meet will if come to order. welcome to the monday november 27th 2023 meeting of rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor dorsey chair of the committee and joined by walton and committee number safai. we would like to express gratitude to our clerk today mr. young. and thanks to the team at sfgovtv for broadcasting today's meeting and our producer today. do we have announcements. public comment will taken on each item when public comment is called lineup to the right. you may submit in writing e mail them to myself the rules clerk at victor. young @sfgov.org if you submit comment via e mail

tell be forwarded to the supervisor and included as part of the file and send comments by u.s. mail to city hall. room 244, san felon california 9410 two make sure to silence all cell phones documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the agenda of september 5 unless otherwise stated >> thank you, mr. clerk. will before we get start in the intf time for a meeting we have 6 items for you to consider we will limit public comment for each on today's goond to a minute. mr. clerk item one. >> item upon one ordinance amending the code to controllers odd and i responsibilities to nonprofits contracting with the city.

establish performance goal for contracts with nonprofits. directing the controltory review and as necessary revise policies regarding contractors compliance with city requirements and requiring the careerer a review of the comp pliance with policies for audit and monitoring nonprofits. >> thank you mr. young. supervisor stefani:is experience. welcome to rules the floor is yours >> thank you, chair dorse and he colleagues for scheduling this item. i'm excited be with you today on this piece of legislation is something i have wanted do for a long timism introduced this in september of the year after asked the city attorney's office to draft legislation codifying recommendations in the controller citywide nonprofit performance audit released on august 30 of left year. the legislation is aimed at

enhancing transparency accountability and the over all effectiveness of the community based organizations which are known, nonprofits. they are once we enter in contracts with to provide essential service. my upon ordinance will centralize responsibility with the controller spoorndrd standardized requirements ensuring measurable objectives and strengthens a corrective action policy to ensure city funding guidelines. this will bolster accountability and ensure help to ensure reliable service delivery. currently, the city spendses 1.7 billion dollars on contracts with over 600 nonprofits. the organizations are expected to provide a range of services health services and early education. family support service. homelessness and the list goes

on. the city's lack of guidelines for the contracts is often resulted in waste and sometimes abuse. last year report emphasizes the city ineffective measures the work and the city does this on the city to mob monitor. the upon report said the city measured the work of nonam profit and it is process for reporting and remedying issues regarding underperformance remains unclear this legislation is to make it clear. many prop vieders voiced concerned about the ourous and inconsistent compliance requirements which is in the fair to them. residents are frustrated by a lack of progress on most pressing challenges despite billions in city spending. san francisco face tough challenges and rising dissatisfaction with local gentleman the city must ensure

nonprofits run focussing on tangible results. i want to thank the city controller bhoen heeb amazing and lawa marshall on the team for work that is gone into this we had several meeting and the deputy city attorney for drafting this legislation and work wugs on it. also my gratitude to deb and he all of the other nonprofit who is work with human service network and make clear, there are so many nonprofits that are doing work out there x. it is on the city to make sure that we have measures in place to make sure that we are america the out xhchls evaluating the performance and we as a city are delivering tanningable results the nonprofits we have been working with have been partners and i'm grateful for their add vo kaes. i don't know if my colleagues

have anything to say if not we can begin with the presentation from will you evera marshall. the floor is yours. >> hello supervisors thank you for having people laura marshall with controller's office. i had the pleasure of working with supervisor stefani and her team on the components of this i wanted give you a baptist an over view of the parts of the legislation. in a baptist contextualization current state and when may change. and the end a bit where we stand now and how we move in forward. we than we do a lot of business

with nonprofits the city departments are recently for the monitoring of the deliver and he quality of contracted services we have a centralization in the controller's office regarding the fiscal monitoring of nonprofits. cord nay departments and work with them to set standard in that space. we have not had this in the. space so far. as a supervisor mentioned we know many in our city are doing high quality work. where problems arise is that we don't a clear consistent and organized path for ~esque wlagz there are challenges within the nonprofit and contract. across departments. and so this is -- in part looking at that space and creating enhance for nonprofits to ensure we are receiving high

quality results consistently. the first big component that is related to the monitor activities. this directs the controller to establish standards and performance measures and measure in contracts. and then further how we monitor that. we are looking at like what would happen and how they should happen and reporting engagement between departments and nonprofits that contract. most departments are doing monitoring now this is occurring across contracting departments. there can be variability within a department and across departments this is highway patrol tologist standards ice. there is focus on the monitoring on compliance this relates to

funding source. and constraints the feds are interested in compliance. and so we are interested in how we use this to build a focus. there is an element of the legislation that directs the controller's office to update our city corrective action policy. there we use this consistently fiscal monitoring financial occurrence. within a nonprofit that arise through the monitor practice. we than there can be a strong link between financial constraints and performance within a nonprofit and -- we know well is cross departmental funding if we are see being poor performance in one space we may see it in another.

this -- relook at the action policy hopefully create holistic prop that looks at all parts of the nonprofit and creates cordination. upon confidentiality state we have public reporting now.

but -- you know sf open data and a lot of information it is not well organized and does not tell our store and he there are gaps. we know supervisor safai had legislation enhance compliance reporting. the city add administrator is working on implement ag. we see that part of the of whole xheer integrated in the transparency effort. the second element where they set a program monitoring itself and directs the control are office to issue reports on compliance with the monitoring practice. we do a report now in the fiscal side and think through what the upon given there are contracts how do we create a report that looks at the monitoring of the contracts that is an element of

this. the final element of the legislation directs the control are office procedures that ensure nonprofits receiving 750,000 in contracts from the establishment submit audited financial statements to the city. there is current state law nonprofit that has 2 million dollars in revenue to receive a cpa audit from know accounting firm. and submit this to the state. the federal government has guidelines that require any nonrefer receiving 750,000 from federal sources to participate in single audit. and we have departments have internal policies that are variable but than i may require nonprofit this gets 500,000 from their department to have a cp aaudit as part of their contract there

