up, what would the trade-off be on other items if we chose to prioritize that? thanks. >> thank you. >> and part of the answer to that question, director yekutiel, is in slide 12 of the budget presentation that we presented to you this evening. if we used the full $1 billion that we're getting from the federal government just on deferred maintenance, that would still not solve our problem. we are suffering from decades of consistent neglect in the core system, which makes us vulnerable. we are estimating that we need an additional $225 million annually every year for the next decade in order to deal with that backlog. >> some of our challenges are also time related, so, you know, these are long lead time

items. they are customized for our system. we are entering into what could be a ten-plus year business relationship with both a vendor and an installer, so part of -- part of -- part of the work is funding and part of it is just time. >> thanks. >> perfect. are there any final questions from directors? seeing none, we will -- i did -- we are into public comment, so seeing none, we will close this item, and if there are no other -- if there are no other additional matters of business, we will adjourn in honor of international women's month, so thank you all for taenting this meeting. thank you, everyone.

>> tuesday, march 23, 2021. president kimberly brandon called the meeting to order at 2:23 p.m. [roll call]

>> clerk: madam president, all members of the commission are president. item 2 is the minutes of the february 22, 2021 port commission meeting. >> so moved. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. can we please have a roll call vote. [roll call] >> the motion passes unanimously, and the minutes of the march 9, 2021 meeting have been adopted. >> clerk: item number three is public comment on executive session. >> thank you. we will open the phone lines to

take public comment on the item from members who are on the phone. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on executive session. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. public comment will be limited to three minutes per american. the public comment line is open. please dial star, three to make public comment. >> thank you, jennica. do we have any public comment on the phone? >> president brandon, at this time, we have no listeners in the public wishing to make

public comment. >> seeing no callers on the public comment line, comment comment is closed. next item, please. >> item four, motion to go into executive session. >> can we have a roll call, >> i second that motion. >> thank you. we have a motion and a second. roll call vote. [roll call]

>> all right. that brings us to item six, the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> item number seven is announcements. please be advised that members of the public have up to three

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press star, three when your item is called. that brings us to item eight, public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> thank you. we will now open the phone line for public comment for items not listed on the agenda. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on items not listed on the agenda. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open, and others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> thank you, jennica. do we have anyone on the phone?

>> president brandon, at this time, there are no public callers on the line wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. seeing no items on the public call-in line, public comment is now closed. please call the next item, please. >> that would be item nine, director's report. >> i am elaine forbes, the port director of the port of san francisco. this last week marked one year of shelter in place and measures that we've had to take to fight the virus. i'm very proud the role the port has taken to fight and will continue to fight the virus. in my report today, i will provide economic recovery and equity updates, and i will

update on the embarcadero safe navigation center and the jefferson street project. i will conclude by providing an in memory for ann halstead. at this time, we are looking at moving into the orange tier, which will allow for more activity. i am hopeful that the move to orange tier will bring back more economic activity to the waterfront. as you know, the pandemic has brought unprecedented financial woes for our tenants and for the port as an enterprise. in a minute, you will hear from the port c.e.o. and the port's finance director who will present steps we must take in order to mitigate the economic impact to the port. staff and members of the public

shared appreciation for our transparency and commitment to leaning in and confronting the looming challenges head on. while the future is looking brighter, the gradual reopening of business and activities will increase travel and interactions throughout san francisco. with the risk increasing, we need to remain vigilant to avoid community spread of the virus and an increase in cases and hospitalizations. we must continue to wear masks, social distance, hand wash, and avoid large gatherings. public health officials will it be to monitor the key public health indicators, particularly case counts and hospitalizations, to ensure that san francisco has the necessary resources available for those who contract covid-19. this will influence what activities within the orange tier that can reopen and on what timeline.

let's work together to make the success of our reopening a reality. while san francisco recognizes and is attempting to align with the state's framework, the city will continue on a reopening path based on its local health indicators and the unique challenges and success of its reopening. onto equity. first, i would like to open with acknowledging last week's events in atlanta which were truly, truly chilling. we also faced violence against the asian community here in san francisco and in the bay area. the port stands in solidarity with our asian brothers and sisters, and we must do all we can to find xenophobia, misogyny, and this racism. our pacific islander community needs our support now more than ever. it is so important that all of us take a stand against the

violence and hate. we are one community, and we must come together to standup for our brothers and sisters who are under attack. the unspeakable violence perpetrated in atlanta and right here at home in san francisco and around the bay area is an attack on all of us and on our core values. we must do better, we can do better. the port, the port's race equity team had -- continues to make progress to build a strong foundation for our department wide equity initiative. we are pleased to share that staff hosted its first meeting with the port commission equity subcommittee. in this meeting, we shared our vision for equity, provided an overview of the short-term race equity action plans this year and proposed our implementation plan. i would like to thank president brandon and commissioner gilman

for their service on this subcommittee, continued partnership and leadership. to assist with recording the port's milestones and challenges, staff are working with two rivers corporation, a women-owned small business enterprise to develop a race equity tracker to generate reports that we will present to the port commission biannually. i'm also happy to report that the port welcomed over 400 participants to the port's annual open house. this provided an opportunity for small businesses to learn about the port's priorities and contract pipeline as well as to meet staff and other business

owners. staff worked hard to pull off the virtual event. as always, the contract open house is a model of interdivisional collaboration, bringing together staff from across the port to connect with our l.b.e. partners. i would like to thank president brandon for her warm welcome remarks and her steadfast advocacy and support. two key items. acknowledging president brandon's report on the embarcadero safe navigation center. this is operated as a covid negative covid unknown site. the capacity is limited now to # 8 guests to ensure compliance with social distancing protocols. referrals are handled through covid command centers, and that includes the public health system and street outreach teams. site operations and partners continue to work collaboratively with neighbors

to as concerns. concerns the advisory group is meeting quarterly and getting answers to questions about issues at the site and also city services. in good news, the last count of unsheltered homeless people in the area conducted last month found 60 people in the outreach zone and 15 midges in the safety zone. this is a notable decrease from the 179 individuals in the outreach zone that were found living unsheltered two years ago prior to the construction of the navigation center. overall police incidents in the safety zones from decreased. 2 jefferson street. this is phase two of jefferson street. the final three blocks of the five blocks of main street through fisherman's wharf will

be completed this spring. the only exception so that is the guardrail along the inner lagoon, which has been delayed due to the seawall condition, covid, and cooperating with numerous city agencies. at this time, we estimate that the construction may not occur until late may or early june. in good news, the sfmta plans to run the f-line street car in mid may. i would also like to report that the s.f.jeremiah o'brien returned to her birthplace this morning. staff had worked extraordinarily hard to remove debris and make repairs to allow for her safe return. the o'brien will remain closed

as she's undergoing renovations. this is an important step for us in moving past the calamities of 2020. i would like to conclude my remarks in memory of ann halstead. ann serves on the port commission from 1984 to 1995, the first woman to sit on the commission. she served as port commission from 1988 to 1990. ann lived her adult life in san francisco and was devoted to bringing people together to improve the city and vibrancy of the region. she was instrumental in helping the city secure funding to transform the embarcadero, and to push for the creation of the

blue-greenway along the waterfront. ann was a feminist. she knew certain values went together. when proposition h was passed in 1990, commissioner halstead was the voice of the port commission to create a process that welcomed the engagement of all to create our first waterfront land use plan. her devotion to the waterfront continued after stepping down from the port commission to lead the port northeast waterfront advisory committee before being appointed to the san francisco bay conservation and development commission, bcdc, which she served as vice chair prior to her passing. in addition to countless boards

and commissions, she served on sfers from 1983 to 1997. in the words of former sfers president jim kappel, ann is a gentle giant, an individual so committed to social and environmental justice, a hero to so many, young women especially. ann was a very gracious person, and the many of us who had the privilege to know her remembered her welcoming yet firm style. the port expresses its deep condolences to ann's husband and her family, and we'd like to close the meeting in her memory. this concludes my director's report. thank you. >> thank you, elaine.

[inaudible]. >> anything about the meeting with the [inaudible]? >> i did not, commissioner brandon. that is a good one to cover. would you like me to say a few words? >> please. >> we were able to host the army corps of engineers here at port of san francisco. we had leadership from washington, d.c. present, along with district office leadership with our team to discuss the three by three waiver request that is going to washington, d.c. a little bit later this year. president brandon joined us. we had an excellent conversation about our study and our partnership to date, and it was followed by a tour of the san francisco waterfront. >> thank you. thank you for your report. we will now open the phone lines to take public comment on the executive director's report for members of the public joining us on the phone, jennifer will be our operator

and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on the executive director's report. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. (. >> thank you, jennica. do we have any public commenters on the phone? >> yes, president brandon. we have one caller at the moment. thank you. unmuting the line now. >> hello, president brandon,

director forbes, and commissioners, my name is faye tsen. as you know, ann cared very deeply about the waterfront. she was my predecessor on the treasure island development committee. for those of us who sit on public commissions, you know what a responsibility, i would say privilege, it is to serve the city as stewards of the public realm, and ann was the exemplar of civic duty. she dedicated her life to making better her neighborhood, her city, her region.

ann and i sat on the board of many nonprofit organizations, sfers, greenbelt alliance, the chinatown development corporation, just to name a few. we shared similar ideas, and working with her on these mutual passions, i found her to be always wise in her counsel, knowledge about organizational challenges, astute about the political lay of the land, and, of course, above all, she was gracious and elegant. we've lost a friend, a great citizen committed to public

life.

>> so many of you have written and spoken so passionately about ann halstead. so many of you will continue, especially about our seemingly inexhaustible energy and her commitment to our waterfront. many of you at this meeting knew her very, very well. she was a lovely and remarkable woman. we all will miss her very much. i wanted to say a few words to add them to this meeting to honor ann, and also say that i'm serving as the chair of a committee that is cochaired by

ann's husband, to acknowledge ann's life and efforts by staging a citywide dedication hopefully in may on the plaza. with your concurrence, we feel very confident that we can raise funds for this event as well as the dedication of the inaugural class. we will work closely with the port and dan hodak in particular to design a commemorative plaque, and we forward to coming back to you in april to present more details related to the event and the design and the installation of the commemorative plaque. thank you so much for the

opportunity for speaking today, and i really look forward to your support in this effort. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other callers on the line? >> president brandon, there are no other callers on the line wishing to make public comment. >> okay. seeing that there's no other callers on the line wishing to make public comment, public comment is pleased. commissioner [inaudible]? >> thank you, director forbes, for that lovely report. it's been over a year since we've had to shelter in place, and i am looking forward to the

coming months in san francisco. i did want to say a few words about ann. i met ann over a decade ago, and i met her through two iconic people representing the community that i love the most: north beach and chinatown. i met her through reverend norman fong, sitting at her table. it was my first actual banquet at empress of china. weeks later, i ran into her on telegraph hill at a presentation to support other

organizations that ann loved. ann took me around that room. she introduced me to people. ann became a friend, she became a mentor, and she became someone i could always turn to. i only hope as i serve on this commission, that i could live in her legacy for turning the public waterfront into a realm for all of san francisco. ann was an icon for the city. i want to give my deepest condolences to her husband and to the community at large.

i want to say i'm fully supportive of honoring ann with a plaque at the entry to fairy landing here at san francisco. i look forward to helping on that and doing anything i can, and say i'll truly miss here as a fellow san franciscan, as an urbanist, and as a fellow women. >> thank you so much. commissioner burton? >> yeah. i've known annie for over 40 years. we've spent a lot of time together with wells and my old racquet ball partner.

my sympathy to wells. at the time he was struck with his cancer, and we never thought that he would live to see the day, nor would he, thought that he would outlive annie. i want to do what i can to

support and raise money in her memory. she was a piece of cake, just a wonderful person, and i just loved her to death. >> thank you. [inaudible]. >> yeah, sorry. i don't know if you called on me earlier. i was having some audio difficulties going on for a while. i just wanted to say that i did not know her very well, but when i was port commissioner, i remember her coming up to me in several different events and reminding me of her past association with the board. she struck me as an amazing person, and those were big foot steps to follow in her time at the waterfront. i just wanted to also use this time that i really appreciate

director forbes mentioning all of the events happening to my fellow asian american community that have been happening the last couple of months. i think it's unfortunate that not only is it one community, but all communities such as this one because the coronavirus has raised more tensions, and in many cases, the people who have been targeted are absolutely innocent. and in some cases, if it was designated against chinese, it's really a tragedy to see some of those things that happened in the bay area and across the country, culminating in georgia. i just want to says the port thinks about its equity and

social document document -- say that as the port thinking about its equity and social position, i hope we can take a leadership position to speak up and do something in making sure that the community does come together, that we standup, and as we look at it from the port's standpoint in our equity plans includes everyone in our community equally, and i just wanted to make that point and just say elaine, thank you, for emphasizing that today. it's been a sad week. there have been a lot of leaders who have spoken up across the country, and it's finally getting attention in washington. it's not just a few erratic

situations, it's all across the country, and i think we all need to come together and realize that what we're experiencing is not the fault of one community or one country, but we need to come together with liberty and justice for all. thank you. >> thank you. i want to assure you that our racial equity includes all communities of color, and we do not want racism against anyone, any community, so thank you so much for those words because i really agree with all you are saying. before i move onto vice president adams, i know there

is staff that would like to say a few words about ann. [inaudible], did you have your hand raised? >> i did. i'm sorry i missed my little slot, but i first of all, wanted to thank you, president woo ho, for your words. proposition h back in 1990 was a pretty controversial deal for the port, and through her grace, she showed that she's not just a great urbanist but a great humanist, too, in terms of welcoming the public into a

public process that i was honored to be able to be involved in for the waterfront plan, but to show all of us what the real promise of the waterfront was and its relationship to the city and the region. and in all of the different roles that she played over the course of her life, that was her goal, was to bring people together in this special public place and to appreciate and support each other, so i just want to thank ann for all of her guidance, her quiet, persistent, and gracious, you know, direction and support that she provided for so many, and, too, i will always remember her in my heart, so thank you for letting me speak. >> thank you for those kind words. is there anyone who would like

to comment? okay. vice president adams. >> first of all, i didn't know ann halstead at all, but clearly, hearing everyone talking about her, she was an icon and treasure here in san francisco. when somebody passes away, there's a certain value that we all have, and ann halstead, certainly, may she rest in piece. director forbes, i appreciate your words, and director woo ho. this needs to be called what it is: an attack of hate, attributable to the former president, calling it the wuhan

flu and heating the debate. we have a social consciousness, and we have to speak out and call it what it is. it's unacceptable. i appreciate, commissioner woo ho, what you're saying about inclusion. i know that commissioner brandon and you are working on that, and also, we need to speak out about the horrible tragedy of the boulder police officer who lost his life in boulder, colorado, and the other nine families. something is wrong with our country, and we have to speak out against this kind of violence, this kind of hate. we've got to be able to live our lives where we can go to a store, go to our work go anywhere we choose as americans and not feel that we're going to be shot or intimidated or assassinated, so i'm going to call it out for what it is, and

i'm glad this commission is, too. may we remember them, the families, and also remember the police officers, not only in colorado, but every day that put their lives in the lines, and just the ordinary people working in the stores and just the ordinary people that want to go out. what's happening in georgia has been happening in our country the past year. when politicians are afraid to speak out, speak truth to power, something is wrong, and we've got to call it what it is. some people are saying what happened in georgia wasn't a hate crime. it is a hate crime, and to me, violence against women is

unacceptable. i'm glad that we on this port, we standup, and we speak to a better world. thank you. >> thank you, vice president adams. i just don't think i could have said it any better. there's so much going on in the world today, and we have to say that gun violence on anyone, whether it's a police officer, the women in atlanta, the families in boulder, we all have to come together. it's just a really sad time right now, but director forbes, thank you so much for your report. it was very thorough. you covered a lot. the port has been extremely busy over the last couple of weeks. i want to say a few words about ann. as director forbes said, she was the first woman appointed to the port commission and the

