commission today is thursday, september 22, 2022. mr. full are call the roll.

sdwroo respond with here or present. >> thomas harrison. >> here. >> commissioner hartwig-schulman is absent. ike kwon. >> here. >> mogannam. >> here. chris simi. present. >> with 4 present, we have a quorum for streets and sanitation commission. do you to the covid-19 health emergency and the recommendationings bite department of public hasn't and the emergency orders of the govern and mayor concerning social distancing and lifting the restrictions on teleconference this meeting is held via stele conchs and

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month regular low. and that will normally be in room 416 down the hall so that folks know that will change the date and the location within city hall. mr. chair? >> thank you sdwlo commissioners requests from the commission to amend the order of this agenda? a motion to postpone item 7 the director report until the october meeting. today's agenda is full and it is my understands thanksgiving update it is important can wait until next month. do i hear a second? commissioner harrison seconds. thank you. >> given the motion we will hear public comment. mr. fuller open the public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of

comment on this motion to post own item 7 the director hiring update may lineup against the wall from the door if present in the chamber or if call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ##. ef dial star 3 to raise your hand to speak. it appears there are no members present in the hear being room interested in speaking. sfgovtv appears you have one member of the public who are expressed interest in speaking, unmute them. >> can you hear me now. you have 3 minutes to speak and

i will give you a 30 second warning. >> daved pillpel good morning i was testing the audio seems to be working. i have no objection to continuing the matter in fact you could continue to next month and continue it to the call of the chair seem its is small premature to discuss the director hiring because we don't know the results of the ballot measure in november. hear thanksgiving in november will make sense. i leave that to your discretion and i thought continuing it to the call of the chair may make more sense. i think it is fine not to hear it. thank you for listening. >> thank you, caller. do we have other callers? appears we do not. that concludes public comment.

>> thank you mr. fuller. commissioners is there further debate on this motion? >> i think the director for i thank director short for understanding and the delay. postponement. hearing no debate call the roll on this motion. >> on the motion to postpone item 7 answer with yes or no. thomas harrison. >> yes. >> commissioner kwon. >> yes. >> commissioner mogannam. >> yes. >> christopher simi. >> yes. >> there are 4 votes in the affirmative. >> motion succeeds. issue there further amendments to this agenda? hearing none. mr. full are, next item.

>> item 2 is the adoption of findings under the state urgency legislation and consideration for action to allow hybrid in person meeting during the covid-19 emergency and to adopt findings under the california government code ft. ever54953e to allow remote meetings during covid-19 emergency and continue remote meetings the next 30 days and direct the secretary to schedule a similar resolution within the next 30 days. this resolution was distributed and published for the public to review. adoption will allow hybrid meetings and need to be adopted regularly at the commission meetings. in the future this will be

included on consent i'm happy top take questions of the item. thank you. are there questions about the resolution to allow hybrid meetings. hearing no questions. do i hear a motion to adopt the resolution. >> so moves. commissioner harrison moved. >> commissioner simi seconds. any debate on this motion? secretary fuller call the rolfe this motion. >> mr. chair we need to take public comment on this. jumped the gun. >> mr. fuller open it up to public comment. >> with pleasure. members of the public had wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item twot adoption of findings under the state legislation may lineup from the door.

if call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker line. we don't have members of public in the hearing room who would like to speak. sfgovtv, do we have any callers on the line look to speak on this? >> please, unmute the upon one call whore is in the queue. and caller you have 3 minutes to speak. i will give you a 30 second warning when your time is about to expire. >> great. david pillpel [spelling?

]. >> otherwise. i'm fine. moving on. thank you. thank you mr. pillpel [spelling]. there are no callers on the line. that concludes public comment on this item. hearing no further debate mr. fuller call the roll on this motionch >> on the motion to adopt item 2 the findings under the state urgency legislation to allow hybrid meetings answer with yes or no. thomas harrison. >> yes. >> commissioner kwon. >> yes. >> commissioner mogannam. >> yes. >> commissioner simi. >> yes. >> there are 4 vote in favor of

this item. >> the motion succeeds. mr. fuller publish the resolution on the commission website. >> thank you. everybody. comments from the chair or insights we are a new commission. we are activate in the october. a lot of work has been done. i would like thank everyone for the work behind the scenes. i want on the website and checked out our video and i want to shout out to the graphic's people who did our introductions to graphics on the video. awesome job and thank the people who runt meetings. we don't look good if you don't do good or borrow the shampoo commercial i'm aware of that.

to everyone and the staff that are here and doing the work. we had meetings since the last meet and getting up to speed as you have noticed. thank you. this concludes my announcements. next item. >> item 4 is the adoption of minutes from the august 25th meeting of the commission of sanitation and streets. commissioners received the minutes in advanced of the meeting and posted public low on the commission website. just to mote that corrections were made to item 7. there was a mislabeling of the august meeting being heard held with the public works commission, which we all know it was not. this will be corrected in the meeting. in the meeting minutes are

there -- i'm happy to take questions or corrections on this. >> are well corrections to the minutes or questions or concerns? >> do i hear a motion to adopt corrected minutes? i will make a motion to adopt. commissioner simi makes the motion. commissioner harrison seconds. >> given the motion we will turn to public comment. >> members of the public when wish to comment on item 4, adoption of minutes from the august 25th meeting, may lineup against the wall. if call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press story 3 to enter the appreciate line.

there are no members in the chamber. sfgovtv do we have callers in the queue? caller you have 3 minutes to speak. >> great. david pillpel [spelling]. i think these minutes are okay. and what is reflected on item 7 of the minutes is correct. they were minutes on the july 28th joint meeting which was held with the public w's commission. i think the there were minor typo on the agenda for today's meeting, but this is minutes from the august 25th meeting

which was not a joint meeting. august 25th meeting was just a [inaudible] i'm not sure you need to amend the minutes i think the minutes are correct. relative to the reference to the july meeting these are from august 25th. of the staff commission. >> we don't have further speakers on this item. that concludes public comment. >> is there any further discussion on this motion. hearing no further debate. call the roll on this motion. >> on the motion to adopt item 4 the minutes from the september

from the august 25th meeting. of the sanitation and streets commission please answer with yes or no. commissioner harrison. >> yes. >> commissioner kwon. >> yes. >> commissioner mogannam. >> yes. >> commissioner simi. >> yes. >> there are 4 votes in the affirmative. jots motion succeeds. mr. fuller we will publish the adopted minutes to the commission website. item 5 is general public comment, members of the public may address on topics that are within the subject matter of the commission but not part of this agenda. comments specific to around item on the agenda may be heard had that item is occurred. members the public address the commission for up to 3 minutes

and may be continued to the end of the meeting if speakers exceed the 15 minutes of general public comment. members when wish to make public comment may lineup against the wall. if call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker line. sfgovtv do we have callers in the queue?

we don't have anyone who is present in the chamber interested in speaking and we don't have anyone in the queue. we have no further opinion commenters, mr. chair. >> that concludes general public comment. mr. fuller, i'm sorry. items 6 is the director's report. public works interim director carla short is here to present. this is an informational item. >> good morning, carla short interim director. there are a couple of topics i want to make sure are on your

radar. no one in san francisco could arc void knowing that dream force is occurring. i think it is a big deal for san francisco. we have seen lots of people out and about and i want to recognize the hard work of our street cleaning crew who is have put extra special attention to ensure this is a successful event for san francisco. we got great feedback from folks found san francisco to be lively and bustling. our hotels are full. there are lots going of it is an important events for the city and our crew is fund ammal to the success and doing a great job. wanted to recognize that. i wanted to tell you about the street ventzing permits. last year our street inspection team part of public works began enforce am of the new street ventzing permits.

i'm happy to report it has gone limp the operation's team, street and environmental services, is also part of this effort. the new law allows us to take items from peddlers who don't have a permit or proof of ownership of the items. and so if we are so far we have not taken items but if we do, our street and environmental services folks will take the items, log them and store them. and if the vendor can provide proof of ownership they can retrieve them. after 3 months we donate them to charity. >> so, you may wonder why public work system running this program. basically, the mayor and the board of supervisors or board passed and mayor signed legislation to create a legal path for vendors on the streets.

it had bottom in places it is chaotic people are setting up little street side booths to sell sometimes handicrafts. other objects many times stolen goosed. intention was to give a path to legalization to those out there with good intentions and allow us to go after the illegal ventzings. so fora we issued 40 permits. work with people who are trying to legalize their efforts and while it is city wide program we have been focused in the mission arnold 24th street barted that whole area. un plaza and stop ton street and china town. that whole area. un plaza and stop ton street an that whole area. un plaza and stop ton street an china town.

it is a program that will support both sides of the department. we issued one notice of violation and we have not confiscated everything but had a lot of positive response from the community living in the neighborhood and using bart to commute. all and all we are proud of the efforts so far. >> i wanted to let you know about the steam loop project. i was hoping when you walked out of today's meeting you would see our steam fitters on grove street they have been all week today they are on a different assignment they will not be there for you. they will be back soon. what they have been doing is working on upgrades to the civic center steam loop system. this system uses steam to heat city hall. public health headquarters and

the courthouse and bill graham auditorium temperature is more than 100 years old and in need of repair. our steam fitters have been fixing and replacing parts. and making other upgrades. it is fascinate figure you are interested in the civic center area and the historic nature. and we will have a great informational item in the news letter. i encourage to you look at that and if you are near by in the coming days watch, they are based on grove street. you will seat public works trucks and say hello and hear about the project. >> lastly, i wanted to share our neighborhood beautification day update. every month we host a volunteer event. love our city neighborhood beautification day. last saturday we were in the sunset and p side neighborhoods planting trees. wiping out graffiti and

shovelling sand from the ocean beach promenade back on the beach. as well as removing ice plant and producing up rain gardens on tervaland picking up litter. works with the california native plant society who have been integral in helping us install the pilot blocks for the sunset mysterier plan. help from almost 150 volunteers. many were public work's employees who work in other divisions and volunteeros their day off and brought families. it is fun to meet our clothe's families. i think they enjoy being out and working in a different context. a working in a different context.s working in a differen context.t working in a differen e working in a different r working in a different context.

