>> good evening and welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, may 23rd, 2022, and i'm the chair of the committee, aaron permanent structures kin. and joined by supervisor raphael mandelman and connie chan to our right. and mr. victor young is our clerk. do you have aniance house inments? >> clerk: we have hybrid meetings to allow in-person attendance and public comment while providing public comment via telephone. the board recognizes that access is essential and we'll be taking public comment as follows. on each item on this agenda, and those attending in person are allowed to speak first and then we will take those who are waiting on the telephone line. for those watches on channel 26, or 89 and sfgov-tv, the call in

number is streaming kreeses the screen. the number is 1-(415)-655-0001. and then enter the meeting i.d. of 2496 905 4544. and then press pound and pound again. when connected you will hear the meeting discussion but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called those joining in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone should dial star, 3, to be added to the speaker line if on the tech, remember to turn down your television, and all listening devices that you may be using. as already indicated we will take public comment from those attending in person first and then to our telephone line. alternatively you may submit in writing email to myself, the rules committee clerk at victoryoung@sfgov.org. and by email it's forwarded to the supervisors and then included in the file. you may also send written

comment by usvl to our office, 1 doctor carleton b. good let place, san francisco, california, 94102. and items acted upon today's agenda are on the agenda of june 7th, unless otherwise stated. that completes my initial comments. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. young. you can please call items 1 through three together. >> clerk: yes, item number 1 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending july 20, 2024, to the public works commission. we have one seat, one applicant, or two seats and one applicant. and item two, a motion approving or rejecting of lynne newhouse sega for ending with the term of july 2, 2026.

and item 3, the city controller appointment for a public works commission for lauren post, with the term ending july 2, 2024. these three items if approved are sent as committee reports. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. young. colleagues, we previously dealt with some of the proposition b appointments to the streets and sanitation commission. and these three items are appointments to the public works commission pursuant to proposition b, and notwithstanding, and that you will recall that charter amendment from a couple of years ago required two mayoral appointees to board of supervisors appointees and one controller appointee. today we have before us one of each. and i am informed that

ms. newhouse segal, and i wish her well, is aring a medical procedure today so she will not be before us and she will be fine and before us at the next meeting on june 6th, so after public comment i make a motion to continue item number 2 to our meeting of june 6th as we have no meeting next monday because of memorial day. so we'll be hearing item number 1, which is one individual for seat number 5, fady zoubi. and the controller's nominee lauren post, to that position. and before we do that, why don't we -- as we did with streets and sanitation commission, get a briefing from the city administrators offices, prop b property manager rachel alonzo, good morning, ms. alonzo. >> good morning, chair peskin and thank you for having me here again. i was here earlier in the month

and we reviewed the admin services ordinance and thank you for approving that. it will be heard at the full board meeting tomorrow for its second reading. and we have a second ordinance that we're working on called the code cleanup ordinance and it's 190 pages long now, and we are on track to submit that for your consideration next month, by the july 1st deadline. and i am very excited to have four more appointees here today three for public works and then i believe item 4 will be for the sanitation and streets commission. and the working groups that we have convened have been coordinating and discussing what topics to review with the commissioners in their first meeting in july and then subsequent meetings in august and september. as long as we have three appointees or commissioners seated for each commission by july, then both of the commissions will be able to form and begin meeting on schedule.

so that's great that our plan can continue moving forward. and i'm most excited about what we're -- we've been discussing for site visits and ride-alongs in august, because the work of the public works department and the sanitation and streets department is so tangible and so physical, that we really want to get the commissioners out in the field with our crews so that they can go out and see what it's like to clean up the tenderloin at 6:00 a.m. and fill potholes at 8:00 a.m., and visit tree and landscaped crews. and then on the public works side it will be site visits to maybe the floating fire station, fire station 35, that was recently finished. and southeast kelp project, and that's wrapping up construction. and we want everyone to get out this and to see what the work of the two departments is. so we're putting that together

and i'm very excited that we'll have real people now that we can begin coordinating the schedules with. so that's it from me today. but i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have or we can get on to hearing from our appointees. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. alonzo, and thank you for your work. i know that it has not been easy, and that there are 91 points of connection between these two yet-to-be departments as we split up public works. so, a lot of work left in the future, if we continue going down this road. with that, if there are no questions or comments from committee members, why don't we go to mr. zoubi, the one and only applicant for seat number 5. mr. zoubi, we are in receipt of your application and i will turn it over to you to make any statement that you so desire.

>> good morning, supervisor peskin. supervisor mandelman and supervisor chan. i want to thank you for taking the time to -- to take my application. and -- and i i have been in san francisco for the past 22 years, and i have been very involved with the city departments, business associations, and my family owns a business also in san francisco. and i'm looking forward to add value to the works of this and to learn more about this, and what is done with the department. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. zoubi. are there any questions or comments from members of the committee? i will note that you clearly have a lot of background in being on the boards of various

non-profits. and as well as your experience in the banking and lending industry as set forth on your application. and so why don't we move on -- we will skip over item number 2 and we will continue that to mse controller of san francisco who i, like with mr. zoubi, had the opportunity to meet with last friday. and her resume is before us and it is an impressive one, ranging from experience in the u.s. congress, to various civic activities in san francisco, and a robust background in finance. with that ms. post, you are here in person. please come on up and introduce yourself to the committee. >> thank you very much. good morning, supervisors, and

how do you do. my name is lauren post, i'm a 36-year resident of the city. and i have been both a renter and an owner. and i have been in the miss, and fallcalow, and the east cut, south of market between 2nd street and embarcadero. the bulk of my career was in municipal finances and an investment banker, and through government clients and analyzing the credit quality of municipal securities. and also a number of years of experience in biotech consulting and non-profits. i am comfortable comfortable with financial statements. for the past 10 years i have been active in my east cut neighborhood where i was the first board chair of the benefit district. i currently serve as treasurer and sales of park committee, with t.j.p.a. to oversee the budget and management of sales force top atop the transit commission. and we have worked on a number

of projects from clean streets to new park design. and we've had some very positive experiences and, of course, some negative experiences. i also most currently serve on the general obligation bond oversight committee as a liaison to the easter bond program. so i look forward to continuing some of the site visits that i've had as that liaison, putting on hard hats again. and i have enjoyed getting to know the capital project staff but also overseeing project deliverables, budget and schedule to ensure that we voters get what we pay for and that we get it in a timely manner. i hope that i'm appointed to the new commission, because i see this as an opportunity to work with the new dpwo director to improve the department's culture and its systems and processes for carrying out its man the day. it's also an opportunity for this new commission to set a standard for how it's run itself, given that it's brand new and we're starting with a clean slate and to partner with

our sister streets and sanitation committee to integrate into the city fabric. i've had a number of conversations with former and current employees, and there are many areas where change is needed and improvement. anecdotally this was supported by a report last month that the controller issued on the general obligation program, which summarized a number of areas needing attention. i won't go into all of them, but from regulations to the permitting black hole as it's been described by frustrated staff, to the d.p.w.'s own permitting difficulties and compounded by a lack of coordination between the departments and project approvals, and actually something that is an important joint project for the new commissions to address is the lack of planning and project maintenance and responsibility, active capital projects are completed. there's deferred maintenance that costs the city and taxpayers more money than needed

and inefficiencies in maintaining our capital assets. so since project maintenance will be handed over to the new streets and sanitation department in about two and a quarter years after we split, i think that we have a nice opportunity to work together and to make sure that handoff is smooth in terms of capital projects once completed. and, again, just overall integration with other city departments needs to be looked at, and better communication and coordination throughout, and i look forward in my role as a commissioner to the extent that i can working with city d.p.w. staff to up the game of the department. i think that there's a lot of potential to make improvements here and i would like to support d.p.w. professional at all levels to strive for excellence and to have the resources to achieve it. so i thank you for your consideration and i look forward to this very valuable and rare opportunity. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. post, for your willingness to serve and for controller rosenfield for finding you.

seeing no questions or comments, open up items 1-3 to public comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on these items may line up to speak. on the side of the room by the window. if you are joining us remotely call the public comment number at 1-(415)-655-0001. and the meeting i.d. is 2496 905 4544. and then press pound and pound again. once connected to meeting you will need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. a system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand and please wait until we take public comment on this item. when you receive the message that you have been un-muted that is your cue to begin your comment. do we have anybody in the room for public comment? please come forward. >> chair peskin: good morning, commissioner. and thank you for coming on friday. >> oh, yes, thank you for having me, supervisors.

it's great to be back in the hall. marianne here and i'm giving public comment today in support of fady zoubi for his apquaigz application for the new d.p.w. commission. i believe that it's incredibly important to have representation from arab immigrant and on this commission, given how many businesses we have in the city and how frequently we interact with d.p.w. there's fee schedules that are predominantly paid for by our business community under d.p.w. code. so i think in is going to be a really important interface for our community and to be able to give the city more ground level information about how their programs and how d.p.w. programs and fee schedules are administered. with that said, i give my full support for this application for

this vacancy. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner. and any members of the public who want to comment on items 1 through three and if not any remote? >> clerk: we are double checking. and at this point it looks like we have four listeners but no one in line to speak. >> chair peskin: okay, public comment is closed. and, colleagues, i want to thank the two individuals and to recog >> commissioner chan: thank you for all three applicants for coming forward to provide your service and mr. zoubi does come with many great recommendations, including really talking about his services for both the north beach and chinatown communities so for that i'm definitely in support of his appointments today.

