depend the work project that i worked on and back in 98 and it's still waiting for private capital and and they have a great responsibility to expand the geography of affordable

housing and they come up and whether it's already been identified and currently under utilized and potentially become under utilized in an plan and they can't work together and to be creative and be flexible and take advantage of these precious public resources. it's not going to be easy but that's why they can all figure it out and opioid glad we're moving on. >> next speaker, please. >> i'm representing united educators of san francisco. i'm a retired social studies teacher and i've seen the struggle of educators in the city to find affordable housing

so they can stay and serve the students and so in short, united educators of san francisco support the idea of 100% affordable housing on public lands and our "commodities" most precious treasure, our public land, we've succeeded in the educator project francis which will be affordable 100% affordable housing mixed income from our highest earnings teachers and to our lower income para educators and we believe what is good for the educate tours of san francisco is good for the community as a whole and we think we should use public land inform further affordable housing. we will make the process more transparent.

>> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor. thank you supervisor preston and supervisor for holding this hearing today. my name is carlos and i'm calling with the mission and there's not a lot here that hasn't been said that i don't agree with and when i said otherwise so i'll use my time to raise just three concerns that i've had with what i've heard today during what has been said. first of all, with regards to the affordable housing numbers, i have seen the pier 30 mission rock numbers were not included but you might have seen they're 30% and 40% affordable housing only so just to make sure that we're not misrepresenting numbers it would be great to have those included as part of market rates housing it would be

great for the community and the knowledge of the supervisors to know the person or position in each department whether they're the sfmta planning department, or whatever other agencies that is making the explicit decision to go with a mixed income or affordable housing so everybody can be clear and transparent where the decisions are being made. it's just with the understanding that we've had a huge housing crisis here in san francisco and this development cry sunshine cd to displacement families and it's an impact of families within color so this displacement has been racist in its nature and given that i have strong equity concerns with the current process and projects and considering the great responsibility that we do have and the city and the community with these public lands i would like to recommend that each of

these fees ability assessments that have been made be produced to both that the board of supervisors and the public prior to any decision that is made so that way together as a city and a community, we're able to maintain both transparency and accountability for insuring that any development that's being proposed in a public land is number one, local community and it's beneficial to the city. thank you, very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors, thank you for holding this hearing. this is lisa with united to save the mission. san francisco vote verse made it abundantly clear and provided the directive via their votes that they expect to see 100% affordable housing and educator housing on publicly owned sites and they don want to see the land privatized for market rate housing and that they expect the

input given by community members and who were very clear that they expect the city seek federal to rehabilitate the bus yard and in order to provide 100% affordable and spectrum lower ami. residents of the mission are tired of the perform they pass in order to check the box. we're tired of gestures about the use of public lands and that do not reflect community feedback and do not provide transparency and in the decisions nor a chance to revise prior make revisions prior to releasing moving forward and newly going to work fundly training and systems and within our government, the first steps

should be to incorporate community feedback and the project and they effect the ability and color to being laid and where they are sent and effect the ability to retain

>> we would like to not only region tra fie our neighborhood but also gain equity as far as home ownership and it's far of affordable housing and my family in particular, we have not been able to use and because we are middle [please stand by]

income. and the testimony from folks in the community, especially that spanish-speaking person telling you that income levels are raised and they cannot afford to live in their own community once the project is built. thank you. please do something about this. bye. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm jennifer. i'm a renter in district 3. first i want to thank supervisors preston and yee for sponsoring this hearing and thank you to supervisor preston

for operation k-9. i'm so excited. i'm calling into this hearing. first i urge the mayor's office and supervisors to expand the amount of public land that is available for use as municipal housing. instead of discussing how to dispose of the lands, i ask the city to use the authorization of 10,000 units to expand the stock of housing through a municipal housing pilot program. second, i urge the supervisors to make this an opportunity to publicly acquire and rehabilitate housing units with all electric appliances. and third, i want to reiterate my support for things already included in the original that is set, housing will be built for a broad range of incomes, focussing on low-income households.

please follow supervisor preston's lead. i am looking forward to hearing more about the housing. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi, thank you, supervisors, for having this meeting today. i am an organizer advocate and we're desperately advocating for affordable housing as we are located in district 11 and want to make sure that balboa and the a.m.i. is readjusted and we want to make sure our families can stay in the city. and specifically the district 11 families. our black and brown communities are targeted and as you can see,

they're the ones suffering the most during this time. and this has not changed, about you am -- but amplified the situation. my grandma wants to make sure that i can stay there, right, but my mom and the person, i can't truly afford, right, unless it's affordable housing, so i want to urge the a.m.i. to be adjusted. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm with an alliance community organization in district 11. rich tradition of working class people with color. deep community leadership has made the balboa upper yard a

model that we want to celebrate for public land development. but we have significant concerns about these back door conversations and decisions that have increased ami thresholds for the project. community planning effort resulted in formal recommendations that the ami levels for that project ranged from 30 to 50% ami in order to reflect the incomes of working class families in the district. as referenced by m.o.c.d., the recommendations are intended to serve as a guiding post for the affordability there. so it came as a surprise to learn that the a.m.i. project and the only other city supported housing development in district 11, they've been pushed up to as high as 105% ami. this is a departure where 80% is the maximum when compared to the rest of the portfolio for similar projects.

it's also out of sync where the median household income is so much lower than 105% ami. the median income is $75,000. that's much less than the $94,000 limit to qualify for a single individual. so why is the city watering down the affordability for the only two affordable projects in district 11 and make these decisions without a community process. we urge the city to adjust the a.m.i. to more reflect the community priority and the neighborhood income in our working class district. thank you for this timely discussion. >> thank you for calling. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. this is bill with teachers local

665. thank you for giving me a couple of minutes today. my comments relate to the exclusion of working people to have access to affordable housing. our local has over a thousand members that work in the city, yet the majority of them, up to several hours a day commute because they can't afford to live in san francisco. the cost of living in san francisco is way too high for working people and middle-income families as well. affordable housing should not price out working people and their families and labor union members for that matter. with that said, we need affordable workforce housing at 105% of the ami so we can make sure we have affordable housing available for working people. thank you for the time and thank you for considering our position. >> thank you for calling. next speaker, please.

>> hi, my name is paul. i'm a constituent of distribute district 5. i want to thank the supervisors preston for sponsoring this hearing and supervisor peskin for proposition k and i. i'm a renter and aware of the long-term effects of having social housing. i want to make sure -- we are aware if we don't invest in affordable housing -- [indiscernible] -- initiatives that we're going to just be creating higher costs for these renters. we know that electric utilities are going to be much cheaper long-term. so by ensuring -- [indiscernible] -- part of this hearing and electric means that we're not

only creating affordable housing, but creating -- affordable housing showing that people can continue to live there long term. i hope that we can continue the discussion and i agree with many of the comments of people already. and i just want to end, i hope we can expand on the [indiscernible] and prop i and other -- low carbon. thank you so much. >> thank you for calling. we have 29 listeners and six in the queue. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is -- i'm a renter in district 8. i want to thank the board of supervisors for having the meeting today. even though i may not agree with dean preston on everything regarding housing, i do support him pushing the envelope on social housing. i'm a strong supporter of social

housing and i think it's important to look at cities such as vienna that have successfully developed a large stock of social housing and how they've been able to do that. one of the things they've done is made even the housing is owned by the government, of course, their eligibility requirements are broad. as a result, it caters to a wide range of incomes. [please stand by] [please stand by]

>> clerk: the phone number for public comment is 415-655-0001. the access code is 146 371 2976. then press pound and pound again. when your item of interest is called, star 3 to be added to the que to speak. wait until you have been unmuted and then you may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. item number one call to order.

(roll call) we do have a quorum. >> president tsen: thank you for joining us today. who would have thought we would still be in this situation at the end of the year. but we'll do the best we can with the technology we have. public comment is a separate line as kate has indicated. if there are issues with technology, we'll do the best we

can. first of all, i would like to say congratulations to our current director for his reappointment to the board and welcome to julie, she will officially be a member by the next board meeting is my hope and we'll have time to greet her then. let us go to the next item. >> clerk: item 2, general public comment to allow members of the public to address the treasure island authority development board on matters within the jurisdiction of the authority board and do not appear on today's agenda. in addition to general public comment, public comment will be held during each item of the

agenda. you can may address the board up to two minutes once per item. >> president tsen: do we have anybody who wants to address the board in general public comment? >> clerk: seeing none. >> president tsen: hearing none, next item, please. >> clerk: item 3 report by treasure island director. >> director beck: good afternoon chair tsen and members of the board. i would like to invite from 1 treasure island to provide an update on their operations. >> thank you. good afternoon commissioners. i'm the deputy director for 1 treasure island to share a report on what we have been doing to support island residents during covid and what we plan to do for 2021. let me start with the weekly

food pantry, continuing to operate the pantry, we have seen a fluctuation of households, between 130 to 160, higher closer to the holidays. we are continuing to operate them on a weekly basis and for thanksgiving, we arranged with the food bank to have extra food delivered to the island residents. we did a raffle and able to put treats in the bag to acknowledge to the island residents, we care about you and the holidays are here and to help celebrate. for the december/christmas holidays, we'll give out turkey and put treats in all of the bags for the children of the island. we're continuing to distribute monthly cleaning supplies. we have done bleach, masks and laundry wash and island residents are very thankful to get those supplemental supplies.

