sigh last fall 100 community leaders and stake holders to share best practices in closing the digital divide and creating equity last year at the summit. so, let me stop there. thank you for this opportunity and i will be happy to answer questions. >> thank you for your presentation. next we will hear from mayor's office of housing and community development. i know we have a number of folks i will let who is presenting introduce themselves, welcome.

we are trying to stick it 5 minutes. >> absolutely. good morning. chair preston and supervisor steph no and chan. i'm ray i'm the digital equity manager for mayor's office of housing. thank you for allowing us to present and the digital equity plan update. >> so, just want to start off and describe the relationship between -- the department of technology and ocd. we work on the fiber housing program to bring reduce the digital divide bring free internet to resident in fordable housing. in addition, to talk about our impact, we have brought this service to over 9 thbld housing

units and upon supplied the service to over 75 affordable housing complex the navigation centers. i will cap it off and say yes, we do have i dedicated team. of technical professional who is helped expand this service. described to no different from ecwilt efforts a 3 legged stoochl cornerstone of high quality internet connection. the housing program and -- really credit a pipe line for folks to get internet connection.

another effort you see here to the right is the picture of the sunnydale boys and girls or j and j resources adjacent to the boys and girls club where we redistribute computers that meet the specks of today's standards so folks can participate fully in the digital realm. in addition, we launched a number of equity programs such as the denialing tality skills play book. and supports businesses who want to transition from the time, place and space brick setting. >> lastly i want to talk about our coalition building at the moment. i know the pandemic taught us a lot of lessons and in the process of am developing a scorecard and training programs that can support cbo's and nonprofits across san francisco

to understand how to protect themselves and how to fully participate in the digital realm. we touchod the acp program in the beginning this is when the acp program was proceeded by the emergency broadband b. condition tacted office and ask they sympathy us through the civic bridge program with a fellow from the school of public policy for policy analysis on the program. and when we did that. we asked the fellow to -- interview isp's. national and local and state part norse help us build proficiency in terms of lunching a campaign that included everyone and the large impact. so with this, afternoon the report was delivered, we

endeavoured to forge partnerships with scc and educating super highway, developed to thes to eliminate informational barriers. psychological barriers with uptake and sign up. >> all of the things we really had to come out of pandemic with an adjusted approach to engage in folks since the lasting affects of covid. ocd provides support, which i will shorten. provide on boarding, tier 1 customer service with reuter support or questions. i want to pass this over to my

colleague bryan from the d. technology. >> thank you. one clarification before you do. what how many households have benefited from the fiber to housing program? >> over 9,000. >> thank you. >> thanks and i'm brian roberts policy analyst with department of technology. good morning, supervisors. just to continue we have a strong partnership with mohcd x. they provide a lot of services to the housing program. so we concentrate on expanding the network and doing technical support for this.

we upon developed a now templet based on fire network rings this will better manage capacity and provide greater resilience for folks. and these are graphically cluster today is the way footballer is laid out in the city. the way the program worked uses fiber routes the city deploy in the serving city buildings. because we have libraries, fire station, police stations we have

an expansive net w we can use to reach affordable housing. in the next this is looking forward. and -- the next few months we hope to -- reach another 5,000 units. in 65 different developments and again these are lid out by ring and shown in different coloros that map. and one -- in addition to our standards affordable housing out reach supervisor peskin putting add back in the budget a couple years ago to engage in a pilot of reaching china town sro's. and we -- reached 5 through this program. and this is important because the families had -- were cut

off. than i did not have high speed internet service and the lack internet service ment they were cut you have from remote learning, work and telemedicine during the pandemic. there were challenges. the sro's had primitive wiring to individual units. also we were had to negotiate individually with small scale patriot landlords for affordable housing there will be groups that manage a variety of buildings. they are easy to deal with. once i not the program. we can move forward to all of their buildings. let's see. we have been asked to under take a study for serving additional sro's in china town. and let's see and in terms of the funding.

as i mentioned the project is now fully staffd and adopted in network design that allows you to move forward quickly. we requested 5 million through the budget which how the program has been funded in the pedestrian for the next 2 fiscal years. and this will allow you to continue it plan 5100 units the end of next fiscal and 45 in 24-25. and state and federal broad band funding programs to funds the program that way. and i think i will conclude my talk now. and i will be available for questions. thank you. >> thank you so much mr. roberts. thanks to both mr. lashop approximate roberts and d.

technology and major's office of housing and xhounl development. i am interested how we ramp things up but want to rescue noise in many ways the work that you all have been doing is a national model through the efforts. and i think i will be asking about ramping those up in a minute. what it would take exit want to increase awareness of the efforts. a lot of what you have been doing in roaching thousands of low income house holds does in the get public attention. appreciate you were presentations and work on that. i department to had some questions i will try to keep them target thered is a let of grounds here and issues in our resolution. i think so one concern special number of speakers talked about this.

we have a federal program under acp this is for extremely low households. we have only 25% of eligible households that are signed up. we talked about the strategies to dress this. we also have we have to huge gaps. we have the the 75% of people hor eligible and don't sign up and another in san francisco we know that to00% of federal poverty has an eligibility criteria. does not reach the many people who are living in poverty in san francisco upon given our high costs. i think when i wanted to start with is in is part of the demands and part what is reflect in the our resolution was to to the will 3 providers here,

whether there is an open tons providing free or discounted rates to those who are very low income in sudden front by san francisco's standards. in religion to our ami's. but may not qualify so low income than i qualify for the federal programful linking a discount or free program to other criteria that would roach folks above 200% of the federal poverty line but still very low income in san francisco. i would love to hear from each of the 3 providers on that question. i knowledge the program is amaze

and we are really proud of w we are dog to expand the reach so this everyone in san francisco that is eligible is get it. as a residence den for 42 dwloers is i place for the city to step in and help the phoning this is don't make the criteria but have that need. just i will say, i don't know of anyium that guess by federal guidelines to make that adjustment for just san francisco. i can't think of one. but i'm open to hearing it. from my leadership this is the decision we are at now. >> and just i understand targeting something for a national or international company based on standards that would not precloud. we are the only people who questions of law fifor the federal program for a single person is 29 thousand dollars. a year or less.

so -- there could be other program this is tart difference under 50 thousand dollars a year you quality foil. i guess when i'm -- like a tiered structure. or anything and -- anything taylored it local conscience. i will say to thissen, right now at&t is in the doing that. i can bring that idea back but i will say that for instance i'm a single mother t had 2 kids in college and i was wing at a different job and my kids could not questions of law foil for a pel grant even though i was poor here. every where that federal guideline affects everything not just internet. >> absolutely. hear from the others. thank you for your response. same question for verizon and comcast your openness to having it expanded discount or free

program that roach folks above 200% of federal poverty. why thank you for the record dylan, comcast director of government affairs. appreciate the question in terms of the high cost live nothing san francisco. we would like to focus based on that you said in working with the digital equity folks here on really getting to the other households that questions of law foil for acp that don't currently know about it. and are currently knowing this they are eligible for it. our focus is how do we if i can the information in trust gaps with these folks buzz there is so much opportunity and theup take has been low. an example is at the beginning of the pandemic we made internet essentials fro for a few mons. no contract. and we noticed that the uptake supported boy boston consulting

is thisseen with that, there is something else going to people are not connecting to the fact they are eligible, there are trust issues and like to say at the time in the federal government there was also fear about providing information fromim grant communities what that information would be used for. that's why we finds it is effective to partner with community based organizations. partner with the city. before the pandemic we would go to life line events we have tables and as people would come through and anyhow the folks were eligible target populations we wanted meet they would come out after the public assistance programs and -- go to and come to us as we would be there. i think there are a number of ways to partner talking to peter, i love their idea, we were implementing a sign up

party. we noticed that irrelevant helps withup take. the california technology fund as the get connected california upon events to bring people together and comcast has been a participate. we have lived experience in terms of we need one, a community partner that roaches out and gets folks who are going to come to make sure they have the right documents. the second is the sign upline takes 45 millions because of the verifier progress. >> sorry to go on. >> let mow if you mean. we are on the same page we need to ramp up efforts to roach the 75% of eligible people.

i think wla i would love to get clarity from you on is, you know your position around giving discounts or free wi wifi to folk who don't qualify. is it a hard, no. we are going to focus on increasing the participation? is it a we are open to talking about it and toy it to a criteria? or, yes, let's do temperature i think the frustrations has been the demands has been out there and i understand they don't upon neatly fit for a national company. but would love to get clarity on your view of that. >> absolutely. our focus is on increasing participation. and we have been a program based program base internet essentials program.

woad like to continue to focus this and not adjusting based on anything on income we don't do anything. what we can do and have done is increase eligible based on public assistance programs that work with under served. >> right. approximate this takes people over the 200. i understand no provider wants to be in the business of doing income verifications but well are mull pull programs within san francisco that you could tie discounted wifi plans to. you could say anyone who qualityifies for below market rate housing unit if than i show gets 50% off the rate that reach a broader segment of the san francisco population than the folks for the federal program. you could say anyone who questions of law foils for a discounts muni pass and shows proof of that. questions of law foils -- so, we

can hold off on had you would tie it to to i'm asking this are you open to trying to identify those criteria and expand eligibility for some of the programs or are you just focussed on expanding the participation in the existing program? >> thank you. [no audio] >> look at federal programs and different assistance programs. so under that may be an opportunity to have exploration i can bring back inform terms of income we don't do income based. under programs and different public assistance there is

precedent we expanded the continuing lives folks based on that for internet e seshls. >> thank you. look forward to continuing the conversation of behalf might be available to in terms of public benefits to tie that to. >> thank you. >> and last up miss garcia. bh many of my clothes have said. at verizon we don't provide specific service based off income. we did agree and we rolled out our verizon forward program it is truly free for anybody who qualifies for acp. upon again. we are also w to ensure that all san franciscans have access to affordable internet and you know say that closing the digital

divide requires action by the city of sacramento, right but by our elected official in sacramento. and those in our federal government, toochlt working collective low to figure out when we might do together. it is critical. and you know to truly close the digital dii haved and get shovels in the grundz to expand internet access, we need to continue to work what we have begun to do as a city and stroll line and expel digitizer tablet requirements eye toward ensure nerve san francisco has access to high speed broad bandful verizon is 100% committed to making sure that all americans have access to reliable and affordable high speed broad band how we get there may look different. >> thank you. on the specific question of is

verizon open to offering discounted or free plans to folks who don't current qualify urn the guidelines to additional folks who questions of law foil for other benefit programs or income level system this open for consideration. yes or no? >> i will say we are committed to working with the city in our state and federal government. not a yes or no, answer, unfortunately. open it it. approximate terrible low? >> we are open to having continued conversations. why okay. >> can i ask a question on that chair preston. >> i don't want it make it electric like she is being evasive when but i mean i continuing it is that was a set

up. in terms of are we asking them to go back and figure out whether or not they can dot program different low than the federal standards and are they willing to ask this question of people higher up in the company i want to make sure i understand the question you are asking because i mean i think -- we are talk about thises acp the in this federal qualifications and requirements. i want to make sure we are asking the question in a way we get answers that so had we work with people. that are you asking them to go become to their company and determine whether they can do something local low different from the federal standards. why right. i think and thank you for the comments, so i think the long standing upon demand of others organized for access has been a recognition that there are men

people this don't questions of law foil in the federal standards. there may be efforts to expand the federal crip teariat reality of so men in san francisco who are very low income questions of law foil for public benefit and affordable housing but cannot access this federal program to which date all 3 of the companies buffers the learningest provider in san francisco have said, not shown a wellingness to expand those programs on a more local basis. they said there is a federal program folks go through this and we will adjust our offerings to make it fro. first comcan have the and verizon then after the launch of the campaign at&t did that as well. so with the federal subsidy

tecome out to free for those folk who is participate in that. and so i think the question and i think the so far the answer has been, at least no commitment and not really from i don't want to peek for sd a. i think there has not been a wellingness expressed boy any of the companies to look at have offerings this reach folk who is don't qualify for the federal program but do for other local benefits. if i'm misstating. why i understand. i was trying to get clarification on the question you were asking i did not understand. >> okay. i think them is accurate and all there are a lot of paths forward here. advocacy at congressional level to expand the eligibility being be something the companies could commit to.

