restoring this part of time. >> thank you for having me and taking a little time to showcase our heart of san francisco. >> thanks again. >> thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back with another one shortly. thank you for watching. okay. okay. >> actually if you could give me one moment. for tv i don't see a video feed on webex.

>> just get one minute. me contact them .

>> okay. sorry about that. thank you, chair whenever you're ready. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. it is now 1:01 p.m.. >> i'm. >> my name is dr. carolyn ransom scott and this is a regular meeting of the commission on community investment and infrastructure for tuesday, february 4th, 2025. i'd like to welcome everyone joining us. today's meeting is being held in hybrid format. members of the public can participate and provide comments both in-person at city hall and remotely by phone. thank you to the staff. and thank you to the guest who will also be participating in

today's meeting. madam secretary, please call the first item. >> thank you, madam chair. the first order of business is item one roll call. commission members, please respond when i call your name. commissioner lim is absent. >> commissioner brackett present. >> commissioner brackett is present. vice chair lim vice chair lim. i'm sorry. vice chair aquino forgive me. and chair scott present. thank you. >> commissioner lim is absent all other members of the commission are present. >> madam chair, we have a quorum. the next order of business is item two announcements. item eight. the next regular meeting is scheduled on tuesday, february 18th, 2025 at 1 p.m.. item b announcement a prohibition of soundproof dosing electronic devices

during the meeting. please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone pager or other similar sound producing electronic device. >> see announcement of public comment procedures. please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the commission adopts a shorter period on any item during each public comment period. members of the public attending the meeting in person will have an opportunity to provide their comments. is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. excuse me. thank you. members of the public who are joining remotely will be

instructed to dial 41565500011 prompted enter the access code which is 26600818667. press the pound or number sign than the pound or number sign again to enter the call one prompted. >> please press star three to submit your request to speak when you dial star three. you will hear the following message you have raised your hand to ask a question. please wait to speak until the host calls on you. when you hear your line has been unmuted, this is your opportunity to provide your public comment. you will have three minutes. please speak clearly and slowly. you will be placed back on mute when you are done speaking. you can either stay on the line or choose to hang up. if you are planning to provide a public comment on any item on today's agenda, it is recommended that you call the public comment line ahead of time to allow you to listen to the meeting live and to prevent you from experiencing delays. >> today's meeting materials are available on our website at s.f. oci cianci under

commission and then the public meetings tab. i'd also like to remind the commissioners we do have a there's another commission meeting in this room at 530 so we do need to exit no later than five. >> the next order of business is item three report on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting if any. >> there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is item four matters of unfinished business. >> item for a is authorizing a personal services contract between the successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the county, city and county of san francisco acting in its capacity as administrator of community facilities district number one south beach and kirk and associates a california corporation to provide landscape maintenance and related services in community facilities. district number one south beach

four an initial term of three years with one option to extend for up to an additional three years in an amount not to exceed $1,823,152. >> former rincon point south beach project area discussion and action resolu ocean number two dash 2025 director koslowski. >> commissioner brackett is asking if we're approving the meeting notes from the last meeting. at this moment we're just considering the approval of the cfd contract. >> okay. >> greetings members of the commission. members of the public. this is consideration of a contract for maintenance of a community facilities district maintenance area. this item was continued from

one of your previous meetings and to present this item is mark slutsky and the deputy director for. mark. >> all right. thank you director scott lasky. good afternoon chair scott vice chair kino and commissioner brackett. this director has asked he said i and mark slutsky and i'm the deputy director for oceanic and i am before you today is the personal service contract where we will be requesting a action to authorize the executive director to enter into the preserve for personal service contract with croton associates for landscape maintenance of cfe number one for initial term of three years and an additional three year term for $1,823,152.

>> safety number one was established back in 1982. it is funded by a special assessment of the private property owners. we had oci are the administers of cfe number one and cfe one includes for services for maintenance in landscape the furniture, the irrigation and the lighting for four plazas in cfe. >> one area in south beach. >> here we have an aerial view that kind of lets you see where cfd one is with a more zoomed in view showing you where the four different plazas exist. and here are some pictures of the cfd one little history for the proposal. we initially did a request for proposal and september 6th 2023 we put staff determined that that scope of services in that proposal lacked detail.

so we decided that we needed to reissue the rfp. we reissued it in march of 2024 on march seventh. on march 20th we had a pre-bid conference on march 27th. we had a site tour and in total we received five proposals. >> i outreach or outreach included the small business exchange newspapers, the sun reporter and the san francisco bayview newspaper. osha's website at the city's big bids and contracts website and the city's weekly business newsletter. >> we also had or complaint staff directly reach out to 24 species. they were all landscaping sb firms registered in the cities to be down to base as additional species registered on previous oci are a piece the

oci staff evaluation plan interviewed and scored each proposal based on qualifications, experience and budget criteria specified in the rfp. broken associates received the highest score and we are here today recommending that we enter into a contract with them . >> the contract will be a three year contract and then the executive director will have the option to extend it for an additional three years. so if if extended this contract will go through february 28th, 2031. >> the scope of services includes the recurring maintenance and ordinary repairs typical for maintenance activities and plantings in the plaza furniture, trash and litter removal paving and the maintenance and resetting and lighting. there will be as needed repairs . there will also be capital repairs and to do that we will be doing a reserve budget estimate so we can address the

capital repairs that need to happen throughout the next six years. >> the initial three year budget is $4 million that includes 309,000 for recurring maintenance and contingency repair of 180,000 of facilities reserve for budget analysis for 10,000. and then we're setting aside 500,000 for capital repairs for the second three year term will be for $823,152. that is for 337,000 recurring maintenance contingency and as needed repairs 185,400. and then for those three years we're anticipating 300,000 in capital repairs giving us the total of 1,823,100 and $52. so that is my presentation we have is broken as well as

mansfield that are here. if you have any questions miss mansfield is from mansfield manville and they're providing the janitorial services for the contract. >> madam secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to provide comment? >> madam chair excuse me at this time members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call (415) 655-0001 enter access code 26600818667. press the pound or number sign and the pound or number sign again to enter the call press star then three to be placed in the queue. if you are already listening to us by phone please press star three if you would like to provide a comment on item for a and we would like to invite members of the public who joined us in person.

>> if anyone wants to speak on item four a you may come up to the podium seeing there are no members of the public here in person. i'll switch over to the remote callers again if you already called. >> please press secretary. >> oh excuse me. i don't think they understood. that's okay. oh, come up to the podium before you speak. >> thank you. hello, everyone. i can't. my name is listening. mansfield. i'm the owner of mansfield, the mansfield construction cleanup company site support. and i just want to say a very big thank you to oci for putting this project out and working with all of us to get this item passed. and here we are at the end of the mark as i just want to say

that i'm a native born and raised in san francisco and as a native in san francisco i am a third generation nurse and self retired to start my business which i am extremely proud of. but as a under utilized marginalized african-american woman in this industry it's been difficult. so i'm grateful and i just want to say that that scott has been a pillar and support of the hyper locals as well as myself. and i get nervous. >> so you have to excuse me. thank you. thank you. >> are there any other members of the public in person who would like to come up to the podium to speak on item for a seeing no other members of the public here? >> switching over to remote callers. >> again, if you've already called in, please press star three to be placed in the queue

and i see we have two callers. >> good afternoon commissioners . this is alice rodgers. i'm doubling down. i did send you an email previously in asking you to support this contract assuming it meets your standards. we understand from jasmine crew that repair work has been a little bit held up because this contract was in abeyance. we are particular interested in getting the work done. um due to the heavy use the beale street cul de sac has come under as a neighbor to the navigation center. and the area is experiencing a lot of graffiti trash debris strewn around drug use and just

general heavy use. we're eager to continue to work with jasmine to help clean up the area. but we do need this contract in place. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> call the next caller. >> oh, it looks like they removed their hand. madam chair, at this time it does not appear we have any other members of the public wishing to comment at this time. >> e. fellow commissioners, do you have any comments? and i'd like to have a bunch of questions. >> yeah, i'd like to ask that we as fellow commissioners be respectful of our guest and our time because we do have a hard stop and that we. i'd like to put into a move that we put into motion that we speak no longer than 15 minutes per item.

>> chair i like to motion or approve that motion. >> may i get a second? >> okay. per item for fellow commissioners? >> no, we have we have a lot of issues that we're discussing today that really we have a lot of guests that came today that would like to speak if there are issues in terms of what's on our agenda that we don't want to address today and we want to move to another day than i recommend as moving items to another day. but out of respect for the public i think it's been the practice of our commission to allow the public to speak and to allow there to be robust discussion especially since two of the items that are coming up today deal with a lot of important things specifically around our affordable housing annual report which we only get one year our sbc report as well as contracts. >> this is exactly as you said and i did not say limiting our guest.

i'm asking each fellow commissioners on our remarks to consider the time. we do have a hard stop. this is not limiting the three minutes that each one of you get for every and any item you wish to speak on. >> is that clear? so it's also clear we as commissioners have a lot of questions. >> i disagree. i think you should allow our commissioners to speak. i sacrificed my massage appointment this afternoon to make myself available here. >> okay. so we're not saying that fellow commissioners are not you can take it for a vote and we'll just vote yes. >> oh yes. so chair second the motion in a second on the floor. >> call for the vote. chair scott, could i clarify that this is not a debatable motion requires a two thirds vote to succeed to limit the

commission deliberations to 15 minutes for each item. so it's not to be not debatable . so you should proceed to the vote a vote? >> okay. okay. chair would you like me to proceed with the vote? >> so commissioner or vice chair aquino you're making a motion, right? yes. and does anyone second this motion by 92nd? okay. a motion by vice chair aquino seconded by chair scott. commission members, please announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner lim no. commissioner lim votes no. commissioner brackett no. commissioner brackett says no. vice chair aquino yes and chair

scott i. >> madam chair. the vote is two yeses two no. this motion does not pass. thank you. >> please call the next item. we're still in the comments for commissioners and for this item we're still an item for a. and we're we closed public comment so it's commission questions and comments. fellow commissioners. >> yes. i have some questions. >> deputy slutsky yesterday i attended a board meeting with the board of supervisors and at that meeting we had planning officials as well as our office of economic and workforce development officials who basically made a blanket statement stating that oci had

gotten rid of all of our property that was more than 20 years old as a result of dissolution 2012. so i would like for you to briefly explain to the public how we were able to keep cfd one still under our care and control and monitoring that and maintaining that property to this day since it has been in our port portfolio since 19 88. >> we we remain the administrators of the cfd. so cfd one did not change when you know dissolution happened. we're still overseeing the cftc until some later date it's decided somebody else administers that. are there any plans to transfer that property over once oci dissolves? as a matter of our entity or be transferred over to city property? >> yeah. i think we're looking at mark

sorry. sorry. commissioner brack if i could address that we don't own any of the property in cfd one but we are responsible for maintaining it and as part of the agreement for cfd one. >> correct? mm hmm. and are there any other parcels throughout the city that we also maintain in the similar fashion and or that we own and have maintenance responsibilities for? we do have you know, in the transbay thing. we have nothing in mission bay that we own in trans bay. we have properties in the shipyard and obviously we have properties. we have. during the meeting you were at ellis driveway is still the property that is under ours as well as the fillmore heritage center, you know and as is so those are still under our ownership is ellis center under oci or under mou city owned it is under our ownership.