and for ms. newhouse, lynne new newhouse-segal and i know her work, and knowing her work and her involvements, and making sure how we preserve the characters and the history of the area of the civic center historic district. but at the same time, being able to move a project forward and that is some impressive experience. and, of course, ms. lauren post, thank you so much for willing to continue and to provide your service to the city. it's an impressive resume. with that i am in support of all three appointments. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. seeing no additional speakers here at the board, i would like to do a little housekeeping,

which is to make a motion on item number 3 to remove the word "rejects" and "rejecting" from that so it reads "approving" and "approves" on. ."on that motion to approve ms. post, a roll call please. >> clerk: yes, on that motion [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: then to make a multifaceted motion to continue item number 2 to our meeting of june 6th, and send items 1 and 3 with recommendation as committee reports to the full board of supervisors for hearing tomorrow. >> clerk: yes, to confirm item 1 would be a recommendation for seat number 5. and item number 3 will be a recommendation as amended on.

that motion, [roll call] the motion passes without objection >> chair peskin: next item, please. and you guys will be before the board tomorrow or at least you gal will be before the board tomorrow, and on june 6th we will at least get a quorum so you can talk to ms. alonzo. with that item number 4. >> clerk: yes, i guess -- >> chair peskin: did you just say it? sorry. you read four? >> clerk: not yet. confirming that item 1 and 3 are sent out as committee report. item number 4, motion approving/rejecting city controller ben rosenfield's nomination for the appointment of christopher simi to the sanitation and streets commission, for a term ending july 1,2026 and there's a

request for this to come as a report. >> chair peskin: this is i nominee of the controller, subject to confirmation by the board, who has background in finance and audits. and mr. rosenfield has indeed found that individual who i had the chance to interview last week, mr. simi, who currently is in charge of barts budget and has plenty of municipal experience here in the city and county of san francisco as well as in new york and philadelphia and with that, mr. simi, good morning, and thank you for joining us in person. the floor is yours. >> good morning, supervisors. christopher simi here. and i want to say, of course, i'm honored by this opportunity to help to serve the city. and as supervisor peskin said, i can give a quick overview of my

background. so i currently serve as the budget director at bart, where i'm responsible for formulating and developing and adoption and oversight of a $1 billion operating budget. and previous to that i was the cfo at did the of human services, the child welfare and juvenile justice organization. and in that capacity i was responsible for budget, audit, contracting, accounts payable and accounts receivable. so i really have some experience there, sort of understanding all of the various mechanics on the fiscal side of a government organization. and then previous to that, as the supervisor mentioned i was just down the hall here in the mayor's budget office for three years. and was sort of responsible for providing different departments being a liaison on the fiscal side, including the department of public works. so i have an understanding of how it operates and some of the issues that it faces. so with sort of all of that background and experience i'm,

of course, very excited. you know, i have a policy training is sort what i got my master's degree in and i think that budget, the fiscal side, i think that the budget is the sort most clear discussion of priorities that an organization can have, because it's either funded or not funded. but there's a lot beyond that. and i think when you think about policy, i think that it's actually very important to me just to be really thoughtful about how, you know -- i think what any government agency is thought about and how those tradeoffs are articulated and the data that goes in and making sure that it's good data. and thinking about implementation and monitoring over time. i think that those are key things that i really like to focus on, and i enjoy focusing on that stuff. so i think that i can hopefully bring some of that skill set that i have and 12 years working in the public sector to this role and i'm just very excited.

and i'm a resident of the city, and i'm a homeowner and i live in district 8, and i just, you know, i really love this city. and i wanted to thank you for the opportunity to allow me to give back a little bit to the city. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. simi. and when the controller calls, it is always good to respond in the affirmative, so thank you for stepping up. any questions or comments from committee members? seeing none, are there any individuals in these chambers who would like to testify on item number 4? seeing none, are there any remote callers who would like to testify on this item? >> clerk: yes, members of the public who are on the line, there are a number of people in the room to speak. if you are viewing remotely, the public comment line is 1-(415)-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2496 905 4544. and then press pound and pound

again. once connected, you will need to press star 3 to enter the speaking line. a system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and that is your cue to begin your public comment. and there are -- we have four listeners but nobody in line to speak at this time. >> chair peskin: all right, public comment on item number 4 is closed. and seeing no comments from committee members, i want to thank mr. simi for his willingness to serve and thank our controller, ben rosenfield, for this nomination and to make a motion to remove the word "rejecting" and "rejects" from the subject motion on that motion, a roll call, please. >> clerk: yes, on that motion, [roll call vote]

the motion is adopted without objection. >> chair peskin: and then i would like to make a motion to send the item as amended to the full board with a positive recommendation as a committee report for hearing tomorrow, may the 24th. >> clerk: yes, on the motion to recommend as amended as a committee report, [roll call vote] the motion is adopted without objection. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. clerk. and, mr. clerk, i don't know if you have been able to send a teams invite to brian chu from the mayor's office of community development, but if you haven't, if you could do that right now before we call the next item. >> clerk: yes, give me one moment. >> chair peskin: and to ms. post and mr. simi, there is no public

comment on this, and that is handled in committee and you are welcome to come or to participate remotely and best to make yourself available if any of our colleagues who are not on this panel have a question. and we can forward you an incite inviteif you would like to do tt remotely. >> clerk: i have just updated the invite to invite brian chu. >> chair peskin: excellent. with that can you call item number 5. >> clerk: yes, item number 5 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending december 1, 2023, to the soma community stabilization fund community advisory committee. >> chair peskin: okay. i'm giving brian chu 10 seconds to log on to teams. is he logged on?

real-time hustling. if not, mr. clerk, i can totally do this all by my little lonesome. the soma community stabilization fund advisory committee i am very familiar with because i was on the board of supervisors when we created it way back when. this is an appointment for seat number 4, which individuals have to have the qualifications of being low income, an employee, and labor senior disabled, housing business or youth.

and the applicant has those qualifications, and the committee had previously expressed a need for a representative from the lgbt cultural district and the applicant definitely would fulfill that need. and we have one applicant for the seat norman lind, who is joining us remotely. norman, if you would like to make some comments, the floor is yours and we're in receipt of your application. >> clerk: mr. chu is on the line. >> chair peskin: okay, bri an, okay, brian, ifyou would like tg in addition to that. >> thank you. and the housing community development and joined by the staff of soma stabilization fund c.a.c. just to echo what the supervisor said, the committee is strongly

committed to ensuring representation by all of the diverse communities within the geography. as people know, we have three cultural districts and actually that touch in that area. filipinas and the soma lgbtq district. two of those districts have had representation on that committee. and the committee really wanted to do outreach to ensure that the third cultural district would also have strong representation. so after outreach, the district recommended that mr. lynde consider submitting his application which he did and we're very excited about having his voice and his community's voice represented on the committee. so we are in strong support of this application. >> chair peskin: thank you brian. why don't we go to norman. >> good morning, chair peskin, vice-chair mandelman and

supervisor chan, and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. i am norm lynde and i support your support of my application. and i'm a big fan of history. soma is less than a square mile of our city, but it's filled with a rich heritage and i believe a more promising future last year during covid, i was able to take the city guide walking tour of the park area. and i saw the reflections pool that commemorates the contributions and the heritage of the first people of our area, as well as the inspiring words of dr. martin luther king. my first pilgrimage to san francisco as a gay man brought me to soma. it was in soma at the street fair that my husband proposed, and today it is pretty much the center of our lives here. the deeply rooted communities of

both the filipina district and the lgbtq district work alongside residents and businesses to strengthen, build, and renew as we face many challenges. i would be humbled to contribute my skills, time, and services to the soma c.a.c., in support of the city's ongoing work to stabilize the community, promote equity, and mitigate the effects of gentrification and displacement. to join each of you who contributes to see san francisco as a city where freedom is celebrated, and dreams realized by all who work together. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you for that presentation. seeing no questions or comments from committee members, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 5? are there any -- seeing nobody in the chambers for this item, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item remotely?

>> clerk: just to note i believe that we have -- claudine has raised her hand to speak and i don't know if she still wants to speak? >> no, i was just here on behalf of mr. zoubi in case brian was not able to attend so i had my hand raised earlier. thank you. and we are excited that norm lynde has put forth an application. >> clerk: thank you. members of the public who wish to provide public comment and are in the room should line up to speak at this time if you are joining us remotely the call in number is 1-(415)-655-0001. and the meeting i.d. is 2496 905 4544. then press pound and pound again. once connected, you will need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. a system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. wait until you have been un-muted and that is your cue to

begin your comment. we have two callers in line for public comment. >> chair peskin: first speaker, please. >> caller: good morning, i'm the manager of the lgbtq cultural district. and i am just calling to say that we're in very, very strong support of norm's application. and he has been a strong ally, not just the cultural district, but in soma in general, and i think that would be an invaluable asset to the committee. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> chair peskin: next speaker. >> caller: hello, i am vaughn golchef with the lgbtq cultural district. and 24-year resident of the city. and i am just calling to express our strong support for norm lynde's application for a seat on the c.a.c.

