>> first off, i want to of course welcome all of you to san francisco, my name is carmen chu, san francisco city administrator. i hope as you have all come to san francisco, i believe monday was the first day that many of our folks, our partners across the country have come to san francisco, that you've had a chance to take in the breathtaking views of san francisco and the wonderful food and the people and community that is here. a monthly jiez, i'm a little bit under the weather -- i apologize, i'm under the weather. this is

resilience from my three-year-old's germs and i want to welcome you from across north america to san francisco. we're here today along our partners and cities from houston so montreal to reaffirm san francisco's commitment to building a stronger and more resilient san francisco. it's no secret that san francisco grapples with some of the most daunting challenges that face cities of our time. we have challenges around affordable housing, it is not unique to san francisco. but lasting impacts of a global pandemic, the shots and stressors of climate change and our seismic risk in the bay area. san francisco has never shied away from these challenges from the great earthquakes and fires of 1906 so the loma prieta earthquakes to the boom and bust of past economies, we have proved that we can rise up and come back stronger when we face these challenges head on. in the coming years, of resiliency of

our cities will be tested by our ability not only to respond quickly but bounce back from climate related events. that's why it's so important we are investing in strategies and programs that improve our resiliency and capacity to extend climate emergencies while strengthening our economy. i'm grateful for the work of elaine forks, the director of the port who you'll hear from, with preparing our waterfront ages to the challenges of sea level rise and flooding. i'm grateful to work of brian strong who is our chief resiliency officer for overseeing, yes, applause is great. [applause] for overseeing and coordinating citywide resiliency initiatives including our earthquake city implementation program. in a few minutes, we'll be here signing a letter that affirms san francisco's continued commitment to the resilient city's network, a global network of committees committed to urban resiliency. this signing underscores our

pledge to build a city that meets the demands of the future, and we value the opportunity to share our knowledge and best practices with our partners cities around the globe and hear what everyone else is doing. in only that way will we build a stronger community. so i want to thank the resiliency partnership and supporting this work and bringing cities from around the globe together and for being here and choosing to be in san francisco. so thank you for that. i'd like to bring up elaine forbes who will share a few remarks with you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you, city administrator chu and welcome, climate experts, resilience folks from around the city and public officials trying to build a safer and resilient community. we're happy to host you at the port's waterfront today. it's really an honor to have you here and i thought my comments to uplift what our city administrator has provided to you, would be to say, what it's

like to be an agency that is in a city that is totally dedicated to resilience. so, here you are at the port. we have 7 and a half miles of waterfront property and about ten years ago, we began a journey of figuring out we have something very, very challenging to solve in a hard place to solve it and we had to get to work. we got our seawall put into the city's assets and ten years ago the city said, what's under there and protecting our shoreline and provides flood protection to the downtown and city administrator's team and the mayor's won a grant called the city administrator's award and we went to other cities to see how we would insure flood insurance along this important shoreline. we started investigating very deeply, learning about all layers of mud down to the bottom, down to the top, how this, how this

shoreline is stable and then, the city family decided we would go out to our voters with a general obligation bond, now six years ago, i believe or yes. to say we know we have a bad problem. look at all this earthquake risk. we know the tide is rising and we know the waterfront is important and protects all the city infrastructure and what we love about this town but but we don't know what to do. can we have a ten percent down payment to figure it out. i was shocked the city officials were willing to be that proactive and aggressive to say this is a problem to solve. and amazingly, 84% of the san francisco voters agreed with these city officials, so where are we now? now, after this long journey of forward planning, we know all of the soils of the 3.5 miles of the historic shoreline that projects so much city infrastructure, transportation systems, et cetera, and we know how to prioritize city improvements and we have a study we're doing with the army corps of engineers and

we're months away of figuring out a plan for flood protection, that the city and our city family will engage in. it's the long-term vision and such an honor to be an agency that serves the city completely committed to our future and so i'm very proud to be here and i see my resilience team members are here, brad benson and adam barrett and others on the front lines of working on these challenges so excited to be here today with you all and excited to see an exchange, great ideas about how to make our community stronger in the face of climate change and the resiliency challenges we face and i would like to invite brian strong, the resiliency officer and he'll remember everything i described to you. with that, brian strong. [applause] >> thank you, elaine and yes. it has been a long journey and i remember every step. there's

more to go. yeah. i'm brian strong, the resiliency officer of the city and county of san francisco. i want to echo what carmen and elaine next pressing gratitude for the resiliency networks and the partners coming to the bay area. we were in oakland yesterday and learning this knowledge sharing, it's so important. these are really difficult and difficult issues and the more we can work together, i think the better it lifts all of us up, right, in ways we can't think about now. the synergy that gets formed. so, i oversee citywide programs and initiates to bring city departments and community partners together in san francisco to strengthen our resilience. we've been a long-time champion of coordinated citywide resiliency planning and initiatives because we know meeting the challenges of today and the future requires working and innovating together.

that's why we really appreciate and participate in organizations like the resiliency network. yesterday and today we're learning from these cities like norfolk, miami and miami-dade who are experiencing their sea level rise challenges and working closely with the army corps of engineers so we're learning and working together and learning from vancouver, los angeles and berkeley and other places where they have similar challenge was seismic risks on top of climate and sea level rise risk we face, that we know are somewhat unique to different regions of the country. san francisco is the first city in the 100 cities network in the globe to hire a resiliency officer. we released our first strategy in 2016 and completed 90% of the objectives in that strategy. to date, we are now

following through on a next set of action items and a lot of those are really focused on and has resiliency climate action planning effort and around our retrofit programs that we're successfully completed but we're moving to vulnerable buildings in san francisco. we are also doing a lot of work in passing critical bonds, elaine mentioned seawall bond, we've done a significant, over billion dollars of housing bonds because we understand affordable housing is critical to resilient and focused on equity to make sure our most vulnerable communities are also being lifted up and not left behind. we know there's more to do and we need to continue to push forward with the various programs that i've talked about. ultimately, you know, resilient is about improving structures, processes, to make sure people's lives and communities more equitable, and

safe and able to respond and thrive is what i would say, thrive -- you know, benefit from the challenges we're going to be facing. with that, i would also like to thank my boss, city administrator carmen chu, again, for taking on this mantle and being a champion in san francisco for this work. i would like to introduce my very good friend and someone i've been working with for several years, laurian farrell. she's the global director of the knowledge, transportation, of knowledge transformation, sorry for the global cities resiliency city's network and oversees the north america chief resilient officer who's are here today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, thank you, brian. good morning, everyone. thank you, city administrator chu and elaine forbes for your words. through your examples you have shown the examples that all

cities can take to move toward a resilient future and we're joined by 189 cities from -- 18 cities from across the united states and canada. when we started our regional convening and chose the bay area, we did it in part because of this amazing beautiful geography of the area, of course, but also in part because of the breath of resilience activities that you are all undertaking across the bay area. but i would say that we truly picked this area to come and visit because of the people that are here doing this work in resilience, and you truly are leading the pack in resilience. you see building a resilient city is extremely hard and it takes technical know-how across many disciplines, but it also takes people with holistic mindsets with coalition building skills and the optimism and belief that it really is possible for us to build urban resilient cities that serve

every member of our communities. and we know we must do this because the shocks and stresses that cities are facing are inevitable. we must deal with them. we recognize the leadership of san francisco and fine strong and thank you for supporting the work of the network, since it was originally formed in 100 resilient city days and reinvented as resilient cities years ago. it's vehicles for knowledge sharing and cocreation. personally, i'm a water resources engineer by trade from toronto canada and i started thinking about resilience when i was work nothing the city doing flood risk management, so i'm happy to be beside the water this morning. i feel comfortable here. i worked in, i was a person drawing the flood lines, the person telling people where the risks were. i was issuing

flood warnings to get people to stay safe and stay away from the rivers and i was the person trying to figure out mitigate plans for flood risk. along the way, i realized there has to be, there was something missing in my practices in engineer and it was the people element. i've spent a lot of time looking at maps and drawing lines and doing budgets this led me to resilience and how did i bring in my scope of practice and become a better engineer. in resilience, i have many people who are different discipline was the same mindset, how do i become a better economic person? how do i become a better politician? how do i become a better person working on social coalition? and we come together to form resilience, to build resilience. brian strong was one of the first people that i met, when i started this journey. bryan exemplifies why we need

cro's working on resilience. bryan was instrumental in shaping this network from its inception. he embraced the idea that our network is city led, meaning our cities tell us what they need help on and we help to bring everyone together to share ideas, to share knowledge. yesterday, brian spoke about how the city established funds to implement resilience actions, something that many of our cities sought up in their seats and said how did you do that and how can we learn from you? during the pandemic, when cities were really struggling in the early days, brian came to our group and talked about the economic recovery plan that the city of san francisco was developing and many, many cities took lessons away from that and applied them to their cities and these are practical tangible solutions that's not easy but san francisco found a way to get things done. we want, in this network, to share our knowledge

in a way that transforms action so changes the way we can build cities, so we can build stronger and resilient cities when we work together and brian said that word along much i want to thank brian strong and city administrator carmen chu for your support and the continue support of this network and global community of resilient cities. and with that, i would like to thank you all for joining us this morning and i will turn the mic over to city administrator chu, thank you. [applause] >> i think often times as we do the work, we are doing our work in front of au a computer and planning documents and meeting and i think being out here, which is a rare thing for me to be able to come out of my office, but to be able to stand out here at the waterfront with all of you, serves as a reminder of what is at stake here and i want to thank the team who is

here for all the work they are doing because what is at stake is the city, right. what is at stake are the people who live and work here and the economy that thrives here and it's this beautiful place we call san francisco and the cities and we need to do right and do the right thing and plan and prepare for the things that may not come tomorrow, but we know surely are coming. we know earthquake risk is real. we know that climate change is real and sea level rise is real. and so, these are things we can't just pretend don't exist and we don't plan for. what's at risk is making sure we have a city that's resilient and that can withstand all of the shocks that will come. and that's our responsibility, that's all of your responsibilities. so, again, i want to thank all of you for being here and again, on behalf of the mayor, we are very, very excited to have you here. we're glad you have a chance to see our city. we hope you have fallen in love with the city as much as we love our city and will come back again. with

that, i would like to i object viet our chief resiliency officers, all the folks who joined us here to come as we sign now. thank you so much. come on up. [applause] we're not going to sign until you're up here, okay. [laughter] >> all right. are we all ready? >> yeah. >> okay. i wish my signature was longer, but.... [laughter] yay! [applause]

>> you are watching san francisco rising. today's special guest is jeff tomlin. >> hi. you are watching san francisco rising. to show that is focused on restarting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest today is the director transportation of the sfmta and he's with us to talk about the agency's 23-24 budget with the muni equity strategy and new projects across the city. welcome to the show. >> thank you it is good to be here.

>> i see the sfmta's budget for 2023 and 2024 has been approved. how will it help provide a strong recovery during the next few years for our riders, operators and staff? >> it has been a challenging couple of years. covid wiped out the basic finances. our agency is funded primarily from transit fares, parking fees and a fixed set aside for a general fund and covid has meant we have lost more than half of our parking and transit for revenue. we are not expected to recover them until 2027. this budget takes a one-time federal release funding and spreads that out between now and 2025. and our task is to rebuild trust with the voters that sfmta can actually deliver on their goals and that includes things like making muni faster, more frequent, and more reliable.

includes making our streets safer and making everyone feel safe riding the bus. it means taking advantage of the amount of change we're going to experience in order to advance equity so that we invents -- invest the most amount of money in communities that need our services the most. it also means supporting san francisco in its larger economic recovery. basically two years between now and 2024 in order to build trust with the voters and figure out how are we going to find muni moving forward because it is in 2024 and 2025 when the one-time federal release fund went out. >> are you planning on starting up? >> as a result of covid, we have 1,000 vacancies in the organization. that is why muni service is not fully recovered. this budget allows us to fully staff through 2024, which means

we can restore muni service, invest in safety, and invest in other programs in order to make the transportation system work better for everyone. >> can you talk about the mooney service equity strategies? as you move out of the pandemic, how has that plan been updated? i have heard there are elevator upgrades in progress. >> we have been working a lot on equity during muni's recovery. we have been basing our work on the muni equity strategy. this is the plan we update every two years that looks at the changing demographics of san francisco and helps us direct our transit resources where people need it the most. that means people with low income, people of color, seniors, people with disability, children, all the folks who have the fewest choices. during covid, when we had to strip back the transit system, 13 quarters of the workforce were in quarantine, we directed

all of the agency's resources to the equity neighborhoods. places like the bayview, chinatown, the mission, the valley, and even through our recovery, we have continued to deliver the best muni service's so -- to the neighborhoods that need it the most. right now we are still operating more frequent service in core lines in equity neighborhoods than we did precovid. and the result of that is extraordinarily high ridership. we are finding, for example, by investing in the frequency and reliability on lines like the 22 fillmore, that we are getting 133% of precovid ridership, even when the overall system is only at about half of the ridership recovery. that is 133%. that is on weekends. we are at about 96% of precovid ridership on our main equity lines on weekdays.

we're also investing a whole variety of infrastructure projects aimed at making transit work better, particularly for people with disabilities. on the market street corridor, our elevators to the subway station date back to the 1970s and need significant renovation. right now we are busy working on renovating the elevators at the station. we have completed the elevator upgrade for the eastbound platform. we are now working on the westbound platform. that will modernize the elevators and make them a lot more reliable, and make sure that we can continue to prioritize people with the fewest mobility choices. >> that's great. changing topics slightly, i understand the improvement project is halfway completed. have shared spaces made the product -- project more complicated? >> yes. lots of things have made the terminal project more complicated, including things like covid and supply chain

issues. we learned a lot on the first phase of the terra vale project, which rebuilt the street from sunset boulevard to the zoo, including rebuilding all the infrastructure of the streets, the underground utilities, to modernize all that infrastructure and make it more resilient, and make sure that we do not have to rebuild the street, hopefully in any of our lifetimes. we also learned about the importance of collaborating, particularly with neighborhood businesses and residents. we want to make sure that we are constructing the city's infrastructure in a time that the city is suffering and we are not adding to suffering. we're doing things like partnering with the mayor's office of economic workforce development to support neighborhood businesses through programming during this time. we are also making sure that businesses that create shared spaces in the parking lane, some of those need to be moved out of the way while the utility work is done underneath them.

