>> 10. of the 02 a.m. secretary fuller call the roll. >> good morning. respond with here or present. newhouse-segal. >> present. >> lauren post. >> here. paul woolford has a planned absence. >> zoubi. >> present. >> with 3 members present we have quorum for public works commission. >> due to the covid-19 health emergency and given the health recommendations by the san francisco department of public health and the emergency orders

of the governor and mayor concerning social distancing and lifting restrictions on teleconference this meeting is held via teleconference and streamed by sfgovtv. >> for those of you watching the live stream be aware that there is a brief time lag with the meeting and what is shown on sfgovtv. on behalf of the commission i would like to extend thanks to sfgovtv media services and building management staff for assistance in putting on this meeting. >> for members of the public who wish to comment on an item from outside the hearing room dial 415-655-0001 and use access code: 2489 845 4467 ## to raise your hand to speak press star 3.

note you must limit comments to the topic of agenda item discussed. unless you are speak under the general public comment section. and to reminds you if you don't stay on the topic the chair may interrupt and you limit your comment to the agenda item. public comment made in a respectful manner and that you refrain from the use of profanity. address all remarks to the commission as a whole not individual commissioners or staff. madam chair. >> thank you. before calling the next item i would like to amend the agenda in 2 ways. first of all. i would like to postpone item 800 autopublic works director of hiring update. my understanding is that the city's hr department is moving the process along with the search firm this has been

retaind and will have more information at the next meeting on december 16th. and there is nothing for them to tell us today i don't want to take time on the agenda. i am proposing we move that to december 16th meeting. and my second proposal i would like to pull one item from consent and move it to the regular calendar. this is item 3b the city hall elevator modernization construction of contract award. i would like to move that to the regular calendar and before i do that i would like to be sure that there are staff here that account answer a few questions about that project since they may not have anticipate third degree would not be on consent.

yes, i believe we have staff here. lips that she is here and hopefully can address your questions. gi appreciate that. all right. those are my 2 proposed changes are there requests from the commission to further amend the order of our agenda today. >> great. thank you very much. hearing nothing further we'll move on to my announcements. i have a couple. i department to call the commission and public's attention to the issue of the department's news letter in the works. this is a regular news letter that come out and i find informative about the department's many projects as well as featuring various staff members. i it not only the visuals are informative picture worth a thouz anldz words butt text that accompanies the pictures i encourage reading over coffee

when you can take a few minute its is well worth temperature i would like to commend rachael gordon and her team for xoous producing that news letter on a regular bases and it be informtive and the cross section of the many projects and activities dpw is involved. i did have one question for mrs. gordon or someone about that. it was about the nice information about parklets and the permitting deadline and the health information on how people learn about them putting one in and taking one out and maintaining one is this broadcast widely so that business owners will not see, i never heard of this. >> thank you, commissioner. rachael gordon public works communication director. well is a city wide communication's effort around the shared space program. there is a communication

director through the planning department and we have weekly meetings with the mta, health department, mta, public works and planning around this. we hole workshops and work with the restaurant association. golden gate strunlt association on that. there are news letters bulletins and e mails that go out there is also people who go more or less door to door who gallon out and talk to the entered restaurant ordinance and existing ones. fire department is involved as well. so it hen a robust operation and isllow planning with the help of the other departments. agreement thank you very much will that sounds like comprehensive out reach and pleased to hear this is happening. thank you. the other item i had was to ask secretary fuller if he has announce ams we don't have a special accomplice on the

agenda today. jot announcement i have for the commission is that we have our meeting on friday december 16th. before that date you should receive an approximately of availability for date in 2023. updated dates for the potential updated dates for the spring as well as dates for june through or july through december to complete the calendar year. look for that, commissioners, you should be receiving that by early next week. >> thank you that concludes or business. we'll move on to item 1. secretary fuller call that item. >> equip 1 is general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on topics that are within the subject matter of the commission but in

the per of this agenda. comments specific toage item on the agenda may be heard when that is considered. and members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. general opinion comment may be continued if -- general -- speakers exceed 15 minutes of general public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 machines of comment may lineup further from the door if present in the commission room. and if you are calling in use the phone number 415-655-0001, access code: 2489 845 4467 ## then press star 3 to enter the queue.

i will set a time are for 15 minutes for when speakers beginful looking around the room it does not appear we have commenters here physically. sfgovtv, do we have? do we have any members of public in the queue calling in? we do have 2 members in the queue. please unmute the first call and caller you will have 3 minutes to speak and you will receive a 30 second notice when your time is about to expire. >> good morning, commissioners i'm richard grossman. i'm calling about 2 things, one is -- trying to get mta to make improvements and specific low putting speed radar signs on copeland street. i have been waiting 4 years

special they keep telling me public work system holding it up. i wish you would have a hearing on the relationship between public works and sfmta and may be some of those functions need to be merged in one department? and why it is taking so long to get, this was before the pandemic. we can't blame it all on the pandemic i know it slowed things down and workers but this has been going on way before the pandemic. ands issue i'm a fan of the commission and hope when you have projects that will go before your committee and not happen what happened on 38th on balboa between 34th and 39th when they put in a project the people did not want. and if you want to know more you

can ask gordon she knows about it. i hope they will not try to shove things down our athlete without there was a couple meetings and people does not want it and the representative from public works says i'm going to do it anyway. what attitude is that. i hope all projects in there will be notice of the meetings so we can have a say in the projects. approximate if we don't want them you need to listen to us. thank you. the second call e please. >> we can hear you it sounds a little garbled. is this better? >> a little better. >> okay.

i will switch to the phone after this item of good morning david pillpel. several points on procedure. i don't object to the agenda changes that were announced and appreciate they were made at the beginning. i think postponing item 8 requires public comment and a motion. when you get there it is know agendized item and subject to comment and i think a simple motion from the commission to postpone at the next meeting will be in order. pulling item 3b requires no motion and i believe that item should be heard after the rest of the cal dash before item 4. that's my suggestion on procedure. i believe the dpw staff

yesterday did a fine job with the issues resulting from the rain and rachael gordon was good on explaining the 3 issue around [inaudible] on mission between [inaudible]. also since your last meet iing connected with staff on an issue and we are headed administrative hearing on this. i think i mentioned before at the commission, would be helpful for me and that the commissioners and the public to have -- an item with administrative hearings and dpw director orders and now those prospects currently workd and to the extent they are [inaudible] there are changes to those procedures. but that has in the been explained well on the website or public. and having a little explanation

about those [inaudible] would be great. those are my general public comments more later. thanks for listening. >> thank you, caller. >> and sfgovtv is indicating that new caller has come on. please unmute that caller and caller, you will have 3 minutes to speak general public comment. and i prom vied you with a 30 second notice. hello, good morning, commissioners. i'm harsh a student at san francisco state university. i wanted to bring to your attention some of the traffic dangers near 19th and hallway. a few classmate and myself had close calls by the passing traffic that is sometimes at speed and he not well montord or

checked by the police or really anybody else. other attempts and at times in school where people have been run over or been harmed by caros that fast street when turning on 19th avenue toward [inaudible] toward north. somented bring that to your attention. that is our final commenter during general public comment. we'll move to item 2. call that item. >> item 2 is the director's report. carla short is here to present the report and this is an

informational item. interim director carla short. there are a few issues i want to bring to your attention the first being the noe valley town square toilet. you may have heard built controversy surrounding proposed public toilet for the noe valley town square on 24th near sanchez there is miss information and i want to make sure that you all actually have the facts. it has been reported the toilet would cost conpublicity 7 million and this estimate came from public works. i would like to be clear that was not a public works estimate. nor is this a public works project. a little background in february of of 2020 a public works

architect who worked on other p projects was asked by rec and park capitol team about the cost of the modular restroom for mc clarin park and a bedroom with a similar footprint would cost. we gave a rough estimate of 450,000 not including utility work for the entire construction cost. this was a very general unofficial estimate. did in the rely on site specific analysis. reshg p did not ask us to work on the noe valley town square project we did not go through our normal cost estimation process which is very thorough and takes in account the work scope, a renovation versus construction. materials to be used. utility hook ups which can be a big cost in the projects. labor analysis. what staff would be needed and how much time and then review of

similar projects we delivered. if we are asked to give a formal estimate we go through all of those steps. in the case we were not asked, this was just a rough based on a similar size what it might be. again, saying it for the record, public work dids not develop the 1 opinion 7 million dollars budget. rec and park built the budget based on their assumptions and with the goal of making sure they had sufficient resources for the project it get done this came about because of matt hene secured a grant at the request on behalf of the community. i realment to emphasize the rec and park department is a great partner of ours we take great provide in the beautiful park play ground and rec center projects we delivered on their behalf. from providing design and

engineering and construction management. the working relationship has benefited the people of san francisco and expect this partnership to continue for generations we are stronger together. unfortunately public works unfair low got caught up in this toilet controversy. at this week's board of supervisors supervisor melgar requested more information on our design and project delivery fees and asked for a cost comparison with the private sector. we started work on that report and look forward to the opportunity to discuss the professional public works and engineers, architects. lawned scapeers. project managers, construction managers and affair's experts bring to the delivery projects. >> i wanted think bring this issue to your attention and we will have further discussions moving forward. >> and speaking of toilets.

we rolled out our new public toilet in partnership with the jc street furniture company public works having a new generation of public toilets the first at embarcadero plaza before thanksgiving. in time for the holiday the and pandemic rebirth of the city. public works made sure the 25 toilets come at no cost to the city. jc under writes the design, manufacturing, installation and daily maintenance of the public toilets and return their grant the right to insteal 114 sidewalk advertising kiosks throughout downtown, financial district and popular tourist areas this has been in existence since 1994 when the original art newo toilets and advertising can

i of courses were placed on sidewalks and replacing one for one the aging ash menities with updated and more efficient designs. it is some asked why are we replacing it is important to note they have been out on the streets for decades now and really are starting to become difficult to repair. and the new ones have a lot of new efficiencies and more effective cleaning systems and have a sky light there the better lighting during the day and mechanical systems upgraded. the toilets self clean after every use and the hand washing system is strong and energy efficient. the new toileting will do a better job and cool to see that mech niche the whole toilet

actually folds up and is cloned. as before the public toilets accessible to people with disabilities and connected to our city sewer, water and electric lines. in addition, jc will pay 2.2 million a year for staffing at 11 of the toilets part of our pit stop program they are designed to be self cloning but in order for them to feel safe and welcoming in some of the toilets will have this staff person there. they will be rolled out the next several years and build the new ones am it will tick time to get all of the 24 additional toilets replaced. i encourage to you check out the new one at embarcadero plaza. it is beautiful and -- it is neat and you should the newark menities are quite impressive.

on to other topics i wanted let you know next week at 5:30 on thursday will have a ribbon cutting for the upper market street improvement project. we be joined by mayor breed and supervisor mandelman. the project runs along market from octavia to castro and the goal is to make the sfreet safer and more beautiful. work includes traffic signal upgrades, curb ramps, new bike lane buffer and bulb outs to shorten crossing for pedestrians and wider meadians, new bike racks andistry trees. it is unusual for us to have a ribbon cutting in the evening. but we wanted to show case a cool element up lighting of the palm trees on the market street median between gerero and castro the colors can be changed to reflect holidays and events.

when the giants win next world series or if they sign a contract with aaron judge or -- we could up light with orange. multicolor rainbow colors during the pride celebrations. have red, white and blue for fourth of july. this project is in collaboration with the sfmta and the county transportation authority as well as the castro cbd. our team provided engineering and landscape work and public out reach and project and construction management service. we welcome you all there if you like to join us at 5:30 next thursday at the market, laguna and her man streets intersection. i also.ed give a big shout out to the sanitation and streets and soon to be our operations

team for work responding to the first dig big storm on wednesday into thursday. yesterday evening we cleared 140 catch baseince. relieve flooding at 6 intersections. patched 15 potholes and responded half a dozen do you understand trees a couple across from our office at van ness. a fiek us tree fell and will took over the over head muni line. thankfully no one was heard and no property judge. municipal he to reroute muni street bus. after that a second street shed a large limb and took down that entire tree and 2 others on the block. it was a significant impact. i remment to thank in addition to our own crews the sfmta and

fire department they were helping keep the area safe and it was a long day but in the ends it is a safer spot. and lastly i wanted to wrap up with sobering but not unexpected news. we seen anup tick in covid case amongst staff and the community at large. i think we are reminding our staff to follow the best practices to reduce risk and prevent spread includes getting updated on boosters and getting a flu shot. and will that concludes my report. this evening >> this chair short. i have a couple of question and reminder i do this for myself and everybody that we if we have questions this will be the time then public comment and we make comments. we'll hold our comments for after public comment that this

is the time for questionsil start off. a couple. yesterday i did see a crew out clearing a flooded storm drain in my neighborhood and i was about to go up and say hi to staff it looked like puc staff temperature is all hand's on deck in the situations and they assist with storm drain? >> yes. the puc supports our program to clear catch basins that is their infrastructure. so it is all hands on deck our crews go out first on see if it is surface blockage causing problems with catch base and i know we will clear this. if our crews are not able to clear it and the issue is further down we call out the puc to respond they have crews out looking for flooding in these events. we have aune 5ed storm response

call we stands up when we know a storm is predicted. tell be i day or 2 before the storm and throughout the day on the storm and we have staff prosecute public works, puc and other agencies off the mta on there as well and we doll a follow up the day after the storm to debrief and get lessons learned. >> thank you that is helpful and will my other question for deputy city attorney topp this item is on the agenda in this location the correspondence log what is our commission's obligation, if any, to address matters that in the log. and what do other commission dos? deputy city attorney chris tom

the materials have been posted and are available for public inspection. i think that commission can address or not specific low address the items that are in the log. >> thank you. and do all commissions have i log is it similar protocol. >> i believe that is the best practice that most commissions follow i will get become to you on the specific break down if i can find that information. that would be great i don't want to igin an obligation you may have and i don't want to take on one we don't require to take on since we have our plate full. i will look forward to getting more on that. thank you. >> those are my questions. >> for director short's report. any other questions before public comment. >> commissioner zoubi. >> thank you for your report.

hopefully make it to the opening of upper market ribbon kuth. >> i did see that at the embarcadero but there were working on and it looks great. and -- hopefully tell be a success. jc for providing funding. my question is about the trees. and i always ask about the trees. it seems like those trees they caution a lot of problems and e signal my neighborhood in north beach. it is like crashed on a couple of cars. historically. what is being done and how was

this scheduled the scheduling of maintaining those trees going? are we think burglar replacing them? i saw a video for dpw vo that you were talking about how when you cut one side the weight goes to the other side and that's why they crash when there is rain what is being done? i like to talk about proactive rather than reactive. i know thap spot where we pulled the tree off. is safer now but it was safer 5 minutes before that. what is being done here? >> thank you. commissioner. a number of things so our urban forestry inspectors go out inspect trees around the city. we try to do that in advance of our crews or contractors out to

do maintenance work. when they inspect a tree they are look at whether that tree should be pruned or if it should be identified for removal p. we always try to maintain will mature trees as long as we can in the landscape and the streets of san francisco mature trees provide the greatest initial environmental benefit and ecosystem services to the city. but we have recognized for the last several years that some of the fiek us trees because of their structure and i could go to more but i will resist that urge. are prone to very large limb failure has those limbs get large there is less risk when the trees are younger.

but as they become more mature their limbs are large and the way they are attached to the main stem they're prone to limb failures we developed criteria to evaluate ficus trees we do it with a detailed criteria allows us to look for factors that would make them a recommendation for removal rather than retention. wore proactive in looking at all of the street trees but ficua in particular. i want to note because we are stiff also looking for replace the trees and groat urban forest, there is a lot of public concern about removing trees and -- if we can't give a guaranteed time which we will replace them. and so -- in general we are

always look to preserve mature trees about there are additional attention on every proposed tree removal and often go through public hearingseen if a tree we identified for removal. we are conservative in our prop to removals but public safety is our primary goal and if we have to we'll fight to remove a tree if we continuing is a safety concernful i want to note that while it it is a science and staff are trained, it can be difficult on predict certain tree failures. i think am we do our best and look at trees but when we look at the tree it is a moment in time. that we assessd that tree. conscience may change thereafter and may not have been able to predict it. i think we have done a good job of identifying tree and removing

them you never prove you removed a tree before it failed. but our team is commit and i had think this they we encourage them to maintain their considerables in tree risk assessment. and so they are well train in the assessing the risk trees. >> yea. to follow up. so, a tree is inspect the, how long after that would there be another inspection or follow up and is there anywhere written that check mark or a tag thatting was inspected? there is in the a tag on the tree but maintain a data base and record inspections in the did thea base. in terms of the frequency that will dem pend on the circumstances. so if we get a call about a tree, we will try to go out and inspect that tree reactive low

to that call. if someone says i'm worry body this tree. has a lean it was not there before. we will go and inspect that tree as a one off rather in preparation for crews. certain trees will put on a frequency inspection. we retain treeos 24th street as a condition of retaining them. other trees not in high risk if were to fail tell impact something and those might be the green space we manage.

they are not used by the public but we are responsible for the changes and space and -- you know again a healthy fine tree in a space like that has low risk failure and low risk if a limb were to break off if not an area used by the public we may not have to look for many years our goal to inspect all the street trees like the pruning cycle. >> thank you. commissioner segal. >> say its is on.

