2023 secretary fuller, please call the roll. good good morning. please respond with here or present. lynn newhouse. siegel present commissioner newhouse siegel is present. warren post is absent. gerald turner present. commissioner turner is present. paul wolford present. commissioner wolford is present. fatty zoghbi is absent, but with three members present, we do have quorum for the public works commission meeting for members of the public wishing to make comment on an item from outside the hearing room today you would. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting id. of

(266)!a005-5958 6 pound pound. and then to raise your hand to speak, press star three. unless you're speaking under general public comment, please note that you must limit your comments to the to the topic of the agenda item being discussed. if comments do not stay on topic, the chair may interrupt and ask you to limit your comment to that item. we ask that public comment. be made in a civil and respectful manner and that you refrain from the use of profanity. please address your remarks to the commission as a whole, not to individual commissioners or staff at and the public is always welcome to submit comments in writing via our email address. public works dot commission at sfdp for org. on behalf of the commission, we extend thanks to the sf gov tv building management and media services staff for helping make

this meeting possible and just wanted to note that in addition to the kind of seasonable warm weather there's ongoing a heat pump work going on on the building which has limited the air conditioning opportunities for this room. but building management is working on it. but please excuse the elevated temperature and any noise that may be happening. mr. chair. thank you. i request that we hear item five, following item one this morning as our presenter, chief resiliency officer brian strong is double booked today and we'd like to ensure his presentation is heard before he needs to depart. is there any public comment on this motion or. yes. so we'll need to have a motion and then we'll go to public. so is there a move for the motion? i move, i, i

move that we adopt the amended agenda for today. and so for public comment, for members wishing to make public comment on the motion to hear item five following item one, members of the public may who wish to speak on this motion may line up against the wall over by the windows furthest from the door. and if you are calling in, you use that public comment number. of (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting id. of (266)!a005-5958 6 pound pound. and then press star . three and looking in the room, it does not appear anyone wants to make comment on this motion and sf govtv is indicating that

there is one caller wishing to speak on this item as if govtv. please go ahead and mute that caller who wants to speak on this motion and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice. right. can you hear me okay? we can hear you. excellent. it's david pilpel. i support the motion. i'm happy to hear brian strong as early as possible. as soon as possible. and thanks for listening. let's do that. thank you. caller and that concludes public comment on the motion. so we'll need a vote on it. oh all in favor? aye, aye . and, mr. chair, you'll need to announce that the result sounded unanimous. in favor, but there were three votes in favor, so we will move. item five, adjusting the agenda to follow item one on

. mr. strong. you're welcome. to so we'll need move to item one. okay oh, item one. yes item one. so item i am guest chair. i guess you could say as our esteemed chair and vice chair with his own gavel aren't present this morning. so i appreciate everyone's patience as we as we move through this. i have no comments this morning. do any of my fellow commissioners. i would just think we need to acknowledge the loss. of course, of dianne feinstein. i think that was a huge loss for a whole multitude of reasons. i would also like to acknowledge on the other side, it is fleet week. i've been excited to see so many people in the streets enjoy the very warm weather. but it as much as i

have been seeing people on the streets, i've also been seeing our staff on the streets keeping the right of ways clear, keeping things safe and sanitary. there's a lot going on right now, and i'm just really grateful for the work that we show up to do every single day. but i'm also grateful for all the tourists and the visitors, but also the san franciscans who are enjoying our city. mr. fuller, do you have any announcements? i have just brief announcements and also a word of gratitude to commissioner wolford for stepping in today to chair the meeting. my first announcement is that the sanitation and streets commission held its last meeting on september 18th and heard performance measure reports from the street environmental services, as well as the bureau of urban forestry along with a review of that commission's activities from july 20th, 22 at

their founding through july 20th, 23, which will be similar to the report this commission will hear at the september 20th meeting. the sanitation and streets commission's next meeting is monday, october 16th and will include perform a performance measure report from the bureau of building and street repair and then my other announcement is we are in the thick of scheduling. for 2024 and i've been working with city hall building management, sf govtv public works, departmental leadership and members of this commission to identify meeting dates for calendar year 2024. i'll i'll finalize this calendar for this draft calendar and publish it for consideration and adoption at the october 20th meeting of this commission. and i'd like to thank everyone who has helped identify potential meeting times. space is limited at city hall and we do our best to accommodate the many busy

schedules of everyone involved with this commission and that concludes my announcements. thank you. mr. fuller, please open public comment on this item , and i would like to remind members of the public that comments should be related to the agenda item posted on the agenda. unless you're speaking during item three. general public comment. thank you. members of the public wish to make three minutes of comment on item one. the announcements by the chair commission and secretary may line up against the wall for this from the door . if here in the chamber, if you are calling in, please. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of (266)!a005-5958. 6 pound pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to speak. and no one has approached to speak

on this item in person, but sfcv is indicating we do have one caller in the queue who wants to speak on the announcement. ants, please go ahead and unmute that caller and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice. great david pilpel again. so three items here regarding the public correspondence about what department eight public hearings . i'm happy to work with david steinberg on hearing procedures . i have some familiarity with that. i think there are some principles that should apply and i yeah, i in any event, i'm happy to work with david steinberg on that. the next item i think the advanced calendar still needs some work in terms of format, and i didn't see the update on workforce development associated with the hr report, but i hope that that's coming at the next meeting on october

20th. in response to a request from the commission. i think commissioner turner and finally , as next year's calendar is being developed, understanding that room available city is limited, i would urge you to consider holding these meetings actually, earlier in the day in my experience, public works is kind of an early in the day department. and so i think starting meetings just after eight, as soon as you could get in the building and get in a room, either 815 or 830 might lend itself better to this particular department. so that's my those are my thoughts on item one. thanks for listening. thank you. caller and that concludes public comment on item. one mr. fuller, are we ready for mr.

