good morning and welcome to the september 9th rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor shamann walton, chair of the rules committee. today i am joined by supervisor safaí. and i'd like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor peskin for this morning's meeting. yes. on a motion to excuse a member peskin from today's meeting. on that motion, vice chair safaí safaí, i. chair walton, i walton, i the

motion passes to excuse member peskin from today's meeting. thank you. motion passed. president peskin is excused. today, our clerk is victor young. and i would also like to thank catalina mendoza from sfgovtv for broadcasting this morning's meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? yes public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak on your right. alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. email them to myself. the rules committee clerk at v-i-c-t-o-r-y o young at sfgov. org if you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. you may also send your written comment via us mail to our office at city hall. one doctor carlton b goodlett place, room two, 44, san francisco, california 94102. please make

sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 17th, 2024, unless otherwise stated. that concludes my initial announcements. thank you so much, mr. clerk, and just for the public for today, we are going to actually call some items out of order. so we're going to start with item seven. then we'll go to five and six because these are all items that are are reflective of the need from the police department. and then we will go back to item one. so with that said mr. clerk, would you please call item number seven? item number seven is ordinance approving the police department's inventory and policy related to the use of unassisted aerial vehicles or drones, and making findings consistent with the criteria and state law, this matter is listed as a possible committee report. thank you so much. and i know we

have representation from pd here today to report. good morning, chair walton, vice chair safaí. my name is carl noceda and i'm principal legislative liaison for the san francisco police department. i'm joined by acting lieutenant for special investigations eric batchelder. so i'll begin with just a brief introduction on the purpose of this ordinance. why we're here before you today, before i turn it over to acting lieutenant batchelder, to discuss sfpd's drone program. so, as you know, ab 481 required sfpd to receive approval for a use of equipment policy for certain types of military equipment that the department had prior to december 2022. the use policy approved by the board of supervisors addressed the equipment the department had acquired prior to january first, 2022. this approved use policy does not include drones under ab 41.

categories of equipment acquired after january 1st, 2022, which are not included in the initial use policy. still must obtain board of supervisors approval of a use policy. then in march of 2024, voters approved prop e, which included an authorization for sfpd to use drones. so in compliance with prop e and ab 41, the department is before you today with an unassisted aerial vehicle inventory and policy, also known as the drone policy, to supplement the approved equipment policy from december of 2022. and now i'll turn it over to acting lieutenant batchelder. good morning, chair walton and vice chair safaí. my name is eric batchelder. i'm the acting lieutenant for the technical services unit at strategic investigations, some of the program highlights. following the passage of proposition e, sfpd deployed six unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, as part of initial

deployment, with more on the wa. these drones are sfpd's first air support in 24 years. all drone operators are trained and certified with a remote pilot's license, a remote pilot's license, part 107. it's issued by the federal aviation administration to ensure that drones are operated in accordance with all laws and manufacturers approved flight manuals to more effectively and efficiently respond to crime. sfpd is integrating drones and other technologies, including automated license plate readers and public safety cameras. drones are deployed within the city and county of san francisco. san francisco airport property, and during sfpd operations outside of san francisco as allowed. benefits include faster response times, situational awareness, more precision de-escalation. officer safety, avoiding unnecessary police chases, and a force

multiplier during staff shortages. the authorized use and responsibilities under prop e, the sfpd is authorized to use drones along with or in lieu of vehicles during pursuits and to assist with active criminal investigations. under the policy submitted to the board of supervisors, drones will be used for training and simulations. critical incidents. exigent circumstances. search and rescue mission. missing persons crime scene investigation during suspicious device assessments. planned operations and disaster response. sfpd has policies in place to ensure that drones are used responsibly. or i'm sorry, responsibly, with safeguards to protect protect the constitutional rights and privacy of the public. deployment responsibilities

during phase one. we have multiple phases to this, but on the first phase, drones will provide aerial support and situational awareness to responding officers during pre-planned crime prevention and investigation operations. spontaneous criminal investigations, at the discretion of the program manager or designee, and response to major and critical incidents as defined by sfpd general order 8.01. we also have prohibitions and restrictions that we put into place department owned drones. their accessories and or their features, functions shall not be used to harass, intimidate, or discriminate against any individual or group to monitor individuals based on their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or membership in any protected class. for a non-law enforcement related matter in an unsafe manner or in

violation of regulations. the drone shall not be equipped with weapons of any kind, and the drone shall not be used as a force option when the drone is being flown, operators will take steps to ensure that the camera is focused on necessary areas necessary to, to the mission and to minimize the inadvertent collection of data about uninvolved persons and places. the data in reporting the data retention is as follows. video footage with no evidentiary value is deleted within 30 days. recorded data that is found to have evidentiary value relevant to a criminal, civil or administrative matter shall be retained for a minimum of two and a half years. recorded data is not collected or retained for protected first amendment activities. as far as the data

sharing data may be shared with law enforcement partners. for law enforcement purposes and the department of police accountability data may be shared with media outlets or on sfpd social media, with the chief of police approval, and in accordance with media relations and legal division guidelines, we will have standard reporting. the sfpd will post a standard report of drone deployments on its website. the inaugural report will be due 90 days after the first recorded flight. non-training related deployment and will be updated monthly thereafter, we've already, posted this on to the police department's website, equipment for use of drones will be reported in the annual ab 481 report. examples of drone, usage results. drones have already

assisted sfpd in numerous cases, including sex assault, suspect arrests, several auto burglaries, 4th of july disturbances, and violent and wanted fugitives. the arrest of these violent and wanted fugitives, some of the recent incidents they include. on january 26th, officers responded to two subjects on dirt bikes breaking into cars around the embarcadero. a drone was able to follow the suspects and locate their position, allowing officers to make a safe arrest. on july 27th, just a day after plainclothes officers identified an auto burglary crew breaking into vehicles in the same area with the help of the drone, sfpd located, the suspects, spiked their tires, placed them under arrest, and recovered all of the stolen property, both of the incidents, the district attorney was able to file charges and both cases are being prosecuted and are pending. before the

