okay. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the thursday, march 10th, meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i'm chair of this committee supervisor mar. thank you to this clerk alisa samara and i'd also like to thank sfgov tv and michael baltazar for staffing this meeting. >> clerk: the board of supervisors are now having hybrid meetings. the board recognizes that equitable public access is essential and will be taking public comment as follow.

first, public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. we will take those waiting on the telephone line. for those watching, either channel 26, 78, 99, and sfgov.org. the public comment call-in number will be streaming across the screen. the number is (415) 655-0001. and the meeting id is 24970560039. then press pound and then pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, those joining us in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone should dial star three to also be added to the speaker line. if you are on the telephone please turn down your television and all listening

devices you mays also submit public comment in writing. if you submit comment via e-mail, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. you may also send your written comments via u.s. postal service to our office at city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlet place. finally, items expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda on march 22nd, 2022, unless otherwise stated. >> chairman: thank you madam clerk, please call item number one. >> clerk: yes, agenda item number one is a hearing to consider that the transfer of a

type-21 off-sale general beer, wine, and distilled conspirators liquor license to xpresentation market. will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. members of the public, line up to speak now. or call (415) 655-0001. enter the meeting id 24970560039 then pound and pound again. once connected to the meeting, you will press star three to enter the speaking line. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until we take public comment on this item and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, that will be your queue to begin your comments. mr. chair. >> chairman: thank you, madam clerk. i believe we have officer sellmanson here to present the a.l.u. report.

officer sellmanson. >> yeah. thanks. good morning. okay. xpress market inc. is applying for a type-21 license. this would allow them to operate on the premise. 0 letters of protest and 0 letters of support. the tenderloin station has no opposition and alcohol liaison unit recommends approval with the following condition, the petitioner shall monitor its area and any loitering person on the property depicted on a.b.c.2534. >> chairman: thank you for that report. so there's no letters of opposition and the tenderloin station is in support. that's good to hear.

supervisor haney, i don't know if you have any -- okay. why don't we go to -- do we have a representative from wally's community market and deli here? please go ahead and make your remarks. >> check check. i was told you guys are controlling the slides. okay. if you could put up the first slide for me. my name's hakim, i'm here on behalf of my father. he's currently abroad and trying to wait out covid. hopefully we'll be able to get him to come back into the country soon. there we go. and first slide, please. the previous address was at 498 o'farrell street. this would be 45' away from the original store. and if you can go to the second slide, we kind of have an idea

of what we're going to do in that middle spot there. okay. as far as the public necessities, i'll go into that right away. the garland hotel has recently changed and converted into an s.r.o. at 505 o'farrell street that's currently undergoing renovation. i have seen development plans that reveal the 316 addition at 450 o'farrell street. and the hilton actually recently re-opened, that's about a block away. i didn't mean to bring this up, but are the masks still necessary today? that was part of the thing is that the mask mandates is over and hopefully that revised tourism. go to the next slide, please.

all right. next slide. and one more. as far as the public convenience, this would be a one-stop-shop in a densely populated area. that includes major s.r.o.s and hotel chains. this is a rare opportunity to introduce affordable fresh nutrition in a neighborhood that usually doesn't have any. most of the shops in our area have frozen. and this would be a place where there would be deli meats, sandwiches, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, coffee, juice, and i want to add bagels. this would be follow the removal of o'farrell street that left due to lease concerns. last picture just kind of fruits and stuff. and then the last one,

basically why us? we've been legacy operators in the neighborhood for almost 40 years. everybody knows us by name. we're a family-owned business. we have a sparkling track record with the a.b.c. and we have unanimous c.u.p. approval. there has been 0 protests from a.b.c., sfpd, or city planning. this also keeps a local business from leaving the neighborhood and once again i think it introduces a much-needed one-stop-shop that local tourists and residents can enjoy. that's it. thanks so much. >> chairman: thank you. and thank you to your family for operating a neighborhood serving business for so many decades. why don't we go to public comment, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should

line up to speak now along the side of the windows, your right, my left. please call (415) 655-0001 to call in remotely. enter the meeting id 24970560039 then press pound and pound again. please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will begin your comments. it does not appear we have anybody in the room to provide public comment. let's go to our speaker line. jaime is now checking to see if we have any remote attendees. if you're not on the phone please press star three to enter the queue. when the system indicates you have been unmuted, that will be your queue to begin your comments. do we have any commentors in the queue? >> none. >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. >> chairman: thank you. public comment is now closed. supervisor haney.

