>> nowruz hi, everyone thank you so much for joining the 18 year have come at san francisco city hall. >> my name is sophia, if any, the founder and ceo of persian women and honored to be at city hall chair for the past 8 years. >> this year in light of the

political movement no iran persian men decided for the to have that but celebrating our heritage to display our event we're having right now. march is a month where many things will elevated you including international women's at a and women's history month and nowruz which is celebrated over 3000 years by over 90 million people around the world. it is so important to have representation. for communities to come total together and showcase their heritage and culture. >> san francisco is a city that welcomes opens it's arms to many

underrepresented community and culture we're thankful for working with the mayor of the san francisco and supervisor and supervisor to bring the incredible event together. it is important to recognize that women are behind this program the committee is all women with you so vendors are women and our all over the are iranian america women and persian women stand with - (clapping.) it is important not to only evaluate but come together as a community tonight together we're

stronger for that. and able to do more we're able to uplift our community and showcase this beauty of our culture and heritage. i'm honored today to introduce the mayor of san francisco london breed to the stage. >> (yelling). >> thank you and thank you to persian women it is so wonderful for here nowruz thank you to all the families and the friends and the people that came to celebrate now we know it is an challenging time in our lives and we know that sadly the death of marsha has created a fear and

frustration and this taken place in san francisco where that community stood in solidist to make that clear that the hatred will not be tolerated in any for this this community came together because of the hurt and pain and we'll be sad that happens to the women and women so many places where we are being challenged on a regular basis and not given the opportunity to decide on the economy of our both sides in the decided about our lives it is so fitting it persian women has hosted this event and fitting it

is held during women's history month in city hall. by a woman and mayor to make that clear we send a strong message we talk about the nowruz and renewable and hope and future and starting a new we make that clear that the ability for women to make they're own decisions about their both sides and how they move around the world that we will stand for justice and fairness and so today is about a hope for renewable hope for a new day, hope for a new year that is starkly the possibility what can a happy we truly come together and work hard and push for fairness and justice for all human beings. (clapping.) so i want to really again, thank you sophie and you'll see people

who are volunteering and hosting this over the years and really acknowledge your work and leadership in the tech industry a male dominated destroy for other women to strive thank you, for you work and advocacy and also take the opportunity to acknowledge our chief the protocol the first woman to serve had in the city and county of san francisco her family do incredible things she's a proud persian woman will be a support of this community thank you to my co-host supervisor and i saw earlier shamann and so many

leaders of people in city hall. i of course, that our hearts are heavy but today it truly a celebration to may be make that clear the persian of san francisco has a place here in san francisco at city hall a place that feels save and secure and a place to celebrate the new year and think before hope for the future a place you know, we have your back and here to support moving forward because our diversity in san francisco is our sprelth e strength the fact we stick together what makes our unique place. so great to see all of you here to celebrate nowruz any time i have an opportunity to celebrate a new year a change for a new beginning i'm happy to do that and acknowledge your state the state of california control the

treasurer also joining us today so many wonderful people who care about celebrating the new year and the joy of this occasion city hall will be a place that we continue to do that and i want to ask sophie to come forward as i officially declare monday, march 20th - tuesday, march 21, 2023, in the city and county of san francisco nowruz day. >> (clapping) thank you so much and at this time, i wanted to introduce my co-host supervisor saving thank you, ma'am mayor give it up for london breed. >> could i is the 18 day 18

year i'm sorry 18 year that we had nowruz celebration at city hall it started think o under governor gavin newsom a group of iranian got together and to recognize a community in many ways to a lot of people they're land use in one group out of that have a way to celebrate our culture at city hall so from that time going forward we have been having celebrations every year more and more fruitful and more and more event full and a beautiful way to show our culture. um, i want to recognize a few people before i say a few more words thank you, sophie the persian woman for organizing this and others and

(clapping.) expanding our culture a showing the music and i want to thank the mayor for hosting this not every community doesn't but had the opportunity to come to city hall. >> (clapping) but i want to i i would be remiss to say we have to recognition what is happening in iran people are putting their lives on the whether or not i think for what we take some people take for granted on a daily basis the ability to speak feel free and walk down the street to hole hands and simple things and speaking their. as a matter of fact simple things we do on a daily basis are not exchanged by brave brave women and people brave brave young people in fact, are putting their lives on the line

(chanting). >> thank you. >> and so i want to say nowruz nowruz and (speaking foreign language) what are the beautiful people in the world can we give it up for persians and thank you for celebrating our culture. >> thank you good for celebrating coming together as one thank you and i'm going to ask lisa and mohammed to come up please we can recognize the wonderful work you do (clapping.) come on up. >> today a mohammed day

(laughter.) >> thank you. (clapping.) and then lastly, i want to call you think persian woman and tech sophie for all you're amazing work you have done (clapping.) . thank you. >> yeah. one second so then also let's give up for the wonderful happening displays thank you for her amazing work and (clapping.) for again, it is absolutely beautiful and hand it back to severing any. >> thank you, supervisor. and

mayor for an incredible speech this today would not be possible without the support of many of our community members and giving the time, and money because it costs something like to lee like this and recognize those who really have been the pillar important for the program and for the most part the culture family foundation (clapping.) has been supporting this initiative for many, many years we appreciate that. mr. mohammed and christen. >> (clapping). >> i think beyond the community we also need to see around us in the city and they need to step up and also support

thankful for amazon crews and san francisco giants in supporting and elevating our community (clapping.) i hope you enjoyed today's tea and the pastries and i want to thank - bakery and the tea we're serving you. >> providing the - presenting incredible work please support them and couldn't have done it without you the committee that is behind us and unfortunately, we are not having everyone but. >> (calling names.) >> have been part of this and supporting to make sure that our culture is represented our is

elevated thank you so much and i'm going to pass it back to supervisor. >> (clapping) want to recognize a few people before we bring up the next person you thank you for the board of education for being here (clapping.) and the record thank you and any bring up our state treasurer to say a few words please come on up and been a wonderful friends and every step of the way thank you, state treasurer. >> thank you very much. and great to be here in the people's hall slubt the culture and the tradition of the persian community i've been good forensics with sammy others for

so many years and used to see call me all the time and now they are elected they no longer call me all the time but i've been here since i served on the board of supervisors in 200220 years so it is so great to be here with all of our beautiful persians and the community members we thank the mayor for continuing to welcome us and feel included in this great diversity of the state of california we are the fourth largest economy because of all of us so let's celebrate and stand up and rise up to support the people to be the best we can happy nowruz (clapping.) and then lastly last but not least want to bring our our city

administrator carmen chu please come up. >> hello, good afternoon afternoon i'm the city conservative and welcome, everyone to city hall a beautiful event it is great represents the spring and new beginnings and also want to say this year we're looking forward to a wonderful year in the celebration with all of you and especially thank supervisor for bringing this year after year and the mayor to continuing to host and sponsor for those of you who don't know a handful of celebrations in city hall this is one of them and thanks to the leadership and the supervisor and the mayor thank you for your great work and, of course, we have the year ahead (clapping.) . okay. everyone thank you and

enjoy the treats and thank you for coming out today hi, sandy, how are you? >> hi, fine, thank you. how are you?

>> good. i want to ask you what inspired you to be a paramedic? >> that's a good question. you know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. >> can you give me a break down of a typical day for you? >> i come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to e-mails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. can we hire more people. what kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems. >> what does it take to be a female paramedic? >> you know, it takes quite a bit of schooling, but also required somebody who's empathetic. it can be a very stressful job and so we want people to be able to hand that on a

day-to-day basis. >> so what's your greatest satisfaction in your job? >> trying to make sure that the work that we provide and the services that we provide to the community is the best that we can in ems so that when we go out to see you if you call us for an emergency, that we'll be able to treat you in the best way possible and that you get the care as quickly and as effectively as possible. >> why is it important for young girls, women of color to see women in these roles? >> i think it really is important for us to be able to get into these roles because we are effective, we are able to reach out to the community. we are able to do the job in a very effective manner and to be able to relate to the community and be able to do that is one of the best things that we can do. and people of color and as women of color, you know, we are in a great position to be able to do that.

my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of

testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at

the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical

examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san

francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to

various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day.

i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. what do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the enough and --

with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking

to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco.

