certain place in respect of all poem he was just a remarkable individual. unfortunately, we didn't live long enough here to see the street sign

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are there any requests? >> there are no requests. >> do you have any announcements? >> i have a brief announcements that commissioners should complete the training by the end of the year. i will send it to you in the next couple of days. these are valuable trainings

that are mandated to complete your service. that concludes my announcements. >> all right. please call the first item. >> item 1. general public comment which is for topics under the commission's mandate. but are not related to specific items on today's agenda. members of the public wishing to make comment in person, please sign up to the right. if commenting outside the chamber raise your hand in the webinar or press 3 to be recognized. i believe we have one person

commenter. you have three minutes to speak. >> good morning, commissioners. >> i want to thank you for listening because it's about the comment about the lack of street sweeping on russian hill. it is not true that we do not want mechanical sweeping. since may 18, we have been telling you this is not true. at that time, the neighborhood organization conducted an online poll and 71% of the 2300

responded they wanted street sweeping. 18%, or maybe less now, also, we would like to keep the storm drains cleaner and the department would remove pollutants from our streets that harm the environment and pollute the waterways. one other thing, deputy director said that even when they have tried sweeping, people do not move their cars. this is true. perhaps we are slow learners and perhaps people like getting and

paying parking tickets but the word is out that we do not have street sweeping. no one even thinks to look for signs. so anyway, i want to thank you for your time and letting me correct a bit to my comment last month and looking forward to continuing working with portion. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. it appears we do not have any other general public comment. and no one from people outside the room have expressed interest in speaking at this time. that concludes public comment. >> all right. that concludes general public comment. next item. >> 2. communications and director's report informational correspondence log operations contracts considered by the public works commission >> this is a general item.

>> good morning. i have two topics for today. first up is proposition b, you may have heard there was an election and i wanted to bring to your attention proposition b, $390 million general obligation bond approved by strance voters with the latest showing the measure of 73% of the vote in the yes column. the bond needed 66 percent plus one to win. passing to community health centers, general hospital, laguna hospital, rec's and parks centers and shelters. the bond also provides up to $63.9 million in safety projects and paving and programs and work involved with our street paving crews. this is critical for

keeping our public infrastructure in good repair and helps advance our efforts for public services and shelters for the housed and safer streets. i also wanted to bring your attention to the quick build safety project. you may have seen changes to the roadway with bike way and added safety pedestrian elements which is an initiative aimed at making city streets safer for people to walk and bike along corridors. the same for corridor streets and gutters and concrete base. then the building and street repair worked on the paving restoration including grinding the old asphalt layer and adding new ones.

the sf mta repaired the roads. we marked the completion of the safety improvement. little known facts, we are responsible for maintaining the clocks on the streets. we took on the task of marking the clocks for daylight saving time. this year, daylight saving time fell on november 3rd. we take care of three towers on market street on drum street, o'farrell street. each with four faces gets adjusted by hand by a stationery engineer on the ladder on the market street sidewalk. while he was there, he made some needed minor repairs to the

clocks. just like clock work, our crews can be counted on. i also want to give a shout out to one of our landscape crews robert mckinney for its herculean efforts for removing the ivy on the first block of west view avenue in vernal heights. the crew worked from midnight to 9:00 a.m. to get the job done for people who walk and bike. lastly, our final love our city neighborhood beautification day volunteer workday for the 2024 season was held saturday november 9th. we had four dozen volunteers in the vernal heights and mission to clean the neighborhoods.

for 11 events of the year, we had 925 volunteers with us for our biggest day in march for planting harbor day. i would like to thank the group for organizing they beautification day event. you will be hearing more about this later in the meeting. with that, i'm available for any questions. thank you. >> thank you. are there any questions? hearing no questions. please open public comment on this item. >> members of the public wish to go make comment on this item in the directors report please lineup next to the wall or on the webinar press star 3 to be

recognized. >> i do not have any callers expressing in this item. that concludes public comment. great. please call the next item. >> 3. minutes from the october 21, 2024 meeting - adopt minutes action they have been posted to the sanitation and streets website and were distributed to commissioners, and this is an action item. before any motion is made to adopt them, i'm happy to take any questions or corrections to the minutes. >> are there any corrections to the minutes or questions from the commission?

>> >> i would like to move the minutes be accepted. approve the minutes. >> do i hear a second? >> second. >> all right. given the motion, we will now hear public comment. please open public comment. >> members of the public wishing to make three minutes of comment in person on the motion to adopt the minutes from october 21, 2024 meeting. please lineup to the right or from the webinar press star 3 to be recognized.

there are no public comments. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? >> the motion passes. please call the next item. 4. operations division-wide performance report staff will: present the performance of operations division-wide functions. presentation informational

>> good morning. , commissioners. i will start off this presentation for you. i would like to highlight these very important sections that we rarely go over too much during the year, but they are very important to operations and public works. safety insures we are safe, working in the field safely, ensure the safety requirements will be had. our second section is fleet. they are responsible for purchasing the equipment we need, maintenance of the

equipment that we have, we do inspections to make sure we are using the equipment effectively in the field and we use it on the field and daily operations. the only thing is not added is our tools which are provided for safety for tools that we need, whatever we need, we have that section in our 2323 caesar chavez. workforce development is very important. it helps people have opportunities for training for anywhere in the agency that you would like to be. they also work with outside agencies with workforce development and work with hsa and various other groups. so significant for public works. we do it with other agencies as well.

outreach and enforcement is very important. we work together with the business owners and the property owners on roles and responsibilities. our responsibility, your responsibilities, everybody's responsibilities. so they educate, they walk the streets, work with the zone supervisors, the communities and educate and keep us all on point because at the end of the day, it takes us to take care of our city. for programs, we have a small group and we work together with various volunteer groups. so our beautification day is just one of the small things that we do. they do over 100 volunteer groups a month. and they work with the communities and provide resources for them, and work with us to pick up the litter in the community. so it's very important that we work with our

community and business owners. so they are all special to us and today they will touch on some of the things they do. but before we touch on those, i want to do a year end closure on some of our accounts which you exceed but i will go over it. so service orders closed this year was over 135,000. where we closed and completed those requests. then we had tons of debris. we had over 23 tons of debris we picked up during the year, over 40,000 graffiti abated, over 7,000 square feet of sidewalk repaired in the city, over 1800 trees planted this fiscal year.

