the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this >> good afternoon. i was about to say good morning but we changed the meetings to the afternoon. good afternoon and welcome to the july 27, 2022, budget and finance committee meeting, i'm hillary ronen, and joined by safai and supervisor mar. our clerk is felipe and

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city hall, 1 dr. carlton b goodlook place, room 244, san francisco, california, 94102 and madam chair with our pending summer recess items, acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisor of september 6th unless otherwise stated. >> thank you so much. can you please read item no. one. >> yes, item no. one s resolution designating world journal to be the outreach community periodical of the city and county of san francisco for the chinese community. -- miss bay, eastern south of market commission and bay view neighborhoods and provide outreach advertising for fiscal year 2022, the 2023, members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. then

press pound twice. once connected to the meeting, yes, once connected to the meeting, you'll need to press star three to enter the speaker line. the system will prompt you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you can begin your comments, madam chair. >> thank you. we have ms. carla here from the office of contractor, did you or from the city administrator's office and contract administration, do you have any remarks? >> no, i'm here to answer any questions, i wasn't planning to give a presentation >> fantastic. thanks for being here. supervisor mar? >> thank you, chair ronen and, colleagues, we made some amendments at the last budget and finance committee meeting to this item which was really severed from another item that the board has already adopted and i'm going to be making one or proposing one further amendment but i did want to just

start by saying that our chinese language newspapers have built up their readership and audience in distinct ways to serve different parts of the community and there is a large community of chinese-americans in san francisco as we all know with approximately 150,000 residents who speak mandarin and cant niece or another chinese dialect and the office of administration identified the periodical serving the chinese -- while this process could have gone smoothly, they are able to designate one periodical for this category allowed by 1994 prop j ordinance passed by the voters. last week, oca spoke to the additional items in the severed resolution, clarifying their designation of when for outreach to the chinese community and also adding potrero that should have been in the eastern neighborhoods. in the resolution brought back to

budget and finance today, i propose one additional amendment and that would be including world journal as a neighborhood newspaper allowed by the ordinance to ensure neighborhoods are more thoroughly covered, specifically the port la district and the sunset district. and these contracts awarded to periodicals for certain communities are clusters of neighborhoods are similar in monetary value. so colleagues, i have, i think you received a copy of the additional amendment that introducing today that again, would add world journal to be the neighborhood outreach periodical for the portico neighborhood and sunset neighborhood and yeah. so, i urge your support on this. i'm happy to answer questions. >> okay. sorry, so we're going

to have a different periodical to be the main advertising vehicle for different neighborhoods? >> yeah. so, again, this proposition j has three categories of designated periodicals for our city, official city outreach notice and one is citywide outreach and that's the examiner for what we adopted and another category is community outreach, specific communities and the nguyen newspaper has scored the highest so or they're proposed in this resolution to be the designated chinese community outreach and then there's different periodicals of designated for specific neighborhoods that have neighborhood reach, so the port la was not included in the original legislation, so i'm

proposing we add world journal as a neighborhood outreach newspaper for the portilo and it has been designated as the neighborhood outreach, i'm proposing we add additionally add world journal as a neighborhood outreach neighborhood for the sunset because we to have a large mandarin speaking population in my district. >> thank you for doing that. the port la is the neighborhood with, i believe, the third largest chinese population and it's one that's in my district so i really appreciate you doing that and i support it, so thank you so much. if there's no further comment, we can open up this item for public comment. >> yes, madam chair. the members of the speak who wish to speak and joining in person should line up to speak and those joining remotely, call

415-655-0001 with the meeting id of 24927999124 and press pound twice and you'll be entered into the speaker line. and for those in the queue, wait until your an unmuted and that's your queue to begin your comments. yes. welcome. i'll start your time. >> honorable supervisor safai, supervisor mar and my name is brenda. today, i'm here to speak on behalf of the world journal. a prominent chinese newspaper that service the chinese community in the bay area for over four decades. first, please accept our sincere apologies. we deeply regret it for our unintent errors when we

file our application of san francisco community and neighborhood outreach advertising through the office of contract administration. the errors on our application have a result that we are not selected for the chinese community outreach newspaper. i believe that you all have -- will receive a letter from our president tina lee who have clarified world journal is indeed a minority owned and woman owned business which is not reflected on our application. so, i'm here today asking for your consideration to add the world journal to be the chinese community outreach newspaper. thank you very much. [timer] >> thank you, brenda for your

comments. seeing no additional speakers in the chamber, madam chair, we have no callers in the queue. >> public comment is now closed. >> yeah. thank you. i just wanted to also thank ms. carela from the office of contract administration and ms. po from the city administrator's office for your work on implementing prop j and ensuring that all of our diverse communities and residents receive the public notices and we're utilizing all of our wonderful ethnic newspapers and neighborhood newspapers and community communication, thank you. colleagues, i would move we adopt the amendments as i have described and that we send this item to the full board as amended with a positive recommendation. >> can we have a roll call on

those motions? >> on that motion, member mar, i'm sorry, to accept the amendments as read into the record and forward this to the full board as recommended. vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> safai aye. member mar? >> aye. >> mar aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> that decision is passed unanimously. thank you. can you please read item for two. >> item no. two is a hearing to e release of reserved funds to the san francisco public utilities commission, placed on budget and finance reserve by ordinance no. 4-13 (file no. 121007), in the amount of $12,000,000 to fund sfpuc transmission lines 7/8 upgrades project. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment hearing, please call