we are making sure that we will either move those platforms and outdoor eating areas back as they were, or help local merchants rebuild them so that we are not adding to the burden of local businesses and that we help everyone recover in this challenging time. >> quite right. finally, many of the sfmta vision zero quick build projects have been well received. can you talk about the evans street project? >> one of the things we did during covid was dramatically expand the rate of what we call quick build projects, which are fast-moving projects using simple and cheap materials in order to redesign streets and test out new ideas and see how they work, as well as get a lot of feedback from community before moving into a larger capital project that converts all of that plastic stuff into concrete and trees and, you

know, curb extensions. what we have been finding is that our quick build safety projects are able to cut severe injury and fatalities between 25 and 75%, depending upon the location on the techniques that we use. so we are targeting streets that have the highest rate of traffic crashes, particularly injury crashes and fatalities. we focused on evans, which is really important connector for all modes of transportation between the bayview and the central neighborhoods of san francisco. also a street with a terrible track record of severe crashes. on evans, what we are doing, again using paint and plastic posts for the time being, is taking the lanes that are out there right now, and converting them to one lane in each direction plus turn pockets. what we found on streets like valencia or south bend this, or

-- south van nass, is a street with one lane in each direction plus a term pocket can move just as much traffic as a street with two lanes in each direction. left turning vehicles mean the two lanes of traffic are never really available for through traffic. these road diets that we do have been tremendously effective for improving safety outcomes for all road users, without exacerbating traffic. they do make all cars slow down to the speed of the most prudent driver. this week we are getting started in partnership with the department of public works on work to restripe all of evans between third and cesar chavez, and as part of this work will be collecting a lot of data, talking to industrial users in the industrial district and talking to folks in the bayview

commercial district and in the mission about how it is working. we will make some adjustments along the way and if it is successful, then we will start another project that is more capital-intensive to make it permanent. if it is not successful, we will turn it back the way that it was, having spent very little money. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show. thank you for the time you have given us today. >> it has been great being here. thank you so much. >> that is it for this episode. we will be back shortly. you have been watching san francisco rising. thank you for watching. [♪♪♪]

>> good morning. this meeting will come to order.

welcome to may 10, 2023. supervisors safai will join shortly. the clerk is brent. i like to thank jais jason from sfgovtv for broadcasting. >> please make sure silence cell phones and electronic devices so not to interrupt the proceedings. the board of supervisors are convening hybrid meeting while providing remote access. public comment will be taken on each item. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and take those on the telephone line. for those watching remotely and streaming through sfgovtv.org the call in number is streaming across the screen. you will hear the etmooing discussion and muted and listening mode. when your item comes up and public comment is

caused, called, those in person should come up to speak and those on the phone dial star 3. turn down the tv and listening devices and each speaker is allowed up to 2 minutes to speak. you may submit public comment in writing. e-mail to myself, the budget finance committee clerk, -and also included as part of the official file. you may also snd written comments to 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place, room 244 san francisco california 94102. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of may 16, unless otherwise stated. >> thank you mr. clerk. supervisor ahsha safai is going to be running a little late and so he has asked to be

excused until his arrival. could i just-do i need a roll call mr. clerk? >> yes, madam chair. >> great. i make a motion to excuse supervisor safai until his arrival and with that, roll call, please. >> on the motion to excuse supervisor safai until his arrival, vice chairp mandelman, aye. chan, aye. we have two ayes with member safai excused. >> thank you, motion passes. thank you, and today we have a few items that does have budget and legislative analyst report, so we'll have a presentation and then the report and then we'll do public comment and comments and questions. with that, mr. clerk could you call item 1 and 2 together? >> yes. items 1 and 2 are resolutions regarding with the

airport. item 1 is resolution to approving amendment 3 to the airport luggage cart lease and operating agreement between smarte carte inc. and city county acting through airport commission to modify the flat service fees associated with the provision of free luggage cart service: item 2 approving the exercise of second of two one year extension options under a lease between michael c mitchell and city and county to extend the lease one year for period of may 1, 2024 through april 30, 2025. increasing the rent of $150 thousand for office i industrial space occupied by the san francisco international airport rep rographics. members joining remotely and wish to comment call the public

comment number at 415-655-0001. today's id is (259) 521-6357 and pound twice and when connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. a prompt will indicate you raised your hand and you have been unmuted that is your signal to begin comments. madam chair. >> thank you. today we have online verbal presentation by cathy wagoner from sfo. >> good morning chair chan, vice president mandelman. vice chair, excuse me. cathy wagoner with the san francisco international airport. item 1 is a proposed resolution that reinstate the free luggage cart program in the international terminal. historically luggage carts have been provided for free in the airport federal inspection service area for passengers arriving on

international flights. this is important customer service and customary at large throughout airports around the world. sfo paid smarte carte to provide is urfbs the lesser of per cart fee or flat service fee. during the pandemic the airport requested smarte carte temporarily halt the free cart service to reduce expenses while the traffic was extremely low. the plan is provide free carts and restore the original financial formula previously approved by the board to provide this operation. the air port will take smarte carte $1.45 per cart or annual flat service fee subject to annual adjustment. the per cart fee increases by annual cpi adjustment. (indiscernible) tied the flat service

fee annual adjustment to the annual international employment growth over the prior 2 fiscal years. this methodology seemed logical when the lease entered into prior to the pandemic but no longer make financial sense given the current average growth rate is extremely high because international traffic had all but disappeared during the pandemic, but returned fairly dramatically, familiarly with the return of flights from asia. tying increase to the service fee to employment growth particularly given how houch traffic is coming back just doesn't make sense. because the airport pays smarte carte either the lesser or the lesser of either the fee per cart or the service fee, there is no financial impact

on this change, and therefore there is no budget analyst report. but i can answer questions you might have. and then i will move to item 2 as were called together and can answer questions on both at the end. item 2 is proposed resolution that approve a second and final one year extension for the airport's off airport lease for 6 thousand square feet located at 837 malcolm road. the final extension extend the lease through april 30, 2025. again, there is no budget analyst report for this lease extension as the board previously approved the original lease and first extension with the language included to raise the rent by three percent annually in this last lease extension it

is $150.450 per year. the airport has had an off airport lease for services since 2009 as there is not currently space on property to locate the large scale equipment and storage required for these operations. rep rographic provides full service design, layout, (indiscernible) as well as various city departments. the exercise of the last remaining extension will give airport staff time to consider an appropriate rolocation option for reprographic hopefully on the airport campus. i'm joined by air part property nanjure steve (indiscernible) quhoo can answer specific questions related to the lease extension. thank you. >> thank you. seeing no names

on the roster, i do not have any questions. f i think that they both actually are pretty standard leases and form contract and lease agreements and for amendments and extensions, so with that, let's go to public comment. >> members who wish to speak on the two airport items and joining in person should line up now. for those joined remotly and haven't done so dial star 3. those in the queue continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that is your signal to begin comments. seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, and madam chair, we have no speakers in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. especially the fact it doesn't have bla report i think she should move both items so i'll make the motion to move both items 1 and 2

with recommendation to full board. with that, mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on the motion to forward both resolutions to full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. chair chan, aye. we have two ayes with member safai excused. >> thank you the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item 3. >> item number 3, is ordinance amending the business tax reg ulation code to extend 5 years until december 31, 2028 the credit against the early care and education commercial rents tax for qualifying child care facilities. members of the public joining remotely and wish to comment on this ordinance please call 415-655-0001. id 25953162179 and pound twice and press star 3 to enter a speaker

line. when the system indicates you are unmuted you can begin your comments. >> thank you. proud cosponsor of the legislation thanks to (indiscernible) and norman yee, get us to this moment where we really be able to have continuing support for early care and education for our kids and so here we have verbal presentation from jan lo legislative aid to supervisor melgar. >> thank you for hearing the item today. the early care education for all initiative passed by voters in june 2018 when we refer to as baby c to up lift the early care and education workforce and expand access to low and middle income families to achieve a universal education system in san francisco. the initiative is funded by commercial rents tax. this ordinance before

you today extend existing tax credit for businesses that lease or provide commercial space in the city for certain license child care fuisilities to infants toddlers or preschool age children. the tax credit is taking against the commercial rent taxes for businesses that lease or provide commercial space in the city. this tax credit is specifically for businesses that lease or provide commercial space in the city for licensed child care facilities and the calculation is based on the number of children the facility is licensed to provide care. as of now, approximately 10 taxpayers claimed this credit to date which is a win win given we have a desperate need for child care facilies. the credit will expair december 31, 2023 and this legislation extend the credit for 5 years to december 31, 2028. we have here today amanda freed from the treasurer tax collector office and director of

early childhood nob nonon the line if you have specific questions, we hope you we can count on your support and thank you for your cosponsorship supervisor chan. >> thank you i want to say in a space where we are thinking how to get worker back to work in person, i think that having a child care facility is really important to allow parents thinking about working parents thinking about juggling child care and going back to work in person. hopefully the downtown real estate and property owners will take notice of the tax credit and think about perhaps this is a good way to lease some of their property. with that, and i see vice chair mandelman is on the roster. >> thank you chair chan and in honor of my former colleague norman yee and jane kim spearheaded baby c and

gratitude for supervisor melgar's work and your work and supervisor chair chan cosponsorship, i like to add myself as a cosponsor. >> thank you. with that, let's go to public comment. thank you. >> thank you madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person line up now to speak and those remotely and haven't done so, press star 3 to enter the speaker line and those in the queue continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and you can begin your comments. seeing no in person speakers in the chamber and no speakers in the queue. >> thank you. public comment is closed. with that and cosponsorship from vice chair mandelman, i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation and mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on the motion to forward ordinance to the full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. chan, aye. we have two ayes with

member safai excused. >> thank you, the motion passes. and mr. clerk, please calletum olorado item 4. >> resolution authorizing the mayor office of housing and community development on behalf of city county to execute the grant application to fund affordable housing development under the california department of housing and community development local housing trust fund program for an amount not to exceed $5 million. members joining remotely and wish to comment on this resolution please call 415-655-0001. 25953162579 pound twice, press star 3 to enter the speaker line. madam chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. today we have a presentation from sheila director of policy from the mayor's office of housing and community development. >> good morning supervisors. thank you. just a

quick summary of what this is. the california department of housing and community development has released the state wide notice offunding available for approximately $53 million in funs for the trust fund program authorized under sb3 in 2017. this provides grants to local housing trust funds such as san francisco. through the approval of the resolution mohcd will apply for $5 million of matching funds available to us. we do expect the round to be competitive as there is only $53 million available for the whole state. we are well positioned to score well on the state criteria which include availability of matching funds, percentage of funding for low income households, project readiness, percentage of funding for houses below 60 percent ami, community need as determined by this state hcd, and performance. so, funds are expected to be used to supplement city loan funds to a

qualifying project where 30 percent of the homes serve extremely low income houses. we expect the state to announce awards in august. previously awarded $5 million under a similar in 2020 and hundred percent of the funds have been extended. allocated to 607 7th street under construction and completed end of 2024. if awarded the funds could support the homeless prenatal project on 18th street or maybe 967 mission or 1939 market. and to decide how the funds will get allocated we look at the full funding portfolio to identify where we can leverage funds and where funds are needed. we look to see who doesn't have hcd funds since there are stacking rules at hcd that prohibit using multiple state sources of funds on the same deal. thank you. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> i like to thank

mocd for their work and add myself as a cosponsor. >> thank you. with that, let's go to public comment. >> [providing instructions for public comment] sying no in person speakers in the chamber and no speakers in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. i do have a quick question. try to understand about the state affordable housing bond dollars, and this is for the-we are applying for grant for the state affordable housing bond from 2018? >> this was authorized under

sb3. >> i think separately at a different time, not today i love to learn more about the notice of funding availability process with the state affordable housing bond. as we move forward and start to have these bond conversation, especially on a regional level i think this will be tremendously helpful to help us understand how the state has been distributing bond funding and how much in percentage that san francisco is getting compared to other counties and how do we remain to be more competitive in the situation like when we apply for grants. thank you. >> good questions and we'll bring answers for you. >> we appreciate it. thank you. with that said, and with the cosponsorship from vice chair mandelman, i like to move this with recommendation to full board and please call the roll. >> on the motion to forward resolution to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. chan, aye. we

have two ayes with member safai excused. >> thank you, the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item 5. >> item 5, ordinance amending the transportation code, division i, to authorize the service authority for the abatement of abandoned vehicles (the san francisco municipal transportation agency board) to extend the $1 abandoned vehicle abatement fee on all vehicles registered to city residents for ten years, from june 1, 2023, through may 31, 2033. members of the public who wish to comment on the ordinance please call 415-655-0001 enter id2595312679 and pound and pound again. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. the prompt indicate you raised your hand and when you have been unmuted you can begin your comments. >> thank you mr. clerk. this one we have a

presentation by loreen, manager on streets parking service contract, parking and curb management from sfmta. >> good morning chair chan and vice chair mandelman. lorraine, sfmta parking group. just to give you quick background on this item, state legislation was passed in 1990 to allow participating county and the state to establish a service authority for the abatement of abandoned vehicles. in order to assist counties with setting the cost of abatement the state authorized dmv to collect a $1 abandoned vehicle abatement fee the public pays along with their annual vehicle registration fee. in 1992, the board of supervisors designated parking and traffic as the service authority and the dmv began collecting the

$1 per registration fee in 1993. in 2008, the service authority was transferred to the sfmta. state law requires that the authorization to collect the fee be extended every 10 years. it was extended in 2003 and again in 2013. the current authorization expires on may 31, and sfmta is requested extension for 10 years to continue the fee collection that would expire may 31 of 2033. and i'm available if you have question. thank you. >> thank you. i don't see any questions and let's go to public comment. [providing instructions for public comment which are stream ing across the screen]

seeing no in person speakers in the chamber and no speakers in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. i don't really have any questions. this has been a long-standing practice that we have been doing this and i do want to say that, the board has to act by 2/3 vote in the event we move out to full board, so-otherwise the fee will expire so it requires a super majority of the full board to approve this fee extension. with that said i like to move the item with recommendation and mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on the motion to forward the ordinance to full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. chair chan, aye. we have two ayes

with member safai excused. >> thank you. the motion passes. and mr. clerk, please call item 6. >> item 6 is resolution retroactive altogethererizing the department of public works to accept and expend grant up to $250 thousand from the san francisco bay rapid transit district for the pit stop public toilet program starting july 1, 2021 through june 30, 2022. [providing instructions for providing public comment which are streaming across the screen] >> thank you mr. clerk. today we have bruce robertson, finance director from san francisco public works.