we get a lot done throughout the week and months. i hope you will may be join us at the next workday. our next one is saturday october 15th in district 6. and the kickoff at betsy carmichael school. we'll keep you posted. it is listed on our website if you are interested, let us know and we will get you the district attorney tiles. that is it for this month's report. thank you. >> thank you. director short. do the commissioners have questions? >> yes. thank you that is great to hear. what is the annual cost of keeping the staff and the great highway every year. and my second is, regarding the americaned cleanups.

is there work done with the refuse? cleanups. is there work done with the refuse? cleanups. is there work done with the refuse? >> starting with the second question first. refuse refuse vincent young start in the san francisco. he does an incredible jock of lobbying neighbors to participate. we passport many issue many of the cleanups may be all, providing tools and materials and will do the pick up after they completed their work. it is a great partnership and a help to our crews to keep the city clean. in terms of the great highway, we can get you the numbers. we have them. we have i will not try to speak from memory but we have been pretty consistent low under funded to do that work for the last several years. thissier we are getting a large are work order from public utility commission. so that will be a help but we

are still seeking a longer term plan and getting funding to keep that roadway clear of sand. >> thank you. >> i have a few questions. with regard to the stroll cleanups a personal [inaudible] we are not just commissioners we are citizens and parts of our community. i attended numerous community cleanups and i did the most recent one in the bay view attended by the mayor and the mayor [inaudible]. and came with us. and she was good tenacious. she is there to say, look, lead by example. and out there with us for a mirjt of the clean up. big shout out to the mayor and invitation to everybody when you hear about cleanups at refuse refuse, you know attend and you might see me there i attends about half of them.

big advocate of that that one of the reasons i became a part of the commission it all starts on the street. yea. it suits me. permit for the street vendors, permit fees are 9 dollars? i believe? that is the only fee required when the permit fees have been waived. so that fee is our cost to the board of the board of appeals surcharge. so any permit appealable has to have a cost taxod to fund the board of appeal in can is someone wants to appeal. permits are $340 the vast majority get that waved. if there is a large business that wants to do street side venned to promote a product we want them to pay the full cost

of the program. most of the folks who received permits had the fees waived it is a low barrier to prove you are eligible. if you have access it a number of different programs you know state programs for financial assistance. things like that you demonstrate that proof you are in the program and the fee is waived. we wanted make it low bear wherever to get permits we are legalizing folk who is wanted to the right thing. i said, we don't want a large business not covering city costs well is that permit fee associated with it. >> and as a commissioner my concern was hayou are talking about cloning up after them. and i wander what that is can have the to clean up. they are generating money. what is the >> reporter: for them to clean up after themselves. and i imagine most were in the

plaza but i heard they could move out anywhere along the commercial corridor. and per city regulations being a small business i'm responsible for the dirt and the whatever is on the sidewalk i'm responsible for it. i wonder, are you getting consent or approval or sign off say i'm a hot dog vendor. is there anything to preclude me from going in front of a hot dog shop? do i neil approval from that owner paying all the fees and licensing fees and what not? when this started we thought it would be relegated to the plaza and the common area you noit is branching out. and now 16th and the 24th if it goes city wide i'm trying to preept occurrence that may arc rise where someone who sells

winkies has a cart now. >> those are great concerns. chair. thank you for bring them. we have tried to address many of those concerns we have been working with community based organizations and the issuance of the permits. also the permit specifies where you will be allowed to ventz. so. you once you apply you have to indicate where you would like to venned. we will assess and issue the weir mitts. if the steam fitters do a tour, call me up. >> that concludes for me.

commissioners? hearing no further discussion. call the next item. >> >> we go. >> mr. chair we need to take public comment on this as well. my apologies. members of the public when wish to make 3 minutes of upon comment on item 60's director's report. if present lineup against the wall. if call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker line. we don't have members of public in the chamber. sfgovtv, do we have members of

the public in the queue who want to speak on this item? appear we have one member of the public. please, unmute them. you have 3 minutes to peek and i will give you a 30 second warning. >> daved again. so i apologize i'm not fanatic with winky i will learn more in the future. on -- this item -- i wanted to speak to the restricted communication period one page. list that was provided with this item. and a couple of suggestions about how to provide this information in the future. from my perspective the project titles, i don't know how much ability one has to change project titles but for those

that are specific to an individual department it would help mow to have the 3 letter code for that department. whether the dem or rec or lib, mta, ath, those would be helpful on the project title if not possible i would add a column to indicate the department where it is a single department the lead. the master as needed agreements and the other things that are multidepartment i'm less concern body this. it would help to have a column for when the [inaudible] restricted communication period started applicable where it ended. i'm sure we will hearing more about that as relates to item 8. and 9 with contract and delegation. thank you for listening and i

appreciate the other items that from director short [inaudible], thank you. >> thank you. we don't have any other members of the public wish to speak. we have no further public commenters. is there further discussion from the commission? no future discussion. call the next item. >> chair if i may. apologies i got an update from my colleague in response to commissioner kwon's question about the great highway funding. if not too late i could share that briefly with you. >> please proceed. >> this year which is a big increase double what we have had in previous years we have

785,000. identified for the great highway. that includes from public works and -- we are getting 485,000 if the puc this year. we have commitment from rec park but have not received those funds for another 50,000. all together 785,000 is committed and hopeful low that will allow you to keep the great highway consistent low opened. >> thank you. is tht accurate on average costs every year and i know it varies? it does vary. yes. i think we will project we need this year.

we have seen that you know with the dry are weather we have been having, and fewer rains we noticed an increased number of days with the sand build up and the winds. when we have windy days that contributes but we can't do the work out there. it am vary depending on what our rainy season is like. i was read thanksgiving morning we will have a triple dip lanina. we are not likely to have a lot of rain. which means we hope this will be sufficient to keep us going. >> thank you. >> commissioner harrison? >> excuse me. now that you brought that up. isn't that stretch west of the southbound lanes golden gate and national recreation area thought about that may be they could chip in? >> yes.

in fact i made an empassioned plea last year and they said they can use funds on federal land to which i replied these are tiny pieces of tiny lands all over our roadway. that did not sway them. we are working on the climate adaptation strategy i hope we may get them to join us in the resource allocation of this project. >> thank you very much. >> commissioner simi. >> i again who i we are on the subject when referring to the great highway are you referring to the portion that is south of [inaudible] boulevard. north. >> we are talking about north. >> yea. >> 785,000 covers that section of the great highway. >> yes. >> thanks.

>> thank you. no further sduchlthz mr. fuller. next item. >> thank you. since item 7 has been postponed we will move on to item 8 and 8 is an over view of the sanitation and street's commission contract delegation and restricted communication policies. this will be presented by deputy city attorney tailor, prop b project director alonzo and alex burns the public work contract administration manager. this is an informational item. >> good morning. deputy city attorney tailor. we are here to present you more in depth information on city contracting and public procurement. i will do that portion and rachael will move on to talk

about the prop b committees, recommendations for contract delegation policy. and we will highlight the quiet communication policy as well. that is public procurement. refers to the purchase of city guessed. services and works. it will be completed efficiency to ensure high qualm of service delivery that safe guards the public interests. because it the important nature there is many in a weapon of several contracting laws and regulations sanitation and streets department must follow when procuring goods and services. i think we spoken about some

previously but to reminds you, we have in the city charter. several administrative codes. there is state laws the public contract code and depending on funding source. federal rules and >> reporter:s that will attach to public contract. >> in addition to the many and various laws there is many city agencies involve instead contract process. talked about some previous and to highlight we have the city add administrator who has a city purchaser and they are primarily responsible for procuring commodities and service under chapter 21 of the code. >> the public works department has contract administration division. we also have the city attorney's office. you know our role is to approve contracts as to form.

controller's office will also have a role in the contracting process. as well as the civil service commission. and -- the contract monorring division implements the local business enterprise program. >> perhaps the most important concept to keep in mind when think burglar public procure am the min murm amount and the threshold amount. this line among others is the line which separates when we might call formal contracking. different rowels apply depending whether the contract amount is below or above this threshold. currently, the minimum competitive amount is set at 200 upon thousand. the threshold is at 1 million dollars. these amounts were increased in july of this year.