strong's presentation so we can move on to item item five, which is being heard out of order. an item five is the capital plan overview and chief risley officer and director brian strong will present this report . and this is an informational item. good morning. hey, how are you doing, paul? good to see you. good to see you, too. let me just make sure this is up and functioning long. great okay. does it matter which one i do? okay. this is fine. good morning. thank you. brian strong. i'm the chief resilience officer. i also oversee the office of resilience and capital planning for the city and county of san francisco. nice to see you all and congratulate us on being, i think well, maybe you're not the latest. maybe you're the second to the latest

commission on. but we really appreciate the work that you're doing, the time you're dedicating to this and taking the time to listen to me today. and i'm going to be talking along with my colleague nisha joshi is over here who who oversees our capital budget processes, a capital budget manager for our office and for the city. so with that, i'm going to try to run through these things to make sure we have some time for questions, because i'm sure you will have several. and with that, i will get started. so just a little bit of background here. so the ten year capital plan is something that we actually started in 2006. so i i've actually yeah, i've been working on this plan for that long. i think we've done 8 or 9 of them. it used to be something that we updated every year and now we do it every other year. so every odd number year is when we approve a new ten year capital plan and it's on a rolling basis, right? so every two years we update it, we add two years

to the end of the plan. it is, as you know, it's the guiding document for san francisco infrastructure. prior to this plan, nine departments had their own. everyone is sort of doing their own thing. and we talk about general obligation bonds or some of those debt schedules. they were also sort of going in their own direction. so this was the first time we brought all the capital projects into one place. it's a constraint ed capital plan, which means that we have to say what we fund and what we don't fund. and it involves so a number of policy pieces that help us make some of those decisions. and we'll talk about some of those policies as we walk through through it. oh, i should just mention, it also has a the capital planning committee that oversees the development of the plan and approves it. and also makes the recommendations to the board of supervisors chairs that consists of both legislative and executive branch represents ation. it's a little bit different in that respect. so the committee is chaired by the

city administrator who's appointed to five year terms. it also has the controller who sits on it, the planning director or controller planning director, the mayor's budget director. the am i missing someone else? nishad anyway, i think those are the those sort of represent the overall city departments. and then we have the chapter six departments. and i know you've all become very familiar with chapter six, so these are the chapter six departments, airport rec, park, public works, sfo, mta and the port. and so those are the those are the people that make up the committee. and we meet, you know, almost at minimum once a month, often twice a month. and kala, director short comes to those meetings as well. so representing public works. all right. the other thing i'm just going to mention, so the three sort of key parts that we're going to talk about today are geo bond program, our general

fund debt program, or certificates of participation in and then our general fund cash program, which is pay as you go. and again, these are the ways that we fund capital projects. they're not all the ways we fund them in the city, but they're the primary ways that we fund them, and especially for general fund departments, enterprise departments have other sources of revenue. of course, and they do a lot of their own revenue bonds, which still come through the capital planning committee. they're still part of our capital plan, but they tend to have a lot of staff that also focuses on those things. so this is kind of something we like to share with people. this diet diagram here shows the general obligation bonds that have been proposed and passed or failed by the city and county of san francisco prior to the capital plan. we were at about a little bit more than 50% of the general obligation bonds we put on the ballot passed. that was not great. i think there was a lot of frustration that we were not

getting more of those bonds passed, that they weren't sort of being done in a more methodical way or getting gaining more support early on. and that's part of and that could lead to a number of things, including, you know, some some promises, some we weren't investing as much in early planning, i would say. so there are some bonds that went on the ballot that probably that made some promises that we weren't able to keep for whatever reason. so the idea was we're going to have a much more rigorous structure and that's why we set up this entire plan. and we're going to try to get people together before it goes on the ballot. so we get approval, we get agreement before it happens. so the board of supervisors agrees to this plan, this is what they look at the most, which is the general obligation, the bond schedule. and i'll show you the one for the upcoming plan in a minute. but the success here, i think, sort of speaks for itself. so the blue ones above the line are the ones that received 67% or more support. and you can see the size of the square represents the size of the bonds

. and as it mentions in here, you know, we've done $6 billion since 2008, $2 billion alone in the last three years in. and, you know, this idea of having a constrained capital plan is also been really important for our rating agencies, which help determine the debt, the level of debt payments we're going to have to make on the bonds, the rates. so just a quick overview of the capital plan. this shows the various areas. it's $41 billion in total. so i should mention that in addition to enterprise departments, which we talk about, there are also external agencies that are incorporated into this plan. so if we are trying to capture people that are doing infrastructure work in san francisco to the greatest extent possible, so a lot of the affordable housing pieces in there are being done by nonprofit housing developers or other developers. you know, it could be the treasure island

development authority or it could or it could be the folks that are working at seawall a lot, 337 right now in the port property hunters point shipyard. those types of things are factored into the plan. we're going to be taking infrastructure from those projects, and that's really what this is capturing. the city will eventually have to adopt that infrastructure or through public works. as a matter of fact, there are also, you know, under rec culture and education, a lot of those dollars are 2.9 billion. there are the school district. the school district is planning to do a $1 billion bond in the next year or so, a little bit more than a year. and then when we talk about economic development, a lot of those are i've sort of mentioned those sort of development projects that are happening around the city. all right. with that, i will move to some of the well, first, i'll go to the financing, then i'll move to what we're planning to do. so just as a picture of what's happening in terms of financing, when you

look on the pie graph to the left, what you'll see is that, you know, the a large portion of our funds for capital are coming from this bond program. and that's been an important source for the past ten years. as i mentioned, a general fund is at about 36. this is what's in the capital plan, i have to say. what's in the capital plan in terms of our pay as you go funding is usually more ambitious than what we actually get funded through the budget that may not come as a surprise. federal and state. there are about 20% for general fund departments. if you look over at the enterprise departments, you'll see that that is actually 84% of their funds. so the a lot of people sometimes come to us and say, well, why aren't you just getting more money from the federal government? well, the big portions, the big pieces of those dollars are going to our enterprise departments. they're really set aside for transport. asian airports. those are certainly our public utilities

commission is making significant investments as well. and they're also receiving a lot of federal dollars. so with that, i will go to quickly how we make some decisions just to let you know, we have funding principles. we actually also ask the departments, consider these principles or have some principles of their own established for how they determine what projects should happen, when or how they want to prioritize projects. so these are sort of listed in order of importance. but i will say that we try to make sure we're funding every category to some extent too, right? so the first one is legal or regulatory mandates. we could spend all of our money on meeting legal and mandatory mandates to some extent, whether it's seismic or ada or those types of things. but that is the high the highest priority life, safety, enhancing resilience, including racial equity. we added racial equity a couple of years ago. so again, if we want to have a resilient san francisco, we know that we

need to be addressing shocks and stresses. so shocks like earthquakes and those things, but also stressors like making sure that we're that we're supporting communities that we're going to where they are and that we're also not that we're thinking about maintaining infrastructure there as well. so . ensure asset preservation and sustainability. again, high priority. the city passes its climate action plan recently. we are doing our best to make sure that we're that we're reducing greenhouse gas impacts to the extent that we can. and we're also making sure that we're, you know, that we're prioritizing taking care of what we own, right? making sure that our assets live out their full, useful life and aren't falling apart before they should. then there's programmatic and plan needs. these are these are approved plans that come through

the board of supervisors. it could be our hazards and climate resilience plan, which is our local hazard mitigation plan. it could be area plans. you know, we have several area plans around the city and those types of things. and then economic development. we certainly recognize that economic development continues to be important. so next slide here, just to let you know, we are also know thinking a lot about resilience. i mean, that's the other hat that i that i have. and it's been a high priority for the board and the mayor, as well as the capital planning committee. so we are also looking at this sort of broader resilience lens when we consider these projects. so if you think about racial and social equity, there are a number of pieces that are in that column there. recently we approved an environmental social justice framework that came through the planning department and we're incorporating that into the decisions that we're making, thinking about where the communities that we need to