court, just as far as the amount of missions that we've had so far, it's been 65 missions. 18 of those have resulted in arrests. not not totally sure if it was if the drone was a reason for the arrest, but it for sure aided in the arrest of 18 individuals. and we also believe that five pursuits were mitigated, when i explained about the two subjects on the dirt bikes, the drone was able to watch them until one of the main, the primary suspect got off of his dirt bike and walked away from it. so officers could move in and arrest him, thus you know, mitigating a pursuit. okay, this is, a sexual assault suspect, this was in san jose. and what we did is we had the drone up. so in case the subject ran, we were able to take him into custody. also gave a lot of

information. this is the 4th of july celebration. you can see a sideshow started. you had, subjects they were actually shooting, you know, fireworks up in the air. major fire hazard. unruly. the drone was able to get up and give ground commanders an idea of what was going on. and how thick the crowd was, and how to best disperse them, which worked very well. and we were able to do that without, you know, using any physical force against anybody. here is the two dirt bikes that were breaking into cars on the embarcadero, this is when we waited for them to get away from the dirt bike, and we were able to safely take that individual into custody, here's another. oh. went to. anyway, that was another, it's very fast, but that was another just example of, where the drone was able to see and, give the information to the, the ground

units. and that they were able to actually spike that car. thus slowing them down where they ended up arresting him, there's another there's another one that's not shown, but just just in the last few weeks, we had another one where it was another auto burglary, where we ended up arresting them just south of, bryant street. but they ended up they had three guns in the car, so, do you have any questions? thank you so much for the presentation. supervisor safaí, do you have any questions? yeah, i have a couple questions. and i also know, president peskin had some questions, too. so we might ask you to come back next monday since we don't have the full gamut of our committee here. but, one of the questions i have is in terms of there's been a real increase in sideshows that are happening and i'm wondering,

i see that these are utilized at night, and you have five operators. what's how is it that you deploy those and how quickly can you deploy them when the sideshows are happening in the evenings. so, they can be they can be deployed very quickly. but you have to remember that these drones are going to be in inside of a police car, a police vehicle, so that that police car has to be close enough to that sideshow for it to happen, so we haven't had any where we've been able to utilize it for the sideshow yet, but we are going to embed a drone in with the sdr unit. i don't know what. oh, it's just the side sideshow, right? the guys that, will try to combat the sideshows, but to answer your question, it can be put up very quickly, but it has to be deployed with like so there's an officer and a vehicle. the officer has to be in the area or deployed to the

area, and then it has to be able to be trained and know how to function as it is. right now. and remember, we have six drones right now, but really two of those are utilized for interior. they're smaller and they're not for outdoor. and so we really want that for drones interior. oh if you had a, like if you had a critical incident with a swat team, you know, almost, almost in lieu of like a robot where you could have it go in and just check out, check out the inside of city hall, someone could operate it in here if there was a somewhere with high ceilings or something like that. correct. yes. okay. and then i just have a basic question because i think there's a lot of confusion. we got a lot of calls once this got scheduled. so prop e passed and gave the pd the authorization to use drones. so why are you all here today? i understand, ab 481, but can you explain it a little bit again, a little bit more clearly? absolutely thank you, vice chair safaí. so of course, as voters approved

sfpd's use of drones in prop e, that was including for the purposes of ab 41, when questions arose about the technical compliance with ab 41, which generally requires board of supervisors approval and an ordinance, we were recommended by the city attorney's office to prepare a use policy in light of prop e, and ab 41 was just affirming your ability. i mean, affirming your policy, it doesn't change the ability for you to use drones one way or the other. that's exactly right. so as you're saying, this is our policy. we want to put in a writing along with our other equipment use policies. right. the policy before you today does expand on the equipment used and the types of uses. okay. great i don't i don't have any other questions, although i do know that supervisor peskin also had some questions. so we might ask you guys to come back next week. so i think i'll make a motion to continue the item for one week if that's okay. chair. yeah but i have oh you have a lot of questions. okay okay. go ahead. thank you so much, supervisor. i

didn't know if you wanted to ask them today or next week. i'll ask them right now. okay. in lieu of time. yeah, i got it. thank you so much. i mean, just really to piggyback on, your last question, i do want to ask, deputy city attorney rusty. knowing that prop e passed, the voters supported prop e, and there's a drone policy already in place. i thought prop e gave the police chief the ability to skirt around the board of supervisors and skirt around the police commission approval, good morning, supervisors. deputy city attorney brad russ, as the department explained, state law does require, board approval of this type of equipment. but when the voters passed prop e, they stood in the shoes of the word for that approval, at least for the first year. so we recommended that in light of technical compliance issues that arose about this issue and to give the department more

direction in terms of their policy that they submit this proposed ordinance to you for approval. anyway, after the first year, the department will have to come back for an approval from the board as they do with all of the military equipment that the department uses now. so, right now, the drones are in use. are we operating in violation of state law? the voters approved the use of the drones by the department for purposes of state law. so what i'm struggling with, if we're not operating outside of state law, then you wouldn't be here before us today. so this this is confusing to me, because if we're operating in a state in regards to state law, then there's no reason to come to this board today. supervisor, as the department said, and as i said earlier, questions have been raised about technical compliance and that's why we recommended that they submit this ordinance. so we're not

