>> please respond to the roll call with here or present. >> newhouse, segal. >> here. warren post. >> here. paul woolford. >> present. and commissioner vice chair zoubi has an excused absence. with 3 members present we have quorum for the public works

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>> i have several announcements today you may want to make yourself comfortable. first is to call your attention to the december issue of the departmenty new in the works. it is a nice over view of 2022 accomplishments of the department. present in the a month low highlight. i found interesting and useful. the graphics are appealing and informative and the text is easy to read and compliments the graphics. i receive it in my e mail, you can, too. go to sfpossibleworks, click, about us and click on, in the works and sign up to receive the monthly letter. second, prior to the holiday, there was a meeting between upon the sanitation and streets chair mario and myself deputy city

attorney taylor and chris topp. director short and secretary fuller to discuss the results of upon 2022's prop b and how this will affect our commissions moving forward. . taylor and tom reviewed the changes mandated by the new prop b. il sum rise my take aways from our meeting. i would say that my observation was that more language was stripped out than added. to the law. and the most significant provisions are that commissioner credentials or experience backgrounds are no longer required. so they are recommended, which i hope means we'll soon have a fifth commissioner on our commission since it is recommended be an engineer tell not be required. >> sanitation streets commission

will dot following; hold public hearings and set policies for dpw regarding sanitation standards and protocols and standardses and protocols for maintaining the public right-of-way. they'll review and evaluate data regarding street conscience city conditions and dpw's work to address the conditions and the commission will establish minimum starnlsd of clean liness for the public right of way. >> a lot of the language specific to our commission was stripped out and general references to san francisco commission and board longer made. in other words. regarding contract approval, contract performance, department staffing, we don't have special called out for our commission.

our commission will see all dpw contracts now. including for san station street services. given this increased work load for our commission, we agree that most of the commodities, general services and professional services contracts will be handled on our consent calendar and of course we can request something be pulld and put on the regular calendar. we discussed grant approvals. most grant approvals fall under the expertise. we will now official low approve grants. we did agree to have the sas commission review them and make recommendations for action to us. on specific grants or on expected grant boards. we may only commission that cease the final grant detailings they'll have an idea they can give guidance.

to assist us with our obligations, the second fuller will provide our commission with a month low summation of the sanitation and streets meetings including link to agendas and live links to the documents they review and we can access the documents on the their commission's website. >> i will meet regular low with sanitation and streets commission chair mogannam and brain storming what each commissions are doing and how to better work together. that's in sum to me the key take aways were. secretary full are documented the new procedures that we have agreed upon in consultation with the city attorneys and with director short. and he will have that available for our commissioners if you like more detail. secretary fuller will provide us with a new org chart now the department organization has

changed and there will not be 2 departments one available will present. and that will be the new temptlet we see in presentations going forward i finds to be so useful. all of that said, i will be asking rachael alonzo someone we know well, for proposal to dpw on how our 2 commissions can best work together. so we don't have to feel our way in the dark given the work her and her teach did with the 2 prop b's in 2020 and 2022. i hope she'll have a lot of suggestions to make our lives easy on our commission and the lives of the commissioners on sanitation and streets easy as we navigate forward. >> director short or department city attorney, anything you want to add i may have missed?

thank you chair post. that was a helpful sum row. one caveat with respect to contract approvals. i think is helpful to note that to the extent the sas commission was previously authorized to aprudent person contracts, those contracts approved by public work commission. all subject to the delegation of contract approvals that this commission passed earlier this year. >> thank you very much. for clarifying that. >> secretary full are anything to add i may have missed? >> no, that is i think -- of good summary of what occurred during that meeting. thank you. >> thank you. >> and last of my announcements, this past week had 4 meetings i found useful. that i will quickly tell you

what they were. i will not go in as much detail. the controller appointed me to this commission to update him on our commission business. and seek advice on various issues and obligations we have. i had aim budget brief with dpw finance staff a sneak peek at when we will see on our commission in the next couple of weeks. and i will quite honest, it is overwhelming. not surprisingly begin the size of dpw the second largest department in the city and myriad of objigzs. secretary fuller had comments to add-on our commission's per spektdive and role. do you have anything you like to say? >> yes. >> so, specifically to the budget review process that we'll go through in the next -- month,

the -- city charter and the admin code do layout for us a process where the department has to have a public meeting on their budget and since this commission exists, that public meeting will take place part of our normal regular january 20th meeting. and then that is -- of course followed up by a vote to approve it after that public hearing. and that will be taking place on february third. i think it is important to think about -- the budget our budget manager, upon the other day made a good point of saying that the budget, once passed and approved by the mayor and the board of supervisors it is a plan. and it changes throughout the year. so, while this commission will

be approving the departmental budget to then go to the controller's office and mayor's office and board of supervisors; it is important to keep in mind it is the approval of a plan and the role of this commission unlike you know when you may have seen in the house weighs and means committee, or other bodies like that; not getting in the line item details of the budget. but looking at the broad policies that the strategy of the xrnt budget and future budget planning as well. i think that is important to keep in minds. and we do have additional briefings available from staff for commissioners. i have sent out a couple of the options for late next week. and i can reminds commissioners of those options as well. it is a good opportunity for

both chair post and myself had a point in our meeting with the budget team where we both realized -- this is a complicated department. and the budget reflects just the things inherrent in a broad man date the department fulfills. if you are able to upon attend a briefing that is helpful and i real think that the first round of budget review is a great opportunity for learning -- for myself but commissioners as limp because there is so much to take in. that -- and see that as in addition to providing that oversight be able to prepare yourself for future budget rounds through this learning process. >> thank you very much. secretary fuller. >> the other 2 meetings i had

this week was the first kickoff meeting for finding a new head of dpw. this is a meeting with hr representative sean and in berkeley search. it was useful what we grand jury ed were biweekly meetings of the committee and this specific participateos that committee are being determined but now it is looking at a minimum like -- as we discussed in prior meetingi and vice chair zoubi will be participating from this commission and chair mogannam and will be participating with director short search firm and hr rep. and probably representatives from the mayor's office and the cao's office that was is to be determined. >> i will keep you all aprized and vice chair zoubi and i will keep you aprized. i'm optimistic and impressed

upon the search firm this needs to happen quickly and the commission will not be a bottle neck. it is high priority to get this approximate suspicion filld and encouraged our search firm to let me know or anyone else know enemy commission or if i or anyone at the city is a bottle 96, let us know so key we can shake that loose and keep it going quickly as possible. >> yesterday i had a sneak peek at the capitol project performance metrics presentation that we will get at the next meeting in january. this was scheduled for december but postponed to flush it out more. it was helpful i gave feedback and learned a lot along the way and i think we will have a nice discussion in january about how to measure performance metrics