we have paved over almost 1 million 500 square feet of paving including potholes. potholes is almost 329,000. very busy this year. trees pruned and maintained almost 4,000 trees that we pruned throughout the city. i just wanted to give you those numbers and to let you know about public works and how busy we are. i would like to invite safety to speak on their section. >> good morning, commissioners.

i have been with public works just shy of two years. i am the head of environmental health and safety for public works. today, i have, we are presenting and that would be motor vehicle incidents and mvi's and injuries for employees. now, if you look at these two graphs, there is a down trend from 2019 to 2024. the purpose is we are tracking these rates for trainings and public improvement to keep our employees and public safe weighs carry out our operational service needs. the next slide is referencing

worker's compensation, which is measured by total claims paid. there was an increase due to influx of employees we hired. this is tracked and reported to develop training opportunities. we have a return to work program that is exciting and new for employees who are out on an injury, back to work prior to training so they come back to work so they do not have a similar accident in the future. this slide signifies the

preventable and non-preventable. preventable incidences that could have been avoided had the employee taken reasonable precautions to avoid it. a non-preventable motor vehicle incident is an incident that couldn't have been prevented. we look at the location, and day and time of the week to see if there are areas to correct that are unsafe. the numbers are a little high in 2023 and 2024, we are putting together programs to reduce accidents. i would like to highlight a few

that we have in place. we are increasing the standard driver training program within the community within public works to look at our existing driver training program, and to define mechanisms to improve it. that could be longer training, things of that nature. we are excited because we have been able to train some of our supervisors to become certified instructors to help with retraining and what i like to call drivers with concerns. we were able to in the process of getting a new simulator we

are very excited about it. any questions? thank you very much. what is the time period of the training before they go on road for what they do. this preventable accident is quite high. i'm assuming they have to have a certain amount of training before they get on the road. so how is this measured? >> that's what we are looking at and increasing the amount of time they go through training. we are looking at putting a program together to spend additional time to understand the city and layout and where

things are because we do feel that might be somewhat of a problem for new drivers. they don't really know all the areas. we do take them around on their routes. they have about two weeks of training. we want to increase that and make sure it's standardized for everyone across the board. i'm looking to standard the program through jade and carla and there are experts in the field from fleet and other areas where we are looking at these things to make sure we can come up with plans for this. >> they have two weeks of training before they go out by themselves? >> yes, there is a lot that goes into that two weeks. we want to extend it and make sure it is standardized and we are tweaking it a bit. for example, we would spend more time on things like backing up and pretripping and things that we see areas of concern. we will now have more instructors

to help focus those individuals that are having issues that we can identify during their initial training and we can give them additional training. hopefully be able to monitor them a lot closer because we'll have more for those who are trained to do so. >> this is moving forward. >> yes, it's already in the worked but moving forward. also very expensive? >> the expense will come from the time away from the wheel or out on the field because the programs are already in place, we are just making them better. >> i understand that. but there is a monetary cost. if you are training someone who is supposed to be on the street for what they are supposed to do they should be vetted and training

and should not be doing things alone by themselves because accidents happen. >> i'm looking into that. we are working on that and will present you the numbers. two questions and a comment. do they only get one training or periodic training? >> they will get periodic training. a lot of it is with new promotions and a lot of people have retired and we lost a lot of our senior drivers, our instructors.

we are making sure they get the training they need. >> we all need a refresher. i was told working with them that to never make a left turn? >> is there a problem with making left turns? >> left and right. i was speaking with our fleet this morning regarding turning. that's an area we are looking into. even want to discourage left and right turns altogether and you just have to go around the block. >> i was thinking that, but when you have the streets that we have in the city, it's hard to make a left turn. >> that's why we'll focus more on hands-on practical and we

start seeing these mvi's again for left and right turns. the simple ones that we can get a hold on is what we are trying to grapple with to keep it down and keep us safe and the community as well. >> yes. my comment is i want to compliment you folks on your work that is so vital for the protection of our employees and citizens. you don't want to go off the curb and go after somebody. >> i will let them know that will go for the infrastructure and the simulator. it's a lot of fun. >> thank you, again.

>> next is our equipment fleet. >> good morning, everybody. my name is john. i have been with the city for 21 years managing the fleet. we just started buying new electric vehicles. we have six of those. and buying any light duty vehicles that will be cars or trucks under 185 pounds. we have to buy electric. they cost more than gasoline

vehicles. and we don't have places to charge them all so it's challenging. we have the fleet here, the numbers. half of our fleet is over 20 years old. the picture you saw showed shiny new equipment. we have a lot of equipment that isn't nice, new and shiny. we are going over the budget right now. some of the vehicles we are replacing and they are average 25 years old, a couple hundred thousand miles on it. they breakdown, parts aren't available. it leads to down time for vehicles. we have to buy some parts, junkyard parts because the parts

are not available because the stuff is so old. the heavy equipment we have to buy 50% now used. the electric vehicles, about $900,000. you can't run them double shifts, only one shift at a time due to the charging. they have big batteries, it takes a long time to charge them. this is the california air resource board. this is not us, but doing what we are required to do. it's going to get very difficult by 2027 where we have to buy all electric.

unless there is a major infusion of cash for all electric citywide, not just public works, we are going to have a challenging time trying to keep the fleet on the road. that's about all i have. >> i have a question about the new rule. does the state help with more money because i'm sure no, but is there a way that city agency is going to say this is going to cost xyz? >> can we ask the state that?