>> good morning members of the board. chair chan. bruce robbertson, cfo with public works. brief presentation. $250 thousand accept and expend from bart. we are seeking retroactive approval of this $250 thousand grant. this is a grant that is all most always ret row aictive. this is the 6 year in a row we have doing it. this instance there were other administrative delays including our own staff causing delays as well as approval by the city attorney and other office to do it. however, i will be very clear, most of the delay in this late retroactivety is from public works. the $250 thousand is fixed amount from bart to fund staffing and monitoring of pit stop locations close to three bart locations, 24 and mission, 16

and mission and holiday plaza. so, very brief overview of the pit stop program, it start ed in 2014 and up to 31 locations. it is a combination of portable locations and (indiscernible) we also have 9 loscaigzs open 24/7, 365 days s of the year and you see in the photos that is a trailer public work takes to the various locations. in terms of the location, it is a mix of qualitative and quantitative data. we look at the 311 request for feces or urine and place in those locations. we have them throughout the city and move on a as-needed basis. they are pretty fixed at this point as we got good analytical data that shows where they are best placed. the bart grants provide monitoring service for the units in those 3 areas and the non profit s that

do the monitoring and track the number of uses at each location and work closely with public works staff. the other thing i want to highlight is, not only are they monitoring the use and keeping the restrooms clean, they are also doing cleaning around the pit stop and helping and assisting members of the public. so, here is the use data for one year, calendar year 2022 for the three locations and you see the use remains very high for each of these locations. over 30 thousand at 16 and mission, 27 thousand at 24 and mission and then 15 thousand holiday plaza near the bart street powell location. i will say the ocean beach pit stop is by far and away the pit stop with the most use. it is not only focus on the three, but interesting anecdote that receives the most use. you see on the far right they do the other-we collected 500 needles, collected over 2,000 waste bags for

dog waste, bags of litter they collected, over 1400, and then you see here is another component. not necessarily related to the program, but provided assistance to help passengers of bart and nearly 12 thousand locations. so, again just very quick and brief overview of the program and these specific locations. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. i'm joined by warren hill, who is the workforce development manager for public works and can speak very closely to the performance of our non profit partners on these programs and not just these three locations, but all 31 of the locations. thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning, nick monard from budget legislative analyst office. item 6 is resolution approving and accepting and spending of grant funds of $250 thousand from bart to

public works to off set the cost of operating the #3i9 stop location at three locations just described by the department around powell street bart, 16 street and 24 street. we show the budget for the cost of those pit stops on page 3 of the report, and you know, i thought this given the centrality of the program to the city healthy streets, i thought it was a good opportunity to check in on the program performance so at the time we wrote this report we requested the grant agreements and the performance data against the program as well as the fiscal and compliance monitoring for the non profit that operates these sites, so the department just spoke to performance data. i did touch base with the fiscal monitoring team and this non

profit as of the most recent financial statement from june 2022 has negative indicators of financial health. decreased from $1.8 million to $750 thousand because the expenses exceeded revenues over the past year and the cash position declined to about 2 percent of operating expenses, so the organization does appear to be in financial distress, which gives me concern that they will have programmatic issues, meaning the grant requirements. i did touch base with the public works this morning and they are going to pro cure this service over the next fiscal year,b which i think is a important piece of the information here. so, i mean, again this grant is just going to off-set cost that have already been paid more then a year ago at this

point, so i do think it is okay to approve this immediate resolution, but i do think it is important for the board to know that this program appears to be potentially on shaky ground, but the department appears to be on it. thank you. >> thank you. i want to say mr. robertson, i received a communication from supervisor hillary ronen's office and who's district impacted by specifically this piece of $250 thousand, and the request is a continuance on this item, so i think there seems to be a conversation needed about service, and no worries-we will continue to talk and you know, and i think that it is

also a worthwhile to conversation to be had noting that the organization that public works is contracting with in partnership with bart that is in financial-potential financial distress and we want to have a new contractor. i think all those are worthwhile conversations and i am grateful for the pit stop at ocean beach. i have seen it, i am out there from time to time with my families. it is well loved and well used, attendance there is courteous and it is working out for a lot of families that in need of restrooms by ocean beach. we only wish we have it like the other side of the upper great highway-they actually have a stand alone structure a real restroom, not pit stop, but just as fine. with that said, i see vice chair mandelman has question, but before that i do want to say today it

is my intent to continue to call of chair, but as call the chair, it really means we get to have a convarsation, woo we can bring it back, retroactive already. you paid them already from a year ago, so we should figure that part out. no worries. vice chair mandelman. >> moving on, no worries. [laughter] >> maybe a lot of worries but not right now. >> i wonder if the -what kinds of fiscal concern did you see? >> so, we looked at two financial statements on the same fiscal year the city is on. fiscal year ending june 2021 and june 2022, so in the year that closed in june 2022 the net assets

declined from $1.8 million to $750 thousand. because the expenses exceeded the revenues by about over a million dollars. they had to draw on reserves to cover those expenses, and kind of related to that is that, their cash position declined to about 2 percent of operating expenses so typically you want an organization to have about 3 months of cash to cover 3 months of operating expenses. and so, they are below that high level benchmark, and i think part of that, it appears that they lost some grant funding based on my quick review this morning of the financial statements, so i think you know, those are not positive indicators of financial health. there are

things the city can do short of ending the relationship. there is is a whole technical assistance process that can be initiated with the controller's office and kind of to basically go in there and help the organization with their financial management. i also think that a new procurement process will help-will help the city decide whether there are other providers that can do this service better. i think there are steps to take over the next couple months that-the other thing i want to mention too, it sounds like public works is actually taking over the fiscal monitoring process, so i think over the next couple months-what i recommend- >> taking over that from? >> basically when you have a non profit that contracts with multiple city

departments, the departments share responsibility for monitoring the financial condition and the governance of that organization. >> (indiscernible) >> it is rotating back to public works. i think in part because public workicize one of the main funders here, and so if there is a continue the item to call of the chair would allow perhaps the department to come back with a plan like are they doing technical assistance? or just going to rerocure this and see what bids come had in, right? one thought i had was they could return during the budget hearings to give them time to plan. does that make sense? >> i'm not really wanting to beat up on hunters point family. i'm just

curious given the volume of our work that we do through outside non profits, how issues like potential financial troubles get spotted and what the city does. do we know how much of their budget is city contracts? >> i think all most all of it. >> it is essentially acting as a arm of the city and county, so if they are having financial trouble we are having financial troubles in some way and how much of the work with the city is this contract? there is other stuff too, right? >> i haven't seen the grant agreement. i think-i know the cost-looks like $10 10 million in expenses in 2021 and think the grant agreement is 4 ish. >> $4 million

>> i believe without having seen it. i think that sorry, can you repeat the question? >> we have this agreement with them prombly we have others, they are doing other things. >> the process-there is this-the process for identifying at risk non profits is that there's-for all most 85 percent of non profits that contract with the city contract with multiple departments. they are then going to a monitoring pool that is kind of orchestrated by the controller's office. called the city wide non profit fiscal monitoring pool basically. they examine a host of-set of criteria where they look at the audited financial statements audit financials, governance, the board meeting is there board approving the

financial statements, are the cost allocation reasonable? do the pay roll legitimate? so, there is a set of criteria they look at. if there are findings, in other words, if the non profit falls short of the specific criteria that is being monitored, depending on the severity of how the extent to which they fall short and number of findsings they may be put in a elevated risk category at which time the department and non profit come together to develop a plan about getting technical assistance, restructuring their grants so they build differently. maybe reducing or expanding the scope of service so that they can be brought back into better shape. and so this non profit was one of the few that did not

complete their monitoring last year, because there executive leadership turned over and were not able to produce the documentation necessary to the monitoring team on the city side to complete the monitoring. to me that does stand out a concern. i will say the organization can bounce back. it is not just because they are in distress now- >> i'm not going down the line shouldn't be in this agreement or we shouldn't continue to use them, i'm just curious how this plays out and presumably this whole process is supposed to spot problems not just at a budget finance one year late hearing. like presumably this should be-i am also curious to

hear from the controller on their thoughts about what's going on here. >> hi. controller's office. what mr. monard described is essentially what the non profit monitoring group does, but in terms of the most current process and also this particular organization, i would have to get back to you. >> i think i understand where vice chair mandelman is going. we did just recently have conversation about how with-the government audit oversight committee we had a hearing specifically on united council contract, bayview hunters point foundation was i believe-for 7 months as a fiscal agent and turn over to felton institute. the reason being wasn't very clear in that hearing,

but i do agree with as we move forward with the new budget or upcoming budget conversation that collectively as we screening through all the contracts that we want to have more consistency or consistent protocol screening through non profits that we are contracting. there are a few contracts that came before this board not just for public works, but including ones that department of homelessness and supportive housing, and just wanted to make sure that all the non profits when they come and continue the contract we understand their status. their non profit status before we approve all those contracts. i think that is what vice chair mandelman is indicating here. in general or you want- >> generally curious how we keep track of distress and what happens when signals go up. in

the case of contracts overseen by multiple departments given our vast and not well coordinated bureaucracy how things are spotted and addressed. i think about prc baker place. inclination to think there is a bad non profit that behaved badly and we need to deal with that problem. i tend 250 think there is errors that are made by non profits, people are human, but they are acting as extensions of us and therefore we need protocols and processes that are spotting in the same way if we had a department that was-blowing through the money at a more rapid rate then anticipated. it is a interesting case study and curious about it and now we have more time to think about it. >> i think-again, i want to be clear and i think we do

understand that this is retroactive, meaning money already spent and that we will come back and make sure that people are paid for the work that is already done, but i think that at this moment i think i differ to supervisor hillary ronen, specifically about just pit stop program in her district through the three locations, and perhaps it is a convursation not just public works but also with bart and overall taking a step back is to try to understand the pit stop program as a whole moving forward for the upcoming budget process and how the funding is-how the contract procurement process moving forward and where do we go from here and on out? >> chair chan, bruce robertson, to add additional detail. we issued a competitive rfp. the process closed and we have just

started the evaluation process, so at this point, we very likely could have the same provider or could have a new provider, i dont know the number of respondents or where that is in terms of the next steps. that is obviously still ongoing but that will be in place by june 30. july 1 we will have a new contract in place, solicitated under the provisions of admin code 1g. a point i like to make, we agree with the budget legislative analyst. that is why we asked to be the lead analyst and monitor for this non profit in the coming fiscal year because they are a key partner for us on the program. whether they remain to be that partner or not, we wanted to make sure we were there helping out. that is why we are taking on the lead. it was another department as part of the non profit monitoring task force and (indiscernible) being the lead. we are happy to provide information you need of the program,

budget, expenditures at a subsequent day. >> sthrat is wonderful. i think when we bring the item back up it is great to have just a overall pit stop program information, a little more about how the rfp because now the rfp closed, how did the rfp process went, how did it go and maybe that little more of the information when we do thing this back up. >> sure. >> thank you so much. great. >> one more question. what was the department leading on monitoring? prior to public works. >> it was the department of children youth and families. who has large contracts with this specific non profit. >> it makes sense in my opinion with public works, particularly in this program. great. thank you. with that, lelts let's go to public comment.

[providing instructions for public comment which is streaming across the screen] seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, and madam chair, no speakers in the queue. >> great. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed and mr. clerk i would like to move and continue this item to call of chair and with that, roll call, please. just wanted to make sure we note supervisor safai arrival. >> yes, chair chan. on the motion to continue the resolution to call of the chair vice chair mandelman, aye. member safai, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, motion passes. mr. clerk, could you please call items 7, 8 and 9 together? >> yes madam chair.

item 7, ordinance appropriating $275,000,000 consisting of: appropriation of (1) $260,878,172 of one or more series of refunding certificates of participation series 2023-r1 proceeds, (2) de-appropriation of $14,121,828 of series 2012a, 2015-r1, and 2015a certificates of participation prior reserve funds, and (3) re-appropriation of the same amount to refunding certificates of participation series 2023-r1; and placing these funds on controller's reserve pending the sale of the certificates of participation in fiscal year (fy) 2022-2023. items 8 and 9 are ordinances execution, u.s. bank trust company national association

successor interest to u.s. bank national association as trustee, including certain indimities approvering a supplemental property lease and project lease each between city and trustee for the lease and lease back of all or a portion of is certain real property and improvements owned by the city and located at 375 laguna honda boulevard within the city and 1 morland drive san bruno and any other property as determined by public finances. approving the form of official notice of sale and are notice of intention to sell these certificates approving the form of official statement in preliminary and final form approving the form of a purchase contract between the city and one or more initial purchasers of the certificates. approving the form of a continuing disclosure of certificate and granting general authority to city officials to take

necessary actions in connection with the authorization sale execution and delivery of the certificates, approving modifications to documents and ratifying previous action taken in connection as defined. item 8, authorize the execution and delivery of certificates in one or more series from time to time to prepay certain certificates that finance and refinance various capital improvalment projects and approve the form of esgrow agreement including certain indimities contained between the city and u.s. bank trust company national association as escrow agent and item 9, authorizing the execution and delivery of certificates in one or more series on a tax exempt and/or taxable basis and evidencing and representing an aggregate principal not to exceed $146.8 million.