>> we were here last or i guess two years ago to get a condo before i was overseeing real estate. we got a contract to currently for the maintenance. >> did that contract also include transference of the property to my city at that time? >> pardon me commissioner. go ahead. no, please don't interrupt me. i'm asking questions. mr. slatkin. excuse me one second. this is not on the agenda. if you want to hear about all of our properties we could certainly hold a workshop on it specifically for the fillmore heritage center and that elm street this is germane to this is this is germane to the questions that i'm asking because this is where we're guarding maintenance and as you know all of us commissioners receive email letters from people in that neighborhood who are concerned about the maintenance and how those properties were maintained. and so it is in my purview to ask about how we're maintaining other properties so that we're making sure that when we're approving these contracts that the people who we are assigning these contracts to are going to do a good job.

it's my understanding that in previous for this specific cfd one that this matter was brought before our commission several times for extensions and that there is a current extension under place. >> is that correct? yes, there's a current extension to get to this point to in order to select it becomes we are have been maintaining it this whole time, right? yes. that company has been maintaining it all the time. their contract ended on december 31st. we plan was to be here on the fourth or the third you know with that didn't happen and so we've given them a short term contract so they are in full place to address any of the needs that are happening. so and they'll be in place through the end of this month and when so my issue is not about maintenance issues that started as of december 31st. the email from the neighbors said that this has been a longstanding maintenance issues that has done with lighting,

that has done with blight and this has lasted for at least the last two years. >> so this is what i'm this is these are my questions about this contract is that in the current contract that we've extended for fausto and kroger up until december 31st, they were not maintaining that property properly. >> it was left to blight. it was left in a disgusting manner. we are getting emails from people in that project area that said it wasn't maintained properly and we as a commission were told every year that we re re we're issued this contract that things were being maintained properly by this company and in fact this company would have gotten this contract this time around had we not actually followed our newest equity principles around contracting and stuff to make sure that we're doing fair contracting which is a recommendation out of the oci committee. so it's very important for me to understand where we were, where we going and make sure that we have oversight and monitoring of this is millions

dollars of contracts of maintenance and that that's happening. so that's why i'm asking these questions good questions. commissioner brackett if you have specific complaints that you've received that we should be aware of received those, please let us know we as maintainers of a variety of these different sites including cft one sometimes receive information from either someone from the city department of public works, someone from mta residents from that neighborhood tax special taxpayers in the cfd about issues that need our attention or the contractor's attention and we immediately reach out to them to get them taken care of as quickly as possible. so that's the process that we have. and if you if you or someone else has received information that we need to attend to, please let us know. >> we've always see this information. in fact i'm just going to read

the letter because i see that this is going to be a constant gaslighting. we all received this letter that said dear commissioners, i'm writing on behalf of the south beach neighbor and vice chair of the embarcadero navigation center advisory committee to ask you to support the award. actually she just called and said that there haven't been maintaining this property and that the beach street cul de sac open space area is under extreme duress and implementing this contract with haste and careful consideration will enable much needed repairs to begin as a volunteer representative on the committee community advisory board overseeing the embarcadero navigation center, i and other neighbors have worked extensively with oci staff marie munson and now jasmine cole to get trash cans installed in this park and to monitor the antiquated lighting system which keeps failing often due to vandalism. we have found staff to be responsive and diligent and are eager to see them get this contract in place to triage current conditions and begin to address the overdue repairs listed in the staff report at this week's advisory

subcommittee meeting, neighbors and southern station captain martin alike noted that unsafe conditions have developed in this area and work is needed to improve site leanness, discourage illegal behaviors and perhaps rethink the area to encourage more community use. we may be visiting you at your future meetings as we work together with oci staff and request an implement these improvements. this email was sent to our commission secretary who then forwarded to all of us a few days ago so and then she followed up and said this morning she replied again and said that she wanted to lupus and because she there were trash lighting and drug use issues came to her attention a few years ago, not a month ago and december 31st a few years ago as part of a public input during our navigation center advisory meetings about two years ago in march 2023 messina and supervisor dorsey's office connected with us and marie munson and she immediately ordered and installed two new

trash bins which were not installed until 1023. she also had our crew attack the lack of lighting issues which happened in april of 23 assuming her files have been saved details can be found there otherwise i can search my files and send info though not the only cause of blighting one major factor seems to be the use of the area by some of the navigation center guests and their friends and in some instances dealers. captain martin confirmed this based on information from his four beat officers who were out there on one 2925 advisory meetings and strongly recommended improving sightlines and possible re imagining the area as a top lot or dog park to encourage use by local residents whether related to navigation center yes or not an increased population of drug users, dealers and houses impacted this area judy lin, an adjacent neighbor to the water park, has been closely advised working with marie and now jasmine she will be the best resource for details. judy lin is the best resource as she lives only a few blocks

away. and then it goes on to also mention brandi keys from 129 and then as dr. scott said, i don't want to take up too much time reading the email but as that email suggests this has been a longstanding issue and if we've been issuing contracts for this type of cleanup and we haven't been seeing the type of repair and things that we want, what is going to be different with this contract so that we can ensure the residents of that area are actually properly attended to. so that's why i'm asking all of these questions. i mean we've reviewed them and we think they've scored the highest. i also i mean it's nice to see that this letter talks about marie munson quickly addressing problems when they come and i think oci will continue to do that. >> i mean parks get used sometimes perks get abused. you know, i'm happy to report that right now all the graffiti is being addressed. the current contractors will be there until march 1st if approved, you know, addressed the graffiti right away is once we let them know about it.

so unfortunately we live in you know, the city and this sounds like there's some rough clientele living close by that that do some wear and tear and we jump on it as soon as possible. >> and if i could add commissioner brackett, i'm seeing that the navigation center folks maybe we can talk to their leadership in their management as well to connect with them. that's probably already happening. but mr. slatkin and i well we'll do that as well and reach out to that administration. yeah. so i was trying to get that information because the same thing happened in ellis street driveway and things that are not improve and if you remember well you probably weren't there but yesterday at the commission meeting that was also brought up as an issue. >> so i'm happy to see that there's going to be a new contractor taking over this work and hopefully we'll see better results and less complaints from customers. but i did want to address that and get some answers around that because it's important to know what's happening because

we can't keep having residents coming in complaining to us directly as commissioners and things not being taken care of until we then have to bring them before this board. so thank you commissioner brackett thank you and i do and i have read about those conditions and i have been speaking tothabou them just as that our commissioner has read and said i believe that ms.. >> sharon crow kitchen will be doing a better job speaking about i certainly can. >> so is this better sir? that's a thing for me. so thank you for pulling that up. but i do believe miss sharon crow kitchen will address all of these hardships and neglected issues that have been standing and ignored.

but i believe she will go forward and take care of her obligation to make sure the maintenance and the cleaning and all inspections will be done on time properly as scheduled and make reports for work that's needed and do the job for the community. can i i'd like to say commissioner thank you chair scott thank you for that. i hear what you're saying, mark i hear you as well. thank you so much for the presentation. i know this is a discussion today this afternoon i hear the concerns i'm fully aware as well. i read the email and thank you for submitting that email and i know we're all going work. that's why we're here together to make sure this gets addressed and gets taken care of because this is our city and

so we are here to make sure everything is you know you follow procedures and that we're we stay with it so i hear what you're saying and thank you, chair scott for your words . thank you for the presentation and my last comment is simply slutsky i notice that some of the in terms of there was the project was broken out into three different phases kind of the general maintenance tree removal and then the plaza just was hoping to get some a little bit of clarification from you back. i know this was contracted out and there were some changes in terms of the incremental increases that happened year after year for on the schedule that there's going to be an increase for maintenance each year over year and then there's going to be some actual asset work which i believe probably is going to be changing the benches and stuff like that. >> but i'm hoping that just one

of you from use knowing that we have more of kind of like that maintenance cleanup work and seeing that mrs. mansfield in mansfield is going to be doing that part of the work. just wondering if there is enough funds in that portion to actually do the type of ongoing deep cleaning that's going to be needed to be done month after month. so i'm just more concerned that there's enough money in there so that they're doing that regular maintenance they can she can be paid for her time if there's additional work that needs to be done on that day or additional days that that's including in this contract as well because i don't see a big jump in kind of costs for that type of work in this contract and that's why i'm asking these questions. >> i think the jump in the tree there's a yeah there there is a substantial contingency line item in each three year budget so that can cover that if anyone has about 18 k i think it's 100 and 80 in the first year and 185 in the next so that if there is something above and beyond but we're

confident that you know the proposal that they submitted and we were very detailed that's why we had a second proposal that went out there of all the work that needed to occur and they properly budgeted when they submitted that proposal. okay. thank you. that was a part of one of my questions to have there been consideration with global warming and the way our weather is changing and like the rain storm now looking at the tree wells and the pavement being uprooted by the tree roots to make sure that chromatin gets enough funds to take care of these things when they come up out of the ordinary going forward. >> well the good news on the trees is that the street trees are now the response ability of the department of public works so any damage to the sidewalk caused by street trees is their responsibility to come fix it.

so that's actually one of the things that shifted in the budget that you know, that's not on our plate but we will keep on top of them if if it occurs. >> thank you, mark. yeah, commissioner no, i'll make a motion to approve the contract for the three years with the approval of the three year term. i'm also asking that before the three year old approval turn comes back and it's that they come back to the commission just so that we can make sure that everything is running smoothly and there aren't these types of challenges. >> so i have a comment i thought this was a discussion no, no for approval for approval. >> my apologies. okay. so the contract as it's stated here is for a three year with a three year renewal. >> so that's what we're approving today.