>> it is now 1 p.m. my name is miguel bustos and this is community investment infrastructure for tuesday march 21, 2023. i like to welcome you all who joined us in person for our first meeting back, as well as those who are online, but remember beginning march 2023-march 1, 2023 the emergency order provisions that suspended certain local meetings have been lifted and our commission has resumed as in person meetings. today's meeting is held in hybrid format. members of the public are welcome to join in person at city hall and also welcome to provide comments

remotely through webex. thank you all for being here. madam secretary, please call the first item. >> thank you mr. chair. the first order of business is item 1, roll call. commission members please respond when i call your name. [roll call] we have a quorum. the next item is announcement. the next regularly scheduled commission meeting is tuesday april 4, 20 twoe 23 at 1 p.m.

please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic device. c announcement of public comment procedures. a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to comment on each item unless the commission adopts a shorter period. during each comment period, members of the public attending in person will have a opportunity to provide their public comments. it is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. members of the public joining online will be instructed to dial 415-655-0001. 24825541346, press pound sign and pound sign again to enter the call. when prompted, press star 3 to submit request to

speak. when you dial star 3 you will hear the following message, you raised your hand to ask a question, please wait to speak until the host calls on you. when you hear your line is unmuted this is it the opportunity to provide comment and you have 3 minutes. speak clearly and slowly and you will be placed back on mute when you are done speaking. if you are planning to provide a public comment on any items on today's agenda call the public comment line ahead of time to listen to the meeting live and prevent experiencing delays caused by watching a live stream. today's meeting material are available on our website at sfoccc.org under commission then public meetings tab. the next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken at previous closed session. there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is iletm 4, matters of unfinished business. there are no matters of unfinished businessism the next order of business

is item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. first is consent agenda. 5a, approval of minutes regular meeting of december 6, 2022. mr. chair. >> do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment? >> at this time, i like to invite any members of the public in person if they would like to provide public comment. is there any members of the public online who wish to comment on the minutes? call 415-655-0001 enter access code 24825541346, press pound sign and pound sign again, then press star 3 once you are in the call to be placed in the queue. mr. chair, it does not appear there are any members of the public wishing to comment on this item. >> hearing no request

to speak on this item, i'll close public comment. commissioners, may i get a motion for consent item? >> i motion to approve the minutes from the february meeting. >> thank you commissioner brackett. second? >> second. >> thank you commissioner scott. madam secretary, please take roll. >> before i do that chair, could you come closer to the mic when you speak or move it closer. it sounds low. thank you. thank you commissioners. please announce your vote when i call your name. [roll call] >> mr. chair, the vote is 4 ayes and 1 absent. >> motion carries. thank you. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> next is the regular agenda. item 5b commending and expretssing appreciation to mara rosales for service upon the occasion of her

departure from commission on community investment and infrastructure. discussion and action resolution 1-2023. director kaslofsky. >> thank you madam secretary. commissioners, this is a resolution recognizing the work of commissioner mara rosales. it represents just a small portion of the contribution she made to the city. understanding the commissioners are going to be dealing with this resolution in the way they handle the reading of it so i'll leave it there with you. >> thank you. should we call for public comment first? madam secretary, is there anyone from the public- >> it looks like we have a member of the public. >> okay. >> let's give him a minute.

>> good afternoon. i just want to-my name is oscar james, a native resident of bayview hunters point, 76 years. i have been familiar with this commission since 1968. i have been a participant and coming to these meetings all up until the pandemic. it has been a pleasure knowing all the previous commissioners and knowing some now, i see new faces, but i really want to commend our commissioner who is retiring. she has done a tremendous job. not too much i can say about it. i looked at all the commissioners, and the dedication that you guys bring to our community and the city and county of san francisco as a whole. it is really been a

pleasure for her to serve as our commissioner. the wisdom and the expertise and the-her law experiences made sure things went proper for all of the residents of this city, but especially bayview hunters opponent, point which i love and dear to my heart. i will be back up for you mr. bustos in a minute, but i just am just pleased with this new commission. the previous commissioners when i first came didn't represent our communities at all. the dedication with some were half and half to me. we felt in our community, we turned over desk s when you was at 939

ellis street to make sure we got peoples like you guys on this commission. not me personally turn over a desk, but i was sitting in the audience-i don't want to make things look bad, but we were trying to scare people who didn't have our interest at heart and now that we have peoples with our interest at heart, i commend and during the pandemic i wasn't able to get on a lot of times, which i like seeing peoples eye to eye, because you can see the truth in a person. you can see the commitment that our good lord savior jesus christ gave to us to watch out for each other one another. the bell has rung and i'm long-winded but it has been a pleasure to have her on this commission and the reason i say her--have a senior moment on

females names, but the dedication she has brought to this commission and the city like i said it is incomparable and i just wish she have successful life and what she have done for the city, it just can't be measured up to and you guys keep your good work. and if you do bad, i will tell you you are doing bad. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. james. >> and we also have george bridges. >> good afternoon commissioners. george bridges, contract compliance supervisor. director kaslofsky and general council morales. former commissioner rosales, see if i can just make you laugh. i

don't want to make you cry. i just remembered we going-we thought it was the end of the world and it really seemed like it, but your dedication to the staff was beyond what we could have imagined, and i just want to thank you on behalf of staff, contract compliance division. community is the most important part, and the community, the small business community, they love you and they constantly say that they know that you're for them, and you make our jobs a lot easier because we know that you're out there giving them good direction . wish you all the best. i know we will see you

probably even more often, because you always fight the good fight, but i really appreciate all that you've done for us. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. chair, it does not appear there are any members of the public wishing to comment further. >> okay. i will close public comment, and i will turn to my fellow commissioners, beginning with commissioner brackett. >> so, matthew mentioned earlier today, we are going to be presenting the commission on community investment insfru structure 1, commending appreciation commissioner rosales. as a commission on community investment and are infrastrucker whereas, october 4, 2012 san francisco

mayor late edwin lee appointed mrs. rosales to community investment and infrastructure. she served with distinction, excellence and commitment to the mission of the office of community investment and infrastructure ocii as the successor agency to san francisco redevelopment agency of promoting community, economic and physical development and blighted neighborhoods and whereas, during her tenure, mrs. rosales provided critical leadership to ocii and serving first as vice chair from december 18, 2012 to august 5, 2014 and chaired from august 5, 2014 to march 21, 2017 and then again came back and served as vice chair under miguel from may 7, 2019 to present. since her appointment the commission has supported and the commission has

approved numerous actions to implement ocii enforceable obligations which approve economic vitality, landscape and affordable opportunities and quality of life in san francisco. with oversight and approval, oci oorks has taken actions relate today the active development in hunter point ship yard and candle stick point, mission bay and transbay project areas along with continuing enforceable obligations related to the yerba buena (indiscernible) >> whereas as a commissioner mrs. rosales approved numerous actions ocii undertook related to dissolution of the san francisco redevelopment agency, including implementation of enforceable obligations that survivored dissolution and created jobs market rate affordable housing units and public infrastructure benefiting the city and county of san francisco, aprauvl of

long range property management plan, conformation of housing assets transferred to the city as housing successor and approval of 3 recognized obligation payment schedules and whereas, mrs. rosales a lifelong resident of san francisco manages a private law practice in the city. prioring to entering private pract in in 2004 served at san francisco international airport general counsel for 10 years and deputy director for legislative affairs and serve #d years with the san francisco deputy city attorney in the government law division. she has more then 30 years of distinguished career in the specialized area of affirmative action and public contracting. in her capacity mrs. rosales authored and defended several minority local contract business programs.