100% sure. if you wish, i could give you a more confidential briefing on this question, but but as i said, yeah, i would love to know if we're violating state law, currently. and i would like a definitive, you know, some definitive clarity on that, so. my big thing, obviously, capturing perpetrators is extremely important. and i see some of the work that has happened. and i think that is of course, something that is protecting the safety of, of residents. but i also believe that protecting civilians, civil liberties of the public is also important. so what guarantee do we have that folks civil liberties won't be violated while drones are in us? i think that, well, i know that we are. we've looked at the case law involving i mean, there's not a lot of case law involving

drones, but there is case law involving police helicopters, just the simple act of flying over. we don't believe, violates anybody's, constitutional rights, also in the policy, we have it where our drones and also the way we're training that our drones are not going to be, zeroing in on just some innocent person or some uninvolved person and watching what they're doing, it would be simply to fly over to the area that's in question, whether it's someone breaking into a house or whether it's a suspect who's jumped over, you know, fences. and we're trying to figure out where he is or he or she whatever. and, so i guess to answer your question is, that's one way where we point the camera. the other thing is, is everything of non evidentiary. we're making sure that we're getting rid of that after 30 days. right and thank you for saying that because that

was going to be my question. if i'm doing something in my backyard or doing something with family that has caught on on camera, that takes a whole 30 days for that to be erased. yeah, yeah, that that's that seems a little bit troubling. and i know and thank you for the presentation because i did ask this question, but i do want to ask it just for the public, exigent circumstances. that seems pretty broad and planned operations seems pretty broad for usage like those are, you know, not very specific on how we're going to be using drones and how they're going to be in the city. i understand your question, and i think that exigent circumstances, it is broad, but i think it's specific in the things that it tackles. i mean, just in general, exigent circumstances allow police officers to act without a warrant where one would usually be needed, and it would just be

the doctrine of if you had a, you know, like a hot pursuit, where if you're chasing a subject and he goes into a house in california or in the united states, you're not allowed to go into anybody's house unless there's an exception or you have a search warrant. and one of the exceptions is exigent circumstances. but as far as how the police department or the attorneys are going to define what exigent circumstances means in this order, i'm not able to tell you. it seems like there's a lot of a lot of gray area that i think is important that we need to deal with. and how is the data going to be stored after the 30 days it would be in compliance with the body camera in fact, we'd be uploading into the same sort of system that the police body cameras go into. it's evidence.com got it. yeah, i don't have any more questions right now. definitely, i will

support your motion after we get to public comment. just because i do believe we should allow president peskin to weigh in on this, but i definitely believe that there are a lot of concerns, and not just with drones, but anything that is going to surveil residents in our communities, making sure that we protect people's civil, civil liberties is very important, as we also weigh in how this supports public safety and definitely understand, what is being done here. but most certainly want to make sure that we have policies that are in place that protect the public as well, i don't have anything else. any more questions? no no, i just wanted to say, because we're going to continue this one week, i held a bunch of my questions. so i'll have more questions next week. i do want to say i appreciate the examples, because they have had an impact. i know they are having an impact, particularly when it comes to car break ins and retail theft. and some of the other activities reckless driving. i know that it's going

to have a positive impact, but i agree with supervisor walton. we i'd like to go a little bit deeper into how it's going to be implemented, ensured that it's not going to infringe on people, but at the same time be a real effective tool. i was with one of the captains, the other night, and they talked about a situation where it was a late night break in instead of a wild pursuit, the drones were employed. they went over to the sunset. the individuals were jumping from, you know, backyard to backyard, and they were able to get them in a situation. and it ended up being a case where they had been involved in a string of late night break ins, which are plaguing our district. i mean, literally every other day i get a call from a small business that's been broken into at night, so i know it's effective. but i agree 100% with supervisor walton. we have to make sure that the policies in place that are not infringing upon people and have unintended consequences. so i'll make a

motion to continue for a week. if you're okay with that chair, we'll get to the motion after public comment. sorry, sorry. yeah thank you mr. clerk, can we call for public comment? yes i would like to request to the department if you could possibly give me a copy of the report for the file. thank you. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak along the side by the window. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. there will be a soft chime when you have 30s left, and a louder chime when your time has expired. you can approach the podium. here. yes i'm john lindsay poland of american friends service committee, which documents ab 41 use policies statewide. two things. first, sfpd illegally obtained and used these drones in violation of ab 41 requirement to post a use policy and get it approved before acquiring military equipment. it's the only agency we know of

to have done so in the state. sfpd has falsely said that prop e trumps state law, a law enforcement agency violating the law, sets a bad example for the community and puts at legal risk the prosecutions in which drones were used. the department hasn't acknowledged its violation, which suggests they will do it again if allowed. the board should state that future acquisitions of military equipment that violate state law will not be approved by this board and get a written commitment from the department to abide by state law. ab 41. second, the proposed use policy for drones is overly broad. planned operations can contingency exigent circumstances, which are not defined, and other authorized uses could include searches without a warrant, use of drones inside private residences, and other operations absent a public safety threat. while sfpd has said there are prohibited uses of drones such as weaponizing drones, use against first

amendment activities, and discriminatory surveillance, none of these prohibited uses are in the written use of policy. before you today. for the board to reach a finding required by state law, that the use policy before you is protective of civil liberties, is cost effective, and lacks an alternative. you must send this policy back to sfpd to address these requirements. thank you. thank you. are there any additional speakers for this matter? we have additional speakers. would you please line up? thank you sir. you can come definitely. yeah right here. yes. my name is arthur koch. i'm a resident of district nine, member of the san francisco friends meeting. we have a meeting house just a couple of blocks away here. and, i don't necessarily have anything against drones. i i'm a drone operator. i'm a licensed drone operator. but having but because