>> both these amounts minimum competitive amount and the threshold will increase automatically on january first, 2025 based on consumer price index. other important thresholds to keep in minds is the 10 million dollars or 10 years threshold. contracts above those amounts do require board of supervisor's approvals. >> contracts or procurements under 10 thousand dollars are stream lined and have different set of requirements associated with those procurements. the most relevant add

administrative code provisions to the sanitation and streets department is chapter 6 of the administrative code governors the procurement of all public works or construction and professional design consulting and construction management services. chapter 6 authorized certain department its contract for public wishes and all other departments must contract through the department of public works. these are often referred to the big 6 and the port, airport, rec and park, puc, mta and public works. chapter 6 is in the only how to procure, requirements for bids and rfp's and specifies terms and conscience we must in city contracts. one thing to keep in mind is this work above the threshold amount or minimum competitive amount must be contracted out by

the department. the default in chapter 6 is a low bid design bid/build prosecute curement and always authorized other delivery alternative delivery models and perhaps the most relevant to sanitation and streets commission are as needed agreements. chapter 21 commodities and purchases than i have can directly per which is goods and service in limited situations. 21g of the administrate code governors grants they are relevant to sanitation and streets. a newarkdition to the code and

again requires an open and competitive process when -- procuring grantise. most grants are done by the operation's grouch public works and will be transferred to the sanitation and street's department of the. are contract types are emergency contracts. they are procured and approve immediate a specific manner under chapter 6 and 21 of the code. typically -- they will require departments are authorized in emergency situations to mobilize quickly, able to respond to the emergency. but certain approvals are

required either as soon as possible. or immediately or as soon as -- the department can get the contract and the approvals in place. >> the one of the approvals that will be required will be written recommendation of award of emergency contracts by the chair of this commission. contracts will require prove by one thing that is important the condition tracts are limited by time by amount and by how much they can be amended by. in addition to contract awards and approvals of modifications,

you may you will like low also see additional approval actions before you. chapter 6 of the administrative code, for example, requires commission approval for certain actions these include when the department miwant to terminate a contract for voens. for approval to negotiate with a bidder whether there is a failure of bids. it is a situation where where well is no bidders or proposals or proposers who bid on a project or there might be one or 2. but those may be they were not responsive. >> i think that concludes the next review of contracts i will pass it to rachael. >> thank you. good morning.

commissioners. rachael prop b project director. as i mentioned last month to over see prop b planning the city add administrator's office convened 3 working groups. the group dedicated to setting up the 2 commissions was, oversight and account at and had a mix including from controller's office. city attorney's office and the commission secretaries for public health and sfmta. one staff special policy recommendation is to grant the department limited chapter 6 construction contracting authority. so as deputy city attorney tailor mentioned. currently 6 departments in the city are allowed issue their own construction condition tracts and all other departments must go through public ws for that type of work. staff performs construction work and does in the have a high

volume of construction contracts. staff does not need full chapter 6 contracting authorize. the exception is for as needed tree service contracts, which ramped up back in 2016. after the passage of prop e the tree maintenance fund set aside. upon given this practice it was decided that staff should have limited chapter 6 carve out similar to public health. real estate the arts commission and convention facilities this . does require legislative approval by the board of supervisors that ordinance was submitted to the board back in june but on hold until we know the outcome of the november election. if the new prop b ballot passes, then that legislative fix will not be necessary. because these as needed contracts could have public

works chapter 6 authority. if it fails, we will schedule the legislation before the board and hope to have it enacted by early 2023. so i bring this up because until all of this gets resolved. any as needed tree contracts approved by public works. >> you have seen this slide before previously. to tackle the contract delegation recommendations the policy before you today. the working group looked at precedents from the admin code and what other city departments are doing, juggle competing priorities a balance with oversight and overwhelm. so the contract delegation policy at a high level establishes 3 buckets for

condition transact approvals. first bucket is contract this is remain with the director for approval. the second and third buckets are commission approval buckets and there are 2 different buckets we recommend this some contracts get grouped together on the consent agenda in order to address the goals that i went over. so that's the second bucket the consent and the third is condition tracts discussed on the regular agenda. one the a time. >> this slide shows the first of 2 sets of comparisons we use to craft the recommendation. this is data from 2020 and 2021 for the table at the top you see the list of chapter 6 departments. again that is mta, port and puc, rec and park and the airport. over to the right you see that these bodies meet an average of 1 and a half times per month the

staff commission will be less than that recommended meet once an among. jump over to the end of the table, each meeting, the commissions hear on average a total of 17 items. 3-4 on consent agenda. with another 3-4 on the regular agenda. and as a reminder, consent items get bundle and approve in the a batch. regular agenda items discussed individually. final take away is that these meetings last an average of 3 half-hours. aaron clocking 1 hour and mta at almost 6 hours. >> this slide covers the second set of press denies. this table lists the chapter 6 departments but about the number of contract items. as a reminder based on the last slide, there are 8 items total

between the consent and regular each meeting. this is 1.upon 7 consent contract and 1.1 on the regular agenda. row in blue shows projected averages for staff. it is 3 and a half contract actions per meeting based on the thresholds i will walk you through shortly. this is higher than the average based on the other sample departments. that 3 and a half breaks dun to 2-1/2 on consent and one on the regular agenda. and that one is very well arc lined with over all average. >> another type of analysis the working group used to settle on the threshold was ratio. on average the other chapter 6 agencies have 60% on consent and 40% on regular goodnight everagenda the part at the

bottom is far few are contracts that used the consent less. the threshold puts staff toward the top with more on consent about 70%. in order to again make the balance of items you hear and give you the opportunity to hear noncontract item in each meeting. now i will wuk you through the threshold recommendations. >> this slide is about award amounts. all tied to the admin code threshold and competitive amounts that deputy city attorney tailor discussed before am commodities, general services and contrukz contracts approve contracts can amounts exceeding 1 million dollars. will professional services and grants that recommendation is 200,000. less then and there a million or less than 200,000 remain with

the director for approval. >> this shows comparisons with other chapter 6 departments. all agencies are all following the amounts per the admin code. the sfmta sloit low higher thresholds for commodities and professional services. higher t for commodities and professional l higher thresholds for commodities and professional services.i higher thresholds for commodities and professional services.g higher thresholds for commodities and professional h higher thresholds for commodities and t higher thresholds for commodities and professional services.l higher thresholds for commodities and professional services.y higher thresholds for commodities and professional services. this applies to any change of time or money, contract duration and amount. and it is based on the admin code provisions. we have 2 box at the bottom of the slide construction contracts get their own box the admin code requires approvals for increases over decreases. or as the other procurement types are for increases. for commodities, general service, grants and professional service and construction you approve thing in increments of

10% the department approve within those increments. [speaking fast]. upon the award the department has the authority to spends up it a 10% contingency. if they node to exceed 10% they come to you and request an increase up to the next increment of 20%. if this is approved, they would spend between 10.1% and 19.9%. after which than i node to return to you again to further raise the ceiling up to 30% and so on and so on. >> and another key thing to note here is haif the award amount meant the contract was delegateed the department, then contract changeless would be delegated to the department unless and until the change pushed the contract over the 2 huh thousand dollars or 1 million dollars thresholds. which point it would be brought

to you. >> some miscellaneous items approval of revenue contracts exceeding 1 million dollars. only active ones they have is the advertisements on the green [inaudible] public toilets outside. and the past there have been revenue contracts associated with news racks. over to the right for emergency contracts with deputy city attorney tailor. this policy mirror the admin code the director having the third degree to award and meant emergency contracts must obtain the chair's signature soon and depending on the nature of the emergency and life safety threat that signature may be obtained after responding. if the cost is over 250 thousand

dollars approval from the board of proirz system require said. the policy refers to the department director and apply to acting or interim director. and approvals may be del gifted a deputy director temporarily. >> everything i just covered is tied to the admin code. recommendations are straightforward. in order to bring the number of regular condition tract items more in line with what other commissions are dooshg the working group focused on secondary thresholds for consent. we exercised more discretion. remember, that you the commission, will always have the ability to pull something from consent and accomplice it on the regular agenda instead. we were trying to set up some standards and predictability for department staff. at the top of the blue box for

professional services and grants the recommendation is for the commission to bundle on consent anything between 200 thousand dollars and 1 admissible. if over 1 million it would be on the regular agenda. and remember anything less than 200,000 delegated to the director. moving down, targeted a subset of types as needed contracts. changes to which are recommended to always be on consent. as needed contracts function like pulls of prequalified on call contractors. the condition tractings are controlled and in the specific to one project or project manager or location. the city solicited an ash ward contracts in low millions of dollars and the staff executor issue task orders or service orders from the pool. those cannot exceed the threshold or minimum competitive

amounts. as needed contracts have a 5 year maximum duration and only modified to a total of 150% of the original contract amount. in summation, the contracts are highly regulated and consistent than the rest. they were deemed safer or more appropriate to bundle on consent. finally, third blue box. construction, general services and commodities would be on consent if the contract amount is between 1 million and 5 million. with values over 5 million dollars being on the regular agenda. the airport and the puc have standard thresholds. airports less at 3 million dollars puc uses 10 million dollars. the working group chose 5 million dollars because it is in the middle and this is also what was taken to the public work's commission. we wanted to parody with public

works and staff. that's it from me. i like to have deputy city attorney tailor talk about the last slide. the competitive selection period policy the second policy document for your consideration today. >> thank you. deputy city attorney arc lita tailor. second policy before you today the competitive selection period policy often known the quiet period policy. the policy would present the staff commission from -- oops. looks like lights went out. i will continue. prohibit motion censors? i think that was entity telling

us condition tracts is putting us to sleep. we apologize. ensure awards are fair and impartial to are for the per received selective assistance and nobody gets grirt or unfair competitive advantage over anybody else. the restricted communication's period start upon advertise am of a contract and upon contract

a worried, or termination of that procurement process. they are of course exceptions to this policy. between department staff. and -- those communications are spelled out in the procurement documents.