moving on, for covid testing, we have had covid testing on the island on two separate occasions and working with kaiser in hopes of bringing it more regularly to treasure island. we've had three separate dates of flu shots, partnering with dph. we will continue to work on the effort of bringing covid testing to the island regularly. we developed some -- when covid first started, we started resource sheets that focus on employment, unemployment, economic impact payment and then recently we've created one for christmas resources. along with those resource sheets, we have created a treasure island resource line which is sort of a hotline that residents can call if they have

basic needs around food or cleaning supplies or school supplies for their children. and we are in the process of using that hotline to also distribute some holiday resources. which brings me to the holidays. we're excited to partner with the ymca. thank you to commissioner ruby shifrin for sort of hipping us to this. through the san francisco foundation, the ymca has received a grant and reached out to 1 treasure island to partner with us using the resource line for residents to be able to call in and get a gift card. we have a goal to serve 200 residents, $25 -- 200 resident households, $25 per household

and we will be purchasing target gift cards. we picked target because it is a place where they can get food and clothing and ppe and cleaning supplies. we have reached out to hope williams to partner with her through her network of folks on the island and asked her to help us distribute the gift cards and looking at distributing the gift cards the next two monday's. the 16th and the 21st to island residents. we want to thank the commissioner and y for partnering with us. another great resource, one of the restaurant operators on the island who partnered with carpenters and have 20 desks built and we distributed the

desks and in the process of distributing the desks to the children that are in the educational hub at the ymca. they'll have desks sent home to work on homework and things like that. that's just a little bit about what we have been doing to date. looking ahead and planning for the future, we plan to continue to operate the resource line at least through the end of covid if not more beyond that and continue to update the resource sheets as appropriate if a new economic impact payment comes out, we'll update that to get residents information on how to apply for that. we're excited to be debuting a newsletter in january, all things treasure island, program, resource, events, island development and we intend to partner with the island community to help with the content of the newsletter.

we are beginning our tax site earlier this year, starting in january. we have been informed by the irs, all taxes will be virtual so we're starting early and beefing up our volunteer core to provide island residents with the free service. we did a survey to island residents on finances and what their financial status was and we got back that residents are interested in wealth building and savings and understanding how to get the most bang for their buck, particularly through covid. we'll be launching wealth building wednesday's, virtual workshops that anyone on the island can attend, they're free and we'll bring in partners like wells fargo to work with us to help educate island residents and help connect them to

financial products. lastly, our job brokering employment program is still working. we're planning for our next construction training program starting in february and so we're excited about that. and we are also beefing up our job broker system to work with folks on the island for seasonal or part-time work as some folks have been furloughed from their jobs. that's what we're doing. we're very excited to be able to partner with folks on the island to continue this good work. and lastly, i would like to thank the board for your support during the uncertain times and looking forward to moving past this real soon. thank you. >> president tsen: thank you. we appreciate your report and what 1 treasure island does. i'm excited to hear about the

line if people need help or information, the place they can go. then all that you do from the help with the food pantry, with the financial to job and employment training. we really appreciate your dedication. >> thank you. our pleasure. >> president tsen: next rob? >> director beck: we'll have an update from ymca about the activities at the y. >> hi everyone, again, always happy to be here and thank you for having me. i had a conflicting meeting for the last meeting. so for the community hub initiative we are still going strong. we have -- we are one week --

next week is the last week before winter break. we take a two week winter break, we're on the same schedule as sfusd. we still have 36 youth enrolled in a waiting list -- we had a waiting list of 13 but one has moved off the island and then we were able to enroll two because two other people have moved off the island or able to go back to school in a small capacity. unfortunately, because of the spikes in cases lately, they're not allowed to be in two programs at once. we were not able to continue to serve those students but we provide virtual supports if they need it. we recently partnered with americore and they provided two staff to be in the building to

support with the hub, which has been amazing and just the way the members have come in and helped to support and ready to get to work has been great. and because we have a waiting list, we're seeing they have a little bit more -- any additional members that can potentially join us to get the remainder of the kids off the list. unfortunately with the spikes in cases and just needing to be as safe as possible for everyone, it doesn't look like sfusd is going to open any time soon. there is a chance of january 25th but it depends on how the cases are. if they're growing or not. if they remain the same, they'll start with enrolling pk, children in special day classes and some kids not connected to

distance learning at all. and then if things continue to get better, a few weeks later they'll enroll k-2. while figuring that out, we hope if that's the case, it wouldn't be a full day program for the families at all, for the rest of the year, either way it goes, we're working to figure out if it's a half day, are they still going to come into the cohort and give a special program for them. but right now you can't be in more than one program at a time. last month for thanksgiving, of the 36 families in -- youth in the program, it works out to about 33 families and of those, we offered every family a thanksgiving dinner box, the turkey really big 20 pound turkey if you ask me. probably not that big but they

were really big. and we gave them fixings such as dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetables, yams. all types of things to get to as close as a traditional thanksgiving dinner as possible. we partner with 1 treasure island and love working with them and the money coming from san francisco foundation, we appreciate to receive. the residents and working that partnership with 1 treasure island as their scope of work is to support everyone 100% on the island and although the y normally has that but due to covid, we're focusing on the youth. we're limited to who we can serve.

definitely appreciate having that relationship with 1 treasure island. that's one resource we'll give away to the families and any participants in our program and their siblings will be able to get a nice winter coat. we had a partnership with gap and places like that, so we collected about 50 warm winter jackets and sweaters. priority will go to the youth in our program and their siblings and then i have made connections with a few families on the island not comfortable sending kids in person but do something virtual with us and we're going to connect to give them support as well. with the coats. we're also doing a holiday giveaway. every year we do the giving tree where members take a gift off the tree and buy a gift toward a kid in the program. this year it's just the board

members taking the gifts and reaching out to organizations to get each kid in the program two gifts up to $50 for both gifts and trying to figure out -- they're doing a food drive for the families in the program as well to give them -- at the ymca we're not allowed to purchase gift cards but the board members can get it, to support the siblings not in the program to have food over the two week break and gifts on christmas day if they happen to celebrate. unfortunately because of the spike in numbers, the gym side has to remain closed but we're hopeful to get some type of outdoor activity maybe in the new year coming if things calm down. and then other than that, in 2021 -- we are going to be in the hub for the rest of the school year. so that's our main focus. and just want to say thank you to the board for approving the

additional funding that came through. that really helped us support the middle schoolers until we were able to add them and now they're officially enrolled and we're hoping to get the remainder of the waiting list completed. we'll be here and continuing to partner on the island with one treasure island and whoever needs us. >> president tsen: thank you. and yes, you're an important partner, the y is an important partner with tida and we appreciate all that you do, particularly the hub, such an important thing especially for parents having such a difficult time during the pandemic with kids at home. glad to see it is up and running and you have done the outreach

and all the services that you do. thank you to the y for that. rob? >> director beck: thank you. we have also taken advantage of this period while the y was closed to remodel spaces at the ymca, the dph clinic and to build out a new kitchen space. we're also going to explore other programs after this pandemic. the board of supervisors last

week confirmed three new appointments to the tida citizens advisory board. two residents, hope williams who has been working with the schools meals program and barkley sanders who has commented at passport meetings and jim hancock, who has also commented at past board meetings on his hopes for developing a science museum on the island. those three members will join us in january. tida staff continues to change with having to reclose the

playgrounds sunday night but the dog park, and other open spaces on the island remain open. leasing staff is working with commercial tenants on lease renewals for 2021, typically we renew all leases december 1st of each year on a month to month basis going forward. they're working with commercial tenants on new leases for the coming year. we won't institute increases in rental rates this year as discussed with the leasing policy last month. working with plans for those lease holders that have fallen behind on rent during the current crisis. for construction, the three reservoirs on yerba buena island are now enclosed. the first of those reservoirs is

undergoing testing. and we'll be -- the developer will be working with the state and water department. on treasure island, the work for the new switch yard has progressed and the developer will be turning over the switch yard location to the puc this week to start setting the switch gear for the new switch yard with the goal discussed at last month's meeting of having the facility operational by the end of march. other construction -- notable construction on the island, the preparation of the east side of the causeway is now complete and the developer is going to start the process over reconstructing the causeway. the work on the west side --

eastbound on ramps to i-80 under the transportation authority is continuing. and bike access for the bay bridge is interrupted by that construction activity during the work week but it is open on the weekend via macalla to treasure island. work on the ferry facilities is progressing. ticd has ordered a contractcont removal in the stage 2 area and planning continues. with the navy remediation efforts, the navy has a contract

they're planning to move into the field early next year to work at the area on west side. and we've completed all but one relocation but they have requested to facilitate that work. the complaint filed against the navy, jon stewart company, the developer and other parties was scheduled to have a hearing on november 19th but the judge issued a notice saying he would rule on the motions without hearing oral arguments and we're still awaiting the ruling from the judge. we'll bring you updates when we have them. that concludes my report for this month. happy to take any questions you

may have. >> president tsen: any comments? go ahead linda. >> director richardson: thank you. i just wanted to thank the ymca and 1 treasure island for their presentations. and i want to ask the director the status of the equity report. i haven't had an opportunity to read a lot of the other agencies, they're putting them forward right now. i know if we really, really, really go the extra mile, that treasure island equity report should be substantial. i would like to volunteer again with this commission to really make sure the universe of what

the public is hearing from ymca or 1 treasure island, there's so many components to what we're doing on the island that it would be all of us have to be cognizant of the fact of documenting it because not everybody has the privilege to watch the deliberations and they won't know what we're doing out there and it's a great opportunity for us to really showcase what we're doing and so many things going on on this island. i'm very impressed with this. other comment as to november 24th, there was electrical maintenance. i want to add the director is that part of the ongoing infrastructure, electrical -- just to speak to specific item.

and also in the service request, categorically stated that anyone with generators should not bring them online because they will cause a hazard. i know that has implications with the overall plan because we have been talking about -- i would like for that at some point for us to look at that. when there's an outage, even if you have a generator, you may or may not be able to use it because of electrical hazard and implication. that's all i have. thank you. >> president tsen: thank you. are there any other directors who would like to comment on mr. beck's report? hearing none, is there any public comment? >> clerk: yes, we have one public comment.