first female president of the port commission. when i was appointed to port commission in 1997, ann was one of the first people who reached out to me. ann was a wonderful person. we did a lot of work together on the waterfront land use plan and the adoption of it. we had joint meetings with bcdc. she became my mentor, she became my friend. i think the last time i saw her was at my 20 anniversary celebration, and she showed up with warm words and open arms, and she will truly, truly be missed. she's just done so much for san francisco and for the waterfront, and i'm happy we are closing the meeting in her honor, and i'd also like to close the meeting in honor of the victims in atlanta and the victims in boulder, colorado,

so thank you, everyone. carl, next item, please. >> good afternoon, president brandon, vice president adams, commissioners, and director forbes. i am katie patricione, the port director of finance and administration. we are here for an informational presentation about two supplemental ordinances. amending the port's operating and capital budgets for fiscal year 21-22. as you know, we have a closed two-year budget, and this proposed legislation would make incremental changes to reflect the revenue decline that the port has experienced as a

result of the covid-19 pandemic. this is a moment of great financial challenge and great financial uncertainty for the port. working with the controller's office, staff has developed a financial projection that suggests that it will take at least five years for the organization to rebound from the revenue losses that we have seen in the last year. we will continue to refine this forecast as we receive more information about revenue, and as we see how the rollout of vaccines affects tourism, hospitality, and office use. these projections are our best guess today, but we know for a fact they will change, and we will update you as we do. the port faces a monumental task. we must restore the

organization to financial stability in a way that ensures equity. this work will be difficult and will require creativity and determination. as you are going to hear this afternoon, staff proposes to tackle this challenge in two steps, starting with the budget changes that are in front of you this afternoon, and then, with a ten-month economic recovery initiative that will allow us to develop thoughtful analytic proposals in the budget for fiscal years 22-23 and 23-24. the budget proposals that we are going to outline this afternoon are the product of a great deal of hard work by all of the port's divisions. i'm so appreciative of the organization's willingness to roll up its collective sleeves in the search for budget

savings. i am also incredibly appreciative of the hard work that my two-person finance staff, nate and colela, have put into developing the two supplementals and all of the supporting material. now, i'm going to turn it over to nate to walk you through today's presentation. >> thank you, katie. nate cruz of the finance division. let's go ahead and advance to the next slide. so before we get into the details of the supplemental that will be before you for a vote at the next meeting, it's worth looking at the port and through the bigger lens of the city overall. the economic impact of covid has been severe. as of march, the region in the metro area was down 80,000

jobs. initially, after the outbreak, it was down much more than that, so we've climbed back quite a bit, but we're still down 80,000 jobs. [please stand by]

volume will be there by the end of 24 but we won't see the spending return until the summer of 2025. when we take this timeline and apply it to the revenue history

during covid we come up with the forecast. i have a line graph but more than recovery, to provide context, this graph goes back 15 years to 2005. covid came around and it looked like we'll end this fiscal year somewhere back around $60 million where we were 15 years ago. you can see the recovery in medicine and those are forecast barrie ants and the pace of recovery slows as we wait for business and convention attend' that's that aspect of tourism to

return. over all, that valley, that v-shape. when you compare that to what we might call a normal year, a pre pandemic revenue levels, a pre pandemic revenue level might have been $110 million and the $120 million peak had one-time revenue it. but compared to $110 million, the revenue lost that would have been received have not been the pandemic is over $100 million. as you look back at the 2010 portion of the graph on the left, it doesn't even show up. it's merely a flattening of the line. that was last recession that we went through so, these are really unprecedented in times for us and we have to consider how to use our pre anxious precs

resources. when we think about how to use those scarce resources, those revenue dollars, we're an enterprise agency and we need to operate and we've done so without any general fund support and we need to maintain our mission and our revenue capacity at the same time. we have a duty to the maritime industry and to provide for the life safety of all the waterfront visitors, at the same time, we need town vest in our facilities so we can charge rent and exist and per duty as a perpetuity.capital investments t sufficient and before covid we have a one billion dollar backlog from a state of good repair perspective and we had been spending roughly 20 to $25 million a year to keep our facilities in good shape and we

can't afford that any longer. and the final thing we need to consider is our fund balance. that's the port savings account and our reserve account and we've been relying on that heavily through the pandemic. we can't just spend that down to zero and we've been working on our and we made a number of adjustments that you approved last summer. to summarize those quickly in the operating side, we

reidentified 12.5 million of savings and largely through staffing adjustments. we created what you could probably think of as a soft hiring freeze, we were only filling vacant positions that were critical to revenue or life safety and when we did so we tried to prioritize internal promotions. we also eliminated the creation of a number planned new positions and in addition to the staffing adjustments we had expenditures for our pro certainly ver ises contracting and equipment, service 0 other city departments and i.t. spending. on the capital side, we reduced by $29 million with the current fiscal year and largely by deferring the ports' investment in the mission bay ferry landing project. unfortunately that wasn't enough all by itself. we need to do quite a bit more so what's before you today is

i'll cover this in the operating side as well as the capital side. the slide before you shows the adjustment and overview of the adjustments to the operating budget. on the salaries and benefits side, and it cost $1.8 million and then we were able to identify additional savings to offset that by moving some port-funded position costs to non port funded positions or non port funded sources rather, if also those are going to be a

last resort there's a rent adjustment so that's the result of a market adjustment and materials and supplies and they are down because tour many of traffic along embarcadero and work orders show a increase just like the cost of living adjustments increases the ports salaries and benefit cost and it also increases those the department that's rewe lion ford

mitigate the full increase cost because we also reduced work orders due to decreased traffic and a street maintenance work order as well as a cruise ship security because of the reduced calls we think less security services. the next adjustment is problematic and $200,000 and to release because of the economic conditions, the likelihood of increased vacancy is real so i want to make sure we have the resources to get rent-paying

tenants in those facilities so we've increased that project budget and the last adjustment is a minor one of an increase of $73,000 and that effects the south beach harbor and it's effecting all city employees. next slide, please. the capitol spaces is broken into two components and the first is this deappropriation effort. we went through, port staff went through prior appropriations to try and identify places where we could recapture those funds we found from the projects in this slide and these are projects that are still certainly important projects and given our financial situations, we have a

ler priority and the deputy risked every project that we had that we had funded and identified those that were most important and those which fell below and lastly, the $11.5 million that the report had advanced to the resilience project when it was clear that litigation would low up their efforts to issue ponds and in

this supplemental appropriation, the resilience project is baiag the court back so all told that's that's up with portion. next slide, please. the other adjustment to the upcoming years budget. the last slide was prior budgets or prior appropriations. so the changes are to the project management office which is a staff of project managers dedicated delivering capital projects. we reduced $640,000 roughly from their budget by -- that reflects vacancy that were already in the office and as well as shifting some of their work to the resilience projects and some non port funded projects. we're also moving a fire protection engineer from the operating budget where it better fits. we're making no changes to the

waterfront resilience program appropriations that is to cover expenses which are not eligible for bonds proceeds. we're not making any changes to the homeland grant match. we're adding a million dollars to the port's over all contingency that's to allow and deal with cost overruns on existing projects and that way we have a trallized con stinziano again see when there are calls on it for different projects. we can prioritize which ones can benefit from the contingency and which ones might have to wait. we're also reinstituting the facility condition assessment project and we've where we see a team of engineers to really give us a granular look at the useful life of the different facilities and how much it would cost to replace it and what it really does is allows us to make a much

more data driven decisions when we're making these capital investments. it's been exhausted because of the fire and also our property insurance is is inkeysing so we need to replenish this amount if there are any additional problems and awe new project for a separate contingency for unforeseen products. it's an uncertain waterfront and things happen so any emergencies, any adc projects that might pop up, this is a separate contingency from the lines above and we have identified the responsible parties so, we're opening these funds can be largely reimbursed

but as quickly as the jurisdiction in charge of the harbor and make sure the clean up was not enter by negotiation and that funding was available to move things forward quickly and no changes in the southern waterfront and southern waterfront future indication means unadjusted and the project upgrades allow obviousel to call on pier 80 and those will move forward. so after the supplemental appropriation, there's still more work to do and this is a second step in what we're calling the economic recovery initiative. now, the results of that won't be seen until the next, the following budget years and fiscal year 22 and 23 and after that but the work to figure out what these improvements will be starts now to rethink and

redesign how the port delivers its services and the ultimately come out as a more financially sustainable port and changes might include and these are just hypothetical new revenue sources that will be pursuing stimulus and other forms of federal state relief, grants or debt funding for the funding we cannot afford. we might identify operating savings like resizing the ports space or new locations and tele commuting and identify through streamlining workflows and holding more positions vacant for longer than soft highering freeze again. we're looking at a inter fund borrowing situation where this is a new concept where we might be able to look to some of our sister agencies across the city to help us soften the blow of the covid-19 revenue short falls through an inter fund borrowing situation and that is still uncertain if that's going to workout at this point. as a last row sort, staff layoffs are also on the table.

again, the effort to understand what these changes might look like is starting now. the effects would not be implemented the fiscal 22, 23, 24 budget was presented to you next february roughly. what it would be before you for approval. next slide, please. so, this is a complicated slide and i apologize for that. this slide shows sort of an over vow of port finances for the next seven years, if we successfully implement this savings strategies that we talked about. the supplemental and the economic recovery initiatives savings that we need to accomplish. what you see walk through a year as an example is useful and the first column, fiscal year 2021, we started the year with a $68.5 million fund balance and showed the revenues coming in for the year and expenses going

out for a net operating income or a loss of almost $50 million. we anticipate basically taking $48.4 million out of our fund balance leaving us with $20.2 million. it carries over the to next year with the revenues coming in and expenses going out and the fund changes across the years. the blue rectangle represents the savings initiatives so that's where you see that capital defunding in the first row and the blue area of $38.3 million is critical and the new operating savings line, and some are on going savings and you see the savings continue in the out years and the future e.r.i. savings, the economic recovery initiatives savings are in that last blue years of the last row of that plumas area and

you can see we can make capital appropriations and you can see the out years, capital appropriations of $15 million a year and and we build back our fund balance of $38 million and ultimately, when the recovery is through we still need to build back fund balance closer to $60 million and it's during the crisis floor you could think of but a long-term target $160 million. next slide, please. so, as next steps, we'll be before you at the next hearing for approval of the supplemental appropriation budget. and it goes to the board of supervisors and that includes those step one savings that we identified and are baked into that supplemental appropriation. and then the deputies will begin the economic recovery initiative work in april and the work that

goes into identifying those savings will be done over the next month. many months really. but implementation will come in the following budget cycle and fy22, 23, 24, obviously, we'll be before you with updates as the eri process sort of advances and more information is available. and with that, that's the end of my presentation and i'm happy to take questions. before we move forward, can you tell us briefly when you guys did the port and the couplet were there any comments or concerns that we should be aware of? >> no, i think at the hearing we had comments that were largely appreciate of a of the hearings being so inclusive and making sure we have an opportunity to

receive public comment and elaine, did you have any relation of feedback that would be useful for the commission? >> i do recall that staff asked questions about voluntary work furlough. that is something that voluntarily staff can take but it cannot be mandatory without a city wide effort so we clarified that. other than that, i would conquer with nate. it was thanks for coming and explaining all the information and being transparent. staff has known we're facing financial challenges for some time just by looking at our portfolio and knew before covid-19 that port had financial challenges and so they were pleased to hear and concerned about the layoff news and were looking forward to that being a last resort and hopeful that we

would find other strategies, obviously. >> great, thank you. i'm really happy we were proactive and went to the employees and the communities and told our story. thank you so much. ok, now let's and you open the phone lines and take public and members of the public who are joining us on the phone. jennifer will be our operator and. >> at the time, we will cope the queue for anyone on the phone who with like to make public comment on items 10a. please dial star 3. the system when your line is open and others will wait on mute until they're line is open. comments will be limit today

three minutes and dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. >> there are no callers on the line wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. >> public comment is closed. commissioner. >> thank you, katie and nate for this report. i know you worked really hard and looked under all the stones you could look at to come back with this difficult exercise. i think it's very telling to me that 15 years of progress that can be wiped out in just one year and in terms of revenue and it's very dramatic and impactful and i appreciate that slide. i know you have gone through lots of detail to prioritize all these various lines and i'm not

going to go into impressions but there were a couple that i did have and a trade off i wanted to understand better. now, i understood and of course it feels prominent that we are going to experience a typical normal rate increase in our rent at pier 1. it's waterfront partners and our landlord so to speak and are we paying it to simon -- well, yes, i guess i said that correctly. what we have done for our tenants and given our current situation it just seems to us that have we had a discussion to discuss how that rate can be slowed down given our circumstances since we have done so much work for our district tenants rather than just feel like this isn't the contract, and i'm a little surprised,

also, to be honest, that we should have known about that 3 million when we prepared the budget to begin with if they were start to look at commercial rents in san francisco, that rate increase is probably going to be an outlier if not already, very soon. because rents are coming down. so, i just feel like that's an item that i think we need to press back and have a conversation to see what we can do about that rent increase because it's a big number. a lower increase but we should not just accept as is and because we worked very hard with the other end and we're on the

receiving end this time ourselves so that's comment your one. the other comment, which is a very tough one because i know it's very near and tear to several commission's hearts and the southern waterfront fund and we haven't touched that because we have delayed projects but i question is the projects that you have prioritized to proceed with that if we did not do them, that the state of repair would get worse and it would cost us more to repair. i think if we have projects that we want to do that are near and tear to our hearts as the southern bue case should we not considering, eliminate, would we consider whether we do more trade off on that number. if it's just to beautify and not because we're trying to prevent

more delaptation and i would suggest we look at this number too and see whether we can come in a little closer. those are the two lines that really, i looked at this, really sort of spoke to me about if you were going to i request that effort. i think those were the two that stood out for me whether we needed to take another look and analyze and examine with the idea, with the philosophy that i are tick lated we're on the receiving end of the rent increase and on the other, it's whether in a difficult time, if we wait on some of the projects under the southern waterfront beautification fund, could we

time them as far as going forward and i firstly think that we may see the business and convention tourism resume a little faster but i certainly am not a perfect -- i'm not an expert. that would be a hope and i'm hoping ha tourism perhaps will return sooner than later to san francisco but that is something that has to reply out and that would just be an advantage if that took place. i'm going to end here because the phone is ringing here and

making noise. >> thank you. so, i will -- i am not an expert on the process that we are engaging in with our landlord for pier 1. so, i might look to rebeca for a little assistance on what the lease speaks to in terms of the process and i can say that the lease does in deed include a process for determining what the reset market rent will be. it involves a -- i'm having a senior moment. an assessment, yes -- [laughter] thank you, becca. and we're doing that right now

and so that should take into account market conditions as of now and then we will compare the port -- we will have an appraisal and then we'll compare them and then if we are unable to get to an agreement then we will go into some kind of an arbitration process. beck a. i think you can probably speak to this a little more elegantly than i can. >> good afternoon. rebeca from real estate and development. katie had it correct. they provided their offer of the rent which our finance team rightly and constructor actively included in the budget and we've asked that we have anna praiser look at it so we have an appraiser and they are involved in this process as well and they may use anna praiser of their

own sort of market information and hopefully will agree on rent and if not we have to go through arbitration. we have go through this with our tenants. as well as waterfront plaza last year they went through a market rate reset with us where we did increase their rent through that market rate reset process and we're looking at all of the potential options on the table in terms of the negotiations. we're very cognizant of that shape that made showed us which shows we're going to come out and it's going to take us time and the market rate reset for pier 1 occurs every 10 years so we have 10 years that we're thinking about really closely with nate and kady to troy to match all of our negotiation informs what we expect the revenues to be. so much more to report on that as we proceed. right now, we're engage in looking at the marketplace and other vacancies in pier 1 and

leases signed around us. we're looking closely to make sure we get the best deal we can for the port. >> so you are not hearing what i try to say. you followed the process correctly 6789 and i appreciate the reset process and in normal times it wouldn't be an issue. we've gone out of our way, because it's not normal times, to figure out how to accommodate our tenants. we're not insolvent at this point but you can see the dramatic impact of what the pandemic had on us. we said share the pain, share the prosperity in discussions. yes, there's the contract that is legalities and the attorneys can argue with each other in terms of how this process works. i just think that for us, and it seems like the number is a surprise, it came in this version of the budget. it didn't come no the earlier version so it's a surprise so it

