>> meeting of the upon san francisco public works commission today is friday, september second, 2022. the time is 10:02 a.m. >> secretary. call the roll. >> good morning. please respond with here or present. newhouse-seeingal. >> post.

>> here. >> paul woolford. >> here. fady zoubi. >> here. >> vice chair is present. >> acting chair we have 3 members present and a fourth coming in. quorum is 3. we have quorum. >> thank you. >> before calling the next item i have a quick announcement i intend to recess for 15 minutes the middle of the meet to stretch our legs and have a snack and take a quick break. and i plan to ooh journal by 2 p.m. i will do my best to be sure we do adjourn by 2 p.m. >> are there requests to amend

the order of our agenda today? secretary fuller call the next item >> due to on going covid health emergency and given the public health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health and emergency orders of the governor and mayor concerning social distancing and lifting the restrictions on teleconference, this meeting is held via teleconference and streamed by sfgovtv, for those of you watching live stream there is a brief lag with the live meeting and ma can shown on sfgovtv. on behalf of the commission i like to extend thanks to sfgovtv media services and building management. staff for their assistance putting on this meeting. and commissioners and to anyone

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>> thank you. item 2 is thing adoption of minutes from this commission's august 19th meeting. these draft minutes were distributed to the commission in made available for public review. this is an action item and i'm happy to take questions or corrections. and one correction that has been included is for item 11. the public comment adding a d to

the word. rationalized. that has been included in the corrections. >> are there further corrections or comments to the minutes. >> do i hear a motion to adopt the corrected minute sns >> so moved. >> i'll second. >> we will turn to public comment on the minutes from the prior meeting. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 2 the adoption of the minutes may lineup against the wall. if you are in the hearing room. if you are calling in from outside the hearing room dial 415-655-0001 and meet being access code is 2484 851 7758 # #.

and to raise your hand please dial star 3. >> we don't have members of the public in the hearing room. sfgovtv do we have callers in the queue? we have one hand raised. we have one hand raised. >> unmute the caller. you have 3 minuteses to peek and i will give you i 30 second warning before your time expires. >> [inaudible] i'm getting set up i will come back on another item. >> okay. >> thank you for your comment. we look forward to further

comments. chair, that concludes public comment on this item >> is there debate on this motion? >> hearing none. secretary full are call the roll on this motion. >> on the motion to adopt the corrected minutes from august 19, 2022 meeting answer with yes or no. newhouse segal. >> yes. >> commissioner votes, yes. >> lauren post. >> yes. >> paul woolford. >> yes. >> commissioner woolford votes, yes. >> commissioner fady zoubi. >> yes. >> there are 4 votes in the affirmative on this matter. >> motion succeeds. secretary fuller will publish the adopted minutes to the commission's website. >> now item 3.

mr. fuller call the item. >> item 3 is general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on topics within the subject matter of the commission not part of the agenda. comments to an item on the agenda may be heard and occurred. members may address the commission for up to 3 minutes and general comment may be continued to the end of the agenda if speakers exceed 15 minutes of public comment at this time. >> i will start or -- prepare a 15 minute on. members of public who wish to make 3 minutes of public comment may lineup against the wall from the door in the hearing room. or if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, 2484 851 7758 # # then press star 3 to raise your hand.

it appear we don't have members of the public in the chamber. sfgovtv, do we have callers in the queue? we have one member. unmute the caller. sur 3 machines to speak i will give you a warning at 30 seconds. i want to confirm item 11 there will be an opportunity for public comment prior to closed session. otherwise i have nothing special for general public comment today but may comment on another,

thanks for listening. >> thank you. caller. in response to that, there is planned public comment for item 11. and there are updates of how item will be taken not in closed session but available in open session. >> it appear we don't have other callers. chair, we have no further commenter. >> that concludes general public upon comment. call the next item. >> item 4 the director's report. public works deputy director of financial management bruce robertson-in-law present on behalf of director short. this is an informational item. >> good morning. >> public works staff and members of the partial i'm bruce

deputy director of financial management and administration. i'm coming in my role as acting director for karla short who is taking days off for a deserved bringful i'm here to deliver director's report for public work commission. >> i will go through activities going on in the department to provide you an update. >> start with -- employees allowed work remote we are following city guidelines and changing the 2 days a week to 3 days. change will be ruled out the week of september 12 and impact a third of the public works employees. many of the staff those in operations, street cleaners, paving crews have been coming in 5 days since the pandemic started. many others including in the building and infrastructure sections you hear more in detail

later construction managers, street inspectors have been coming in for 5 days and many on the executive team and director's office. jot nkdz to 3 days in the office has a dual purpose. we believe the interaction and communication with staff increases collaboration and builds efficiency. second, the mayor has been adamant about this is bringing more to the mid market neighborhood and civic center area will help activate streets and help small businesses get back on feet. the change to the hybrid model was negotiated in the passed labor agreements with unions. since staff resistant to the idea of adding an extra workday in the office. important to remember prior to the pandemic most everybody was working 5 days in the office and few staff had alternative work schedule. during the pandemic we

implemented an alternative work schedule for straf working a 9/80 shift and staff working remote. >> consistent with the city guide lines, we are make exemptions to the 3 day in office policy. staff and it and dedicated finance teams will be allowed work few are than 3 day in office. and that's in an effort to retain staff and attract new talent. >> we are work to monitor the situation and open to changes with an eye toward employee satisfaction keeping the focus on making sure we deliver projects and services to the residents of san francisco. >> another issue that you may have been reading about giving attention the new street mendzing permit program. that passed by. and the aim was that legislation is to aim in to reign in the ventzing activities that were

seen in the public right-of-way on the sidewalks and mrazace. acute around 24th bart station. un plaza and in china town. our brewo of street use management developed all permit guidelines and inspectors will conduct enforcement they already started going out to make the public more aware of the situation. over the past months we have been working with office the economic and workforce development and our nonprofits primarily 24 in the mission. to do out reach and education before the implementation of the program in mid-september. >> we have started receiving applications and will start enforcement in mid-september. out of 50 applications we received we have found consistent themes we are working on the applicants watch the applicants have not provide complete information.

and some of the applicantsment to sell food requiring additional permits from the department of public healing. we train out reach to those individuals. >> we are working with community groups to help permitise navigate the system which can be challenging. the goal is to make permitting accessible the fee is about $430. and we work with ways to have the fee completely waived. if an applicant is from an economically disadvantaged applicant or a community minded nonprofit, we will wave the fees. if an applicant received medical or qualifies for the life line path the fees are waived completely. and on the enforcement side people selling goods without a permit face confiskagz of goods

and possible fines. we have been asking people to move before we kick in penalties. >> the permit program is getting in the way but not without controversy. there are some who don't want government regulation on street sales and some of our internal staff the inspectors voice the concerns about safety. to address the latter partnered with the san francisco police department who are call in the when situations arc arise. >> supervisor ronen and the mayor have been the 2 forces behind the ventzing permit program. i hopeful this will make a difference bringing order to the public right-of-way so people can walk down the sidewalk and have access to bart stations. one of the other issue system not just bart stations but the applicants we received wanted to sell good in bus shelters. that's not something we allow.

>> if you want once the program kicks off and we provide a detailed report and status in a later commission hearing. >> another item in the news lately is news racks. it is getting a bit of attention. this is an activity in street use mapping. we have been working with clear channel the company that holds the contract for pedestrian multipurpose news racks. and we authorizes the removal of 2 huh of the racks based on an audit we found most were remember vacant or graffiti or attractive nuisances garage and illegal drugs. and 75 or so are consolidated or reduce in the size. well are sick 50 of the news racks throughout the city. >> we did not do this without significant out reach. we sent the publishers used them and invited them to discuss the

plan. did not get response as we hoped. we conditiond that out reach and getting inquiries from murps about the program and when we are doing. we have been updating them in terms of removal and consolidation of the racks. our teams worked in good faith to improve our street conditions providing the out reach to the necessary publishers of newspapers to ensure we are supporting first amendment and the path way in right-of-way clear. >> if you want more on this we can provide an update on this at a subsequent meeting. earlier we received inquiry regarding one of the commissioners, regarding administrative code chapter 12 acts. and that's a provision admit code that bans travel or doing business with those states that are based in states that have discriminatory laws about lbgtq

communities. restriction against abortion rights or voter suppression efforts >> the prospect suspicion and administrative code resulted in 28 states the banned list. that had impact in terms of project deliver and he ability to do things as inexpensive in terms of supplies and materials. public work system not the only department that is impacted by this. we work with the controller's office. city add administrator's office to see what changes may be warranted and do analysis on the impact of the legislation. >> i will move on to the better market street project. a big project and hit a mile stone on the street project. a couple weeks ago the notice to proceed on phase one of better market street. which will bring infrastructure

upgrades in mid market from fifth to eighth. the first phase of the project. the full blown construction will begin in january of 23. and last approximately 600 days. the improvements include traffic signal upgrades. new curb ramps. wide are sidewalks at intersections to make the distance across market street shorter. and implementing new curb lanes at intersections. replacing dying trees and putting in new benches and bike racks. >> until construction begins we work with contractor in terms of setting up a partnering plan and expectations resolving disputes to ensure the process runs smooth. we'll ramp up out reach to neighboring businesses, shops, restaurants, hotels, to let them know the project is coming. we had numerous conversations with them we will let them know now that the project is coming

up we the meet with them and ensure we do everything we can to keep them aware and minimize disruptions to their businesses. >> we will be performing potholing a term in the construction worlds where you do a miniexcavation to see what is below the surface. there are a lot of utilities and water mains and sewer maintenance under the streets that is an investigative work we do for big projects. you will hear more in the better market street project. plan of the project octavia this is the first phase. we work closely with partner agents mta and puc and county transportation agency in terms of the phasing and the scope of the next phases. this project you will hear more about. when we have grounds breaking we will community to the secretary

mr. full and let you know you are invited and welcomed to join this event. >> and speak of construction mile stone event we have a big prshth we completed and will hold a ribbon cutting on tuesday september 15th at 12 noon. we will work with mr. fulltory make sure you are invited. this is for the castro/mission health center. part of an on going series of projects partnering with d. public health and upgrading neighborhood health centers. we completed the maxine hall center in the western edition and southeast family in the bay view. this project our construction management, architecture and project management teammates the lead in partnering with us to develop an amazing project. again, we will let you know about that date on thursday, september 15th at noon if you want to join for the ribbon cutting ceremony.

and with that, that is the director's report. i'm happy and honored do it. and look forward to presenting more of these and happy to take questions you may have. >> thank you very much. bruce. does the commission have questions on the director's report. as a note, with each item i will ask if we have questions then take public comment and then we will all have a chance to comment. so this is just if you have questions or claireifications on this report before we go to public comment. >> any questions for bruce? >> mr. fuller open public comment on this item. >> members of public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 4 the director's report, if you are here in the room may

lineup against the wall from the door. if you are calling in the number is 415-655-0001, 2484 851 7758 # # then press star 3 to raise your hand . >> taking a second it does not appear with have in person commenters. sfgovtv, do we have commenter over the phone? >> one raised hand. unmute the call and you have 3 minutes to speak. great.

so. a few comments good comprehensive report. what many commissions do for the director's report is indicate on the agenda under director's report, the intended item in bullet form after the agenda goes to print so it might have better market update news rack update. and various other bullets. i think that is something that can be evolved. i think it would be helpful to either post the bullet points that were discussed in the minutes or as a stand alone posting after the meeting so that public can get a more full sense of what was discussed in the director's report. i think it is important for the

public record and for you know the permanent record of what things were announced and how much detail was provided. anyway. there is all that about the director's report. general low, and on news racks, concern i expressed in the last company meetings, i did look on the website and public works does have a page about the news rack program. that is a bit out of date. that does not have information that was just related about removals for various reason refers to the contract with clear channel the 20 year contract effective in may of 2002. which would suggest to me that 20 years has e lapsed. makes reference to the news rack committee i remember existing but don't know if it still

exists. and i don't know if the removal of the racks was the subject to the director's hearing and the director's order prior to removal. there was not any notice on any of the racks that i saw. a few days. >> 30 seconds >> thanks, before the proposed removal. the racks were there one day and disappeared the next day. that was in my experience primarily on care very well and westportal. a further presentation with a map of locations that were removed and exist and i better sense of where the program is going would be helpful. >> time expired. thank you, caller. >> thanks for listening.