>> so i know in the contract it says that it's up to the executive director's discretion but we want to make sure that we do have a forum available for the public to comment and three years from now if things are still going okay. so i would just like to amend the contract to add that after the three years before the final approval goes that we get a report to the commission director. >> i'll let the commission proceed with its second but then i'd like to say something before you vote please me it was moved and motioned and was there a section? we need a second. we need a second moved in second will you take the vote up madam chair i just wanted to comment before. yes sir i did want to motion to fail so the you're going to get an annual update when we bring the community facility district budget we give you an update on the activities of each cfd in

the budget. this cfd like all cfds are limited by the special tax that they assess the special tax payers of that area. so it always has a ceiling. we can't just increase it and it's not property tax increment which we have some flexibility with. so you'll be getting an annual report as well if you still would like the need to have a third year report that's effectively bringing it back to the commission for approval if you'd like. that's certainly your discretion but you're going to get an annual update on the status of it. >> just my i like to just ask just to be clear on what we're doing. so you're saying we're getting an annual report. when will that be sent out and does that include what commissioner brackett is asking for this vote? okay.

i need to be clear. >> i don't know well, i'll let commissioner brackett expand upon it. >> you ask for a report but so the way this contract is currently written is that it gets automatically renewed for the first three years unless the executive director finds a large deficiency then he can choose to discontinue it at the third year it can come back to our commission so that we can make sure that it's going the way it's supposed to and we can approve it moving forward again and then again it will go back to the director koslowski to do that we always get annual reports supposedly for all of our projects. however, as you know sometimes some of them are less detailed than others and we don't get flagged about issues unless people directly reach out to commissioners. so the reason why i'm asking for a status update to our commission is just that the three year mark the way that it's written right now is we

would not have that opportunity for it to come to our commission at the three year mark. it would be under the purview of the executive director to disapprove it and move it through for another three years and then ask as this commission technically would not be able to take action on that item unless it came formally before our board through an executive director action or after the six year term. so i think that's the kind of caveat right there. >> so just to be clear, the information you're wanting to set in motion is information that executive director is already going to address in that report. >> where am i mistaken there's the authorization process. so just the same way that we're getting the contract today and we have the vote to authorize it that's why it wasn't just a discussion. we actually have to vote on these contracts to approve these amounts. so basically to be happening is in three years we would come back to our commission so we can approve it again for the second third for the second term. >> okay.

>> my only concern is i don't want double information or double that. we're doing this twice. i guess that's why i'm a little bit confused unless anyone you want to speak into the mic unless i just want to be clear i want to make sure i understand. thank you. well typically if it came back on the annual report at the third year we would just say yes we approve it to go another three years. it's not a double report. we wouldn't have a separate meeting addressing this specific contract in that way we'd just be able to weigh in on it and make sure that everything is working the way it is because from 2012 to present we were not getting the proper updates in proper information which is why community was complaining and so we were just reauthorizing it or allowing it to be the purview of the executive director to authorize it except for the time when it formally expired and then we as commission needed to take action. >> so i think there's a little

bit of nuance in that. well, you said 2012. i'm sorry. you know, i just want to be clear here because you're mentioning 2012 when what i'm saying the unevenness to come to repeat the same mistakes we had in the past so we've had the same person or company that's been maintaining this property since 2024 to present we're actually starting with a new company right now. >> okay. but with the new company right now i'm just asking for us to do our due diligence as commissioners and be able to approve it at the three year mark which is normally when the contract would end or go to an automatically another three year renewal. you're asking for an amendment commission and if you don't mind can i ask you a question? are you proposing this be a three year contract and that in order to do a third year extension we have to bring it back to the commission? >> it's already that way right now the only difference is the authorization goes between you

or us as a commission that's already a three year contract right now, is it not? >> i'm asking about the authorization. are you proposing that it be a three year contract with the alternative to come to the commission? in other words, we have to bring it back for approval in which case it's really just a three year contract subject to your approval. but is that what you're i'm trying to get specific about the contract amendment if that's what you're seeking. >> so right now the contract specifically says so let's go to the language. it says that basically we're assigning our rights as a commission to use. >> is that what page is that? i'm sorry. can you thank you. i know, but i just want her to tell us the page because i want to be on the same page. i forgot my binder right.

and the reason why again just to make sure i'm clear i just want to make sure i understand the my concern is not having double information or go doing double work if that makes any if that's clear it wouldn't be doing double work. okay. and unless you have something to say well it's kind of fun actually i, i believe is after three years under this contract. right. and then it's up for an extension for three years. is that the time that you want to come back and for the board to review and for approval? is that what you want?

yes. okay. >> i'm okay with that. okay. you understand? >> is it understood, director? certainly if if that's the specificity of it. i also if it's we'd like to know what kind of report the commission may be seeking or commissioner brackett i'm happy to talk later about it as well but i just want to be sure that when we're bringing you the information that you that you have information that that you're seeking i think the normals reports that you guys submit are adequate. we just would like to add photos as well because the photos that the residents sent to us and that email are troubling. so being able to also quantify not just the things that are written but also to see how the properties actually looking in the present time.

>> okay okay. >> so then that it wouldn't be any changes to the report, it would just be adding maybe a couple of photos of what it looks like. all right. thank you. you understand? yes. >> thank you. brackett commission record the photos. i'm believing croak crockett chin is present and i believing from the conversations earlier i don't know if she wants to say anything but i'm believing she will be on top of things with photos and i'm also knowing the community definitely will. i'm believing that as well. so she's nodding but and one final clarification, commissioner brackett, you said to bring it here for a status report but then you also said bring it here for the commission's approval. you wanted the commission to

approve it or you wanted the status report before the the executive director approves it ? >> both okay. so do we have to be an action item on the agenda is what you're seeking? yes, it could be but it's it's still the same agenda item whether we here at the workshop or rebuilt to move forward that's still one item. it's not two separate items or double work or an additional report that needs to be provided because they currently submit photos to you now under the current agreement already so just be providing us as commissioners with the date with the information you guys already collect. okay so with that amendment we would take roll call and stipulate that change so attorney general scott, it does sound like an amendment to the to the resolution and the contract that basically says the extension is subject to

commission approval. >> okay. so the resolve clause of the resolution would be amended which provides for the initial term of three years with one up to three year option to extend and there you could say subject to commission approval in a total contract amount not to exceed 1,823,000. >> are you saying we that was the motion that i made and commissioner lim seconded so we just need to vote yes. >> what it sounds like, sir, because that amendment was already made. yes. in the motion already made the motion and commissioner lim seconded it but then commissioner aquino had questions. so that's what we were doing was having questions because

she wanted to understand what that what that language, what that meant, what i was saying i'm just clarifying yes, correct. >> good morning clarification. >> the items i did and is slightly changed the vote she wanted to understand what my amendment was before we took them so we'll have to amend the resolution to add the language i just stated to clarify that's what i should say. >> okay. thank you. >> so do we take the vote rocha yes. yes. okay. >> so it was thank you madam chair. it was motioned by commissioner brackett seconded by commissioner lim that we adopt a resolution for a as amended with the language that you added commissioner brackett yes please. >> commission members, please announce your vote when i call your name. >> commissioner brackett yes, commissioner lim. >> yes. vice chair aquino yes. and chair scott. yes, madam chair.

>> the vote is four eyes. madam secretary, please call the next item the next order of business is item five matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. first is the consent agenda item five a is approval of minutes regular meeting of january 5th 2025 madam chair. >> madam secretary, i'd like to ask for a motion to pull consent out of the minutes. pull it off. i'd like a motion to continue the minutes for further review . can i get a motion in a second to move the minutes to a did you have another is it for the next meeting? >> yes i motion that can i get a second please? >> i can not you know need a motion to put my point of order

if you don't mind. oh madam secretary, you don't need a motion or a second to pull items off of the consent agenda. oh, i think when there's just a question about them they are automatically put on to the regular agenda. >> sorry. my question was to clarify if you wanted to just pull it off or move it to a different meeting or do you want it to move the order to pull it off is what i'd like. so pulling it off puts it on the regular agenda. i don't know that it has a major impact. we would have public comment and then if there's a motion to continue the item that would be voted on at that time a motion to continue after it's it's now on the regular agenda because you've pulled it one commissioner can pull it or a member of the public can actually pull something from the consent calendar if there's questions and so now it's on

the regular agenda. i would take public comment and then proceed to either a motion to approve or a motion to continue. >> is there a specific reason we're pulling it to further review? okay. >> just for further review. okay. so the questions about the meeting notes or yeah all of them yes. okay. so it's going to be moved. you're saying you want to move it to the regular agenda so that we can have public comment and then commissioners comments and questions about the agenda about the meeting notes not to discuss here but we would have to discuss it. >> you can't just move it without commissioners discussions. you have to discuss it if you put it on put it on the record. >> exactly. so okay. >> in this meeting at this meeting, yes. before you vote on a motion to continue or to approve.

okay. so removing the minutes to the regular agenda is that what it is? yes, we are. okay. >> so i'm calling a regular agenda or regular agenda item five a which is the minutes minutes from january seventh, 2025 and was your sorry i don't want to yeah that's right. >> okay. thank you. so madam chair, how would you like to proceed on the minutes in looking at our minutes i'm disturbed by the way it opens and as it's stated in that's section three the chair

brackett provided an official and personal statement before starting the meeting to make sure they were there to do the business of oci. i she wanted to read the oci bylaws because as she stated it was essential to be grounded in these guiding principles especially after observing practices over the past three and a half years during which she stated she had witnessed executive directors with the support of the general council take liberties and exercise powers which were not granted under this city. our state charter. these actions undermine the principles of fair and shared governance and eroded the spirit of collaboration and

trust that must exist among the commission, its staff and the general public. miss brackett recalled that when she started with oci, its executive director nadia cissé demonstrated exemplary leadership and never attempted to manipulate commissioners usurp their authority are obscure skewer their wishes but rather acted with the utmost integrity by consistently providing both facts and opinions as well as the pros and cons of each agenda item. she encouraged the commissioners to provide feedback and when questions arose she would research the answers and report back to the commission before placing items on the agenda. i'm commissioner sorry i don't know.