415-655-0001 and meeting id24927999124 and press pound twice and enter star three to enter the system line and the system will prompt you have been entered the system and when you hear the line beep twice, you have been unmuted. madam chair? >> thank you so much. we have margaret from the puc who is going to present on this item. >> good afternoon, can i proceed? >> yes, please do. >> thank you. good afternoon, chair ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar are. again, i'm margaret, division manager of hech hetchy water and power. thank you chair ronen for scheduling this hearing of the release of $12 million on budget and finance reserve for the

transmission line 7/8 up grade project. as background in january 2013, the board of supervisors approved ordinance 4-13 that authorize spuc to enter into mitigation agreements for projects that impact as spuc power assets and require that any future funds in excess of $100,000 for a given mitigation agreement be placed on budget and finance committee reserve. just to be clear, these are not city general funds or rate payer funds. they are mitigation payments that we are receiving from developers for impacts on our system. the spuc has identified three project clusters, totaling 21 active generation projects that would affect the spuc's transmission line 7 and 8. these transmission lines extend approximately 12.6

miles from the city's wonderful substation near oakdale to the stanford substation in modesto. the spuc is using the mitt fwags funds for the transmission lines 7 and 8 up grade project which will mitigate the risk imposed by the interconnection of these electric generating projects to the grid by modifying existing towers and reconducting transmission lines. the total estimated cost of the project is $37.97 million. the spuc anticipates receiving a total of approximately $33.3 million in mitigation payments for the project including about 20.86 -- $20.86 million in payments already received and the balance in future payments. the remainder of the project budget, approximately $4.66 million

would be funded through hech hetchy water and power capital property using bond fund and the project began january 1, 2020, and expected to be completed by january 31, 2025. the planning design and environmental review phases have been completed. funding for this portion of the project was covered by hetch hetchy water program. $5.2 million has been appropriated to date. as mitigate funding becomes available, it's used to reimburse the capital improvement funds and june 28, 2022, the spuc commission approved the award of contract number hh-10007 to wilson utility construction company for a total of $23,980,141. in

august 2020, the budget and finance committee approved the release of $9.47 million in mitigation payments held on reserve. of the $9.47 million previously released, $876 was spent for fees related to contract advertisement and $935,170 has been incumbent for construction management support. the remaining $8.53 million and this requested release of $12 million will be used to fund construction. hetch hetchy will fund the balance cost. as mitt fwags funding becomes -- mitigation funds will be available, it will reimburse the capital improve the funds. hetch hetchy water and power request

$12 million in reserves for our transmission line 7/8 upgrade project. thank you and i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. >> thank you so much. before questions, we have a report from the budget and legislative analyst. >> thank you, chair ronen. nick from the budget legislative analyst office. the department is requesting $12 million be released from committee reserve. the source of funds are mitigation payments from new electricity project owners that connect to the grid and impact puc energy assets. the funds will be used to upgrade transmission lines that are impacted but the new connections and we show the budget of the project on page four of our report which is about $38 million and we recommend approval. >> thank you. any questions, colleagues? seeing none, we can open this item up for public comment. >> thank you madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up

to speak now. those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id24927999124 and press pound twice and press three to enter into the speaker line. wait for the system to queue you have been unmuted ask that's your signal to begin comments. no speakers in the chambers, mr. atkins please unmute our caller. >> so, supervisors, once before when this agenda item came before another committee i asked sfpuc in light of the rate and file taking place in the vicinity of the yosemite

national park and the fire and so on and so forth, he wanted to know if this transmission lines will be put on the ground? and i wonder if the budget legislative analyst has taken this into account. you can spend millions of dollars now upgrading the high powered transmission lines but it would be commonsense given the money and the opportunity to put the lines on the ground. and secondly, and i guess kim from the ethics commission, the virtual meeting -- san

franciscans cannot trust the sfpuc public utilities transportation commission. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. madam chair, we have no more speakers in the queue. >> public comment is closed. i like to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation. >> i'll actually, madam chair, the proper motion for a release for reserve hearing is to -- is for you to declare the release of the reserve funds and that the hearing be heard and filed. >> okay. i was looking at that hearing. i have never done one of these, thank you. >> certainly. >> then, i would like to make a motion to release the funds and to file the hearing. >> on that motion? to release the reserve funds of $12 million to the spuc and the motion heard. -- supervisor safai?

>> aye. >> supervisor ronen? >> aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> motion carries. >> mr. clerk, can you read item no. three. >> yes, chair. >> item no. three is resolution approving amendment no. 1 to the agreement between crestwood behavioral health and the department of public health (dph), to provide long-term mental health services in a 24-hour locked facility, to increase the agreement by $146,936,994 for an amount not to exceed $224,216,994; to extend the term by five years, from june 30, 2023, for a total agreement term of july 1, 2018, through june 30, 2028; and to authorize dph to enter into amendments or modifications to the contract prior to its final execution by all parties that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the contract or this resolution. for those joining remotely and

wish to comment on this resolution, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. press pound twice. once connected to the meeting, you need to press star three to enter the speaker line and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you can begin your comments, madam chair. >> thank you so much. we have kelly from tph, good morning, good afternoon. >> good afternoon madam chair and supervisors mar and supervisor ronen. this is a contract for continuing the crest wood contract, crest wood is our largest community partners that supports (indiscernible) treatment for treatment and care for mental health. these are the beds determined for folks who are on lpc conservative ships and needing further stabilization as

a step down they're able to return to the community and open setting, so the cost of the beds as you'll see are increasing over time. and i'm happy to answer any questions about the program for the facilities. >> thank you and we'll hear from bla. >> thank you, chair ronen. item three is a resolution to approve the first amendment to dph's contract with crestwood and the amendment would extend the existing agreement from june 2022 through june 2028 and not to exceed 77.3 to $22 million which we detail on page 11 of our report. the agreement is 200 beds, mostly out of county for long-term mental health residential treatment and we detail the facilities on page nine of our report. and the increasing not to exceed amount is primarily to accommodate rate

increases as the department noted which has averaged 53% over the past three years. and to extend the term of the contract. through june 2028, we recommend approval. >> thank you so much. supervisor mar? >> thank you, chair ronen and thank you ms. ermoto for your work on this important program that creates much-needed care for folks in our city that really need it. i guess i had a few questions about this and particularly as it relates to other sort of similar issues that we're grappling with. there's the lack of sub acute beds in our city and then also we're dealing with the lagoon

that honda crisis and the lack of skilled nursing in the beds in our city. so, my first question is why are, do we have to contract for the two hundred beds, you know, out of the county and in some cases, so far away like in stockton and yeah. lompack and how many comfortable beds do we have for this type of care in san francisco? >> thank you for the question. we have a finite number of beds in san francisco so the san francisco behavioral center has a mental health rehab center within it and i'm blanking out on the number of beds and i'm going to ask jane who is calling in, if she can refresh my memory. crestwood, we worked