where where investments are going to be critical or important or are going to have a big impact racial equity lens in terms of the budget, affordable housing. so i will talk a little bit about some of the constraints on our geo bond program, affordable housing was not part of the capital plan when it was originally contemplated and actually when we established some of our constraints, it but it became such a high priority that it did we did begin to incorporate it in our capital plan, and it is the only piece privately owned infrastructure that is really represented in our capital plan. and that is because it's so important it but it's also taken a lot of our capacity and we know that there's a lot more that needs to be done in terms of affordable housing, climate resilience. there's a list here of the various items around improving the transportation infrastructure, you know, mitigating things through building electrification, recent

passage of chapter seven, which is also related to the climate action plan, requiring that we move to fully electric buildings and so forth. and then some adaptation measures as well. so we're looking a lot at ocean beach and how we move that project forward, but also the waterfront resilience program, which involves the seawall which is one of the largest upcoming projects that the city is going to see probably in decades. i'm sure it will be in decades when we start to think about the costs associated with that, with replacing that infrastructure and shoring up our waterfront and then, of course, there's earthquake safety. i won't go into this. there are a number of various projects around earthquake safety. this has been a high priority since really since i've been around really since 1906. the codes are constantly changing. but we are we are continuing to strive to make sure that we're fixing and retrofitting city owned buildings for city employees and

ensure that they can provide services after an earthquake as well, i should say. so general obligation bond program. i'm going to go through this last slide or two really quickly and then let nishad get up and talk about the other programs. so just to let you know, i mentioned that we have a constrained capital plan. so right now, the way that we work our bonding capacity is we only issue new bonds as we retire old ones. and in so doing, we keep the ad valorem or the rate that we charge that we add to your property taxes consistent. so we establish in 2006 and we stayed to that rate. now the amount of bonds we can issue can grow based on property values. so as long as people's property values are going up, the whole everything sort of moves up. and so we are able to issue more debt. but the other side also happens if property values start to go down, we will be issuing

less debt. so that's something we work with. the controller's office quite closely on, which is how do we manage the to ensure that we're staying below that rate. but it also means that we have to make decisions about what we're going to fund in the bond and what we're not going to fund. and those tend to be very key. i wouldn't say heated, but but a lot of debate, a lot of discussion around those items. okay okay. i mentioned that the bond program is modified to reflect the even year. well, i didn't mention this, so we used to have odd year elections, which meant we had more opportunities to go to voters to pass bonds and now we're now that we've moved to only even year elections. right. we pushed the mayor's election back. it means we have lots of opportunities. so that means we're we're going to have to be a little more precise, a little more thoughtful about what we put on the ballot. and we're going to have to make sure we have programs that can wait a year or two longer than they may have had to in the past. all

right. and i should just mention, yeah, the climate seismic needs and all of those things are really outstripping a lot of the city's capacity. that's in addition to the housing. so we have not when we first were doing these capital plans, we tended to try to leave capacity at the end of the cycle for flexibility. but we've really been filling it in because we've been extremely aggressive and that's resulted in a lot of work that's continuing to happen and we're making improvements from an infrastructure perspective across the city at higher levels. and i think we ever have. but it does mean that we're now having to face a situation where our bonds are going to have to be smaller. we just can't if we're going to stay within this constraint, which the capital planning committee and the mayor, the board have agreed to, we just can't continue to have the 4 or 5, $600 million bonds like we had in the past. so that's reflected in this chart here. when you think about what are the bonds that are coming up. so

march 20th, 24, we have an affordable housing bond that's 300 million. the last affordable housing bond was over 600 million. this is really to continue to get at the pipeline that mayor's office of housing community development have established. this matches a number of different funds. in fact, some of these housing projects will have as many as ten different funding sources. but this is this is vitally important to keeping those pipelines and keeping continuing to produce affordable housing. we have public health and shelters in november of 2024. i should mention one one thing that we instituted with the capital plan was to develop programs. so there's what we would call a public health and safety program every 6 to 8 years. we were it used to be five years, but every 6 to 8 years we have another bond related to public health. so that way the public works teams that are working, that are doing those bonds that are that are

working on those projects, we don't have to go through this. you know, everyone has to leave. we have to you know, because there's no work and then we have to rehire them in two years. so the idea is that it's a program and we can think about it that way, and it provides for a lot of efficiencies as we did the same thing with our earthquake safety implementation program or what we call the earthquake safety and emergency response bonds. esser so you see there's one there. in november 28th, we just passed one in november 2020. so that's the same idea. we know we have pretty much an unlimited i wouldn't say unlimited, but there are a lot of needs when it comes to emergency response facilities. right. we have 44 fire stations . i don't know. we have seven police stations anyway. it's just a lot of infrastructure that we have to continue to maintain and add and upgrade and retrofit. so this shows you the geo bonds that are coming forward. transportation, of course, was the one blip lately. they received. 65% of the vote.

i think 65.3 or so. they just missed the 67% through threshold. so we did have to. so that bond did not pass. it was the first one. again, i should say, really in like ten years or so. they are now scheduled to go in november of 2026. they would have gone earlier if we didn't lose those orders. elections they did. i have to say, to their credit, they did get some federal funding through some of the relief acts that helped them . but that's going to be a that's going to be a high priority project. finally, i'm just going to show you this is my last slide here. this is just graphically showing how we issue the bonds in and how we only issue new bonds as we retire old ones. so this is graphically shows you that red bar at the top is the 2006 tax rate constraint and the light gray are the bonds that have already been issued and sold. so we're paying down debt on those. we tend to have 20 year bonds.