he's highly involved in the leather and lgbtq cultural district. and with his background we feel that he would be an excellent representative and an addition to the c.a.c. and i urge you to support his nomination. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. any additional speakers on item number 5? >> clerk: i believe -- we are double checking at this point. any additional public commenters? >> mr. chair, that completes the queue. >> chair peskin: thank you, arthur. public comment is closed. and seeing no comments from committee members, i am pleased to make a motion to forward norman lynde to the full board with a positive recommendation on. that motion a roll call, please >> clerk: yes. [roll call vote]

the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: all right. next item -- next and last item, please. >> clerk: yes, item number 6 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to extend the expir a date of the shelter monitoring committee from july 1,2022, to july 1,2027. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. young. and this is a very simple admin code change to extend the sheltering monitoring committee by a five-year period to july 1st of 2027, which gave me the opportunity to meet with the great staff at d.p.h. last week with regard to how the shelter monitoring committee has been going, particularly through covid. and i just want to thank the staff at d.p.h., clair lindsay and robert hill, and jeff sinby for their work, particularly when volunteers were not able to go into the shelters and they did that themselves at their own peril. so, thank you for your

stewardship of the program and the oversight. and i'm happy to extend it. i did in that conversation come at least personally to the conclusion that we've had trouble filling one particular seat because of seat qualifications are too narrow. we were not able in short order to develop that language to havd prefer somebody with those specific qualifications, and it's been vacant for quite some time. so i will either do one of two things. one, would be to -- if the city attorney would allow me to without having to re-refer it to committee, introduce what may be a non-substantive amendment to make the seat qualification for seat number 1 more broad, add that at the full board in two weeks. if that is not deemed to be substantive. or, i will have a trailing piece of legislation that takes care of that detail. so whichever ms. pearson, deputy

city attorney pearson allows me to do. i had not forgotten but it was not ready for today. with that, jeff, the floor is yours. >> okay, thank you. yay, that's such good news. good morning, chair peskin, and vice chair mandelman and supervisor chan. my name is jeff sinby, with the department of public health. i'm a health services manager for behavioral health services, one of the behavioral health services sites. but part of my role is to support the awesome shelter monitoring staff, behind me is angie davis and robert hill who actually -- they make everything run themselves, as two staff. so i just want to shout out to them. i actually was a staff member back in 2013 for around five years, so i have close ties to sheltering monitoring committee clair lindsay was going to share slides -- i'm not sure if you have the slides in front of you?

if not, i will try to do my best and run through these four quick powerpoint slides on the screen over here for today. but we're here today because s.m.c., the shelter monitoring committee, is going to sunset, july 1st, 2022. and we're here to seek your support and to ask for a board approval to extend the committee to -- for five years to july 1, 2027. this comes with a lot of support, obviously, from the committee, from other stakeholders like local homeless coordinating board, h.s.h., homeless coalition, everyone would like to see s.m.c. continue. but just briefly, the description of shelter monitoring committee is that its charge is to monitor the mandated 32 standards of care

for the shelters -- for the shelter sites. we do this by doing site inspections. the committee volunteer members and the staff do site inspections. we -- the staff takes complaints, does investigations, and will also do report outs to the appointing bodies to rules here, to the lhcb, and so there are annual reports and quarterly reports to provide that information. in 2020, covid happened. shelter-in-place, and s.m.c. was on pause for probably most of the year. at the end of 2020, s.m.c. sunset day was 12/31/2020, and they were kind enough to extend it another year and a half to

bring us to july 1st, 2021 to work on what we are doing here today to do strategic planning on changes to the legislation. so that's why we're here today. last year d.p.h. recommended that the committee members not do site inspections just to keep folks safe, in 2020. but in 2021 as we ramped up, robert and angie started doing site inspections and started taking complaints to try to get things started. and as importantly tried to ramp up community membership. and one -- lastly, about the committee membership, there are 13 seats. currently, eight are filled.

four seats -- well, there's four applicants that are in the process to seek reappointment. oh, i'm glad that it's up now and you will see it here that one is board of supervisors, there's two from l.a.c.b., and one at the mayor's office. it's really -- just a shout out to angie who has been like full-time recruiting, wherever she goes on site inspections and just using the whole network to try to tell members about shelter monitoring committee, and give information about membership and see if folks are interested. so, we're happy that there are four members here and thank you again, chair peskin, for helping out for seat one. it's historically been probably the hardest seat to fill. i remember when i worked on s.m.c., we had someone in that seat but she couldn't stay too long. it's, you know, having a child and you're homeless.

so anything that you could do to help loosen that criteria, that would be really be cool. >> chair peskin: and during you speaking the city attorney and i and my staff have all communicated and that legislation will be ready to be introduced and we will hit that in june. >> cool, thank you. so, lastly, i'm pretty much done but i just wanted to add real quick that i have been out at 9:00 p.m. at providence shelter and doing inspections and meeting with staff. and conducting surveys with clients to provide all of that feedback and information back at places like this. so i feel like s.m.c. gives clients staying at shelters another place to go. right now there's an internal process where they can go but

s.m.c. when they come and they talk to angie or robert or they email or they call, it's really meaningful to sit down with someone and just talk about the issues that are coming up for them at the sites. you know, it's a really informal process. the sites have to respond in three days and there's like a three-day thing and respond in writing and address the issue in seven days. so it's really -- it's really helpful for clients and the community to -- it's just really important. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. simi. and i don't know if mr. hillman or lindsay you want to add anything, but you are welcome to do it and i want to appreciate your work and the work of the committee. all right, clair, come on up.

>> thank you, chair peskin. hello, and thank you for having us, vice chair mandelman and supervisor chan. i am angie david -- that's okay -- you can call me whatever but just don't call me late for dinner. >> chair peskin: clair is our contact which is in my mind. but i -- i appreciated our conversation last week. my bad. >> that's fine. i have 16 years working with this population, our most vulnerable folks in the city. and i have had this opportunity to move forward to be with the sheltering monitoring committee, where i truly believe that i'm in a role to have a voice that counts for our people that sometimes their voices aren't heard. i'm constantly and tirelessly recruiting to diversify our committee members, which is something that i believe that

every member or every community that stays in shelter should be represented. so, you might not see, because it's not up, but i really and truly are working to diversify our committee. i do think that the clients having an outlet provides them empowering. and so it can be frustrating for our clients when they have only an internal opportunity to have something that they disagree with. so i find it very empowering. and sometimes it's just working it out, talking it out, and letting the clients know that they have an outlet and truly that their voice is being heard i think that the extension -- there's a lot of work still to do. and as you can see, you know, we've had a tough time where we had the death of one of our committee members and two of our

members had to leave to go care for family that have been stricken by covid and the devastation of the covid that their families have had. so it's an ongoing issue. i'm constantly working for the recruitment and there's still a lot of work to be done but i believe it's a lot of good work to be done and that's why we're asking for a five-year extension. thank you so much. >> chair peskin: thank you, angie and my apologies again. i think that we're happy to extend it. any members of the public remotely who would like to speak, and before that i see supervisor mandelman on the roster. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair peskin, and i have some questions about how the shelter monitoring committee does its work. and also why -- why this function is a committee function rather than a staff level function? i mean, are there any members of the committee here?

maybe folks are calling in. so that may be during public comment that people will identify themselves. but i am just curious -- i mean, i imagine -- i mean, i would imagine that there needs to be ongoing monitoring of shelters, but given the abundance of bodies that we have dealing with homelessness, why is it important that there be a committee of non-city staff engaged in this function? >> that's a great question and thank you for asking that. so we currently are providing oversight to 10 shelters and we are trying to increase through the navigation centers which would be another eight. that would be 18 sites. that would be very challenging for robert and i to provide two announced inspections and four unannounced inspections. so the community members, they

enjoy doing inspections, although i think that jeff mentioned that they were on pause for the -- the covid -- like a lot of things. but they all now have submitted their proof of vaccination and boosted to the city. so, you know, it's -- we have -- we need the bodies. >> supervisor mandelman: so is the primary function of the community members to be volunteer inspectors? >> yeah, they volunteer and do the inspections and robert and i go out and also do inspections and also train staff members on how to do inspections. and then they turn in the inspections and i digitize them and send them out. so their role is to do just inspections and robert and i are the folks that take the complaints and, you know, we sit with the public to take the complaints and we work on what is the 32 standards of care and whether it's an infraction or not. and we follow through and work

with the shelters and robert and i work with the shelter for resolve or solutions or not, you know, there's not always fine news, but, yeah. the 13 bodies are to really help us with the inspections. >> supervisor mandelman: okay. so what happens at the committee meetings? >> pardon? >> supervisor mandelman: so when the committee meets, what do they do? >> robert, you want to take this one? when the committee meets, what do they do? >> chair peskin: come on up, robert. >> this is my colleague, robert i will let him take the question. thank you. >> hi, chair peskin and vice chair mandelman and supervisor chan. i would add to what the committee does -- the members of the public -- i think that -- i see it as they are representing the unhoused community. you know, they are able to suggest changes. for example, we have one standard of care that we're just adjusting to add warm water. there was no standard of care

that said that the shower had to be warm. and so they see with different eyes than -- i mean, i know that i try to be empathetic, but i just don't have that experience -- that lived experience. so many of our members have lived experience and they are maybe in some ways better at seeing issues. i know that as a supervisor in state service for many years, i didn't have much incentive to notice that there was a daisy chain of extension cords there but if a safety inspector came in they would have no problem giving me more work. so that's one element of it. so in the meetings, we also -- the members discuss possible changes. they bounce things off each other. and they look for consensus on what could be done to, you know, to improve the work. there's an additional value i

think is when the staff at a shelter has to tell a client about a particular rule, being able to offer the client another party to go to so that the unhoused person doesn't have to simply take what they're being told. they can ask -- come to the committee, and they can join the meetings, the monthly meetings, and offer their personal experience. so i believe that there's also that benefit to the shelters that they always tell us that they like us to be there and to come out to visit them and to join in their community meetings, their town halls, and so i -- i would like to think that it is sort of multifaceted >> supervisor mandelman: and what are the consequences, you know, of a report? so your folks go out and they find stuff that is bad and then what happens? >> well, in our monthly meetings

we -- we have a public summary of what's happening. so the shelters are called out by name. so if you have four complaints in the month and other shelters have zero or one, i think that catches the attention of management in order to help the- >> supervisor mandelman: to justify -- all right. >> to justify the resource provision to address those issues. and it also, you know, over time, with enough data it can give a picture of how the performance is relative to other shelters. >> supervisor mandelman: and that's catching the attention of the management of the shelters or the management of d.p.h. or h.s.h.? >> h.s.h. -- >> supervisor mandelman: [indiscernible] what correlations are between d.p.h. and h.s.h. around these evaluations? >> well, we have one member -- employee of h.s.h., that serves on the committee as the -- so we have a d.p.h. member and an h.s.h. member.