april 1, 2014 under mrs. rosales leadership, the transbay block 5 request proposals became the initial project to require development teams to prepare a workforce and contracting action plan. the wcap described the specific steps a development team would take to begin the development process and create a implementation plan that help improve contracting and workforce achievement levels for the project, and >> whereas, mrs. rosales has been instrumental in advising agency staff regarding amendments to ocii small business program sbe policy. allowing its long history of promoting equal opportunity and procedures and contracting with minorities, women and small

business development. under her role as chair the commission amended the sbe policy joint venture and association on july 7, 2015 to insure that this continues and, whereas, during mrs. rosales tenure, ocii has overseen the award of over 5.7 billion dollars in contracts with nearly 1.8 billion or, 31.6 percent going to sbe's. of this amount, $973 million has been awarded to san francisco based small businesses. minority and women owned businesses have also participated in a

significant manner with over $942 million in contracts or nearly 16.7 percent of all awards reflecting the ethnic and gender diversity of the region. as a economic driver, ocii, sbi program has benefited over 1090 local and small businesses since 2012 and- >> whereas, throughout her term on the commission mrs. rosales is a staunch proponent of ocii housing programs. over 3,000 housing units started construction during her term, of which 1/3 affordable to very low and low moderate

income households. whereas, mrs. rosales has been a strong supporter to provide affordable housing opportunities to members of low income house holds displaced by the former agency and eligible to receive housing preference through ocii certificate of preference program. she consistently urged the mayor office of housing and community development, which provides services to market and lease up sponsored affordable housing units to fulfill their commitment to provide accessible user friendly and online access to housing applications and marketing information through the data base of affordable housing listings information and applications, the dahlia program. and whereas, mrs. rosales presence on the successor agency commission will be greatly missed by those who having businesses before the commission the public generally and her

fellow commissioners and agency staff. her legacy includes the funding of thousands of affordable housing units, creation of numerous construction and permanent jobs and specific development projects that improved and will continue to improve the economic vitality urban landscape and quality of life of san francisco. now therefore let it be resolved, that the commission on community investment and infrastructure on behalff oits executive director and employees acknowledge the service that mrs. rosales has provided to ocii and by the resolution expresses to mrs. rosales, it is appreciation of work well done. thanks for her dedicated public service and wish for success in her future

endeavors. thank you. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> wow. okay. thank you so much. i will keep this short, because as everybody's knows i'm a cry baby when i say good bye, as i did a little when nadia said farewell. i want to thank of course, all of you and the members of the public who have spoken for your kind words for acknowledgment and recognition that has now been memorialized or soon to be memorialized should you adopt it in the resolution.

just reflecting on what i wanted to say, i thought yes, i'm a founding member and i have a lot of good stories which i won't take the time to share today because we don't want them in the public record, but it was a very i think fortuitous day when mayor lee and then city administrator naome kelly insisted i think about joining the commission and so, i did so for lots of reasons and over time i have to say from those early days of seeing all members of the commission, because i have gone through all members of the commission, and of course i worked with commissioner drew as well, so i have seen lots of change over those 10 years and i have to say with each year i have seen the good work of the commission incrementally enhance, just every single year, and that takes incredible teamwork, because i

have served many other commissions in san francisco, and i can tell you that that's not always the case where that teamwork is there. not just within the agency itself, but with the community, with the stakeholders, with city patners, with business partners, but most of all, with the staff. the staff is outstanding, and it is the current staff, the former staff throughout the 10 years. i always said policy makers are only as good as their staff. so, i want to do a shout out to the staff, but also to the community partners and our city partners. certainly included the staff is general counsel with advice over the years and i just want to say, it is truly been a enriching experience, and i'm still in san francisco, i'm a native and still here so any time you need to reach out and i will do the same, you might find me

commenting occasionally on certain items because i like to keep track of work i had my fingers in, but i want to thank the commission, especially for being in a good fight and i'm honored that i and you all have done it together. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners, i will need a motion. this is the first resolution of the year i believe, right? appropriately. may i get a motion for item 5b? >> i move to certify the mentioned resolution. >> thank you. may i have a second sth >> i second that. thank you commissioner scott. >> please announce your vote when i call your name for item 5b.

[roll call] >> mr. chair, the vote is 4 ayes, 1 absent. >> motion carries. thank you commissioner rosales. [applause] you are staying for the meeting so now we'll hear you, right? thank you all. i want to thank general counsel morales who helped put the resolution together. thank you. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> item number 5c through 5f related to bond items will be presented together, but acted on separately. item 5c is authorize the issuance of new money tax allocation bonds subject to oversight board and department of finance approval as permitted in section

34177.7a1a and 34177a1b of the california health and safety code to finance one affordable housing obligation note to exceed $30 million and 2, infrastructure obligation in the transbay redevelopment project area in the principal amount not to exceed $45 million, approving and directing the execution of second supplement induncher trust and bond purchase contract and approving related documents and actions. affordable housing obligation transbay infrastructure obligation. discussion and action resolution 2-2023. item 5d. authorizing a first amendment to the legal services contract with law offices of alexis s.m. chiu for disclosure counsel services in connection

with the issuance of tax allocation revenue bonds and tax allocation revenue refunding bonds to modify the scope of the contract to include an affordable housing bond series without increasing the not-to-exceed amount (discussion and action) (resolution no. 03-2023) item 5e, authorizing a first amendment to the legal services contract with jones hall, a professional law corporation for bond and disclosure counsel services to modify the scope of the contract to include an affordable housing bond series without increasing the not-to-exceed amount (discussion and action) (resolution no. 04-2023) item 5f, authorizing a first amendment to the personal services contract with pfm california advisors, llc for financial advisor services to modify the scope of the contract to include an affordable housing bond series without increasing the not-to-exceed amount (discussion and action) (resolution no. 05-2023) >> director kaslofsky.

>> it is on? thank you madam secretary. as stated, this is a bond issuance item for projects in the transbay project area. and also related contracts for what we call the financial support team including bond disclosure council, disclosure council and financial services. thisitesm will be presented by john daigal, the agency debt manager. john. >> good afternoon chair bustos, members of the commission, director kaslofsky. my name is john daigal the debt manager for ocii. as director kaslofsky pointed out, these items are all related to the issuance of the bonds. the focus of the presentation will be on the bond items

as the contract amendments are fairly miner. the enforceable obligations, which are being satisfied with the issuance of these bonds are first affordable housing application, which consist of 4433 units, and 140 of those are in construction and 981 in pre-development at this point. the transbay infrastructure obligations, which are required by the transbay implementation agreement. the enable authority respectively is the health and safety code, the two sections listed. section a, the first one applies to affordable housing obligation, and the section ending in b, is relative to transbay

infrastructure. so, series a, overview of that is that it involves furthering the development of 537 units of affordable housing, which totals 16 percent of the remaining obligation. the project show in the table here it is transbay 2 east and west, and then the pre-development for transbay 4. again, they total 537 units. transbay series b, sorry-is the transbay block 3 park project. this table shows exactly how much money is generated by the sale of the bonds and then what happens to that money. these numbers are based on the actual

