excuse supervisor chan for the rest of this meeting. >> on the motion to excuse supervisor chan. supervisor chan. excused. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion to excuse supervisor chan is approved. without objection. i will pick a motion to sends item 7 with recommendation to the full board as a mittee report for hearing tomorrow, january 31st on that motion? >> you like to confirm we have no callers on the line for item 7. >> we took public comment already. why yes. i wanted to double -check to be sure. >> item 7, supervisor chan. excused. vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin.

>> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you, colleagues it hen a pleasure serving with you and we are adjourned and the next rules will be chaired by supervisor dorsey.

>> order of the streets sanitation and streets commission. today is monday january 23, 2023. mr. fuller please call the role. it is 10:00 am. >> good morning, please respond with here or present. tomas harrison. >> here. >> commissioner hair shon is present. kim hartwood shoelman. >> here. >> commissioner is present. >> ion has an absence that he notified the commissioner president about. >> present. >> present. >> commissioner seme is present with four commissioners present we do have quorum for the sanitation and streets commission. due to the covid health

machining and given the health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health and the emergency orders of governor and mayor concerning social distancing this meeting is being held via tele conference and streamed. for those of you watching the live stream, please be aware that there is a time lag. on behalf of the commission, i would like to like to extend the thanks to the staff and building management for their assistance putting on this meeting. for members of the public wish to go make public comment, from outside the hearing room, you would dial the public comment 415-655-0001 and use meeting id

24887034824 followed pound and pound again. and then to be recognized press star-3 to raise your hand. please note that public commenter must limit to the items being discussed. and to remind you if you don't stay on topic, the chair may remind you to stay speaking on that item. we ask that you refrain from the use of profanity, please address the commissioners as whole not as a individual. item 9 was posted with an error and will need to be postponed until and rescheduled until february 13 meeting, that is the overview of department of public works grants item 9.

>> thank you, are there any request from the commission to amend the order of the agenda? i'll make a motion, i'll make a second. >> unless there is a request being requested, we will not need to make a motion. >> excellent, thank you, we shall continue. hearing no further debate, i'll skip over that too. my turn, happy new year, it was a wet start for the sanitation and streets commission. our trees very important to us, reminded us of good maintenance and upkeep and unfortunately, the acts of god or those above us, we don't have control over but we can control how we respond and we prevented as much as possible.

very important looking forward with regards to the director with regards to the trees. i know it had everyone's attention and keeping them healthy is as important as keeping our community safe and healthy. that said, we're working on our land acknowledgment, took a little bit of a delay but that's because we want to take the state seriously and we want to take the right time and effort making it something that is appreciated rather than something that is wrote as one of the commissioners said. that being said, i have no further comments. and this concludes my announcements. mr. fuller call the first item.

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have any in-person commenters that want to speak on this item. do we have any callers on the queue who wish to speak on this? and they are indicating there are no callers, so we do not have any general public comment. >> thank you, that concludes general public comment, mr. fuller please call the next item. >> item 2 is director's report and carlo short is here to present and this is an informational item. >> good morning, interim director, thank you for the community against to update you on few noteworthy events. the team has been at the for front of the storm's efforts. while we did have some heavy showers last wednesday we've been getting a draek from the downpours.

since new years, san francisco recorded 17 inches of rain making it the first three week wettest in history. and with that came a lot of damage so. i would like to share some numbers. we distributed 300,000 sandbags during our operation. often the mid-pounding rains and high winds. we have been working hard to replenish the stock and we now have more than 15,000 sandbags on hand. our street recrews patch 858 pothole. considering that we ofrj just over 600 potholes a month. today we're above 800 and the month is a little bit halfway over. i don't know if you know why potholes emerge in the rain. i will share. the science is straightforward

when water saepz through the pavement in the asphalt or concrete, the sub surface can start to erode. when vehicles passover the compromised area, the roadway can break down even more creating a pothole. our crews can repair smaller ones pretty quickly using hot or cold patches. our goal is to patch 90% of potholes reported through the 311 customer service center within the first hours. and next up, catch basin san francisco works with the public public utilities commission to keep catch basins clear of debris so that rain can run into the storm water system. when the rainfall fast and heavy like we saw on new year's eve and after, the system maxes out and flooding occurs.

there is no urban system in the united states that is built to capture the storm water that day. since new year's eve, we've had 900 service orders recording to base flood basin. public works catches and we were able to clear 852 of those. when we can't clear or when we clear the surface and the catch basin does not drain, then we notify the utilities commissioner and they use the specialized vacuum trucks in order to do that. so 90 of those 942 service orders were transferred to the public utilities commission. in addition, public works trade work residenter rooferers, plumbers, electricians sheet metal workers had a lot of work fixing city buildings a fekds by the storms that's on going.

we had 61 service orders, from everything from leaky roofs to over flowing drains. we've also been dealing with rock and mudslides. first our engineering team assesses the damage, they look at safety measure, and then our street repair and street cleaning crews are brought in to clear rocks, place sandbags and plush down the streets and the like, it's a team effort. our team dealt with a major incident with the discovery of a very large cracked bold on around the randall museum in corona heights that needed to be knocked down carefully by a specialty contractor that we called in before it start today crash in. it was the size of a truck, it was huge. others are created ne highway between slope and skyline, and twin peaks at bernet, the 200

block of bern dale and a sink hole. and as you noted, our tree crews have been at the front and center with 1665 storm related service orders put into the queue. of those 848 related to fallen trees, large branches or land threatening property blocking roads or falling on overhead power lines. rounding out the service requests were urgent request to trim trees to keep them from failing. i do want to note that we're still in the process of the way they come in, it's so past and curious, we have to make them safe and we go back and assess the data later. so we should have more detailed numbers. thankfully none of our tree

incidents resulted in incidents or deaths. sadly a tree fell and killed 7 3-year-old san francisco resident, a heart breaking result of a hard storm. it's hard to transition from tragedy to joy, but i will tray. the lunar new year started yesterday. the year of rabbit. we have been working hard to get china town ready for the festivity, our goal is to clean dragon and repainting the dragon polls that adorn. we provide extra deep cleaning in the alleys that are packed with shoppers during this holiday season. and ifls out yesterday and was told by many people actually

how great the streets look, how everything looked great and clean that was very validating. this year the chinese new year parade will be held on february 4, it's one of the biggest events of the year in san francisco and as been tradition, the public works director has asked to serve as judge. so i'm excited to represent our department. our department also does a lot of work before and after the parade. our pothole crews smooth out and many come after to clean up afterwards. to kung hay fat choy, i would like to let you know that we wish you a happy new year. our beautification is back on

saturday january 28. this month is district 11, so we'll focus on the outer emission and other neighborhoods. these events bring together community members and neighborhood organization and our city staff a lot of employees come on their day off to volunteer. remove graffiti and pickup litter. we're often joined bit district supervisor and other elected officials at these events. we would love it if you can join us. the day gets started at 9:00 am at balboa high school, we have a brief pep rally and then a safety talk to make sure everyone is working safely and then we get our volunteers to the project site so. we will ask the commission secretary to make sure that you have the schedule for the rest of the year.

last, not lastly next up, i wanted to let you know about our black history month activities. this year's theme is black resistance. we have 3 panel discussions already on staff, where staff will be with staff. the rev. arnold and mill many maker, there will be a series of did you know emails that go out to all staff throughout february and the month will cap with an employee potluck. they always do an amazing job. and i am definitely looking forward to what is on the roster next year. and on a final note i'm going

to wrap up with sadness, kevin bird our supervisor of, died unexpected leon thursday. he loved to talk about his german shepherds and bike anding jogging. we are comforted to know that he was enjoying what he loved during his final moments. he will be missed and that's it for my report. thank you for your time. if you have any questions, i'm available. >> thank you, director. our heart goes out and thoughts and prayers to his family and to the family of the young lady beth, i forget her last name. but, thank you. very somber moment and reminder life is fleeting, but here we are trying to do our best with what we've got.

commissioners, any comment sxz remarks. >> maybe we can adjourn in honor of our friend. would that be acceptable? >> question of adjourn or moment of silence perhaps. >> moment of silence. >> all right. >> director short, if i can get you to follow-up, we will now have a moment of silence for. >> we will now have a moment of silence to honor the memory of kevin bird. >> thank you, i often say, silence can be deafening and that's why it's so important. thank you for the updates, i'm looking forward to see what the

report is on the tree. as we're getting to the group of how we can make things and assist in things being more efficient, i know there is critical droughts 6789 and that's one small question, the busiest one, it was removed last time i was there on ocean avenue, was there a reason for that removal? i assume it was because of the storms? but it was not there. often times it's because we have to rfm maintenance, we do

have challenges at times and i will find out for you what happened there. it was more for piqued my interest. yeah, mr. fuller please send us the calendar for all the clean ups. and would love to spread the word and also participate. hearing any further questions? mr. fuller, please open public comment on this item.

if you are calling in dial 415, 655, 0001 and use meeting code 24887032824 followed by pound and pound again. in the hearing room it does not appear we have any speakers on this item. sfgovtv, do we have any callers in the queue? they are indicating we do have one caller. please unmute the caller and caller you have three minutes to speak. i'll let you know when your time is about to expire. >> speaker: i hope you can hear me okay.

just one minor note in the memberium that was a very moving moment of silence, i believe both on friday and today's meeting and the director's notes, she related the date of passing of february 12, and i would suspect it was actually january 12, and you may have that correct for the minutes. and i'm very sorry about the loss. thank you for listening. >> clerk: thank you, caller and that is our only comment on this item. >> thank you, there any further discussion? hearing no further discussion, mr. fuller, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 21 consent calendar of routine matters including draft minutes for the

november 21, 2022 and december 28 and adopt findings in continued use of hybrid meetings. just to note that we have both of these draft minutes on here due to the cancellation of our december meeting, and they have all been sent out to the commission ahead of time and were posted publicly for review as well. >> do i hear a motion to adopt the motion of routine matters. >> so moved. >> do i hear a second. >> second. >> motion made by commissioner hair ton and seconded by commissioner cmeni. given the motion, we will now hear public comment, mr. fuller, please open public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to make three minutes

of comments on item 3 the adoption of consent calendar may line up against the wall from this in the room with us by the door. and if you're calling in, use meeting access road 24887034824, followed by pound and pound again. and then press star-3 to raise your hand to speak. >> sfgov tv, do we have any call inventories speak on the calendar. sxl they are indicating we have one caller. please unmute them, and you have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 30-second notice. >> david, no issue on item 3c

on 3 a and 3b on the minutes, i have a couple of minor as you seesing and corrects, i'll try to do this within 3 minutes. you don't have to have those items. starting on 3 a throughout commissioner, i believe is a hyphenate and there are a couple of references to her that lack the hyphen, i believe on item 7, the reference to supervisor that's correct but i think the consistent with other references it would be good if you add the the word zero. i don't understand that it's necessary just the line that says, members present or just

members, what the names is sufficient, and i think that's it on item 3-a. on item 3b on item 3b on the beginning on the calls, commissioners were noted on the at the time, commissioners kwan and mcgonum were president, commissioner bongomun and later commissioner kwan was absent. on item 3 at the bottom.

commissioner attendant in track. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: commission minutes. that's it, i would suggest that to the extent appropriate that those suggestions be incorporated in the minutes, thank you very much for listening. thank you caller and that appears to be our last caller on this item. >> is there any further debate on this motion? hearing no further debate all in favor of adopting the consent calendar say aye. >> aye.

>> any one opposed? say nay? seeing none, the motion passes. [gavel] mr. fuller, please call the next item. >> we now turn to the regular calendar of items to be considered individually. item 4 is the presentation of the public works department operating budget and priorities for fiscal year 2023 and 24 and fiscal year 24 through 25 presenting this item is chief financial officer bruce robertson and this is an informational item. >> good morning commissioners, deputy of director management. i'm going to go to the budget and answer any questions may have. i want to you let know that we're in the early stages of

development. we have to commit a balance budget to the mayor's budget by february 21. on the priority, we gave a very similar presentation to the public works commission. with that, i'm going to dive into the preptation. fiscal year 2023 as you can see was approximately 451 million dollars. and that included the implementation of proposition b that split the department into public works and the sanitation and streets department. this new budget will undo that split and combine all the sanitation streets department back into the public works department. and i'll go into the impact of that as we go through the presentation. i'm also going to spend some time, give you an overview of the entire department because

it's really impossible to dis tangle the twoment you can see the 7 bureaus, you can see building design and infrastructure and construction and street use and mapping. those are three of the bureaus that are always in the public works department. and those three bureaus do our horizontal and vert fal construction as well as provide permitting and enforcement of the right away. i know interim short has talked about the program that's one of the high profile programs that you see of the street bureau street mapping. i'm also going to spend a minutes and show you what the combined flow chart looks like with the streets commission and the public works commission and all of the other components of the organization brought back into one. just moving left to right, you can see the city engineer and design and construction, and

that's mainly streets and paving program, a lot of hydraulic engineering and you can see project management and construction management and the a for mention section. you can see next to it is the building design and construction bureau and that's overseen by the city architect. and they have 5 bureaus, they have project management and service sxz landscape architecture and then a bureau of architecture. and then moving over to operations, the one that you're most familiar with, the sanization and streets department, that is building and street repair, central operations, street environment alt services and then the bureau of urban forestry. and then on the far right you can see the shared services that come from general administration, hr, it, financial services budget, accounting capitol planning as well as human resources, newly

added with the prop b passage and remains even with the new proposition b. that's an overview of the entire department with the five bureaus as well as you can see the key reports to the director emergency management policy and communications. moving on, i would like to give you an overview of all the types of work we do and you can see all the work performed by the sanization streets department, you're going to get a much more thoer' review on the bureau of building. so i'm not going to spend a lot of time on this but it's staggering to see the amount of work performed by this department whether it's almost 1100 programs, 159,000 street cleaning, 4 3000 requests for graffiti abatement. you can see the blocks paif,d the potholes filled, the trees

planted, trees maintained, building service requests we received and then the miles swept which is really statement number over 16 3000 miles swept. so, it's a good moment to decide, it really does show all the great work that we do. and the budget really reflects the need for staff and funding for all of this great work we do. i'm going to spend a little bit of time because public works is one of the more complex budget in the city. this is where the money comes from. and i'm going to go largest to slowest and go from pie chart on the left.

and that's funds coming in on the infrastructure design and construction and the building design and construction. we get other city department to perform work for them. so a simple example of that, may be at the friday public works commission hearing. there was a hearing around the castro elevator and that was upgrade the castro elevator to go to the mini platform at the castro station. those funding sources came from the mta. so the money from the mta as well as our internal staff to provide that work and that would be an example of inter departmental services. general fund continuing at the bottom which is the light gray, this is really funding that is for, on going work that is not really our operation staff.