h.s.h. member is a fairly senior experienced manager. so that's a huge benefit when people have questions and she is also able to take feedback, back to her colleagues. the h.s.h. has the contracts, and is able to influence i think the shelters to improve their services when -- >> supervisor mandelman: and h.s.h. contract awarding -- >> i believe so. most shelters are under contract through h.s.h. >> supervisor mandelman: that's my question, you are doing your evaluations and reports, does it land anywhere? >> chair peskin: and i will add that at my meeting with d.p.h. last week and h.s.h. did participate and was actually very supportive of having the s.m.c. and having it continue, and ms. dylan-schneider spoke to the fact that it was helpful and h.s.h.'s evaluation of their

shelters. >> supervisor mandelman: okay. all right, thanks, everybody. >> thank you. >> chair peskin: are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item number 6? >> clerk: yes. there are no members of the public in room for public comment. if you are joining us remotely, please -- you would like to join us remotely please call 1-(415)-655-0001. and the meeting i.d. is 2496 905 4544. and then press pound and pound again. once connected you will need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. once you hear that you have been un-muted that is your cue to begin your public comment. there's nobody in the room. and there are two listeners but nobody in line to speak. >> chair peskin: okay, public comment for item number 6 is closed and i will make a motion to send this with positive recommendation as a committee report on. that motion a roll call, please >> clerk: yes, on the motion to recommend this item as a

committee report [roll call vote] the motion passes without objection. >> commissioner falzon: and we >> chair peskin: and we are adjourned. .

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quorum. >> okay. i wanted to take this opportunity as welcome commissioner, our president and members lashandon preston and to the staff. mr. bugbeck and kate peter and today we have our guest, mr. scott miller and also to the members of the public that are tuning in at this point and those that would be tuning in later. i run into a lot of people in san francisco and i can attest that everyone, most people are excited about what is going on in treasure island. they do not even know how far we have gotten when get to the island, they're impressed. on

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presentation of final report but uc berkeley goldman school of public policy, master's degree candidate regarding tiy parks and open space and maintenance planning. >> thank you, kate. i just wanted to take the opportunity to introduce scott miller as the agenda item says, he is a master's candidate with the goldman school of public policy and for the last four months, he's been working under the city administrator's office of budget and planning to conduct an advanced policy analysis project working with tida to look at parks and open space, maintenance programs and best practices and he's been in this work, he's not closely coordinating with primarily peter summerville on tida staff and jaime reuben and myself. and he's nearing, preparing a report

summarizing his research and experience and wanted to have him come here today to present to the sustainability committee. so with that, i'll turn it over to scott unless peter, did you want to add anything? >> go ahead, mr. miller, you're welcome. >> perfect! good morning, everyone. thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to share the findings of my report this morning. i'm very excited to be here. let me share a powerpoint presentation that i've prepared to go along with my speech so hopefully there's a little visual while i ramble on and on. so, as bob graciously let you all know, again, my name is scott miller. i'm a graduate researcher from the goldman school of public masters policy at berkeley i had the pleasure of working with bob, peter and

tida staff. spearheading a maintenance and staffing plan for all of the wonderful open spaces that will be opening up on the island over the next two years. as you all are very aware, tida will be getting a very diverse set of parks and open space assets over the next ten years, ten or so years. that will really transform the two islands into a world class destination here in the san francisco bay area. since many of those states especially on the buena island will be opening up, i believe some of them have already opened up to the public, creating a maintenance plan and a staffing model to perform that maintenance work is as time crucial as ever. so, with that, i will go into the analysis i've conducted to try to determine the best staffing model that tida could employ to perform

maintenance work across all of the different types of open spaces that we'll be handling. i'm go brief -- i'll go briefly for a draft maintenance handbook for the different spaces and the different evaluation criteria tida can use to make sure that the maintenance work is being done at the world class standard that tida is looking for. i'll briefly just mention that the primarily tools i use to conduct this analysis involved a regional practices review where i spoke with different parks agencies and their partners across the san francisco area to determine which of their current procedures and staffing models could be best applied to tida particular situation. i also conducted a literature review looking at staffing models and park maintenance across the state and across the country. this involves both theoretical work and empirical study to

justify some of the findings, so first, i'll go into the staffing model question. as i think that's the primarily question tida, the tida board, yourself and the tida staff had be looking at as making sure you have a good robust staff doing the maintenance works, it will be key to making sure that the work is done properly. as inadequate staff likely could not perform at the world class standard tida is looking for. in my conversation with tida staff and with the regional partners, i was able to speak with, it became clear there were three alternative staffing models that could be most applicable to treasure island and buena island open spaces. the first model would be a contract to a private firm where the contract is written up, issued to a private party and then that third-party is trusted to perform all the

maintenance work. we think of it as typical contracting through a government agency. the second key alternative would be for tida to establish a relationship with a conservancy in buena island. that model will look like a lease structure so tida will retain ownership of the open spaces and lease it to the conservancy and they would perform the maintenance staff in the open spaces and the third staffing model under consideration would be for tida to hire its own team of landscapers and custodians to perform the work in those parks and open spaces. given these alternatives, it became clear that the key question within this model, the staffing model, was one of centralization to use the technical word, looking at -- what is the best way for a government to provide a service, is it through in-house prevision

or is it through hiring a third-party of some sort? there's been lots of theoretical discussion around what is better for governmenter advice prevision on the centralization -- government service on the centralization and serve rah studies to explore that in real life context. just to give you the key takeaways as it applies to our current conversation today, the literature divides task is in two general categories and on the one hand, you have transferrable tasks, these are tools, skills, et cetera, that can be learned from private party providing the service to one agency, say, the city of oakland. and being able to take that same set of tools and skills and easily apply them to work being done in another city say san francisco, san jose, what have you. because these tasks are transferrable

between different agencies issuing the contracts, you can generally expect that there will be quite a few private firms able to enter that market and compete for those bids and they'll each be trying to provide a quality service so they can continue receiving contracts. in this situation, a government agency can largely feel comfortable using what's known as arm's length contracting where the contract is issued and a set of instructions are handed off to the contractor and that's the extent of the interaction. on the other hand, there's are -- i'll use the term specific since it's faster to say. these are often complex or very unique to the situation of the contracting agency. and can't be taken from one agency to another by a third-party and applied to

across the situations. it usually involves a lot of learning, the specifics of the agency and the space and the population. that service is being provided for. and it's hard to plan out ahead of time as well. there might be nuances that staff and the contractor might not be aware of in a particular situation that only get exposed or as the contractor tries to do that sort of work. for these very specific tasks, usually an agency will see better performance if it either provides the service itself or and we, the literature also suggests that having a nonprofit perform these tasks will result in better outcomes for the agency. now, even when partnering with a nonprofit, it's important for these types of specific tasks that an agency uses what is known as rurp --

relationshipal contracting and that's when the provider and contractor is working hand-and-hand and collaborating on decisions in the field as they move forward to make sure that whatever the nonprofit or other contracting entity is doing, this is meeting the goals of the contracting agency. so, within this kind of theoretical framework which has been built up and justified by a lot of empirical evidence as well, i've divided tida future spaces into two categories. on the one hand, you had design spaces, kind of like the stock photo we have on the left here. this, these are spaces where tida will know what asset it's going to have, what plants, what types of benches, what have you. and it can therefore be proactive in setting up maintenance goals and maintenance plans. to hand it over to a contractor and be able

to leave it as is. on the other hand, you have natural spaces where generally you know, tida might not know what plants are already growing in the area, what animals are already living and thriving there. and so staff trying to do maintenance work there would be more reactive, kind of seeing what starts to flower every year and making a decision on what to keep and what to pull out and replant, kind of on a year-by-year and month by month basis. with those two distinct categories of parks established, i then tried to determine which model would be best in each of those spaces. and to do that, i used four different evaluative criteria. the first is the most important especially for tida's mission, is the potential effectiveness of a staffing model to achieve the world class goals tida is looking for in its maintenance

work. i gave this criteria the most weight in my recommendation. second key criteria was the cost of an alternative. you can think about it as the -- the next two aren't crucial to the world class standard that tida is looking for in its park maintenance goals but i think should be considered when tida is deciding on which staffing model to establish. and that's the potential popular support that an alternative can mustard if it's adopted or what popular voices might come out if a staffing model is adopted. and lastly, the potentially administrative eve of tida adopting and then maintaining that staffing model in question. so, i will first look at design spaces specifically. but i'm going to move from left or

excuse me, from right to left in the criteria because the first, because popular supportive administrative eve and economy actually pan out about the same between design spaces and natural spaces. so, to briefly go over the potential popular voices coming out for an alternative, because contracting out and tid staff are bureaucratic in nature, kind of administrative task, it's probably not likely that there will be a large public movement in support, you know, recognizing and supporting either of those decisions but a -- conservancy because it gives members of the public an opportunity to have a greater voice in park maintenance goals, might see some actors voicing their support actively for that