market at the time they were put together and as we know, markets are dynamic and especially now. these are-if we had sold the bonds then, this would be pretty much what it looks like. this is prepared by our municipal advisor/financial advisor based on discussion with trading desks and underwriting firms so these are real numbers. rather then go through all of those, i could answer any questions about them at the end. i'll give a quick summary. when you saw the bonds you have the proceeds, which is basically the face amount of the bonds. you have that and you can potentially have a premium and existence of premium has to do with what investors

want. for infrastructure bonds it is different portfolio. those portfolio managers might want to see higher coupon so we give them a higher coupon if it makes sense but they have to pay more for it and that's why you get a premium. that's what that is about. and then, the use of the funds is below with the project fund amounts first and debt service reserve, this is a reserve set apart and held by the trustees and it is security for the bond holder should the revenues be insufficient to pay debt service. that reserve gets used on the last debt service payment of the bond. you basically can throw it in the pot then. and then there is cost of issuance underwriter's discount which is how the underwriters make money selling the bonds and insurance is a decision that is made

at the time the bonds are sold. if it makes sense to have bond insurance, so if lowers the yield enough to save more money then it costs to by the insurance, then you do it. that is a very routine calculation, but based on today's market it would make sense to pay for the insurance, bond insurance. and then the last other uses, that is just rounding. i hope that want too tiresome. the proposed action is to approve the key foundational documents for the bond deal, which is the first supplement to the indenture of trust. the reason it is done that way, for this credit it was initially set up with a bond indenture that could be supplemented so each time you wouldn't have to write a entirely new bond

indenture and since it is on parody credit it make sense to modify the sections required to accommodate the new bond. it is more efficient. there is a list of some things that are changed or added, and some of those things are known now and some won't be known until we price the bonds. also, this will approve the bond purchase agreement, which is the contract that we sign with the purchaser of the bonds which is the underwriter and those details wont be known until we price the bonds. additionally, the action will approve the underwriter selection. we issued a request for proposal to the entire underwriter pool for city and county of san francisco, we received 11 responses and they

were evaluated and scored by an evaluation-a selection panel, which included myself and representative of the city office of public finance, with the help of our financial advisor. the team we selected for lead underwriter, we selected (indiscernible) public finance. we have tom jacob here from steefal and cosenior we selected baxten. we worked with them both firms before and are very happy to be working with them again. the contract amendments are-there three contract amendments that are being modified here. the fa contract, the bond council contract and disclosure council contract, and the reason this is happening is that after we

had already brought these contracts to you, the opportunity came up to do these housing projects in transbay and it was unknown at the time. or we would have put it in there. it came up sort of right at the very last moment and we just had to figure how to try to do this because it was also quite time sensitive. normally we issue october november in order to get them money when they need it we need the bonds issued basically towards the end of july, so our consultants were very accommodating in helping us get there and do this. the contract scope is the only thing that is modified to include this. we have not increased the maximum amount payable under the contract. i should explain rather then leave the question hanging, why they do that. the reason was that originally the

transbay deal was about twice as large, but quite a bit larger. a portion of that got delayed until 2025, and so we are able-because it is the same credit, we are able to simply plug this within in and it will be under the same official statement one taxable series and one tax exempt series. it doesn't create additional work, but we do really appreciate the accommodation that our consultants made to help us get where we need to get. so, for-we actually have a representative here from pfm california advisor, sara hallenbeck. bond counsel was unable to attend but we do

have-that would be-i'm sorry. >> brian. >> no, it is juan galvan but he was unable due to conflict. >> herald is on webex. >> he is available online if you have any questions about the legal contracts. and also the disclosure council, alex chiu who i believe is online. >> that's correct. >> the proposed action here of course is to approve the three contract amendment resolutions. our next steps are listed here. we'll go to the oversight board next week, and then we can submit the bond documents for approval to the department of finance, and they

have unfortunately 65 days to respond. hopefully they will be quicker then that, but we'll be okay even if they take all that time. june 1 is the final day. we have a determination by then then we'll come back to commissioners with the final approval the last time-bring this here to approve primarily the preliminary official statement and then go to market on july 10 and close on the 24. and this concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you. madam secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment? >> at this time members who wish to provide public comment on these items call 415-655-0001, access

code 24825541346, press pound sign and pound sign again then press star 3 to be placed in the queue. if you are already listening to us by phone, please press star 3 if you like to provide public comment, and would like begin by inviting anyone who joined in person if they would like to provide public comment on these items. mr. chair, it does not appear there are any members of the public wishing to comment on these items. >> hearing no request to speak on this item, i'll close public comment. i'll turn to fellow commissioners for comments or questions they have. okay. alright. so, commissioners, we will take these items separately. let us start with item number 5c. may i get a motion for 5c? >> (indiscernible) >> thank you commissioner

brackett. may i have a second some >> second. >> thank you commissioner scott. madam secretary, please take roll. >> please announce your vote when i call your name for 5c. [roll call] mr. chair, the vote is 4 ayes, one absent. >> thank you. motion carries. may i get a motion and second for item number 5d? >> i move to approve item 5d. >> thank you commissioner brackett. may i have a second? >> second that move. >> thank you commissioner scott. madam secretary, please take roll. >> can i please announce your vote when i call your name for item 5d. [roll call] >> mr. chair, the vote is 4

ayes, 1 absent. >> motion carries. commissioners, may i get a motion for item 5e? >> i move that we authorize first amendment to the legal services item 5e resolution number 04-2023. >> may i have a second ? >> i would second the motion. >> thank you commissioner. madam secretary, please take roll. >> please announce your vote for item 5e when i call your name. [roll call] mr. chair the vote is 4 ayes, 1 absent. >> motion carries. may i get a motion for item number 5f? >> move to approve item 5f. >> thank you commissioner ludlum. >> second that motion. >> second by commissioner scott. madam secretary, please take roll. >> commission members, please announce your vote for item 5f when i call your name-

[roll call] mr. chair the vote is 4 ayes, 1 absent. >> motion carries. thank you. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> next is agenda item number 5g. urging the san francisco unified school district to adopt a program, similar to the small business enterprise policy of the office of community investment and infrastructure, to provide contracting goals for small businesses in the awarding of contracts; mission bay south redevelopment project area (discussion & action) (resolution no. 06-2023) director kaslofsky. >> leave it on? thank you

madam secretary. this was all that is in here is the title. this is a urging resolution to have the school district of san francisco as relates to the mission bay school project adopt a small business contracting policy that is more similar to ocii and present this item is mr. mark mission bay project manager. mark. >> give me one second to get my slides up here. good afternoon chair bustos, commissioners, director kaslofsky, my name is mark. i'm the project manager for mission bay. the

item before you today is a action item urging the san francisco unified school district to adopt a program similar to the small business enterprise policy of ocii to provide preferences for local disadvantage businesses in awarding of contracts. this item is before you due to our work with the school district for the construction of their school on block 14 in mission bay. for this site and project our opa and infrastructure plan requires the master developer fossil to construct the school yard, had however the master developer and school district are close to an agreement where the school district will construct the school yard as well as construct the building. so, since the school is going to be building and playyard they will follow two different contracting policies. f the

school district will be following their own policies for the building of the school building, and they will be following ocii policies for building of school yard because they will be using our funding. in june 2022, the school district hired mccarthy construction as their design build entity, and contractor, and since then ocii has been working with both the school district and mccarthy on how to follow our sb policy requirements. we worked with them to see if they follow the sbe policy on the school building which they are not ready to do, but they have agreed they would outreach to priority zip codes for both projects. so, our sbe policy for ocii has goal of 50 percent and that encourage aggressive and proactive engagement. school district encourages participation of firms and projects, it diz not

have a explits sbe program and why we are here today with that item for you. in the audience with me is gretchen development specialist for mission bay and ocii compliant supervisor to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you. madam secretary, do we have anybody from the public who wishes to comment? >> at this time like to invite members of the public who wish to comment to call 415-655-0001, enter access code 24825541346, press pound sign and pound sign again. once on the call please press star 3 to be placed in the queue. if you are listening by phone and like to comment you can press star 3 and if you are here in person joining us and would