>> i have a couple questions one that in compliance with the 2 things the delegation of the authority to issue contracts. i'm in favor of that. and to comply with the communication's issue. i think that there should be a report made to the full commission here quarter low or whatever. to let us know who we cannot talk to. and if someone asks us what are you doing about this subject we would have an answer to that project is being contracted to. >> my understanding is that the department will provide you a

list of the current procurements. that are advertised for every meet nothing your commission packet. yes. >> very nice. thank you. why in advanced. >> [laughter] the other question i have is about grants. now -- as i understand it, we give grants out here and every where. can the department get these grants for such things as the beach clean up? may be the preand arc prenticeship programs? we could apply and get some of that resources for this? >> right. grants under administrative code section 21g are grants that the department gives to outside nonprofit partners, contractors to do -- an item for a public

purpose. the department also receives grants from the state or government. and so the contract delegation policy we are talking about the former. those are grants done by department to a grantee. >> correct mow if i'm wrong but, does this money that department under grants could contract to a sand removal company to move that sand out. >> so -- the sand the department can contract out for the sand removal. but that would likely not fall under chapter 21g the grant program. that would fall under either chapter -- would be a chapter 6 construction contract. >> but a different pot of money.

perhaps director you can talk about the various the funding works? >> thank you. so the grants that we issue to nonprofits, can be funded in come from different types of funding. frequently, the reason we might go that route is because it is a one year allocation rather than the operating budget. if is part of operating budget we perform the w in house and not work we perform we might solicit a contractor to do the work. the grants are workforce development grants working with nonprofits and the funding is something that is either unreliable or may be inconsistent. or short duration we could not necessarily hire up to do that work.

because it is a year program or a 6 month program or manage like that. the types of money vary. we have funding through the budget allocated by the capitol program. and so it might be general funds throughout capitol program. that would allow us to do a grant. frequently, we get an annual allocation that each of the members of the board of supervisors has a bit of discretionary funds they will often have a year project where they say i want to do tree planting using this example. ocean avenue and so that was a mall amount of money. and the it was a year project and so we are issuing a fwrnt to do that work. for great highway. there is if there was a nonprofit provider did workforce development and sand removal we

will go this route for this work. we have used contractors to help with the great highway sand removal. i don't know if this helpses. >> i think you get my purpose for asking the questions. >> yes. >> my interpretation is just talking about the department spending machiney via a grant this policy does not cover money the department would receive via a grant from somebody else. i just had a quick question on -- actually the first is -- if i had a question about the

delegation policy. this item or the next. the next is the actual voting on it. right? do i ask a question under this item? you may ask a question related to the presentation and yes the next item the adoption of the policy will be before you. >> roger that. thanks the question is quick. the change thresholds the 10% amounts. if it starts at 100% and the department needs to increase the size of the contract up to 110% this requires commission approval. if the department goes up in 10% increments. if the department needed 150% does the commission have to do 5 different approvals or if it was knowing up front.

i guess, can you do it all at once. joe understand your question. yes. the delegation policy and the 10% approval requirement is just that if the department must come to you if there is a modification that would go over 10%. but they can come to you once that say there is a large modification in time or moncompetence this change might be as you said 50%. 90. they come to you for that one modification. thank you. i had one question . lead time on pulling something from consent and to the calendar. see something concern or interest or board we don't have

anything we want to fill it up. how much lead time do we have and how practical is that? i can answer that question. deputy city attorney. so you can move an item off consent and put it on the regular agenda any time but if it is within the 72 hour requirement to post the agenda you could move it at the meeting but have to be heard at the next meeting not heard that day on the regular agenda. that's the policy but how much time do we have to address that. we are review time? i think like we see something. so as long as it is done 72 hours before you can move it for the meeting that is upcoming. from the consent to regular. and project director rachael. i believe you will be receiving

a draft agenda one to 2 week in advance. that would be when you first see what your agenda is looking like and you could move something at that point. i know staff would peesht that notice. they have the time test from her presentation for you. >> that was not the requirement for public disclosure more of how much time we got to really look at manage and say may be we want to pull this. thank you. both. further discussion. questions. mr. fuller open to public comment. absolutely. if i could choim in about this bob fuller commission affair's manager. my i do my best to ensure the commission will receive the packet of all items general low

a week before commission meeting so they have time to review and mote that 72 hour deadline. i will go head with public comment. members when wish to make public ment on item 8 the contract delegation and restricted communication policy over view. if present in the chamber line up. if call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker queue. looks like there are no members present in the chamber wish to

speak. sfgovtv, it appears we have one member of the public wish to speak. please unmute that call and you have 3 minutes to speak. >> great. it is david. so on the presentation, i think i followed all of that. i forget what rachael phrase the use oversight should be meaningful but manageable. so you are not micromanaging everything and you prebl don't want to see everything but want to see the big and important stuff. and that's why we have the commission. as to the limited carving out authority for street tree maintenance that was on slide

12, i understand naacp is buried in the ordinance at the board [inaudible]. and that is in the moving until we seat results of the november election. and i guess don't understand or -- disagree with that fully with deputy city earn on how a consent caliber works. anything on consent is subject to action and in the event that staff or a member of the policy body or the public wants to pull an item from consent it is pulled from consent, considered as a separate item at that meeting subject to separate comment and a vote on that item

and in my experience there has been no need to continue the consent calendar matter to a subsequent meeting. if the votes are in the there to have the item this is different. in my experience there is no procedural reason why a consent calendar matter is pulld and discussed can't be discussed per and vetted on at that meeting despite being on the calendar as a consent matter. may be we are saying the same in different ways may be not. but we perhaps should have a conversation off line. 30 seconds. why about how consent operates. that's all i have on this item. i will have something on the

next item. thank you. >> thank you. caller. arc pores we don't have another members of the public wish to peek in the queue. this concludes public comment. >> thank you. and any further discussion. call the next item. >> item 9 is the adoption of the commission's contract delegation policy as presented in item 8. the staff report resolution and policy were distributed to the commission ahead of this meeting and made available to the public. this is an action item. >> are there questions on this item? >> commissioner -- i have a comment i per got to i wanted it say i think the department city attorney made a comment about

when the lights went out how bore thanksgiving can be but it is very important and i wanted to note how impressid am with the amount of work staff put in trying to come up with a policy that threads the needle of oversight without overwhelming. i just appreciate the transparency and went bo it and being consistent with how the rest of the city operates that is really important at the staff level employmented to put that out there. >> thank you. and it was in the boring it is interesting. honestly it is person work otherwise i would not be here if i did not think it was important. thank you. why hearing -- i'm sorry lost my electronic here. do i here a motion.

i will move it. vice chair kwon. harrison seconds. mr. fuller take the roll. >> and mr. chair we need to take public comment, first. why thank you. >> i'm going over my cheat sheet and i'm out of sequence. thank you. >> members of public had wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 9 the adoption of the sanitation and street's commission contract delegation policy if present in the room may lineup. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press story 3 to answer the speaker queue.

arc pores there are no members present hospital to peek on this item. sfgovtv, do we have members on the line? who are raised their hand. we are one member of the public. please unmute the caller. have you 3 minutes to speak. >> david again. i like the way this is structured with a stand alone policy this can have an adopted date at the end and posted in the policy section on the website. the only suggestion i would have is in the resolve clause to add something like -- as fully expressed in the attached policy which is exhibit a or attachment

a to make reference specific reference to the policy document. and in incorporate its so it is not just a resolution. it does not [inaudible] the policy. i would make that as a minor amendment. i think this structure is different and better than [inaudible] short low. that's my comment and [inaudible] add something about incorporating it by reference as attachment a. >> thank you. >> thank you. we don't have any other speakers on this item. >> any further discussion. hearing in further debaited. mr. full are call the rolfe this motion. >> on the motion to adopt item 9 the adoption of the sanitation and street's commission contract

delegation policy answer with yes or no. commissioner harrison. >> yes. >> commissioner kwon. >> yes. >> commissioner mogannam. >> yes. >> commissioner simi. >> yes. >> there are 4 votes in the affirmative on this item. >> the motion succeeds. mr. fuller publish the policy to the commission website. commissioner fuller call the next item. >> item 10 is the adoption of the commission's restricted communication policy as presented in item 8. the staff report and resolution were distributed to the commission ahead of this meeting and made available to the public. this is an action item.

>> are there questions on this item? do i here a motion to adopt this policy? so moved. i hear a motion to adopt this item? so moved. i will second. >> commissioner harrison motion and commissioner simi seconds. mr. fuller can you open the public comment? member of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 10 the adoption of the sanitation and street's commission restricted communication policy line up. if call nothing dial

415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker queue. and then press story 3 to raise your hand to speak. we don't have the members present had are wish to speak on them item. sfgovtv is saying we have one member wanting to speak. unmou the caller and you have low minutes. i will prosecute void you with a 30 second warning. >> david again, so as i prevowed a moment ago. the structure of this policy is different from item 9. this one has the policy embedded in the resolution. i think that they better structure to have a stand alone

policy that can be posted and referenced and incorporated in the resolution. i would recommend this the resolve clause referred to the attached policy. and the -- calendar item page 2 refers to attachment 2 project advertises and or bid but in the awarded, which is not actually attached item 10 but attached to item 9. and that's a different list of contracts than is attached to item 6. the director's report. i'm confused, sorry about which contract are subject to the period or -- competitive

selection process communication period. as opposed to those that are simple low being reported as like low to be on various agendas under the commission's authority for handled by the director or his or her designee under delegating. perhaps someone could claire fithat you in or after the meeting with me. i would have a stand alone policy where that can be posted and referenced within the resolution. thanks for listening. it arc pores we don't have other callers on this item. that concludes public comment. thank you, mr. fuller. commissioners is there debit on this motion?

no debate. mr. fuller call the roll on this motion. >> on the motion to adopt item 10 the adoption of the sanitation and streets commission condition tract pardon me communication policy police around with yes or no. commissioner harrison. >> yes. >> commissioner kwon. >> yes. >> commissioner mogannam. >> yes. >> commissioner simi. >> yes. >> there are 4 vets in the affirmative. >> the motion succeeds. mr. fuller publish the adopted policy to the commission website. mr. fuller. next item. >> item 11 is a presentation on the sanitation and streets department organization boy division. presented by deputy director of operations. this is know informational item.