>> president tsen: go ahead please. >> caller: commissioners, i pay careful attention to your deliberation, take notes, especially of a few rambling about things that do not deal with quality of life issues. i've said before that a mitigation and abatement of treasure island is something we have to take very seriously. more so with the current covid-19 pandemic going on.

i surveyed treasure island in 1999, whatever deliberations have to be done for the safety of those living on treasure island have to be done quickly. you know the richer people live on yerba buena, the poorer people live on treasure island and it's exposed to contamination and pollution. you all need to do your homework. most importantly, your heart has to be in the right place. this is not about money. it's not about making money. this is about the health and welfare of human beings. thank you very much. >> president tsen: okay. thank you for your comment. are there any others? >> clerk: no more comments from the public.

>> president tsen: hearing no more comments. next item, please. >> clerk: before moving on, director shifrin has joined us in the call in line. i want to confirm -- director shifrin can you hear us? >> director shifrin: i can. can you guys hear me? >> clerk: we can. >> director shifrin: thank you kate. >> clerk: communications from and received by tida. >> president tsen: are there any items or questions from the board on communications? >> clerk: no public comment. ongoing business by board of directors. >> president tsen: are there any items board members want to raise on ongoing items?

hearing none, we'll go forward to the next item. >> clerk: item number 6 consent agenda. all matters on the agenda are considered to be routine and acted upon by a single vote of the authority board. there will be no separate discussion unless a number so requests. approving the minutes of the november meeting. execution of fourth amendment to lease number 1041 and second to 1012 with abdo ali nasser, the sole proprietor.

execution of lease number 1341 with san francisco little league, where the field located at 8th street and avenue m formally occupied by the san francisco fire department. and treasure island director to execute a standard agreement with the california state lands commission for a maximum amount of $50,000. >> president tsen: okay. so then are there any items that any of the directors would like to remove from the consent agenda? >> director shifrin: wait, i don't want to remove it from the agenda. i want to point out, i think there was a typo in the state land contract. page 6 says the scope is not to exceed 80,000 but earlier it says 50. probably want to fix that up. >> president tsen: i see. bob, do you want to comment on

that item? >> director beck: i apologize for that. the correct amount should be 80,000 and we'll amend the resolution. >> president tsen: okay. so can we act on it with that amendment? >> director richardson: so the motion would be the correct amount. >> president tsen: anybody second the motion? >> second. >> president tsen: before we act, is there any public comment on the consent agenda? >> clerk: there is no public comment. >> president tsen: hearing none,

let's have a roll call for the vote. >> clerk: (roll call) >> president tsen: okay. next item. >> clerk: transitional housing advisory services update. >> director beck: karen edelman will provide an update. karen, you're on mute i think.

>> there we go. good afternoon members of the board. we appreciate the time to present to you some of the work we have been doing. bob reminded me we have newer members of the board and we should take some time to walk through some of the things we do and the role on the island. i hope you can see my screen well enough. >> president tsen: and karen, we can see your screen but not you. maybe you want to turn on your video. let me just figure that out

quickly. i don't know why it's not clicking on. >> president tsen: it's on the bottom of your screen. where it says -- >> there we go. all right. just wanted to give some information of what we're tasked to do and what we have been doing on the island since 2017. what we want to talk about today, the real purpose of why we have been engaged on the island, it's to communicate with the households on the island. you'll find while we have this

conversation often times the advisors use the word household and lease holders. there are two different counts and sometimes that can be confusing. but we want to talk about them both as households and individuals in part because of the way they are written. you'll see from the first slide that right now, we have 110 households for those households, 100% persons who have lived on the island and are qualified as pre-dda or legacy households and then we have post-dda households. we call those vested households. 153 of those households.

in those households we have more than 1,000 lease holders and we're trying to communicate with each one individually and make sure we're getting the information to everyone. so we're pretty excited about our ability to do that. i want to take a second and introduce you to our team. my job is the program manager. with me, two key members of my team. travis is one of our primary ti advisors. his role is to engage the community and answer questions and answer the ti advisory e-mail account and phones and make sure we are communicating in an effective way, helping guide people through home buyer education process and understanding payments and he's

helped with what we have been working on. and alex from my office, ti advisor as well and she really is our technology guru. she is the mastermind behind many of the things we'll talk about in a moment, how we have been engaging people in an effective way, the least intrusive way we can do it. we're hoping to keep people engaged and i'm really excited about my team. we have two local small businesses from san francisco that have really been instrumental in the way we have presented the program to tida staff and the island residents. what they do is they do outreach campaigns and help with our messaging and help us with our legal and 12 page letters and tell us to stop doing that. and they help us reach out to

people in ways that people understand. they help us understand campaigns that will engage people. and get them to come to us and talk to us about what their housing plans are. there are also interpreters and translators. everything we do, we do in at least english and spanish and some korean and any language anybody needs, we have it available. we're very excited about their assistance so far. helping us message so the words are understandable and engaging. i wanted to talk about our role as the ti advisors is what we're calling ourselves. our biggest -- there's two

phases to our role. one is that we are to ingest all of the program information. understanding how it has changed overtime, how our reality has changed overtime to how we take the thrr and communicate them to people and implement the program. excuse me. and part of that is speaking with staff and talking through when and if we need interpretations and implementing procedures. called iips in the title world. we have several now that basically provide additional guidance to allow us to serve the community better. so as things change and the board makes great decisions about how it presents benefits, these solidify that so that we're just about transparency

and consistency and equitable and how to do that across the board to the folks on the island. and we work with jon stewart company and we have produced significant data base related to the households. we want to understand who they are and what they need and what they have communicated with us already. when people communicate with us, i'll keep the information so we remember those are the people, that household wants to buy below market unit. how do we contact them or person who says i really want to take an early payment, how do we make sure we don't miss any of that. with over 1,000 individuals and a lot of conversations, we want to be diligent about responding

to people. and what they need and how to help them the best and tailor the message to them so that we are specifically trying to get information to people who are interested in buying affordable housing and maybe not so much both bother people who are not. that's one of the big challenges. and we take that information and help filter that and understand how best to implement the program. and we're working with the mayor's office for housing and development. the thrr has put forward information about distributing housing. one of the beautiful things that has happened, mohcd has done an amazing job on the lottery

system program that is very, very well done. so we're trying to figure out how to take the needs of our program to what they have available. so we're excited about that. that has taken a lot of effort and that's what we have been working on most recently, this month in particular. that kind of explains the background of behind the scenes. we're working with tida staff and consultants and legal council and mohcd and the goal is to present guidance to lease holders we have been communicating with for several years and that's our continued goal. we have kind of the behind the scenes work and and what we're doing to communicate the truth of the thrr to the community.

so here are some guidelines we have been working on. it's important to be transparent in the records we keep because that is fair to the households that have communicated to us. we don't want to ask people the same thing 12 times or inundate them with information they are not interested in. we want to have lease holder availability. there are clear guidelines about eligibility and it is important to work with jon stewart company and tida staff and track that clearly and continue communication and get the information we need to make sure we are clear about each person's eligibility and how we can help them. we have been managing the notice process. one of the big promises in the

thrr is the pre-marketing notices. we have launched two of those. it's been pretty exciting. a lot of community engagement campaigns. certainly it's changed a little bit since march of 2020 but change for the better. we'll talk about that a bit. we are with tida staff about policy, strategies and one of the new and exciting things, our launch of the my tida portal that helps people stay engaged. we are at a single point of contact about housing benefits. we are excited to serve that role on the island. here are things we want to talk about today in the interest of time, i won't spend too much time going through them in great detail but i want to point out some of the items. these are all things we have touched on, our reports to the

board each month. but we have program development and support, what we do behind the scenes. how we translate all of the information into understandable language through individual engagement. it's one thing to say this is the policy, it's a far different thing to say this is how the policy applies to you. let me help you understand that one-on-one. and then out reach and education, that's a big thing for us. we want people to be able to move into home ownership. so we do our outreach centered around that and we're really excited about moving forward with the online virtual education. we continue to offer early cash in payment program, which is something the board approved some time ago and it is something that several island households have taken advantage of. so we'll talk about that and

other engagement goals to support goals. so, again, our job is to determine real world applications of the thrrs and iips. that might seem like it is easy but you should join us for some of our conversations, we try to vet every policy into a real world case study to make sure that what we're saying is a clear and true message. with a thousand occupants we're communicating with, it's important that our message is tree true and on point and clear. language related to the lottery, affordable housing and conversation with the staff about how we might be able to

use for the transition into housing selection. and then continued development of programs. we may or may not need an iip to support that.

we have a lot of work to do on that. again, translating the policies into clear information for people and guided materials. we'll be doing a lot of that. coordinating the first of the lottery systems on ybi. the record management program development. how is it best to keep this information secure and present and also helpful. then how do we share the information with people. i wanted to show you some of the things we do. the photos you see here are the thrr, great documents. sometimes a little confusing.