is variability. what this component does is created a single stwarnld had we would require a nonprofit to submit an audit to us. we know there are pools that are doing this because of those thresholds that have been set temperature is important to note a cpa audit does have a cost associated. for nonprofits 8 or 10 thousand dollars or more depending on the size. for those not receiving 750 thousand dollars from us that are not getting a cpa odd lit is know element of cost there. those other elements of of the ordinance. it has time lines associated with this . has submitting and crediting and submitting the policy and pub laboring by september one. 2024. we have started think burglar this. we have a standing policy group

of department and nonprofit leadership we bring and have for dwroers talk about the nonprofit policy we have been talk with this group about the implementation elements already. so we are on track to think through what the new polsdz look like and looking at what our internal prescriptions will be overicide of the practical and plan to have a plan the upon end of this september. i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you mrs. marshall and supervisor safai? i wanted to clarify, can you say more about the cpa part is this required? there is no city are standard

that requires a nonprofit to receive a cp aaudit. there is a state law at 2 million cpa odd sit i good practice when there are nonprofit reaches a size we would recommend or require botch 2 million perform they get one. because it helps them understand there is a lot of financial indicators you can use an oddist to testify help you phenotype nonprofit is in good standing and good reserves and able to meet their were payroll every among. those inld indicators we are looking at consistent low. it is a line when they reach that line.

some it because there is a xoft it it is there is work associated with it. it is important to understand to sthaet threshold appropriate low and not too low.

is this cpa related in the federal government requires participation in the single audit. may occur different low. i don't know how the single audit i can find out how that flows from the controller's office. but usually it does require some sort of auditing practice happening within the nonprofit. why got temperature thank you. i wanted say appreciate supervisor stefani's work on this and you noted we had done work left year through prop c for audits that we are doing fwhoshg with the d. homeless houseings. i think this is a good practice and appreciate the work that has gone into clarifying what is required. and to say and i want to reiterate. you know we have over 600

nonprofits that do tremendous work. it is between i billion and a half and amount of money that we do that city cannot do the city has to work with the nonprofit and we need the threshold and accountant. i appreciate this legislation and thank supervisor stefani and as she said i know she worked with many of the nonprofits to craft this legislation temperature is time low and i think well is a lot of money that guess in and out of city gentleman. and i think it is important for folks to know how upon things are spent and tell help have more clarity and guidance on what is required of them. the past that has not always been case itch would like to add

exclude work with supervisor steph no on this. thank you, chair >> thank you. vice chair walton >> thank you for the report. miss marshall. a couple of things one i would be interested in knowing what cbo's having audits yearly without a cpa. it would be wise for us to come up with a technical assistance strategy. does this apply to a fiscal agent as well? i mean is if you are a small organization and if your budget is over 750, does this requirement you or the agent? there are when we are talking about monitoring we are talking about what are the expectations established in a contract.

and the performance measures and other service expectations that are contractual inform a contract when well is i fiscal agent or sponsor the sponsor is the one accountable to the city to ensure the services are being delivered in alignment with the contract expect and. when they have i project they are working with it creates complexity in how the monitoring occurs. but ultimate low it is am the organization as a city have a contract with who sark countable to the deliver of the contracted services and receives funding and they are responsible to manage the work of their program they are experiencing and giving

city resources there is complexity how monitoring occurs we would like to have n for nonprofits. joy appreciate that. we would love to follow occupy that. and as someone who has monitors contracts for the city of san francisco worn reason that monitor suggest not universal because some organizations receive local funding and state funding and federal funding and federal requirements can be cumber submit. how will we take this into account in >> it is why this has not been done temperature is easier to standardize the financial side of monitoring we expect nonprofits to operate

financially similarly. the program percent so diverse and different and funding source requirements are diverse as well. i don't expect there will be through this work complete standardization of everything. it is not feasible. i think the work that have been we can think about are creating base lines to make sure the upon departments not may be monitoring enough or in the right ways are doing monitoring what alines with our standards.

i know stlp a joint form this city departments monitor organizations together. and to your point there is i base of what they require from the cbo and then additional montorcomponents for poke who is receive federal funding. is it a matter of changing that

and make that uniform or coming up with a new system? for nonprofits. it sounds like a lot of this going through the legislation. like a lot of this is in place and a lot of ways. there is a lot in place. most of the d. this is do a lot of nonprofit contracting have established policies and have frameworks for more conducting monitoring. well is a lot of availability across those departments some of that is because a department may have a funding source that requires an amount of variability. submit organic growth of programming over the years it makes sense to try to stream line. we want to find that and use thz to understand why there is variability. what purpose it is serving and

if it is serving i purpose. i don't imagine that this would -- necessarily in the first run flult overhaul or creation of a new program there is a lot of work happening when we are trying to been is how do we create a bit more structure around that work so we can understand what is happening. and may be move it in a direction over thyme if we are seeing there is the requirements that make sense let's think about that. i think -- i don't envision this we would -- because there is existing work and a lot is strong we would want top overhaul everything. i think we want to learn from what is working well and try to promote that across the

departments. as we work to be efficient one difficulty for the city is getting in a contract in a time low matter anything will being done on make sure our city departments are getting contract in place in a timely manner? there is an upon element in the legislation this talks a bit about the city. we have a lot of work that the controller's office and the city add administrator and others doing around contract improvement. improving the process. not a component of this legislation but there is active work thinking about expediting

and speeding up contracting. i know it is not included in the legislation but hard it monitor get nothing place 3-6 months later. thank you. and -- okay. supervisor stefani >> thank you, vice chair walton for the questions i want to note the audit that was the genesis of the legislation found that no common definitions for types of performance measures used in agreements between department and cbo and departments funding similar promise don't use a set of measures to point to success and could help ensure departments are met and alined

with makeing an around package -- the controller's office to standardize and coordinate the business practices have been and will be informed by community involve and want racial equity lens. i want to make sure that it is said this you know this is in the standardization of when we are trying to do here many things will taken in consideration and i have faith in the controller's office you have been able to the do it around the compliance per of this. we are talking about the programmatic and performance monitoring and developing the

standards which i think is so important. i will be work to develop a dash fwhoord has transparency to not only the public bullet board to understand what department is contracting with whom and for how much. and why. and when are the expectations and the audit done and what are the results. that will be coming as well. and i do view this legislation as essential first step in stake the system that ensures accountability i would assume

that for the most part our home for assessing audit system the fiscal monitoring program. through that program, we would identify sort of procedures how we want to receive that those audits where they live and how we do financial assessment of those audits. it may not be uniform.