>> good morning issue commissioners. i'm degida dirkin deputy director for operations. i'm going to give you an operations over vow. i have for you divisions under me. one is street and environmental services. bureau of urban forestry. street and building repair. and also central operations. this is a snapshot of positions. you can see building repair has 121 positions, we have arctrician in there. strept repair 94. street environmental service, 371. urban forestry, 197 and

administration is 18. we have you guys at the top. the commission. this is a snapshot of the budgets. we have clients coming in during the year. just an over vow. 21 you see 102 million. forest lee real 45. building and repair 26 million. street repair 25. fast administration 9. [inaudible]. and the commission you are little there. you can see that. we have listed is 22/23. and 23/24.

and it increases a bit each fiscal year. you can see. i will give you -- i want to give you a snapshot this is environmental services they currently maintain the whole city as far as cleaning up in districts throughout the city and various clients we do cleanups throughout the city. have a nice picture of the map. our bureau is set up for 6 zones. and -- as you can see, we maintain treasure island as well. 49 miles of maintenance. next -- so i wanted to give you

a brief break down. street cleaning. mechanical sweeping. litter patrol. special projects. the worryior's events. sunday streets. various entities across the city, special projects set up. graffiti abatement. hot spot team. a team that works together with the h sock. combined effort to help unhouses people get housing and we clean up after they get service. we can go in and remove unhoused people we have to have pd with us and social workers and those type of people to help them get the services they need. it it is a great program. you see from the photos. it is relentless. we continue to do this day in

and night. we have central location which is the roroom at the yard. it is in building an and 24 hours a day we get calls from 311 from staff, from everybody. we respond to all calls at some point. dispatch in building b and that is street sweepers are. all of the street sweepers bills patch out of that area and sent to locations throughout the city with our mta ticket people for in the removing cars and that's when dispatch does. and they dispatch the removal of the debris before the sweepers come through.

urban forest low. i have a couple of photos there of our crew. and ouristry. bureau of urban forestry has street tree sf combined of street inspectors and cement crew and also landscaping. who plant the sdproes arborists who trim the trees throughout the city. we take care of those and take care of the sidewalk around the trees you see the sidewalk. we have inspectors who inspect the trees throughout the city. and that's how we get our service orders from our inspectors. we have a pest management. mall crew but they do pest management throughout the

staechl and landscape maintenance. we have a crew who maintains the mode yens and you in we are working on our light maintenance crew. we created. we can get more work done working in medians safely by working at night time. >> here is a picture of the carp uponenters. framing up a wall there. building reper se. this is a couple of pictures of -- numbers so operating budget is 4 million. have inter~ department w. to the projects over 6 million and it varies throughout the year we have clients hospitals, pd, fire department and other people request works throughout the city. the city agencies they did work

with carpenters and crafts through the the yard. a snapshot and vacant positions if you look you see this we offer people in the process of hiring the carpenters and the electric myth and the one off below we are hiring now. street row pair 3.7 million is the operating expense of 7 penalty 5 d. to the budget is 6.9 and they we have clients we serve as well. we have vickant positions and working on those positions now. snapshot there you see one of my guys after they have ground the

block. they are flattening it out. on the opposite side a guy fixing a pothole in the street. they do block and pothole repair. patch paving and critic in the streets you see from cracks in the asfull they will fill it up with material and critic seal it. they w with mta on traffic calming they put the speed hump in. we do this as well. and after hours we do emergency pregnancy to sink holes and emergency holes in the street. and they also asphalt around the curve r.s shop installs them and they partner with bfsr to pave. around the curb ramp. a snop should the of shps. carp entry issue paining,

electric, plumbing roofing. steam fitters, [inaudible] sheet metal. tile, locksmith. those are the staff and crews up under me. they stay b.s a lot of people don't know we have crafts we pick up litter but did a few things. currently we help on average we do 100 roll tear groups a month. long with our own beautification day. and this groups sets up schedules, work with each individual community group. and they get the schedule together. the tools together. and bring the tools out and than i work to pick up the bags after

the engage am. they will sit them on the corner and we come and pick them up. that's great. all the events sunday streets and those things they help out as well. they do out reach and enforcement if i see a garbage can over flowing. and the san is not locked our enforce am gives i warning and paper in telling them what the responsibilities are if we come through and so that we will fight them with notice of violation. they do a lot of things like that. things impeding the right of way. they help out as well. we have workforce development

which entails prearc prenticeship and we have pit stops throughout the city. if you see in the picture. we have dp w toilets this provide restrooms for the public. it it is a huge thing. it is increased the usage the people economic back. using the restrooms we keep a report how many times people use the restroom and leave needles in the restroom. we have a bit to help pressure wash around the city and pick up litter around the city as well. we have small grants like that. one grant program they pressure wash the garbage cans throughout the city. that's hathan i do around the

city. that's what workforce development is. and i want to give you a small 2021 year we got 207,000 service requests. 180,000 went to bs cs. and the remaining amount to the rest of the brouros like the crafts and potholes. and we are pretty busy working day in and day out for service orders.

thank you great presentation. it is gratifying work. thankless and highway low gratifying you look like you like what you are doing i commend you on that. >> vice chair kwon's got a question. >> great presentation. thank you very much. a couple comments. we did the ride along bob and rachael arranged begin low an appreciation for the work. it will get dirty quick and than i clean up again. and working with refuse refuse. i think as residence denials of the city, it is is a bit whf we can do. no different than peck up treasure in front of your house. the torment water drain program you can't adopt an entire street. log your crew for working with community groups and providing

equipment and training this way we own the problem. we walk by it every day we can't expect crews to pick up little messes in front of our hopes and businesses. thank you, great work >> thank you very much. i have one question on page 4 on budgeting. i didn't know if that was a flip back to page 4 or -- in streets and administration dropped dramatically in the subsequent years. i don't know if this is i question for you or anyone behind that line. was that because of having to do with prop b? >> or -- no.

okay. i don't think so, no. >> thank you. i know more of a -- thank you. commissioners for public works what do you see the reason it went down is sometimes capitol items will get incorporate in the the administration line item its looks curious and capitol done annually. so that is what that is you are seeing capitol done annually. >> thank you very much. i love that map where do i get? gis? can i get a copy of that map. we can provide the commissioners with a copy of the map that is the zone map for different yours this crews are broken into. i will provide those to

commissioner full and ask them to sends them to you >> thank you. i love maps and the big pictures. and then i think that is it. any other questions for the commissioners. thank you very much. you are doing great. >> mr. fuller get me on the page. page 16 of the remarks at the top. no further questions mr. fuller open up public comment on this item. >> members of public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 11 the sanitation

organization may lineup to speak. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press star 3 to enter the speaker line. >> and -- does not appear we have any folk present in the hearing room. to who want to speak. sfgovtv we have one member of the public in the queue. please unmute them and caller you have 3 machines to peek and i will give you a 30 second warning when your time is going to expire. >> great. david again. so on this item, the operation

review. once again i was confused about the bureau's and central operationos slide 2 it references the now -- on slidey 3 building repair as separate bureaus and a line for staff administration and not cent roll operations i'm confused. seems all of the operating

bureaus and which we might the say part of central operations. so, this question about what central operations includes, and where the functions of radio room and dispatch scheduling that may be common where that is housed organizationally is a bit of a confusion for me. otherwise, i am sure there are literally hundreds of people doing important work keeping the streets as clean as possible. i will leave it for now. thank you. >> thank you. did not appear we have anyone wishing to speak that concludes public comment. >> thank you mr. fuller.

any follow up questions or from commission. hearing 91 i'm doing a quick time check it is 12 o'clock, commissioners are okay with plows through or would you like to take a break. we are ahead of schedule let's see. hearing none mr. fuller, the next item. >> item 12 is a presentation on etch ploy's and department development. street and environmental services supervisor guillermo and university of public works manager kelly and performance management manager alex anldzer bidoe. this is an informational item.

>> good morning. good afternoon i'm upon deputy director of policy and xhoungz at public works. and also under sas. this section of the agenda looks at employee and organizational development. and the follow being 4 initiatives you will hear racial equity. strategic plan. university and employee survey hudo we invest in improvement and stroif to be a better department? how do we create a work place of inclusion and belonging that values the skills and talents of employees. and how do ensure stewards of the public right-of-way we serve every neighborhood in an equal

manner. >> you have been hearing about the w we need to take care of our employees also. >> so -- i'm beth and excited be here with my colleague guillermo and we are from racial equity working grew and briefly present background on the initiative. i'm lead facilitator for the initiative. why is the department addressing racial equity? had did we mean by racial equity. we are buzz it is the right thing to do. there is data dem triin the people of color in our community have not had equal access to jobs, education, housing and family wealth because of racism. this asciisor work accomplice and the way we deliver our service. in addition, legislation was passed by the board of prierzs and signed by mayor breed in

august of 2019 requiring all departments to have a racial equity action plan to impelement and report annual tow the board of supervisors. to which do this our work rooted in the understood definition of racial equity and he the impacts of racism. racial equity is about full access to opportunity will power and resources all people may thrive and prosper regard mgs of racial identity. acknowledges a history of race sxichl racist policies that have produced and sustained inequity among groups. another way of saying it is racial equity seabout applying justice and a bit of common sense to a system that has been out of balance. when the system is out of balance, people of color feel the impacts acutely. but to be clear, an imbnlsd system affects all of us.