a fine example would be for debt service. when the city issues certificates of participation which allows for long term projects that comes from our budge thaet is paid out of the general fund. around primarily. in many ways for this commission, the next dark gray, the general fund operating is the most important component of the chart and i'm going to spend a few moment wz this. this funding of nearly 94 million dollars funds street environmental street service sxz we're going to talk about this in more detail in upcoming slide. so when you see mechanic cal sweepers, when you see people

sweeping the sidewalks, the trucks driving around picking up debris, this is a straight general funding source. and it's really important funding source for this department. we also get general fund money for our street use and mapping. and we also get additional fund ining our bureau of building repair but the overwhelming majority of the general fund is all about street cleaning and as i talk about the mayor's budget instruction and subsequent flat, i'm going to show you why that is really really important. and then, looking at the upper right corner of pie chart, you can see there is a bunch of little slifrz of funding source that we received. you can see we got the solid waste fund. so in the refuse rate, the garbage rates that the city pay to pick up refuse, there is money built in to the monthly fees that fund public works. and that is for two areas. one is it funds some street

cleaning reports but also the one-team and the one-team of staff that go out and do enforcement in neighbors for instance in china town if companies or citizens are just throwing trash on the street and don't have refuse service. they will work with the business to ensure that they are properly disposing of their waste and that they have actually are paying for rocology service. so it's a critical function that we serve. the tree maintenance funds, several years ago the voters with almost 80% of vote passed proposition e and that's dedicated set aside funds for tree maintenance of trees in the public right away. very important, very special funding source. we have some special revenue funds that really is coming from two sources, the majority of that comes from jc deco if

you see the bathroom, we get funding for that just over 2 million dollars and we're going to get fund froming bart that also funds the pit set program. and finally, the road fund and the gas tax fund are really from the same source. the gas tax is the city allocation and the road fund is the county allocation. if you look at the two slides, you will notice that fiscal year 24-25 is significantly lower than 23-24. and that is really nothing more than a timing issue. although we submit a two-year budget, the capitol funding usually happens on a one-year basis.

so the pie chart for fiscal year 24-25 does not have a capitol allocation yet and that's because it is decrease. the department heads from some of the larger construction departments and they work with the mayor to develop a capitol budget submittal and it's a timing issue. the budget has to do at the end of february but at the end of march. again, timing issue and there is nothing really to be alarming about that decrease t happens every year but catches up. you can see the largest amount over 54% salary. so we indicate most department budget and public works is no

different with 54% of it. at the top you see, inter departmental services, so when we talk to the top slide with money coming from public works, this is the opposite. this is when public works is paying other departments for services. and that may be workers compensation, contractor service wz the office of contract administration, some services from the department of technology, we also included funding for rent, we pay some of that and that is in the large gray slice at the very top. this is capitol project and i'll talk about this in a little bit more detail as well.

this may be the paving program, curb programs and large equipment such as mechanic cal sweepers. i know there was going to be a presentation in the city grant program if you look at the orange slide on the left, those are the grants where public works issues agreement wz nonprofit organizations. so about 9.2 million dollars under 2%. not a significant amount, we do contract out. most of that, it's for the pit stop program but there are some other grants in there as well for tree planting and establishment as well. moving on to non services materials, that's basically buying small amount whether it's papers or ppe or other items needed just to operate. there is also other smaller

amount, staff development, some more strategic plan but most of that is really materials and supplies which is ensuring the staff have what they need, boots and ppe and other types of equipment. and finally that, yellow slice in the lower left is around facility maintenance and really what that is, it's a budget item to ensure that we maintain the buildings throughout the city that public works oversees. really quick, really high level overview and with that, you will see supporting it as 300 page document that we will provide you, just wanted give a brief overview on what we spend our money on and where the money comes from. i'm going to spend a little bit on the general fund. as part of the mayor's budget constructions which we received in december, the mayor identified a 728 million dollars shortfall.

so what that means every department was assigned a 5% reduction in fiscal year 23-24 and 8% reduction in 24/25. that has to come from the general fund, the reduction of gas tax funds and other resources will impact the 720 million dollars reduction. the mayor's office also included several priority that's she focused on two of which are queen importance to public works. she wanted make sure that we were helping the economic recovery and economic core downtown and wanted to ensure street cleanliness and if you look at the big component of blue, that is street cleanliness so. it makes any effort to reduce our budget and come in on target, quite challenging. so that's why this is a very

important slide. and i will talk in a subsequent slide about how we met the target. as you can see, 85% of it comes from street and environmental services and that's the budget that is all about the street cleanliness. very important to understand when we have reductions where we have to make those reductions. so if we want to look a little bit about the positions. we show the department wide where the money comes from, and then we showed what we spend the money on. but here's it's broken down by divisions and bureaus. this is all funds so when i talk about road fund and gas tax and tree maintenance funds all of that is shown on this table. so the top three are the design

used mapping and you can see most of those decreasing. again that is all relate today capitol so once we get to the mayor's budget submitted to the board of supervisors in june, that number will be less of a reduction. there is a, slight increase that is really just around some annualizations and some new programs. the bureau of urban forestery is decreasing. the bureau of urban forestry gets money for what is called

tree establishment. they can replace trees if they die but they cannot expand the overall tree canopy. so we get capitol allocation sxz that's the 3-year establishment period from when you plant a tree and it takes three years to water. the tree canopy, san francisco is the one of the biggest cities and has the smallest tree canopy sevensers. this is to ensure that we can expand the canopy and we'll get that money hopefully. street and environment alt services, basically this is flat. the board of supervisors goes to a process where they look to

find efficiencies and savings and then at the end of the process, the supervisors get to add money to various department for key initiatives that they want to have for their services. they're small increase. so general admin is the director's office, all of your back house operations, hr, it, accounting and finance. and you can see it looks like it's about 86% reduction. they get a source whether it's a special revenue fund if

you're an enterprise department to fund the head man operations. the best practice to have an indirect cost plan where you try to recover the cost, it's a little complicated but it really is a budget in method to saving the cities tens of thousands. and what this table represents, if you think you're going to spend $10 on general admin, you try to recover that $10. what happened, we over recovered so instead of spending $10, we had staff vacancies so we came a little below and applied. that's what that 3.5 million dollars number represents. at the end of the day, the general admin budget is closer to 70 million dollars if you look at the footnote, it's 72.3

in fiscal year. and this is just an odd budgeting tool and the way we have to show it in the budget system. it's very much inside baseball and we can spend the entire commission hearing talking about the indirect cost plan and the federal requirement that oversee it all. it's very complicated but at the end of the day it would just be, it's actually we're performing well on the admin side in terms of our recoveries and trying to keep our rates low. i would highlight the top and then you'll see, three budget types of positions that you can see operating budget. project position sxz then total positions and then any change from the prior year.

a love our positions are called project position which means they're not supported ninnie cash until a customer client department says, public works we would like you to do some reconstruction for elevator at the castro station using that example that i talked to earlier. then they would send money to fund those position sxz then we would do the work. those positions are not supported by cash. so we're going to talk at some point about our vacancy rate, we need those positions, because the work changes year after year maybe different, several years ago, we built an

881 million dollars sf general hospital, the new zuckerberg hospital, we needed architects that understood hoshpod and other requirements around hospitals. and when that word goes away, we don't need to have the position buzz we need the flexible, several years ago in 2011, there was a bond measure for street repaving, we needed more civil engineering to deliver the project around street resurfaces. that's what the positions are, those that are fund withed dedicated funding source, whether it's the general fund, the tree maintenance fund, funded specifically by gas tax or road fund. we're going to really drive to the nature of the come flexity and all the funding sources. so on the capitol side, it's very common for us to touch hundreds of resources annually

in addition to funds that are dedicated specifically to public works. i think the main thing that i would want to highlight if you look year after year at the line, our new budget is 107 tho positions which relevant 10% increase year over year and that's driven by two things. in the budget system, and the way budgeting works, you assume you cannot filet new position until the beginning of a second quarter. so the position is not fully funded. so a lot of increase is just relate today what we would consider the annualization of those positions, going from point 79 to 8.0. so each get appoint increase. that's part of the increase. and it's set by the deletion of some positions with the

passagage of prop b1.0. we had a new director, new, general admin interest structure around it. identified in the ballot write-up as well as what you've seen here. around additional requirements needed. does that make sense? we can certainly talk about it later. i did highlight the indirect cost plan and commissioners you're going to hear a lot about this from client departments and internally. i'm not going to spend a lot of time on this but it really is a critical component of our budget. and it really is a best practice by the government finance offices association. and this is again outlined in

federal law so we comply with federal law on this. so when, a direct services provided whether that is a staff member cleaning the street, pruning a tree, paving doing cement work. those direct charges have an indirect cost rate applied on top of that. and that is what funds all the admin of public works and sanitation and streets. and it really covers paid time off. so we need to get funding for the paid time off when somebody is sick or goes on vacation. the money we get from the direct services pays all the employees in the entire department for their vacation or sick time and we also have two other component, we have a bureau overhead and departmental overhead. and you can see on the chart what those are. those are rent, management

positions, so the deputy director of op ratesings, would be in bureau overhead. and then, we've got department overhead which is a lot of general admin. so let me give you a quick example so. if the employee is making $10 with salary fringes they may charge $15. and then that 10,000 but that additional $5 one dollar may be pto two of those dollars may be bureau overhead. and then remaining two dollars may be for departmental overhead so. when we're doing work for our client, we will charge them that $15 and not $10 because what is called recoveries, that additional $5 is what funds all 100% of the admin and for staff to take vacation or sick time.

so it's a again, it allows us to spread the cost to bonds, other funds that are not the general fund. so i want to talk about a capitol budget, it happens later. but we have significant funding for the capitol programs and a lot really impacts sanitation and streets. so one of the main programs is the paving program. we try to pave and the paving is judged and estimated based on the pc escrow which is the payment condition index and that's a criteria that the mtc municipal uses to evaluate the street conditions, number of potholes, how rough it is, so we're at 74 which puts us by

far the highest in the bay area. well b public works is that. about 600 goes to you'll hear soon from the bureau street, the bureau of building and street repair they're the one that pave a fair amount of the blocks. some of that is also contracted out. we also have a program, this is critical because the bureau of urban forestry, the cement shop does a lot of this work in-house. so this is an important funding force for our staff to provide critical services for programs. we also have a lot of right away renewal, you can see potholes, in direct short, talks about pothole, we want to make sure it's tied to the pc

escrow, we don't want to have damaged vehicles and we want to make sure that they stay as high as possible and our streets are good. you can also see, we have lots of small allocations for sidewalk repair, restructure al work, that's just, generally what we call in the public right away in the program. and we also gave money for individual project, you can see recycled water project, help improve the irrigation along sunset boulevard. tree, and tree establishment, critical to expand the tree canopy in the city and then smaller projects for vermont street. so couple of items before i wrap up. this is how public works met target.

so for that, that is represented about 3.5 million dollars expenditure reduction in fiscal year 23-24, however public works gets revenue through its boor of street use and mapping. so you'll' a negative 1.3 million number. we anticipate to receive 2.3 million dollars less in revenue. and that is driven by less revenue coming in from space permits. and what a i street permit is, when you're doing construction, is you need to need to block the sidewalk or lane of traffic

or the park spots, you have to pay for that. and that money comes into public works. we anticipate and we're seeing a slow down in construction and we anticipate less revenue coming in and that's what representatives the negative reduction. and therefore if you take that negative 1.3 reduction, if we don't get the revenue, we cannot spend it. we cannot have a deficit and we're trying to ensure that we're budgeting in good faith.

so our met target. i'm going to start from the bottom up. because i think in many ways, the bottom two bullet points are the most important. there will be no service reductions coming from the public work side or the sanitation street side. and i think that's really important because to cut the general fund, that is coming from the street budget. so no service reductions. i'm going to repeat that, no plan layoff and expedited hiring will continue for vacant positions. and then how we met target we were able to see some benefit of the second propation b.

there was some savings as part of that passage and that was in the controller's office letter. and then we were able to, we were able to no longer retain those services because we had a contract gap so we were able to reduce that. that said, we know and hear about the economic challenges downtown. what the future forecast looks like. as of now, these are the cut target but we want to make sure that we're watching and economic any impact that the local level that may force the departments not just not public

works to make additional recommendations. but as of now, a pretty good goal. so last slide as i mentioned earlier, the mayor's policy recommendation sxz strategic goals for this budget were to, improve the economy and the economic core in downtown as well as to ensure street cleanliness. we have not fully finalizes, but these are some of the items that we have come up to meet both the objective produced by the mayor. again i'm not going to through a lot of thaoz. . one of the efforts is to increase street sweeping back in the economic recession of 2008, the sweeping was reduces from weekly to every other week sometimes one time every three weeks.

this this initiative would take it back to those levels. so we're exploring that. we also received a 2 million dollars funding source last year for corridors. this would be to take that private graffiti to the next level and hit some of the impacted neighborhood, bay view just to name a few. we're also exploring during green compost site. roughly a million dollars annually for green composting, this initial would be to buy a tub grinder and do it ourselves. that would be a pretty fast return on investment so that's something that we're very excited and looking forward to. in terms of the mayor initiative in terms of recovering downtown. we have a small initiative for

cleaning around the masscony center when the convention business returns more rebustly. and the public works, the last one is expedited mapping review. they're the ones that review all the subdivision maps and lot lines. this would be some additional funding to increase the turn time and provide a faster service to you know, permeate and the construction industry to again try to foster economic development and build more housing. the same thing would be bsm, we should not use acronym but that's the bureau, this would be a permits. and finally the civil grand jury recommends that they have a contractor database and this would be additional dedicated staff to respond to the civil grand jury. so we don't any of these in the budget, but we do submit them

in the mayor's office and the mayor and her team and staff determine whether these should be funded. there is a lot of priority especially in a deficit situation where they're looking for 700 million dollars reduction in two years. we put them out there, we let the mayor and other policy holders and commissioners know what we're thinking in terms of our priorities. so lastly, i will not spend a lot of time in this. interim director short mentioned the all the planning around black history month and just wanted highlight quickly our racial equity initiative and some of the work na we're doing. it's focused internally on staff with performance evaluations and any, any staff ushz or disciplinary issues that we may have. i'm not going to spend a lot of time, i've been up here quite a while and i want to make sure

that you have a copy and we can answer any questions you may have. so with that, thank you for the time. talented teams, jennifer and victoria who is our capitol planning director as well as the budget team listening in their office. thank you and happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, mr. robertson, commissioners, questions? >> thank you, for your presentation. just a couple of questions. will we get an update in march for the capitol funds once you figure out capitol funds? >> through the chair, commissioner, we can provide an update, we can provide a second presentation or many things they provide a memo and outline

it in detail with their details of what has been approved in the budget which that is something that we can do and something that we plan to do after the budget is approved and we'll submit that, not just in march when we get idea of what the capitol budget and the mayor signs the budget in early august. we're plan to go provide an update of what has changed from this presentation to where we are at now. >> okay, cool, i figured but i'll figure it after. the other thing is, i've heard from multiple staff that we need vehicles and the trucks, trucks need to be repaired. is there any way that we can get that going? i heard that from multiple staff. >> if you look at the room, everyone is smiling. tt a very big challenge getting equipment.

they're expensive and they're an easy cut, easy recommendation to reduce. but, we have been very successful in terms of replacing our mechanic cal street sweepers. a lot of mechanical street sweepers were out of compliance. we're going to continue to focus and make a robust request to our mayor's office annually. it's not for lack of effort but it's a known problem. >> it's just one that i heard from multiple staff, so wanted to see, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> commissioner keme. >> i agree.

second, i look at the presentation, fts would be helpful to understand where you are in terms of vacancies still? especially in this context, i think you know, just understand where you are with the hiring? we've been givening a lot of different information. and i have a lot of interest in rate, i'm going to hold back on all of that. i was interested you mentioned, you have some sort of cuts prepared to submit to to the mayor, and should the situation deteriorate. i was wondering if you were prepared to share some thoughts. if you were to ask to come,

where would you start to look? >> commissioner, very good question. two things, if you or any of the commissioner want to assist in highlight the need of trucks and equipment, that would be very much appreciated. on the vacancy our new hr director is planning to do a presentation on our vacancy rate in the near future and full disclosure, it's about 20% right now, 20.1 to be exact. so we'll provide that adjustment to reflect that additional vacancy rate. we are very aggressive in terms of hiring and i will publicly goal is to hiring 250 additional people before the end of the fiscal year. so we're looking to address the vacancy rate. and one of the things that our hr did, which was new under prop b, we hired the hires.

on the hr side while we have vacant', the staff that does the hiring is fully staffed. so they can do the hiring. in terms of other cups, we are looking at it, we have not really thought through the specifics of what it would be like. i think being up here, you know, we focus on ensuring that direct services and no layoffs happen that will always be a priority for this department. and we look at a lot of back of the house operations. we would always prioritize and just try to make it too. that's the general kind of philosophy and school thought that we have.