may be that we use the typical tools of our fiscal monitoring program. which does have a process to create a pool of majority of the nonprofits but not all nonprofits to conduct reviews of. so we would look to that program and create the structures for that >> the other thing in the controller's office >> we cord nay the departments to do monitoring. you courted nay the department sns >> yes. >> not clear yet basedow this will be implemented. were the nun profit is requesting the money from. yet way we there are a couple things over lapping. one is typically in the fiscal monitoring process departments cord nay departments and they lead the monitoring and reach out as a single document upon

request to nonprofits. the ordinance you created that requires public posting of that material as well. and that's being designed with the city add administrator. i think those their is i bit of implementation planning needed know how our departments receiving the audit when is they are doing monitoring. and versus how are we doing public posting of information. that is submitted to the city. need to work through. joy get it i say and i know we can teep talking about this. i think for implementation.

you know easy of ease of implementation and working with groups that are audited. it says they work with a certified accounting firm. i think is a good thing. is that -- if have you 8 organizations that is receiving dph and hsh and let's say hsh money who are they to? and so i think that is manage to work with and i look forward to working with you on that. we want to make that flow easy as possible on both ends. can be reviewed public low available and then for those that are able to do it or have not been doing it it will be parent and those that are we move on and implement the performance measures that are also another important partism appreciate the idea of dash board.

there will be a chime when you have 30 seconds and louder chime when your time has expired. >> like to read something from an article in delores park. dream keep are initiative impact analysis rely on survey responses from grantees vested interest in receiving more money provide detail which to judgeow

efficient low the funding was spent. initiative has a complicated fiscal relationship to san francisco's bureaucracy. it dispurse fund to other city departments the passing of public upon funds brokered by new city employees tasked with spending the budget. in many ways. -- this is how bureaucracy expands out transforming taxpayer dollars bo new government jobs. meaningliless impact reports and no strings attached grants of merit. jury room good morning i'm lucy i'm the director of the san

francisco latino parod competence equity coalitionepting 21 nonprofits and we believe in the transparency and the establishments of standards in the ordinance and we firm low believe the process providing services to the city viewed as a partnership. we have occurrence we believe are important to consider we believability the process of citying perform goals have efforts with departments and include input from nonprofits who are serving the city. we see the service you see services we see community strategies. it is important that the performance goals are alined with the strategies. we urge you against increasing reporting and affording the heavy and required by different departments. in our organizations are operating at capacity the way of essential service. reporting requirements will be a sipping cant stroke to

resources. >> good morning. with humachining service network a quick history lessons 22 years ago so far maxwell experience the city nonproperty task force that met for 2 years with city departments and nonprofits and developed 13 recommend eggs to include the condition transacting process. time low certification. and get rid of unnecessary requirement this is report upon included basics of the over due legislation that nonprofits and the 73 agreed to 20 years ago. there are 2 objectives related to performance monitor they talked about standards that have a main out come we support

accountability and always have. strengthen services and make it easy to do business support this thank you. the family resource center and safe and sound i'm representing 40,000 families receiving services through 40 nonprofit family organizations. thank you for this legislation. there are many accountabilities that exist and family resource enters are not fund by one departmentful and varying over site requirements. standardizing account believability will support including family service

organizations to serve family and children. tell lufamily support organizations to institute fullo when they do best. provide services to families. thank you. and establish performance goals relevant to the work we to as families. and as always i like to push back on the baseless claims the complex is wasting gentleman funds cbo's do very much with very little and look forward to strengthning our partnership with city per ins to strengthen the city safety net.

thank you. >> good morning i'm the executive director an of fit plus year old art's organization and the cochair of the well tino equity coalition representing 21 based organizations serving 5 zip codes in the city. i want to follow up on the relationship between our nonprofits and city. our organizations are also waiting for contracts as we stand now. this has to be a muttial transparency we put in affect and ask you to consider the needs of the organization fist we will do implementation we invest in the capacity of the what will require for us to be fully transparent and following the guide lines we have provide. an example a grantee of economic and workforce develop.

given resources to catch fire a capacity tool exit think if you are implementing tell be an impact and brrd on the nonprofits. and put in play in advance. thank you. good morning i. immigration attorney. 50 year old legacy business in the city and, ward wing legal aid honors by the da's office. i'm reaching out buzz i think this is a good proposal. i think the spirit is good. i have 2 proposed edits employs an attorney one of my duties is to review legal document is.