this a partnership with ucf and opened up the healing center in st. mary's campus and that added 54 beds to our portfolio in the city. what has made challenging for keeping beds in san francisco is just finding buildings that are appropriate in terms of their construction and in their layout that would support keeping mental health rehab lock secured beds in the city and st. mary's was a good example to make that happen. because we aren't able to add portfolio here in the city, we've partnered with crestwood as one of our primary partners and their newer facilities are coming in further out areas from the bay area simply because the bay area is expensive to do new construction and it is more affordable and because other parts of the state are starting to realize the need for this level care so they're starting to partner with crest wood to open new facilities and that happened in santa barbara and we

were lucky to partner with them to access some of their beds and in the same in fallbrook but our goal yes, is to keep people closer to home when we can. >> and so, this contract is for two hundred, roughly two hundred beds. pretty much all outside of san francisco, right? and do you have a rough estimate of how many comfortable beds we have in san francisco? you've mentioned -- >> i want to say it's under one hundred beds in the city. >> okay. and then how long have we been doing the out -- out of -- out of the county. >> for decades. i started and we had a contract with them at that time. >> have a number of beds that we're contracting for increased over years for this care?

>> we have seen the number of flow for this level of care particularly because some is availability as we're able to get access to additional beds. some of it is philosophical. your goal is you want to strengthen your lower level care system to prevent having to rely on this level of care. and so i think as attitudes shift on how to take care of folks in the mental health spectrum and it move into new programs and ideas get tried, it allows us to move away from using locks -- but there are times when circumstances, sar today where we're seeing increased legislation and increased ability to bring people into care to try to get them on their wellness recovery journey ask that will start with lots of acutes while getting better. that's why right now we've been static in our census sitting

along the five hundred mark. and we anticipate they'll be an uptick in the next coming years but as we become robust and thanks to mental health sfs, we can hopefully bring it down, so.... >> great, thank you. thanks chair ronen. >> thank you. i know that there were -- crestwood provides three beds, locked and and acute beds and nursing facility beds and then a lower level of car, is that correct? >> they do mental health, rehabilitation programs, they do cooccurring skilled numbering level of care, so mental health, behavior health and skilled nursing needs and then they have a step down enhanced residential care programs. >> so they don't do locked beds then? >> i'm sorry. >> they don't do locked beds?

>> they're locked except for the lower level of care. the skilled nursing facility beds are locked and the mental health rehabilitation beds are locked. >> in this extension of the contract, there's -- you moved around the types of beds, correct? who made that choice? is that pph or crestwood? >> i think it's a combination of availability of beds we have access to because as supervisor mar mentioned, most beds are out of county so we share them with home counties so we can access depending on what other counties have pitched for, so we don't do a dedicated beds system because generally speaking that's not a cost effective way to manage taking care of folks. and so we buy beds when we need beds so that's why you see the fluctuation in the beds we get access to and how we flow people through care. >> okay, thank you so much. >> i'll say really quickly, this

is an area of extreme concern for me. i've said on the record multiple times for a city of our size to have a couple of hundred beds at all different levels that deal with the ability to have locked facility is somewhat dis-- disoccur arranging and i understand there's scarcity of these beds and we're trying to increase our contract base, but i hope we have long-term solution to expand the beds as they become available and have long-term vision in terms of working with the providers to expand the capacity of these beds and in ensuring and working with the state to expand the beds and i see on the bla report and the report from dph these are spread all over the bay area but just the magnificent demand there is shocking to me that there's not more availability

that we can then get under contract, so something we need to continue to work harder on but thank you for all your support on this and i'm happy to support this today. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> can we open this item up for public comment? >> members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up now to speak. for those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001, meeting id is 24927999124 and press pound twice. once connected press star three to enter the speaker line. please continue to wapt until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your queue to begin your comments and seeing no in person speaker, mr. atkins, can you unmute our caller. >> this is (indiscernible) acosta. what i want to say is that what happened at laguna

honda for the longest time when we mixed the citizens suffering from dementia with drug addicts was totally wrong. and the notice of violations were not taken seriously. and we did this because the federal government was paying the rent and paying for the stations. one of the most important things in this, when we transfer our seniors outside, the very fact that we transfer them, we have traumatized them. and we know that four have died. so, we just can't say oh that's because crestwood had some -- some beds

and they do have some beds and serve a purpose but you think we can transfer our patients and traumatize them and they die? we have to be responsible for the residents and this is happens with the board of supervisors, they can't do a needs a -- needs assessment and always talking after the fact. we have some beds closer by, (indiscernible) hospital. we could have done something even now with california pacific medical center. >> your time has expired in and the hospital that requires -- >> thank you francisco for your comments. again, i do apologize for cutting anybody off but we

do have a two-minute timer per speaker. and madam chair, that completes our queue. >> thank you, public comment is closed. i do just want to also mention that you know, the fight to save laguna hospital is tied with our ability to keep needing this care in san francisco and looking at this contract, we see the ramifications of what happens when the federal government, i believe, completely irresponsibly is forcing us to move people to other places. it's not as if we have tons of available alternatives here in san francisco. most of them are out of town and already in transferring people, we have lost four lives and so, this is something the board of supervisors is devastated by and

it's very angry at this point that -- and it's time for health and human services director bacera to use his power to stop this forced relocation of incredibly fragile people because as you can see from this contract, they won't be able to remain in san francisco and that's causing people that are in very fragile state to be traumatized and to lose their lives, so i just couldn't waste the opportunity to say that again and again and again every time we have any issue related to what's happening at laguna honda hospital right now and the travesty being forced upon us by the federal government but with that, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. thank you. >> that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with the positive

recommendation, vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye >> we have three ayes >> thank you. that motion passes unanimously. thank you. mr. clerk, can you read item no. four. >> item no. four is resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant increase in the amount of $95,863 from the california department of public health for a total amount of $978,948 for participation in a program, entitled “sexually transmitted disease program management and collaboration,” for the period of july 1, 2019, through june 30, 2024. members the public joining remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. then press pound twice. once connected, press star three to enter the speaker line. a system prompt will