(indiscernible) demolition and site preparation design work construction repairs renovations improvement and the equipment of such facilities including through the retirement of certain commercial paper notes of the city issued for such purposes. member s joining remotely and wish to comment call 415-655-0001. meeting id, 25953162579 and press pound twice. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. a prompt indicate you raised your hand and when the system indicates you have been unmuted that is your signal to begin comments. madam chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. i understand that today we have both the controller's office of public finance as well as the mayor's office of housing community development presenting today. reminders for colleagues that all three items, 7, 8, 9 have budget legislative analyst reports so let's hold off questions until all the presentation

is completed. please state your first name, last name and title and the division that you are from. thank you. >> morning. my name is grant carson from the controller office of public finance. title is debt capital market specialist. nice to be speaking with you today. i have oo short presentation covering 7 and 8 two ordinances related to refunding cop. the firsh authorize the execution and delivery of refunding certificate of participation. the second is supplemental ordinance appropriating the proceeds of that proposed transaction. the office of punlic finance identified four cop as potential refunding candidates. each of the cop was structured with call provision the city can utilize on or after the first optional call date to refinance outstanding principal. as shown in the table here, the 4 identified series of

call dates utilized by the city in the coming months that total $261 million. in line with (indiscernible) 3 percent value of the refunded bonds on net present value basis. as you know, interest rates and bond markets including municipal bond market have been volatile over the last year. approval of the ordinances give city staff the ability to capture lock in those savings if the market provided opportunity. at the 3 percent threshold savings are estimated to be $7.9 million. on the left we have the estimated financing terms provided by our advisor and good faith estimates. the estimated final maturity match the final maturity of the cop to be refunded april

1, 2045. the interest cast cost is 3.62 percent. the estimated refunding escrow cost refunding the cop is little over $266 million and the estimated financing cost paid to third parties and process of issuing the transaction range from 1.79 to $2.04 million. on 24 right we have a simple source and use table from the supplemental appropriation ordinance. one thing i'll point out, we do assume about $14.1 million in deblt serveish reserve funds associated with the cop to be refunded is contributed as part of the transaction. we have a accepted financing timeline here assume final approval may 23 and pricing and closing of the cop in july and august. i'll note that updated

estimates for disclosure, this may fall into september. happy to take any questions and thank you for your time. >> 7 and 8 are ordinances that authorize refunding certificates of participation in a mount not to exceed $260 million as well as reappropriating $13.1 million in debt service reserves from the previously issued debt as part of the transaction. we detailed the four cop that could be refunded as part of this legislation on page 9 of our report, and according to the office of public finance the transaction could save approximately $7.9 million in total debt service on netprint value basis over the

remaining term of the dbt to be refundsed. we recommend approval. >> thank you. i do have a quick question. what is-looking at these rates, i believe that it was locked in previously. what is the average interest rate at this moment for cop? >> if issued today? >> yeah. >> a lot of variables. we did run a updated transaction. i don't think i have the tic but if we were using current market rates, savings is more like 6 percent. >> yeah. >> which generates savings of around $15.7 million. >> great. thank you. not i'm trying to issue a cop any time soon, but who knows. we are going through the budget now. thank you, and with that, i don't see any name on the roster so let's go to--

>> can i say one thing? i appreciate you asking the question about the interest and debt right now, but the good thing for folks to recognize is that we are going through this ability and this authorization we make the decision on when to issue those, and so there is also the opportunity in the future to not have to use some if we can replace with other forms of funding that would still do the same purpose. meaning that, whatever projects we have that are identified, things we might want to accomplish there could be other ways to replace it, this just gives the authorization to do so and we have the ability to wait for interest rates to be more optimal, correct? >> correct. in the report it says 3.62, right? but that's fluctuating on a daily basis. in the past we had better, sometimes worse but about

identifying the projects bringing forward with when they are ready and looking at host of options for financing at the moment. thank you for doing all your hard work. >> thank you. >> bla for giving us the information. thank you, madam chair. >> (indiscernible) great. we appreciate that and then we have the next presentation. please say your name, first last name, title and division. thank you. >> good morning supervisors. benjamin (indiscernible) deputy director for finance and administration at mohcd. i'll talk about the item that will actually new cop of spending that is paired along in the legal realm with the items that were just spoken about. the item before you today is recommendation to approve the ordinance authorizing

the sale of cop not exceeding $146.8 million. a little history about how we got here--the supervisors may remember that as part of the 22-24 budget process, on the final page of the board add back list the board identified a responding plan for housing and community development, cop. that responding plan -spending plan is on the slide in front of you. i'll explain the categories since we'll talk about them more. the first is $40 million for acquisition of new sites for affordable housing. $20 million for public housing or hud cooprepairs, $12 million for affordable housing for educators, $10 million for elevators in sro portfolio, $30 million for acquisition of non profit community facilities sites, so not housing, and then

$34.8 million for financing cost reserves and capitalized interest. the board approved ordinance 171-22 that appropriated the $112 million of private proceeds and $34.8 million of financing cost and put the funds on reserve pending the sale of the cop. mohcd created the following implementation plan. we are splitting the acquisition of non profit community facility sites into two phases. the first phase of $20 million we issued the rfp at the end of january, and we anticipate having a list of projects available in later this month. on the same day at the end of january, we issued acquisition of sites for affordable housing development and that has the similar timeline for having a list of available projects. on the affordable housing

for educators front, we issued the nofa the end of february and anticipate having a list of projects by the end of june. and then there is three more categories we haven't yet issued rfp's for. the first is the second part of the acquisition of non profit community facilities. we anticipate issuing that around august of this year, but it may depend on what we see in the responses from the first batch and then two more categories we are still working on finalizing the approach for. the first is public housing hud cooprepairs and the second is elevator and sro portfolios and colleagues at hsh are taking the lead on the last $10 million portion. since we dont yet have specific projects identified for you, the next several slides i'll go through the rfp criteria for how we structured each of the

rfp's and the framework that is used for making a determination of what projects will be selected. in the first category acquisition or rehab of non profit community facilities, just a little of context and background, the mohcd has been doing this work for more then 30 years but most of the time grants of smaller scale. $200 thousand or so is usually our max. most of the time it is intended for rehab. like redoing a roof or hvac system at a community center for example. mohcd is the only city department that funds that kind of work. we have in the past made larger grants. the willy mays boys and girls club was significantly supported financially from funds from our office. this rfp lines up with the existing programs. it is just a little larger

amounts then what we usually do. as far as applying criteria for this portion och the funds, the applying organizations need to serve low and moderate income api residents, show project readiness 250 insure the acquisition or capital improvalments happen in a timely way. they have to have org national capacity to maintain the facility and in align with the city priorities and needs. the maximum proposal award for the rfp is $5 million. applicants can apply for either acquisition or capital improvements but not both, and we are asking applicants to have skin in the game. they can apply for a maximum of 85 percent of the acquisition price or the capital improvements and the balance they need to

find their own funds from ort sources to cover. responses were due march 3 and we received 14 responses. we are in the final stages of the review process for those. second category, acquisition of affordable housing sites for development. the goal of the rfp site acquisition and pre-development funding for new construction projects serving low income households including homeless households. a little about timeline, we anticipate making predevelopment loans for projects in 2023 with construction start date in 2026 and lease up in 2028, but in order to meet that timeline we need additional funds beyond what we have right now. the responses for this were due april 7. as far as criteria for scoring and

review, we are prioritizing projects best positioned to secure funding from the state, and they do that they falling into one of the three priority funding categories the state identified. first, either the site will produce at least 25 percent two bedroom and 25 percent three bedroom units. the second priority area is that the site will include at least 45 percent units for formally homeless households, and the third priority set by the state would be the site is developed by a team that qualifies for their bipoc funding pool under their definition. some additional criteria that we set, we wanted to maximize density and are unit count, implement and provide a proposal for interim use plan for the site between acquisition and when construction actually starts. we wanted to be cost

effective. at least 25 percent of the units need to be for formally homeless households and align with a lot of our other opportunities around emerging developers and other policy priorities. the third category affordable housing for educators is pretty similar to the last one accept focusing now on educators, and we use this as a opportunity to add in other funding we had available. the 2019 go bonds for affordable housing had $20 million specifically set aside for affordable housing for educators, so we combine the cop funding with this $20 million from the 2019 go bond for one procurement process. these funds can be used for either home ownership or rental housing projects. could fund acquisition pre-development or construction cost and

responses were due april 21. we are working to expand geographic diversity and also be sure we are really focusing on the nudes of sfusd and (indiscernible) and a broad range of those employees including paraeducators and early education providers. with these our timeline would be to make predevelopment loans this calendar year, construction start dates hopefully in 2025, lease up completed no later then the end of 2026 and sales depending on the situation to take as long as to 2029. we anticipate selecting at least 2 projects under this nofa. the criteria is very similar to the other housing site acquisition, accept given the focus on educator housing, we are not requiring serving homeless households. not to say there couldn't be a cross

over between the two but hope not. the ami levels are to more closely align with the ami from the educator community. for the ownership housing, if anantty applies for ownership, we targeted the ami between 80 percent and 120percent ami so they would be able to afford units there. the last category is rfp we haven't issued. non profit community facilities. we hope to issue this fall, public housing hud repair and elevator in the sro portfolio are still trying to prioritize priorities and partner with -with that i'm going to turn it over to my colleague to talk about the financing

part of the cop. >> good morning. (indiscernible) with the office of public finance and just going to briefly summarize the estimated financing cost for the transaction. as mentioned, this is under the same legal lease structure the cop master lease program as the proposed refunding certificates. we are hoping to price them together and achieve transaction cost savings, but the estimates is presented are showing separate transactions as they are separate items for approval. so, we have a not to exceed amount of approximately $147 million. we are expecting a 20 year term in 2043 and interest cost of 6.3 percent that create a annual debt service of 12.4 million dlr. these are certificates of

participation and lease lease back in which the city leases the property to trustees and pays the trustee to lease the property back and have use and occupancy. we have a master lease for several of the cop series and we are anticipating to structure this as well as refunding certificates under the master lease agreement, which includes laguna honda and san bruno jail as the leased assets. this is the source and uses that generated the cost estimates in the previous slide. we are showing amount of $138.8 million in order to fund the projects of $112 million and that includes relatively conservative capitalized interest cost given the uncertain timeline, the lack of identified projects so we don't know exactly how much and when we are able to issue the cop, but we expect to know over the

course of the summer as the projects get identified and the results of the rfp are firmed up. also includes allocation for debt service reserve fund of approximately $12.4 million and there is a market reserve of approximately $8 million to account for fluctuations in this bond market. we are here before you today, we were approved by cpc in march if the board is able to approve this transaction this may we are anticipating some time again in the summer once the projects are identified and we have clear expectations regarding the expenditure of proceeds that is the earliest we are able to price the cop. happy to take questions or refer any questions regarding the refunding perhaps to colleagues. >> thank you. bla. jrkss >> thank you. item 9

is ordinance that would authorize new debt certificate of participation not to exceed $146.8 million. this is tied to a placeholder appropriation the board passed as part of the budget process last year. the board has to act separately both to authorize debt and also to appropriate the proceeds so the appropriation is already on file so this legislation is authorizing the new debt. we detailed the program categories that would be funded by this debt on page 12 of the report, and we know on page 17 of the report that the total debt service will be $243 million according to the office of public finance. certificates of participation, the

city capital plan details the projected use of that debt over the next 10 years,b and the board approved financial policy that constrain the use of that debt are that the debt service on any given year should not exceed 3.25 percent of general revenue any given year, so this new debt was incorporated in the capital plan which shows the city remains below the threshold over the next 10 years. so, the transaction is compliant with that policy. we did have a recommendation here, which is that there is $112 million of projects that the board wanted to fund with this debt last year. there have been no solicitations and nofa for about $72 million of that work. there is $40 million that remains, including half of the site acquisition for non

profits and then the nofa for public housing repair and sro elevator repair. so, we are recommending the committee request report back from mohcd by november this year to keep those projects moving. we otherwise recommend approval of item 9. >> thank you. just want to recognize supervisor preston is joining today. thank you for being here and supervisor preston. >> thank you chair chan and committee members and this-i just wanted to address item 9 and ask couple questions on it. and start by thanking former chair budget chair ronen and chair chan and other colleagues for their support of this cop deal in the last

budget cycle and glad to see though we have been frustrated with some of the amount of time it has taken to move this forward, i'm pleased to see us moving forward with this next stage of getting these funds out the door. we had significant frustration around the delays in the issuance of the nofa, and won't go bother going back over the history on the stuff where we are moving forward because i'm encouraged to see the educator piece of this. the site acquisition piece of this, and a portion of the facilities non profit piece moving forward so it is good that we are making progress on those and i support that. as pointed out, we have

two buckets here that where there-doesn't seem to be a plan moving forward and i wanted to ask about those. we are nearly a full calendar year later and from the presentation and our conversations with mohcd and hsh, it appears we have no criteria parameters, dates for two of the most critical components of this broader cop deal and that is public housing repairs, public housing and hud subsidized coops for $20 million and sro elevator repairs. myophilus has been asking about these in every meeting with the

directors of both hsh and mohcd for most of the last year, so through the chair, can you explain why there has been no progress on making-on moving these funds forward doing these nofa for what are life safety urgent repairs and public housing and sro? >> my colleague litia is available on teams as well. from my viewpoint from where i sit within the organization, a lot of it just has honesty to do about staff capacity. we had a lot of vacancies. we are asked to do a lot of different things, and the