at dpw now that we have that obligation as a new commission. it is a work in progress. we will see the first cut in the couple weeks the new system gets up and running that deputy director robertson told us we will track and present. so again this will not be a finished product out of the gate we are off to a good start and look forward to getting feedback on this in a couple weeks. those are my announcements now we will move on to item 1 secretary fuller call that item. >> i beg your pardon commissioner segal. >> happy new year, everybody. i had a question on your report, chairman post. on our -- our -- new

organization under problem b2022. so you said rachael alonzo from the city add administrator's office will make recommendations more recommendations how we will interact. is there any target deaf that she set for when we will get those recommendations. not yet i asked her late. i will in 2 weeks i will have a target date on that. >> it will include the she will put together a new organizational structure. >> no dpw is doing that and secretary fuller will provide that. to get her ideas on how the 2 commissions can best work together. we can figure it out. she would have a lot to bring to the conversation i asked her to give us pointers. when she gives us those. they will impact our search director's search because tell

impact what somewhat the directors job description i think. but will impact what our new commissioner that will not have a required job description we will get. but tell impact a lot of what we do. so -- will wee have any are we going to vote on accepting her recommendations or is she making them and that's it? i think my intention i will turn on city attorney stop that the law is what it is. the streshths are what they are. we would be nice to have guidance in this new world of what our roles and responsibilities are versus their's and how to work together more. what i'm more interested in. it is not as formal as i made it sound is my intent. nothing formal. prop b is done.

the train left the station it is all upon hands on deck how can we best work together i thought rachael would be key to do that that is more what i was thinking. >> are members of the board of supervisors given us prop b in 2020 and in 2022 are they having input on this? yes, i know the prom 2022 supervisor peskin i spoke with him about this. i think i think i don't know how much input we need. what done is done. i will turn it over to deputy city attorney. worn aspect is the board of supervisors can continue to prescribe roles for the commission.

so i think it is correct chair post that the upon general powerhouse of commissions in charter sections 4.102 and 3 and 4, are will the references that remain in the charter section 4.140. 4.141. so i think, too, the -- board of supervisors will continue to provide input i'm certain and i think it is a helpful policy approach to speak to people with subject matter expertise such as rape and he will working with director short and her leadership to help determine how the roles and responsibilities between the commissions

allocated to the most result. thank you. >> thank you. >> item 1 is the secretary's report and i -- my report is brief. and remindser we'll need to take public comment after since it is not an agendaized item. is that we include in your agenda in the attachment to it are the logs and so that includes both public comment we have not received any for this agenda or the previous one. and also any memorandums from the department to the commission following up on outstanding questions -- so. as those questions and the

outstanding questions are addressed i will be distributing those to the commission and making sure they are part of the logs so the commission has easy access and the public has it as well. on a logistic's matter we have a couple of meeting in march i will pull commissioners in the next week to see about potential alternative dates that since we vasome -- we have some danger of not making quorum for the 2 meetings until we explore the other possibilities. and then, this will be the last part of my report is my first discussion of the sanitation and streets commission and work in the month of december. they had a regular meeting scheduled for the 19th of december where they had both a

number of program items they were going to look at. >> and last grant item contract with service provider provide ing not -- professional development but workforce development as well as supportive service for cleaning the streets in china town. they needed to consider that for that grant by the end of the year. unfortunately, there were a number of conflicts that caused that commission to lose quorum. ahead of the december 19th meeting. we held a special meeting on the 28th of december to consider that grant item and it pass and

continued the good service the grantee is providing in the china town community. so -- the minutes for that meeting and for the november 2022 meeting will be available and i will send them out to this commission once they are prepared for the next sanitation and streets commission on january 23rd. that concludes my report i'm happy to take questions on those 3 announcements. >> >> thank you. open public comment on this item >> okay. >> for members of the public wish to make comment on item one the secretary's report. if you are present with us in the hearing chamber lineup against the wall further from the door if you mean are calling

in -- to call 415-655-0001 and access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press star 3 to raise your hands. look next the hearing chamber does not appear we have any in person public comment. sfgovtv, do we have callers who wish to speak on this report. >> they indicate that there is no public comment on this. and so this public comment concluded. >> thank you. secretary full are call the next item, general public comment. item 2. >> item 2 is general public

comment. members may address the commission on topics in the subject matter of the commission but not part of the agenda. comments specific to an item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes and general public comment may be continued to the end of the agenda upon if we exceed 15 minutes for general public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of upon general public comment may lineup against the wall. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ## then star 3 to enter the queue. looking in the hearing room we don't have members wish to speak

on this item of sfgovtv, do we have callers who raised their hand wish to speak in general public comment? >> sfgovtv indicating that we do not. we have no public comment. general public comment on this. >> thank you. we will move on to item number 3 secretary fuller call that item. >> item 3 is the director's report. interim public works director carla short is here to present and this it is an informational item. >> good morning, commissioners. carla short interim director i'm coming to you from the other side of the dias this morning.

because i want to give a presentation as part of the director's report today. but first i want to wish everyone a happy new year. we will talk about storms. but i have a couple other topics i wanted to touch on. we had a brief conversation about prop b. you know, we were official low reunited on january 1. so our operation side is part of the public works department again. thanks to san francisco voters. i'm really excited start the new year as a unified department. we are committed to building on our strengths. working together to address the challenges and make sure we remain focused on meaningful service for the people of san francisco. another update i wanted share before i ghet our storm response is a bit of information about the court ruling on emcampments. i'm not sure if you heard but

the u.s. district court ruleod december 23rd by federal magistrate judge donna rue that with few exceptions, that ruling blocks san francisco from removing unhoused residents from encampments as long as the city lacks shelter house them. point include the acl sxushgs coalition on homelessness the ruling means the city cannot remove anyone from the street until everyone has been provided housing. our city attorney is seeking a court clarification. we are correspond the ruling is in direct conflict with an earlier federal order by a different judge that mandated san francisco needed to have enhanced enforcement in the tenderloin. so our city attorney said that the new ruling defies logic

requiring the city to offer shelter for all persons experiencing homelessness before one person is adequately sheltered. it would take years and 1.45 billion to build the beds and homeless services and many beds go unused people refuse shelter. i'm bringing this to your attention we are involved in encampment resolutions. these resolutions are lead by services, before public works goes in at all they have been out reach from the department of homelessness and supportive housing from the department of public health. so there has been an out reach effort. many days sometimes weeks before we go to clean an encampment. our job is to clean once the