our job is to take that and translate it. this is some of the work we have been doing since 2017 as the program evolves. early on we did basic ones that talked about program eligibility so people could start to understand what we were talking about. to have all this information

about what your household may be eligible to receive, it's better to drill it down and say let me help you understand what it means for you. they're really helpful for each household. each household receives these and we're pretty proud of the wording and communication that has created. a lot of community engagement, more before march, but we had open house events that were fantastic and gave us a chance to talk to people. when you are trying to guide people to purchase a home and especially if it's their first home, there's a lot of questions. we spent a lot of time on one-on-one and follow up calls and it helps to speak to the additional education materials we need and better outreach we need. we enjoyed the events and hope to have many more of those. we created brochures and

timelines and fact sheets in multiple languages and those are available online and on the portal. most recently since march, we have done the portal and this is a great tool. everybody on the island has been invited to participate in the portal. all they need is a smart phone. and with that, they can get any documents that we have ever sent to them. any common documents that we want to share with them and they can reach their ti advisor and find documents and claims on their phone. this is a huge list in the last couple of months and it was all about looking at our community and saying what do we need to

continue engagement. how do we not miss a beat in communicating with people. and allow them to communicate with us easily. we're really excited about this. 54% of the households have already engaged and we just finished the launch. we hope to continue the effort to engage folks and have them join us. some things we're going to work on next, continued portal engagement. understanding each person's preferences and their certificate numbers for the housing in the future. that's pretty critical. individual eligibility for affordable housing opportunities. not everybody understands their options there. we want to help walk them through it and understand if that's a possibility for them.

signing up for the value program so everyone is ready when housing is available and walk folks through that and continue pre-marketing notices. we're going to continue with the group and individual engagement. that is our huge goal and tailor our outreach to reach people in ways that are meaningful to them and make the best use of their time and we're excited about that, we're excited about the continued engagement we're going to be doing in the coming year. and this gives a little bit of overview in 2020, the portal launch and eligibility and gaging vested households. it has been interesting on that and we're going to continue that in the coming year and hopefully return to some community events in person, that is certainly our

hope. we're going to continue with the home buyer out reach, trying to understand what their goals are and help them formulate some goals and give updates. i don't even want to know about buying a home. and then using what we have to not inundate them with information they're not interested in. those are big goals. this is about creating documents to help understand the process and individually reaching out to them about the program and the education. we continue to work with folks for the repayment. we are communicating with legacy. we have 31 persons filed in claims so far. that really is related to their

personal choices and we are not out there soliciting people. we're responding if people are interested and helping them understand what that means to them and what their options are. visitor engagement, the red site construction to support our portal launch so people have easy access to the information and accurate assessment, transparency, reporting to the board so you all understand how your program is working on the island. so we're pretty excited about that. we have housing, which you all know about and we're excited to get people excited in the housing coming up. and i think our biggest effort is just to make sure that our -- we're very clear in our

communications with the community, that we don't cause confusion. it is much better for us to work hard on the front-end to refine our message and policies so when we present that information, it is not confusing. and it doesn't cause people to step away and not engage with us. but that they understand and we can walk them through the process. we hope that's what we have been able to do to date and we can -- we look forward to continuing to work on the island and hopefully in person soon. thank you. >> president tsen: thank you for the report. bob, did you have anything that you wanted to add to the report, otherwise i'll open it up to the directors for questions. >> director beck: no. in my discussion of the contract amendment i'll touch on some of those things. open it to the board members.

>> president tsen: i'm going to open it up to the board for comments and questions. i'm hearing ruby. did you want to speak? >> director shifrin: yeah, just a couple of questions. this is really helpful. thank you for the reminder on everything you guys are doing. i -- looking at the contract, it's great that you guys are doing this community engagement. i love the my tida portal. i just want to understand, the original contract was 1.25 and then increased that to 1.6 million to accommodate the post-dda folks that was part of

a decision that the commission made last december. and but now it's an additional request for 630k and i'm unclear -- what has been done with the money to date and what is the additional funding being used for. in the documents that you guys have reached out to 100% of folks, you've done this outreach and landscaping. some of the stuff in the scope for the new money seems redundant. i'm curious if it's an add on and i understand that added capacity for bob and tida in general to make sure we are engaging with residents, giving them all of the opportunities for both home ownership is great and i want to continue to prioritize that. i'm not minimizing the work you

are doing, just understanding where that money has gone to date. >> president tsen: right. >> director beck: i'll address the question. so, right now we have before you karen's report, the next item is actually the amendment to their contract. but to address some of your questions, last december we did modify their agreement to increase the budget from 1.25 to 1.67 million. at the time we brought that -- although that was concurrent with the board acting on the amendment to the thrr, that

amendment was not specifically to address the thrr. at the time we brought that amendment, staff had proposed to both extend the term of the agreement, which still was currently through july of 2022 and increase the budget to a much larger total. in response to comments from the board at that meeting, the proposed amendment was reduced to 1.67 which at the moment, at the time, we expected to be sufficient to carry us through july of 2019.

subsequent to that meeting and onset of covid, we modified our plans for 2019 considerably. we went to a much more virtual engagement with residents. we postponed some outreach partially because there were changes in the vertical construction schedule but also to reflect our ability to not have community meetings and so forth. we have been able to stretch that budget for the entire year. so, what has been completed for

1.67 to date was the initial two years of activity where we had high level of engagement with all the households, where ar/ws actually opened a field office here in one of the residential units on the island and had staff available tuesday's, friday's and saturday's to meet with residents and perform the initial intakes and engagement. we conducted several in person meetings to provide information and connect people with first time home buyer workshop classes and so forth. the last year has been continued

engagement and relocating 10 households in response to the navy and responding to residents planning to move off of the island and continuing to update information for residents as we go forward. so that's been what was under the base contract and what kind of was accomplished in the past year. i don't know karen if you had anything you wanted to add to that. >> i think it's well said. i think if we remember the community meetings we had planned for 2020, the education and outreach, it doesn't mean it goes away, it is just postponed. as soon as we can, we'll engage folks more that way as well. we are conscious of that and sitting aside time for that.

and to date, we have the wonderful help to guide us along and so i think at this point, we have a great staff that we get to work with, continuing and we're going to continue to help create a program and be responsive and this is really one of the things we're creating as we go along based on the direction of the board and we do welcome your direction and best practices moving forward. we're happy to do so. >> director shifrin: and just so i'm clear, it's 2.3 million with the amendment coming up after this, it would be 2.3 million over a five year period that ends in july 2022. is that accurate? >> president tsen: bob?

you need to unmute yourself. >> director beck: sorry. correct. >> president tsen: let me just -- i know that these two are related item number seven and eight. eight is really just talking about the budget as it relates to this contract. so what i'd like to do is actually get comments from the program first. the program which has been presented by karen edelman and then let's go to item eight which is really talking about whether there's going to be an increase to -- so first let's talk about the program. if we can. >> director richardson: i have some comments. thank you karen for your

presentation and it will be great if we could have some of the flyers beforehand for your presentation. i would love to be able to point out certain things to reconcile them. having said that, i think it would be great to have the presentation beforehand so we can look at the goals and objectives that you have. i just want to remind the commissioners and also the people that might be listening that this exercise started years where we hired the consulting team. going in, we know the profile and baseline of pre-dda residents on the island and

regarding the transition -- all these fall into certain categories. we know them. the exercise was a timeline, what we look at the schedule, there's certain opportunities that are going to be coming. we have a lot of information we have going on. also, there has been all these engagements, supposed to educate the residents of their timeline and where they are so they can really prepare, some of them wanted to have affordable housing. and just truly, every meeting that this matter transitional housing, we know a lot about the mayor's office of housing and

community development, some of live in other parts of san francisco here. transitional and policies and we bring that in. what concerning the matter before us today though is that we need to have -- i would like to have the benchmarks. benchmarks this is where we are, this is what we have done, this is the households i mailed, whatever. just so we know where in the universe at any given point. i would love to do that. and i know covid-19 has complicated a lot of stuff, however i feel that we really need to assess in a

comprehensive way where we are to date in all of this, where we are going here. and what kind of resources -- all these documents and again, i pay attention a great deal to this matter here. and right now as of today, i would love with the director and everyone that we can really assess the benchmarks as to where we are right now. i'm not there yet as far as i'm concerned. i know there used to be ongoing engagement, but at some point and i was hoping at the end of the year, before the end of the year runs out, we could do a quick assessment. how many resident, how many

househol households, the baseline. a timeline to assess what kind of ongoing activities are there. we know residents are going to come back after all this and tell us they never heard about anything. i was the one who pushed for that. and i know i i have seen the policies and activities in san francisco. >> president tsen: okay. >> can i just -- >> president tsen: go ahead. >> just to build off of what linda was saying, i totally

agree. it sounds like you guys have a data base of the households and the need, similar to the chart you had with households, it would be great to get one of who is eligible for which. who else is in the pool of eligible households so we can know what a successful conversion rate looks like. how many households is it actually and think through what success looks like. >> president tsen: okay. good. let's see, are there any other questions, otherwise i have a few myself. karen, you know, the last time when the contract came before us, we had some concerns that with all the effort, not all the households had been reached.