>> okay. so the next last discussion that you had, for [inaudible] what we have talked about at prior meetings which is i would -- especially now after the most recent vote on the 2022 prop b. i know we will learn to interact with sas in a new way. i stilled like to see the minutes of the sas meetings. i believe i requested that prior meetings. we don't get those and i think they should be sent to us so that because a lot of how they interact with the merchants and visitors it san francisco in terms of the responsibilities of sas they are dealing with the questions. it is my understandings at their meetings. i think that would help all of

us your questions are excellent, commissioner zoubi. i know that people that we represent that know this we are on this commission ask us the questions about the most visible public works, works. and it is often it is not what we do it is things that sas deals with every day. can you make sure we get the minutes and the agendas if they are specific enough am i think that the minutes would be more when we want to see. >> commissioner, bob fuller. commission secretary for both commissions, the most recent november 21st sas commission meeting their minutes will be finished in draft form today and i will make sure you get those and i will pass ones along with them and the agendas that are

located on their website i can make sure you get those. >> that would be great. would be helpful to me i don't know about the rest of the commission but could you send mow the minutes of all of past meetings since they start in the july so we know going forward had they have been working on and know in terms of how we work with them in the approximate future what -- might be helpful. >> thank you. open public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item twot director's report. may lineup against the wall if -- with us in the chamber if you mean are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2489 845 4467 ## then press star 3 to enter the queue.

no one risen or approached speak on this item. sfgovtv do we have members in the queue look to speak on this item. we have one member of the public wish to speak on this. caller have you 3 minutes to speak. great. daved again. i'm on the computer, [inaudible]. on item 2 responding in part to acting chair corresponding my

experience to practice [inaudible] between commissions some don't publish a [inaudible] i think is bad. those that do, generally include it in the attachments. i think prior to the meeting, it is useful for the commission secretary to respond very briefly to the item of correspondence from the public and acknowledge it has been received and will be distributed to all members of commission. in some cases if it relates to an appeal or legal matter wore whatever it may be useful to -- >> and whatever appropriate for a type of core sponldance that

clarify the commission's role. active meetings like today a member of the commission or the commission as a whole desires a response to an item. and to say may i see it from and there is this and [inaudible] objections from the commissioners that response goes from the commission secretary but in my experience commission respondses to the case of public correspondence. otherwise it is there to benefit the commission and the public and the on the record and available a good practice in my opinion and one should be careful to redact the materials prior to posting if redaction is in in order. i hope that helps.

>> thank you. >> thank you. sfgovtv indicating we have no further public commenters on the item. >> thank you. i have a few comments on director short's report. and a quick follow up to commissioner newhouse segal. secretary fuller, perhaps after each sas meeting if you could sends all of us an e mail with the link to their meeting agendas and then minutes that will suffice. may be your newark cystant on his or heritor do list just an e mail with the link for those i would be grateful. also secretary fuller, i would be grill for an old fashion clipping service when dpw is mention in the a material way in the local press if you mean could sends to all of commissioners a link or pdh what

is easiest forow that press coverage, because i think when is there significant coverage we may get asked what we thought did we read it. what did we think it would make sure we have all read it and had access. thank you very much and director short. thank you for your report. i was dismayed an upon under statement to read the press report about that issue. and had strong feelings because i disagreed with many of the statements made by various people. i appreciate your quick response and clarifying for the referred when dpw's role was. which was virtually none and in peculiar one statements regarding how dpw's project design and construction process is paraphrasing, a disaster. i strongly disagree with like

the record to show that. my experience with it, which has been limited the past 5 years on the oversight committee and so far to this commission it is heard low broken it is a highly performing operation, for the record i would like to state. we are all new and getting to know the department and strengths and weaknesses. to date department called out as being a problem in press report system not one of the problem this is we need to address. so thank you for your responding to both the city's elected xhshl and it is press regard thanksgiving issue i look forward to the city's elected officials roaching to us as new commissioners representing the public and are trying to carry out obligations to provide oversight to the department of public works to reach out to us

if they have questions or problems with the department i hope we can be a partner with other commissions and the board of supervisors on continuing to elevate public works. i was delighted hear the new toilets they look very could feel i look forward to trying one out. no cost to the city and i think that is a win and thank you for that effort. i'd like to request a couple of updates and one actual presentation in the future. remindser that to update us on the affects of prop b of 2022 prop b. our commission on the sas and the department moving forward i know that election was an among ago and knowure working on this but be sure it continues to stay as a high priority for actual is for us, of course. and finally i would like to

request a presentation next year toward the beginning of the year when it could be fit in the time to do it the next agenda item will have 10 as needed contracts. in all of these there is an lbe requirement. we'll see this a lot. virtualo every contract that dpw brings there will be an lbe >> reporter: this . race for issue i like to understand better and hoping that the department can make a presentation to this commission on all of the various city lagzs and requirements that dpw must meet and the regulations affect project delivery. i include in the original project cost. timing of project from conception to close out and the cost and logistics of maintaining projects upon completion. some of these could include the

been on contracting and travel i know the city is looking into. the passed all electric requirement for projects the public art requirement. the lbe requirements and the monitoring this goes in ensuring they are met. that type of thing. all the different diameters that you all work with that dpw works with to meet requirements and regulation catharsis part of the city law. and again. i also would like to understand how the partnerships with other departments benefit -- project delivery for the public. hinder it or have no affect. i guess to conclude, i think it could be helpful to feel have a periodic check in to assess the goals of the regulations and requirements. i know some are recent like electric and some date further back to make sure they are still relevant and how are they being met? if meeting them is financial in

the cost effective and beneficial american for the stele for employees and citizens. i know that is a lot i will let you decide how you want to address had if this fits several short 1is would not want this to intrefr of approving of the contracts and the business moving forward quickly. that will be helpful to me and the public because we all hear the terms and >> reporter: but i would like to understand the pro's and con's how they affect the project. it is obvious how a public art enhances a project. that's obvious not irrelevant what i'm trying to get at for to you state the obvious but i would like to know what that means for example nel terms of project delivery. thank you very much. other comments from the commission? for director short?

commissioner zoubi. too slow. i would like to also when we have the regular item action items i would like to get more information about the nonprice. scoring. to break down of how that score came about. thank you. no further comments we'll move on to item 3. secretary fuller call this item. >> just wanted make sure i recorded commissioner zoubi's comment.

consent calendar minutes from november 14th meeting. no longer includes the condition transact award for the city hall elevator modernization contract but does include 10 contract modifications of as needed contracts and before we proceed i wanted to hear from the commission, whether we should hash item 3b which is you in a regular item i than the project manager is here and available. to speak on it. we can hear that right after the consent calendar or wait until later in the regular. is there one way >> yes, thank you. i apologize for not stating that. hear it at the beginning, please

first item after consent. thank you. >> one question to the chair are we supposed to vote on to regular as we heard earlier? or. i will yield to deputy city attorney tom to ensure. deputy city attorney i don't believe a vote is needed to move the item from consent to regular. >> thank you. >> okay. then, proceeding the as needed contracts modifications per the delegation policy adopted by this commission in september, designates all as needed contract modifications eligible for the consent calendar that is why we are hearing them in batch form. and all 10 as needed contract

modifications are eligible for consent calendar. of course, they can be pulled to be heard individual low by the commission. staff or the public. adoption of the consent calendar and all resolutions contained in it is an action item. >> thank you secretary fuller. do i hear a motion to approve all on consent including all resolutions included part of the item? >> i will make a motion to approve all on consent. commissioner newhouse segal. >> i move. >> thank you. >> commissioner zoubi. >> i will second. >> thank you very much. given the motion we'll turb to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 3 the adoption of consentical dar. and the resolutions included

excluding item 3b line up against the wall. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2489 845 4467 ## and press star 3 to enter the queue. no one approached the -- bar to speak on this item. sfgovtv is indicating we have 2 callers wishing to speak on the consent calendar. please, unmute that first caller.

may be an tainded line. sfgovtv let's move on to the next public commenter. can you hear me now? we can hear you. >> i moved to the phone and hope that is better in terms of audio. so on item 3a, the minutes on page 4 item 7, heard by the commission speaker laura -- and misspelled. i have this terrible problem of looking for spelling.

i think it would be useful going forward to include the staff titles the record shows not just who spoke but if their staff what the sooilths title is or for example when sean from dhr spoke to indicate that he is with the city dhr and his title i think it might be useful to add clarifying abriefiations like the bruro of -- building design and construction but may be to add bbc so that people -- get more familiar with the shorthand but not to replace it but add -- and -- if i see anything else nonsubstantivil community that to second fuller off line. i have nothing on the add need

and i have comments later on item 3 b. thank you for listening. thank you, caller. looks like the other call is unattended phone line. so -- sfgovtv let's give them a try and if they were having audio issues. unmou this caller we will see if they are able to speak to us. hello caller. i'm hearing an echo. please, mute them and this concludes public comment on consent. >> thank you. is there debit on this motion. commissioner zoubi? >> no, just a quick question.

what happened when as needed contract runs out of funds before the 5 year contract ends. meaning we used up all of the -- so -- there are 2 possibilities one a contract will modification that would potentially there are limits by which we add fundses to a contract. if we exceedd that we cannot use that and issue another rfp. we try to track this and get a new one out before we run out of available capacity in as needed category. >> and the contract has a clause that gets the city out of it when -- run out of fund sns yea there is a max amount and we can close it out.

>> thank you. one following up on what commissioner zoubi asked. there are questions in going through the consent contracts -- there were small notes i'm sure come up all the time. i was not going to bring this up. what happens in if for instance an lbe is in the met the requirements are not met. they had to go ahead with the one of the subsidiary the requirement was not met. is that what -- happens with

these recuring issues with the as needed contracts? we are learning how to work with you and you all are learn to work with commission on this. jot contract monitoring division is the entity this sets the local business lb else goals. and if the contract has been awarded, and than i failed to meet the goal then that contract monitor division would work with e contractor and the project management staff to determine had the appropriate remedy is. in -- going out to during the bidding process. the contractors are obligated to make a good faith effort f. they are unable to find an lbe this

they can include in their bid sometimes that >> reporter: can be reduced or waived. however there is a strong push to ensure that they have made a good faith effort and than i can meet the goals and many will times and opportunity to do a portion of the contract. traffic control. there are a lot of times with our engineering projects or street scape projects they do elements of traffic control this is the type of w this could be handled by an independent entity this . it is a good opportunity to subcontract out to meet your lbe mcgonigles. we work with our contract monitoring division to look for where are their opportunity to find appropriate lbe's to mote that goal >> my other question was to follow up on mr. ilpel.

and also -- you said something about the name another addition for minutes that mr. pilpel mentioned that would be helpful. thank you. thank you. before we turn to the vote i will call on director short one more time. just and i hope will final time if you could just before we vote on these 10 contracts explain the general rule of the project control construction management service consultant. why they are needed and how they work with dpw staff. >> so generally, thank you,

chair post. chara short. generally we use these consultants when either we have special item that we don't have expertise in within our staffing. or if we have -- they provide flexibility. if we have a number of staff out on leave for let's say family medical leave they may be out for an extended period of time of we would never hire someone to back fill them quickly enough it allows you to tap in to consultants to address those needs. all of chapter 6 departments use these and most have a similar contracting mechanism to supplement in house staff we will have talented staff in house as you are often hearing.

but sometime there is is a special we may not have in staffing and very often if we have staff who are unavailable for whatever reason either may be busy on a time consuming project and we may need to turn to outside help or staff out on leave. thank you very much. >> no further debate. all in favor say, yes. >> anyone opposed? no abtensions. the motion passed. secretary fuller will publish the adopted resolutions and the minutes to the commission website. we will move on to item number

4. and as we noted this is the regular calendar and -- we will hear the item 3b first of all. >> secretary full are call that item. >> so we now turn to the regular calendar hearing 3 b first, the san francisco city hall elevator modernization construction contract award. and the project manager who will be discussing this contract is lisa who i believe is here and available to speak on this. this is an action item. hi. good morning.

commissioners. not having our presentation this morning i have a floor plan of city hall i want to highlight where the elevators we are talking about we know where they are located. here is the copy of the first floor. at city hall. here are the 11 elevators there. there are 11 elevator in city hall. elevators 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are public, they remember traction elevators install instead 1960s. elevators 7, 8 and 9 are service and the historic 1930's elevators. they are not used by public they are used by staff and building engineers and as a freight elvirt. and elevators 10 scompleven are newer. instul instead 90's and the hide

rollick type and staff elvirts also. in 2017 updated division required a consultant to assess the elevators to gain a before the understanding of the conscience of them and to see if there is work that are required. at the conclusion of that assess am report the consultant found all of them are operating safely, and they are somewhat below accepted standards. and to improve on performance and address like issues, safety issues and conform with code standards they need to be modernized. another finding from the consultant that the historic elevator 7, 8 and 9 in the 30s are too hold to be modernized

there is little w that can be done to them any work needs to replace them. so, some parts are old and out dated and no long are manufactured if they fail they cannot be replaced. they are exclude from the contract of had work. and where need the repair possible to ensure they are safe to be used by staff. fast ford later the department secured the funds. and came to public works and hired an architect and consultant and finalized the bid document in john of 22 this year public works advertised in august and this year we received

4 bids. the project was advertised in a manner we asked the bidtory provide a choft for the work and also a separate cost for a 5 year on going maintenance service agreement with the department. after modernization work is completed. public works would award the contract for the modernization scope and the department would award the contract for the 5 year service agreement at the end of the mod everyonization work. 4 bids were compet tim. submitted a cost higher. and -- we review the bid peculiarage and believe the intreps with their cost and the other 3 bidders cost because they made a mistake and they fill out the bid form.

we asked to provide an hourly rate to service the elevators for up to 300 hours. the other 3 provided a cost of 250 dollars per hour and contracting enters an hour low rate of 113, 400 per hour. add 300 hour in this 5 year term this number game 34 million and over. that's why their bid price was higher. i wanted to add a point the low bid was tomorrowed by the combined cost the modernization work for the 5 year term. i want to talk about the lbu.

the project awarded to general contactor the majority of work will be performs by elevator contractor. there are no certified role contractors per the monitoring position. the local business it was behaved by the division. otherwise others are at a 20% dem pending on the scope. monitor division could increase @as a goal or decrease temperature for this project there are no certified contractor for the trade the requirement was waived. after reviewing the builder bid

was the lowest and the lowest responsible and responsive bid. and so -- we are here to request approval to award the construction contract to clw builders to modernize the elvirts at city hall. any questions >> we did not expect to you have a presentation. i have a future more questions i want to you say the words one more time that elevator 7-9 which are now almost 100 years old are trurl safe for the staff to use. i realize the public does in the that does not guilty give me comfort regarding safety of the staff am they are checked every month. it good to hear.