>> thank you. >> one other question i and thank you for i believe it was miss blackstone the visitation valley hub. any plans to -- or openness from at&t or the other provider around similar hubble where? >> yes. thank you. we are getting red to go to phase 2 of that program. i am not pritow what the locations are but nltdzing than i are per inning tw a national organization that has locations in areas that are difficult to serve. in san francisco buzz we have it here they may look elsewhere i can get you this list when available. >> thank you very much. >> and the next question i have is for either most of you or dt,

i think probably for dt mr. roberts, and thank you for the background on the china town sro pilot. is this scaleable. had it would take to expand, obviously for my district, there are a number of sro's and others in the tenderloin. so what is the it seems like it has been successful you expressed some limitations and challenges. if you could talk about whether it is scaleable and what it would take. >> i we think that it would be skaip scaleable and within china town and other neighborhoods with sro's. challenges i mentioned, there werive couple. one, they often have the poorest existing infrastructure and are

not necessary low connected already. there is no fiber going by in the street in the public right of way. so there are technical challenges. but -- i the other challenge was -- negotiating with individual land lords. i think if it were a program we could if it is the very select program i think the land alreadies would not seat benefit but i think if it were to become a largey scale approximate collective movement to participate that would be helpful. i believe that could be

surmounted. yes. one other thing i like to mention state and federal programs. this state does have a program for inside networks in -- affordable housing. right now this is limited to publicly funded housing. but they are looking at patriot low ownd and moved into the area pharmerica americaer housing for the first time and looking at mobile home parks and sro's. to include in this group of patriot low owned classes of housing in the state. thank you. >> look forward to working with you on expanding and scaling up. supervisor chan. >> thank you, chair preston this

is for service providers all 3 and kinds of -- i can understand if you don't have this information. it is in the irrelevant part of the presentation requested today. the question i have is for each service provider if you have an estimate of subscribers under your plan, of course not inclusive of and i don't mean the business with the city. we just passed a couple contracts with including verizon and no comcast am not on the top of my head. but just private users not with the city private users. do you have a number. listed for san francisco? a mate? >> if not i would love this

information. why i can get become i don't have this today. >> great. happy to. i want to be very specific i'm looking for a number of subscriber -- so not just being be a household or individuals. subscribe torse your service. in san francisco. sf specific low the mobile service. >> okay. >> thank you thank you. i will get become to you. >> thank you. i don't know if you want to hear from the other. i see folks wuking do you have a response to supervisor chan's question? >> to supervisor chan, thank you, i would be glad to follow up t. is 1.upon seven million in california. but understand you are asking about san francisco. >> only san francisco boundary and san francisco city boundary not city and county.

>> thank you. >> thank you. i will have to get become to you >> i will will sprit local follow. . >> thank you, mr. chair are there members hold like to comment for item 2. line up to your right long the curtain wall. for those waiting on the line dial star 3 to be added to the queue. for those of you on hold wait until you have been unmuted. each speaker will be limited to 2 minutes. first speefrng will welcome. state your name and begin. why good morning. i'm calvin channel a program manager at asian pacific community center u. saw us up there with at&t present aches we

are a community learning centerful we have a relationship with the low income communities. families, seniors issue monolingual immigrants and [inaudible]. at&t out fitted our community center at 66 fiber level internet and no cost to anyone who come in. >> multiple issues that provide services to low income community members ask access fro internet. having access in the communities is vital to all community member and those who seek assistance in resources. without high speed seatbelt organization would not help our members, ploy for housing, cal fresh, assistness with unemployment, seniors with internet essentials program. everything is transificationed to on line and our clients come

to us for assist analysis. at&t understood that and community members seek assistance from our organization regardless of connections at home so many need more then and there an internet connection they need help from people. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, everybody i'm jordan she, her, they, them. imagine when my life was in march of 2020 the word shut down and everything on line i come disabled person had to take on an added 55 dollars a month to function. and pay the price to advocate getting rents down to 30% for supportive housing you see how expensive it was when comcast discorrespond the hot spot around 2021 it became harder. in october. 2020 had we are wearing

[inaudible] and everything shut down in person meetings out of the question i wrote an article calling on sites to have keep wifi i'm q.ed they decided to spearhead this. the fact remains where were you have when we need today. during a time of crisis had we are not able to meet in person. the city as well the ngo's that got city funding and provideers footwork-absent with the low income tenants. where was central city collaborative? where was the stele in this moment? where were the providers in waiving the costs for their hot spots and the calls for digital equity necessary for the psh tenants as the pandemic windses down and i am speaking without a mask in initial is a righteous victim. i feel and others feel this way

as limp we were left out in the darkest days. pandemic to those who didn't prioritize during the darkest days i yield my time of f-you. i'm here with the senior and disability action member its urge to you pass the resolution. large internet companies to do their part on make the internet accessible to all of us. upon seniors and people with disabilities. communication and good and reliable internet it is

important tlorn community using social media facebook and messenger. using our cell phones and laptops. to [inaudible] many of us hereim guarantees to this country and live, way from families aquaintance. i'm anim guarantee if the philippines the way i get in touch with my relative and friends from home is through using cell phone, facebook and messenger. of course using the internet. this impacts everyone using social media given the peace of mind, happiness and healthy life. [inaudible] now there is men of the seniors can bir low ford to

pay our phone bill and internet after rent, food and medical bills. this company make them hell us to pay for this. bridge dii haved and put a stop to the red lining. and -- can do a lot they need to >> thank you. your time is up. we have same 2 minutes for everybody. thank you. next speaker, please.

[speak spanish] good morning i'm maria guadalupe and a member of senior and disability action. here to petition for internet. i question myself.

the pandemic made it worse improve our life and we have more people on the street. there was a door this got open -- we were forced to learn how to use the internet and navigate spaces with tablets. approximate laptops.

and so -- and if we don't have the -- how do you say. the income to pifor this, then we are communicated. >> so, now we have the space where we share and many things and i feel like you know -- we still have to learn more and stay connected and -- last sunday i turned 78. and i still feel like i have

many more years to give to the community and also learn. typeset some not enough for you to pay for everything that we need. >> thank you very much. next speaker, pleaseim be next since i'm here. good morning almost afternoon. and with senior disability

action. i want to first thank you for making the space for this conversation. and -- also i wanted to -- thank you for purke a little more there is big koepgzs because i know that they are doing a little bit of you know when the community is asking for but we need a little more not a little more we need to really close the digital gentleman. i think that this is the opportunity this we have been waiting for and you know covid med it clear. this we need to change the way this we communicate. and so -- thank you again and i hope that this will lead to really a better and more equal internet access. thank you.

next speaker, please. good morning supervisors i'm stephen minor. senior program manager with communicate tech net w my agent around for 15 years providing digital litary support and huto get on line and support in doing so. now, one main issues that our the -- people participating in our program see is the pricing up celling and limited application language optionless. for the isp's. the 3 this we help people apply on would be verizon, at&t and comcast. to assist specific low there were issues as far as at&t language options on their website. which is relates to me and my staff. i believe that one issue handled

help us get people online and they can connect with friend and supported community. thank you. i'm a member of voice of al mode county a net w of do nestic violence and human trafficking

survivor. i'm going to speak as someone fled domestic roins in professional 21 during the pandemic, of living on 290 dollars a week or 15, 080 a year as a disabled wheel chair user. and a half gath the domestic violence system in the bay your. i used to live in oak land temperature took me over sick weeks to find a wheel chair accessible bed and able to stay out of home will knows due to a grass-roots organizer and having support. being able to access internet via hot spots and domestic violence shelter where i was was critical i was navigating for heing and safety and surverify

of myself and school aged child. and -- i just want to have you than during the pandemic the incidents of report do nestic violence and trafficking gone up over 300%. those of us navigating prosecute longed home willness due to violence need access to wifi to survive and get housed and access service. san francisco he's ahead of the curve national low and international low. as a queer bhrn got married in san francisco city hall, thank you for leading the way. >> next speaker, please.

>> i'm kerry gray a colleague of steph line are the commune tech network. thank you for bringing this very important subject you have. and supervisor preston you missed an important question. 2, one was -- when you were asking about whether the isp's could expand eligible and responded, they don't determine it by income level and the follow up question did they determine it by zip code or neighborhood? that would close the gap in san francisco if they consider this. the next question to me is would they consider expanding the subsidy when and if the federal benefit runs out? because the federal benefit is a loss leader for the isp's.

people to enroll witness this expires are they willing to continue to subdied the low cost rate. the answer is, yes, they can. there is an example in the state of california one program this is community tech network administrates the california department of aging distributed i pads through our community partners in san francisco. and the state of california has been subsidizing internet access on those. and the scheduled to expire in may of 23. and at&t offer today extend it to december of 23. so we continue is possible. and we continue is possible in this city and in this state. so. those other things you motive want to consider had you are creating guidelines for this project. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i'm a housing organizer at

senior and disability action. >> i have a couple of experience working with seniors and and digital access continues to be an issue. upon connect it family, education, heck and entertainment. as we continue to be a more digitized san francisco and world, we mode to make sure to include seniors, people with disabilities and limited income in our expanding digital community. expand happening internet access for all of san franciscans allows more independence and access to job opportunity. community connections and necessary services for living in increaseingly digital and global city. thank you. next speaker, please. i'm a new organizer with senior sdpaeblt action. i'm not now to the wifi

campaign. thank you to the community of seniors and disabled organizers who collective power pushed the issue to get accountability to the issue of digital equity. we demand free wif for health care, stay connected. connection to spiritual community. take care of finance. enengages and develop careers special educated with community to stay informed of concern eventses and expand our horizons. there is more that being connected brings and this is compound for seniors and people of disabilities. not enough to say we provide a path way to free access it needs to be no barrier and equal for people with disabilities. existing customers need information about acp. these other pieces that put equity together. let's do the right thing. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker,

please.

because of the free internet we draw the center and among different things we used opportunity on line to draught workshop at home known can assist us to navigate the internet. at the community center there are knowledgeable people and staff of organization that can help.

i'm a senior at visitation valley neighborhood association. thank you for at&t for providing free internet to the center and seniors had we come we can see other seniors face-to-face and use the internet chair our social media share technology the free internet is according to us without our internet we can't [inaudible] the center open on line and because of the internet we can learn new knowledges and help ocoh lives. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> hi.

i'm lewis. and i'm with the senior -- disability action member, too. and my comment is this you know confusing like talking to none a person when i call i pay $140 a month. and -- i like to talk to a person. because i call in machine. like to talk to machine. to explain it to me. >> thank you.

>> any additional speakers before we go to online callers. >> no other speakers we have 15 caller with 11 in the queue to speak. can i have the first speaker? i'm here to urge to you pass this resolution. i'm a retired sfusd teacher. we have pan dig in 2020 all teaching moved online. many of my students from china town [inaudible] limited access. growing coverage to what the [inaudible] companies were doing. it was the principal at high school spent her time trying to

procure wifi for students. look carefully at renters who might feel they near housing shaky housing dependsos good reps with property owners. and might not want to rock the boat with asking for internet access. please pass this resolution and have the press coverage match reality of internet coverage. thank you very much. thank you for sharing your comments next speaker, please. hello? hi. [inaudible]. a member of the sd a or seniors

with disability action. and i had started doing this since august 2015. my experience as a senior has been one of those who advocated the free muni. good morning, board of supervisors. i am with the [inaudible] to ask you to please, paddle the resolution to call on learning internet companies to do their part in making the internet accessible. to all of us. especially seniors. and people with disabilities. add vo indicating this, may i thank you some. that many people for this.

access to families, irrelevant if i haves and friends for and near. upgrade ourselves through education, training, seminars through w ifi. and online. collaboration and different organization and [inaudible] in doing social activities. and -- to remain and keep our physical and mental so reactive and healthy to avoid healing issues. in this connection. board of supervisors, please reiterate and [inaudible] ask you again. >> speaker time expired. thank you for your comments.

next speaker, please. i'm a proud supporter of the resolution. thank you for your interest i urge to you unanimously support this resolution. you heard president companies in the city you are doing. this is agreement service providers are troog to improve seniors in the disabled still don't have it and or not eligible for support under the acp program and can't afford it is service. this is unacceptable unless we remedy this the digital divide must be bridged. red lining e eliminate said and inclusion apply to all inference france temperature is doable. big umps can at&t, verizon and

comcast made billion and passed profits to share holders, executives and stock buy become its is time for the proffers to be passod where it is a necessity not an electric. the companies can change the landscape. what we ask for is simple and based on the unmet needs of san francisco under served. ip urge to you support this resolution and w with providers, agencies and your clotheos the board of supervisors to make sure all inference france have the internet service than i need and deserve. thank you.