indicate you have raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted, that's your queue to begin your comments. madam chair. >> we have suzanne from dhp to present on this item. >> good afternoon, chair ronen, vice-chair safai, supervisor mar, very glad to be here with you this afternoon. speaking about this request for supplemental funding to a grant from the california department of public health to dph to implement core sexually transmitted prevention funding and it was a focus on prevention of congenital syphilis which is a rare but severe and sometimes fatal infection and illness and this funding, core funding is meant to support congenital syphilis prevention in partnership with other part ships with the san francisco of public health and maternal

health and primary care facility and team lilly which has expertise in providing innovative and nonbrick and mortar based care for those experiencing pregnancy. and we have core coordination for those pregnancy people experiencing homelessness and -- at the department of public health to improve syphilis screening because screening and treatment is effective in preventing cases of congenital syphilis. the reason that the request for this a and e for funding is retroactive is on march 25th, we were notified by the state california department of public health that we were receiving a supplement of $95,863 to our core std grant with cdph and this was a total of $978,948 for

july 1, 2019, to june 30, 2024, and this additional funding was for the period of july 1, 2021, to june 30th of 2022 and the initial request was submitted in april and we anticipated completion in early june but there were some unanticipated delays with hearing this item. so, i wanted to see if there were any additional questions about this? again, we are really focusing this supplemental funding on modification of our electronic health record system in supporting our cbo partners, ucsf and the department of public health to best serve people who are pregnant and highest risk for syphilis during pregnancy and for congenital syphilis. thank you. >> thank you so much. it doesn't look like questions or comments from colleagues. can we

open up for public comment. >> i apologize. i wanted to introduce greg wong who is going to speak to a slight amendment, thank you. >> great, thank you. >> so sorry. good afternoon, supervisors. we would like to introduce an amendment for your consideration, on page two, line 1 of the resolution, we would like to correct the amount of $885,083 to the correct amount of $883,085 to this amendment and we apologize for the inconvenience. >> okay. thank you. can we please open this item up for public comment? >> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item or joining in person should line up now. for those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. then press pound twice. press star

three to enter the speaker line. and for those in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. and that will be your signal to begin your comments. seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, madam chair, there are no speaker in the queue. >> thank you. public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to amend item 4 as stated by mr. wong and then to send the amended item to the full board with positive recommendations. >> on that motion to accept the clerk amendment by dph and forward to the board as recommended, vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> that motion passes unanimously. thank you, can you please read item no. five. >> yes, item no. five is a

resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $791,433 from the united states department of education through the california department of rehabilitation for participation in a program, entitled “state vocational rehabilitation services program,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2025. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment on this resolution, call the public comment number at 415-655-0001. enter the meeting id of 24927999124 and then press pound then pound again. once connected to the meeting, press star three to enter the speaker line. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and the system queues you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. madam chair. >> thank you. we have one from dph to present on this item.

>> good afternoon, chair ronen, supervisor safai and supervisor mar. my name is juan and i'm the vocational programs manager for behavior health services within dph. there are two actions included in this proposed legislation with the state department of rehabilitation, also known as dor. the first action is to accept and expand dor grant funds in the amount of $791,433 over the term of three year agreement to support two civil service positions. the program manager position partially supported by dor will assist in planning, organizing and coordinating and evaluating the work of the agreement. the second position will be fully supported health worker three will provide dor clients with intermediary support services, the second action is to provide

dor with the board of supervisors approval to enter into an agreement with dor whereby the county provides the dor with 21.3% matching funds for the total program cost. dph had the same relationship with dor for the past 23 years. actually it's not -- it differed this current renewal period and since that, we have had to include two contracts instead of one. the new one is for us to provide direct dor services. and this relationship, dph entered into an agreement with dor to provide matching funds to support vocational services funded through this grant. dor contracts directly with community based organizations for the delivery of vocational services, the total cost of the vocational rehabilitation

services program is paid by two sources. the first is federal funds that the dor draws from which is 78.7% of the total program cost. the second is a 21.3% cash match from dph. the state needs a county match in order to draw down a match from the federal government. dph supports this agreement because it allows vocational services in san francisco with only a 21.3% county investment, dph supports dor's infrastructure as it supports san francisco residents and behavior service clients and providing services that dph wouldn't be able to avoid and the state contracts directly with five vendors who provide specialized vocational and employment support services to dph clients, all who experience severe mental illness

and i would like to point out an approval recommendation is given by the dla and overall, the programs have proven to be very successful, the success has resulted in behavior health clients secure and retaining employment within the competitive workforce. our vhs clients express that these are transformative and important to their lives and? clients who suffer from severe mental illness are interested in vocational services after not working for many years. they need all the support they can get in order to build their confidence, skills and job readiness. these vocational services are essential to our clients overall wellness and recovery. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you so much. >> i can answer any questions. >> thank you. we have a bla report on this item? >> thank you. item five is a resolution approving and accepting expend of

approximately $800,000 from the department of rehabilitation, as well as related agreements we show on page 17 of our report that this funding will cover 1.5 dph over the next three years related to the vocational of rehabilitation services program for behavior health clients and we recommend approval. >> thank you so much and no questions or comments, can we open this item for public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person should line up now. listening remotely, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124 and press pound twice. once connected press star three to enter the speaker line. please continue to wait until the says -- system indicated you have been unmuted and you can begin. no chambers and no speaker in the queue. >> public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to

send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. roll call. >> the motion to the full board to the positive recommendation, vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, can you please read item 6 and 7 together? >> yes, items 6 and 7 are resolution reauthorizing the human services agency to apply for and accept a county child welfare agency allocation for an amount up to $183,775 from the california department of housing and community development under the housing navigators program to help young adults secure and maintain housing. and item 7 is up to an amount of $573,000 to help adult maintain house and members of the public -- >> through the chair, we have

lot of the bridge just now. >> okay. yes. we will need to recess the reestablish the bridge, madam chair. >> if we can recess for five minutes. >> tha >> welcome back to the july 27th, budget and finance committee. can you please reread item 6 and 7 together. >> thank you, madam chair. items 6 and 7 are -- [reading items 6 and -- 6 and 7]