>> important difference in the work is on the other handing the difference with equity and he equality. equality assumes we have the same need addressed by the same solution. here, you have the presentations here, here we get the same [inaudible] to look over the law. but that is in the the situation our community or nation some people have privileges others don't privileges based on gender, race, lbgtq and ableness. we all have different needs. equity the understanding each has different disadvantages and different needs. here one person needs 2 crates another needs a ramp. check out the vo in the qr code it is great. so, the public works racial

equity initiative launched september of 19 multirishl wing grouch 12. representing bureaus and job classes across our department. includes expertise in project management, training in professional development, xhoungz and designs, performance and data, street operations, finance and organizational change. accept for my time each member does this on the edges of their daily jobs. our work is woven in our strategic plan. employee engagement training offerings and the department's process improve am work. the 4 of us when you will meet issue all on the racial working group. we are not subject matter experts. nor in would burglar nonracist organization. but without resources now to

hire staff we started the project committed individual low and collectively to educating ourselves and clothes. learning best practice and leaning on our colleagues. we lean on the city wide office of racial equity the government alliance on race and equity the initial network of municipal governments. we achieved much in the last 3 years despoit or because of the covid-19 and the aware buildings of the inequity. and working group strengths normalizing the conversation in race and racism and doing research in our work place and department. the pore to peer leadership has been powerful. our formula on the right side for success has been grass-roots and executive leadership equals change. we are a big department per of a city government it is hard to make change but found the

combination of groosz root and executive leadership can make organizational change. we are working to change hearts and minds and policies and procedures. so in the last couple of years we focused on phase one of the racial equity action plan. addresses creating a racially equal work place. what does this money? a racial equity work place where everyone can tloif and reach potential. everyone has access to information, all information and assignments are fairly implemented. guillermo? good afternoon will commissioners i'm guillermo perez a prierdz in environmental services. i started with the department when i was 1921 years ago. member of the racial equity

working group. in fall of 2020, the working group did resxaefrp out reach to gather experiences and ideas on how race and racism affects us individual low and a department. 400 employees participated. it took thyme and courage to step in the conversations. we did a deep dive in our workforce demographic dast a. priorities and action items laid out in the action plan are root in the our voices and the data. this first phase of plan focuses on work place culture, programs and policy. phase twoshg develop in the twenty 23, is out ward facing and will address how the department delivers services. this graphic the 5 priority areas to achieve antiracist organization and the values and foundation of our work.

they are empower frontline workers. to broaden diversity of staff at all levels. support and train managers. rethink disciplinary processes and create career path ways. our research and peer lead programming includes these twochl inspecting our foundation a dive in public ws through a racial equity lens and the spotlight racial justice. an in house pod cast of introduce with a multiracial group of our staff. >> in the last 3 years we have been guided by 3 step organizational change. normalizing conversations about race sxichl racial equity. organizing and builteding staff and organizational capacity around racial equity.

operationalizing racially equal practices ingritting racial tool in our routine decision makes. this slide highlights the work of the last 3 years. work has focused on normalizing and organizing. to look at our workforce through a racial equity lens focus on diversity, equity and he inclusion. divertity are there rishlly diverse staff at all levels of the organization? and professional j.w. in management andent row level positions? in terms of equity do all staff a work at a desk on the field have access to information to promotional opportunity and trainings. [speak fast] is the culture welcome. here is the first graph of the workforce demographic data in the racial equity okay plan. invite you to look the at plan

and of the data presented in at this time the data can are difficult it pinpoints inequities in the w accomplice and tells a complex story. we are rishl low diverse department. when you look you see the truths of job segregation. this graph shows the racial diversity of the departments a whole. operation's division and each bureau within operations. note that street and sewer repair merged with building repair. the difference in rishl diversity is noticeable. the operation division has a greater percentage of black and hispanic staff than the department as a whole. and the average [inaudible] prescriptions division is lower than the average annual salary in the rest public works. in addition, the bureau of building reper se is 13% black. street and environmental service

system 42% black. operations as a whole is 20% black. what does this data show. a number of complex issues. there is historic racial in some of the trades. in the trades -- here i refer at this time other tables and graphs in the action plan. we can look at the average hour low rate by race in our department. it is shock the average her low rate for a white employee is $55 the average for asian american is $51 latin employee and $45 and black employee is $39.

this is data that gut punch and challenges us the causes of it are men including historic job segregation, education and racist systems that have ecclouded people of color. we did in the credit the systems but they are the waters we swim in. another way to look at it the house we inherited. we node to do major renovations. in the coming year, our goals are to build capacity to make much needed change in policy. procedures and culture at operations. to do this, we will hire 2 racial staff members with expertise. run base operation and one with the rest of the department. building prescriptions racial equity working group that can lead the research and work. also racial program nothing

person. prescription staff can access. human resource, related action items like the hiring press and recrewment methods. research and develop phase 2 of the plan. in the racial equity action plan there are action items that address the commission. show the commissioners represent the diverse communication. ensurety commissioners are updated with racial equity knowledge, trinning and tools. support the commissioner in evaluating projects and budgets and ensure commission meetings are accessible and welcoming to everyone. [speaking very fast]. the racial equity action complan prop b oversight recommends the commission enact the following. quarter low monitor the department's work. we have calendar quarter low updates for you.

collect commission demographic data and include it in the report. open meeting with a land acknowledge am. the board of supervisors over 10 other city commissions do this. the statement acknowledges that ramaytush ohlone were the first people of san francisco and the land was taken it is a moment to ground ourselves in the history of land which is important to our department as we are the stewards of public of right of way. on boarding and a rishl equity trinning this ensures commissioners have the knowledge to passport and hold accountable our initiative. the d. human resource offers a series on rishl equity for commissions >> we are happen to help. in closing we want to be an organization of inclusion approximate belonging. where all staff can tloif and

our san francisco communities can be resourced and served equal low. we look forward to working with the commission to further the education. i appreciate you if there are questions? >> thank you. >> thank you, both. hello commissioners. i'm rachael gordon the communication's director. she had an emergency this is why it is an emergency. show could in the be here she apologized i will do her presentation for her on the university. one of the things as you listen to the racial equity component the university and what is next you will see how they are upon woven together in terms of employee development and flew robust and good employee development and better services for the people that we are serving.

thank you for your time. the university is something we want to w on in the last 10 years when we started talking about temperature 10 years ago we mandated every employee now sanitation and streets employee getings 10 hours of trinning a year. and make sure the time is carved out to do that.

you see a bit here of when we do. so one is we try finds out what professional development courses are out well the now once around technology that is e merged. how do use software system. track all the training courses to get the 10 hours of training. to so that is out well employing in the employee planning cycle. this is when you will see when it is coming up the strategic plan. with the racial equity initiative. all of that is woven in people's performance plan. we coordinate with that. cowherd nay training with other city agencies. outside consultants. have coaches. we do pier training at public w. something like i brown bag or something that is much more methodical and thought out of training.

and assist with union reimbursements. all our unions have extra money put in through the mou's that can be used for employee training. >> one of the things we did we started our first course through the university of working with contractors and designers. we have theed shared spaces the park programs. a lot of folks did not what is at this time city is looking for to comply with permits. started a course we have the permit people say this is when we need to build a permit that can park that can get permitted. we are looking for ways to open up the university. for staff and the community. we have the 10 hours of training and it is something this no other upon did the has done.

there is a training component through human resource we wanted have something specific for public works employees. bear with me if i'm not saying the department. we are about to get there to the formal split. we have you had engineers and street cleaners. trade wars, we have architects and, countants people who need skills. the other thing i think that the university has been helpful with employee development we want to make it clear if you come in as a -- public information officer or you come in as a contract person or a permit street inspector or a carbenter, there will be other opportunity throughout your career in the city where you motive want to learn how to do something else the university is an opportunity

for people to get those skills and learn about coming if they want to. you will not be pingion hole in the this one career you miff started. for you times a year every employee checks in part of the performance plan. we want to make that an effective meeting. deescalation. guillermo was with a hot spot team it gets rough in the street bhs we go to clone encampments we want to teach the staff how to step back from problem areas and in the enengage if they are

getting squirrely. we are seeing this with the streets vending permit. how do we want to make sure street inspectors will not get in arguments. how do you de~esque tlat is important. personal safety. goal setting and things like that. we have men mandated curses that new employees go through. so -- safety orientation. how do you novemberigate through city government it is not easy. whistle blower programs if you see something this should not be done or thank you should be done with city workers. you know on the workforce. how do you go through that press. certainly public works ethic's training if you are interested we put together good public works video training involving our employees and electric at

scenario what is can and condition be done. emergency response training all of us are disaster service workers. with public ws, sanitation and streets and the city. we go through federal training on that. and we have other ones for people to think training is one hudo you use your computer and mouse and chair and desk so you will not get wrists hurting. ordinance training and cyber security. a number of sources where we get the training from. dt for computer source. san front learning the university folks taps into

resource. increase to having 2 numbers joining the team a need's assessment with division managers where are we short for training for employees. what have people said they wanted to get more training in. that is something you will hear with employee engagement survey coming up short low in this people are hung row to get more training. we want to make sure they have this so they feel good about coming on than i have the training they node to dot job effectively. we started a leadership course. which i am in that. i don't think that i can lead i learned a lot in the first tw things this it is a basic common sense prospect, how do you lead people and a manager in the city department without looking at every employee as the same. how do you look as individual and how best lead with that?

engagement through communication courses this has been important for sanningtation and streets. we want to focus on how to have more effective communications between sproirzs and staff and managers at operations we are going down not just class room training but in person on the ground training with morning huddles.

that's my presentation. next up is strategic planning good afternoon. i'm the planning and performance manager on public w under the financial management division. i have been with public works over 14 years prior to this i worked at the controller's office in city services division. i'm excited be with you all today present 2 other important unrelated topic this is impact the employee and department in development. first strategic plan and the

employee survey. that is a strategic plan can why we node temperature it is a require the document for organizations and includes key elements like the vision, mission, have yous, goals through the mandated the city to have a plan the plan is a lot more than that. it is a road monopoly that communicates the direction and priorities of the organization with stake hold irs. the strategic plan serves a compass to reform the allocation processes to address the current and future needs of customers could be the public or sister city agencies and addressed needs of our workforce. our plan is develops and

improved through a strategic planning process. the press is of important as the plan. the strategic plan is part of the tool box. [inaudible]. basketball -- works used the plan as a living document. the seamanidates each department to have a plan. we have develops 4 strategic plans in develop of 21 passed a new plan to focus on the position b of 2020. since then do you to the pandemic and organizational changes we experienced and continue to experience the department has taken the opportunity to reallocate and modify the process. we hope we started the development of the plan once

organizational changes are solidified. a plan include department's vision, mission, goals and objectives and include short and long-term issue initiatives, actions and progress. our plan covered 3 to 5 year period we paused the development we have on the key components of the 22 strategic plan. an organization that [inaudible] public trust. the mission is we can build the stele's asset for the people of san front. our values integrity competence responsiveness and the best place to work exceptional service and improve and inspire stewardship of public spaces.