typically, some of the housing bonds are a little bit longer, but we want to turn the bonds over quickly. one, it saves us money in the long run. two, it allows us for more capacity through the program. the sort of dark gray bonds above it are bonds that have been passed by voters but have not yet been issued. so there are a lot of bonds, including 2018 seawall bond, where there's still a lot of funds to be issued. and then the ones in color up top are the ones that i mentioned on the slide before. those are the ones that we are planning to put before voters in the next ten years. all right. with that, let me hand it off to nishad for. yeah. do you want to have a clarification question? sure. yeah, yeah, yeah. and first to interject. oh sorry. you have to speak into your microphone, though. sure. yeah all right. there we go. first interim director, short public works. are we considered general fund and enterprise department? where do we fall within the classification? we are not an

enterprise department, but we are a chapter six department, which means that we are able to do contra acting. got it. second quick question. this is to mr. strong, and i think it's more just trying to get clarification on slide number nine. so what i believe i heard you say is that the bonds were set in 2006. really the ad valorem that supports the bonds, is that correct? yeah the rate that we set. so 2006 happened to be a year that we did issue a lot of debt, at least back then. so the rate so we and that happened to also be the first year we were doing our ten year capital plan. so we basically said that rate, that ad valorem rate. so you pay 1% for your taxes. the ad valorem rate is like 0.14. i want to say something around that amount. we said we're going to stay. we're only we're going to say that 0.14. we're going to keep and we're going to keep to that point one four rate. so that's what we've done, which which, you know, typically makes

a lot of sense because you're also projecting for at least some minimal growth on property assessments and others. but we're now in this period where lots of properties are being reassessed downward. and so back to your point about constraint, i'm just trying to understand and particularly from public works, while we're forecasting, let's say hypothetically, if we go through another two years of downward kind of adjustment on values, does that mean from our standpoint and, you know, forecasting the projects that we, of course, will be supporting, how are you guys forecast or preparing for that potential? yeah. well, i mean, some of that is reflected in the bonds that we have put forward. so that's why you're seeing smaller bonds. so that's one way that we're managing it, even though the need is and i think that's where it's still we're yeah, i mean, we're doing that because we are there already assumptions sort of baked in that we're not that our property rates are are i wouldn't say they're they're going negative, but that they're growing much,

much slower than they were in the past. some of the rest of us have questions also. i was waiting for him to finish his. yeah. thank you for clarifying. yeah. so i can follow up with you on that. happy to do so. just what i would say is that yeah, we are, we are trying to be mindful of the potential for a downturn in the economy. and nishad will actually talk a little bit about what we're trying to do on the general fund side to make sure we sort of address that. got it. to keep work going. okay i anisha joshi with the office of resilience and capital planning. i'm just going to talk a little bit about the general fund debt program. also known as the certificates of participation program. um, so we usually issue general fund debt for projects that we don't think would make sense to go on a ballot and wouldn't necessarily appeal to voters. but are also really critical for the city. so on the slide right

now, you can see what that program looks like in the ten year capital plan in the current year, we have some money set aside for the human services agency to exit from their headquarters at 170, otis, which is a seismically unsafe building . we also have some certificates of participation in the current year set aside for critical repairs. so these are just state of good repair projects for across the city portfolio as well as money for street repaving, street repaving is typically taken care of through the general fund cash program. um, but as you'll see in the next few slides that program has taken a real downturn due to the shortfalls caused by covid. and so we're backfilling some of that work using this source. and then further out, you can see the hall of justice replacement program on there. those numbers are really placeholders that, you know, the specifics of that

project are still being worked out. but as we get closer to that, those numbers will be refined. yeah, so i'm going to move to the cash program, um, a little more to talk about here. so these are some of the assumptions ins that are baked into the capital plan as far as the cash program goes, as i mention, because of covid, the program, um, was slashed to about a third of what it was pre-pandemic. this capital plan is trying to restore some of those funding levels brian alluded to earlier what the capital plan sets out is not necessarily what goes forward in the budget. so in this capital plan, you know, we were assuming a starting point of 89 million in general fund cash in fy 24 and growing that by $30 million a year, all already in the current year. the budget that was approved was only 59 million. so we're already, you

know, sort of on the back foot as far as the paygo program goes. but, you know, this plan is sort of aspirates in that way, is that it's trying to get us back to where we were, even though it's going to be a slow climb back to that same level, the cash program also assumes that city policy of maintaining streets at a pavement condition index of 75 current the pci, as last reported, was 74. and like i mentioned, some of the cuts in the cash program are being backfilled using debt in order to maintain the streets at that level. we also prioritize ada projects both a complaint driven as well as things that have been raised by the mayor's office on disability as well as other departments. and then we also put significant amount of funding towards the ongoing curb ramp program, which is run by public works and then as far as

the cash program goes, we always receive requests for enhancement projects from departments like security cameras, other security improvements, and we don't always have the capacity for those. but some of those do end up being fairly critical needs and so we do try to set aside some capacity for those enhancements, even though this bucket of money is mainly intended to maintain things in a state of good repair as opposed to upgrades or new new items. so as i was alluding to earlier, you know, covid did take quite a bit of a hit on on the program. so what you see in the light gray is where we were projected to be pre-pandemic. and then the light blue line at the bottom shows sort of the effect of covid on the capital plan. so the light gray line is pre covid

capital plan, the light blue below is post covid. and then the red line is where we are proposing what we're proposing as far as the current ten year capital plan goes, i should mention that, you know, the dotted line represents where we would be if we issued the plan amount of general fund debt as well. so the solid red line is cash and then the dotted red line shows where we are. once we add in the debt to backfill for some of those needs. so as you can see, you know, we're sort of in the middle, but hoping to work our way back up to pre-pandemic levels of funding. so that's all that we have in terms of the formal presentation . but we're happy to answer any questions or address any comments, commissioners, any questions, comments. commissioner seagull. so. wow.

oh, i'm sorry, it's just my mic is on. okay. okay. so for, for mr. strong, this is kind of an elementary question. what what department do you work in? ah. oh i should have. i should have clarified that. sorry brian strong office of the city administrator. and under the office of the city administrator is the office of resilience, resilience and capital planning. thank you. okay. you said chief resiliency officer wasn't clear to me, so it makes sense for you to be. although not the i don't know. the controller is on that committee, too. is that correct? yep. oh yeah. yeah. they're on the committee. all right, uh, i want to thank you so much. this is inline evening. and more. more citizens should know about this. do you make this presentation at other commissions? where else do you

make this presentation? yeah, i mean, and we've talked before about that. i've certainly talked with rachel about that too, is how we get some of this information out. we do present at the board of supervisors. uh, of course, you know, at least annually, sometimes more often. we also speak to the citizens general obligation bond oversight committee. so we do an annual presentation there and then typically it's we do it to commissions. um, sorry. we do it to commissions upon their request. so so it, it does vary in terms of, of when we're making presentations to often it's the fire commission, police commission. some of those folks and usually it's why can't we get more money. thank you so much. i have one other question. i don't know which of you this this would answer this. so the pieces and i just love learning about all the acronyms and

initials that we use in government. so does that include sidewalks as well or just streets and ramps? so the pci refers to the pavement condition index and that's referring specifically to the streets themselves. and then we also curb the curb ramp program is its own program administered by public works and then sidewalks are a separate program. sidewalks do receive some funding through the streets program as well, but mainly there's a complaint driven side to that and then an inspection driven side to the sidewalks program. so they're all kind of their own distinct buckets. so so it's what program are the sidewalks funded by? so there's the what's called serp or the sidewalk inspection and repair program and then asap, which is the accelerated probably not the best person to answer this

