or the alternatives. understanding what are the existing alternatives. >> director tsen: yes. thank you, ruby. are there any other directors who wanted to make comments? okay. hearing none, let me just ask you, rachel. it's going to cost about $12 million, plus or minus, for this part of making the tolling

policy equitable. where is that funding coming from? is it coming from revenues from the toll that we actually collect? so this is a good topic to probably include in the next update that we come back to you with, the update on the program costs and funding strategy. we have for implementation costs a combination of grant funding, you know, federal grant funding, state grant funding that is committed. and we have local funding, contributions from tida and -- from tida for the up-front infrastructure. we do have a funding gap still

for program launch. the funding strategy is something that we've actually -- we were thinking about including that update in the agenda. it's through a combination of sources, including grant funding, some of the developer subsidy that -- from the development agreement identifies for the program. so that's the up-front capital. we have four committed revenue resources. we have the toll revenues themselves. we have parking revenues, when the parking management program goes into effect. and we have transit fares and transit pass purchases. and then, lastly, there's the

developer's operating subsidy commitment that's included in the development agreement. during the years of the program, to provide all of the transit service that's called for, would exceed the amount of revenues from those committed sources that we project. so we also are talking with our, you know, especially regional partners, the water emergency, transportation agencies to identify supplemental sources of funding to fill that gap. >> director tsen: yeah. so, rachel, i think this is a very important question, which in the next presentation really does need to be included.

and i hope that we can -- i don't think we can make promises if there's a gap we cannot fill. and i really think that, you know, the tolling is because it's an important way to -- by revenues for different alternatives of transit. and but it's also very important for us when we do the tolling to have an equitable system, to help those who can't afford tolls. it is a balancing act. we have to know where the funds are coming from, otherwise we're proposing a system, which we may not be able to fund. i think that in your next presentation these are issues that we need to look at. you know, the tolling is because

we're trying to find ways to reduce the number of passenger cars that lead to congestion, that lead to basically we're trying to effect the environment and use less fossil fuels, which does affect our climate in some ways. at the same time, we really have to help those who can't afford it and not have an additional burden. so it is a balancing act. and the ferry service or the autonomous vehicles or muni, a.c.t. buses, do those subsidies come from the same source? and by basically putting money into one, we're not able to provide the alternative transit, which, in fact, will lead to people not using more of the passenger cars. is it from the same part of funds, that's what i'm asking.

>> right. so there are a variety of different funding sources that, you know, today fund the regional transit. you know, ferry service and east bay bus service and muni service today are all funded by different sources. >> director tsen: yes. >> yeah. they're all funded by different sources. and we need to look at a variety of different sources and bring in a variety of different sources to be able to meet the need, because different sources have different eligibility. but there's funding available to support water transit specifically, for instance, that is not -- that isn't, for instance, eligible to be used on on program operations that aren't transit.

you know, so we are considering the eligibility, you know, restrictions and the evaluation criteria of these various sources when we're matching up the need and the potential source. >> director tsen: okay. well, if in your next presentation you can also look at what -- if it's a tradeoff between say having less ferry service and, therefore, then we give more in, you know, reductions. those types of choices have to be clear to us, so that we can make a decision. i know this is very complicated. you want to have a tolling system that is sustainable in terms of both the revenues that were supported, as well as

sustainable in being efficient and being able to administratively manage. so i know that there's a lot of -- a lot of thinking going into how we might do this. i also know that other cities are looking at what we do at treasure island, not only san francisco, but other cities are looking at what we do on treasure island. how do we instill a tolling policy, which will reduce the use of vehicles. but yet be equitable. and it is really a very difficult equation to make, but foremost, of course, we want to make sure the equitable systems, but also make sure that there's alternative transit, that we don't in the end run out of money so that we don't have the alternative transit, so that people can use other means other than their cars. so it's quite a balancing act.