the strategic plan is [inaudible] and supporting improvement in core service for challenges and meet the needs of our clients. while it also nurrishes our culture promoting a healthy working environment. some of our lessons learn friday experience includes a director and leadership of the ages champ yons of the plan and our workforce and stake holders in the develop and execution of the plan.

there will be town for the commission to be engaged and provide input. during the environmental scanning phase -- the department all will have the opportunity to update the commission on the development of the plan. results of the charter metropolitan in november and condition firm you -- will set conditions for i new strategic planning cycle. we are waiting for a new director we improve our planning press and support work of well known priorities hiring racial

equity. wee will improve the approach learning and integration of the strategic planning press and use of the measures. we will continue to use the excellent framework. best practices and lessons from 10 year experience for improve ams to our planning process. distributing and rehave youing the 2022 survey results from former other department initiatives we look pardon it providing more update and wing with you in making the agency the best it can be. now i will transification to the last of the presentation. merging the development of the department with the development of our staffment the survey

offer objective independent and system ateck process for hearing feedback of employees about the work place. through this process the department learns ways to improve employee engagement and w place satisfaction. the survey was administer in the merchandise and 70 items or questions around 6 themes. and employees provided with ways to take the suri have to give flexibility to staff and participate in the survey in the work schedule this was of importance for staff. we offered survey via e mail and

offered a scheduled in person session where site support employees will take the survey and a computer or on a paper. they were made available in spanish and chinese. the 2022 sponse rate was lower with 67% when comper seed the trent 19% of 80%. tw thirties of the w 4s is a good response rate. we followed covid prol profit cals during the survey and take did not offer incentives for staph to commreelt the survey. results were somewhere. we wanted have another good

baseline of result this is shoes results by theme it is. employee engage am shows the highest ability with 79%. the same is related to the extent which employees feel passionate about jobs. and are willing to reserve. team and growth had a slight increase. they continue to be the themes with lowest results 57 and 56%. extent to the organization for most a team based work style and growth severs to which employees feel supported advance their career or develop skill sets within the organization.

items in both 2019 and 2022 surveys. items with positive sign reflect new in 2022 in the top 5. the 3 items in survey years are. my director supervisor trust mow to do my job i have what it takes. i care about the results the department achieves. new items in top 5 are my director supervisor treats mow with respect and i have what i node to be safe on the job. bottom 5 favorable items the 3 that shows -- in the bottom 5 in

both years are people promoted in the department based on work performance. the department can recruit the people using our existing hiring process. and effective in getting new employees up to speed quickly. the 2 on the bottom the department is moveingly in the right direction. and the other item was they are equal prosecute motional opportunity for you will staff of the department. the president changes. this slide and the next one shows survey items that had the greatest improvement in favorability between the 2 years

19 and 22. and favorable %, trents prior year. the item 50 my director supervisor recognizes my achievement in a manner i value improved to woints. these are items improve 7 points from 2019 to 2022. items that decreases the most from 20 then and 22 were related to the department having a culture where employees learn new skills and grow. providing the employees with tools needed to advance the careers.

extends which they enjoy the most of the work. and having machine when carries about me that i can talk to at work. similar to what rachael brought up. a quick summary of the results. include our sense of pride and purpose. work place safety. trust and respect from supervisors. work efficiency. on boarding and career and skill development. building from strength and addressing these opportunity what is next. we are distributing and

discussing result it is on different levels of the organization. brain storming and identifying priorities we hope to implement initiatives. thank you for the opportunity to share with you our brief updates that long with the racial equity and he training. i'm happen to earns questions you may have. thank you. thank you to all of you. questions for the commissioners? vice area kwon. >> great presentation. want to note that the answer to question number 48 staff on -- prop b dividing the property to 41% were not in favor. or negative low impacted? did i read this right?

33% agree or disagree that feel the department is moving in the right direction. with implementation of prop b. >> thank you. um -- thank you, commissioner and yep. i had a few notes and scattered because my paperwork i had did not sync with the presentation. you know and thank you because i think the big asset for the staff's commission is the labor force. and small businessman and employer and i believe in the earlier part of the presentation it was brought out belonging

once you create a sense of belong and wanting had people want to work you don't have -- that's okay the concept you you are short staffed. and why are you short staffed. the moral or the labor shortage or covid. a bit of everything. and some things we cannot control. yea. i see this is an impressive report.

any questions. mr. fuller public comment? members of the public had would like to comment on item 12 lineup if you ever call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## then press story 3 to enter the speaker queue.

we have a member wanting to speak on the call in line. you have 3 minutes to speak >> david again. i was focused with 4 parts on the first part, i think. slide 10. and -- that was -- once again i think i understood the percentages and understand the size of the embarrass right to left. then a jump to 399 and then what is left is 725. the 3399 were close. the number is wrong or it is wrong mou this has different counts from slide 3.

on -- the previous item 11. so -- i'm sure there is an explanation but there is a note in the bottom right 2021. i don't know if this refers to the demographics being fitsical 21 with a different organizational structure and the [inaudible] perhaps they were filled positions. so with the -- [inaudible] choosing [inaudible] i'm sure that can be explained. i think bobble dpw and sas functions have different challenges. considering the employee classifications that in my view are likely to have more turn over than others. i'm sure it was possible this

someone would be a 75-47 for their entire career that is less likely than someone becoming an architect or a planner or finance person. so -- charge the discussion really affected the turn over and various classifications i'm sensitive and the need for career opportunity and staff training and development referenced in the university discussion. 30 seconds. >> thanks. [inaudible] the phil this week reminds us about civilized society and respect for all and huquick low human nature [inaudible] people are ignorant or indifferent.

i think not about which is all of us and how we relate to each other. with that i say happy new year [inaudible]. thank you. thank you. we don't have further commenter look to speak that concludes public comment. >> thank you mr. fuller. commissioners other comments? once again thank you for this presentation and that is going football an interesting read. mr. fuller call the next item. >> item 13 is a presentation on street clean challenges by street and environmental services superintendent mc danielle this is is an informational item. good afternoon. i'm chris mc daniels glad to be here i will talk about challenge

in street cleaning before that, i want to mention this at our bureau we focus on our people, proper and our performance. our people proud of that young man. as we stated earlier we must take care of our pokes and set them up for success that means giving everything than i node to be successful in their job. our proper is to serve the citizens of san francisco the people that live, work here and come visit. they want to see a clean city. that's our job. we take it seriously. the next is performance, every quarter or so alexander meet and we discuss our performance which is important to me. i'm happy to be here and talk about the challenges of street cleaning. i have a list that showsut differents things i will talk

about today. am the first is a new term for me. public affair group put this on my slide i want to thank you for this. [laughter]. the definition of this word is to unachievable goal. it is continuous work that is ineffective. the way i see it is00 alternate cleanliness of maintenance is our problem. this monies the same thing we clean every day 24 hours a day but we can't maintain attach witness we driveway our stake in the ground on the block. the next day it is like we were never there. that is one of our major challenges. for the others i want to talk about service requests. i want to talk about 24/7 prescription. i want to talk about the

encampment issue. i want to talk about street behavior. we have challenges we deal west day. another is the tenderloin a hot spot now i want to talk about that. illegal dumping is a huge problem we have. we are trying to control it but making very little progress. certain businesses don't have treasure service. we are investigating and finding the people and making sure they are accountable for actions. another challenge is remote dump site. everything that we collect we have to take it to dump site close to south city it takes arc high school to get there. we have 49 square miles and to get this to the dumping location is a challenge. instead of us doing the good w we do we drive all the way well to dump it. another challenge is the projects we have. a big one now an event mosconi

center we want the city to look its best. we have staff focused there to make sure they are clean. we had a parade this year and support those events. ticks a huge amount of resources to tackle the events. that's the challenge they are not planned we have to responded. we want to be as proactive as possible but some cases we have to be reactionary. the last one i will talk about is our aging float and equipment. we saw this slide earlier. i wanted to show that we are responsible city wide. we include treasure island. we have our city in zones. one superintendent that takes care of all the zones. guillermo is one of our 2's in the zones here does an excellent job. the management of the city we

have one-two people we contact if we have a problem. a call from whoever and one of the hot calls we call guillermo and say, hey. we got a hot spot. take care television and it is done in a reasonable amount time. the next slide is just to comment on all of the 311 calls we get in. our service requests you see on the chart since 2019 is gone up a bit. 178,000, 160 service requests this is a lot. our ghee is to responded in i reasonable amount of time and the performance group tracks that they want to know how soon we get to the 178,000 service requests. very challenging. it is telling.