>> thank you, commissioner and thank you, and i just want to echo what commissioner simi said. how can we help? san francisco has one of the lowest tree canopy, and i i have tree envy. and my daughter says, that's because you're a public works commissioner, and i say no, that's because i've always liked trees. we're san francisco we're suppose the leaders and here we are lacking. also our pc i index being so high, how do we rank nationally and/or is there a comparison? you said we're rankds at 74 for the bay area, about what nationally. >> commissioner, i have to check nationally, i know it's in the bay area.

i think there are a few that rank higher, sunnyvale, and walnut creek is one of them. i think sunnyvale is 82, we can get that from our paving staff and provide that. >> and more on major metropolitan, not to pick on sunnyvale but i think see why they have a higher. as commissioners, how can we help? we talked about having a more visible social media or out reach, i stay a siem a sanitation and streets commissioner and i say we're part of dwp. and they're okay. it's good for to us get the word out so that the public knows so they can also reach out to the mayor and let them know that this t comes down to clean streets and pleasant streets and everything works from there on up. and i know i have a bias there

and i admit it. i look for any input on how we can be proactive and be the face of that if need be. ?ment i just did want to say, maybe this is a thing to advocate for more money. many years when i was in the mayor's office, i think pc i was 68 and we were just in the threshold of good. and just, to get to 74 i know it's a small like if you're looking over 100, that's nothing but it represents a huge increase in the quality and anecdotely as somebody who drives from time to time, you fully feel it. especially for a big city that has a lot of big buses, it's actually, i don't know they should throw a parade, a very light low, impact parade but we should, it really says a lot

for the continue that the city is. commissioner mogannam sd that we should go in the east bay. >> thank you, commissioner. i think a lot of credit goes to the mayor and the capitol planning committee for prioritizing. i think another thing that happened was senate bill 1 several years ago, at the state level added 12 cents per gallon tax and a lot of that money, actually all of that money comes to public streets to help maintain the streets. so thank you. thank you. hearing no further questions, mr. fuller, please open public comment on this item.

if you're calling in p call 415-6550001. and for a pound and pound again. in the hearing room nobody has approached to make comment. except govtv is indicate thating we have one caller wishing to speak on this item. please unmute this caller and caller, you have three minutes to speak and you'll be provided with a 30-second warning when your time is about to expire.

>> speaker: hi, i made several comments on the budget on friday public works commission. i will not repeat all the those comments. i also had a phone conversation, i feel like my input has been given in general. just to touch on some of the comments that you made, the in debt allocation is a fun thing for those of us who care about that thing. and i cannot remember where compared to mta in particular but it might be interesting the next time staff comes back to

report department wide and various bureau and how that compares to the other departments. touching on commissioner comment, i definitely agree that vehicles should be maintained and replaced. the alternative is to maintain old asset at much greater cost so at some point it absolutely a lot more cost affective to replace something like a vehicle or other types of equipment and i hope that that is being taken into account rather than differing differing differing. i would also note that

operations bureau have a higher action of materials and supplies than other city department because it's very frontline and straots and stuff gets consumed. so you know, as much attention that can be given to materials and supplies and equipment and vehicles i think is relative to your work. and final leon the vacancies, i certainly. >> clerk: 30 seconds. >> speaker: i support reducing that vacancy rate from 21.1 to something less than that. but it's important that the budget happen realistic hiring plan and have savings that is mentioned with that so it's not going to be zero by the end of next year. and some of those attritions that can be reprogrammed for other things. thank you very much for listening. >> clerk: thank you, caller.

and it appears, sfgovtv, do we have other callers wishing to speak on the budget? and they are indicating that it is our last caller on this item. >> is there any further discussion with the commission? secretary fuller, please call the next item. >> item 5 is sanitation and streets commission officer election for chair and vice chair for the term of january 2023 through december 2023. per commission rules of order adopted in august 202 2, elections are to for officers are to occur on or december 1. and since the december meeting of this commission had to be canceled we're holding the election today. just a note if multiple

nominations if there are multiple nominations for either position we'll hear each nomination separately and if there is one nomination, the commission may elect to may elect to vote for their officers in a single vote. this is not action item. >> thank you r there any questions regarding the election? >> if we make a motion to nominate somebody, can we do both the vice chair and chair in one nomination or do we have to separate them? >> i believe you can do a joint nomination but we would vote separately.

>> from vote, so i would like to nominate if there is no other questions. questions, how do we handle commissioners in absencia on this. say we wanted renominate the current president, i guess asking for a friend on that. >> yeah, i was in contact with commissioner kwan who unfortunately was not able to be here today, and he asked that not be renominated as vice chair. >> yes, and i reached out to vice chair kwon and i told him i would renominate him if he didn't show up. >> i would like to recognize to

renominate our current chair chair maryo mogannam for chair and shulman for vice chair. >> thank you. do we have a second? if you do, i'll second that. >> any other nominations? given the nominations, we'll go to public comment, mr. fuller, please open it up to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item 5 which is the nomination of commissioner mogannam as chair and shulman as vice chair. if you're calling in to speak

on this item, dial 415-665-0001. anding in the chamber knowing has a approached to speak on this person. sf gov. tv do we have any callers who have expressed interest to speak on in this nomination. they're indicating there is one caller. please go ahead and unmute that caller and caller, you will have three minutes to speak. and we'll be provided with a 30-second notice. >> caller: speaking in support of the nominees having the time

doing the work, ensuring that agenda items are properly agendized and looking with the staff, look forward to your work and service. thank you very much. that is our only caller in the queue, that completes our public comment. >> thank you. hearing no further debate, all in favor of electing maryo as chair and kimberly shulman say aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> anyone opposed, say nay. motion passes, the motion passes. thank you everyone. [gavel] secretary fuller, please call

the next item. >> before proceed to go item 6, quick congratulations to chair mogannam and vice chair shulman. >> regular the schedule of meetings for the coming calendar year are to be adopted on or ar the first day of december and similar to the officer election, we're hearing the calendar today due to the cancellation of the december meeting. after determining several meeting schedule based on room availability and staffing and sf gov. tv availability to broadcast, i polled commissioner on their availability and schedule of regular meetings and schedule of regular meetings in the

staff report and referenced in the resolution represents the consensus state that works for most commissioners. products calendar incorporated the meeting dates that were adopted by this commission in august 22, established a regular calendar through june of this year. and ads meeting dates for july through december of 2023. and this is an action item. >> thank you, are there any questions on this proposed calendar?

>> and seeing no further questions, do i hear a motion to adopt the regular meeting calendar? >> thank you, given the motion, we will now hear public comment. mr. fuller. >> members of public who wish it make three minute public comment, may line up against the wall furthest from the door. if you're calling in, dial 415-655-0001, and use meeting access code 24887034824 and then pound and pound again and press star-3 to raise your hand to be recognized. and with no one approaching to appear to speak it does not appear we have any members nft

public with us in the hearing room who want to speak. sf gov. tv do we have any callers in the queue and they are indicated we have one caller with their hand raised. and caller you'll have three minutes to speak on this regular calendar. >> caller: david again, so as a form of resolution, i want to turn to that for a moment. i think the third whereas should be resolve clause at the end of the second whereas it should say something therefore, resolved the commission establishes and i will substitute july for june in that third paragraph so established the july 2023 through december 2023 and that say sanitation and streets founder of regular meetings and further be it resolved that the

schedule of meetings will be posted online so. that's to clean up the language, i would also suggest either now or in the future that the 6 listed dates, i don't think they need to be in the resolution itself, but perhaps, they can be reflected in an attachment and referred to in the resolution say something like as each of you, in attachment one and have you know, just a small box with those 6 dates on a separate page that is referenced in resolution as the set court there in. i just don't like the resolutions that make the reference today or other things without having those dates in the company document for the record. i hope that makes sense and perhaps you can ask the staff and the deputy city attorney to

conform the resolution to whatever ed its make sense. thanks very much for listening. >> thank you caller. and that is our last caller on this item. >> thank you, are there any further debate. all in favor of adopting the calendar say aye. >> aye. >> anyone opposed say nay. the motion passes. secretary puller will will publish. secretary fuller please call the next item. >> item next is the boor of building and street overview followed by the item 8 the bureau performance measure report and matthew will present the overview as well as the performance review.

after that and this is informational item. >> good morning, i'm supervisor of building and street repair. and i want to thank you for the moment of silence we had for kevin bird. kevin was a gentle giant and he will be missed. thank you again. so my presentation today is just to provide a brief overview on what it is that our bureau does. i want to show you where we stand we're one of the four bureaus within the performance division.

and we have not always been the bureau, we're a combination of two bureau, the boor' of street and sewer repair and building repair. it's a newly created bureau. this is where couple of reasons. one was as of july of this fiscal year, the sewer functions that were part of the building and sewer repair were transferred to the public utilities commission. back in march, we lost the building and i'm sorry to say, the superintendent for building repair and then the interim director carla short and deputy director, asked that i would oversee both of them after a

period of trial it worked out and they decided that that should be joined together. a lot of our sadness at our bureau but hopefully joy at the end of it all. what i did want to highlight in this slide is what the general service right side provided by the bureau. so we do street repair and improvements. we do sand clearing and street related project that we perform and also city facility maintenance repairs and improvements and i'll go into detail with each of those my presentation. but a quick overview, looking at the numbers, we're a 24-hour operation. the storms have indicated that we have there to serve the public. we're there for a storm responses. we do staff after-hours, and

calls that could be sink holes for any major potholes and any cave ins that need to be addressed. our budget is 52.2 million dollars and staff is at 200 fte that include permanent and temporary staff. and i say that there is probably 25 vacant positions currently within the bureau. so it's been a lot of talk about pc i that's one of the function that's the street division within the bureau does, i do want to identify moore wane who is our assistance. she is oversees the street function wnt bureau. i'll introduce the another guy later. as you mentioned, we do about 25% of all over paving that is

done by the city. so if the city is goal is to complete 500 blocks the bureau building and street repair, would do 20% of that or 100 blocks and that has been consistent changes and you'll see later on in some of the staff that the number of blocks vary from year to year and that's an indication of the funding being provided. there are two types of treatment that's we do, there is called fill with pave where the entire street curve to curve or gutter to gutter is grinded and we pave over. or what is called an overlay and basically, what we do is grind around the parameter, so it will be around the gutter left and at the conforms of the intersection and then we would pave the two inches, that's called an overlay. all the grindings are brought to brisbay recycling and they are recycled.

so during the storm we have covered a lot of potholes and as director carla said, there have been a lot more potholes. this is about a 30% increase that has happened since the storms of late december or early january. we consider a pothole be about 25 square feet or less, and they're identified by 3 different ways, 311 calls from residents and customers field initialed service request which are actually 5 public works bureau staff as we're doing our work. it's identified and inspect asked filled and then we also created as of january of last

year, a pothole crew, going district from district throughout the city. it's a small group and they are only looking at residential streets and what they did do, they will pave potholes as they encounter them. as you see on my presentation, on statistics, you can see the work that is being done by them. another function that we do is patch paving. the photo here you can see on the left, is a photo of what depression would look like before and what it is afterwards. and they're caused by a variety

of different reasons, a lower lateral from basically from the curb base to the sewer main on the street and other utilities, that may be falling and because of the safety concern, we fill those. during the storm, we probably have filled an estimated about 90 voids or depressions in addition to what we would normally do. before slide, that's what we don't want to see. that is called significant a lo gatoring and we'll talk about cracked ceiling in interim director carla talked about what creates a pothole. this is what we don't want to do, we want to seal the tracks because they're deteriorated. this is what we're trying to avoid.

so this is just how the sizes repair vary. sxl to can be in also location. so the first picture shows how long the depression can be if you allow it to deteriorate to a significant point. and normal pothole and it can be a crass walk which are near a crosswalk and then also, along a curb line this is where we'll get standing water, we'll work with engineering and identify how to fix those and this is another area that shows you just, how they vary in size and location. i mentioned crack suing is our first line of defense on a preventive maintenance program and what it does, it's filling the cracks before they have a chance to get too large and before they have a chance to have the water penetrate and

get into the base or other underlying asphalt layers. you'll get this cracking that creates a pothole and they can again larger and larger and creates large voids and eventually it can get to a point where ats affecting the base underneath it which will create the large sink holes and we did have a couple of cave ins with the storms. we also do some inter departmental work. this is some of the work that is done where it's funded mta, so we are one of the contract thaerz do work for them.

we'll provide temporary striping. we'll let them know that the work is complete. and then they will do the final striping for the speed cushion. and i'm inching that 24/7 one of the things that we do as a 24/7 organization is respond to after-hours emergencies. so this is just a picture of a sink hole. it's a sewer failure, sewer lateral failure. you can see that if a vehicle were to drive over there there would be a issue. so we work with with the scs supervisor, they will go out and make it safe so then i can have our on call and go out and

look at it. and they will take action that day. or could be using, temporary patching material. but, as this slide indicates, different types of failure, lateral or utility lateral failure and this is also a failure from contractor work. we try to get in touch with the contractor using their after hour phone number but we're not always successful and because it creates a safety concern, we do need to go out and address that. some other after-hours safety, this was a newer one, at fault, no one would take credit for. so we need today make immediate repair. what we did was faded it, we looked at photo over to the

right. and we had to continue to maintain. we worked with the bureau of street use and mapping to finally identify the utility company that was responsible for and had them make the repair. we also assist for curve bram p. initialed by engineering and they will identify the locations in operations it is, the bureau of urban and cement shop is project lead for that. and after the concrete work is done and the curb ramp is constructed, we will pave that conform. and that's a picture shown the before and after.

paving cannot happen when it's wet out, we cannot do the block paving. and, in the past, it worked well because it was during those times that we would see an increase in the sand being displaced on to the great highway, however due to change weather conditions, that is no locker the case, at least nine months out of the year, we're having sand intrusion. we're doing our best to work on this.

funding is through the work commission. this roy is under the jurisdiction of rec and park. letter agreement that said from lincoln way to slope boulevard public works would maintain that facility, not only for the regular potholes and patch paving but also for sand removal. and until the past, if you went back, probably 10 to 15 years, that funding stayed flat. and last fiscal year, director short was able to convinced puc to provide additional funding.