of my experience doing that, i realize a lot of people have bad reactions to drones. because they associate it with us assassinating people abroad. they associate it with a lack of privacy. and so i can understand people's concern. but i think the real issue here is that the police department just went ahead and bought some drones because of prop e, without going through the ab 481 process of presenting it to the board of directors, having a policy presented and being approved by the board of directors. so that's that's my main concern about introducing drones to the police force, and then i guess, and generally does prop, does prop e supersede ab for a one, the other issue that that really bothers me is that, the police have not reported all the assault weapons and submachine

guns that they have, and last year there was not one incident where one was needed, but now they want more. i don't i don't understand that. i don't understand why the taxpayers should pay more money for weapons we hope will never be used, and that is that. is that the two minutes? yes almost. 30s left. yeah. so i guess the bottom line is i don't think we need, machine guns and assault weapons and the bigger point is, whatever the police decide they need, they need to run it through the board of supervisors with a detailed plan on how they're going to use them. thank you for your consideration. thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers. thank you. seeing no additional speakers, public comment is now closed. mr. clark, i believe we have a

motion on the floor to continue this item to next week's meeting. yes, on a motion to continue the matter to the rules committee meeting of september the 16th. on that motion, vice chair safaí safaí peskin. excuse. chair walton, i walton i the motion passes without objection. motion passes. we will continue this item to the next week's meeting. mr. clerk, would you please call item number five? item number five is ordinance rescinding the sunset provision of ordinance number 20522 and approving the police department's continued use of non-city entity surveillance cameras consistent with the department's surveillance technology policy. thank you so much. and you have the floor. good morning, ahsha steeves. i'm the policy development division manager with sfpd, i just wanted to introduce this item. this was, as a reminder, a policy that was approved by through the

19 b process. so the privacy surveillance advisory board and the committee on information technology revised and vetted this. and recommended it to the board. and the board approved back in september of 2022. so we are not introducing any changes other than requesting the resentment of the sunset provision and that's it. and i'm here to take any questions if you have them. thank you so much, supervisor safaí. any questions? thank you, mr. clerk. we will go to public comment on this item. yes. members of the public wish to speak on this item. should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any speakers who would like to make comment on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. thank you. seeing no speakers public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, i'd like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with recommendation on that motion, vice chair safaí i. safaí peski,

excuse chair walton, a walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item number six. item number six is ordinance approving surveillance technology policy for the department of emergency management. use of shotspotter, a gunfire detection technology. thank you so much, mr. clerk. welcome good morning, supervisor walton, supervisor safaí, my name is robert smuts. i'm deputy director for the department of emergency management, overseeing the 911 center. i'm joined by janet collins, the assistant deputy director of the division. i'm here to present an item number five, specifically following the requirements of administrative code section 19 b, we are presenting our surveillance impact report, surveillance technology policy regarding gunshot detection hardware and services. otherwise known as shotspotter. this was

approved by reviewed and approved by koit back in september 2022. and we're now before the board, i don't have a formal presentation on this. this technology has been used. it started actually in the bay view, visitacion valley valley and, back in 2008 and then was subsequently expanded to some other areas of the city, just a couple key points on this technology. it uses about 20 different sensors per square mile that it operates to triangulate the location of gunshots, that data is then processed by the company offsite at their headquarters, and when a confirmed gunshot is detected, only that information is sent and accessible by the department of emergency management. it sends a snip audio snippet one second before to one second

after the recorded gunshots. and that is the only information, the only audio information we have. in addition to information about the location. the, the sound recorded by these sensors is maintained for, is accessible by the department for one week and one week only, and we do not have access to any of the other, audio recordings made, which is purged at shotspotter headquarters after 30 hours. if there's no gunshot sound detected. i'm available for any questions. thank you, director, so much. just one question, because obviously we've been using shotspotter technology for a while. and as you stated, it started in district ten, in bayview. how are we doing in terms of shotspotter actually catching perpetrators or folks who are shooting in our streets, i don't have hard data on to

speak to that. i do know that it is used very frequently, an estimated only 15% of gunshots are actually called in by by residents. so this does provide a lot more information to the police department to respond. and both check for any victims, which it has been helpful for, as well as try to apprehend any suspects, i could try to look at our, our data and see if i can speak to that or or speak to the police department. definitely. and i appreciate that and would definitely have some follow up about that. okay supervisor safaí, any questions? no, thank you. if you can add me as a co-sponsor. thank you so much. supervisor seeing no more comments or questions from colleagues or colleague, we go to public comment on this item.

yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line would speak. at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to make a comment on this matter? there are no public speakers on this matter. thank you so much. seeing no speakers public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with recommendation. yes, on that motion, vice chair safíi safaí peskin. excuse. chair walton, a walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion carries. thank you so much. mr. clerk, would you please call item number one? yes. item number one. ordinance requiring that the new public library branch serving the oceanview merced heights, ingleside and lakeview neighborhoods be built on city owned parcel of land at 100 or harbor avenue, subject to environmental review. required approvals and other applicable laws and prohibiting the

expenditures of city funds to explore, pursue, or plan construction of a new public library branch serving those neighborhoods at any alternate location except as required by environmental review process, required approval, and other applicable laws. thank you so much, mr. clerk, and i want to thank the public for your patience as we took these items out of order this morning. supervisor safaí thank you. chair appreciate you scheduling this so quickly, just to start, i have some amendments that i want to pass out, that we can that we can talk about, but essentially the main gist of the amendment is to allow for after listening to some of the community, allow for if the possibility arises, an expansion of this existing site where the library is, if any adjacent parcel comes available. i want to allow for that. so we're not

just locking ourselves into one location. so the amendments that i'm distributing allow us to do that. so provide a little bit of more flexibility. but i want to kind of start with why we're here, the current location at 345 randolph is the smallest neighborhood library in the entire city. it was spearheaded by mayor willie brown in the late 90s, and it was built, i think, in a very quick way. i think you'll probably hear from some of the residents, there was a lot of drug dealing, a lot of illegal activity happening at the site, and it was meant to transform that location into something positive for the community, but the fact that it is the smallest library in the city doesn't allow for the community to get the full use. and there is significant demand being an area that has a has many seniors, many children, many after school programs. so in 2018, we started a community