>> good new york it ben mock on behalf of community youth center. what i want to say is to show how comcast has been helping the community the cheeseburgera town community. in the pandemic opened up [inaudible] play ground and he not only operate the play ground and the play ground club house and to operate programs as well. outside out of [inaudible] and comcast came in and solved the package and out fitted the club house with intrechlt not only we were able to operate the club house during the pandemic we also went in established the hub. which was something that the mayor had approximate as an initiative. we were able to have in person

sxejz academics and servers to students in china town. at most at risk. and not only this, we were able to have our youth volunteers teach seniors on the weekend how they used mart phones and tablets we could not do that without internet this is key in order for seniors to be connected and learn to use apps and social media. we runner major, youth and employment out of the club house and have weekly workshops where

youth tlorn look for jobs. speaker time elapsed. we have 19 caller on the line with 10 in the queue. if you are tindz to comment dial star 3 now to be added to the queue. may we have the next caller. >> yes. hello? i'm john with [inaudible] a staff and instructor for the generational youth leadership. support by comcast the last 12 year, this is a needed program for our community. we have created 100 youth and every graduate with seniors to teach them the knowledge. heart warm up to see our seniors and youth work together. and have friendships which would not happened.

comcast is a strong partner and instrumental in providing affordable internet. fund 50 xourt classes i year for seniors who want to learn to make medical can appointments. apply for public benefit and jobs. connect with fell and friends and other service. machineo knowling wal, chinese and vietnamese speaking seniors. comcast 39 our neateds and provide us resources to make it ham.

thank you for hole holding this hearing for us. equal access it wifi regardless of income. hardly any wifi significant untils above 3 bars on mission street. you go up to gerrero and it is better. so i take my phone and stand in front of each sro to see if there is a signal and 3 embarrass except i couple who could afford you know to have a 5 signal. so, the tv signals are weak in

the sro's. they prosecute mote corporate interests. so. if you grew up on corporate interests you are in the promoted you have to be aware of this. the pan dem sick a threat to our live and to be isolated it is adds to it. the ice ligz and a lot of upon disable the folks experience isolation and so that is something one thing this keeps them connected to the world especially if than i can't [inaudible]. and -- so i like to see this

implemented. by the board. san francisco [inaudible]. time elapsed. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. thank you. good afternoon i'm tracie. i'm the executive director of the media alliance which is a democratic nonprofit in 1976 in the district and we still internet is a necessity for modern life temperature is a utility and the pandemic shown us that.

what the goal for broadband deployment, adoption and use needs to be. the internet is not consistently affordable not and companies can and should do more than they are doing. this is not just about the business plans. acp is a great start but not the end all of everything. that we can do. thank you.

may we have the next caller. >> this is rebecca -- sorry. um -- i'm rebecca and i am a member of sd a. i have been active in the importance of free wifi. not just disabled i have been -- working for awhile to help those

in multiple communities and -- to i tried advocate for -- less fortunate than i am to get them the wifi. the past week with people who need assistance or in need who have lower income. and i think that it is a problem that we need to work on as a community not just our organization but that other organizations as well as the [inaudible] work together. so -- i just -- would like to see more people come together to work on it if we find ways. not just i think during the pandemic the need has been emphasized but it is not just

during the pandemic that -- we need to focus on it. because -- this shows the important time but there are other important times that we see that are more important. so. something i want to point out to everybody. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. hello? >> proceed >> i'm kathy and i'm a member of senior and disability action. i am a group as you hear on the sideline very much for a language time in support of this resolution. so i thome is passed unanimously. big companies like at&t, comcast and verizon are responsible for

providing equal access to the internet for seniors and disabled people. internet access is essential today. a strong internet connection is so important the world is moving online. and our people in san francisco poor people, people on low income should not be left out. and different neighborhoods should not be left out. you need the internet especially seniors to get health care and stay connected to families and friends. to take care of finance. to be sievically engaged. so -- the internet and pandemic continues to pose a threat to our lives when you have a low quality internet connection we lose our connections. so thank you very much for having the hearing and i'm glsz

to be doing this remote. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments next speaker, please good upon afternoon i'm with san francisco council a multisector collaborative digital [inaudible] for older adull and with disability. and as the collaborative also represent leaders of 25 organizations from government nonprofits, actemic and industry. and i working together to bridge the divide. we can agree how the internet transformed our lives and importance as a basic necessity. and not everyone has the same ability to access a b. men are excluded by poverty, language, disability. and cost of digital solution is

great with employment, health care, education, social intrusion. and in the city where one in 4 older residence are older or people with disabilities. and many of those less secure. affordable internet service is a requirement and need to help them be able to live inspect low and live comfortableablely. and when we look at research conducting in san francisco affordability services and devices is the most common law challenge for those less connected. and you know available of high quality, reliable internet infrastructure and affordable services other foundations in the hierarchy of digital needs. if we don't have internet access it is a barrier to learning and reenforcing the [inaudible] that people have.

i wanted to speak favorabley of the partnerships. and we believe the most effective way is to work cross sectors and form collaborations to reach the most in need. >> hemo~ supervisor this is is jessica layman executive desk senior and disability action. i had intended be there in person today and i rely on home attendance to get me up in the morning and get dressed i had an attendant crisis, no one showed up this is why easy remote public comment is important and i want to start there. i'm able to call in. san francisco years ago tried to

provide free wifi and the private internet service provider that spent hundreds fighting it. if we will have the necessary service where -- shareholders will enrich off us the companies must spend some profits providing free wifi. we need them to share information about acp with new customers and existing customers struggling to afford temperature we need them to expand to more people as supervisor preston clearly stated. we need them to have infrastructure and the speed so we can all be connect. thank you so much for your attention this this issue. >> thank you for sharing your comments next speaker, please. >> good afternoon.

my name is evelyn, and i'm a member with senior and disability action. thank you for hold thanksgiving meeting. i urge you to support this path breaking resolution buffer today. broad band today is when electricity was a hundred years ago. were it not for access for broadband during the look down.

this has to happen. fdr reacted the add upon vents of electricity by saying, we all have to be wired in this country which lead of course to the rule of electrification act of 19 tlivenlgs governor newsome said delivering broadband to all is essential to california's success. access to high speed internet mean the difference with launching a successful career and being without work. so, we have to do this. and in the discussion of the poverty guidelines, whether we are using the federal poverty guidelines -- in the city's at the city's website, at the scorecards for safety net poverty guidelines are --

described using the federal poverty. >> thank you for sharing your comments next speaker, please. >> can you hear me? yes. i'm carla and i'm codirector of the [inaudible] without affordable high speed internet skeerns approximate people with disabilities are left behind every day and are even further risk of poor healing, socialized lonely ness and lack of access to the lives of san francisco. we are concern the red lining where many especially those low income live. the digital red lining areas reflect the economic and real red lining of decades. we are advocating for deep are

cross sector collaborations to tackle afford annual high speed access devices appreciate the relationships we have across the city with the organizations here today. i'm francis james. and i'm 8 a years old and number of sva. i want to thank the supervisors for presenting this initiative today. and the resolution. and want to remind you the air

waves are belong to the public. in the corporations that use them to provide a service are licensed by the state to do this. it is within the purview of the public to -- urge and to provide adequate service for us. this is sour property and it is the moral thing to do and it it is politically correct. thank you very much. and i urge you to vote, yes. hello i'm executive director for which nontechnology trin nothing fordable housing and tech support to low insm come families i'm here to share i

have been a recipient of the comcast, at&t for all program when i was growing up. with comcast. verizon. at&t digital equity and he many nonprofit this is need access to help with clezing the digital divide. i urge everybody to have a collective approach because the internet helped mow to get where i am today and i have seen the impact of training more than the thouz anldz young people for career in tech and connected 5,000 low income fells to access to the internet and distribute it over 3,000 xurths. with nonprofit work for the past 25 years. i urge everyone to make this

happen it is time to make the internet a public utility. minor and low income communities should not pay for high priced access when the city has so many resources like the fiber to house program and all the high speeds here are making the effort to make connectivity accessible. acp program will take us there let's make it happen. let's do this! thank you for sharing your comments. we are checking to see if there are other callers in the queue. there are no other callers chair preston. thank you, public comment is closed. approximate supervisor chan. >> i don't know if you have other questions but i do have one remaining questions for the major's office issue housing and communal development about the fiber to housing program.

thank you. >> i thank you is specific low about funding i appreciate the fiber to housing program and understand this i can see supervisor peskin allocated additional funding in order for you to do some of the work. has there been conversation with like director brian strong at the capitol planning and when we been you know moving affordable house happening bond forwardoir you know critical reper se for the stele that we could think about taxling some of these continuing to advance fiber to housing program. not just for future affordable housing but for the existing concern development like the sro's we provide both either

critical repair if they are under the city jurisdiction. or those that i think that we have done seismic upgrade for property ownership by nonprofit have we had those conversations. yes. the project to date has been funded through the capitol budget and there is a certificate of participation this we will be ewe likewising for a piece that 2.5 million of we do coordinate with the capitol planning group and we have not discussed the sro the private property projects, just the public low funds affordable housing. >> yea. i would love to some point perhaps have a coordinated conversation. i think with the advocates here and then to perhaps also work

collaboratively with the budget analyst do some sort of animate a scope of when that could look like. you know and bricking down a category of sro that is owned by privately owned nonprofit house and i think this 2.five is a modest funding allocation. could there be manage this is either more substantial or comp hencive over all? and help us move this forward. i want to say i concur with so much and thank the public commenters this came out today and thank you for organizing the effort. i concur with a lot about cull roll competency and challenges when it come to having the access and for me that is affordable housing, sro

residence denials and including those in sro in the richmond. i appreciate you keeping the fiber to housing program and we are here along with supervisor preston we are here to provide that support and help you up that dollar amount. >> okay. great. thank you. i will mention in the previous fiscal year received 10 million for the program and prior to this small are amounts it hen an on going support. >> of course we see you have 75 cites they did not come magically we love to see how do we consistently keep pace of the things you already done and build momentum and don't fall behind. thank you. >> thank you. why thank you, vice chair stefani. >> thank you, and i want to add that i agree with supervisor chan in terms of the city investigate more in the punish. i absolutely believe that

internet service should be like water and electricity like i felt had way for a language time. it is nobody should be without temperature i them hen an on going issue, i look back 20 years ago when supervisor ammiano and daly created paid for 300 thousand dollars for a study on city controlled internet. failed to put together a plan and then the mir when i came in 2007 there was all that discussion with earth link and that fell apart. and my former boss supervisor mayor farrel we were trying to basically provide attempted to bring low cost high speed internet to all. it was something this he championed. we worked hard and failed at the board because of the cost. it is something i absolutely

believe in. do i think i think there has to be like surprise chan was saying the fiber to housing program. has to be more than just this resolution to dealing with this. more than just dealing with the isp's on this. has to be a city wide approach and involving everyone in it. and -- thank supervisor preston for this. and you have been i think there ever different funding source the city can advocate for puc and the federal fwment to address the gaps. thereupon is a multipronged approach. and i would loch to sit down with sd a and talked to you don't think you reached out to me but i would love a conversation about temperature i think it is approximate am so important. and i think just relying on the isp's is in the the way to go about it. i think we don'tsment to

misdiagnose the problem in a way cernel productive to solving if when you say digital red lining a ward that makes you think this is racial low motivated practice. i don't know if we proved that today and i want to say that because i think there is a lot of good diagonal more can be done as supervisor preston mentioned men going back to the companies and seeing whether or not we do something in a local level upon acknowledging there are the federal guidelines they are under. i think this we need to have a birth focus on how we really get to this problem and not just rely on the internet service providers. i continuing is encum banlt on san francisco to do it and the fact we have been talking about it for 20 scombroers have in the solved this problem on our own and brought this to everybody in san francisco, i think is on us.