wasn't anticipated. so, why that happens, that's a whole different discussion, we don't have to go into that. i do think, given what it is and given our circumstances, it's not a question of did we follow the right process, and i am a process person, i think this is just sitting down and saying this is what we're all the circumstances we're doing, how can we figure out a way that works for you and us and not just say, forget everything else that's gone on in the world and last year, and we'll just follow exactly what the contract says. that's what i'm talking about. so, it does mean that, and i'm giving you cover to say that we support that everyday to negotiate a better teal and i hope they support me in saying that pel. >> very good. >> so, is to you fund i would

just say there were a number of years in which we s we should have been into the fund and we failed to do so and in some extent what you are seeing in terms of budget for reunification fund over the a catch up for where we owe the fund from prior years. i'm not sure if that is helpful orb but it is definitely the case. >> i'm aware of that and so it's a tough and painful conversation to have when you are in the circumstances that we are, all i'm asking is to take a look at it and i understand that i wish we had spent the money when we had the money and now we don't have the money so it's a tough

decision to make so i just think that in terms of balancing against the fact that keep we must have reserve and we cannot lose our ability to bond in the future so we have to make sure that we are keeping on what we can in possible and so i -- that's just my own suggestion is to take a look at it and i'm not saying take it out entirely, stretch it out and be creative. we still want to continue on that path. i know we discussed it but we did not do when we had more money and i wish we had the money and we wouldn't have this painful discussion today but i think it's my fiduciary responsibility as a commission to point that out at this time. it's a little more, what i'm saying, there's a little more discretion to it than -- it's different than what we talked

about as far as the rent increase so i leave it on those two items because they jump outside at me most in terms of where i thought i could make a contribution in the discussion. i appreciate you have worked hard on this and i know it's never easy and to go through the budgeting and i appreciate doing the right thing and we want them to do the right thing and we want to do the right thing for the beautification fund as well. it's all timing. >> thank you very much for that and i will say that this is felt like a series of very choices we're making here. >> first of all i want to start,

katie and seth, thanking you for all the hard work and diligence. it's obvious from the report and how you went through it and i have similar on the rent issue at commissioner that could be a place that provides support. this could be my blind spot so i apologize. prologic is -- i guess i'm confuse. i thought along the waterfront all of the fiscal assets, technically, are part of the public trust support san francisco and so with prologic be our master tenant who has been leasing back to us? i'm trying to under the leasing relationship? >> yes. >> they can't be the owner, they must be the master tenant? >> correct. >> so then i do want to say i do think -- i want to advise push back regardless of the appraisal

and the office rental market because i disagree with the controller's assessment of tele coming back. it showed on your slide it was 23 or 24. it's just more in other work i do, in my day job i'm not sure only 10% office work returning that robustly to san francisco is -- i'm much more weary about that. i think than the numbers you showed out that came out of the controller office particularly with mtv and abag looking for the reductions they're looking for over all for the bay. to talk about the amount of increase and whether the increase should be suspended and kicking at a later date so i think we should explore that and they are our master -- someone

needed a duel role and there's a master tenant and i want to look at if there's rent load and other sites to us, et cetera, before we enter into this rent increase and it just at this point seems a little absurd particularly if there's any funds that are owed to us from them. or other projects or for the master lease and anything they have on port property and i hope we can explore that and look into that. and then the only other thing i was going to know was just, i do not think the return to work will be as robust. i grow that business and tourism will pick up faster and there's pent up demand and i'm really concerned about office and over all for the city and vacancies are down and so, i just, you know, want us, for our own office that we manage and the

fact that our businesses rely on staffing, in the city, being in the financial district and it drives other business enterprises on the port and i think the controller is beg optimistic that those were my two comments and i want to thank the staff and the department division heads for doing the exercise and i know how hard this could be. and just one last question. on the possibility my understanding was those are vacancies and i just wanted to clarify that. >> the vacancies that we're carrying in the project management office are staff who are managing capital projects so

delivery of capital projects and not working on development projects so, the development projects are going to ultimately be an economic engine for us and we are really trying to focus resources on places where we know ultimate low they will help -- help us make money sothere s a result of those vacancies. >> thank you. i assume also, i know whether staff -- and we're doing that crosswalk to have equitable distribution with how we balance our own books and move forward with projects we need to do. >> looking at all of these decisions through an equity lens whether it's reduction of projects or if we end up in a

place where we have to effect layoffs and i'm very conscious of wanting to do that in as equitable a manner as possible. >> thank you, again, to all the staff in your team for all diligence you put no this presentation. thank you. >> thank you. >> no comment. >> thank you. vice president -- >> thank you for the presentation. madam president, i'd like to get the executive director's feedback. >> certainly. this is the most difficult financial charge that the port has faced. i think staff has done a very, very good job balancing with what we call low-hanging fruit.

this is a supplemental that adjusts the budget you already approved. given the grave situation we're face tag this balanced budget does include up to five layoffs, we're hoping to avoid those five layoffs with other balancing strategies primarily layoffs and resignations in and the following years the financial challenges are more extreme and it will be more difficult to avoid layoffs so, getting stimulus funding is important and the first strategy we'd like to deploy but we're really facing the most dire, significant downturn, the port has faced and the line graph is an important graph to show that in the last downturn, our revenues were essentially flat. this is not the situation now.

so those would be my primary comments but i think port staff has done an excellent job balancing where what we call low-hanging fruit and cutting tremendous amounts, almost $40 million out of capital, et cetera, in order to about the and move forward with only up to five layoffs. >> thank you, director forbes. and as i said, katie and nate, they laid it out and i wanted to hear from you. at the end of the day, what would we rather face? what is behind us. what is in front of us. and i think katie and nate and director forbes, you just laid out the truth unvarnished and that's what we needed to hear, as painful as it is. and commission, i agree with where your point is but this commission, we have to make some he decisions and they're going to be painful.

that's our job. that's why the mayor appointed us to make these tough decision and we have the brain power and we're going to do what we have to do and i just appreciate the staff bringing it to us and no one can play monday morning quarterback, we haven't been here. lock around at the city of all the businesses that are boarded up in this city and everybody that is feeling the pain and we are not immune from feeling pain too. is i have a better understanding and the truth is laid out to us and as a commission, we have to decide to lead to the path of resistance and not a decision.

we have to make a decision, stand behind it and own it. thank you. >> thank you, vice president adams. and thank you katie and nate and the whole team for putting this presentation together. i know this was extremely hard and extremely difficult and painful because just to see, you know, where we were and where we are and where we still have to go is difficult. i have the same concerns the commissioners and not knowing that was coming up right now and i think as you guys have done, we continued to look at out of the box ideas and so i recommend that we have a conversation to

see if we can see layer do something to -- because we're going to have to work with our tenants and we do have a bottom less balance sheet, as we can see. regarding the southern waterfront and the beautification funds, as we see over the past year we've not spent much money. and as we can see, most is coming from the seven waterfront. during this time maritime has really saved us. our revenues have come from maritime. and so, we're defunding what has saved us, so you know, we keep taking our focus away from infrastructure and building up our maritime industry that is

now saving us because there is no tourist so we have to be mindful of where we invest in our recovery. the funds are not used for just beautification. we use those funds to finish the park, we're using those funds to funds our loans programs to get through it. so, the staff is making extremely hard decisions and which comes to, i know that we have policies so how do these decisions affect our policies as far as the capital investments policy requiring 25% of operating revenue to be satisfied and operating reserve equal to 15% of operating

expenses. so how does this new proposed budget effect that and are you asking us to change our policies? >> i believe the staff report addresses this very briefly and you are correct, commissioner brandon, that we are not able right now to meet the policy of setting aside 25% of net revenue for capital for the 15% reserve requirement. so, we do not in no way that we

for the fiscal '21 and '22 budget and that would be with one requesting approval. so, based on that policy, what you are asking of us, would be final numbers, so, for reserve .>> so, such an excellent question and one that i am not

prepared to answer one we can get the answer to so if not needing those policies where are we. >> clerk: 11a request approval of a resolution recommending the board of supervisors approve the mission rock community facilities district financing and including the issuance of bonds and an aggregated principal amount not to exceed $68 million and the execution and deliver row of financing documents including one the form of bond purchase agreements and

the form of first supplemental to fiscal agency agreement and continuing disclosure certificate and form of preliminary official statements and authorization and directing the executive director to cause the package to be submitted to the board of supervisors and to work with the director of the office of public financial to finalize the distribution of the preliminary official statement and the issuance of bonds and this is resolution 21-11. >> thank you, >> good afternoon, president brandon, vice president adams, commissioners. my name is raven anderson. i'm a project manager with the port's real estate and development team. i'm here to present this request for your approval of a resolution recommending a second mission rock community facilities district public financing.

next slide, please. and next slide again. in september 2019, after many years of hard work from the developer, the port, and the city, the port approved the mission rock phase one funding, shown here. horizontal and vertical construction is well underway, which is exciting. this includes residential buildings with 537 new homes, including 199 new below market rate units. it also includes two office buildings with over 550,000 square feet of office buildings. one of these buildings is also exploring science research buildings. 5.5 open spaces and parks, including china basin open park. horizontal work is approximately 25% complete and

two vertical buildings, building a and building g, are currently under construction. next slide, please. this slide shows the overall financing structure of the mission rock project. at the bottom of the graphic, you can see the early sources of funding for mission rock. these include developer and port equity, which are the earliest sources of funding. developer equity is used to fund the horizontal infrastructure including roads, sewers, and other utilities, and this is subject to an 18% return. other sources of funding include the land value of the vertical parcels, such as the four prepaid ground leases for the buildings i described earlier, and the final source of funds is made up to two special tax district, the community facilities district or c.f.d. they're a special assessment on

top of the standard property tax assessment and i.f.d. or infrastructure development captures the infrastructure as it's developed. they're both designed to pay the developer for the early funding sources, including the 18% developer return. to limit this return, the port's strategy is always to use the c.f.d.-i.f.d. sources whenever possible. essentially, we always want to replace that 18% return with lower interest bonded debt. next slide, please. here's a high-level overview of the phase one budget as it was approved by the port commission in september 2019. the total cost for this phase is 265.5 million. of that, 145.4 million are in

reimbursement development costs and the rest is in development and return. these are figures from 2019, and due to delays on horizontal permitting and the bond issuance, it's possible the return amount here shown may have changed. staff will be bringing a more detailed presentation to the commission in the next few months. we have the prepaid lease value, including c.f.d. bond proceeds as well as pay-go taxes, which are just c.f.d. and i.f.d. taxes that we do not form into bonds. so this bond issuance uses the c.f.d. as it providary source, specifically, the development tax. there are four types of special

taxes c.f.d.s as mission rock, as you can see on the slide, and this allows tax increment in the i.f.d. allows it to offset the special taxes by pledging tax increment to the debt service of the bonds. this increases the value of the port vaez canned by reducing the long-term tax burden on the site. next slide, please. the amount of bonds that can be sold is limited by two factors. the first is on the going special tax paid by the tax owners and the second is the c.f.d. itself. for the first approved bond sale, which the port commission approved in october 2020, the development special tax capacity from the first four parcels far exceeds the debt

service coverage required for the initial bonds. the max taxes that can be charged on these parcels comes to $14 million per year, while the next bond is just $1.8 million in that first year, so there's signature capacity there, and we will always size bonds and debt service coverage required to the amount of revenues available. so the limiting factor for that first issue waens was the appraised value of the c.f.d. leasehold itself. the city has a policy of only issuing c.f.d. debt with at least a three-to-one please fall ratio. so it must be three times the amount of bonds and any other special tax debt.

next slide, please. that value of the c.f.d. as established by appraisal is why we have the opportunity for a second round of special tax bonds for mission rock. it exceeds the first issuance amount, and the appraised value of the c.f.d. at that time was 130 million. since then, the developer has received their permits, their notice to proceed, and they've begun making significant investments on both horizontal and vertical improvements at the site, including paying two quite large impact fees on the vert al parcels. based on this spending, the latest draft appraisal, which has a date of february 21, 2021, estimates the value of the c.f.d. leasehold to be$334 million, so over a $200 million increase. that $334 million amount

divided by three gives us a maximum of 111.3 million in phase one bonds, so staff is recommending a second issuance of up to $68 million. $68 million plus $43 million gets us to that 111 million figure. that $68 million figure could come down as we work with the city's department of finance and developer, and those factors could result in issuing less than the 68 million when we get close to bond sale. fundamentally, we want to make sure that the size is appropriate to relatively small but valuable size of the district, but given the rate of spend and the development progress at the site, we think

it's worthwhile to request the maximum authorization at this point. that additional $68 million would have significant benefits to the project's economics by allowing us to replace that developer return with low interest public financing. that will allow us to confirm our land values in later phases. the project has also encountered some delays in permitting, and the first bond sale which somewhat offset this good news. the development team and port staff are monitoring these impacts and will come back to the commission with a full report on where things stand in the next few months. next slide, please. this is a high level of the sources and uses from this proposed issuance. the sale of $68 million in bonds could result in resources

of total 71.1 million debt premium. the main uses for this amount would be towards project improvement fund in order to repay eligible development costs, mainly horizontal infrastructure costs. next slide, please. during the informational item on this issuance two weeks ago, commissioner woo hohad asked about potential increase in rates. you can see on the table on this slide that this would take us from $64.4 million to $56.7 million in proceeds with a borrowing rate of 4.7%. this would result in a decrease

of 7.7 million in bond proceeds, but our goal is to always replace that 18% developer return with public finances, so even though that would be a decrease in the total amount of public financing, it would allow us to move forward in pretty much any foreseeable rate environment. so as such, staff is asking your approve asking that the board of supervisors approve the project moving forward as well as the form of financing document and authorizing and directing the executive director to cause the package to be submitted to the board and to work with the office of public finance to finalize and distribute the preliminary official statement and the statement of bonds. staff are aiming to get all the required legislative approvals this spring before budget

hearings and the board of supervisors summer recess. that would give us time to price close and issue the bonds during the summer. thank you, commissioners. that concludes my presentation. i'm here with rebecca bendesini, and phil williamson, the senior director at project mission rock, to answer your questions. thank you. >> thank you for your presentation. commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> now let's open it up for public comment. we will open the phone lines to take public comment on item 11-a. members of the public on the phones, jennica will be our operator and provide instructions for anyone who would like to provide public comment.

>> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on 11-a. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when the line is open. others will wait on mute until their turn it open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> thank you, jennica. is there any public callers on the phone? >> president brandon, there are no callers on the line wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. seeing no callers on the line, public comment is closed. commissioner gilman? >> thank you so much for the staff report, and you did a great informational before. i have no questions, and i'm supportive of the item. >> thank you. commissioner barton? >> yeah, i have two questions.

i hope they're not late. who's going to buy these bonds? >> thank you, commissioner. it's rebecca bendesini. raven, would you like me to begin the answer? >> yes. >> thank you. commissioner, because the bonds are unrated, we expect that institutional investors will purchase bonds: insurance companies, investment companies. raven, just in and correct me if i am wrong, but that's what we've understood from d.p.f., department of public finance. >> and what's the rate that the

bonds are going to pay? >> thank you, commissioner. we don't know it rate, but raven, you did have the range at what our consultants at p.s.m. had started to give us. >> we're estimating a range of 3.25 to 4% on these. >> okay. and just one question -- i apologize. it might be late, but i was there -- it was a long time

[inaudible] and a very good piece of property, and half of the people are working at home, and according to the guy who owns my building, it's kind of tough on this kind of rental business. now what effect does covid -- i'm sure it wasn't taken into consideration with anything with the giants because nobody knew about it. but there's an awful lot of office space that's going up for sale or for rent or for

leasing existing office buildings. will that in some way have any adverse effect on what we're hoping to reap from this situation? >> thank you, commissioner. really good questions that we've been asking and are -- the office of public finance has been asking. >> did anybody answer it? >> oh, yes. i'm sorry. can you hear me? >> i'm sorry. i'm a wise ass. >> no problem. it's rebecca bendesini. we have layers of protection. the first thing that everybody needs to know is we are the general fund, the harbor fund. none of our funds are at risk the rest of the land at lot a, which is under the lease to the

master developer, they are on the hook to pay the taxes or they would be found to be in default under their lease, so we're relying on their extreme economic incentive to hold onto their leaseholds. they have now paid for the leaseholds for the four building sites, and as raven mentioned, they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to start permitting and start construction. mission rock is very pleased to have one of the office buildings preleased. they're marketing the second building, as raven mentioned, potentially to life sciences, and there's two apartment sites. >> they're preleased? >> one of the sites is preleased. >> i'm sorry. was it the building or residential sites preleased?