correct. i got reassurance that those 3 are safe to use and being maintained regular low. any abnormalities would be detected and further actions taken to address it. >> thank you very much. >> i had a question about the original cost estimate versus the bids that came in. seems like it was under what the bids were. when accounts for this? the cost estimate that we provide at the time of the bid opening provided by the elevator consultant in 2017. and at this time the estimated that the cost to modernize is 300 thousand dollars. and so when we enter in the design phase the client decided not to engage with a prove cost

estimator. because one of the benefits of having it on a project so we when we do projects we ensure the project is designed to meet the budgets we have and also to it is not over design or under design. when upon need when we over design. for this project decided that is cost estimated service would not be necessary because -- they have the funding and able to sort of -- package the bundle up the elevators to groups and advertise them as bids and sort of accomplish that goal by either awarding the base fit depending what the price point come or the base with plus one or all of the alternates. therefore the cost mate to the original question. there are off buzz they were a

couple years old and not provided boy a professional cost estimator. i urge to use the cost mary lou retton. glad the funds are available for what it will cost but more accurate about what things cost going forward. i had a question it might be general. the high hourly fee for maintenance from the one bidder is like a mistake. if you get that far off and looks strange do you go back and

say, is this really right or not allowed go back to the bidder yoochl if a mathematical error we correct this if it is techical and the bid is open it would be too late. those are my questions on this. supervisor zoubi. i promoted you. >> thank you. >> the share is not as comfortable. thank you for the presentation. links to my request earlier about getting more information beg your pardon how the contract and construction companies or contractors get approved. i noticed that the wing bidder here did not win the bid on a --

another item we will talk about later i don't see a price discount on this. might not know what the nonprice scoring is? that's why i ask for a break down of the nonprice i don't see that. and in that conciliation. can you explain when you mean by nonprice i'm not familiar. >> okay. thank you. i think i may understand the question. the weather we are considering nonprice factors depends on the project delivery methoded we use. some low bid selection.

both base price and on going maintenance and it was based on a low bid delivery. we don't have a nonprice factor this go in this the selection process in this case. if we were using a best value, you see we would city criteria for the other elementsune that might be you know additional safety requirements or demonstrated -- proficiency in working in certain types of challenging locations. and then those would be evaluated by a panel. based on preestablished criteria and a waiting system this fact ours in the price versus nonprice scoring. >> i think we need more training

on that. i would like more trin burglar what the details items and so far. one last question. the winning bidder list subcontractors that are lbe qualified. did they have to submit that information up front? would that be in the application? right n. their bid package they list their subcondition transactors they will hoir for this contract and after they submit the bid package the cmd division would review all of the package and the calculations where they fall in the subcondition tracting mcgonigles

they have i list of the local buildings subcontractors. i was interested in this item as many are important and you can't hear this is better? we work in this building and we do many projects. would be helpful if we get an update a status update? annually about the conscience of the elvirts and doe we do that on other projects i don't feel

this is the most important it is the most visible to me and i remembered the 89 earthquake and seeing our stairways held up with wooden beam and is worked across the street when city hall was closed. if there are other projects dpw is working on for stability like what is happen with those projects, too. >> yea, i think there are a couple of projects that are happening at city hall or about to start. you will be able to have you the opportunity to hear about those projects. i will come back to update you all on the progress of the elevator modernization when we are in construction.

i do hear a motion and second to adopt this item? so moved. >> i will second. >> we will turn to public comment. >> thank you. members who wish to make 3 millions of comment on item 3b, the city hall elevator modernization construction contract award. may lineup against the wall if

in the chamber to speak. if you are call nothing, dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2489 845 4467 ## and press star 3 to enter the speaker queue. does not appear there is anyone in bhorn want to peek on this item. sfgovtv, are there callers on the line? it appears we have 2 call whores would like to peek on this. unmute the first caller. and caller you have 3 minutes to speak and i will provide you with a 30 second warning.

caller are you there? hello, caller? this is the same unattended line. move on to the second caller in the queue, please, sfgovtv. please unmute the second call and you will have 3 minutes to peek on this and i will provide you with a 30 second warning. you can hear me. >> we can hear you. i don't think i have been accused of being a mute caller. dave you'd pilpel again i support the project and the important work to modernize the elevators of city hall but i have occurrence about ceqa on this and a later agenda item n. this case the there is no ceqa

case number. i could not find the exemption referred to on the city planning website. i question whether approximate the code chapter 31 section 31.08f agenda requirements have been met on the agenda itself and the sdaf report does not indicate it was an prove action or a prior approval action it appear this is may be the approval action and should be noted as such temperature is incrediblely important to include the ceqa exemption document as an attachment to staff report in the future and refer to the city planning case number and date in the staff report and the resolution. i would note on the resolution itself, page 4 of the packet at

the baptist last where as is weird. it says where as builders, da, da, da. committed an amount to microlbe's and blank. that should be cloned up. on page 10 this is an administrative cl athe building is historic and referred on page 10 of the packet toot environmental review and the planning department determined but nowhere with that -- does it reference environmental case number or include were a determination with i planner signature as to the environmental status. so, i ask to you consult carefully with the department

city attorney whether you can take action today. whether it meets chapter 1 requirements or defered a future meeting to clean up the. thank you for listening. thank you, call and that concludes -- our public comment for this item. thank you. is there debate or comment on this item. commissioner zoubi. hearing the public my question for chris is that -- deputy city

attorney i believe that the approval action occurred previously and the requirements code 31 have been met. i agree it would be useful to include all documents including -- exemptions in the material that would be a best practice. thank you for the question and comment and we want to adhere to best practices we will look forward to this being done in the future. other debate >> all in favor say, yes. >> yes. >> thank you, secretary fuller this motion passes and secretary

fuller publish the adopted item on our website. weep move on to item 4. mr. full are cough that item. item 4 the contract award for mission branch library renovation r. this contract value is boost 5 million dollars threshold for modification. contract awards to be heard individual low on the regular calendar. this is an action item. and project manager andrew will present this item. >> can you hear me?

good morning i'm andy sewn an architect and project manager. with san francisco public works. with the bureau of architecture. which is boa. and -- my pleasure to present the mission branch library renovation project. i'm joined today boy 2 representatives of the library. john the facility director approximate rebecca who is the chief of branch libraries. mission branch library has served generations of san francisco, 10 sick years old.

it is a hugely important cultural institution for the neighborhood. a beautiful and significant building and worthy project. which has been a language time coming. we start fees at study in 2018. we had community engagement the whole time of endured a slow down for covid. we had many approvals and entitlements. and on the cusp of starting the project. >> the agenda item before sua request to award san francisco public works for the mission branch library renovation project the amount is 23 million

and 20 thousand dollars. the construction duration is 730 calendar days, 2 years to amrosa construction company llc. the project is the complete renovation and expansion of the mission branch library. it is t it is a carnagy library one of 7 in the city. it is one of 3 branches. not reason vatd during the improvement bond of 2,000 there are upon 27 branches in the system 3 were in the renovate in the this bond. the project drivers are worn out building systems and a lack of amenities and out dated library service -- features. the bodiesing the library is located at bartlett and 24th in

the heart of the mission with mission and valencia. in district 9. >> this is in the 1940s the building designed by landsburg and funded by andrew carnagy. this image the building original and to the right the image to the right is theent row to the building which is on the front, that was fill in the in the 97 renovation and the event row was moved to the side you will see that later. this it is of the historic reading room and original, the main feature of the building and the middle. building you see the -- room you see the stair that had come up in the space in the center of the building that was fill in the in the 97 renovation as well. the upon windows are key

features and to the left you see a central window with a clock that was fill in the the then renovation. there was a question this came about the flanking arched areas. those are original plat and never had windows. there are no high book shelves and perimeter shelving. in 97 there was a seismic upgrade. many features from this renovation are out of date. the service style is out of date. there were an electric of amenityis such az community room and restrooms. this project demolished many character defining features the main stair entry and the lecture room on the ground floor.

this will provide updated building features the newark menities include 100% community room. new street and landscape and courtiard reploys the lost historic features. replacing all building system sustain abltd and resiliencey upgrades and restrooms and left low, there is public art component to the project. the next few are rendered views of the project. this is the community room. which is currently houses a circulation desk and offices and is the mainent row to the building our project tell come become to being a community room and the door you see to the right will go out to a fenced

secure courtyard. the art work you see to the left of the image by emanuel montoya part of the san francisco art commission collection. in a well lit niche in this room. is this is the rendering of the restored reading room there will be renovated new finishes and new lighting and new low mobile shelving. flexible furnishings and in the middle you see there is 4 stools there will be a new stair this come up in the original location of the historic stair. to the right, you see the 2 arched plaster openings those remain now there is a back lit

stain glass art piece. she was selected in a community process with the san francisco art's commission. this is a view of corner of bartlett and 24th similar to the historic view you see the courtiard that is ajaycent to the community room. new pedestrian light poles and behave paving and planters on the street and the facade will be restored. street strolls will remain. this is a front view on 24th to the left is the restored main entry this is a big feature the event real on the front of the building where it belongs. to the right the space chaufrpch church on valencia and orange alley the build suggest our addition special had is the front view.

this this is a complete view. the materials are concrete. metal panels, large laced hope opening statements the proportionality is taken from the original building. it is a modern expression. this is in keep with historic standards for rehab. and the idea to give had material at that reflects the original building. there was community engagement in 2018 with community surveys. and open houses. we did numerous meetings over the years we present and heard what the publicmented in the design and came back to them later with design progress updates. we did -- done a lot of that the

san francisco art's commission had a community driven art selection process. that selected one for the stained glass piece and the project was presented numerous times to the san francisco public library commission. the aesthetics were and historic preservation before historic preservation commission and the civic design review commissioner woolford had served on that panel at that time and contributed many good feedback. this is my favorite slide. this project is funded by the library. come from the library preservation fund. we are receiving 5.2 million

from the california state library on their building forward grant, which was awarded to the library this year. bid amount is 23 million dollars higher than our budgeted amount. 16.9 million dollars. the library is aware of the bid amount and securing funding for the variance and supportive of the project. i would like to address the reasons why we are in this position with the bid overage. first, permitting was protracted due to late enforce am of the ordinance. last winter i will explain. this required unanticipated environmental evaluations and added months to our bid start. it is an environmental ordinance that governs hazzard ouz soil mitigation. we were exempt friday that

ordinance from the people that did this in our department and outside of our department that changed during our bidding process. we did have to go back and do -- 2 different environmental evaluations of the soils including drilling in the and outside the building and soils. soils came back clean. this year well documented record high inflation in construction costs. last winter in advanced of the escalations since left spring. it is reported san francisco is

the most expensive city in the world to build in. this is in the alone and getting estimates now in the 1400 dollars to 2 thousand dollars a square foot range. this is where we are with the project. any questions on this slide and why we are here? >> thank you and thank you for draegsz the questions. what triggered the relook at soil conscience approximate possible why some suspect today may be hazardous. the ordinance i'm not an expert they are a map. there are rules about the amount of excavation we have done a plan and given of soils and stuff like that. we had approved site assessment

remediation. and they had given us a waiver. this map changed during our permitting process or there was a misunderstanding and d ph plan checker at dbi made us go through this process. i would like follow up on this issue i presume this is for soil under the community room add-on there was a gas station there. i understand -- could be terrible thing in the soil. i just i want to make sure that the public was served by this what the department recommendation being changed by another group or city department. because it delayed this project and -- my understanding is the citizens of the missionment

their library. redone and so i just not will hold approval but would not mind was this a one off or happen often? if it is soils were deemed clean by the experts someone decide they motive not be. and yet they were turned out they were clean want to be sure this does in the always happen and holdup projects in the future. thank you. we can do background and -- see if this happened before and why and also may have been a code if the maps changed may have been a legal requirement. we'll get that and brief you. >> sounds great.

thank you i have 2 quick questions. first one. the building is in the deemed historical. i noticed that in the demolition portion of the presentation, it -- commissioner zoubi. should we let him finish his presentation. >> that slide. no let me finish i and the build suggest historical. >> what portion of that 6 million dollars difference was this? i don't know. if there was no finding and --

we did not have to do anything. the next is our tab lagz we received bids this were 2 bidders, amrosa construction and clw builders mentioned earlier. the winner is amrosa construction. and this project was done in a best value process. so -- on this slide well is a

nonprice score. we had solicited not only a bid process but qualification peculiarage and had a panel of professionals that were selected and approved by the monitoring division review the nonprice qualification packages and they were scored i think 7 huh human was the highest. we had a preestablished crip terwhere with historic architect. experienced digging deep are foundations. are urban projects and stuff like that. clw is microlbe they are entitleed a bid discount. on this form, amrosa was the low bidder accounting for clw bid discount.

the 2 things factored the bid price and nonprice and making them the winner. does nod mean amrosa does not have local enterprise contracting in the requirement will is 20% which they have met. of has decades of building experience with numerous projects we have -- track referred with them in our department with the projects this are listed on the slide including the creek maintenance facility. they have real experience with rehab projects including the

african town center and there was a request about construction oversight for historic portions of the project. that will be by our public works construction managers. and outside consultant historic preservation architect. the schedule are we received bid in mid august established our best value store. which is the same as a bid opening we hope to award today and 2 minutes we are assume to notice to proceed will take us to february with 2 years of construction. we do feel ha2 years is the right number for construction. there being be events that

happen on site that would change that. but -- if the project is able to proceed we think that -- 2 year schedule is sufficientment that concludes my presentation we "aworried for the project for amrosa construction. happy to take questions >> therapy. i have comments i will wait on and i appreciate you answering my questions i'm grateful for that. does the commission have questions on this project. >> commissioner segal. i'd like to remine the commission -- that i asked this on prior meetings would be great

if each we are looking at or construction projects if there is an address because i sit here during our meet and go on google maps. so what i did while you were reporting was i locked up the address and what it says does in the match your photographs that is 1234 valence enthusiasm i was going to say the address on the location. it is 300 bartlett. 1234 valence why is the temporary soit they moved out and preparation and had to do our -- class 2 soils and things like that. >> i did see that on the earlier slide and made a note i locked

back. if all of your we are not familiar, lees, include the address it is simple and if we want to look at it prior to meetings or online it would be helpful. looks like a wonderful project you must be excite body starting temperature i want it say, good luck. >> thank you very much. >> commissioner zoubi. >> back to my historical question. the demolition of nonhistorical what parts other historical how is this going to be monstored. . the event and to demolition is given in drawings and monitored through conventional construction observation and inspection it is -- an odd thing to think you got a historic

building but doing selected deming liz it is a rehab not restoration there are degrees what historic properties if there were monticello we would not be doing this. there will be on the west facade to allow for a new opening in the building addition that is the biggest piece where there is a loss of historic fabric we maintain that stuff in storage we take off. others are where we put it back like the stair. that is in the historic now it was -- ma nip lit in the 97. so the stuffy was built in 97 and the old building already been demolished. so there is virtually no historic fabric or character

features left on the first floor of the building. >> the clock? the clock is not going anywhere. tell stay where it is. yea. all of those features in the reading room will be maintaind and restored. there will be limitedent row in the walls to do work on the west side. in 1997 they opened the room up in many place and so it is its a careful dance with & we work the historic planners to come up with this we did a lot of due dill jenls. have a certificate of appropriateness for the project. the last question. after the 97 and the 2022 project, how much of historical part of that building we will

have? >> the entire facade the structure of the building, the entire reading room on the interior. this buildings was landmark in 2002, and the one of the things interesting is that the insteer yors of the library the reading rooms are specific low landmarked. we have strict rowel when is we can and can't do with those rooms. >> thank you. thank you. do i hear a motion and second to adopt this item? >> we will turn to public comment. members of public who wish to comment on item 4 of the construction contract award for the mission branch library renovation, may lineup against the wall.