>> sfgovtv are there other callers? there are no future public comments on this item. >> we will turn to discussion on the commission. commissioner newhouse segal you are up. >> i want to thank you so much for our first report at a meeting. what the nuts and bolts of what dpw sdchlt thank you. we have been involved in getting establishd and processed and those are all extremely important and vital. this is excite to hear what the on going work has been done prior to our being here and how you are going forward. thank you, we look forward to being at many ribbon cuttings and watching the city progress.

thank you very much. >> we look forward to having you at the events. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner newhouse segal. commissioner zoubi. >> to piggyback on commissioner segal. thank you for the report. it was pretty detailed. may be hopefully can we request we have that for the visual commissioners here to have it in writing. a short report with bullet points? would that be possible? secretary? >> we can with that of the d. certainly. >> we can provide that. >> i have questions about some of the bullet points. what the main push backs from team members that are requests to come back a few days example

of the -- reasons why not. >> commissioner, there were a wide variety. one of the reasons we heard from staff are -- there are inconsistency. why we are certain groups given an exception and allowed to come in 1-2 days while we are not. i think some staff see it unequal and not fair. some of the exemptions granted to it that is an industry standards, they don't come in the office 5 days a week. the individual contributors, the accountants and payroll teams some purchasing functions allow to get the exemption. and there were wes from staff, why did the sections functions get it and we don't.

over seeing finance, a lot of my teams were granted the exemptions. the budget staff are saying we don't get it why does they do and over lap and inconsistent. there is some of that. and i think there are resistance from staff. not all in terms of the thought that 2 days working why do we come back for 3? it is not fair. what is not working manage in 2 days that we need 3. 2 items i mentioned earlier were big reasons coming from the city wide guidance in terms of impproved collaboration and the informal conversations you have in know elevator or walking down the hall. i have this item i money to talk to you about you have the informal team building and discussions. >> i think it needs to be under scored the impact of just having more city employee in mid market

and what is does for the neighborhood in terms of having people in the neighborhood. and helping the businesses and making it a vibrant neighborhood. there were a few reasons yet push was for 3 days staff said reasons have not wanted to come back. >> reason i ask was was there staff that said -- we can't afford day care after 2 years at being at home and so forth? are there out there? those examples are absolutely out there. and in the instances the staff are working with hr team to try for family friends low work ordinances or other items. the big issue is it make sure that we have consistency in our workforce that they have a child at home under aged they do the work. there is a lot of items that need to be krrdz. that is being considered and

addressed by individual requests made through hr. >> thank you. >> my next question on the bans are -- is dpw reaching out, looking for other venders within our local area. what efforts are done for that? >> absolutely. there are first to make sure we use over half the country that is band. there are efforts to make sure we do business with businesses that are housed in the nonbanned states in california. one of the things that happened the number of states increased we seen more instances where corporations and firms are pushing back. we are part. a larger organization a multinational organization. we are not in that state. it has been more work on the contract admin team and the city

attorney's office to review and where is the headquarters of that organization. so that is caused more work. where we can't do it but actively seeking and promoting and trying to do out reach to those organizations and companies that are not in a banned state. >> thank you. >> one last question. >> you mentioned it starts in january and take 600 days was that the first fooiz phase or entire project? >> that is the first phase between fifth and eighth street. >> over a year and a half >> over a year and a half. >> anything discussed/planned for eventses that happen on market street during that year half. parades. >> very much so, there is a project team and we have been working with all of the key stake holders. many community meetings and many, membership, many internal meetings to deal with those

issues. the project teams can come and present on this project and provide more information. i know there has been many open house sessions at the strand theatre. working with community organizations up and down market street and the citizen's advisary committee on market. there are activities and out reach to businesses and mayor's office that puts on the events. >> are you in contab communication with all of them >> thank you. are you receiving support in writing from the community organizations? or how is the out reach confirmed. >> good question i don't have that information. i do know a lot we have been in discussions with the groups the bicycle coalition. walk sf and received some support from them for phases of the project. in terms of the upon event, i don't vice president that. let me get back to you on that.

>> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner woolford? >> here we go a few points. one is that i don't believe public comment we should ask the director to have a preestablished report it is trusting the director to come with a report. my understanding is that or is it my understanding correct the report will be in the minutes? it is both orally and part of the record or no? >> it will be fully part of recording and bullet points can be added to the minutes, certainly. >> okay. >> commissioner were -- your comment. i have a question around the banned states initiative. is that done at the directorive of the board of supervisors or mayor's office. where does it come from? >> to be in the administrative code had to be added by the

board of supervisors and signed bite mayor. and then need to get back on the details. i think the city add administrator's office is the twhoon does the review of the banned states and there is a process. i will yield to the city attorney for more. that is my understanding being a step removed from it. >> i unmuted you. >> the administrative code acted by ordinance passed by the board of supervisors and signed by the mayor. the changes were vetted at the board level. i'm unfamiliar with how they may make administrative changes adding states or not i need to look whether it is codified or changed bite city add administratored. requirements set forth in 12f in

enacted legislative legislation. >> my scheduled be the director conifer with the city attorney's office and see if there is a conversation to be had with the board of supervisors. someone who is in private business. if i were located in the states banned i would feel it was punitive. it is not my call that the legislator of that state enacts things discriminatory or considered in violation of people's civil rights. so i would ask our director and referring to the city attorney return it is an issue for the ability of the city and county of san francisco to do business effectively especially with businesses that have no vested interest in the policy this is have been put forward in the banned states initiative. we do things with best intentions, you know as you shared. sometimes that implications of them are not foreseen. and it strikes me this is an

unforeseen implication and corrected because it is clearly punitive to the folks who are not out in front with the political agenda they are simple low doing business and reside in a place with their administration of the state has policies that differ with ours. >> commissioner woolford we'll report back to you on that item. >> thank you. i have a couple of comments as well. i am seconding commissioner woolford's comments that was the background for why i asked the question i appreciate you getting back to me on that question. and thank you for investigating the affects of not doing business with the majority of the us. i could not have tuesday better myself and thank you for your comments and look forward to more as we go. we want to try to save taxpayer money and save the city money and be able to get the best

contractors we can to deliver projects to the city of san francisco. >> i had a follow up on better market street. a little different but related. will i want to be sure we are not bettering it before it is red to be bettered. there will be new tree and benches. you have to work with various neighborhood groups in the area. nonprofits on efforts. what about working to have the residents and businesses in that area from fifth to eighth along market. have an enter in seeing the success of this project in i just worry that new benches, trees, sidewalks will be trashed. and that once again taxpayers will be paying to fix broken benches, replace dead tree fist they were cared for properly to begin with, would be lasting.

and once again, dpw will be call in the to fix and possibly blamed for not doing their job right in the first place. i don't want that to happen. i would urge the department to think about how to have this be a more community initiative. so that everyone is excited and everyone who live and work there is are excite body it and foals they have a stake in it. and the success and having it look terrific when it is done a year later. 2 years special 5 years later. so i would urge you to do that out reach and coordination with the people most affected by it and those of us that walk along after the meetings when we walk will be able to see the fruits of this project at last. thank you. those were my comments and thank you mr. robertson for your director's report.

>> thank you. >> further discussion? >> one thing, commissioner post, i sat on the commission which reviewed and approved the better market street in art's commission. having seen it all t is not simple low a decorative move it is as important public infrastructure as building a now subway. reimagining of the street to take the street from had designed to vehicular use 40-50 years ago when market street was redone then. into something imagined for pedestrians, bicyclists and mass transit t. is upon tinldzed be a safer am more accessible and desirable public environment. having been on that, i think it is there are small bits of improvement reimagine mag it and be a better environment. i say that i appreciate the concern and on the side of

reviewing at this time city departments did a thoughtful and intelligent job and the city will be better for it. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your comments. >> all right. if there is no further discussion. secretary fuller call the next item. >> item 5 is the over view of the public works commission contract delegation policy and restricted communication policy. this will be upon presented by prop b project mack rachael arc lonzo and deputy sea attorney taylor. this is an informational item and just reminds the presenters to speak directly in this microphone as possible. >> hello. deputy city taylor.

good morning. some of this is you heard before we will skip through so it is not repetitive for many of you rachael and i will go more in city contracting and public procurement as well as rachael will present the recommendations from her group on the contract delegation policy. so, first off public procurement, refers to the purchase of goods, services in public works, we have this robust web like rule and regulation to support efficient prosecute cure am of goods done with the highef standards of conduct to ensure high quality service deliver and he done in

the public interest. you heard these before but i will (them here again to reminds you. good reference of the robust city, federal laws and state regulations that govern city procurements. the most key to you will be the administrative code sections chapter 6, 21 and 14b. there are many cooks in the city and city agencies involved. a lot of people with eyes on city prosecute curement and have various roles and responsibles part of the public procurement process. perhaps the most key concepts in city procurement is the minimum

competitive amount or threshold amount this threshold governs in many instance the type of prosecute curement required to be completed for purchase as well as the terms and condition this is might apply to that contract. minimal amount is 2 huh thousand dollars that applies to professional service. and the threshold is 1 million dollars and this applies to public works construction procurements as well as the amount for general services. if you remember general service were the things like janitorial service. security, that type of thing. there is other important thresholds to keep in minds. under the charter section, any conrackets and expenditure contracts over 10 million dollars or 10 years must be approved by the board of

supervisors. last time when alice burn spoke he mentioned something we call probable q under 10 thousand dollars. they have stream lined rules and regulations associated with them. in addition, we spoken in the past about chapter 14b, that is the local business enterprise p.m. for local business preferences in policies and 14b has thresholds big discounts and proposal, rating bonus. the threshold for those at 10 million dollars and 20 million dollars for a certain lbe. and in addition the minimum threshold amounts are set to increase. they increase every 5 years by the consumer price index the

next increase is 2025. and the threshold amount did go up last month, july first. chapter 6 public works contracting and procedures. while you will see many types of contracts the bulk had you will see the bulk what public works does are chapter 6 contracts. chapter 6 is a specific administrative code provision that governors professional design, consulting and construction services and all public works contracts. as -- we have mentioned public works must dot contracting for most of the city departments but for when we call the big 6 public works port, airport, rec and park, and mta.

again, contracts above the threshold or minimum amount for professional services must be contracted out. and the default prosecute curement is called design, bid, build it is a low billed chapter 6 authorizes many times of many types of alternative delivery methods. and -- these include things like best value procurements, design build. well is also as needed agreement allow the department to enter into umbrella or master agreements. allows the department to mobilize contractors when projects come up. >> professional service are also typically procured use being

request for question for qualifications or patrols. proposal. chapter 21 governors governs procurement of commodities and services they are done through the contract add administrator and city purchaser. departments can repurchase certain goods and service. examples might be public works purchases of travel and agreements with public agencies. these procurements are done by sealed bidding or rfp or rfq procurement. we talked about grants we mentioned most of the grants will be transferred to the sanitation and streets department you are unlikely to see many grants. there is and types of contracts. under the code, there is strict

regulations that governor how emergency contracts can be entered into. it does obviously some of the competitive requirements are waived. for example, but -- you, the commission secretary the commission chair -- for contracts over a certain size for public work over 250 thousand will node to be approved. either before the work is completed or as soon there after. emergency contracts also -- for construction over 250,000 must go to the board of supervisors for approval. there are also sole source contracted they require special approvals by the city purchase or or by the commission.