>> state or federal or whoever can help with the budget. >> there are some grants we are trying to pursue. the city as a whole is trying to pursue some grants to upgrade the electrical system. the state has the attitude that they don't care. it's just the law and do it. an example, we have a lot of street sweepers and we do a lot of demonstrations on sweepers. different models and different brands and a lot on electric. the sweepers won't make it up the hills in san francisco. we

can get up some hills but there is one that is 27% grade and 20 or more percent of our sweepers cannot make it up the hill. they brought it up and they said basically they don't care. there is flat parts of san francisco, so send it there. but you have to get there. i personally will not buy a sweeper that does not we do up the hill. i'm not going to sign one up. i have seen them roll backwards and down the hill and someone

can get killed. >> did we purchase the equipment before? >> we do demonstrations on the equipment before we think about purchasing it. if we are not familiar. let's say we put a bid out and somebody bids on the equipment and we are not familiar with it, we'll require them to bring a piece of equipment out and prove that it can meet the specs before we purchase it. this is a huge impact to the budget and would assume this is

brought to the mayor's office as far as the cost. the other thing as far as the charging piece, to have the infrastructure in place you buy the equipment? >> yes, that would be logical. i have a saying. also in the right way, the wrong-way -- >> also building relationship with some of these partners. is there any communication, kind of way of seeing if there is any of some of these car dealerships

i was wondering if there was one from the city. >> are you talking about bringing one to our yard and building it there? >> yes. our yard was built in the 50s, i believe. nobody anticipated this back in the 50s like now they need 200 amps. pg & e needs to come and improve it. they have to do the upgrade before we can do the upgrade. it's just a massive issue

everywhere. public and private. the power is not there and we are forced to do something that is not achievable right now. you have to turn on the power on hot days and don't run your washer or wash your car until nighttime. when we have this requirement in a few years in california, what's going to happen to that grid? i don't know. i don't have the answers. we are going to be running generators to run the electrical. >> having these electrical.

>> we haven't run any electricals. we can't buy other equipment unless we buy electric. >> i saw a small one person sweeper, do they have them? >> they make them but we don't have them. >> i have seen one in sonoma. >> that is electric but not public works. it's one of the cbd's. >> sorry. i was thinking it was dpw.

>> yes, there are problems with our departments that they are difficult to meet but this is for all departments. the city administrator's office is working with the department, as well as the department of the environment which has the lead in charging the infrastructure. john made a very important point is that the electrical infrastructure is insufficient at this moment to meet the mandated work. so it is going to be a citywide issue to work through, but we want to create our fleet as much as we can but we need the equipment to do our job. applying for grants is something we'll definitely be doing to help take the burden a little bit. >> is it possible at all to combine with other city

departments like a charging area if pg & e upgraded everything. is that a reasonable request, or is everyone too spread out where their vehicle is for that to be a possibility? >> that's actually an idea that i brought up to gsa fleet where the city should look for a large yard and give each department in that yard. why should we do it in 20 locations where the city as a whole. we have plenty of lots. we could do this and get a parking lot to charge the vehicles. >> you have pretty much your electric vehicles one charged

and another one coming up and one gets charged right away? >> our yard is we have 20 pound sausages in a 1 pound bag. most vehicles have their own designated spots. we have one car that charges in that spot but we can't move things around because we don't have any other spots. >> all right. any other questions? >> one other question. >> is there a way to go and have this mandate pushback to some date so we can be prepared for this? >> are you talking about the state mandate? >> yes, the mandate that you have to follow. >> i wish there was, i hope there is. i know there are a few lawsuits going on, but i think it's mostly the private industry.

since we are government, they expect us to kind of lead the way. >> so we don't have any slack. put it that way. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you, john. >> tool and operational supplies. >> good morning, i have been with the department for 11 years. i over see the tool room. we have five major tasks that we provide. which is inventory management where we track all the supplies that we purchase. we issue out

supplies to the employee, and we restock our supplies using a par system and we prepare for emergency such as having supplies such as sand bags and also sand to clean up oil spills. we maintain all of our records in our database. this slide shows how much we spent per fiscal year. on average we spend about $366,000 for supplies. this slide represents the amount of items that we give out generally within a month. when it comes to traffic management, that ranges from traffic cones and traffic invest and aprons,

general materials, trash, bags, dust pans and tools, screw drivers, flashlights, hammers. gloves, masks and safety glasses. any questions? >> thank you. >> workforce development is up next. >> good morning, i'm warren

hill, workforce development with the city for 12 years. i would like to provide you a brief high level overview of the workforce development programs which is broken down into three sections. we have grants which we provide to our non-profit partners, preapprenticeship program, and city apprenticeship program. our grants to our non-profit partners, they assist us out in the field on a day-to-day basis. they provide proactive cleaning services and provide participants with actual hands-on work experience. many of our participants in our grantee programs. this may be their absolute first

job, may be their job from returning to society after being in custody or opportunity to just transition into something new. our non-profit partners connected with the community and really enforce workplace rules and expectations as they work with our workforce governance participants. our preapprenticeship program, is the entry level to city employment for many of these individuals. it focuses on skill development and in many cases their first opportunity to working with a unionized working environment. we have six apprenticeship opportunities. this is a path journey level career. this provides on-the-job training and provided through union and provides technical

skills and partners a jointly administered program at a we partner to provide these services. >> i will highlight 2 of our programs and two of our programs, two organizations and one actual program. one of the things i want to highlight is our tenderloin district, offers the tl program. it operates about 26 square city blocks from here to van ness to the border would be union square. the tlcbd provides cleaning and litter reduction services in these 26 squire blocks. cyc provides trash can and sidewalk steam cleaning services through a citywide.