>> good monk i'm a local architect and citizen. and i'm concerned about the rumors i heard about a lot of scandals and nonprofits it is unfortunate shadows the good work. i applaud supervisor steph no for bringing legislation. like to focus on the 2 main

items i think the supervisor needs to look at is the about of money going directly for services versus the amount spent on nonprofits administration. and the second low is the effectiveness of the services delivered. . so you know how many homeless people are taken off the street and how many gone to drug treatments and the key metrics. thank you. hi. thank you. supervisor steph no for this legislation. i think best practice requires anything like this to be monitor exclude make sure that what people say they are doing they are doing. i'm just up here because a lot of us appropriated 2 minute statements and you reduced the time to a minute.

i'm wonder figure you can make it 2 minutes again gospel them each a minute again is tough to get everything we want to say, thanks. a request. >> i believe that was our left public commenter. >> thank you, public comment is now closed. >> vice chair walton >> thank you i do just have to say this because no one else will. dream keep are contracts are monitored as much as any other contract in the city. in fact more so because black organizations and organizations of color have always burned a microscope in the city. all the racist rhetoric that happened in the city to track dream keeper or other funding goes out to our organizations it

is ludacris. we don't allow organizations to go unmonitored. >> thank you. vice chair walton. gi want to thank my colleagues for comments on this legislation and to those this came to speak. thank you for your input. and especially debbie for the history lesson, 220 there was a report and i'm happy we are guesting around to impletting what was in this report that supervisor maxwell starred. i'm excite body this legislation and want to thank my chief of staff. and i'm looking forward to watching with the controller office does in developing the standards and when we do to monitor city dollars and make sure they are spent effectively. and to thank all the nonprofits

we worked with and the nonprofit this is are out there doing sfuch great work i serve on the board in the city and watching what work can be done by people who are passionet about take care of others was amazing. thank you again. clothes and i look forward to your support and thank you sparz safai for joining. >> thank you. and i guess i would like to make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. roll call on this motion yoochl on this motion vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey >> aye. jot motion passes will. thank you, mr. clerk and item 1 administrative code with city contracts moves to the full board with positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk, item 2.

>> item 2 ordinance amending approving the surveillance technology policy the use of the automatic license plate readers the scompleept making findings in spchlt said approvals. >> thank you. chief of police bill scott is joining you to discuss

dorse -- hole it is work again. we want to check with management to be sure we are good.

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chief scott for item 2 provision governing surveillance technologies the police department come in this case automatic license plate readers. bill scott. welcome to rules the floor is yours >> thank you. and good morning vice chair walton and supervisor safai. i'm here along with my colleagues to present on the autolicense plate read are policy. alpr. i want to talk about why had is so important to the city and our san francisco police department mission to reduce crime in our city. as you may know, the p d funding allocated to pay for 400 new alp r cameras from 15.low million dollars guarantee to combat retail crime. pd is already approved in alpr

policy but to use the grant funding i mentioned the board of supervisors needs to approve the technical policy amendments that first allow cameras from different vendor it is current policy does not and allow different funding sources including state grand funding. it back up a step for the audience minot be familiar with lpr. automatic lance plate read everybody images of plays and vehicle information to comper se with suspected vehiclesmented in crimes and provides law enforcement with actionable leads to solve crimes determine figure a vehicle was involved in a crime examine provides retime alert bunkham crimes are detected. why is it important to this

police department and the city? research to chiefs of police show that 70% of all crimes committed are committed with a vehicle involved and our city is no exception. san francisco worked to address high property crime rates and go to the crime scene and flee and sometimes use vehicles to drive into vehicles to defeat the security measures the ketailers put in place. our license plate readers can help identify vehicles used in the city's challenge inging crimes theft, burglar, converter theft. stolen vehicles and more and many crime vs lower clearance rates the suspects move quickly and hard to apprehend and there

is little evidence without us having to take advantage of identifying the vehicles. so, license plate readers can none only identify vehicle in real time and identify other cases and the readers help solve violent crimes as investigations like acber alerts and stunt driving and more. our placement is short 500 officers and would act as a multiploy are alleviate staffing and enhance the ability to solve crimes quicker. i like to talk more about the targeted approach in terms of what this technology does to help us. alpr assist our police department to make investigative stops more resighs knowing the

vehicle suspend in crimes. officers have accurate information with conducting investigative stuff we have better in addition and make better and precise stops. than i don't use facial recognition to deliver alerts with personal information and data is never sold to third pers. userern case numbers associated with an investigation to search system and logs preserved for oversight purposes. this question that i'm about to answer or discuss has been asked by this committee on other issues. talk about the other agencies and how important to be a part of a network to solve the crimes. understands of agencies using alpr technology. agencies can share information allows law enforcement to collaborate rit and solve crime in cases when the cases cross

jurisdictional lines. many cases dom the cities oak land and alameda. concord. san jose are expanding alpr use with stationary networks similar to what were our city is trying to accomplish. south san francisco who introduced the new alpr sxanlded their alpr technology. 80% decrease in burglars and 50% decrease in autotheft. after 6 months for the new expanded technology. oak land council voted fund 3alpr cameras similar to when we are trying in san francisco. to address crime in the city after failing to secure a state grant funding. part of the urgency sewe need this help now. we came through a language holiday weekend and had our

officers out and combating retail theft. made some rests but it is my opinion that we could have done more and more fortunate low if we had the technology now. skoal we can expand our technology and in a position to solve crimes. with that. we will have a brief power point presentation to better describe the process.

so. this policy falls under the san frap add traitive code 19b requirements mean nas several things have to happen. department has to deteriorate a surveillance impact report this addresses the technology descriptions and authorized

uses, restrict mission creek and did the captured. potential civil liberties mitt fagz. data secures. sharing. cost and funding sources. also that includes residents in the department benefits compliance and directions for the public to ask questions and submit information and request file a complaint and noncompliance with this policy. than i are there are many measure in place to ensour well is a public process and they are there are -- civil learnts are protected. next slide. our policy went through the code 19b requirements. the things i mentioned and i want to point out here that the privacy board the psav

evaluates surveillance technologies. that board has 7 members that represent various organization in thes city controller's office. data circumstance f, contracts or office of contract administration. san francisco i t government digital services. committee on information and technology. and the committee on information tech untiling is a body this makes decisions regarding the city and county's technology. policies. the members representing the administrator's office the mayor avenue office of innovation. board supervisors dhrsfpuc and library. and hsh and hrc all sit on the coit board.

the next slide. guess through the process. and if you facility arrow goes from start when the policy is smimented to the ending when the policy guess throughout different levels of oversight. committee of assignment and the full board there is a thorough process that goes to the policy approval. i stated in my opening the department submitted alpr policy. that was approved in a couple years ago. but the policy needs minor modifications in order to beably to take advantage of funding we ployed for. just of note and 2021 when this

policy was initiate period, the san francisco police department had only vehicle mounted alpr technology. 19 b policy to semi fixed and smart phone mrksz new are technology expands in order for you to do more with the technology. including identification of vehicles. descriptions and not just license plates. the reason for the 19b surveillance technology policy minor amendment system to allow for vendor specific language to be modify in the the policy. ability to seek occupant the competitive vendor or the vender right for the stay and not a specific vendor as the current policy reads.

data formats in the current surveillance technology presented flat motor form expansion. there are different formats as this technology e involves we don't want to limit ourselves in terms of the formats the data can be receive in the the modification will also expand our ability to the do this not limit ourselves with the types of formats the data is rafted in. and the. third most important thing the funding source. points to sfpd operators.