by this time, my understanding is that you have reached 100% of households. i just want to have confirmation that's the case. >> correct. >> president tsen: okay. >> multiple times. >> president tsen: yes. and you have information on all of the households that are eligible for the benefits, the relocation benefits under the thrr. >> true. >> president tsen: i just want to say this is an example of tremendous outreach we have done, tida by engaging your organization to help with that, that we have put such an effort into reaching out to all the households so that they understand what their rights are under the thrr for replacement

housing. we very much want the residents on the island, the pre-dda, the post-dda that understand how to access the information and how to access the housing that will come on line. that's the purpose of our building the housing especially the affordable housing on the island and we wanted to make sure that people do not come to us and say that they have not heard about the program, they have not heard about information. we are bending over backwards to make sure that people get the information to help one-on-one to understand how they will be processed and how they can get

the information and get the applications and get the help they need in order to be able to purchase the housing online. i would say it's a tremendous opportunity for the people who live on the island. it is also a pledge of ours to help the people living on the island. but in order to do so, they have to also take the steps that are necessary in order to access that housing. and we have spent already, you know, 7 million or so just to do that. y we're being asked now to have the hand holding to be there and

we have to be cognizant what that means in our overall budget and how effective it is going to be. i appreciate the needs that your organization has done. the portal you spent time this past year putting up, the portal to access information. is it just information. do they have an individual account and more importantly, how is it going to be maintained? and is something which tida can use in the future for reaching out to these residents? >> the perfect question.

let me answer them for you kind of in reverse. the portal is an opportunity for a household to log in and what they see is their file. they don't get to see everybody else's file. so every correspondence and information is specific to them. and it's not just per household, it's per individual. someone can access the letters we have given them, flyers, information on affordable housing or low market rate housing certificate, they have it there. they have one spot where they keep all their tida-based information and then there's this button to get all the generic stuff, not necessarily specific to their household but there in the shared area. every time a ti advisor uploads

something new to a specific file and maybe you asked for an analysis of your income on whether you are eligible for affordable housing or not. i did an analysis and uploaded it to your file, that system would ping you and say just so you know, you can log in karen just uploaded something for you. same with claims. just with a smart phone you can review it, sign it and return it to us for processing. which is just -- i can't explain to you how excited we are about that. so let me explain -- one thing we can do is invite all of you to participate in the portal. with that, you could have access to every flyer we have created and any updates to timelines or flyers that are updated. and so if that is interesting to

you, i know you are very, very people, please contact us and we'll make sure we get you engaged so you can have a quick access to anything we're communicating to the community. so in part of that, we could even upload things like a monthly board report. i don't necessarily speak at every board meeting but we do a board report and based on some of the comments from you all, we'll switch that up a bit. we were planning to change the format after the first of the year and we'll do more of the analysis maybe would be more helpful. in the past when we created new documents we attached them to the board report.

>> president tsen: i think that's the idea, karen and maybe working with kate there could be access for board members to see materials to keep up to date to see the communication going on. then my question about the ongoing maintenance of the site. >> it's really important to us. a consulting firm that serves public agencies all over california, it has always been important to us that whatever we have outlasts any contract we have. we try to use common low cost services like the portal, it is minimal cost for the service but certainly even if our contract ended tomorrow, that is something that tida could take on and continue to pay the cost

per month. i think it's as little as $150 a month. and continue to upload documents, you know, there's a slight learning curve. our team has done quite a bit of research to get there. it's not anything we couldn't train others to do, that would assume there's a team uploading documents and having information for it. the idea is anything we pass on to you, including the data base with the records is something that your team can use forever. >> president tsen: great. thank you. are there any other questions from the board? if not, i'll take public comment. >> clerk: there's no public comment. >> president tsen: next item please. >> clerk: there is one public comment. >> president tsen: okay. let's have it.

>> i have been paying attention to the presentation. bottom line, the people who want to live on treasure island, it's not because they really want to live on treasure island. they're in dire straights. so when we get the consultants who i know most of them don't live on the island, they live somewhere else. so it's a privilege that they have that they can say whatever they want to say but really what we need to say is are we addressing quality of life issues. i've been following this for four years. i say as i said earlier, in 1999 we did the entire survey of treasure island and we know how

contaminated it is. for example, your schools have been closed -- to charter schools to have our children on treasure island in an environment that's very contaminated. and then you all want to talk about a digital platform and all this nuances and timelines and goals, when from day one, you all have lied to the community. one of you all on the commission knows it. i was in sacramento. i was in sacramento when treasure island development authority was brought before. i was there on that day and i am

there now monitoring you all. i say again and again as i reference the first people, we do not want to have anything on the manmade island. we do have something -- >> clerk: thank you for your comment. your two minutes is up. >> president tsen: thank you for your comment. so then hearing no other public comment, we'll go on to the next item please. >> clerk: item 8 approving the professional amendment to provide consulting and advisory services and implementing the transition housing rules and regulations for the treasure island yerba buena island project to not be increased more

than $2.3 million. >> director beck: thank you director and members of the board. i wanted to start today by givening background of the agreement we have and the transition programs we have on the island. so, following the closure of the naval station treasure island, the city elected to make use of the former navy housing here on

the island to help address the housing crunch in san francisco. we partnered with one treasure island formed in 1994 to ensure that homeless services were part of the reuse plans for treasure island. at that time, 250 units were made available to one treasure island member agencies to provide housing opportunities for formerly homeless individuals and families and the balance were made available through a master lease with the jon stewart company under the villages at treasure island to have for residents to lease. one treasure island is a

collective of community-based organizations which include housing providers, community housing partnership, catholic charities, health right 360 and also organizations that provide transitional employment, training programs to formerly homeless and other individuals including rubicon enterprises and others. on treasure island, we have four housing providers i mentioned and all of the housing providers were integrated into the housing area here on treasure island. you can see the map on the right how the different housing

providers are scattered throughout the residential neighborhood but if you were to visit the neighborhood, you would not see any differences between the facilities or program areas. as housing was first developed, expectations were we would move rapidly to development. and the city -- all of them were established after the intention to redevelop the area was already initiated, but through the one treasure island agreement, there was a commitment for those member agencies to develop replacement

housing and it was their intention to relocate residents to the new housing when it became available and when the 2006 development plan and term sheet with treasure island community development was taken to the board, there was a commitment proposed at that time to provide market rate residents at the time of the disposition development agreement with relocation services and premarketing opportunity to buy or rent new units on the island before they were put on sale to the general public, but there was no amendment on the pricing or rental rates for those homes. when the board of supervisors and mayor's office endorsed the development plan, they directed

the developer to prepare a transition plan that would provide replacement units to households living on the island at the time of the agreement with replacement rental units and that the rent on the units be limited based on the income of the household, if they qualified for affordable housing or tied to the rent of the unit they historically rented on the island. ensuring not only a transition opportunity but one that would be economically viable for current households. which brings us to 2011 disposition development agreement and the transition housing plan and the housing plan and transition plans ado

adopted at that time. so the housing plan itself is the guiding document for the development of above and below market rate housing and sets up the range of affordability for our affordable housing 20% of a mi and affordability of 50% or below and set out for master developer to provide pre-marketing opportunities as homes were sold and included two attachments, one was the one treasure island transition housing plan, provided for the development of their new units and relocation of residents to the units and then the transition housing rules regulations for the villages of treasure island, addressing the

market rate residents but -- and provided benefits to households only and for those after the adoption of the thrr was only providing advisory services and i should note, it excluded commercial entities that leased residential units on the island, of which we've had a few. the one treasure island plan that provided for them to develop 435 units and they have actually increased their footprint since 2011.

they took over an additional building from jon stewart company and when community housing partnership was required to relocate from an eight unit building, we gave them two buildings from the market rate inventory so they have an additional -- and so that provides for the relocation of those households. the thrr, you know, although that wasn't required to provide relocation benefits under relocation law, the benefits provided are substantially or better than what would be required under relocation law for a displaced household. it includes as i mentioned

advisory services and moving costs and comparable dwelling unit and eventually transition unit when a permanent move is required. it also gives in lieu payment option to residents that choose to move off of the island. as karen mentioned, originally the thrr provided that residents would have access to the in lieu payment when required to make a move, there was also provision in transition housing regulations, however that if the program were delayed, that the city would open that in lieu of opportunity or title, open the in lieu of opportunity to residents in the form of an early in lieu of payment and we did that also in 2019, may of

2019 in large part because as you're aware, the after 2011 due to litigation again, the development was -- it was delayed beyond the originally anticipated timelines. and again, the benefits of a permanent move are a new rental unit, either an affordable unit income qualified for affordable unit or replacement rental unit within an affordable building but without the income restrictions of an affordable unit based on the sizing guidelines outlines the thrr. and the in lieu payment option

purchase if they elected to pursue the pre-marketing. so under the housing plan, tida is responsible for constructing the replacement units offered to pre-dda households. we're going to construct those within 100% affordable sites developed across the island on 20 parcels for our use. eventually 866 of the affordable units. we do have a funding short fall in our ability to finance all of those units. but we're working with the city's capital planning group to construct these parcels as soon as the land is ready for

construction. we think it will take probably the first six affordable sites to complete the transition of all existing residents eligible for replacement units. in terms of transition units available to people, the bedroom count and rent are linked to their original unit size and rent consideration of changes in households, particularly if people wish to move out. household income if they wish to change units and any other

requirements the building will have, for example only for veterans. and then the transition units are deed restricted to become affordable housing units after turnover. as i mentioned, there's been quite a delay in 2011 to get to the point now where our first 100% affordable site is under construction and our first marketplace is under construction. so last december, the tida board amended the transitional housing regulations to prioritize income qualifying post-dda residents for placement in new affordable housing units developed on the island. this diagram just illustrates all of the commercial units we have under lease, the one

treasure island households and our first buildings intended to be constructed in partnership with these housing providers. so the first building as you know, is under construction and will provide for the relocation of all existing on the island and we're in pre-development with catholic charities on our second 100% affordable site and expect to close financing on that in 2021. and in that building, we'll be relocating all 66 of the existing catholic charities households. we'll be constructing 23 units in that building without the benefit of affordable housing tax credits and other restricted

funding sources so we can make them available to pre-dda residents who don't qualify for affordable housing and the remaining 44 units in the building will be available to residents of pre-dda or mixed households that meet the income eligibility requirements and wish to pursue an affordable housing opportunity or second priority behind those residents, the post-dda residents of either mixed or post-dda households. but our hope is as with our first inclusionary units where we have 14 units and catholic charities building with 44

affordable units, not committed to catholic charities, that our folks here will be able to take advantage of those relocation opportunities. and based on the work that ar/ws has done in engaging the households, we believe that the incomes of the pre-dda and mixed households, 40% of the households could qualify for affordable housing opportunities if they elect to pursue affordable housing unit instead of a thrr replacement unit. and i'll talk more about that choice in a moment.

