>> i call the san francisco public works commission. das monday, july 22, 2024. it is a.m. secretary fuller, please call the roll. >> good morning. please respond with, here, or pres. warren post. , here. chair post is present. gerald turner, present. commissioner turner is present. woolford is absent. fady zoubi, p.se vice chair zoubi is present. with three members we have quorum. public comment is taken for informational and action items. to comment in person please line up against the wall, near

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thanks to sfgovtv building management and media sercehelping make this meeting possible. chair post. >> thank you.e next item, i like to amend today's agenda. items on consent calendar. staff requested item 4b, the sidewalk inspection postpone to the next regular meeting september 9. further, i like to move item , architectural engineering mv for new--excuse me. not 4h. pardon me. i beg your pardon. 4n, the zuckerberg san cisco general department relocation phase 3 contract modification to the

lendar right after the other item on the regular item6. i like to suggest we hear the regular item and afterwards take up 4n. do colleagues have any questions or objections to that move? great. thank you very much. alrighty. hearing nothing else, we will move my announcements as well as yours and secretary fuller's. i have two announcements. first, i live in the st neighborhood south of market street between embarcadero and nd street. lene er th i received a aprizing of the folsom st project along folsom between [indiscernible] coe paving and pedestrian and bike safetym provements. this commission briefeis

major capital project and approved the ct for it. i like to commend public works public information officer for excellent news letter to residents businesses non profits d occupants effected by this large important project over the next. there will be many inconveniences and ssles but pl this thorough descriptof the project, including the helpful information what i should expect in the months with a concern. director short, was thws letter dated june 25 typical of the notification public works to effected properties in the of infrastructure projects or was this a special case? >> good morning. carly shorctor. thank you for the question, chair post. glad you were pleased with the ws letter. that is typical for the outr

performed for significant capital projects and particularly if there are changes to hedu or scope or unexpected items we definitely try to follow up even more proactively, but i th as typical, yes. >> great. thank you. and nkto the communication department and--my other announcement is to call out june nees it started with deep dive to sand removal at ocean beach briefed on by director short. featured video footage of the machinery and work required short window of time. public works universal op engineer shifted the sand away from the great highway be added back

to the beach. in the works also showed the public works department in june annual pride parade and color fdepartment st built along with massive that cleaned up at the parade late into the night. letter featured the launch of computer game for children to an give appreciation for diverse works of public works to maintain public spaces. the minnesota street scape improvement project the wreefd on in the su upgrading access to the lush and beautiful knhunty created and maintained public amenity featureed. also featured works employees and [indiscernible] to restore and paint 32 historic landposts sprucing up this important boulevard and more welcoming and finally, june love our city neighborhood and clean up work was profiletrict 11.

that concludes announcements. do my colleagues have questions or announcements of their own? do uhave announcements today? >> i have one brief annoem ismy report on sanitatio and streets commission, who held their most recent meeting on july 15 and that meeting including a report from the bureau urbanforestry on performance measures for fiscal year 2023 through 2024. as well as a update about the racial equit and that commission next meeting will be is edr september 16 and will include a report from the bureau building and street repair on their performance measure and thatmy only announcement this morning. >> thank you. if no further ts, please open public comment on this item. the public who

wish item 1, announcements by the chair, commissioners and secretary may upagainst the wall furthest from the door. if you're commenting from outse the chamber, press the raise your hand button in the webinar, or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. and we do have one member of the public who has come forward to speak on this item, and do you have something that you roje? okay. sfgovtv, if have the projector shown. if you can tral affiliation and you have three minutes eaand i'll provide a 30 second notice. >> hello director. mentioned something i think

i can respond to here. my name is adamadvocacy for skateboards and small wheel device, things that effect canes, utchelkers, wheelchairs, strole and the like. you mentioned infrastructure project so that is worth noting. earlier this month the [indiscernible] dolores street. unsanctioned event no permit holder. i will speak more during public comment. it is notable the city coordinated cross departmental fortunate to down dolores street and gave no notice to the public. the entire was blocked 21 to 18 using more then 400 rrices provided by dpw. here is a image what hay like.e sidewalk. you can it again-this is looking southbound. this is copy of letter that was

sent and included dpw notifying everybody the order of very large order barricades. there is a screen shotof the invoice, rricades totaling $6 thousand. here is the very expensive instillation. can't count the number of police officers here. setting them up and guarding all day and breaking them down. here is a person with a cane trying to navigate those barricades. walking down from 0t all the way down to 18th. you can see they have around the barricades in order to get access to public y. so, i'm not sure an communication justified the blockage or make people reasonably safe, fwut it is tonote there was absolutely no communication to the public and frastructure project no

matter how temporary definitely cost the city at least a hundreousand dollars. thank you. >> thank you your comments. that is the only in-person commenter d not have anyone who called in public comment. >> thank you. plcalthe next item. >> item 2 is the director's communication. public works director carla short is here to present and hiis a informational item. carla short, director. ha a full agenda today, but i have a few items i wanted to bring to your attention. first up, recap of pride. also responding to commissioner zoubi request for information. 30 concluded a month of

famous san ities with the francisco pride parade. i ev very much the backbone of this incredible event. st many bureaus and divisions are focused on the downtown and ci center areas before, during and after the parade to insure that the public right of way is clean, safe and accessible for the 10s of thousands of participants and viewers. beginning weeks before the parade, the ws are filling poth construction management team in contact with contractors to insure construction sites in the area are clean and the public right of wa our bureau street use and mapping inspector wathe whole parade route and visitor areas to insure there are draw up hour hour plan and launch the doc during the event itself. al participate in city wide pride

planning meetings to insure then goes smoothly. during the event, our doc is in contact the city wide emergency operation center, or eoc, which allows to be in close collaboration with the police, fire and gencmanagement departments. with public eoc are staffed works employees and allow to insure coordination ughout the event and practice emergency response systems. as the last float headed down market street, our well corio graphed street cleaning team began their work. by the enof the day, it is difficult to see evidence of thes maive event. the downtown area was sparkling. this year was particularly as the parade ended with what we believe is our largest public works float. many thanks to great lgbtq qia committee for spearheading the and in-house pride programming.

as you may know, over the years went from 63 to 76. 75 is considered good and francisco rate sg the best among large bay area s d exceed the regiona score of 67 considered fair. the high score is result of concirted effort and dedicated fund fiscal 23, we resurfaced 506 blocks exceeding our goal of 500. there is in depth information about the pavement preservation program and a map where the pucess timing and location of street paving block by block. i wanted to highlight a little good news in termsofthe budget. we successfully advocated for staffing for our street use and mapping street inspectors, and we gained funding for eight positions to

support that enforcement work. so, these positions are critical to supporting our additional and allowing our enforcement to perform more evenening and weekend rk taking some of the pressure off our existing team. willbe able to fill street inspector position, two senior street inspector positions and one street inspector supervisor. this is a greaaddition to our illegal vened ing enforcement efforts. if you haven't seyet, our annual report for fiscal year 22, 23 is out anis beautiful in print and online. the report spotlights the core subs and out of the ordinary work from the e ofdedicated and determined front line crews during the the

health centers we designed and management and give thaj p thanks for the communication team putting it together so beautifully t. is a ful document. we had a successful ay day saturday, cleaning and greening in the marina, cal presidio heights. thanks to our staff and super star volunteers. as you noted chair post, have a new game launched on our website called, neat street. i just wanted to share a little more about it. it spearheaded by our communication team and i feel like we one of the more creative communication teams in the city i think moving beyond traditional governme c this video game is really designed to capture the spirit maintaining cleaning and greening san francisco streets and

sidewalks, so it is our website and realunpride with arcade style gaming to promote the value caring r our neighborhoods while having fun. wine th other update. chair post, you asked for a follow up update to the transit shelter permitting and so i wanted to ve you an update. susit shelter applications have been reviewed by our reaof street use and mapping team. there are seven that are inactive or on hold but those holds were placed by mta or clear channel. not public works. six permits are in applicant status so updated plans orresubmittal. there was clarification requested. there are 10 permits si planning and scheduled for hearing this wednesday so that essentially

m don't have anything in a back-log tly,and there is no overlap with these ten locations and the 13 previous locations and as of right now, were three that had been put pending outreach . of the three mta is performing outreach for two locations and one is withdrawn, so i close on that request. with that, i'm happy to take any ques >> thank you very much director short and thank you for getting back to me on the transit shelter issues given we had members of the public who had some good information about that. thank you. i have no other qu comments. do colleagues have question or comment for director sho report? commissioner zoubi. >> ■pgo thank you director short for the report and really wanted to hear how-what is the work public works during

this huge parade that millions of people show up and thank you for that. public to know how public works and what potion is during the celebration. congratulations on the score, keeping that score up. i would like to ask, what is our goal for that score? what are we going for? >> well, our goal is to maintain a score of 7and we currently exceeded it, so now our goal is toain a score of 76, we dont want to drop. that was what we were trying to maintain. >> thank you for that. i would like to make a e time to discuss the impact of the supreme court decision about how we handle encampments and so forth. thank you. >> great.