and also for the very first time and all the time that we've maintained the great highway, she was able to wrestle 50,000 out of rec and park. we're happy to get whatever funding we can. we realized the funding is not there. and again, the highlight the fact that there is not a dedicated crew to do this work. this is the another clean up work that we'll do. this is a location out of mission at where we cleaned an

alley way and it was then boarded up because of their future development needs. this is also something that we worked with on our building sister division. that is continuous. during this past season, we had 7 slides that we addressed both rock and mud. this is a rock slide that we cleared the rocks in it and then putting k rail and then our sheet metal crew put the fencing on top of the k rail that was placed by the street division. and this is out in alomini

street west of potrero. we also do get requests from various department to see do parking lot paving. we have done parking lot paving for the police department and fire department. we have received some for the opera house. sometimeses have the job of clearing up other people's fund. which of course did not have permit and created a safety concern. so that is basically overview of the street division of the bureau of building and street repair.

so we have 100 staff in building facilities and you can see that there are 12 shops and one administration division. after shops that we have. it's everything that you would need in order to do maintenance and improvements and repairs of facilities. the station engineer conducted daily inspection of all the tunnels and they operate the opening in the closing of the draw bridges. here you see a photo of us maintaining the bridge barring in lock system of third street bridge and then the third of

the street bridge. right remodels and repairs and does, renovations to buildings. the usual thing unique thing that our carpentry shop does, it does fabricate replicas for the molding and trim and windows and of course we construct wooden retainer walls. you see boarding up of facilities which is california saving of mission and 16th street. renovations to electric equipment to all city buildings as requested.

we're also relamb pg a lot of the lights throughout the city facilities that is an antique chandelier that is at ucsf. and whenever we can, we're also converting those to led. this is our glass shop which is installing and repairing windows doors and mirrors. we're also, will take care of with covieed there is been huge request for partition walls. the art work had faded overtime.

they're working on leaky sky lights and windows. they were one of the shops that were busy during our storms. the different buildings and there is also different facilities need high security and locking system will provide for that. a lot replacement and then the right photo is just a security door that was done for dph over

at fillbert. this is our paint shop. it was mentioned that for chinese new year, we're repainting all the light poles in china town. and this is another poet of our painting at a fire station. but we will also abate graffiti around city buildings and inside the tunnels. we new shops and they're taking care of any back ups that they have. and also working on gas and water systems. it's not just waste water. a lot of the storm trains

they're also taking care of roof leaders, this a function of plumbing shop for the various departments. i wanted to highlight some of the picture it highlights the restraint system that they need to be using so you can see the employees wearing a harness and attached to the system, this is something being done at the library. the work that is being done is installing new roofs and repairing leaky roofs. the lower photo is showing them applying a fresh application of the roofing system. again this is at the main library and as you can see imagine our roofing shop was very busy during the storms as well.

there seems to be a whole different works. you think hbhc and installing ducting for the systems but they're also responsible for repairing and replacing the bird's decks on the draw bridges and any guard hail or median rails. and we've had a lot of break in at our operation yards. but also fencing that we've placed at different locations in public rights away to keep intruders out. but some of the other work that they've done that you may not know about, is they were and this is the lower photo there, they were instrumental in installing the new prototypes and they will be installing the new ones that now that one has prepared trash can has been selected and they did up in the right hand corner install 34 voting boxes throughout the

city. and they're maintaining those should they get damaged. and then our soft lower shop is responsible for installing you know, carpets, la lollium so theser several photos of what we're doing. the bat on right is an eco friendly prank flooring that we were installing.

>> that's correct. i've been here 8 years and my understanding is about 10 years the asphalt plan was decommissioned. >> so where do we get our asphalt now? >> we, rock, we have annual contract with granule rock and they have been providing asphalt. >> that's quite a way. >> there is one in south city and red wood city. primarily we get it from south city, we do go to red city and that does have an impact in our operations. that is my phone, excuse me.

>> so when we do go to create city it does create an impact. 35,000 square feet. so the depending on the size, we'll have anywhere from 10 to 13 trucks going back and forth several times. so that, it, it definitely, it definitely is significant if we have to go to red wood city. i i donough that we have some communications. but that was several years back.

>> it was quite a battle to get the one here directly. on the beach. that's highway one, isn't it. >> so the roadway itself is under the jurisdiction of rec and park in the city, the city border is 50 feet from the westerly edge and then it becomes ggna. so the curb line to the city. >> i was hoping we do have one. >> we've had several meetings with them and we also have had a letter went by the representatives for the state. >> thank you, commissioner? >> couple of questions, when

you're doing street repairs and now we have the park on the streets, how does it work with the business and street repairs that are like right next to the park lit just wondering how that works. >> that's a great question. we only encountered one so far and working with id c they asked that we put it on hold. so we have not figured it out yet. we can grind around that park let. i don't know if that's preferred, i don't know if what they would like to do is work with the person who installed that and to see if it has been removed or if they have objections but we have not done any yet. and the first one was put on hold because of the concerns. >> yes, i was curious, park woods are still new for everyone. and the other question was about the new trash can, i'm

excited about the trash cans. do we know when they're going fob installed? >> and maybe i'll add to the previous question as well. we do try to work with. required to be to move their park lets at the request of the city particularly if we need to do paving. i'll one one example in id c. there were a number of restaurants that were scheduled to be paved in december and they reached out and said, that is the height of our business season, can you defer that. and we rescheduled it they said january was better because things slowed down.

so we're sensitive that it can be costly and we want to do our best to try to mitigate the impacts that we can whether naz working around it. in terms of the trash cans we're very excited as well about the new design. we do not yet have a schedule there are quite a few steps that will now need to take place. so we're looking at additional tweaks. and then, we will we're trying to figure out the best way to fund the trash tans and to gain the economies of scale.

and then we'll need to go dmao a production rfp and that may need some tweaking as well. because it involves some testing and tweaking and then we'll have a rollout. i think one of the best steps is which is the best to serve our need. we'll continue to keep you updated as we progress with that. >> i'm excited about the trash cans. >> that's it for me. >> a few questions, you mentioned about the asphalt was taken and recycled, is it reused or some quote unquote recycled .d >> i don't know what bringsban recycling does, i do know that it's able to recycle as as

quality, i do know that that is something that they do. >> we always hear that something is being recycled and with we wonder is it really being recycled. >> it's suppose to be used for base. so i know, i don't know exactly what they do with it though. do they get a bill? they say we just fixed this, i'm thinking fiscally from a budgetary how do we reduce bad behavior? pain is an incredible teacher. so there have been few. it does take a while to get them.

i do think that there is something that they're looking at and director short can talk about it. they are looking at way that we may get a deposit where if we do need to go in and get, do some work that we can draw upon that deposit. i don't think that they have worked out the logitics for that however. >> thank you, for me it's about behavior and don't reward bad behavior. and if you get a bill if it's immediate or 90 days, they start to realize, i'm not going do that again. i believe city projects that they worked on.

in some cases, they procured and we're invited to support that. and having merchants association. is there a way where let's say i want to put a park let in front of my business. the city is going to tear up the street in the next year. i can only imagine spending

20,000 in a park let and nine months later saying, you've got to move it. and i know they can't move easily, something to be proactive and let people know so when they're applying for their park let that they have a schedule saying, this is going to be done in three years or what not. as you know, we're entering the legislative phase of park lets right now. one of the challenges that we do have, we have a 5-year plan when it comes to these infrastructure project and a lot of paving is coordinated with that 5-year plan. one of the challenges that we have, sometimes if a big project gets delayed or differed, it's not a perfect process but it would be a great

opportunity to let people know. we do talk about that as part of the park let guidance book that you know, if the city has a major project or needs to pave the road you will be asked to move the park let. what may be upcoming is a great suggestion so i'll ensure that we can do that. whatever the money is that we get from rec and park from the sand removal, that adequate to cover the cost? i hear about it with all of these departments and everyone is doing it. why are they getting the pass on this? >> we certainly. >> if they're getting a pass. >> yeah, i think from our

perspective, we know it's not a fully funded program. we did get the funding this year and next year. we will be submitting another capitol request to try to and we got that last year to help supplement so we'll be submitting that year. but we do need to have a longer conversation we've done. and there is a browder climate adaptation study that is going on that is looking at what may be actually contributing to the additional sand including some climate measures that may have been taken.

we're trying to look at the bigger picture and that will be part of the information for the future. but i think i agree that we're participating. >> thank you. any other further questions? hearing no further questions, mr. fuller, please open up public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item 7, the building of bureau of building and street overview, you may do so. if you are calling in, dial 415-655-0001, and use meeting number access code of 24887034824 followed by pound and pound again. and to raise your hand to be

recognized press star-3. it does not appear that we have any public speakers in the room. we go to online. caller, you have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 30-second warning. >> caller: david again, so on this item, i continue to think about whether more in city work should be performed by pdw through now. i want to get it right, bbsr, not bbr, bbsr,--sorry. anyway, so for example, moving some from other city department

that's have in city shops. it seems odd that maoun' would have a lock smith and puc have various to do labor. there are a lot of old arguments the cross how those inter departmental work orders are by the requesting and performing department and klen will iness and work tickets and

having diva set management systems and maintenance planning and all of that. and then the other, is a great example of inter developmental work and trying to get paid for on other hand. to do the work and the general fund gets up with the bill at the expense of other things, priorities and can't always get done because staff have to be sent over to that for other problems. it's just a great example, thank you very much for listening, i appreciate it. >> thank you, caller.

any other comments from commissioners? hearing no further discussion,s secretary fuller will call the next item. >> item 8 is the bureau of building and street repairs performance measure report. the plan is each bureau will present its performance measure report on a quarterly basis and this commission already heard from the bureau of street and environmental service al wz a bureau of forestry, they present inside october, november and will report back in the coming two months. and building and street repair scheduled to report again to this commission in april. and bureau superintendent matthew is present to provide

this report and this is an informational item. >> good afternoon. >> welcome back. please keep in mind that the bureau is combined it's reported for the street division and separate for the building facility division. the first slide the goal for pothole repairs within 72 hours, will be completed. you can see from the green line that over the last four years that are shown here, not only have we met that goal we have

exceeded it. i can tell you that in the 8 years we have exceeded it every single year. i think that talks to the work ethics of our staff and their ability to want to do a good job in that they do a good job. i will that we're needing to work overtime. and then in the blue you can see how the service orders have buried, you can see the large decrease in 2020 and 2021, and it's really due to covid.

now that we're over covid. you now see that increase again in service orders. i had mentioned since next slide is looking at proactive pothole sweeps, i had mentioned middle of january, we created a pothole sweep that operates from one district to another. over the last year, we have two all supervisorial districts. it is a small crew and they're only working on residential streets. so they're looking, they know which district they'll be in each month so they're looking at the 311 calls. but as they're making those repairs, they're driving down the residential streets and filling any potholes that they see.

they have a supervisorial map and as they drive the streets, they're marking the street as being completed. it does work very efficiently because because it's residential street. so traffic control is very minimum. you can see when the orange is showing our pothole sweeps compared to other pothole repairs, you can see where there are meet and/or section seed what other pothole crews are doing. and this is partial because they're only working on residential and in order in order to take care, there is a lot of crews required in order to do that traffic control.

as i mentioned, and you can see it fairly consistent, we pave 20% of the city's paving program. that has historically been the case for the street repairs. you can see that there is fluctuation and it's not only for the asphalt crews that are doing it but also for the private contractors. and this is largely driven by the funding in the place. i think where you see the large increases and then starts to level off. and it's picking off again. a number of blocks are being paved each year and being driven from the amount of money

and consistently, street repair will do 60% of all paving for the city. next slide is showing what the square footage will do this is looking at the last four fiscal year. just looking at the bottom this is to avoid depression. you can see it's fairly constant. there is been a decrease and i believe due to covid, it's starting to inch up, what i would say, it's fairly flat. same thing for patch paving that it is fairly flat. this is driven by the funding that is in place.

if you were to look at the square footage per block to 35,000 square feet, the average block is about 15,000 square feet. and then if you were to look at 2020 at 82 blocks, the average square footage was 14.3 and 14.4 so it is staying within the same average when you look at the number of blocks being paved. this was looking at the portion. this is showing the number of

requests that have been received over the different fiscal years. for building repairs, staff was really telecommuting. below is showing what our service west are by the different shops that we have, by in large plumbing is requested the largest number of service orders. although it shows that the plumbing block in paint and class, it's tiff i canly, plumbing electrical and

carpentry that received the largest number of request each fiscal year. and the next slide is showing the total request by clients. in the top five and they change from fiscal year to fiscal, but the top police, fire, library examine real estate and public public works itself. you can see based on what is happening now, it's neck and income for police and public works. but it varies from fiscal year to fiscal year, it's always the five that are giving us the most service requests are. and you can see how the various other departments come in with different service requests. convert today service requests that we do work on. the goal here is that we're

trying to have more estimated converted to real project. we're not charging client departments for the work to prepare an estimate. other department like police and fire they will ask us to provide an estimate and that estimate is being provided for budgetary purposes. improvement that they're doing through the same process that we're going through. how those requests turn into real capitol projects. you can see that 64% in fiscal year 22 converted to real projects. and there is this, very light i guess orange or yellow bar for

that fiscal year, that represents about 3% where clients have asked us to sharpen the pencil and do a review to the estimate that we provided them with. and that's the end of my presentation, i'm available for any questions. >> thank you. commissioners? questions? one thing, thank you for putting that in content. a lot of times we just see numbers but when you correlate it with that this had to do with covid and 17% in staffing to automatically i noticed that and i think lock smithing just went up because they have to keep building secure when it's vacant or turnover. it's important for to us make it known. so people understand what we're

doing, a lot of people including commissioners like myself have a hard time understanding why, so i'm getting up to speed. so thank you for that. >> you're welcome >> thank you, i have one question, i stepped out for a sektd. i apologize if you covered this, but in the pothole sweeps, it seems like the absolute numbers are much higher than in 22 than first months of fiscal 23. i'm not sure if you talked about that but i'm wondering if had you any contracts. it really drops. so why the number of potholes are lower. it could be that there is a decrease in service orders that we received and this is only looking at potholes.

there is also work that is being done for patch paving that is not being reported here or sink holes. when there is a decrease in potholes there is an increase in patch pave one of the largest projects that i ietded in my earlier presentation. >> okay, you have a number of people and they do other things and may do less of this? okay. thanks. >> no further questions. if there is no further questions, mr. philip open up to public comment. >> members of the public if you would like to make a comment on item number 8 may line up against the wall for this from the door, if you are calling in, please dial 415-565-0001

and use meeting access code of 2488703, 4824 followed by pound and pound again. and then to raise your hand to be recognized press star-3. looking in the chamber it does not appear that we have any members of the public present wish to go speak. sf gov.tv indicated that there is one caller wishing to be heard on this performance measure report. please go ahead and unmute the caller and caller you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide a 30-second warning for you. >> caller: hi, david perhaps the last time today. very interesting data, i like the proactive sweep versus public response source of work information. i think about sort of staff initialed versus 311.