>> supervisor haney: i just wanted to express my support for this license and thank you for being here and to you and your family for continuing to want to serve this community and i especially appreciate it and noted the plan around produce and fresh food and certainly i would agree that this is something that's very much needed for the neighborhood and i'm glad that you will be able to continue to serve the neighborhood. i live just two blocks from there. well, two and a half blocks, i'm looking at the map. so i'm glad you're going to be right there on o'farrell and i appreciable you being here and thank you to you and your family. >> chairman: great. thanks, supervisor haney. so i would like to make a motion directing the clerk to prepare a resolution determining that this license will serve the public convenience in necessity and that we send the resolution forward to the full board with positive recommendation. madam clerk, please call roll.

>> clerk: on the motion for item number one, [roll call] you have three ayes. >> chairman: great. the motion passes. >> clerk: agenda item number two is an ordinance amending the health code to require general acute care hospitals in the city to report annually to the department of public health the number of, and certain demographic information regarding patients transferred to a health facility outside of the city to receive subacute skilled nursing care and patients who qualify for sub acute skilled nursing care but are not transferred to a health facility outside of the city. public comment call (415) 655-0001. enter the meeting id.

once connected to the meeting, you will press star 3 to enter the speaking line. please wait until you have been unmuted and that will be your cue to begin your comments. mr. chair. >> chairman: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i've been working with supervisor safai and d.p.h. on some amendments to this item that aren't ready to be introduced today. so i will be making a motion to continue this to the next meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee on march 24th. why don't we take public comment first. >> clerk: yes. mr. chair. peb members of the public who wish to speak on this item, if you're joining us in person which it doesn't look like we have anyone in the room, you would line up to speak against the windows. for those joining remotely call

(415) 655-0001. meeting id 24970560039. then press pound and pound. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will be your cue to begin your comments. can you check to see if we have any callers in the queue and bring the first person forward. >> caller: good morning supervisors. this is raquel rivera. my sister has is one of the eight remaining sub acute patients that transferred when st. luke's hospital closed. my siblings and i have been advocating for over three years for a hospital based subacute

care in san francisco. families are still being pressured to transfer their loved ones out of san francisco because there are no subacute beds here. it is distressing for a person who requires intensive airway support to be forced to live far away from family and friends. yet, in over three years, there's no progress and a pandemic to boot. the pandemic has taken many lives with the majority requiring ventilators and specialized care as a result of covid and other complications. what can the city do to provide additional hospital based subacute beds for its residents. we would like to propose three resolutions through legislation. number one, required shared responsibility with all hospitals in san francisco for permanent subacute beds. number two, require a higher ratio of nursing staff patients to support the staff in each hospital-based subacute units.

require hospitals to track how many patients are being turned away and discharged out of county and the reason. supervisors, let's collaborate and work on these three resolutions together. thank you. >> clerk: thank you so much for your comments. may we have the next caller, please. >> caller: hi. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. >> caller: yeah. my name is dr. theresa palmer. i'm calling in to strongly support raquel rivera about the subacute bed issue, but also i think it's extremely important that we broaden the scope of this legislation to include all discharges from acute hospitals and acute psychiatric facilities. we need to know who we are dumping out of county in order to adequately plan for their

care in san francisco. it's profoundly and egregiously unfair to basically what we're doing now is we're dumping poor people out of town at a time when they're old and sick and unable to advocate for themselves. i strongly ask that not only do you solve the absence of subacute beds in had this county far more expeditiously than you have, but you also monitor all out of county transfers from acute facilities in order to have a proper and appropriate health data for decent health planning for this city for all of its residents. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. may we have the next caller, please. >> caller: hello supervisors.