i mentioned as needed or job order contracting contracts restricted by time and amount. and -- public works does a lot of these types of contracts. in addition to contract awards and approvals of amendments, chapter 6 of the code requires that the commission will approve certain other items. examples of these include approval to new yorked when we have a failure of bid situation. failure of bid is a situation where project has received no bids or proposals or perhaps one proposal from a nonresponsive bidder. you also see approvals related to assign am term nigz for convenience. with that, quick and dirty over

view of city contracting i will pass it over towillpass it over. good morning. prop b project director. as mentioned previously, to over see the planning implementation of prospect b the city administrator's office convened 3 working group the group setting up the commission was called oversight and accountability. had a mix of representatives from different agents and public works and the city administrator's office. we had someone freshman controller's office. the city attorney's office. and the commission secretaries for public health and mta. in order to tackle the contract ofgation recommendation looked at precedence per code and what

other city departments are doing. tried to juggle competing priorities striking a balance with oversight and overwhelm. this shoes the first of 2 sets of comparisons we used to craft the recommendations from 2020 and 2021. so in the table at the top, along the left, you see the list of the chapter 6 departments which mentioned. the other agencies that have the power to contract for construction themselves. so it is the mta port, public utilities, rec and park and the airport. moving over to the right, you see that those bodies meet an average of 1 and a half times per month and jumping over to the end of the table in each meeting the commission hear 17 items per meeting. 3-for you on consent with

another 3-4 on the regular agenda. consent items bundled together and heard and approve in the one batch. regular agenda items are discussed individually. and the final take away from this slide is that the meetings last for an average of 3 and a half hours. although the variation is wide with the airport clock nothing at an hour. the mta has been nearly 6 hours on average. >> had is the second set. again, on the left this table shows the lists the chapter 6 departments. this time the details are the number of contract items on each agenda on average. well are 8 total items between the content and regular each meeting that breaks down for other agencies in 1.7 consent

contract items and 1.1 contract items on the regular agenda. moving down the row in blue shows projected averages from public works and you. because public works provides the design and construction services for all city agencies, including the chapter 6 departments they elect to hire public works to deliver a project. that's yet vol um contracts is higher than the other chapter 6 departments. instead of average of 2.8 per meeting, public works expected to average 5.8 per meeting base on the thresholds i will walk you through. that breaks down further in 3.8 on the consent and 2 on the regular agenda. >> another type of analysis the working group used to settle on recommendations theerate i don't

of conracket items on the regular agenda verse you consent. on average the other chapter 6 agencies 60% on consent and 40% on regular agenda. and you notice the baptist port is clear oust liar because they have so for few are contract items and choose not to utilize consent often contracts are unique and rare to them. the threshold recommendations i will walk you through, pupublic works in the middle with sloit low more on consent, 2 thirds, 66% to try to make the balance reasonable. now i will walk you through the threshold recommendations. had slide shoes the thresholds for award amounts they are all tied to the code threshold and competitive amounts. commodities, generaling services and construction along the top it is for to you approve

contracts with award amounts exceeding 1 million dollars. and professional service whether chapter 6or 21 testimony is 200,000. this slide shows comparisons with other chapter 6 departments. the most part all agencies are also following the amounts per code. the mta higher thresholds for commodities and general services. okay. this slide covers changes. which is umbrella term for things like amendments, modifications and change orders which you will see abbreviated co. this applies to change to time or money. a k a contract duration and amount. and it is based on administrative code provisions. for commodities, general service, grants, chapter 21 professional services in

construction you would approve in increments of 10% the department would approve within those increments. upon an award the department has the authority to spends up it a 10% above the original award amount. but if the 10% needs to be if they need to exceed they would continue requesting to increase the ceiling from 10% up to 20%. they would, prove additional changes, change orders and press change orders and between 10.1 and 199% and if they node to exceed that they come again requesting authorize to increase the ceiling to the next 10% increment. the admin code prosecute visions for chapter 6 don't include that 10% increpe. so you would hear any and all changes for hose contracts.

increase or decrease. and then another key thing to note here if the award amount met with the contract was delegateed the director for approval, contract changes would be delegateed the director or the departmenting unless and until changes pushed the contract over that 200,000 or 1 million threshold. then it would be brought to your that 200,000 or 1 million threshold. then it would be brought to you. items on this slide including approval for revenue contracts exceeding 1 million dollars. active revenue contracts for advertisements on the public toilets you see throughout the city, there have been revenue contracts for news racks. moving over to the right in the middle emergency contracts.

this policy mirror the code. with the director having the authority to award and amend emergency contracts. again, the drushth must obtain the chair's signature. depending on the niche of the emergency and the life safety threat the signature may be able to be obtained after responding to said emergency. the cost exceeds 250 thousand dollars prove from the board of supervisors must be obtained. on the right the policy alcohol be discussed in the following item this is informational item. policy does refer to the department director. which can apply to interim director or -- acting director. and in the director's absence such as today proves delegateed a department director. >> everything that i covered so far i tied to the admin code.

recommend agszs are vanilla and standards. in order to bring the number of regular contract items in line with other commissions, the working group focussed on a second set of thresholds for consent. this is where we exercised more discretion. please remember that commissioners are able to you have the discretion to pull something from consent and place it on the regular agenda if you want to discuss it and hear more details. professional services and grants the recommendation is for you to bundle on the consent agenda anything between 200,000 and 1 million dollars. if the contract amount is over 1 million dollars it would be on the regular agenda. in the middle here, we did target a subset of contracts, as needed. so we recommend that changes to any of the, as needed, contracts

on consent. theatery behind this is as needed contracts function like pools of prequalified on call contractors and consultants and the contracts are highly controlled and not specific to any one project or project manager. the city in the low millions and individual projects issue tafbt orders or contract service orders from the pool. those task and contract service orders can't exceed the minimums discussed. the as needed contracts themselves, have a 5 year max duration and be modified up to a max of 150% of the original award amount. these are highly regulate

exclude consistents than the rest of the contracts. and that's why they were safer or more appropriate to bundle on consent. finally other contracts, construction, general services and commodities would be on consent for contract amounts between 1 million and 5 million dollars. with values over 5 million dollars on the regular agenda. the airport and puc also have standards for consent agenda and it is 3 million for the airport, 10 million for puc and the working group looked at those and chose 5 million dollars being in the middle. i will ask her to come back and up speak to the final slide, which is the competitive selection period policy an action item separate that you will consider after our presentation. >> thank you.

the competitive selection period policy -- is a key principal in public contracting probabilities communication city employees public officials and any bidder propose or or potential bidder or proposer during the period. what is a procurement period. that begins upon a contract or procure am advertisement. date and concludes upon award of that contract or when the competitive process for this contract is terminated. why is there key principle in public condition transacting in supports integrity of the selection process. ensures award recommendations fair and impartially. and it arc voids real or important selective assistance.

and ensures that nobody gets greater access or unfair help in the selection process. there are exceptions which are out lines between communications with the selection official and questions about the procurement. as rachael mentioned, proposed policy is -- will be before you. this policy very similar to the one proposed for you as passed by the airport and port. the airport and the port commissions. and just so you know, currently, public works and certain solicitations in the rfp's does put in language about this quiet

policy in their solicitations, currently. >> thank you. >> that concludes our presentation. we are available for questions. and we are join bide alex the manager of contract administration subject matter expert and you heard from him in your left meeting. >> thank you. >> thank you. do members of the commission have questions not comments at this time. but questions, clarification before we go to public comment? >> commissioner woolford. >> thank you. rachael a few questions. before the meeting began commissioner post exit said you walked me through what i missed the last time. but you mentioned consent and regularical dar. i'm confused i thought you said certain items will come in front

of us at consent anything over 200,000 goes to regular. and i thought you said items in front of us between 1 and 5 million go to consent over 5 million in regular. what is the difference with the items? >> great question. you order i said both of those things. the first group for the 200,000 to 1 million are for professional services and grants. and then the 1 million to 5 million is for construction, general services and commodities. i think it is easier if i jump back to this slide it shows i box for each contract type. if the threshold. where it is the 1 million dollars -- those are grouped together for consent threshold

and recommended between 1 to 5 million. if there is a procurement for a general service contract or construction contract above 5 million that is on the regular agenda. and for the 2 below professional services chapter 6 or chapter 21 as well as grants, where the award threshold is the 200 thousand dollars; this is where the second army threshold for consent is 1 admissible. >> a couple questions do we have a sense of the number of items in professional services between 200,000 and a million versus what is over a million? >> not off the top of my head. alec burns may. all of the i jumped back to the original or -- in my presentation grouped it all together. i could get become to you on that.

jot reason i'm asking because machine who does professional services 200-1 million are regular and routine. dp i know why our commission is existing but i don't feel the commission needs to do the business of the good people of d. public works. i would ask why the threshold for going to regular is only 200 thousand dollars for professional services opposed a higher number. and also to the regular agenda items you mentioned on agenda 5.8 for our commission but when -- commissioner post showed me the left there are 50 items here. i was wonder whatting is the differs with the regular agenda of 5 and 50 if it is 50 tell take 60 hours. why it would take. great question. i'm going to address both of them. reason we set the 200,000

threshold. it does feel low. it was in alignment with what other agencies were doing and it is per the admin code. given the reason you are here is to have moreover sight overnight department and it did not the working group was not comfortable deviating from when we saw as precedent and norm. freshman what other agencies were doing. we felt like you know we did not want to push it too far and make it seem we were worried about potentially looking as though we were trying to with hold information or take away power from you. >> i completely understand. the reason will ip asking everything you are prowsing is transparents. we will seal the contracts coming both in consent and regular. >> can i address the second part the list. that list is from contracts in

15 through 20 the averages are per meeting i locked per month and cut it in half you will meet twice a month. >> i understand. this makes sense. so you said in the code the 200 thousand dollars when was that date from that number of 200,000 to 1 million i'm asking 200 thousand dollars for a professional services fee for the work that is often in front of us is a low number. add up insurance and consultances i'm asking i believe in open and transparent gentleman and believe or commission should not dot work of the public works department. >> to answer your question chapter 6 professional services condition tracts those are design, architect, engine earring, construction contracts.

you know are subject to chapter 6. under chapter 6 of the code, awards of professional service contracts of 200 thousand or above must be arkansas approved bite department involved. chapter. >> onquestions approved through consent. >> that's correct. so the line of where consent versus regular is within your control of policy decision of how you want to hear it. the commission hears 200 thousand dollars and above. and as i just that is low, it previously was 100,000 and with the cpi increase gone up to 126 thousand dollars. and because it had been static for many years.

under legislation that passed the end of left year, chapter 14b thresholds did increase and that's what increased to 200,000 on july first. >> when was the 100,000 put in place? >> what year? i don't recall it hen for at least 10 years. >> okay. so my original question was how many contracts are we talking about this are between the above the 200,000 and i wonder if there is a way to share with us before we vote on how many are coming. what the numbers are for the dollar amount for the condition transact we can look at it so we can determine whether the 200,000 feels appropriate for this commission or do we have a voice in that. it is done because it is by city

code? those are numbers we don't have but can provide and we will work on that. >> are we asked to approve the numbers today or no. is your question about the what is on consent? my question is about rachael gave a presentation and talked about the recommendations. based on comp republic commissions and awards. and contracts i'm asking are we being asked to vote today will we vote or is your recommendation what it is is and we are -- i don't know the process. >> absolutely. so the contract delegation policy is an item. your next item. you are it is before the commission in the next item to approve the policy.

>> it is. >> the answer is, yes. asking to vote today. >> okay. >> and to collarifiy, the contract approval for not the consent or regular agenda but for chapter 6 professional services, that 200,000 threshold for contract awards can not be modified bite commission. but it could be for chapter 21 professional service because there is in the this similar requirement in chapter 21 of the code. >> okay thank you. any other questions before we get to public comment and our discussion. >> commissioner zoubi. >> just to confirm this is a floud process. we are actually can change that for future meetings.