alternative. moving on to the potentially administrative workload of any of these alternatives, contracting out the services or establishing a conservancy would likely see a front end heavy workload for tida staff as they establish the contract or the lease with the conservancy of partners with, but then that administrative work would lower as that partnership continues. with tida and staff itself though, tida of course would have to hire the staff and then also maintain hr operations for all those personnel going forward. looking now at the potential economy of each of the alternatives, the estimates, the potential cost and the economy of each of these alternatives is of course different between design paces and natural spaces due to the differing staff size needed in each of those spaces but the proportion, you can say is

roughly the same between contract, potentially contracting out and hiring tida staff. not to get too technical with the economic lingo, but the market competition, you could see in trying to issue a contract to a private firm can be expected to keep cost lower than tida trying to hirity own staff to maintain the work and again maintaining all the payroll and benefits for those employees. i would estimate that a conservancy at least for the first few years would likely cost tida staff roughly the same as hiring its own personnel and that's because as the conservancy is in its infancy building a donor base and draw in other public funding, it might need to leverage more tida, direct tida financial support to perform its parks operations. finally, we'll look at effectiveness and this is really where the design paces and the natural spaces start to

diverge in their evaluation here. so, within design spaces because tida can anticipate and plan out almost all the work that needs to be done, of course, accidents and random events accepted, pretty much any entity can be expected to perform at the world class standard that tida is looking for in its park maintenance work. there are of course a few variables tida had keep in mind if it decides to contract these maintenance services out to a private party and the primarily two variables i would point to would be the composition of the staff itself, the field crews doing the work and the past experience of contractor that it issues the contract to. that first variable, you know, the field staff itself should be well acquainted with performing

maintenance work for the heavy used spaces that tida is looking for. as i'll briefly go over later in the report, the criteria, the evaluate of criteria and maintenance plan proposed within this report, imagine that the staff would, that the maintenance crews would have roughly two years of training either in apprenticeship or formal education or some combination of those to make sure that the work is being done at tida standards, so that would be, that's one variable, making sure the field crew is well-trained and well-acquainted with the maintenance task that they would need to perform. and kind of within there, looking at the rotation rate of the field crews doing the maintenance work is something tida should keep in mind. looking at the past experience of the contractor performing the work. there are many landscaping firms out there

who perform a lot of work for se, corporate parks or home associations or what have you. i want to note those types of spaces generally have different types of maintenance care and tiff levels of work that tida spaces would need. a corporate park may have a lawn that doesn't get torn up with cleats as frequently as tida's assets would. tida needs to consider in planting beds, you might have young children tramping through them periodically as little johnny likes to go through the aselias or what have you. that's my level of care and attention than some contracting firms may be used to doing. that's my

breakdown to design spaces and to move into natural spaces, again, in the economy administrative eves and popular support categories, those breakdown the same as in design spaces so i won't bore you with those details again. looking at effectiveness because of the reactive nature of the maintenance work in the spaces, creating an arms length contract where the contractor just issued the contract and issued the work likely will not achieve management goals that tida is looking for in the various natural spaces it will be managing. so for that reason, contracting out to a private third-party in this arm's length relationship i believe at best could do a good job maintaining the spaces in the natural spaces but conservancy and tida staff being in that close relationship

with tida management could perform highly in those spaces; so after comparing all of those, my recommendation on a staffing model tida should adopt is a hybrid one. i would recommend looking for a private contractor, a third-party to be issued an arms length contract and given jurisdiction to maintain the parks and open spaces over there. and tida can't lift out all events and maintenance task for the space. give it to a contractor and perform inspection work through the year to make sure the work is being done well and market forces, market competition should keep private contractor's cost lower than tida might see for its own staff or con -- yukon certificate van see.

because of the need for tida to be closely partnered with whoever is performing the task, i recommend tida and if a conservancy is performed for the two islands to partner with the conservancy and enter into a lease agreement with them and leave them to do that maintenance work. so with that, staffing model decided, whichever one tida decide to pursue, the next big issue in the report is to look at a maintenance guide. and i won't bore you of how to maintain the trees and lawns and i'll go over general principles that tida staff should look at. the handbooks be tailored for each individual space so morning of, a maintenance crew are receive the maintenance handbook and take it to their space and quickly look down the list and perform the task they're asked to do. those tasks should be

divided into daily, weekly and monthly, it should be broken down in a clear pattern so that maintenance crews know when they need to perform each of these tasks. and of course, this should be planned out ahead of time. i recommend that tida adopt some sort of mobile app that field crews can use to quickly pull up the maintenance tasks on their phone and look at the schedule of work that needs to be done for the day and that would allow staff to also report back what work is done, if it met the criteria tida is looking for and if a tree branch falls down in a park, they can quickly are let management know a crew would need to go out and take care of a bigger job like that. this is just a brief example of what the handbook might look like in the sports park for turf maintenance specifically. kind of breaking down each of these

tasks, specifically. so that field crews can easily kind of check-off as they perform each of them. last thing i'll go over before i bore all of you to death, is the evaluate metrics that i recommend tida to use to make sure the parks are being maintained at that world class standard tida is looking for. i actually recommend using san francisco's current inspection manual from the office of the controller and the recreation parks department. and that manual breaks down each of the types of major assets and criterion it's looking for its crews to meet. this manual has been used by other entities such as the national park service as a best practices model for the mps's on work in some of its spaces so because of that, i recommend that tida largely adopt that manual for its own

maintenance crews, of course, making adaptations as needed to fit treasure island and buena. inspections should be done in a two-stage process and first is the pretty much daily. the field supervisor should report back to tida management at the end of the day. whether the crew performed at tida standards that day or not and this can be done through the mobile app, just kind of checking to make sure all the tasks were done correctly. and every week, i would recommend that tida staff do perform site visits in what i'll call in a semi-random passion. that tida staff should have a list of when staff will visit each of its different as hes and each of its different parks to perform maintenance task but in a particular day, half of those sites should be

randomized. you can list them in an excel sheet, run a bunch of random numbers and ping those numbers to a particular day. the random nature of inspections will help tida and tida staff make sure that all spaces are receiving the attention they need and there's no short cuts potentially being taken. and when it comes to the inspection andy ral weighs, i recommend that tida also, this is something you all do well already, but make sure the public has plenty of options to provide its input on how it feels tida maintenance crew was performing at maintaining the park and also reporting their general feelings about natural resource management and what have you. i recommend having an online portal and e-mail address for the public to be able to contact tida. but of course, having a mailing address and a

phone number could make sure that members of the public can contact tida through whatever means that's easiest and best for them. and we have a look at what the book would look like that was my analysis and i would recommend that tida issue a contract for maintenance work in design spaces, partner with a conservancy in its natural spaces and prepare handbook especially in design spaces to give to its contractor, work closely with the conservancy to prepare maintenance goals in its natural spaces, and then check on that work frequently to make sure it's being done to the world class standards you all are looking for. with that, i will stop boring all of you, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> great, wonderful. let me --

before i open it for general discussion, mr. miller, i wanted to congratulate you and commend your thorough research analysis and recommendation. you kept referencing world standard and i can tell you, i've spent a considerable amount of time over the weekend just, digesting the information that you have presented today and i'm going to recommend and you produced 56 pages of world class research on this matter. people should understand and we always like to remind that the development of the treasure island and buena island have secured, met

platinum which is the best standard in the world, so this project is not just for san francisco. it's something on the radar. i want to commend your (indiscernible). those you listed is the icon not only in north america but just about everywhere. you mentioned, the national park service, part of san francisco and you've mentioned the golden gate and the san bruno mountain and a host of other world class entities so i'm going to at the end of the presentation, that tida and our president is here, and i recommend we write a special letter to acknowledge your outstanding research. i think it needs to be on the

record from us to convey not only an attitude but the kind of document analysis that you have provided, it's very valuable and that we tend to go back and look at all the recommendations and at some point, a robust discussion, we will, you know, convey among ourselves and decide with the direction that you have already given us a roadmap and so we're grateful for that. so this is my initial comment, i'm going to open this up and commissioner tsen? >> thank you. yes. thank you so much for that report. and i used to be the college of environmental design teaching graduate school classes to i'm always happy to support students

and i'm very glad that you're working with tida. in particularly on this topic which has been very close and near to my concerns about the parks and open spaces that we are are building on treasure island and it's a gift to the city. 300 of open space and we want to design them as world class destinations. we are getting the capital to build them through this joint development on treasure island but what i'm worried about is really making sure that once these parks and open spaces are established that they continue to be maintained because operating expenses are the most difficult to get as one goes forward. in fact, there's

nothing in the city's budget from the general budget that will support these parks and open spaces on treasure island. we have to be self-reliant on that. so, i have been perhaps the one on the commission who has been drumming this message that we really have to look at how do we go forward in the future and what sort of organizational structure do we use in order to be able to do that? and i appreciate that you've looked at some of the models and looked at? of the literature because what you came up with applies to more than just the park. it applies to services in general. but i would say that there is something, which needs to go beyond what you have provided us here today. i think that when you're looking at one park, yes, the models and

the hybrid models that you've looked at may apply that the maintenance services may be economical to contract out, but i think this goes beyond that and that is what i'm looking at is what is the organization structure that we need in order to do more than just the maintenance. you've got a maintenance manual. i can hire landscape maintenance companies and i think that we do have a relationship with some but what do you do about the overall keeping and the overall conservancy of the parks and open space that we have? and i think that having a conservancy

which you have mentioned be overall an umbrella does make sense and i would like to explore that and the things which are not mentioned in your report because there needs to be advocacy for these spaces. there needs to be long-term management not just the day-to-day or seasonal management but yearly, several years, decades of management and particularly institutional knowledge about these particular plants and how they grow and how they need to be maintained. we have spaces which will evolve over time. it needs to be a way to document that and also to have knowledge about how to do that, for