i am gloria rivera, sandy's sister. have you ever been in position where you don't have a choice? how did that make you feel. have you ever been in a position where your life depended on it. have you ever had to make a decision of leaving your family and not knowing when you would see them again? this is how we've been feeling for over three years. we, the san franciscos that live here in the city where we were born in the city, where we put our sweat into, raised our families and paid our taxes. as long as we're functional is when we matter is that how it is here in san francisco? do we not deserve better than this? not only are we faced of getting old, but now we are scared that if we need subacute care, where do we go? we have no permanent hospital

base subacute units, but other counties do. i ask another question. how is it that you can house thousands of homeless people, but you cannot provide 75 hospitalized subacute beds to permanently ill san franciscos? treat us like we matter because we do. and, lastly, please don't make this just another subject on your agenda because you know what, this is not a subject. this is a life sentence, a life sentence with no choice. like my sister raquel stated, let's collaborate and take care of our san franciscans, why? because we matter. thank you. >> clerk: thank you so much if for your comments. may we have the next caller, please.

>> caller: good morning, supervisors. my name is antonio rivera and i'm sandy's brother. i would like to ask the supervisors and anyone listening to please stand with us in our efforts to make san francisco a better place for everyone living here with the subacute legislative initiatives that we propose. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. do we have another caller on the line? >> caller: yes, good morning. this is patrick menashaw standing with the rivera family and appreciate their leadership on this issue. i also look forward to seeing these amendments on march 24th. i want to remind you that c.u.p. stopped these for nonc.p.m. facilities in 2012. that means it's been a full

decade since all hospitals and the ability to transfer patients needing subacute care to st. lukes. a full decade is way too long. st. luke's then stopped admitting patients who need subacute care from its own cpmc affiliated hospitals in 2018. so we're going on four years since the city has had zero subacute care beds for any new patients. the potential 23 subacute beds at chinese hospital has been joyed in part due to the $19 million contract for covid overflow patients in that $19 million contract. d.p.h. must expedite locating

facilities, open subacute care in the city and it needs to happen rapidly, thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. do we have any other callers in the queue? >> no more public comment at the moment. >> clerk: thank you. mr. chair. >> chairman: thank you. public comment is now closed. i just want to thank all the public commentors. especially the rivera family for all of your advocacy for the city to address the lack of subacute care beds in our city and that has led to this legislation that, you know, we'll be considering again on march 24th. it also has led to some important new efforts to create subacute care beds in our city.

but you highlight the need that we're moving too slow and this is a very urgent issue for us to prioritize. so you have my commitment to work on it with you. madam clerk, i would move that we continue this item to the march 24th meeting of the committee. >> clerk: on the motion to continue item number two to the march 24th, 2022, meeting, [roll call] there are three ayes. >> chairman: thank you. madam clerk, please call item number three. >> clerk: agenda item number three is an ordinance lifting the suspension of certain provisions regarding issuance of certain violations and reinstating the collection of certain assessed fees and fines and affirming ceqa findings. members of the public who wish to embryo public comment on this ordinance may line up to speak. or if you're joining us remotely, please call (415) 655-0001. enter the meeting id

24970560039 then pound and pound again. once connected to the meeting, you will need to press star three to enter the speaker's line. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until we take public comment. when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you will begin your comments. mr. chair. >> chairman: thank you, madam clerk. thank you, supervisor peskin for joining us and sponsoring the official legislation and suspending issuance of violations and collection of fees for graffiti abatement. and thank you for bringing this item forward. the floor is yours. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, chair mar. and supervisor haney and supervisor stefani. thank you for calendaring this item today for our first week back in the board of supervisors chambers with the public in attendance as things

really are finally opening back up in san francisco. and chair mar, you spoke to this earlier. this is a piece of legislation that has been on the books in chapter 23 of our administrative code for decades and i think this board did the right thing when we suspended it during the pandemic as we did with many other instruments and pieces of law and regulation. but, now, the graffiti situation in san francisco is not being enforced at all. and i get complaints about it. i'm sure all of you do as well. and to that end, supervisor mandelman and i in discussions with the author in the original part of this chapter 23, supervisor ronen thought it was time to turn the lights back on. that has actually brought about

a larger public policy conversation that is worth thinking and talking about and i want to acknowledge the small business commission who recommended abatement for small businesses and while small businesses what chapter 23 says is the property owner's responsibility. there are instances where property owners and their commercial tenants have provisions and leases that make this responsibility of the lessee. that is and that's brought about conversations about whether the city should pay to abate graffiti on private property. i've had these conversations with public works. they could do that if we wanted to in this budget or a future budget vastly expand their staff capacity and resources