people have been offered the services. a big part of the role we play in addition to cleaning is bagging and tagging. many items removed we will collect. we catalog and store them at the operation's yard until ordinance come to retrieve them later. i'm sure we'll hear more about this as the case moves throughout courts and get clear direction if the judge and do our best to feel keep you updated on that. >> okay. this morning we feel we are all sand bags all the time i think that is our new modo. but i wanted share a brief presentation with you all. about our storm response. our department the forefront of

san francisco storm response efforts with multiple city departments. the d. emergency management, 3 upon 11, handles many calls and the san francisco public utility's commission and the fire department. anyone who is anywhere close to the city the past week or in northern california knows how wet it was. this was the wettest period in more than 100 years. >> one of the biggest operations all sand bags was giving out free sand bags to residents and businesses. this is a year round operation demand swells during heavy rains and this week was no exception. we handed out more than 14,000 sand bags since saturday and limited the number to 5 her household or business. the chief challenge has been

procuring the sand bags. we had how did we get flat foot federal. we didn't we had a stash of 8500 this was not predicted to be the storm it turned out to be. we scrambled i want to shout out to the procurement team and cfo working over the holiday to procure the sand bags. we -- sourced them from all overnight region. we -- tracked down more every day. we have approximate trucks coming and sent our own to fremont to pick up sand bags and some of the loads we got from delivers were from as far as tracie. some came with 112 sand bags one small load we will take every load. others with thousands. we hoped by the end of next week

to have about 20,000 sand bags available. which we expect will hopefully keep us in good stock for the season. i want to recognize our sands bag team and a shout out to acting deputy director of operations darlene sloan working nonstop since new year's eve. and i had to sends her home to get sleep. she was determineed continue working. they are out in the rain bindz and have been amazing. want to shout out to them. and here are some images of this operation. you see the driving rain coming down as our folkses are loading people and up helping residents the palettes sand bag its is an amazing operation. any time there will is a big

storm our tree crews are involved. we had almost 500 service requests we had to sort and triage. somewhere duplicates. most of the damage to the urban forest occurred -- approximate on january fourth when we had the gusty winds of we hadistries that took out municipal and he power lines and blocking sidewalks. some sat on cars. we had extra crews and dispatched them to urgent locations and like the staff our tree crews were out in rain gear getting to work when everybody was hunkering down at home in high winds and heavy rains. i want to give a very big and public thank you to our tree crews as well. i upon often say that as that

storms are our time to shane had everybody else is avoid whatting is happening we are run nothing and getting things doneful >> not to be forgotten our street cleaning staff spendses time in advance of the storm and during the storm. trying to keep leaves and dpe brae away to prevent flooding. they would were not able to clear them we worked with the public utility's commission to bring in the trucks to clear them.

and this is actually rock park lands our department has the engineering expertise and we are always brought in. >> and sorry. i did not highlight marina. this is upon under what looks like a river. marina boulevard the roadway sustained no permanent damage. our crews then come in to clean up the mess the public right-of-way. our street and building repair crews. the team when is this happens. >> i justmented highlight while the public's attention is aimed at on the grounds work we have a lot behind the scenes. there is planning that goes into any of our operations. making sure the staff will be on

hand and ensuring they have gear and tools they need and timing the operations to get the work covered while giving people time to recharge. we have tom sends some people home. but ensure they are also being safe and working safely. we opened our department operation. ran who shifts one from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and over night from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. our staff from the department to monitor what is happen nothing real time. help to dispatch staff. keep track that is needed going forward. in an operation center like this, there is an operation's section. logistics, planning, communication section, finance section and over all command team. this mimics the department operation center throughout the city. we use the same systems and

structure to try to ensure the mungz is really smooth. we do rain to prepare for the emergencies and use events as a simulation of an emergency. when we have a warrior's parade we need to clean up we will activate the search and practice the systems. hopeful low we build that muscle bhrm we have an emergency as we did we have folks ready to roll who know what to do. we provide staff for the city's emergency operation center. the central operations centers all the department operation centers work with and report to that helps to ensure that all city departments and outside partners the utilities will and the school district are coordinated and sponse. i want to commend the mayor this week she was making surety city was firing on all cylinders.

keeping the public inform side a priority. our communication team is part of the joint information center. we worked on coordinated messaging and department specific topics. there is public interest in our work and our team was responding to media requests constantly. and delivering information from early morning to late at night. a lot of the media work is with television, radio and online publications we are active on social media. and our posts on twit and linked in had 400,000 views the past several days that is sand bags learning about and we update and real time if we have you know if we are running low and if we need to close while we get a new

shipment. it is an effective way to community. i want to really recognize there are lots of everyone at public works involved in a way in storm response. finance team was needed to keep resources flowing. street inspectors make sure job cites were ready for the storm. pothole repair crews see a surge in the work load. radio room dispatchers and the. left we had a [inaudible] interview and they are interviewing monica, our very long standing and experienced radio room dispatchers. they make sure they are handling the service requests and getting them to the right people. of course i'm happy top have a lot of reign to alleviate the drought. i love rain because i love trees and plants but big storms that

saturate our soils and upon can cause harm i'm not a fan of. when a storm blows through i'm thankful for public works. it is our time to shine. we have an incredible team. we are working together and expert at the job we dom our crews are so dedicated. it just makes me proud this . is who we are and what we do. and with that i'm happy to take questions. >> i did not show all our twitter people were following. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. chair short. that inspiring presentation and hair raising video footage and

photos. i did have one question when i hear about downed power lines i get nervous. i presume we have long experience in protecting our employees when they are downed power lines and wet streets? yes. thank you for that question. we dom all of our tree crews go through a certification to be electric willal hazards they the get train nothing how to recognize and work around electrical hazards if there are downed power lines the crews throughout the organization know to stands upon by. will if the sfmta if they are over head t. is scare and he crews are trained. i'm calif.ed they know when they should not go near. thank you very much. >> any commissioner woolford.

ch we are in a hundreds year event the city was safe, secure and acting normal. so i think we are reliefd and thankful of the job the department is doing. i had a question on the update of the ruling on the homeless situation. ir think all of us are deeply aware of what happens in the streets in front of us. and one thing i wanted to ask is that will the city still be maintaining the current policy and implementation so that people are offered housing.