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the magic of technology. dave you'd pilpel again. again i support the personal project i still have ceqa concerns. i think than i are -- not concerns that are fatal to approval today. the city planning case number here that was referred to somewhere on the staff report bottom of page low is the -- project application file which is not a typical ceqa determination. this was confusing to me. i think it is important to include the ceqa exemption document as an attachment and refer to the case number and date in the staff report.

the library commission was to be on one moment. sorry. on page 4 of that document and indicates the project approval action to be the vote of the library commission. nowhere in the staff report today did i see that the library commission actually acted on this. on the b. page 2 it lists various approvals at -- planning commission, h pc regarding the art's commission on civic design review but does not include the library commission approved the project if than i did, great. and in general i think it is

important these projects with complicated approval paths to indicate in the staff report not just that they were approved elsewhere but when dates they occurred the first approval but in -- probably all of the approval dates i'm sure staff has temperature i don't need to hear that i think going forward will be useful to say, thanks. useful to say planning approveod this date, thank you to the staff for their good work on this. thanks. >> i have the go to another thing and i will be back. >> okay.

sfgovtv indicates there is one other caller who has joined. you have 3 minutes to speak on this item, the mission branch library renovation. i will give you a 30 warning. hello caller? no further callers. thank you, sfgovtv. that concludes public comment on this item. >> thank you. i have a couple comments. were you involved in the design? i like to thank you. >> you are welcome and commends you for beautiful work. and -- for your service to san francisco. >> thank you.

i have to also chuckle the 1997 upgrade i'm not sure i would use upgrade to describe what was done. thank you for reversing the changes and for delivering the plans are a beautiful project. now dpw will do the hard work done i look forward to the department deliver thanksgiving project to your qualifications and your pleasure. you noted there were 2 other people who took the time and trouble to attends the meeting are they hear i would like to hear from them if than i are here? good afternoon, commissioners i'm rebecca and i'm the chief branch for the public library. submission our branches.

i am so excited, pleased, gratified about this project and forward. i know the community members have been waiting for it. t they have been vocal in letting us know and will be good to say, here we go! we are doing this! and i have been a part of many of the community meeting when is we were in the design phase including the meeting in spanish for many of our care givers. tfgs easy to nap when they were asking for temperature has been a pleasure working with public works and their teamful on making sure that we are

delivering. for the community. at the end of the day that is important. thank you. thank you for attending the meeting today. good morning i'm john i'm the newly appointed director of facilities for the public library. i have been in my position for 5 months but my first week i got to go to the commission of the temporary location for the mission branch. this is a project that new to me is dear it is something that a part of the process is happening as i happened with the library. i'm excited and want to echo your comments the plans are beautiful and i love the concept of going become to a helpful cal build and i'm looking forward being i part of t. >> thank you. i didn't think it sounds like

you may have fun being able to assist in the process and participate. good for you. sounds terrific. why thank you those are my comments if there it is no further debate all in favor say, yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> the motion passes. secretary fuller will publish this to the commission website. >> prior to moving on to item 5 i would like to call for a short break. it is 12:08 convene at item 5 award of contract for as needed architectural services for healing facilities. this contract's value is above the million dollars thresh hold for professional service contracts to be heard on the regular calendar.

this is an action item. and bureau manager june will present this item. good afternoon are commissioners. thank you for this opportunity to present this request for award for professional services for architectural house facilities. this is for asy needed services. for healing facilities. there are a lot of poles we are maintaining my group is under the deputy director almeida and my bureau project consultant services manages all of the as needed professional services as well as the kruck services.

contract. in addition, of forms we have an aushthure after service for house facilities only. these forms with expertise in hospitals. these are designed for those projects. and this contract we are asking for award is for 2 million dollars. and it is depend for 5 years. and the winning form is perkins eastman architects the scope of work in the rfq is providing services. and -- other special because they have subcontractors as well under their team. so depending on the need of the

project for the house facilities they will prosecute void architectural and other special services. a quick back ground this is an -- scheduled each pool is about 3-4 years and every time we get to a dead liner the expiration of those pools we go out again and rfq this . is a snapshot of the previous pool. we had 4 contracts awarded. the total capacity was 9 million and we awarded contract service orders worth 6.3 million urined the 4 contracts for consultants. and projects included laguna

honda projectd and chien that town public health center performed under the old contracts. and to renew that pool of consultants we put out an rfq left year september of 21. got 4 propose everies and we awarded 3 contracts one of the proposals was -- none -- not responsive did not qualify to the requirements of the rfq. out of the 3 we awarded 2 million each for a total of sick million. since we needed 4 contracts our consultants we advertised last year and that is what we are trying to award now. we advertised the rfq august of

sorry. this year august 2022, and received 2 proposals. and they were evaluated by our panel members. and -- the number one rank is perkins architects. and the evaluation and the proposals monitoring as well and recommended award to the number one firm. we are proposing to award 2 million dollars as well. for the contract. that's all i want to say. thank you. commissioner zoubi. thank you for your presentation

to get the math. together we have had a -- budget of 6 million dollars. right. we were supposed to -- get 4 contractors. have that correct? >> actually advertised for 4 contracts 2 million each. 8 million total. >> what happened is we had 4 -- 4 -- bidders one was not sponsive. we got 3 and now another 2 million dollars contract. >> yes. >> thank you. no further question system there a motion and second to adopt this item >> so moved. >> given the motion we will turn to public comment.

member who is wish to make 3 machines of comment on item 5 the contract award for as needed aushthureal services for healing facilities lineup against the wall if you are in the chamber. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2489 845 4467 ## and press star 3 to enter the speaker queue. it does not appear we are members look to speak in the chamber. sfgovtv, do we have callers in the queue? they are indicating we don't have public commenters on this. that conclued public comment. >> thank you. debate on this motion?

hearing none, all in favor of this motion say, yes. >> yes. yes, i don't hear, no's. the motion passes. secretary fuller will publish the adopted item to our website and thank you for attending the meeting. >> we move on to item number 6, mr. full are call that item. >> item 6 the over view of the public works department infrastructure design and construction bureau of engineering. bureau manager will present this item this is an informational item.

good afternoon. acting bureau manager of bureau of engineering been with public works for 32 years. thank you for the opportunity to present to you the over view of the engineering. before i go in that, i would like to share with you brief history of bureau of engineering. created 123 years ago. as one of the 4 original bonjourose under public works. first was to organize and regulate construction and being projects. since then the bureau has been the forefront of helping san francisco evolve to meet the changing city and keep it safe and beautiful. to engineering and project delivery. examples of the key projects in the past never [inaudible] include construction and improvement of embarcadero market, octavia. stockton and lombard street. the bureau of engineer nothing

public works has a great legacy of the old evaluate city departments. some of the functions that are performed today boy other departments were performed by public work engineering. construction of high pressure fire system. most of this early municipal railway and lines have related tunnel. and hetch hetchy damns reservoir and tunnels. and the pipeline to bring water to san francisco. where design and built under the leadership and guidance of the past city engineers. [inaudible] and water system was transferred to puc in 1932 with the formation of the new san francisco department puc. traffic engineering division, existed under public works until

early 1990. then it was transferred to parking authority and became d. parking and traffic. though we continue to perform traffic work today. give you an idea where we fall in the organization i report to city engineer and we are one of the 4 burroughs under the infrastructure and design and construction division. with the total of 222 positions, bureau of engineering is the san francisco's largest design bureau. there are total of 8 sections in the bureau. 4 under each of the deputy managers. these are hide rollick, mechanical, electric, structure

ral and engineering. regular affairs. record management and disability access code and intersections. for streets and highways mechanical and electrical have been approved they have been approved and the reway suspicions for record management is going through the press i'm working with human resources for recruitment and selection press we anticipate filling the positions over the next several months. >> thank you. the staff full range of

professional services including program and master planning and studies conceptual and design for construction replacement and improve ams of range of right-of-way infrastructure budgets upgrade of public buildings and facilities as well as open space projects. engineering improve am techniques applied optimize the funds and deliver within a scope schedule and budget. the same time meeting the project objectives and ensure compliance with the code regulations and standards. now i will give you over view of each section. electrical engineering seck, electrical staff provides electric, controls and engineer in a wide range. infrastructure, public buildings and stability projects. electrical engineers perform

energy and [inaudible] and electrical system studies and design for low and medium power deliberation system, lighting and liting control. safety, data and process. [speaking very fast] approximate upgrade of street lighting infrastructure to meet the mobility and transportation needs. this light shows examples of few projects i would like to highlight one of them. almeida creek watershed center. it was once originally nothing but an open space. with the water that significantified the joining of multiple water sources the water tempo was open to the public, which was general low not appealing and less like low for public to enjoy. this project created a welcoming community and education at center with landscaping that

provides native plant and a man-made pond. it has education [inaudible] and aquarium housing native fish over look the pond. engineers provided support in developing the project including for utility power. sew solar for graen manager and designs for the lighting, telecommunication, security, emergency and fire alarm systems. next hydraulic engineering. the staff focuses on improving the wastewater collection infrastructure. cities sewer and treatment system under the jurisdiction of public works until 1997. when then mayor brown transferred to sfpuc. public works design teams work

on the system remained at public works. the result. puc has a jurisdiction at over the system public works continued to remain the 73's team responsible to analyze and design the sewer system including making recommendations to meet the level of service and improve performance. the staff designs 15 miles of sue are facilitiesanualy. the team agreed to the [inaudible] for the city wide sewer network and continues to maintain it and update it on behalf of our about client sfpuc and credited a computer hydraulic model for the sewer system met work watch the knowledge and responsibles of the system, the staff continues to collaborate with puc in performing other engineering such as investigation of

complaints and claims, responding to inquiries and reviewing the projects learning low all development projects for compliance with the design related to the sewer system. i would like to highlight a project --il take green infrastructure project. this project was in the mission neighborhood. just south of the caesar chavez street on mission and valencia corridor. the scope included instruction of 11 biodetention basins. also construction with a plaza and raised bike way. the intent was to manage the primary intent was to manage the storm water run off. it beautified streets and improved street for safety of pedestrianed and bicyclists.

and to the advantage of the natural processes of pleasants to slow the water and go in the grounds. required [inaudible] of be conflicts during construction. the board successful low resolved and the project completed in a timely manner. this project required significant amount of coordination and collaboration with other agencies such as mta. st. lounge's hospital for sidewalk expansion project this need to connect to our elements. and the community for the activation of the plaza. and the bike coalition to the raised bike path way. of this project is estimateed reduce 1 and a half million gallons of storm water from entering the sewer system during a typical wet weather year. reducing the treatment cost as

well as energy consumption at the treatment plant. next section is the mechanical engineering section. mechanical engineering provides full range services and public building and steel system facilities and right-of-way infrastructure projects. projects for public buildings and facilities involve planning, design other invasion and maintenance of mechanical systems that includes heating, ventilation, fire protection and plumbing. the projects range from small office building to a large scale like [inaudible] general hospital. and the involved design of complex mechanical processes and stele for the industrial waste pump station and process. the design to meet complex

demands of efficiency, quality and projectivity of the mechanical systems and ensure safety and well being of those who work and operate the facilities. staff in the mechanical engineering prepared design for irrigation systems, and open spaces as well as cities of water supply system used for fire protection. i will highlight mission -- [inaudible] pump station located at the intersection of mariposa and illinois. this included complete wetreplacement of wastewater pump station and upgrade was necessary because of the improvement in the mission bay neighborhood. that include the ucsf children's hospital and the worryior

warrior stadium. engineers collaborated with the design develops. hydraulic, electric, instrument and control engine and structural engineers hydraulic engineers and architectural and landscape staff. next is street design for cities over 900 miles of city streets. goal of the program to make sure streets are safe for people to walk, bike, drive and take transit and maintained accessible.

our engineers design 500 city blocks per year related to this program to minimize the disturbances to the neighborhoods and excavation of new paved streets engineers coordinate and collaborate with other city programs. as a result, majority become multidevelop projects. team provides arrive way design services to land agency for their projects sfmta muni period of time and [inaudible] and design of streets that are under the jurisdiction of san francisco port as well as rec and park department. picture on the left is a paving project on clipper street. on the right a street construction project on actastia boulevard.

streets on the intersection also have a design for street scape project and suburban and design. straight scape include street make overs and corridor beautification. ma sony avenue from gear tow fell was on high injury network there was detailed design -- for the [inaudible] project take nothing consideration the ideas received through the community engagement process. working with mta and puc we made it safer for drivers. for bicyclists and pedestrians with the corny bulb outs and the separated bike lane. and improving muni sufficient

with the transit bulbs and the widen sidewalk and new infrastructure such as landscaping, street lighting, planters, trees and a plaza on the public art. example it is of other projects this section designed include jefferson street scape phase one and phase 2. and tree plaza and the second street project that is under construction you may have visited this project. try to move accessibility to make stan san francisco accessible for everyone. our program projects and [inaudible] projects in the right-of-way include improve ams of the carbon work. with contributions from the section we intend to project to

construct 800 curb r.s during this year. next is structure ral. our team of structurural engineers deliver projects related construction and improvement of public buildings and infrastructure. including infrastructures. with the experience and knowledge of the soil conditions throughout san francisco the engineers provide design measures and engineer for structurural design work. some examples of the service of our structurural engineers design of buildings, bridges and infrastructure facilities under ground sewer. pump stations and the office structures.

side evaluations assess ams and feasibility studies make risk analysis and evolutions construction engineering, seismic rehab and [inaudible]. ground improve am and -- mitigation. i would highlight my project useless this one. provided the design for the pump station. this was the first to utilize soil freezing and the shoring system for excavation next to the shore line and 30 feet deep. soil is frozen prior to excavation circulating chilled brian through freeze pipes creating a frozen wall. actually, puc is going to be hosting a celebration event next

tuesday for the completion of this project. the other project i would like to highlight is monument stair case the interesting thing about this project is how it is being built. because it it is oi a steep terrain it is limited space most work is manual labor. next section is disability access code intersection. under the title 2 of the american disability act, any and public entity 50 or more employees required designate an individual who the coordinate the requirements pertaining to the ad a. accessibility requirements. major's office of disability is

a city wide coordinator for the san francisco. we also have our departments. regular -- this coordinators -- dast with plans to title 2 of the ad a and other regulations. required accessibility for personal disability to fasill uts and right-of-ways. this team conducts design reviews for ensure the compliance with the accessibility requirements. compliance standards and procedures to implement accessibility requirements. evaluates alternates and solutions. and provide technical training to project and program managers, [inaudible] engineers and the

inspectors pertaining to the accessibility requirements. next section is regular affair section. this section is responsible to ensure our compliance with the environmental laws and regulation as well as obtain environmental permits for projects quickly as possible. this unit serves the official link to the office of the environmental planning in the planning department and cal-trans office of local assistance. through the quality control program ensures the environmental project commitments are met. the next and last section is record's management section. this section is integral in management of project fold scombers do you remembers for archives and [inaudible] projects. to give you a sense we have an archive of 5 million documents, drawings, report and et cetera .

and almost equal number of documents for the active projects. during here the interesting fact during the 1906 quake and fire we lost most our records. in 1908 public works inspection crews went street to street and inspected suers and man holes and documented finding in all right size books. weave have the books and they are still relevant and useful in our engineers use it today even designing the projects for the sewers. this slide provides an over view of wide range of -- client agencies we provide our service. and these are in addition to the services that the bureau provides our internal programs. the client agency projects

involved from office buildings to hospital and health care facilities and police and fire stations and recreation, public libraries and infrastructure facilities in theerate of way like sewer, water system, traffic signal and street lighting, et cetera . this slide shows the active project of the active projects by client. we have total 286 projects. and you see the puc is our largest client. this slide shows the break down of active projects by phase. bureau of engineering staff provides services on all phases of the project. on many of our projects, our engineers collaborate with burroughs other burroughs in the

department construction management and mapping and architect and landscape architecture and provide engineering consultations to our internal program and project managers and operation staff and to our client agencies as well as review large scale housing development to ensure that the proposed improvements recommended in the right-of-way meets the design standard and criteria and establish standards. and applicable codes and resolutions and requirements. mission rock, development south of the mission croak is one of the examples of the large scale housing development project. our section managers also take on the role of project manager on some of projects.

i am like to answer the question of the maintenance project and the bowero's role after the close out. for every project the contract includes the warrant period and during this time contractors are responsible to correct the defects that are found within the warranty period. additional low projects like street scape and green infrastructure have a maintenance p.ed contractors -- also provide services to ensure the plant will be established. for our internal street improvement and street scape projects our operation crews

maintain the frequent cites. other assets and facilities we provide the engineering services maintained by staff of the land agencies. a lot of them also hire public works operation to provide the services related maintenance and repair of facilities. bureau of engineering is available to provide consultation services to our program project managers and operation staff and client agencies when there is a need for it. if there are defects found -- the projectses and -- our operation staff are -- the construction management staff meat needs consultation we

provide the service related to those instance. this concludes my general over view of bureau of engine earring and thank you very much for your time and i will now try to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you very much. for this interesting and comprehensive presentation. . giving a lot of good background on hall do and what your colleagues dom i have a couple questions. one was -- your last point about project maintenance. after dpw delivers a love low public protect to a city client is that client involved in long the way in anticipating maintenance as i understands it

is not in their gentleman you will notpate maintain it that will be the library in that package. i want to are sure there is no disconnect there is partnership long the way from the get go. that -- long-term maintenance and costs is all we a part of any and you are dog a lot of the real structural work that will have to be maintained may be behind the walls. and may be this is a larger credit for the director short for a future meeting. i want to be sure that once public projects are delivered that they don't go to seed to be blunt. i'm sorry that was not our

responsibility we built it we are not responsible. that's true. it should not have been fwhlt way. whatever you see my found. i just would like to know that -- when all the projects are delivered and are going as planned and materials are chosen and you are working with many client agencies. long-term maintenance and costs and who will do it and this it is done right, et cetera, is all a part of delivering the very often complex and expensive projects we should get right the first time and not go back and regret the material choice was the wrong choice or a location

was not the best location the people main point it out and the people planning and and doing it should have known. if i have me assurance. in general, then projects are going to planning and design fasz we have operations from the planning department participating through the progression of the planning phase laz as design phase. there are reports created. the input regards to what you like to see in the new facilities in we keep in mind the ease of maintenance and ease for them to maintain and access the facility or equipment for such work.