so for anyone who thinks that this is entirely complaint driven, it is not, literally 40% of the work that is being done here, is from staff. going out and doing staff that is an important part of the story that should be heard. on block glazing, i'm wondering if it would cost overall to do more of the data work with in-house staff? and i'm wondering out loud what drives the allocation of work between in-house staff and contractors? that might be a more detailed question to answer but perhaps one could ask that. and finally, i would have a metric of on the building service requests side, the percent of all building service requests completed within the

original time estimate. and perhaps the percent of all critical and i would find that as emergency or life safety building service requests completed within 72 hours. so if there is something that is critical, 90% of those being attend today 72 hours, i assume the answer is yes but it does not appear that those stats are being reported. those are my thoughts on this item, thank you very much for listening. >> thank you, caller. >> that is our last public comment on this item. >> thank you, any further questions or remarks from the commissioners? >> thank you, hearing no further comments or questions,

mr. fuller, call the next item, which i believe. >> we postponed item 9, the next item is item 10 which is new business initialed by commissioners and this is an informational item. >> i have any commissioners have updates. we had a great meeting how we segway into this new era. i'll do a follow-up collaboration so i'm please that the two commission right side working well together.

i whethers wanted acknowledge our newest assistant jackie vo, welcome. she hopped on board at the last meeting. thank you for helping making bob's job a little easier so i can make it a little harder. and i heard one of my other half maybe i'll get some advise, about the banners, there is some issue about banners not being able to put up and may have to come down due to safety issues of pauling banners. and something that i'm involved with on those that fund the installation of banners.

we waunlt to keep public safety first and for most. like i said safety is first second and third when it comes to things like that. i'm looking for guidance on how i can help assistance. looking for guidance there. >> so public works does issue permit for installation. however the polls are actually the public utility commission that is currently putting a

paws on the program while they look into uphold that fail which was obviously a public safety concern. so public works role is really add measure i have and we're ready and able to issue permits as long as we're given the go ahead and guidelines from the public utilities commission. i know there was a resent meeting to try to look what options exist to see if they can come to a comfort level to issue the permits again. there has not been any. just to clarify the banner program has been operating continuously. so the, this has not been an issue since 2015.

making sure that they have not contributed for it to fail. >> thank you, i'll be wearing numerous hats at the meeting. thank you. >> commissioners? hearing no further discussion, mr. fuller, do we need to open up public comment? >> yes we do. members of public who wish to make new comment by new business initiated by commissioners may line up closest to the door. if you're in the chamber, if you're calling in, dial 415-615-0001. and in the chamber nobody has

approached to speak on this item. do we have any callers on the item? and they are indicating there are no callers in the queue for business initialed by commissioners. >> no callers. >> no. >> mr. secretary, is there any other further comment. >> since we did not exceed 15 minutes for first round, we do not need to engage in item 11. so there is no further business on the agenda. >> thank you. hearing no objections, i adjourn the meetings. the commission will naoet again february 15, 2023. the time is 12:38 p.m., thank you everyone.

>> he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. brought this department together like never before. i am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the san francisco fire department, ladies and gentlemen, let's

welcome, jeanine nicholson. (applause). >> i grew up total tomboy, athlete. i loved a good crisis, a good challenge. i grew up across the street from the fire station. my dad used to take me there to vote. i never saw any female firefighters because there weren't any in the 1970s. i didn't know i could be a fire fighter. when i moved to san francisco in 1990, some things opened up. i saw women doing things they hadn't been doing when i was growing up. one thing was firefighting. a woman recruited me at the

gay-pride parade in 1991. it was a perfect fit. i liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. in terms of coming in after another female chief, i don't think anybody says that about men. you are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. i understand why it is asked. it is unusual to have a woman in this position. i think san francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands

because there are little queer kids that see me. i worked my way up. i came in january of 1994. i built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. working out of firehouses. the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really

trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a while. part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know what they need to be successful. >> i have known jeanine nicholson since we worked together at station 15. i have always held her in the highest regard. since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism.

she is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. i appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the fire department today. >> there is a retired captain who started the cancer prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. he started looking into it. in 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the san francisco fire department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. it was a higher rate than the general population. we were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didn't have to worry about the paper

work when they go through chemo. the turnout gear was covered with suit. it was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and helmet. the dirtier you were the harder you worked. that is a cancer causeser. it -- casser. it is not -- cancer causer. there islassic everywhere. we had to reduce our exposure. we washed our gear more often, we didn't take gear where we were eating or sleeping. we started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. i have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be

sure that gets through. it is not if or when. it is who is the next person. it is like a cancer sniper out there. who is going to get it next. one of the things i love about the fire department. it is always a team effort. you are my family. i love the city and department and i love being of service. i vow to work hard -- to work hard to carry out the vision of the san francisco fire department and to move us forward in a positive way. if i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. you never know what door is going to open next.

you really don't. [cheers and >> we are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. >> say hi. hi. what's your favorite? the carrots. >> the pizza? >> i'm not going to eat the pizza. >> you like the pizza? >> they will eat anything. >> yeah, well, okay. >> sfusd's meal program right now is passing out five days

worth of meals for monday through friday. the program came about when the shelter in place order came about for san francisco. we have a lot of students that depend on school lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. we have families that can't take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. >> for the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the

milk. >> we heard about the school districts, that they didn't know if they were going to be able to provide it, so we've been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. they've been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure they're staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so that's a great thing when you're working with many kid does. >> the feedback has been really good. everybody seems really appreciative. they do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. growing up, i depended on them,

as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up. >> i have kids at home. i have six kids. i'm a mother first, so i'm just so glad to be here. it's so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families don't have access to this food, and we're jus

>> [gavel] >> welcome to the february 1st, budget and finance committee. as you have noted, probably that we're now starting at 10:00 a.m. i'm supervisor connie chan as chair of the budget committee. i'm joined by our vice-chair, supervisor mernd oe -- our clerk is brett. thank you. i would like to thank sfg tv, colleen that mendosa for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have

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agenda of february 7th unless otherwise stated. madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. i want to acknowledge that members -- supervisor safai is online. will be joining us shortly in person and i wanted to let everyone know that the way that we're going to go about with the presentation today is limiting all presentations to three minutes and those that actually (indiscernible) with the budget and legislative analyst report, let's have the presentation and the report from the budget and legislative analyst first before we go forward with all the questioning, so thank you and mr. clerk, please call item no. one. >> yes item no. one s resolution authorizing the arts commission to enter into an agreement with treasure island series 1, llc, the developer of a hilltop park at yerba buena island, to construct

a foundation for a 69-foot tall sculpture by hiroshi sugimoto, as part of the treasure island arts program, for an amount of $274,076 for a term starting upon approval of this resolution and ending upon the completion of the foundation; and to authorize the director of cultural affairs to enter into any additions, amendments or other modifications to the foundation contract do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities of the city, or reduce the benefits to the city, and are necessary or advisable to complete the transaction contemplated by this resolution. members of the public who are joining remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id is 24826174739 and pound and pound again. once connected to the meeting, you need to press star three to enter the speaker line. the system will prompt have raised your hand and once unmuted, you can begin your comments. madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. this agreement is sponsored by matt dorsey which is in his district

so today we'll start off with mr. bryan from supervisor dorsey's office and a verbal presentation by mary chow, public arts program manager from the arts commission. mr. dal, the floor is yours. >> thank you, chair and supervisor mandelman and safai. i'm representing supervisor matt dorsey in district six. treasure island has planned to see approximately eight thousand new housing units and other developments including enhanced open spaces and small businesses. along with these additions, the island will be home to any art installations as a part of the treasure island arts program and with me is mary chiu from the arts commission to speak about the first pieces to be installed. charles sullivan from city attorney's office is also here to assist with any questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, bryan and good morning, supervisors. so, this

sculpture is the first of a series of artwork doing installed as a part of the treasure island arts program. the program is funded by one percent for art fee of private development on treasure island in yorba buena island. this is sponsored by the treasure island authority. the sculpture is by international renowned artist heroshi and this is his first public sculpture in the country and raises at 69 feet and composed of glass composed concrete and stainless steel and it's a sun dial of invoking the tower of the sun from the 1939 golden gate international -- po significance the treasure island. we are seeking approval to enter into contract with a developers of the park for the construction of the foundation for the sculpture. based on the

advice of our city attorney, we are bringing this agreement to the board of supervisors because there's an arbitration clause in the subsidiary contract between the treasure island developer and construction contractor hired by the developer to complete the work and city is responsible for paying for the work. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have on this item. >> thank you. >> thank you, chair chan. nick, from the budget legislative analyst office. item one is a resolution approving an agreement between the treasure island development authority and the arts commission with series one llc which is one of the developers for the treasure island master development. they are responsible for building art park and this sculpture will be placed and they have hired a

subcontractor, which we detailed in the report, jensen to pour the concrete foundation, so this contract is for the concrete foundation for that sculpture. it's separate from the art installation that was procured by the arts commission. this is a sole source contract although the arts commission did solicit informally bids from other entities that were capable of doing this work, which we reviewed and were higher than this $274,000 so we recommend approval of the resolution. >> thank you, mr. ninard -- minard. >> thank you. questions. thank you to mr. dorsey's office. >> mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak on this item or joining in person should line up now. for those listening remotely, please call

415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id24826174739 and pound twice and press star three to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, wait until the system says you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. no in-person speakers in the chambers and no speakers on the line. >> wonderful. thank you, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i move this to the full board with recommendation and mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on this motion with a positive recommendation, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> the motion has been approved. the item is moving forward. and mr. clerk, please call item no. 2. >> item no. 2 is

resolution approving modification no. 9 to airport contract no. 10072.41, project management support services for the san francisco international airport, courtyard 3 connector project with pgh wong & partners jv, a joint venture consisting of pgh wong engineering, inc., and avila and associates consulting engineers, inc., to increase the contract amount by $10,600,000 for a new not to exceed amount of $27,850,000 for services, pursuant to charter, section 9.118(b); and making findings under the california environmental quality act. >> members of the public wish to go comment, please call 415-655-0001 and enter meeting id of 24826174739 and press pound press. press three to enter the speaker line and a prompt will say you have entered the line. once unmuted, you may fin your comments. madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. here is (indiscernible) from government affairs manager of sof. is she online? >> i'm online. good morning, chair chan. >> good morning. >> hello supervisors. >> good morning. the item before you request approval of

modification number nine to an existing support services contract with pgh wong and partners for the connector three project. the airport agrees with the recommendations and request not to exceed amount by $7,750,000 for a total amount not to exceed 20,000. project management is design and construction services and project controls, contract administration, cost estimating, and field inspection. this contract was from a 2017 competitive request. pgh work was the highest ranked proposal out of four vendors and the contractors modified a (indiscernible) to the board of supervisors in 2020 for modification number five to increase the not to exceed amount to accommodate the scope of work. the budget for project management support services

addressed the remaining project scope of the building interior which includes the planning and build-out of the airport integrated operation center or aioc and it's funded by airport capital revenue. as stated earlier, the airport is in agreement with the bla recommendation to reduce the amount to $7,750,000. we also agree to conduct a formal performance evaluation of the contractor within 90 days and to reduce, and reduce the contract not to exceed the amount of $25 million. this reduction will make the contract not to exceed amount coextensive with a contract term which expires january 2025. these (indiscernible) have been circulated in the city's attorney office and they have been found to be non-substantive and i'm joined by members, i'm joined by claudia who is the director of project management and we're happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thanks, ms. walock.

>> item two is a resolution approving the modification to the airports agreement with pgh wong and partners to join venture of -- consulting firms providing construction management services as just noted by the airport. the modification increases the term of the agreement through january 2025 and increases the not to exceed amount to $27.85 million. one of the issues we look at when we're looking at a contract modification is how the department is measuring contractor performance. when we last looked at this agreement back in 2020, the airport recently evaluated the contract performance and the contractor scored well but the airport hasn't done the evaluations which occur annually in the past two years. although there's $7 million worth of work, there hasn't been the evaluations over

the past two years. so, that forms the basis of one of our recommendations here. i think the other issue in this report is that the modifications, the resolution is not to exceed amount is built on spending through june 2026 and the agreement is through january of 2025. it's for that reason we have the following recommendations which the airport does agree with. one is to reduce the resolution not to exceed amount to $25 million. that will provide spending through january 2025 which is when the agreement is being extended to and second to request that the airport send the board the performance evaluation that they've committed to do within the next three months after this is approved. and include it in the legislative file for this item. i do think that's important information for the board to

have when reviewing these kinds of agreements but we also recommend approval of the resolution as amended and i'm happy to answer any other questions. >> thank you. i just wanted to say that i appreciate the budget and legislative analyst report. but i have a few comments but i see vice-chair mandelman has questions, so please. >> well, i guess i think they are both for the airport but i guess i'm trying to understand the discrepancy between the 27 million and 850 thousands and the 25 million and since this is an extension of the contract anyway, i don't quite understand what is happening there. i mean, they are fine. you have proposed aligning them back in january for the amount spent in january but we're missing $4 million. are they going to extend it

further and add another $4 million? what is happening? >> so, supervisor mandelman, in line with the bla recommendation, we have lines of the contract budget to the contract term and if we do need to extend the contract for either timing or money, we will come back to the board as required under chapter 9.118. >> okay. are you anticipating it's going to be more than $25 million? >> under current budget estimates, yes but because the contract term went to january 2025 and that was because we're still figuring out timing and schedules, we brought this to our -- to the board knowing a better estimate of the budget, but not as well of an estimate of the timing, but to the bla's recommendation, we do agree we should have it in line with the contract term.

>> okay. i mean, this does have a little feeling of, we're going to keep spending for some unknown period of time and the cost will go to something and maybe it's $25 million or maybe it's more than $25 million and we just don't know. >> we had good estimates and i would like to defer to claudia who is our director of project management to further, exploring those cost that we have set out and the contractor. >> good morning, everyone. claudia, director of project management. (indiscernible) to deliver our projects. we forecast in regard to construction and schedule and budget that we will go until 2026 but due to our methodology and the delivery and the planning for the ifc, we will be

refining our cost and schedule as mentioned but at this point, our request and the recommendation that is coming up from the board of supervisors, we agreed to that and it will allow us to move forward with the project at this time. our process allows us to refine the schedule on the cost of the services needed to support our construction projects, but that is still to be refined as we (indiscernible). >> and just for miet he had fit /* /* -- for my edification, you don't know what it's going to be when it adds up? >> that's a good question. we have a good sense of the cost and schedule but because of the methodology that we use, there's trade packages, trying to align

our design and construction and (indiscernible) since we move along, the final cost is defined as we do the progressive packages and these contracts that is for your review for professional services, those services support the construction schedule. >> okay. >> so we do have a good sense, but it's defined, better defined as we progress on the construction side. >> and we always talk about this with the bla earlier. the airport has relative to? other departments, a relatively good reputation in terms of construction management, i think, but it's and i'm recognizing there was a global pandemic in the intervening period but this contract does seem to have gone -- the project has seem to go over and the contract itselves seems to be going quite a bit over. all right. thank you for that. >> thank you: >> thank you, vice-chair

mandelman. i chair vice-chair mandelman's sentiment. this is the ninth time it's coming before the board for amendment, the eight previous time, that clearly there are not to increasing the exceed amount and the labor rate adjustments, which i can understand to some extent but that's the fact that it's now coming to the board for the ninth time for a contract amendment, that is what -- why we're having those questions. and given the fact that also having received an annual performance audit like it should, it adds up to all the doubts that we have, what's to come in 2025, even with the approval of this not to exceed of $25 million. so, i want to publicly say for city departments moving forward, it's best to conduct and finish the

performance audit in the event that you want to submit for a contract amendment, so that there are clear guidelines and information for the budget and legislative analyst to really evaluate whether this is -- this can be recommended for approval, retroactive performance audit pose a challenge both for the board and put us in an impossible position to hold everyone accountable in making sure the process is transparent. with that, is there any more questions? not seeing no other questions, please, mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. >> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item or joining in person should line up now. those listening remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id, 24826174739 and

press pound press. and enter three to be in the queue. seeing no speakers in the chamber, and madam chair, no speaker in the queue. >> no speakers, great. thank you. seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i would like to make the motion to adopt the amendment as proposed by the budget and legislative analyst, which is amending the, to actually conduct a performance evaluation with the contractor within 90 days and submit the report to the legislative file and to amend the proposed resolution to reduce the contract not to exceed amount to a total of $25 million. mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on that motion to amend this resolution, to accept the bla's recommendations that airport staff performance evaluation and

reduce the contract amount to $25 million, vice-chair safai? i'm sorry, vice-chair mandelman. habits. >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. and i would like to move to, forward this item to full board with recommendation. >> on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive resolution as amended. vice-chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. so -- >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. clerk, please call item no. three. >> yes, item no. three is a resolution approving an original agreement between department of public health (dph) and the california health and human services agency, to exchange health and social services information, in the amount of $0 for a term exceeding ten years, effective january 31, 2023, remaining in full force and effect until

terminated by the dph or the california health and human service agency; and to authorize the dph to enter into amendments or modifications to the agreement prior to its final execution by all parties that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. members of the public who are joining -- joining us remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and enter id24le 2174739. press pound twice. when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you may begin your comments. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we have a verbal presentation by chief information officer from the department of public health. i assume this is also online. >> good morning, madam chair. i'm here. >> thank you. please go ahead.