encampments that occur in more than 4 groups and people are offered housing and belongings are recorded and kept? >> i think the short answer is, yes. however, i want to emphasize that -- we are all working very carefully to ensure that we are add hering to the court injunction. so. i know that service are continuing to be offered, that is an important part of when we do. our crews continue to clone. but and in fact, the injunction said public works you have a good bag and tag policy, follow it. the dreshgz we got was straightforward.

stick to your policy and follow it carefully. so that is when we are doing. i don't want to speak to and i'm not the right person to speak to the offering of shelter and moving people. so -- what i say is you know we are adhering to the court injunction carefully on our bag and tag policy and the city is continuing to offer services to folks. but in terms of moving people i think -- i don't want to say the wrong thing but i know there is very, very clear direction to all of the city departments we have to be certain we add here torthis as we wait for clarification from the judge. >> i finds alarming development that this would happen from what i had been able to foresee in my experience living in san

francisco and working and operating a busy the city done a humane and considerate engagement with the homeless population and no one wanted a person to be homeless the city has done what is important for the individual rights of our citizens and the public hasn't of the community. i would appreciate it if you could continue to update us this strikes me something that could precipitate a very unfortunate situation. depending how it goes. >> i will absolutely make a point to let you know updated as i get them. i will second that. commissioner newhouse segal? so this relates the court ruling

about the encampments and the storms we had. and we will probably have againful may be not this bad. so -- we all noticed that it appears that the encampments are very often in low areas. as i emerge from my safe home, i noticed abandon encampments in yours that were obviously had been flooded and still drenched. i wonder, you got hit with the storm and the new injunction. i'm speechls about how you would deal with the 2. because people have to flee. for safety.

and taking their belongings with them you had to deal with a lot of abandoned and destroyed or damaged belongings i don't expect an answer but i -- let us know how we can help in any way. i will say part of our policy we are adhering to is if we come across belongings. we will bag and tag if there is in the someone there and at the request we can take belongings and store them for them if we come across that our crews should be collecting the belongings and bagging and tagging and taking them back to the yard. i note because this is a public forum that our homeless and supportive housing team opened

emergency shelters. to tronz port anyone who may need shelter an emergency shelter. the city is mindful and doing what we can and public work system always happy to support help in any way we can to try to get people in shelter during the scary storms. thank you very much. i will echo sentiments to the dpw staff. we were thinking of them during the storms. knowing everybody was out there in the conditions. to that ends i think upon given dpw response the commission would like to commends the staff

for their work. and award the staff certificates of commendation. for service to the city and keeping the public safe and the city operating. we will leave it to to you determine which individuals should get the certificates of commendation but like to award those and of course anything for mrs. froem you think would be appropriate we would endorse and want to act on. >> thank you so much chair post. that would be very meaningful for our crews. we appreciate that and happy to get you the names of employees working during this time >> thank you very much, that will be helpful. >> any further questions before we turn to public comment? members of the public who wish

to make comment on item 3 the director's report. may lineup against the wall. if you are in the chamber. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, star 3 to enter the queue. does not appear the members of the public approached wishing to comment on this reportful sfgovtv do we have callers in the queue wish to speak on the report. and they are indicating we have none. no comments on director's

report. >> thank you. we will now move to item 4. call that item. >> item 4 is the consent calendar of routine matters. includes minutes from the december 16th of 22 meeting. construction contract award for claremont yerba buena sewer replacement and modification for period of time safety at various locations 100011946. the minutes include corrections to typos and changes for clarity in items 3, 8, 10 and 11. and for both the contract award which is 4b and the contract modification 4c. the contract value is boost 1

mission threshold for consideration by the commission and below the 5 million dollars tloeshld to be heard individually with the contract delegation policy adopt by this commission. >> all consent items can be heard individual low upon request by a commissioner, staff or public. and adoption of the consent calendar and resolutions contained in it is an action item. >> thank you. i have a question or a comment on one item. i don't know if mr. congress is in the audience. this regards the street and sewer replace am contract. he followed up with a helpful map. of the locations of the pave am renovations and sewer replacements. i was going to thank him and

request in future presentations or documentations supporting items on consent and regularical dar when we are talking about projects that have more than one location if we could include a map that would save adding of google map every segment as i did when i was reading in the beginning to know where they were and upon be impressed how much of the city i don't know and streets i never heard of. it was helpful to have that map and even if he could in the future and other staff could number the segment and tie it to a member and that would make our lives easier. thank you for providing that map as a follow xup look forward to seeing more in the future to get a grasp where the projects are being performed by dpw. >> do commissioners i guess now. questions? other questions before we go for

motion on this? i do hear a motion and second to adopt the consent of routine matters. >> i move to adopt the consent calendar. >> i will second. >> we'll turn to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of commentom this item 4 the adoption of the consent calendar and resolutions within it. may lineup against the wall if present in the chamber. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press star 3 to enter the queue. does not apeer we have members wish to speak in person.

sfgovtv, do we have callers wish to speak on the consent? it appear we do have one, please, go ahead and unmute the caller and caller, once you are unmuted you will have 3 minutes and i will provide you with a 30 second warning when your time simple expiring. >> can you hear me. daved pilpel. first time this year i have a number of commentsos 4a, b and c. i don't feel a need to have them pull exclude heard separately i will do it within 3 minutes if i go over ask me to conclude so i can get everything on items item 4a under item 4, on page 4 of

the draft minutes, my public comment i did suggest moving it prior to the votes in the minutes. i also commented and appreciated the expanded text read about items 4c and d at that meeting related to ceqa. and i think something should be inserted there related to my comments about ceqa on -- page -- on item 8 in the upon minutes on page 5. commissioner newhouse segal requested lower case r on item 11 and public comment. suggesting lower case s and i don't be if and wait, and adding the meeting schedule attachment

to the resolution or, too, is missing finotice anything else i'm happy to communicate that to commission secretary. manager full and suggest that throughout where it references members present and voting it should indicate voting in favor. so it is clear. and the record. it is also just as a side note. not clear where the various commission requests which were made throughout the meeting where they are being captured. there was not a calendar. it would be helpful to have some consolidated roar of commission requests is the stats of those perhaps with the calendar. that's item 4 a. 4 b. the top of pages 2 and 3. >> 30 seconds.