>> members joining remotely and wish to comment on these resolutions, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24927999124. press pound twice. once connected to the meeting, you need to press star three to enter the system line and a system prompt has indicated you have entered the line and that's your queue to begin speaking. >> we have rod to present on this item. >> yes, thank you, good afternoon chairwoman ronen and supervisor safai and mar. my name is rod with the san francisco human services agency and presenting on item 6 and 7 and as stated because they're related, i'll present them together. item no. 6 is a resolution apply and accept funds from the calico department of housing and community

development for the housing navigator program. and item no. 7 is to apply for and accept funds from the same department for the transitional housing program. the state of california of housing and community development issued two funding opportunities to help young adults in the child welfare system secure and maintain housing. one grant opportunity, the second agenda item here is for $8 million in statewide funding to support the -- transitional housing funding for current or foster youth 18 to 25 and the other is a $5 million statewide allocation to fund housing navigators to help child welfare involved youth. age 18 to 21 to find suitable housing. in or for san francisco to access these two related state housing funds, the board of supervisors must approve resolutions which gives the san francisco housing or sorry,

human service agency authority to apply for and accept the funding. and then upon receipt of our application, hcd will determine how much money san francisco will be awarded based on the number of young adults in our child welfare system and a number of other counties who apply for same funds. the maximum we could be awarded for the housing navigator program is 183,175 and maximum awarded for the transitional house is 573,950. you may note the items are reauthorizations, the board of supervisors previously approved acceptance of both allocations by passing resolution 527-21. the california department of housing and community development requires the new resolution which connects inaccuracies in that resolution regarding the date of allocation acceptance and the eligibility age range

for the services so the funds, a little context are really critical. they allow young adults who are currently or formally in child welfare. i'm sorry, backing up. so children young adults currently or formally in child welfare facing acute challenges of homelessness and housing instability in san francisco, especially given our high cost market. the goal of this programming is to reduce homelessness for foster youth working in collaboration with the department of supportive housing and homelessness and the san francisco housing authority. and the services that will be provided include the following, support finding and applying for housing, lease up and prehousing direct services, move-in deposits, housing subsidies, housing support and navigation, housing stabilization and retention services, and linkage to youth homeless response

system services such as access points and navigation centers. and lastly, these resources will support housing for up to 70 foster care youth. thank you and i will address any questions you may have. >> thank you so much. i don't see any questions from my colleagues, so we can open this item up for public comment. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up to speak. for those listening remotely, call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id24927999124 and press pound twice and press three to especially the speaker line and wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your queue to begin your comments. seeing no speakers in person and in the chamber, madam chair, we have no caller in the queue. >> okay. public comment is closed. i'd like to make a motion to send item 6 and 7 to the full board with positive

recommendation. >> on that motion to forward items 6 and 7 to the full board with positive recommendation, vice-chair safai? >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair ronen? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> the motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, any other items on the agenda? >> madam chair, we have no further business. >> meeting is adjourned. [gavel]

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you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot

call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

>> >> treasure island development board meeting. >> due to the covid-19 health emergency, board members are participating this meeting remotely via videoconferencing the same as if they were present. public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. for members of the public wishing to make public comment, the number to use is

(415) 655-0001. the access code is 27407483947 and press pound. >> dial r 3. >> you may address an agenda item for up to two minutes. >> # # # >> this meeting is called to order. >> [roll call] >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. today's agenda is fairly straight forward. let's hope that we can get through it expeditiously. hello to all of you. next item, please.

>> 2. general public comment this item is to allow members of the public to address the treasure island development authority board (“authority board”) on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the authority board and that do not appear on the agenda. in addition to general public comment, public comment will be held after each item on the agenda. do we have any general public comment? >> it seems like we have no general public comment. >> we are not getting any now by sfgovtv.org. >> item no. 3.

>> item no. 3. >> it's been moved and seconded. >> [roll call] >> there are four ayes. >> item for. report by the director. >> good afternoon. i would like to get a report by the y. >> go ahead. >> i think she's having a

problem. >> good afternoon, directors. nell a gonzalez from one treasure island. i'm having some wifi issues saying my wifi is unstable. if i go out, i apologize before hand. my report is in your board packet. so i'm going to keep it just to the highlights. while one treasure island program, the construction training program, the 12 cohort began june 6th and will run through july 29th. there were 15 enrollees. we lost one because he joined the police academy. we were happy about him moving to follow his dream, and we are excited to have about 30% of the class already securing employment. numerator next item is the supplemental transportation study workgroup.

the workgroup met and we have been meeting and we had 196 surveys that were completed by island residents and workers. we are complete. the goal was 200. we didn't quite get there but close enough. we are looking forward to presenting the results of the survey to the title board in a future meeting and then we have decided on our focus group dates which will be open to all residents and workers. those will be late august and we have an opportunity to analyze the data. lastly, we plan to provide a supplemental transportation option recommendations to the board and the title board and the cab somebody -- sometime in september. >> the oral history grand

project opening was a big success and there are banners of the oral street project participating in room one. if you want to stop by it will be beautiful. we are encouraging all to scan the qr code and listen to all the stories we were able to capture. we had a workshop and the attendance was low and we are regrouping and figuring out what we need to do to try to get more folks interested in taking the class. >> we hosted a workshop it was

unsuccessful. we celebrated pride. >> we had 19 individuals participate in the meeting and participation by the public library and the san francisco police department. the next meeting will be august 17, 2022. >> with that, i will end my report. >> thank you. that was great. thank you for all of those activities.

>> the oral history report on treasure island is used well. i did attend the opening ceremony as did linda richardson and it's great highlighting only a few of the people that have been involved on treasure island. we are glad to have that as part of the oral history project. kudos to you and the treasure island museum of that exhibit. >> thank you and thank you to you director richardson and bob for attending the grand opening. >> thank you. any other comments?