>> thank you. good morning. dph is seeking your committee's favorable recommendations to the full board to enter into the four mentioned new data sharing agreement that is pursuant to the passage of ab133, which establishes the data exchange framework or dxf program that will be over seen by the california health and human services agency. as noepted, it's a no cost agreement and before you today because it's a per except ral agreement until dhs decide to end the program, the part of this program is that while dph actively shares information with other healthcare organizations in a digital manner, the framework aims to include social services

agencies and ultimately public health departments, so it would include the public health part of dph as well and health insurers in a robust information sharing framework. that's exciting to all of us at dph and i'm pleased to answer any questions your committee has. >> any questions? i guess we're pleased. very pleased with the data sharing. i look forward to seeing more about the data sharing results. thank you and mr. clerk, please call public comment on this item. >> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this this item should line up now. those listening, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24826174739 and press pound twice and press star three to enter the speaker line. wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your signal to begin your comments. no in person speakers

in the chamber. and madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. >> thank you, seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i move this item to full board with recommendation and mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on that motion for this resolution to the full board. member mandelman. >> aye. >> member chan? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> we have -- we have three aye. >> this motion passes. >> please read item no. four. >> item no. four, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to submit a one-year application for calendar year 2023 to continue to receive funding for the integrated hiv surveillance and prevention programs for health departments from the centers of disease control and prevention, and requesting $7,804,306 in hiv prevention funding for san francisco from january 1, 2023, through may 31, 2024.

members the public joining remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24826174739 and press pound twice. enter three to enter the system. one unmuted please begin your comment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we have nicole trainer, budget and contract and communications manager from department of public health here to give us a verbal presentation. >> great. thank you, good morning, supervisors. my name is nicole trainer. i'm the system of care contract budget and communications manager and the community equity and also known as chest. the hiv and prevention program for health departments from the center of disease control and prevention is a continuation of a grant the board approved in 2020 and 2021. we thank you for your continued

support as we strive to achieve hiv -- zero hiv transmissions stigma and hiv deaths. this grant funds awards -- are awarded to the san francisco department on an annual basis to cover and integrate hiv surveillance and prevention programs for san francisco residents. this particular grant has ten hiv prevention and surveillance strategies which include systemically collect, analyze and interpret and and detect hiv transmission and public health intervention and evaluation health response and identify persons with hiv persons and those at risk for hiv. develop and maintain and implement and plan to respond to hiv transition clusters and outbreaks. provide comprehensive hiv related prevention services and persons living with

diagnosed hiv infection, provide comprehensive related hiv prevention services, full hiv negative persons, also conduct community level hiv prevention activities, develop partners to conduct and integrate prevention care planning and implement structural strategies to support and facilitate hiv surveillance and prevention. conduct data driven planning, monitor and evaluation, to continuously improve hiv surveillance prevention and activities and build capacity for conducting effective hiv program activities. (indiscernible) uses the cdc funding to support critical infrastructure, eph staff need to coordinate planning, community engagement and technical support, director advices ducktail with this grant and supported with the generosity of the san francisco general funds. the priority population for this grant is defined as people living with and at risk for hiv in san

francisco, but we have tailored a grant requirement to include men who have sex with men, african american, latinx communities and trans women and people who use drugs ask those experiencing homelessness, this grant enables san francisco to maintain its strong emphasis on services while also bringing a focus to the prevention need in communities of color and hiv related disparities they experience in new infections and late diagnosis and linkage retention -- i'm happy to answer questions you have and we hope you continue to support dph and moving forward. >> thank you, ms. trainer. thank you for all the success of this grant. mr. clerk, can we call 5, 6 and 7 with this one? >> yes, madam chair. >> 5, 6 and 7. item no. 7

resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to submit an application to continue to receive funding for the ryan white act hiv/aids emergency relief grant program grant from the health resources services administration; and requesting $15,962,602 in hiv emergency relief program funding for the san francisco eligible metropolitan area for the period of march 1, 2023, through february 29, 2024. item no. 6, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant increase in the amount of $386,274 from the california department of public health for a total amount of $1,365,222 for participation in a program, entitled “sexually transmitted disease program management and collaboration,” for the period of july 1, 2019, through june 30, 2024. item number 7 is a

resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,616,252 from the california department of public health for participation in a program, entitled “monkeypox response funding award number mpx-012 city & county of san francisco,” for the period of july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2023. and yes, that was items 5, 6, and 7, madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. for time number five, we have bill blum, director of program, primary care and director of hiv health services to give us a brief presentation. >> good afternoon, can you all see and hear me >> yes, thank you. >> hi. thank you, everyone. we decided to opt-out of doing a presentation so, i'll give a brief description. as you all know, we have been receiving federal funds for the ryan white

care act. this is for part a which goes to eligible metropolitan areas which includes a combination of cities, countries states. you can see the amount this year is $15,962,602. we are requesting retroactive permission to apply for the grant. as i've mentioned, for over 30 years, we have been receiving it and it's for us to able to provide hiv care related services to under unsured and uninsured people living with hiv in san francisco county. we're the grantee for marin and -- san mateo countys as well. >> thank you. >> i don't see names on the roster for questions for time number five. can we go to a presentation for item no. six from anthony taylor, hiv, sti

program manager from department of public health. >> good morning, supervisors. so this supplemental funding outlined in this ane was awarded by the california department of public health to augment san francisco department of public health cdph funding, it's transmitted disease or std project grant. next slide, please. so the grant focuses on implementing public health activities to monitor and investigate and prevent transmitted disease and collaboration with organizations. funding for the grant prevents congenital syphilis which is a rare and sometimes fatal illness and this is accomplished with other parts of the san francisco department of public health including maternal child (indiscernible) or san francisco health network primary care clinics and the

university of california san francisco king lilly. so this supplemental funding will support expanding access to std services at san francisco city clinic for lesbian, gay, bisexual and querr identified population and for syphilis prevention. this will expand nonbrick-and-mortar prenatal care to the most vulnerable population in san francisco, excuse me, most vulnerable people experiencing pregnancy and those experiencing homelessness in an effort to prevent cases of congenital syphilis. the reason that the request for this a and a for funding was retroactive is in october of last year, sfdhp was notified by the california department of public health we were receiving a supplemental funding in the amount of 386,274 for our program management and

collaboration project grant. the funding will increase the annual budgets by 193,000 for this fiscal year, from july 2022 through june 2023 and next fiscal year, july 2023 through june 2024 and this is going to bring our total funding for the grant to 1.365 million for the period of july 2019 through june 2024. so thank you and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. seeing no name on the roster, no questions for you. and let's move to item no. seven for the presentation from julia jensen, deputy med crocodile director of sti prevention and control section of the department of public health. >> >> good morning, supervisors. i'm dr. julia jensen, i served

as the operation section cochief within sdph and doc response structure. today we're seeking approval for retroactive and expand grant from cdph to st -- entitled m pox. san francisco responded to the m-pox outbreak in spring of 2022 with expansion to the structure from august to october and reduction to a group through december of 2022. these response efforts allowed to investigate cases and communicate to the public and support large scale prevention activities through on the the city. grant funds would support functions that occurred during m pox response including lab support and providing public health with necessary equipment and supply for testing and supply management and supporting the oversight and logistics for

distributing nsf and vaccination in the community and planning, coordination and implementation of vaccine sites based on data, community feedback and equity. communication with the public, supporting development and implementation of radio ads which is to reach sf resident as well as supporting bus ads along routes that was in low-income neighborhoods and supporting key conditions involved in response efforts. this request is retroactive because sfdph received the award letter from cdph on december 27, 2022, after response efforts begun. thank you for your time and i'm joined by eduardo. >> i have questions. given that we declare public health

emergency for moneypox locally and i believe that was also -- monkeypox and federally as well and i'm pleased to see we're retroactively to receive funding from the state department from the california's department of public health. do we know that, so far, it's 1.6, roughly $1.6 million, do we know that we have received previously more or are we going to see coming months to see more retroactive possibly retroactive grants and reimbursement? >> yes, thank you for that question. i'm going to defer that question to our grants manager eduardo seda. >> thank you, supervisors. at this time, the state of california has not let us know if there's going to be additional funding for the m pox response. in the city of san francisco, the m-pox declaration

ended at the end of october so once we submit the invoices from the grant, they will let us know if there's additional grants moving forward. i hope that answered your question. >> yes. i do expect -- let's track in the next few months to see what the reimbursement rate amount is verses the dollar amount, you know, spent locally, so we can understand our recovery rate. >> okay. >> thank you. thank you so much, thank you both. seeing no more questions on the roster, mr. clerk, could we go to public comment for item four through seven. >> members of the public who wish to speak on items four through seven and joining us in person should line up now. listening remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and enter the meeting id of 24826174739. and then pound and pound again. once

connected press star three to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will be your signal to again your comments. no in-person speakers in the chamber, and madam chair, no speaker in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i would like to move all items items four, five, and seven to the full board with positive recommendation and mr. clerk, please call roll. >> on that motion to forward items four, five, six and seven to the full board to the positive recommendation and vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. and that motion passes and mr. clerk, please call item no. eight. >> yes. item no. eight is a

resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $316,800 from the san francisco health plan for participation in a program, entitled “calaim incentive payment program (ipp),” for the period of september 12, 2022, through february 28, 2023. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment, please call 415-655-0001. enter the meeting id of 24826174739 and press pound twice. press star three to enter the speaker line. once -- one unmuted you may begin. >> we have a brief presentation from jeff, let me make sure i say your last name correctly, scarafia, deputy chief informational office from the department of public health. >> thank you, madam chair.

>> thank you. please go ahead. >> these funds come to us from san francisco health plan as part of a state program called cal aim and focuses on improving services for our in-need medi-cal, medicaid population. these funds will provide for temporary resources to support the surge in efforts as we deploy it systems to support the program and resources. these resources will work in tandem with dph, it staff and the long term systems will be supported by dph, it staff who are pcs employees of local 21. we're looking forward to creating a system of closed loop refrls to help our -- loop referrals to help those reach the services they need. with that, we're happy to take questions on these

funds under the cal aim program. >> i don't see any name on the roster, but i do have a quick question that i'm seeing in one of the relevant documents listing on subcontractors $280,000 that is for the consultant to hire epic ways to tops contract and that along with the travel expenses of $36,000. could you walk us through a little bit about what those two, both the subcontracts and the travel expenses looks like. >> sure. those do work in tandem with resources that we have as part of the department but with the surge in work, we're seeking highly specialized resources who know a part of our e hr system called epic (indiscernible), to find those resources is quite difficult and to find them on

demand, so those are the consultants who will be coming in to help with resourcing that project, the travel expenses are to ensure they are able to be onsite, present, working side-by-side with the staff and the community-based agencies who will be using these it systems. >> understood. mr. clerk, let's go to public comment for this item. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should lien up now. listening remotely, our number is 415-655-0001 with a meeting id of 24826174739 and press pound twice. star three to enter the speaker line. continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and it's your queue to begin comments. no speaker in the chamber and madam chair, no speaker in the queue. >> thank you, seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. [gavel] mr. clerk, i would like to move

this item to full board with positive recommendation, please call the roll. >> on that motion before the resolution -- to forward the resolution to the full board, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. >> mr. clerk, please call item no. nine. >> yes item no. nine is a resolution approving a water purchase agreement between the port commission and mission rock utilities for purchase of water for port-owned parks and open space at mission rock, with a term of 30 years up to a maximum cost of $44,656,545 effective upon approval of this resolution; and to authorize the executive director of the port to enter into amendments or modifications to the agreement that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the agreement or this resolution. members the public joining remotely and wish to comment,

please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id24826174739 and press pound twice. if waiting, press star three. that's your signal to begin your comments once prompted. >> we're going to have the presentation for items for nine ten and they have fiscal impact which includes the budget legislative analyst report. today, we have john king. waterfronts development manager, assistant deputy director from san francisco port. the floor is yours. >> good morning supervisors and thank you, chair chan. this is pretty, a little longer presentation, so i'm going to move it quick. if you want me to go back, please stop me. next slide. so very quickly, we're going to do a high level summary of the mission rock project including the status of where we

are today. talk about mission rock utilities and the black treatment -- black water treatment plant and process that's the subject of why we're here today. and part of the overall sustainability goals of the port and the project itself. and then to talk about the agreement itself and give you the detail that the bla went through in much more detail in their report. next slide. so as an overview of mission rock, it's a public-private partnership between mission rock partners and it is the san francisco giants and (indiscernible). so it has been a long time in the making, ten years this project has been in the making. there's significant action happening but as a quick overview, this is a mixed-use development with up to 1200 units. 40% affordable onsite. significant office of and life science of up to $1.4 million growth square feet and retail space for the neighborhood and activation of the local area.