question in the room, but there's, i don't know, asap. does anyone want to i can i can chime in. yeah. the asap is the accelerate you know accelerated sidewalk assessment program abatement program. there we go. so the we have a whole slew of different related sidewalk repair programs. the street tree funds, the repair of specifically tree related sidewalk damage, the sidewalk inspection and repair program is a program active. we go out and inspect blocks annually and they will repair tree related damage and then notify property owners because as you may recall, under state law, property owners are responsible for maintaining their sidewalks and then we also have a complaint driven inspection program that can then funnel repair requests to either the urban forestry program or or

the asap, the accelerated sidewalk abatement program. okay. thank you. thank you for all your work, both of you. commissioner turner, thanks. if i could miss a strong to join me, so i'd like to pick back up because what i'm trying to understand is if this presentation is good or bad and what i mean is i what i'm picking up is based on where we've set the rate in 2006 and seemingly we don't have a plan to change that. the remedy for the loss in revenue to support all of our needs are going to be smaller bonds, which technically means we're doing less work. is that interpreting that correctly? that's right. okay so i guess my question, of course, to the public works team is that, of course, forecasts impacts us the amount of jobs,

the amount of. and so as you guys are kind of massaging things, i'm assuming our team, bruce and others, that's why you're on the committee that was my question is how are we managed doing all of this fluctuation? oh please. okay. i'll invite our cfo to speak. uh, commissioner turner. bruce robertson, cfo, public works. that is a very astute point and a very relevant question. we are in early october, and i will already say we are starting to plan for the budget for next fiscal year because we are very aware of the potential impacts of what the reduced funding may be in terms of our ability to issue contracts. and in the worst case scenario, potentially even our ability for our own workforce. so we're very actively looking at all of the scenarios we're planning for the worst. obviously not hoping for the worst, but we want to make sure that we're ahead of the curve. should the worst news come. and we've got a significant downfall or the

capital plan plan is basically funded at zero. we are running scenarios on all of the potential options, assuming the worst, knowing that the worst likely won't come. just one more question, director robertson. so as we and commissioner seahorse newell pointed this out to you, we're at 74. we like to go the other way. are we in a place that we need to be advocating? is there a place where i'm just trying to understand, particularly a lot of the space they're making up within the capital planning is really pay as you go. it's really just using cash on hand. even that becomes constrained. and so i'm just i'm still somewhat trying to understand to us, it seems like we've got great impacts coming, given that we've got a tremendous amount of work. we're trying to accomplish it seems like we've got a mismatch. we do, and we are certainly advocating the street resurfacing, the paving program . we consider our top priority, if not the number one. it's very high. so what we do is we used to get funding from the general

fund and now we're using certificates of participation, which brian and nishad had talked about. so that's very good. we also, through senate bill one that was passed a couple of years ago at the state the road maintenance and rehabilitation account gives us approximately $30 million. so that's been that's helped offset the general fund reductions. we also get gas tax just regular gas tax that's outside of that additional 12 cent per gallon tax. we get, you know, fluctuates, let's just say 5 to $10 million of gas tax money annually from there because we're sitting in a county, we also get some road fund money. there's allocations for cities and counties, and then we also get some through the transportation authority, the county transportation authority. there's a half cent sales tax. so we get funding, we get a little bit not not a lot, but we get money from there. so we've been very, very strong advocates with our state and local entities trying to make sure we

can get as much money as we can and one of the other things we've been doing is we've been very fiscally conservative in terms of how we're spending the money to make sure that if there is a downturn, that we have some cushion, some fund balances that can help offset some of the impacts. so this is all of the analysis that we're doing. but yes, we've been advocating and pushing quite hard because, you know, we were at 75. we've still got some deferred maintenance for that program. and it is so critical, as you know, the condition of the roads is one of the bigger issues that the public cares about. but if i might just add to that final point, which is at this point in time, we are looking at a $30 million reduction in our pavement funding starting in fiscal year 25. so it is a big concern. and i just wanted to highlight that concern. i um, just to sort of put a closure on that. all of this is reflective, isn't it, of the overall city budget potentially going down and the expected requests and.

yes. okay um, is there any further discussion from the commission on the topic if is there any public comment? members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item five, the capital plan overview may line up against the wall for this from the door. if you are here in the chamber, if you're calling in, please. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting access code. (266)!a005-5958. 6 pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to speak. and no one has approached to speak on this item in person as if govtv is indicating that we have one caller on this item. nsf.gov tv. please go ahead and unmute that caller and caller. you'll have

three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice. great david pilpel again, so i appreciate the work that brian strong and nishad and the rest of the capital planning staff do, especially coordination between the various departments, whether they're general fund or enterprise, chapter six or non, chapter six, the way the city currently functions roof repairs at and major facilities work varies all over the place. so some facilities may just run to failure for and others. the criticality of an asset is assessed and there's work to attempt to extend the asset life prior to that and it just varies all over the place. the extent to which the capital planning staff and the various departments are coordinated,

eating and trying to get ahead of problems before they become a big disaster and require a bond is good and i think that's a huge continuing endeavor. and i just wanted to point that out. i think having a periodic check in with the capital planning staff and public works participation in capital planning and its effect on staffing and projects and all of that i think is useful. and just to conclude, i believe the history on capital planning in the city goes back to i'm trying to remember i think it was the capital kayak, the capital improvements advisory committee, which preceded the capital planning committee and was actually staffed by public works long ago, far away back in the day. so this is not a function that is so far removed from dpw. in

fact, it's pretty fundamental to the work of public works. so those are my thoughts on item five. thanks for listening. thank you. caller and that is our that concludes public comment on item five. thank you. brian nishad in the capital planning team, a very thoughtful and illuminating presentation on. thank you. we'll now return to our regular agenda for the directors report and communications item two is the director's report and communications and interim director carla shaw is here to present this report. this is an informational item. good morning, commissioners. carla short, interim director, san francisco public works. i hope you're enjoying our annual october heat wave. there are several topics that i want to cover today. first up, as you likely saw in the news this week, reports of an incident that occurred last sunday in which one of our street

inspectors working on a multi agency unpermitted food vending operation can be seen on video pushing over a street vendor's hot dog cart. the incident is under investigation by the department with our human resources team taking the lead. they are interviewing the employee involved as well as witnesses and reviewing pertinent, pertinent policies and procedures related to permit enforcement operations and employee conduct. for background, sunday's operation near pier 41 was led by the port and the department of public health with the police department and public works on hand to support. the focus was on the vendors who sell food without a permit from carts, card tables and pop up sites. mobile food vendors, including the ubiquitous hot dog sellers working along the embarcadero, are required to have permits. the goal is to lower the risk of foodborne illness and to protect public health by ensuring that proper food handling practices are adhered to. the rule of public works in these joint