like to provide comment, you are welcome to come up. mr. chair, does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment on this item. >> hearing no request to speak i will close public comment but turn to my fellow commissioners for any comments or questions they may have. commissioner brackett. >> i want to thank you bringing forth this resolution to urge sfusd to adopt sbe goal s especially knowing how important these goals are towards the vitality of local works and local businesses that rely on able to be eligible for government contracting opportunities and also just wanted to get a little more information on how this may impact in terms of the number of firms that may be able to work on this project if it is adopted by sfusd on

the playground sector. >> for this project they are adhering to our policies for the school yard, so that won't have any impact there. this policy is urging the school district if they did decide to comply -i don't know the universe maybe george wants to speak who is there, but they are plenty sbe's out there that are available for a lot of the trades. >> thank you. >> what's the status of the school yard funds? >> those funds come from us as part of our (indiscernible) and tax increment. >> have they been released? >> they haven't been released, it is under reimbursement process so they would come up to right now for mission bay we have $35 million in bonds so that is probably where we use

those funds to reimburse. >> do we any discretion in releasing them? >> the discretion is if the work is done and they follow the school yard for which they are reimbursed and the work is done in accordance with our plan and opa and infrastructure documents, we are required- >> a resolution is all we can do? >> yes, we cannot hold a person to do something based on reimbursement and if that were the case, now fossil is responsible for building it so if we don't reimburse the school, fossil would have to come in and try to build the school yard. >> understood. thank you. >> any other questions? >> no questions, just the comment that we would continue to insure that we do all that's necessary to make sure

the leveling for our sbc, the playing field is continued to make it available and workable and that it is accepted, so i'm hoping and i thought i read that they had accepted to do the make-up and hiring. they did not? >> they did not. >> that is what it sounded like. >> no, for some of the outreach they agreed to do outreach. >> i heard you clearly and i thought i read they had and was going back over my notes. that's just it for me. i hope we do all that's necessary to make sure this happens. >> if i may commissioner scott, there are two parts to what is referred to. the

school yard project for which the school is abiding by our policies. they agreed to that. we are talking about the building component of the project that our policies do not apply to, and it is urging them to adopt the school yard policies which are ours to the building part of the project. >> thank you. thank you. >> so, i just want to say, it is somewhat sad we are here talking about this, because this commission adopted a 50 percent local hire and small business enterprise policy, which should be a no-brainer i think. this is all public money, and we should be doing all we can as public agencies to make sure that the public benefits from this work. so it is sad we are here, that we have to urge the

school district, probably one of the largest land owners in the city to do the right thing. i hope one day we won't have to be coming and are urging anybody to do the right thing and so, i'll be long gone, but love to encourage the public to make sure we keep folks accountable that why not hire local people, help them build the city they live in and why not help small businesses grow and thrive in the city that they have a desire to do business in? that's how we lift people up, not just build a building, but that's how we lift people. glad we are doing this, but sad we have to do this so whatever we can do to encourage the school district to do the right thing as well as any other department or agency that controls public funds to do the right thing. thank you for

bringing this forward. commissioners if no further questions may i get a motion? >> i would move to adopt the resolution? >> thank you commissioner. >> second. >> thank you commissioner brackett. madam secretary, please take roll. >> commission members, please announce your vote for item 5g when i call your name- [roll call] >> mr. chair, the vote is 4 ayes, 1 absent. >> thank you, the motion carries. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> next is item 5h. commending and expressing appreciation to miguel bustos for his services upon the occasion of his departure from his position as commissioner of the commission on community investment and infrastructure (discussion and action) (resolution no. 07-

2023) director kaslofsky. >> thank you madam secretary. commissioners, this is another commendation item for our chair, miguel bustos recognizing his contributions to the commission and once again, as i said with commissioner rosales, just a small slice of the positive impact he's had on the community of san francisco. thank you, i'll turn it over to the commission. i think commissioner ludlum is first. >> whereas, since 2009 miguel bustos served with distinction as commissioner of the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco, and commissioner of the successor agency to the redevelopment agency known as the office of community investment and infrastructure. mayive newsom appointed him to redevelopment agency in 2009 where he served on the commission 3 years until the state of california desaurfbled the redevelopment agencies february 1, 2012.

whereas, after the redevelopment dissolution the city and county of san francisco established by ordinance number 21512 on october 4, 2012, the successor agency commission to act in place of the former redevelopment agency commission and to review and approve all actions related to the completion of redevelopment projects. mr. bustos was appointed by mayor edwin lee to the successor agency commission first on september 11, 2014 and then reappointed on january 31, 2017. subsequentially mayor london n breed reappointed mr. bustos to the commission for another term november 3, 2020. and whereas, mr. bustos served 13 years on redevelopment agency and successor agency commissions, during his tenure provided critical leadership to ocii and serving first as vice chair from march 21,

2017 to may 7, 2019 and then as chair from may 7, 2019 to the present. since his appointment the commission has supported and the commission has approved numerous actions to implement ocii enforceable obligations which will result in improvement of the economic vitality, urban landscape, affordable housing opportunities and quality of life in san francisco. with his oversight and approval ocii has taken actions related to the active development and in hunter point shipyard and candle stick point, mission bay and transbay project areas along with obligations related to assets in yerba buena, western addition a2 and rincon point south beach project areas. >> whereas, as a long life resident of the mission district in san

francisco, mr. bustos has had had a unique blend of public and private sector experience that has transformed challenges into opportunities. his experience spans across government both at the local and federal levels, and whereas, following his work as an advisor in the offices of the president and vice president during the clinton administration in the 1990's, mr. bustos was appointed director of boards and commissions for san francisco mayor gavin newsom in 2007. from 2008 to 2010, he served as director of intergovernmental affairs for oakland

mayor ronled v bellums. in this capacity he directed all policy and initiatives through the government to government process , requiring coordination of local, state, federal, and international government to support the mayor's priorities and, whereas, throughout his term on the commission mr. bustos has helped ocii oversee the award of over $2.6 billion in contracts with nearly $815 million or 31.5 percent credited to small, local, minority and women owned businesses. during the early stages of building the chase center, commissioner bustos attended a

subcontractor's meeting to address ocii's commitment to hiring local residents. commission bustos spoke passionately about his father's career as a construction worker and how important his father's job was in raising their family, because of commissioner bustos heart-felt words, the director of construction along with the warriors organization were inspired to require all subcontractors to sponsor new workers into the trade unions. the significance of sponsorships is that an employer commits to hiring and training an individual and helps the individual enter the trade union to build a career. ocii is proud to report that

128 individuals were sponsored on to the chase center project and >> whereas, for many many many years commissioner bustos commitment to diversity equity inclusion helped to lift up countless residents through securing permanent housing and providing access to real employment opportunities and whereas, mr. bustos private sector experience blends advocacy for marginalized voice jz works as catalyst for change in the philanthropy sector. led not for profits served on variety of boards and worked for regional national and international philanthropic institutions. in addition to number of community service projects he was involved with, he also recently served as senior director for the center of social justice at the guide foundation and late 2021 also ordained as deacon in the diocese of california and

december 2022, he was named-presence as a successor agency commission will be greatly missed by those having business before the commission. the public generally and his fellow commissioners and agency staff. his legacy includes the funding of thousands of affordable housing units, the creation of numerous construction permanent jobs and the specific development projects that improved and will continue to improve the economic vitality urban landscape and quality of life in san francisco now therefore be resolved that commission on community investment infrastructure on behalf of its executive director and employees acknowledges the services that mr. bustos provided to ocii and by this resolution expresses to mr. bustos the appreciation of his work well done.