they don't spell out every aspect of how this work is to be conducted and they also make certain assumptions. where we need to make decisions in implementing the thrr as karen mentioned, we have been documenting those interpretation and implementation procedure and tracking those so we maintain a record as we go forward of all of the decisions made for continuity sake. the other thing i mentioned is

that thrr assume that drafted the procedures in the transition housing rules is drafted, assumes that a household would accept an affordable or pursue affordable housing placement if they qualified, but that decision is much more nuanced than it might appear at first

glance. dependent on the individual household income, will determine their unique rent they would be required to pay in an affordable situation. also, as we construct the new housing, life will be different in the new units than it is today. generally, the former navy housing is more generous in the square footage provided in three bedroom or two bedroom unit than will be provided in a typical replacement unit. also, the 100% affordable buildings will have centralized laundry facilities rather than in unit laundry facilities.

each navy unit we have today has storage space or garage and that won't be available in the replacement units and typically the affordable buildings will be constructed with parking ratios of one parking space to every three residential units or less and in the existing navy housing, there's a dedicated parking space for each residential unit and ample parking for households that have multiple cars. so for a variety of reasons, existing households may choose or wish to delay their transition even though they would be getting a new and

permanent replacement unit. also as i mentioned when we're planning for constructing non affordable units for the existing market rate households, the construction cannot be funded using tax credits or certain other available funding sources. for an individual unit, our inability to use the tax credit financing and other funding sources may mean we need to provide up to an additional 40-45% with the cost of the unit using local funding sources. so as a direct cost impact to

the construction of each replacement unit. also, those market units, we need to identify them prior to construction of the building. we need to make sure that if someone is entitled to a three bedroom replacement unit, that we're building the three bedroom replacement unit and not a two bedroom replacement unit or four bedroom replacement unit. as we get to the latter projects and trying to transition the final households, it will be critical for us to know exactly what we're building for the households that remain so that we don't end up unnecessarily spending additional local sources to construct units that could have leveraged these other funding sources.

the current agreement with ar/ws, we did have an agreement to provide advisory services, that contract was awarded in 2011. when it was thought that we would need to rapidly implement the transition housing rules and regulations and was modified five times over the course of the agreement. they supported tida in analysis of existing housing conditions and circumstances and then relocation of residents from yerba buena to treasure island which was completed in 2014 and we had several treasure island to treasure island relocations that were necessitated in 2015

in order to support the navy clean up program as well. the current contract was awarded in 2017 and at that time we put out an rfq to solicit the contract because it was a point of transition. as i mentioned, we completed a lot of the anticipated interim moves and we really needed to initiate our effort to plan for our construction of the authority affordable housing units, including the transition units and to do so we needed to engage each household individually and have comprehensive engagement strategy and outreach material.

karen spoke a bit about the associated right of ways team. and although karen typically addresses the board, there is a bench behind her both within the association and their primary consultant who has been a great resource in terms of preparing materials and helping us take the basic information that we need to convey to residents and ensuring that is worded in a way that is clear and understandable and does not create confusion but also then presented in a way that is a format that is engaging and legible. also playing a similar role, just on a less -- a smaller

company and mortar getted engagements. our initial priorities when we engaged, started to work with ar/ws was their expertise, collect and review existing data from the villages and -- outreach consultant and develop a community engagement outreach plan to meet the key objectives we had as we first started this work. develop a data base for maintaining all of the records and information, and reporting systems, status reports and also to test some of our assumptions about how we would be able to complete the transition.

so the work they have done has been beneficial to the work, preparing outreach materials and i can't repeat often enough, how important it is when we put something out to folks, it's clear and it's unambiguous that we don't create any opportunities for misinterpretation or confusion that we then have to spend considerable effort clarifying a misstep. we started open houses in january 2018 to engage residents and provide basic information

initially on the thrr and schedule people for the one-on-one interviews we conducted over the first six to eight months of the contract and then later to provide information on the affordable housing certification process and the pre-marketing opportunities. and they provide -- it's important -- they're able to support these events because both ar/ws and their team to bring staff to help us conduct the workshops and process all the folks that come through. the one-on-one interviews we discussed quite a bit. the first goal there is to educate and advise household members on their benefits. and the deliverable as karen

described was the summary. notice of eligibility that summarized the interviews with the household and our understanding of the benefits available to them based on the interviews. and then also to gather information that is helping tida and one treasure island plan for the development of residential sites and the transition housing units. as we look forward to 2021 and beyond, one of the things we're cognizant of is that the impact that covid-19 may have had on residents and particularly as it relates to household income in that we may need to go back and

extend opportunities or we intend to go back and extend the opportunity for people to have follow-up conversations with their advisor as their household circumstances have changed. where they may not have thought they could qualify for affordable housing before, perhaps they could or, you know, just to follow up on the conversations and see where households are. ar/ws has been providing households with multiple levels and types of affordable housing. there's the units within our 100% affordable housing sites, for instance the catholic charities building, i mentioned the 23 units we'll be building

without -- for non income qualifying households and the 44 we'll construct for income qualifying affordable households. a three bedroom is amongst the 23 units and three bedroom unit amongst the 44 units will be identical. the household that is considering transition into the catholic charities building depending upon the size that they're eligible for as an affordable unit and the size for transitional housing regulations, it will be the same opportunity within that catholic charities building. and then there's the inclusion for sale and rent opportunities. and each of these has its own income qualifying level of

income qualifying. generally the for sale opportunities will be offered at ami's between 80 and 120% income levels of ami. the rent opportunities will be at 60% -- 80% of ami and 100% affordable sites quite often at 15% or lower. so depending upon each individual household's income, they may be -- they won't be eligible in all likelihood of all of the opportunities but some of the opportunities may be available to them. and then after a household has assessed their income situation

and whether they may be interested in pursuing affordable housing opportunities, they still need to complete the first time home buyers workshop and income certification process which is necessary to qualify for affordable housing to be on the list that karen mentioned for affordable housing placements or qualify for down payment assistance programs for first time home buyers. as i mentioned, there's also the data that ar/ws has collected helps us understand the current status of households. whether those households have gained or lost household

members, which since 2011, which then can translate into whether or not -- what size of unit they're eligible for as a replacement unit to make sure we are actually planning to construct as i said earlier, the right size replacement units to meet our obligation. and then -- also to help us plan for funding of those projects. i i think karen mentioned they have done premarketing window for bristol and yerba buena town homes and the housing plan and the thrr provide that households

can be on the pre-market list even those who have taken the in lieu and left the island and it's our responsibility to maintain that list and the responsibility to ensure we have the appropriate contact information and individual vertical developers to prepare the marketing materials for us to distribute to the households on the pre-marketing list. and the amendment from last december extended that pre-marketing opportunity proposed to tida residents. all island residents are eligible for that now. the other thing we do with a

ar/ws, we have the citizens advisory group where we preview information to get feedback on its clarity and next steps before we roll things out. we also thoroughly review all communication materials for clarity and consistency. and again, karen mentioned, any key decisions we make, it fills in between the black letter framework of the transition housing and regulations, we're documenting those with interpretation procedure and memorandum so that we have a clear record going forward. and then as was discussed with

karen, all of the record keeping and the data base maintenance that is going on based on the several hundred interviews they have conducted. so it brings us to the amendment before you. the amendment would be to provide sufficient contract authority for us through completion of the agreement. and it's consistent with the funding that we have provided in the current fiscal year budget and just as it relates to the agreement, the agreement as was mentioned does provide for two year extensions at the sole

discretion of tida and the tida board. but if we were -- touching base roughly a year from now for a conversation about that because if we wished to extend the contract, we can do that up to the termination of the contract in july of 2022. if we want to have a new firm in place to transition, we would really need to start that process roughly a year from now. i'm happy to take questions board members have about the agreement or amendment. >> president tsen: okay. yes, your hand is up.