>> this policy approved but has to go with the accept and extend policy in order to take full advantage of this guarantee as quickly as possible. as you see these other steps that were taken starting august 7th of 23. and after approved for the grant and now the november 27 hearing. and hopefully this gets supported we go to the full board for the first and second read and like to do that soon as

we can. and it is end of all this we like to seek procure am of am mobile applications using the new technology i described. and this it is it for the power point. we are available for questions. >> great. thank you, chief. vice chair walton >> thank you, chief scott i have a few questions my first is -- for clarity. this is not a new policy for san francisco? >> that is correct this is amendments to the one the board already approved. >> why do you think the current policy does in the allow for the use of state funding. or other funding source? the policy reads the way we sunday that it is only allows for pd budget to be used for this technology. so grant funding outside source

funding the policy does in the allow for that. >> this was a determiningination by city sdpaern? >> yes. >> and i know you mentioned this would be used technology only used for vehicle suspected of a crime signal >> the way it works the license plate readers alert if stolen vehicles or vehicles that have been energid involved in crime that alerts the vehicles. vehicles used in robberies. . and so am it also this technology also captures the vehicle itself. so you not only have the license plate you have an image of the vehicle. say a red car used in a robbery and the scar evercar is stolen on top of that this would capture license plate and the vehicle image and that is where

the lead is generated that alert would issue forward to the officer and they would know they are dealing with a vehicle used in a crime >> read refers are trained to focus on how do they determine what to read and not to read >> as far as the license play? all license plates are read the worns awk lettered in the system as stolen or involved in a crime. >> everybody is being surveilled. all license plates are read when the readers are active all license plates are read nobody gets energid unless that vehicle that license play is flagged for being involved in a crime or stolen. >> this would not be used for folks with outstanding parking tickets or traffic infractions. >> and then -- just for my

clarity. all we are asking for here sorry to be ail to increase the number. funding sources that can gentleman toward purchase of the readers and also increase upon the opportunity vendors? >> yes. vendors the 3 things are not having a vented eversingle vendor it is better for the city it opens it up to competitive bidding and if there is a change of technology. second allowing outside source of funding like grant funding and then the third the data now the format is rigid as far as what data formats we is receive and like to expand this use technology evolves and there were many formats of data

>> thank you. it thank you. supervisor safai. >> thank you, chief and chair. on you were time line it said, september 21, 2023 coit hearing voted recommend to the board of supervisors. correct. and here we are the end of november. kwhafs the delay between september and november? there were a lot of discussions with the language. there was a lot of discussions on with us and our city attorneys andeen internally on -- interception of the current policy.

were and just to add, please >> this process actually is much even with the delays firefighterer than what we have experienced with other policies. >> i saw that. based on your previous time line you showed. it seems like it is august and now and -- but let me ask you a question . you said you submit amendments to the in august? during our recess. and then psa hear to review the amendments provideingeing edits. were there more edits and changes after the coit hearing?

>> no. there were not more edits and changes but there were discussions about how to make it work quickly there is a lot that goes in the process and thoughtful discussion. >> there was not even any legislative changes it was. internal conversations on behalf your department? >> changes you have in front of you are what coit approved on september 24st. that's what i am trying to understand. was there then debate or guidance from the city attorney whether you needed to bring it back or not? is that was slowing counselling the process? there was a date. >> both. >> okay. thank you, i want to ask the city attorney throughout chair. so, i know supervisor walton asked this. what was the determination from the city attorney's office in

terms of whether or not this had to go through legislative process? or account have i guess there is another interpretation. could be amend without the process. what was the thought process? >> i have not been involved in this process nor would i disclose confidentialing add vise my office has goin its clients there is a summary in the lgdz of several changes that are being made. and -- those are changes to the policy. there can't be administrative changes without going throughout legislative press this is internal a policy of the department and policy of coit and for the city i'm curious i

know that many departments amend internal policy without going throughout legislative process. i'm trying to understand for future reference because this might come up again and i appreciate the chief highlighting that this went a lot faster and everything we see flonlt of us was here. from september 21st. and then internal conversations with your department and their d. i'm trying to understand am how we ended up here and are this is something this will need to happen if internal policies that are adjusted? these internal policies issue required by article 19 b adopted by the board supervisors that requires this process the chief described for you. not every internal policy is subject to similar requirement that is codified in the code.

so -- what made this rise to the level having to come to the board? i can't sfeek this. i don't know what elements of this were debated internal low and would in the disclose confidential advice begin. >> if you direct question. if you say if we say we want to change a vendor. versus one versus and others does this require legislative change? >> arm 19b requires policy include specific information and does require identifies vendors. that is a component of many policies and can i am not expert in 19 b. gi understand i'm not trying to put you on the spot this way. i'm trying tonld how wipe ended up heris

other this is come in this category you don't to come back and do this again? >> that is our understanding. i would say this. and this may be helps to answer your questions this was the first 19b policies that we bruto the board. envision when we might encounter in the future.