piwant to have further conversation busy that and figure out when we can do more as a city to solve this problem. i will support this today with my comments i don't think we prove red lining in the hearing today and it is a comment and a thought process i want to talk about. because if this is trowel what is going on. again a large are conversation but -- obviously everyone should have internet access this is something we should solve senior rather than later. thank you. >> thank you vice chair stefani and i want to emphasize i think a lot of the callers said and others on the committee, this is one piece of a broader issue. and -- i think that as -- you know some of the folks call in the and talked about temperature

supervisor stefani pointed out there is a bit of history around ambitious goals around the city coming in and controlling the infrastructure more and developing out more public infrastructure like other broadband and fiber like much more as other utilities. there are policies that can get us there and investments. some of these programs like fiber to housing are take small bites toward this. but are in the the broader move toward the city as public infrastructure. you know in fairness i note that the private companies have been partners in trying to utilize the follow program. than i have in the been.

amenable to the idea of shift to a more public control. of upon the infrastructure. there is attention there i want to identify which is as a city when we look at doing big things like the ballot on things former mayor farrel and others have talked about, right, to really move toward city owned fiber net works city wide. universal wiring. things like that. thereof is often attention and push back from the private sector. settled on the private sector having most of this space now. i do believe there is a broader discussion we need it have and appreciate the comments from my colleagues around what the future looks livening the am but in the meantime we have a mostly private system with innovative public efforts we heard about

and within that system, a life line for some of the most vulnerable folks that is overwhelmingly under utilized. scope of the resolution and the priority within the free wifi campaign is dealing went confine and saying, right now the program we have. we want to max the collaboration and out reach and ejsz education, language and cull roll comp tense in out reach and supportful many of the things providers talked about they are doing to some extentful i think that there is irrelevant a focus on the resolution and the campaign to ramp up the efforts. i'm also looking forward to continue with the provide and ideas around how the city with be a better partner, too in ramping up those efforts.

just want to close by thanking everyone who presented. all the advocates and folks when call immediate and acknowledge and recognize the comment i agree with this is an attempt to take the system this we got now. and make it work a lot better and for more low income san franciscans than it is currently serving. so, thank you all for the extended discussion on this and for all the public comment. with this if there are no comments from clothes i would like to move this resolution forward to the full board with recommendation. >> on that motion chair stefani >> aye >> member chan. >> aye >> chair preston.

>> aye. >> you have 3 aye's. >> thank you that motion passes. and madam clerk call items 3-14 together the closed session items. >> thank you today's litigation items 3-14 include various ordinances and resolutions regarding settlements for lawsuits and unlitigated claims. member when is wish to speak to 3 through 14 call 415-655-0001, access code: 2485 401 2082 ## then press star 3 to enter the line. will indicate you raised your hand. wait until you have been unmute exclude begin your comments. are there members in the which i am ber withhold like to comment for items 3-14, line up along the curtain wall to the right.

remote call in press star 3. >> thank you. seeing no mfbt public in the cham bore we'll go to the call in line 8 with zero to speak. there are wherevero callers. >> thank you. public comment on the closed session items is closed. and -- let's i move to convene in closed session. >> on the motion to go to closed session. vice chair steph no scombrochl aye >> member chan. >> aye >> chair preston. >> aye.

>> we are back in open session. thank you for patience who i we were in closed session. please report on the closed session deliberations. >> today in closed session the committee recommended 3-14 to the full board with a positive recommendation. the vote was unanimous. >> thank you, madam clerk. i like to move to not disclose the closed session discussions. on the motion to not disclose -- chair appears the pc was muted. i will repeat what the -- the item in closed session. >> thank you y. today in closed session the committee unanimously moved to recommend items 3-14 to the full board with a positive recommendation.

>> thank you. on the motion to not disclose closed session discussions >> motion not to disclose. vice chair stefani. >> aye. >> member chan. why aye. >> chair preston. >> aye. >> thank you that motion passes any further business before the committee >> no additional business. >> thank you very much. we are adjourned.

a city like no other, san francisco has been a beacon of hope, and an ally towards lgbtq equal rights. [♪♪] >> known as the gay capital of america, san francisco has been at the forefront fighting gay civil rights for decades becoming a bedrock for the historical firsts. the first city with the first openly gay bar. the first pride parade. the first city to legalize gay marriage. the first place of the iconic gay pride flag.

established to help cancel policy, programses, and initiatives to support trans and lgbtq communities in san francisco. >> we've created an opportunity to have a seat at the table. where trans can be part of city government and create more civic engagement through our trans advisory committee which advises our office and the mayor's office. we've also worked to really address where there's gaps across services to see where we can address things like housing and homelessness, low income, access to small businesses and employment and education. so we really worked across the board as well as meeting overall policies. >> among the priorities, the office of transgender

initiatives also works locally to track lgbtq across the country. >> especially our young trans kids and students. so we do a lot of work to make sure we're addressing and naming those anti-trans policies and doing what we can to combat them. >> trans communities often have not been included at the policy levels at really any level whether that's local government, state government. we've always had to fend for ourselves and figure out how to care for our own communities. so an office like this can really show and become a model for the country on how to really help make sure that our entire community is served by the city and that we all get opportunities to participate because, in the end, our entire community is stronger. >> the pandemic underscored many of the inequities they

experienced on a daily basis. nonetheless, this health crisis also highlighted the strength in the lgbtq and trans community. >> several of our team members were deployed as part of the work at the covid command center and they did incredit able work there both in terms of navigation and shelter-in-place hotels to other team members who led equity and lgbtq inclusion work to make sure we had pop-up testing and information sites across the city as well as making sure that data collection was happening. we had statewide legislation that required that we collected information on sexual orientation and our team worked so closely with d.p.h. to make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. part of the work i've had a privilege to be apart of was to

work with o.t.i. and a community organization to work together to create a coalition that met monthly to make sure we worked together and coordinated as much as we could to lgbtq communities in the city. >> partnering with community organizations is key to the success of this office ensuring lgbtq and gender nonconforming people have access to a wide range of services and places to go where they will be respected. o.t.i.'s trans advisory committee is committed to being that voice. >> the transgender advisory counsel is a group of amazing community leaders here in san francisco. i think we all come from all walks of life, very diverse, different backgrounds, different expertises, and i think it's just an amazing group of people that have a vision to make san francisco a true liberated city for transgender folks.

>> being apart of the grou allows us to provide more information on the ground. we're allowed to get. and prior to the pandemic, there's always been an issue around language barriers and education access and workforce development. now, of course, the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving and making sure we are mobilizing. >> all of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know that there's still a lot to be done and like i said before, i'm just so happy to live in a city where they see trans folks and recognize us of human beings and know that we deserve to live with dignity and

respect just like everybody else. >> being part of the trans initiative has been just a great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able to serve for it for so far over three years. it's the only office of its kind and i think it's a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communities. and when you put transgender people in leadership positions. >> thank you, claire. and i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiatives, she has really taken that role to a whole other level and is currently a grand marshal for this year's s.f. prize. so congratulations, claire. >> my dream is to really look at where we want san francisco to be in the future. how can we have a place where we have transliberation,

quality, and inclusion, and equity across san francisco? and so when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i want us to make sure that we're continuing to lead the country in being the best that we can be. not only are we working to make sure we have jobs and equal opportunity and pathways to education, employment, and advancement, but we're making sure we're taking care of our most impacted communities, our trans communities of color, trans women of color, and black trans women. and we're making sure we're addressing the barriers of the access to health care and mental health services and we're supporting our seniors who've done the work and really be able to age in place and have access to the services and resources they deserve. so there's so much more work to do, but we're really proud of the work that we've done so far. [♪♪]

>> so, this meeting will come to order. welcome to march meeting of the local agency formation commission and our first in person meeting in three years. i'm vice chair fielder and joined by preston, williams and singhs. our clerk is (indiscernible) also i thank the staff at sfgovtv for setting us up. madam clerk, any announcement? >> also providing remote access and public comment

viatelephone. the commission recognizing public access is essential and will take public comment as follows. on each item on the agenda. those watching channel 26 or sfgovtv the public comment number is streaming across the screen. 415-655-0001. again, 415-655-0001. enter meets ing id, 2 (483) 203-8194 then pound twice to be connected. you will hear the meeting discussion. when the item comes up and public comment is called dial star 3. those in the chamber line up against the right wall. >> thank you. >> just a little more. those joining via telephone turn down your tv. you may submit public comment in writing

e-mail to me the lafco clerk at stephanie.cabrera at sfgov.org. you may send written comments postal service at 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place, room 244 san francisco california 94102. thank you and that concludes my announcements. >> thank you madam clerk. can you please call the roll? [roll call] >> you have a quorum. >> thank you. madam clerk , i like to a motion to excuse connie chair. >> second. >> moved by myself and

seconded by member preston. [roll call] >> three ayes. >> do i need to bang the gavel? >> if you like. >> thank you madam clerk. please call item 2. >> item 2 is the approval of the lafco minutes from february 17, 2023 regular meeting. members of the public who wish to comment on this item should call 415-655-0001. enter meeting id, 2483-- >> do any commissioners have changes to the minutes from the february 17, 2023

meeting? no changes, i open up for public comment. speakers have three minutes. any members of the public who wish to comment on item number 2? >> thank you vice chair fielder. any members in chamber that like to comment for item 1? please line up along the curtain wall. remote call in members dial star 3 to be added to the speaker queue. those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates quou you are unmuted. we have zero listeners and are zero in the queue. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> moved by commissioner preston. any second? >> second. >> seconded by commissioner williams. madam clerk , can you please call the roll?

[roll call] >> you have 3 ayes rchlt >> thank you. please call item number 3. >> item 3 community choice aggregation cca activities report. members of the public who wish to comment on item 3 dial 415-655-0001. when prompted enter meeting id, 24832038194 and pound twice. if you haven't done so already, dial star 3 to be added to the queue. the system will prompt and indicate you raised your hand. >> now we'll hear from deputy assistant general manager for clean power sf michael hyams. if you can please keep the presentation to 10 minutes, that would be much appreciated. >> good morning vice chair fielder and fellow commissioners. can you hear me

okay? >> yes. >> good morning. mike hyams frapower enterprise responsible for the clean power sf program and i have a few slides i'm going to bring up. you should be seeing my presentations. >> yes, we see it. >> thank you. my report today i'm going to cover the topics that vice chair fielder raised at the last meeting regarding the clean power sf organization

and budget. it is important to understand that the- (indiscernible) clean power sf is a part of the clean energy utility. the power enterprise operates two power services, hetch hetchy power, san francisco publicly owned retail electric utility, and clean power sf, san francisco community choice. together, clean power sf and hetch hetchy power er [audio cutting in and out] the power enterprise employs union workers including engineers financial utility analyst line workers and technicians. also operate and maintain about 30 thousand street lights and fund all the cost associated with operating and maintaining street lights including the 20

thousand owned by pg&e here in san francisco. you can see on the slide some of the statistics that distinguish our two power programs. this slide summarizes the clean power sf organization within the power enterprise. the sfpuc is lead by the general manager, and the power enterprise is lead by a assistant general manager. under the assistant general manager we have three deputies involved in various aspects. manager of operations, the yellow segment responsible for functions including electricity demand forecasting, energy scheduling within the california independent system operator, power purchasing and managing our power port folio,

settling invoices, risk management, credit services, data cystism and information technology. the operation division has (indiscernible) deputy assistant general manager of programs and planning, the blue segment is spaebl for regulatory legislative affairs rchlt budget administration and management, organizational development, customer engagement, marketing and account management, customer program development and distributed energy resource planning. in the middle of the slide is the deputy assistant general manager for clean power er sf. we have 17 positions and responsible for our community choice aggregation service agreement with pg&e, management of meter

data information and management, billing and customer care services, rates implementation, budget development, power supply compliance, long-term power planning like the integrated resource plan, the disadvantage community green tariff and community solar programs. net energy meeting and (indiscernible) and customer care and account management support. also funds positions within other sfpuc divisions dedicated to clean power sf, including 7 positions performing our call center service and accounting within the business service division lead by the chief financial officer and atm of business services. two dedicate d

positions in human resource that are (indiscernible) and 8 positions within the extenchl ifairp division that perform power xhineication and marketing and policy and government affairs. in addition to these 17 positions, clean power sf contribute to the puc overhead which funds staffing needs in these and other divisions that support general departmental operations. now let's shift to the budget. i wanted to shares where you can find our budget information. on the slide you find the address and a link to sfpuc budget report covering our adopted fiscal year 2022-2023 and 23-24 budgets. there are also historical budgets available on the same web page. provides a