you can go ahead. >> director richardson: thank you for the presentation and, again, my previous comment, it would be great to have all of the materials for the board members to digest. but just as you were making your presentation and trying to document some things, the bottom line for people who might be listening to what we are doing here and i hope that your presentation could be posted on the website also so people can go back and read that. onset, the transitional housing, there are three options. you rent, or at some point you

can have -- the foundational guidelines we have been operating by. i found it interesting that the first contract was in 2011 and then the current contract is 2017. so for the public, tida has gone at length to try to get transition housing. you mentioned the challenges and i want to make it known here. the challenges are not just tida, this applies to the city of san francisco. this really has to do with structural and amenities,

whether a dryer or washer or new construction calls for sharing. those are germane to every kind of construction and housing. it's not just treasure island. how we manage that, how we translate that to the pre-dda residents or anyone. and in san francisco, the city has been undergoing transition thousands of residents for decades now. i know a lot of cases that i can

share. you know within this range, this is where you qualify. so any other disaster -- at the onset, you have already built in there. that exercise where we need to go back to the pre-dda because of covid-19 that information should have been built to design at the onset where we have already notified the applicants and says should your economic situation change, this is the steps you need to do for us. it is already part of the

overall design. it might be covid today, it might be another economic disaster because we are dealing with a development that is going to span some years. we know that. all of these factors. we also know that we are not the only game in town. nonprofit and city agencies are already doing housing workshops and all of that. we mentioned earlier that they need to be working in collaboration with the residents. in fact, i remember in our discussions that we actually suggested that san francisco residents -- so they are eligible also and need to take advantage of all the other resources that the city has provided. there are so many resources that the city has provided.

so we need to really see -- again, the reason i'm asking all of this, in 2019 there was specific construction that the tida board, how do we go to the next step. we're in the different categories of all this from what we have done so that in 2021 to 2022, there are certain things and criteria we really need to see. i have not seen that. i have not seen that. we need to really go back to assess where we are with all of the pertinent information to quantify where each of the residents belong and resources

here. >> president tsen: thank you linda. ruby, are you still on the line? >> director shifrin: i appreciate that really thorough

overview bob and i think it gives a much -- it gives a good picture on what they're doing and hear a lot of linda's points too. i think this, you know, the question -- i still have a little bit, and i hear what they were saying earlier, our job is to inform to the fullest extent possible everybody so they know their options and make data informed decisions about what they want to do and it's up to them to do that. and so, i completely agree with that. i think i'm a little bit -- part of me still is like oh man -- i'm a little torn on it. what you laid out today was

really, really helpful in going into the details of what the group is going to do. in the materials by the way, it emphasises on advising and not doing any of the actions you laid out. that's one thing i want to clarify, it's the hand holding and doing the work with homeowners every step of the way versus advising tida staff on how to do that work.

>> president tsen: any other questions? >> secretary dunlop: i wanted to second ruby and what she said. i think i also lots of kudos to the staff. such difficult times things have been changing so rapidly but the impossible to say today what is going to be in a year, as far as pricing goes.

a lot of things are kept open right now because that's the way it has to be. thank you. >> president tsen: all right. hearing no other questions, so you know, i have a question. you know, i think one of the concerns about this contract and the increasing amount each time that it comes to us is that it's an open-ended contract. it would be helpful to have an understanding of what is the amount needed in order to finish outreach and to finish interfacing with the households.

is this something that is never going to be finished until all the housing is built? is it something that we have to put into our budget on an annual basis? what is the end point and what are the tasks that need to be completed before the contract is finished? because i understand you will be asking for an extension of the contract either to be done by ar/ws or some other entity.

when do we turn over those efforts. and choose a project developer who's building the housing. certainly this is being done all over the city. that's another question that i have. i'm concerned about the timing of the discussion. i would like to call for a vote or have it continued to the next meeting. i will actually put before the board right now, ask if they are prepared to vote on the item

today or whether they would like to continue it until the next meeting. so -- go ahead. >> secretary dunlop: i think it's a good idea to put it forward to the next meeting. unless of course there are some costs that are involved and essential need for it to be voted on today. but it doesn't seem like that.

i agree. i think we need mr. beck to go back and try to answer these questions to build in to where we are and what does five years mean and 10 year means and again, looking at how we're going to proceed. and the benchmark, as i mentioned earlier. there's a benchmark that we need to have and this is with tida. it makes sense and again, a lot of questions and please provide all of the documentation we have today to have some time to really digest them and look at specific items and then might be able to advise the director

where to go with that. >> president tsen: any other comments from other directors? and then bob, is that a difficulty in terms of the timing if we take in our january board meeting with some of the answers to the questions that have been asked? >> we're not up against the 1.67 cap right now. based on the work that we have in place, we could make the amendment in january instead. if it were to push out beyond that, we'd have to look on cutting back on some services but we could wait until january. just to address, i think a concern raised by director shifrin, so the contract, what we're talking about here is the

contract, the aggregate contract amount, we work with ar/ws to develop individual task orders where we authorize the next phase of work. and depending upon where we're at in the program, those have been for three to six, perhaps as much as eight months for individual task orders. under the 3.5 years we've had the contract, almost 3.5 years we've had the contract in place, we have authorized eight separate task orders, each with its own scope deliverables and budget. and that is what we would be working on now is a task order likely to carry us with a work plan through next june, assuming that throughout most of that

period, we're going to continue to be social distancing and not able to engage in a lot of community type outreach events. also teeing up the bristol, the first market rate development is planning to seek tco certificate of occupancy prior to the end of 2021. we're going to need to be working with associated right of ways to try to identify those households that might potentially be at the appropriate income levels to pursue those opportunities and do outreach and have them do outreach and engagement with the households to see if it is in fact an opportunity that they

would want to pursue to complete the income certification process and be in a position to register themselves with the housing for that potential opportunity. that's a little more background how within the larger agreement we authorize and manage deliverables and budgets for periods of performance. >> president tsen: okay. thank you. i think we'll continue item 8 until january unless there's any opposition by any members of the board on that. we'll continue this item and have more consultation with you

on that. thank you bob. okay. so let's see, then we need to take public comment given that we're not taking the action today? >> clerk: yes. but there's no public comment on the line. >> president tsen: okay. we opened it for public comment, no public comment. so then next item please kate. >> clerk: discussion of future agenda items by directors. linda, go ahead. >> director richardson: when given the presentation, i asked about the equity and inclusion plan and i know we've been asking about that. where we are -- [indiscernible]

when are we going to get a draft to look at. so i didn't get a specific response. >> so tida has been working underneath the city administrator umbrella to -- on the development of racial equity plan. we'll be underneath and covered by the city administrators equity plan, but we have been providing input to that on everything we do here on treasure island. and we will be going forward to implement that next year. so i believe the draft of that plan is supposed to be completed this month and i will provide it to the board members at the next board package along with a plan

on the item to provide background on all that tida does to support matters of equity here on the island. >> director richardson: okay. >> president tsen: thank you bob. and then are there any other items? okay. hearing none, i guess we can adjourn this meeting but i want to wish you and your loved ones a good holiday season. i know we have to change a lot of what we normally do but stay safe and keep safe and let's hope for a better 2021. thank you for joining us. all right. >> thank you director. >> president tsen: we'll see you next year.

>> the november 13, 2020 meeting of ethics commission. this is pursuant the executive order and mayoral proclamation. local emergency dated february 25, 2020. before proceeding further i would like to ask the commission staff member who is the moderator today to explain the procedures for the remote meeting. >> thank you, madam chair. the minutes will reflect due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect commission members, employees and public the meeting rooms are closed. commission members and staff will participate remotely. this is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders and directives. commission members will attend through video and participate to

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meeting to order. moderator, can you proceed with item one. commission roll call. commissioners u unmute your microphone. [roll call] >> madam chair we have five members present. you have a quorum. >> thank you very much. we are resuming our commission meeting from the remote format. we welcome the public's participation and patience as the meetings progress. i would like to add because we are remote, hopefully, we would

be able to get more public participation than at city hall. i do appreciate commissioner bush's reaching out to his staff to participate. we should all do the same. i want to give you all a remeander that if you can mute your microphone when not speaking so we don't have audio feedback during the meeting. i will call agenda item 2. public comment on matters appears or not appears on the agenda. members of the public who wish to speak dial star 3. if you are not already done so to be added to the queue. moderator, can you please proceed with public comment if we have anyone in the queue? >> thank you, madam chair. we are receiving public comment on item 2 remotely. you will have three minutes to

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to the queue. for those on hold please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. public comment is closed. i will proceed with calling agenda item 3. the draft minutes for the october 9, 2020 ethics commission regular meeting. if any members of the public intend to offer public comment for the consent item, dial in now and enter star 3 to be added to the ky.

item 3 is on consent. this is considered routine. if a commission objects it can be removed and considered separately. does any commission member wish to sever any items and call up a separate discussion? commissioner lee, i am going to ask for a verbal from you since i can't see whether or not you are raising your hand. >> madam chair, i don't have any. >> thank you very much. now, can i have a motion to adopt the minutes for the october 9, 2020 meeting. >> so moved. >> moved. i will take that as move and second. if you can -- can we move for public comment on the consent items, please. >> thank you.

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meeting we are taking public comment on consent calendar item 3. draft minutes october 9, 2020 ethics commission regular meeting. please press star three to be added to the public comment queue. there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. public comment on agenda item 3 is closed. can i have a roll call on the motion and second that we will have to adopt the minutes. >> motion has been made and seconded. i will call the roll. >> commissioner bush. >> yes. >> commissioner moore. >> aye. >> vice chair lee. >> aye. >> commissioner smith.