thank you. >> thank you. secretary fuller, before we pub please for the next regular meeting attach to the fiscal year -23 annual report. never hurts to have another tlto distribute to the public. we will forward for the briefing on the supreme court commission commissioner zoubi requested. please open this item to public comment. >> members of the blic who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on item e director's report may rthest from nst the the door. from the door. if you are commenting from outside the chamber, press the raise your button or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. it appears wedo have one member of the public in person to speak on this item. you ntto come forward? are you projecting again?

yes, okay. again, you have three minutes to speak e with a 30 second notice when your time is about to expire. >> thank you for things with small wheels. i like to commend you ongu improvements and street quality. particlysensitive to improvements. i live in the mission district and have pavement going t down and it is all really great, however, i question. something i brought up before about the type of rfthat gets done that has a particular impact on thingswi small wheels. this pictured is shotwell streets. a slow street. this is 14th street next to the super market. if you can and perhaps easier to see here, the new pavement is quite a bit rougher then the old pavement there be. there is great new pavement on bryant street g in the

mission, however some of the other streets that go nouth/south more residential feature some of the rougher texture. it slows down things with small wheels more likely to injure small children whfall or elderly who fall because it is sharpermentf they don't understd of the metric these pavements are judged. if it is just about pothole jz has to do with the smoothness and the surface, how [indiscernible] but i think as always there is a opportunity for san francisco to lead the way and have more rigorous standards en applied more regionally to make things more accessible to people. because i think at the end the day we spend a lot of money to do this and i untype of pavement will be a cost sang but it doesn't provide equitable travel ugregions and concerned people in the mission are not receiving notice of of pavement

they are receiving and their streets may be less modes se. [indiscernible] thank you. than we have no more in-person commenters and there ars who expressed it. rest in speaking on this >> thank you. please call the next item, the consent calendar. >> item 3 is general public comment. >> i beg your pardon. >> item 3 is general public comment, which is for topics r e commission mandate but not related to a specific item on agen. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general bl comment in person may line up against the wall from the door andting outside the chamber, press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star on your phone to be recognized

mr. [indiscernible] you are in person commenter. reminutes to speak and you'll get a 30 second chime. >> to the came to speak about. i live in mission at 15th and this is a image at 15 and mission. this particular building a block away from myself placed public works barricades on walkfor a year. the barricades are there all most every day. i reported them to 311 at least 5 tis e they are not ada compliant. stsathey have been

put not only between the traffic and sidewalk and also thsidewalk and building front, so this is aimage yesterda you can see here the building front has been blocked and from curb to sidewalk has been blocked. here is a n who is wager at least 70 getting out of a vehicle. she had additional 50 feet around the barricades. they go around the bike locks for the people who live in the building. this is a year ago, similar problem. again, a yearon a different date, somebody with a stroller blocked from the sidewalk. i are return to the video to make my point. it is clear the department of public works is willing to lend city infrastructuprate citizens or for the protection of private

property a way that compromise . people who use canes or rely vending in the street, people using canes or strollers and i e to offer there seems to be a significant difference between the proposed priorities of the organization and actual actions of the i don't understand why infrastructure is made available to building owners to block the right of way. i don't believe it is legal and ada compliant so i have a questions about this and like to raise the fibecause it doesn't seem to matter how many times i report this, building owners are not held ople seem to pay fines if they receive any and persist putting this infrastructure in the street. it isn't just and don't understand why it is happening

and love someone to look into that. a couple follow-up questions for the speaker, please, if you return to the podium. you said you filed reports with about the issue? >> numerous times overthe last year. have you attempted to reach out to public works staff >> i followed with 311 if that hasput me with public works i'm not sure, but i had people say-one people i talked to said they showed up and saw nothing. ked at the wrong intersection, despite the fact i tagged it in report using the app. >> thank you very much. > >> rt, have been on a little vacation, but one thing i back to was the summer is getter warmer, kids are out,

skateboag hills. we are trying many different things to help protect the riway, protect the public. some of these pictures some of those places where we in collaborative way with the city are trying to mitigate multiple hazards ■1one me. can you speak quickly to-we will see th coming more and more. how do we judge and more really again, right of also what le a place of entertainment that is about the right of way? you commissioner turner. carla short, director. yeah, is a tricky balancing act and i do just want to note that do are ond to 311 requests and inspectors i think we see this in other places as well. we go out and we engage

with the responsible party and they may make a correction and may return to the evionafter we have left. we see that routinely with the illegandinwhen we try to enforc around that. also, many of the requests for barricades are at the re of another city dertsoewe don't generally provide barricades-we don't provide barricades to private entities. let me say generally but be specific. intersection an 15 and mission is a challenging intersection on the weekends with a lot of people gathering and illegal vending and so i'm without being familiar with who requeste s would be the police have requested those barricades and they provided for that purpose. access from the curb to the p sidewalk,

but the sidewalk did meet ada from what i could see in the photos, so ways looking to have-to insure there is ada access the public right of way, but as you note, a huge crowd of people also is blockage and so we different things.nage those wo thank you. >> and we do not have other inperson or commenters over the phone. e ll the next item. >> item 4 is the consent calendar including the draft n from june 24, 2024 meeting of the public works four ssion, and also incl contract awards and nine ntbut now excludes item 4b, whpostponed until the next-until the september meeting and 4n, which will be ard

following item 6. note corrections for clarity have been made in the draft utand these corrections are reflected in the documents posted on th commission's website. consent calendar items can heard individually upon request by a commissioner, staff or the public and adoption the consent calendar and all resolutions contained in it action item. before motion is made, i'm happy to take corrections to the minutes or any ons. >> thank you. i have a couple of questions beforewertain a motion to adopt consent calendar. director short, this regards item h, the new training facility contract modification. i want to know why the additive alternate cost to provide full mep desigwas not included as part of the initial contract scope of work. avoided the ld have

requirement for this modification. >> carla short, director. i don't know if project manager might be able to answer that question. i'm not sure why we were not able to include that previously. atyour question? >> yes, certainly. it was regarding fitraining facility mep design. why thcapital additive capital alternate cost to provide the full mep ns was not included as part of the initial contract scope ofor we are modifying to allow it today. if it was there to begin with, we wouldn't need to di today. that is all i was asking. >> i will have to get back u th

that. apology we don't have that answer. >> thank you. i will not-- itseems that our director project management may be available. thank you. >>[unable to hear speaker]■vx

>> i think it is good enough.i'. mamore info at the sep meeting. do a follow-up. >> i'm not sure it answered my question, but it sounds like-that's okay. it could be funding thing. more funds were available or something. okay. >> it sound to me like the-we did include this alternate prol same time, but we were presuming we were going with design build model d realized it was more prudent to go with this additive alternate proposal, so that is was initially

included, but we didn't go down that inially, but i'll get more information why we felt it was more prudent to switch. puty might just add, taylor, city attorney, in public procurements, it n that you have when you put out initial , base scop bid or propose on. there might be other scopes atthe time of procurement you may contemplating, but might not have atthe time to fund the full amount. there might be items you are e project in the future so you add them in what is additive alternates. sometimes they might be--let's say a certain type of tile in the

base scope you would have the basic run of the your alternate might be something fancier peive and you are not quite sure at might. add alternate can be additional or sloitly different scope so they are put in to allow to give information, sometimes pricing on those alternates so that thon project is prect maybe you start the more funding comes in and you can use a alternate, or also if it is something you might add by including at the time of procurement you a public pricing and public proposal on if design it might be the approach for that thing might be. it sounds like sometimes they ne mep, that is mechanical and

plumbing that is done as design build. much of the design is done te it sound here they might have decided not to push that scope work into design build, but full design where you produce full architectural documents. >> thank you very much. that was a helpful clarification. thank you very much. i also then had questions for open to my colleagues on i-m and o. these wereso the workforce development tensions. my question really is just one, is if the two pit stop contracts, the trashcon steaming contract and cleaning contract be in effect through july 31, 2025 so we don't to amend them next year for june, the june?