organization i think especially on the multi-family team which both of these fall under, they had a fair amount of turnover, but i differ to my colleague litia to see if there is any other thoughts that she might have on that topic. >> good morning. can folks hear me? >> yes. >> thank you. yes so as benjamin mentioned we lost 30 percent of our staff over the last 3 years. we had difficulty-also closing a thousand units this spring. this is twice as many units as we closed last year, so we have staff capacity issues that i know are many of our sister city agencies share. i would like to point out that on the-in addition to the nofa mentioned here today,

we also published an additional nofa for $20 million for repairs on non profit owned housing, that just closed last week and looking forward to getting those dollars out. half the money was in the mayor budget last year. it wasn't of the certificate participation bonds but money we are pleased to get out the door. the $10 million for elevator repairs, i are want to clarify that those repairs are intended to take place in privately owned buildings. that hsh is in contract with through master leases. the 20million mentioned for existing non profit buildings can also be used for elevator repairs, but that would be in mohcd funded buildings. so, i just

want to-it sound complicated. just want to be clear that there are funds available now through this nofa process for those kind of repairs, just not in the master lease buildings. >> thank you. correct. these are separate-there was a budget allocation last year that was for the mohcd properties. what we are talkish about in the cop on the $10 million is for hsh and for sro so no comfort to the people who are literally getting stuck in elevators or who are disabled and living in sro and cant get in and out of their building in my district there is another pot of funds that has nothing to do with this deal that address other forms of affordable housing, but thank you for clarifying that. i are just have to observe on this. i get there are capacity issues, but this

is what we are called to do all the time is deal with limited capacity and we talk a lot in the building about equity and what that means and i just going to give the feedback to mohcd. if we are serious talking about equity, the fact the two pieces of the deal that there isn't a timeframe for are the ones that will deliver life safety improvements to people living in public housing, and necessary repairs to elevators so people can come and go in sro hotels is not lost on the people of my district and it really does an incredible disservice to some of the folks who are most in need and have their voices ignored too often in this building. we hear as supervisor for fillmore and the

tenderloin where these resources will make a huge difference, we hear on a daily basis about sub-standard living conditions, we see them when we visit in the existing public housing stock in particular. the disconnect with the conversations with the housing authority director who talk about the conditions of plaza east for example and the need for funds to make those reirpas and then we know there is a authorized $20 million and mohcd doesn't have capacity or housing authority to issue a notice the funding is available, something that takes days or a week. it just-we are talking about mold and broken heat during winter months and sewage backup people in the district are living through every day. that is why we fought for these funds kwr all most a year later and don't have a timeline just to issue the notice the funds are available. it just makes no sense and the same in

the aging sro's. from mobility impaired folks in particular, broken elevator means they are trapped in their homes in many cases. often people with disabilities. i just find the delay in getting the funds out the door or starting the process that will get these funds out the door totally unacceptable, and these funds are-we from the chart says to be determined. is there a update or commitment? on the chart show you specific timelines on the other buckets of fund but the public housing life safety repairs and sro elevator repairs can you amend the presentation to give a date by which a nofa will be issued? >> i can talk with my

colleagues about that. i'm not prepared to amend the presentation now. >> in light of that, i appreciate the report, but i would like to push back on the idea of that being november 1, 2023. i dont think we should give basically mohcd 6 months before to come back to tell us the timeline. i suggest that-maybe through the chair if i could to mr. monard, is there anything magic or specific around 6 months or the idea having a report back that was recommended? >> i think it was a a judgment based on the passage of time and the amount of money already solicited. what the capacity of the department responsible for the rest of the money going forward what their capacity was. i think earlier

reporting could provide more real time information to the board, but when we put the 6 months recommendation in the draft report reviewed by the department, we didn't get feedback so i took that to mean it was a reasonable timeframe for them to put together the remaining packages. did that make sense? >> thank you yeah. i would suggest to the chair and committee members that there be a much shorter timeline for reporting back, and encouraging that these dates and the criteria and so forth be announced much sooner then the report back date, but i think having a report back date that is certainly no more then 3 months out, maybe august 1 instead of november 1 would be appropriate. thank you. >> thank you.

supervisor safai. >> can we-is deputy director still on the phone? >> litia? >> yeah. >> i believe so, yes. >> lit ia are you there? >> yes, i'm here, thank you. >> just to add onto that, what nofa's are or mohcd issuing right now? are there any nofa's happening as we speak? >> so, as mentioned we just closed the solicitation under three nofa, 1 for $30 million, one for (indiscernible) educator housing funds and 1 for $20 million for repairs in the existing portfolio. later this year we'll also be identifying developers through request for qualification process for 1979 mission, and parcel k and potentially another project in the pipeline we are programming

right now. >> so, it sounds like just to build onto supervisor preston's point, one of the bigest left out is elevator repair. sro repair. i would just say, just having worked with that population as a former commissioner and staffer and also someone that worked and done a lot of work in sro's and buildings that have elevator problems, you are talking some of the most vulnerable disabled senior population and a few days of delay can have a significant impact on folks, so i just would just want to hear your response. is there any way to accelerate the issuance of that nofa? >> this nofa is the lead agency on the $10 million for elvarietys is department of homelessness and

supportive housing. >> oh. >> the funds are intended to go to master lease projects that are privately owned that hsh manages the master leases on. those are not in mohcd portfolio, that is why we have this bright line where we fund 20million for repairs to existing portfolios which might include sro and elevators, but they have to be in the mohcd portfolio to be eligible for the $20 million. >> is anyone from hsh here? >> i don't believe so, supervisor. >> oh. that's not good. if they are the ones responsible for this bucket and this is a big concern, city wide concern, i mean we should have them here answering what the timeline-maybe through the chair to the bla, did you have re sponse from hsh of timing for issuance of those

dollars? >> i have to circle back with them. i think-just to be clear, the recommendation refers to mohcd. in the report we note the elevators are hsh duty, but i thought that given mohcd is doing most of the heavy lifting they can just consolidate the letter to you all and report the information that's requested. >> thank you. before i go to supervisor preston, i think that here's the question is that clearly at the-we all remember this conversation about this particular certificate of participation. i think supervisor preston and supervisor safai and myself were in the conversation about very specific monies. i have to say that even for our office we have been working closely with the mayor office

to just really checking in on quarterly basis if not more frequent about the issuance of the rfp and as soon as issues and it took us a while to drill down the timeline as well. i do share the frustration with supervisor preston to get a better understand ing of timeline. in this case, because i was involved in some of the conversations and also know at the ends legislative branch is limited in decision making when we approve the dollars and hand over the executive branch and look to the administration to do its thing. who actually decided in this case, unless supervisor preston knows about this, but it doesn't sound like it, once this nofa is allocated

or as we discussed appropriated, who made the decision that is really on the two conditions? it isn't just about any sro but about sro that is under the jurisdiction of the mayor's office of housing community development, but then hsh, department of homelessness and supportive housing is now taking the lead on those particular $10 million of elevator rfp, who make that decision that now suddenly hsh is the lead instead of mohcd? and how is that decision made? >> sure. i guess-i can't say specifically who made that decision, but i believe it was our our collective understanding of the board's intent. the board's intent for the $10 million of the cop was inteneded for master

lease sro properties and none of those properties are under the jurisdiction of mohcd. they are all under the jurisdiction of hsh. we separately have $20 million as my colleague litia mentioned, $20 million that our understanding the board intent for that portion was for rehabilitation within mohcd portfolio so that is how the determination was made. >> understood. supervisor preston. >> thank you chair chan. i think i concur are the last statement. i think that the funds for mohcd were part of the mayor proposed budget, the board supported and for affordable housing. what is missing and what the cop deal and meeting of the minds between the mayor

office and supervisors was around the gap which is sro of any type did not have funding for elevators despite having significant needs, so that is consistent with my understanding. i did want to get clarity though on in a number of issues we deal with, even though there may be a department lead on the issue, mohcd is often the one doing the rfp, so i-or the nofa process. can you clarify who is going to issue the nofa evefen you can't give a timeline now, on let's start with the sro elevator repairs? will hsh issue that nofa or mohcd? >> isn't it hsh? >> i believe hsh will do t. we will work collaboratively but predominantly the drafting of the rfp in that case,

including the terms of criteria for consideration, that would need to come from hsh. >> i understand the substance, but have you discussed with hsh who is going to post and manage the nofa? >> not to my knowledge. i don't believe we had that conversation supervisor. my assumption has been hsh is doing it since they-the content is theirs but we haven't to my knowledge- >> my convursation with hsh months ago this is imminent and now have nigh timeline. i think it helps who is going to issue the nofa. same question for public housing. i talked to the head of the housing authority who had no knowledge what so ever and mohcd hadn't reached out to them. is mohcd going to issue that or housing authority or someone

else? >> mohcd would be issuing that supervisor. >> thank you. >> when will that happen? >> i'm not make commitments for colleagues in front of you today. i can go back and time about a timeline, but can't give a timeline now. >> this is partly maybe more of observation. i just-what doesn't make sense-what i'm hearing clearly from you from deputy director is the capacity issue at mohcd. now, i addressed before i think when you take your capacity and you decide to not use for public housing residents and for sro residents that's a bad thing. i think it sends a terrible message and don't really accept that as a good

decision at face value. but i also want to note the contrast. when other departments have a staffing issue that prevents them from accomplishing something they view as important, they are here before this board raising a red flag saying-even the police department with whom i have disagreements, look at the conduct of the chief of police over the last 6 monthss when we believes he has a staffing issue and therefore can't meet what he views as crucial needs is and we can agree or disagree when the funds he is seeking are reasonable or not but there is a full on lobbying operation. there is non stop desperate pleas from the department for funds and because there is perceivered urgency. i do not get why it is myself, community activist, tenants and some members of the board of supervisors

that are raising this flag. if you don't have capacity at mohcd and need additional hiring, additional funds to be relieved of something else you are doing so you can do this, i have constituents who are living in literacy with sewage coming out of pipes and mold and kids getting sick. i just-even if it is a capacity issue, can you give us-shed any light-your are coming into the presentation all most a year later and saying there is still no timeline and the only response is, it is a capacity issue. what do you need? that's my question. a, why is there no urgency on this? and b, what do you need to be able to deliver on this thing that the mayor's office and board came together on a year ago

and just being slow walked while people are suffering? what do you need? >> before you answer, i want to say that i want to direct this couple things and before i also go to director from the mayor office of budget, i think that also this is for sheila from the mayor office of housing and community development. what i do expect next time when it comes to-if the department decisions and responses about capacity, (indiscernible) not the one who is going to hire the staff. i expect director eric shaw to come before this body and answer those questions instead of sending staff that does not center the authority to increase capacity within the office to answer that question. so, i just really wanted to put it out there publicly and at this meeting to say

that director shaw should come before the body to answer those questions in front of supervisor preston if this is about staffing issue, it is whole different response. thank you and director. >> i can-if you don't mind, i think i might be able to-before addresses it. first, to address supervisor preston's question about urgency, i will say supervisor that i worked at mohcd16 years and i can assure you that all most down to the person pretty much everyone within mohcd shares your sense of urgency around the conditions you described. that's why we've chosen our careers to align with addressing that urgency. so, we definitely understand your urgency as a department as

staff. as far as capacity is concerned, i don't think that-i wouldn't frame as something the board or the mayor budget office needs to do or change. it is really a-it is not that we need more positions, it is that we have had a lot of vacancies. we had a lot of turnover, so it is not a question of meeting more staff. we need vacant positions filled and been making good progress on that. >> chair chan, if i may, just to follow up, it is interesting to see what you are doing. my experience is that mohcd is picking up and processing and doing rfp for other departments because you have infrastructure to do that. >> that is true.

>> you are running rfp for valuable things. people are working with the planning department. other stuff that is very valuable and who knows what else. you are the clearinghouse for a lot of these rfp. what is more core to the function of the office and priority of staff to address then the life safety housing issues. i don't understand how you can prioritize a bunch of things and these particular nofa can not be high on the list and leave it at that. >> madam chair. >> sure, supervisor safai. actually before supervisor safai i know director (indiscernible) wants to respond. >> i'm just going to make a comment and come back to it. i asked emily cohen to join from hsh because she has a different position then what we just heard on the record. there you go. >> good morning.