i understand that. but are there -- yes. i see linda, very quickly, please. >> yes. i just wanted to interject very quickly. earlier when i was asking about the --ed forward-looking scenarios, that implies funding, a mechanism and the fact that this is going to be extremely very expensive. and the reason that we have the -- again to offset the congestion at the bay bridge, it only takes ten minutes from ferry in san francisco to get to treasure island. that would be something that -- should be a priority for, you know, considering in and out of treasure island. one thing that i want to the state here, rachel, the san francisco county transportation

authority is actually one of the best agencies in the city, with your outreach. covid-19 was not, you know, an issue and i know that you will be taking out of these messages. so the plan that they're asking for here is because of the covid-19 implications. that's what we're talking about here. and i know on wearing another hat, the other parts of the city that are dealing with toll and congestion, the transportation in the bayview and the soma. you're constantly there and from everything i get, your agency is out there, which is really great. you know how to do outreach. why don't you then -- on treasure island, maybe work with them to expand their database. the residents also have to be available as well. sometimes we send information to them. some show up and some don't. and some at the end have a series of meetings, we already

have those kind of experiences. so working with treasure island and the cab, maybe have an extensive outreach with mr. beck, to get emails from all of those people, so when they can and they're having their meetings and everything and zoom meetings, maybe some of those residents can join there. i'm just putting it out there. hopefully six months or whatever, the covid-19 will be gone and going to where we can on site and you can go back to the plan that you have before. again i'm just reiterating here how we can get this residents here. it's extremely very essential. but due to the limitations we have right now, also working with supervisor haney's office, you know, when he's out there in the, you know, in the island or doing any program, we know the residents come out. so those are just kind of my

suggestions. >> thank you. >> director tsen: thank you, linda. anybody else on the board who wants to comment or ask questions? okay. then is there any public comment on this item? >> clerk: yes. there's one caller in the queue. i'll open the line. >> caller: thank you. hope williams again. i want to just kind of add on to it. first, to extend my support and helping to facilitate these conversations with the residents. so that we can make sure that the information is relevant. and i'm also asking that we also consider the impact that covid will have in 2019, when this was presented, we were in a different financial situation. but now knowing that recovery may take time, our neighborhood and also our patterns. taking in account the neighborhood that exists right now, it's not enough just for people to get into san

francisco, but also how do we connect. there are households that have children who are in three different neighborhoods. so you're asking parents that if they drive, what financial affect would that have on us. are there residents that live on treasure island, that actually work in other cities, other than san francisco. so there is bit of a complex situation that i would love to be a part of the conversation. bob beck has my information. one treasure island also has my information to extend, so that i can help in facilitating these conversations. so that we can make sure that we're making the best choice for residents and really hearing their voice in this matter. because personally as a person that lives there, i'm looking at what's affordable. how are we accounting for affordability. what impact does that make on us. so i'm personally against it,

but i'm not a person that i wouldn't be willing to work with you to try to have those conversations. >> director tsen: okay. thank you. good. is there any other callers? [bell dings] are we waiting for another caller? >> clerk: yes. one moment. i'm attempting to unmute this caller. >> caller: hello, this is barkley sanders again. i wanted to join hope williams in supporting any outreach that

needs to be done on the island, as someone that lives here. so feel free to reach out to me. you guys have my information. and i will be more than happy to help with any outreach conversations, putting fliers up, really anything that needs to help get more feedback from the community and input, in regards to the toll situation. >> director tsen: okay. thank you, barkley. thank you, hope. and i understand that both of you will be joining the board. and i thank rachel. we'll certainly be working with the board as well. any other callers? >> clerk: there is no more public comment. >> director tsen: no more public comment, we'll go on to the next item, please. >> clerk: item number 9, treasure island electrical system update. >> director tsen: is that you, bob? will you be making the presentation?

>> sorry. yes, i will. i'll share the power point here. just a moment. can you see my screen now? >> director tsen: not yet. >> is it up now? >> yes.

>> thank you, members of the board. i want tofan provide an update n the progress on the electrical system in the island. recap of theh outages we have hd this year. the status of the improvements funded in fiscal year that we managed to fund through the fiscal year 020 budget. -- 2020 budget. the new switchyard location, some resident inquiries. this year we have had a total of 11 unplanned outages. the last occurred the day of our october 4th meeting, later that afternoon. of those outages one lasted

three to four hours. the causes roughly half were caused by damaged equipment. others were caused by bird strikes and tree limbs and one issue was unable to determine the cause. in terms of interim improvements. installation of the fault indicators that they have been doing. it allows the system to maintain service through most by bird strikes and tree limbs. it should limit the area impacted by more serious faults. the fault indicators identifying the location of the fault and restoration of power. the closures were installed last summer. they did require some