we're currently in phase i right now. all four phases are under construction. next slide, please. i'm going to give you more detail of where we are in phase i which is today. those four buildings there, two of these are residential and a total of 537 units and almost two hundred of those are bmr units and the office building which has a life science building that they are working on the negotiations and tenant seeking there but everybody is aware the headquarters of visa is there. we just got with the tco earlier this month so, we're expecting them to move in later this year. with respect to the first residential development, we're expecting to bring residents into the, starting this spring and basically continuously running through 2025 as the next phase comes online as well. next slide, please, boris. and i'm going to mention real quick, we have multiple sustainability

strategies in the project but this is specific to the water strategy that the port adopted and the commitment was all of the nonportable water uses at the site such as irrigation, toilet water, et cetera, it should be supplied from non-portable water that's treated and created onsite. and that comes from portable water that's used elsewhere. next slide. next slide, boris. so on -- it's used onsite. and then as it's collected onsite, it has been treated onsite and used within the site itself for these non-portable uses as a quick overview. next slide, boris. as it was mentioned in the bla report, the operator will be mission rock utilities who is going to be, it's an affiliate through or master developer and they are a nonprofit that will be operating this for the

customers including the port. next slide. and basically what this is, this is an agreement for the port to purchase the non-portable water, so this water is going to be treated on side by mission rock utilities and the port will be purchasing it. the majority of this will be, we will be the biggest user for the park in the first phase of 1.5 million gallons per year and full build out up to 1.9 million per year. one thing to note, this agreement will not take place until the port accepts the parks which will probably happen in early 2024. next slide, please. some of the key material s this and i'm happy to answer more or they will get covered in the bla report but there's an annual cap on exposure on this which is -- it's a total amount subject to annual appropriation, it's based upon a capacity charge which is fixed charges and the flow charge which is usage charge. next slide. although this is an agreement between the port and

mission rock utilities, the intention is the port may not hold this agreement directly because we're negotiating a lease with mission rock partners to manage the open space in the park for the overall development. if that does happen and we come to the board of supervisors assuming the term is ten years or more, we would assign all the obligations and the agreement to the tenant. they would act as the agent and the purchaser here. next slide, please. and in the event that we don't go forward with this or elect to manage this ourselves or the park lease terminates, we have a backstop this is funded by contingent tax paid for by the parcels themselves within mission rock. there's no expected set aside from the port harbor fund, no expected set aside from the general fund, the only reason we do an appropriation at all would be to expend those uses. i moved through that quick. i want to thank nick minard and natalie

from his team from a great bla report and boris for taking us through this presentation and mission rock partners but i want to thank grace park from city attorney's office and wyatt donnelley from my team. did an a hissing job creating this document that we didn't have a testimony plat for and negotiated all the recommendations for the city and port. >> thank you. >> thank you. item nine is a resolution approving an agreement between the port and mission rock utilities, which is a nonprofit form. the agreement is a 30-year agreement not to exceed $44.7 million. and as we detail on page 14 of our report, the agreements is based on the expected ports use of recycled water from a black water recycling plant that is being developed in mission rock but the mission rock developer. the

agreement consist of anticipated capacity and flow charges, which together will find -- will pay for the cost of the port share of the development of the facility as well as the operating cost of the facility. we did note a couple of positive considerations in our report. one is that, excuse me, the original, i think plan was for puc to operate this site. the wastewater enterprise typically doesn't operate these kind of facilities, so they are building one on the westside of the city to serve golden gate park. that plan anticipated the site serving mission bay and mission rock, this facility that's developed by the developer will only serve mission long and due to its size and the need to move forward with the development of the area, the port opted to do the structure that is being proposed now which is having a nonprofit operate a smaller site

to serve mission rock. the other issue is that the cost of the water is three times more than the comparable rate for puc portable water. this is being done as was mentioned to comply with the city's non-portable water ordinance, so i think this is in some ways a classic trade-off between instead of environmental friendly environment, with the benefit of using less portable water at the cost of the treatment. it's possible that a larger facility serving a larger area would have lower unit cost but based on the compliance of the city's non-portable water ordinance and the information we received from the port, we received a lot of engagement, we're recommending approval of this agreement. >> thank you, mr. minar. i thought vice-chair mandelman has

questions. >> a couple. although one of thing i think is probably for the puc. do we have anyone from the puc here or no? >> we don't have anyone here. >> all right. well then, one that you can answer is, so, i'm trying to think about this lease for this park. >> uh-huh. >> what is the lessee get out of running a park? >> there's no financial incentive. part of it would probably be to run it in -- you're coordinating a lot of mixed-use actions that's going there so you can program, you can have special events that are easier coordinated that are tied into the mission rock development. >> so that's a not for profit. >> (indiscernible) as far as that structure could be, it's different but as far as leasing it over in long-term lease to reflect that. >> all right. and the question i

guess i have for the puc that probably can't get answered today is, i mean, i don't feel bad about overpaying for this water because we're probably under paying or or the cost of portable water will probably go up because the climate is changing and we're all going to die and terrible fires and floods and everything, so reducing our reliance on portable water and paying more to build out the infrastructure to -- for water reuse and recycling is a good thing, i think and an investment in the future. i am and will be following up with puc, you know, our water reuse ordinance, you know, has advanced the conversation about water recycling in san francisco to more of particularly projects,

reusing water onsite. and i'm curious and haven't thought terribly much about how moving away from larger scaled plants, and the puc is concerned about the plants that they are very expensive and take a long time and are going to be hard to build out, but there probably is a cost to having all these different projects doing their, you know, reuse just within their project boundaries and i wonder if that's something, how the puc thinks about that but i'll follow up with them. >> yeah. one thing i'll say is, it is your nuke to some level. we're moving toward the district in general but the requirement if they were to -- to comply within their own individual buildings with the mandate -- it's on the continuum of doing individual buildings to a district. very good point. >> i guess for clarification, is that -- one of the reasons why

sfpuc is not involved in this scenario, it has to do with the fact that mission rock, to an extend, mission bay that sfpuc did not invest and build out the infrastructure for utilities delivery, is that correct? >> well, typically, what happened in this scenario like this, i don't know exactly in mission bay, but here, we would build out the infrastructure in a lot of cases and deliver it to the sfpuc through the next acceptance process as far as it goes because it gets complicated to integrate a public delivery within the site. but that's what would have happened most likely here. >> instead of going through sfpuc, we have an entity, a nonprofit entity, so it's to facility utilities need of mission rock? >> that's correct. if this was probably outside of the project site which you may have had to have it outside of the project site to support mission bay, we would have to a -- >> this is an agreement. i think

almost two decades ago. for education and just try to have a better understanding, the difference between gray water and black water, could you just tell us about that? >> yeah. if i could actually, i'm going to bring up maggie kayden from mission rock utilities, she could speak to this you. >> hello. thank you for having us. the gray water system which we have done in other buildings and it's in compliance with the ordinance takes all recycled or all used water, not including solid waste. so the difference is when you have the black water, all solid waste comes into the system. it's of course, filtered out. that sentiment is put into the system. >> it was supposed to do what we were doing and we postponed the implementation of it, given the

cause and given the logistic challenges that downtown has to implement the gray waterman date so thank you so much. i think this is more for mr. king for the question is just -- because i do not have the expertise, what dtco stand for. >> that's the temporary certificate of occupancy. >> thank you. >> which technically means you can occupy the space but it's a lot of work to build it out. but it has met the life standards for occupancy. >> we're going to occupy this space when? >> by the end of this year. it's a quick parcel a which is, got the affordable units on there too. that should be in may. we're targeting to move people in. the park itself will start to open from the summer throughout the fall. they should move in at the end of the year and we'll have a tco for building b in months ahead once

we have a tenant for that. that's the longest time constraint that will determine how much work they are doing on the interior, so they are ready to move in. >> thank you. i want to add to what vice-chair mandelman was talking about in terms of a lessee for that space that you anticipate to identify one, hopefully in the near future, the problem is it's going to be not for profit and after all, this is a public space. and so the question that i have is, i totally understand that in order -- it probably has some kind of vendors, maybe amenities like, i don't know, hot dog trucks, taco trucks are out there or some kind of admission for special events from time-to-time to maintain the operation cost that's required, similar to yorba buena. will they allow for temporary structure to be built on the site or we have yet to

determine? >> there's a chance it could be something like a food pavilion, even more temporary items could be for special events. those would be handled through the ports and it will be defined. it's through the lease itself, it's separate from the development but yes. there's nothing specifically contemplated but that would be it. i want to clarify, the operator would be an affiliate of the mission rock development team so it's not going to be -- we're highly aware of the fact this needs -- this is a public park that needs to feel public while it has activating aspects of it. it is subject to a regulatory requirements with respect to the number of events, port will reserve right to make sure we can have city events, et cetera. >> thank you. >> we'll be bringing that to your consideration, port commission and the board later this year. >> right. (indiscernible). >> what's that? >> thank you. >> commissioner safai. >> thank you for your presentation. you went pretty fast at the end, so i have a

couple of questions here that relate to the amount of money that is paid by the port and the other lessees and how that relates to this contingency special services tax. who pays the contingency special service tax? >> so, if the tax is assessed, it would be paid by the vertical parcel themselves, so basically, the visa as a tenant, they would pay their property owner, the property owner would pay to us. they would pay to the port if the port was in possession of the property. >> any of the people living in the buildings? >> they are going to be rentals. [multiple voices] they are rentals so any expenses of the rentals would be passed through -- it's a component of rent or overhead that's like a normal aspect but i can't imagine -- >> some of these units or 40% of them are affordable, how is that

built with? >> similar to building cost not passed through the tenant, this is one of those. so, in the event you have, you know, engineering or maintenance staff for example that you're adding, those cost are incurred by the building, those don't passed on to the residents of the building so this is a similar type cost. there would be no direct assessments for these contingent special service taxes to the residents directly. all of the 40% below market rate units would have to be in compliance with the limitations on rent set by -- [multiple voices] >> this is only if -- this is only if the payments from the port and other building owners is not realized? >> yes, the contingency special services tax is triggered by the port. do you want to talk about it some >> i can explain part of it.

supervisor safai, the port has the funding source for the operations of the park and other obligations associated such as recycled water agreement so we can assess that on an annual basis. we basically say up to this amount is what we need to budget for our expenses. if there's a lease in place and the tenant is actually just charging, it's hoa directly for these fees instead of this, we would not assess the special service tax because it would be like a double dipping of this. >> that's what i was trying to understand because it says here on page 9 that the ports cap in your wear is $672,000 and special services tax, the maximum for fiscal year is 1.3. and then up to 2.74 for the entire project. that's kind of -- it's not one hundred percent clear. >> basically what it would be, if there was no park tenant, if we were the direct purchaser here, we would build a property on the $1.3 million starting

this year and we would set aside $650,000 or so for the cap amount for this which is our maximum exposure in this agreement and then we would, excuse me, use the other $700,000 for the management of the park itself directly. if there's a park tenant that's going to take on needs be -- to take on the obligations, we would anticipate -- >> who are you anticipated to be your park tenant? >> it would be an affiliate of the master developer and the hoa because it's a fill ain'ted with all the house -- it's affiliated with all the ownership groups there. >> such as? [multiple voices] >> this is an entity formed from the owner of the parcels, of each of the parcels a part of the hoa, they would comprise this nonprofit as to be. >> got it. and they are going to be a tenant for this open space? >> yes, that's correct. that's

what's proposed. >> and are they -- does that dissolve the port from paying the water fee or is it a portion? >> the port, if that lease is in place, we would assign all obligations under this a treatment and all the maintenance of the park so we would have no liability, no, we would only appropriate something as a contingency in the event it's terminated but we wouldn't expect to spend a dollar. >> okay. my next question was, you also kind of went through this really quickly. this was designed, this black water treatment facility and mission rock utilities was created just for mission rock. why was it decided not to serve more of the recycled water needs for the entire area? you didn't get into that. i think that builds on, chair chan's question because of the puc were involved, you would imagine they

would be more invested in creating a facility that would serve a larger area. >> thank you, supervisor. >> we're missing an opportunity here. >> i'm rebecca, deputy director for real-estate and development and i was involved long before josh came along so i wanted to help answer that. project approves in 2017, we anticipated building the sustainability feature for mission rock only. we're using parts of the basement in one of the buildings that was the size of the plant could accommodate, was to serve the 11 buildings which is a really exciting plant. project approvals, we did not anticipate and puc, we didn't have conversations to build a larger plant for all of mission bay which is a 300-acre site. our site is about 16 acres. as the developer started to get into negotiations with puc, there was an effort to try to take the opportunity to build something bigger. as it turned out, they couldn't come to an agreement.

it took up too much space and we, they amicably and they supported us and this developer formed this nonprofit with an experienced black water plant operator to go forward with the sustainability measure for mission rock. >> when you say they couldn't come to an agreement, could you explain what it means? i think that's why again, building on supervisor mandelman's question, it would be good to have someone from the puc here. >> i hate to speak for them, so i agree. we should have another conversation and help bring more issues to bear but i think it was -- there's x number of feet available for plant and we wouldn't go beyond that because of just the balancing of all of the needs for the site. we did visit the plant just the other day and saw -- it's in the basement and saw how all the building functions are going around that site, so we were really impressed with that district scale much we got on one parcel but that's as much efficiency we got through?

>> we missed that opportunity if there were one? >> and i don't know the history of mission bay and why -- if there were discussions about where that site gone on that three hundred acres verses this project that came along. >> my question is at this point what we're being presented with is the only option? >> correct. correct. >> i'm going to ask a bla question, were you able to have considerations with the puc at all on that issue? >> yes. we were -- we also reviewed some documentation. i think part of the issue is that this happened several years ago. but there's not much, i think, this is water under the bridge, the developer is already building this, the debt has already been issued. you're kind of beyond the decision point. >> got it. okay. or maybe water under the building. [laughter] okay. thank you very much. thank you. >> thank you.

>> madam chair? >> thank you, supervisor safai. i think, well, if my memory serves me correctly, you know, that as former maxwell at that time, like bordering her district with mission bay and now mission rock, it wasn't really in discussion then back in 2006. i think there were a lot of conversation back and forth about infrastructure build-out, black water, i think even to date, it's something to be contemplated but i don't know as a reality even for our sfpuc since we have problems with gray water. that's challenge we face but i think it's a worthwhile conversation to be had. no more name on roster, mr. clerk, shall we go to public comment.

>> yes, madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak on this item or joining in person, please line up now. please call 415-655-0001. and meeting id, 24826174739. press pound twice. press star three don't the speaker line and those in the queue, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that's your signal to begin comments. no in person speakers in the chamber, mr. lamb, can you unmute our caller, please. >> let me begin with the vote dealing with public contract which our supervisors must have not read the public trust act. the vote is also an enterprise

department. we show climate change and everything that goes with it. so what's the problem if the (indiscernible) is doing the same thing and the (indiscernible) center is doing same thing. what is the problem that this (indiscernible) could not do the same thing. you're making, like, a joke, you know, water running under the building. the city, the city cannot advance climate change. our department of environment cannot address climate change because of less funding. you, supervisors are clowns. you read the public trust act, read about

climate change, and ask yourself, you, the city and county of san francisco, what have y'all done in order to conserve water? or to deal with the situation like this. and let's go to sofie maxwell. she told out the community. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. do we have anyone else in the queue. >> that completes public comment in the queue. >> public comment is now closed. [gavel] i would like to move this item with positive recommendation to the full board. mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> yes, on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. thank you so much. mr. clerk, please call item no. 10.