they provide the services citywide. this is part of the proactive nature that we are responsive with public works for citywide proactive. they go make sure that all of our city cans are clean and sidewalks are clean. what you see here in front of you is this third slide on your right is our summer youth program. they provide landscaping and litter reduction services. this is our citywide program for our high school youth and gives them the entry and instruction to actually working an actual job. provides them with basic job skills and important of team building. >> for 9916 programs, we have 8

participants. 130 of those individuals are public works employees and as highlighted earlier, this is a partnership program with the services agency and provide 5 of those 9916 to provide corridor street sweeping programs. as a result of these negotiations, they are paid $25 an hour through the program. we have two active probation departments ship -- apprenticeship programs, now they are general laborers. each of the general laborers were 9916 that we provide.

last, our plumber apprenticeship program. one is working for our department, the other is working for sfo. the upcoming highlight. we anticipate a new plumber's apprenticeship program. we are looking to higher in january. we have our stationery apprenticeship program and our submit maintenance program. these are expected to start before the end of the fiscal year but also dependent on the agreements with the union and sufficient ratio of journey level employees that is in compliance with the mou's. any questions? >> >> i see you started something

with the other crafts. the plumbers, a long time ago at puc clean water had the only apprentice program and 261 started it. i personally feel it is a very successful program. on the youth program that you have, do some of those folks have a pathway to get into those apprenticeship programs? >> we do two things with our youth programs. one of the things is we partner with the high school to provide it a shadowing program. those individuals can come to the operations yard and shadow our program so they actually shadow some of our plumbers, some of our painters and so forth to get an introduction to the actual trade to see if it's something they want to do and participate in once they

graduate from high school. and our summer youth program works with buff to see if they want to embark on a career field as a general labor if they want to because they work with that program as well, but in landscape maintenance as well. >> very good. thank you. >> yeah compliments, i'm echoing the individuals. this is pretty amazing. >> next up is our community engagement team. good morning, everyone. glen alvarez, community

engagement. we are about connections but perhaps the more deeper way to describe it is what we really do is tell the story of public works. so, we tell the story using a variety of programs that we have. some of them are volunteer based, some of them are about building public space out, and some of them are about enforcement. i'm going to start talking to you about our community programs division because at its core, it is the easiest way for someone to engage with public works. this past fiscal year we engaged with over 30,000 volunteers, counting more than 51,000 hours, more than 30,000 trash bags and more than 1400 green waste bags. the programs where these bags

were collected from start with adopt a street. you might have seen little orange bags around the city. most likely those bags were generated from our volunteers. these are folks that come to us and do more than just call 311 because they live on a dirty street. they want to go out and get their hands a little dirty and clean up the street themselves. we partner with a variety of schools, community organizations groups, cbd's. and folks come to us and we give them paint and brushes and they get to paint over graffiti throughout the city. similar to the adopt the street

programs community groups, cbd's, generally anyone that wants to go that extra mile and not report to just 311 and do something about the condition of the streets. the street program is a way to beautify the city. folks come to us and they want to build-out a space or develop a space that perhaps we are not showing the love that we could be showing to it. so, we give them the tools, we also provide waste hauling services. whether it's a median, a parcel, some space in the right-of-way, they are doing the gardening work and maintaining the space in a way that we are not capable of doing.

just a highlight here. once a year, 120-200 high school students come and they clean up a space next to their school. this has been going on since 2021. it really is a great example of kids coming out for the day, gardening right alongside us and making the area they live in that much more beautiful. one of the signature days of public works is our neighborhood beautification days. happens once a month from january to november. we go from all 11 districts? san francisco and we really dedicated a lot of resources, a lot of time, a lot of planning to beautify 12 different work scopes around the city. some of them can be tree planting,

cleaning up a median, litter projects or painting over graffiti. it's really a day for folks to come out, work alongside us and really the way i described it is when it comes alive. you come and get to talk to someone that paints over graffiti and cleans streets daily and gardens daily and get a feel for what we do and an understanding of the challenges that we face and also getting your hands dirty and look at something that you contributed to. >> community development projects are really some of the more beautiful things that we can accomplish with community partnership. frequently you might see a mural

and those could be community development projects. they come to us and want to develop the space out and beautify it in more ways than trimming some hedges or mulching. usually these things require a lot of planning and i development project in partnership with the city but primarily fueled through community want. the other thing the community program does is arbor events. it's the one big event we put on. we plant a lot of trees that day. we usually get 350 attendees. is part volunteer pruning and part fair. we have a lot of vendors and

folks that have something to do in the community related to promoting greening, promoting arbor day. so, it's really a celebration of what public works does in arbor day? general. the open house is my favorite event that we plan. the open house is our version of disneyland. we usually invite students from the city to come and they get to go to the shops we have, they build a planter box, build a toolbox. we have interactive stations where they can see how a light switch works, and so is really an introduction to public works and frankly an introduction to the trades because not only do we have young students come, we also have folks that are teenagers. i believe we had a few college age students come and we have union representation there. so they really do have an

opportunity to learn about what it is to work in public works and how they might find an avenue to gain employment to public works. our health fair just happened. an annual fair to give flu shots and opportunity to come in to get a flu shot. we work with dph on it to work with them internally to benefit them. i talked about community programs, but the other prong of community engagement is the outreach and enforcement team. the phrase outreach and enforcement has a purpose behind it. the one chain is responsible for enforcing right

of way on the cleanliness for our departments to over see but are not necessarily authoritative. we will issue a citations, we have fines, but with a we are trying to do is make a connection and have the right conversation with people that might not be following the rules related to disposing of their trash, related to the various codes that we have. more than anything we are looking to have that conversation to make sure they understand that they might not be following what they need to follow according to the various codes in san francisco. so this is a breakdown of how we staff the city. we have the operations division that breakdown the city. >> i'm sorry, mr. alvarez.