(indiscernible) mayor budget office. i simply wanted to offer our office could coordinate to dpet you a update. it isn't excuse but frankly this arrangement package is little complicated. it is cop funded for multiple types of projects across multiple departments. i will add the department of homelessness and supportive housing also received cash funding in this year's budget to do capital improvements and permanent supportive housing. i understand they moved forward on those and the next traunch is to figure how to move forward the $10 million for the master leases and the last that i heard about this, but i will go to the department work with mohcd and bring you all back a clear answer is that the department currently doesn't have agreement with the master lease portfolio for this-this is the first time we have done capital improvements

in the privately owned sro portfolios, so there is a lot of work to do to figure out the right type of arrangement and agreement to get the funds in the right place. again, i want to offer working with the departments, coming back to you all with a clear timeline, but also add that i do know hsh has been able to move forward on a number other capital improvement funding in their permanent supportive housing portfolio separate from the master lease portfolio. >> okay. before you go because i was still on the dial. >> i know that. can we-i think supervisor preston wants to follow up on that. while don't we let supervisor preston (indiscernible) thank you so much for getting emily co hen. >> thank you. i just

want to clarify the deal was certainly to target elevators in sro and our understanding is that under hsh. there was never a deal whether that was in the privately owned master lease or anything else run by hsh, so it is consistent with our understanding it is for hsh. it sounds like hsh made the decision that there's a need in the privately owned master lease we are wide open on that but i wanted to clarify that wasn't something intisted on by the board. we just wanted to make sure it was going to sro under hsh control. >> thank you. before we do move forward with this with supervisor safai and thank you so much for bringing hsh on board, i do want to offer this though and i just before we move this forward i think i want to put it out there i do-in light of the conversation and offer by the

mayor's office budget office and i like to see if we can actually coordinate this instead of november 1, 202 flee 3 we can make a quarterly report back and starting let's say june so you come back by september for more information that it listed in the bla and budget legislative analyst report recommendations so supervisor safai. >> thank you. so, is emily cohen on the line? she said she was here and available. mr. clerk? >> yes, i do see emily cohen. >> we had one item and maybe supervisor preston will jump in. the bla report says department of homeless supportive housing is the lead agency for elevator repair about $10 million.

mohcd iis as the same thing we just want to get clarity on the record where that is, what your idea for issuing it and know how important elevator repair are in these sro and how important it for these families and individuals. >> absolutely. thank you supervisors safai and i think i had my wires crossed on what funding we were talking about you initially texted me so happy to jump on and clarify. yes, there are funds $10 million for elevator repair in sro and permanent supportive housing, and we are in the process of developing a solicitation, rfi that goes out this summer and landlords and property owners will have the opportunity to respond to. i think one of the challenges and questions here anna alluded to is that hsh has grievance with the non profits that operate

the seats, not direct agreementwise the owners so we want to negotiate a good cost sharing structure that if these privately owned buildings are going to have city funds coming into fix the elevators and repair them, there is either a rent credit or some sort of shared cost structure with the property owners who have benefiting significantly from the city investment. we are drafting the rfi right now and we plan to issue it this summer. >> okay, so it is may, summer is in the next month or two so sounds like coming out in the next month or two? >> yes. >> great. >> it is in process. >> best news we heard all morning. >> glad to help. >> even supervisor preston is smiling. just kidding. [laughter] thank you for clarifying and thank you supervise r preston for pressing and highlighting that. i think these are some of the most vulnerable individuals and think some things we talked about

in the past, one reason why prop c was motivated because of the accountability and oversight and conditions of some of these properties and are how they are under fundeds under staffed and under resourced so this is a step in the right direction getting additional resources to do improvement so we appreciate you pushing on that. same with public housing, at the end of the day, this is some of the worst living conditions in the city and you said your district but this is issue city wide in public housing stock. thank you emily cohen for joining us. >> thank you supervisor safai. i know mr. (indiscernible) is eager to answer questions, but we do now have director eric shaw online and i just want to give director shaw a opportunity to respond and before i turn it over

to director shaw and have him appear, i want to say director shaw, you had a great team. they are here and mr. (indiscernible) has tried to hold down the fort but glad you are here to answer some of these questions by colleagues. director shaw. >> i do fot see the director on. >> i think he is. he told me he just hopped on. i believe he has 10 minutes before a mandatory meeting. >> you see him? >> no, i still do not see the director. okay. the director just popped on.

>> great. >> good afternoon. that's okay. >> you are here. you want to say-respond director shaw to some of the comments? >> can you see me? >> not yet, but we can hear you, so go ahead. >> there you go. what was the questions? can you see me? >> yep. >> madam chair, i'm available for questions. >> great. supervisor preston. >> thank you chair chan and director shaw, we were discussing with your team some aspects of the cop. i think we just learned i think there was frustration about lack

of timeline on the sro elevator bucket of funds, but we just learned from hsh that there is a commitment to releasing a rfi on those in the next couple months, so i'll focus on the part that is still too determine, which is the $20 million for life safety repairs in public housing and hud subsidized coops. can you the presentation said that a nofa or rfi or whatever you are going to issue doesn't have a date is to be determined and unable to clarify. are you able to provide clarity when a notice of funding availability on those funds will be issued by mohcd and can you provide any explanation of why we still don't have that all most a year after this deal was

struck? >> understood. first i want to note and thank colleague emily cohen coming on board and you reiterating how awesome the staff are. hsh and mohcd were coordinating at the beginning. at the approval of the cop around alignment for both sro money for what we have as (indiscernible) and other funding there that included joint assessment, that included joint accessment on the psh properties within the mohcd and hsh portfolio and trying to understand the timing and alignment. at some point there was understanding that the timing wasn't going to work for full alignment, but the understanding in the end and intention is leverage all the resources. our understanding now is with the emt

nofa, we have $20 million available but trying to make sure we have understanding of the total ask, which will exceed 20million with all our procurements, so the initial intention was to align those to leverage those to try to cover all the needs or priorities if roofs or elevators or mold and we are working to make sure the alignment on the assessments. on the cop around public housing and cooperatives as i shared with you on the one on one meetings, there is a lot of work that is done and research we commission on the part of enterprise around understanding the particular needs of both the coops, the coops in particular. as you know, there is a concern around the capacity and financial planning and governance of our cooperatives to be able to utilize those funds. in those instances and how to

best deploy those funds to cooperatives which are private entities, once again similar to what mrs. cohen shared, understanding the needs, understand capacity to request the funds, understand the capacity to manage the funds within a timeline that makes sure we can insure the appropriate stewardship of the funding and we were funding the priorities and having the funds managed appropriately. that is sense we commissioned study with enterprise community partners. we had staff on board doing work on those and we have been working to align and understand the capacity needs of the cooperative to spend the money before deployment of the money. and so, i will tell you we continue to see in the findings we have issues around governance, financial planning, we reached out to the office of attorney general around

technical assistance around home ownership associations and cooperative boards to strengthen the work. that is tbd because concurrent to this investment it is also the need to have certainty on the ability to deploy the investment and to have those appropriate repairs done. >> do you have a timeline when you will issue the nofa? >> no, sir. >> to tie this to the resolution of probably 3 generations in the making of lack of support to coops and think we are going to somehow resolve all these issues before we issue nofa does not give a lot of confidence. the funds are not getting out the door any time soon. maybe you can address public housing side.

any of what you addressed we have public housing, we have a few remaining true public housing sites in our city, and they are in desperate need of repairs, as you know, you are on the affordable housing loan committee and authorized funds for emergency repairs there, but we again this is 20million we can deploy. if you are not ready for the coops why not on the public housing. >> mr. preston that said- (indiscernible) there are two public housing sites within the city, plaza east and north beach at this time. as you know, i believe you have been coordinating we have coordinated with oewd and housing authority around redevelopment strategy for plaza east and made investment on the emergency repairs needed to advance the ongoing development program for plaza east and so in that

instance right now because there are only two public housing buildings or developments within the city, and there are 30 cooperatives, our understanding and priorization is lean into addressing those needs. i share once again and consult back with there city attorney and see what the learnings are from hsh, this cooperatives are not city housing and so once again if we can follow hsh lead on the investment into this type of housing and find the approach which we are doing we may be able to accelerate that, but once again we want to understand the autonomy of the hoaboards, understand the ability to manage the funds for these funds to be done, but unlike the mohcd affordable housing portfolio, the hsh permanent supportive housing portfolio is under the jurisdiction of mohcd. this is in agreement with a

privately managed entity and i think we understand in discussions that there is a need to have capacity to even engage in the negotiations and to be-to support and partner with mohcd deploying the funds and on the improvements. it is-i hear you loud and clear. we have been commissioning the work to make sure we can do this-we can establish and extend relationship with the copative and understand the highest need and you have my commitment if we have to do something more general maybe not targeted so doing for the home ownership repair which is roofs (indiscernible) we deploy only for one typology, that is something we can consider that may accelerate the ability to get the nofa out. >> through the chair, so everything you are describing seems to me to be

something you can factor into review of application. you put out a notice of funding availability as described for emergency life safety repairs in public housing and hud subsidized coops and of course you see what the applications are and if there are applications from entities that for some reason you don't feel it is appropriate to partner with or don't meet certain governance compliance or other issues you can address-i just-the problem is and your response doesn't give a confidence for the public for me and folks living in this housing that we are on the verge of doing this. we have the conditions you are well aware of and we talk about on a regular basis that are emergencies and that exist in many of these coops

and in the public housing sites and we could be using these funds to address them. i just-with all do respect i suggest the vetting that you seem to want to do before you issue a nofa can just come-you can just next week or next month issue the notice offunding availability, describe the type of criteria and then see who meets those. as we all know, the needs are far greater then 20million, there will be a selection process and we need to get the funds out the door. >> mr. preston- >> director shaw, supervisor preston. >> sorry. that might have been a freudian slip because i'm director shaw. supervisor preston, we are being intentional and thoughtful in the idea we just put something out there and see what

we get is not how we do our work. we have policy guidance we are following the guidance of the city attorney and we want to be intentional and thoughtful. these are lasting investments. i don't see this investment patching up a hole in a wall. i see this as really significant i long laster infrastructure that has a cost and that needs the appropriate management, oversight, not just by moh cd but by partners on the cooperative boards and the residents to execute that. it may sound easy on paper, but i think mohcd is being thoughtful in the analysis, thoughtful trying to advance a larger structural commitment to support this type of

housing, coordinating with hud and other development entities and departments, but i just want to say mr. supervisor that easier said then done in this instance. i want to be mindful around significant investment of public funds into advancing the health and safety of residents within san francisco in the housing. >> yeah. >> so, i just want to let you know we are working really hard to make sure we have alignment and partners to really make sure these are substantive lasting inest havement that improve the quality of life for people within san francisco. >> i hear you director shaw. i just-i will call on you supervisor safai rchlt i just want to have reminder for colleagues, which supervisor preston will join this afternoon that we chack as a

(indiscernible) we will go in deeper and look forward about the conversation about this. i want to offer this if i may, if supervisor safai you consider this too. lets have a deeper conversation this afternoon about the operation of not just the mayor office of housing but across from temporary shelter all the way to permanent supportive housing affordable housing not just development about the management of it. happy to talk more about that but for now i want to try to bring back to the focus of specifically of this and the certificates of participation i urge colleagues you think about moving the items forward to full board because the money is needed. for now the items is

about authorizing the dollars and for us-but then at the same time i do understand supervisor preston's frustration when it comes to actual implementation of these dollars and are the process of it. i think director shaw and his team, while as they try really hard i also think that kind of expose i would say a problem with the operation of mayor office of housing and community development in general that i think there is lack of capacity or limited capacity, and perhaps including a requirement of expertise for us i would love for the controller as well as the mayor office to consider really just mayor and the budget director and the budget legislative analyst to consider as we are moving forward thinking about you know, the challenges a city

department like this face and under the mayor office of course, none the less is there a space for actually contract office of contract administration to really think about with their expertise with the process we want consistency, we standardized protocol around contract like a rf purks rfp is grant. is there a space that parts of actual issuance of rfp that will be shifting to office of contract administration and that perhaps it will be a different process but perhaps standerized appropriate call? supervisor safai. >> madam chair- >> director shaw. i'm going to you--let's continue this conversation offline. i appreciate you being here. i know you had a mandatory meeting. unless supervisor safai has questions

for you. >> i'll be fast as a former commission for the housing authority and some of the work, i know that there is a whole list of work done to identify need within housing authority, so the only question i would have is, there should be some identifiable work that could fall under the category of this $20 million for public housing repair. so i want to give it director a opportunity to respond to that real quick and then we can move on. thank you. >> thank you. >> say once again, we have two public housing developments now within the city. we did a (indiscernible) program, hope sf, and working closely with oewd, the housing authority, the mayor office and community on the redevelopment of plaza east. we made investments in there for

emergency repairs, and so i want to make sure we all understand, we only have two public housing developments within the city now. those past assessments were used for conversion of rad and continue to coordinate across agencies around the potential redevelopment of plaza east and the ongoing operations and stability of north beach. >> no, i understand, but this is about repairs of existing. you have robert b pits, district 9, saint mary's, there is a lot of existing public housing that is still there necessary for repair. i don't want to belabor the point. we will keep working to get information and working with you. >> will the mayor office of housing and community development accepting the recommendation from the bla, but then with revised that you come back for a report in september? i see

sheila nodding, so we are in agreement that we will have the mayor office of housing to come back in september, which is a quarter from now, and we'll continue on with the suggestions that-with a list of information that is recommended by the budget and legislative analyst. supervisor preston, would you like to have close us out? you are also a cosponsor of the item. >> thank you supervisor chan. i would and let me maybe broaden out because there are frustrations obviously around some of the implementation timelines, particularly i don't find the answers around the public housing piece to be satisfactory at all. i think there are immediate life safety repairs in public housing and it makes no sense what so ever to continue to delay the issuance of the nofa or whatever vehicle we need to

issue to get the funds out of the door and as someone who represent plaza east, i monthly talk with the housing authority, talked with mbs, the tenants all the time and there is a long list of stuff that they claim they can't do because they don't have the money and we are sitting on the money and this is stuff that impacts health and safety of people at plaza east. and not just plaza east as supervisor safai pointed out, other sites in the city so we need to get the funds out the door. i'm encouraged and thank you supervisor safai for pushing around the timeline from hsh on the sro elevator repairs, and also really want to express appreciation chair chan for making the-you got a ton of things budget season, getting this next step of the cop on the agenda today i think is really important. i totally support moving forward. appreciate the report in

september and want to recognize the big picture which is mayor office and board of supervisors came together on a unprecedented cop package and we are glad to see some of these things moving forward. we want to see it all move forward but these are crucial investments that are going to make a major difference in the lives of people who need our assistance now in the city, so thank you chair chan and committee members for making the time for this discussion today. >> thank you supervisor preston. let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. [providing instructions for public comment which is streaming across the stream] no in person speakers in

the chamber, mr. lam can you unmute the first of three callers? >> supervisors, budget analyst, city attorney and those presenters over there, the first thing you have to understand is you take one single dollar from the federal government, you are to address quality of life issues. (indiscernible) people living in despicable conditions. the supervisors don't get it, the city attorney doesn't get it, the budget analyst doesn't get it and you presenters are full of bs. i repeat, you presenters from the controller's office are full of bs. you all should be reported to the irs, to the federal

bureau of investigation, the environment department to do a deep deep audit. you bring in the (indiscernible) community development. that guy doesn't know what he's doing. there is only one supervisor who understands the (indiscernible) he is asking the right questions. district 2 has been subdivided by redictricating, so you are having the long meetings talking one supervisor point fingers. (indiscernible) that is disrespectful. you need to (indiscernible) don't point fingers. the second thing is, you know how to do a needs assessment. (indiscernible) waisting our time and doing nothing. yesterday the youth came. i want to know if you can put aside a hundred million dollars and provide