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[no dio] >> thank you very much. it sound it is all a budget problem we have a fiscal year that starts july 1 but don't get a budget until mid-august and that is a topic for another day why that is a commissioner turner. >> i just want to-more of a general comment around saitems and think we had a lot of discussion and also want to commend staff a lot of progress and i want to make sure as we continue to really forward our

workforce development training and programmin see mr. hill in the background. he has done a job, particularly with deputy director durden to make sure we are ea goals with workforce development and how impactful they are and how investments are important. who are stewards of fu i want to emphasize our fiduciary responsibility and the city fiduciary responsibility to be good stewards, so this is a understanding, a budgetary kind of quag myer have the best team every year, so i thank you. ntto be mindful that these are significant increases and changee non profits that they also need to be accountable for and that whai'll look for. i'm proud of the work we do every day, but being dedepon others we need to make sure that we are very clear about our expectations, outcomes and goals and i'm grateful, particularly since it has been about 9

months since we really engaged and started g i have seen nothing but improvement and think the efficiency with the amount of money that goes to small non profits. >> agree wholeheartedly. my other comments, as we ask-as the commission asked for earlier, we look forward at the end of e 18 month contract period for a full report next june on essix contracts and the success, both from the deview and grantees point of view. we invited them to forward to the end of the contract for a full rehow everybody thinks they are going or changed or not changed. >> thank you for that. commissioner turner and commissioner post. we have director durden team and my team and vecadence and looking at the data and approved the

analysis. i know friends of the urban fo we meet with [indiscernible] cyand hunter point family, so i look forward producing that report and think it will be thou >> thank you very much. commissioner zoubi. ■%one question. those increases, they were all included in the budget presented? >> correct. >> these increases are included pecent plus the 5 percent cuts that we presented? . that was a bit of the delay. as we are working th the mayor's office to submit her budget june 1, and then work wg e board of supervisors as their review happened in june. a hold up iswewere not sure until june 22 what the final number would be. all the reductions that were submitted d proved and accepted by the board

of supervisors are included in these ams we have sufficient budget to fully fund the items before you today. >>are we going to have a update of the final final? >> yes. budget staff are working on that report. last year we issued shortly after mayor signed in mid-august. we should be on a similar timel go-round as welt. i have seen eliminary draft. we are working on it and making sure no numbers change. >> thank you. u. trner reminded me racuchal non profit partners are here today. since they took the time d the want to come to th and say hello or speak? you dont have to, but i like to the effort. >> good morning chair post mmis the urban forest. my only comment is that, we aren forward to continuing to partner with public works to meet the goals of our grant which include not only

workforce trveining folks in green collar jobs, getting placed permanent full time employment and planting watering and caring for thousands of across our city, so i do want commend public works staff. the last time i was up here we talked utdelays in invoicing and are payment and i want to note for the record we have seen improvement from our end over the last month and hope to continue thatposive relationship, particularly with the public works accounting team. thank you. you for your support. >> did anybody else want to cothe podium or will that do it? i just want to be sure. thank you r coing. with that, with the changes we mention one item will be postponed to september and another heard on regular calendar, i move to adopt the consent calendar. is there a second? thaichck. thank you.

secretary fuller, please open the mpublic comment. >> members of the public who nuteof comment in person on the motion to p 4, the consent calendar anall resolutions contained in it, excluding 4b and 4n may line up against the wall rte from the door. commenting outside the chamber, press raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. okay, mr.--we need you to use the wireless microphone that is riin■g the middle there. sorry, it is confusing with so many microphones and yo thee minutes to speak and you get a 30 secondg. >> thanks very much. just want to make sure i understand. the sidewalk inspection repair program is being discussed

separate meeting? >> postponed to our next meeting september 9, exactly. >> got you. okay. apprriate then to make comments on the details of it? given the documents made available on the-- >> [indiscernible] >> it is up to you if you like to make them in september. e is enough members of the organization hereth makes sense to say something. [indiscernible] helpful support ins. that the description of the program mentions ada compliance and the need to update streets and sidewalks to be that. my understanding, there is a sole bidder for this. i should say, disappointed there isn't more outreach to find more bidders fwr this in the event there is fjtb sole bidder. there is discussion of r ramp instillation, street resurfacing.

street resealing. grinding and paving and there is a bit in e about making sure that sidewalks are good and curb ramps and everything else are to speck. the reason i bring this up is because, i mentd thank you director short set up meetings with me with city engineers. e the city driveways does not meet ada standarthe fact engineers told me drive ways for cars and not anything else and heard here the design of the lip is for drainage and not anything else, the fact remains they are not compliant and do not meet the standard set forth. i'm concerned that we are going to be throwing millions dollars after single bid and looking at the documents the scope not include adjusting driveways to be ada compliant. it seems a gross oversight to me. mentioned again and again, g down the street with things of small

onhas to be constantly vigilant of the quality of the drivaythey regular impassable with the current design and pe of what is acceptable and so it makes it very be riding thin street which we are legally allowed to do and dangerous to transition to the sidewalk, we are legally allowed to do because current definition set fort by the city ot cover our use of the street, despite being a legally recognized vehicle class in san francisco. i understand this is to later date, but i like to see the scope of the project revised to the grinding down of driveway lips to asspecified by the ada in section 303.1, such that we can actually see thareas made more accessible. >> your time is up. thank you. and we do not have other in on

commenters and there are-no one raised their hand to the phone as well, so that concludes public comment. if there are no more questions, all inapproving the consent calendar sses unanimously. it is adopted and the s wi be posted to the commission's website. cretary fuller, please call the next item. >> tuthe regular calendar, item 5 is the joint development technical advisory services for sfmta potrero yard modernization project. bureau of project management manager and the earthquake safety and emergency response manager is here to present the contract modification. if we can continue using at wireless remote. it will help you a lot better. >> thank you.

chair post, commissioners. i am here introduce one [indiscernible] my colleague a will walk through the presentation about the project in request by chair post. she was curious about the proj it is a high profile project and since this is managed by san francisco mta we thought it was more appropriate drether of the program to introduce you to the project. my part here is to recommend approval of modification number five. [unable tohear speaker]

this is--under contract with puworks and we provide consulti service managementce to sfmta, and this is quest for approval of 78 thousand to thei contract, which would make the entire contract amount 4 million, 771 thousand dollars and we'll extend the se which include financial, commercial and technical service through 2026, which june 30, 2026. this is-qul think th/u concludes my introduction of and request for your approval. with that, i am turninto

over to [indiscernible] >> good morning commission. my name is chris, project director for potrero yarto ive back ground, first public private partnership that is part of a larger multi-billion dollar program that we are referring to as the ildi progress program, and this is the first of what we ar several projects to g our transit access san franciscans across the city, as well as allowing usto better meet our mandate electify our fleet by 2040. talk about what that

this improves effie i guess i should back up. potrero is a 109 yold bus facility. it is our electric coach facility. it was originally built over a hundred rsand was originally built for street cars, so it is in a different age of vehi maintenance required for the vehicles. this project envisions not only to e all our electric trolley bus fleet into this one cility, also improve conditions for our operations and e staff and then set the standard for doing these improvements at presidio yard and other yards in of course, sustainability is also a key cod.mpone achieving fully electric fleet by 2040

is our mandate, and so this helps us instart moving the dominos into additionally, by facility, replacing it with a new state of the art facility, we are able to increase the number of buses th out of this fuisility by roughly 80 percent. this says 54 but weare looking to increase that further and looking ata way of also serving the community beyond just improving transit operations. here you can see a rendering of potrero yard and you notice there is not just a bus facility here, e also looking to include up to 465 units of and workforce housing on site. in fact, a porof the

workforce housing that is for construction atop the podium, we are looking to also have some preference for mta staff, inuding those operations maintenance staff that work at yard, which again increases instead of many staff having to commute from long distances at hours where bart and other partner transit agencies are not running. you will see in foreground is along bryant street, there is the first phase is planned there. roughly a hundred units give take of affordable housing planned family usat site that would take up point 4 acres. we are on the edge of districts 9 and