>> the next slide 24 similar 7 operation. day, wing and night shift. all of the staff works every day. some of the conscience are challenging but than i go out there every day and serve the public and did a great job. ip proud of them. we motivate them every day we do things to keep them happy. if you have a happy employee they do better work. we try to motivate and keep folks going. the power washing we do every night. we have corridor catharsis important to us the mission street cesar chavez to downtown. power wash that and market street embarcadero to the castro. we need to do that every day. those are major thorough fares we focus there. the other shows the graffiti

abatement. we have crews out every day wiping out graffiti. >> the term again. i will call at this time maintenance of clean. the picture on one side is before. you see a picture after. within hour 2-3 hours it could be in the same condition it was in the before picture. the maintenance of cleanliness is our problem we clean, we can't hold it. encampments is challenging in in the right of way and the cal-trans right-of-way. we help them when we can. these are situations that we depends on other city departments we can't go there alone and clean if we have folks that are occupied in that those

spaces. we depends on fire, police and other departments. we can't clear the area until the folks are gone and some can is we secure the property and other cases we are clear to 3 it away once the press is done we do our job. we have behavior on the street. we have people looking for food in receptacles may look good at 12 then trash is on the street. i driveway through every morning and i ouzed get upset you in i feel sorry for the people that live there. they need help. they are sick and they need help. i had to change my way of thinking at first i wanted get them out so my guys could clone now i want to help them.

unfortunate wagz on the street and when we figure out a solution if tell be better for all of us. it is next is the tenderloin back in december the mayor's office declared an emergency. that meant our bureau had to -- gather resources to address needs in the tenderloin. there is 36,000 residents it is 49 blocks, sidewalk encampments all over. the term open air drug sales i did not know this was a term prior to dealing with the tenderloin. it is accepted. very depress to see the actions going on every morning. we do 350 service requests weekly there are a lot we spend a lot of resources in the tenderloin.

weekly we send 116 tons to our dump site. we collect tons of trash. okay. one good thing about the tenderloin is this we joined the joint fuel operations. we get together witness a day. have a call and decide where the priors are going to be for that day. and then at 10. . 15 we hit at this time group guess out. we have city staff talking with folks and encouraging them. finding likes for them to stay. and after we clear them we come in and clone. efficient operation. the only problem is we decide which priority your to go to. there are tons. we struggle but meet daily and it is making a difference in that limited capacity. we provide our block sweepers. corridor workers assign them and

they just -- go up and down the block making sure it is clean. them being there deterred people from being destructive as they would be if than i were not there. than i have the vestos. sweep and clean they do a great job every day. we coordinate with cbd's there is a lot in the tenderloin. discuss strategics. look at resources we don't want to duplicate work we work daily with them as well. lastly, we have daily passport from our zone staff and we have our hot spot team that makes strategic attacks on certain areas. >> can i jump in for a second. i want to clarify cbd is community benefit district. they also coordinate efforts with them. >> thanks carla.

special events and projects. this is one of the fun events when we have a parade on market street or china town when the warriors win. it is nice for the staff to be out there they feel they are part of the celebration they get autographs taking pictures. so for events this is something the crews really like to participate in. again this is in the a plan events we have to huff and he will get resources visible it deal with it. we never say, no. we upon respond and take care of it. >> illegal dumping. i mentioned we are trying to get a handle on this. a lot of the dumping is on the southwest part of town.

and using litter principles we bring in heavy equipment the volume is so large it takes days for labor to pick that stuff up. we use back hoes. 41 end loaders. dump trucks and some cases a double side of a 10 wheel truck. we are working with companies trying to figure out how we can -- attack this issue. it will be a challenge we have been dealing with this for a long time i think as we go forward the comprehends we are talking to will assist us in reducing the illegal dumping. i responded to debris at a restaurant and i looked at the

restaurant in front of the trash and it did not match the boxes were tomato sauce and the store was a bakery. did not match. i locked sxoornd i found out that the restaurant across the street was the one that was putting his stuff on the other side. he would not get dinged. we have staff member this is go out and look at the films on the boxes and match those up and then we have enforcement methods. a lot of companies don't have the legal trash service we are dealing with that as well. this is the monopoly we locked at earlier the red on the bottom right is our location of our dump site. as we talked about the zones i wanted to lift how many miles away the dump is from the different zones.

the bay view is close you see china town is 6 opinion 7 miles. haight street and the marina is cross town and the outer sunset isseen further. our staff has to make that long trek to dump those loads. the time is spent on the road. we are trike to get resources faster as we know it could take

up to 2 years it get trucks prosecute cured we are working to expedite the press. the trucks take a beating 24/7 they don't shut them off, they keep going. these other things we are doing to help us with the challenges. we have a pit stop program. portable units we provide in communities to help watch up, use the strom and do what they do they are in locations throughout the city. it helps minimize the cleaning. orbit cloning corridors every thursday we have a corridor group that runs through and provides service on the corridor power wash and graffiti, weeding and different tasks. it really helps the community

out and business owners enjoy that. we have an illegal dumping clone up folk in bay view are allowed collect debris and call and we pick it up a way of keeping the streets clone. we have our hot spot crew they work early morning in alleys on polk street. there is tons of encampmentos polk street and alleys there. this is proactive work. over night cleaning the sweepers runllow and clone the alleys. and we steam clean our trash receptacles regularly. tenderloin initiative is xr that the mir declared emergency on. these things help us out and have our ambassadors that control the streets when there is events at the mosconi center, we are there to respond it

trash, that presents itself. that's the end of my slide. thank you very much. i really appreciate the time and nice meeting you. my staff had a chance to meet with you earlier they enjoyed meeting you so thank you, appreciate it. >> thank you very much. american harrison. i wanted tell you on my tour i was impressed with your hot spot. >> great. good people. and a lot of us don't work newscast environment we try to encourage them. motivate them and keep them upbeat. i wanted echo what commissioner harrison said about the staff and how dedicated and hard working they are.

and i think i'm glad you brought up the stuff about ages equipment.

there is a lot of waste out there. why thank you. >> and thank you. but i guess my coming from a small business commercial corridor background. thank you for the people you sends out and cleaning the streets and keeping it clean. i was struck boy all of the illegal dumping, i wonder haall

of us together and as a community. it was almost a slight running joke. now it is like taking out the garbage and nothere is more garbage to come in. it is beyond answering anything today something for us to think about all the people that are basically illegally dumping they don't want to pay fees, construction workers and whatever it is. i get it. i think this is probably the lower hanging fruit the homeless encamp ams and people on the streets we treat them with compassion and w with them how do we e eliminate the things we

focus on the things that we can't so we don't get in this sort of a dynamic. i'm a passporter of community out reach on street cleaning. >> right. there is helpful a dozen kids well and. plants this seed if i pick it up men i will not 3 it there next time. this is out reach and a bit of public relations and a bit of telling people, wow. how many tons of garbage are we throwing out and where could the resources be spent on you the people that are out there. because it is the people this 3 it out there. those other people we are serving how can we serve them better by being part of the solution. >> i agree and the public information officers they -- help us go through the trash

that we are finding and trying to get addresses and company anymores and sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. they get smart we foind this a lot is from the peninsula and bay view is the closest they dump the load and they are gone. we also tell folk its is a join effort. public works can't do everything ourselves we need the businesses and residents and as a group we can make a dent. we need the commitment from them as well. we are trying but we need their help. >> you are right. i like to say it takes a village. >> right. >> not just us the people out there. >> thank you. >> thank you. public comment?

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peek and i will prosecute void you with a 30 second warning. >> great. daved. possibly the last time today. i wonder based on the presentation perhaps staff can think about a notation, central, where they sort some of the collected materials before to [inaudible] this might be an opportunity to redirect materials and have some value. may be not. etches may be [inaudible] environmental [inaudible] by the time [inaudible] it is dumped it is gone. so i'm thinking for ways to do this. may be there being be a study to see how possible that is. [inaudible] the answers [inaudible] [interference] i

appreciate the presentation and honest assess am of the challenges and i want to note that the superintendent is now christopher mc daniels. 20 to 30 years ago it could have been like rich cunningham. i don't think i think this is an element of rishl action in progress i don't think this is a spoken anything. i think that chris was curious and substantive. great work and example of a role fun for growth and development within the development and the city. and it is not just him. it is hundreds of people that are referred to earlier to work 24/7 to make this happen and anyone who thinks that this staph happens by magic is not out there at 2 in the morning. so once again i want to

emphasize thanks to the staff who work very hard to keep our streets clean and safe every day. thank you. >> thank you. caller. and that is our final call in queue. that concludes public comment on in item >> thank you. further discussion from the commissioners? i believe call the next item which is -- >> item 14 is new business and initiated by commissioners this is an informational discussion item. commissioners the floor is yours. vice chair kwon. >> a question, and i can get this off line as well. like to hear more about street trees program. and information on the web but if there is anything including the per inship with friends of

urban forest if this is reading material i would not want to take up commission time to do it if it can be sent, i would love to see it. thank you. >> thank you. commissioners. anyone else? looking at the time i'm disappointed we are getting out early. [laughter]. bad reflection on leadership, folks. i'm sorry. no further business. mr. fuller open public comment on this item. members who wish to make comment on item 10 new business lineup against the wall. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2493 245 2648 ## and press story 3 to enter the speaker queue.

priz story 3 to raise your hundred to be recognized. we don't have member of the public here in the chamber. electric to speak. and sfgovtv do we have anyone in the queue. looks like we don't. that concludes public comment. >> thank you. and -- we have no additional public comments because we are not -- i will jump to item 16. yes. move to adjourn. [laughter]. hearing no objection i adjourn this meeting we will meet monday october 17th in room number 416, mr. fuller?

>> that's correct. >> thank you very much. have a great day.

>> 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, we hate to lose mature trees,

is r. my name is debra alvarez rodriguez. i'm the deputy director in san

francisco. my background is one in which i have spent the entirety of my life committed to finding solution to poverty and addressing the issues of inequity so people and communities can have accesses to resources and financial freedom. one thing true anode dear to my heart was the power of business ownership in creating pathways to financial freedom. we have still in infancy. we had over 100 entrepreneurs come and start their businesses. some are food trucks. some are restaurants. some are in farmer's markets and so farther. that's an incredible legacy and record to build upon. this was the perfect opportunity for me to come back home, you know, come back to the neighborhood and take my skills and networks and resources and put it backseat

in service of the community. given everything with racial reckoning and pandemic it was time for me and everyone else that had the opportunity to leave and get educated to come back home. we have a opportunity to grow our impact in terms of the number of people we serve and how we serve them. we grow our impact in taking the money we make with our entrepreneurs and circulate those resources back interview the community for community development. the third thing is we have a opportunity to have an impact on public policy in terms of the policies and practices the district has been notorious about interms of inequities. all of those are just the beginning of what is possible in terms of growth and

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>> launch upon clean air snernt bay view hunter's point. i want to start with the chair of the board of directors of the air quality management district. john bauder. i want to welcome him up he is also the mayor of emrealville. he has been supportive of this event and of this launch and so chair, i will hand it to you. [applause]. good morning. thanks for joining us today for this event to celebrate the launch the first clean air center in california in san francisco. yes. clean air center providing public