housing for the youth. that's top priority. i'm going to be taking this as a freedom of information act to the highest level. you need (indiscernible) >> your time lapsed. i do apologize for cutting anybody off but we are teaming each speaker to 2 minutes for public comment. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please, mr. lam. >> hi. thank you for taking the call. i like to talk about item 9. elevators provide a safe and effective means of travel for many residents of san francisco. individuals with disability (indiscernible) only way to access essential goods and services. elevators and sro and public housing insure the residents continue to enjoy the ability to lead a happy productive life. the potential for under served members of the community to contend with substandard transportation in the

sro is a real tangible one and should be addressed as expediently as possible. additionally, (indiscernible) many elevator emergencies which involve a trapped passenger, the san francisco fire department is dispatched having additional cost and burden to emergency service across san francisco. repairs on the elevators would help off set the cost and time for first responders network. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much for your comments. mr. lam, next speaker, please. >> good morning madam chair chan and committee members and staff. my name is greg (indiscernible) native san franciscans district 7 resident and represent the elevator constructor union local 8. (indiscernible) we are the skilled trained mechanics that build maintain repair elevators in san francisco, and up and down northern california. i'll add our program has an agreement with city build to allow them a

pathway to our program. thank you for (indiscernible) elevator repairs. this is long overdue and like to echo supervisor preston and safai words. some of the city most marginalized and are under served communities live in sro, many elevators no longer meet current elevator state code. a number of older elevators are not equip with phones to call for help. many times the passengers dont have cell phones with them. when they are stuck in a broken elevator another major problem (indiscernible) causing a tripping hazard and leads to injuries from unexpected riders and urge to approve item 9 and prove forward with proper agency to allow much needed elevator repairs before is injured or worse. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. thank you all for allowing us this opportunity to share our opinion. i have been living in san francisco over 10 years. i do (indiscernible) i have controlled rent in pacific heights and i do feel you need to listen to the housing stability fund oversight board. they suggested (indiscernible) subsidized housing which i think is critical. i don't think this should be a controversial issue because pop 1 passed with majority and did compain (indiscernible) social housing. we can't afford not to dedicate $85 million in the new prop 1 revenue to housing, which was talking about affordable

housing. it only represents 0.6 percent of the budget and scattering through the general fund isn't going to solve any budget issues. if you refuse to invest in housing we will never meet the goals and affordability and homelessness crisis will only continue to get worse. as a san franciscans renter i urge you to take these comments into consideration. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. madam chair, that completes the queue. >> thank you. seeing no more public comment, public comment is closed. i like to make a motion to move all these three items to full board with recommendation and seeing no more other names on roster, so no more questions and comments, mr. clerk please call the roll. >> on the motion to forward these ordinances to the full board with positive

recommendation, vice chair mandelman aye. member safai, -we can't interrupt the vote. safai aye. chair chan, aye. we have three aye s. >> the motion passes. >> (indiscernible) >> so, it is not-the bla recommendation is not to amend the actual ordinance, but that we will actually-we have report back. i trust that it has been the protocol for the budget legislative analyst been tracking the report back. any moment supervisor preston can also introduce hearing request. thank you. mr. clerk, any other business before us today? >> madam chair, that completes our business.

>> thank you, the meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

is r. my name is debra alvarez rodriguez. i'm the deputy director in san francisco. my background is one in which i have spent the entirety of my life committed to finding solution to poverty and addressing the issues of inequity so people and communities can have accesses to resources and financial

freedom. one thing true anode dear to my heart was the power of business ownership in creating pathways to financial freedom. we have still in infancy. we had over 100 entrepreneurs come and start their businesses. some are food trucks. some are restaurants. some are in farmer's markets and so farther. that's an incredible legacy and record to build upon. this was the perfect opportunity for me to come back home, you know, come back to the neighborhood and take my skills and networks and resources and put it backseat in service of the community. given everything with racial reckoning and pandemic it was time for me and everyone else that had the opportunity to leave and get educated to come back home. we have a opportunity to grow our impact in terms of the

number of people we serve and how we serve them. we grow our impact in taking the money we make with our entrepreneurs and circulate those resources back interview the community for community development. the third thing is we have a opportunity to have an impact on public policy in terms of the policies and practices the district has been notorious about interms of inequities. all of those are just the beginning of what is possible in terms of growth and impact. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪ .

>> (music). >> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that

as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start

a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last

night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two

how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not

survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to

chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide

that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught

without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the

building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a

result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by

little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united

states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the

renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for

more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >>

>> i think a lot of times we get in adult lives we are afraid to follow our passions and think life can't be that easy. but i truly do believe i followed my heart this time in my journal in city government i did not know that is where my passion lied. i kept following it and ltd. to great opportunity to serve the city. [music] >> i'm katy tang the executive director of the office of small business. >> small business contributes to san francisco's economy. they provide the bulk of employment in the city and employing a million people in san francisco. and roughly 90% of the businesses are defined as small

businesses. so, they contribute to the economy but also just the quality of life. small businesses are more then and there a place of transaction it is a community center. a play where people gather. know each other and form memories about the city. >> at the office of mall business i run a team this helps report all mall businesses in san francisco whether they are looking to stfrt a new business or expand or perhaps they are feeling with issues. our office is here as a point of information for anyone with a business that has 100 or nower employees. >> i was growing up i had many ideas of when i wanted to do. i wanted to being an olympic swimmer. and i wanted to men be an architect, you name it i had many ideas for what i wanted do when i grew up.

and i never anticipated entering in politics. this opportunity came along wh started working for former supervisor carmen chu and she became the district 4 sunset district supervisor. that was my firstent row in politics and government in a different level. and so when i was finishing up my time working for legislative aid i thought, i will go off and do something else. may be explore opportunity outside of city government what was then approached by this opportunity to also serve as a district 4 supervisor. if not the traditional route that many people think of when you enter in politics. a lot know that is manage than i want to do and run for office. that was not part of my culture and upbringing with manage my

parents were wondering why i wanted to go in that role this legislation and important because so many women when have it return to work after having a child feel embarrassed or don't feel comfortable asking their supervisor for will any lactation accommodations. i saw it as an opportunity you could use the position where you have tools creating legislation and pass laws and where people listen to to you help the community and pass cause catharsis important to the city and individuals. my family immigrated to the united states from taiwan. and they came here in pronl probably late 20's almost 30. and so, they came also in the knowing english limp barely read or write but had to quickly understand english to i can't haveigate services and find a job in america.

i grew up in the san francisco sunset district i spent most of my childed hoo up until i went off to college. so when i started working in city government, i think i had mixed reactions about my involvement working government because for some of our parents generation, there is i bit of distrust in government. i think there are questions about why i was entering in this field of work. i think you know when i went in city government i thought about my parents like so many other who is have to navigate city services and resources english first language and help the individuals both navigate, intercept that is on an application approximate signage. it is fulfilling to mow to help people like my parent and feel like government is there to support them and not to harm

them. my parents are happy that i retired early from politics and being a district 4 supervisor i could have continued on for a couple more years approximate decided to leave early. i think that over all they were able to see some of my work appear in the chinese newspaper. through that they were able to see i was able to help communities in a tangible way. >> the member of the board of supervisors. >> transportation authority. for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. >> i think about one importance when i was worn in as district 4 supervisor. years ago, and someone actually came up to me during the swear nothing ceremony and said, wow, i'm traveling here from canada, and i just i could not believe i saw an asian female worn in in this role a leadership role this

meant so much that someone would say that and felt they were inspired by the scene. so -- i hope that as more people see people that look like them and more women coming in positions of leadership than i feel they can doing the same. person this inpyred me is carmen chu who is our city add administrator but also was district 4 supervisor when i worked with her as a legislative aid. at this point, i too, was skeptical of going in politics. i saw someone who had herself never seen herself in politics. got thrown into it and put her heart and soul and dedication to serve people. and it gave me the confidence to pursue that same job and i honestly would not have either chosen or accepted or considered serving on the board of supervisors were not for carmen.

>> if you want to make your business accessible. >> in my role in city government where i have seen the most challenge is people who don't know you and you are here to serve and help them that they classify you as our city government and here to hurt you. so, people will talk to you and -- and just you know treat you disrespectfully. and sometimes i noticed that they might do more to me as a female compared to my male colleagues. but you know i try to be empathetic. one of the most significant barriers to female empowerment we feel like we have to be 100% meeting all of the qualifications before we think that we are qualified to do a job. if we look at a job description or an opportunity to come your way well is self doubt about whether you can fulfill the obligations of that role.

i think that the confidence is huge and sometimes i think we make up for it by trying to gain more experience. more and more and more in whatever we can put under our belts we'll feel better. that may not be the case. we might be qualified with when we have already accomplished. i started rock climbing indoors a couple years ago as an activity to try to spends time with my husband and also to try something new and i finds that rock climbing there are so many parallels to life. you know when i'm on the wall i'm concentrating and trying to make it to the next piece without falling. there are daying you think i'm not making progress. you come back and wow, i hit another level. and so i feel like in our daily

lives and w we think we are not making enough of i change in the city. and sometimes we have to take out time to reflect every day as long as you try and give it your all and you look back you will have made a significant contribution there is no limit to where you go in terms of rock climbing. i want to reminds myself of that in terms of daily life. >> follow what it is you are interested in, what makes you feel excited about wake up every day. you never know and be open to all the possibilities and opportunity. [music] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> so i grew up in cambridge,

massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san

francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [♪♪♪] >> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs.

>> turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people

that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be. i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and small businesses that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the

owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good. >> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much. ryone to taketr

seats so wes so wes so wes so wy name is davids davids da chu. ir to be the firste firste firste n city attorneyttorneyttorney in d county of san francisco.anciscoa you, madam mayoram mayoram andal of the city and county county c francisco, welcome welcome welce officialofficialofficialofficiai heritage month. month. month. mt our cityour city we we we we we, the cultural, the social socialr of the asianhe asianhe asianhe y in our country country country,t just just just just because of our historyhistoryhe fact thatct thatct that asian is started here in our very city. it's not just because of the fact that we have the oldest chinatown in the united states,

one of three japan towns in the united states, little saigon, the filipino cultural heritage district and so many communities that reflect the diaspora of r ap community it's because of all of you. all of you who represent this amazing diversity who are leading in so many ways, and i just want to thank you for that. we have so much to celebrate this year, and i'm not just talking about academy awards. i'm talking about the progress that we re making after very challenging. several years as we are bringing our community back after covid in the wake of anti asian hate, as we move things forward, and each of you again has been a part of that. i also want to say that san francisco this year there's so much that we are doing to continue to anchor our status as the asian american capital. and that includes the fact that this fall in november san francisco is going to be the host city to apec, which is the asian pacific

economic cooperation leadership summit where we will be hosting literally heads of states from countries to our east, representing where our communities came from, and it's going to be an incredible moment to showcase who we are. um. i know today we're going to be acknowledging a lot of folks and shortly we're going to be hearing from our great mayor. we're going to be hearing from our city administrator. i want to take a moment and acknowledge our asian american sheriff. i want to acknowledge are the head of our asian arts museum and i'm looking for other department heads. i know the head of our library is here, michael lambert, and i'm sure i'm missing others, but i'm sure the mayor will catch up with me. once i once i complete my comments, but let me also say this. this event this month would not happen, but for tremendous community partners, and they are listed on the boards we have here, but we have many, many amazing community partners. i know we're going to acknowledge several of them for their decades of leadership. we

have many amazing community sponsors. um but we only have one woman who has been at the heart of this event for the better part of 19 years since she was, i think eight years old. ah! this is an event that came about because the then head of national organization of chinese americans approach then mayor gavin newsom and said it is high time for san francisco to put ourselves on the map and acknowledging a p i heritage month and claudine cheng, you've been at the heart of this. you have worked so hard for almost 20 years of doing this. thank you so much on behalf of the city for everything you do, and without further ado claudine cheng. time time does fried 19th years how to believe, but but really, this is a labor of love for everybody who is involved every year to, um put together this celebration is amazing 19 years we really do not have people ask me that some of the

sponsors about what is your operating budget this and that we really do not have an office. we really do not have stopped. all we have a volunteers and our committee and i really cannot thank you enough out committees and especially at this time, i'd like to introduce our three celebration coaches, and fortunately, thomas lee is out of town for work. but l. perez entertainment commissioner l press one of our celebration coaches. and amazing grace grace. hurry, keary. celebration co chairs. and a special shout out to tennessee who is heading up our awards committee. dennis thank you so much for everything. so our city attorneys talk about the rough and tough times that aapi community has gone through in the last few years, so we feel that when we think about our theme, we just feel that we really need to take the opportunity to continue to strengthen ourselves, and that's

so to make it very simple. our theme this year is strengthening the fabric of our community. looking around, we might all be coming from different places. we have very different may have different culture history heritage, but you know, we are one api community and we hope that throughout, uh the month of may. that's what all the program is going to tell this story of our community. um thanks to again to co chair thomas lee was very, very creative this year. this is the hour event. this is our commemorative poster, and it's really a very intricate design of different parts of the fabrics as you can see, putting the different parts of the fabrics together how the community is going to connect. and be one whenever we can, um, on our website now, which is just updated again by thomas is the celebration guide the celebration guiding quote, a list of all the art and cultural events as a happening. the key events that we are aware of that

is happening in san francisco during the whole month of may want to really appreciate our celebration partners, the asian art museum campus. san francisco public library. i mean, throughout the month of may this amazing so many events. um therefore for everybody for all generations to enjoy. we are not just celebrating our month. we are also, i think in, maybe also sell celebrating small business week. so we are also this year having a joint celebration of small business week. i think l perez have taken leadership of that we are going to have this fun event called child fund. uh in district in his district. 11 is it? yeah and to collaborate and bring up the smart, bring out help help our small business in that area with small business week and all the restaurants so there are many ways throughout the city that we are every year. we are trying to think about new ideas. how do we expand this collaboration? how we can spread the community loved around, so they're really plenty going on,