and that's the conversation worth having, but that is not what this legislation here today does. this legislation merely says good-bye to the suspension and back to chapter 23 as we know it. but i've really enjoyed those conversations. i want to thank my staff for his work on this and also thank the staff at public works who are here with us today. jonathan veong from operations. alicia wit and brian dall. and they'll give you some of the numbers. the numbers are pretty stifling. there are right now, 11,000 cases that we have not sent out any notices or abatement enforcement actions on and i do want to say, if you read chapter 23, particularly sections 23.04 and 23.05, you will see that the existing law

actually has a lot of leadway for a property owner to abate and you will see in the actual numbers pre-pandemic that it is really quite rare that fines are issued and even rarer that people seek hardship exemptions. mostly, they just abate it. and you will hear what i think anecdotedly we know which is that the vast majority of the graffiti plaguing san francisco is that properties are vacant or abandoned or have out of town owners who unlike the people who live here take care of their properties on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis. we are continuing to abate graffiti on our property, on public property whether it's

straight furniture or city-owned buildings and d.p.w.'s been doing a great job on that during the pandemic. with that, colleagues, i'm happy to turn it over to public works who is ready to make a presentation. one of the good things that actually came out of this and i'll pass this down to you is that it started a conversation about the graffiti abatement notice that public works issues which is in need and deserving of some editing and changing and public works has undertaken that and they will speak to that and they actually have a draft that is awaiting city attorney's review that is actually a lot more recipient friendly than the old notice that used to be handed out and i'll hand that down to you colleagues for all of you and one for the clerk, but with that, i would like to hand it

over to jonathan veong from public works. if you have any questions. they don't have a presentation, but they can answer questions and regale you with the numbers like i just told you relative to abatement of city property, the backlog of 11,000 cases etc. if you have any questions. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor peskin. i don't see any questions from the committee members. i'm sorry, did you say that public works has a presentation? >> supervisor peskin: no. they don't have a presentation. my mistake. but they are here and they are ready to answer questions. i had a good meeting with them this morning. >> good morning. thank you, supervisor peskin. i believe you covered a lot of stuff. i just want to relate the 2023 quick process of this article. we actually posted a 30-day notice and we have a good

compliant notice. after the 30 days notice expire, we inspect and kind of compared the photos of the graffiti. as we know, before we go towards the penalty light we do a comparison and issued an additional day notice to the property owner. and also mail notice to the registered property owner. with that we have a pretty good compliance rate on that. we continue to abate public property within this time frame. we paid over 29,000 public structure on the street. and there are 11,000 cases that is pending on private property that is still pending. with that, i can take any

questions. >> chairman: noticing the penalties have been issued in result in the temporary waiver or ordinance in place that we're considering lifting. do you know how many of those are on small businesses versus larger ones? we don't have a break down.

>> supervisor peskin: is it your experience that the majority or lion's share of graffiti is generally as you stated to me earlier today on abandoned or vacant property? >> yes. that's correct. >> chairman: thank you. i know the small business commission is sort of in they voted to support this legislation did have requests and one of them with extra support with 100 or fewer employees. what currently exists in our graffiti abatement. >> supervisor peskin: so right now, chair mar, the violation is actually not issued to the small business. it's issued to the property owner. so there isn't.

there's no differentiation amongst large or small businesses. it is merely issued to the property owner of record. now, there are instances where as a result of lee's provisions, the property owner says this is your problem to abate. are those things that we as a matter of law. we may want to come back to that. it raises questions about does the city want to step up with taxpayer dollars and do that work on private property and remember this also is technically difficult because we don't have the paint matching expertise relative to paint colors and that's a challenge for public works. but those are things that we can explore and my staff and i have made that clear to the small business commission that

we're willing to go there. meanwhile, as you know, there's 11,000 cases. nobody's even getting a notice that says do something about it. so i want to put this back in motion and continue to have those conversations. i have to say by in large and i confirm this with public works earlier, the city's experiences that when people get that notice, generally within a month's time somebody gets out there and paints out the graffiti and that notice is actually quite effective. and rarely does it go to fine and to answer your question, there is an existing hardship provision in the existing law that some parties do approximately 3% do avail themselves. so that already exists in the law that we suspended. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor peskin. and, yeah, i appreciate your commitment to looking at ways we can support our smaller