>> she texted me. you want me to update? >> she has 16 kids in the program which is the highest on the island for participation to date. >> go ymca. and they are hoping to get started by the end of next week. the hours have been updated from 1030 to 6:00 and they are still remaining closed from friday

>> thank you. 60 kids enrolled. that's absolutely terrific. >> i want to mention for those stories you can access the website and lewis was one of the 14 people whose stories were captured as part of that project. >> we are currently not anticipating a committee meeting or board meeting in august. we don't have guidance yet on the board meetings and we will

provide that update. >> also the arts commission, the treasure island parents council, first exposure and the ymca is sponsoring a summer photography program between the ages of 11 and 18. sign ups are currently open at the ymca or by scanning qr code on flyers posted around the island. participants will receive a $50 honorary at the completion of the program. these are high school students that will be working half days, four days a week with this summer. new residents have moved in and

working on the inclusionary affordable units within bristle and hope to close escrow by the end of august. >> the financing as we previously mentioned in that closed in may and the contract is mobilized. there is a grown breaking ceremony for july 27th and there is an email sent out today. also parcel c 2.4, just south of the department. >> june 30th, we had a power

outage when a truck hit a power pole. fortunately that outage was limited to just portions of yerba buena island. there are some planned short-term electrical around treasure island for the building for the hours of 8-2678 each outage will last approximately two hours as puc crews replace aging cross arms on power polls around the housing area. and then also we are working with the office of public finance to finalize the first issuance of the infrastructure of the revitalization financing district. this is the public financing that leverages property tax

increments from the development area and expect to move this issuance with the bond sale likely in august. that completes my report. >> thank you, bob. are there any comments or questions from the board? >> are there any comments from the public? >> there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you, we can go to the next item. >> >> item no. 5. communications received from the board. >> this was in the agenda packet. >> board members, any questions? >> no. >> any comments from the public?

>> there are no callers in the queue. >> item no. 6. >> on going business by board of directors. >> are there any items? >> hearing none, next item. >> items of the consent agenda, all matters are considered to be routine by the authority board and acted upon by the authority board. >>

>> 6. consent agenda (action items) - 5 minutes all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent agenda, are considered to be routine by the authority board and will be acted upon by a single vote of the authority board. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the authority board so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered as a separate item. approving the minutes of the june 6, 2021 meeting resolution approving modification of the memorandum of understanding between the treasure island development authority and the san francisco public utilities commission for the provision of utility services on treasure island and yerba buena island to extend the term of the agreement (exhibit a: puc mou) resolution authorizing the treasure island director (“director”) to issue request for proposals for as needed multi-disciplinary engineering and technical services in support of the treasure island/yerba buena island development project (the “project”) is there any comment on the consent agenda? >> hearing none,

>> roll call, please. >> >> there are four ayes. >> next item. >> item no. 8. >> memorial organization. >> when we previously came to the board with the placing of street naming and other discussions before the board we frequently discussed the trier of chicago which occurred on yerba buena island. >> but didn't know where that

trial occurred and we now have confirmation and staff have been working with the developer hood design, the designer of hilltop park, the national park service and the treasure island museum to develop some recommendations for memorializing that event on yerba buena island. we are coming today to give you an update. >> >> thank you, bob. i'm the director.t we will

present the content of the elements in hilltop park. hood design will present the design concept, and i will talk about the recent discovery of the site of the trial and implications for memorializing this. >> i'm here to support our colleagues and partners over treasure island museum. i will go ahead and start sharing my screen so that we can move forward.

>> >> our section is in three different parts and we will walk you through the same order of the panel and hood design is going to talk to you more specifically about that design and walt is going to share the latest update of what he and others have discovered on the location of the trial site. so again, thanks for having me. also aside from being the chief, there is other sites in the east bay and we manage them altogether. port chicago is the smallest and not well-known but played an enormous role in our nation's history. in this case, the history that unfolded at this site is the site of the

formal location of the designation. >> immediately following the aftermath of pearl harbor, the u.s. immediately jumped into world war ii. and they had been anticipating this and they have been eyeing the location on the west coast which can serve as a center for all munitions and they needed a place with a deep water port that had lots of lines to bring lots of ammunitions. this was located. you can see from my occurs --

# -- # >> chicago magazine was staffed mostly by african american sailors. those of you who recall pearl harbor may recall the heroism of doyle miller from arizona and jumped into action to defend his ship and crew mates during this conflict and his photo was viewed in the aftermath. however this was a time where there was extreme discrimination and racism. as

you can see how discrimination actually was. of the navy was particularly bad and you can see from the text that they were very concerned about african americans and white americans being on ships and serving together, this is at the same time that the army was training black pilots. even though racial discrimination was evident, it was in the navy at this time. many african americans wanted to fight for their country and defend their country and to try to fight both against the fascism abroad and the racism at home and sometimes called the double victory campaign and lots of african americans joined the navy and trained at the navy and shipped to the south.

these teams were racing each other. the coast guard sent out observers to their operations and warned them that they were operating in an unsafe manner. there was a lot of disregard for safety and folks involved were very nervous about handling this

explosive material. and this shook the entire area as if it was noted on the richter scale and most thought they were being attacked but it was a massive explosion at the base. there was a ship and one was fully loaded and one was gassed up and there was an incredible amount of tonnage that exploded. 320 men died standpointly, 390 were wounded and 202 were african american sailors. there were 15% of all african americans killed during world war ii due to this

disaster. the survive african american sailors immediately were called into action and were essentially college age students from late teens to early 20s. there was a lot of trauma at this time. they earned medals for their bravery to help them to put out with many fires and deal with the aftermath during the explosion. however they were treated very differently during this aftermath as well. this is a truly regional event. the inner circle here on this map is the debris field where debris was falling from the sky as far as venetia. the outer circle is the insurance claim boundary where windows were blown out all

over the east bay as far as san francisco. this really impacted the entire region. the men closest to it were profoundly affected. unfortunately however despite the damage and trauma and the heroism they displayed trying to put together after, they were still treated differently because of their race. the white personnel were given survivors leave and were allowed to take time off where the african americans were not. they have already been smarting under this discrimination they were facing in their service and when they were all relocated to the island about two weeks or so after the disaster, they were innervation.

august 9, 1944, they were ordered to march down down the island where they were presumed to be loading ammunition. they stopped short and refused to load. it was a massive work stoppage. the navy was caught off guard and they did not like this that we were in a war. they came down and warned them. >> and it was a completely, it was really a -- though they did have assistance from thurgood marshall and assisted.