10. e currently 6 transit routes that operate out of potrero yard and believe i covered most of this already, but again, ■#is about 109 year old facility. it so not-has not been seismically retrofited, so this is also a to insure that the building is also both for our staff as well as the community. showing on the slide, briefly again about 246 electr buses are slated for storage an operation at the site. that means we'll ughly i believe over 800 staff that will be working on tsin the building, so may not all necessarily be in the building at same time, but providing ample facilities emt be able to use and also this

will house our fute training facility. so, again, as i alluded to, clteion is a important part of this project. not just for electrifying our fleet and cy of the building itself. this does also meet our equity goals by improving transit to those that the most in the community. mmunities throughout the city, including thadjacent potrero hill neighborhood. and then as i mentioned, the affordable housing will actually be not just the bryant street phase, but there will be two additional phases on top the bus fordable and ng both workforce housing. we are looking at 465 to units with there have been fluctuations in

the unit count throughout the of going through the environmental review, and part of the reason for is, initially the bryant street s seen as a senior housing development, would have include units, but with the dec transition that to a family housing building, the number of units did have to reduce to accommodate larger units, but the overall bedroom count continues to be consistent. a couple other things are worth pointing out. one of the amenities planned for the yard facility is much publc restrooms for the adjacent are park, as well as several commercial sp for locally serving retail.

and in addition, several improve mento the street scape surrounding this block. interms of the scale of our outreach, i think it is important te that part of why we started this with outreach in late 2017 and in 2018, throughout thwe have insured that public engagement and public comment has informed this project throughout the pres in fact, we have a neighborhood working grp that meets monthly brought up to speed on everything going on with the prd their input is ag ghout. we have a developer that is present. the developer team bus yard and the housing o present in those meetings so we had

over 150 public meetings and opportunities for the public to be engaged in the and provide their feed. so, just showing where we are. again, we started the public feedback process back in 2017 and 2018. we first did an rfq for our actual public private partner s in the ecd then we ultimately did bring on potrero neighborhood collective which is spearheaded by ernible] thei office is based in la, but part of the includes several local partners, including those eve mission district who are supporting this effort, both in terms of housing public outreach. our entitlements and environmental review were approved by the

board of supervisors and mta bord earlier this so are preparing release the rfp for design build raor w will ultimately actually build the bus yard and we anticipate currently being on schedule to bring that again to the d for approval of the project agreement in november, fallowed by apovof the design build contractor early 2025 and within 90 daexpect the developer to mobilize to begin decommissioning the site, demolishing structure and beginning construction and so we do anticipate roughly a four year process from beginning to where potrero yard would be back online early 2029.

i apparently didn't catch up with the slides there. -with that , thank you for your time and i'm with mag dulina for questions. >> thank you very much mr. lazaro. good to see you again. i do have questions. which should i do? i will statthe top. the pandemic changed transit ridership in the ity. this project was started before the pandemic no one coulhave predicted. how is st covid ridership effected use of the system and how has that changed planning and design fwr the f it ht i >> thank you for that question. my understanding fr our director jeff tumlin, transit ridership

esal many bus routes rebounded nicely. i don't know we fully achieved pre-pandemic ridership accept a rounts. one example we exsided is van ness brt line. i think part of our sttegy for improving ridership and achievin pre-covid ridership and exceeding it is by making these kindovents so we fully believe by improving efficiency and getting the vehicles on the streets for ed maintenance and repairs, this will definitely support that. again, i think we have been on the trajectory of continuing to see ridership incr ease including these bus routes that operate out of potrero. >> great. k that is good news. this project takes 12 years to deliver, which i find excessive. we always want to

city on public outreach,whyou described is what is excessive amount of meeting. this is a neighborhood activist who appreciates and think it is very important the public participate in tyand edback, so -qul i don't know i what they are demand, t unds excessive public engagement and could be effecting the timing of this proj i also wondered if back in the day your commission, your board ever considered bringing-delinproject in the reverse, where a housing expertw that one of the city's housing departments runs this as a housing project where sfmta has the bus yard, but it is more a partnership

bean entity that knows how to build i ing and your expertise how-what is needed in a transit facility. that train i'm sure left station many years ago. 12 years i have been project a long time and showed it has been discussed a long time and will go on another 5 years. again, was this discussed being primarily a housing project rather then transit project? >> great questions. couple clarifications. on developer team was brought november 2022, so that really is what kicked off the . much of what has preceded that is reated to actually determining what are the needs of the bus yard itself, what is the community looking for in terms of atkind of building would they be willing to accept in termt s and how many

units considered acceptable to the community, and couple things--so, again with the pre-development phas in late 2022, we are really in the thick that and so from 2022 through 2029 for the of this project i think we are quite on track actually to stick with the schedule we have originally set out for back in 2017 when the facility framework was as far as the neighborhood working k one thing that i didn't cover in the presentation, there are many pieces of the project beyond the bus yard and the housing. there is also public art, there is many other things that are kind tied into this project that we want to insure the public is in the driver seat with us every step of the way, an

as far as the question around which direcstart the project from. this had always been envisioned bus yard project first with any supporting development being second, because this bus yard is re the key not only to improving mta across the board, but it does again start a domino future projects intend to deliver and this is on a that the mta does own and operate and the housing was seen as something that the community wanted and we of course are supportive that d ry much look forward seeing housing built there as well, but ha to be the bus yard first fallowed by the in >> i'm not questioning the need for the bus yard. >> sure. >> speaking of housing, you addressed the conversion from n

families, but given the dire situation of housing in san francisco, particularthe couple years and few months it ramped up and can't seem toild too much housing, is the project looking building more housing the 465 units? it seems to me we need more and this might be a place pu something since the project be built yet? >> the project is entitled to nd based on the ongoing utreach, as well as the work developer team has been doing over the past couple years to figure what is feasible financially, the 46 is really pretty much at the cap of what can be accommodated here. that being said, again, we have future sites that also are looking at joint development opportunities there to incorporate housing on future sites, but that is whatcan be accommodated

>> i realize the decision is made and late to the party and fully aware that, but i'm a taxpayer and citizen of the city. i'm still unclear, but you tried to address why it took 5 year tuesday to get to 2022. pu all of the above. i would ke task, how have expectations on this project gone positively or neg tavly, what is learned along the way and at are you pleased about and particularly dismayed about and of those effected the project? >> mention, i think again the fact we have involved the community throughout thprocess has really shown through in the fact that we went to both the mta board and the board of supervisors earlier this year with entitlements and our environmental review, that that was done

unanimously without any opposition.ther was no appeal to the environmental review and we believe that was the fact that we have kept the community and public at lainvolved at every step of the way. we post all the updates on our website. we have a e-mail list that goes out every a new document is out there and drafted and try to stay in of the communication through every step and we believe that paying off in terms of the sueing for the project. >> anything that hasn't gone are benefit from? we are looking for lessens learned that could be applied tocity projeblths. >> i think i have to get back to you. e we are fairly close to the schedule we set out for i think goodign. >> great. thank you very much. this is a very high profile a very needed project and

really good i'm excited to see it completed so thank you for coming and speaking with us. commissioner turner. >> i like to pick up where commwhich is, i'm amazed. been on vacation in the middle of the country and was so r to get back because of all the amazing things we do and this isonof the projects. i'm not sure many other yards outsidrd in new york where people are from how do we take advantage of tight communities, transform the commities through projects, but unlike new york, we are delivering as affordable and workforce housing ve the community and need. not high end resort. i'm proud to see how the mta advantage of valuable land and

throughout how to ta advant age of density. i have a couple things. as we get movithrough this. there is i think a really importaint air post is making which is, scale replication and th uniqueness of some of the projects coming to us and we are happy to play a supportive role and want to make sure our role really clear, and so one thing that often happens is people lo6 who is who. i thank outreach and trying to make sure folks know what the project is important and encourage team to make sure it is clear what this means and the role we e playing, because again, as we are challenged multiple projects, i think about the cijury report and how those projects are so unique and how