did you still have additional stuff? i wanted to just open up for public comment before the commission starts to discuss the item. that's okay. would you so members of the public who wish to provide public comment on the minutes please call (415) 655-0001 enter access code 26600818667 followed by the pound or number sign and the pound or number sign again to enter the call please press star three to be placed in the queue if you are already listening to us by phone and would like to provide public comment on the minutes please press star three so i'd like to begin by inviting members of the public here in person if anyone wants to provide a comment on the minutes you may come up to the podium at this time seeing there are no members of the public in person wishing to comment i will move over to our remote callers if there are any

callers who would like to provide public comment on the minutes please press star three on your mobile devices. madam chair it does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment on the minutes. >> fellow commissioners do you have any comments? i do have comments. the statement that i made was factual it supported by emails . it's supported by conversations that we've had with the executive director. it is supported by minute meeting notes and it's also supported by also the previous subsequent emails and documentation that has happened since that meeting. in fact both myself and commissioner lim again asked for you to place agenda items on this current meeting which are still not on the agenda currently and also ask for closed session meeting which has not happened to date.

this request has been made since last year and none of those things were honored and in fact our seal piece subcommittee meeting that was supposed to take place yesterday was also shut down and has been shut down since april. so what i said was factual so i'm not sure you know what your concerns are at this point. i think we have our personal opinions and i can't agree with this statement in my opinion i have received nothing but support. i've watched our director give support and information clear in layman's terms as well as professionally. so i cannot go along with that . i have received also and there

was a email that came in today to the commission regarding our director commending him on his work and services and going back prior to even before he came aboard but how with how he's supported the city community i and others. >> so these are factual statements. dr. scott and i appreciate your opinions on things but these are factual when a chair of a commission requests for an item to be placed on an agenda and that meeting the executive director is to put that agenda item on the meeting unless there is an issue and that the other commissioners say that they do not want that agenda item on the meeting. note our executive director does not make our agenda for

our commission while he is there to support our agenda and provide information on what is happening in the department so that we can vote on policy matters as well as contracts. that is his role on the commission. his role is not to set our agenda and therefore there are emails between all of us both yourself and thore which clearly show that when on times that i've asked for agenda items and other commissioners have asked for agenda items to be placed on the agenda so that we can discuss them publicly or in closed session meetings that has not happened. that's factual. i also love thore as a person and i do appreciate some of the work that he has done on oci but that does not negate the facts of the statements that i made. if i could if you don't mind if i go ahead director yeah. thank you. just a point of order. i think you pulled the item to be heard to potentially continue it. >> are you guys discussing the the potential continuance?

the commission typically will take a motion, take a second then have a discussion about the substance of the continuance or not i recommend and jimmy agreed that you take either have that motion and have that seconded if you want to discuss further but it's the substance of the continuance itself and it sounds like dr. scott you wanted to review them or you've read in some of the things you want to review more . >> commissioner brackett has viewpoints on it. those are all fine. i don't think that's a continuance. she wants us to decide whether or not this strengthens my on the discussed comments of the continuance so we just wanted to offer that up for the commission to consider. >> i need to review them and if i was going to strike your comments i would not have said it that way. i need time to review them. that's what i'm asking for you have you want time to review

them? >> for what purpose? clarity? >> what type of clarity this is we've discussed it. >> we've said what the facts are at this point continuing it would be you want to take a specific action whether that be to strike what i've said or it to be to approve what i've said. so i want to get some clarity because we can't just continue it for some random reason. we're still on a continuance from this meeting and previous meetings around the sb policy that still hasn't been agenda as well. so i'm not in the business of continuing things and leaving them as kind of hanging strings that never get addressed later on and we never resolve or get a resolution. so if you're asking because you're uncomfortable about what i've said and that there's actually documentations and emails to back up what i said and you would like it to be stricken then that's something that you can make a motion that you don't feel comfortable about the facts that i shared

and you would like them stricken from the record and then we as a commission can vote yes or no. >> we choose to do that and move on. chair scott, if i could suggest you have a motion on the floor right now to approve the minutes that can be voted on if it doesn't pass and the minutes are not approved you can also move to continue but you right now you have a motion to approve the minutes and it would need sort of a formal eyes motion by a commissioner now and a second to move it to a vote if there's a motion to continue that should be made at this point with the second i like to add something to it and i know i hear both of you. chair and commissioner brackett ,i read it too and i heard you when you read it i personally think that i disagree with some

of the items here because we are a i know we are a commission. i see it as a team and i think some of the information i didn't get all the facts written presented to me so therefore which is why i asked for the closed session because i understand. but let me let me yes, i hear you. i hear you would be a serial. i hear you very loud and clear and i understand where you coming from. i have to you know, i personally did not receive all the information so i have to say and i don't agree with what you said but that is your opinion. but to move forward because we are in a time sensitive we have other items on the agenda. this is a i want to continue with the vote so that way we can move forward and this is noted for today's meeting that

we need to continue to work on this so that's my comment on that. can we get clarity on the opinions can council morales who is the agenda setter is the executive director the setter of our agenda or is that our commission that sets the agenda? and so it's a one word answer either it's our director or it's our commission because i think that we're starting to get into the era or the where people's opinions and we just need to know how to conduct ourselves factually as a commission based on the bylaws. >> but isn't this an opinion? no, the bylaws that's what i'm saying. but what i said was not an opinion i asked for something to be put on the agenda and it did not get you started it off the way that it normally doesn't start off. >> okay. okay. so morales, can you inform the commission on what i general counsel it's not my role to try to manage the commission but i

will point out parliamentary procedure as best i can at the moment. so right now i hear debating an issue that is not before the commission on its agenda. you do have the minutes and you have a motion to approve. you could take that or you can continue it. i'll take it as a point information about by about setting an agenda not relevant to the discussion today but the answer is that the agenda review committee by the bylaws the three person agenda review sets the agenda or the commission by majority vote two ways to set the agenda for a future meeting. >> that's how it's done. so may i just say this if one person votes not to have something are to have something on the agenda and the second person which was myself as vice chair votes against that with the director then it was voted

not to happen but may i say this during that time i had back to back and i reported it deaths in my family and i said i could not be there but i said i want to be there when they have that meeting because of the deaths i was out of town in town and then there was sickness. i had two family members that had strokes. i reported that each time there was the request there was a reason otherwise it would not have ever happened that way. but it went throughout the year up to this very week it's been those reasons why it was no i can't make it. i want i understand that this that when you said you could not be there in december as well as in january and as you know we sent an email about

that and i sent my condolences to your family. these issues have been happening since for a while it did not start with this most recent flare up and i think that's the part that i think that is getting lost in this and it's a blocked because i think you're not going back far enough. these happened in my family through the summer into the fall into the winter up to january. then in my initial statement i said that this behavior that's been how can we move on for three years it didn't just start this year, dr. scott said i've had to address it this year because it's not stopping you just like to stop this to scrap this whole discussion is not part of this. >> the agenda today yeah i'm going to go into a vote so on the minutes whether to approve or to continue so emotionally it's to be made we need a motion and a second to approve the minutes from january 7th, 2025 i make a motion to approve

the minutes from our last meeting and i guess i'll second that motion. thank you commissioners commission members please announce your vote when i call your name. >> commissioner brackett yes. commissioner lim. yes. vice chair aquino no and chair scott yes, madam chair. >> the vote is three eyes one no the motion carries and then next is regular agenda item number five be workshop on annual certificate of preference marketing and outreach report fiscal year 2023 dash 2024 from the mayor's office of housing and community development discussion director koslowski thank you madam secretary. this is last fiscal year annual

report on the certificate of preference marketing the marketing is for information about affordable housing opportunities in the oci and former oci properties throughout the city as well as the maui td properties and it reports on the number of certificate of preference certificates that are issued or people that have been identified for preferences in affordable housing as well as placement and other information. and so to present this item is ms. pam sims, senior development specialist with oci. >> pam. >> good afternoon chair scott vice chair keno commissioners executive director kozlowski and general counsel morales i'm again a pam sims i'm senior developments specialist in the housing division. and as was stated, i'm here today to talk about the clp annual report for fiscal year 2324.

pam can you speak into your mind? sure. today maria benjamin and i will be providing you with a summary of clp holder activity and oci i in most cd projects which specifically highlights the past fiscal year. also maria will be providing updates on outreach and application processes and update on the streamlined application process. the area median income levels of copyright holders who applied for affordable housing units which averages 44% am my house copy holders fared in rental and ownership opportunities. and finally a look at enhancements staff is following up on in the current fiscal year. >> first a refresher of the psyop program per state law the copy program was created to provide all copy holders first priority for consideration and when applying for an affordable

housing unit copy holders include low and moderate income households that were displaced due to redevelopment agency action as of january 1st 2022. this preference also includes direct descendants of the preference provides all qualified copy holders a lottery priority when renting or purchasing an affordable oci or most housing unit copy holder. >> applicants like all applicants must meet the income requirements for the project for which they are applying for fiscal year 23 for fiscal year 2324 there were 1724 active copy holders who were receiving information on new rental and ownership opportunities. this total represents a little less than a 10% increase over the previous year as in the previous fiscal year. this increase has to do with the outreach efforts currently being completed by linx insights and investigations or

links with the new community leadership foundation or itself to confirm contact information of original displaces and before maria gives her presentation i wanted to share the table of copy holders housed in both oci and most projects. as you see in the past 11 years a total of 95 copy holders have been housed in oci funded development outs and 199 copy holders have been housed in most developments for a total of 294 placements. this data comes from the chp annual reports that have previously been provided to the commission. additionally there are a number of copy holders who are housed in redevelopment agency projects from waitlists. the numbers of individuals house from waitlists is not easy to determine but most it is currently developing a method for better tracking these individuals.