businesses in evading graffiti. as you move ahead in reinstating the notice of violation and fines. i'd be very interested in working with you or supporting that. certainly dozens in my businesses have been repeatedly hit by graffiti. yeah. >> supervisor peskin: and then, chair mar, colleagues, you are in receipt of two i believe nonsubs substantiative amendments and the deputy city attorney pierson is confirming that with a head nod that first would require that a graffiti abatement notice also be given to a community benefit district or green benefit district or business improvement district if there is one in the area within the property lines of the affected property so that they also have notice and they can go and work with the

property owner to paint it out if that's something that the cbd or gbd or b.i.d. service they wish to provide as well in the second amendment, a requirement that public works report back to the board of supervisors within two months to provide any updates for any forms such as what i just handed to you that they are working on you with the city attorney is that page four, lines 8-11. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair mar. and thank you, supervisor peskin and your legislation and i understand the need for it. i just want to comment and, of course, i'm concerned about our small businesses and the fees

and the fines and i appreciate the more customer friendly and accessible notice that they're getting the notice of violation. it is important to remember that these businesses are victims of crime. you know, graffiti is not allowed and they, you know, even if they're abandoned buildings or buildings that remain vacant, they're still a victim of the action that should be taken in the first place. it's one reason i'm supported by a pilot program to help our small businesses that continue to struggle out of the pandemic so that we, you know, they are not bearing the responsibility for someone's illegal act. also, working to eliminate the need for property owners to request a hearing in order to determine hardship and allow for the public works director to determine whether hardship exists administratively. so that is something that i'm focused on in the future, but i do, i see the need

unfortunately i think that graffiti abatement is just something that, you know, it shouldn't have to happen in the first place and the fact that we've put the responsibility on the businesses to me there seems like there should be a better way for those that are committing the graffiti to help clean that up. but i digress and i wanted everyone to know and small businesses know we will continue to work on hardships when it comes to graffiti abatement. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor stefani. why don't we go to public comment. >> clerk: yes, mr. chair. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item, we don't currently have anybody in the room. if you are joining us remotely

call (415) 655-0001. enter the meeting id 24970560039. press pound and pound again. for those in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will begin your cue to begin your comments. everybody will have two minutes. jaime, do we have any callers in the queue? >> no public comment at the moment. >> clerk: thank you so much. mr. chair. >> chairman: great. public comment is closed. any final comments? >> supervisor peskin: in addition to thanking you, psns committee, i just want to take a moment to thank public works for sticking through the pandemic and all the work they have done abating on public property and all the work that they have stacked up to abate on private property and i just want to send a message to

everybody in san francisco that graffiti really diminishes our public realm and if it happens on private property, it's a bummer and a crime and let's do our part in stamping it out. >> chairman: thanks again, supervisor peskin. >> thank you. >> chairman: so i would move that we accept the amendments as presented and summarized by supervisor peskin. and then i would also move that we send the amended item to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> clerk: on both the motions to the first two amend item number three and the second to recommended as amended, [roll call] there are three ayes. >> chairman: great. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, colleagues. >> chairman: madam clerk, is there any further business. >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> chairman: great. we are adjourned.

dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are

today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents.

so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something.

>> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this

concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own.

if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but

we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we

have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name

of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity.

that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this

>> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk

around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it

on the streets you like.

>> we are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. >> say hi. hi. what's your favorite? the carrots. >> the pizza? >> i'm not going to eat the pizza. >> you like the pizza? >> they will eat anything. >> yeah, well, okay. >> sfusd's meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. the program came about when the shelter in place order came about for san francisco.

we have a lot of students that depend on school lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. we have families that can't take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. >> for the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk.