challenging sometimes one off and are delivered every last one of them so proud to be partnered with you an be good stewards and very accountable and have to out challenges as chair post pointed out and also where we can scale and replicate. i got my eye on a couple police stations, a fire station and others i e see housing, particularly workforce housing to bring police officers and fire officers, bring emergency officers all back to the city the place they serve every day, so i thank you look forward learning more and how to make sure this is a scapeable and replicable project for public works. >> thank you. >> commissioner zoubi. >> thank you for the presentation. pretty big prt it hits two birds with one stone. , isthere a place where i can go maybe ne or just to read

the inpu rather then just outreach? i can see there is outreach. mt a talks neighborhood, you have these meetings every month, but is there a place-like any resident of san ancio can go and look at the input of e community? like what are afraid of if they don't like it and what do they like, is thera place can y can read these comments? >> thank you. we have a dedicated site for the tre we continue to post everything, historically from the project and all of our me minutes from all the neighborhood working group meetings, as well as all the dos ain related to ceqa an entitlements are all there. in addition, we also

proactively go out to events throughout the year. in fbe doing more this fall and always making sure that in the public an opportunity to share if there are things they have questions about or concerns about, that we address those either there in person or on the ite some way. >> for example, every neighborhood--majority of the neighborhoods they have neighborhood associations. are there letters from these associations approving or not approving or giving input and feedback or just minutes of the meeting? >> many tte were submitted in support of entitlements and eniew,vinmbut also we applied for grant funding earlier this spring and received er support for that application from

friends of franklin square being one example among others, so yes, absolutely. >> thank you. my last question iswere four modifications in the past five years. should we anticipate one coming up soon or next year? how do you see the project and do k thyoe will be a need for more modification for this? >> this should be the last modification for this contract, because we will be moving tothe project agreement next year and so there will be a separate agreement with for advisory services tied to that agreement so this will be the last for that. >> thank you. >> you said sfmta is the project >> we have a-this is a p3, so we have a-the potrero neighborhood

collective will beorless overseeing design build contractor, but that will be in partnership with sfmta, yes. >> potrero neighborhood collective. what is that? >> that is the grouping of all the developer team, so [indiscernible] lead developer they will actually be issuing the design contractor rfp and then working with that co for delivery of the bus yard, but of course, because that will be our bus yard, we will be involved of the way. plannery not maerb. maerb. america. >> they are large compa a local office in la who is the team on the project. >> k director short, what will public work role be in this pro >> we will also have project

management responsibility as well so in partnership with the mta to deliver the project and we helped lead thpr. f >> great. i don't think i knew that, so thank you that's great news. if there are no furth questions or comments on this--i'll second to --no, tg it is contract ion,so i'll second that motion. we do have a motion to modify the contract. thavery much mr. lazaro and open public comment. s of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on the to approve item 5, the joint development technical vifor sfmta potrero yard dene up against the wall furthest from the door. ifyou are commenting outside the chamber, press the raise

hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. you will have three to speak. please use the middle wireless thatmight be easier for you to use. you will get notice with your time is about to expire. >> great. is. thank you for your questions. al commissioner turner mentioned new york city where public works and municipal transit authority are one ag something i continue to come back to here is the fact that there is so much extra working done, so many tax dollars spent and silo conversation because you have two different commissioners and two if you consider t re and so much work tting replicateed and

opportunities are missed as a result of the split. showing on the screen, if we can is a group of me and my friends in the back of a bus with skateboards. bikes on a bus but you can fit as many you can people. something not clear in the discussion around the area and whether or not there is there.unities foin i appreciate all the questions around housing. i think that is really great. questions around access between the bus and sidewalk and everything e addressed in the documents on the website just mentioned. i took a look just want to note there are opportunities for public works to engage as far curb design goes here, especially considering accessblin wheelchairs and if we continue with limit cernible] continue to access given how long the timeline, given insistence on mitigation, gichben the interaction with

[indiscerni feature focused organization and interested reducing carbon intensity. i said, designing things with small wheelicize a way encourage multi-modal a ses and reduce carbon emission and give younger and older people access to transit. seattle is working on this. working on beveled edges with access to loading zones in and out of the mobility lane. i argue that a softer bevel is more important. noted in the design, we dont have significant space beyond any sort of tree basin such it used as a passing lane outside the main thoroughfare the sidewalk. again, this ahcould be widened such like this to be more accessible. just noting here, what is the design right now, linear protected bike lanes. love to see that adjusted, love

to see more accessibility brought into nversation. with regard to the mta public outreach, i ocontinue to show up to conversations like this and i see distinct difference with outreach and alto be responsive for people who show up in the midoftheir day to make contribution. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. we do not have any further person commenter jz do not have any callers who expressed inest interest in this item so that concludes public comment. >> no further questions on the motion, all in favor of ct modification for the potrero yard modernization ojayeor yes. the motion carries and the ntra modification resolution will be posted to the commission website. w 27. we will have to take a break at

1040 to 11 o'clock, maybe earlier. i anticipate the zuckerberg item taking more then 10 or 15 minutes, yet i don't want to delay. with apology to mand his colleagues, let's get started on item 6 now pleand sorry you will have to be interrupted along the way, but i liketo keep moving. >> item 6 is zuckerberg francisco general building 5 seismic up renovation and project manager joe chen will present ntract modification. it is an

>> testing. ubi, commissioner turner.vice my name is joe chen, public works program manager for 2016 health and safety bond pramjoined by [indiscernible] department public health. we have [indiscernible] jackson, interim deputy chief operation officer, capital project oversight advisor d jason capital planning director. here toprint on the sco general seismic up grade and renovation contract.

sorry. public works is requesting commission approval to approve increase to the contract cost duration contingency and authorize public works to approve future modification for this contract. the revised contract amount is at million, 662 thousand, 958 dollars and 9 ntincludes all approved change orders to date. public works is ing commission approval to increase the construction cost contingency 25 million 923 thousand 76 dollars. the duration by 572 consecutive days. public works requesting approval to increase the contract contingency to allow the completion of the bidding and uyout and execution orders to complete the projects.

alojin building 5 located on campus at 1001 potrero avenue district 10. the projfor this projethis department of public health. funding for the project is provided by the 2016 public safety bond program. dph levereraged funding from the 2020 neral recovery bo funds as well as sfgh ifun donation funds. the architect of record is bureau architecture with works and [indiscernible] in lbe architectural f public works targeting to achieve final completion for all projects by second quarter 2026. all projects included are part 2016 building 5 component. thof work is part of

dph long-term plan rt building 5 into new outpatient care center, consolidated specialty clinics on or to building 5. more typical public works contracts, the contract is asked to deliver 6 permitted [indiscernible] one of the typical project delivery method. allows public works to select a general contractor not based on lowest but finding the right partner most qualified on project experience and approach to be in the position to be most success the six projects are seismic up grade, relocation, public health laborato it infrastructure, psychiatric emergency service and clinical laboratory.

selected because of the mp hospital construction. the need to have a contractor on bord prior to construction start for complicated phasing logistics spection control plans performed reviews and investign as well as develop construction schedule. the seismic ade includes column enlargement and work sc coordinated and completed with ongoing construction for lab, pes and public health lab. the method, we are working e general contractor able to plan construction activities for all projectsicthe blame game when you are working with multl general contractors that need to share a common project site. all the tasks arperformed by the cmgc as part of prtruion prior to

construction start. the next two slides provide a status update all six projects. i wont go through each project, but let mention a fe you get a sense of different level. lab is target completion by thi quarter 2024. seismic, it infrastructure and pes, seismicapis most complete at 52 percent based on cacompted. more then happy to complete seismic, remaining locations are most challenging, because the team will be focused building out the two foot [indiscernible] pes ma latest p construction on may 13, 2024. this slide provides a summary of the construction cost and contract

duration and improve change orders to remaining cost and duration contingency based on chanrd the contract amount is 86 million, 41 thousand, 253 dollars. approved change orders total million, 252 thousand, 705 dollars and 9 nicleaves 388 thousand, 319 thousand and 91 cents cost contingency reserves. the remaining reserves are not adequate te the project. duration is construction 1429 calendar days which equates final completion date of october 7, 2024. even though public works ha t approved time extension to date, does not expect to complete the last project until second quarter 2026. public works is requesting approval to the duration contingency of