>> also please know that all staff who touch the copy program starting with the executive teams at most cd and oci are all committed to getting eligible people their certificates of preference and working with interested households to get them an affordable housing unit once in their unit we provide support so that copy holders stay stably housed as long as they want to live in that particular unit. and now i'll turn it over to maria benjamin who will provide the copy annual report information. maria i think you can. >> good afternoon commissioners director koslowski maria benjamin from the mayor's office of housing and community development. i'm always happy to come and talk with you guys and let you know the the progress and the the the status of the certificate of preference

program. i'm going to jump in there. >> there are a while there were over five over well over 35,000 households that were originally displaced but most cd is in contact with about 1700 households of those households not the vast majority of them are already housed but they are looking for you to utilize their cert to come either come back to san francisco or change their living situation here in the city. >> and while we have contact with 17 hundred searching for the preference holders 60 of them in the reporting year of 2324 and this all of these numbers are end at june 30th

because it's a fiscal year report of of 2460 of them actively applied for housing during that year and there were 34 certificate of preference holders that found housing using their certificate that in that time and they found they got housing from various places either existing new opportunities that from the city in county that were offered or or waitlists adding on to a waitlist and getting served that way or homeownership. and i'll talk about all those so i'm got i'm in control here, huh? >> everything. we received 452 inquiry fees from from folks in the fiscal

year wanting to know whether or not they were eligible for a certificate of preference thinking that their family was displaced during the 60s and 70s by the redevelopment agency and and this is this is more than. this is like twice or three times as many as we've had in previous years. i completely credit the outreach of the links team that you all approved to do some outreach and work with folks to get them knowing about this certificate difficult preference. a lot of people don't even realize that that this resource is there for them so the links folks are doing what they're supposed to do and have gotten people to us. >> there were 319 certificates issued in this one year.

319 is quite a lot. there were 76 original displaced fees. that means they were actually household members and displaced at the time and then 243 descendants of of people that were displaced by the former redevelopment agency. >> we were only of those we were only a we only just found that six households were ineligible and ineligible usually means that they weren't actually displaced by the former redevelopment agency. maybe they were displaced by the housing authority or displaced in some other way. so that that's a pretty good small number. we were of those also numbers we were we were at the time currently working on about 100 applicants working with them to provide documents and all that . next slide. there we go.

>> yeah, we've done a lot to improve the process. we are finally fully staffed with the program. >> holy smokes and we we had been replacing staff with other existing staff to keep the momentum going but we have now fully dedicated staff and i would actually like to introduce our our newest staff person. her name is laquan ali. >> there's laquan to laquan is our the city cop program coordinator andy nelson is manages all of our certificate our preferences in this city's preference programs and then cora stone is not here today but she is also works on the on the certificate of preference

program and some of the enhancements we've made are just completely because we've invested in staff time to make these enhanced enhancements core we now have a hotline that actually somebody actually answers the phone and actually helps folks calling to inquire about the preference and also help them through the process. you know, we refer folks to housing counseling agencies and we refer and get folks that way to get assistance affordable housing assistance to make it through the maze of affordable housing in san francisco. >> but it really helps to have somebody there that's going to answer the phone and answer your questions and really get you where you need to go. so i cora is there normally a 3 to 5 answering the phone and fielding questions and getting people in the right direction. >> we've got a newsletter that

we've put out on a regular basis. >> anybody can sign up for the newsletter on our website to see what's happening with the certificate of preference program to see what what resource is are being provided there and to learn about the projects that and the availability that's coming and other resources that are related to housing. >> we tailored a housing guide a resource guide to certificate of preference holders particularly descendants to be able to make sure that they understand how all of the housing pieces work and where they where their certificate is . they can use their certificate so that they can call all of the former redevelopment agency projects and get themselves on waitlists there and expand the resources that are and the knowledge of the resources that are there available to them. >> we updated our frequently asked questions about the

program and and then we worked with our data and digital services department to make sure that we're we've making we're using modernized systems to be able to to be able to process the applications that come in in a more expedited manner so that along with the reduction of the documents, you know, we tried to really comb through some of the bureaucracy what do we really need to know from you in order to get you this certificate and so we've really been able to hone that down and and we're seeing people go through more quickly . >> it's you know, we don't unless there's some very big problem we really can't find your family's documents. >> we people are moving through much more quickly than than

they have ever before in my ten years of of helping with this program and one of the one of the things that we did okay so city departments talking to each other right so we're here previously before this reporting period somebody would come to us and we'd say oh you have to have your birth record . >> so i have my birth record. well you have to go over here to the assessor's office and go stand in their line and pay their fee to get your birth record or get a death record or get something a recorded document from the assessor's office. well, our new manager andy nelson said well, this doesn't make sense. this is we're a city agencies. why can't we just ask the recorder's office to give us the document? >> it saves the copy holder from from going through all that bureaucracy to get their documents. >> so that has really, really expedited things so that we now have access to those vital

records and people don't have to go out searching for them. we've also improved the process with the school district also to give a school records to prove folks their address as in their childhood years as well. >> and we have create we created more instructions for people to know how to get through that process. >> so there are in this reporting period there were no oci oci rental units that were available. however, the city did have through the value system 554 opportunities for affordable housing 519 were rental and there were 35 ownership opportunities and the prices of those affordable housing ranged

from 30% area income which is very low income. very few of those units were available to around 80% of area median income which is like a middle income 80% of those units were available to households that were over 51% area median income. that's how how much they cost and our our clp holders average income was about 44% of the area median income. >> so while there were 500 and 19 units that a good number of them were higher priced than our average certificate of preference holder could afford . >> so how do we still get people in housing? we utilize subsidies from the

the the city the city invests about $46 million in rental subsidies every year and because the certificate of preference holders are at the top of every list, if there is a subsidy available they get it. >> 75% of the people that were placed in this in this year were utilized to an affordable housing subsidy to get into their unit that their end of the certificate of preference holders units that they're in there is a scarcity of resources and and you know it's it's disconcerting when you go and you say i've got you think i've got this certificate and you go there and look on dalia and all the units cost $4,000 a month you know we part of what we do is to help folks navigate that and help folks know when there is more affordability

coming their way and and and make choices that are best for their families to utilize those those resources as they as they come and for certificate of preference oops for certificate of preference holders. >> absolutely utilized their resources in this reporting period. i'm so happy it was such a great grand opening. habitat's greater greater san francisco habitat for humanity launched a project last summer where four there was an eight unit building and half of them are certificate of preference holders in diamond heights. >> their beautiful projects those certificate of preference holders we're working started with habitat working with them

,their families working with them about two years ago before the the buildings were even built they put in 500 hours of sweat equity which is part of the habitat thing working together with their other neighbors that they that they have now in this eight unit building the multigenerational households the the grandparent was actually displaced by the redevelopment agency and there and then they live with their child and their grandchildren. so it's a beautiful day. >> we're very, very pleased to be able to get those folks in those units to to be homeowners . we're always seeking to ensure that certificate of preference holders have the resources that they need. most city is absolutely committed to this program and continuing this program and expanding it where we can and

making sure that as long as they're at the top of those lists that they are getting the the first stab at the city and uses resources. >> i will let pam finish up. >> thank you. >> thank you. maria. now to wrap up this presentation we'll look forward to the current fiscal year and proposed program enhancements. staff will be working with the contractor to complete an updated survey. >> let me change this to complete an updated survey to better understand the housing needs of new copy holders. this was on the agenda to be completed last fiscal year but staff wanted to wait until a significant pool of descendants obtain their certificates so we better understand the housing needs of this group of clp

holders. staff will continue to work with links and until left to confirm contact information. as you may remember this team completed phase two last year and we reported that 2124 individuals in the investigative lead identified record not completed each category. a total of 161 individuals were contacted and their records have been updated. 170 individuals were non responsive and 261 were confirmed deceased. currently the lynx and seal team are working on phase three which includes locating approximately 1200 original places that have investigative leads developed through the bulk data search conducted during phase one but need further investigative research to confirm contact information. reviewing a sample of the 4000 further research needed records to determine the time and

effort is needed to obtain contact information and identify and confirm contact information for approximately 350 descendants. and finally staff will work to have historical sfr documents from former redevelopment agency project areas relating to relocation and displacement scanned and categorized. >> this exercise will provide masud with additional tools to better assist individuals who inquire about obtaining a certificate of preference. and now maria quinta andy and i are all available to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> madam secretary will you see if there and sorry. i'd also like to introduce dr. veronica hunnicutt who would like to say a few words.

>> thank you very much for this opportunity to speak with all of you. and i you know, i'm gonna speak longer than 2 to 3 minutes now. okay. i want you to understand that because what i am doing is giving you an update from the hpc hunter's point shipyard cac. i want to thank you chair scott for inviting the cac to be in attendance today. i also want to introduce some of the other people who are officers with the cac, joyce armstrong, our vice chair was here earlier but she is receiving a black history month award in another location here in city hall. so she could not be with us at this particular moment. >> okay. i want to also let you know that sergio gomez, our secretary, will be coming momentarily. and i also want to let you know and i want her to stand up deidre smith, please stand up.