calibration to function properly without still causing the main switch here to trip resulting in an island outage. the fault indicator installations in oakland and on island were substantially completed this month. there is one location they still want to install that but they are having some difficulty. we show on the left the fault indicators and on the right that is the closure. on the image up right now you can see the electrical over headline that is being installed as well as here is the location

of the new switchyard improvements underway. again, the new switchyards is going to be adjacent to the planned wastewater treatment plan site and there is an aerial photograph of the switchyard location. you can see the pads that have been installed there for the equipment. again, this area has been through the geotechnical surcharge process. in the upper left you can see the grade of the new switchyard is four feet above the surrounding. thathat is indicative of the amt of fill brought in throughout this area of the island in the future. in the images on the right you see closer up images of pads installed and locations where the pads have yet to be poured but you can see the conduits

running up through those pads to feed the future switch gear. this is an image from behind the ship shape of the new electrical overhead going in. there are five separate boom trucks operating in this photo simultaneously to the overhead lines. in terms of the schedule, december 9th is when tic will complete their work on the pads and sub structures to allow sfpc to begin work within the switchyard. january 9th. the overhead line installation should be complete. i mentioned the current schedule is to complete the installation of switch gear by the end of march. that is delay from the original

schedule. it is a goal we should be able to meet. the data, final cut will be determined but we will provide residents a minimum of 72-hours' notice before any planned outages necessary to complete the cut over to the new switch gear. moving to issues brought up by residents that asked us to explore. over the past several months we looked at several different topics brought up. the idea of island wide battery storage wit with solar. individual battery store rage augmented by solar. then most recently portable battery storage with solar as

alternative to generators, portable generators. last spring we had a proposal afforded to us prepared by custom power solar and callaway technology in a package to the board. this was discussed in the past. the proposal was to provide centralized battery storage, 6-megawatt hours, and a solar generation capacity of 1.44 mega votes. the proposal as presented was presumed these costs could be offset by rebate programs, however, treasure island facilities aren't eligible for the rebate programs because of their former navy status.

they are not a pg and e or southern california edison service area to help fund those programs. at this time funding is not available to self-finance improvements of this scale, although tida will continue to study the potential for city-owned and controlled on island solar generation and battery storage as a liability measure in the future. on residential battery storage augmented by solar, we had a letter addressed to the tida board requesting the battery back up technology in treasure island housing, tessa power walls were mentioned. we have contacted an install leof tesla power wall in similar

situations for the estimates of the costs. we have been provided our $50,000 per residential building, which would be three power wall units and if we wanted to augment that with 12 kilowatts of portable capacity that would increase the cost of the building to 1 $11,000. we currently are 11 3:00 you ops 113 buildings. that would be 6.7 and $12.5 million. for all buildings we could expect volume discount but still would require a significant investment that we don't have funding for. last nolast month we were provid

information for a project that specializes in design and distribution of clean emergency power solutions. portable battery storage units augmented with solar panels. tida and sfpuc staff recently had a call with foot presen -- footprint to learn more. these are not to power buildings but could serve as the set up last november of 2019, could serve to centralize the facility where residents could charge phones, medical devices, etc. they were going to continue with footprint to do an on island demonstration of one of their trailers, something they were

interested in bringing up. sfpuc is interested as part of their city-wide responsibilities both to power pop up sleeping shelters and other emergency response to an area we definitely plan to continue to explore. just a few words on future additions. following the new switchyard which the new switchyard in moving to the distribution of power on the island through new switch gear is going to be substantial improvement in our system reliability. there are additional things that tida are planning after that work to continue to improve the system performance. the p.u.c. will relocate fuses

and closures within the existing distribution for optical performance with new distribution from the new switchyard on the ninth street overhead line. the p.u.c. will be inspecting fuses and transformers to identify potentially vulnerable item that we could replace. our priority in replacing suspect equipment will be to address those in the residential area first, not only for the benefit of residents but because that is some of the area to be last to be developed. that equipment will be in service the longest. that is the conclusion of my updates. i would be happy to take any questions you may have.