572 calendar days which in duration of 2144 calendar and allow future change orders to extend through september 31, 2026. ublic works request approv increase cost conaingeancy by 25 million, 923 thousand, 76 dollars which result in authorized contract mit of 120 million, 974 334 dollars. the next slide provides a summary- >> sorry, i know your colleague has a hard stop at 11. i wanted to know if he had anything to say to the commission before we our break? >> sure. mr. primo, you want to come up? >> sorry to cut you off. madam chair, sions, mack primo,

a oversiadsor for director of health commission. i want to give insight how we make decisions within public health. so, we developed as part of retreat we go on frequently with dph leadership and about 0 to 60 capital managers from both campuses as well as ambulatory care. we develop something we call, se building program that strategically aligns us with the cpc capital plan, and so we do a really granular r capital plan specifi on ilupcoming bond issues, what's in the bond ish sueess, the paciy has and how we fit into that competing with the all the other department the city. on the 2016 bond that joe was referring to, just a little background on

that. that was proposed in the ask at the time was $535 million so bond was 350 but shared by three departments szuckerberg piece got 222 million even ththe estimate was 330. this is whey we are catching up and thank god we have the francisco general foundation who is on $220 million capital campaign, for building 5 and those buildings that support building 5. also, we have done grant work. jason here the executive project manager and can talk about a huge gr we got from the state. we are piecing together all these things d we do meet department wide to make specifically on building 5.

we did an en.am chair, i can't we used outside resources and compared renovating the building to achieve what we needed to do versus tearing it down and rebuilding. the 330 to renovate or $1.3 do a new one. that is just one issue. the others if we took we would have about a 3 month ceqa o by keeping it there doing a voluntary structural upgrade, we are exption, so a categorical that is paperwork and we are able to thother operational issues that are itkeep four things functioning at the same time. emergency service, the cafeteria that is connected to the new building but not in e building that supplies food, the and

then-joe, what is the other on? the clinical lab. so, they all support each other even though they are two structures. the new building we built and ni in 2015 and the older building we are renovatingism e bridge that connects them and if you haven't been out there is insightful to go through and see the flow of the physicians and nurses and lab work and radiology and everything else that has to take place between those two buildings, so the decision was to keep it, cawe don't have any real estate available at this point on 24 acre campus, especially after e ucsf transactional research building was built on that parking lot. we havespace to do anything, so if we were to take it d ne we have to do temporary pharmacy, temporary kitchen and temporary facilities that would

awawhen the building was built so we are ng the money away so we made a decision to keep it. we were locked in on so many fronts so that is a example how at each decision. we currently have been working with the mayor officecontroller and bruce on composition of 2024 bond that is being proposed by the mayor and supervisor peskin for november, put into each of these things. if there-i know you have a-i have a hard stop. you have a hard stop. any questions? >> thank you. yofor as very helpfud asking the question why they didn't tear it down. any questions for mr. primo before we take our break? thyoh. very useful and helpful. thank you. we will now break until-let's plan for l1. 's plan for 11 o'clock. thank you.

[recess until 11 a.m.] [meeting reconvened] weback in session. thank you for the wait and thank you ch for your patience courtesy. we appreciate it. please continue with presentation. >> thank you.

thank s. as i mentioned earlier, the next slide is a graphical summary of the contract duration coningeancy calculation. the approved contingency of 143 and [indiscernible] in this contract, it to have 6 projects stagger . [indiscernible] received plan approval whether the construction contra awarded and start ndmpletion [indiscernible] the bottom 6 bars show the duration in yeland low blue bar the time extension needed to complete the project. there are two yellow bars becauthe project separated to two separately ted projects.

the first started november 202 and include the hazardous material abatement [indiscernible] thnd main renovation and build back. the project utilize the strategy result of lessens past projects. that complete the demolition firs eleminate concerns regarding unforeseen cotiible] we have seen in other projects. for example, after the demolin,complete the floor floating scanning and new completed the floor scanning early, the team was able identify conflects construction start and start developing drawing revisions needed to oi conflicts. this was a huge schedule impact where of the new

walls in conflict with existing floor conditions. the main renovation project was also always planned to start construction much later e other because was still in design and review. the project receive plan approval until july 2023. the early demolition project october 2023. [indiscernible] also delayed because the department relocation project which was outside the scope of work for this contract. this project managed by public works and awarded to bill group the general contractor. the delays to rehab project were by combination of unforeseen conditions, existing condio that were identified as non code compliant and [indeby a contractor. correction of the issued impacted comption.

public works is requesting for increase to the and duration contingency because of cost and time true up reconciliation, higher bid es a change orders. [indiscernible] cost and contracis based on cost estimate provided by public works during the request for ase. once the is unboarded and task completed and trade packages bid out the trade contractors, the actual cost of the are finalized. there is inherent process to true and reconcile the differences between the cost estimate and bid prices. bid prices public work received for all the projects necessitated e for dph to make difficult decisions regarding the project that were part of ra. removed from

the cmcg contract and delivered by a contractor ecin the future. because the funding limitations, the is phased to proceed with demolition first. the project is in the bidding phase and targeting to award the build contract the third quarter of 2024. [indiscernible] also plad hold during design until new funding source public works is working with dph to complete design of the project targeting to proceed to construction by 2026 2027. another cost reduction measure was reduction of the scope for it infrastructure. the original scope for is infrastructure including the ou out new electrical low voltage infrastrucrefor the building and [indiscernible] for existing and new rooms. the scope for the project was priority as o be needed to support the functionality of existing and teledata rooms.

dph is identifying strategy to electrical and low voltage scopes in the phased manner and possbly incorporate future project scopes. of the 25 million to cost contingency, approximately $9 million is needed complete the bidding for pts and it infrastructure. the remaining 16 million is needed for public receivedand not approved of future change order ringe to project completion. the 572 calendar day increase to duration contingency is needed to allow completion of seismic upgrade targeted to achieve final completion second quarter of 2026. project team is always trying to better calibrate our cost estimate to be able to more accurately forecast construction budgets for the brilding projects. working with operational

[indiscernible] unforeseen conditions, [indiscernible] existing code issues make it challenges. these are factors contractors increase pricing for perceived risk to protect themselves. e am is trying to minimize--for example, woing existing buildings one of the greatest concern is whether design is constructable based on constraints above ceiling. designers typically use as built drawing to map possible routes for ct work in the overhead space which is not always acaret. accurate. not all changes are documents and not space in three dimension. public works is working cmcg partner for field investigation to the extent possible out the existing above ceiling conditions as well as g laser scanning to

provide as built computer model tuesday reth trade contractor which reduce the fear factor cost that trade contraude in the bid price to account for uncertainties. another strategy team embraced is complete demolition as a separately as a way to minimize risk. [indiscernible] tends to he reduce bid pricing. there is limited number of trade contractors willing to work in construction, we have [indiscernible] to outreach to trade contractors tota k to them and interest in bidding on our projects. more tradorswilling to submit bids means more competitive prices. depending on the scope of work, public works is work wg cmgc to better control cost and manage these perceive risks embedded in the bid price. public and dph understand more operational constraints will increase pricing, so to the

extent possible, public works is workin dph to identify opportunities to complete enabling projects that relocate stf prior to construction start to minimize increase cost associated with ince gag answer any other questions y■■ have regarding the last slide is jworks is her. public work requesting consideration and approvalto approve increase to contra contingency and approve future modifications and that concludes my and available to answer questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you very much mr. chen.