process. the library had set aside $9 million to renovate the existing site, but through the community process, community made it clear that they wanted a much larger library. and when you look at the southeast part of san francisco, you'll see on the map that having a larger library to serve multiple neighborhoods in that location makes a lot of sense. and that's so that's what we set out to do. we worked with the community and the city librarian and public works, and in 2019, public works published an analysis of five different locations public sites that could be the future home of the ocean view library, parcel d or 100. orizaba scored the best and was the only one that met all of the city's criteria for a suitable site. it is a block away from public transportation muni line. it's walkable from many different areas of the

neighborhood, but there was some concerns for those that live on the other side of brotherhood way about traffic and pedestrian safety. so we worked with the sfmta and the county transportation authority to conduct traffic studies at the location at 100 orizaba to identify ways that we could make the site more pedestrian friendly and to install traffic calming changes to alter driver behavior along brotherhood way. we have a letter from director tomlin that states funding, planning and implementation can be fully independent of any adjacent land use changes, including potential siting of a library nearby. essentially, nothing should stop moving forward with the library. we can do the transportation studies in conjunction and parallel, and that's what we intend to do. and this fall, there's going to be a few hundred thousand dollars of improvements made, and they're still underway for a more medium and long term. but the cost was

identified as an issue in 2020, the cost of the library was estimated to be around 47. $50 million, according to cfo heather green. and the. and the library identified $12.5 million in funds for the ocean view library. so there was about a $34 million gap. but we went to work and as you recall, we were many of us worked tirelessly for the renewal of the library preservation fund on in april of that year, city librarian lambert identified that the budget for the ocean view library would be funded by the renewal of the library preservation fund. and so that's one of the main reasons why i was a lead sponsor at the board and the city for the renewal of that fund. so the $47 million price tag has obviously, as time has gone by, it's gone up, we submitted a letter of inquiry to the public works about the construction costs and the gaps.

but essentially the money was identified to start the library. it was fully funded, according to the estimates at that time, even though the construction costs have gone up somewhere between 42 and 61 million. so around 53 million, but as is the case and i'll give an example, as supervisor walton's district, the potrero yards project is not fully funded, but sfmta and that department is moving forward aggressively, choosing a contractor, moving forward with plans, identifying design, and in no way, shape or form is that project fully funded. but the intention by the city in every case is to ensure that that project moves forward, because it's a it's a need. the potrero yard has to be rebuilt. and the idea is that there has an opportunity there to have

housing and to make it a wonderful neighborhood in the city, very similar to here. and so having done a lot of public works projects, i just want to say for the record that to have something fully funded, having all the money in the bank has never been a requisite for something to begin and to begin in earnest. so i'm going to ask the librarian to come up. we have some i have some questions for him, but i'm going to continue on going on this timeline that we can get into that. another thing that happened in the meantime, it was recently at the youth commission librarian was there to talk and talked about doing, the project at an alternative site on the record in the city, talked about doing it at the it. berkman site at 446. randolph said he had the full support of the mayor's office of housing and community development and so we were a

little bit taken aback. we followed up with the director and asked him, because it's not usual for a director of a department to say that they're in support of moving forward with a project when something hasn't gone through a competitive process. so we reached out to director adams and what we got back was said. there's been some preliminary conversations with the librarian about an alternative site at 446 randolph. they discussed the complexity of accommodating diverse programing at that site. and that mohcd would have to do an open and competitive procurement process. so there would be a request for city funds for affordable housing, and there would have to be a development agreement in place. and that mohcd doesn't have any funding. and i think i've said this to folks in the community, i've said this publicly, but this is what the director of that department said. mohcd won't have any funding for any

new sites until the boffa bond should a passes or should it pass? well, guess what the boffa bond is not even going forward. it got pulled from the november ballot, so they mohcd has not taken a position on supporting any site, and it's not their role to do so. so part of why we're here today is because we had put forward a previous piece of legislation. we tried to be clear in saying we wanted to prioritize 100 orizaba. but it seems as though there's been a different course of action, even after additional community meetings, where again, i think we heard unanimously that the community wanted a library at 100 orizaba. so if the director of the librarian could come forward, have some questions for him, because just some of this stuff doesn't make sense, and i just want to be clear for the

record, why we're coming back with this legislation and why we think it's important to go forward. so you heard what i said, director lambert. i'm just i'm curious why there's still this push to look at for 46 randolph when the community and previously we said that we wanted to prioritize 100 orizaba. thank you. supervisor safaí. and thank you for your continued advocacy for this project. i appreciate you being a champion for a new ocean view branch library for this omi region. and i do not dispute anything that you have said on the record this morning with regards to the prospective exploration of a joint use partnership with the pilgrim community church and the it berkman center, you did astutely point out that the bay area regional housing bond was pulled from the november ballot. so at this point, 100 orizaba is the

only remaining option with regards to the prior legislation to prioritize 100 orizaba, the library has been adhering to that ordinance. we did commission some community meetings this spring, and we affirmed the community's aspirations r the new library. we also requested the department of public works commission, a fresh cost estimate from a professional cost estimator. so we shared that information with the library commission in july at the july library commission meeting, along with a fresh timeline for, prospective construction at 100 orizaba. so i guess my question is, i go back to the other part of my question, which was or statement, which is we have almost $50 million and we have the opportunity to move forward with we've done community meetings at ad nauseam, you just