also sign off on the reports. including the engineering report. their feedback continue to -- you know see incorporate in the design phase. provide submittals to them.

they are familiar because they have significant amount and daily i operations and maintenance staff that perform the maintenance work. >> greatest am thank you. anything to add there. i want to be sure that when a beautiful example pavement is chosen for a plaza that the end user did not come back later and say, we can't maintain temperature too expensive. you should not have done temperature if clients who will maintain and budget. budgeting proper low to maintain it can't come back and say you never asked us. we would have told you we can't budget that amount to maintain

this project. i would like to be sure that is not happening. keep have those conversations the beauty we have our own maintenance and operation's starch it makes us aware of maintenance and needs. there have been times a clined or project lected chos something expensive too to min tain can cautionary tale we don't recommend this or cannot restore this in kind.

i will tick a moment since i have a soap box to say as a city i think we need to do a better job sort of universal low within the city family of -- ensuring we have sufficient maintenance funds for new capitol projects. i think that it is easier to secure capitol funds. than to secure maintenance fund there is are different colors of money as my colleagues in the room will tell thank you is a personal crusade we need to ensure that we have sufficient maintenance funds for every capitol project and we are not where we mead to be with this in my personal opinion. joy value your person opinion and hope that will emphasize that when you are interviewed regarding the new permanent director this will be hired.

that you will discuss that with the search firms doing search and should you be doing the candidates. what a great opportunity to start a preserve and make this a higher priority and change with when you described so it does not keep happening. thank you. commissioner segal. thank you so much. >> you are welcome. diprosecute nouns your name? >> yes. >> speaking of that, this highlights how important it is to have the staff person giving a comprehensive report and a critical report about what we do, to have their name especially where we are a diverse city with there, a lot of names from different languages and culture its is important to see their name

printed. going forward, secretary fuller can you make sure that the names of the staff reporting are on the staff reports are listed? so -- so i want to thank you so much. i wish this had been at our first meeting although we had other things to deal with we were organized but this is what the public cease one of the huge questions for people where do we interact when director short said there was in her report there was press that was criticizing us but not us. so. this is people need ton this. i think i mention today and past meetings that it would be really helpful for us to have the website and i'm thinking may be possible and i don't know if this is your department or it.

when they see a project to click on where they and are finds out what the project is and who is responsible for it. that would be so helpful. i think in all of us the way that we operate but this your report today was great. it was not just for the commission it was for the public. and that -- there is so many questions this they have about how we interact with other agencies and we are responsible for had they see. we are on the surface.

the client's chart was interesting. thank you. i have one final question you may not know the answer to why are curb ramps that bright yellow color? >> for the disability purpose. changing the surface elevations and terrain. >> for people who are visual low impaired having a high contrast between the r. and the surrounding area, that's why they are the bright yellow it provides the high contrast. if you have a limited disability contrast is that signal to use. >> thank you. if 30 no further questions. excuse me, commissioner zoubi. >> thank you and it is great to

know what you are doing and i'm visual i like the pictures, too. questions about -- why is it that type of material? what is special about that yellow material that the r. is made of? it has truncated dome it prevents you know -- it is not slippery. it is less slip row. it has truncated domes you may have -- seen it. or -- prevents slippage. >> thank you. i could add more as well. so, in addition to the yellow providing the high contrast the truncated zones are also if you are visual low imper se exclude

using a cane the domes provides the indication this is where the curb r. is the combination of the contrast and the design of the domes. they meet slip codes it should not be slippery. it is the cost. so, all right. we will move to public comment on this item. >> members of public who wish to make comment on item 6 the

bureau of engineering over view line up against the wall. if you are call nothing remote dial 415-655-0001 then access code: 2489 845 4467 ## and press story 3 to enter the speaker queue. stlr 9 in the hearing room wish to speak. sfgovtv, do we have member of the public wishing to speak? on the item there are indicating there is one caller. please unmute. have you 3 millions and i will provide you with a 30 second warning. it is david pilpel on item 6 the

bureau of engineering on page 5 the chart, it -- not for today but in the future as the charts are presented i like the bottom line with the number of positions by section great thou have another line with initial positions vacant by section so we can see that even if it is a snapshot. i within become to the june first of 22 notify transfer of functions under charter section 4 opinion 132 had the bureau of street and sewer repair was broken and up sewer repair sent to puc and the street repair fujsz with dbr and created the

whatever it is. i thought that sewer sdpien moved puc but did not. i'm currently of the view that positions that work only on mta and puc projects perhaps should be spun off to mta and puc. i recognize that is again a transfer of functions under charter section 4 opinion 1 there the mayor implement with the next year avenue budget and may have implications for indirect cost allocations. i'm thinking that otherwise well is over head at mta and puc and dpw and duplication of project management and design functions. i'm happy to learn more if i'm wrong. i may have comments on the organization structure during the budget process on

consolidating administrative support functions. seems like record management that disability access section and affairs perhaps could be in admin support function rather than reporting up in the way they do. i'm open to changes and may be ways to cluster the functions with other elements -- thanks. with other elements. record avenue management might have stuff stored in the broadway tunnel and twin peeks. the main point is they are good projects. well designed and built serving the city well especially general fund departments and after the round of upon presentations you are finishing may be able to. thank you your time is expired. >> could i finish my sentence.

>> please finish your sentence. thank you, i was trying to say after this presentation have an annual over view of the various functions in the department at the division level. thanks for listening. >> thank you. caller and -- sfgovtv do we have other callers on this item? we do not that concludes public comment for this over view. is there further discussion from the commission. again thank you for your presentation today it was very helpful. we will move on to item number 7 secretary full are call that item. >> item 7 is the adoption of the proposed rules of order for the commission. commissioner new hughs-segal

lead the sdufthz rules of order have been november fourth meeting of the commission. and on the november 14th meeting of this commission the body moved postpone this item to today for further consideration of suggestions made in public comment. since november 14th a working group of chair post and commissioner segal revised the rules of order with the city attorney's office. and commission staff. notice of the consideration of the rules was posted public low 10 days ahead of this hearing on november 22nd and a copy of rules were posted public low on november 29th. fulfilled the notice and posting requirements this is an action item. i want to note that there are 2

omissions in article 1 section 5. on page 3. will being correct in the the final draft the oshg mission of the word, conduct in 2 places in paragraphs 1 and 2. >> thank you secretary fuller i'd like to thank commissioner segal and date city attorney for work on this document and in good shape for us today. any questions from the commission on this item? do i hear a motion and second to adopt the item? i second. >> thank you. given the motion we'll turn to public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 machines of comment on item 7 which is the adoption of the public works rules of order, may lineup against the wall if

here in the chamber if you are calling in remote dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2489 845 4467 ##, press star 3 to enter the speaker queue. it does not appear we have members of the public in the chamber wish to speak on this item. sfgovtv is indicating we have one caller wish to speak on this item. who call in the. please unmute the caller and you have 3 machines to speak and 30 seconds of warning from me. >> great. daved pilpel on the resolution itself at the end of the fourth where as i think that is where it should say, and be it

resolved. the first resolved can say and be it further resolved. there is a be it before the first resolved missing. some of my suggestions were incorporated and i appreciate that. others may be considered another time i would have a section on the director specify annual performance reviews for the secretary and director and change of the must and will language throughout to essential. i think it is more clear. it still a bit legalistic and wooden but can be softened up over time. may be and i suspect will be changes in commission practice perhaps other changes in law. changes in commission practice like the order of business you mifind that you want to move the director's report to a different accomplice in the agenda. this will be reflected in future

amendments. there is a reference to the california political practices act. it it is the california political reform act the fair political practices commission they implement the reform act. thanks again for considering my suggestions i'm happy to do another pass of time familiar this helps no objection to adopting this today. i would encourage it be reviewed and updated periodically and i say, thank you. >> thank you, caller. and it appear we don't have any other callers wish to speak on this item. that concludes public comment. >> thank you, deputy city attorney tom, do you have changes you would like to make to the document in light of mr. pilpel's suggestion today if you need a moment before aroundingil

turn to commissioner new hughs-segal who has a comment. . commissioner segal. i asked okay to pass it the mr. pilpel's suggestion about changing the name of act. that might be critical. but i would -- i would go with whatever we are advised by city attorney and i do want to thank everybody who is here mr. fuller, commissioner post, all of you for beering with us on work hard on this document, which was is helpful to have and important to have although not required for us to have it to operate. worked hard on this and i want to thank mr. pilpel for your

interest in this so. thank you very much and your input. thank you commissioner segal we will take a pause until deputy

city attorney gets the recommendation. thank you. thank you. commissioners. so, my recommendation would be to add one more correction of typo the reference on page 2. to the the now states california political practices act refer to california fair political practices commission regulations. >> thank you. mr. topp any other changeings to the document? from your point of view. >> i have no further recommendations. >> thank you very much. >> we have a motion but i would like to provide a new motion to adopt the rules of order amended by department city attorney tom. thank you. any debate? okay. hearing no debate all in favor of adopting the rules of order as amended say, yes. >> yes, yes, yes. i don't see abstentions. the motion passes.

secretary fuller will publish our adopted rules of order to the website and thank mr. pilpel for diligence and bird dog thanksgiving document and making good suggestions he pointed out we did adoptful thank you. >> okay. now upon we'll move on to item the next item, item 9. we would need to for item 8 in order to postpone we need motion the postponement and take public comment. >> okay. >> thank you very much. is there a notion postpone what was item 8 the update on the hiring to the next meet nothing 2 weeks. >> i so move >> second. >> thank you. >> we'll open to public comment.

this item, thank you. members of public who wish to make 3 machines of comment on the postponement of item 8 to the december 16th meeting may lineup. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2489 845 4467 ## and press star 3 to enter the queue. there is no one coming forward. sfgovtv do we have callers? there are no caller that

concludes public comment. >> thank you very much. it is -- any debit on the motion it post phone next meeting? all right. no further debate all in favor say, yes. >> yes, >> yes, >> i don't hear no's. the motion passes. thank you very much. and we look forward to an update at the next meeting now move on to item 9. secretary fuller, call that item >> new business initiated by commissioners and this is an informational item. >> does the commission have new business to initiate? hearing none we will now move on to item 10. secretary full are call this

item. >> item 10 is general public comment if continued from item one if necessary. this item is in the necessary as we did not exceed the initial 15 minute period. >> thank you. mr. fuller do we have remaining business. >> there is nell further business on the agenda. >> hearing no objection i adjourn the meeting we meet on friday december 16th. it is 1:27 p.m. thank you.

>> we're the public works construction management team. >> so public works has been involved in the redevelopment of mission bay since its inception in the late 90s, which is almost 20 years. i've been here about four years, these guys have been here in several years, and there have been a lot of people who have been here before us to construct what you see today. about a block from here is the bay. most of mission bay was a cove,

marshy land, and debris from the 1906 earthquake was brought here to fill in the land, part of what you see here today. >> our team is proud to be a part of the mission bay redevelopment project to help the city grow. >> when you come out to mission bay, you'll see parks of all kinds of. parks for kids, parks for dogs, and parks with a view. >> before long, you'll see one of the largest parks in mission bay. >> so before chase center development started, there were very little utilities, so some of the utilities that we constructed including low pressure reclaim mains, joint trench utilities, which enabled us to underground pg&es

utilities, many things that used to be above ground. >> one of the things about mission bay, it's a separated system. in the city, everything is combined, so storm and sewer goes down to the treatment plant, but mission bay, the plan was to reduce the burden on the overall treatment system, so this kind of enabled the rain water flow to flow in the right direction and make it to our stormwater pump station which is about a block away. >> we will be demolishing all of what we're standing on now and the track ways and raising it to grades, and a couple of days from now, we'll be putting fresh asphalt on it. so what you're looking at is 16 street. and behind us is terra francois

street. >> we manage a lot of different agencies between contractors, developers, and designers. we over came a variety of challenges to meet the chase center opening. >> central poles can't move too much because they have to be in the right position for drivers. right underneath me is a water supply for fire suppression, so it was scheduled to go right over where the pipe was going to sit, so various city agencies had to meet together to make sure there weren't any conflicts in the field. so next time you're in mission

bay and you see city poles like this, you might think it was an easy installation, but there's seven different agencies building new construction here in mission bay to make sure. not only can it be built right, but it had to be >> the board of san francisco waterfront stretches 7 and a half miles and while it seems it will always be there, our waterfront needs us. san francisco faces coastal flooding due to climate change with expecting sea level rise up to 7 feet by the year 2100. we also need to strengthen the wateren front gaest urblth quake risk. the waterfront resilience program is leading a city wide effort to adapt the waterfront kaess this unique combination of risks. what is at stake?

small businesses nearby housing open spaces and attractions and initial historic district, mare i time and industrial use, transportation like bart and muni, critical drinking and wastewater utility and disaster response facility. guided by robust public engagement process since 2018, the port and city and federal agency partners have developed waterfront adaptation strategies for public review and engagement. adaptation strategies are a combinationf construction projethss and policies to defend san francisco against flood and earthquake riskbs to create a resilient sustainable equitalb waterfront for the next 100 years. we'll need to use different approaches dependling on the unique characteristics of each neighborhood and shoreline. continuing to defend locations against current and future flooding at the shoreline while defending further inland in other locations to create

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firefighter for the san francisco fire department. i served active duty in the navy. i wanted something that was going to be in the medical field, but not necessarily stay in a hospital setting and i didn't want to stay in an office and this job kind of combines everything i was looking for. everyday's different. there's always something new and to learn. and my first introduction to the department was being surrounded by people of the lgbtq community. and so we were able to get, you know, it just made things a little more comfortable that you could talk to people about things that people necessarily wouldn't understand. i've had to hide myself. able to come out. being able to understand many his and being able to do things in had that sense, it's very liberating to be able to speak like this, this city in particular, it's a mecca for

the lgbtq+ community. you know, there's so much history behind it and being part of this community that now accepting us for who we are and what we do, we're able to just be ourselves. any time somebody finds out i am a member of the gay community, i don't get anybody talking about me, nothing at all. it's just oh, cool. you have a partner? like yes, i do. they start asking about that and how my life is. you become part of the family and here in the san francisco fire department it really is just one big family. you know, it was my dream to be a san francisco fire department member and i'm here.

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made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well.

so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the

sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this

show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians.

when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into

a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents,

if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. november 15, 2022 hybrid virtual meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. we'll start with announcement. >> we would like to start to start the meeting with land acknowledgment. we the entertainment commission, acknowledge that we're on the ancestor homeland of the ramotisohloni. ne have never seeded lost nor forgotten their responsibility as care takers of this place. as guest we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by

affirming their soverne rights. this meeting is being held with a meeting occurring in-person broadcast live on sfgovtv or listened to by calling 1669-900-6833 using meeting id, 86129136957. we welcome the public participation during comment period. there will be an opportunity for general public comment. and there will be an tunlt to comment on each discussion or item on the agenda. each is limited to 3 minutes. public comment will be taken in-person or remote by call-in. and then from people attending the meeting remotely. for those a tepding the person, please fill out a speaker card

located at the side table or podium, come autopsy to the podium during public comment. state your name and affiliation and comment. once finished hand your card to the person behind the podium. if calling by phone, dial star-9 when your item of interest comes up. please call from a quiet location, speak slowly and slowly and turn down the television radio. be sure to mute it, alternative while we recommend that you use zoom, audio or a telephone for public comment, you may submit a written public comment on zoom. please note that commissioners and staff are not allowed to respond to comments or questions during public comment. thank you for sharing this meeting with the public.