>> i will open it up to the board first if there are questions or comments. yes, linda. >> thank you, bob forgiving all of these scenarios. right now we are getting into winter. things are going to be now. we look at another four to six months ahead of it. what are the incidents that i know that p.u.c. has been going back and forth and making, you know, improvements. what are the incidents that you foresee from november basedded on the history that we have so

far? that is number one. i am glad you are going to have the footprint demonstration. it will be a great help. again, with everything now sol solar. [indiscernable] what are the charging mechanisms. three, sola so far we know you e outages three to four hours. those are tremendous adverse effects on the residents, especially medical. everybody is encouraged to stock their freezer because of the covid-19. then you have all of these reliabilities from p.u.c.'s

standpoint, is there anything? we are not going to have 60,000 for building. that is very expensive. what can be done? help someone if the milk is spoiled? those are just general questions. lastly, when do we think 2021 that all of this infrastructure and electrical system improvement you demonstrated we can say in june 202 we should be -- 2021 we should go back to 95% electrical availability or whatever? those are my general questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> the cause of outages we had

10 outages this past year where we were able to identify the cause of the outage. two of those were tree limbs, both of which occurred on the island and outage was limited to yerba buena island. we haven't had a lot of problems between tree limbs and the trees on treasure island, outages on treasure island. on treasure island, we did have three bird strikes, all of those happened in the late spring, which was between april and june. that is when the geese are coming through.

they migrate in both directions. that is when we had the out ages last year or this year due to bird strikes of the five outages that we had due to equipment failures, three of hose were relatedded to failed cross arms on poles. the sfpuc has done visual inspections of the poles on the island to attempt to identify cross arms that might be, you know, aged and in danger of becoming loose or getting a failure. most recent outage in october was a short in an underground line that fed one of the pump stations. the strong water pump stations

in the residential neighborhood. that is underground line was abandoned. that pump station is now fed with an overhead line to remove the potential from the underground line to have moisture intrusion and have a fault. that is kind of the nature of what has -- the outages we had this year and measures that can potentially be mitigated. we certainly can share information. i know there was information that was produced state-wide with the rolling blackouts on how to respond to blackouts and help preserve your food and so

forth. we can make sure to update that information and distribute to residents as well as we continue to move forward. again, as i mentioned in the presentation. you asked about schedule for the new switch gear to be online is then of march. we will continue to be doing work, working to improve the system. i don't have a specific date when the other items that i mentioned as priorities in my report will be complete. when that new switch gear is online, we anticipate that it will result in significant improvements. i think the p.u.c. has been continuing to do work with reclosures, which will also give

benefits. the october outage we had was limited to a residential neighborhood, which i know is not the consolation for residents, but the reclosures were able to prevent that outage in causing an island-wide outage. if you compare to the bird strikes that we had earlier in the late spring occurred south of the job cor corps campus. we are calibrating the reclosures. if we were to have that type of bird strike at the south end of the island in the future we expect that would not create an island wide out age and the

residential neighborhood would not be affected with the reclosures functioning properly. as we move forward we expect fewer outages, we expect the outages to be limited to a portion of the island, and with the support of fault indicators, we expect restoration, service restoration to be quicker as well. >> thank you. ruby, did you have a question? >> thank you for the update. i appreciate all of the details around the follow-up that came from residents. i think you can reiterate. [indiscernable] this item for a while. i just want to acknowledge this

is not probably. [indiscernable] ourselves included. it is unfortunate that we thought it would be january, then march. to make sure that we stick to march, if there is anything we could do to help you, please let us know. we want to focus on the long-term solutions. the impact of the outage is the core issue. the question i was going to ask

the lawsuit -- not lawsuit, the outage that happened last year that was potentially caused by a contractor. [indiscernable] there was funding that could be for the region someday. is there an update on that potentially? [indiscernable] maybe you could provide something for residents. >> thank you. unfortunately, in consultation with the attorney's office we will not be able to recover

damages related to the novembe november 2019 outage. we won't be able to make any recovery there. we will continue to try to improve the system. >> thank you. >> is there anybody else that would like to speak? bob, you know, on the switchyard come on line, would that solve these blackout problems or is there still the potential there will be blackout issues with the new switchyard. >> there will always be potential for power outages. the primary challenge we have

had has been the reliability and fault tolerance of the existing switch gear. something like a bird strike or a fallen tree limb should not typically result in a power outage. certainly not island-wide power outage. the bird strikes the powerlines then falls away from the powerlines. there is not a particularsed ia particularsed short circuit there. if we eliminate those types of outages that would reduce by half the number of outages we had last year, but the new equipment both in the switchyard and on the distribution system should reduce the number of equipment related outages as

well. when they do it should limit the area impacted. it shouldn't result in island-wide. most of these should not result in island wide outages but more localized outages on a smaller portion of the island. >> i guess the rest of the city is the same thing there is no certainty if pg&e would have issues. saying that, looking at temporary power sources, i think, is something that would be helpful. your suggestion of the footprint project with charging trailers, i think we should look into that as a temporary stopgap to allow residents to have some access to power if they actually need it.