instance, the wetlands, once its established. it's not something which is seasonal one year and you contract out for maintenance. it's something that has to evolve over time and that you need to have the skills to be able to do that and in some ways, we have the chance on treasure island to do something very educational and that we can provide, even the research on how these native plantings do over time, that you know, we have the chance to show through our techniques, whether it's composting, you know, bio retention, base -- basins we have and the gardens and how they're performing. there's a lot of educational value that can be done, not just the

day-to-day contracting of maintenance services but really very holistic way of looking at the services that need to be provided through treasure island and actually, the initiatives that can arise from that, that can be created in reaching out to the public as well. so, that's something which you don't have in your report and i think that there are other groups throughout the country, i don't know if you did some research, that specifically looks at parks and open space, not just general governmental services, but particularly parks and open spaces and there are very few that are like treasure island. i would say even that treasure island is rather unique and so, i think we need to put together, you know, the thinking on how we

structure organizationally this look at the services that we need on treasure island. so, that's my general comment. i don't think it goes far enough this that we knee to look at a level of organization above just doing the maintenance and so that's my initial comments but i'll let you go ahead. >> thank you, commission tsen and i'm going to call on commissioner dunlop. >> thank you, i really loved the report. i thought it was brilliant and thought it covered lots of pars that are really important, giving us choices of where to proceed and so i also

like the comment of fe and there's a little more involved in finances and to keep this project financed forever because you know, we've seen so many cases where a park has been greatly loved but then unfortunately under finance and then it slowly decays, so we don't want that, definitely we don't wouldn't that. a quick question if anybody knows, could we possibly enter a contract with the rec. and park department to do the more maintenance type things? is that something we might be able to look into? >> i understand, maybe bob and peter have suggestions on that as well. certainly the parks and

rec. department provide services for all the parks in the city. however, i think treasure island is very different. it has its own sources of financing that come from the hoa reserves and treasure island is such a new addition to the parks system, i would be afraid that if it was managed by the parks and rec. that we would not get the attention that a new park deserves and that's just my personal feeling, but certainly, i would let bob or peter answer that. >> i can jump in right here. i think about several years ago, we actually took a delegation to new york, courtesy of

commissioner chin and we explored the world class parks in new york city. we visited many islands and the mission for the open space treasure island and buena island and cumulative, we're going to have more than the golden gate park. the parks, maintenance has to be self-sustaining so we're looking at, even when you look at the design of this parks, it makes sense for us to explore the conservancy model and even though and again, the reason i highlighted commitments to miller is that that topic is of great interest. we could go back based on the nation of the objectives that we discussed earlier, want to achieve, we can

expand that if we decide that option after exploring all the others and the ones we're going to go to. for instance, the economy of scale, for instance, what do we, how do we translate the maintenance and again, the economic activities that we intend to generate. the parks are not designed the same so the usage are not the same across the board -- across the board and what's the reason for that? so we can have concert and vegetation and activities so if we decide on the other option three, your recommendation to establish this conservancy and which is basically work i'll be looking at, i think then we can broaden that scope and be able to explore how we are going to be able to maintain that and

also comparing what we are trying to do works in the iconic parks that's world renowned and we have visited those entities and we continue to explore and we have looked outside of the united states and we're looking at canada and looking worldwide, so again, your recommendation again is a guide to where we are. i think you've done a good job again in pointing out to so many possibilities. only on when we look at the san francisco rec. and park model and we also note that in san francisco, they haven't attained that level. the dissolution of the old san francisco redevelopment agency, there were a lot of parks created in san francisco but there was no plan for their maintenance for the longevity of those parks and the city of san

francisco, as i speak, they are just now getting into the full-time discussion of how are we going to maintain the parks and as commissioner tsen mentioned earlier, you have the homeowners' association, the financing of this development, people starting late measures and we have to abide by them and they're making the conservancy option, it should be well thought out and we should have all the previsions in there but again, thank you for that, guiding us with all of the possibilities. so are there any other questions from either director of -- commissioner tsen, do you have anymore statement and commissioner dunlop in >> yes, i do. one thought about the rec. and park and this is

just -- this is me working off the top of my head but perhaps a special division that is dedicated to this island and that being, they already have a certain amount of ability and you know, material that it could be very helpful to get us started quickly in subject to the agreement we have made with them, we could have lots of control over that but they being the premiere park or rec. and park of the city, it might not hurt to take advantage of their knowledge. this probably isn't the time to be discussing that, anyway, i wanted to put that

out. thank you. [multiple voices] >> sorry, i forgot how to raise my hand and i can't find the button. no, i did want to say that, um, you know, kind of to base comments earlier -- to fad's comment, we have the support of the park maintenance on the island and there had been a presumption that there would want to be kind of local control for the maintenance efforts on the island, but with that being said, we have been consulting with rec. and park on the design of the parks, getting their comments about -- you know, various materials and taking advantage that have feedback and there are places in the future,

you know, around programming and other areas where i think we can learn a lot from rec. and park and also one of the conversations we've been having with them separate from scott's work is some of their manpower forecasting, labor forecasting of projecting for budgeting purposes, you know, how many personnel will be needed to maintain a space based on kind of the materials and usage and so forth, so we have been collaborating with rec. and park and trying to draw upon their welcomed experience in this process while still looking at what are our choices, our options for future maintenance.

sorry. >> i'm also, you're right, mr. beck, that -- it has been stated here, that san francisco and rec. and park have nonprofit working with them, so we're going to be looking at the golden gate, national recreation model right here also in the city of trust. right here in san francisco, decreasing the field model. and i think when we look at the part of san francisco and again that's the east bay where so many iconic parks and models and again, concentrating on what we learn from new york city and we're going to put a playbook here and there and put together what we're trying to do. if we come up with the conservancy, it does not preclude having all kinds of relationship with san francisco rec. and park and all this other entities that we have

come across. i think we need to make it clear here also that the open space of 290 plus parks from special islands, you have buena island constitute, a rare opportunity for us in north america to have a world class park system with the combination of all the iconic spaces. our method of development, engineering, architectural, lights, this island is to surrender bus what we have known and to engage some of the mistakes that we have found and so, it's not just going to be one cookie-cutter. that's why we're having a broader discussion, is that we're looking at the best practices as i think mr. miller, that's what you established with your

research and again, we showed you this task and you looked at the best practices and i think it's for us to take that information and help you to mold that into what we wanted to do and again, to underscore what commissioner tsen said earlier is that all this information that we've gathered become handy and then we need to evaluate where we want it to go. and we decide on doing may not be a replica and it's not made to be like that. it will best practices so i'm very positive about that. okay. any other -- >> i would like to -- >> yes. >> so, my comment about the parks and rec. certainly, they have a wealth of experience and part of the study should be looking at ways to incorporate

the experience and use it well but i would suggest that a model to look at and i hope that in your research thought, you're looking at other major parks and open spaces and how they're managed. i mean, regionally of course, we have a seed yo trust and various conservancy even with the golden gate national area but nationally, there are many examples of conservancies that have been organized to oversee these parks and as linda said, we did look at some central park conservancy, the brooklyn bridge park conservancy, virtually all of the major parks in new york city, as an example, and even in the major cities, chicago,

philadelphia. they have conservancies and trust that they've given -- that they've given some oversight for their park and open space. a model that might be worth pursuing is really a conservancy nonprofit which does the oversight for the parks but also does programming, it also does fundraising which you can only do with a nonprofit organization. it also does the outreach to the public. it does the education as well. and that is done very closely in concert with the tida staff because tida would have to oversee that lease

to that nonprofit, if it's a lease. so, i think that is a model that we should look at because it certainly is used in other cities as well. and so, i will look to your full report. i'm looking forward to reading it when you have finished but i hope that you will look at that conservancy model more carefully. >> so, thank you, commissioner. are there any other questions or comments from the commissioners before i open this for public comment, please? >> i have a quick comment. >> okay, commissioner preston. >> it was very detailed report. i'm very appreciative of it. i am in agreement with everything everyone is saying. i think his suggestion for a hybrid solution

is really good and i'm with tsen on the education aspect and i'm in agreement with you, linda, that treasure island is a unique place so i would like to see something established and running for a long time and not just temporary as we get passed the redevelopment and making it a tourist attract, so thank you. >> thank you so much for that comment. let me see. kate, do we have any public comment? >> we do have public comment. i'll open the line. >> okay. thank you, go ahead. >> >> hello, this is peter from san francisco environment, can you hear me? >> yes. >> thank you. i wanted to just offer my contribution to the really interesting and rich conversation today in the spirit

of the work i've been doing for tida for the last several years, consulting as -- an ecology from the department of environmental. i want to say as everybody said, echoing that great report. scott, congratulations on your thorough research and detail oriented approach and just analysis of the situation. really interesting stuff. i read through the whole thing. i wanted to add to the conversation like i said from my ecology lens and in that, i would just say that i understood the way that scott setup the report in terms of kind of creating a dichotomy to the design landscapes and natural landscapes and i think the analysis has a lot of merit based with the different criteria he used and some of his conclusions. meanwhile, and i

always talk about this. i want to caution us not to be too die cod mist and how we think about the plan scape on treasure island and buena island and sometimes we think of treasure island is the more designed landscape and buena eye plan as the natural land but there's a lot of examples where it expresses and realizes there is a geometry of the natural of the open space of treasure island and buena island, right. so a couple of examples are the westside parks on treasure island are being designed starting at building one and going north to be wilder as you go north until you get through the wild to the north end of the island. we want to have habitat hedge roads made of native plans adjacent to design landscapes whether it's a ball field or in the agricultural area for area and the stormwater parks built on buena island. those have been built as parks and designed