>> those are not leased. those, when they're completed in 18 months to 24 months, they hope to lease them much closer to completion. it's their belief that the market will be there when the buildings are ready. >> okay. just one last question. did they make their best precovid or post covid? >> both. so the first building was leased to visa, but the subsequent three buildings -- mission rock have made their bet despite covid. they've decided to continue with construction and shoulder the construction costs.

they've straddled construction and leasing costs. we're grateful to see the rates are still okay in terms of what the bond will sell for. >> okay. thank you very much. >> of course. >> thank you. commissioner woo ho? >> yeah, i think i'm fine. i think all the questions have been asked, and i think we've already had a discussion on this last time, so i don't have any further questions at this time. i'm supportive, and i think we should go after the bond now while we're still in a position to go after bonding. and while we hoped that we had done this sooner, the interest rate would be even lower, and we could take more out of it, but it is what it is, and the rate that's presented is still -- helped us to reduce the developer return, and so that still makes good economics for us, so i'm supportive.

>> thank you. vice president adams? >> president brandon, i have no questions. i'm supportive, and all of my questions have been answered. >> great. thank you, raven, for the great report. i guess my only question is who is the underwriter? >> raven, do you want to go ahead and answer that? >> sure. so stiefel is the underwriter. they were selected via citywide r.f.p. by the office of department finance. the comanager has since shed its municipal securities business, so i believe now it's just stiefel as the underwriter. >> okay. we have a motion and a second.

can we have a roll call. >> clerk: absolutely. [roll call] >> motion passes unanimously. resolution 2111 is adopted. call the next item, please. >> that would be item 11-b, which requests approval to amend and restate the existing memorandum of understanding for a [inaudible] in support of the city's public health response to covid-19 to one, extend the term until the later of october 31, 2021 or the end of the mayor's emergency health declaration; and two, clarify that rent for use of the site is due for the entire term

beginning april 2020. this is resolution number 2112. >> good afternoon, president brandon and commissioners. rebecca bendesini, here to present this m.o.u. i want to recognize the entire cost recovery team. i will be presenting this item with star kay hahn from covid command. let's go ahead and go to the next slide and i'll talk about what we're going to present to you today. before you is to approve a restated m.o.u. for seawall lot 344. i'll present the terms of the amended and restated m.o.u. and then star will provide the operational update, and we'll come back for q&a at the end of

the next slide, please. you all will remember this m.o.u. which we executed last year, it's with the human services agency. it's to provide a temporary shelter site. there are only two key changes to the m.o.u. that we're asking for approval today. first is to extend the term to the later of october 21, 2021 or the end of the health emergency. the current m.o.u. expires april 30 this year. we also are clarifying that rent is due for the site when the m.o.u. was originally approved by the court commission, we were directed to go seek cost recovery through all available covid grants. when we entered that last year in april, the city was just standing up a very robust response to fight the virus, and the port was doing its part

by entering into agreements to be part of the solution in the hope that other city agencies would work with us to get cost recovery for port property when the funds were available, and we're now at the point where we think they're going to be available. next slide, please. you all know the background very well. february 23 was when the local emergency declaration was called back in 2020. we entered the m.o.u. last year, april. the m.o.u., we've had many presentations about port's response to covid. you all will know that port maintenance and other city agencies worked very quickly and hard to standup the site, getting about 120 park mobile homes and r.v.'s for potential

tenants who were living on the streets and needed a space to reside safely who are over age 60 or have underlying medical conditions that make them more susceptible. we're requesting your approval today for some key reasons. i wanted to recognize randy quezada and renee hoshima. they've had a ten-month track record of very good operations. we're really grateful that the cost recovery team, who works closely with fema, has understood that the parameter rents that the port charges is market rate and can be part of the cost recovery packages. the m.o.u. as amended and once

we're able to gain approval will be due, the total rent for that total portion of the site of seawall lot 44 is a little more than 352,000. next slide, please. so star, i'd love to hand it over to you, and we'll both be available for question-and-answer at the end. >> thank you very much, rebecca. thank you very much, president boston marathon don and vice president adams. i want to thank you for taking time to hear from the human

services agency on the operations. i'm currently one of the commanders here at the covid command center. you can see that i'm deployed here at the moscone center with my mask on. i've been here since march 17, when we began standing up the alternative shelter program where the r.v.s are situated. we utilized 91 trailers that were donated by the state as well as 29 trailers that the city purchased through central shops. all are managed through h.s.a.s facilities management division. we quinnly began accepting guests into the program, and that started on may 13. there are a total of is 20 residential trailers there, with 117 currently in use.

we keep three trailers offline in case someone has to move, we have somewhere to move them to. program management of the site transitioned from the c.c.c. to the department of homelessness and supportive housing last month, and program operations from the very beginning have been provided by a community based organization under contract with h.s.h. as of yesterday, we had 118 guests on-site. we've had 49 guests exit the site, seven of which went to permanent housing, which is a positive outcome. the majority of our exits were voluntary, so people would just abandon their site, and we don't have necessarily great data on where they went. we have one that went to the

hospital, one that had a safety issue, and two that passed away. d.p.h. is on-site providing health services kwies a week, and we have security under contract with v.i.p. for on-site private security. next slide. district 10 residents may be referred right from the street, from temporary shelter resources, or from the generalings safe sleep program. as a shelter site, the program continues to prioritize covid vulnerable individuals. d.p.h. staff are supporting guests with scheduling their vaccine appointments as soon as they're eligible, so they're reaching out to guests that were there, and as of yesterday, we have six guests that received their first doses, and 11 have received their first doses.

so we identify guests through multiple sources, including bayview-hunters point providers, the homeless outreach time and data systems that we use to identify the most vulnerable people in shelter. and then finally, the last slide, this is a recent photo of the site, and i just want to say we're incredibly grateful to be working in partnership with the port to provide the critical shelter in place services it offers the residents of-s 10 during the pandemic. and we continue to partner with the community and engage with business owners. we work closely to make sure that any complaints that we're hearing about, we follow up on. finally,i just want to thank the port for your on going

support of this critical program, and i'll hand it back to you, rebecca. >> thank you so much. that concludes our presentation, and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you for your presentation. commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> okay. let's open it up for public comment. we will open up the phone lines to take public comment on item 11-b. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 11-b. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to

three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> thank you, jennica. do we have anyone on the phone? >> president brandon, at this time, there are no callers on the line wishing to make public comment on this item. >> thank you. seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner woo ho? >> thank you. thank you very much for this report. i mean, i think this is now an action item. we have the information, and today, i think some of the questions that we asked, we have the answered today. i have no further questions and am supportive of the item. >> thank you. commissioner gilman? >> hi, thank you. i'm support of the item, but i actually do have a couple of questions. so this is more for katie and

port staff. we will be reimbursed from the very first day we entered into the m.o.u.? >> am. sorry, becca. >> it's okay. >> we have been working with the controller's staff as well as the cost recovery staff. and the way this is going to work is the port is going to invoice h.s.a. for prior rent reaching back to the beginning of the agreement, and once we invoice them, they will pay the port, and then, the city will submit proof of payment, essentially, to fema to request federal government reimbursement. >> okay. great. i mean, that's what i assumed, but i just wanted to make sure that's correct. i think just to note from my fellow commissioners, and

seeing in the staff report, under the biden-harris administration, the city is receiving 100% fema reimbursement where under the trump administration, we were paying 25% from the general fund. so i just wanted to note for our commissioners that it's all federal funds and a little bit of stimulus that we're getting for this one thing. and then, another question, i don't know if you can answer this. this is a question, i guess, for you is has there been any consideration -- and i'm not trying to put the cart before the horse, but has there been any consideration of using the site beyond the pandemic and beyond the emergency, which we -- you know, female a -- you know, or fema reimbursement of october 31? >> that would be up to the department of homelessness and supportive housing to really think about if they would like to continue that beyond the

council of human services. it may be that folks would want to keep that program going, so i think that is an open question right now, and that's something i could follow up with on h.s.h. as they're looking at their entire portfolio and budget as to what they would want to do, and of course, contingent on port authority around that, and yeah, so that's something i think they would be open to considering. >> yeah, and thank you. i know you're not in a position to answer that, because you know you're at the command center, and that's part of that, but i just wanted to call the question because, you know, i would hope we do everything we can to ensure that we do everything we can to ensure that those people don't return to the streets and remain in

public housing. >> thank you. commissioner burton? >> yeah. i'm pleased to hear what we're trying to do on the homeless issue. i have always felt that the department of homelessness wasn't worth two cents, and i'm glad that the port are doing some things to take care of our fellow human beings, so i just want to congratulate you on that. >> thank you. vice president adams? >> president brandon, i'm supportive of the issue, and i like commissioner burton's comment. thank you. >> thank you so much for the report. i'm glad that we're getting pay for the site. i'm glad we are able to help out as we have throughout the

pandemic in so many different ways, especially with getting our homeless off the street, and i'm glad that the program is a success. again, i think this'll be a success all over the city, and it would be phenomenal if all of the city participated in these efforts so we can get all of these homeless off of the street. this is part of a strategy to increase the maritime opportunity, so i think as successful as this is, this is a citywide issue, and i think their other sites that would have to engage in something like this. i would move for this to continue, but i'm just not sure

that this is the right place for it. thank you for the report, thank you for the success of the project, and may we have a roll call vote. >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> motion passes unanimously. resolution 2112 is adopted. call the next item, please. >> that would be item 12-a, which requests authorization to award construction contract number 2814-r, crane cobuilding to commit man development and construction in the amount of $1,879,600 and authorization for contract contingency fund

amount or $187,960. this is resolution 2113. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is erica peterson. i'll be giving today's presentation requesting authorization to ward construction contract 2814-r. this will construct a partial building rehabilitation including an existing building at crane co park. this is an existing action item to award crane co park, building 49, which i'll just call building 49, to the lowest bid published on february 1 of this year. the amount of this contract is

1,879,600, and authorization includes a 10% contingency amount. in this presentation, i will talk about how this contract meets the port's strategic objects, advertisement and scope, port'sout reach, provide a comparison of the bids, introduce the l.b.e.s and subcontractors, and the proposed schedule. next slide, please. crane co park is a public outdoor space that will provide additional amenities to the public which will provide a space for future tenants such

as a cafe or kayak rental company. building 49 will be prepared for future tenants, and awarding this contract today will help get a tenant in the building sooner, providing essential revenue for the port. and lastly, this uses general obligation funds as a funding source which were [inaudible] next slide, please. craneco park opened to the public on september 30, 2020. the overall crane co park project is divided into five

contracts, including this contract. this is contract number five, the yellow one, and it will complete the last contract of the overall crane co park contract. the other that's still under construction is 19 and georgia street, the green number three, and that is anticipated to be complete in the second quarter of this year. since building 49 is the last contract to have been advertised, port staff are very pleased to announce that the bids for the final contract came in under budget, and the overall craneco park project is anticipated to stay within the $36 million budget. next slide, please. the scope for this contract is a partial building renovation and construction of public rest rooms inside the building. scope includes demolition, concrete slab and grade beam work, restaurant construction, including plumbing, hvac,

electrical, roof replacement, exterior siding replacement, new doors, and a small amount of painting. utility services for the park are housed in building 49, and this contract will complete the construction of the electrical and mechanical rooms, some of which you can see a photo of from construction, we completed during the park improvement contract. the added alternative was to replace siding and it will be cl youed in the contract. next slide, please. staff advertised this contract on february 1 and held an optional prebid meeting on february 19 via conference.

the prebid meeting was attended by 21 contractors, 19 of which are l.b.e. firms. site visits were mandatory for contractors, and 13 contracts attended sites for all of the meetings. on march 2, we opened bids from seven contractors. staff have reviewed the bid and determined that whitman's construction is the lowest and responsible contractor. you can see the bid summary here. one bid was withdrawn by the bidder afterward, and all bidder but one were l.b.e.s. from these bid results, it seems like the current bidding requirements are currently in the port's favor.

next slide. the low bidder, whitman developer and construction, is local in san francisco. they've participated in many san francisco projects, including new golder gate rest rooms for rec and park, school related construction and intern housing for school district, and a few other photos here on the slide are from recent projects. they also qualify as responsible per the safety procedures we've checked per the admin code. next slide. c.m.d. established a 20% l.b.e. contractor participation for this project. whitman exited to 35.# 8% l.b.e. subcontractor participation. over 75% of the work will be

performed by l.b.e.s. i left turns noted that four of the l.b.e.s are in the bayview-hunters point neighborhood. whitman's bid, plus a 10% contingency, is within the project's budget. as this is the last contract to be bid for the overall crane co park project, we are pleased to know that it is anticipated to stay within budget. if you approve this today, we anticipate construction to begin in may of this year and will be on track to have substantial completion by november of this year. next slide, please. in conconclusion, we respectfully request that you award this contract to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, whitman

development and construction. we are looking forward to completing the last piece of craneco park. myself and representatives from whitman are here to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you for your presentation. commissioners, may i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> now let's open this up for public comment. we will have [inaudible] jennica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 12-a. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when wrur line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person.

the queue is now open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> thanks, jennica. we will now take public comment on the phone. >> president brandon, at this time, there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. seeing no members of the public on the phone, public comment is now closed. commissioner gilman? >> yes. thank you so much for the report, erica. i'm just super excited to see us moving forward on crane copark. i have no questions, and i'm fully supportive of awarding this contract. >> thank you. commissioner burton? >> no comment. >> thank you. commissioner woo ho? >> yes. i'm very supportive of the project and also have no

further comments or questions. thanks. >> thank you. vice president adams? >> president brandon, i'm supportive of the project. no questions. thank you. >> great. erica, you did such a great presentation. i think we're all very supportive. can we please have a roll call vote? >> absolutely. on resolution 2113 -- [roll call] >> the motion passes unanimously. resolution 2113 is adopted. all next item, please. >> item number 13 is new business. >> i've recorded questions from the budget presentation about our commission policies and how we're meeting those. that will be covered in the agenda item on april 13. is there any other new

business? >> elaine, elaine? >> yes. >> i would suggest the follow up on the budget was also for you all to take another look at the items that we raised, and so we need some feedback in terms of your further second look at the items raised, so not so much about the policies, but the actual two items that were brought up. >> thank you so much. yes, thank you. >> director forbes, i'd like to see -- this is not an urgent item, since i know that port and staff have a lot on our plate, but i'd like to think about, when we're thinking about port recovery, about making the port continuously accessible to communities of color, so whether that's port programming, field trips to the

exploretorium or the aquarium or cruise ship terminal, etc. that's just one item that i'd like us to keep in mind when we're talking about recovering, so engaging the community and getting them back to the waterfront. and then, my second informational, it can be a written staff report or informational on the ferry building. i am concerned that there's several shuttered shore fronts at the ferry building plaza, and that cow girl creamery which was a tenant anchor, they're shuttering their doors. so what is the short-term plan for other pop up industry to use space? again, small businesses run by communities of color,

businesses, and neighborhoods bordering the ferry building? they did a lovely event for lunar new year. i'd like to know if they're extending that and how we can broaden that to bayview, dogpatch, other kind of made in s.f. merchandise? >> any other new business? >> yes. i'd like to get an update from commissioner -- not commissioner -- director forbes. what about that building, the world trade center behind the farmers market. can you let us know what's going to happen with that vacant building out there at the peer behind the ferry building? >> okay. and my question is we spent a lot of time on the back lands

planning and all the opportunities that are there to support our maritime business, so i'd like an update. i know i thought that andre was going to do an update on our maritime status, including peer 70 and 80 and 92-96. i would love to see how our back lands are going to participate in our recovery and our maritime opportunities. and i know we've talked about it before, but i don't think we've come up with it. this would be a great time for a naming policy and opportunities for dedication, so we have an understanding and opportunity for everyone because so many people have contributed to the history of the waterfront. so we need to have a policy so that everyone understands when and how and what opportunities

are available for naming plaques, dedications. is there any other new business? elaine, you got all that? >> i got it. thank you, president brandon. >> okay. thank you. may i have a motion to adjourn? >> i make a motion that we adjourn. >> second. >> in the memory of former port commissioner [inaudible], the atlanta victims, the boulder victims, all this. >> yes. yes. >> can i please have a roll call vote? [roll call]

>> the meeting is adjourned at 5:49 p.m. thank you, everyone.