for your presentation and wanted to thank you all three of us for tour of the construction site and l the multiple projects you described today. the difficulty of performing this construction work safely and efficiently in a active hospital setting and extensive site mitigation it requires was eye opening to put it mildly.od no punt intended, but the surgical precision public works and contractors have to work to keep the hospital safe and eaagain, it was a shock. a pleasant shock, but a shock. i also want to thank you and complement you staff memo that you prepared úqdescribing this exceedingly complex construction project, the staff memo in our materials to prepare for the meeting. it was excellent. and again, thank you forer

answering the questions i sent ahead of time. you alluded to a number of processes that you have been learning along the way that can be carried forward and i want to put a fine point on it because i know i have known you before and you managed non-hospital projects as well. what lessens learned are there some that you just want to point out that you have been learning through the zuckerberg project that could be applied to other public works projects overall for any city client? >> thank you for the question chair post. that's a excellent question. i say, we have the magic bullet and all issues will be resolved, but i think when it comes to managing renovation projects in general it comes with uncertainty and concern and i

think a lot of time designers and the team tends to rush into design and going immediately to construction. i think what we learned just sometimes it makes more sense in the long run to take the effort to do the field investigation. extent possible. the reason i say to extent possible, because a lot of spaces in the hospital are occupied so it is very difficult to go and open ceiling, cut openings and do investigation while the space is still being operationally in use by staff and patients. so, it is delicate plans to work with the client department and do research and we do our best to look at drawings that changed, go out to the field. i think it does make in the long run to spend effort to do additional field investigation where we can so you can avoid these surprises is

typically what delays project. >> thank you. it reminds me of the 911 project, we couldn't move everybody out there. they had to answer emergency calls. there are a lot of senior staff in the room and nice to hear what can be transferred to other clients project. i want to thank you. this is a 27 percent increase to project cost and contingency from the original contract award, which is considerable but you have given a thorough description why the projected cost turned out to be such odds with the original estimate, so i thank you for that. i am satisfied with that so thank you. commissioner turner. >> director short, i believe there is ongoing plan for $300 million bond issuance, would that impact this project and if so, i imagine it expands the scope of project meaning

more then likely come back to us assuming bond issuance is successful? >> um, i think-yes, there is still a plan to issue the bond. as i understand it, i think the details of how some of the resources would be spent is still being finalized, so i'm not sure--as mark primo mentioned, there is a capital campaign underway by the friends of-don't know if that is the right term. zuckerberg. i don't know the answer at this time. i don't know if joe knows whether that bond is directly infusing resources into this project. i know-okay, project manager is saying no. there are different buildings that that bond would support.

>> commissioner zoubi. >> i do want to piggy back and thank you for the great tour of the hospital building 5, and just showed me exact example of changing engines mid-flight, but i saw everything was organized and again, i love the partnership with public health and how you are working together with them. i know i ask a break-down of $25 million and the other night i was like, what did i ask just ask? so thank you for that. i just want to ask the same question as commissioner turner. we already started those six projects, right? we already hit the ground,

start working. should we expect another either extension or increase in the next 6 to 12 months? >> commission zoubi, thank you for the question. based on what we know today, we don't anticipate coming back to commission for additional approval. this approval if approved by the commission does include contingency for future change orders built based what we know based on the current projects. we have a few projects all most complete so minimum riskism clean lab we will be finishing up in a couple months so we already have a smaller change order contingency built into it. the one project that just startsing which is pes psychiatric emergency service, so we carried a larger contingency, so our plan based on what we know all the cards on the table,

this contingency should be sufficient to allow us to finish the prongect. thongect. prongect. project. >> thank you very mitch. much. before we take a motion-did anyone want to knh to the podium and add a word to what mr. chen said today, since you have taken the time and trouble to come to the meeting. you dont have to. you can handle it? okay. great. i move that we approve this contract modification. great. thank you there is a motion to approve and second. please open the motion to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on the motion to approve item 6, the zuckerberg san francisco general hospital building 5 seismic upgrade renovation contract modification may line up against the wall.

if commenting outside the chamber, press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. t do not appear we have commenters in person on this item, and sfgovtv is indicating we do not have callers either so that conclude public comment. >> thank you. if no other questions, all in favor of the motion please say aye or yes. aye. the motion carries and the contract modification resolution will be posted to the commission's website. thank you very much again mr. chen. we will now take the item from the consent calendar postponed for another zuckerberg hospital item, 4h. >> the next item is the

zuckerberg different general hospital building 5 rehab department relocation phase 3 contract modification and this item was originally on the consent calendar, but pulled to be heard individually. project manager lindsey who is here toprint print present the report. 4n. >> good morning everyone. good morning chair post. vice chair zoubi, commissioner turner, director short and city attorney. my name is lindsey who, project manager with san francisco public works. today i'm here to present the zsfg building 5 rehab department relocation and the phase 3 construction contract modification. thank you for touring with us. i had the pleasure meeting a few of you last week. this isn't a project we toured so i'll

give background information. today we are seeking approval to increase the contract cost contingency as well as the duration contingency for the rehab project. the original approved contract amount is 4 million, 103 thousand, 914 dollars and 54 cents. today we are seeking approval for 559 thousand, 624 dollars and 395 consecutive calendar days. the contractor is klw construction and the reason this will allow us fl execution of future change orders including time extensions to complete the project. as discussed, the client is the department of public health. the program is funded by the 2016 public health and safety bond. we are also receiving additional funding resources from the sfgh foundation grant and gift doimation.

donation. the architect of record is bureau of architecture:constructor is klp construction. [indiscernible] 490 calendar duration to substantial completion. the projected completion date was april 25, 2024. this fallowed a more traditional design bid build contract. the scope is in the building 5, similar to all the other projects mr. chen presented on the third floor. phase 1 and phase 2, the rehab department was completed in the plan area shown in the light blue. our current work of phase 3 is highlighted in yellow and includes the new out-patient urology clinic, waste holding area and new accessible

restrooms. currently the project is about 51 percent complete with our multiple work areas, urology area has the partition walls erected working on hvac, waste holder area is working on the partition wall instillation. the 3a accessible restroom is ongoing and have framing instillation and the 3c accessible restrooms are just starting the construction with our construction barriers. here is a summary of the contract amount. the original construction amount was 3 million, 730, 831 dollars. the approved change orders to date 1-3 totaled 258 thousand, 417 dollars for total revised contract amount of--sorry, that is a error.

not $9 million. the approved contingency reserve to date are 10 percent of the original contract amount, and remaining is 114 thousand 665. for the contract duration, the original duration of substantial completion and final completion was 550 days with approved reserves of 55 days. we have not approved any additional days to date. in summary, what we are asking for today is an additional acontingency reserve of 15 percent of 559, 624 thousand for authorized contract limit of 4 million, 663 thousand, 539 dollars. for the construction duration, we are asking for additional request of 395 days for total duration of

1,000 days. and projected final completion of may 20, 2025. this slide helps summarize the change orders approved or executed to date. change orders 1-3 totaling 258, 417 dollars have been executed. this summary in the top right column summarizes those executed to date, with the design errors of 329 thousand. sorry, 123 thousand. 123 thousand, 358 unforeseen conditions of 250 thousand, 822. a client request deduct of 9672 and code related issue of 65 thousand. as you see on the right, we do a rigorous summary of all the

change orders that go into our approval process. two design errors specifically requested was one that was related to as this project was bid out between phase 1 and phase 2, versus phase 3, there were missing drawings from the set. they were separate contractors and so piping was missing from the original bid set and added as a cost of 83 thousand, 754. the other design error was a mising exam lights. it was found it was not additional and needed to be added to two exam rooms and totaled $39.623. one of the major additional change orders we are seeking approval for that we approved but not yet executed because it exceeds 10 percent limit is the time extension due to

unforeseen conditions related to existing conditions, framing conditions, mold, as well as hand over from dph due to occupancy that delayed the construction process. that is totaling to 211 calendar days, with 133 of those days being compensable and associated cost of $163.324. as joe highlighted before working, very complex and challenging campus. renovation projects in general are much more difficult then new construction, but when you are trying to keep a operational hospital and limit the impact to the hospital, it could be further complicated and often change orders exceed the 10 percent construction cost or construction duration contingencies. we have existing 1970 building,

reinforced concreate structure that require expertise in scanning and delays. there is many unforeseen conditions relatesed to mechanical electrical and plumb and architectural components. we have environmental health and safety procedures and infection control plans can delay the start of the work. in this case particular,b the rehab phase 3 started 190 days after due to approval that infection control work plan. and lastly, we are under the jurisdiction of [indiscernible] the healthcare organization information. this requires additional oversight through material operations. we have field walks with staff. review from the field staff officers and daily oversight from the inspector of record. approval of this contract

modification will allow public works to continue to approve modifications to complete the work. in summary, again, today we are seeking increase contract cost and duration contingency by $559.624.71 and 395 consecutive calendar days. thank you. >> thank you very much. nice to see you again and again, thank you for taking us through last week. i really appreciate how quickly you pulled together the presentation after learning late last week. you answered all my questions and thank you very much. i thought it was a very nice complement to mr. chen's presentation, so thank you. i think they went together very nicely. commissioner zoubi. >> can we go back to page 22? >> page 22.