vice-chair harris, if you can just call a recess while -- is out of the >> thank you. >> i suppose we can take it from the top. so the one team, they are responsible for enforcing the right of way laws related to cleanliness for our department. we breakdown the city in zones, a-f. each zone has their coordinator that is responsible

for the zone and patrolling, actively enforcing the codes we enforce, and also responding to complaints from citizens about code violations. this is a run down of the codes they enforce. i think the most common violation that is reported to us is actually public works code 170a. that is if you have ever seen your neighbors have their toters out when garbage is not coming, that is illegal. that's the number one enforcement we issue. the most prevalent and perhaps the most famous one is municipal health code 280 which is the dumping of

refuge, better known as, illegal dumping. we follow the progressive model in the one team. initially we will send you an outreach letter. it is a general letter informing you that you may be in violation of something and you may not even know that you are in violation of something. it's a warning to get in compliance. we have inspections and if we witness the same violation, we send out a notice of violation. it cites the code that you are violating and informs you of the potential citation with a monetary component to it. finally, if you just ignore all of our warnings, there is a citation. so, that citation is a formal

fine that can range out from $100 to $100,000. 11093 enforcement actions were taken. 7231 actions were actually the outreach letter, 2816 actions with a notice of violation, and 846en stances of our outreach rose to a citation level. this year, we are at 2029 outreach incidents. we are driven by 311 reports and have actually seen a down turn in folks that are contacting us

to report violations related to right of way cleanliness. last year we had 5541 total reports, this year 1195. we have partners on the team. we have some key partnerships with sf environment and department of health. illegal dumping is a dph code. in terms of finding folks that need to be contacted by us, we rely on recology. they have a lot of folks out there. whenever they might service a trash can, they let us know and we make the right contact with the ratepayer and start that dialogue to be sure they either

increase their service or perhaps have more frequency of their service. we also have partnerships with larger organizations like the community benefit districts and the green benefit districts. i think in general, the more kind of intel and the more information we can get, the better, whether it's a community group, whether it's just a constituent, ultimately the people that live in these communities are the experts on what's going on with them and we rely on them on what we need to be doing and looking to better serve them. so in years past, we would issue citations and i suppose there is a very blunt way of putting this.

we would issue a citation. if someone didn't pay it, we would send a letter saying you need to pay it. after that letter, we would send another one and threaten to send them to collections. if they didn't pay it, nothing would happen. i'm not sure why it was that way. i have been in this position for a year and nine months. and i immediately identified this as something that needed to change. so we have been working on a process to a lot at the unpaid invoices particularly for last year where we have full confidence that the citations we issue are just and proper. the $90,412.50, that have not been paid will be going through

board of supervisors to access that through a lien process. i'm excited to hold folks accountable. this slide essentially goes through the stream that needs to happen for that plan to go into effect. so, we'll be coordinating with the board of supervisors, issuing those as related to the unpaid citations and if needed, liening. looking ahead, we have some things that we are really excited about. and we are a small yet mighty team -- we have some vacancies that have not been filled for a number of years related to a

staffing, i suppose analysis. so, that has come pretty close to a conclusion, and we are looking to hire more of our outreach coordinators for the one team and the staffing for the fiscal year. we have a camera system for monitoring illegal dumping. we have been involved with the implementation and seen operationally how that would logistically play into our investigations. actually for the community development projects that we have, we are also involved with the launch of the new love our neighbor permit which i know have a lot of folks working on it and is something that the community is looking forward to.

with that, does anyone have questions? -- >> mr. harrison? >> yes, my compliments on finding this failing there if you will. things get lost in times sometimes and i think that's an excellent work you did there. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm on the other hand very pleased that you are going to start taking actions on citations on illegal dumping because it's very important to hold some people accountable for not dumping things. there is actions and people that call 211 and they shouldn't be doing that. it's pretty amazing. >> we are very excited to go after them as well. >> i know that we have been

talking for a while about camera and illegal dumping sites. are we still getting them installed? >> i think the first five. deputy director? >> yes, we have seven cameras in now. >> we did have some extremely frustrating delays in getting those up. many factors contributed to that including the company that we worked with got bought by another company and that work had to be done. we have seven in and we are getting there. we have been able to catch any illegal dumpers at all?

>> they have been in for about two weeks now. we are adjusting the cameras no you to target the exact locations, but thus far, no. not yet. we are hopeful. >> some people use the community as well for evidence, right? >> yes, and the community also given us permission to put cameras on their business. so we are working together in bayview. i have one question on page 33. the outreach on the numbers page. for fiscal year 24, it's up quite a bid from fiscal year 23.

is it just the staffing? >> yes, so, the bar graph that is lower is technical before my time with the one team. but knowing what i know, the staffing had issues and i think at that point we had the two or three on staff. currently we have five folks in the field, two supervisors and one admin on the team. that's a big difference from three people. >> yes. >> we actually have seven additional, but two have left us. so you saw the increase because we were fully staffed during that time. >> all right.

>> good job. thank you. >> with that, that is the end of our presentation. i can't reiterate enough how important each of these sections are to public works as a whole. they are the glue that keep us together. we are not just cleaning, we are not just doing trades work, but we are out in the community, investing in our employees, we care about the safety, our vehicles are important >> i hope some of this data that we have given you at the end of the year has enlightened you. with that, are there anymore questions? >> a couple. from when you first started, i was trying to wait until the end. for the trees that were planted, were they kind of spread out or were they concentrated in different neighborhoods or a mixture?