deidre is both the co-chair of the business and employment subcommittee as well as the housing subcommittee. thank you very. >> and i also want to introduce i call her queen queen kimberly brown. stand up queen. oh, you don't want to stand out. that's the best you can do for us. okay. okay. and she is the chair of the iec . the iec is the organization that receives funds as a result of the development of the shipyard. we have the money we have received for our housing portion has enabled us to buy two buildings one at 5,003rd street and rafiki and they had a soft launch and they're going to have i guess a hard launch in march to talk about all the

wonderful things they were doing. thank you dr. carolyn scott for being present on that day. okay. now i'm here because i need to give you an update and to express some concerns. so please bear with me for our communities supporters, stakeholders and the general public. the cac work is multifaceted. it's the community organization that's the main liaison to the community. we're the shipyard and candlestick projects. we are the mayor's designated community forum for these projects for the navy's cleanup of community reporting. and our main partners are oci and the shipyard and candlestick projects private public private partner five point. >> the cac facilitates the navy, local, state and federal regulators public proceedings and gives voice to the local and minority contractors and businesses who wish to participate in the hp nsc

remedial activities and economic development. to summarize, we do the work on the ground the heavy lifting and i'd like to invite all of you to please come to the cac meetings. our meetings are in the community and open to the public and we live cast our meetings on facebook. join our our list our mailing list and you can do that by emailing us that info at abc sitcom or call us at 41582 2 or 6 two two and follow our facebook page. the facebook page name is hp cac so you can watch our meetings just in case you cannot attend in person. our website has calendars of our meetings and the materials from our our meetings as well. >> join us to learn more to keep up to date and to avoid

misinformation, misrepresentation and confusion. first and foremost for this reporting period on behalf of the cac, i would like to thank oci executive director mr. thor koslowski. since his appointment it's been remarkable in terms of what he has accomplished for the community. his excellent engagement and numerous accomplishments have paved the way for the oci to make the needed milestones we've all observed recently. >> cic would also like to recognize oci staff leila hussain, pam simms and elizabeth kola melo. their work on the ground as an exception. so we appreciate you and our oci staff and those working at the agency. so much work is being accomplished right now at the agency and i'm please be

mindful of that. and i want to thank the cac and the cac site office staff mike forbes who was a supervisor willie kennedy's descendant if you all remember some supervisor willie kennedy and the wonderful work she did and elise is also part of our staff and she is here's another woman in the community that did great things ms.. doris vinson well, elise is one of her relatives and so she and a young woman by the name of de make up our our staff. i want to talk to you about housing matters, please. i like to state the most relevant and recent accomplishment and that would be sb 593 senate bill is one of the most innovative in california legislative history. it was authorized by senator wiener and it frankly would not have passed without the thorough hard work and brilliance of oci executive

director thor koslowski. yours truly ron. >> dr. veronica honeycutt was involved in that. i madie scott from the west. in addition, reverend sisk the whole bethel ame church. and by the way, commissioner brackett, you did attend a couple of those hearings in sacramento and we thank you for that. and other people also played a major role in lobbying at the california legislature in sacramento for this bill. the bill was a successful attempt to think outside the box to be creative and eventful and to find ways to provide unprecedented avenues to build more housing and create more economic opportunities. it targeted so many areas including financing of affordable housing, allowed projects in the pipeline and new ones to benefit sb 593. untrue stories are being told

about this measure and i'd like to tell folks who are here please whoever you are, stop this misinformation about this bill because it's very counter productive. >> sb 593 will expand housing and economic development opportunity is. it gives the oci another latitude in which to do its work and that's why we recognized the work has lansky's achievement in this endeavor. certificate of preference clp program applies that applies to all oci housing. clp holders will benefit if more housing and economic development opportunities are allowed to happen without further delays and shenanigans. >> so please invest in the sb 593 projects and become aware of what's happening. it really aware of what's happening in mission bay western edition and the hunters point shipyard.

and frankly that's why senator wiener mr. thought katz lasky matty scott nice reverend sisk saw the bill through to its passage because of what it would contribute to this city or our residents. >> we can't afford this bill deals benefits to be mired in confusion, foolishness. and as i said before, shenanigans. the bill is passed and available. let's focus on the viable projects from which everyone will benefit. >> the cic is working with the oci to ensure more housing opportunities are realized period. >> african-american folks are down to a small percentage of the population in san francisco. working class people of all cultures and religions are being gentrified out of san francisco. san francisco is not building enough housing building housing requires money the capital to pay for building costs.

>> and i want you to also please note in terms of the housing needs and demographics because we're hearing from various people on the ground there are various housing needs in san francisco co-ops, non co-ops for seniors, young families working individuals, those who are unhoused otherwise known as homeless. the more housing we can address and build, the more the needs of various communities can be filled. i want to emphasize that the misinformation again and distractions that are circulating within the community are not helping. that's not helpful. okay. in terms of the cac and the certificate of preference, the cac is in line with the obligation to maximize the clp first source housing. first time homebuyers and other housing affordable resources by calling on in on those in

charge of administering the programs, questioning them and obtaining valuable information and getting it to our community through workshops in the community at the hpc, cac even with the clp certificate you probably heard this in the other presentation but i'll just repeat it. applicants must still qualify for the underwriting ting criteria and placement and that is why we want our folks to go to the housing counseling agencies like s.f. edc and other neighborhood organizations like bayview multipurpose who help folks get into housing and help clp folks get through the process. >> these are additional areas needing focus and a assistance for potential homebuyers. now in terms of block 52 and 54, that's why the chc is looking at all areas and as many opportunities as possible. who are our folks here in san

francisco? >> thanks to oci, pam simms and leila hussain, the cac held a public meeting on january 21st of this year. >> dr. carolyn scott was in attendance and she saw firsthand the quality of the agency's presentation and their update. >> i want to move on to something else that's very important and you need to please focus on it. candlestick park that successful amendment a major milestone. >> the cac worked with oci community stakeholders and fivepoint to get the cpp project underway and it's now moving forward. this is a significant milestone. we want to thank oci director kozlowski and staff lashaun walker and fivepoint officials and supervisors to mind walton. now in terms of the hundreds of neighbors shipyard building demolitions with cac, it's an

ongoing advocacy. it's unprecedented. the navy is slated to award hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to demolish some targeted buildings in the phenix. as part of his ongoing remedial activities, the cic saw this as a real and rare opportunity to get local and minority contractors participation in cleanup activities. this has never happened or been done before. it's on precedented. there were challenges and resistance from the navy at first with thorpe kozlowski's help. hb cic was proactive and escalated the matter all the way to washington d.c. the navy at first was unresponsive but the cac reached out to, as i said, oci and speaker emerita

pelosi's office and our local and minority contractors. >> the speaker imperative pelosi made an emergency meeting and trip and came out with the navy secretary and the caa. senator padilla's official chief of staff to the shipyard as a result, the navy procurement division was able to address the case concerns including a 23% requirement for local contractors and a 23% requirement for small business people. yes, they did enact that. >> this is an ongoing endeavor. we're encouraging all of you to attend cac business and economics subcommittee meetings as we delve more into the details and provide updates to the public. and lastly, i'm going to ask all of you please to work with the cac to get more done for

our stakeholders. please no more of the division and self inflicted paralysis and misinformation. you want information, come to the cac, get the information from us. we are ready. we are open and we intend to fight for the residents not only of the bayview and d10 but for the residents of the city and county of san francisco. we're not playing. let's focus on the progress we've made. let's use our time constructively. >> let's focus on moving forward together. on behalf of oci and the city and county of san francisco, thank you for the opportunity to appear. thank you. >> dr.. hunnicutt. >> are there any others? that concludes our presentation. thank you. thank you, jamie.

>> at this time members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item were still an item five b. please call 415655000 one enter access code 266008186 six seven followed by the pound or number sign then press the pound or number sign again to enter the call press star and three to be placed in the queue. if you are already listening by phone please press star three if you'd like to raise your hand virtually. >> and we'll begin with inviting members of the public who are here in person to come up to the podium at this time starting if you could state your name please. >> lynette mackey and i am i work for links and in c11 with the clp program i am the community advocate going out into the community talking to people helping them to sign up,

following through with their application process and it's working. >> it's the numbers are getting higher and higher and higher of the people that are receiving certificates from the work that i do as well as the callers. >> i just want to share with you in case you don't know picking up a paper and calling someone about something that happened in 1970 that usually the person that we call don't know anything about it and we have to find someone in that family that does and then we have to find the family members that was impacted and their descendants the majority of them are deceased. >> so it's a long process that phone call. it's some hard work but we doin the work and i just want you to know it takes time. we may not be able to reach everyone at the time but we're working hard to reach everyone in the know that i'm here to come to any community that's needed, any meeting that's needed help sign up to check

your address if you're not sure of that address was displaced or not because the problem is there was a lot of displacement going on but not all of it was redevelopment. >> and what the clp is offering for those that were displaced due to redevelopment. so that's the work that has to be done but i just want to say we are doing the work. it's a daily process and it's growing. the numbers are getting higher and higher. however relocate arc locating the people that we need to find the descendants or the displaced is very hard. >> it's not it's sometimes requires 25 phone calls because you might call you have to call everyone on that list and we're looking for everyone on that list. so that work is not if i find the mother and her kid and then she has three kids. our job is to locate that family and that's what we're doing. >> and i just want to thank you guys for the opportune ity but to be able to do this but i'm here for community, i'm here for our community. i'm not any one particular area

so any time you need anything you can contact me, you can contact nclr. i'm there to help anyone that needs to be help and i want to thank you guys. >> thank you. thank you mr. james. james maybe highest point resident and a certificate holder one of the ones who agitated to make sure we got certificates for those who are displaced in bayview hunters point and west in addition feel more oh i want to first say to dr. hunnicutt and to the cac they are doing a tremendous job in baby homes playing okay since the time we had the mayors taskforce honorable george valley auto and a numerous came in and selected and made the house point shipyard advisory board they have been doing a tremendous

job with no pay i might add just like you guys not making a dime up there. so it was all from their heart . my my whole thing is and i want to commend the society just live for the work they're doing . oh they've contacted about eight people's of my family who's from madeira to san francisco. okay. and for in my house who has recently got their certificates and i didn't give them that information that's something they found out for themselves out of their office. so they are doing a good job. but my whole thing is is i want to you know, a lot of people have certificates and been displaced out of this point and worse in addition now when i say to bone up on in the projects i was paying $59 for rent okay i was working redevelopment. i was also working in a city hall and i did work in one barn

and my wife worked at the post office so nobody asked me how much money did i make when they displaced me. when these people come here in janiak and what have you want to move back to san francisco you guys have a ceiling on how much they can make and i think that is wrong. we'll never get the people who have moved out who who drive in muni who's driving heavy equipment, who's working in these hospitals and different things like that making good good money. they make more money than what you guys allow them to come back and and get these certificates. my other problem is down payment assistance if we have a program called our people this is our new dream keeper. we had a down payment assistant and the shipyard has one but i have no one that i know has gotten the down payment assistant long period for housing. >> okay and another thing i wanted to know i want to know

how many people's with certificates has been placed in homeownership in the city and county of san francisco and how many rentals on that program and also want to know like to for the lady oh i was you moments am so i'm maria benjamin benjamin oh to give the phone number out all verbally so somebody so everybody can write it down to get in contact with them no dr. davis do a good job and in getting people's awareness certificate is preference as well as that the other young lady who spoke there she is. yes. anyway, that's all i have to say right now but i will be back up. i'm trying to i'm trying to hear what you guys three minutes. thank you, james. thank you. thank you, mr. james. >> i'm going to call the

speaker cards first if you don't mind. >> randall evans. he left natalie tucker. hi. good afternoon. my name's natalie tucker. i me and my husband are here. we both work and live in the city of san francisco and i just want to start off by saying thank you for giving us the opportunity to share our story. i really want to highlight the challenges my husband and i have faced with my car in particular while trying to purchase a home despite claims that my car is helping cup holders access affordable housing, our experience shows otherwise. when i joined the zoom lottery that is held to announce the winner of the lottery for the housing the winner was announced was not a copy holder they were just another person who lived in san francisco and as soon as the host realized

that i was on the call they kicked me out. we later received a denial letter from katherine hi or katherine. he citing a 2% discrepancy due to my school employment schedule which is ten out of the 12 months of the year. after appealing the denial letter and contacting maria benjamin, we were told the denial was an error but no formal acknowledgment was made. >> additionally, a mortgage cdw's housing counseling service metta offered no support throughout the entire process we received minimal help and waited a month for a response from a housing counselor. we basically had to navigate the entire process on our own with only the direction of the handbook online and the home buying education course which we took about a year before we were able to find a home.