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>> okay. thank you, secretary hom. we're now going to move into item three. presentation on fy 21-22 budget proposals for the use of ocoh fund by the department of homelessness and supportive housing and the department of public health, including updated from committee liaisons recording budget proposals, with possible action by the committee. we're actually going to hear from our liaisons, and our first liaison will be julie. >> [inaudible] 'cause i can sort of provide the framework, the impact and accountability on the feedback side and other people will give, like, more detail responses [inaudible]. >> yes. thank you, vice president

d'antonio. >> okay. everyone, i'm just going to pull up some notes that i have. okay. so, yeah, so really excited. just wanted to kick off the liaison reports because a lot of what folks will be reporting back on are things that were really created based on feedback that we've been receiving? we've been hosting or, like, other orgs have been hosting, but we've been attending a lot of listening session. we've gotten feedback from over 750 community members, and of that, a little over 400 folks would give experiences, so that's super, super exciting to see this through. so i just wanted to thank all of the committee members, all of the community members who

excited. tipping point to collect the feedback, so i just wanted to share this with you all. i think i wanted to share just, like, four main points broadly that we heard. which was, like, as far as what should the committee prioritize. permanent housing solutions, a wider range of housing and shelter options that meet people where they are, not where we want them to be. housing interventions and realize that a one size fits all doesn't work. [inaudible] or individuals who require any light touch services. many community members express concerns that our system does not serve either of these populations well, and so that's just some things that are occurring through all of our sessions. one session in particular that i wanted to shout out was our

glide session, where we had own 250 respondents in the experience, and it was a really great basically day-long event, but yeah, i'm excited to share the details with you all. and i just wanted to share that this is all going to be in a report that we've made public. things that can be in prop c, thing that are more policy oriented but that we're hearing over and over, and also, things that can't be funded through prop c but we think that the city should still take a look at and still look at investing in. so what i'll be covering today is really what can be funded through prop c and then in different categories, and then, each liaison will report back within their individually a son

duties, so whether that's prevention or housing funding. okay. just going to -- umm...umm... sorry. okay. so the way it's divided is into single adults, families with children, youth and young adults, and the glide survey participants. i just want to shoutout that within that are recommendations for homeless shelter and hygiene services, so, really, that 10% of the prop c funding. as far as for adults, we're looking at more services available at safe sleeping sites, safe parking sites, nav centers for folks more

shelters, wraparound services in shelters, s.i.p. hotels, more showers, laundry, toilets in other facilities, and then different types of kong greggate shelters, so pod homes -- congregate shelters, so pod shelters, tiny homes. for families with children, dedicated sleeping sites for families, hotels. some families are spending months in emergency shelters that aren't designed for longer term stays, and that can be very traumatizing on a [inaudible] and everyone serves safe and dignified housing. and then additional shelter capacity for d.v. survivors. s.i.p. hotels have worked

really well for families, so we should be looking at funding things that have a similar model. and then, as for as for k, there needs to be more dedicated k facilities outside of the tenderloin, and i think we got that for reentry, just more services for our populations that are outside of the tenderloin. and then, also, for t.a.y., more outreach, places where t.a.y. can have greater support, and outreach in neighborhoods that are typically overlooked. for glide participants, what really ranked high was safe sleeping spaces, rest rooms, tent spaces, and r.v. parks. so yeah, that was some of the findings that i wanted to report back to you all, and i'm going to turn it over to our

individual liaisons for individual funding as well as discussing the different city departments, so thank you. oh, you know what? i actually forget to say one thing. i'm so sorry. one other feedback was we got around [inaudible] folks. we had over 400 responses in feedback, and a lot of providers as well as community members expressed, like, being paid or their feedback, and as a committee, a lot of us agree that experts should be paid as experts for their feedback and for their time, so we are trying to design a community action board or some way to involve folks and pay them for

their time for the experts that they are. we've been really focused on capturing the feedback, but we're also looking at paying people for being part of the process. so i just wanted to point that out. thank you. >> thank you, vice president d'antonio for all of your hard work, and we're now going to move onto the behavioral health liaison brett andrews. member andrews? >> just like chair d'antonio was talking about, many, many events and great feedback, and i participated just this week with some tenderloin provider and legal aid providers, and

it's just been rich, robust discussion. what is very clear to me, even hearing member d'antonio's report, there are some common things that we are just going to say bubble up, and the challenge will be our courage and will and intention to make these things move forward. this isn't just a one-off, these are things that people are experiences in the system. so with that, i just want to give a shoutout to also all of the members, and member nagendra, as well. i want to thank you for helping me through the process and the tipping point, as well. some of the things that come

out are street-based and mobile outreach, meeting people where they are. and funding one-on-one therapist sessions and support for people who are coming out of psych emergency treatment and treatment centers. it seems that there is a significant amount of restrictions for many of the -- for access to many of these services. we also heard that there should be more beds and bringing more beds on-line, increased

treatment beds and treatment programs. and there is a [inaudible] a couple more that i'll just mention, and i know we're going to get into more of the detail over the hour-plus is our community. more trauma informed services. this was a big one, and one in which i felt was important, as the stakeholders, as well.

more support in the workforce, ways that we may have to support them that we may not have in years past. low barrier threshold services. lots of folks recognize the benefit and the value in connecting with a peer who's been there and can share in that experience and give a voice to what you're going through right now. and lastly, creating a workforce for those in stable housing right now. why not take it the extra mile and make sure they have opportunities to engage in all the ways in which we engage on this call right now? so more in terms of workforce

development programs. and with that, i'm just going to turn it back over to chair williams, and looking forward to rich and robust discussion in the hour-plus. >> thank you, member andrews. we'll know go to the homelessness prevention liaison, member leadbetter. >> good morning, everybody. i think it's great to be here. [inaudible] over the past few weeks, and just want to thank everybody for all the work. i know that [inaudible] that it's been a big lift for everybody. this is exciting to here the behavioral health stuff in the area that i haven't been involved in, but i agree, a lot of crossover and a lot of

[inaudible] have really evolved to fundamental needs, and i echo member andrews, that it's not a one-off, that this is a movement for real change. [inaudible] and also really good dialogue with departments, h.s.h. and mohcd have been working for quite a while now,

building what is seeming like a really great and exciting proposal for community-based work, particularly communities of color, and i just want to give a shoutout to all the work for that and all the regional efforts going on, and it seems to all be coming together at this point [inaudible] to what the communities have been asking for. so in the prevention section, it sort of breaks down to these subcategories of targeted prevention for extremely low-income and at-risk folks, and the priorities could be rent funding, case management, and we're hearing from the community that people want more flexible funding, including security deposits, utilities,

back rent, emergency rental assistance. that funding should last longer, more upstream interventions. automatic triggers such as missed utility bill or rent bills to unlock the program. every provider should be asking about housing status, so really using our behavioral health care systems, using our health care systems, using our schools as points so we can understand where people are at with their housing and meet them there. a lot of attention for queer and trans people and

specifically calling out 94134 and 94124. really utilizing community-based organizations, and more flexibility for problem-solving dollars. i think we've seen a lot of movement in this direction, and i think people are embracing that and asking for more. the victim prevention prosecute housing stabilization [inaudible] for more flexibility in the funding, so a lot of meeting people where they're at and just being really creative at that time of need. protections for nonleaseholders, target populations for [inaudible] placements, focusing on those. a lot of interest in flexible shallow subsidy pool. we do have some of these programs currently in place, and i think really highlighting

on those, building on those. you can use housing subsidies as a lighter touch for people that don't need deeply, deeply subsidized housing. workforce development. a lot of them should have workforce development and so asking for housing statuses, is [inaudible] and personalized approach. sometimes a one size fits all approach doesn't work, so more is needed. that was the feedback coming from the adults.

for families and children, we're looking to go upstream for more intervention. families need more in that case to are able to stay in san francisco. flexible, flexible, flexible, money being used for things like hotel stays. legal services beyond rent eviction, custody battles and things like that. [inaudible] i think there's a conversation to be had here with the housing spending and the prevention spending and how we can, you know, potentially use some of these prevent

dollars to have preventions, if need be, like, up to 25%. we don't have to use the whole thing. for youth and young adults, greater flexibility and funds available for rental assistance, nonleaseholders, funding for things other than lease. again, bigger pot of money for problem solving. everybody wants problem solving, and everybody does problem solving, so i think it's exciting to see this proposal doing -- you know, spread problem solving resources to beyond the access points. peer led resources for youth. a lot of interest in that, as well as workforce, rusing various plamt. small site -- producing various

employment. small site acquisitions, and a lot of interest in direct cash transfer, so really looking at what that will bring to the community. so thank you, again, to everybody who's participating in this, and really exciting to keep moving forward with these homelessness prevention proposals. thanks. >> thank you so much, member leadbetter. we'll now go to member friedenbach. >> okay. can everybody hear me? >> yes. >> okay. i'm going to do this a little different. i'm going to walk-through the different needs and some of the different policy questions because this is the one area

that we actually expended money so folks have a lot of questions about where we're at for it, so i thought it would set us up for all of the conversation to include, like, a quick review as well as the input, as well. so in terms of the feedback on homeless shelters and hygiene, i think member d'antonio did a nice job going through a lot of this. just going to add some to it. just knowing that, you know, events like glide, we had a lot fewer people -- [indiscernible] >> -- so housing came up much higher, so just context allizing it a little bit. in terms of emergency services, folks were talking about more

services at safe sleeping sites, reminding folks we have safe sleeping villages and safe sleeping sites. nav centers for justice involved people, more services at shelter and nav services. [inaudible] >> s.i.p. hotels came through. [inaudible] >> thank you. go ahead, member friedenbach. so we could go through the

[inaudible] talking about having the same level of congregate shelters, and s.i.p. was mentioned. and, you know, t.a.y. facilities for youth, and trying to get outreach to youth in neighborhoods that are overlooked, like the southeast part of the city. for the glide survey participants, really, you know, what popped up, the highest was the public showers. tent villages, and r.v. parks.

i want to kind of just move over to our slide show if we could, laura, if you don't mind pulling it up so i could just walk you through an update. >> i'm sorry. it wasn't on the agenda, so i wasn't prepared to -- we do have projections on the website of what the controller's office has extended so far, so that was shared with the agenda and is on the website, as well, so the in terms of how much funds has been extended through the fund previously. >> yeah, that's not -- i mean, i was trying to walk people through what's been extended. this is not new information. this was previously shared

through the previous needs. if we can't do this, i'll try to walk-through this possibly. if folks remember, i just want to remind people, when we went through the immediate needs, we had several recommendations from the department of public health that came to us. we did not feel that, as a body, we had enough time to really dig in on those and find out exactly how many were going to house people, so we recommended just one of those recommendations, which was the -- basically the expanding mental health and substance abuse treatment beds, and that was about a $4 million expenditure that we were recommending. when it got to the budget and finance committee, they ended up funding all of the items for one year -- for the remainder

of this fiscal year. that included the fiscal crisis, urgent care. it included crisis care management and care coordination. it included a smaller amount of an expansion that was what was originally recommended on the 1380 howard, the 24-hour pharmacy, and they moved some of that over to the purchase of a boarding care facility. so what you will see is in the d.p.h. presentation, there was operating cost of about $2 million out of the funding from the board of supervisors, so they're asking for annualization of those, so

that's going to bump up pretty significantly, especially in fiscal year 21-22 to a much higher amount. so it would be going up from -- you know, up to about $44 million annual expenditure with those, so that's a pretty significant, you know, thing that we need to think about as a body. for the h.s.h. piece of things, the -- the on going -- basically we funded -- as you may recall, we recommended funding for people in the s.i.p. hotels for phase one and two. we wanted to wait and not put the third and fourth phase of the hotels because we wanted to see the assessment because

there was a very small assessment that had been done, and speculation of who would fall into which categories. so at this point in time, it's looking like we're not going to need to make adjustments to phases three and four, and we have some policy options of releasing those funds immediately or rolling it into next year's budget, so we can decide where we would want to go there. again, those expenditures, though, for phase one and two, those funds, when we funded those, those assumed that these were going to be going continuously. because it was a smaller amount, that that amount of funding would go up pretty significantly. so that -- you know, so if we're looking at, you know, the housing expenditures, we did

permanent subsidies, and then, you know, we did two-year subsidies, those would be shorter-term investments, and then, we have the longer term investments that are just subsidies. we did some for seniors, some for families, and then some for single adults. so those investments we assumed would be on going as planned. and so we have -- we also invested in long-term subsidies in folks in the bayview. so i wanted to just update, so those long-term investments that we've done of people in the s.i.p. hotels, those have not hit the streets yet.

they have not come to fruition in terms of families moving out of the bayview, nor have they come to fruition for people in the housing plan. only 34% of the people have been housed, and we can get, later in the meeting, a more detailed update on that. what that means is face one and april 1, you're going to have to do about 200 a month to house people coming out of the s.i.p. hotel. so i wanted to present on that and be super transparent on that because i know there's a lot of questions around that. in phase three and four, we could, you know, we would basically not make any adjustments to the categories.

there may be some question about the subsidy amounts, and so there may be that, you know, we didn't do the right amount of what it's going to cost people, especially to get people into the housing, so that might be something we revisit. the other thing that i wanted to point out is we extended the s.i.p. hotels. we put in 12.7 million to extend the s.i.p. hotels. we will get that money back from fema, so part of that expenditure is coming back. i wanted to give you some of the grand -- so the grand total that we're spending on housing -- this is not the backfill that we're going to be digging into on a future date that we're planning to come together, but the stuff we decided, the grant total on housing, is about $20 million

that we funded through the board of supervisors, and then, it goes up to 25.5 in future years, and that includes the moneys from the one-time that we did around the worker bonuses, etc. and then, the emergency shelter that we proactively did, this is another big policy question for you. instead of $13 million, what we voted for was to extend the r.v.s at moscone, like the s.i.p. shelters, and the safe sleeping sites to october 1, and that's another policy question. would we want to continue funding those out of the our city, our home fund or not, so that's actually a huge policy question for us, i feel like. so i just kind of wanted to identify people.