thanks and many thanks and many many more thanks for dedicated public service and sincere wish for success in all his future endeavors. >> thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. madam secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to provide a comment? >> before i call on folks here in person, let me announce the public comment instructions for the people who are joining online. if there are any members of the public who wish to comment on this item, please call 415-655-0001. enter access code, 24825541346. press pound sign and

pound sign again. once on the call press star 3 to be placed in the queue. if you are listening by phone and like to comment, please press star 3. for those who joined in person, please come up to the podium. i'll start by calling the card i have. i have george bridges. >> good afternoon again commissioners. director kaslofsky and general council morales. it takes great pride today to congratulate you and thank you for all of your service to the city and county. in the resolution, the warrior project for 6 months we had a monthly meeting and i tried to encourage them to get folks sponsor, folks into

the trade, and it is just a perfect example of one, our relationship with glide. we tell our stories and tell our truths, so you came and told your truth, they heard you, and it was really really beautiful to see the director of construction come over and say, you know, i will make them commit, and that as a commission what you get to do. you get to walk into a room and change the direction of projects, as well as former commissioner rosales in terms of the jv agreements and a lot of work was done on the chase center. that's pride of the city today i think. on a personal note, i just thank you for always encouraging me professionally, spiritually and wish the best for you. i know

i will see you soon. love you. thanks. >> monica, you want to come up and are then mr. oscar after. thank you. >> for the short folks. monica steen, hr administrative service manager for ocii. chair bustos, i just want to say thank you, thank you for your advocacy, thank you for your dedication to the community at large, to ocii, and basically everyone that you touch. you have that spirit of encouragement that goes a long way. it is the work that you do, the work the public does, being public servants is sometimes quite work. it is not always glamorous, but you are dedicated and you have shown dedication and the legacy that you will leave with ocii, and i can speak for

the commission for our staff and i believe for the commission that we'll carry on that legacy to make sure that our communities we serve will be made whole, will grow and develop for all time, so thank you commissioner for all that you have done. >> thank you. >> mr. james. >> oscar james again. we lose two diamonds in the rough in one day. that's a shame. you can't go no where. [laughter] you cant go no where. you commitment-both of your commitments really sets a precedent for everything that you guys have done, you have done and i have to say both of you together--because you made changes that no other

commissioners have made. you set a precedent that who ever comes after you, those are hard shoes to fill. you know, i served as a commissioner back in the 70 and we created programs and some are still in existence today both in hunters point and in the mission district that serves a lot of peoples, but as this commission here, you serve the whole entire city and you are known all around the world on what you guys have done and to do it for free--a lot of people don't understand, they say they making money and doing this and doing that. you don't get a dime. what you get is a lot of static and you do this and you do that in wrong terms and still commit yourself to do the best for this city. each and every one of you

commissioners. and i'm proud of you. i'm proud of both of you. like i said, you have hard shoes to fill. you have people here now doing good work and i'm pretty sure they will make sure that torch is carried for the strength of them. you is a new person on there. i don't really know, but i would be checking you out my brother. [laughter] you know, it is a hard team. we are a family. i worked for this agency for 40 years before i retired, but i worked watching out for my community for those 40 years. 1968 when i was on joint housing. watch dogging the redevelopment agency and you guys have done tremendous job, both of you has done a tremendous jobs and i'm more then pleased, happy and whatever i can do for both of you, i'm there for

you. i know you are a spiritual man, carry that cross, because we are on our way to glory and only way we get there and go through those gates is what we have done for our fellow brothers and sister s in this society and you have done well, both of you. god bless you. >> thank you mr. james. >> and we have mrs. rosales. >> yes, hello again. for the record i just want to thank you you publicly miguel for your friendship. you are absolutely just an amazing person in my life and i wanted to thank you for your guidance, for your wisdom, for your support in particularly difficult times i experienced with my family and my mother's loss so i thank you for that. i really came up to make sure the record reflected something that you're known for as our chair that

wasn't reflected in the resolution, and you coined the expression, you wanted ocii to be known as the we want you to come back home commission. i think that says a lot. because when you said that, we repeated it and i think that imparted something that is really hard to quantify, but it is real and it is hope. when i mentioned that things had changed over time i saw over 10 years during that lottery system before dahlia that i used to call the lottery of disappointment and we all most badgered the mayor's office to come up with something better and dahlia came, they, you, we all saw the change and that was even if people didn't win the lottery, they had hope. they felt they had choices, and you coined that when you became chair and i want to honor that. i think that is perfect.

thank you. >> thank you commissioner. [applause] >> we don't have any other members of the public wishing to comment mr. chair. >> hearing no additional request to speak, i will close public comment and turn to my fellow commissioners for comments or questions. i think we are good. so, commissioners i need to get a motion for this item. >> i like to move-make the motion-i hereby certify the foregoing resolution was is and be adopted by the commission at march 21, 2023. >> second? thank you commissioner brackett. madam secretary, please take the roll. >> commission members, please announce your vote for item 5h when i call your name-

[roll call] mr. chair, the vote is 4i ayes and 1 absent. >> thank you. motion carries. madam secretary, please call the next item- >> did you want to say a few words? >> i actually do. first, i need to thank mayor gavin newsom who appointed me to the redevelopment commission. he said i want you to join the commission to help right the wrongs of the past, and i hope i played a small part in doing that, and then for mayor ed lee for having the faith in me to appoint me back to the new commission and of course to our

mayor london breed for appointing me. we had incredible directors since my time, but i want to call out three. fred blackwell who brought energy to this work. nadia who brought wisdom smarts and passion and thor, thank you for saying yes. you were part of this agency back in the day, and you still agreed to come back and to help out, but even during the process of recruitment, one thing we made very clear in the profile of this position was this was about justice, and that's something we all did together when we were working with the search firm. we wanted to know who ever was interested would have to know that this

was about justice. our general counsel morales, jim morales, you have been such not only a steady hand and mind, but heart. you know, you've helped us in so many different ways of staying out of trouble, but you also helped us with guidance on how to push the envelope when it was appropriate, so we could do local hire and we could push for our numbers for our small businesses. what you heard in the resolution, you have a lot to do with that, and just want to thank you for that. the staff, i remember when the redevelopment was being asked to shut down. i said publicly that i would match our staff to anybody across this

country, because we knew what to do to make sure that the redevelopment agency was doing the right thing, and you all have carried carried carried the work. i think i said this during the holiday party, but it is so true, there are people who sleep better, there are families who are together in warm homes because of you. because of the work you did. one other thing i said during a commission meeting i said, where is the wow factor in the units? we want-just because it was affordable does not mean it shouldn't have a wow factor and we challenged developers to build units that they would be proud to live in. so thank you for carrying that through. we

had some incredible commission secretarys that have really helped us move things along. during the time i had been here we had gina (indiscernible) claudia, lusindsa who helped in so many ways and jamie. all incredible individuals that truly helped us keep things together. not just here at this meeting, but behind the scenes making sure things are running smoothly and we are forever grateful. my commissioners, i just-you all have been so incredible and we created a commission together that is no drama. that all follow the beat of justice, and i think of commissioner leroy king, former

redevelopment agency commissioner. he would sit right there and i would sit right there and i remember there were times people thought he was asleep. he was listening and he would come up and say wait a minute! i want to honor him today. but thank you commissioners for everything and i'm excited for what will happen ahead and mara and i will be cheering you on. there has been thousands of members of the public who have come through, including ace washington, ms. vinsent, oscar james, (indiscernible) woods, linda richardson and (indiscernible) carried so much for their communities, they took the time to speak their truth.