agency operations is on point on port property is to impound the carts of vendors selling without a permit. they can get their carts back once they secure a health department permit. understandably, there are many vendors who don't want the city to impound their carts. at the same time, city workers are tasked with enforcing codes to protect public health and safety. these two positions can lead to conflict, creating difficult and delicate situations. while we're still looking into what led up to that moment and the events that preceded the incident, we strive to treat members of the public with respect during permit enforcement operations. we train our employees in de-escalation techniques with the goal of defuzing tense situations. in this circumstance, we did not meet that threshold and we issued a public apology on tuesday. once the investigation is concluded, we will take appropriate action in accordance with the city employee policy and procedures. next up, i am reporting with sadness that on

september 28th, a contractor employee was killed on the job working on an sfpuc sewer upgrade project that public works is managing the incident involving an excavator. a trench collapse occurred on oak street, just west of divisadero street, the san francisco fire department responded to the scene and conducted a specialized trench rescue operation. but the worker, 25 year old javier romero, had already succumbed to his injuries. as the construction work is being done as part of the panhandle and inner sunset, large sewer rehabilitation project. public works is managing construction on behalf of the sfpuc, the contractor performing the work is darcy and hardy construction, inc. like many public works employees, responded to the scene, including construction management, structural engineering, public affairs, street repair and street inspection. there was a coordinated response involving multiple city agencies, including police, fire, public works, the sf, puc, the sfmta,

the department of emergency management, the city attorney, the district attorney, and the medical examiner. the details of the incident are still being investigated. the city is fully cooperating with cal osha's investigation into the incident, which will focus on the contractors safety plan and practices. meanwhile all our construction management team halted all underground work on the project while the investigation continues, we expect the calosha investigation to take several more weeks, if not months. i just want to highlight that workplace safety is our top priority. fatalities on city run construction projects are rare, thankfully, and when one does occur, it is tough on everyone involved. please keep mr. romero and his loved ones in your thoughts and prayers. chair post asked me to inform the commission on how we keep our workers safe. when san francisco's air quality becomes unhealthy due to wildfire smoke . commissioners, we last had an air quality concern on september 20th when smoke drifted over the

bay area from wildfires in northern california and southern oregon. we alerted all staff through email and at our start of shift tailgate meetings at the operations yard, we let staff know that we were carefully monitoring the situation with guidance from cal osha and the public works health and safety team. at the time, the air quality index in san francisco remained in the low 130, which is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups with those with preexisting, cardiovascular or respiratory conditions. any employees showing signs of illness or injury from exposure to wildfires, wildfire smoke such as coughing or trouble breathing, we're told they may seek medical attention and access available accrued sick time consistent with city policy. and to discuss the condition with their supervisor. in addition, we offered n95 respirators to any employee who requested one, had the air quality index hit 151 or above the status would have elevated to unhealthy at that time. all non-essential outdoor work would be postponed. that threshold was

not met last month, but it had in previous years, resulting in an all non-essential outdoor work such as tree and landscape maintenance and curb ramp construction to be temporarily suspended. unfortunately with climate change, we do expect to see more bad air days when the wildfire season ramps up, which it often does in the fall. before the rain start on a more positive but related note i wanted to share that public works was recently awarded a $12 million grant for tree planting . the grant comes from the federal government's inflation reduction act through grants from the us forest service for urban forestry and will go a long way to increasing the tree canopy cover in some of the communities with the least amount of canopy. these neighborhoods, unsurprisingly, also disproportionately house historically disadvantaged communities. as you know, our bureau of urban forestry is under the operations division and therefore sanitation and streets purview. but as it is still within the department as a whole and certainly affects our budget, i wanted to share the good news with you. this was the

largest grant awarded in california and dovetails nicely with our new street tree nursery opening next month. the funding is badly needed because we have not been able to secure dedicated funding for tree planting as we have for maintenance. and finally, i would like to take a moment on behalf of the public works team to remember senator dianne feinstein as commissioner turner noted and as you all know, she died last week at the age of 90 after having broken many gender barriers during her long political career, including becoming the first woman to serve as president of the board of supervisors. mayor of san francisco, a decade long role she came into amid the tragic assassinations of mayor george moscone and supervisor harvey milk. she was the first female from california to be elected to the us senate and didn't shy away from tough legislative legislate battles and investigative inquiries. as her body lay in state wednesday in the city hall rotunda, where thousands of people filed through to pay respect, a

memorial service was held a day later yesterday on the steps of city hall and overlooking civic center plaza. she was a force of a public servant who loved her country and believed mightily in the magic and promise of san francisco. and that concludes today's report. thank you. thank you, director short commissioners, any comments? yeah. i wasn't going to say anything, but it is a connection of diane feinstein to dpw that i'm aware of. i'm sure there were many of them, but but my daughter in law is the granddaughter of long time public works director myron tatarian and whenever i was with him and dianne feinstein was in the room, no matter how many people were in the room, no matter what was, she would pull him out of the group and give

him he was long retired at this time and thank him. so evidently she cared a lot about dpw and was probably very i've worked with her on other things and was probably very into the i don't want to say minutiae of dpw, but the intricacies and how it all worked. and so she really is a model for me. mayors, for public servants, for legislators, for women, and for anybody who respects government as we do, because we work here and know that it's serious what we do and it affects people every day. so thank you. i just i was going to say anything about her, but when thinking, okay, dpw connection and diane feinstein so that's it. thanks. um, you know, it is in the time that we live in and

in this moment in society to lose someone of that extraordinary stature is a loss for all the world, not just san francisco and america. and honestly, we thank her for her service and her leadership and her dignity. is there any public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item to the director's report may line up against the wall for this from the door. if you are in the chamber, if you are calling in, please. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of (266)!a005-5958 6 poun, pound pound. and then press star three to be recognized and. in the chamber. no members of the public have come forward to

speak on the director's report and sf govtv is indicating that we do not have any callers on this item either. so that concludes public comment. thank you, will. now move on to general public comment. yeah item three is general public comment, which is for topics under the commission's mandate. but not related to a specific item on the agenda. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment of general public comment may line up against the wall for this from the door in the chamber. if you are calling in again that number. is (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of (266)!a005-5958. 6 poud pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to speak and as a reminder, general public comment is limited to a total of