budget status report to the commission every quarter. these report cover all the enterprises and operations and provides specific information about clean power sf budget. our budget director presented the second quarter budget status report to our commission february 28 and i've provided a link here on this slide to the materials included in the commission agenda packet under item 4c on the slide. it also includes the snapshot of quarterly budget status report. just to walk through this a little bit, there is a lot of data here. the top portion of the table covers the operating budget which identifies clean power sf operating sources, so that includes revenues from electricity sales and interest income. it also identifies operating uses. personnel,

that is our staffing costs, overhead, contributions to general departmental costs, non personnel services, that includes professional services, fees, specific third party service agreements, also things like our lease for office space and rent. materials and supplies, that's computer equipment, desks and the such. power purchases, of course this is the bulk of the budget and that's the same for virtually every cca. the services of other departments, these are interdepartmental work orders so the services of the city attorney, reproduction and mailing for example. debt service and general reserve. the lower portion of

the table identifies clean power sf capital budget with both programmatic and capital projects. this includes funding of our customer programs work, like ev charge sf, and the solar replacement programs that i presented to lafco about in the past. it also supports consulting for development of p for projects in city projects we are working on. and the last row of the table identifies available fund balance at end of fiscal year. this is the cash clean power sf must maintain to assure rating agencies creditors and suppliers that it will be capable of paying its bills. the columns across the top you see the values for clean power sf fiscal year 2021-22 budget, and fiscal 22-23 proposed budgets revised budget and the

projection for this fiscal year. the last column shows the variance of the projection to the revised budget. of note in this report is that we are projecting higher uses for power supply costs, and this is due to the significant volatility we have been seeing in energy markets over the past year, due to a number of global factors, including the war in ukraine. that actually concludes my prepared slides. happy to take any questions you may have about this material. >> thank you director hyams. i definitely have questions and encourage my fellow commissioners to jump in as well. going back to the organization chart, how many of the positions listed are vacant right now? >> i don't have that exact statistic on that, but we have been presenting this

information to our commission recently. our chief officer presented to the commission twice with statistics on vacancy rate. it is a number moving around constantly and always hiring, so i can refer the executives officer to those materials that again provides statistics on vacancy rates. >> okay. thank you. and then i wanted to bring up something that was pretty surprising to find out recently. i understand the ciso scheduling is listed here under operations section. to be clear, there is someone doing that, or not? because i think i saw

recently that there-that we actually don't meet the qualifications to have someone do that in clean power sf. >> so, the function of ciso scheduling is absolutely happening because if it wasn't we wouldn't be able to participate and those electricity markets. we have staff that-we have a third party contractor that is a certified scheduling coordinator with the california iso and this has been the practice for quite some time for us to utilize a third party scheduled coordinator. it is common in the electricity market in california as well. we also have staff under the operations division here listed that prepare our

schedules on a regular basis. we submit daily schedules to the california iso and we work with our scheduling coordinator who is the one that takes the step of actually submitting that information into the iso system on the timeframes so we absolutely are performing this function. we do utilize a third party to support us in this. again, very common in the industty to do that. one challenge we had historically is that the california iso has very short timeframes for making payments, and interacting with it. so that is a interest in operating challenge that is not just one that we have experienced, but all participants experience. the scheduling

coordinators potentially insure all the california iso's requirements are being met. >> thank you. i also saw the third party contractor we just recently at the board of supervisors passed relution to approve a amendment to increase the contract by $636 million over a 5 year term, which is something like 500 percent-565 percent increase. what is the reason for that? >> the first issue is that when the contract was established we under-estimated the capacity we needed for that contract. a five year contract. the second major issue driving the increase is the market

volatility that i was mentioned earlier in the presentation. we really have seen unprecedented levels of electricity and energy market volatility over the past year or two. most recently as i indicated, driven by disruptions to global energy markets caused by the war in ukraine and associated sanctions placed in particular on russia, that is driven up the price of natural gas. natural gas is still an important part of the electric system in california and in the western united states. it is still one of the drivers of electricity prices. we have also seen some extreme weather patterns as well, the heat dome of last fall being one example. we also have seen as

i think you all know, extreme weather in california this winter. those also play a role when you have a more constrained energy market spikes and demands like that from extreme weather really exacerbate. the other thing that is important to keep in mind is forecasted cost initially were informed by what had been a very different market that we were operating in. a market that in fact was more defined by declining prices or flat or declining prices and we had seen that trend some time. we are now operating in a very different market with a lot of volatility and costs are much higher. the contract you are alluding to is a essential operating contract for us to continue to participate in the california independent system

operator market, so that increases to insure that we'll continue to operate relible in the california iso. >> thank you. it is still alarming, 565 percent increase, and i understand other cca have their own scheduleers, that is huge number. a huge jump, even accounting for all the energy market volatility and everything you mentioned. i definitely want to follow up about what is the long-term plan for clean power sf to do scheduling. i'll hand it off to other commissioners that want any other questions? one second. i think we are figuring out the speaker system. commissioner

williams. >> yes. i just want to jump back real fast-so of the 59 total positions you have currently, and not knowing if the 21 vacancies have been filled, could you just give me your best guess? >> i could give you a guess. it is probably in more the range of 10 to 15 vacancies at this point. like i said, it is hard-we have materials that we presented recently about that is about what i estimate. >> thank you. >> i also like to ask

about the budget. if is possible to pull up it slides i think it is great so everyone can see. thank you. so, i see that there is for this year the projected budget is $14 million for non personnel services, and a recent bla report said that of last year's professional services budget, of the $8.9 million for last year, approximately $2 million was still pending vendor selection and the scopes of work have not been finalized. i was wondering-there is the mou we have, a issue we'll talk about later. wondering if there are consultants under contract that might be qualified to do the work on any of the studies and proposed mou, and i wanted to ask about these scopes

of work that have not been finalized and progress made on them. >> yeah. i probably am not able get into the details at the moment. generally speaking, the bla report-i don't know if you have a date but think it is a bit dated at this point. as we end a fiscal year, we may be setting up task orders in the system so the funds are not yet incumbered. some is just a timing issue, but yes we brought on new consulting contracts. we have been setting up scopes of work task orders to direct work to some of those consult ants, and the puc and power enterprise is a range of consulting

contractors covering communication and marketing to more technical analytical consultants that support our business needs. your question about the lafco scope of work and whether there are consultants that can perform that type of work, i say the answer is yes. so, that work could be performed or supported by consultants we have under contract as well as staff members at the sfpuc. >> they think. at a future meeting i would love more information on these contracts, and update on the bla comments. any other fellow commissioners want to ask any questions? commissioner singh, would you

like to? okay. alright. seeing no further comments from commissioners, where will open this up to public comment and speakers have 3 minutes. any members of the public who wish to comment on item 3? >> thank you. any members of the public in the chambers that like to comment for item number 3? seeing no members in the chamber we'll go to the dial-in-we have one listener with zero in the queue. no speakers. >> thank you madam clerk. thank you director hyams, i appreciate you putting together the presentation. it is helpful to see what is going on in clean power sf. seeing no public speakers, public comment is now closed. madam

clerk please call item 4. >> discussion and possible approval of memorandum of understanding between lafco and san francisco public utility commission. members who wish to comment on item 4 dial 415-655-0001. please enter meeting id, 24832038194 pound twice. dial star 3 to be added to the queue. the system prompts and indicate you have raised your hand. please wait until you are unmutded and you may begin your comments. >> now we are going to hear from executive officer pollack. >> thank you. good morning chair fielder and commissioners. jeremy pollack executive officer for sf lafco and the item placed on the

agenda at request of sfpuc to discuss possible amendment tuesday the mou you all authorized back in january. we are continuing to have those discussions and agreement between puc staff and myself to ask that this continued to discuss and bring back a version that can be supported soon and get started on this work. happy to answer any questions. >> commissioner williams. >> i'm just-first of all, thank you for all your work. really appreciate you. i just suppose this is more a comment, but i'm incredibly pleased to see that we are still hanging on to the sfpuc shell recommend to the mayor, rather than the

may and hope we can keep that word. thank you. >> is there a general update that you can give us about where the mou is at? >> yeah. the mou was considered by the sfpuc at the january 14 meeting i believe it was. a few commissioners had questions and so they asked for more information and didn't take action on it then. since then, had meetings with staff, i believe chair chan had discussions directly with general manager herrera, and i think there are a few amendments we have been considering around the scope of work and i think whether or not lafco oversight of clean power sf should be part of the mou and reimbursement by the puc or just to funding the studies that are imagined in

the mou and then, some technical amendments around what commissioner williams was referencing around the language around carry-over of unused funds from fiscal year to next fiscal year and what-trying to find a balance point between the certainty lafco is looking for to know the funds will be with us barring some financial crisis so we have certainty for multi-year budgeting and planning for these studies and the puc wanting flexibility in case of dire financial straights so they are not locked into the money being lafco in case of urgent needs elsewhere in the organization. yeah, i believe those are sort of the major points that we are reviewing and hoping to come back with something to present to you soon next month or possibly see if we can find a special meeting to keep this moving and get it

approved so we can start the work soon and also looking particularly looking to get certainty on this as we go into our budget approval. this will have a significant impact on lafco budgets as we'll cover in the executive officer's report. >> thank you officer pollack. i will share with my colleagues on the commission that i for one am concerned about any removal of lafco oversight of clean power sf from the scope of work and echo commissioner williams on the desire to keep shall recommend to the mayor carry over of unused funds rather then may. i think today it is clear that there is plenty still to look at in clean power sf to make sure we are maximizing all the resources dedicated to it, climate action goals through clean power sf, and

discussions about decarbonization and green boonging. banking. clean power sf is a huge component of that so i would be absolutely be concerned if lafco were no longer able to oversee clean power sf. any other comments? i see commissioner preston. >> thank you chair fielder. i really just wanted to echo the comments of chair fielder and commissioner williams and thank all my fellow commissioners. i know commissioner chan has been working on it as well. i think everyone is trying to move this forward and get it done is i appreciate executive officer pollack's work on this. i do hope and just want to-i do think there is some need to

move things forward quickly, so i hope that getting that certainty can be done by the time of the next lafco meeting ing but i agree entirely with the statements chair fielder and commissioner williams gave and hoping we can wrap this up with puc as soon as possible. thank you. >> if i can offer a clarification around the lafco oversight of clean power sf and i think the question is whether or not that work by lafco should be reimbursed by the puc as part of the mou. puc fully agrees that oversight of clean power sf is within our powers. the board of supervisors resolution that was passed unanimously with 7 cosponsors reiterated lafco to consider the oversight of clean power sf and i think the discussion you all just had with

director hyams was a great example of continuing that and as we have talked about trying to drill down more into detail on the clean power sf operation and chair fielder like you referenced all the other topics we want to dig into so fully anticipate that continuing whether or not that is part of the m ou or not and clean power sf understands that and cooperating in that as well. definitely looking forward to continuing the work. >> thank you for the clarification. commissioner singh. >> first of all, wanted to thank you. this has been a lot of hard work and won't belabor the point my fellow commissioners made about the shall language. but i did want to highlight i'm really glad to see the natural gas system decommissioning particularly in the mou so far-we just discussed during the last item about natural gas geo

political shock, but also i think this is critical because we really have an urgent decarbonization and housing decarbonization problem, not just are in san francisco, but seeing the increasingly becoming conversation across the country and state level in sacramento. >> thank you. thank you for moving this forward and chair chan and puc staff also. hope we get somewhere soon. seeing no further amount comments from commissioners i will open up for public comment. >> any members of the public in the chamber that would like to comment on item 4? line up to the right. remote public comment dial star 3 to be added to the queue. no in person commenters, we'll go to the queue. checking that

number. currently have one speaker in the queue. may we please have the speaker? >> good morning commissioners, eric brooks for california for energy choice our city san francisco. just want to make one comment about the presentation and i heard something that was preety troubleling and never part of the mou before, the idea if there were economic hard times that the sfpuc would want a clause in here that they could change the budget or cut or halt the budget. that's never been part of this mou before to my knowledge, and the issue-the idea that this agency that oversees billions of dollars in assets and has a huge

budget, economic hard times would have to cancel an mou or put it on hold that is only a few hundred thousand dollars is pretty far-fetched. as i'm sure you know, sfpuc and lafco do not always see eye to eye on things and the last thing we want to do is put in a position if there is disagreement about it policies lafco is putting forward the sfpuc would be able to halt the use of the money. that would not be a good situation. i agree with all the other comments made so far. that's it. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. there are no other speakers in the queue. >> thank you madam clerk. public comment is now closed. madam clerk, can you please call item 5? >> item 5 is resolution urging the san francisco