>> thank you so much, member friedenbach. i wanted to give member miller a chance to speak, or other immediate needs liaison. >> thank you. i actually think jennie did a really good job of covering everything. we're just trying to be very thoughtful about everything that's out there and make sure, you know, that everybody is represented, you know, and so i i think, yeah. i just really can't add anything to what jennie said, so thank you. >> thank you. we will now go to our housing acquisition liaison, member

reggio. >> appreciation to andrea adams for her work and her colleagues' work in pulling together our results, which makes it much easier for us to report. regarding solutions, people want additional housing. they want the oversight committee to recommend funding for new developments as well as the acquisition and rehabilitation of vacant and underused hotels and apartment buildings. they favor projects like smaller site developments. i think that was mentioned by

one of you in your reports. it doesn't mean that exclusively, but to that, also, larger developments don't work for everyone. they want to see housing not only in the tenderloin and the south of market, but they want other parts of the city, as well, to be available to that purpose and pay particular attention to the needs of folks that are in the bayview and don't necessarily want to move downtown in order to be housed. the folks providing feedback, wants housing specifically tailored to the needs of older populations, mothers with children or transitional aged

house, persons of color, of transgender women. there are a couple of meetings that some of us are going to be attending there was emphasis on housing barriers and applying and speeding that up. there was broad agreement that housing has to cater to the broader needs of the population served. one side -- size does not fit

all. there was discussion of ready access for substance use and mental health treatment services are needed even after one is housed, and there should be options for on-site care, particularly for the asian population and supportive housing. and i think i would be remiss if i didn't highlight the feedback from the housing policy committee, to ensure funding adequate to support the maintenance operations, fair salaries for staff, and services for the thousands of former workers in our

portfolio. all of our [inaudible] and the need for a supportive housing approach [inaudible] adequately funding their houses needs and -- needs and services, and i look forward to [inaudible]. >> thank you so much, member reggio. we'll now go to our system modelling and investment planning liaison, cynthia nagendra. >> if i could jump in, i'm sorry, member nagendra, we're going to [inaudible]. >> at the risk of repeating what others have said, i want to deeply thank the committee members for their work.

this is an insane amount of work creating these sessions, attending these sessions, and tipping point. i also want to thank all of our city partners who helped us get to this point. thanks to the leadership of vice president d'antonio and members of this committee. i just wanted to say thank you, and it is an honor to be a part of this group. i'm actually just going to give a continuation of some of the housing feedback that we got from some of these various groups, and i will just back through the part that member reggio did not cover. we heard this throughout, and i think many members have said this, we are hearing themes that throughout subpopulations,

through different groups and different systems that really align very well, and they actually align with the city department policies, as well. i want to frame this by saying a lot of this is coming from not only the listening sessions but the surveys we had at glide, which was a fantastic event. so the flexible expansion, while a lot of folks are getting to understand what that means [inaudible] for a lot of folks who are starting to get what that means more, we hear a lot more in the adult population and in the county population for expanding this, so these are the [inaudible] for public rate housing, and it also allows for housing outside the tenderloin and all over the city. [inaudible] is proving to be really effective, and so

expanding that is something that we've heard across groups, especially for adults and families and t.a.y., as well. so we did hear from criminal justice, from survivors of domestic violence and that system about transitional housing or bridge housing, so we heard a lot from criminal justice, service providers as well as many experts in that sectors as sort of needing more exits from that, but also having more access to permanent housing. the step-up housing for d.v. survivors is really important and long-term settings so that people can access housing. in supportive services for housing, ken covered this, [inaudible] to help stabilize them, and some other feedback here as different populations

require different services. we've heard this. not one size fits all. sometimes, we've heard a bit of gender specific [inaudible] we've heard across the board having more options outside of supportive housing, so shell subsidies, [inaudible] all of these different options that we can individualize housing options for people. in the permanent housing category, families with children, dedicated housing for young mothers with children that would have extremely low barriers, for families worried about separation or other kinds of people, and then perhaps real estate set aside to develop new sites. again, the flexible expansion and longer term, so adding longer term to rapid rehousing and also perhaps tailoring that

with a shallow subsidy. we are seeing that work in the veteran population, so we're seeing examples of how that can work really work. other programs to target housing in san francisco so we're not sending folks out of san francisco as regularly [inaudible] together with their support networks here. in the young adult category, again, similar -- similarly, more youth housing options that can be maintained in the tenderloin and soma neighborhoods. focus on housing for young parents and more t.a.y. dedicated rapid rehousing. in terms of housing, two years is sometimes not enough. longer supported, longer term

reports [inaudible] more supportive services. i wanted to just highlight that the glide survey of 250 people, and for the folks that were there, i have some pictures that i'll show on my way to presentation [inaudible] so out of the 250 folks that responded, almost 80 people said [inaudible] and then shared housing got over 50 responses for permanent housing options. so i will, again, reiterate -- i know we're kind of all listening -- this will all be made public in a report for everyone listening, so thank

you so much. >> thank you so much, member nagendra. we're now going to go to the department of homelessness and supportive housing, so i'm going to invite director cohen, if she is here. all right. >> hi. wonderful. thank you, chair williams, thank you, committee members. my name is emily cohen, and i'm the director of affairs for department of homelessness and supportive housing. i've had some connection issues this morning, so let me know if i'm still having issues. laura is going to share some slides. so i am here representing the department of homelessness and supportive housing. i'm joined by gigi whitley, who

will help me field questions as well as my colleagues from the department of public health. so we're going to share some of our ideas for funding that i think are incredibly aligned with your vision and what we've heard at the listening session, and then we're going to have a discussion. so the city and the housing committee shared a goal of improving services, extending services to people experiencing homelessness, and ultimately ending homelessness in our community. this presentation is intended to share the city's priorities and open up a discussion about how the city and our city, our home can achieve these shared goals and visions together. the our city, our home committee has outlined these

four goals of permanently housing people, providing services, and creating emergency services, drop-in services for people experiencing homelessness, and we are going to walk you through some of our ideas that how we can work with you to achieve some of these goals. i think from a program and member model perspective, we're quite aligned in the vision going forward. as you likely know, in july of last year, the mayor released a homeless recovery plan for the fact that people who are unsheltered reinforced our commitment to people [inaudible] in shelter in place hotels and creating solutions to homelessness. and we want to do this in a number of ways. the mayor's priorities for

shelter, housing, and behavioral health services really align with what we heard in the listening sessions. the mayor's priorities related to behavioral health services especially align with the our city, our home priorities [inaudible] through low barrier streamlined access to treatment services, medication, and linkages to on going support services. additionally, the expansion of new beds and facilities in the forms of traditional treatment beds and long-term supportive housing are key to addressing the behavioral health needs of people experiencing homelessness. >> emily, can you just make sure to tell me when you want me to move forward? i'm not always sure when you want me to proceed. >> sure. can we go to slide four?

thanks, lawyer. we're on the strategy slide. great. so i won't read this to you, but i do want to highlight the four strategies. so we've identified four strategies for identifying these shared goals and priorities. increasing diverse housing options. i think that was certainly loud and clear to me in the listening sessions, providing behavioral health services to currently and formerly homeless people in our community, investing in overall systems to ensure equity in access and impact, and create a multidisciplinary response in partnership with the community. we really believe that by working through these strategies, that we can achieve the our city, our home goals as well as the mayor's recovery plan goals simultaneously. a big part of the work between the department of homelessness

and supportive housing and the our city, our home is using this data and the resources we have to drive system improvements and more equitable outcomes, and we have -- sorry, laura. advancing to slide five -- and we have identified a number of values or principles that we use in our work and throughout this proposal to help drive equity, including preventing homelessness before it starts, meeting people where they are, focusing our services on -- or prevention services on people most likely to become homeless, identifying housing in diverse neighborhoods, again, something we've been hearing so much

about, and clinical and wraparound services. i just wanted to say how much i prepare -- how much i appreciate the feedback. i think we found a great way to incorporate many of the ideas that we've heard and to build on these things as we move forward with our shared vision for how we can achieve our goals together. slide seven. the our city, our home model has allowed us to leverage or funding, and we expect this will be the case this coming year, as well, which has made it an exciting opportunity to

expand our programs dramatically. there have been -- you know, while there have been many losses and real hardship during the pandemic, we're all seeing what is possible when we act together. the leadership of our city, our home committee is driving that conversation, and we're really grateful for this partnership. the title of this slide was many of the things that we've been able to accomplish over this past year, and we look forward to achieving more things in the years to come together. we can move to slide eight. so member friedenbach walked

through some funding programs. we just wanted to really quickly put out in this slide here the funds that were allocated in 20-21, the unallocated balance in 20-21, and then, the projected revenue in 21-22 and 22-23. as you can see from the total line at the bottom, significant resources projected to do significant work, and, you know, these numbers don't include admin costs, and they may change slightly once we include those costs. but today, we're focusing on four major categories of funding buckets that will drive our approach, so the housing prevention, shelter, and then, the [inaudible]. so fy 20-21 funding slides

indicates what was allocated to the committee. we're excited to talk with you about the next phase of this work. so as i mentioned before, these are the four key areas of our city, our home resources, and we're excited to walk-through some ideas with you all. we can go to slide 11. so in our 21-23 budget priorities, we feel we've found a way to create an estimated 2500 or more housing placements through this investment by focusing on a couple of key areas: supporting newly created housing projects that utilize

one-time state funds, acquiring new housing units, and being focused on families, t.a.y., and [inaudible] within that housing acquisition strategy [inaudible] with a lot of choice around where they can land and utilize the subsidy, which i think is an exciting opportunity. and then, expands the fame -- the rapid rehousing approach, the medium housing approach with t.a.y. that we began with our city, our home last year. you can see that this is in direct alignment with the our city, our home housing goal.

you can see here the populations of adults, t.a.y., and families that are projected to be housed with each of these new investments, and the number of housing units or placements that we think we can achieve in each of these areas. so you see new flex pool, new acquisition, supporting newly created t.s.h., new workforce, and rapid rehousing expansion for youth. i'm sure there'll be lots of questions, and gigi and i can

field those at the end, and i'll just keep moving through to slide 14. prevention -- really talks a lot about prevention in her report, and this is an area that the city is really excited about. i think prevention offers us an incredible opportunity both in terms of thinking about as we're coming out of this pandemic and eviction moratoriums are lifted, expecting to see an increased demand for homeless prevention services and utilizing prevention as a way to address the racial inequities in the homeless system and among people experiencing homelessness. achieving racial equity in our homeless response can't just be done when somebody becomes homeless. we really must be focused on stopping homelessness before it begins, and that means using

prevention early and often, but also using prevention resource does to ensure that once -- resources to ensure that once people are housed, they don't fall into homelessness again. we know from our data, nearly 30% of respondents had lived -- sorry. i just -- let me say this again. our 2019 point in count showed us that 31% of people were homeless for the first time during the count, and this was an increase over 20% in 2017. we asked where they lived immediately before becoming homeless, 30% said they owned or rented by themselves or with a partner. 33% reported staying with family or friends, and 12% reported living in subsidized housing. so these groups are people who are -- who we know -- so we

know that we need provide prevention resources to these three groups of people who are likely or newly homeless. so we are using this data to help drive or strategy for presenting homelessness. prior to the pandemic, three people were entering homelessness for every person that we housed out of homelessness in san francisco. and due to covid, the budget and legislative analyst is estimating, from october, between 13,000 and 13,300 san franciscans were anywhere from one to three months behind on rent. black and latinx renters were found to be almost twice as likely to be behind in rent between may and july of 2020

compared to white renters. and the turner center estimates that two thirds of renters who experience job loss in san francisco from april to june had a person of color in their household. preventing homelessness is an incredibly important strategy for addressing racial inequities in our community, and this data also speaks to the need to target resources using the key factors that are strongly associated with a likelihood of becoming homeless we need outreach targeting those parts of the city that have the highest bipoc populations and targeting our resources in the areas that need it the most.

i'm excited about this proposal on prevention. i know we spent a lot of time talking with members and julie about this, but we have the opportunity to prevent at least 8,000 people from becoming homeless in san francisco because of these investmented. looking at slide 13, you can see where the investments fall and the number of people we anticipate to be able to serve with this resource. so really, an incredible expansion here leveraging federal resources, working across departments, in partnership with community, and ensuring that we are able to help the most vulnerable people most likely to become homeless in our community, help them avoid becoming homeless through very flexible assistance. we heard that back today, really important to have that

flexibility. slide 16 shows the anticipated breakdown of prevention resources, from eviction and housing stabilization, expanded prevention and flexible assistance and problem solving and emergency rental stance, as well as shallow subsidies to help a tenant not pay more than 30% of their income towards rent. i'm almost done, appreciate your patience. moving to slide 17, the city is prepared -- in partnership with our city, our home, we're looking at approximately 1,000 shelter placements that can be paid next year. there's a typo here. this is a higher number of beds, but navigation centers,

supporting safe sleep, initiating a new public support parking program, and i will update slide 17, but you can see we anticipate being able to update shelter resources to the tune of about 1,000 beds for all three populations: youth, t.a.y., and funding. and slide 18 shows the funding strategy and how we plan to achieve the shelter goals outlined above. i'm going to stop and turn it over to my colleague, hallie, from the department of public health who will talk about service investments. >> thank you, emily. are you able to hear me? yeah? okay. good morning, members of the

committee. i'm hali hammer, director of care for the department of public health, and it's exciting to be presenting to you this more. i'm joined by jennie louie, who's the acting director of the department of public health. i want to start by thanking the members, the committee, and the public, and i especially want to thank member andrews, who has worked tirelessly through his position as the behavioral health liaison and the department of public health.

we heard from communities about the needs for more programming and treatment options for pregnant people, for families and for youth. overdose is the leading cause of death for homeless individuals. our hope is to not only prevent overdose, but to prevent it through the use of treatment and harm reduction practices. san francisco continues to lead in this space compared to other municipalities, but we need to take stronger action to address this crisis.

we know that naloxone works, with thousands of overdoses prevented in 2020 alone, and we plan to increase our distribution of naloxone. h.s.h. and d.p.h. have deepened our collaboration to grow both medical and social support programs and permanent supportive housing settings so that our most at risk clients remain housed. very much, over the past year during the covid-19 pandemic, we realized that we could not safely provide alcohol sobering

services in our current setting. in partnership with the command center, we identified a s.i.p. hotel where we could safely house our sobering center. we held our first outbreak of sobering were people who are experiencing homelessness, in and out of the center every day, putting themselves and others at very high risk of contracting covid, we shifted to a program where nurses administered tests for alcohol use, then provided them alcohol while sheltering in place and

alcohol use programs. the listening conditions also elevated the need for more specialized beds targeted to t.a.y. populations for families and for people who transition out of treatment programs. we would like to [inaudible] to acquire these types of facilities, and i'll speak to that in more detail. mental health and substance use crises do not follow a predictable 9:00 to 5:00 schedule. more over, we know that people suffering a crisis need support to know when to ask for help.

our services should be able outside of business hours. we now have the ability to craft 24-7 services especially when people experiencing homelessness want them and need them. it's clear that making assessments, referrals, prescriptions available at all hours of the day and night is the right approach to this staff and our existing system. next slide. next, i will speak briefly about the service expansions we've been able to move on since we last came to the full committee for the early release of funds in december and also about our expansion of these services. i want to acknowledge that the impact of services, so following directly from emily,

we can't as linearly project as many people we will serve, so it doesn't follow as linearly as h.s.h. most times, we provide services through touch points. once we build these services, our street crisis response team may respond to someone in crisis on the street, engage with them, support them while they deescalate, and then accompany them to the mental health service center or an urgent care center, where they would be fully assessed and transported to a provider for on going care and assessed for housing, as well. we will begin to see outcomes on the health of homeless people. specifically, the funded and proposed prop c initiative,

including 132 beds were funded through the immediate needs allocation in december. the proposal we are bringing to you today is to expand local beds by 110 beds, so that would be new 21-22 funding. it would support transitional youth population and step down beds. we're excited about another innovation. in collaboration with h.s.h. and h.s.a., we've expanded or shelter health and street medicine work to include now what we're calling our

[inaudible] of care. >> director? >> yes. >> we have about three minutes. >> we've hired a number of behavioral health clinicians, and also our prop c funding will allow us to dedicate initial capacity at the department of public health for more housing sites. we've also expanded street crisis response team, and i can talk more about that in detail if there's time later. next slide.

so this slide, again, reflected the proportional allocation of the projected revenues of the next two fiscal years, so this reflected what i've just spoken about in the last two slides. so next slide. just rushing through these. so this concludes our presentation. h.s.h., d.p.h., will continue to work with the mayor and the other members of our city, our home oversight committee to answer questions and reach alignment regarding where best to invest in housing and services across our departments in order to reach our common goals. we have incorporated community and our city, our home priorities into our proposals and will submit them ahead of our april our city, our home

meeting. >> thank you so much, director [inaudible]. now going to go to public comment. i believe, secretary hom, we also have a chinese and a spanish translator who are here with us. >> that's correct. i'm going to go ahead and elevate our translators? so i guess you'll be on mute until the caller is ready to speak? thank you. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001, access code 187-595-1186, then pound and pound again. if you wish to provide public

comment, please press star, three to raise your hand, and the system will indicate you have been unmuted when you can begin your comment. please note that you'll have three minutes. i'm checking the attendee list now, and i'm not seeing any public comments, but from my understanding there are. >> yeah. i think the star, three is presenting some confusion, and maybe we need to say that in different languages, as well? >> yeah. can we go to our spanish and chinese language translator to say that, please, secretary hom? >> yeah. angela, can you let callers know to call 415-655-0001,

enter access code 187-595-1186. press pound, and pound again, and then star, three to enter the queue. i see two hands raised. i'm going to go ahead and take these callers now. >> thank you. >> hello, caller? hello, caller? >> maybe identify the caller by name or phone number? >> unfortunately, there's no names. i can identify the caller by the six digit number i can see. it's 415-678. >> no, this is maricela. hola. >> we can hear you. can you speak?