>> thanks. the top of pages 2 and 3 it still says insert staff report and insert 8. looks like that did not get attended to. i think it would be helpful to clarify in the future the scope, elements including the sue are work and the pavement work which are different scopes and are covered by different ceqa -- >> time concluded. >> can i continue my comments? >> should i request 4b and c be. >> you can continue your comments. >> for 2 more minute system this reason? sorry i got a lot of cross talk with the system. why please condition for up to 2 minutes, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> okay.

continuing on 4b the ceqa check list -- date related to the better street's plan is not, well, it is referenced in the staff report on page 3 but not clearly spained as to the 2 specific approval dates for the ceqa documents that would be helpful to me. i found on pages 250 and 279 for the exemption for the sue are work. there was a lot of duplication in the attachments made it complicated to work through all of that material. of and i agree with the chair post that a map is helpful and i think that should being a regular part of all staff reports. for a map where there is a

project specific location. that's it on 4c the resolution and the staff report have information about ceqa but -- does not make entirely clear what the ceqa status is as relates to the work if this is a scope change. if so is within the prior ceqa review the holiday is referenced but not explained and map and photos will be helpful as relates to the delay due to changed conscience that were not discovered having the photo of what it is that was discovered would be helpful to explain and justify the change. i have no objections to either 4 b or c or the consent calendar thank you for allowing me time

and thank you for listening. >> thank you. >> thank you. caller. that is our last public comment on this consent calendar >> thank you. >> is there deby the this motion it is >> hearing none. all in favor of approving the consent cal daughter say, yes. >> yes. >> ychls i don't hear, no's. the motion passes. and secretary fuller will publish the adopted minutes and resolutions to our commission website. >> we will move on to item 5. mr. fuller? >> will item 5 is the over view of the street use and mapping and this will be presented by bureau manager nikolas hough

this is an informational item. i'm manager for are street use and mapping. thank you for giving meet opportunity to tell you when we do and who we are. i started with the department 21 years ago as a junior engineer at the time there were 5 diameters and remained with idc we were the only permitting

bureau. we are organized in 3 groups permits, inspections and enforce and want subdivision and mapping. there is little over lap but coordination between them. we have a fourth service that is distinct from the 3 under the subdivision of mapping that is field survase the field survey group does surveys for projects within public works. for bureau of architect and project management. we dpo [inaudible] for the puc and for mta, rec park and the port and to a less extent gent rit maps for department this is own and operate real estate for real estate transactions. we don't do those often. this is our leadership group.

our permit manager. mike is our inspection enforce am manager and kate is our surveyor. so, why do we have permits? that's a question i get a lot. and the simple answer is so that it is in the the wild west. to ensure we have a safe and have a roads and sidewalks that are safe and free of hazzard. and ensure the public right of way is in the taken for private use. which does happen, it is in the malicious. people don't know the bound easier of property and assume they build their fence up to where they think they can build it. we work with those people. if anything could demonstrate what we dot image on the screen. the orange block is a building frontage the dashed line is the

property line and the blue box a view of the street. the dark green is asphalt. light green is curb, gut and sidewalk. we issue permits for just about everything in the blue box the exception of the trees. they are by urban forest row on traffic permits. hi a question about special events. those rz handled by mta. typically the special events require closures to vehicular traffic that i have a group called special events, i can't remember the title. and then areas where like holiday and un plaza, there are joint jurisdiction with rec park, rec park handles the special events. we will sometimes issue a permit like with winter wonderland. for rec park to operate that. also to the county surveyor's

office we manage street remaining the board renames streets or sections in the county surveyor takes the updates and notifies the postal service. and the oranges block the county surveyor does function there is as well. they do lot line adjustments and mergers and subdivisions. vertical subdivisions to name a few things. so, left year was not that busy year we issued directly 16,000, 300 permit this is is permits we issued directly. you may or may not know the department of building operates the permit center on the second floor on 49 south vaness we have a window on that floor. and through that window we issue 2 types of permits. if you are renovating your home and get a permit from dbi you

entitleed street space per notify have park nothing front of your home and store items on the sidewalk. we issued 8,000 of those permit last fiscal year there is another function we provide at the dbi permit centers when someone come in to renovate their home they are doing work in the right-of-way tell get flags and routed. we'll review it for that. to make sure it is compliant and did 3,000 of the sign off's last year. 3,000 plus 8 thousand and 16,000 is 27, 300 permits. that was actually a slow year for us. and we also issued 112 permits to sas street and environmental

service last year and another function we have that is not captured on the slides to answer how much we coordinate with sas we do back office operation work for the blight and graffiti group. we handle all of their hearing the director hearing set ups presentation materials and then if the hearings result in liens that go to the board we do that with the clerk of the board and handle their billings and directions. the 3 types of permitsil highlight. the mep and s ap's. the reason is because the process for these is thorough.

deliberate and meticulous and involved coordinating with others. i will talk about that in a later slide. for permits per murals there are 2 ways they will reach out to the director's office or another group and will be connected with them. kickoff meetings and walk them throughout code and employs and review authority over the permit. a lot of times groups reach out

to someone like the mta or puc they will say we got approval from puc and mta. no you did in the talk to the right person. for grants that are given sometimes those are -- with community groups utilize operations to build the improve am and the operations will do the initial application pack sxaj we will help get that through the process. there was a request we are updating our old data base system. it was home grown and programmed does not have reporting capable. you can't track and you see from 27,000 permits we will have

reporting capabilities and tracking ieblt.

we also drafted proposed legislation for murals so we got a lot of requests for murals and tried to do a hi brifd major and encroachment and minor permits so people can community groups can obtain a mural permit. currently it is getting a major encroachment requiring the board approval temperature is a long process and people get frustrate when they hear that. but that is how the code is. the next type of per mists are commercial. they include banners on live poles and traffic signals and coffee shops and restaurants. food trucks parked in the right-of-way. we don't permit food trucks from private lots there are a couple in the city like that. sidewalk ventzing a new program the board legislated left year and shared spaces the pandemic program. i will discuss those during the inspection and enforcement portion of the presentation. this is a process i eludeed earlier. so if you are getting for a typical permit, if you are getting -- your house renovated and needlement from planning, go to dbi to get building permit. dbi will circulate and if they determine you may or may not have items that you are improving in the right-of-way, then we will put ail hold on your permit. and -- you will have to submit an s ip. some individuals are familiar with the process they do their s

ip permit application at the same time. anyway. we get the s ip and we circulate it with the 3 departments at the puc. the various departments at mta and d ph. collect their comments and return them and this takes 2-3 cycles before we issue a permit. some designers are good and able to address things rapidly. but generally per a large are project people don't care they wait until last minute we get complaints like why can't i get this done now. >> so this is just an image of the typical project. i think for sewer. here is two different types of

street space. for pg sxeshgs on the right this is the shared space shared street space permit begin to someone with a dbi permit. inspections and enforcement this group has the biggest charge of our 3 groups buzz they handle a number of complaints others usually dismiss through 311 we have to figure out who has ownership of an issue in the private right-of-way and seek resolution. we get a thousand of those every fiscal quarter. and they are organized by zip code. we also have as needed repair contracts the abatement program

and sidewalk inspection and repair program. reactive -- and we work with the city attorney's litigation group for trip and fall claims. we got a request to go to acorn they're had a bad lift someone injured themselves and suing the city. we put that in our package when we do the repair. the contract is proactive. it is a 25 year cycle. we are like 15 or 18 now. but we will request every year priorities from buff and incorporate those to the sidewalk repairs they have a backlog of work. the utility and street improvement inspection program organizing the permits we issue and enforcing terms and conditions and code requirements for those permits.