>> thank you very mucher, let's do roll call. >> president. >> haoefr. >> vice president. >> here. >> commissioner. >> tomas. >> here. 12346789 and commissioner torres. >> here. >> do we have excused absences. >> commissioner fansaun and gomez are excused. >> do we have a motion to adopt this resolution? >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any facebook p*b comment on this item? there are no public comment. >> president. >> aye. >> vice when the. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> tomas. >> aye. >> torres. >> aye. >> the resolution has been

approved, moving on next agenda item is number 2 which is general public comment this is for items not listed on the agenda. >> there is one zoom comment, one moment. >> speaker: good evening, commissioner, going to unmute joel, so i'll bring joel in here. to joel if you can hear me please unmute yourself and then you have three minutes. >> hello. >> yes, we can hear you. >> okay, great. so i've been communicate withing entertainment commission since november 2021 regarding the union blue bar, they were granted a g.m. permit during covid period where the public was not allowed to have any opinion on their activities. this is a bar who in the same

time, they were granted a permit in november of 2020. in that same month they were sued by one of my neighbors for building a unpermitted back yard and making so much noise or disturbing the neighbors. the lawsuit was successful, the question i wonder whether the commission knew that or took that into consideration when they granted this permit into the blue light. since then, i've been reporting violations as a 60-foot distance where they have to not exceed am byyant noise. it's not possible to not receive ampient noise. i've submitted about 15 complaints, i think two or three have been given notice of violation. but in general my complaints are ignored. and most recently when they were in violation, i was told

they were barely in violation, i'm not sure i understand of that. but because they were in violation, the permit was modified so they can have ambient above level. this is done, because they could not be able to continue their programming and also, satisfy the terms of their jam permit. it seems to me that they should stop operating rather than you should extend the distance of their allowed to make noise to bother the neighbors. i would like this to be changed back to she can only play unamplified music, that's my request. >> thank you very much, and we do not respond to public comment, it's not part of the rules here but maybe deputy director can just refresh our memory where we're at with blue light.

>> sure, hi, president bleiman, the comment was accurate, there was an evaluation of jam blue permit. we know that the jam permits are fluid in the sense that we have been amending them, based on changes that are necessary. recently, there was a determination that the program which the blue light is only allowed to have entertainment on fridays and saturdays with no drums, they self conditioned themselves with no drums. and the other days of the week, they're allowed to have recorded amplified sound. we did extend the distance at which the entertainment portion is allowed to be heard of which is 100 feet from the property plain so we cannot exceed

ampient which is consistent with the other permits that have same programming with live entertainment. >> is there any more general public comment? no. there does not appear to be more. >> we'll close general public comment and we'll move on to the next agenda item which is approval of the minutes for october 18, 2022 commission meeting. to i have a motion, do we have a motion to approve? >> would i like to make a motion to approve the minutes from last meeting. >> is there a second. >> i'll second. >> is there any public comment on the minutes? >> there are no public comment. >> okay, we can vote. >> president bleiman? >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner tomas. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> and commissioner torres. >> i abstain.

>> next is a report. >> good evening, i do have a large update apologies in advance. just taking this out of order, i just wanted to welcome our newest commissioner torres to seat 2. it's the board appointed industry seat, so welcome aboard. we're very happy to have you. justium pg right in, soy wanted to update everybody on our annual survey. the survey did close at the end of october and we received 133 responses. we think this is a good sample size relative to service years. our last year, we had about 120 responses. kufrntly organize eyesing and analyzing this data and he'll send you key findings in early december and plans to present to all of you at our december 20th hearing. if you want to check out the

survey questions again, that is in your folder in the google drive. a shared update for you all tonight and this may be pertain to anybody watching who is a permit holder. just announced that the deadline to receive the applications has been extend today january 15th from the original november 1 due date. we've been promoting this new due bait in our e blast and social channels and urging everyone to act now and not wait until the due date to submit their applications. just to help jog your memory, the permit is a permanent version of the permit that businesses can obtain to replace the pandemic shared spaces permit. the pandemic permits are said to ex tire at the end of the march 2023 and businesses must have a permit in order to operate after the pandemic program expires. the jam program which

correlates to shared spaces are said to expire on march 31. this means that our jam permit holders have more time to apply for this legislative permit which they need in order to start their process for our brick and mortar. so we're working with dpw for approval that are coming through with these spaces so we can align with our processes and continue out reach with our permit holders about their next steps for the transition. we plan to give you more update on this on the 20th of december, along with a proposal for any special hearings that might be needed. we may be able to nannage these with regularly scheduled hearings. but we'll keep you posted here

as we get informed projections around the volume of regular agenda applications. next update is around next year free program. this was a legislative program that began a year ago and it technically was said to end on october 31. but it was extended just recently to june 30, 2023, so just refresher on this one, this is a program that waved initial application and license fees for new businesses that were starting that were in the last year. so we were able to waive entertainment permit application and annual license fees for this program. amended ordinance also expands eligibility for businesses to increase the gross receipts for a business to qualify for the tax and fee waiver from 2 million to 5 million dollars. le and it removes the requirement that the business

be located on the ground floor. so the board passed this on second reading and it's now for the mayor for signing so we anticipate it going into affect shortly. just for some data in the first year, we were able to waive 14 total permits, including 8 places of entertainment and one billiard partner for a total of 21,471 waved in application fees which we love to hear. our next update is on the hiring process for vacant 1840 sound inspect or. this is a part-time information, we have identified our candidate and they're now going through backgrounding. we're really hopeful that we can introduce them to you officially at our holiday party which i'm going to update you about now. so just wanted to give you a little bit of an update about

our upcoming hearings here. a reminder that our hearing on thursday december 6 is canceled we're having a holiday party in place of that. it is going to be similar to last year, pretty cashl. it starts at 5 p.m. on tuesday december 6 and goes to until 7:30 p.m. so we're advertising it as a cocktail party. it's a cash bar and there is a password to get in which is in line with the programming of this bar. so we decided on turn tables as the password. our hearing on thursday january 23, is also canceled due to holiday and we'll pickup on january 17th. so tonight, december 20th and january 17th are our main

hearings coming up. commission secretary leon will send a schedule of 2023 hearings shortly and will continue to send polls to check on your planned attendance. i also wanted call for attention about emails for required training for commissioners. please make sure that you're opening your email to see if you received one from leon, there were a few commissioners on the list that were mission mandatory city trainings. most of them are due bit end of the year. to make sure to complete those as soon as you can, some of them were marked as soon as possible because they're overdue. and if you don't receive an email, this means that you have done all of your mandatory trainings and you get a gold star. all right, if you have any questions on that, you can contact may directly. finally, for you this evening,

i wanted to let you know that i issued a director's order for sky lark recently, so we received complaints from a near by business about sky lar proposing safety concerns. so an sspd officer and did a complete place of entertainment permit and security plan check. of the 12 security conditions listed, we observed they were in violation of 7 of them at the time. so we issued a citation immediately and held a meeting with the owner of the venue along with admission station to discuss their security plan and current operations. in affect, i went ahead and issued a director's order that required skylar to submit a revised security plan to reflect their current operations and to ensure spont

operations moving forward. today is the day that that goes into affect. so we'll be conducting a follow-up compliance check to the business to ensure that they're adhering to the security plan conditions. if you have any questions around this update, let me know. and thank you for participating. >> very well. this is probably a question for may. the only notice i get from trainings is from entertainment commission saying that they're late. there is no earlier communication that i think i've ever gotten asking about them. this is fissioner --this is the

first time. >> i also have not completed them and i'm sad to hear that one is four hours long. got it, thank you. >> okay, anymore questions? >> lfrt is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> there are no public comment for this item. >> all right, we will close this item and move along. the next item is number 5 which is a report from deputy director. >> thanks, good evening, commissioners. i too have a long update for you, so please settle in. the memo is included in the report, your google folder if you want to follow along are the enforcement updates in the tracker.

so the first, thing i want to mention is that we have received 7311 complaints. and i have a few rather large updates for you. please feel free to ask any questions when we're done. the first is about adobe books. they are small coop bookstore and hold a coop. we have learned that their events are staffed by veering volunteers who may not know about the neighbor conditions or policy. since the pandemic, many have brought out a lot more patrons than expected. it has lead to some complaints and large number of patrons congregating in front of the store. this year we received 6, 31 complaints and visited the

business 3 times. we issued them a notice of violation for having their door open while having a band inside. and crowding on the sidewalk. saw at that time front door was open and by the time he parked, and headed over, the performance was done so he was actually unable to confirm. however, did observe a large crowd out doors. inspect or spoke with the volunteers who were unfamiliar with their permit education. so we educated and showed them a good neighbor policy explaining that they're responsible for keeping the crowd clear. they were issued a citation for these violations.

on november 11th, we received another complaint. he observed a large crowd and a person with a blue tooth speaker playing music outside. and explains the reason for the visit. asked speaker of the outside was not sponsored by the bookstore but it was clear that it was one of their patrons. the next day, they said that the crowd was so big that it stopped two mini buses and people were climbing all over them. while we did not witness this happening, inspect or did take a video of the crowd. it also shows people having actually walked in the street to by pass the large crowd. and finally i received a email from the permit and that eager

to be good neighbor and create a safe non bar destination for people to gather. so director wyland and i plan to meet with the leader and discuss strategies as this appears to be the biggest issues. their events are well attended and their capacity cannot hold all of their patrons. so result, people are handing out in the sidewalk. please let me know if you have any suggestion buzz this and i'll keep you apprised. >> we have received 38, 311 complaints and visited the business 21 times. we received a smraint saying that their window was open during entertainment. the business was otherwise in compliance with the permit conditions.

upon return to go their parked vehicles at 12:00 am, the band was still performing inside of the business? so they went inside and they told the owner that their permit requires them to end entertainment for them. we issued a sieltation for the occurrence as they had just received a notice of violation for the same violation. this is their 4th citation since november 2021 for having entertainment after 11:00 p.m. as a reminder, the business came back to hearing to discuss their on going violations. namely for operating after 11:00 am. staff is recommending that you ask them to come back and potential recontinuing as you all see fit. inspectors have, there is no more education that we can provide and the citations don't seem to make a long term impact

on compliance. this business holds llp from our office. respond today a 311 on november 5, about loud music and he he arrived there was a dj performing inside. manager indicated that they had a one-time event for that night. upon our review of our application database, they have not had a one-time permit since march of this year. so they issued a ticket for violation. next update i want to provide you with is about the mix, as a reminder of the mix has had outdoor amplified sound for the last 30 years. however they were recently approved to make their outdoor activity official with our office. on october 5th, you approved to have amplified sound, sunday

through wednesday, until 10:00 am and thursday through saturday until 12:00 p.m. set up a sound limit for their back patio. they have near by residential neighbors. during the sound test, inspectors identified the value limit which they locked into place with their outdoor sound limit at all times. this is a digital of demark ating and vision the permit holding not to turn the knob past the line which we have done before to help management and staff be consistent. since the business was granted their peo amendment permit on october 5, we received 16 sound complaints on 10 different days and 15 have been anonymous. it's important to note that some complaints specifically call out noise, crowd noise as

the problem, we while we don't regulate, it can squaou. so to solve for this, our inspectors have been check the volume control channel that we mentioned. next update is about bar part-time, this business also has an llp permit which they use for live entertainment. they also obtain one-time permit that are schedule today go later than 11:00 p.m. recently have been contacted about their sound and noted the abatement they've done to the building including suspending their speakers. we did issue them an nov, since then, we have visited the business four more times and have observed full compliance each time. the neighbor is disrupted by the volume of their music and

he can hear it when they open the back door. i spoke with one of the owners about the complaint he explained that they're directly in touch with the neighbor and the practices that they put into place, including sticker garbage bags to muscle the sound of bottles and cans. i also learned that get outside to the back of the building, you have to go through three different doors. and staff was diligent that each door is closed before the next is opened so there is no sound bleed. yesterday i received an email and i'm currently in conversation with them about the role of ec and what part-time is doing to be a good neighbor. one solution that we plan to try is to test the sound limit from the rear rather than the front since the direction of the sensitive director. the final update for you tonight is about providence

located at 51 polk street. this business was formerly known as play land. i want to make you a what ir that another one of our holder that's been making serious allegations about the club stating they are posing a xlaet. --complaint. and supervisor peskins office. they have worked closely with city attorneys and to date we have not substance yated any of them. in january, there was a shooting, the shooter was a customer that was inside providence. they got into alter racing and removed by security. that person went to his car and get a gun and fired shot.

the complaint was scared and blamed providence. and it was determined that providence was not at fault for what happened. following that complaint, we have responded to numerous records. on halloween weekend there was another incident on polk street where they said it was providence's fault. however we learned that the incident was not tied to providence. i want to note that the owner team has been very communitive with me. and both sites visit show them to be operating in full compliance with security plan and off limit. we will continue to be responsive to the situation of the appropriate.

>>ed i make a motion to have stall come in next available. >> is it necessary for a motion. >> i think, yeah, i think. >> yeah, not a motion then. >> just a direction follow-up on staff recommendation, stu. --thank you. >> can you remind us too, in a place na repeatedly just does not follow the rules that they say they're going to follow, how does it escalate? other than calling them back here which we're going to do? >> it's challenging to take any kind of like suspension action unless we find them to be out of compliance with their sound limit three times in a 90-day period. it's usually reconditioning with the commission or coming

in for a hearing to do some oversight. >> make sense. >> more questions, anyone? >> yeah, is there any public comment on the deputy director's report. >> there are no public comments. >> okay, we'll close public comment. and we can move on. the next agenda item is number 6 which is hearing and possible action regarding application permits under the jurisdiction of entertainment commission. >> thanks president bleiman, so we have four applications. i would like to note that three of the permit application right side for cannabis and we're excited to see more businesses like this applying for. due to the zoning district of m*it teesing, the entertainment would have to end by 10:00 p.m.

rather than 10:00. i teached out to both emailers, both neighbors and neither responded to me so i was not able to interact with them. so i'm recommending that they stay in the consent agenda this evening. for the one permit which is coast, there were no added conditions from sf tv. so it's to vote to approve the consent agenda with the staff recommendations below. >> questions? >> all right, do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> so moved. >> is there a second. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the consent agenda? >> there are no public comment. >> all right, we can have a vote.