most of you may not know, but during the pandemic we couldn't see each other. we couldn't really see the public, so many of us actually called them to make sure they were okay. i personally made phone calls to see if they needed anything. if they needed food. if they were alright. that is what you do when you are family. just because we are a government agency does not mean we cannot have heart and we do. this commission truly does. i are just want to thank everybody for giving me the opportunity. i talked about my dad how my dad friday nights would drive us around because he was a construction worker and he would drive around and said i worked on this

building, levi plaza, pier 39, transamerica and bank of america building and i remember how proud he was to help build those buildings. now that he's gone, i look at those buildings and i see his fingerprint and some small way i have been able to do the same when i walk by chase center, transbay. i remember the conversations how many of those projects were just paper, and now have come to life. so i would not have been able to do this without everyone's support and so on behalf of my mom and dad, thank you. thank you for the opportunity to serve my city. [applause]

please call the next item. >> next is item 5i. electing the chair and vice chair under section 27 of the successor agency bylaws. discussion and action. mr. chair. >> fellow commissioners, we have a wonderful opportunity to get rid of a old chair. [laughter] and to elect a new chair and vice chair. so, first we'll start by electing the chair. person who will take this commission to the next level and to the next era of its existence. do i have a nomination for chair? >> chair bustos, i like to nominate commissioner brackett. >> alright. commissioner ludlum nominated commissioner brackett. any other nominations? does the

nomination for chair? >> yes. >> thank you. nominations for the office of chair is closed. madam secretary, are there any members of the public who wish to provide comment on this item? >> if there are members of the public who like to comment call 415-655-0001 access code 24825541346 press pound sign and pound sign again to enter the call then press star 3 to be placed in the queue. if you are already listening by phone and like to provide comment press star 3. for members of the public who are here in person you may come up to the podium. >> i know as usual people get tired of me coming up here, but i want to commend

commissioner brackett. since she's been on this board she's been doing tremendous work for our community, for the city as a whole. she's one of the commissioners who has been fighting to get the preference given to the young grandkids in our communities, both western addition, hunters point, and hopefully we going to get soma in there, because they were relocated and a lot of peoples forget about them. there is a lot of people who have been taken out of their communities because of the redevelopment agency, and that's one thing i'm going to fight for for the rest of my life is to make sure they are made whole and that these grandkids. but you made a good person-chair person mr. bustos and i'm going to make sure she follows your

lead. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. james. >> does not appear we have other members of the public wishing to comment. >> okay, we'll close public comment. any oppositions or abstentions today? seeing none, madam secretary, please take roll for chair. >> commission members please announce your vote for chair when i call your name-please announce your vote for commissioner brackett becoming chair. [roll call] mr. chair- [applause] >> the motion carries.

the elected chair of the commission is commissioner brackett. >> in the interest of time, thank you for electing me and for meeting efficiency i am going to allow commissioner bustos to continue on so that we can move to it next item and proceed with the meeting efficiently today. >> thank you chair- >> we are there commission of efficiency. [laughter] >> now we have to elect the vice chair. do i have a nomination for vice chair? >> mr. chair. >> yes commissioner. >> i like to elect mr. alex our commissioner alex ludlum. >> any other nominations for vice chair? seeing none, does commissioner ludlum accept the nomination for vice chair? >> yes. >> nominations of the office of vice chair is now closed. madam secretary, members of the

public who wish to comment? >> any members who like to comment on this item, please call 415-655-0001. enter access code 24825541346, press pound sign and pound sign again. then press star 3 to submit your request to speak. if there are any members who would like to provide public comment in person, please come forward. mr. james. >> oscar james again. alex, you have hard shoes to fill and i'm going to hold you accountable. you sit among two pressure commissioners up there now that still want to be here. but like i said, you have hard shoes to fill. but they have confidence in you so i must have confidence in you and i believe you will do a

good job, because our past chair didn't say anything against you when you were nominated, so i believe you got the recommendation of him. welcome my brother. i will be watching you. [laughter] thank you. >> anyone else? >> mr. chair, no more members of the public wishing to comment. >> okay. i will close public comment. any opposition or abstentions? seeing none, madam secretary, please take roll call for vice chair. >> commission members, please announce your vote for commissioner ludlum appointment to vice chair seat- [roll call]

>> the vote is 4 ayes and 1 absent. [applause] >> motion carries. congratulations, election of vice chair is commissioner ludlum. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> next order of business is item 6, public comment on non agenda items. >> do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment? >> any members who like to comment on non agenda items call 415-655-0001. enter access code 24825541346. press pound sign and pound sign again. please press star then 3 to be placed in the queue. if you are already listening on the phone please press star 3 and if you are here in person, you may come up to the podium. mr. chair, does not appear we have members of the

public wishing to comment. >> hearing no request to speak, i will close public comment. please call the next item. >> the next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. >> there is nothing to report. please call the next item. >> the next order of business is item 8, report of the executive director. item 8a is update on store improvements at the foods co grocery store and status of transfer of the store and property to city and county of san francisco. city. discussion. director kaslofsky. >> thank you madam secretary. commissioners, this is a non action item just a update on the status of some improvements to the for matting of a grocery store that we own that is going through the transfer process to the city. this item will be presented by aaron foxworthy deputy general counsel. >> good afternoon

chair brackett, chair emeritus bustos, commissioners, exective director cos kaslofsky and general counsel. before you today as ocii real estate service manager and in place of maureen munson who was supposed to present this but couldn't be here due to circumstances (indiscernible) at 345 williams avenue in the bayview neighborhood. just refresh your recollection, 345 williams is 2 acre site. contains about 29 thousand square foot building, and about hundred space parking lot dating back to 1964. in the late 1980's safeway store located there closed at this site and that at time the safeway store was the

bayview only full grocery store. 1990 the former agency using cdbg funds acquired the site and entered into a lease with cal foods to develop and operate a grocery store. opened the grocery store in 1991 and it has been operating there continuously since then under the lease of there former agency and remains a important outlet for fresh food in the bayview. in 2021 district 10 supervisor shamann walton engaged ocii about improving quality at the store. he was concerned with the store physical condition and wanted to know if food co was hiring bayview residents. over it past 2 years supervisor walter office and ocii worked for improvements at the store. some of the physical improvements that occur include grinding and repolishing of the

concrete floor which was in pretty bad shape, repainting of the building, replacement of the roof, replacement of the up shopping cart fleet, replacement of parking lot lights and poles to make the grocery store more welcoming and inviting place to shop. in addition, food co implemented a ermoovert visible hiring process and publicizing the availability of employment opportunities at the store. as a result, they tell us most of their job applicants are walk-ins and which we think demonstrates increase in neighborhood-potential for neighborhood employment and in fact last year in 2022, more then half of the new hires at the store were bayview residents residing in the 94124 zip code. hires also included employees from the surrounding neighborhood, visitation valley

and portola. and potrero and mission bay. we think that was a great success and we want to continue to work with food co on that. other things they have done is complete refresh of their produce department, fresh food department. as you can see in this photo, they also expanded their organic offerings which is important for the helt of the community which you can see here in the photo, and they have a brand new fresh meat section that has been expanded from what they had before and they provide a butcher on site for really fresh available meats. so, earlier this year at request of supervisor walton, we along with the mayor's office of housing and community development participated in a tour of the site. i think it went really well. i didn't attend but marie did. she

isn't here to give you anecdotes but i think the tour went well and as evidence of that, here's a tweet-example of someone using twitter responsible of supervisor walton saying how much he enjoyed the tour and encourage people to go and shop at the store so i think this really ties together the efforts that we endeavored to partner with supervisor walton. just lastly, update on the site itself. since this was a former redevelopment agency asset under dissolution we are required to transfer it in accordsance with the long-term property management plan which requires us to transfer it to the city for future redevelopment purposes and that is well underway. it stopped and started over time but that transfer is well underway being negotiated with the city's office of with mocd