i said i would speak about illegal sidewalk this was passed last year we issued permit in august. most of this is to address the disregard for everything in the mission an open flea market i did not know how bad until i saw the pictures. and it was people could not get on and off buses. wheel chairs could not get down the sidewalk, it was a nightmare. most of the individual who is want to be legal have got permits now we are dealing with so called back pack so people get stolen goods out of their back pack. shared spaces was the board the city's response to the shelter in place requirements of 2020 when restaurants could not dine in. so shelters were built on the

right-of-way to allow out door dine to give them relief. public works pivoted to this in a short time with no funding or staff. we issued 2,000 permits that year. the number has fallen we are under the emergency authorization that expires the end of march this year. we are moving to fully legislatedive program and expect a number of units to fall. for some it is not worth the trouble. lastly, we go out for civic events for parades we clear the route and make sure everything is buttoned up ahead of time and the left 2 we were asked to do ventzing patrol. to make sure illegal venders

were not selling during the parade. these are 311's we get. someone tearum their sidewalk we get called out to make it safe and get them to get a permit. on the right this is typical developer decided i will close the sidewalk and put a sign, sidewalk closed. we get called and fine them and make it legal. table and chairs not placed correctly prevents people from getting in and out of the car. on the right a hot mess it is dirty and -- we make the restaurant, clean it up and diverter is illegal and advertising on it. not supposed to do that. there is another complaint we get this is more acute with -- mom and pop grocery stores.

they are selling. we fix it and called back because they are doing it again. so lastly, the subdivision and mapping by county surveyor unique from most of the other counties in california other counties are review a map and a couple associated documents. and planning is in charge of the bulk of document this is get reviewed. san francisco the county surveyor is in charge of reviewing the package i did here. several years ago with the acting county surveyors and had 3 banker box of documents to get recordd and i was there for 3

hour this is is the list, 3 hours. right now the county surveyor is looking at, she is new. looking at everything she can do to expedite the process and acknowledges things are slow and she is -- figure out ways of delivering. because they know that she knows she is integral to the process of getting housing developed. these are some of the item this is she is in charge of. the map is not an acronym is from the olds days. when i started -- 20 something years ago and had volumes and blue lines and amennia machine and file cabinets that were shallow and wide and a number or letter. it was the -- the -- drawer number and carried on as a name

for the match those were the boundary and grade maps. >> so these are the -- 18 to 20 major development in san francisco. they represent tens of thousands of housing units and they committed to partnering with the city and delivering housing and we understand this we have the essential and making the city and front and center in helping it guide the developments. we are also here to protect the stele's interests and ensure the state map and local codes are followed. lastly the developments by the maps that applications receive and recorded you see -- we lag boy a year. shelter in place hit us hard. we and 2023 to be equal to 22. that is reality of the economic

condition that is it. >> if you have questions? thank you very much. >> that was very interesting and i'm impressed by the many, many obligations the department of public works has diversity in the department of everything you carry out and the impact you have on our daily lives. i have several men evercomments and questions. one is you mentioned the repeat offenders the next day they are again seems like a waste of staff time and taxpayer money. what how do we ~esque lit that so you are not going to the same properties? >> we will start finding them. that's the simple way out. on we issue fines. >> effective?

>> generally. >> thank you. a bit more on major versus minor encroachment what is the difference how it is determined what is minor and which is major and how does this have the process differ. >> so -- there are 2 sections in the code. one is for major and one for minor. minor are only issued to fronting property ordinance. i will go become to the example i gave of renovating your home. if you are putting lite say replacing the sidewalk with a fancy brick work that could be a minor. the coat has a provision for -- the percentage of the area in front of your home. that you are allowed basically a cap on a minor.

say you redot area with custom stuff to the curb. this would be a major encroachment it would be 100% of the work in front of your home. that is a bad example that seldom happened. and -- let's see i'm thinking of anything else. there are other considerations for major i can't think of them off the top the major -- also someone doing -- let's see -- if -- third party is doing work in the right-of-way say a community group redoes a corridor with special stuff? they would have to get a major encroachment they are not the fronting property owner. so minors are only for fronting property owners and majors kick in if -- it is a third party

doing work an hoa, they are dog it they would pull the major permit. does this make sense. >> it does i'm not syria i like it. sounds like not based on the size of the encroachment. are you getting in the way of the public and of the right-of-way or safety or -- or are you not? but that is a conversation for a different day that is not up to you if it is by the code. >> thank you for understanding. not up to us. >> yea. that put that on the list of changes but -- anyway. i had a lot commentsil make at the ends now i will go to my fellow commissioners for questions and comments. commissioner woolford. thank you. one thing i think as an architect i'm aware most of the

public does not see it or take its for grantd that our streets, parks and squares are the only public rooms except for city hall and the library this most of us can occupy together. importance of them is paradox. they are our common rooms. i wanted to thank you and for the work hayour department is doing and points out to the importance of the work the department of public works does. because largely we live in a 73 without chaos on the streets. it is a first world city and kept clean and safe. and organized in managed and feel comfortable and proud of being in the public realm. i wanted compliment you and thank you for the work you do. >> and acknowledge it. >> thank you. >> thank you. so i guess i have a slightly different perspective based on my activism.