ncric and or other vendor utilized by theed department may host alpr dataasm vehicle abatement funds the budget or upon grant funds may pay for maintenance. >> no that is data upon repository that is -- talking about paying for maintenance. talks about different sources of fund figure i guess that language is mirrored in different parts. there is a false narrative

saying the board delayed or intord not doing its job. i appreciate you saying this language was the same on september 21 and waited for theory and when the chair was notified this was scheduled and put on the agenda to move this forward >> yes, i don't know the narratives you may have heard. i do know when we have asked for some 2 things have to happen the policy move and the accept and extend move forward. the board does not go on recess for september we are hear for the first half of december. i do have another question for

you, chief. this is the data storage. and i noticed in the policy is says data stored by the in the following location. it says local storage and then veblder managed storage. is this a normal practice for the vendor to manage data. it gives multiple locations and department of technology data software and service product. cloud storage local storage is your department >> which phase. >> page 8. it is about the data storage. the vendor and you meaning the upon department have the ability to control special storage of the data. correct. can you talk about this. i guess what i'm asking what

other policies on how to manage the vender themselves in terms of having access to this data that is important to people pimp understand you have your internal policies and we have a way to over see that the know vender themselves, what are the controls in terms of how they have use and have access to the data we aim to put protection in place venders limited how they use the data we protect privacy

and we want the data to solve crimes and nothing more than that. those issue measure it is/khrer in the policy. the sections that dwooel that will. the vendors in this policy whatever we deal with cannot sell this information to thirds parties. where does it say that? y that is that protective

clause. when we deal with contracts we make sure they are compliant. our own system. >> using acronyms i don't know. >> thank you. il read them to you. >> criminal justice information services the compliance of fish compliance punish for law enforcement agencies to keep dataasm also the california law enforcement telecommunication systems. core self a confidential record information. law enforcement suspect required to comply with all coming to data maintenance. you did read the clause about maintains the content and data throughout the policy and the impact report it is not revise. we talk about how we maintain the data and the upon vendors go

through a cop tracting process we maintain the data and beyond. okay thank you. >> thank you. chief. can you ask you about the timing of this. presuming if this were to win approval from this committee today, and gets 2 votes at the board. how quickly could you quinn the press of procuring the cameras? >> if after the second reading for this policy? we still couldn't the other part is the accept and extend has to happen as well both component vs to get through that process. >> okay. has it for this -- we did wave

the 30-day hold to move forward on in. and take advantage of the state grant fundings. >> yes >> is it moving a pace? >> yes for tht 30-day a request made approved by president supervisor peskin. the waiver for this policy did happen >> and may be this is to the mayor did the mayor's office ask on the accept and extend? a waiver of the 30-day hold? >> thank you temperature tom with the mayor's office we asked a waiver for the 30-day holds. for accept and extend. they accept today >> it is from in a separate commit tee is moving a pace. >> of the can accept and extend ordinance is pending before budget and finance not schedule

yet. how quickly would we have the license readers. schedule for december 6, i believe. okay is this right >> will the accept and extend is pending related this item as an ordinance require 2 readings. it is scheduled for next wednesday december 6 put a second read and signature from the mayor in second week of

january >> okay. we are moving quick low in this committee >> okay. okay. and i would before openingum i don't have questions i appreciate your presentation. i don't see vice chair walton if you have questions. i do share some of the occurrence about make sure that 19b is something this we can move fast on. i have a bit of experience working with this owner ands i feel like this is in the building we realize this is something where there is 19 b growing pangs we get the process done faefrt. i shall everrecall in terms of interpretation of this law, which is involved. there is a lot going on and there was litigation over this.

and many add vocated upons written a way ended up lose nothing court. i do share the occurrence about everything we kedo. i appreciate your work on this and seeing no one let's open up to public comment. thank you >> thank you. >> members of public who wish to speak lineup to speak on the side by windows each allowed 1 minute. you may begin when the mayor and you approved defunding the police pd reorganized the budget

to prioritize officers or technology. for those of you who don't want a staff with actual officers one would hope you would support all technology to help the remaining officers work efficient low. the platform does not use facial recognition nor alerts to identifiable information. if you upon pay lip service cannot pass this legislation jeopardize property or cost the city stop loyaling and add mitt you will not make your voters safe and offer an explanation why okay for our mt ameter female use handleds every day but not police. is them not on schedule like connie chan not schedule this for wednesday we have to wait

until january for this? san francisco needs speed toad to utilize every technology during short used by a thousand agency in california collects sxefdz preserves privacy and we get for free. let's adopt and ought lives every tool to combat crime tell be tell figure than i don't pass this. vice president. the popular's association supports this initiative. tht chief is pitingly forward

and all police officer in san francisco support this . the ewe it is imperative not only to us in san francisco but the bay area. it is not specific to just to our community. this it is occurring in the east and south bay and the north bay and you ton have that technology that supports this bay area is when we need. multiple multiple vendors is imperative and essential. and you know we have the guarantee and i believe we should use it wisely. thank you. >> good morning ownership now afternoon. supervisors pip to speak in support of osh taining

technology. it speaks volume fist our city uses this technology every day for mt apurposes but does not allow it used for police purposes. that tells me anyone who disagrees values criminals over the residents of thank you very much city. please value residents and tell us you value us. and adopt this technology. push it forward. it should be on the budget committee a. s. a. p. i can'tis not already temperature is common sense. >> good morning. i urge you to adopt this measure and am. eshgs pel indict it society city

gets the grant funding. the the police department top brass was here right here in this room it tell us we will lose 300 officer unless we do

something drastic. are you listening to me. >> direct to you speak on the item before us and not on an item not on today's agenda. you doimgd everdon't have blue hair and not screaming obscenities. fiwas french and here blabbering on would you intercept me i never seen you interrupt those people you are interrupted me now for that. in thanks.