>> aye. >> chair ambrose. >> aye. >> with five votes affirmative and zero opposed it is approved unanimously. >> thank you, commissioners. i will call agenda item 4. discussion and possible action on presentation by controller's office on the controller's november 5, 2020 report. i am going to ask executive director to introduce this item. thank you. >> good morning. thank you, commission chair ambrose. this report is a third in a series of public integrity reports -- public integrity reports to assess policies in wake of city's attorney investigation stemming from alleged wrongdoing by former public works director. the reports as you know from previous meetings are conducted with the city attorney's office issued with the goal of

highlighting areas where laws need strengthened to avoid a future similar circumstances to prevent abuse and fraud in the city. the controller's report was issued the end of june and was we had the controller's staff here to present its findings and recommendations regarding conflicts of interest. the contracting and procurement processes. second report was issued in september and that addressed gifts to the departments through non-city organizations and creation of risk of pay to play. that report was also presented to the commission at its meeting last month to provide opportunity to provide input. just last week the controller's office issued the third in a series of reports. this report is on the agenda as well for you to hear the summary of findings and recommendations

from the controller's staff and provide input you might have. as you know, all of the issues addressed in these reports to the extent they have overlapping jurisdiction or raise issues will be forwarded to the policy work. we very much appreciate the focus of controller's office and appreciate them taking time to be with us to walk through the findings and recommendations here. mark is the city controller's acting director of audits is here with others to provide that information. i am happy to turn it over to mark with thanks for participation again. >> thank you so much. commissioners, let me share my presentation right now.

can you see my slide? >> yes. >> great. thank you very much. good morning again. acting director of audits for the controller's office. thank you for the opportunity to present to you as executive director mentioned the third in a series of public integrity assessments. as you will recall back in june we issued one on public works contracting. in september the seconded one on gifts to non-city organizations. this third one is on the city's debarment process. i want to first thank our team at the controller's office. tiffany and kay for the excellent work they have done in helping us complete this third

deliverable. by way of background, as you know, back in february when the investigation became public we sept out to conduct the series of assessments to look at the internal control weaknesses, practices, policies, surrounding the various allegations related to mr. nuru. the goal as previously stated is to provide recommendations that would ultimately improve transparency, reduce risk of fraud and safeguard public funds in the city and county of san francisco. in conjunction with the controller's efforts in conducting these assessments, is the city attorney's focus on the investigations on misconduct by current and former city employees and city contractors and vendors and they continue to do so and identify remedies for

certain legal policy violations. one example of this action from the city attorney is the start of the process to debar back in july 2020. from contracting with the city for five years in connection with allegations contained in the affidavit. it is through this action from the city attorneys office that prompted us to look at debarment procedures to see if there are areas for improvement or anything that we can recommend to further improve and promote transparency and safeguard city funds. in conducting this assessment on the debarment procedures, we looked at the city's department policies, as stated in the ad min code. we also looked at the city

attorney proposed changes to the debarment process. in august this city attorney's office put forth legislation as proposal to the board of supervisors regarding the debarment process. i believe it is current leap cuy pending -- currently pending board of supervisors approval. we compared against the state of california and various provisions within the federal law to see if there is any lessons learned and areas for improve meant. with all of the previous assessments. these results are preliminary and open for public comment and review. we may revise elementses our recommendations based on the input that we do receive. just to provide further context on the debarment process

currently ongoing, according to the fbi report that was issued back earlier this calendar year, mr. hernandez was alleged to have provided mr. nuru with bribes in connection with steering city contracts to mr. hernandez and his firm that he owns. per the fbi report, mr. hernandez was alleged to have supplied mr. nuru over $250,000 worth of labor and materials for work related to mr. nuru's vacation property. the fbi report also alleged mr. hernandez paid for mr. nuru's hotel stay and some meals costing over $1,000 each. in exchange for these bribes, mr. nuru is alleged to have provided inside information

about city contracts and approval results in mr. hernandez to submitted an alleged -- unqualified for one of the contracts that was awarded to his firm. given that backdrop, we set out to really look at what is currently in the city's admin code and what is currently the procedures being followed by key stakeholders involved in debarment. the city attorney's office and some parts of it for the controller's office as well. just wanted to for background define debarment that appears in chapter 28 of the a of the admie

contractor declaring disqualified from participating in the competitive process from city contracts or entering contracts for a period specified in the debarment order. basically, this means the city has authority to debar a contractor found to be involved in a willful misconduct with respect to any city bid, request for qualifications or proposals or purchase orders in a contract. some of those willful misconduct included submitting false information in response to bids or proposals, not complying with contract terms per the city admin code provisions, disregarding certain conditions of the city contract, failing to abide by rules or regulations per sf municipal codes, submitting false claims, involved in collusion in obtaining contractor payments or approval and being involved in

any and i just highlight this aspect con to last bullet. any verdict, judgment, settlement or plea agreement establishing the contractor violation of civil or criminal law against any government entity relevant to the capacity to perform under or comply with the terms and conditions of the city contract. that is the part of the willful misconduct that the de barment process for the azul works inc got started. as mentioned we reviewed procedures and looked at the states and federal guidelines or procedures related to debarment. these six bullets on slide 5

really outlines the six findings from our recently issued report. first one being that overall our procedures debarment procedures are generally consistent with those of california and certain aspects of the federal government process. the city does not require an investigation as the initial step. i just wanted to also note that even though it is current bely not required purr the city attorney, -- per the city attorney an investigation does occur before debarment proceedings start. it is not a requirement but it is practice that it does occur before any proceedings begin. in terms of how we issue our notice of initiation of

debarment, providing contractor with an opportunity to respond, including or basically hiring a hearing officer to or appointing a hearing officer to be the administrator of the hearing, those are all very consistent with how the state and the federal government conducts debarment. that is the first key finding that we noted. the seconded bullet on the debarment period up to five years is also very similar to how the state and the federal government does it. for the state it is basically the period is for one to five years of debarment. really the factors that determine the duration that include severity and frequency of violations that is relevant to the case. it is similar also to the

federal government of one to five years. we are aligned with how it is done outside of the city. the third finding that is included here on the suspension is one of the key findings that we had in our report, and this is also part of what has been set forth or put forth by the city attorney's office as part of the legislation they introduced back in august. what we found unlike the federal government, the city and state currently do not suspend contractors, and to provide some background within the federal context what we learned from the federal government example they concurrently can suspend a contractor 18 months short of debarment. [please stand by]

>> and -- yeah, so it's actually both, and it's almost like a disciplinary phases that happens, but yeah. >> okay.

i just wanted to make sure i understood. and just to the point -- we'll get to this at the end of this. i mean, the ethics commission has very few contracts overall, and i think it's only in fairly limited circumstances that these matters would come before the ethics commission. it would be more likely that the underlying activity that led some other department to suspend or debar a contract would involve ethics commission jurisdiction, so just so we put it in perspective. thanks. go ahead. >> of course. the next finding that we highlighted in our report just

stated that the city can pursue claims against contractors under state law or bring other civil actions. what we did find was that the city, state, nor the federal government currently -- neither -- none of them currently require a debarred contractor to pay any of the fees of the debarment process, but under california civil claims act, we could fine those fees to the debarred contractor. we did find that the city's admin code currently does not include minimum qualifications for hearing officers, which is unlike what happens in the

federal government as well as the state golf. within the federal example, they do have a minimum qualification of being either a federal agency head or a designee of that agency head, and it was in the state government example we did find a little bit more of a specific type of qualification, which is to be an attorney, for example, employed by the division of labor standards or an administrative law judge employed by industrial relations. and our sixth and last is really about the public reporting requirements. so currently, we -- san francisco does currently publicly list the contractors

that we have debarred, but we should also list suspended contractors should that pass, so this is really just taking the example that the federal government is doing, whereby they have a system called s.a.m., and they have a division of labor standards enforcement does list all of the suspended and debarred --

the board of supervisors [inaudible] the admin code to include the suspension provision to include the minimum qualifications for the hearing officers. and then lastly, for there to be a public listing of all suspended contractors. so that concludes our very brief presentation on this quick review. as we previously noted, we are still continuing to complete the other assessments that we have started relating to the mohamed nuru investigations.

it's more how to -- to better track and ensure that everyone in the city that should be filing certain -- certain reporting requirements from the commission, that they are complying with them, and that they're publicly reported. and then, the building inspection policy and procedures, and then, our final report, which will be a coup accumulation of all of what we have reported so far. >> thank you. i'm wondering if we should go to public comment before we go to comments and questions from the commissioners? >> commissioner, i had a

question for mr. de la rosa. thank you to you and your team for doing all of this really important work. a question that i had, in one of your previous reports, better understanding the tone at the top and these different organizations, will your reports be diving into that or looking at what mechanisms might be in place to foster a culture of compliance? because i think it's not only good to strengthen the laws and rules and regulations, but that's just what's on paper. in the absence of a culture and norms that say that we have to

do the right thing, and if i say someone who's not doing the right thing, then, i need to go and raise the flag or report it to someone. i think that in the absence of that component, i don't know that we're going to make as much progress as we otherwise would in creating a more ethical and a more transparent and accountable government, so if you could speak a little bit to what the controller's office will be doing to identify or analyze the opportunities there, that would really be helpful. thank you. >> yeah, very good question, commissioner. through the chair, as previously noted, we're definitely planning on including the tone at the top as one of the key sections in our final, final report because what we're basically doing is we're hitting the various internal controls and policies in these deliverables that

we've been issuing over the last few months. from an audit perspective, as someone who's been auditing for -- for almost 20 years now, tone at the top is really a conglomeration of all of those facets of internal control. it's a common, you know, element of an organization that can definitely be the root cause of anything that could go wrong, and how we're going to be addressing tone at the top will be in the context of how some of those internal controls that have been identified by the f.b.i., as well as some of the key things that we've identified in our previous reports were able to happen. a lot of it was because of the lock of oversight of certain procedures. a lot of it was was there were certain pol