hai like to request is a proposal from your. i am requesting a project. a neighborhood activist said something to me. neighborhood initiatives are stifled because of permitting problems. we need to fix that. and i'd like to be heros to i i don't think you are viewed as hero in all aspects i request your division develop a principle for how to work with the community to allow for timely permitting for projects of public benefit i'm think burglar you partner to put this proposal together with the council district merchant's association and for the community benefit district and the community benefit district alliance the parks and liveable city. buoy do believe that there is

room for improvement allowing commune organization hos want top provide public benefits to the city in getting permits for events and for tables and chairs on sidewalks and murals and for quality of life issues. that makes the city better for all of us. we have a problem, i'm sorry to be the bearer of this we have a problem i would like it fixed and what i like to request in july that you come become to the commission with a proposal for how to improve the permitting process. as i said in consultation with the organizations that have had issues with the permits and that in 3 months i like to request a progress report on how the proposal is coming along i hope this is a reasonable request i feel this is an area dpw needs to improve and could come out as

heros instead approximate viewed as obstructionists. >> thank you. chair post. if i may jump in here. we -- i think we recognize this can be a problem as well and really one challenge we have is some of the proposed ideas we -- don't have existing clear permits for those -- what is proposed. and so then it is a change to figure out that is the appropriate permit mechanism. we will use the mural example. mural on a public bridge. depending who is where the bridge starts. we worked through this process. . and may determine whether public works have a role or whether it goes to department of real estate. as a result of the projects, we have begown do what i think you

are asking for and our deputy director for communication, beth who works with rachael gordon has very great relationships with arts commission and the other city agencies that need to weigh in on the types of projects. she has begun to look at how we stream line community neighborhood permitting projects. we also have this we had a permit we were calling. the major/minor. >> hybrid. >> working but had a name we worked on with a deputy city attorney. to try to create the hybrid permit that would may be not have the burden of a major encroachment if not a major project but they are not adjacent property owner. we recognize this is an area for improvement. if we might suggest that beth

and rachael office could take the lead working them as she has been, to come up with your requested proposal i think this would be a great path forward buzz she started to work on this already. >> that sounds fine i will leave it to your judgment. i would like topping request that the merchant's association and the community benefit direct alliance consultd and involved. i think they will give you good information on the problems so you know how to address them. and everyone looks like a hero and make improvements thank you very much. i hope 6 mont system a reasonable time line for a proposal for changes on stream lining the process? >> i think so. that sounds reasonable. we give you your 3 mont update photocopy we see anything we'll flag it at that time.

>> perfect. thank you very much. >> thank you. those are -- commissioner newhouse, segal. >> yes. thank you for your work and thank you for your report. and -- i have been on the sufficiented giving permits as a rec park commissioner and applying for permits as a president of a neighborhood associations. and -- may be i just know the process or may be i just live in a neighborhood that is much older than the other neighborhoods that the other commissioners live in. but -- in audio. i'm not say thering is not a problem i would be happy to work with you and i of course a lot of neighborhood organizations go, i know you mentioned park's

alliance. i think there are supervisors since we don't have district elections of supervisors with some people are not that -- that -- practical, here it would be good to get i know that a lot of the supervisors have somebody responsible for working with neighborhood organizations and may be that would be a way to coordinate with the mayor's office of community services and the mayor's office of neighborhood services. the planning department they all have names of -- neighborhood organizations that they work watch you know something is being -- if there is a permit applied for building per nit our neighborhood the planning department knows which neighborhood organization that they should sends this to. we review it -- some

neighborhoods are not as organized but i think this is may be a good opportunity since san francisco is going through a lot of changes in the past decade and the past couple of years since the pandemic to bring everybody up to speed of old established neighborhoods and say this is what would be expected. this is an on00 this is a bench mark for what we should -- expect neighborhood organizations to do. and so -- so homeowner's associations and the representative, i don't know. i don't know if home ordinance or whatever. know who they should think that is shocking my homeowner's association is not allowed to join a neighborhood organization

we allow individuals to join. issuing the permits i don't think this is be on our plate how we second. we should connect better but it is -- something evolved over a hundred years. you are right the city has been changing and growing a lot and we need a way to do it. i will be happy to work with you all. got a let on your plate and you do a great job. thank you. thank you. i will just add -- and of course

the proposal if the code changes are required in your judgment then then we will go for it. i'm not for what dpw can do but what the city can do to facilitate this that means code changes if this make its easier look at code changes you got the idea. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> further questions or comments on this item? i think that is it. why thank you very much. >> thank you. now open public upon comment on this item. members who wish to make 3 machines of comment on item 5 the over view of bureau of street use and mapping may lineup against the wall. if call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, star 3 to enter the

queue. no one has approached in order to be recognized. sfgovtv, do we have members of the public who expressed interest in speaking to the call in, we have one member of the public wish to speak. caller. you will have 3 minutes. can you hear me now? >> yes. great. daved pilpel. il cope it to 3 minutes i appreciate the comprehensive

presentation. and the discussion, very helpful. a couple of thoughts the organization chart that was on page 5? that was helpful. what i did not see in this presentation was the total staffing. of the bureau and number of vacancies and how they are impacting service deliver and he turn around time on permit requests and other work matters. i did appreciate the discussion about process improvements. i think this is -- certainly a bureau that has a lot of public interaction. and so continuous process improvement to customer service is important. it is important throughout dpw and at bs m relating to as far

as i understands it all permits in san francisco are discretionary. and effort at the dsm related to appeals filed at the board of appeals i'm not sure if this came out as clearly in the presentation and finally to relate in the different way the other night i saw an early screening of living. . which has opened and playing at the plaza, which is an older person in early 1950s. london. who actually heads when appear to be the permit section.

very muches people asking permits and bureaucrats at the time using file fold and arguing about whether the permit is appropriate in public works or the park's department or the schools department, well is a lot of paddling the in terms of permit requests. >> 30 seconds j. interesting and i would encourage everyone to check out this film. folks who work at bs m and dpw. those are my thoughts on this issue. thanks for listening. >> thank you, caller. that concludes public comment on this over view of with item 5. further discussion on this item?

we now move on to item 6. secretary fuller call that item. >> item 6, the public works director hiring update. and chair post will provide this update and it is an informational item. >> thank you. i have nothing further to add to the remarks i made in my announcements. there will be public comment on this even though there was no -- >> yes. we will do that. >> members of the public who wish to may 3 minutes of comment on item 6 the director update. line up against the wall if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press story 3 to enter the queue.