>> we don't have this presentation in - >> it should be a continuation of joe's presentation. >> thank you. it was a clear informative presentation and the page, the break-down of the reasons why this is something i would love to see future presentation for all presentations we get. this is--so, we asked all these questions. what is going on? why is there extension of time? can we put it up, please? >> i'm showing it on my computer. >> yeah, on the right side. >> yeah. >> this is great. you even worked on the extension, how long that cost. how much that will cost the

project. this is-i commend you on this. i haven't seen this before and like to make request any extension and increase in the future to have this. that breakdown, so we-anyone now can look at this and say okay, i get it. thank you. >> no problem. our dpw public works team cm team does a good job tracking and vetting all the change orders. they go through rigorous analysis. we don't approve them easily and always have backup documentation. >> i share commissioner zoubi's good point about continuing to see this. if you can bring up one more time page 22. it just--the items listed on the left, start seeing this regularly and

tracking it we can see trends in all this on how often is the client requested delays and how often unforeseen conditions particularly since we are aware the civil grand jury criticized the department for a number of issues and we will always need to be able to respond to criticism when we can say we are tracking the reasons for things and we will always admit when it is public works mistake or reason, but we also need to always understand when it is out of anyone's control, such as unforeseen condition and the like. when it is client request. i are agree, this is a great table to see in reports going forward. commissioner turner. >> just be clear, is that table produced as project management software? >> it is from the construction management group.

they tabulate every request and are ahn before we have final numbers have a projection. it goes through a review process. if it is above a threshold we have a third party estimator to eare view it and once it approved each change order is tagged with a type ranging from design omission or design error, client requested change, unforeseen condition is the most common, code changes, we also have categories that are a result of in the panko contract of cmgc or preconstruction, a item missed maybe used for contiancy, so typically maybe not exactly the same way, but the teams are tracking it through an excel log. >> great. i just want to echo my colleagues, because i think if we think performance and performance

metric you can use these points commissioner zoubi and don't know if you [indiscernible] but i do think these are those areas and you would see fluctuations given they are utilizing the software that can help us consolidate the information in a meaningful way so commend you and think that is a great idea. >> thank you. if there are no more comments, i will move to approve this contract modification. is is there a second? great. please open this item to public comment, secretary fuller. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on the motion to approve item 4n, originally on the consent calendar, the zuckerberg san francisco building 5 rehab department relocation phase 3 contract modification, may line up against the wall. if commenting outside the

chamber, press raise your hand or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. no one approached to speak in person and there are not any callers who expressed interest either, so that concludes public comment on item 4 and the motion to approve it. >> thank you. there is no further discussion or questions. all in favor of the motion please say aye or yes? aye. the motion passes and the contract modification is approved. thank you for coming today and the resolution will be posted to our website. alrighty. secretary fuller, please call our next item of business. >> item 7 is the motion to designate authorize the commissioner to respond to the civil grand jury report from june 20, 2024. chair post has volunteered to

draft the response and will discuss this action and this is an action item. >> thank you. secretary fuller noted as you all know, the commission has been requested to respond to findings and recommendations in the civil grand jury report. we are not required to do so, but it is just request, but of course we will do so. what i was going to propose is that i draft up a proposed response from the commission for your consideration at our retreat next monday the 29 and we will discuss the grand jury report among ourselves and with staff, and then we can discuss our response to this request and so, i can clean it up with secretary fuller and we can return it to the judge by the august 19 deadline since we won't be meeting again between july 29 and the august 19

deadline. we could call a special meeting but we are not planning to meet again between then. that is my goal. it is an ambitious goal for myself, but i intend to meet it. that is what is going on here and why we thought this would be nice to officially designate me to draft response subject to your approval at our next meeting. commissioner turner. >> chair post, i don't know if there is different then the process we throw to develop a letter around street conditions and we are grateful that you got our consensus and developed a letter and believe it was issued so that is the same process we are following here and that should be the process we follow here, given it is your job [indiscernible] on behalf of the commission, so i just move that chair post, we approve you drafting and

providing response as necessary and applicable to the civil grand jury. >> i second that motion. >> thank you. we'll take public comment on the motion, please. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on the motion to designate authorize chair post to respond to civil grand jury report may line up. press raise your han or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. no one approached to speak and we do not have callers who expressed interest in speaking either. >> thank you.

all in favor of the motion please say aye or yes. it carries. thank you very murch. much. good. next is new business. secretary fuller, if quou can call that item. >> item 8 is new business initiated by commissioners and this is a opportunity for commissioners to suggest business for a future agenda and it is a informational item. >> thank you. i do not have new business. any of my colleagues have new business to initiate? hearing none, please open this item to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item 8, new business initiated by commissioners may line up against the wall furthest from the door. if commenting from outside the chamber, press raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized.

we do have one commenter in person. you have three minutes to speak. do you have anything to present? your time begins now. >> i like to offer that the biking and rolling plan by the mta has not been presented to this commission. i love to be proven wrong, but at this point my understanding is after a year of community outreach, if not more, they yet to discuss what that really looks like. i argue new business should include a call by public works to request presentation from the people who are putting that program together to discuss it, especially given the fact it is a currently curb to curb program and does not include any new designs for sidewalks. to that same end, i offer this commission should have some sensitivity to small wheel access.

i'm excited to see there is a vacancy and look forward putting in a application for it, because i think that perspective is missing from this space. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. it does not appear we have any other inperson commenters and there are no further callers who have requested to speak on this item either. >> thank you. alrighty. we'll goes into closed session and do not anticipate further commission business conducted out of closed session so staff doesn't have to hang around if they dont want to. i will note, as i mentioned we will be having a special meeting a week from today, monday the 29 off-site. it is more a informal retreat rather then a meeting and it the purpose is to discuss the public works commission response to the civil grand jury report of june on public

infrastructure delivery. our next regular meeting where our normal business will take place will be at the end of summer monday september 9. i wish everybody a pleasant summer until then. alrighty. yes, do i hear a motion and second to enter closed session? >> so moved. >> alright. and then given the motion we will turn to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to comment on the motion to enter closed session to discuss the director's evaluation may line up against the wall furthest from the door and if you are commenting from outside the chamber, press raise your hand or star 3 on your phone to be recognized.

and no one approached to speak on this item and we do not have any callers at this time, so that concludes public comment. >> alright. hearing no further questions or comments, all in favor of entering closed session say yes or aye. alrighty. we will move to closed session and all members of the public and staff not part of the discussion are asked to leave the hearing room and we'll take a few minutes for people to exit [meeting reconvened] >> we have entered-exted closed session. please call the next item on the agenda. >> item 10 is announcement following closed session. >> thank you. there are no announcements following the closed session. secretary fuller, please open this item to public comment. >> members of the pub lic who wish to comment on item 10, announcement

following closed session may line up against the wall furthest from the door. commenting outside the chamber press raise your hand in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. no one approached and no one is waiting on the line to speak on it either, so that concludes public comment. >> thank you. please call the next item on the agenda. >> item 11 is the motion regarding whether to disclose discussion during closed session. >> thank you. i move that we not disclose the discussion heard during closed session. is there a second to my motion? >> second. >> thank you. please open the motion to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to comment on there motion to not disclose discussion during closed session may line up against the wall and commenting outside the chamber, press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be

recognized. we have no one in person to speak on this item, and no one is on the phone waiting to speak either, so that concludes public comment. >> thank you. all in favor of the motion to not disclose discussion of closed session say aye or yes. the motion passes unanimously. and i believe secretary fuller we do not need the next item, item 12, the general public comment, correct? >> that's correct. item 12 is not necessary. >> great. we are now adjourned. thank you all very much. thank you for helping out today. sorry it took so long. thank you very much. [meeting adjourned] >> hi, my .

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