>> we heard about the school districts, that they didn't know if they were going to be able to provide it, so we've been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. they've been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure they're staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so that's a great thing when you're working with many kid does. >> the feedback has been really good. everybody seems really appreciative. they do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of

myself growing up. >> i have kids at home. i have six kids. i'm a mother first, so i'm just so glad to be here. it's so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families don't have access to this food, and we're just really glad to be

>> chair haney: i'm joined by committee members supervisor ahsha safai. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair, and for the record, we do have member mar currently logged in. as we return to the chamber for business, just a friendly reminder to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. the board of supervisors and its committees are convening hybrid meetings that allow public comment and public

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94102. mr. chair? >> chair haney: yes. can you please call item 1? >> clerk: yes. item 1 is ordinance appropriating 7 # $0,000 from the general reserve to the municipal transportation agency to support free parking in the portsmouth square garage in february of fiscal year 2021-22. members of the public who wish to make public comment dial 415-655-0001, then dial 2487-465-2715, then press pound and pound again. press star, three to enter the queue, and begin speaking when your line has been unmuted.

>> chair haney: thank you. i believe we have kelley here to present. >> yes. good afternoon, chair haney and supervisors. this past january, the chinese chamber of commerce, joined by several chinatown-based community organizations, requested that sfmta provide free marking for the month of february and chinatown garages to support the community activities. the community has faced reduced parking to chinatown. as we know, chinatown small businesses were impacted not only by covid-19 but also antiasian racism and concerns for public safety. chinatown was the first to feel the economic impact of the pandemic and still struggles to recover, so we thank sfmta for

their safe and affordable access to the community. that concludes my presentation, and we are also here to answer any questions. >> chair haney: thank you so much to your leadership and supervisor chan and everyone who came together to make this happen. is there a b.l.a. report on this item? >> yes, chair haney, there is a b.l.a. report. nick menard from the budget and legislative analyst's office. this would support free parking in portsmouth square for most of february and two days of free muni in february of this year. as we show on our report, draws on the current reserve, the general

replenished in a policy move throughout the year. >> chair haney: thank you, mr. menard. any comments? supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: chair haney, this is supervisor mar. i just wanted to thank everyone for their work on this along with the chinese chamber of commerce, and just wanted to make a remark that the amount of this appropriation was amended last week to reflect the true cost of the free parking and the free muni for that weekend, and the title of this item on this agenda still shows 700,000, but the registrar file has the correct amount of 554,000, so i just wanted to note that. >> chair haney: thank you, and

i believe it's been corrected here in the title, as i see it, so thank you for flagging that, as well. can we open this up to public comment, please? >> clerk: thanks, chair haney. members of the public who wish to speak on this item in person should lineup along this side by the windows. members of the public who are joining us by phone should dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2487-465-2715, then press pound and pound again.

press star, three to enter the queue, and when the system indicates your line has been unmuted, that is your cue to begin your comments. do we have any callers in the queue? >> operator: there are no callers in the queue. >> chair haney: okay. i would love to be added as a cosponsor, and i would like a roll call vote on that, please. >> clerk: yes, on the motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation -- [roll call] >> clerk: we have three ayes. >> chair haney: great. thank you. mr. clerk, will you please call item 8 out of order. >> clerk: yes, chair. item 8 is a resolution

approving an agreement between the city and county of san francisco by and through the municipal transportation agency and complete coach work to perform mid life overhaul sflss to replace and rehabilitate systems for up to 48 standard 40 feet hybrid electric new flyer coaches, 111 articulated 60 feet hybrid electric new flyer coaches, and 60 arrested claytoned 60 feet electric trolley coaches, in an amount not to seed 101.6 million for a term not to exceed five years, to commence upon execution of the agreement by the director of transportation after board approval, and to authorize the m.t.a. to enter into amendments or modifications to the contract that do be materially increase the ablgss or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the contract or this resolution.

members of the public who wish to speak to this item, lineup to speak on this side of the room by the windows or dial 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2487-465-2715, press pound and pound again, then press star, three to enter the queue. mr. chair? >> chair haney: thank you. and i believe we have julie kirchbaum from the sfmta. >> i am so glad to be here to be talking about award of the mid life overhaul contract. it is the accumulation of a

decade of work to bring our fleet back up to repair, particularly focused on preventative maintenance, fixing things before they break so customers don't experience delays. next slide. this investment has clearly paid off. if you look at our fleet from the 80s or even the early 2000s, we were breaking down once every couple of weeks, once every month or so. now it is rare that a muni vehicle breaks down in service, and we are exceeding 10,000 miles on this current fleet. next slide, please. none of this would be possible without the amazing sfmta maintenance crews, supported by our engineers who have formed the work that i'm bringing you