landscapes and planted with local native plants at both locations, so there's a real blend of kind of the natural and the design throughout treasure island and buena island already and so my hope of course is to see that and see, to see the world class lift that treasure island and buena are to that cutting edge approach to native plant landscaping throughout all parks and design landscape in addition to the natural areas so that we really do soften the evenlies and -- soften the areas and it's less of a die con meet. it would reflect that and so then also wanted to rely that there are many other aspects of sustainability, you know, that stem from the sustainability

plan, but also cutting the sustainability vision system that's important when thinking about maintaining landscapes through time whether it's green purchasing, you know, purchasing non-toxic products and green waste management and composting and the implementation and sustainable and creative way of the integrated pest management ordinance. >> thank you, peter. >> i think those are my comments, thank you for your time. >> thanks -- thank you, peter. >> peter, and i don't know if peter, you wanted to add anything. i just want to give you the chance. >> no, i think scott did a great job handling it all. we certainly thank him for his hard work and i appreciate all his efforts and as he mentioned earlier, we want to acknowledge regional partner that's were supportive in this effort. we had great, even from the staff level, having discussions with golden gate recreation area, the

port of san francisco rec. and park and many others so going forward, he's given us a lot to chew over and it's exciting so thanks again, scott. you did great. >> okay. >> thank you so much, peter, again, putting out great work here and also i wanted to echo what the gentleman, commissioner -- with the reference to staeblt and it echo on this core. you mentioned the sustainability plan. actually, it's one of my culture thing. i worked, you know, on that plan for the city in the county of san francisco, being part of the founding commission of the commission, of the environment and referenced to ipm and aimed to design

treasure island. that document and all the world class came to fruition, so we will continue to have partnership with the commission of the environment and again, the overall take away is what we're doing and what we're doing here it is a lot of things we have known in this region. >> linda, linda. may i say also, so going forward, i'd like to have a plan because we have been talking about this for, i think, at least three or four or five years now so i'm thinking about what the next steps are in order to implement, you know, taking information, taking research from scott and the others and how to move forward in the next steps and making those decisions so i absolutely -- so that is a discussion item that i would

like you know, for the board as a whole as to how do we -- >> commissioner tsen, you're right. i think the take away from this discussion is that and to mr. beck, we are going to fast track. we have done this research and talking about this for five years now, i think in the next couple of weeks, i would suggest that we come up, we have the information, so it's not just reinventing the wheel and to come up with direction. i think where we're leading and present it to the commission and put the process forward. this is what may -- i think you know, my june or july, yeah, we need to put something together and then we can continue to put all the pieces together and that will convey that we are, you know, showing progress. i'm leaning towards the conservancy like i've said. that's a model that

i'm highly interested in but again, we'll hear from the rest of the commissioners and but we need to get this from just the state now. now that we have clear guidelines and all the pieces together to really move forward. mr. miller, are you still here? okay. i would like for you to -- okay. again, i want to give you,y your picture here. could you come on and let's see who you are. [laughter] >> still here for you. >> okay. >> thank you again sir, you have done marvelous work. i've mentioned at the beginning of your presentation that i would like to convey to my commissioners, gratitude for this excellent research analysis that you have done. your recommendations are recommendations and you know, they have merit. we will look

at them but it's important for us to convey to you and to people that might be looking at your work that your approach and research is on the world standard level that we have and we have a lot of information there we can look back and the detailed analysis and we're going to add to your recommendation, absolutely. but there are so many ways we can go about doing this and so we commend you and i would like to suggest to the president and the, you know, mr. beck, that you should be expecting a letter from us just to convey what we feel and stay tuned for today's project. we've just started and who knows in the future, so thank you, sir. >> great. thank you all so much. really appreciated the opportunity and it was a real pleasure to be able to work with

you all to prepare this. >> thank you very much, peter. >> thank you. >> so, linda, we do have more public comment so i'll open line for them. >> okay. i know public comment, please go ahead, please. >> so, commissioners, my name is francisco acosta and from time-to-time, i take some time to listen to the presentation. i was involved from the beginning when tida was formed a long, long, long time ago. i worked out of presidio and i did a full investigation of treasure island because you know it's prone to liquidzation and flooding but

also has many serious contaminants. one of the things that sensible people do is we have to address quality-of-life issues and as you know commissioners, many people on treasure island have been adversely impacted because of the contaminants created by the united states navy. we have to do thorough abatement and mitigation. harder mitigation abatement and mitigation, not capping. if you cap something and then you plan something, you still foster contamination. foremost, you have to have the half of the people and right now, there are not doing a good

job. so, presentations are good, plans are good, but they have to be holistic. they have to be viable and they have to be sustainable. thank you very much. >> okay. thank you so much. are there any public comment? if none, kate, move on, please. go to the next agenda, please. >> there is no public comment. item no. 5, discussion of future agenda items by directors. >> as always, i would, future agenda, absolutely discuss with the director, so at this point, we'll go with the number of projects, thank you. okay. next on the agenda. >> item 6, to adjourn. >> okay. thank you everyone for being here and thank you again mr. miller and peter summerville

and to commissioner tsen and all of you and bob, you no, director bob beck and commissioner dunlop. have a great day and thank you so much. >> thank you. >> and to the public. [adjourned]

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starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived

anywhere outside of fridays fridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that al together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille,

can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day.

renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire

adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful learning [♪♪♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪♪♪] >> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work.

i always have an interest in public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums. i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public art is art with a job to do. it is a place where the architecture meets the public. where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. we commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. it is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and recreation centers a sense of

uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. colette test on a number of those projects for its. one of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. >> mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. you need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. i glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the

mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [♪♪♪] >> we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. so we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [♪♪♪] >> my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. and also because mosaic is such

a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. so one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [♪♪♪] >> there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. during the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school

student. there was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. it is a little bird. the relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place.

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses

throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have

heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different

departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your

appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma.

>> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.

>> this is a regular meeting. i like to remind everyone to please mute yourself. first item is rollcall. vice president tam.>>. [rollcall] we have a quorum. next is our land acknowledgment.

>> the building inspection commission acknowledges we are on the unseeded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone our original inhabitants of thesan francisco peninsula. as indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their tradition the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded , or forgotten their responsibility as caretakers of this place as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory. as guests we recognize we benefit from living and working on theirtraditional homeland . we wish to pay respects by acknowledging their ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign right as first people . >> next is to create findings to allow teleconference

meetings under code 54953e. the commission will discuss and possibly adopt a resolution setting forth findings required under assembly bill 361 that would allow the bic to hold meetings for commissioners to attend meetingsremotely. according to the modified brown act teleconferencing set forth in add 61 . is there a motion to assess the findings? is there a second? any public commenton the motion ? are all commissioners in favor? thank you. and next board members of the public who will be attending remotely. the public comment call in number is 415-655-0001. the access code is 2486 339 7171. to raise your hand on a specific agenda item pressá3

when prompted. next is item 3. >> i'm looking forward to today's agenda and in particularly interested in the equity plan update . i experienced first-hand multiple cultural classes as well as less obvious but still present matrons. not with everyone, in fact i didn't see it often which made it more striking that this came up. but that doesn't mean we shouldn't a trade overstreet on or invest time and resources into causes. so i want to thank staff and my fellow commissioners and for paying attention to these critical issues andi look forward to it and started . thank you .

>> thank you. is there any publiccomment on the president's remarks ? >> thank you. next is item for directors report . directors update. >> i want to start by announcing this. >> talk more into themicrophone we're having a problem . >> good morning vice president and commissioners. i want to start by announcing that we are creating a small business inspectors ambassador program that helps small businesses with issues that occasionally, just before the issues of occupancy or the certificate of occupancy is

self. we know the time between buildout and opening is as high stress period. they're payingrent. they may have taken out substantial debt . there are shows our shelves are stocked and staff is already working.during this especially difficult moment we want to make sure they feel supported and are able to resolve us any issues quickly. whether they're having trouble scheduling inspection , addressing an outstanding code requirement or simply need clarity about whatthey're doing . starting at the end of may we will sign to building inspectors to serveas these ambassadors . it will help troubleshoot the obstacles that are involvedin getting the permit completed . we believe most of the

ambassadors work is around internal coordination and communicate with the advocates. we will work with the applicant to untangle lot and report to our building inspector and deputy director for inspection services. they will not conduct inspections outside their districts and will not plant theassigned district inspectors review of the work . which will determine the reform measures which would undermine thereform measures to in place over the past year . we set up an email for the ambassadors and would provide their office on lines to people should they prefer to contact them directly. this would be a valued addition and we look forward to reporting back to you. moving on we were involved with the career chair and i want to

give you a brief update on how the bear is updated. we wanted to make sure people who were interested in working with staff that we're giving up information and we were giving out information that actually would simply remember us.so leading the charge was neville herrera are deputy director is here with us today.we are obviously looking to build positions in the department of services but our team was well represented across the department with people from inspections, from intake and our hr management folks were there as well and we gave informationspecific to roles for which we are and will be recruiting . inspectors, techs and engineers as well as we gave out tips fo applications and interviews . we even used the qr code linke

to the jobs page on our website . for so potential candidates can easily learn more about our localpositions . we've got a ton of interest and the mayor even stopped by. if you can please share the picture with the mayor. do we have that up sonia? >> monique, do you have the pieces? >> i have a picture. >> sorry about that. >> the mayor was there, she joined us. >> sorry about that. >> also moving on to the fortunecookie . >> at any rate, each of you will be provided with property