>> yes. >> rachael, that would be my recommendation because we have put this together based on averages over time the volume of contracts can change. and we may have got it wrong in either direction. may be you will not see enough contracts and look that is on consent and you will be putting more on the regular agendaful may be up want to change thresh holes to lower you see more on the regular or i think to commissioner woolford's point, may be you will get too many on the regular agenda and rather have mur on consent. in any meeting you have the discretion to modify it either way. and i recommend that in 6 or 9 or 12 or all of the above months you do a check in and see how it feels based on hahas been coming to you. >> we can always pull any

contract from consent to the regular agenda. >> correct. >> i imagine secretary fuller could confirm or correct me but if in any meeting there were too many items on the regular these are averages it vers a lot. you could put more on consent ghnd any mote figure you wanted do that as well. >> thank you. >> thank you for the question. commissioner zoubi. >> no further questions, open public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 5 the condition tract delegation and communication policies over view, if youure present in the room lineup against the wall from the door. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, 2484 851 7758 # # then press story 3 to raise your

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about to expire. >> [inaudible] sorry i'm -- [inaudible] juggling 2 meetings. [inaudible]. on item 5, i have prepared a comment. i support -- the prop by staff. i would set the threshold amount at 1 million and minimum 2 huh thunld by commission resolution i believe is before you in the next item. report on all actions taken including actions by the commission and actions by delegated authority. i can give staff examples of reports elsewhere primarily the

public utility and golden gate and transportation district. they are interesting examples with other commissions i have in the seen the numbers before. tuesday be help to see the list of contract it is entered in by public works by type. these were taken by type by amount and et cetera. competitive selection relates to ethic's >> reporter: in the governmental conduct code. the dates are important for when the [inaudible] starts and endses. this is all a butt abstract and good to see the contract -- by

type so -- award to upon amend and close out what are those that actions and proves that are typically needed. emergency contracts under code [inaudible] we can do this another time and other situation. i support the proposed prop and i'm sure we will be at the review thanksgiving from time to time and i wanted to emphasize that again. having reports on actions taken so there is accountability whether it is an action taken bite commission or starch under the authority. i help that is -- happy to follow up with staff. thanks for listening. thank you. caller. does not appear woo have other members interested in speaking

over the teleconference. this concludes public comment. >> thank you. we will turn to discussion on the commission. i think i will kick it off. i like to address commissioner wolf ford would it be useful to have members of the department of public work staff here to give us the prosecute's and cons of changing the thresholds so say up to 10 million dollars. we don't see anything under 10 million dollars. consent upon five-10 or 1-10 would it be useful or should we move forward with thresholds we heard about today. i'm curious what the others think. met low it is because i don't know what the volume of those are. dp professional services in chapter 21, 200 thousand dollars is in the a lot. if this is 100 contracts that

is, lot. and i just trust. our commission is here to do 2, one is to support the people in the department of public works and provide oversight for the public. i'm just not interested in doing the work our goal is not to do the work of the good people of department of public works i know the people and trust when they i do. we know the history but than this is we are here for oversight. i don't -- have a sense of the volume and my how many are we talking about because a professional searchs commission of 2 huh hung thousand dollars is in the a big contract. >> perhaps helpful if mr. burns since you are division the

big -- construction projects. to give us an idea say we -- if we put on consent a million to 10 rather than million to 5. i presume would we see most of the big construction and other contracts? would we be add here to the code? i don't want to run afoul of that. prop b if pass said will grow. so, why not for a moment here and think about pro's and cons on making the thresholds higher. and we can always change. i love trying to get it right out of the gate. so we don't amend and change as we go. i would love your comments.

>> as needed civil engineer and do small are projectings under that for below a million. you will approve 80% will read as needed. so high volume of the projects you see will cover multiple different projects. if you are talking about the threshold for condition cent upon 200 and 200,000 and a million, i think rachael came weapon based on averages that would lead to around over alled whiching all projects around 3 on consent and 2 on regular. and i know -- we are starting on getting the exact numbers when you talk about professional services. what volume below 200 thousand and a million and then upwards of that. i think we can provide you with the numbers this help you if you are looking for?

>> i was going to say that and baz if any reason one is not able to be in the room we don't have quorum then we can't review. if we can't the city of san front can't contract to get w done. i want want to be an obstacle. mr. post questions are valid. hafor us is the most appropriate level for trusting the department and look in consent. we have it here. and body says we call it to be brought forward. i don't have i strong conviction i when that number should be. it hen this way for 10 or 20 years i don't know photocopy this should be done this way going forward is the question. >> good morning robb alameda deputy director for building and city architect. credibility my 2 cents of that.

and these are good questions i thought it was good and grit work done on soliciting trendses if other environments. my -- gut feeling is 200 is low for a threshold to tip it to on calendar rather than on consent. on the other hand my feeling is that you know [inaudible] then is on the upper sxej that is the tipping point top go to board of supervisors. so i would tends to -- if you were to [inaudible] to tip it from consent to agendized items. and i think i follow the

information or constraints. one category nodeed come for sure. i do appreciate commissioner woolford's concern about not being the roadblock in advancing things. that is time is the big enemy when you are in the middle of fareway of project delivery. have to be agile and responsive and having the higher numbers would support us being more agile and responding to role time issues and concerns at ground level. with that, i will -- if you back to -- thank you. >> rachael, prop b project

director. i opened up the file that i used to do the working group's analysis. to try to provide you with more information. again, this is it takes more time to dot per month per meeting calculation between 2017 through 2020, for professional services contracts, between 0 dollars up to 1 million. small dollar professional services condition tracts, 103. between 1 million-3 million, 50. and above 3 million, 4. so -- if your interested in putting more on consent versus

regular. we could look at revising the threshold from within million to 2 million or from 1 million to 3 million? i think anything over that there would not be everything would be on consent. and -- one quick note about, i appreciate you commissioner woolford for not wanting to dumb up the works in the department. i have been speaking to many people throughout the agencies for over a year and they are very, very scared of this change. you know, time is money. talking about the designed portion of construction projects. but to the point of if you don't have quorum and you are in the able to meet because of the 2 huh human,000 requirement the department is at your mercy. again, what you are able to do is -- put more things on consent

so that you are -- having less on the regular and able to hear more dregzary items but unfortunately, we can't fully delegate more to the department. i wish we could. >> if this could be a policy. raising through the board adjusting the 200 thousand dollars minimum. that could be something you could try to do. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner zoubi. >> i want to thank rachael for the w you did for this presentation and to add it to the agenda. i would like to recall our first meeting as the 2 commissions and we had representatives from the unions that demanded transparency. and that is why i feel our

commission was create at also what i learned this week was that in the past it was one person. signing all the contracts. and i feel that for the public and us being representing the people of san francisco, at least in the beginning to have to show the trans paraphernalias of that range. and that's the reason i agree with going with the numbers for now and study them as we go. we are a new commission. we are learning and i think trial and -- i'm not expecting to hit it perfect the first time of but i would agree with the recommendation because it does foal like a lot of w they put in and we should have for the take of transparency. >> thank you. commissioner segal? >> very procedural.

let's step back for a second, right now we are in informational only item 5. and then we be voting on item 6 and 7 affect the information we are discussing now. >> i would like to know and for my experience in the past and being a participate in commission meetings and an bencher in commission meeting and board meetings, its fairly easy to take something off of consent and put it on regular calendar. nooiment clear the procedure is to take something from regular and put on consent. that is more difficult. can somebody tell me what would would be and if we make an

amendment to item 7 this we are talking about, or 6 or 7, okay. item 6, then would you recommend are we ready to do this today. we don't want to hold things up we want to proceed and approve contracts. so -- could we rerue that may be we want to raise the threshold -- make things happen faster. i want to know to,000 it is doyle take something off of the regular calendar and put in consent. it is almost impossible. >> deputy city attorney rob caplet. i would node to look in this but

any time saving and taking something from regular to consent the press for change to consent you would just hear the item as a regular item and approve it. it would not necessary low you have to do it in open session and take an item out of regular hearing and say moving this to consent at for efficiency sake say we are and approving it if you wanted do it by consent you would hear it and take comment to make the change. it is -- would be inefficient to have a system in which you regular low have items up for regular approval but you want it put in consent. converse low it is easier to have a very all encompassing convents and take items out and push to regular. >> thank you all. i add that item 6 the policy itself does fall out of this

presentation. that's why i was looking forward to it and enjoy third degree discussion on the informational item because item 6 then put miss action what we have seen in the presentation. are there other comments or questions before we wrap up this informational item and prosecute seed to actual policy that would reflect had was in the presentation? hearing no further discussion. call the next item. >> item 6 the adoption of the commission's contract delegation policy as presented in item 5. the staff report resolution and policy were distributed to the commission ahead of this mote and made available to the public this is an action item. >> thank you. are there questions on this item? commissioner woolford. >> yes. it is in the a question but i

want to address commissioner zoubi's comment. i agree the reason our commission was here to create transparency for the city. everything on consent is in public record and trans parent. my concern arc rised from inconstruction and construction environment we work in today, inflation costs are between helpful a % to a percent an among. anything delayed and takes longer for us and the city to administer guess up i percentage a month or half to one. if the delay is several among this is means the approved budget for the project is no longer approve today is exceeding the budget and what i'm trying to do is make sure we are transparents. act nothing good government and trying to dot best for the city to make sure costs are always mindful that we are never spending more then and there we have to.

we have precious resources. if rape and he will ron would come up. it seeps based on everything we heard and the stats and did thea for all the other commissions in terms. . i'm sorry if no audio. garbled audio... professional service contract in chapter 21 and the other was actual physical projects and infrastructure. commissioner, could i repeat that. we have commodities and professional services. this one here. >> yes. >> these other different types

of prosecute curements. there is a total of 6 because there are 2 types. professional services. can you explain you to what becomes on these different items what is consxent under regular. >> you are asking for examples of the different types of procurements in >> yes, there are 5. >> so. commodities are things like tables or i understand that. >> i mean the actual what is consent and when is. the difference with hawould be

on consent versus regular. i don't have that off the top of my head. i don't know. >> is that we are asked to vote on. your question has to go to the recommended thresholds to be put on consent. does that make sense. consent if you go on you had a slide on there. for professional services condition tract what is is on consent is between 200 thousand dollars and 1 million dollars. anything above 1 million dollars would be on the regular agenda. okay. above 1 million for professional services on regular. anything below on consent. okay. >> correct. and just a note for commissioners on for the document provided to you about the contract approval delegation policy. in the staff report there is attached a third section that is the policy and on page 3 of that

shows the consent agenda levels. hapage is that?

might be helpful we have the resolution in front ofs. most of us. and if you could just -- almost commodities what goes on consent or regular. general service consent regular. professional services consent regular. and give us the amounts. that will help. >> thank you. >> straight from the resolution. >> straight from the resolution, rachael, project director. y don't have the resolution in fronts of me. based on my slides for commodities it would be 1 million-5 million on consent above 5 million on the regular agenda. this is a very river contract type. >> you will not see a lot of

these. for general service between 1 million to 5 million on consent and anything greater than 5 million on the regular agenda. and for chapter 6 construction contracts, anything from 1 million to 5 million would be on the regular agenda and construction contract greater than 5 million would be on the regular agenda. >> you said, 1-5 on consent. above 5 on the regular agenda. >> a lot of major construction projects on the regular agenda example professional services, both chapter 6 and chapter 21, the difference chapter 6 another or engineer consulting firm. chapter 21 an accounting a professional but admit related construction. for this between 200 and 1 million on consent. and above 1 million on the

regular agenda. and for guarantees which is river for you. general services will be river. for grant its is 200 to 1 million that will be on consent and anything grirt than a million on the regular agenda. and in the policy that is in front of you i have it. this information is spread over pages 2 and 3. yea. so00 eye like to ask ron. if you could come back. you had said a few things. learningly had i look at this anything that is above 5 million dollars seems like it should come in front of us. so and for professional service it seems like any contract over a million dollars should come in front of us. none of that is odd. and the grants are rare and those amounts seemed normal.

could you clarify when you calf voted i bit where were you doing that? >> i think i was slightly misreading your slides as you may have. i had read that the professional services tipping point to regular was 200. that's had i thought i heard. >> yes. >> now i understands it is over a million. >> the question i have for you is just that so anything below 200,000 the department with move forward with. >> right. does the 200,000 threshold still feel appropriate or should it be raised in consent is more so anything i'm not asking this 200 to 225 or 250. i don't know whether we are talking about 500 things below 200 thousand dollars. >> i'm in agreement with you but

that would be a board action. >> to clarify for chapter 6 professional services condition transact architecture and construction management services for award of those contracts the commission must award all contracts of 200 thousand dollars or above. you can decide whether on consent or regular agenda. >> out of default they are on consent. >> from everything i here, i have to say i was under the impression going but 200,000 was on regular. if all of these if this data is correct i would support and endorse. i will move the question. >> thank you.