>> president bleiman? >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> commissioner thomas. >> aye. >> commissioner torres. >> aye. >> can you please remind me where was my dispensary? >> it was you. >> i just want to put that on the record. >> all right, the next is the regular agenda. >> so the one permit is for cavania roof top. it's inside the luma hotel, one of the owners roofed up a ca kaya, a latin theme cocktail bar that will be opened 7 times a week along with three outdoor

terraces on the roof top of the hotel. they're applying for the peo to host indoor and sunday until tuesday to 2:00 am. they're seeking the ability to occasional entertainment. during the hours of application between 10:00 am and 10:00 p.m. daily. and as the land use agency, they have approved these requested days and hours of entertainment sound. so you'll see them the staff recommendation below. when renovations are complete they will set a internal limit with article 29 sound limit. based on preliminary research of surrounding residential buildings, staff will be setting the outdoor sound limit at a distance closer. due to near by sensitive receptors. our inspectors will make this.

in your file you'll see a de tailed efforts as they conducted for this application. they hand delivers their out reach let tore 14 businesses so they can speak about their programming plans. there is no opposition for this permit, since writing this memo, i have received a letter of support which is in your file and one standard calendar noticing condition which is included in the staff recommendation. okay, so here to speak with you is owner john park represented by mark. >> new commissioners welcomes. i'm this is john park, unfortunately anthony park, the park the, anthony john park, anthony park.

no parking out there, trust me. he tested positive can for covid today so he's laid up and trying to stay away from people. we do have a present abesing. >> thank you for having me here again for an opportunity to to apply for a place for entertainment. cavana is built in a new hotel in mission bay, luma hotel. we're located in the 17 the floor of this hotel, occupied by entire level, intended to be a celebration of land and culture of all things. we're going to be a shared menu that features a lot of street

foods from brazil argentina and peru and mexico as well. cavana like many culture will be incompasses latin culture and we want to provide that as a part of our experience for our guest. we'll have live music as well as djs. we did extensive out reach and they're very welcoming to the point that they're new yorking on a daily basis asking when they can come in. so we're excited to be in the neighborhood. and bring up, mostly, i think in that neighborhood is not enough small businesses but more of the stadium businesses that exist and i think we're going to bring a great a little bit of evening and night life culture that will sit well with the neighborhood. did i not do.

our additional cocktails. it's, it's right now, the creative process by some of the most talented and i'll introduce them shortly after this slide. the cocktail consist mostly of cane and agave. a little bit of our cocktail program here. our food again is highlighting the street foods of central america. and we have arepas which is

venezuelaian as well as columbian. a little bit of our menu here. this men' has grown since we have developed this menu. going to be part of our program and sorry that was here. music entertainment as mentioned. and lastly, myself as well as on the right, anthony parks my partner he has been involved in a lot of high level restaurants as well as, other cocktail programs. which is located in mission star restaurants. on the side is emil i don't, one rising stars in 2019, he was a bombay bartender. and.

my executive chef will the head khefr here along with other talented young chefs in the industry. also executive from cayo roof top bar born in peru and brings a lot of knowledge to south american cuisine. see more and food and cocktail driven program. that's it. thank you. >> anyone want to open up some questions? >> i love the presentation. >> that was a good one. >> no, i have to say, it makes me really excited just to see this kind of opening happening across the roof top of san francisco actually. so i feel very excited to see

this activate. : >> i appreciate the community out reach in your packet. i'm wondering if you can expand from what you have heard from your neighbors, as far as community out reach. >> sure. so far, everything positive. we have not this far, we have not received any feedback. there is a long time anticipation of this time being built. the community mission bay was mostly empty especially with the stadiums close. to see the vibrant neighborhood come back, it's like really excited in the people in the neighborhood. what is lacking right now are

more elevated, cocktail and cocktail and bar programming that really exist other than the chase stadium. so they're excited that we're going to be located in this hotel. in addition, they want to make sure that the neighborhood as well as san francisco bay area that would not hotel just for tourism. sure, we welcome that tourism but we also want to embrace the local community especially the neighborhood. we have something called glow community which is open communities where they enjoy a couple of coffee in the lobby areas, all san francisco food and bench providing that product to the hotel. and they, they allow the guest, the neighborhood to come in and enjoy, and have whether they're on a laptop doing a little work or enjoying copy and having a

little get together, really embrace the community. we take the same approach in really welcoming the community and making sure that the immediate neighborhood is really welcomed to our space. >> thank you, last question. in the event that there is a possible complaint from the neighborhood, what would be our procedure to address that time? >> absolutely. we have been down and to stay xhaoum la tiff went around purposingly knocking on doors, myself contact numbers and email addresses. the hotel discussed protocols and how we can deal with neighborhood complaints if there is one. but we are definitely, doing the out reach as well as welcoming any communication that they want to provide. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> so, i apparently have a reputation among my commissioners about asking

about roof top bars. but, you're only proposing to do amplified entertainment in the indoor area of outside bar except for special corporate events and so on. >> that is correct. >> all right so what amplification do you have. >> on speaker, that you'll find in bars or restaurant, not nightclub bar. >> one of the things that we become aware of is that sound travels differently. it has a potential to generate complaints from folks that you would not think necessarily could hear something. hopefully folks in alameda will not hear this.

>> we'll go through testing that the sound is at low levels and not neighbors. >> 2500 square feet. >> 3000 square feet. beautiful glass, 280 views around. you can have a hurricane going and that party can just go. the glass is very thick. and if you're facing south towards the chase center, there is no resident for about 14 floors down which is about 100-something feet. and the other side, the biggest terrace is facing nothing but, you know, two miles away on protero mill. >> thank you, and one other things, bars are stepping up and getting their staff trained

on how to use narcan and stocking narcan which is the medication that reverses opioid and how would you respond to drug overdose. >> we'll be open ho training in all forms. >> wonderful, thank you very much. >> i think i'm different than commissioner tomas, if somebody is going to hear the sound i hope they're in alameda because that's is outside of your jurisdiction. i'm wondering about the programming that you're planning inside, what do you think? >> latin dance, it's not top 40, it's going to be a little more, that is deeply rooted in south america.

in fact, our we're going to be salsa, it's not geared for parties more like cocktail environment have more music. >> thank you, that makes sense. >> anyone? >> please. >> number 1, just reiterate what my fellow commissioners have said. this is a beautiful setting. i regret that i have not gotten inside yet. i also really appreciate your dedication to uplifting latino, latinx, latina culture into that end, i see in back of the house and in your program, cocktail curation and culinary occuration, is there latinx in your staff. and duck tail off what president bleiman said, i would hope that there will be a youth

of the local latinx workforce also our the many many many many talented musicians that live here in the city or play here in the city. >> absolutely, we as you know, i own kaya roof top as well and celebration of japanese and peruvian. we recently made a lot of contacts local pe ruerian and latin dance that celebrates latin music and their soul. because of latin music, it's up beat and fun and engaging. we want to definitely want to embrace that music versus anything that you'll find in nightclub or that is pop or radio. as far as representation, we are except for myself, my chef and my partner is proofing as well. he emelio is venezuela and and

they really embrace it. and really embrace the latin culture and food and beverage. >> i thank you for that. a couple of questions, i had a very extensive security plan which i appreciate. i did notice a few things, one thing that you highlighted the safety of both men and women are equally important. is there a certain lgbtq competency that you're hoping to employ. >> i think we have a lot of employees that fall in that category. in fact, everybody is really a

diverse group of employees. when we're fully open, i think we're about 75 employees will be working at the establishment. it's important in san francisco not just in our work place to really recognize the community that sounds us. rounds us. and everyone that is in the gay community as well as trans community and everyone else beyond that as well. >> i have one more question about workers in regards to there is a, there was a plan for if there was a bomb scare which i hope would never happen. and one of the suggestions was that the employees may first try to see if they can find the bomb. and that struck me as maybe i would not want to do it if i was on shift as a bartender or anything like that. that is something that you might look into. >> if i can, this is on page 9

of any security plan. we do say that a lot of these are fake. it says ask questions, this is what the cops are going to ask you. it does not say look for the bomb. where is the bomb located, what is in the bomb, how you set it off. this is what the cops want to know to get information. this security plan is just to get the staff sort of thinking about these things. >> i do i want to say commissioner in the resent days, as we just started our staff training on monday. we were luckily we were able to connect and he shared with me extensive evacuation plans and that, that we implement to our employee handbook as part of the training as well. we, we've just today we discussed how if there was an emergency how we would exit the

building and where the meeting points are. these types of demonstration because we're in a high profile building and it's needed because of the safety of the very small chance that things like this will happen that we're taking that and we're doing our due diligence to train our employees properly. >> thank you very much. >> absolutely. >> all right, thank you. any further questions? all right have a seat and let's entertain motions. this is a limit -- ~>> this is place of argument. >> my bad. >> i would like to make a motion to approve with staff recommendations. >> second. >> spd recommendation about calendaring. >> that's included in the staff rec. >> all right, we have a motion. is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> there are no public comments.

>> all right, seeing none we'll close public comment and we can vote. >> president bleiman. >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> commissioner thomas. >> aye. >> commissioner torres. >> aye. >> congratulations, king the roof tops continues into the parks. moving, on to i believe we have one more agenda item. comments. commissioner comments. welcome commissioner torres, welcome we're very happy to have you on board and looking forward to working with you. any other comments? lori, you always have something. >> do i? >> isn't it like heart date.

>> there is got to be ining. db something. --oh al, go ahead. >> well i want to say, that today is american indian heritage month. in fact there is a celebration right now at the rotunda sponsored by the mayor so happy native american month to everybody. and also happening at the libraries at the official launch of the quarter. it's the 5th coin in the women quarter program. and first asian face on the u.s. currency. so representation matters. so, check that when you get the coin. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> all right, so congratulations on our successful election day. san francisco does elections so well, it's something that we

should be so proud of. i think we're ranked first in the nation on how smoothly our elections go. >> we just had four. >> and this one had a lot of twist and turns. it's still surprising us at the end here. that was exciting. all right there any public comment? >> may i make. >> oh please. >> i just wanted to formerly say thank you for welcoming me on board. it was a warm welcome and just be patient with me as i learn the many twists and turns of the commission and codes and everything. and i just hope that can bring what i can from my experience to the better work of this commission and our beautiful and vibrant night life that we have here in san francisco. >> thank you. all right, any public comment? >> there are no public comments. >> all right, we'll close public comment and we can

adjourn the meeting at, 6:35 p.m. >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine

in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar.

we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals.

>> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

>> welcome everyone to union square my name is marissa rodriguez and i'm executive director of union square alliance. what a beautiful, sunny welcoming day here in union square. [applause] we are in the heart of san francisco, the crown rule, union square where the holidays are synonymous with union square. i just want to take a moment to acknowledge all the folks behind me today. it takes a village to ensure that our community is safe vibrant and beautiful as it is

today. this time last year, was very difficult for all of us, we were still in the throws of the pandemic and we were coming out of some very challenging times. in fact, throughout the country, we were seeing a rash of retail crime bu. here in san francisco, there was a response like no other. i want to thank our mayor, london breed, our police chief bill scott, for leaning in and ensuring that this was going to be not only a good year but one of the best years that we've experienced since that day here in union square. soy just want to take a moment to thank them for their leadership and all that they've done. i want to also acknowledge kate of oewd and of rec and park who's park we are in now and all the work that he and his team have done to create this welcoming and safe and

enjoyable environment. this work, yes, thank you. [applause] the work that they're all doing is vital to the health of our city. we are in the economic core, union square sits in the economic core downtown and we need our downtown tore thriving and healthy. and they have worked so hard to ensure that it can be so we can continue to support the important services that our city so relies on. this year i'm thrilled to announce that the holidays have done. --begun. if you see behind me, you see macy's great tree and this is the first year that we're introducing winter wonderful land. after thanksgiving you're going to see a village opening up at holiday plaza, the gateway to union square and where the powell street bart station

welcomes our visitors. we want to acknowledge and thank bart for all of their help. in addition we're opening up the subways. today we're having a party to welcome the central subway that will be connecting visitors and welcoming guest back here to union square. so with that, i want to thank you all for being here and i would like to welcome our mayor, london breed. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, marissa and thank you so much for the work that you continue to do to make union square a wonderful attraction for visitors and people who live here in the bay area. i want to start by saying to all the folks who reached out and asked, mayor are we lighting up the tree and we have not had thanksgiving? and i'll just say, you know, we're so in the holiday spirit this year, more than ever before mostly because we went through a global pandemic.

we couldn't come together before. and it was not just that our economy suffered, it was our ability to be together and be around one another and experience the holidays without the concerns like we had in previous years due to covid. and you know, we were anxious to get the holiday started early. so as we move into thanksgiving and move into christmas and hanukkah and all the great holidays that we're going to celebrate, the spirit is in the air. i know often times there are a number of videos that go viral that try to paint a harsh picture of our beautiful city. but i'm here to tell you, that things have have happened. things are looking up and i'm optimistic and excited about the future. we see hotel occupancy rates increasing, we see more visitors and shoppers in the downtown area.

we see retail start to go expand and improve. i'm more excited because we have not had a major toy store in san francisco in a while. and the fact that macy's is investing in having a toy store here in union square is a big deal to the community. when people come to union square and san francisco, i know they want to feel safe. and i know that we have a lot of work to do. but let me tell you about some of the investments, we have a larger, both uniform and you know, those who are undercover, who are going to be out here who have been out here making sure that we are addressing a lot of the public safety concerns. and i want to thank chief bill scott, all of the members of our san francisco police department and for your work and being out here and being proactive to help keep the public safe. i also want to thank our union square ambassadors, our

downtown ambassadors, urban alchamy. we're adding a 150 more ambassadors to the street. the folks you see with the friendly face who are smiling, who are giving you directions, who are dealing with concerns and cleanliness in the area, we have some great people out there doing wonderful work. we also in our ambassador team, retired san francisco police departments who have been really extraordinary and wonderful to address some of the opinion safety concerns. we'll have another 150 ambassadors in the streets of san francisco adding more eyes and ears ot streets. we're also going to be enhancing the clean up, making sure that we're power washing and cleaning the streets. making sure that the streets smell good. i know that is important to visitors as well. so i'm excited about that, but i also want to say that bart

and muni have partnered to make sure that we have ambassadors and support in those stations as well. so in addition to those who want to drive, you can take muni, you can take bart and you can come here to see a show or come here to shop or visit one of our amazing restaurants. the other thing that i'm excited to announce, which i know many drivers would love to hear, we plan to offer one hour free parking in union square garage. [applause] in addition to that, i want to thank phil park and rec for the work that they're doing to address some of the safety concerns in a number of our garages, there will be more people, more eyes and ears in spoez spaces paying attention to what is happening here, to make sure that we keep you and your belonging safe. a lot of work to do and we know that, things are going to look

up for the city this holiday season. i'm looking forward to it, this tree and ice skating rink, but also we know that there have been some vacancies in our downtown corridor. we've gotten rid of some of the bureaucratic that make it difficult to deal with the pop up, things that will be temporary will you will make the experience a downtown even better, working with our artist community. so you may see somebody having a good time and wonder what is going on here. and it may be one of our local artist, whether it's a visual or performing arts, that is what you can expect downtown. it's going to be fun and exciting and it's going to be a little chilly but the sun is clearly shining today and inviting you back downtown. this is a great place, but also

this is an important place. this is an important place to the economic stability of san francisco. making sure these jobs and retail and in our hotels and our restaurants, exist and thrive is also equally important. we are here for not just the residents who live in san francisco but the residents all over the area and people who visit us from the u.s. and other countries. we're here to uplift san francisco and make sure that you leave this area and any part of san francisco with a great experience. i want to thank you all for being down here today. we want everyone to know that we got eyes and ears on the streets, so we plan to make this one of the best and safest times during the holiday season for those that come to san francisco yet. and at this time, i want to introduce our chief of police, bill scott. [applause]

>> thank you, mayor breed. good morning, everybody. i want to start my remarks with thanks to mayor london breed. a year ago, almost a year ago today, mayor breed and i stood right over there, right behind these cameras, after one of the worse nights that we've had in a long time in the city. i don't want to regurjitate that story but what i want to highlight is what happened that day and afterwards because of the leadership of this mayor. i was angry, quite frankly, i was sick to my stomach. and the impact that that left to the people that come here to work and shop and the damage that it did to my city worldwide.

mayor, we made a promise that day, that things would change. and i stood behind her to make sure that we delivered. and when i say we, i'm talking about all the people that you see back here and the people behind you. we as a community, had to deliver her promise to make this community and this city safer. i will say, we still have work to do but i'm going to share a story about what has happened in the last year. first of all, i want to thank all of our law enforcement partners. we have our chief park ranger is here. director of rec and park is here today. you heard about our ambassadors and the mayor has committed more investment to our ambassadors. i want to call the police ambassadors. these are people that dedicated

that came back to help at a time when we need it the most. working with the union square alliance, which is one piece that had to happen when the mayor made that promise. but i want to tell you something, through all of that adversity and the disgust of what happened that night t brought us altogether in a different way. because this is our city. this is the place we love and we call home. so here's what happened since then, i'll speak for the san francisco police department. and you're going to hear from our incredible district attorney jenkins who i am glad to call a partner. here's how we delivered on the mayor's promise. employment was an issue, we quadrupled deployment and at times that deployment increase has been exponential.