today. next slide. no amount of maintenance can keep systems going reliablely after they pass their useful life. the shell of a bus, the frame, the seats, that has a useful life of about 12 years, a little bit longer for the trolleys. but the operating systems, they start to breakdown more like the six or seven-year time frame, which is why preventative maintenance is the best practice. the sfcta provided prop k funding to purchase these vehicles, doing a mid life overhaul was a funding condition. we are here to make good on

that commitment, and because of our really strong belief that maintaining that is in the best interests of san francisco. we had originally planned to do this procurement or this mid life overhaul about 1.5 years ago. we put it out to bid in 2019. we experienced a slight delay because of covid. next slide. we did not, in our first go around, receive any responsive bids. we did a lot of industry outreach as a result of that, and really learned that we had included too much standardization and specialization that really could only be performed by the bus manufacturer, so we took a lot of that out, we simplified to the core systems that we

felt were most important for the reliability. we contracted for a portion of the work to be done in-house, but we are having some trouble doing in-house because of our overall lack of mechanics and appropriate space, but by doing the first 112 in-house, we were able to catch up and keep moving forward. there were also some financial savings that benefited, as well. what we're bringing you today is the second part of the phase one contract. it's for 219 vehicles. next slide. it's based on an r.f.p. that went out in june 2021. unfortunately, despite our pretty extensive industry

outreach, we only got one bid. we heard that most of the east coast companies felt they couldn't do this work without setting up a west coast hub, but we hope as there's more demand, there will be more opportunities for this work. they are partnering with new flyer, the original bus manufacturer, which will help streamline and simplify a lot of the engineering. next slide. if we receive approval for this contract, the next step will be for them to do the first bus. we really test that and put

that out before they start in summer 2025. so what we are requesting for support of this contract is approximately $101 million. the contract is fully funded with cash on hand. there is, in our overall phase one contingency program, parts that do not have phase one cash, but that's something we can add to. thank you for your time.

>> chair haney: thank you so much for your time, miss kirchbaum, and welcome back to in-person presentations, or hybrid. is there a b.l.a. report, mr. menard? >> yes, mr. chair. this would be an -- can you hear me? i'll speak very close to the microphone. okay. thank you. so this resolution would approve an agreement between m.t.a. and complete coach works. under the contract, complete coach will perform a mid life overhaul of 219 buses, and as we show on page 29 of our report, the cost of the contract is about 101.7 million, and the total cost of this initial phase of the overhaul program is $154.8 million, including an in-house overhaul of 112 of the buses, in addition to the 219 that will be done by this

contractor. we showed the sources of funding for phase one of this overhaul on page 30 of our report, which are a mix of federal and regional transit revenues and developer fees, among other sources. now, the -- phase one of the overhaul is largely funded, except for $7.3 million. the m.t.a. staff reported that they will identify a funding source for the remaining portion of this project in their upcoming revision to their capital plan, which will be final in may 2022. we recommend approval. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> chair haney: thank you. supervisor safai, i know you had something on this one. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. chair. i want to ask the sfmta a few questions. appreciate this program. i think it's good to rehab and

reuse existing buses and other lines of transportation in the m.t.a. system. what i wanted to zero in on were the funding sources on page 30 of the b.l.a. report. there's two lines that i just want to speak a little further about. one, the developer fee that's being highlighted. it comes from four large developments. one is mission rock, which we just happened to be at today, potrero, power, and schlagloch.

i want to understand further the justification for that, so -- that's the first question. the second question is, also, over $7 million funding need identified over that 154 million. i'd like to find out more about that. >> we have reviewed all of the developer agreements, and we do believe that there are several

routes that these buses serve that do serve the developments, the 9th and bruno, as well as the 48 line and the 55 line. as you pointed out, because transportation is a citywide network, and we're relying on those connections throughout the city, we do feel that these will enhance the developments in the city. as i talked about in my initial presentation, this project is funded by cash on hand. we also have funding identified for the sales tax as well as the work that is underway for the in-housework.