>> i would say a mixture. we are hoping the tenderloin can become the first neighborhood that's fully planted out. as you know that's a challenging neighborhood to get streets established. so there have been several efforts to really try to plant every available basin in the tenderloin as well as every available planting site. in addition, we received a grant to the specific for planting in the south of market area. we are working on that right now. for those two areas, probably the areas that received the most trees this past year and we are also working on replacing trees

where trees have been removed and more spread out. our partners are in the richmond districts because of grants available for those areas. so it's kind of a combination of both to answer your question. >> thank you. are there any from the nursery? >> not just yet. >> i'm really looking forward to that first industry. >> you will be the first to know. >> we have trees, but we are using the nursery also to stage trees before they go into the ground. so there are trees that have been in the nursery that have been planted but not yet a tree that has been raised in the nursery. >> that's really exciting. i think the nursery opened a year ago, right? that's really awesome. the other question i have about the pot hole and the

street repair that you talked about, how are we doing on the p ci score, are you going able to keep that up? >> i hope so. if we stay focused on our timelines and closing out the service orders and creating ones when we get to an area. if i get to one here as an example on venice and grove. they will come and if they see more, that will give us additional ones. we are very hopeful that we will continue to skip momentum on potholes. >> great. i was wondering because i was really excited about that. that's it for me. >> i have a question. the department of public works,

the team members, on the street level, retiring, how soon do you start retraining or promoting whoever that's going to be taking their spots? dpw is very vital for san francisco. whoever is taking over is quite important so we don't have accidents or gap that you have to train. so my question is how far or how soon you know folks that are going to retire, how quickly do you start taking steps to train someone to take on the positions? >> usually we have the person that is retiring work with someone that is close to them and put them in the acting role and they would obtain those responsibilities and as a person leaves, they will train that

person. but we'll still go through a fair process with hiring through hr. we can't promise people that they will get the job. usually the acting person in the role as the manager and supervisor is about to leave will train that person who will then train the person we hire or we are good enough to hire that person in a position. so, we continue to train but it's a process. we have to follow the process. usually if the acting person is sitting in the position who will get all the train and will help to train the new person coming in. >> yeah, i can just add a couple things. what we do try to plan for retirements and make sure we are giving people an opportunity to learn.

for example, if someone is on vacation, we will try to appoint a person in that acting role, and rotate often depending on how many people are eligible to be in an acting role. if we use our street cleaning team, for example, there is a superintendent. and we will often take turns rotating the assistant superintendents if that person is out. we do try to plan and if we know someone is going to retire. for example, we have an amount of for warning before chris mcdaniel retired, we are were able to share the information and one is currently acting as superintendent. sometimes we don't have as much warning and may come quickly and

we may not be able to do that same degree of planning. the way we do it generally is throughout the year looking for those opportunities to give people some training in the role so that if and when the opportunity comes up, they have had a little bit of experience and if that's a job they might want to plan for and do in the future. >> some of the information we have gotten to today is that there is not enough training time. i'm curious what other steps have been taken into consideration. >> on boarding is important and training. it's our biggest responsibility as a civil servant. i agree. >> thank you. >> thank you.

all right. do we have anything else? there are no further comments from the commission. now public comment. please open public comment. members of the public who may wish to make comment in chambers, please line-up up to the right. if you are online, please press star 3 on the webinar to be recognized. >> okay. no one has come forward to speak on this item. no one has raised their hand in the online queue also. that concludes public comment. >> all right. since there is no further discussion, secretary fuller, please call the next

item. >> we will now turn to three items of commission business. the first, item 5, 5. sanitation and streets commission annual statement of purpose - adopt i will present this action item. so the city charter requires commissions to adopt a statement of purpose, and previously, this commission statement was adopted as part of its rules of order. per the suggestion of the civil grand jury this year, we are adopting it separately so it's easier to find from commission members and the public. and there is an adopted newer

format but the content is different and fulfilling the mandate and doing it in a relatively uniformed pattern. so the proposed statement of purpose has been distributed to commissioners and it's currently posted on the sanitation streets website. it's basically talking about what the mandate is in the charter so it's more easily available without having to go through entire charter to find that information. before any motion is taken on this item, i'm heir to take on any questions or suggestions. >> does commissioners have any questions on the sanitation and

streets annual statement of purpose? all right. do i have a motion? >> notion approve. >> second. >> given the motion, mr. fuller, please open public comment on this matter. members of the public, on the annual sanitation streets commission statement of purpose, please lineup here in the chambers or press star 3 to be recognized. no one has approached on this item and no one in the queue has raised their hand on it either. that concludes public comment on the moment. >> all right. all in favor say,

"aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? >> all right. motion passes. >> second fuller, please call the next item. >> i will post that adopted statement of purpose on the commission's website as well. >> 6. sanitation and streets commission 2025 calendar - adopt staff report, resolution action >> i will present the proposed calendar. this is an action item. if sf gov tv, if you can display the clerk pc. okay. per the commission's rules of order we adopt the calendar of meetings ahead of the new year to allow commissioners and department staff to plan their

schedules and with the joint public hearing of the public works commission and followed by three meetings to hear a performance update from each operations bureau and division wide report and other reports similar to the ones we have heard over the past calendar year. we will continue to use the third monday of the month for the meeting time here in city hall and additional meetings maybe scheduled if necessary. i'm happy to take any questions before a motion is made on this item. >> thank you. commissioners, do you have any questions on the calendar? >> no questions. >> do i have a motion to adopt.

motion to adopt. >> second. >> given the motion, do we have public comment? >> is there any public comment on the motion of adopting the 2025 calendar of meetings, please lineup next to the wall. if you are online, press star 3 from the webinar to be recognized. no one has approached to speak on this item and no callers in the queue either. that concludes public comment. >> all right. hearing no further debate, all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? all right.