15 minutes for all comments and can be continued to the end of the agenda. item seven if we exceed that time limit, the time right now is. 10:41 a.m. and it looks like we have two in-person public commenters and i believe scott feeney is our first commenter and has a couple of slides that i will actually bring up. one moment at. all right, good morning. are you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide. you'll get a chime when it's about to come. morning commissioners. my name is scott feeney. i'm a mission district resident and i'm looking for the commission's help with the form of illegal sidewalk encroachments that are becoming increasing common throughout my neighborhood in the city, and that some department of public works staff

have shown an alarming unwillingness to regulate. next slide, please. so i'm referring to these anti homeless barricades which their backers call planter boxes. now i'm a community garden volunteer and a strong supporter of urban greening. but next slide. this is not that, in my opinion. these are metal tanks that are designed to occupy as much space as possible, to be too heavy to move and to displace homeless people from one block onto another, which is obviously not a solution and makes actual all outreach and solutions more difficult. but what's more on paper, they appear to be clearly illegal. next slide, please. so so although a dpw order allows small sidewalk landscaping containers that are not fixed in place to be placed without a permit, these are not small. they are over 36in wide in most cases, about 68in. so they don't qualify and they are also permanently affixed in place. next slide, please. so the website of this company, sf planters, that has been placing

hundreds of these all over the city, actually brags that they are nearly impossible to move without specialized equipment because they are so heavy. so that's clearly not a small movable planter box. next slide . so not only are they baseline all illegal, but on top of that , a lot of installations are violating other rules that are in that dpw order, such as next slide, not creating a thruway zone of at least 72in. next slide. not allowing unobstructed access every 20ft from the curb to the thruway zone. next slide and being placed in bus way in bus zones is, among other things. next slide. so there seems to be really a pattern of lawlessness with these. and despite that fact, when press have asked dpw officials for comment on them, they have said, next slide, that these are in fact legal, which, based on my research, does not appear to be true. so i'm looking for your help in figuring out how to enforce these. i know that when dpw wants to, it can enforce sidewalk encroachment laws very

strictly. for example. next slide. there was recently something in. oh, sorry. i also meant wanted to mention that some 301 complaints have been either closed without a resolution or no action has been taken. next slide. so there was just something in in the sf chronicle about a little free library. someone complained about and there was a notice of violation posted the very next day. so it's obvious the enforcement capacity exists and i'd like to see it used against these so-called planters that are really barricades that are having increasingly negative impacts on walkability, access and transit use. i'd appreciate your help getting accountability and enforcement and i would urge you to call a hearing on this issue. and i will follow up with an email as well. thank you. thank you for your comments. so i have a request to speak. is that now or is it after after we're all done? okay and our second commenter, taylor

ahlgren. correct. okay. you'll have three minutes to speak and you'll hear a chime when you have 30s left. thank you. good morning, commissioners. my name is taylor ullgren. i'm a renter in bernal heights on shotwell street and i know san francisco as we all know, san francisco, as a compassionate city. and we need your help, as scott has talked about, dpw is enabling illegal non compliant anti-homeless barricade ads on sidewalks all over our city. these barricades trojan horse as planters are against dpwh policies because they're not permitted. they are immovable without special equipment at over 1,000 pounds each and they are typically 48 to 68in in width, larger than the allowable 36 inch size, according to dpwh policy. and often they're blocking more than 25% of the sidewalk. sometimes all of the

sidewalk. so i'm just we're asking that dpw enforce enforce its own policies. dpw order 179231 for container guidelines . as scott has previously specified to give you a little bit more detail on a 311 request made on on september 24th, i made a request for barricades that were planter barricades that were blocking about 100ft of sidewalk on south venice between 13th and 14th street, near the navigation center for unhoused folks. four days later, i got a call from dpw and they indicated that these were installed by street use and mapping. and i asked like, why would why would bsm like close down a sidewalk like this? and she told me it was to stop homeless people from living there on that sidewalk. they said they would transfer the case to bsm and follow up. but

the next day the 311 case was closed and i never got a call. over 300 illegal planters have been planter. barricades have been put up all over the city in the past few months. i'm urging the commission to hold a hearing with dpw staff to paint a picture for how many of these 1,000 pound barricades have been placed illegally in the city and add some accountability to this issue. thank you. thank you for your comments. and if that concludes, those are the only commenters in person and sf govtv is indicating that we do not have any callers. so that concludes general public comment at thank you mr. fuller. shall we move on to the consent calendar of routine matters? i have a request to speaker. thank

you. so i want to thank mr. feeney and mr. algren for your comments. i i'm very concerned about i'm a big pedestrian and pedestrian advocate and our sidewalks are being shared in many ways that we didn't that they haven't been in past decades, whatever. so we have to share all this. and in my in my naivete, i didn't see these barricades, barricades as anti-homeless as i, i feel that they impact how i traverse the sidewalks and they also impact how people use parking in front of private it in front of residents where people just

might not want to have strangers parking in front of their houses and possibly using space that they want to use overnight. when they because they don't have garage space for themselves or for visitors. and i would love to see i would love to see more attention paid to the to the condition of our sidewalks, whether they're whether it's that they're uneven and or and this is not just our department, even even looking at who uses our sidewalks, what kind of motorized vehicles are being used on the sidewalks, what, to be more specific, and do more education for the public about what to expect as far as motorized vehicles go. going, racing past us and the people who are using those might not be residents of san francisco might not be aware of what the laws are for using motorized vehicles

on sidewalks. so thank you for your vigilance on this and. yeah, we got a lot to do. not just not just our department, not just our citizens who are very vigilant on this. thank you. and all of things are changing very, very quickly. and we got to figure out how to how to live among each other peacefully and safely. so thank you, commissioner turner, i want to echo that. i think it is a you know, the modalities and how we all are living in the city. i think we've got to always keep it at the forefront as we evolve. but i do have a question for interim director short. so i think it was a great example around the little libraries and some of the opportunities and challenges, you know, from public works perspective, we want people to read books, we want them to garden, we want them to do these things. but of course, we've got to make sure the right of way and the safety

is there and of course, developing properties and more importantly, supportive housing . unfortunately, i'm guilty of putting out windows and i did it again as commissioner newhall. it had nothing to do with trying to use a barricade. it was an effective way to add some gardening and some green to where people smoke. and so and so now understanding in context. exactly how it's impacting folks to your request around a public hearing. interim director short we do have some work as it relates to what happens with street encroachment, what happens with little libraries? is there a space to incorporate this kind of in that thinking and kind of that broader initiative. thank you, commissioner turner, carlo short interim director yeah. as you know, we do have a new the neighborhood benefit permit that will be, um, will have some i think shortly introduced at the board, some amend legislation and there there are guidelines around placement on the sidewalk

and that sort of thing and to try to make it easy for people to put out benefits to the neighborhood like little libraries. so that is coming. i think, you know, we can circle back internally to talk about how these types of inter tensions might be be included in that or might be excluded from that depending on on sidewalk conditions. thank you. moving on to the consent calendar of routine matters, item four is the consent calendar of routine matters. it includes the draft minutes from the september 20. pardon me? the september 13th, 2023, special meeting of this commission and the draft minutes from the september 15th 2020 three minutes draft minutes from this commission's regular

meeting. it also includes one contract award and three contract modifications and all contract modifications and the award are eligible for the consent calendar in accordance with the contract delegation policy adopted by this commission. all consent calendar items can be heard individually upon request by a commissioner, staff or the public. an adoption of the consent calendar and all resolutions contained in it is an action item before a motion is made. on this, i'm happy to take corrections to the either minutes documents and any questions. please, please note that there are minor edits that have been incorporated for clarity to items four and eight on the september 15th draft meeting minutes. the commissioners have any questions or corrections. i move that we accept the minutes as submitted