public utilities commission to adopt a workforce and environmental justice policy for energy procurement. members who wish to comment on this item [providing instructions for public comment] >> thank you madam clerk. i am really excited to introduce today the resolution urging the sfpuc to adopt a work force environmental justice policy for energy procurement. i like to thank alex lansburg working with myself and executive officer pollack on the resolution. this is

regarding the cca conglomerate of all the different cca's in california and sfpuc has a representative to this state-wide organization. this is simply a resolution urging the sfpuc to direct our representatives to this board to advocate for form a public advisory committee including lainer, environmental equity representatives to insure transparency and public engagement in cc power operations and procurement practices. so, i would like to thank director officer pollack again for making sure this is all put together and i invite fellow commissioners for comments or questions. alright. seeing no further comments from commissioners, open this up for

public comment. speakers have three minutes. >> thank you vice chair fielder. no members of the public in the chamber we'll go to our remote dial-in. if you are on the line dial star 3 to be added to the speaker queue. we have one speaker. can we please have the speaker? >> this is eric brooks with our city sf and california for energy choice again. i hadn't intended to stay in the queue but i can make a comment and that is simply that, as we do start building out renewable energy and efficiency and battery storage in san francisco, which should happen to the extent that is done by private entities on private property, we do need to make sure also that even though it is on private property sfpuc is

helping make sure we start unionizing jobs like energy efficiency instillation and solar panel instullitation on homes and businesses. right now that is not the situation. that is not guaranteed those jobs will be union. we need to figure out a way to get them to be union and it would help if the sfpuc was helping to push that point because it unionizes its employee s and need to make sure that happens with private instillations. thanks. >> thank you for your comments today eric brooks. there are no other speakers in the queue. >> thank you madam clerk. public comment is now closed. i like to make a motion to approve this resolution. can and have a second? >> second. >> moved by myself and seconded by commissioner williams. madam secretary, can you please call the roll? [roll call]

>> you have 3 ayes. >> thank you. this resolution is approved. madam clerk, please call item 6. >> authorization for execive officer to issue a request for proposal for midtown park apartments resident facilitator. [providing instructions for public comment] >> thank you madam clerk. commissioner preston, would you like to make any remarks on this? >> thank you chair fielder. i am just want to express my thanks to executive officer pollack and really to

all lafco commissioners for hopefully for taking this on. midtown park apartments is a very unique property in san francisco in that it is the only city owned housing complex that is not-no hud subsidies, it doesn't fit any model of when people think about publicly owned housing. it is a product of a response to redevelopment in the western addition that midtown park apartments was created in the first place. it was created with promises literally written promises to the residents at that time, mostly black san franciscans of a promise of ownership of the property as a form of coopor resident ownership and i will

not go through the history, but let's say the promises were never fulfilled so it is very timely we are considering this as the city this week at the board of supervisors took a historic step of accepting the draft reparations report from the african american reparations advisory committee, which did excellent work mapping out what real reparations would look like in san francisco and one of those-the sections of the report was really about exactly this issue, which is trying to create home ownership, particularly for the black community in san francisco and try to right some of the wrongs of not just nationally around the history of treatment of black americans but very specifically how the san francisco government participated in taking-depriving the

black community of homes, particularly in the western addition. so, it is very timely. i think that there's quite a bit of backgrounds how we got here, but i nink what's important is really in the last couple years the board of supervisors stepped in with residents to reverse and stop rent increases that were being imposed on residents at midtown. that stabilized things, but i think everyone is in agreement there needs to be a long-term plan and needs to be a resident lead plan for what the future midtown looks like, the repairs, what it will cost and what role the city will play and what the future model is, whether looking at a land trust, coopor some other form of stable and affordable housing that keeps residents housed and hopefully brings others into the vacant units there. this and

executive officer pollack can sure speak more to any questions around the rfp and proposal here, but really fundamentally the idea is to have someone facilitate discussion with midtown residents to map out both the actual needs in terms of repair of the property, and make recommendations around potential future ownership and control and governance of midtown. very excited this is moving forward, and i want to say that i also think it really connects very well with some of the work that lafco is doing around increasingly looking at this space that doesn't fit anywhere else in city government. what is feasible, what is doable around municipal housing, having that conversation in a more

serious way, i think it is essential and as i always remind people who are engaged in the broad conversation around social housing and municipal housing who talk about it as if it's just a idea and a think years off in the future, i will just say that in those discussions the first thing i point to is we literally have municipally owned housing with overwhelmingly black residents and other folks of color working class folks at risk, but also with incredible potential to be a model for what municipal housing looks like sitting right in the heart of our city at midtown park apartments so hope everyone will support the resolution and want to thank executive officer pollack for doing the work to move this forward. thank you.

>> thank you commissioner preston. commissioner singh. >> i just want to echo the enthusiasm and really really excited to see this, particularly because in my experience these tenants-wont get into the history but have been waiting for half a century now for the cooperative ownership or a model similar to that that they were promised including other successful cooperatives founded around the same time not too far away. what has been a challenge that i have seen is that there hasn't really been coordination from city agencies to really dig into this very unique case and help these folks out before, and so i'm really really optimistic this rfp is able to accomplish that and actually address their very unique situation. >> thank you commissioner singh. commissioner

williams. >> commissioner singh, certainly took a part of what i would have like to echo. first, thank you so much commissioner preston for being such a strong alley for ally for the black community in the western addition. i know the work you have done and can't express how appreciative i am. so, i suppose what kind of-what kind of walls have you run up against in terms of city support and trying to help the residents of midtown? >> well, i'm not sure there is enough time on our agenda today to go into the history of all that-i will say though that i think what everyone can probably agree to and possibly one of the biggest walls is

midtown doesn't fit into any of the boxes that-our city is better at saying, we are going to create housing over here that fits within and competitive for tax credits and so we will model it based on the income levels and leverage different sources of funds. there is a formula how we do that. there may not be enough money, it may not always happen the way we want, but there is a way to do it, right? as you know, through your leadership around community land trust and other models that dont have that support, midtown doesn't fit into those boxes and there has been a series of what have been viewed as by midtown residents as broken promises from the start. we keep referencing the long history and maybe not telling

the public what that is, so i won't go too long but i will say, this is 138 unit development in the western addition, the corner of geary and scott. dates back to the 60's. was built in response to the devastating legacy of redevelopment envisioned as and promised as a place where displaced black residents would be able to return and find home again in the western addition and from the start it was marketed as a place and don't have the materials with me, i wish i brought them, but the fliers say own your own. that was the marketing material to displaced black residents from the western addition is own your own and talking about the coop model and how residents of midtown would become

owners over time, and that has never been realized. also for many years was a lack of support from the city in terms of the technical support to people trying to-midtown corporation, residents were trying to run 138 unit facility needing support and technical assistance and not getting it from the city. as typical with a lot of public housing, coop housing and others, what sometimes started with good intentions is an abandoned not invested in and then later declared a failure. that's the pattern folks saw at midtown. there was a effort by the city to come in and use a much more traditional affordable housing model and impose that on the residents without talking to the residents, so a lot of things that just seemed like

normal requirements at the time it was mercy housing that came in, and tried to apply a set of rules that may have looked perfectly normal in another affordable housing context and the residents of midtown were horrified to see huge rent increases for example, and other house rules and things and things they never agreed being imposed on them and the city backed those efforts. that create d more distrust on the part of the residents that what was supposed to be a-working toward collective ownership and self-determination and control, they were shoved into affordable housing models they never agreed to that resulted in huge rent increases. i think most of what we have done and worked closely with midtown residents to try to rebuild trust at least with our office as a representative of the city, but to also take what i think is a sharp

turn, stabilize things, reverse the rent increases and most importantly to take a stand that the future of midtown needs to be determined by midtown residents and that is a position that while it sounds obvious to those of us who have done housing organizing work for many many years, that is a radical concept that does not fit very well in how this city tends to do housing, particularly when it comes to housing in the black community. that's part of why i'm so excited to see this on the agenda and these this process and to be clear, this is not lafco staff or lafco commission trying to dictate what the future development of midtown is, it is the opposite. it is trying to facilitate someone who has the confidence of the residents to facilitate a process that the residents drive and everyone has

confidence in. very excited and appreciate your comments and questions. thank you. >> thank you. i think that overview of history and important to tier constantly and drum that in. i always wonder about the mayor office of housing community development. i wonder if you have heard a shift in their expressed interest of doing more outreach to cooperatives and helping in self-governance within that? did i imagine it? >> i think there is a interest from ocd in coops in particular. they had a fellow

working on coops. we actually fought for and won some funds in the last budget to try to support technical assistance and outreach work in coops. there are a lot of hud subsidized coops in our district in particular that really need investment and support. so, i think from ocd we have gotten a little openness on that. i think on midtown in particular, i would say that we are in communication with mocd about ongoing issues at midtown in terms of longer term plan. while they have not been partners in mapping out what a long-term plan would look like or facilitating that, they've been probably hanging back a little bit so i think there is

space for this conversation to happen and hopefully inform mocd, but to be very blunt, there is not a lot of confidence among residents based on past experiences in mocd. i think there is trust to be rebuilt and i think that how mocd works with whatever recommendations come out of this process is really going to be key. whether they are open to resident lead process that is not going to fit into-i can tell the only thing i know about this process is midtown is a bunch of really thoughtful and brilliant engaged folks who are going to have whatever they end up in this process, it isn't going to look like cookie cutter like something else and think the challenge to all of us is going to figure how to make that more creative proposal happen and that i think is a challenge

for-can be a challenge for mocd because it doesn't fit in any of the kinds of projects they currently do. >> thank you commissioner preston. i'll just say, i appreciate commissioner preston's assistance to keep midtown folks at the forefronts of the movement for public and cooperative housing in the city. having gotten the pleasure to meet them myself, i attest they are brilliant folks, remarkable and dedicated to their own communities, very interdependent, very carry and looking out for one another, especially during the pandemic. these folks deserve a community informed vision so really glad that lafco can be a part and i'll pass to commissioner singh. >> i just wanted to add to the background commissioner preston was providing that i think historically-this is

not just an issue-isn't unique to midtown, this is discussion being had over the state and country, which is that cooperative models-i think this is partly because the (indiscernible) historical concept. cooperative models have traditionally been thought of predominantly a middle class middle income option, right? so it is not necessarily considered a viable option when low income tenants are involved and that's a huge problem and that is a broader problem, but i do think that in past interactions and past iterations of having on and off discussions about a solution cooperative solution for midtown, that was the aspect that came up the most.