stated 100 orizaba is the site. so when are you going to move aggressively to begin drawing up plans and moving forward and putting together construction documents so that this project can get because you don't have to have a fully funded project to proceed with that. that's correct. we do have to have a fully funded project to proceed with construction, but we are far away from that. we are continuing to adhere to the key project considerations that were outlined by the planning department. i did share the preliminary planning assessment with the clerk prior to this meeting today. and as a reminder, two of those key project considerations are monitor the traffic studies underway along brotherhood way that could have an impact on the parcel. it would be premature to begin detailed design work if

there's fluidity in the actual parcel of land that we have to work with, the other key project consideration was that the library should consider joint use partnerships to bring other benefits and amenities to the to the community. so we're adhering to those key project considerations. i have had a couple of meetings with my colleagues from public works in the past three weeks to discuss moving forward with a design to build option with the available funds. so we are moving this project forward. well first of all, i don't know what you're talking about. fluidity with the site. and second of all, i don't mean the planning department can make recommendations, but ultimately that's not something that has to be adhered to in terms of joint use partnerships. i mean, again, this is something that was ready to go two years ago and the community has just

been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. money is there. we've been wasting people's time. i'm trying to be as respectful as i can this morning. i don't want to get into a back and forth with you, but we are going to proceed with passing this legislation, because it just it doesn't make sense that there were all these conversations with an alternative site. and i said to people from the beginning, we're just wasting time. there's never going to be affordable housing money for that site. and if it is, it's years and years away, there won't be the same level of library. and in the meantime, we've just wasted two years because we were in a position two years ago to really move forward with this aggressively. so i think what would be great would be walking out of here is do you support this legislation? and secondly, can we get a timeline in terms of when you're going to begin the process to really get this project moving? to answer your first question, i

appreciate the amendment i have had. i have not had an opportunity to review your proposed amendment this morning. i haven't seen it, but i appreciate the essence of it. the idea of adding additional land that could be put forth for utilization as part of this project. i do not support the legislation on the principle that it's not good government to limit options. it's antithetical to good government principles. this legislation was amended in the prior form back in january. it was passed. we are adhering to that legislation. so i do not feel that this legislation is necessary. okay. thank you. i think we can go to public comment. i don't want to go back and forth. thank you director. thank you, director lambert. thank you, supervisor safaí. mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this

matter should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. you can approach the podium. good afternoon. supervisors yeah, i know i can approach the podium. been here before, my name is renard monroe. i'm the executive director of youth first. we're located in the district 11. community. i was one of the few members that was called, one morning when we found a 16 year old, had been murdered in front of the library that we have now because there wasn't a library, back in 1998. so i speak from a little bit of experience about the need of our library. we bring children to this library every wednesday. okay. and we have to separate them, because the library is not big enough to fit all of our children in at

one time, i brought my staff here. who's the front line? who actually has to deal with that? you know, making sure that we get these kids in by this time and these kids out and bring in a whole separate group. i'm just in here, to support making sure that we get a new library. i don't know why we keep going back and forth making this political, because the what's losing out is the community, we're the most underserved community in san francisco. that's. you can look at it from data. you can look at it from visiting. you can do all the things. but we don't even have a grocery store in our in our district. we have to have a library that meets the need for our youngsters, for our elders, and for the community as a whol. i'm hoping that we can get past all the other things. i want to thank supervisor ahsha safaí for all of his support for the library. i also want to thank, michael lambert for keeping us in the loop on certain things that was going on with our library, but our community

deserves a new library. we need a new library, and we need it asap. we don't need it ten years, 15 years down the line when some of the people who've been fighting for this community won't even be here anymore. thank you. good morning. my name is delia fitzpatrick, thank you. supervisors for having this issue on the table. i, i represent the oh, my community collaborative, and i've been working in community for 20 years. this district lacks doesn't lack people. it doesn't lack youth. we have the highest youth. we have the highest seniors. we have the highest seniors that age in place. both need supportive resources. we're not having we don't have any of

that. we need schools. we need safe spaces for our children. and we've been arguing, not arguing, but going back and forth about a space that is perfect for our community. i request that we look at this deeper and come to a definitive answer onto the needs of the community and what we want. thank you. are there any additional speakers for this matter? if you don't mind, if you can line up, it would be appreciated. good morning supervisors. my name is mary harris, president of. oh my neighbors in action, 50 year resident of the lakeview, omi. and here again to speak in support of this legislation.

because, you know, we won't have to pay for the land. it's already city owned and we need to keep the costs down and allow for community events and outdoor space for classroom and family activities, what i mainly want to speak about is, equity, which has been short supply in the lakeview omi. so i keep asking for that. and that the project continue in a timely manner, which it hasn't been doing, that we are transparent in what's taking place in the conversations that are happening with other groups and other entities that we haven't been told about until after the fact, so i ask that the community be updated on a regular basis and on the results of the

environmental review. the results of traffic safety and that that we need to, help in raising the additional funds for, the library now that it's nearly doubled in costs. so that's what i am here to say today. and thank you for your support. good morning supervisors. my name is al harris and i got up this morning thinking, five years, six years doesn't mean much if i say 91, 92, 93, it means a lot. i'm 85 years old. i'd like to see this library built before i die. and they keep talking about 20, 30,