>> yes, time number 10 is a resolution approving port commission lease l-16848 with autodesk, inc., a delaware corporation, located at pier 9, suite 116, and bays 1-3 for approximately 30,590 square feet of office and shed space and license area for solar panels and public improvements for a term of one year with one option to extend the term for one year, effective upon approval of this resolution at a monthly rent of $124,508; and to authorize the executive director of the port to enter into any additions, amendments or other modifications to the lease do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities of the city or port and are necessary or advisable to complete the transactions which this resolution contemplates and effectuate the purpose and intent of this resolution. members of the public joining remotely and wish to provide comment for this, please

415-655-0001. meeting it is 24826174739. when the says -- when the semester testimony indicates you have been -- when the system indicates you have been unmuted, you may begin. >> we have rebecca from san francisco port, thank you. >> thank you so much, chair chan and supervisor safai and mandelman. before you is a one-year lease with a one-year option for this site at pier nine which is on the embarcadero north of broadway. auto desk have been there ten years and their rent is $81,000 for the 30,000 square feet they occupy and this includes office space and shed space. the new lease would bring them up to the market after these ten years to $124,500. they have been and continue to be a tenant in good standing. we're pleased to

continue their occupancy at this market rate lease. i want to note that the new release replaces the existing lease as of february 1st. auto desk agrees if we approve lease and sign it, they would start paying that new rent as of today so we do concern with the bla's recommendation to amend the lease to make clear if it's approved by the board in the coming weeks t would be retroactive to february 1st. that concludes my remarks. thank you. >> thank you. >> excuse me. item ten is a resolution approving a new lease between the port and a private company auto desk for approximately 31,000 square feet of office space. the lease is consistent with the perimeter rents set by the port for this

type of space. we detailed the lease on page, the fiscal impact on page 19 of our report, which shows that over the two-year period, this would generate approximately $3 million in rental revenue for the port and as stated, this, because of the effective date of the lease on file, we do recommend clarifying an amendment to the resolution that it's retroactive. >> thank you. i don't see questions on the roster but i want to say i think we have gone through in the last budget cycle with san francisco port in terms of tenants management, injure strategy and approach and i want to make sure it's equitable but feasible for ports and our waterfront. i would want to advise to see in the coming months before -- having budget conversation is for the port to perhaps to come to either brief

our office, myself, or the committee members here especially, supervisor safai who is really good at leases, negotiations, i want to say, to sort of help us understand your strategy and your approach in the coming months to both support existing tenants, such as auto desk. i think this is a good negotiation but moving forward, how do we, in the event that there are tenants with expiring leases, what are our approach to keep them or to identify new tenants, just look forward to some of those conversations in advance before you come back for a lease agreement approval. thank you. and seeing no questions from colleagues and mr. clerk, please let's go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak on this time or joining in person should line up now. listening remotely, please call 415-655-0001 and meeting

the meeting id of 24826174739 and press pound twice. continue to wait until this system says you have been unmuted. no person speakers in the chamber and madam chair, no speakers in the queue. >> thank you. no more public comment. public comment is now closed. [gavel] mr. clerk, i would like to move this item forward with positive, to the full board with positive recommendation, please call the roll. >> chair chan, do we want to amend the resolution for retroactive. >> my apologies. yes. do i actually need to do the roll call or can i make the motion with a second to adopt, to adopt -- never mind. i'll make a motion to adopt the recommendation from the budget and legislative analyst budget and legislative analyst and amend the proposed resolution to state the approval is retroactive so that's dated back to february 1st which is today

to allow this lease to move forward in the events full board approve. mr. clerk, please call the roll for the motion to amend and adopt. >> yes, on that motion, to amend the resolution to state the approval is retroactive as offered by the bla, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. and please let's make, i make the motion to move this amended item to the full board with positive recommendation. >> and on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended, vice-chair mandelman? >> aye. >> member safai? >> aye. >> chair chan? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. mr. clerk, are there any other business before us today? >> madam chair, that concludes our business. >> thank you. the meeting is adjourned. [gavel]

san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million.

and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down

as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only

flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at

cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

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>> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future

airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island

was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public

health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of

the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical

engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪

>> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same

type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now,

the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people locally as well as

internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be

redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever

appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the

right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to

factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing

wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for

water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals

and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin

itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird

sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years

and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that

we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the

redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going

to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners

to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous -- it's

a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to

other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant.

and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island,

there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that

was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate

change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the

system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to

have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the

board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible

progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.

today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a

home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you

do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a

little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire

extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend

cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue.

>> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. >> you're watching quick bites, the show that is san francisco. and today you're in for a real treat. oh, my! food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. we're at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much delicious food here. and i can't wait to share it with all of you. let's go. armenia, culture and cusine has

had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. >> this is our 55th year and in san francisco we're the largest armenian food festival and widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. we really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and that's really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. this is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right? >> absolutely, since the beginning of time. our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords. we have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. and every september over 2000

pounds of meat being cooked in three days. >> after all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. >> this is armenian cheat sheet. it's tomatos and mint and olive oil. that makes summer food. and what i'm doing is i'm putting some nutmeg. it is kind of like cream cheese. in armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. they would welcome you and food is very important for them. >> in every armenian community we feel like we're a "smallville"age and they come together to put on something like this. what i find really interesting about san francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. once they are here, the way people work together at any age, including our grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, it's fun to see. fun to see everybody get together. >> we call it subarek.

it's a cheese turn over if you want. we make the dough from scratch. we boil it like you do for la san i can't. >> the amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. they come in every day to prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. >> nobody says no. when you come them, they have to come tomorrow for the feast. >> what a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. it really makes you appreciate the little things. >> it's one of the best festivals. it's outstanding, a marvelous occasion. >> we're outside checking some of the food to go options. i grabbed myself a ka bob sandwich, all kinds of herbs and spices. i'm going to taste this. looking fantastic. one of the best i've had in a long time. you know it's delicious b i

have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. we're behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. and we've got a whole array of pastries here. honey and nuts and cinnamon, all kinds of great ingredients. this is amazing. here's another yummy pastry made with filo dough. oh, my god. really sweet and similar, it's lighter. this is what i like. we have a lovely row here. looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. i'm going to bite into it. here we go. um. this is great with armenian coffee. now we're making some

incredible armenian coffee. >> we buy our coffee, they have the best coffee. they come from armenia, specially made. and would you like to try it? >> i would like to try. >> would you like sugar or no sugar? >> no sugar today. i'm so excited. really earthy. you can really taste the grain. i think that's what makes it so special. really comes out. i hope you try it. we're having a great time at the armenian festival. we ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. i don't know about you, but i have to go down to the food. check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums abler.com. until next time, may the force be with you. ♪♪ ♪♪

>> first of all, everybody is welcome and we ask two things when they get here. one, that they try something they've never tried before. be it food or be it dancing or doing something. and if they feel like it was worth their while to tell one person and bring that person, that family member, that friend down the street to come with them. >> we're going to have to do a lot of eating so get ready. >> get ready. and you diet tomorrow.

>> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest

darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography.

>> we get to build the community here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital

printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely

enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best.

if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful

location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes.

my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables

and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and

notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work.

>> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what

happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides.

i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i

may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. what do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the enough and -- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to

go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints

in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco.(musi

>> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of

a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and

as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and

made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to

make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the

you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. special guest is david chu. hi i'm chris manners and you're watching san francisco rising the show that's about restarting rebuilding and re imagining our city. i guess today is david chiu, the city attorney for the city and county of san francisco , and he's here today to talk to us about the opioid crisis, reproductive rights and the non citizen voting program. mr chu, welcome to the show. thanks for having me on happy to talk about whatever you want me to talk about, so can we start by explaining the difference between the city attorney's office and the district attorney's office? i think it could be slightly confused. that is a very common fusion with members of the public so um, if you get arrested in san francisco by the san francisco police department, all criminal matters are dealt with by the

san francisco district attorney . we handle all civil matters on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. what that means is a number of things. we provide advice and counsel to all actors within city government from our mayor. every member of the board of supervisors to the 100 plus departments, commissions boards that represent the city and county of san francisco. we also defend the city against thousands of lawsuits. so if you slip and fall in front of city hall if there's a bus accident if there is an incident involving the san francisco police department, we defend those matters. we also bring lawsuits on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, where most famous for litigating and obtaining the constitutional right to marry for lgbtq couples have sued gun manufacturers, payday lenders, oil companies, you name it, who are undercutting the rights of san franciscans and the city and county of san francisco. so now moving on to the opioid crisis.

i understand you've had some success in court, um, dealing with manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies. could you elaborate a little bit on that for us, so the opioid industry and by that i refer to the legal industry that prescribes pain pills. um over years. uh, deceived americans and resulted in literally thousands upon thousands of deaths and tragedies that we see on our streets every day when it comes to the addictions that folks are experiencing. many of the addictions really stemmed from what happened over a decade plus period where the prescription pain industry marketed prescription pills in ways that were false. we were one of thousands of jurisdictions around america that brought a lawsuit against the opioid industry. but we've had a particular set of successes that others have not. ah we initially brought a lawsuit a few years

ago against every part of the opioid supply chain, and that included manufacturers, distributors and retailers, including pharmacies over the course of four plus years. a number of these corporate defendants settled with us. we've as of this moment brought in over $120 million of cash and services. to the city to help address the root causes of what we're talking about. but a few months ago, we had a really historic verdict against the pharmacy, walgreens and their role walgreens was responsible for literally over 100 million pills, flooding the streets of san francisco over a period of years where they flouted federal law that require them to track where they're pills were going to. they had a what? what we refer to as a phil phil phil. pharmacy culture where folks would bring in their prescriptions, and the pharmacist would just fill them without checking why someone was

coming in multiple times without checking why certain doctors were seen a 100 fold increase in the number of opioid prescriptions that they were prescribing. so we had a historic judgment against walgreens recently, but it's been a very intense lawsuit. and we know that will never bring back the lives that we have lost to opioid addictions. but it's critical for us that we get the resources that we need. maybe one other thing i'll mention because it's often confusion. a large percentage of folks who are addicted to street level drugs say heroin or fentanyl started their addictions. with painkillers, opioid medications that were prescribed through doctors provided through pharmacies and so literally the suffering that we're seeing on our streets was caused by the opioid industry over many, many years and has created the significant crisis that we are dealing with right now. right right now moving on. i

understand after the recent supreme court ruling, striking down robust as wade that you've put together an organization that's designed to help mm. provide free services to people who are both. seeking abortions and providing them can you tell us about the organization? sure so, um, before the dobbs decision came down, but after we learned about the leak from the supreme court about the draft that suggested the decision would be as bad as it has turned out to be, um, i reached out to leadership from the bar association of san francisco because we knew that if that decision came down there would be tens of thousands of patients around the country as well as providers whose legal situation would be in jeopardy. women doctors, nurses who could be subjected to lawsuits who could be arrested who could be prosecuted, particularly in red states? 26 states where rights are being rolled back or in the process or have already been rolled back because of the dobbs decision. so we put out a call

to lawyers all over the bay and frankly, all over the country, and as of this moment there have been over 70 law firms that have answered our call to be part of the legal alliance for reproductive rights who have committed to reviewing cases and providing pro bono assistance to patients and providers who are at legal risk. we also are looking at potential cases that these lawyers can bring against various states. in these areas that are looking to deprive women and patients and providers of their of their rights. um it is a very dark time in america, and i'm really proud that that barrier attorneys, the legal community care have stepped up to answer the call. it's very important that's great. so now the non citizen voting program that was passed by voters just for school boards has faced them court challenges recently, but it was in place for the most recent election that we've had. how do you see that situation panning out? in fact, it's been

in place for now. five school board elections. um so a little bit of background in our san francisco schools over one out of three kids. has a parent who is a non citizen who doesn't have a say in the election of the policy makers that dictate the future of our san francisco public schools, and so over a number of years, there has been a movement to allow immigrant parents to vote in school board elections. few things i'll mention about that is our country has a very long history when it comes to allowing immigrants to vote. from 17 76 for 100 and 50 years until after world war. one immigrants were allowed to vote in most states in our country on the theory that we want to assimilate immigrants in american democratic values and institutions, and it wasn't until an anti immigrant backlash in world war one that that sort of ended. but in recent years, um cities across america have

allowed this to happen. in fact, at this moment, believe there are over a dozen cities that have voted to allow non citizens to vote in a number of context. now, this is particularly important in our schools just given how challenge our schools are, and given that we know that when we engage more parents in her school system, regardless of their citizenship it helps to lift up our schools for all parents. and so in 2016 the voters of san francisco past about measure that allowed this to happen. unfortunately earlier this year, there were conservative organizations that came to san francisco to bring a lawsuit to try to overturn this , and i should also mention it is obviously the perspective of our office and our city that this is constitutional. nothing in the constitution prohibits non citizens from voting. and in fact, there's an explicit provision in the constitution that allows chartered cities like san francisco when it comes to school board elections to be able to dictate the time and manner of those elections. and

so, uh, we are involved in litigation on this issue. there was an initial ruling that was not good for us that essentially said at the trial court level. we shouldn't allow this. um we appealed it up to the appellate level. the appellate court made an initial decision to allow this past november election to proceed as it has for the last previous four elections. we're going to be in front of that court soon. stay tuned. we'll see what happens. it was good to hear that the city was able to reach a settlement with the center for medicare and medicaid services are meant laguna honda could still operate. how did you manage to reach that agreement? it was not an easy conversation . just a little bit of background. so laguna honda has been an incredibly important institution in san francisco for 150 years, taking care of our most vulnerable patients are frail, very elderly patients, many of whom are at end of life. and a few years ago, there were some issues in that hospital.

some violations of rules that we very much want to make sure don't get violated. there were folks that weren't using proper ppe, who are bringing cigarette lighters into the facility, who might have brought some contraband into the facilities. we have zero tolerance for that and have made that very clear. we self reported some of these violations to the federal authorities. and unfortunately from our perspective, they took the very disproportionate step of ordering the closure. the permanent closure of lugano, honda. problematic on a number of reasons. first and foremost, there are just no skilled nursing facility beds not just in california but around the country. after their order came down. we literally were putting 1000 calls a day to skilled nursing facilities around california and around the country and could find nowhere to move the 700 patients that we had had in the gonna honda but just as disturbingly as we were forced to start moving some of these patients, a number of them died. there's a concept in

medicine known as transfer trauma. when you move someone who is that frail and unfortunately, folks folks died and we were at a point where we were five weeks away from the deadline for the federal government. that they had provided to us to close the facility. so uh and we have been trying for months to get the federal government to reconsider their action, so i was compelled to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the city and county of san francisco and very pleased and appreciate that we were able to come to a settlement whereby transfers will be delayed at least until next year. we're going to have at least a year of funding. to keep the facility open, and hopefully we can get back up on our feet and ensure that no future violations occur because this is an institution that has to stay open for the good of these patients. quite right, quite right. so finally, congratulations on winning an important public power service dispute with pg and e. um why is it important that the city's

rights as a local power provider maintained well, so san francisco has been a local power provider for decades. we are fortunate to have access through our hedge hetchy hydroelectric system to provide electricity to a number of providers, particularly public recipients of that. and unfortunately, pg any has used its monopoly when it comes to private electricity to try to stop that, and to block that, and from our perspective, they violated federal law in adding literally tens of millions of dollars of expenses to san francisco and institutions that we're trying to ensure um, public power infrastructure. put years of delays on our ability to do this, and so we had to bring a number of appeals in the federal commission. ah we were successful in those appeals, and there was a decision recently that basically held the pg and e could not use its monopoly to unfairly delay or add tens of

millions of dollars of cost. to the city and county of san francisco, as we are trying to move forward with our vision of public power. clearly pgd has not been able to serve not just san francisco but northern california. well we all know that with the wildfires with its bankruptcies, with all the issues that they've had, we think there is a different model to move forward on and we are grateful to the court. and providing a ruling that allows us to move forward. well thank you so much for coming on the show. i really appreciate the time you've given us here today. i appreciate and thanks for your thanks for your questions. thank you. well that's it. for this episode, we'll be back with another one shortly for sf gov t v. i'm chris manners. thanks for watching. yeah.

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