the only it was only after involving commissioner brackett that we were finally supported allowing us to finally achieve home ownership in san francisco . my husband is born and raised in san francisco and his family was displaced in the 1960s and i feel that it is unfair that he had to work so hard to be able to just live in the city that he was born in without commissioner brackets intervention we would have been denied the chance to live in the city that we are so dedicated to. i work in the oldest school in california. my husband works for senior citizens and all we want to do is live in san francisco. thank you for letting me share . >> thank you grenade tucker my wife just pretty much covered everything that i want to say to say i want to speak from the

heart for a second. my bloodline came out here from the memphis area and louisville, kentucky and we came here in 1945 to seek a better opportunity when the naval yards is built. >> so this certificate preference is a big thing for me. it was a kind of like my legacy certificate when we started the whole process like natalie was saying, we were just denied every step of the way by america every step of the way emails denying us. i was kind of like a fan. i was a loan to loan to value and api and debt to ratio. there were only off by like 1.8 to 2% and we were just denied that really broke my heart. i you know like i said my my great grandparents came out here looking for a better

opportunity and got this place so they got this place for one and a second when it was time for me to use a certificate they were promised that their grandchildren and children were able to use. i got denied based on insignificant differences. that was by amway cd i don't know where they are right now. that was in i believe 2021. so i'm just getting emotional because it really was upsetting was a knowing that that happened and it was something that i saw as an opportunity to live here to continue the legacy we have here in san francisco and to have been denied many, many times by different entities within america if it wasn't for leilani, shawn and david, thank you very much for that for helping us out. we wouldn't be homeowners right now. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you, janice smith good

afternoon everyone. my name is janice smith and i am a native of bayview on this point i was born september 15th, 1960 so i am 64 years old and i am a cpo holder and so is my younger brother that i take care of and i just want to say that the cpo means a lot and i hope that we are able to use and i just need to find out what happens when it expires because my seat my cpo certificate expired in 21. so what would happen with me and my little brother and i but i've also already we applied for a second one but i haven't received it yet and that was back in uh that was october 26th, 2023 so i still haven't heard anything back from them

about my updating my copy for my brother and myself. so i'm just warning what's going on, what is the process and how do we get in to get it extended? you know, we well i can use it because as of right now we are not allowed to use it because it expired. so what happens when the certificate expires? do we receive another one or do we have to go back from the beginning we shouldn't have to start all over because we have one. >> we should have our cpo update updated so do i need to go down here with you guys updated or do i have to start over? but they're very important and i would like to someday be a homeowner because i am looking to purchase a home in san francisco within the next couple of years. i don't know how to do it but i know how to do it and that cpo will help myself and that's all i have to say and god bless and i hope things get better with the cpo.

>> thank you mr. smith members of the public who like to come up to speak. good afternoon commissioners. my name is demetrius williams. i'm the president of the san francisco hyper local building trades contractor collective collective. i wear many hats but today i'm going to be the president of the s.f. hyper local today but i want to give dr. honey come and the cac their props for reaching out and doing their due diligence in a bayview all the work that they do i'll see i you guys do a magnificent job of coming out and supporting the communities coming out to the community and and being advocates to make sure that people are held accountable and making sure that the community understand how important it is for the commissioners themselves. you got how important it is for

your jobs to sit up here every day and negotiate and look at over contracts over the overseeing of the developments and making sure and that's where we come in effect that san francisco hyper local building trades contractors collective we want to build our community we want the opportunity to make sure that we have inclusion also the janis point shipyard has been very, very difficult. dr. honey come in the cac she hasn't been making sure that we've been abreast with everything that's going on and we miss supporting them fighting along with the fight with osi. i also but you know sometimes we feel like we let down especially with the trans bay we didn't get a chance or opportunity the 50% that's supposed to be adopted in a 2007 december for resolution number 120 7-2007 redevelopment

agency of the senate of the city of county of san francisco bayview hanna's point employment and contract and policy pace two number two hiring goals a constructive workforce hiring goal number one employment and contract and policy has a goal that supposed to be supposed to be 50% of construction workforce hires for east trade be qualified bva spe residents and then san francisco residents with first consideration to the b v h p residents. >> we've been let down. we have now got no compliance. we are here to support but we also want to be recognized. we are the community contractors and we want to make sure that we are included and not excluded because we want to build help build san francisco also. >> thank you.

thank you. >> okay you can come on up. >> hi my name is lasagna. mansfield. mansfield. mansfield but more so native born and raised in san francisco and parents migrated from texas it really listening to their story really upset me . i thank you ms.. brackett for their for your assistance but i would like to put on record a direct request for o c i to have to be put on my kids board so that they can pay attention to what's going on. our we shouldn't have to go through that. we've already gone through it. we shouldn't have to go through it all over again. we need more oversight and we

need someone to sit on the board with them to make sure when they do work with families that if there is some sort of injustice or whatever you guys can step in much earlier. >> and i also want to say that i just want to thank the for dr. scott that hunnicutt i appreciate all the efforts and work that you do but i need you to know that we're more than renters. we're more than consumers. >> we're also a vital part of this community. we're not your stain. thank you. thank you, ms.. mansfield. good evening, commissioners. first of all, i want to do congratulate dr. hunnicutt in

sticking a stain with the c ac i know how long she'd been out there and carrying the torch for years and years and because i've been out there i've been doing a lot of things but currently i'm here talking about the feel more right now and i'm dressing this to my buddy up is to ask you have been nearly two years when he was the director out there and had this point and now he's director you do a good job and but i want to say this i understand that you you funded some situation over there and a few more in the areas often feel more leads into the safeway. i want to know more about that . okay. also i need to know more about the garage situation because one thing i've been kind of busy for the last year or so so i haven't been receiving my money from the garage there and

we'll talk about that at another time. but that funds that was getting there was from funds that was set aside and it had to do with the garage and nobody else money that came from the c i i and i'm i'm coming back to get my you know so anyway that is another issue i'll talk at another date my name is a similar in the case in the everything is doing good when i have no complaints right now i just seen weird but the certificate of preference is i'm glad that you guys hired these other parts to make it happen because when you first start off of course you know back in the day mary rogers and him had to sue the agency before all y'all was here to try to get their list. so the list that's out now that's not the total list but is something that you can work with, right? james you know you know who i'm talking about. >> okay. so anyway, my name is some on a

case i'm out here i may be able to stay for the the actually talk that the commissioners are going to have and i'm sure i'll be able to get copies from the government channel. >> i won't be able to do it myself but thank you grace. >> yes, i'm out of here. thank you to washington. >> good afternoon. my name is kimberly hill brown of where many, many hats. one is the chair of the i c shipyard implementation committee but i wouldn't have any of those has if i wasn't born and raised and a current resident of san francisco california i am deeply concerned and i've been away from home for two months now taking care of my elderly aunt and i've been bombarded with so many phone calls and recordings and meetings and things that i

never thought i would hear pertaining to the certificate of preference i'm a certificate of i'm not a certificate of preference but i do qualify to be a certificate of preference. when i was five years old i lived on south ridge. i don't even hear about south ridge anymore. some people this new generation they don't even know that there was a south ridge in hyannis quite. but i lived there as a child and i was one of the first founding kindergartners at george washington carver. i'm very deeply concerned about the certificate of preference the program, how it is being ran, how it is being administered to the community, to the city, to the bay area at large because a lot of native san franciscans have moved out into the greater bay area city in these seats we want to make

sure that we have our residents come back to the city. that's what the certificate of preference is for now a lot of our residents may never come back because they've received they've experienced so much trauma and this is one thing as my trade as case management and self-sufficiency for the san francisco housing authority i understand those tragedies will never bring some people back but we have so many city employees who have to commute outside of san francisco who are born and raised san franciscans who should have the opportunity to become home ownership because if not they have homes many of them. >> so it's not a first time home ownership but it's just owning a home in a city that you were born and raised in the city that you struggle and strive in.

i would like to see more transparency what the certificate of preference i don't understand why certificate of preferences are expiring. i never understood that to be the case and if that is the case that is something that needs to be fixed. these should be as long as we have 30 years of construction that will be going on in this city especially in the southeast sector. we need to fix this. we need to make it transparent. we need to get email and websites out to the public pertaining to clp so that the people can tap in and this board please whatever is going on take a retreat, get yourself together because we have young adults who are newly leaders coming into the community see and they need to see how boards are ran efficiently without division. i'm just really some of the things that i've heard over the

past month should not be taking place. we need to stand in unity so that we can get these projects passed. we need to hold any developers to the agreements that this board has passed them under and hold each other accountable. >> integrity is in play. thank you so much. >> and are there any other members of the public in person who would like to speak at this moment for this item seeing none in person we're moving over to remote callers. can you hear me? yes. okay. thank you. mr. dennis williams thank you. commissioners executive director of the fillmore community development corporation and resources are needed in the community for the clp programs to assist and support the efforts of steering

large amounts of these young adults and the community seniors and especially our special needs residents etc. appreciate all the hard work that everyone else is doing in the community and they know it's very hard but resources should be available to assist us in the work that we do. i'm i'm glad to hear a black woman mrs. sonia mansfield in mansfield will gain contracting. that is a great, great news but there are a plethora of qualified black women in san francisco that also deserve opportunity. so we must not just stand on 1 or 2 because that doesn't justify the community parity does pre qualifications also make an impact almost impossible for qualified minority firms to gain access we must build low income housing and provide homes. special thanks to the cac is

only part of brilliant work they do in the hard work they do also mr. elder i'm oscar james who i'm very proud to work alongside and detained at the south east community center with the president and mr. demetrius williams also serve hyper local contractors trade collective i'm glad to hear all the updates from the city copy everyone is doing great work and the community working diligently but am i on new developments make it difficult is going to make it difficult in the future to pay for it for a demographic of low income residents of san francisco we must be careful not to place minority fealty holders and develop a unit that they cannot afford over time. sustainability in my opinion is important redlining and gentrification has decimated the black communities in san francisco minorities groups our brothers in the mission and even in chinatown also are losing businesses rapidly economic, generational, economic opportunity is key and

needed generational wealth opportunities are lost but we can get those back with our bevy of projects that oci is having especially in the bayview and the trans and transsexual. but we have to make sure that we're giving those opportunities also a private micro real estate developer who is looking for partnering opportunities as well as we hear a lot about paying for contractors. but why are we not hearing more from oci about opportunities for black and minority developers and some brilliant latino developers? the mission that cannot find assistance also that i'm privy to so i'm looking for more opportunities from oci. >> thank you. thank you. next caller. >> hi. hello.