our capital plan for the fleet program does include about $40 million of reserve funding that could be allocated to this. alternatively, we could scale back internal work, as well. so the contingency, it is contingency if needed, and it is not allocated towards this contract but towards the supportive work. >> supervisor safai: so is mr. rose available? >> yes, i am. >> supervisor safai: hey, jonathan. good to hear your voice. i just want you to talk about developer fees. i understand there is citywide

impact. just want to talk a little bit further about these developments are very specific, and there were some very specific needs that were required. schlage is not even under construction, pier 70 is under construction, so i just want to understand a little bit further that the specific needs that are required for transportation related services that are very immediate in the immediate area there, how are those both capital and operating expectations, how are those being met on top of what you guys are proposing in terms of a citywide proposal? this is about 20% of your overall funding for the complete coach works contract of 101 million. you have additional needs that get you to 158 million minus

the $7 million shortfall, so i want to understand the impact of taking the developer fees that are needed and spreading them citywide? >> yeah, sure. thank you for that question, vice chair safai. for -- and i'm glad -- i'm actually glad that you raised the question with regard to this project specifically and how we use these. so with any development agreement, we typically start with eligibility from our citywide transportation sustainability feed, the t.s.f., which typically lays out how development can be used for transportation. typically, with the citywide t.s.f., it typically applies to all projects now. 61% of that money in the planning code is designated for transit capital maintenance, specifically for items like

this, mid life overall, to make sure that the funding is there when these developments come in place. we usually take that criteria, what's eligible to the t.s.f., and we do have to work with the planning department or oewd, we usually apply some of the same criteria and write them into those agreements. i think schlage was a little bit before we had t.s.f. as director kirchbaum noted, we looked at development agreements, and the mid life overhaul was written into them. you no i couldn't see all of

julie's presentation, but this is the first time that the m.t.a. and muni is going to have a sophisticated and implemented mid life overall program, so we can guarantee those vehicles are available. we have already, in some cases, purchased expansion vehicles, like the 60-foot vehicles as an examples. when the m.t.a. purchased the last procurement, we made sure to get expansion vehicles. in the case of pier 70, we are fronting a lot of the capital improvements, and it was intended that that would happen in that development agreement, that the nature of the development would take so long, that we would have to pay for those developments up front. the expectation was if that were to occur, that essentially

any development impact fees collected would be eligible for the same general-type project under the t.s.f., so this mid life overhaul is included in that. >> supervisor safai: okay. great. thank you. and then, just the last question regarding the $7.3 million shortfall. >> so it is -- it is not unusual that the m.t.a. has an estimated contingency on any project. as a matter of just project controls, we tend not to designate existing cash flows or existing projects, and as julie noted, the nature and term of this contract, we again want to have the flexibility of those dollars to fund the contingency if needed but not designate, you know, a specific grant or dollar source to it at this point. it is an estimate.

it is not known if it will be required to implement this project as planned, this program, but as julie noted, the contract is fully funded with cash, so there's no risk that we wouldn't implement the projects as proposed. the project, i can't remember specifically, but i think it was about 23 million of soft costs and internal work, and that would largely be funded through contingency. >> supervisor safai: and then, one last question, maybe not to you, but to julie -- or miss kirchbaum. is there a process to determine which part of the process would be overhaul versus contracted overhaul? >> yes. there is a significant difference in both the cost and the number of systems that we're able to overhaul. so for example, in the in-house

system, we stripped it down to the absolute, like, four subsystems that we believe are most critical. we will have more modest results with those vehicles, but we felt it was more important to do something modest at the mid life of those vehicles than wait until this contract was in place. those first vehicles were purchase index 2013 and 14, which puts them on a little bit different timeline than the 15 and 16 vehicles that will be the source of this -- >> supervisor safai: when you say modest, you're getting more with the coach works contract overhaul -- >> significantly. >> supervisor safai: it's 20 million, materials, 28 -- double all that, plus 40, 50, and this is almost 126 million. it feels like it's double the

cost, so are you getting double the work? >> we have three times as many systems in the contract. gary chang is here that can go through all that detail if you're interested. >> all right. thank you. this is gary chang with transit sfmta. yes, for the contract presenting in front of you, besides doing the propulsion units, that's the engines, traction motor, and also, on top of that, we're having a contractor working on door systems, axle systems, drive shaft, gear box and differentials, some of the work on the floors, as well, and also the battery systems, and we will be also providing some general operator area refurbishments, something like replacing the whole driver's