>> si. [speaking spanish language]

>> hi, everyone. i will be translating from maricela maya. she is sharing that she's lived in san francisco with a family of five, and like many families, she is in need of finding housing.

as, like, someone who is in san francisco, she has applied to dalia [inaudible] and hasn't been able to find any housing for her family members, and she believes this is a great chance for money to be allocated to situations like hers to be able to find housing. she doesn't think it's fair living conditions for her and her family members to be living in, so she wants to [inaudible] as well as those of her community members, her neighborhoods, etc. gracias, maricela. thank you. [end of translation]. >> great. thank you very much. i will go ahead and take the next caller.

hello, caller? >> hello. >> hello, caller. >> hello? >> you have three minutes to speak now. >> okay. so first thing, my name miguel cabrera, so i work in [inaudible] homelessness. so i was here [inaudible] everyone speaking and presenting different way ideas, and different topics, so i really want to emphasize one thing -- or two different things. number one, i really appreciate all the efforts and all the support of the community because we have an opportunity to have two listening sessions,

and we have a lot of opportunities for families because finally, the families, they can design what kind of housing they want to be or where they want to live, so i appreciate all the families who have taken the time to participate. but the other thing that i want to mention is one of the presenters was talking about different issues. and when -- one thing that i did want to mention is, so, for example -- so [inaudible] in the process, you need to

housing or any other services, i want to see equity, but the other thing i want to see is focusing on families and homeless. and -- yes, and making sure that -- so families [inaudible] who are losing their homes due to covid-19, so a lot of families are losing their jobs, so i think we need to [inaudible] and we need to reputting our attention because after june 30, when the letter of the -- so protecting to families and each other, so we're going to see a lot of exodus from different places from work, from the property owners, so we need to redevelop

that. another big concern i have, so we trying to help these families that are already homeless to permanent housing, but we need to take a look at what is coming in the future so we're not [inaudible] so thank you very much, and yeah. that's it. >> thank you, caller. we'll take the next caller. hello, caller? >> yes, hi. can you hear me? >> yes, we can, and you have three minutes. thank you. >> okay. hi. good morning, everyone. my name is sameda [inaudible] and a single mother of three. i want to just tell you a little bit about my story. for many years, i lived in different rooms. like, i went from room to room,

renting with my kids, and i had a -- it was really hard on us, especially with my kids, and they had no space to do their homework or place. we had to stay most of the time outside or in restaurants because we didn't have a place to cook. the day that we got our apartment, you know, was a feeling like no other. my kids were excited, they were happy, and i really do believe that permanenting housing not only improves the quality of life for families but also promotes stability, and any program that can help support that, it would be great, and thank you for listening. >> great, thank you. i'll take the next caller.

hello, caller? hello, caller? phone number 415-547. hello, caller? caller 415-547? we'll go ahead and move onto the next caller. hello, caller. >> [inaudible]. >> hello. hello, caller. you have three minutes. >> okay. i'm on now? >> yes. >> oh, okay. oh, yes, hello.

my name is leeann colliers, and i'm concerned about the support of families in san francisco. [inaudible] and i didn't get the services that i wanted through the counseling services here. and i have a very concern that that's -- that y'all giving monies to the developments to have them do case management for people, and i think that should not happen because on two occasions, when i was dealing with case management, i was evicted from my place because i didn't [inaudible] my

concerns about environments that i don't want to be in, and my daughter can't be in because now, my daughter, she has bad panic attacks, and i -- you know, it still wasn't answered. i was placed and forgotten about, but they're still trying to place me in a place that i don't think is fit for me or my daughter to be at, and i'm just talking to myself. so i'm just concerned, when they do come around stuff with the families or deal with -- i just had a hard time, you know, and i've freaked out this weekend, kind of, too because my daughter called me on a friday with a panic attack, and i was way across town, and i couldn't go to the hospital to be with her.

this has been a real effect on me and my children, trying to get housing. the stable relation is not when you go there. it's all a hot mess. the housing, this time, i hope it works out, but you need at least a lot of working around, and i don't think d.p.h. should be giving money to departments to the developers to hire case management. it's un -- it's not -- i can't pronounce it. you can't work with the case manager and knowing that they work with the manager because that stuff goes back and forth, and i experienced that both times. and once i found out, why is d.p.h. giving money to companies to doing counseling

when they should be giving it to nonprofit organizations? they have people who know what they're going through, the people that are already serving them in their communities, so that's it. >> great. thank you so much for your call. i'm going to go back to caller number 23. hello, caller? >> hello? >> hello? >> oh, okay. good morning. this is sonia from the homeless [inaudible] i don't -- you know, i'm a survivor of homes vials. it's -- domestic violence, so it's been, like, more than a year that i [inaudible] experiencing domestic violence and it's been really hard and really bad this year because a lot of the resources were

closed and very limited, so i was calling you to see whether a lot of the money can also be allocated for, you know, the people that are just experiencing domestic violence at home. if we're thinking about the next generation, these are the children that are going to be also homeless and be in even more problems. so if we can allocate the money for housing -- >> so are you done yet? are you done? >> yeah. >> thank you. >> great. thank you, caller. >> i believe we have more callers that raised their

hands. angela, would you mind seeing in chinese if they can dial star, three to lineup if they want to speak? i want to make sure we have the opportunity to capture everybody. >> angela, i think you need to unmute yourself. >> angela, are you there? >> if you could unmute angela, maybe that would help her. >> okay. i'll go ahead and unmute her. the last time i did, however, i don't think she was prepared, so let's try it again. >> can you hear me? >> hello, yes. >> okay. good.

>> hello. angela, can you go ahead and let the public know to go ahead and unmute to speak? >> okay. i don't see any new callers -- actually, i do. give me one second.

[speaking cantonese language] >> okay. i'm a household of five people and we have been in s.r.o. for over ten years. so my son always asks me when will i have my own bed? so in the s.r.o.s, it's always pretty crowded.

[inaudible] >> seems like the income would be too high for us or the rent too high for us for affordable housing. >> my number comes up, like, really low, 2,000, 1,000 something -- [speaking cantonese language] >> so in this time, when my

kids are doing distance learning, it would be really difficult to -- [speaking cantonese language] >> we are hoping that we have more rental subsidy and also more affordable housing opportunities with the rent according to 30% of our income. that's more according to what we can afford now. thank you.

[end of translation]. >> great. thank you, caller. okay. i'm looking to see if there's any additional callers, and if you can have them press star, three to lineup. >> mary, can i relay that in spanish, as well? >> absolutely. let me go ahead and take the cantonese speakers, as well, and i will have you definitely do it in spanish. [speaking cantonese language] >> hello, caller? can you please let her know she has three minutes to speak. [speaking cantonese language]

>> okay. i'm yoyo. we have four people in our household. it's really small. my kids don't have anyplace to move around, sharing facilities like kitchen and bathroom. [speaking cantonese language] >> so my son always wanted to

have a bigger house, always asking me when he would have a bigger room. i hope this prop c would increase our subsidy, increase affordable housing for us. [speaking cantonese language] >> okay. both of us are working, but still, we cannot afford the affordable housing that is on the market. even if they're, for the rare chance that one or two units

are available, it's just too little for us to apply. [speaking cantonese language] >> so i hope that the housing subsidy would increase to allow families with kids to have a bigger place to live. okay. thank you. [end of translation]. >> okay. thank you, caller. if there's no other cantonese

speaker -- if there's no other cantonese speaker -- okay. i will go ahead and move to michelle roland. if you can go ahead and let your callers know to dial star, three to move ahead now, and i will let those callers know. [speaking spanish language] >> great. thank you so much. i'll unmute a caller. hello, caller? >> umm, hello? >> hello, caller. you have three minutes. >> okay.

so yes, hello. my name is raul. i'm an organizer in the mission with [inaudible] and i want to advocate for the family tenants that are in s.r.o. units that are not appropriate for children to grow up in, and just in general, the condition of the s.r.o. hotels are not always the best. some families are forced to live in s.r.o. units, and we have seen families that move out of the s.r.o. units because they couldn't deal with the conditions anymore. a lot of these families at the moment are not working, so they have to do their best to be able to have a shelter and, you

know, a roof for their children. and also, as we continue through the pandemic, we don't want to have any children [inaudible], and so, because, you know, homelessness for children and families that are living in shelters, on the street in vehicles, and families who are living doubled up in residential units, and all these families are suffering, and we should have these safe and decent place to live in. in a rich city such as s.f., everybody should have a home. there should be a plan for at least 1,000 units for families, and that is all. thank you. >> great. thank you, caller.

michelle, would you mind asking callers to dial star, three just to make sure i captured everybody, and with that, we'll move onto the next item on the agenda. [speaking spanish language] >> clerk: thank you, michelle. i see a caller. mplt. hello, caller? >> hello. my name is crea, and i am an organizer in the mission. i want to speak on the promises that prop c held for families and specifically children, you know, living in s.r.o.s? prop c promised 8,000 units of affordable housing over the next four years, and there needs to be another 1,000 units for families as families are

the most vulnerable unit under this pandemic right now? this money should not be used to cover programs that the city would ultimately be operating? especially those that don't -- that don't create permanent solutions to homelessness? and due to the pandemic and the influx of state and federal funding, this city has a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase student and tourist hotels? and the city should prioritize purchasing these hotels right now. we know that homelessness hurts children? and in a city such as s.f., every child should have a safe and decent home? so yeah, thank you so much. >> great, thank you. i will take the next caller. hello, caller?

>> hello. >> hi. welcome. >> okay. hello. my name is [inaudible] i'm tenant of the [inaudible] hotel. i live with my family in an s.r.o. unit. my family has struggled finding safe housing, seeing how s.r.o.s affect children or are not the best for children. [inaudible] would help our families. prop c especially defines families who are living in the shelters, [inaudible] or in the rooms. everybody needs places to live.

please, please. thank you so much. >> great. thank you. hello, caller? >> hello, good morning. my name is catalina. i am a tenant of an s.r.o. hotel, and i have lived with my family for ten years, and i live with my son, 11, and my daughter, nine, and it should be more opportunities for housing because i don't like having to share a bathroom, and i just thank you for your time. >> great, thank you. hello, caller?

hello, caller? >> hello? >> hello. hello, caller. you have three minutes. >> hello? >> yes, you have three minutes. do you hear me? >> yes. i was speaking earlier. you know, being from san francisco all my life, and i have never seen it like this. you know, it is so horrible, especially for families, you know. and then, even, you know, i think when we, like, thinking about families and we thinking about places that we could keep families, we have make sure that the right -- the right services are there for them because sometimes the right services are not there. sometimes it's just people that they hire and they don't -- you

know, have that -- where they're talking like a human being, where they're talking to you kind of bad. i feel like when it comes to this, when it comes to our families and stuff, we've got to look at our emergency shelters and all other services that they do have in cities around families. i'm just, like, i've been through a lot since y'all became -- help homelessness and supportive housing. i've been the first on [inaudible] to one on the mission, and i just feel that families need services, more services when it comes to coordinating every entry system, they should have been coordinating every entry systems from the get go. you know, what are the systems for the family, what are the

services for the kids. all of this should have been done from the gate, not this from homelessness or services. like, you know, i've been dealing with this with all my children, and she's been in the services since she was 12, and now she's 18. to see her mental status go unbelievable is heard breaking for her and myself because it cost me to go through changes, too, and that's it. >> there are no additional public comments. >> is there any -- do i get public comment or do we have

to -- >> okay. i'm sorry. [inaudible]. >> this is the interpreter. >> yes. if you have something to say, you may speak. >> hello. my name is michelle [inaudible] and we fully support prop c and supporting families who suffering from homelessness. as a case worker in the mission, we are constantly dealing with families that [inaudible] and even know, our hyperexacerbated in terms of -- like, intensiveness from d.p.h.

and d.b.i. so i think it's important that we start addressing prop c funding and how 1,000 of these units can be allocated to families. we already now how homelessnesses are criminalized and treated by our society, and i think it's important to know how prop c is positioned to help these individuals and understanding how we fall into these situations because of lack of funding and support from our government. further, [inaudible] as well as the communities that we serve. thank you. >> thank you.

actually, no, i do see another caller in the attendee list. would you like to take this caller? >> yes, thank you. >> hello, caller. you have three minutes. >> hello. hear me? >> yes, we can hear you, yes. >> i want to angela translate for me. >> okay. great. >> hello, angela. hello, angela. >> okay. great. [speaking cantonese language]

>> okay. i'm organizer -- s.r.o. family organizer. since i work with the families, i have seen so many families in their situations. i have seen so many families looking for housing, however, this affordable housing out of their reach. [speaking cantonese language] >> i heard a story last week that makes me cry. [speaking cantonese language]

>> so they have three people in the family. the parents have been looking for better housing. however, right now, the kid needs to go to kitchen between 9:30 and 12 p.m. to do their homework on-line because they cannot disturb the father, who's sleeping at that time, so they have to go to the kitchen.

so it hurts me a lot because it's cold out right now, but the kid has to go out to do their homework every night. [speaking cantonese language] >> we hope more need for housing. thank you. >> okay. great. thank you so much. i believe we can move onto item number 4. >> thank you. thank you so much to all the public who came out to speak today. i know that we are behind on time, and i'm afraid that we may lose quorum, so i wanted to ask the committee if we would be able to have a special

meeting at a date before our april 20 meeting, if that works. >> that would work better for me. >> yeah. yeah, that makes sense. >> that would be great. >> okay. thank you so much, everyone. so we're going to continue item number four to our special meeting just to give it all the time that it needs, so thank you, member nagendra, for your flexibility on this. actually, i wanted to open it up for questions today. >> i just wanted to jump in. i'm going to have to leave, but i did want to make some comments and feedback before our special meeting, so i'll probably do that through the controller's office, but i'm going to have to log off. thank you so much.