during the holiday season, last year, you could not come to this area without bumping into a police officer and guess what? that's what will happen this year. we have officers out that you will not see but they're out there for a purpose and that is to arrest people who don't get it. that's when people try to rob after people spend their hard earned money and we want to send a message that that will not be tolerated in the city of san francisco. hear me clearly. with we doubled the size of the theft unit. and this is the result, we have cases 82 or more with charges pending or about to be filed. they're not only hitting san francisco, but they're hitting

throughout the region. that's because of the mayor's commitment. we got an overtime budget that restores some of the overtime that we lost in 20-21 and that helped us deploy officers not only to this community but all over the city. i'm not going to sit here and tell you that everything is perfect because it's not. we rolled up our sleeves and we still have work to do. but that work will be done as a team. that work will be done with a vision of mayor breed and i'm so proud to be part of that work. we have what we call force multiplier, these are people like reserve officers and like this command post vehicle that you see sitting here, that help us send the message that public safety is important to this city. we care. and i think more important than anything that was said a year ago when the mayor stood there,

we had to remind people that we care and it matters because this is our city. so i'm going to end by saying this, it ain't perfect, but things are better. there is a difference here, there is optimism here. last year, we were dealing with people scared to come to work. we were dealing with people scared to come here and shop. after that proments and adjustments that were made, we had record numbers in terms of people coming here to shop because they felt safer. we cannot and will not let that go. i can sit here and quote statistics here all day long, but if you don't come, none of that matters. and we want to tell you, that when you come here, we want to

you feel safe because you're safe. thank you for from so many members until the community, who said, you know what, sfpd and all of your officers, sworn and not sworn, we support you. thank you to the board of supervisors who increased our budget so we can bridge some of our staffing. thank you to mayor breed for provieeding the leadership. thank you to our district attorney, for holding people accountable. thank you to our business community for stepping up and supporting us. thank you to the media for telling our story. but here's one thing, we will control our narrative in the city because the narrative that has been put out about this city is misleading and it's wrong. i live here, this is my city, my family live here, this is my their city. everybody behind this, podium, this is our city. and this is a beautiful city and we want the world to know

it. thank you and with that, i want to introduce our district attorney, rick jenkins. [applause] >> good morning, i'm excited to be here, not just as your da but as a san francisco resident who enjoys bringing my children to this area. they love the tree and they love to ice skate so i'm excited for them to experience the winter wonderful. i want to start by thanking chief scott and mayor breed who have been amazing partners to put us on track towards a safer san francisco. i also want to thank marissa rodriguez the president of safety alliance who has been big a part and made sure that myself and my office understand the concerns so we can address those concerns and make sure

that businesses in our city thrive. i think for the first time in a long time, we've realized the connection between law enforcement and the district attorney's office and our san francisco economy. we can't allow our businesses to be ravaged, the rampant theft to go on and expect them to stay. we need to do better to protect, not only those businesses but the thousands of jobs that they provide to both san francisco and bay area resident who need the ability to take care of their families. and it's our job to make sure that we protect these businesses and the jobs that they provide as well as the experience that they give, because if you're anything like me, i love a little bit of retail therapy. and we need to make sure that we're protecting the businesses in san francisco so that we have access to be able to shop, to be able to unwind, to join together during the holiday

period and share that joyous occasion by the gifts for the family members. i want to be clear today, that the lawlessness and the organized retail theft that we saw this time last year, will not be tolerated under any circumstance. the days of there be free passed for that type of conduct are gone and anyone caught engaging in such conduct will face consequences. this is a new day! [applause] we will do our jobs to protect these businesses and to protect our citizens and our visitors. and a part of that comes with restoring accountability. like i said, i thank chief scott for everything that they're doing to make sure na anyone who chooses to engage in crime is caught because that's the first step, and what i will promise the city is that there

will be accountability on the back end. we will not focus on charging but accountability because that's what has to be restored and that's what i promised to the city to bring back. so i again, i'm just excited to be here, thank you to all the ambassadors who are going to support our city and the police department in making sure that our resident sxz shoppers feel safe. and i look forward to celebrating this holiday season with all of you. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone i'm john sparks and i'm the store manager here at macy's union square. and i want to start by thanking a few people, jenkins and chief scott and mayor breed and all they're doing to keep the area safe. we are so excited for all of

the holiday tradition that's are coming back this year that mean so much for san franciscoian and all of our visitors, including our windows that will come back with live animals. santa's will return to macy's on black friday and we have a toys r us location here. so we're so excited for everything that is happening this holiday season, for our community and thank you to all of our community partners and everything they're doing to keep us safe. thank you so much. [applause] >> okay, wow, talk about leaning in. i want to thank again all of our law enforcement partners for being here, our district attorney, brooke jenkins, our police chief bill scott and our mayor, mayor london breed, when the lights go on which she have, it means the holidays

have begun and it's going to be an incredible holiday season this year. thank you for all of us for coming out. thank you for the alliance team for all you do. the cda, i know is here representing. thank you all and let's have a wonderful holiday season. >> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and

empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador. we work a lot with homeless,

visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us.

we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the

residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now.

>> i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the

apartment for the program come along. you wouldn't have believed it. so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn't have been brought back. we wouldn't have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i welcome it. they had to hire a company and they came in and cleaned up all the walls. they didn't paint the whole apartment, they just cleaned up the mildew part, cleaned up and straighted it and primed it. that is impressive. i was a house painter. i used to go and paint other people's apartments and then come back home to mine and i

would say why couldn't i live in a place like that. and now i do. >> goovend, everybody. >> how is everyone doing today? >> awe some. great weather we were dreading it would rain today and look at the sky behind me. gorgeous. this was meant to be. my name is natasha i'm the executive vice president the development at bridge. for northern california. i will also be our mc today. on behalf of bridge and ken lombard could not be here today. i want to welcome all of you and

thank you for take the time to celebrate the grounds breaking for potrero block b. bridge was seconded by san francisco to partner with the residents of the potrero community and literally redesign the landscape that you see here. together, we embed on the long over due and critical task of figuring out how to figure out the potrero terrace andaneck. hours of discussion, design charettes and focus groups with the community resulted in rebuilt potrero. an ambitious vision to redevelop the site in a master plan with 1600 housing units, parks and open space, new street grid other thanning retail and community serving space that grand vision is surely taking shape before our eyes with the development of the second phase

with 150, 7 units of affordable family housing and infrastructure. [applause]. 1101 connecticut the building behind you, this you see across the street is 72 family housing units that opened in 2019 as phase one of potrero. potrero block b includes a 6,000 square foot child pace and provide a home notoriety cross cultural family center a childcare provider serving the communities for many years out of 2 existing apartments. in addition the block b development will include 4,000 square foot public minipark. the first of several parks in community serving open spaces that are an important part of this master plan. our mission is to communities. i have been with bridge for many

years. i joined the potrero team earlier this year. this is really personal for me. i upon really want to take this opportunity to thank the residents of the potrero community and all the other stake holders including supervisor walton and his staff. mayor breed, staff at mayor's office of housing and oewd. the san francisco housing authority, i see tonya here and staff. hope sf for welcoming mow to the team and post in the our collective effort to rebuild potreroism look forward to working with all of you to further our mission. lastly, a shout out to the small and mighty bridge team. april tale. susan newfeld. t. j. bryce. listen all instrumental in

bringing us together. give everybody on the stake holders the community let's give everybody a round of alaws. [applause] i would like to welcome supervisor walton who has been the champion of the rebuild potrero project. good morning, first of all welcome to the beautiful district 10 the sun is always shining. even with the expectation of rain. this is truly a beautiful day for us here and community to be breaking ground on another building more housing and affordable housing in san francisco and in potrero hill. my conversations with bridge start in the 2007 and 8 when i

was the director of the family resource center and talking about development and talking about how we would rebuild potrero we are 24 years later, we have first unitings up. more units on the way. this is what we really call fulfilling a promise. and we will make sure we continue to finish all the units that are going to be replaced here on the hill. when we replace units we are not replacing community. we make sure community can stay, live here in the same neighborhood where they have been raising family and work for the last decades. i'm excited to be on the board of supervisors to see this enter fruition. i look at members in communities and folks, note only lived here for their lives and worked here and been a part of making sure we got to this day and thank the

community and residents, they have of course had to endure all of the changes and designs. all of the different models before we got to this date and to see the work coming. thank you for your resiliencey to the community and thank you for showing up today. looking forward to had this is finished, we'll be back to cut the ribbon and people are moving in. thank you. [applause] >> thank you supervisor walton. i would now like to invite eric shaw to say a few words, potrero with the other hope sf project in san francisco would not be possible without the on going support of the mayor and certainly her staff at mayor's office of housing. eric? [applause]. >> thank you very much. and also proud to say i'm

interim director of hope sf. i wear 2 hats and proud of both and want to thank and blessed and fortunate in that initiative as well. i'm proud to be here to celebrate the construction of another building of affordable home in potrero hill. it reflects the promise we made to the potrero public housing this no residents be displaced as we transform this to a racially and economically inclusive neighborhood. this is a vision of hope sf to create new possibilities and for a city on aging public housing cites this anies back years and guess back to previous mayors. promise deliver on the vision pass friday mayor to mayor. because while the city and the person in city hall may change the community deserves these projects. original buildings built 80 years ago and not built to last for as long as they have.

we worked to rebuild the community surrender way with residents move in the 72 new homeos 1101 connecticut. this will be here will be the seconded affordable housing to break ground as part of potrero hill master plan. will bring 157 new homes to the neighborhood. 117 of those reserved for current residents already call potrero home and will create 40 additional affordable homes new housing opportunity here as we reimagine this neighborhood. includes 10 units servesh reserved through the preference program so they are not displaced. the building will have on sight property management and service. community gathering spaces and on sight minipark and the public. affordable childcare approximate this is just the beginning. i am honored gather to break

ground on the next step for the community and i can't wait to be here for the grand opening the next decade planning up to 1700 new home in the neighborhood and 65% will be affordable. and as we invest more in potrero and build the housing we the great new community spaces, job ands transit opportunity. celebrate >> moment and lift up our communities and create tunes for all regardless of backgroundses. and for recognitions. i like to thank everyone involved in hope sf. raise your hands. >> [applause] i would like to thank bridge housing and team's architects, contractors and service providers took the time to gather feedback from the community. your work made sure the voices were heard and the needs were met. i want to thank the san francisco housing authority and are tonya? who has been an amazing partner

through this whole journey. and ultramarathon if we call it that we are coming in mile 25? thank you very much for your leadership as well. i want to thank the city departments including all my teams and the mayor's office of housing community development. can you raise you were hands? mocd? and our funders it is all about money and by the way we need more. thank you very much. i always have to ask. the supervisor that was your talk happening points to ask for more money. we will do that off line. i want to thank the california department of housing and communities development. provides fund to the california housing accelerator to allow this project to move forward this is one of 5 projects hope sf that are funded. i want to thank you very much. and finally i want to thank the community. you put your faith in us and work for us and without you none

of this will be happening. continue to work to commit it possible as we strife for a san francisco that is affordable to everyone. and with that i will bring my fellow partner and development and financials from the stage. ditransition. [laughter]. hands it over. >> okay. there you go. all of us should ask for funding. it takes a village in that space. thank you very much for your partnership as well. [applause]. before i start i need to take a picture from up here. i -- all of you etch raised your hand and i am getting pictures one at a time. congratulations your victory! good job! thank you. >> of course eric. good morning, everybody. i'm hernandez deputy director for communication at the

california d. housing and community development. it is my great pleasure to be here today. [applause]. on behalf of governor newsome, yea. don't record that. acd director valasciiys wanted to be here today and our entire departmentive want to wish a congratulations and honest low a thank you. i will go off script as i was upon listening to the speakers and eavesdropping on the side conversations, what really resonateed me and is at the core of great investment is community. theancy displacement efforts for this project are critical, they are so important and they speak to when we really care about that is giving people safe, affordable homes for long-term. thank you for this hard work.

thank you to the community. i know it can be tough to trust government. and work with government. and i hope today you feel some success. we cannot be here without you. [applause]. so as you heard, we invested through our housing accelerator fund approximately 94 million that mean this is project within 6 months went from the, ward to today this . is unpresidented, record breaking and critical to keep this project moving. we put in another 20 million with the california growth council for investment in infrastructure, bike ways, walkways and making better transit connections the under production of house nothing general and affordable housing coupled with historic red lining and other policies made housing

unaffordable for far too many in our state and for too long. we need more communities like this. the housing accelerator will provide approximately 5,000 new housing units throughout the state they will come online extreme low fast. developers like bridge and per ins like in the mayor's office. want to thank mayor breed, eric, your team. we need that commitment. this project is years in the make. and we need that dedication so no matter who is in office the projects move forward and represent the community who deserve and over looked for too long. look forward to victim in the city of san francisco. look forward to more opportunitiful i will get prishths after this. i'm looking forward to. thank you again and i cannot wait to be back. our director wants to back when we cut the ribbon and welcome more residents home.

thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. we appreciated both the state and the mayor's office of housing for the funding they have provided this and other projects. i would like to invite jonathan, executive director of j. p. mother abchase. >> chase bank provide financing for block b. in addition to the subsidy funding reach out to the banks and our investors always to get more funding and we want to thank you for your support. >> thank you. jonathan beach with chase community development bank. an honest torto be here thank you for inviting me. just to start, i joined chase 4

months ago. prior i managed santa clara affordable housing department of i want to admit i have didn't least amount work of anybody here but get the honor of speaking at the ground break. that said, i want to thank bridge. and all of our partners here today and congratulations on the ground break. i have been a fan of bridge for a long time at the city and at chase. and i could not think of a better development team to tackle a complicated and master plan development on a site like this the oldest public housing sights in the city. you know chase roll roll was to provide 150 million dollars in construction financing and 50 million dollars in permanent financing and despite the big number there is is no may the project is feasible without the mayor's office, housing authority. monica mentioned, this project

here is an example of the success of the state's housing accelerator program to fund projects that would have been stuck in the bottle neck to get tax credits. this projects this otherwise may not have been funded. who knows where the project would be today without the accelerator program. chase, we funded a number of fais phases through hope sf. we are prud to be a part of the broader initiative. but what is happening at potrero. i want to thank bridge for having us here today and block b is part of the larger goal to the larger goal to increase access affordable housing for everyone. i think we are looking forward to seeing your vision realized here. and come become to see this master plan development fulfilled. thank you and looking forward to communities thrive here.

[applause]. >> thank you. i would be remiss if i did not mention the housing authority as always one of the providers for all the projects here. housing authority [inaudible] and i want to reach out and thank my colleague, tonya, for her leadership and partnership and looking forward to working with you to expedite when we have here. thank you. [applause]. and last but not the least, i want to invite april tality tow come and say a few words. and acknowledge and village of folks you tell we partnered with to make it happen. >> i want to thank april for her dedication approximate hard work in piecing together the financing, you all just heard how much it takes to put the

projects together. and as monica said, and i think eric you mentioned this and jonathan; we applied multiple times for financing throughout state under a different program and not successful. and the govern obviously upon his priority is to increase the amount of affordable housing and expedite building housing. i want to thank april she was curating the applications and trust mow they are not easy. lots of details. i don't know april how many times you applied, twice. >> okay. >> i really would like for to you come up here and say a few words about the projects, your experience and we want to acknowledge everybody. instrumental to work here today.

thank you. >> good afternoon, everybody. i think we can do better. good afternoon, everyone! >> thank you. i'm april tally senior project manager at bridge. i am delighted to be here as it has been a challenging and yet rewarding time. on behalf of bridge housing i would like to take a few moments to thank several team members for make thanksgiving development a reality. i like to acknowledge the residents of potrero public housing. thank you for your patience with this process. we also like to acknowledge the neighbors of potrero public housing as well. we looic to thank our community

based organizations that support and uplift residents such as the chant shanti project, care. stand in peace, neighborhood house and rdj. >> our architects paul, jeffrey, alisa and anthony for the creative design. thanks to gary string and the team at gls for landscape design. i like to thank our consultants at ph pc for financial consultation throughout the predevelopment through construction closing. next i like to thank acc, sunlight and power. concord group and way point our construction managers on this project. thank you to matt irwin. robert and the kay hill team for

partners in the redevelopment of potrero. you all know kay hill was the gc for connecticut as well. we appreciate supervisor walton and his staff for supporting the project and a huge thanks to the california department of housing and community development for helping us >> yes. helping us put your funds from the california housing accelerator. they were in lieu of traditional 4% tax credits and bond [inaudible]. this project would not have been able to start construction and create jobs without them. once again, thank you to the mayor's office of housing and community development for providing both predevelopment and gap funding. i want to thank ryan. sailor abrendzon dwyer.

sarah, lydia and eric shaw. additionally, i like to thank staff at oewd for support and asisterance with needlement approvals and the permit process which can be crazy. special thanks to hope sf staff for your community development effort. thank you to our construction and lendser chase bank for funding the development. i would like to thank acknowledge -- henry, wendy richardson and linda for their hard work and next i like to thank the staff at bridge. we could not have reached such a mile stone without you our accountant. and also a some thanks to our community and residence dents services team for their work to

support potrero residents. thank you to jeffrey mccormick and bpmc for letting the potrero hosting and available to answer questions. and finally i want to lynne and ellen for host thanksgiving events. thank you all. [applause]: >>ing events. thank you all. [applause]: >> music music [music]

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