i will second if this was a motion. >> is there debate on this motion? >> secretary fuller call the roll on this motion to adopt the contract approval delegation and requirements policy for department of public works. >> member of public had wish to make 3 minutes of comment on the adoption of the publish contract delegation policy, may lineup against the wall from the door. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001 then 2484 851 7758 # # then star 3 to raise your hand.

sfgovtv do we have any callers goade and unmute. you will have 3 machines to speak. great. david again. on item 6. the resolution to establish the san francisco public i insert works commission. on the resolved clause it

references approving the policy i add something about attached exhibit a. ensure the policy becomes a part of the adopted resolution. there are references to a charter and the codes. the reference is clear to say san francisco charter section and then a charter. there is no confusion with san francisco charter and the code and state lufor everything else.

i want to be sure all contracts to kwharter 9 opinion 118 and provide approval also would require that -- approval by the commission before going to the board of supervisors. i would suggest where authority is delegated by director to someone else on staff that delegation only be someone who filed a form 700 require reports contract actions bite commission or staff. at least quarterly. reviewed may need more explanation regarding consent calendar they have a -- there is more detail how that works.

thank you for your call. >> sfgovtv it appears we -- we -- do we have more callers. no appear we do not. that concludes public comments for this item. >> thank you. i arc pol yoiz for over looking the public comment prior to debate. is there debate on the motion before us on approving the

policy that we have just been discussing. commissioner zoubi. >> thank you. i was looking for the misspellings he pointed out. i'm not sure i found them. >> they were corrected after was posted the public they typos were caught and corrected in the final copy. secretary fuller call the roll. >> on the motion to adopt item 6 adoption of the public work commission contract delegation policy answer with yes or no. segal. >> yes. >> commissioner votes yes. >> post. >> yes. >> paul woolford. >> yes. >> fady zoubi.

>> yes. >> acting vice chair votes yes. there are 4 votes in affirmative. the motion succeeds and secretary fuller will publish the adopted policy to our commission website. >> >> item 7 is the adoption of the commission's communication policy -- as present in the item 5. the staff report resolution and current report of active competitive presses distributed to the commission and made available to the public. this is an action item. note that the resolution for this contains 2 yawn substantive typos that have been corrected. yes. >> are there questions on this item before we go to public

comments. >> do i hear a motion to adopt the competitive selection process communication policy. having us adhere to what is a quiet period when contracts are out for bid. >> so moved. >> >> second. >> second. >> >> motion. >> given the mowing we will turn to public comment. why members of the public ho wash to make 3 minutes of comment on item 7 the adoption of possible works commission restricted communication policy miline up against the wall in the hearing room. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001 then 2484 851 7758 # # and star 3 to raise your hand.

and then press pound and pound again. and -- then dial star 3 to raise your hand to be recognized. >> and there are no members of the public who have lined up to speak. we will turn to via teleconference sfgovtv do we have callers in the queue? okay we are one caller. unmou them and caller you have 3 machines to speak on this item i will give you a 30 second warning. >> can you hear me now. >> yes. >> okay. david again having problems with the computer today. so, i think the policy make

sense as proposed again this could be change the in the future. on the chart it indicates the type of contract or solicitation that is in progress in the future it would be helpful if this chart is ouzed indicate had the selection period started and -- to have a report in the future when the competitive selection period endses so that the quiet period is clearly established. i believe it is 6 months after the ends of the selection period? just the reports are clear and nobody does anything that unintentionally violates the policy so that the dates are clear. i support the policy as propose.

of thank you for listening. >> thank you. caller. sfgovtv do we have other callers? >> there are no other members of public who have expressed interest that concludes public comment on this item. >> thank you. is there debit on this motion in >> no. >> no debate call the roll on this motion. >> on the motion to adopt item 7 adoption of the public works commission restricted communication policy answer with yes or no. segal. >> yes. >> lauren post.

>> yes. >> paul woolford. >> yes. >> fady zoubi. >> yes. >> there are 4 votes in the affirmative y. secretary fuller we will publish this policy on the commission's website. >> it is 12:03 i like to call a short recess to stretch legs and have a snack. i would like to propose it be 15 minutes or if 10 is sufficient i will look at my fellow commissioners. 10 or 15. >> recess the 15 it we will >> i neglect the before we recessed give a thank you to deputy city attorney taylor and practical manager rachael and

the tome for putting together the contract approval policy and quiet period policy. and the presentation that back to the 2 policies the months of work this went in those getting the resolutions ready was evident and i found the become ground materials we all within over today to be helpful. so, thank you both and i think it is my fellow commissioners stated, there is nothing more important than the contracts approving one could argue that's why we were here and set up a public work commission because of how contracts were being executed in san front. there is nothing more important and q.ed we got to this early and thank you all at dpw and city attorney, staff and my fellow commissioners. and everyone that had, let to do with putting good thought in this and we will see how it

goes. and being make changes if anyone says something is in the working as it should. thank you very much. mr. fuller call the next item. >> item 8 presentation on public workers infrastructure design and construction division presented by albert who is the city engineer and deputy director of infrastructure and design in construction. this is an informational item. >> great. good afternoon will upon albert coke. thank you for opportunity to present i'm excited to share the great things we do for san front as residents and visitor and share some of the scenes behind the magic. let's go to the slide show. >> okay. our job at the infrastructure

design and construction division is to keep the city safe, beautiful through engineering and regulation. we work to shore up natural elements hell and human made structures. bridges, retaining with yous and public stair case minimize streets and flooding and make it safer for people. we map out reimagined neighborhoods and implement now per misting programs to activate the opinion right of way. and keep it safe. public workings started as a department more then and there a human year ago to liout the streets urn the expertise of engineers. since then, the engineering team at the forefront of helping san front evolve to mote the needs of a changing city. >> san francisco public work maintain 900 miles of streets, 12, 900 street segments or

blocks. it is our job through the resurface program to make sure they are safe and maintains and accessible. we focus on the condition of the pavement but the design of the roadway. how can we make our street work better for the people who work, visit and live here. [garbled audio [, forge partnerships with community groups and government agencies such as mta and cal-trans to turn the public right of way to enhancements you see 2 examples the completed street plaza in the mission district and bay view gateway. you see from the before and after, it is quite a difference. you should everunder it all.

so much of the work happens below grounds, roads and utilities the puc runs water and sewer, public works make sure the integritiest roadway structure remin in tact. streets are minimize flooding and layer of pipe and cables are placed. the infrastructure division design and construction is comprised of 5 each with their only portfolios. i will provide an over view of each bureau. project management charged with what the name says. managing projects. from renovating bridges to industry scape make overs conception to grounds breaking ribbon cuttings start to finish. >> they start at the beginning planning phase. looking the what is needed come why and how it will be

delivered. next the project is designed in detail. looking at number and location of curb r.s and storm drains. bridge fix in accomplice or will open. whether a bike lane integrate in the the traffic lane or separated. every aspect is planned and the cost estimates are determined. in short, project management over cease scope, schedule and budget. san francisco made tremendous progress the past decade with improving roads. the condition by metro transportation commission. come rates them on a scale of 0 to 100. . with 100 the pents cat. san francisco is 74. which is as good. and best the bay area average at 67 and considered fair. a decade ago san francisco score was in the mid range. with improvements including

voter prove in 2011 of the streets bond gave us resources we needed to improve the challenge has been susstaining funneling at the height before the bond funding was deleasted we were able to pave 900 blocks. last year it was over 500 that is a lot and allows to maintain pave am index score not enough to climb higher. budget for the fiscal year is 73 million. >> chooting which blocks to pave, what -- sorry. our streets resurface team uses the following. pavement index score. multieye modal routes. are they used by muni and are they support bike lanes. project readiness and cordination with utility and city agencies.

equal distribution across the city. we will do a dive in this topic in a future meeting. idc over cease kruck of curb ramps. air program we are obligated to do to meet ad a requirements but that we continue is the right thing to do to improve accessible for people with mobility challenges. last year constructed 900 curb ramps. with other infrastructure upgrades like street resurfacing use contractor and public works to perform the work. some of the most iconic structure in san francisco are our bridges. the most famous is the historic third street or left field dual brigz mission creek next to the ballpark. draw bridge had rehab work to improust structure. we completed up grids to the rich land and high land over

bernaling cut. our next project is rebuild the creek bridge that connects the dog patch and mission bay neighborhoods. the bridges in our engineering section one of 7. in many instances 2 or more sections will work together on a single project. >> slope stabilizations, this involves structureual and hide rollick engineers. san francisco is almost all built out we have a number of under developed hill side this is needed to be shored up. biggest we worked on was the hill side stabilization project across from glen canyon the glen park neighborhoods. falling in the street below. we brought in a condition transactor who chipped off rock,

put up metal netting and e rekteda fence at the edge to catch falling rocks. a similar project under way in phases on telegraph hill. our hydraulics work with the puc on sewer and water improvement and replace am projects. the team ensures street redesign have proper slope and drainage to keep water from pooling in year flooding the roadways. regular affair's group works with project manages ensures compliance with environmental to limit the exposure to liability. we work with ceqa and environmental clearances for projects and the commitments met

in our projects before advertised. this shows their work they have 75 active projects. men of you visited the harrison street improve am under way last among and active portfolio valued 855 million dollars. most of the work is done on behalf other city agencies with the sfmta and puc the biggest clients. the transfurthermoration of san francisco continues to this day with the make over of under

utilized neighborhoods. the mission rock and joint's development. not long ago popular pregame tail gating the hunter's point ship yard. pier 70. former industrial site on the southern waterfront and treasure island the latest to have complete transformations the mission bay neighborhood is more then and there 20 years in the making and foible low has the feel of a role neighborhood, where people live and work. we have lead a special multiagency task force the large development projects over seeing the layout of streets and permitting. jefferson through the whatever working with the mta and the

port. made this safer for pedestrians and cyclists and welcoming for visitors with a wide walk, new street furnishing and street lights and under ground utility upgrades. broken in 3 sections permitting. inspections and subdivision and mapping. permitting and inspection the permits team rerowel permit for public right of way. street pole. utilities, sidewalk, swashing displace. night noise, curb side dumpsters. permits work with the street inspection team. charged with keeping the public right of way accessible and free of hazzards and take enforce am action against people who don't have a permit or violate the

terms of the permit. and on high profile initiatives one is shared space. out growth of park program this mush roomed during the covid crisis. we allow businesses that had to shut down their indoor spaces to operate curb side or sidewalks to keep them from closing. what started as an emergency measure is mou permanent with uniform standardses and expectations. and with that change come growing pains as we work with business its make sure their structures are safe. we are part of a multidepartment group headed by planning department, working to make shared spaces a success. the program may be the silver linings to e merge from the pandemic not only the program served a life line for mall businesses but brought new life to struggling neighborhoods.

permit and inspection got involved in the city's effort to critic down on illegal street venned nothing the public right of way. a new street vending permit allows peddlers to sell on the sidewalk and in mrazace keeping the area accessible and fro of hazards the big problem are mission street corridor in the mission around the 24th street bart station. united nation plaza and china town. conducting out reach campaign with community groups and the office of economic and workforce development, to let people know about the permit process. the permits are aimed to be low barrier and low or no cost. the program has not been without controversy and community activists opposed while others demanded the city flin can i

chaos we opened the permit system in august. we use gps system. including the original hand drawn land's monopoly this laid out on the west side in addition to the projects i highway lighted for like treasure island and mission bay the section handles condo conversions. 91 of the work accomplished out support service. the folk who is help with prosecute curement and office

management. it takes a team. >> you have an over view of the operation. over the among and years you will learn more. offering us ideas and insights with the expertise and common sense perspectives you bring to your role as commissioners. i would like to leave you with the thought. ibc is in the stagnant we are working on new projects and new initiatives to improve the public right of way and mote the changing needs of san francisco. shown here are a few of our upcoming projects. among them better market street. potrero gateway. buchanan mall. i look forward to getting to know you and help to answer questions. does the commission have questions at this stage on the

over view. please open public comment. member who is wish to comment on item 8 the design and drukz drukz line up against the with you from the door if you are in the room. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then 2484 851 7758 # # and story 3 to raise your hand. does not appear we have members of public admit room who will like to speak. and we are one raised hand over the phone.