the men insisted. they were told and they were afraid. that didn't matter. it was wartime and the navy was moving forward very quickly. the trial lasted about three weeks or so. some of the things that came out during this trial included some of the references from the inquiries of the cause of the explosion. you can see the navy imposed this themselves and intellectually capable of handling this. they blamed the explosion on the men themselves and then went on to say that, so

you can see again, this environment and the climate of racial prejudice that pervaded every aspect. within 80 minutes, they convicted 50 men. thurgood marshall took over the appeal. once the sentences had been handed down and there were trials on the conferences on the steps and really show cased that the men should not be on trial and for the treatment of african americans. and it was successful but it did get a lot of attention and a lot of pressure was put on the navy especially when it was revealed just how discriminatory their practices were and his plan for advocating

for the men and caught the attention of the president. as a direct result of thurgood marshall's intervention and the appeal and the appeal was successful and they did have prison time but it was the catalyst that pushed president trueman and was the direct result that resulted from the work stoppage afterwards. now, today we do tell this story at the naval magazine national memorial. a site right there on the location where the explosion occurred. the trial and the site owe the existence of this

national park site to robert for the chicago trial really brought it to national attention and the site was originally established as a result of his research was established as a site by the navy back in 1994 and then became an affiliate of the national park service inside of 2009. it was this very park that president obama signed into law whether her went into office. it varies because it is in a base and the story has many parts to the story. there is the memorial itself where we talk about not only those who lost

their lives and the three sailors eligible for pardon. they agreed with that. he didn't feel he did anything wrong but he wanted to bring attention to the story and elevate this story to try to help folks understand what had happened and it was successful to the story and the site. so, we honor the dead, we honor the living, we honor all those who did pass by those events and whatever location is in the area and the many african americans unknown who were buried down there in san bruno. there are very small handful of survivors. this is one of the last one, ray ross, at the time

of the explosion. so we have his oral history as well as others. however, at the military base we were able to provide access to the memorial and we have these regional partnerships. there are brand new parks named now that is just south of the location on the memorial and this new regional park is where we are fully tell the story and provide the access. and also treasure island as well. this is again, most people that grew up in this area never knew about it. it was a huge event and important milestone in what later became the civil rights

movement and changed the entire trajectory of african americans and persons of color serving. and we are excited to be able to tell this story and also with the location of the trial. we are pleased to be able to to help all visitors to treasure island hear this story on treasure island. >> thank you, kelly, thank you so much for that. i would like to make comments but maybe at the end. who is presenting next? >> hi, everybody. can you hear me? >> yes. >> i'm the landscape architecture with the design studio with the designer hilltop park. you are probably very familiar with the site. we are on top of yerba buena island. we

have the privilege of incredible bay views. when the museum and the idea of approaching us through some locations for the chicago park, we started thinking about how we can find a location that can begin to allow this site to be linked to the story. so, i will show you just really quickly where we are with the visual locations for exhibit panels that will be receiving some of the information in the amazing pieces of the story that kelly described. hilltop park is in the middle of bay. and a close up shot here in the corner, you can see the park is composed of two sites. west hill top and east hill top. the

one with the image on the top. you can see it even today. part of the concept of this park is to preserve some of the elements. there is a water tank built in the 1920s. so it's been in the island for many many years. we are going to preserve pieces of it and it will become like an observation platform to get that use from there. we will also explain this small footprint from the chicago trial. there is a lot of significance to this particular here and opportunity to meet that. as i show you the way we are thinking of the exhibit panels is that we are looking at locating them in a way that when you are on top of this island, you have this vantage point to

connect to chicago. you cannot see the port of chicago but the direction with this location. this is the overview of the park since it's on the construction for the area that we are seeing is called hilltop park west and that rectangular shape that you see there is the former tank that is going to remove the lid and create a new paving area where people can walk and have these amazing views. preserving the tank is staying there. in that little circle area is where we want to locate those panels to conceptually make that connection of where we are talking about will be located. then the chicago room, the building is no longer in existence and there is an

opportunity here to maybe remember something through a series of traces. right now the main elements that we have been looking into are these two small memorials. the tank is above this little hill. the only way to access it is through this ramon this view. it's through the tank itself and enters through the top area. the opportunity we see here is maybe a little tiny moment to pause in the middle of that tract and make an amendment and they will have the panel with more description. if you are coming up through that ramp that i was mentioning,

this is one i thought about having just a simple element to have maybe from a description or just a label that we will begin to connect a story, the trial itself on site. the main elements that we are proposing here as part of the park, once you arrive, once you walk through that path, there is that and on the far end, again you are invited and in instincts that you will begin to walk towards the edge, and there is where we want to place this element. we are thinking right now of some sturdy materials to speak through the historic elements of being in this existing tank and also allow for different panels that can be placed on these four

stands, and those can actually be fixed or they can even change over time. the story is not yet fully completed yet. there is more things hopefully that there are more changes that may come in the future and for the materials and panels. the way that we are trying to place this what you see on the wall of the tank, they are existing. the way that it works structurally inside of it is almost like the pilars that hold these walls that he would # -- held this water.

this is what basically we are using to take advantage to place these elements in the angle and we are used to seeing them from the front and this other view allows us to represent the panels that have a second and thin side and we can then describe some of these important moments or ways to organize this story. it has a two side and still allows people to get very close to the edge of the intended use but at the same time maybe learn some of the dramatic parts of the story. in general, currently the design is still in progress and we are here to get comments in general

and there is content and we want to organize it and it should be organized to these four themes and imagine what kelly was describing in the background and how the disaster actually took place and there is an opportunity to describe some of the navy's response and describe a little bit this context of discrimination that existed. then there is the third panel to talk about the trial itself and more importantly on the fourth panel, talk about the resonance and hopefully there is more positive outcomes as they come out of all the disasters that took place and one that could potentially change in the

future. this is all the materials for the site and what we are trying to tell as the story. >> thank you alma. >> did you want to add final words? >> sure. let me just share this screen and while i'm sharing i should mention that dory miller, the pearl harbor hero that kelly mentioned at the beginning, just as a side note. dory miller was one of the few sailors honored and the other two were white and got the congressional honor and dory miller got the navy cross and he died in combat in 1943. back to the chicago trial, as