the motion passes. >> secretary fuller will post the calendar of meetings on the commission's website. please call the next item. >> 7. sanitation and streets commission election of officers i will discuss this item. per the commission's rules of order we hold an annual election of officers for the commission chair and vice-chair. our normal method is to take nominations for each role, and if there are multiple nominations for one of the roles, we'll hear public comment and debate and vote on the nominees until one of them receives at least three votes in favor. we will move on to the next role using the same procedure. the only other exception is if there is only one nominee for each role, we can have a single

vote for the roles and consider them as a slate. only hearing public comment once. before hearing any nominations, i'm happy to take any questions because sometimes explaining that procedure can be more confusing than just doing it. commissioners, do you have any questions for the sanitation streets commission election of officers >> >> no. >> do i hear a nominees for chair? >> yes, i would like to nominate -- for chair. >> do i have any nominees for vice-chair? >> i would like to nominate

commissioner harrison to vice-chair. >> all right. given that nomination, we will now hear general public comment on -- >> are there any other competing nominations? >> yes. i think we are good. >> no problem. >> not hearing any other nominations, we will go to public comment. >> members of the public wishing to comment on the nomination of commissioner showman and chair

and commissioner harrison as vice-chair, please lineup next to the wall, or if you are on the webinar, please press star 3. no one has approached us to speak on this nomination and no one in the caller queue. >> great. is there any debate on the nomination? i think we are good, right? so say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? >> yes. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? yes. >> nomination passes. >> congratulations. secretary fuller will update the

commissions website for 2025. please call the next item. >> congratulations to both chair showman and harrison. next item. 8. new business initiated by commissioners informational >> great. would any commissioners like to raise any issues? >> i would like to hear a report on the electric vehicles at some point. it's when you have more information. so i would appreciate that. okay. >> commissioner? >> i would like to propose a future meeting with recology to get an updated version on how

they are helping the agency and services. >> great. do we have any further business? hearing no further new business. mr. fuller, please open public comment on this item. >> members of the public who wish to make comment on this item no. 8, please lineup near wall, if you are commenting outside of chamber, from the webinar, press star 3 to be recognized. no one has approached on this item in person and they haven't raised their hand in the queue. so that concludes public comment. >> great. is there any further

discussion from the commission? >> no? all right. hearing no further discussion, secretary fuller, please call the next item. 8. general public comment - continued from item 1 if necessary since we did not exceed the 15 minute for item 1, item 9 is not necessary. >> all right. mr. secretary, is there any further business? >> there is no further business on the agenda. >> this commission will be adjourned. >> i adjourn this meeting. >> [ end of realtime captioning ]

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manner. today's special guest is carla short. >> hi, i'm chris manner and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining the city. our guest is carla short the intric director of public works and here to talk about the storms we had and much more. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> great to have you. let's start by talking about the storms that started beginning

of the year. there fsh a lot of clean up recovery and remediation. can you talk about what your team did? >> sure. the 17 inches of rain we got starting on new year's eve through the first 2 and a half weeks of january made it one of the wettest periods in recorded history for san francisco, so as you imagine we had a lot of work to do. we gave out more then 31 thousand sand bags, we were operating all most non stop from new year's eve to san francisco residents and businesses out of our operation yard and frequently working thin rain so it was a beautiful dance to watch. we had a corio graphed where people drive in the stop and load with san dags and get on it way so thats was the most visible thij weez had to do. responded to all most a thousand calls for localized flooding for the corner of the street with catch

basin. our team trying to address that. we clear and pick up anything to block and it hopefully get the flooding to go down. if we are able to respond we call in the san francisco pub utility system and are responsible for the sewer system under so they bring ing vack trucks that vacuum out debris inside the catch basin. we also dealt with lots and lots of calls about trees and tree limbs down. i think we actually faired better then some other places in terms of loss of full trees. we did have whole tree failures and that is not that uncumin with super satch waited soil conditions. we had over 950 calls about trees or tree limbs down. a lot of calls were about loss of a limb and we could save the tree. we are still assessing the data to figure how many were full tree failures versus limb failure. >> also had land

movement too. the great highway comes to mind. what is your approach to managing rock mud and land slides? >> that is a great question. we had 28 different slides over the course of that period. it is kind of a interesting process, so the first step is we have our geotechnical or structural engineers take a look to see is the hillside safe, do we need to stabilize it in some way or just need to do some cleanup? once they made their assessment they will recommend the next steps. often times to protect public safety we will place k rails the giant concrete rails at the base omthe slide area to make sure that any debris doesn't get on the edroway and bring ing the heavy equipment to scoop up on the ground and move off the roadway and try to open the roadway. some cases, we will actually inject some rocks or other stabilizing forces either into the slide

area or sometimes below the roadway. right now there is nothing that's unstable out there but be are keeping a close eye on the areas including the gray highway area. >> right, right. well, so talking about the storms in the city response, brings us to southeast community scepter when there is rain remediation projects going on. can you talk about the inconstruction project kblrks that is a favorite project. a beautiful new community facility. we were involved in pretty much every aspect of developing that project for the public utility commission. they were a client. we design project management and construction management and the landscape design for that project. and one thing that we included was storm water management throughout the entire project site. so, that project encapturealize the rain water

that lands on the roof and flows into the landscape where we have rain gardens so intent is slow the water down to and give areas to collect to percolate into the ground rather then the sewer system. when we have sewers that are overloaded, because our rain water mixes with the sewer treatment storm sewer system, we actually can end up dist charging into the bay which we dont want to do. anything we can do to just prevent those combined sewers from overpm loaded is a good thing and in this case allows the water to collect onsite and percolate to the ground which is the best way to manage the storm water and it is beautiful and provides habitat. i encourage everybody to see it. it is special place. >> that's great. there was recently news about how city (indiscernible) powered by steam, which is super unusual i think.

i understand public works ablgtually does the maintenance on the system. can you just talk about that a bit? >> sure. that is a unusual situation. that steam loop was actually built when the city was recovering from the 1906 earthquake. it only provides to steam about 4 buildings in civic center but that is how we keep buildings like city hall warm. the steam goes into the radiators and provides the heat. it is a old system and if you see steam billowing out of the man holes or other spaces, that is indication of a leak actually. we spend a lot of time trying to fix the leaks because it's a old system. it is managed by the real estate department and at one point they were looking trying to replace the whole thing but think that is a massive undertaking so now they focus on making as needed

repair said. we did a big repair on growth street where we spent a month and a half working on the known leaks s in the area. it is a very tight spot and have to use blow torches to seal up the leak so a intense operation and seeing more leaks on polk street so we will be out there once it warms up to fix the leaks. >> excellent. let's discuss what is the reunifiquation of public works. there fsh a proposal or plan to split off the division, called the street and sanitation. now that has been shelved and public works is going to just retain being a single entity. can you talk through the process? >> sure. yeah. the original proposal was a ballot measure voted on to split the department into 2. it basically create the department of sanitation and streets that was really going to