and real estate division and anticipate it will be transferred by the middle of the year. we'll transfer the real property and the lease so that lease will continue with food co under the auspice of mocd. it can continue in accordance with the terms of the lease until 2031 at which time it would be up for renewal. i think mocd has potentially grand ideas for the site so excited about things to come there. lastly, the staff i work with on this asked me to mention to you commissioner bustos and to you commissioner rosales that we heard the numbers, billions of sbe contracts and thousands of wow factor affordable housing in the city, but on a personal level and i think it is poignant we are here in person for the first time in 3 years, on a personal level you brought joy and security to people's lives, thousands and probably 10 of thousands lives and that

is invaluable and incal iable. you inspire us and thank you. i can answer any questions you have about 345 williams. >> thank you. madam secretary, anyone from the public who wishes to comment? >> if there are members of the public who wish to comment on this item, please call 415-655-0001. enter access code 24825541346 fallowed by pound sign then pound again. press star 3 to be placed in the queue. if you are listening by phone press star 3 on your mobile devices and if you are joining in person and like to comment, you may come up to the podium. mr. chair, does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment on this item. >> okay, thank you. hearing no request to speak, i'll close public comment and

would ask director kaslofsky to please proceed with the rest of his report. >> thank you mr. chair. i don't know if the other commissioners have comments, but i can address those. >> okay. commissioners do we have questions or comments related to the executive director's report? >> i only have a short comment. as someone who uses the food co grocery store i have been happily surprised to see the improvement there and seeing the fresh food section, the fresh salad section. items like cut fruit that wasn't available prior, so just wanted to say great job to the team as well as mocd following up on this and pushing for these most needed improvements in the community that is

dependent on that one grocery store up until we recently got lucky's so thanks a million for that. >> yes. mr. chair, i too live in that community and it has been a sore thumb-it has been a hardship and now to see the bar is raising. i am so grateful. we have cried, we have spoken, we stood and had many conversations personally i had with management, but i'm grateful to see that they are listening and cooperating, complying and raising the bar for the community. thank you so much. thank you thor. >> yes, thank you so much for all you are doing to lift up the lives of people there. >> i thank you to shamann walton, our supervisor. yes.

>> alright. thank you. thank you so much for that report. it was a great report. >> i have more when you are ready. i have more items to my report when you are ready. >> okay. >> thank you. just a couple items and i'll be quick in interest of time. i are wanted to update on the fillmore heritage center request for proposals. this is just a brief update about this. the fillmore heritage facility as you know was used to house the former yosi and jazz club and fillmore restaurantsism we have been working with the city to transfer that. they have disposition plan. dids facilitation in 2017. that didn't conclude. they since released a new rfp through community housing and development and expect proposals april 24 at 4 p.m. so anyone listening in the public, april 4, 4 p.m. rfp is on the

website and they doing tours at the site. they are offering tours, you can contact them on the website. you'll see their information but there is is one this friday evening and then march 30, so march 24 and 30. a update on that. i want to make a quick statement about the recent bank failures. commission is probably aware, several banks have been experiencing financial troubles over there last month. silicon valley closed and reopened under federal leadership there. signature bankism san francisco first republic bank is experiencing trouble but we want to assure the commission, we have done a review of our portfolio and dont have any of these banks as lenders or investors on any active projects but continuing to review exposure for this but at this point don't see issues. we'll let you know if we do. a few other updates, hunter point ship yard the first phase

construction continues. we have three blocks affordable housing blocks that will break ground over the next 60 days for about 183 units. all the units are offered at 50 percent area median income. those blocks are significant because they are the first ocii affordable blocks. all the development before is lennar development so that is significant. we'll update the commission on those projectss in the future. and then replacement housing, want to update on that. our efforts to restart that. we have been working with senator wiener's office on state legislation to reauthrise replacing the 6 thousand units of affordable housing demolished. february senator wiener introduced sb593, and that was at the state and senate and the billed

reauthorize replacement housing and allow ocii to restart the program to right a historic wrong. it contributed greatly to today's housing crisis in san francisco. it allows the city to meet its housing element goals of 46 thousand affordable units over the next 8 years. we'll provide you information on those senate hearings. some are occurring next week. i want to especially acknowledge members of the team. rosa torres, john daigal and mina- (indiscernible) jim morales general counsel. their leadership powered the initiative to the point it has been. closing, i want to just make a statement about 35 months ago april 7, 2020 was the commission first virtual meeting. it was significant. a significant meeting because it was due to the covid

emergency all public meetings had been suspeneded so the commission could not meet and do its business. but it was opening of the meeting vice chair rosales acknowledged the mayor recognized had urgency and importance for the commission to meet and despite this covid emergency health order and the mayor did authorize the commission to hold virtual public meetings to approve various projects, especially the affordable housing projects approved that day so the public health emergency wouldn't worsen because critical public affordable housing wasn't being built. chair bustos went on to thank the mayor and board of supervisors but especially the staff for organizing the luistics for that commission meeting to hold the first virtual meeting. it was necessary to carry on the important work and went to say it was critical the commission meet because people have to work at home and missing the human connection with friends and coworkers. in grat itude also acknowledged we

are all sheltering in place, many had no place to go. he read a poem that day called in the time of pandemic i'll reference a few lines. he said, the people healed and earth began to heal. the tough times brought out the best in one another. we reset how we think about ourselves each other and how we do our work. he thanked jamie, lusinda, jay and the team at sfgov for organizing the first meeting. i want to offer a similar refrain and recognition of our work that is of critical importance to the wellbeing and health of the city. we live in abundance and grateful we have work and shelter and there are still others who have are not having the basic needs met. this is why we are passionate about the work we do

on housing parks and infrastructure and creating economic opportunities for everyone for better tomorrow. thank you. >> thank you director. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> the next order of business is item 9, commissioner questions and matters. >> commissioners, anything? seeing none, madam secretary, please call the next item. >> the next order of business is item 10, closed session. there are no closed session items. the next order of business is item 11, adjournment. >> fellow commissioners, we need a motion to adjourn. >> mr. chair, if i can go back and move so quick for the commissioners questions or matters. i just want to say to mara rosales, miguel bustos, i cannot thank you

enough for the inspiration that you gave me as a commissioner when i came aboard. i cannot thank you enough for just making clear things that were unclear for me. i cannot thank you enough for the encouragement and the role model that you set before me along with the other commissioners. i cannot thank you enough for being steadfast as a commissioner keeping your eye on the goals and the prizes. i can't thank you enough miguel and mara for all that you did, the promise you kept, your feet to the pedal. i cant thank you enough for that and helping me to just not feel odd or weird for

what i felt, i came aboard to stand for. i thank you so much for being who you are culturally, spiritially and as a human, a part of this city, this nation, this country. you represent your families well. thank you so much as commissioners and i'm getting teary eyed to say much more. we'll talk afterwards, but thank you so much for the model, the service, and the care you have given to this commission. >> thank you commissioner scott. >> i move that the meeting be adjourned. >> may i have a second? >> second. >> commissioners, we have a motion and a second. we are adjourning this commission

meeting at 248 p.m. thank you all. [meeting adjourned]

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for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the

most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported

and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

>> good morning welcome to the march 21 meeting of san francisco transportation authority i'm rafael mandelman serve as chair. our vice chair is commissioner melgar. i would like to thank jason of sfgovtv and our clerk today is elijia seaneders. please, call the roll. >> yes. commissioner chan. >> absent. >> commissioner dorsey. >> present. commissioner engardio. >> present. >> chair mandelman. >> present. >> vice chair melgar. >> present. >> commissioner peskin. >> present. >> commissioner preston. >> present.

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