put it diplomatically. >> i'm very lucky to be a part of robust discussion with all the different affordable housing and tenants rights and cooperative housing folks here and commission. we are very lucky to have everyone. i like to invite executive officer pollack to briefly walk us through the rfp if you could. >> hello again. jeremy pollack. have a couple quick slides to go over a few details on the rfp. so, as commissioner preston described,ic it is essentially a two part scope of work to this. one part is the facilitation process to work with midtown residents on developing ideas for resident ownership or control, and the second part would be to conduct property condition assessment of the property and get a sense of the physical needs

and so i think we imagine a 6 month timeline of the community process and the rfp also includes minimum qualifications around the property conditions assessment of having experience doing that and or engineering or architectural license as appropriate and that's to be that assessment should be done conforming with fanny mae multifamily have guidelines for property position accessment. the final report will be a report to lafco on these recommendations from the residents for the board of surprisers and mayor and city to consider for future policy action and then here is briefly the timeline for the rfp. we are hoping to issue it next week. want to give thanks to general counsel for helping with going through the

lafco rfp template. we have been trying to streamline it and make it more accessible for folks and also thanks to the clerk of board supervisor office in particular dr. edward (indiscernible) who will be supporting us with conducting this and we have a pretty aggressive timeline on the rfp. based on the quality of responses and our ability to keep to the timeline but hoping to get this moving quickly. also looking for help from you all publicizing the rfp to get a quality pool of bidders and thanks to commissioner williams who provided a few recommendations on facilitators to reach out to. we got a list from the local business enterprise, lbe list, i think 30 or 40 facilitator potential contractors that are in the city database we'll put this out to and it is available on the city supplier portal and

i'll follow up with you all on the details on that to help publicize. that's the end of the extent of my presentation. happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. colleagues, any comments or questions? seeing no further comments, i will open this up for public comment. speakers have three minutes. >> thank you vice chair. any members of the public who would like to comment on item 6 in the chamber? if so line up along the curtain wall. remote dial star 3. those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. seeing no in chamber public comment we'll go to the call in line. we have one caller with one speaker in the queue. may we please have the speaker? >> good morning again commissioners. eric brooks. representing our city san francisco or our city sf. it is really great to see

that lafco is taking this item that is stuck for decades to get it to move forward. it shows the importance of the lafco serving the role of getting a hold of things the city isn't doing and making them unstuck and moving forward. this also shows it is not just about clean energy. this lafco-but these issues are intersectional, because when redevelopment over the last several decades devastated the fillmore and other western black communities in san francisco, a lot of residents got shoved out and had to go to the bayview hunter point and treasure island where then they go out of the e frying pan and into the fires that go

to sites managed by lumar which are toxic radio active waste infused and global warming is bringing sea level rise that will interact with ground water and toxic chemicals so we have people shoved from one part of the city to another. that shows these issues are all intersectional, and we need to look at lafco is the perfect agency to look what is happening city and countywide in this kind of in these dynamics. our city sf worked a lot on the issues of treasure island and bayview hunters point and it would be good to see that raised again here in lafco to the extent things are not getting unstuck there. the last thing is to agree, all housing in san francisco should be coops and land trusts and public housing. none should be for profit, and this is a great way we can set the example to

move that forward and just make housing a right and end completely housing as speculation for real estate speck yulators or profit source. >> thank you. we have zero speakers in the queue. >> no more speakers, public comment is closed. can i have a motion and second to authorize the executive officer to issue the rf prks >> so urfb mooed. >> moved by commissioner preston. >> second. >> seconded by commissioner williams. madam clerk, can you please call the roll. >> motion to authorize the release of the rfp- [roll call] you have three ayes. >> thank you. yeah midtown! alright. thank you so much commissioner preston and

executive officer pollack. madam chair, can you please call item 7? >> executive officer report. [providing instructions for public comment] >> seeing no in person comment-sorry- >> thank you madam secretary. now we'll hear from executive officer jeremy pollack. >> hello again. jeremy pollack executive officer and have 4 brief items for you here. going to go over a preview of our budget and work plan for

upcoming fiscal year. a quick update on the launch of the e-bike for delivery workers pilot program, our policy analyst will give you a quick update from the reinvestment working group, and a look at the forward calendar for the next few meetings. lafco is required to adopt the budget may 1 proposed budget and final by june 15. it is slightly off from city and county timeline. we are aiming to have the votes at the april and may meetings. what i included in the report is two versions of our budget imagining what our budget looks like with the lafco sfpuc mou and without, and this slide shows the high level numbers and you will see-call your attention to the general fund line that shows significant difference in the amount of general fund support lafco will

have with and without the mou and the other thing i note here is the significant increase in the overall budget is mainly all most entirely the result of shifting the policy analyst position, which had been in the clerk of the board's office to being under lafco, and the proposed budget also reclassified that position from temporary to permanent civil service. and then here is the charts of the actual line items of the budget that-want sure how to present in a way that is copacetic to a small screen, so happy to answer questions and love the opportunity to discuss with you in detail as you are interested as we adjust some of the smaller items of our humble budget for approval next month. then i'll just move to brief discussion of the proposed work plan. so, before you the major

change from last year's work plan is proposal to add municipal housing services as a third bucket of our priority areas anticipating the midtown projbect as well as municipal housing feasibility study commissioner preston secured funding for. along with that we have continued work on clean power sf, which very much is to be determined. the scope and details on that based on the mou resolution or not, and then the third bucket here is around public banking and municipal finance service with reinvestment working group speeding towards completion of its duties we will look to you all on input how and if the worked should continue into the upcoming fiscal year. and then lastly, we have a few miscellaneous studies that have come on our plate, and i moved

the gig economy work overb to this category as it has become more a miner part of our work plan. planning to continue to advice with department of environment on their pilot program that was part of their grant funding for that was a commitment of lafco inkind service of staff time on that, and continue to look at other opportunities for that . we also have the golden state energy act which was study basically request from the commission at our january meeting to do sort of a outline of what a larger study would look at of golden state energy is the state non profit entity that would take over pg&e in the case of pg&e bankruptcy or decertification so working with community stakeholders to develop the scope of a miner study of looking at it impact of that for san francisco and what would a larger study look

like to prepare san francisco for that of pg&e going away. and then lastly, we have a request from board of supervisors president aaron peskin for lafco to conduct a survey study on municipal community laund row mat services and looking at particularly the needs of sro residents and in congregate and dense housing where it is difficult to get permitting for landry service and shrinking amount of landry in the city and supporting those type of sanitation services. i believe that is the extent of the work plan and budget discussion. maybe i'll pause to see if you all have any comments on that portion of the report. >> thank you.

actually, yes, could you go back to the budget slide? >> yeah. are you asking for the detailed line item slide? >> yeah. for the one with the mou and without the mou. >> yeah. >> okay. so, this carry forward is what is-what we currently have as well? >> right. so, the carry forward that you see is $129 thousand, that's the latest estimate from the clerk's office of what we will have unspnt at the end of thiscurrent fiscal year. >> okay. thank you. and then i see there is a without mou and with mou. a difference there of about $250 thousand for fiscal year 23-24.

okay. yeah, so-our ability to do the rest of the studies, the municipal laundry services, gig worker, golden state energy, that would come from what we currently have, right? >> right. so, all that would come out of our general fund support, and then on the municipal housing studies, the midtown study as well as the municipal housing feasibility study for both of those commissioner preston secured funding through the city budget that i believe is not reflected in here, so those are-those two studies have their own funding. the rest would basically come out of our general fund support and is essentially the staff time for our two staff and without contemplating any consultant services are not included in this for any of the

other studies. >> got it. thank you. yeah, i also want to thank the clerk's office for make thg policy analyst position a permanent part. our current policy analyst has been really key in the public bank work and so helpful to lafco in general so just wanted to thank the clerk's office for that. and i definitely want to explore ways to cut down cost for consultants. there is plenty public research institutions that we can partner with potentially to provide really quality information and we can work on making sure that the rfp's for those different studies get out to them. i was really impressed with the berkeley clee study on the climate action plan and how to finance that. the department of environment did. would love to potentially explore

partnerships with research institutions where possible. commissioners, do you have other questions, comments at this moment? alright. commissioner preston. >> thank you. so, i don't have questions or comments on the details of this, i just as wearing my other hat sitting on the board of supervisors i have to comment on the overall budget for a second. if you look at the agenda any given day with the 10s of millions of dollars we are asked to approve and contract amendments, it should not go without noted how much is being done on a budget under a million dollars. i would challenge anyone who is watching any aspect of city government to find any department that comes remotely close to the level of

production on substantive issues on important research, on important policy-forward thinking policies with the level of efficiency is the wrong word. it-not advocating for more or less money, just need to comment and commend particularly for the staff of two who have done and continue to do tremendous work, executive officer pollack and mr. samurai moving the public banking forward which can literally transform how san francisco chooses for generations to come to invest in small businesses, green infrastructure and affordable housing to the increase work specifically on housing and exploring models that could actually make the city an affordable place for working place people to live

and prevent displacement. this is major work and i'm often struck by what is sometimes a discussion or battle of getting some sliver of funds that is.0001 percent or whatever of-and just made that up but of the budget and whether it should or shouldn't go to lafco and look at the work performed and convene meetings with departments i won't name where 8 people show up for the meeting, half earning salaries that are literally each half the budget of all of lafco, so it is not to-the various -cast shade on the department, it is to highlight how much is being done here because of the work of the two gentleman here in chambers with us. the staff of lafco so want to note that and express my appreciation mpts >> thank you

commissioner preston. commissioner singh. >> i think my fellow commissioners and executive director pollack will not be surprised to hear my exsirement excitement there is lafco work on municipal housing. i want to highlight in sacramento right now there are at least three different legislative proposals pertaining-that actually may be 5 now that i think about it, pertaining to some facet of social housing, either production or acquisition or preservation. we really need to step up as san francisco, because really this is increasingly becoming demand from labor, demand from housing advocats and seen as a piece of our-critical piece of answering our housing shortage, so we really really do not and can't afford to have san francisco be a lagger and fall behind what is happening across the state. i'm very very very

excited to see this here. >> thank you. exective officer pollack did you want to continue? >> yes, a couple more brief items here. so, other item excited to report on is the department of environment pilot program to provide electric bikes to delivery workers is staffed up and launching. as we speak they added 2 staff to the clean transportation program and they are in the process. they finalized the contracts with subcontractors and in the process of recruiting delivery workers to participate in this program. the deadline is march 31 for folks to participate, so if you all know anybody who is interested in delivery work and has experience riding bikes in san francisco, they can apply at the link shown on the screen here. definitely welcome members of the public to help publicize this as well. and

then just very briefly the timeline for this, the project is broken into 2 cohorts. 15 individuals and workers that receive electric bikes and control group of 15 workers doing delivery by cars. they will track data of the two to give us empirical data on the difference between bikes and cars so recruiting participants. april we will train the workers and testing and then may-august will be the data collection and then at the completion of that, the bike delivery workers that complete that will receive ownership of their bikes and continue on that work and then second cohort again starting in august and so, excited to see this launching and hoping to have the department of environment come give us details later in the year how this is

progressing. like to turn it over for a update on the reingestment working group. >> hello. thank you. so, commissioners, as you probably heard me say a few times before, we are renegotiated the contract with our consultant hr & a to extend the deadline for their deliverable's because of some contract delays and seating delays last year. so, the updated timeline is in front of you. on march 20, this monday we will receive the second mfc draft that a lot of you commented on. thank you so much. you will have until march 31 to comment on the second mfc draft. i highly recommend reviewing it and i will make sure that every single comment you made is

either addressed or the reason it want accepted is addressed back to you. and as a reminder, we are currently accepting feedback for the public bank plan also until march 31, and then on april 14, we will get the final mfc governance and business plan and after we get the public bank plans at the request of the chair we'll vote to submit both mfc plans and public bank plans to both lafco and the board of supervisors at which point the working group will conclude its work. and yes, here's the list of dates. we have an april 20 meeting upcoming where we discuss the mfc draft and public bank plan and a may 18 meeting where we will review the final plans and

have that vote for you. that is the plan right now. as executive officer mentioned earlier, it is important right now for the commissioners to consider where public banking will live after the working group completes the works and submits the plans to the board. and happy to take any questions. >> thank you mr. samurai. once again, i want to thank executive officer pollack and mr. samurai and office of commissioner preston for making this a priority. so, as everyone knows at this point, this has taken years and years of work and in the last year the reinvestment working group has been hard at work with consultantss to come up with these plans, and last month we had a lot of great coverage about those plans. $20 million is what it will take to start the baby bank, the mfc, and at the moment there is

discussion about what are the demonstration projects, how do we show this can work? i think this is a particularly timely moment for public banking looking at silicon valley bank and how it is a part of this larger global market, very volatile. it was invested by mortgage back security. a lot of depositor base was tech world and vc and public bank is much different, but we are really excited to be continuing this conversation. again, as mr. samurai said, we are looking to see where the baby bank would live, where the mfc could live in the city government. i think it is really important and what i'm committed to doing on this commission is making sure that we are all looking at different sources of

capitalization for this baby bank, considering our deficit in the city and prioritization of police for everything else, so at the moment we have been scouring all the different levels, local, state, federal funding that could potentially be provided for a baby bank. as i mentioned in previous meetings, the discussion around green banking is happening at the same time as this. the biden administration passed ira climate bill and so there is potentially funds available as soon as june for that. that would be really key for potentially starting a baby bank. green lending could be one aspect, but also sustainability could be woven throw all the differentlanding aspect. currently the city has many lending programs

and we are looking forward to seeing more transparency around how those decisions are made, how those can be incorporated into a new bank, baby bank, and so all that to say, we still are in a really precious time to set our city up to potentially go for these big climate funs to start a bank so there is no other pressure on the general budget, but it is a key to economic recovery. small businesses have still struggled to get a lot of the lending they need, ppp loans dried up, it downtown obviously is still recovering, and i hear the only one of the biggest solutions at this point on the table is a gigantic tax break for billion airs and major corporations. we know how that has gone for san francisco. i encourage everyone to read the