sfgovtv please unmou the first caller. you will have 3 machines to speak. i appreciate the presentation and the staff that have a range of interesting projects to work on. i [inaudible] liked the visuals including the [inaudible] photos of market and third street. [inaudible] i did tick a moment to look at [garbled audio]. which has more detail o all of the projects. i think more work done on those websites they verify which projects are completed as

opposed those that are still active. so those that are complete exclude locked at. those that are active once we -- get involved with and learn more about [inaudible] that can be [inaudible] for [inaudible] again thank for all the good w that albert and the team are doing. i'm sorry the one final thing although this was not [inaudible] there was slide that referenced hydraulic engineering may be asking more to mentioning which staff moved from -- dpw from ibc over to puc there was minor [inaudible]. my understanding at the time

staff had been primary low working on [inaudible] projects move over to puc. great work. thank you. i'm done. >> thank you, caller. appear we don't have other public commenter. public comment is closed. >> thank you. i had a question i forgot to ask. you said this we need to finds more money i think you said this or out of money for street paving or more is needed. and i congratulate dpw on getting the condition of streets from 60 to the 74, a good category for mow is not good enough someone who lives here special curses when i drive many of the streets. how can we get our ranking up to great or whatever the next is over good. how do we get more money for

paving do we another bond issue? please, tell us more about that. >> to get the pavement index score up we need more contract out. we need more money to funds the condition tracts. that could dm from a bond. could come from general fund. could come from anywhere and we never say, no. there is competing priors and we have to make a call on how to spends the limited resource. and we feel at least in ibc feel the roadway conscience are important and we want to maintain that score but in the only maintain it and really go that extra mile. and really continue to improve in all parts of the city. we can work with our budgeting

team to where to get the dollars. we need advocacy as well. and make the ask anywhere we can. >> thank you. i think you are electric at your new advocacy group. we are here now. thank you very much. >> and do my other commissioner zoubi? >> albert, got questions for me about what percentage of the like i mean again. thank you for the presentation you covered burroughs and it is putting it in a short period of time that was great i life to learn more in the future on the departments. so what will you say the percentage of proactive projects and reactive project this is we

have on this streets in so like -- chair post mentioned that you will be an advocate hapercentage of the projects that are happening are a cause of the public ask for it? >> that's a good question. i don't have i can't say exactly for sure. my guess and this is just a guess. would be about i would say 75% proactive and 25% reactive. and there will be a lot of shades of gray of what initiated the projects. whether it kim approximate a problem or a strategy advocacy. or a need. our teams go out and assess the continues of structures and from there decide on that the

priorities are. but we also react to -- things that happened natural disasters. something come up it becomes an emergency. so -- it is heard to say. we have a lot of programs and for example, the street's program. the street paving, we are programmed out 5 combroers have an idea where we want to go. and there is recommend for change. and we are proactive low going out to assess the high needs area. there could be something had happens that we did not plan for this come up and change the priorities temperature is a bit of a flux and hard to answer we try to balance the needs. >> thank you. >> and one more if i may, if you walked in san francisco you drive in san francisco, there is not sure a season of construction projects this are

happening. how, which controls the scheduling of projects and the locations of them. for example, men you walk and wella i block closed for a project and then a block away there is another project for like at&t or one for pg and e and puc. who controls the scheduling? and how do they do the press this way? a lot of people. pg and e have their own. public works has their own projects puc has their own project the. we have 6 departments in the city that have contracting authorities that have projects. we coordinate the best we can and dig once policy when we dig in the street we want to sends

notification out to all of ours sister agents and hay do this at once. we do a coordination effort but don't control the timing of other department projects and other private entity departments. keep try schedule our xoen coordinate with agencies to best time had would be appropriate to start projects. exclusive every department has a need based on the pol poplication they serve. the scheduling of baseball season. and a rec p facility and we want to make sure we mitigate impacts this we have to the scheduling. we want to work with everyone's sensitive schedules. >> thank you.

commissioner segal. >> so. wow. thank you very much and commissioner, zoubi, my head is spinning about your question about whether what -- what -- divide when they do between proactive and reactive. and in government. everything that government does is reactive. to the public needs to desires and to resources that are available or become available. so it is -- i think it is very different than the private sector. i feel like i'm back in00 time. everything we do is reactive and i'm very prud to be representing

our citizens needs. approximate reacting to them. >> thank you. >> any further discussion from the commission before we move on? >> thank you very much, mr. coke for coming and giving us this over vow there was a lot and look forward to more reports in the months ahead on the various divisions you gave us the sketch for today. >> thank you, commissioners. >> thank you. >> secretary full are call the next item. item 9 a presentation on the public building design and construction by ron the city architect and deputy drushth of building, design and construction. this is know informational item.

>> good afternoon ron -- deputy director of build and city architect, appreciate the opportunity to to give an over view of the structure we operate at albert it is difficult. he is thorough and covered a lot of ground. and framework and ground i would be redundzant on we will meet our 2 o'clock target i will be a bit short but just as informative. mentioned before the intent of the presentation is to give you a good over view of the main framework how we operate. both infrastructure idc and building design and construction

structured similar. but delivery methods and manners differ when you do a vertical structure as a building opposed to a horizontal. so we have -- in a similar fashion about 7 functioning groups at a large level call them burroughs. and we are comprised of project management architecture landscape anotherure, construction management. project controls and service. capitol project and program controls. and operations. you will see that there is similarity there. i want it point to the upper right corner the qr code will direct you to our portfolio of work there is just tons of

projects that were done as well as over the span of 100 years. that encompasses the good work of albert's engineer as well. collaborating with my architects and landscape architects. you will get a representation of work product. you know machine first being in the real world. in this portfolio. i can't over emphasize taken a wander to that website. or that link. so beginning with bureau of project management, bureau of project management is responsible for the development, design and construction projects. providing leadership and project definition, budget, schedule and delivering completed building projects. for our sponsor and agencies and

other supporting agencies. >> that innertwine as you can tell. many buildings have many touch points from various departments within the city. our project managers as well. are -- come from accomplished practitioners. they are well knowledged in architecture engineering and from the construction management fields. the project managers have quite a lineage of background evergrounds p experience. they are in the vender managers, they know [garbled audio] from day to day. and general low project managers

are the one that is like to say, starting the concept and completing that close out a project. and for this matter ramping up and handing over for operational departments. >> the project managers lead teams of architects, engineers, analyst and subject matter expert in areas such as environmental compliance, cost estimating, project entitle am. over see the production of schedules, construct at, regular studies and permitting. project managers work in concert with sponsor and department representatives to define operational needs. associated with the project as well as, stake holders the community and other service providing ebtsities like mta, puc and pg and e.

here is a pattern of current projects and programs we are working on. a large program is the earthquake safety and emergency response program. currently we are just starting to ramp up on the fire training facilities a large project associated with that program. there is just a whole sundry of please station work going on under this umbrella. public health and safety bond is sponsoring many projects associated with follow up projects after having done san front general hospital. and as well as -- new work in the older -- san francisco general hospital. laguna honda has a good measure of work going on you tell from reading the newspaper. and just a lot of good clinics

in various neighborhoods. we are very actively engaged with mta. taking care of their projects that -- high level or advancing things such as their electric bus is driving large projects to appropriate for that. and we are partnered with hsh in delivering shelter projects as well as other housing initiatives. to address the homeings issues of community. arts commission is integral with the most of if not all projects. we by statute dedicate 2% of construction budgets to arts ingrated or associated with projects. so, they are an act of partner

with our grouch as well as the san francisco project or library. bureau of architecture, responsible for over all design and construction of the project. project architects provide leadership in the team of architects, engineers, analysts and expert consultants as well. bureau of architecture on small are projects may take on the project lead role a subset of responsibilities that you finds with the project manager. the architecture team comprised of staffing and design professionals of trained architecture interior design and other special disciplines including sustainability, disabled access, lighting.

computer aided design, modeling and technical documentation and processes. architecture staff produced the design studies and production documents necessary to procure and construct the project designs. they provide the full range of professional services from early feasibility studies, tests, space equalization and functional programming through comprehensive design processes that cull monate in construction documents and the construction of the project for the experiencing department. option and operations. that was completed in 2018. and here is a few more notable projects of late. lately fire station number 16.

and then san francisco animal care control. finished in 2021. and -- it was an award winning for both a dastive reuse of a historic build and deliver we partner. it was -- a success. um -- another example of bureau architecture and landscape i will touch on in a minute saturday margaret hayward play ground and community center in the western edition neighborhood. another very successful collaboration of with bureau of architecture outside consultants, landscape architecture under our roof as well as albert's infrastructure groups. all work together to deliver award winning projects.

>> i wanted to touch on briefly in that -- san francisco in new york are one of the few this have in house architects. and landscape architects. it is common practice and i argue not necessary low best practice. that a lot of jurisdictions will consult 100% out and diminish the staff to ventz are management. i'm proud to have very successful and experienced professionals on staff that know haneeds to be deliver exclude not doing it in the abstract but actually doing temperature we are not competing with the private sector. we hold them in. there is too much w to do in house. tons of w to sends outside. and i think we are all the

better enriched boy that collaboration with the public and the private am with that commentary behind me i will get back on track. lan scape architecture here is a few examples of the types of work that they under take. they have civic building land scapes. safety improvements. work closely with park the rec and park department. delivering parks and recreation projects. play groundses. community gardens, green infrastructure and street scapes and campus planning.. community gardens, green infrastructure and street scapes and campus planning.. community gardens, green infrastructure and street scapes and campus planning. another example a collaboration and completed project.

this -- demonstration photos of -- examples of collaboration that -- bureau of landscape architect not only work with bureau of architecture and many times not with the bureau but rather hand and hand with infrastructure or mta in the street improvement and park improvements. they often will take lead in those projects as well. to look forward in terms of that is emerging, there is always a minefulness toward resilient planning. biodiversity and natural play other concepts getting dovetail in the the thinking as we advance our designs.

we are all supported by the bureau of construction management. they implement the upon project plans over seen bite project management and architecture bureau and as well as other core divisions and -- supporting other chapter 6 departments as well. even though they have the ability to contract on their own we finds often other departments will reach over to our expert ease. mta is very arc cute at doing transportation projects. when that he finds themselves in need of more building or buildings or whatever they reach over and that is only one example of other departments reaching over for our expert ease. this group of staff safe guards construction and deliveryy of to

the project and ensures compliance with the project design. construction management staff reviewed the materials used in construction. over see environmental compliance all construction activities and building code adherence. the first line of communication between the building inspection department and the project team. construction management staff include construction managers. residence den engineer and inspectors. residence den engineers day in and day out are the traffic control and the eyes and ears for public works out on the job site. an over vow zoo they record progress of work during construction including daily report and photos. the construction manage. residence den engineers facilitate inspections to ensure

contract of compliance. and kruck management staff produce reviews during design as well managing information between contractors and design teams during construction. a critical piece is connewted we get from having inhouse construction manager who is knew what happened the last 3 projects takes the lessons learnd and inneryekt them in the concern activities. that leads mow to the bureau of project control and services. you see from the slide, they are engaged in supportingor processes. there are men of them. we are continuing to refine them as well. they help put together bid

documents. work with bruce's group closely and the contracting piece in terms of supplying or partaking in the specifications poking to contract terrence. coordinate the scope of work under task orders. you saw the various contracting manners. this group is at the spearhead of managing the task orders. as needed groups. the job contracts. job order contracting jock. they also have an armed that supports to review environmental requirements. one of the few cities having our material and testing lab. we can -- do our own testing and materials for compliance to

various standardses know often the astm standards. american society of testing and materials. if i remember right. i might have miss quote this one. they have they also do field material testing as well as in the lab. and in part that is haperfects the construction material submittal orvilleidating the submittals that are offered up by the contractors during construction to ensure we have alignment with what is supplyd and what has been specified in that what arrives is what is specifyd and meets the standards a critical role. they track pay role records and coordinate contractors evaluation program. and general procurement programs.