incompass all our operation divisions so it was a street cleaning department but encompass everything we refer to as operations. when we worked preparing for that split with the city administrator office, we found there were actually 91 what we call touch points between the operations work and our engineering and architecture side, so we really felt like it could be very difficult to split into two departments. we have so many areas of overlap. there was a new ballot measure last november to reunit the department. technically we split october one and did split in some ways. we did put on hold some of the behind the scenes things like rebranding all the vehicle jz giving everyone a new e-mail address in the sanitation and streets department, but on january 1 of 2023 we came back together so we are reunited i want

sing the peaches and purb song and think it is a good thing for the 91 areas of overlap. we making #2c3w50d use of the research. preparing for the split. looking at all the touch points and trying to strengthen the department so we are more streamlined and efficient. one of the most important component from the original ballot measure is commission oversight. we retained two commissions, the public works commission which oversee the over-all department and approve the budget and contracts. and sanitation and street commission and their mandate focus on policy and deliverable for street cleaning and basically the operation division. reporting to them regularly how we are doing, we think will help make sure we are as efficient and effective as we can be as a department. >> that sounds great. thank

you so much for coming and talking to me today and appreciate the time you have given. >> thank you so much for having me. it was a pleasure. >> that is it for this episode. you are watching san francisco rising. >> i'm sabrina, i own vintage in north beach san francisco. i started 7 years ago online selling vintage clothing and 9 months ago i opened my brick and mortar in san francisco. i have always been passionate about vintage clothing. always just been so passionate about what i do and i felt it was the right time after 7 years online. i think it is what north beach needed. especially because vintage clothing is so good for the environment as well.

very anti--i think it is great and a opportunity to be here. we have everything from the 20 to 90. i personally like to create more towards the 60 and 70 as you can tell. there is something for everyone. i just always want everyone to feel very welcome in here. i want to treat everyone like a guest in my apartment. i want everyone to have a good time in here and just enjoy all this very clothing. >> my name is andrew england the owner and collector at real old paper. i'm a native to the bay

areaismt grew up in oakland, spent high school years here and lived in hawaii about 10 years. moved back shortly. been in san francisco proper now for about 8 years. when i realized i wasn't a dealer anymore in san francisco, i found openings and decided to opening my own store in north beach in 2016. north beach was a great place to start. i got a neighborhood feel from it. i got involved in the community, but as far as business turnover, fisherman's wharf is 2 fold, 3 fold because there are so many more people here. we have been here going on 3 and a half years. i started as a hobbyist. i started collecting movie posters in high school. not originals. just favorite. when i mouved to hawaii there was a gallery that specialized in viptage posters and that taught me

about the variables beyond movies and that is where this is my career path and what iment to do. i with irked for them for 8 years, took a portion of pay in store credit so i built a collection basically and turned it into a brz. business. hobby turns business and forch int. i got bitten by the poster bug it spiraled out of control and i needed to a store to outlet my collection. san francisco has always had a viptage poster dating with 1970 with chicago new york and paris san francisco is a city with a area to buy vintage posters so people appreciate the time capsule and history. all are vintage. most in the store is at least 40 plus years old, some back to the 1800s so we have some 140 years old. they are advertisement,b war

propaganda from world war 1 and 2. movie and with travel posters and alcohol and tobaccos. thin pieces of paper meant to last maybe a mujt or 6 weeks. the lowest point was the pandemic. having to close the gallery so i didsant have a web store biltd or outlet and barely a instagram and told all the customers don't buy on line. can't be sure they are authentic or true colors or size or condition. it was very frustrating. it was a struggle until this opportunity presented itself and when i moved into this location on the wharf, there was still nobody here yet. we hadn't officially reopened but i rolled the dice, spent everything i had left to build this place out, and give it one last shot. it worked out very well. it worked out very well. >> here we have the 1971 for the fight.

ali and frazier first meeting. the one first professional loss. there is a lot that appreciate the story and understand the esthetic and message and nuances within the graphic. the champagne [indiscernible] wonderful piece. it carries both styles. it has the [indiscernible] in his garb. he has shoes and fits the earlier periods, but done in the style of art deco and that is what we offer and part of the experience knhing into the store. we will walk through the purchase and explain how we preserved it, what are the imperfections and what does the imagery mean. you have the older story and the newer story, pasted over the top. we will give you all that information. about everything. it may not be your favorite piece until you heard the story. i are think i always had in the back of my mind a second location outside the state. i dream is tokyo, but i do a lot of consulting in las vegas with

pon stars group so thought about opening a shop in las vegas. we like to branch out at some point. we are from here and where the company started and where we'll stay, we may just also open another store. i love being here. this is where my family is, this is where i was raised and not ready to leave that behind cht yes, people are looking for this store and there are fewer and fewer store fronts, brick and mortar like ours that outlet this thing. we offer the experience. i think it is very desirable collective subject matter because we are less and less acustoms. you can pick it while looking at it. examining the flaws and scale and color. you know what you are getting because you get that exact one. poster art is my area of expertise and i have affinity for. poster art especially they are not meant to last are under appreciateated. real paper, the vintage gallery is 777

beach street, tuesday-saturday 11-5 and monday 12-5. >> we serve. we are consumed daily. raw rice and [indiscernible] plus one appetizer and desert at the end. we want people to try a lot of thai local just as much as we can do. we decided to open the restaurant in san francisco because this is a foody city. it is a city people love to eat.

people love food. we believe that where we open, people can find us if we have good food. . that is why we open the restaurant in the middle of the financial district after the pandemic. it is super casual. something i consume when i was young. i bring it here. the same in my country. i want people to keep exciting with our food, with our menu and our restaurant.

>> good morning. our commission secretary, mr. bob fuller, please rault:. >> good