draft plans. get your feedback in before march 29, and thank you all for your continued interest. commissioner preston. >> thank you chair fielder. comments on the broader budget already, but did want to chime in on both on the e-bike update and also on the public bank to really echo your comments around public bank and also thank you chair fielder for your leadership on sf public bank coalition and now on lafco on moving this forward. it is really a lot of work accomplished by the reinvestment working group. i did want to note, because i think it is one of these thing s we sometimes take for granted that the board of supervisors unanimously approved the ordinance creating this working group, and also has supported the budget going back to when

matt haney was chair of budget and one of our top priorities to get the funds to be able to do this work. there are a lot of things very controversial in city government. to date public banking has not been that and while there are-i don't want to suggest everyone is on the exact same page what it looks like and the details and there are things to be hashed out, but it is a area where there has been unanimous support from board of supervisors, city attorney obviously was the author of the bill that laid out the path to licensing a public bank at the state and so i hope that kind of unity continues and then there will be questions and there is no doubt there will be questions down the road of how big you go in terms of funding. we have seen the template what minimum it cost to set up the public

bank and the numbers you mentioned, the 20million, $50 million, the figures in the draft plans, but i also--probably is ultimately up to either voters or the board and mayor together to figure out-just because you can form something at 20million does not mean that where the conversation ends and think that is something i think we should all be unified in creating public bank, getting all the input as the reinvestment working group has been getting and then making a collective decision of how much we want to do with that entity once it is up and running and we can finance as many affordable housing projects or as many small businesses or green infrastructure projects as there is money to do it and political will down the road. don't want to sugar coat those

conversations will happen in the future, but i want to emphasize the real unity there has been around the concept of moving forward a public bank at this time, which is really really exciting. and just quick note on the e-bikes program, which is for deliveries which is something i'm very supportive of and excited by and recognize our former colleague commissioner and supervisor gordon mar who we worked with and who lead on that initial pilot. but just remind everyone that the survey showed 70 percent of folks who are driving vehicles in the city mostly double parking and we get complaints every day in our office on this issue, 70 percent of those folks who are driving their car polluting the environment to try to make a

living causing traffic congestion in the neighborhood, 70 percent when surveyed said they would switch to a e-bike if it was made available to them. so, this is absolutely a climate issue in our city and an issue where there is no reason other then finding the money, there is no reason we should not be expotentially increasing this program. we know it will work and we know there is a appetite for it, so i want to commend lafco staff for moving-for the work on this and the pilot but also i do think this is a area in the scheme of things it is not that big a price tag. there is a appetite for it and we are already seeing a in our city the traffic congestion

levels now are at or worse then the levels they were pre-covid and only getting worse. so, this is one huge thing that we can do to alleviate that and i'm excited that lafco is continuing and department of environment to lead on that, but really looking forward as i communicated to the executive officer, the ways we can accelerate and grow that program in the near term. this one commissioner would be excited for those efforts. >> thank you commissioner preston. commissioner singh. >> i want to make a quick note, because i believe (indiscernible) requires fdic approval in some fashion for public bank, so this is more a general comment but interested to see how shift in fdic policy in

response to recent crisis is going to effect us down stream and getting this public bank off the ground. >> thank you for that. i will throw it to mr. samurai because there was discussion yesterday about this. >> yes. our consultant let us know the fdic will be more cautious of approving bank plans in the future but to clarify, san francisco current plan is to start an mmf, which is non depository institution that doesn't have to get fdic approval. then we run that institution for 3-5 years and after a track record of success then we would go to the fdic and apply. in 3-5 years the market is likely to have changed again. >> thank you mr. samurai. i hope that helps. alright. seeing no other questions, comments, any members of the public who wish to speak for

three minutes? [providing instructions for public comment] >> we have one caller in the queue. may we please have the first speaker? >> good morning again commissioners. eric brooks with california for energy choice and our city sf. i want to bring up a very important issue that was also raised in the budget and appropriation committee wednesday and that is green bank financing and climate bonds. it is really good to see that that discussion is moving forward. we need climate bonds. we need green bank financing and the thing that was striking to me

about that hearing on wednesday is that, there was no discussion at all of revenue bond financing, it was all just general obligation bonds, which you have to increase property taxes or other taxes to get general obligation bond funding. it is understandable that folks don't realize this because it is buried in the city charter, but if you look in the san francisco charter under revenue bonds you see there are 8 different categories of revenue bonds and by revenue bonds just for the public, that means bonds used to build things that make their own revenue like a toll bridge or renewable energy from the customers and so that since they don't have to raise taxes, it doesn't going to the voters can be waived and that has been done. voters passed ballot measures that waived the requirement for the board of supervisors to go to them on

the ballot to get revenue bond financing, and the last addition of that was in 2001 when voters voted for prop h in november 2001 to create revenue bond financing that does not have to go to the voters for renewable energy and efficiency instillations. there is also section of that revenue bond section that applies to housing improvements, so it isn't just clean energy we can use these revenue bonds for and the beauty of the clean energy rev enue bonds because solar and efficiency and other renewable's save money long-term, you don't need to raise customer bills to use those bonds, so as this all goes forward for your forward calendar and future agenda items it is pretty important to have discussion about this

revenue bond authority, so that the green bank and so the start up bank in the next few years once it gets started up, even if not taking deposits it can use the revenue bonds authority of the city to move a lot forward so i urge you to consider that on future agendas. thanks. >> thank you for your comments today eric brooks. no other speakers in the queue. >> thank you madam clerk. seeing no public speakers, public comment is now closed. thank you executive officer pollack for your report and mr. samurai. madam clerk, please call item 8. >> general public comment. may address the commission on matters within the jurisdiction and not on the agenda. members who wish to comment on the item dial star 415-655-0001.

24832038194 press pound twice. if you haven't done so already dial star 3 to be added to the speaker queue. the system will prompt you riseed your hand. wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. seeing no in person public comment we'll look to the call in line. have one speaker listening with zero in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. thank you. madam clerk, please call item 9. >> future agenda items. [providing instructions for public comment]

>> thank you. colleagues, any other future agenda items to note? alright. let's open up for public comment. >> thank you madam vice chair. any members of the public who like to comment on item 9? [providing instructions for public comment] seeing no in person commenters, we'll look at the line. there are currently zero callers in the queue. >> thank you madam clerk. seeing no public speakers, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, is there any other business before us today ? >> no additional business before the commission. >> with there being no

additional business, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] >> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental

issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment.

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manner. today's special guest is carla short. >> hi, i'm chris manner and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining the city. our guest is carla short the intric director of public works and here to talk about the storms we had and much more. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> great to have you. let's start by talking about the storms that started beginning of the year. there fsh a lot of clean up recovery and remediation. can you talk about what your team did? >> sure. the 17 inches of rain we got starting on new year's eve through the first 2 and a half weeks of january made it one of the wettest periods in recorded history for san francisco, so as you imagine we had a lot of work to do. we gave out more then 31

thousand sand bags, we were operating all most non stop from new year's eve to san francisco residents and businesses out of our operation yard and frequently working thin rain so it was a beautiful dance to watch. we had a corio graphed where people drive in the stop and load with san dags and get on it way so thats was the most visible thij weez had to do. responded to all most a thousand calls for localized flooding for the corner of the street with catch basin. our team trying to address that. we clear and pick up anything to block and it hopefully get the flooding to go down. if we are able to respond we call in the san francisco pub utility system and are responsible for the sewer system under so they bring ing vack trucks that vacuum out debris inside the

catch basin. we also dealt with lots and lots of calls about trees and tree limbs down. i think we actually faired better then some other places in terms of loss of full trees. we did have whole tree failures and that is not that uncumin with super satch waited soil conditions. we had over 950 calls about trees or tree limbs down. a lot of calls were about loss of a limb and we could save the tree. we are still assessing the data to figure how many were full tree failures versus limb failure. >> also had land movement too. the great highway comes to mind. what is your approach to managing rock mud and land slides? >> that is a great question. we had 28 different slides over the course of that period. it is kind of a interesting process, so the first step is we have our geotechnical or structural engineers take a look to see is the hillside

safe, do we need to stabilize it in some way or just need to do some cleanup? once they made their assessment they will recommend the next steps. often times to protect public safety we will place k rails the giant concrete rails at the base omthe slide area to make sure that any debris doesn't get on the edroway and bring ing the heavy equipment to scoop up on the ground and move off the roadway and try to open the roadway. some cases, we will actually inject some rocks or other stabilizing forces either into the slide area or sometimes below the roadway. right now there is nothing that's unstable out there but be are keeping a close eye on the areas including the gray highway area. >> right, right. well, so talking about the storms in the city response, brings us to southeast community scepter when there is rain

remediation projects going on. can you talk about the inconstruction project kblrks that is a favorite project. a beautiful new community facility. we were involved in pretty much every aspect of developing that project for the public utility commission. they were a client. we design project management and construction management and the landscape design for that project. and one thing that we included was storm water management throughout the entire project site. so, that project encapturealize the rain water that lands on the roof and flows into the landscape where we have rain gardens so intent is slow the water down to and give areas to collect to percolate into the ground rather then the sewer system. when we have sewers that are overloaded, because our rain water mixes with the sewer treatment storm sewer

system, we actually can end up dist charging into the bay which we dont want to do. anything we can do to just prevent those combined sewers from overpm loaded is a good thing and in this case allows the water to collect onsite and percolate to the ground which is the best way to manage the storm water and it is beautiful and provides habitat. i encourage everybody to see it. it is special place. >> that's great. there was recently news about how city (indiscernible) powered by steam, which is super unusual i think. i understand public works ablgtually does the maintenance on the system. can you just talk about that a bit? >> sure. that is a unusual situation. that steam loop was actually built when the city was recovering from the 1906

earthquake. it only provides to steam about 4 buildings in civic center but that is how we keep buildings like city hall warm. the steam goes into the radiators and provides the heat. it is a old system and if you see steam billowing out of the man holes or other spaces, that is indication of a leak actually. we spend a lot of time trying to fix the leaks because it's a old system. it is managed by the real estate department and at one point they were looking trying to replace the whole thing but think that is a massive undertaking so now they focus on making as needed repair said. we did a big repair on growth street where we spent a month and a half working on the known leaks s in the area. it is a very tight spot and have to use blow torches to seal up the leak so a intense operation and seeing more leaks on polk street so we will be

out there once it warms up to fix the leaks. >> excellent. let's discuss what is the reunifiquation of public works. there fsh a proposal or plan to split off the division, called the street and sanitation. now that has been shelved and public works is going to just retain being a single entity. can you talk through the process? >> sure. yeah. the original proposal was a ballot measure voted on to split the department into 2. it basically create the department of sanitation and streets that was really going to incompass all our operation divisions so it was a street cleaning department but encompass everything we refer to as operations. when we worked preparing for that split with the city administrator office, we found there were actually 91 what we call touch points between the operations work and our engineering and

architecture side, so we really felt like it could be very difficult to split into two departments. we have so many areas of overlap. there was a new ballot measure last november to reunit the department. technically we split october one and did split in some ways. we did put on hold some of the behind the scenes things like rebranding all the vehicle jz giving everyone a new e-mail address in the sanitation and streets department, but on january 1 of 2023 we came back together so we are reunited i want sing the peaches and purb song and think it is a good thing for the 91 areas of overlap. we making #2c3w50d use of the research. preparing for the split. looking at all the touch points and trying to strengthen the department so we are more streamlined and efficient. one

of the most important component from the original ballot measure is commission oversight. we retained two commissions, the public works commission which oversee the over-all department and approve the budget and contracts. and sanitation and street commission and their mandate focus on policy and deliverable for street cleaning and basically the operation division. reporting to them regularly how we are doing, we think will help make sure we are as efficient and effective as we can be as a department. >> that sounds great. thank you so much for coming and talking to me today and appreciate the time you have given. >> thank you so much for having me. it was a pleasure. >> that is it for this episode. you are watching san francisco rising.

[♪♪♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪♪♪] >> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. i always have an interest in public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums.

i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public art is art with a job to do. it is a place where the architecture meets the public. where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. we commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. it is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and recreation centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. colette test on a number of those projects for its. one of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps.

>> mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. you need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. i glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [♪♪♪] >> we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of

the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. so we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [♪♪♪] >> my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. and also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i

liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. so one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [♪♪♪] >> there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. during the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. there was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you

are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. it is a little bird. the relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [♪♪♪]