public upon comment is closed. 120 million dollars was not taken from the police department i want to make sure. we state fact in this meeting. 120 million dollars was never taken from the police department you can check that with the police department. you can talk to the chief. you can talk to the mayor you can talk to anybody in leadership 120 million dollars was not taken from the police department. i would like to make a motion to sends you and you aloning 2 to the board with positive recommendation. >> on that motion. vice chair walton >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the notion passes without objection. >> thank you on the unanimous vote item 2 code surveillance technology policy and police

department and automatic license plate readers moved to the full board yoochl item 3 ordinance approving the surveillance tech untiling for fine arts museum camera management and vo monitor system. >> thank you. and paul peterson is joining us. this morning. to present on their policy and as always coit director jimmian is on stand by to answer questions about the froesz for the committee on information technology. mr. peterson welcome. >> good morning chairman dorsey. vice chairman walton and supervisor. we presented our 19b security surveillance technology policy to the privacy board and the coit technology committee and they approved if the fine arts mull seems of san francisco are

composed of the deyoung and legion of honor. the policy defines the authorize the and restricted usage of our cameras and cam upon raand come ramanagement system and video monitoring system. describes restricted use cases and on going operations. the system support are mission in 2 ways ensures ability to provide public access to our art collections and world class exhibitions and allows the museum to review footage in the cases of art damage. that is it. any questions. >> i don't. i appreciate your i know we got a few things on 19b and appreciate the work you have don this and the process you have gone through. no one else on the roster appreciate your presentation and there are no questions can we

open up to public comment? >> member who is wish to speak lineup to speak. each member allows a minute. public comment is closed. vice chair walton. >> on the motion to recommend item 3. aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you, on the unanimous vote item 3 the code surveillance technology policy the fine arty museums moves forward with a positive recommendation. >> the next item >> item 4 ordinance approving

surveillance technology policy the use of social media monitor software near are various city departments. before discussing i want to take the opportunity to thank jillian zns this is left week the committee on information technology have the benefit of having her in the role director. the city is not losing jillian she has been recruited by sfmta. we'll middle or level head and ability to do cat herding on issues that are complicated and difficult and things that people are not knowledgeable about and often can be the back burn emissues i know this in my time in government. i heard about your leadership there i know this accomplished a

great deal a million dollars in refresh you understand if funding the digital accessibility and inclusion be standard. keep will consider a single policy for social media monitor tools covering 28 departments and ms. johnson we appreciate your service and service for a different department. now for welcome to rule and the 34 is yours. i did not upon dmap i did not know it would have been circulated i appreciate temperature thank you very much. and good afternoon supervisor

safai and walton. so i will present on the social media monitor software policy for 28 departments are signod for this policy. we made a multidepartmental policy you seen policies that are upon one department and technology. and but given social media monitoring as a tool is used the same a tool for other communication. if we made 1 policy that covered departments they will use them the same am way. and -- we built the policy based on you heard 4 overnight left scombreer those approved we if you in air policy for the 28 departments. a description social media monitor technology can review all accounts for a departmentful search their content on those

platforms that they have accountsos by type nothing key words. the tech nong schedule post for thes departments andan likewising engage am for posts they can understand if their effortings are effective. the functioned can vary by vendor and type andune they allow to be labeld and save content. on these central social media monitor motor forms. the 3 use case departments signod for this policy intend to use it under are to publish content social media community with users about news and share information on service through channels. and analyze data garthed to assess effectiveness of out

roach and optimize messaging to the public. the policy was heard on june 8 and by coit the following week and both bodies recommended approval. and i will make a note there was a nonsubstantive correction after those meetings. to the environment are to weres portion of the pomps addressing the department of environment. they added 3 job titles to the jobs. titles and the related personnel costs associated with the titles and also corrected the floor are number for their address. . i don't think coit would have changed their opinion. we introduced that to you all for your review. any questions? i don't i appreciate the efficiency of the. and you want multidepartment process you lead and i think this is an upon good model.

and i mention third degree is not reflects the anything wrong about the policy i thank you is anything that is bringing policy understand the technology changes and sometimes the struggle we have as policy makers make sure we keep pace. i appreciate your work on it. seeing no one i think i appreciate your presentation and your service to the city and good luck with the sfmta. >> thank you. >> open up to public comment y. if there are member whos would like to make public comment you can approach at this time i don't see anyone at this time for public comment. >> thank you, public comment on this item is closed. >> and i would like to make a motion to thenned to the full board with positive recommendation item 4. >> yes on that motion vice

chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection >> thank you on a unanimous vote item 4 code approval surveillance technology policy for city departments moves to the full board. >> call incomes 5 and sick together. item 5 a motion reappointing rafael mandelman term ending december first of 24 to the california state association of counties. item 6 a motion reappointing supervisor mandelman term ending june 30 to the association of bay area gentlemans executive board. >> thank you, mr. clerk. supervisor mandelman is not able to join us i have a statement are his staff i will read in the record for both appointments regarding supervisor mandelman

apply to the california statesorption of counties as the san francisco representative on the board of directors. in the past term supervisor mandelman represents san francisco at the board. meetings and the conference took place in oak land a couple am weeks ago. at the conference supervisor mandelman was a panelist on the california county round table and shared efforts and challenge in tackling the fentanyl over dose crisis and a leading voice in support of prop 1 govern newsome's march 24 ballot initiative backed by this board modernite mental health service act and sick.38 billion dollars bond for new housing and treatment settings. as for abag the the bay area government supervisor mandelman aplaying for reappointment to

that body and will san francisco representative. served the association of governments efforts in the sustainable and equal growth of cities across the bay area. throughout endorse am of state housing transportation and legislation. he is also participated in discussions related plan bay area 2050 for the future and includes funding the next generation network and bond and other solutions to tackle the affordable housing crisis. economic development and protections to were address sea level rise. i don't know if there are questions or comments. seeing none i will thome up to public comment. mr. clerk >> call for public comment. . no per in thes room we can close public comment wrochl public comment on items 5 and 6 is

closed. i would like to make a motion to send these to the full board with positive recommendation. >> on this motion vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor sa fei. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye the motion pass. jury room thank you on the unanimous am vote 5 and 6 the reappointment of mandelman to the california state organization of count and hes the association of bay area government executive board moves forward with positive recommendation. do we have further business? >> that completes the agenda >> thank you we are adjourned.