and we look forward to seeing many of you next wednesday at our aapi heritage awards and, uh and reception. um. but without but we really cannot do all of this without you know your substance cities support and since 2005 we were so happy to have all the mayors, strong support and presence every year when we celebrate, and it is a very important message that we are supported. both in the bottom by our communities and all the way you know the whole spectrum. so um, i'd like to welcome mayor lee mayor breed to our out. i think mayor lee wanted to know wanted us all to know that he's still with us in some capacity or another. i take that as a sign and a good one. for really the spirit of the asian community in the city and county of san francisco, one of

resilience and one of excitement in these times after dealing with some very challenging times . what i appreciate most about this opportunity to celebrate the month of may as asian american and pacific islander heritage month is. we have an opportunity to really talk about not only the accomplishments and the things that we have achieved in the arts and in philanthropy and community, but we have an opportunity to really reflect on the past and also look back at what this community has gone through and emerged even stronger than it has ever been as a united front against those challenges, and so this is really an opportunity to reflect because last year i don't know if there were a lot of smiles on people's faces. in light of all the anti asian hate and the attacks on many of our asian

seniors. in particular, there was a lot of sadness and a lot of frustration and coming together and working together and making investments and changes to policies and with our new d, a accountability has really change what is happening in these communities all over san francisco? no we are not where we need to be. but we have come a long way and we are seeing those numbers. decline thanks to really an emergence of our public safety officials, including our own paul miyamoto , who has really been at the forefront of working with chief bill scott and working with district attorney brooke jenkins to make sure that accountability is at the forefront of the work that we do because san francisco as a compassionate and second chance city, we believe in reforms. we believe in second chances, and we believe in the importance of the work, too. to deal with the challenges that exist, but we also truly believe

that when those lines are crossed, people need to be held accountable, and that is also a part of a safe community. i also want to take the opportunity to really recognize that amazing organizations who really stepped up the, um uh c y c with their various ambassador programs and also self help for the elderly with the work that they've done for the senior escort program, and so many people in volunteers really came together in our city, and it has been a really beautiful thing. i was just out in chinatown last week. uh really celebrating community coming together in the festivities and all the kids and the excitement for the spring and the year of the rabbit and i was on clement street celebrating their and the cherry blossom festival the past couple of weeks, and i thought to myself, nothing makes san francisco come alive. more than these activities and festivals and celebrations and many of our commercial corridors and the asian community as a whole is at

the heart of all of those activities. so i want to just really reflect on that and how far we've come as a city and the excitement that will spring out as a result of a p, a heritage month in san francisco. thanks to the great leadership of claudine and thomas and al perez , and so many people who spend a lot of time volunteering to help make this really an incredible opportunity for people to explore different parts of the city, including our folks from visitation valley are pacific islander community who really. has been at the forefront of helping to make sure that part of san francisco is not forgotten. so today we are grateful to our asian art museum . thank you. j for being here are partners with the san francisco public library, and you have a fierce advocate in michael lambert and also camp fast. we know it's gonna be a

big thing, but they also aren't a partner. for asian pacific and asian and asian american and pacific islander heritage, mom, so mouthful um, but today we also take a moment to really honor a number of organizations , the 30 40 and 50 years of existence, and i don't know if you did that on purpose, claudine. but um, the asian pacific fund for supporting community through philanthropy and making sure those investments get made in asian organizations. the asian island . i mean, the angel island immigration station foundation for 40 years of protecting the stories and the history and the heritage of the asian community in the bay area, the japanese cultural and community center of northern california one that is absolutely my favorite because of the work that they have done with me and partnership over the years even before i was a supervisor on the board of supervisors collaboration that took place between this center

and the african american art and culture complex. those cross cultural relationship building opportunities were always central in my life in the western addition community and so they are celebrating 50 years , so a wide spectrum of organizations doing extraordinary things along with events, activities, films, you name it. it's all a part of what's happening during the asian american and pacific islander heritage month for the month of may and san francisco and i am so grateful and excited. i want to really thank and acknowledge all of our sponsors for investing in our asian community. i know u. s bank and amazon and wells fargo or some of the top sponsors here , making sure that the resources are available so that community can have support and i see valley brown. from grants for the arts. thank you for making sure that we continue to invest in our arts organizations are parades are festivals in our exciting events of san francisco

, and i'm going to just, um, leave you with this. um apec is going to be extraordinary in san francisco. and what is so amazing about what it represents ? david shoe touched upon it a little bit, but this is going to be an international event. of. a magnitude proportion and when i say that no other event on an international scale has existed in san francisco since 1945 when the united nations was created right here in our city. and so we will have heads of states. we will have ceo s and folks and companies. this will be an opportunity to showcase san francisco like never before, and the asian community will be on full display. we know that there are so many people who come from asia in different parts of asia

and we know that there is a very close knit relationship. for community but also for business and so that will be on full display during november, when apec will descend upon san francisco like never before, we will be on center stage and this community will be at the forefront of so many events and activities that we will do. to make it clear what is great about san francisco to make it clear all the wonderful things that are happening in our city. no one is going to define the narrative of our city. we are the writers of what happens in this city and our history and also our awesomeness as it relates to the work that we do to bring community together. so what we're gonna do in our celebration. we're going to show them what san francisco is all about. during the month of may during a pack and year round as we continue to build relationships and change san francisco for the better working

with each and every one of you, thank you all so much for being here to kick off asian american and pacific islander. heritage month in the city and county of san francisco. thank you. mayor. london breed. um. uh so our next speaker will city administrator come and chill comments one of one of our honorees in earlier years and obviously haven't you illustrious public service career through city home. so many positions as part of supervisors assessor we call the and our city administrator, so thank you for being here coming. hello well, you really can't follow the mayor. so i'm not sure why i got this wonderful responsibility, but i really

wanted to be here to celebrate with you. and to tell you how excited i am to celebrate with my daughter, she's finally vaccinated. she's four years old. we're going to get out there and want her to see what our city is all about. and to be able to experience all the wonderful, um, parts of our city , but i really want to take a minute to acknowledge the mayor and her championship. of all of the wonderful things that happen in our city. there are so many things that happen. the things that you see might be the headlines that grace to our news . it might be the information that is kind of top of mind when it comes to conversations in the public sphere, but by and large, sometimes the support that you get from leadership comes in ways that are small and quiet but effective. i don't know if you know, i know. she just mentioned valiant and the grants for the arts program. but this mayor understood just how important it was to not only revitalize our economy and make sure that we're activating our spaces in our city. but the fact that every time we have these parades, these festivals, these

cultural events, there are an opportunity to uplift the communities that we value so much in our city. i don't know if you know, but in our last budget, she doubled the amount of investment that we made in parades and festivals. these are not things that ever get covered impressed because maybe people don't pay attention to those small things, but they are the things that make a difference, and i just really want to acknowledge her support if anybody saw her at the cherry blossom festival, you know, just recently i was on that float with her. oh, my goodness. she is no better champion. she was dancing, enjoying it, and i'm like, how am i going to dance next to the mayor? that is not. that is not something that that , um is definitely in my forte. but she really is a champion. i want to thank the mayor for all of her support for these events because it truly is important. but i have the wonderful opportunity today to be able to acknowledge the 30 40 and 50 year old contributions of these organizations. so it's not only about getting the voice of our api community out there, but it's also about recognition recognition of the people and

the organizations who have been steadfast in our community, supporting our community and helping less weather all of the storms. so this time i want to be able to recognize that people and ask you to stand so we can get give you a big round of applause. for their contributions. representing the asian pacific fund, caroline wang colin, who is the president and executive director. asian pacific fund is celebrating their 30th anniversary. they have been doing so much to not only be a community foundation that helps to support our organizations across the bay area, but really has been focused on making sure that they were continuing to make the investments in our api community funds all across the board. i want to thank you for being here representing the organization, and we look forward to recognizing your contributions. the agent, angel island immigration station foundation, represented by darlene shoe, bryant. celebrating their 40th year. as you know, the angel

island immigration station foundation is devoted to preserving the former u. s immigration station at angel island and promote the history of the exclusion, detention, hope and determination of all immigrants who arrived there. so i want to thank you, darlene for all of your great work and continue to keep our history alive. thank you. and finally the japanese cultural and community center of northern california. scott okamoto, are you there? there you are. and laurie matoba as well. the deputy director is celebrating 50 years in our city. the center preserves and promotes japanese american culture and historical heritage enhances understanding and appreciation among people, the united states and japan and promotes a multiservice community space to serve the community. so for those organizations who have had an immense impact on san francisco , thank you so much, and we look forward to continue to celebrate with you throughout the month. thank you. thank you, carmen. i see that. seven point, miyamoto

is also here. would you like to see if it was. thank you. i just want to say one thing that, um the theme this year is strengthening the fabric of our community, and if i could draw your attention to my pants i just happened to be wearing denim today. today is world denim day in recognition of the support that we in public safety and in and all the different positions in our community we give to women victims of sexual assault victims who have to suffer sometimes through biases and prejudices on, uh, being victims, and we want to show that support for them. by wearing denim jeans and i don't want to go into too much detail other than to say something happened in italy. where someone was blamed for being assaulted because of the clothing that she wore, and that's why legislatures in that country the

next day war denim in support of the victim, and we do we do that now and recognition of that, so i think it's very timely because we're strengthening the fabric of our community. denim is a very strong fabric. and it also represents how we how we support each other worldwide. on things , and that just brings us all together. over one issue. we're coming together now and celebration, but i also want to make sure we always remember community is there to support each other through good times and bad. and as we've all gone through the experiences of a p i hate as we've all gone through the experiences of the challenges that we have in public safety right now. i just want to remind everyone we rely on you to make sure that we're in this together to keep people safe. so please keep that in mind. you mentioned apec. more than a few people have mentioned apec. and every time i hear that as a public safety member were challenged with keeping everyone safe and we'll need your help to do that. so let's start with the celebration and roll up our

sleeves. really good work to come. thank you. thank you, paul. um as the mayor have mentioned, and on previous speakers, we this we are so fortunate that this, uh, celebration every year was really support well supported by many organizations that our community sponsors or the non profits, you know to our business sponsors. um, three, uh, so we are very thankful. and today we want to specifically acknowledge our heritage champion, um, sponsors because they really have been amazing to want to support how we strengthen the fabric of our community. um i want to first knowledge, fargo because in 2005 when we started in 2005 when we never have done any celebration before wells fargo was there to support us and through the years

and now returning we are so excited, so i want to in spite lorenzo cordovan from. marco he's the vice president of philanthropy and community impact, say if it was. good morning, everyone. i'm lorenzo cordova on the philanthropy and community impact team at wells fargo, and we're thrilled to be here this morning to kick off and celebrate the start of aapi heritage month here in san francisco. there's no denying that the same. francisco is the great city. it is today because of the contributions of our api community past and present. whilst fargo like claudine mentioned has been a steadfast partner of our api community. in fact, it was one of the first california companies to service our chinese customers in their native language. just last year through a partnership with the chinese cultural center of san francisco, we unveiled a community mural where we depicted 12 ap i community

heroes, so as you engage in a p i related activities. i invite you to visit the corner of jackson and grant avenue to view this mural. this year. one of the many ways that we're celebrating aapi heritage month is through the sponsorship of the heritage awards at which we will be celebrating these three organizations that work day in and day out to equip our api community with the resources and tools that are api community needs to succeed. i want to take claudine claudine chang. for her stent, fat, steadfast leadership and dedication to execute this event to our mayor, mayor london breed for her commitment to celebrating and amplifying the voices of all the communities that make this city a special place to call home. thank you. thank you, lorenzo. and next i'd like to invite our friend from us bank send you william, who is the senior vice president and

baby area? market leader? thank you for your support. send it. good morning, everyone. my name is sandy wall. yeah, and i'm the bay area market leader for us bank where we believe every day that we invest our hearts and our minds to help power. human potential, um, in alignment, actually, with the theme for aapi heritage month, which is strengthening the fabric of our community. us bank has recently committed to $100 billion investment back into our communities with 60% of that right here in california. over the next five years to really help make community possible through inclusive and equitable growth, so very excited about that commitment back to our communities we are passionate about and committed to creating more access as well as more opportunities to help all of our minority owned businesses succeed, as well as helping to close the racial gap. racial wealth gap in this country through our dedicated program that we've launched, which is called access commitment. we

really believe in putting our people first, um and drawing all of that strength through the diversity, which we can see in this room today and really be on behalf of all of us that u s bank. we look forward to our continued partnership to serve san francisco and help make the area a wonderful place. thank you. thank you. u. s bank and also appreciate amazon's multi year support. unfortunately sally k cannot be here today. so um, we are almost at the closing of press conference. i want to acknowledge i see a couple of commissioners here, commissioner irene e. riley from the human rights commission is here. um commissioner ian lou from the us commission is here. anybody i'm missing? and, um, we, um as we're going to may i already mentioned preschool to our website a psf dot org for the celebration guide that has a good listing of everything that's happening in the city. i

want a specific and not what is not on the website is our to kick off events this saturday. it's very exciting. we are kicking off this saturday, april 29th first at noontime in japantown. great sorry, curious there and then in her team, we are going to have a 23 hours of celebration. japantown after which we are going to samoan community parliament center in precipitation fairly. thank you very much. restituto and your team. they are also going to have the aapi month kick off. so you know, everywhere in the city . we want to have action. we want to engage, you know, met people in the different neighborhoods so that you know we are all part of it. so, um and i look forward to seeing of your next wednesday. we will have a full house if you have not registered. please do so, and, uh, as many of you have been to our events, the first hour is at the herbst theater where we do the piece was presentation and some cultural performances. but then everybody comes to city hall, where we

will transform it to be our party space. so i hope that all of you will stay and come and enjoy yourselves. so thank you very much for being here. and please take a poster with you if you can put it in your organization office space and what not help spread the word that would be great.