the next group is the capitol project and program controls. they are responsible for providing financial management and strategic support to the projects programs. they are -- this unit comprised of analysts are my right hand. in terms of keeping us true to the contract term and the finances making sure we are running in the black and not in the red. and will also integral in producing -- for example, reports. or many other reports. that are -- necessary and required for lending tran paraphernalias and accuracy to how we manage the various

projects in terms of the financing, budgeting and look aheadaccuracy to how we manage various projects in terms of the financing, budgeting and look aheadmanage the various project terms of the financing, budgeting and look aheadwe mana in terms of the financing, budgeting and look ahead certificate of participation monies versus money this come from i grant versus this micome from a bond. different -- constraints to them. and then the last group of note is our operation's group similar to haalbert out line in the terms of these staff members are -- keeping the lightos. over at 49 south van ness

relating to vdc. watching the over head budget of they are perfecting prosecute cure. making sure back in the day pencils and paper now computers and what have you. help with personnel requirements as well as facilitate safety. and general office management. and may be i was not spiffy as i thought i would be i hopure got a good over view of what we are all about. i can take questions. >> thank you. does the commission have questions? >> i don't see questions and so we will mr. fuller, go to public

comment y. members who wish to make comment on item 8 the building design and construction destruction line upon against the wall from the door if you are in person. if you are calling in the number is 415-655-0001 then 2484 851 7758 # # then press story 3 to raise your hand. raise your hand to be recognized by pressing star 3 on your touch pad. does not appear woo have in person. sfgovtv, do we have, one hand is raised. unmou the call exert caller you have 3 minutes to make your comment and i will give you 30 second warning.

>> thank you. david again. wanted to appreciate the staff on this item. deputy director and the team. i did follow the link on public works and downloaded that document. which not only has stunning photographer but good write ups on the featured projects and the discussion of other projects and some specifics about completion dates. it is a comprehensive portfolio of behalf what they have been up to and appreciate the work of the bureau.

thank you. that's all. >> thank you for your comment. sfgovtv say there is are no more caller that completes public comment. why thank you is there discussion or further comments? >> all right. hearing none i will add that at the ends of the meeting at the right place on the agenda i will schedule my fellow commissioner fist they think tell be useful to start getting brief presentations on specific capitol project and infrastructure projects under the departments. because i found this a deep dive in projects lessons learned had went well and not and why. how it carried forward, really is helpful in getting an idea of

had happen in dpw and how we represent the public in understanding the role of the huge department and the cost of the project this is executes for us on our behalf. it will pertain to mr. almeida. >> so, hearing nothing. excuse me. commissioner woolford. >> thank you. albert, wonderful presentation. having worked with your groups for 8 years i know the work do you and the intelligence everyone in the staff brings. a couple of comments one i completely agree with commissioner post's comment. wonderful to have key presentations and i actually think terrific to highlight the contributions of key members of the department of public work novembers infrastructure and design. at key times. we could not do it without the

public service that your folks bring and would be great to hear from you and have you bring forward people wonderful to acknowledge. upon one thing is -- many of the projects that are shown on the website done in collaboration with private practices. perhaps helpful to list the practices you did them or have a reference so the teams in private business that worked with you recognized as well. it is a partnership of good work and service providers in our community. >> thank you. no further comments or discussion? secretary fuller will you call the next item. >> the next item is going to be item 11. 10 we are able to go to -- skip

because the initial round of public comment did in the exceed the time limit of the would not be continued. item 11 was originally planned schedule as a closed session update. but the presentation that is going to be given is appropriate for an open session presentation. so we don't need to go through the mechanisms of going in closed session will be an update regarding the public works director hiring. and -- them was it is by kate howard department of human resources and douglas of the city administrator's office. this is an informational item.

>> commissioner comments on any topic or on -- it is general -- appropriate to speak. so -- i had spoking to the it was can't remember possible low member from the city administrator's office or city attorney's office this week, i was advised there was burglar to be a section for commissioners comments that would be under public comment. that would be at the ends if we have general comments when can we bring this up. it should be at the ends rather than the beginning of final public comment period. we account do it i don't want to start something new for this meeting but we were discussing this meeting pacificly earlier

in the week when i was asking the questions and i was told that is a great question to bring up during commissioner's comments and i said there is in accomplice on the agenda called commissioner comments and i was told that would be under the final public men section. >> i will turn to deputy city attorney. to address this. >> deputy city attorney, currently the agenda does not have a general commissioner's comments. section. certainly if you have mentes you want to make and were in item 10 -- i believe this would be an appropriate time and i think to commissioner post's comments baptisting to discuss projects. i think this is the appropriate in the last item when we had that presentation. there is no dedicated item to commissioner's requests or

questions to staff that is something other commissions have and something to add to future agendas. if there are comments are not relateded an item on the agenda i think probably item 10 is the best accomplice if we are still in item 10. >> future agendas will have a -- a new business neighborhood by commissioners. part of future agendas y. we discussed whether called new business -- or whether commissioner's comments. so -- so -- secretary fuller you did ask if there was public that would like to speak on item -- we dispensed of item 10 we don't have anybody. i don't know i'd like to make ape comment commissioners comments or new business is this

present? >> yes. i will allow that to happen and i hope then we get the representatives built hireingly process for the new dpw director indulge us and in up for your presentation. >> this is really brief i think tell help the public this is listening to us and also to many of us commissioners, it would be helpful for this department or for this commission to have a subject to additions any time a glossary of terms used frequently. of acronyms and -- things that are familiar to people in city government that have been working that way and may not be familiar to the public. the people who would like to submit contracts to -- to all of us for sure and they will be new

acronyms that come up all the time but it would be helpful and i think that should be available to not just us but on our commission materials. so, that's it. thank you. >> thank you. and -- may we ask secretary fuller to work with staff on appropriating a glossary of terms that -- commissioner newhouse said the acronyms expect terms that ron approximate albert dream of 2 much. >> that sounds like a good plan to implement. now let's proceed to the update.

thank you. >> commissioners, kate howard deputy director the d. human resource. thank you for inviting mow today to provide you with an over rowel of the executive recrewment process. how dhr the d. human resources supports the commission in your responsibility to make recommendations to the mayor about who the next director of the department should be. and share with you resource that are available to help. as your mission sect 68ed i have dug list deputy city administrator who worked with me previously on an attempt to recrew for the job previously. and so if you have questions we are happy to answer those. or questions about the over all

process. i have i brief presentation for you and happy to answer questions either as we go through or at the end. >> as you know, the i'd like to review today the over all process for recrewing a new department head. your role, resources that we have available to help sdpt time line and next steps that are available for you to pursue. you know the charter authorizes the mayor to select a department head from 3 or more you recommend to her. your role is to conduct a recruitment process so you identify the best candidates. that you can interview and evaluate thez candidates and make an informed recommendation to the mayor for her review and

approval. in terms of the process available to you hr to support you in conduct it or opt to work with an executive recruitment firm. commissions done either approach. typically commissions prefer to work with -- an executive recruitment firm. for a couple of reasons one, they have wide public sector networks they recrew from. 2, they will be responsible for working with you. and that can sometimes give commissions -- comfort in the process. and having a direct out line to the information. promotes confidence for everyone in the process.

a lot of times people who are participating in a process like this, want to make sure that they are kept confidential. and having an entity outside of the city some give for comfort in terms of participation. . typically, you know executive recrew am firms prosecute pose a 15 week time line from when they work until the time they you can bring candidates to the mayor's office. in terms of what to expect there. the diagram out lines the key steps in an executive search process. so, dhr has a pool of recruiters should you choose to work with them. we can passport mull that. you would ask us to -- reach out

on your behalf to those firms and request proposals. then you review the proposals and make a selection which firm you wanted to use. and then the process really is similar wlo you work with dhr directly or whether we partner with a firm. the recruitment firm prepare a profile the job description or announcement and work with you to identify the key characteristic and qualities and the qualifications of the candidate you are seek to run the department. they would conduct out reach and recruitment efforts. do both advertising and targeted recruitments. reach oust to other candidate who is hold similar positions or a promotive opportunity. and bring to you or a committee typically to the commission a

present you with a binder of candidates all of their qualification and make recommendations about who best meets the commission's qualifications. and then other people who meet them and may be not as strong. you see all of the people who meet the qualifications they would have vet in the advanced. upon once you reviewed the presentation of candidates, you have an opportunity to interview them. typically both of the pieces are held in closed session it is private information, confidential hr matter you disclose names and up for you position. once you -- interviewed them you make a decision about whom to veterans to the mayor.

and typically the executive recruitment firm would prior to advancing them conduct some background review and make sure there are no final red energies that they must have on to the mayor and she make her selection. we have a list of 5 executive firms that are available to support departments and commissions in these efforts. they -- 3 have active experience working with other city commissions. your next steps should you work with a firm would be to ask mow to reach out on your behalf to our executive firms and request proposals and i would bring those back for to you evaluate. and you could select the firm you wanted move forward with.

i'm here today to give you this update and also to look for some direction from you about the both the prop you are interested in taking, answer questions and also to hear from you about your priority in terms of time to move forward. i have noted at the bottom that depending on your goals, we could move forward immediately to identify a recruitment firm so you would be appropriateed announce the recruitment in november once things are clearer about what the duties of the position will be. i'm happy to answer questions you may have. either way whether you work with a recruiter or ask hr to run on your behalf i'm happy to support the commission in both cases. >> thank you very much. what was your name. >> kate howard.

>> thank you miss howard. we will do questions mou and i know we will have comments after the public comment. my question is, may we have the presentation you went with us sent to the commissioners and pacific posted on the website with the machines and other documents mou this was in open session? >> i provide today to your secretary and i believe this is the plan. >> great. thank you. commissioners, questions? >> thank you for the presentation. thank you for coming here and meeting us. my first question. is why was it closed session and then we switch it to open session. what made it not be a closed session? >> i can speak general low and the department city attorney would like to speak. in general when we talk about

general issues related a recruitment. we would not put this in closed session it is present to be discussed in the public. the closed session items are reserved for evaluating candidates, reviewing application materials and making a decision about whom to veterans to the mayor. and my presentation today was about the process which is always in open session. >> thank you. >> so the recrewing firms that you are mentioning that other commissions utilize, is there an rfp press for them on get this with like with fwrad and point sns >> yes. thank you for the question. we conduct an rfp to identify a group of prequalified firm this is meet our criteria. we did that on behalf of the

city we have contracts with all of the firms. so that it makes it quicker for commissions to move forward with recruitment and you don't have to do your own because we have done it on behalf of the city. all did participate. >> and at what point would the commission our commission discuss what the requirements are the executive director are i mean [inaudible] salary and experience. when do we discuss that. we do it before we reach out to the executive? >> so -- 2 things i could bring back to the commission if you wanted, information about the job descriptions for the commission. the experience that has been previously noted for director of public works. i can provide information about the current compensation level

and range of compensation that is available for the public works director. typically then the commission would review a draft profile. prepared by the executive recruiter. they would speak with the commission. hear input and then appropriate a draft profile for comment and revision. i can provide to you initial background information about the descriptions existing in the past. once you move forward with a recruiter, should you chose to, they would work closely with you to refine that description. and make sure that -- the commission's goals in terms of what kind of qualities you are seeking in a director.

what experience you are seeking from a director. would be clear in that description. would the commission interviewing the candidate sns >> yes. >> we would >> you would. if you -- in all circumstances you will be interviewing. you will see their résumé and make a decision whom you wrish it interview and conduct them. >> in closed session. >> yes. >> thank you. >> follow up to that the question, you said that the executive recruiter if that is where we go would work with the commission. may we also have other deputies participate in putting together the job description and compensation i like input for from city controller, city attorney's office and senior dpw staff.