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meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true

to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to

buy anything or get anything just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you. >> today's special guest michelle ginsberg. >> i'm chris and you are watching san francisco riegz the show that focused on reguilding and reimagining our city our guest is the general manager of the san francisco rec and parks with us to talk about new parks music and other developments.

mr. ginsberg welcome. >> thank you a pleasure to be here >> nice to see you again. >> last time was during the pandemic and virtual. so it is good to be back here. >> indeed. before we get in specifics, let's start with a broad question how can will park's system play a part in the economic recovery? >> well our parks system playing an important role throughout the pandemic. parks were here when people in san francisco needed them the most. a place where people could gather and could care for mentality health and fizz cat health and have a sense of community and a sense of place during a really weird time. and now that things are reopening and figure out how to recover, parks are going to continue to play a significant role >> people are out and having a

good time. there are special events happening in parks. concerts and the weather is good. the best way parks play a role in our economic recovery is to motivate -- people to come to our city from other places and to motivate our residents to get out and enjoy themselves >> exciting to her we opened a new park and there is another. what is special about the 2 new projects? >> sure. san francisco is going through i think, a park renaissance. we opened the francisco park which is just magnificent property that sits on top of an old reservoir dating back to the gold rush and has tremendous views of the golden gate bridge and bay and a place where you can bring kids. a cool play ground to bring dogs an amazing dog park. a meadow to watch the fireworks.

fog willing. fleet week community gardens, it is just such an incredible unique space. we are proud of it. >> and then right down the road in a few years, we will be pleased to welcome everybody to india basin in the bay view in the southeast part along the southern water front. 1.7 miles of waterfront that until recently has been under utilized and under fulfill in the a community this needs it the most. india basin is really a feel moment for the bay view and southeastern part of san francisco. it is going to be san francisco's next great and one of the most important parks >> that's fantastic. now, we have a great history of having conference in parks. can you touch on the year's

highlights? >> upcoming and on going. this is something i'm particularly excited about. i don't think there is ever have been more music in san francisco parks than there is right now >> so, let's go around the city and talk about music. stern grove is in the 85th concert season. back after the pandemic. in this just fabulously treasured meadow. free concerts all summer long. in golden gate park at the man shell not guilty music concourse free concerts 4 days a week. wednesday, friday saturday and sundays. we have sing are song writer wednesday. jazz and seoul on friday. communities performances on saturdays of different kindses and sundays reggae it is extraordinary. and of course, later this summer we are pleased to welcome back

outside lands for an exciting 3 days and 3 nights of incredible concerts and food and community. as we go across the city, we got wonderful performances in the jerry theatre in mc clarnin park a special jerry day coming back to the theatre. on june 21st we had make music day appearing all over the city in park in civic center. on the marina green. again in golden gate park. it has been a great time for music and ties into the recovery and the tremendous energy where we are feeling and -- you know anybody who says san francisco is struggling needs to hang out in the park system. where well is joy and beaut and he inspiration every day. >> so, the san francisco board

of supervisors passed legislation to make jfk drive in will golden gate park car free. how have residents responds. >> the san francisco residents responds positive. families. bicyclists joggers, people with dogs and people from every corner of san francisco have discovered that jfk promenade is a treasure. it enhances the parks so much. imagine a beautiful day in the park and weather on foot or on bike you are strolling down jfk you pass sixth avenue and head to the music concourse for a concert or the museum; it is joyous and made golden gate park sproord. i have been hering about disk golf and pickle ball. can you tell us about and where people can practice and play.

>> i knew you were going. pickle ball the fastest growing sports. you know across between 10 and is ping pong and may be with a whiffle ball. ping pong on a life sized course it is easy to learn about skill based people who are good are irrelevant good and it is easy to play. it is fun and accessible. we are trying to accommodate sport. we have over 55 courts around san francisco. 11 dedicated just for pickle balt others per pickle ball and tennis. we have 5 or 10 space you can play pickle ball indoors and keeping up with the tremendous popularity of the sport. disk golf has a loyal following it is also going to continue to growch we opened our first disk

golf course in golden gate park in 2005. and you know whether you are an expert at disk golf or beginner the idea of chucking a frisbee through the beautiful park and. it does not matter what you score t. is just a good excuse to be outside and enjoy a beautiful day in nature. >> exactly. well, thank you. i really appreciate you coming on the show, thank you for the time you have given us tuesday. >> thank you, i hope everybody enjoys summer. get out and play in san francisco's parks. >> thanks again. that's it for this episode we will back with another shortly you have been watching san francisco rising i'm chris manners, thanks for

>> ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the

neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941 the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war

ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse

committee to look at potentially plans for the island island's future. after the base closed in 1997 the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at

treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but

also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that

underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down

through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when

they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public both the housing which we desperately need in san

francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island.

>> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that

nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub i mentioned we're

trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for

people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern

side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island.

and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water food and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for

future natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through all of the water, you know it lands on the streets it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what

we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is

called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly thrive in that

condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island eucalyptus a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be

returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant

species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to repop -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design and architecture and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique

partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon deal with erosion preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that

occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we

used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant

is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this plant is it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in dig them up, cultivate them extrapolate dozens of plants

into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that

area it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island there's less than 50 of them so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct

since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know so that was my first thing is just like i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7

acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly retaining an open space sent and

providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a

management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also

provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's

economic certainly challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan it will -- time will tell but i think that the last ten years we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.

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>> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco.

here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship.

he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute

side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful.

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for the acquisition stream and shout out to you you all are amazing (clapping.) i know that was this was tough that was tough, tough and very quickly i heard mayor breed talked about how that was an incredible and everyone in here worked for us worked to make that happen and thank you