important as it was, the exact location very sadly was never recorded. so while we were working with our partners on the hilltop park display, we continued to try to determine the exact trial site. so professor allen's report on chicago said the trial was held in a smallwooden building that had a marine barracks and this is all we knew and we couldn't find the source for that statement. we went and at uc davis who collaborated with me on this. we searched all the notes and the transcripts and professor allen's source material and transcripts all of which were digitized by kelly's

chicago memorial unit and we couldn't find the source. he's hugely credible but not yet evidence. this is one of the only two known photographs of the trial. it says in the caption this trial was on yerba buena island. we are hoping to find one or more candidate buildings that he would the trial, locate the building plans and try to matchup the doors and windows and elements of the room with the building plans. so the caption as they said it was on yerba buena island and everyone used the exact same words and one my suspect since

it was wartime and the war was secretive that it was all they were allowed to say. well, with one exception. people's world was marked in the paper in san francisco and they were less inclined to follow the navy's instruction and used the marshall building. this is very specific term and gives us something to look for. how do we find a general court marshall building that had been a marine barracks. this book helps us find the relocation and that tried to shutdown the building on treasure island and it shows the buildings from 1981 to 1995.

the only building in the book that mentioned court marshals and also mentions barracks is building 97 on yerba buena island. it was built in 1920, demolished in 1960. there were a few other marine barracks, and now we hope to find plans for the building with the photo. one of our museum board members, tom andrews, reached out to nacc, the navel and heritage command, and they provided us with this information about building 97. it was built in 1920 and an addition was built in 1943.

so we went looking for the plans and they said they were in an archive in maryland. we went there and they told us exactly what file to go look in and as we were preparing to look, everything closed due to covid and we couldn't get the file. that was a year of nothing. this past february, our archives person who didn't have any visitors to contend with offered to go down and take a look at the file. he did not find the original building plans from 1920 and hhd is adamant that they must have

been destroyed, but he did find plans from the 1943 building extension. in february 9th, he emailed to us along with the detail of the map of the yerba buena island, that's the background of these slides. now, we noticed that part of the extension was a new dormitory for 120 men and said the trial building was no longer a barracks and does it make sense that the navy would build this new building in 1943 and abandoned it a year later. this in treasure island stated by the navy that the marine barracks were consolidated on treasure island. if there were marines up in that dormitory room, they would have moved down

to treasure island and the barracks vacant for the trial that started september 14th. so, the good news is that we found a room on the plans labeled general court marshall room. this is hugely exciting. the bad news is that this was part of the original 1920 construction. so although the plans for the other added rooms were very detailed and showed all the windows and doors, this showed just the outline of the room. but we are really lucky because normally that room wouldn't have to be on the extension plans at all, but the navy took the opportunity to add some new posts and new gerders to the existing room and why we have

anything about the room on the plans. how do we match it up with the photo? we don't have the windows and doors, but we do have the pilars which look like the pilars on the photo and the gerders and that looks like it was in the room. on this plan, this is a section of the building and it shows the original grade before the building was built was here and when the building was built, it was brought up to grade and a retaining wall built. that's the existing wall. on this plan on the existing wall goes up to here to this jagged line that says, well, it's continues but we don't have

to draw it because we are only interested in the expansion and the stairs that we have to build, but the wall does continue. it is not on this plan, but it is on the map of all the yerba buena island and if we have this map we see that the retaining wall, the white is the matt and the retaining wall is shown on the matt. if we look at this officer, this is all the evidence that we had. we think there is no official record that this evidence is enough to state

that the chicago trial took place on yerba buena island and the courtroom was right hehere. so where does the footprint to building 97 sit relative to construction? the courtroom is pretty much on this corner of the parking lot that will be built for hilltop park. and people will park here, they will walk to the crosswalk to take the ramp and they will walk right by that corner. when the developer surveys the parking lot, they are three months old and the map from the national archives gave us and tell us exactly where the

building in the courtroom were. dmul -- but in the meantime, we know that this park and was developed for a hotel. the museum feels that because of the importance of this place in the history of san francisco and in the struggle against racism, this site needs to be marked and honored. we understand that the development may require future changes but we welcome the discussion on what to do right now. we have one possible concept. we envision three simple elements that could easily be moved to accommodate future developments. the first is a wayside sign so that people walking down the parking lot and onto the crosswalk will see that

something of historic importance happened right here, and then as they go up to the park, up on top, they can learn a lot more about it. the second element is some kind of memorial to the chicago 50. for example this boulder with the bronze plaque with their names on it. an american flag flying to honor the chicago sailors what we now know that they were tried and convicted of mutiny 70 years ago. thank you and this concludes our report. >> thank you and thank you so much to all of you. you know, this is a really wonderful collaboration with the national parks and with the hood design and the treasure island museum.

kelly, thank you so much. and for telling us about the significance of this in chicago. this national park should be really applauded and recognized and in the places that it's not just about parks, it's also about memory. thank you very much for that, kelly. then the walter hood, you know, the landscape architect, he's an african american architect and star and we are so lucky to have him work with us on the important part of yerba buena island at the very top. i am glad to see that you are incorporating this

memorialization of chicago in the park itself. thank you for work on the museum for all the detective work that you have done to try to find where the actual building was and for your actually for your persistence in bringing this story to the public. so, i really thank all of you. this is a very exciting project. i would say you have made some suggestions about further things that we can do, and certainly will take that under consideration together with walter hood group because now our landscape architect, but some things at the parking lot to showcase what's happened there and to also allow people to get information so as they walk up to the top of the hill

to have a service in mind. i think that is a wonderful thing to do. so what i'm going to do is open it up to the board and then we'll take some public comment as well. but i'm just mindful of the time. let's go forward. >> thanks, commissioner. you can see i'm struggling with my video and connection. i hope that you can hear me well. >> go ahead. >> okay, so let me first, mr. billsky, treasure island museum, thank you very much for your dedication for this important matter. also i want to thank you for the great presentation, ms. kelly and the others of the center.