2031, 2032. and i'm looking at i'm like, what am i going to be 95 before i ever see this thing? so we don't even have a timeline. can we get a timeline on this thing? right. and i think the location is perfect. let's get it done. thank you. thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers at this time. thank you. seeing no additional speakers, public comment is now closed and i do just want to reiterate my support for community. i know that community has been fighting for this location for quite some time, and i just want you to know that my support is with the community. i've heard you and respect the direction you want to go in, so you definitely have my support. supervisor safaí yeah, i debated whether i was going to say some of the things i'm about to say, but i'm sorry i have to i have to put it out

there because i have so much respect for the people that came out here today, each one of them has literally given years of their life to this community dealing with death, dealing with near death, dealing with racism, dealing with being neglected. and the sad thing is, in this situation, i'm sorry you have to be in this room right now. i'm sorry when government doesn't work for the people because we had everything lined up and i'm sorry. director lambert. in july of 22, you wrote a letter, and i said this before i got to say it again. you were ready to transfer the property from public works to the library. you were gung ho about this project. so what changed? and i'm sorry, i have to say this out loud, but we have a mayor that plays petty politics. she plays with people's lives, and she's playing in this situation. and

it's true. and it's unfortunate. it's really, really unfortunate because it's disingenuous for the librarian to come here and say, planning studies and all this other stuff when he's meeting with other people in the community, talking about an alternative site and i said out loud, it could never get built, and it's never going to be built on that site. never. the money does not exist. so it's wrong to divide the community. it's wrong to mislead them. it's wrong to play politics with a library for a community that's been so underserved for so long, i shouldn't even have to do this legislation. you're right. it's not good government in some way. but unfortunately, we have to do this because we have to put bumpers around this. so it's very, very clear this is where this needs to be built. and the only reason i'm making the

amendments i'm making today is just in case an adjacent parcel comes up and that becomes an alternative site. so there's two, two options. but for people that have to sit up here and say, please give us a timeline, i might not be alive by the time this gets built. that's sad. that is really, really, really sad. and it's sad when kids have to stand outside on the sidewalk because there's no room in the library. no other neighborhood in the city has to do that. that's a shame. it's a it's a damn shame that we are here today. so i make a motion to move these amendments. supervisor walton, as described, essentially, we're going to accept the ability to expand the adjacent on an adjacent parcel. and it's on page one. and throughout the, legislation. so if i can make a motion to accept those amendments as, as read into the record. thank you. supervisor safaí. mr. clerk, on

that motion on the motion to adopt the amendments, vice chair safaí i safaí peskin. excuse chair walton i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. amendments are approved. supervisor safaí. so because this is those amendments were substantive. this will be continued for one week. is that correct? correct motion to continue this item for this amended item to next week's committee meeting? yes. and the motion to continue the matter to september 16th. rules committee meeting. vice chair safaí i safaí i peskin. excused. chair walton i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes without objection. mr. clerk, please call item number two. item number two is a hearing to consider appointing three members indefinite terms to the food security task force. three seats, two applicants. thank you so much. is katherine jackson here?

hi. good morning. good morning. thank you for having me this morning. and i want to start by thanking you both for your work on food and hunger in the city, my name is katie jackson. i am the chief nutrition officer at project open hand, which is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing medically tailored food to individuals suffering from chronic illnesses, in which food can help to improve those conditions, previously to my role at project open hand, i was the director of food nutrition services at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital, the city's safety net hospital and there i was over meal production service to our patients at the hospital. and, the long term

care facility, as well as the medical nutrition therapy at the hospital, so i have a history, a long history of serving those, one who have issues with food access and also who have chronic illnesses in which food is really important in terms of the healing. so i am here today to, support my nomination for a seat on the food security task force. i'm interested in joining the food security task force because as a registered dietitian, i understand the impact of food on health, and also on health equity here in the city. we have, a growing number of folks that are food insecure. and we know that that disproportionately impacts communities of color and, leads to, more divide in terms of health equity. so i hope to

bring my expertise on not only, food and nutrition, but also access to food and have the opportunity to collaborate with the other folks serving on the task force in order to do that, i find that the task force has been a instrumental force in identifying disparities within the city, and coming up with solutions that are based in the community and how we can tackle and address that. so i'm thrilled to be here today. i'm excited to be working on this, this cause i find it to be a very important cause, especially as we address chronic illnesses in in our city and how we can use food and use nutrition as a way to improve health outcomes. thank you, miss jackson. any questions? supervisor safaí no thank you for your willingness to serve. thank you, we will also hear from noriko lim. good

morning, supervisor walton and supervisor safaí. my name is narika lim and i am applying for seat 16 on the food security task force, you know, i spent close to a decade in higher education assisting san francisco state students and being an advocate for them, especially around the issues of food insecurity in order to reduce their time to degree. i found that giving back to my community was where i found the most joy, and i decided to join the san francisco marin food bank as their chief strategic partnerships and advocacy officer. i thought at this point in my career, i wanted to give back to the community and the city that raised me, and i thought food insecurity was one of the places in which could be the most impactful for my work, i feel that my academic policy and also my lived experiences in san francisco would contribute and also complement those on the food security task force and also to just to better serve our

community members. thank you. thank you so much, miss kim tepper, miss lim tepper, my apologies, supervisor safaí, any questions? no, just thank you for your willingness to serve. thank you, mr. clerk. we'll go to public comment. public comment on item number two. members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to provide comment on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. thank you. seeing no public comment. public comment is now closed, and i do just want to reiterate my thanks for you to both wanting to step up and serve. this is definitely an important task force. as you know, we have a lot of folks who are suffering from food insecurity in our community. and so we appreciate your willingness to serve. with that said, supervisor safaí, are you trying to. yeah, yeah, i just i just want to add, you know, we did the food empowerment market and supervisor walton's district, i think that is something that we've got. i've

gotten a lot of positive feedback. i know he has as well, i think it's something it's a model, hopefully, that we can replicate and look to provide greater access to community fol. thank you so much. and with tha, mr. clerk, i'd like to move forward. catherine jackson for seat 12 and noriko lim for seat 16. yes. on that motion, vice chair safaí i safaí i peskin excused chair walton a walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes. thank you, mr. clerk. please call item number three. yes. item number three is a motion to approving or rejecting the treasurer's nomination of jackie chen to the treasury oversight committee for a four year term ending june 17th, 2026. thank you so much. and i believe miss chen is here. good