given what is going on with the prior director of the department it is important and we are all new. important to mow to have input from leadership in other departments. just what they see as the ideal job description and qualifications for this position. would that be possible that you can when we goet that stage you pull in, please. your clothes in the other key departments? thank you for the question. yes, we can -- the -- wee can work with the commission to identify or the recruiter can work to identify stake holders you would like to include for input in ferms of fault, review of the job description, that is all total low promote and if this is per of what the

commissionments to see as guthrough the review and development press of this job announcement that is find and we are happy to do this. >> great. thank you. that will add time and time of the essense here director short made it clear she would like to step down when a smooth transition can be assured. i would not want anything to delay temperature i want to put this on your radar. thank you very much. >> if there are no other questions we will turn to public comment before we get to our discussion. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 11, hiring of the public work's director, may line up against the wall from the door if you are here in the hearing room. if you are calling in the number is 415-655-0001 then 2484 851 7758 # # and press star 3 to raise your hand.

does not appear we are public present had want to peek. sfgovtv i believe we have one caller. please unmute the call and you have 3 machines to speak and i will give you 30 second warning. >> great. this motorcycle my last time to peek to you today. on this item, i was anticipating -- not sure this was present for closed session it is good it is open session. i was going to ask that the brief presentation from dave

posted and i am assured that will be. i agree with with the presentation on the question of open and closed session. there are important aspects to hiring a department head that are appropriate for open session including discussion of the qualifications and the recruitment process. and how the [inaudible] and dates and all of that. and there are also aspects that are appropriate for closed session including review of résumés and interviews and the [inaudible] and choosing which candidate [inaudible] move forward to the mayor. what i think is person from the public perspective is that would be very clear and transparent about where you are in the process. i suggested before that

announcing the number of candidates that have applied when you narrow the number we got 47 people and narrowed down to sxeven we are -- interviewing [inaudible] and now got it down to the 3-4 and we are now sending over [inaudible] to the mayor. all of those things are appropriate to keep the public aware about the process. i'm interested in the numbers and not interested in names the name i'm interested is the name that mayor selects as the director. up medical this time not interested in names of who is applying and whom is included and who did not. >> i suggested before more than once there should be a written city attorney opinion process

for hiring. department of the environment has an interim director and selection process. >> 30 seconds j. thank you. why given that is happening and the arguments through a similar press and possible low [inaudible] depending on [inaudible] i think it would be useful and encourage to you request i written city attorney's opinion with explaining the process. some aspects are covered in the government side but not in the particulars of the steps that are -- time expired. thank you for your call. >> thank you very much for listening enjoy the weekend. take care. >> appear there are no other members who want to ment on this item. this concludes public comments. >> thank you secretary fuller.

miss haurd. pull up your slide presentation, thank you. perhaps to the slide on next steps would be useful. i guess i will kick it off and of course wanted hear from my colleagues. i would of course say we want to work with a recrewment firm a. s. a. p. the pool of firms is fine. i would advocate hr taking the lead on this and working careful low to orchestrate and execute this for us. and so those are my thoughts on timing. again, it is obvious we can't recruit we don't know if they would be a bit more workup until then 2 jobs -- 2 -- statements

of qualifications, but anyway, i guess zel to have 2 in our ready to go depending what happens in november. it would be nice when the election takes place and results known we launch the search. i know director short is eatingtory get become to d. urban forestry. yes to executive recruit. let's get going. timing to if we release start the process after the november election which is 2 months away. not a lot of time to do work. and again i said involved getting input from the director reports to the director the dpw director report that we heard >> at the first meeting and welcomed us and the city attorney. commissioner zoubi. >> exactly reminded me of that.

kate, do you see like -- with the new scenario that prop b does pass. is there a major change or difference in the job description and the pay grade of the executive director? >> excuse me. thank you. the positions for the public works director it is the same level whether includes both departments or whether the 2 are separated. that's essential low the same as what it was prior to to the first prop b. has not changed. >> since before.

>> so. like sum rise expecting the soft copy of this presentation the job description of the position itself and the pay raise? is that? >> i can provide you with those materials your other question i did not answer was -- is there a difference in the job description? if it is one department or 2. i would say yes it is a different job description to run the department includes sas versus if it does not. right. they are -- swon a bigger set of responsibilities. consistent with how things have been historically and the other is a narrow focused set of responsibilities. is there a date the mayor requested the 3 names?

i am in the aware of i date the mir is requested names. sometimes the sometimes the mayor's office might of share that with me or might share with the commission president or other members if they had a time line that they had in mind. sounds like based on our acting director a time line you have a lot of incentive to move quickly there is the time line will be whatever however long it takes. why thank you. i'm okay with moving with an executive recruiting company. >> thank you. i just want to clarify i think we don't have to give 3 am names to the mayor we may give worn, 2, none, 5. i understand it will be depending on the correspondidates that come through however many we think are qualifyd that we would be

happy with any of the ones she chose. is my understanding. 3 is a nice number. but if there is one shining star and say this is the one made it to be one is this correct? >> that's my understanding that irrelevant thankful is about the commission providing the best candidates to the mayor. and i think you stated it correctly >> commissioner woolford. >> thanks since we did not go in closed session. i have a process question. what is the process for us now to move forward. you know commissioner murder to get i name in front of mayor we have to put an rfp and go to the process to get a recruit and recruiter of the job description it push its out. i concur with american post's comment i endorse going forward with a company what is the process to us to enact that and

move that? >> deputy city attorney wishes to speak. i can say hai have experienced in the past if this is helpful. >> deputy city attorney, the item as agendized besides closed session noack we can give feedback it we are giving more information for a subscent item with 5 firms we might work with and make a decision to choose a furthermore or not and provide feedback as a commission by motion at that point. you can't provide direct action to on this item you are taking in information and discussing and gather more information for subkwents action at another meeting to go forward with the decision to get names take

charge internal or a recommendation to go out. how do we initiate it wait until it is an action item on the agenda and you come with a principle to decide whether it is internal hr or we go outside -- for recrewer? i'm asking the process to advance the agenda to scour a new public works director. >> may i make a succession. based on what you have said so far soundsure interesting in principles from a series of recruit am firm who is want to work with you. so in order for to you make the decision about whether to work with the dhr or a firm you need to see the proposals. i could on your behalf ask our firms to provide a proposal. who is interested in working with public works on this and i

could come become to the next mote to provide those proposal and you make a decision at that point about whether to work with one of the firms or to keep it in house. would that satisfy the desire? that sounds great. >> to me at least. >> i would second this. timing gets tight here and some of us have a gap between meetings we were not able to get a quorum. we have a meeting in 2 weeks i don't know that would be may be reason for recruitment firm tors put together a proposal that gets posted ahead, et cetera, et cetera . i guess we put it in your good hands. to have us help us along here and put an action item before us as soon as possible at the september 16th meeting or the next meeting which will be i think in october.

and -- we will do our best to speed through if we are not ready we are not ready right after the election what happens by thanksgiving or something like that. does that sound right >> i'm happy to do that. we should plan on the first october meeting given our time lines to post recruitment. request for proposals. and to make your calendar and time line. whyy don't want recruitment firms interested i don't want them to get short shifted. we have nice proposals to choose from. >> i could provide you for the next meeting -- the information regarding the examples of prior job descriptions. salary and classification used for public works this backgrounds information if this is helpful to get the

information shares start snd >> that would be great and action items we can act on on the september 16th meeting i urge those as well. >> is it possible for secretary to you work with the secretary full and have those sent to us to have them prior to the next meeting so we are prepared? >> yes. >> the things you described. >> happy to provide those to commission secretary fuller and we can he can w with you commission president, about if there is know item needed or informational in preparation for october meeting. >> and understanding that any items we get ahead will be accepted to revision if we get a firm on board and we solicit inif you from other deputies salary ranges may change or qualifications may change.

thank you. other discussion or comments? this is in the action but i think we have begin good direction. miss howard. >> okay. thank you very much. we look forward to working with you. >> thank you. secretary full are call the next item. >> thank you. because the commission did not go in closed session we can dispense with items 12 and 13 unnecessary. the thing i will add is if secretary fuller if you could work with mr. almeida and mr. coke in dpw and to shoe horn in our agenda would be terrific to get a spot light on various dpw projects. one per meeting -- or every

other meeting nice variety. the mall and low budget projects that may be don't cost a lot but make a big difference and the big issue exciting multihundred million dollars projects this are showpieces for the city. may be a bit of both. and so that in the months ahead we will get a good look at the projects. and with a discussion of when within well and dpw and replicating for other project and when perhaps did in the go well lesson learn exclude why and what will go forward with future projects. combhrn woolford. i was going to suggest perhaps once a mont a presentation limit in the time. these are 4 hour meetings if being be brooefr and focusd and every other among once a month on a project and then the other among a presentation or introduction of someone doing

the job in public works. at least 6 times a year a profile and sick times meet outstanding contributesors to public works? >> i would second that americans zubia and segal you like those ideas? project spot lights and personnel acknowledgment as we get to know the work and projects. >> great. >> thank you secretary fuller we are adding to your plate. >> if there are no other announcements or requests from my fellow commissioners -- i like to thank all the staff that were here today. dpw staff. city attorney staff and chief financial officer robertson for your contributions to today's meeting. and if there is no objection i adjourn the meeting at 1:54 p.m.

and meet on friday, september 16th. clear clear

>> still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place? >> trees are widely planted in san francisco. with good reason. they are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. we have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in san francisco. we have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. this is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of

the ficustrees. you can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. you can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. in between you can't it is a lot of strong wood. they are attached so sharply together. this is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. this is what it looks like after the fi c.u. resolution s limb l. >> we see decline. you can see the patches where there aren't any leaves at all. that is a sign the tree is in decline. the other big challenge is the root system of the tree are

aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. we don't want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. >> in a city like san francisco our walks are not that wide. we have had to clear the branches away from the properties. most of the canopy is on the street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. that can be a factor in tree limb failures. a lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. why did we plant them in the first place? they provided the city with benefits for decades. they are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight climate change and they provide shade and really i think

many people think they are a beautiful asset. >> when we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision, we really understand where they are coming from. i got into this job because i love trees. it just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. i have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. we have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. that is something we can't live with either. it is a challenging situation. we hate to lose mature trees, but public safety has to always >> each has their own areas of concern. the renaissance with the paint

chipping and is not containing trash. the why the that we need to have a trash can that works for the city of san francisco came from seeing how the front cans are not working. so we wanted something that is able to enclose and willing to sloarn when they come to pick up a trash can, they can just put it into their trucks and reduce accidents. we need to have a recycling exchange and nots to have large pieces of contents in twhr. we need to have everything clear and look good while we're doing it. we wanted it to be compatible with the surroundings as well as not draw too much attention to it there isn't a lot that is available to meet this requirement.

then we thought this idea of designing our own trash cans. we need to go to a professional industrial designer that has the experience do a design. they came up with 15 or 20 different ideas. we picked three that we think would work best for the city. we have a total of three custom design trash cans and three off the shelf cans. we'll put 26 into the program strategically across the city. we're trying to come up with one design. if the trash can is able to perform the way it's designed, it will save us in the long term because we're spending a lot of money to maintain the trash cancel. we want a solution to minimize the long term maintenance.

>> we're trying to pick materials that will last a long time. that is variable depending on whether it's a beach. we're losing stainless steel. the coding that we pick is about a sen-year coating. it's pretty durable. we're confident that the materials we're picking will have longevity. the designs are attractive and i think the materials are durable. people that come to san francisco or live in san francisco, these will be things you won't see in any other place. that's going to be a san francisco thing. >> i think the project itself is not a complicated one. it's going through all of this process, get us to properly do our outreach so everyone is aware of the project and gathering the agency approvals

is the most challenging part of the project. there will be an on-line survey for the public and include qr code stickers. we'll analyze the data and provide a recommendation to our executive leadership team to make a final. >> i cann.

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please stand by for san francisco, budget and finance committee. >> good afternoon, the meeting will come to order, this is the september 7, 2022 budget and finance meeting. i'm supervisor chair of the committee. i'm joined remotely by supervisor asha and unfortunately suspect will not be able to join us today. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> clerk: yes, just a reminder to please make sure at