. do i hear a second? i second. but are we voting on the consent agenda or just the minutes? sorry commissioner seagull, did you want to just vote on the minutes or the entire consent calendar too? i'm sorry. thank you very much, commissioner. sure. yeah, i'll move that we that we vote on the whole consent agenda calendar and i would second so it has been moved and seconded. okay we will now take public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item for the adoption of the consent calendar and all resolutions contained with it may line up against the wall for this from the door if present in the chamber. if you are calling in dial. (415)!a655-0001 and use te meeting number access code. of

(266)!a005-5958 6 pound pound. and then press star three to be recognized and. in the chamber. no members of the public have approached to speak on this topic. an and sf govtv is indicating that we do not have any callers wish to comment on the consent calendar. so that concludes public comment. is there any debate on this motion hearing? no further debate. all in favor of approving the consent calendar. routine matters say i. aye. all opposed say nay. the motion passes. secretary fuller, please call the next item. and as a reminder, we already heard item five following item one. and so item six is new business initiated by commissioners. and this is an opportunity for commissioners to suggest

business for a future agenda. and this is an informational item. any comments? commissioner segal no. all right. i would like to share that. i will actually not be in attendance, so i will be asking for an excused absence the next meeting will be in singapore, where i've been invited to speak at the international council of tall building and urban habitat conference, which is looking at the vexing issues of the world and how we deal with our urban habitat. and i'm pleased to accept an award for a project design in san francisco that includes affordable housing, mixed uses, public open space and commercial space. so secretary fuller, please call the next item. oh, so on the new

business, we do need to do public comment, but some members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item eight new business initiated by commissioners may line up against the wall for this from the door. if in the chamber. if you are calling in. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting access code. of 26600559586 pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to be recognized. and we do not have any members of the public in person wishing to speak on this item at and we do have one caller who has expressed an interest in commenting on new business. s sf govtv please unmute that caller and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice

when your time is about to be expired. good great. david pilpel again, i actually had tried to raise my hand for item four for the consent calendar and either it toggled off or the with the app or somehow it got cleared anyway. the toggling, the raise hand, lower hand icon in webex is not easy. so if i can just return to item four. i had a couple of quick comments on both sets of minutes on item four a the minutes from september. 13th on an item. to the commission entered closed session at 8:42 a.m. the minutes don't indicate who was present in closed session. that's required under the sunshine ordinance and on item three,

announcements following closed session. i understand that there was no public comment, but if there was an announcement made or no announcement made, i would add a line saying either the commission announced blah blah, blah or no announcement was made under item three. so those are the two two suggestions for the september 13th minutes and for item four be for the september 15th minutes is there was a motion earlier early in the meeting to remove or strike items nine, ten and 11 related to the closed session on that was adopted. and so on page five where items nine, ten and 11 come up, i would add an additional note. it's there. all right, it's there. prior to items nine, ten and 11, maybe that could be put in bold or something. it looks like the italicized items, nine, ten and

11 were struck from the agenda still relate to item eight. that's why i didn't notice it immediately. all right. perhaps it's there and that's good enough. those are my thoughts on the minutes. perhaps those minor tweaks can be incorporated without having to rescind and revoke it on the minutes. thanks very much for listening. i appreciate it. commissioner newhouse. siegel yeah, thank you, mr. pilpel, for your constant attention and keeping us on our toes about about a lot of issues and intricacies and anyway, i would i wonder if it's appropriate at this time to move to a to maybe not accept the september 13th minutes until they're resubmitted with the with the names of the people who were in closed session. if that's actually a requirement, a

legal requirement, and we have to add that to it, we already adopted them. so, um, deputy city attorney tam. good morning, commissioners. deputy city attorney christopher tom, i. yeah yes. the consent agenda that adopted all of the items is under the consent calendar was adopted. i think it is okay if mr. fuller adds the additional notation to the minutes. all right. per commissioner newhouser eagle's comments will add those notations to the approved and adopted minutes. great. thank you. and also in the future, if we can make sure that we don't make that error again when we're in closed session, that we say who was in it, it would it's actually would be very helpful to me in in reviewing or to look back at it and know who was in it. so

there's a reason for it. thank you. thanks, david. anything else, mr. chair? is there any. pardon me, mr. secretary, is there any further business? there is no further business on this agenda. then hearing no objections, adjourn this meeting . the commission will meet again on friday, october 20th, 2023, at 9:30 a.m.

>> we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. the only people who don't like it are the people who get the tickets. >> this is a street sweeping sign. don't let it get you. pay attention. [♪♪♪] >> in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. we call that our business run. we sweep all the main arteries of the city. after 8:00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. >> the idea with the street sweeping program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. >> we -- for not only appearance

and cleanliness but safety as well. >> we will get anywhere from 2- 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. the street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is an error sweeper. they have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side and carried by air into the hopper. what will mess this up is new -- large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. anything that is more than 12 inches. the tube on the tracks is only 12-inch diameter. >> people asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. there are people that letter. leaves are one thing. any of the garbage you see is from people being careless.

[♪♪♪] >> one cars parked in the way, we can't sweep under the congress. to deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m.t.a. and they go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way. once the sweepers sweep past in san francisco, you may park behind the street sweeper. we all know parking is a big issue. north beach hasn't been swept since the eighties because of opposition. but we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. we stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. >> there are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars. and navigates this 22,000-pound truck through the city. >> we involve the public here --

to adhere to traffic laws. these routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. things have changed since then so we have to adapt. luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. this is literally cut and paste -- cut and paste. we will have a computer program soon that will be able to alter the maps and be updated instantly. we will have tablets in the checks for all of the maps. we will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. what is needed about these tablets as they will have a g.p.s. on it so we know where they're at. you do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. recall that to the be made a triangle. >> thanks for writing along with us today. i enjoyed showing you what we do

and i urge you to pay attention to the signs and move your car and don't litter. with all >> >> >> what say a nice day to build housing in san francisco. good evening, everyone. i'm london breed where we are going to build over 500 units of housing. [cheers and applause] >> man, i don't think i have ever signed a piece of legislation supporting housing that has made me happier than the one i'm about to sign today. you know, president peskin,