morning, supervisor azar and walton. and i'm currently serving as the chief financial officer at the san francisco unified school district. i excuse me, would you mind pulling the microphone closer to yourself? oh, sure. sorry, given we are a single district county, and also take the role of the cfo for the county of education before this, i was the chief financial officer at high tech, high, one of the largest charters network in california. i have been calling bay area san francisco for my home for over 25 years, where i have built my career from the ground up. my journey started as a tax consultant at deloitte in san francisco. from there i moved to the school district audit and to the governmental auditing. after four years as the auditing supervisor, i transitioned to the role as the director of finance for both the palo alto

unified school district and campbell union school district, and then became the cfo for high tech high and san francisco unified school district. i'm very excited to be part of the treasury oversight committee with my diverse background and in finance, from tax consultant to auditor to cfo, i'm looking forward to bring my valuable insight and to the community. my goal resonated with the committee to help the city manage its surplus funds and investments effectively ensuring we maintain financial, health and security. thank you for this opportunity to serve. thank you so much. supervisor safaí. any questions? no, thank you, thank you. we don't have any questions, mr. clerk. we will go to public comment, yes. members of the public, who wish to speak on this matter should line up to

speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to make comment on this matter? there are no members of the public who wish to speak on this matter. thank you. seeing no speakers, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, i would like to make a motion to move this nominee forward to the full board of supervisors. yes. can i make a request to amend the motion to delete the word rejecting throughout the legislation? and i also believe that we need to add a residency waiver for this matter. yes. please include the residency waiver and the omission and the deletion of the rejecting. correct. yes. on the motion to amend and recommend, as amended on that motion, vice chair safaí i safaí i peskin, excuse chair walton i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes without objection. mr.

clerk, please call item number four. item number four is an ordinance amending the administrative code to exempt the legacy business assistance program from the grant making requirement under administrative code, chapter 21, g and all other provisions in the administrative, labor and employment, environmental and police code imposing obligations or other restrictions on contracts. thank you. and i believe we have a presentation on this item. good morning, chair walton. vice chair safaí sfgovtv. i have a powerpoint presentation. i'm richard carrillo, legacy business program manager with the san francisco office of small business. the ordinance before you today would amend the administrative code to exempt the legacy business assistance program from the grant making requirements under administrative code, chapter 21, g and all other provisions in the administrative, labor and employment, environment and police codes imposing

obligations or other restrictions on contractors. our office is proposing this ordinance due to the significant administrative burden to grantees and the city. for example, we would otherwise need to enter into a contract with every single grantee. this would make it extremely difficult and time consuming to support legacy businesses. under the legacy business assistance program. as a reminder, chapter 21 g of the administrative code sets a variety of requirements that departments must meet in order to award funds to an entity in furtherance of a public purpose. for example, chapter 21 g requires departments to award all grants through an open and competitive process to ensure fairness, transparency, and efficiency in the city's grant making process and to guard against favoritism, collusion, and corruption. the legacy business assistance program is

structured differently than most other city grant programs. this is why we believe it is reasonable to exclude the legacy business assistance program from the administrative code requirements. unlike other city grants where multiple entities may be bidding for one grant, the legacy business assistance program provides grants and financial services to all legacy businesses and their landlords, who apply and qualify for the grant as long as there are sufficient funds. additionally, there are several layers of review by different city entities between when a business expresses interest in becoming a legacy business and when the office of small business awards a grant to a legacy business or a landlord of a legacy business. number one to qualify for the registry, a business must meet three eligibility criteria. number two, a qualified business must complete an extensive written application. number three, a member of the board of

supervisors or the mayor must nominate the business for inclusion in the registry. number four, the historic preservation commission can consider recommending the business to the registry. and number five, the small business commission must approve the business as a legacy business and its inclusion in the registry. therefore, due to the differences in how the legacy business assistance program works as compared to what chapter 21 g was drafted for the competitive solicitation and written grant agreement requirements under chapter 21, g do not make sense for the legacy business assistance program. as a reminder, in july, the office of small business created the business stabilization grant. this is a replacement grant for the existing rent stabilization grant, which is under a different section of the admin code, the legacy business historic preservation fund. the new business stabilization grant will require that landlords

share at least 50% of the grant with legacy businesses. through this ordinance, the office of small business is proposing to add the exemption to section two, a 246. the legacy business assistance program. in addition, this ordinance would add the exemption to chapter 21 g under definitions. i'm available for any questions and i thank you for your time and consideration. thank you so much for the presentation. just a quick question in layman's terms, regular language. why is this exemption necessary? so chapter 21 g, which was added to the administrative code i believe, in 2021, has a very strict definition of what a grant is. and this business stabilization grant and other grants that we would like to do through this new section in the admin code that we just created in march, the grants don't exactly meet

the definition of what a grant is in 21 g. it's a little bit different because the way 21 g is written, it has to be a competitive process. but with the legacy grants, if they meet the recommendations and the requirements, then they're eligible for the grant, the competitive process is more on the front end, which is applying for the registry, and they have to do the whole application for that. and get a letter of nomination from the supervisor. so it's more of a front end kind of situation. so we don't quite meet the definition of how it's written in 21 g. thank you so much, supervisor safaí. any questions. seeing no questions. mr. clerk, can we go to public comment? yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. thank you. seeing no speakers, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, i would

like to make a motion to move this item forward to the full board with recommendation. yes, on that motion. vice chair safíi safaí. i peskin. excused. chair. walton, i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion passes. mr. clerk, do we have any more business for today? that completes the agenda for today. thank you so much. we are adjourned. today.

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

island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military

base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and

the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt

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

8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to

simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical

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

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

this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group

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

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

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

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

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

sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic

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

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

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

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

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

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

going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage

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

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

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

in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is

faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i

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

use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the

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

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

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

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

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