>> thank you so much for your input, member d'antonio. member nagendra? >> no, that was from before. >> okay. member friedenbach? >> okay. a couple of things. thank you to the department for presentations. i'm hoping there are some things that i'm hoping we can get answered as far as programming being differentiated for homeless people? because we're trying to move the dial and getting homeless people moved off the streets? and so just wanted to make that point again?

i'd like to see, on the d.p.h., a lot more -- and a lot of innovative stuff and a lot of great stuff that the department is doing, but i'd like to see more pieces around, you know, in responding to some of the community feedback, purchasing affording cares, opportunity to expand housing, really get some stuff in there that's moving people off the streets would be super helpful. and wanted -- also, part of the discussion, especially what we're hearing from the families is this need for extremely low-income housing? and we used to have that in our system that homeless people could move into, and at some point, we lost it, and we moved to department of homelessness

and supportive housing. and actually, this came up in african american housing in one of the small groups that i was able to sit in on. you know, that's something that a lot of the families need. you know, they need some assistance with rent to be able to afford their housing so that they can stabilize, so maybe so much of the on going -- so i wanted to kind of give that feedback. i also wanted to -- let's see -- the -- hearing a lot around the larger units for families, for these larger families. that's one of the things that we had one of the callers pointed out. i just wanted to highlight that a little bit more, too. one of the other things -- this is the last thing. there's a huge investment, i forgot to mention in my

presentation, but there's almost $70 million for a match in the granada navida hotel. that got scooted to forward years. i'd like to see a lot more coming back with these are the federal investments that are coming down. i know we don't know exactly what that will be, but we do have some. we had a huge fema reimbursement for the s.i.p. hotels, $80 million, so i'd like to see that used for the investment in terms of the one-time funding. a lot of that money is going to disappear really quickly, whereas the prop c fund can roll over, and so i'd like to also see some, you know, coming

back with these are the dollars that we can use for acquisitions to leverage prop c so that we get farther down the road. and so i don't think we ever envisioned, like, 100% of the stuff coming from prop c, that, like, once this started, everything going forward and even loosely related to homelessness was from prop c. we want to be focused on that expenditure, moving people off the streets. we want to -- we want homelessness themselves to be, like, i finally got some help and i got off the street, and it will keep people off and keep people housed. this is really exciting, and a lot of compliments, and thank you, everyone, for -- i forgot to say my thank yous around --

thanks for everyone around, the collective department and community, and also all the people who worked their asses off to get this passed. thank you. >> thank you so much, member friedenbach. we'll go to member reggio? >> i think one of the challenges we're going to have, no doubt we have to bring on substantial new housing. that's what the theme is, that's what it is, a large point of it -- part of it. let me if this is right. it went kind of quickly, and i don't have it in hand, but 500 -- i'm thinking in terms of acquisition, acquisition of new supportive housing, did you say for 500 plus people -- first of all, that's a question. is that correct? i think that's a nod. and my question is, if that is

correct, how did you arrive at that number? 500 plus means we can go from 500 to 1,000 to whatever the many bears. does the department have a -- at this point, a number of how many units it wants to bring on? i know the mayor speaks in terms of certain numbers, but the acquisition part of this, not the pledge pool or the rental subsidies, but acquisition. what's the number the department is earmarking for, let's say, the next year, and do you have a recommendation for us in that regard? >> you're muted, director. >> apologies. thank you very much. hopefully you can hear me now. so this 500 is an estimate of

what we think can be achieved with the available our city, our home funds. i think we have a lot to look at what we can do when we braid in other resources, like other state funds and bond dollars. but that's an example of what we can do with the available prop c dollars. >> so if i can just add to that, maybe not so -- maybe you are suggesting, but i would think that, you know, we're going to want that prop c money to leverage other funds right from the get go, it's not like 500 coming just prosecute prop c -- just from prop c, and you go out and use the other moneys. i think one of the things that you're going to have to grapple

with on the committee is the strike team -- and if i have the wording correct on that -- to go in to, acquire negotiations with its units. what are we talking about? how much money did we want to set to that? that very much is set to the subsidy set, the operations and services funds that have to accompany that do you happen the road. so maybe between now and the time we meet as a committee. if we can tie those numbers down a little bit and recognize -- listen, if we go through 600 units, this is going to cost us this much. this year, it's going to cost us this much the following year. >> exactly, and that's exactly what this interdepartmental strike team is looking at collectively and looking at the

available sources, you know, because [inaudible] we need to pull it all together. >> yeah. just if we had that -- so there's an urgency to this, particularly as we meet next time as a committee. you know, we've got to start honing down because we've got a whole stack of stuff to present to the mayor and the board of supervisors by april 30. >> yeah. thank you. >> thank you, member reggio. we'll go to member leadbetter? >> thank you. yeah, just want to sort of step and maybe emphasize that [inaudible] up until now, we really have not done a very good job of laying out the actual costs of things, either what has been spent or what will be spent, and i just have to say for the record that i

feel extremely uncomfortable with where we're at [inaudible] and how they will be spent in the future, and that's just to set the stage that, on april 20, we're going to be asked to allocate a tremendous amount of money, and we're looking at it, we're looking at an allocation of the entire pot in perpetuity without an outlining of dollars. and in order to do that, with the responsibility that this committee has been charged, we need a lot more information by april 20. i know everybody is moving, the landscaping is changing, the funding source does by the day coming from -- sources by the day coming from the feds and

the state, but it's something we need to do. if we can't do it, we shouldn't allocate the money. we have the dollars. there are lots of dollars. it takes time to put $100 million into the service system. that's what i think as i sit and hear all the great work that's been done, but i really want to emphasize what i think we need to do is to effectively oversee the funds [inaudible] i've asked at every single meeting someone could tell me what the advance repavements have been spent -- repayments have been spent on. we haven't gotten any reports on that, allocations of what our committee members have approved. i don't know how to do that by the next special session. what we're charged with doing

is putting our spending plan together, as it's our as much as we can do collective plan that we have with the city. i don't know how we're going to get is there, but i'm excited for it because we actually get to talk about everything that everyone has been doing. a couple of, you know, specific items. the other thing that i have never seen, it still feels like we have a collection of programs and services but no particular through line of how we're actually presenting homelessness and getting people out of homelessness. i think the committee had

really wanted to see a tie between how many people are falling into homelessness, how many people are falling out. for every three people that are falling into homelessness, one or two people falling out into housing or transition beds. this is going to be a huge investment in homelessness and housing, and i don't want to understate that. i just want to make sure we're keeping the eye on the prize there, particularly on the behavioral health side. we understand that services are important, but there's more that can be done with the behavioral health dollars to move towards exits. we've been pushing the health care system for decades now to invest their dollars into housing at the national and state level, and i think this

is our chance to further walk the talk a little bit when we have dollars that are available to us that we can use for housing. the -- i do have one specific question around the nav centers, if someone can tell me which nav centers those are? >> the funding allocated or funding suggested in our presentation speaks to a portion of navigation centers that have opened since passage of our city, our home, including embarcadero, i think a portion of the expansion at division circle, as well as the new t.a.y. navigation center, and the big new navigation center. >> okay. thank you. >> there might be another one

in there that i'm missing, but i think that adds up to the 555. >> great. thank you. the other thing that i want to [inaudible] is the potential because we're moving into year three when we're getting a view of the significant services that we've invested in in housing. if we're not looking out for [inaudible] we might have a little sticker shock when we get there, so i want to make sure we're keeping that in mind, and that might mean keeping back some funds until we see how the system is working, so i want to propose the idea that it's okay to hold back some funds, that we don't

have to expend all the funds because the hold back is there, and it could really benefit our system. couple of things on the p.s.h. investments, i've really grappled with this. in the listening sessions, we had a lot of providers and community members, housing developers, everybody just bringing to the attention the revolving door report about people following out of p.s.h. and what do we do to prevent that? i look forward to sort of having that conversation. i also think that, you know, i don't know, the 30% cap, i think we had found money for

that using general fund dollars. i'm not sure about the appropriate use of the proxy dollars, and i just want to say the [inaudible] is very important, and it's also sort of a gap of what we've been able to talk about that here. [inaudible] layout some sources so that we understand the overall landscape. but i do want to hold the line into investments in the same p.s.h. i think the intention of these funds is to really help people who are currently unhoused, and to the extent to which we can build it into the prevention, i really want to keep massaging that and really where that's appropriate and possible, but i think -- and also, on the behavioral health side, so the

p.s.h. proposal there, one of our principles of this committee is ideas that come to this committee should be vetted through a thorough and involved community process. i think the more conversation that needs to be done around those interventions and even ask if it's an appropriate use of prop c dollars. so i'm excited about it. it sounds like good ideas, but, you know, i think there's a lot of questions there. so those are my thoughts, and we're going to roll those out over the next few weeks. we've got a lot to do to get this investment and action plan done, and i just want to thank all the members and committee members that have been working

on it. >> thank you, member leadbetter. we'll go to member nagendra. >> i wanted to just say, even though i didn't -- we didn't go with our agenda item today, i just wanted to let the committee members know that are still on the call that i will ask if we can send my presentation to the controller's office to share with the committee members to prep us for the conversation that we can have at the next meeting because it was going to layout what to expect in the invest plan, how the committee members and the other membership get ready for that plan and prepare to have a discussing vote? so i will send that [inaudible] at the new special meeting that we're going to have because i think it's important that the

liaisons -- everyone know that the liaisons are going to dig into the activity we heard from all the listening sessions we had to prioritize what activitied are going to be priority -- activities are going to be prioritized on each funding category, and we were going to vote on that, so we're going to have to do that in the next couple meetings. so i want everybody to be prepared, and i'll send that out and be prepared for everybody to discuss. >> thank you. we'll go to member friedenbach. >> thank you. as much as we can have everything public, but also, the presentation that i had to be public because it allows all the committee members to look at all the stuff and that way, we don't have a false barrier and allows more community

engagement, as well. >> cynthia, if you wouldn't mind sharing your presentation from last meeting. >> oh, i did send that to mary. i'll send it again. >> we haven't had it. >> okay. thank you so much, member friedenbach, if there's nothing else, we'll go to item five, committee to propose agenda items for subsequent meeting. okay. if there's nothing, we'll go to public comment. >> i would like to talk about something. >> oh, member friedenbach? >> [inaudible] so we can just start the level [inaudible] on that. >> thank you, member

leadbetter. we'll go to member reggio. >> hi. that's exactly what i was going to add. i just took my hand down. thank you. >> thank you so much. i don't see any hands from the committee, so i will go to public comment. secretary hom? >> great. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001, access code 187-595-1186, pound, and pound again. if you have not already done so, press star, three to lineup to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted, and you may begin your comments. checking the attendee list now. i do not see any hand raised. >> okay. thank you, secretary hom. we'll now take a motion to adjourn.

>> -- to adjourn. member friedenbach. >> so moved by member friedenbach. >> second, leadbetter. >> okay. second by member leadbetter. all in favor -- oh, we need a roll call. >> i'll take the roll call. [roll call] >> all right. so thank you, everyone. we will have that special meeting before our april 20 meeting, and we'll send out the dates for that, so thank you, everyone. >> great. thank you, and the time is 12:10 p.m. thank you, everyone. >> thank you. >> thank you, jim. thank you, sfgtv. .

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>> in august 2019 construction began on the new facility at 1995 evans avenue in bayview. it will house motorcycle police and department of forensic services division. both sfpd groups are in two buildings that need to be vacated. they will join the new $183 million facility in late 2021. >> elements of the cfi and the traffic company are housed at the hall of justice, which has been determined to be seismically unfit. it is slated for demolition. in addition to that the forensic

services crime lab is also slated for demolition. it was time and made sense to put these elements currently spread in different parts of the city together into a new facility. >> the project is located in the bayview area, in the area near estes creek. when san francisco was first formed and the streetcars were built back it was part of the bay. we had to move the building as close to the edge as possible on bedrock and solid elements piles down to make sure it was secure. >> it will be approximately 100,000 square feet, that includes 8,000 square feet for traffic company parking garage. >> the reason we needed too new building, this is inadequate for the current staffing needs and also our motor department. the officers need more room, secured parking. so the csi unit location is at

the hall of justice, and the crime laboratory is located at building 60 sixty old hunters point shipyard. >> not co-located doesn't allow for easy exchange of information to occur. >> traffic division was started in 1909. they were motor officers. they used sidecars. officers who road by themselves without the sidecar were called solo. that is a common term for the motorcycle officers. we have 45 officers assigned to the motorcycles. all parking at the new facility will be in one location. the current locker room with shared with other officers. it is not assigned to just traffic companies. there are two showers downstairs and up. both are gym and shop weres are

old. it needs constant maintenance. >> forensic services provides five major types of testing. we develop fingerprints on substances and comparisons. there are firearms identification to deal with projectiles, bullets or cartridge casings from shootings. dna is looking at a whole an rare of evidence from -- array of evidence from dna to sexual assault to homicide. we are also in the business of doing breath allyzer analysis for dui cases. we are resurrecting the gunshot residue testing to look for the presence of gunshot residue.

lifespan is 50 years. >> it has been raised up high enough that if the bay starts to rise that building will operate. the facility is versus sustainable. if the lead gold highest. the lighting is led. gives them good lights and reduces energy use way down. water throughout the project we have low water use facilities. gardens outside, same thing, low water use for that. other things we have are green roofs on the project. we have studies to make sure we have maximum daylight to bring it into the building. >> the new facility will not be open to the public. there will be a lobby. there will be a deconstruction motorcycle and have parts around. >> the dna labs will have a vestibule before you go to the

space you are making sure the air is clean, people are coming in and you are not contaminating anything in the labs. >> test firing in the building you are generating lead and chemicals. we want to quickly remove that from the individuals who are working in that environment and ensure what we put in the air is not toxic. there are scrubbers in the air to ensure any air coming out is also at the cleanest standards. >> you will see that kind of at the site. it has three buildings on the site. one is for the motorcycle parking, main building and back behind is a smaller building for evidence vehicles. there is a crime, crime scene. they are put into the secure facility that locks the cars down while they are examined. >> they could be vehicles involved in the shooting. there might be projectiles lodged in the vehicle, cartridge

casings inside the vehicle, it could be a vehicle where a aggravated sexual occurred and there might be biological evidence, fingerprints, recovered merchandise from a potential robbery or other things. >> the greatest challenge on the project is meeting the scope requirements of the project given the superheated construction market we have been facing. i am proud to say we are delivering a project where we are on budget. >> the front plaza on the corner will be inviting to the public. something that gives back to the public. the building sits off the edge. it helps it be protected. >> what we are looking for is an updated building, with facilities to meet our unit's

needs. >> working with the san francisco police department is an honor and privilege. i am looking forward to seeing their faces as the police officers move to the new facility. >> it is a welcome change, a new surrounding that is free from all of the challenges that we face with being remote, and then the ability to offer new expanded services to the city and police department investigations unit. i can't wait until fall of 2021 when the building is finally ready to go and be occupied and the people can get into the facility to serve them and serve the community.

>> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards something else. surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪]

>> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt

more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive

housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things,

people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to, most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us

ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have

seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not. we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more

exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out

>> >>[music] >> i came in with her impression of what i thought it was good >> what i knew about auditing with the irs spears i actually knew nothing about auditing >> in my mind it was purely financial. with people that audited the pain no one wants to deal with it >> now i see a lot of time explaining auditing is not just about taxes. >> oftentimes most students believe that auditing is only financial whereas when they come into a government environment we do much more than financial audits. we do operational audits that were looking at the operations of the department for economy and efficiency and effectiveness. >> when i hire an intern some of the things that i am looking for first of all is is this individual agile and flexible because i am our environment is so fast-paced and where are

switching from project to project depending on what's going on in the government at any given time. >> primarily i didn't with audits on utilities management across city departments. >> citywide this ods management audit was also been assisting with housing authority audit program >> the homelessness audit >> the it functions >> [inaudible] >> were starting any water on the department of public housing environment allows >> i also assist with the [inaudible] program. >> then additionally i really enjoyed having staff who have some critical thinking skills. because i believe the basis of auditing is not do you know how to audit, but to have critical thinking skills [inaudible] >> [inaudible] even though i've only been here for short time our quick in-depth analysis and research

>> analytical skills there's a lot of taking enlargement of information a compacting it a very concise report because we've a big focus on [inaudible] if you're transmitting this information to the audience you need him to be able to understand it. >> so i work with the sparrow program primarily. broadway stan abused [inaudible] they prepare me for full-time employment because i knew i could not to challenge myself in order to be an auditor. >> at the [inaudible] we are a content feedback and communication and they pointed out areas where i need to grow. >> one of the things i like about working at [inaudible] is that they actually give you quite a bit of autonomy i feel like kevin sage trusted me. >> the environment really [inaudible] to everyone feeling super collaborative and wanting

to get to know one another. which i think at the end of the date is a better work environment and gives you a better workflow. >> i believe that a really is a great experience because it provides an opportunity to have a better understanding of how government works. >> i think what i've learned so far is that every audit is unique everyday. different learning opportunities. >> the recordation we make in on its i can honestly go home at the end of the day and zack and treated [inaudible] in a better way. >> even of not familiar with what auditing is you should deftly find out. it's been really really awesome he was it turns out there's a whole world of auditing that i cannot open file oriented performance and [inaudible] and that's an exciting. audit is a lot broader than i ever knew before. >>

. >> this is the march 19th 2021 special meeting for the san francisco local agency formation commission. i'm cynthia pollock, i'm joined by connie chan, gordon mar and shanti singh. i'd like to thank sfgov tv. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: i do. due to the covid health emergency and protect commissioners, city employees and the public, city hall is closed but