no one has approached to speak. of sfgovtv are there speakers in the queue? we have none. no public comments on this. >> thank you. we'll move on to the next item 8. new business by commissioners. call that item. >> just to clarify it is item 7. which is new business initiated by commissioners this is an informational item. >> thank you. >> i have 2 items of new business i like to initiate. please. >> the first presentations and so -- the first is i'd like to understand the affect of

facility's maintenance in a separate division of dpw and operations from design and construction. i'm concerned after project deliver theinefficiency can result in client departments not having sufficient information and expertise to properly funds and maintain the projects dpw delivers. i understand that -- this could result in no role process for dpw design and construction to receive feedback from our client organizations and learn important lessons on how they use the new facilities we carry forward. i feel and fear improved communication may be needed between dpw as well as our client organizations regarding project scope and how scoping decisions affect budgeting allocating for proper o, and m and project completion.

i request director short a presentation in the future that we can fit in without delaying contract approvals. on how this can be improved. how this inefficiency of having o & m for project in a separate division without the benefit of the design and construction teams expertise. the other presentation i would like to request somewhat related for the commission, on the city's capitol plan in general. abcs on the plan if you will. with emphasis on general fund allocations for capitol projects after they are completed. apparently the plan does address the need for consistent and timely facility operations but does in the get funded. if is that the case, that is a problem. i'd like to know the cost to the

city and taxpayers and money is spent on high quality projects on the time dpw and other city departments deliver only to see them deteriorate quickly do you to lack of proper care because o & m has not been budgeted for. both of these presentations or one -- could address the need for city standards for the capitol projects i am putting infrastructure in this. and perhaps need for formal system for managing facilities and partnership with dpw partner ship that is embraced by all city departments. dpw after delivering infrastructure and projects remains a partner and ensuring that our beautiful new projects whether a sewer replacement or medical facility or a park or

street median is properly maintained. so that less taxpayer money funds deteriorating and dpw does in the waste resources. on problems down the road that could have been avoided with proper planning and communication from day one. do you have questions director short or clarifications on anything i spoken about? >> thank you, chair post. i think i'm understanding your request i would suggest this we include someone from the capitol planning program to present to you as well. for your second request the abc's. and then we can talk about how requests are made by within the department -- to capital planning and budget initiatives.

>> thank you very much. >> commissioner woolford? >> yes, hearing the having the presentation on the bureau of streets today, it occur today me i'm late to this but the american institute of architects is convening the national conference here in early june. they will be 20,000 architects plus family bunkham guests 40-50,000 people. they organize tours. my own practice offered tours for projects we lead. one with the city of san francisco the public safety building over in the mission bay. we are waiting to hear if this is accepted. it occurred to mow i did in the initiate the tour opportunity and don't know if the bureau of architecture did. but if we could ask julia the director of architecture to see if san francisco has volunteered

tours of the civic center and golden gate park? the golden gate bridge. these seem like area when is san francisco has been painted in the press as one type of place it would be appropriate to put our very best public places and infrastructure on display for the entire country. so i would ask if we follow up with julia, it might be too late to do these if they have not been initiated i think the architects would be interested. >> i like to second that proposal and i seen facilities. this might sounds odd the chief medical examine are office should go on the list. it is unique and national precedent type of design or the southeast community center that just opened. why they might have. >> they may have

>> check with greta. they might have put this. because we are not building the civic center and city hall now it may not vehicle submitted but something. >> check out the medical office. that might be -- yea. we will leave it to director short. >> there are several projects we might ask if she did it is in the too late. >> we'll check with her today and i might take a moment to note that when the american society of landscape architects in town we did a tour in partnership with the capitol planning team to talk about san francisco may not be unique with our capitol plan and process but it is many cities don't have a process similar to ours. our one of our landscape architects and with bryant strong from city administrator

office did a tour and talked about having a to the planning sxroesz how that enabled the infrastructure that has been developed the last 10 years. they did -- china town -- to i can't remember. they did a lop of the tour. looking at lots of different civic project this is were enabled because of the capitol plan. we may already have something in the works but will check in and let you common if not too late i love the suggestions thank you. >> i was going to suggest a way to short circuit contact stacy williams. i will be glad to. she is the local director of american institute of architects. and shed have the attention of national. >> thank you. we may take you up on that. >> other new business before public comment?

open public comment. >> members of public when wish it make 3 minutes of comment on item 7, new business initiated by commissioners may lineup. if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2488 204 0766 ##, press story 3 to enter the speaker's queue. no one has approached to be heard on this item. sfgovtv do we have callers wishing to speak.

>> there are indicating we have one caller. unmou the caller. you will have 3 machine it is. can you hear me? >> we can hear you. >> great. david pilpel. hopeful low the last time today. i want to reenfers my earlier point documenting for the commission the staff and public commissioner requests, which are seem to be stack up like sand bags. so well is clarity about what the asks was when it may be scheduled the staff person we can get a sense of the various requests and the sequencing

given the contract budget. is got a lot on the plate and having a public way to track those requests. i think would be helpful. >> thanks for listening. >> thank you, caller. that is our only commenter on this item. >> thank you. we will go on to the next item. general public comment item 8 >> item 8 general public comment continued from earlier in the meeting if necessary is not necessary. as we did not exceed the 15 minute limit on general public comment. >> thank you. mr. fuller do we have remaining business? >> there is no further business.

>> i adjourn this meeting we will meet again friday january 20 at 9:30 a.m. our new start time. thank you.

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structures. [♪♪♪] >> i had to have some degree of artistic skill from a handcraft point of view to become an architect at that time. it is an incredible amount of loss, in my opinion, to not draw by hand. that skill of having to manipulate a pencil or a pen to make line wait and to make the drawing we've. i have seen this development of technology and this huge transformation in the world his that you do leave some things behind that have beauty to them. [♪♪♪] >> now a day, technologies a completely different. we're not using paper, we are not using paint pencils, but we are using computers to model our buildings to produce drawings, it is different craftsmanship. >> in addition to the beautiful drawings, the person who was taking care of our file for

almost 30 years was the one who organized those drawings and listed all of them in big binders with all the name of the projects, and they were still using these which is amazing. >> 840. we are building an electronic archive of all the drawings for future use. the scanning project started back in march, 2018. we have scans about 36,000 sheets of paper and there's the remaining balance of 93,981. we can do about 100 sheets per day. hopefully by february 2020, it will be completed. >> we feel that our collection of historical drawings represents san francisco's a rich history. not only do we help make history , we also preserve it for the benefit of future generations.

good morning and welcome to the inaugust ral meeting at the san francisco board of supervisors today january 9, 2023. the roll call order for attendance and votes will begin at the top of the alphabet. i will call the roll. >> supervisor connie chan. >> present. >> supervisor matt dorsey. >> present. >> supervisor joel engardio. >> present. >> supervisor rafael mandelman. >> present. >> supervisor