>> their equipment shows a lot of promise. we are looking forward to the on-island demonstration of the equipment. >> have we designated certain community spots where there is also generators and power going through the community center? >> the one treasure island has a generator, portable generator they were able to hook extension cords to provide some power. they actually needed that during the 2019 november election. then we with the villages we bought an additional generator and power strips to set up a

temporary power charging location either at the ymca or within the residential neighborhood. we have contingency plans to do both. >> it hasn't been set up yet at the ymca? >> it is not -- we also have looked at what it would take to install a permanent generator to power the building. that is a different thing. what we have are equipment we can set up during an emergency or during an outage, but it is not permanently installed or set up. we have also looked at since the ymca is one of the buildings that is expected to be reused. we have been studying what it would take to install the

generator at that facility. >> if you would still continue to look at solutions for temporary power just as a stopgap during those times when it is truly needed. >> yes. >> are there any other questions on this item? if not, is there public comment? >> yes there are two callers in the queue. >> go ahead. >> hi, again. thank you, directors, for bringing up these points. i am not sure if you know, but distant learning will most likely continue into 2021. really looking at temporary solutions for power because our children during the last power outage they weren't able to get access online, and it had a

negative impact as we were trying to rollout devices to get children online. some devices were actually damaged and we weren't able to reimburse the families for the damage. definitely looking at temporary solution is a sense of urgency. it does affect when people go shopping or when they need to just get online and work for those who are doing it but definitely for our children. we have 300 children that are participating currently in distant learning. my other question is this. is there possibly a neighborhood hub backup system in that case that our kids or people who need backup have it in their neighborhood hub station there? this really looking at maybe they might consider donating to

treasure island and working with the community to try to invite us to the table. we have not been actively involved in these conversations to bring these solutions on a regular basis. we would love to try to brainstorm how to bring solutions to the island so that we can make sure that while we are still going through covid that we can be able to do it effectively. thank you. >> thank you, hope. next caller, please. >> this is martin again. appreciate the children i the -n tone. i appreciate you are exploring these solutions. i wanted to point out i do have another solution the power

initiative to allow tida and other people. [indiscernable] they could reinvest some of that into this community because the whole reason the grid is not upgraded is because every development. with the people power initiative also basically portable batteries to move between units can be purchased from this collaborative that shares batteries in addition to pg and e power shut off. treasure island can become a resource where batteries are purchased. it is the simplest solution and likely the cheapest solution, even cheaper than possibly the collaboration with footprint. i will share that information with the board members. i have been waiting for the opportunity because of all of the updates you have been provided. i do really appreciate the

change and the other solutions being looked at and not just switch grade upgrade and such. >> okay. thank you. any other callers? >> there are no other callers. >> hearing none. the next item, please. >> item 10. discussion of future agenda items by directors. >> any future items, directors to bring up at this point in time? >> just one quick thing. going back to the funds available around some of the

families. [indiscernable] you know, i am getting updates on funds available. is it from you on what existing funding is out there and how to access it? could you help get some of that funding? >> i think we could -- i believe we included in the prior board package. one treasure island prepared some fact sheets earlier during the pandemic about resources available and distributed those

to residents. we have also been distributing information from oewd and small business commission to our commercial tenants. we can take a look back at those resources to make sure we are maintaining them, you know, as additional opportunities become available. >> that would be great. >> there is probably money out there. one thing i could do is speak to private sources of funding that can be used. [indiscernable] a one stop shop. >> okay. thank you, ruby. i see no other hands up. that ends the discussion. i guess we can ad we can add ju.

>> i hope you have a happy thanksgiving and connect with your friends and family and keep safe. thank you. >> thank you everyone. >> thank you all.