which you don't have right now and please open the fortune cookie. and instead of giving away a pen or something we wanted to convey a sense of opportunity and remind people tocheck out our jobs page . when you open the fortune cookie you'll see there's a qr code in their for our hr opportunities. all in all it was a good event and we're hopeful our efforts will help continue to attract strong funding at the department. and regarding the public advisoryforum , also in late april we held a public forum attended by about 60 people. katie tang the new director of the office of small business give an update on new small

business servicesavailable in the apartment center. she also spoke about grants that are now available to help small businesses who need to make these accessibility improvements . that are related to the accessible business entrance program . the permit center also spoke to and answered questions and the sf puc shared information about recent changes in the non-potable water to share what we are doing so we can improve our services. >> our next item is for public

projects. >> this reflects the change betweenapril . [inaudible] >> that was .29 percent less in april than in march. i just want to state that we will be upgrading this presentation for next month. we've got a new way of going about it that will be far easier for me to understand and

we will havepictorial representations of such projects . so that's underway and expect to see that next month. thank you so much. >> thank you director. our next item is update on dbi finances. at this time we will continue this item to thenext slide . >> the next one is 4d. update on proposal becoming an active state or local legislation. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> good morningcommissioners, i'm assistant director . i want to start by introducing you to our newlegislative affairs manager ray law. ray , as we stand up and wait. they joined us two days ago. he previously worked on the

city and county of san francisco for more than a decade and was most recently director of the office of cannabis for katie time. welcome aboard ray and he will be presenting this next slide. for the legislative update i'm going to update a couple of items. earlier this month the government audit and oversight committee held a hearing on electric vehicle suites to determine the progress of achieving an electric vehicle only fleet . in the next few years dbi plans toacquire between two and six new electric vehicles converting it to half of our fleet .also earlier this month the mayor signed the ordinance amending the building code to require owners and the public contractors of residential construction projects to file waiver compliance laws as a condition of receiving apermit . and finally also earlier this

monththe mayor signed the settlement in the case . concludes my presentation and i'm available for any questions . >>thank you, any questions commissioners ? thank you assistant director. our next item is 4d, update on code enforcement. >> joe duffy deputydirector of inspection services . i gave you some inspection numbers and update for april. our building inspectiondivision performed 5265 inspections . electrical inspections are 82. plumbing inspections 2655 for a total of 11,032 percent. housing inspection services performed 716 inspections. they received 280 complaints.

an ob issue was 178. for our code enforcement division we sent 111 cases. we had 40 quarters of abatement issued. and we had 195 cases. that concludes my update if you have anyquestions i'm happy to answer . >> thank you. is there any public comment on the directors report item for through e ? >> there is no public comment. >> there is not. >> are you able to share that? >> one second.

can you see it? >> there's the picture of the mayor that the director mentioned. very nice picture. >> thank you for sharing. >> our next item then is item 5. general public comment. the bic will take public comment on the commission's jurisdiction that are not part of the agenda. general public comment. >> there are no handsraised . >> thankyou . the next item is item 6. discussion regarding dbi's racial equity plan.goal number seven four and commissionin efforts to meet goals and deadlines . >>. >> thank you. thank you secretary. i want to give a bit of

background. >> talk into the mic a little louder. >> is this better? okay. let me give you a bit of background as to what this equity plan is and in the supporting documents you have an outline of what the commission, what our commitments are in the office of racial equity was created by ordinance adopted by the board ofsupervisors . or he is division of the human rights commission and part of the equity department. the ord responded to the structural andinstitutional racism in the city and county of san francisco . in the dealing of services to the public andin our own internal practices . the ord has the authority to enact citywide racial equity framework and direct departments such as dbi with racial equity action plans and to analyze the impacts of ordinances as well as policy

andreporting functions . the ord requires the city department designate leaders acting and requires the department of human resources to prioritize racial equity indices workforce recruitment program. ore can make budget recommendations should racial equity measures and metrics not be met.they do have that authority. we have the authority to adopt the budget but they can make plans . the racial equity action plan was adopted, i didn't see. it was in 2020? >> at the end of2020 . >> we have made progress so far so the revisit is divided into sections based on who in the

department isresponsible for section 7 is our section . so there's some items we've alreadyworked on . we reviewed our bylaws and rules and our procedures and amended those with a racial equity lens. also adopted a resolution which we do every opening where we do ourland acknowledgment . we don't have the authority in here. it's not our authority to make the city as an acted the removal of citizenship as a requirement to serve on the commission . and also passed a resolution which i'm not seeing on this

list. maybe it's a different section but we did pass a resolution acknowledging racial equity in our actions . so the ones that are outstanding for us to think about is and some of this might just be reporting purposes.i should say we are in phase 1 of the racial equity action plan so phase i is looking internally and phase 2 will be looking externally so this phase is looking at what are the things we do internally and try to implement policies that align with those values and that will be the next phase will come out looking to the rebuild of moreexternal services .at this point i'm looking at 721.which is determined in regular and

standardized medical for request entering people with disabilities . and indicators that the diversity of the board and commission and implementation of inclusive protocols. i don't think that we're far from this and i know that we offer good examples like translation and interpretation and videoconferencing but there might be other protocols we can review to see if there's anything we can do to help to make them more in line with ou goals . the second was to commit to ongoing racial equity training which i believe that we are required to access. >> commissioners are required to do that. >> yeah. and then ... i believe those

are the two that areoutstanding . i'm curious if there are other eyes looking at this had things that they're curious or my fellowcommissioners have discussion . that's the initial presentation and i look forward to adding to thediscussion . >> i appreciate landing on his central to everything we do and bringing attention to gender equity two. i applaud you for workingwith the commission and its positive traction . >> thank you. thank you both. >> thank you commissioner

alexander-tut, i appreciate th summary . and look forward to continuing our discussion and advancements ofthis . regarding the specific item that he called attention to, 7.2.1 which is the determining standardized protocols for request centering on people with disabilities,working people etc. . i just want to maybe say out loud that i wouldwelcome input . i think a lot of the difficulties around diversey type initiatives are getting the people who benefit from these at the table to weigh in and provide input that would be helpful in knowing what exactly we are missing. i know when i read this item i think of remote access as one item and i know we talkedabout

that . people can callinto our meetings .not just if you're having covid concerns also other access issues you can come in here in person. i would encourage any members of the public or anyone on this commission if there are items along those lines where you know of someone for you are someone who has one of these concerns to bring that to our attention. i think that's the hardest thing is to try to put yourself in everyone's different shoes to address differentconcerns . i don't know. we can do all the things all the time but however getting the input from all the people is very helpful. so i would encourage further discussion and further consideration of any other

perspectives. >> thank you. >> any other commissioners have any other comments?>> thank you everyone for the discussion and we will continue to work on these goals. is there any public comment on item 6? >> there are none committee. >> and our next item is item 7. 7a, inquiries to staff. at this time we make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies and procedures which are of interest to the commission . any inquiries everyone? and ... item b is future

meetings and agendas. this time the commission may discuss and take action on the day of a special meeting and or determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting or other future meetings of the buildin inspection commission at our next regular meeting is on june 15. did you have any comments commissioners ? >> commissioners summer . >> i have been joining the code advisory committee committee recently since i joined this commission. much as i can just to see what they are doing and ready to those discussions it'sbeen interesting and helpful for me . they did mention their last meeting which was last week they had a nice list, two-page list of a lot of the things

theydiscussed . and since opinions about or connected information or done things about. they had a nice list of their last meeting and suggested maybe bringing it to the building inspection commission to let us know and i thought that was a good idea . especially because again there are new commissioners. i know last year we did a summary of what all the different subcommittees that are part of this commission to. i thought it would be good to pass that around again so i'll wanted to bring it up as a potential agendaitem if we wanted to discuss that again . i don't know if that means getting someone from the canadian present that worsening overthe list . it's a nice list and we've done great work and talked about some really important items. and i think it's helpful as part of this commission to see what the subsidies are doing

but again, more about that. >> it's a greatidea . petitioner alexander-tut. >> thank you. this was inspired by the discussion that happened with commissioner bauman's comments during the abatement appeals committee. i'd like to have a discussion of when we, is there a public policy to provide kind of comprehensive city resources when we find there are over permitting issues and i think just to have a policy that we provide those kinds of resources at the earliest possible moment in the process for homeowners to be able to

access resources if if they are eligible and to have the best information secure there. >> thank you. are there any othercommission comments ? and if there are any items at this time you're always welcome between now and the next coupl of weeks to email me or call me if you have any items . is there any public comment on the agenda item 7 a or b? >> there are no hands raised. >> next is review and approval of the minutes of the regular meetingof april 20 2022 . i just wanted to say there is one correction that i have to the motion on page eight. i'll be adding this motion so

it will say vice president tam made a motion seconded by vice president bitoto the fire code . that is what will beadded and with the addition of that is there a motion to approve the minutes ? translate isthere a second ? >> second. >> is there any public comment onthe minutes ? >> there are none. >> seeing on are all commissioners infavor ? any of those ? thank you, then theminutes will be approved . that's the language you provided. thelanguage was already provided by the city attorney . and next is item 9, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn ? all in favor?

thank you, we are now adjourned. it is 11:04 a.m. >> >> okay, all right, well, this is a very exciting day, everyone. and i want to welcome you all to the opening celebration of our newest permanent supportive housing building. i want to begin by thanking you, mayor breed, for your ongoing leadership and commitment to really acquiring these new buildings and building up our rm