>> hi. yes, i just want to make a comment. yes, you can go ahead please. >> oh, okay. hi. i'm sorry is i'm a born and raised native on this point. i just want to first thank everybody that's down there right now, you know, from our commissioners the chair each and every one of you are down there. i'm watching from home. i'm sorry i couldn't be there with you guys in person from their experience and i just want to say to the city and county of san francisco, you know, i'm tired. we're tired. we're tired of fighting for everything. like i said when i was there on january the 30th, i'm going to find the first original certificate of purpose that my mother had telling me was big in in that role. that's how long we've been dealing with this. and my mother died at 82 years old. my mother was the original

founder of the clp along with westbrook and everybody else my daughters are simply you know in the in the movie now thanks to gavin newsom but it's not working for them because it's always something is either they not making enough money or they making too much money is like y'all put this is like y'all put this stuff in place just to have us going to see who and i think we getting really tired like i know i am and my daughters and my children should be able to be right here in san francisco taking care of me now that i'm getting older instead of them happen to be causing abbreviated lives and everywhere else it's just not fair. so y'all got to start advocating better for us so that the wiping can be done so that we can prosper and thrive like everybody else that wants to resign here in san francisco

folks. so be mindful of our people that down there like dr. natalie and dr. scott down there still on the line out his fine for being mindful that they know the history of this city be mindful there were tired and i'm so tired i'm ready to start going to last because this economy is not working for me to be safe. could you repeat your name please? i didn't catch it but that's the base for an array native on this point. thank you madam chair does not appear we have any other members of the public wishing to comment on this item. thank you, madam secretary. fellow commissioners, i turn to you. do you have any comments? questions, concerns? yes, commissioner for that i

have a lot of questions and concerns regarding clp. first i just want to make it very clear that in 2021 in the midst of the pandemic i had been asking about our clp program of staff and our executive director at that time what would be happening to the clp certificate program would we be signing over to continue the program and was basically kind of let on that don't worry about it. it's going to come before the commission, everything's fine, move forward commissioner, we'll get it to you before the end of the year before the clp expires. >> what came before this commission was actually a document and a resolution that would have canceled clp and would have ended clp program and 2025 if it had not been myself reading the actual details of the document and reaching out to community to lobby our executive director at that time and make it known to our chair miguel bustos that

this was happening. clp would have expired and your certificate would have meant nothing. >> as of today. >> so if it wasn't for me sounding the alarm to community this would have not happened. so let's be factual about things that have happened on this commission and things that have happened through oci and clp program under mla cd no one flagged it after that we worked with actually miguel bustos called an emergency meeting between myself, him, sally orth and our general counsel and said how do we fix this? and i said the only way to fix this is to make sure that the clp certificate does not expire and that as long as we are building housing as part of oci that certificate of preference needs to remain in place on december 15th. >> after that lobbying it came before our commission and we adopted that resolution which preserve the certificate a and c certificate program after

that because there were so many things still going on which is part of the complaints from the community that we're still hearing right now they're not able to use their certificates. they're not able to get in to get access to housing. there were a lot of things going on where people weren't even being aware that they had a certificate and that our agency had never done a full exhaustive search to find the original 14,000 displaced homes that we needed to do something about that. >> so at that time chair bustos created the clp subcommittee and made me the chair, he added. added mara csar as the vice chair because of her expertise and small business which was another area that we wanted to make sure that we addressed on the clp subcommittee as well as that she was an attorney at the at the onset of the clp's subcommittee we actually reached out to historians and people who had been working on legislation over the last 40 years for clp members who were

invited to be part of that committee was even patterson from the eagle justice society. oscar james at donaldson julian davis and i believe even made an invite to dr. veronica hunnicutt. but at the time she was managing several different organizations and programs. there were three other members that were also reached out to including mr. richard hashimoto out of the japantown area who was also deeply impacted by the certificate of preference and redevelopments urban removal program from that committee our executive director pulled in and we've said as well as other city agencies to help us figure out how we can undo the harm that was being done and make clp a realization for people who had given up on the program at that point through the advocacy of the members on that committee pushing mla city constantly in every meeting to

do something different, to do something new as where you've seen a lot of this new policies that have come out of certificate of preference program number one the displacement rate legislation which came through david chu's office that was advocated by our subcommittee that we actually don't just stop at the agency certificate that we take back up the charge that fred blackwell started in 2008 to look at and make sure that the descendants actually had an opportunity to access certificate of preference at that time it was well known that there was a 2010 keene report where it said that the last study that they did of a small sample of copy holders the majority of them were dead and deceased. so we wanted to ensure that the descendants of those of those family members who never got an opportunity to move back into any affordable housing unit because we had not built them

and over 30 years would get that opportunity that legislation eventually passed. >> we got that through. we'd made other additions all supports to the seal program which included removing barriers some of them maria talked about today about how people actually get to certify actually adding a link to the website so that people would know that the certificate of program for certificate of program process actually exists both on ocr a's website as well as m0 oecd's. we also advocated for several things and i'm just going to go to my notes because there were several things that we actually asked for at the very beginning of our clp subcommittee that's relevant to this report that we're seeing today. >> so one of the things that we brought up was the fact that there was a developer certificate of preference that was never issued or widely known to community. >> this comes from us july 15th, 2009 report where it was

discussed with previous executive director lee as well as commissioner romero who raised the issue of whether or not a certificate of preference for housing could also be used as development and he said in the affirmative yes, we have still not addressed what to do about the developer certificate of preference although our subcommittee has asked about that. >> the other issue that came up as well was the business certificate of preference. we had over 868 businesses in fillmore alone that were displaced and were never given a certificate b or the business certificate of preference. we also asked for that to be addressed that has not been addressed to this day. we also went back and looked at the 2008 promise that was made by the city and redevelopment agency that they would maintain at least two employees on maui city and to make sure that at

least there's always two employees to work on the clp program and that they would try to track many of the displaced residents and businesses that work did not start again until our clp committee demanded that that work started which is why we got the contract with links approved to do the search during the process of doing that search one of the things that became an ire of me specifically as a commissioner was that we asked for an exhaustive search that did not happen. we only did a search for i believe it was 3 to 6000 names at that time. it did not include the full number or full list that we had available of clp holders. we were told that some of the records that the that that the city had on file were either incomplete and or that we should just start with little sample sizes of the list and then move from there because

that contract needed to move forward and we wanted to start on the work. we said okay we would start with this small portion but that the next step would be an exhaustive search. that didn't happen. >> phase two again was a smaller search. again we still are mainly in phase three now is going to add the ability to search for descendants but we still have not exhaustively looked at the families. in fact as you mentioned and the clp report they're only in contact with 1900 and about 36 clp holders on a regular basis although we know because it was also stated by fred blackwell all the way in 2008 that there's all out there is about 90 6000 people who are actually eligible for the certificate of preference program and the last 11 years oci alone has built

9003. let me i don't want to misstate the number. >> i'm going to go to my notes . okay. i has built 9239 housing units . >> okay. there are only 91 clp holders who have been housed in 11 years to say this is a successful program the way it is currently being run is not truthful and i know a lot of people don't like the things that i say but what i'm saying is factual. >> that has been my concern since i've been on this commission is that we need to tell the public the truth and when there are things that need to be fixed we need to fix them now not 20 years from now. >> we've been waiting too long

for these things to be fixed. there is no excuse for us not being able to fix these issues . >> we've asked for enhancements on marketing. we have not seen a lot of those enhancements even address what we've been asking for for years for an mta billboard that would go on the busses that people just in general in san francisco would even know and be able to see that there was a clp program and have a link to be able to go to the website to look for it. >> that has not happened. >> we funded four positions with mla cd over the last four years and i'm happy to see that those positions are finally filled. >> but for three years we had one person over and over every year you came to our commission and said it was difficult to hire those other two employees or that as soon as you got someone someone resigned, went somewhere else and then you had to refill.

>> i'm now going to get to the details of things that struck my the just struck me about this report. it said that in the fiscal year so in the past two years zero clp holders have been housed in lc i projects that's what our report says, that's what it says our report also says that last year and the year before 34 clp holders accessed mla city projects and ten of them and then ten access in the year 2020 to 2023. >> the reason why i'm mentioning this is because when we when i mentioned earlier about us passing the descending bill, one of the things that came back to our subcommittee which we did not know was that

certificate holders do not have the same rights as certificate agency holders. the descendants do not have rights to citywide housing. they do not have have access to these m0 cd projects. >> so when you see this report this is only for anc holders. our descendants and our babies will not have access to citywide housing which is why our committee then again recommended that we fight to get back those 6000 units of replacement housing and that's how dr. veronica honeycutt and all of the other members of the community were marshaled to work with scott wiener as well as the mayor to pass sb 593 so we can get back those 6000 units so that we can that so that it would be oci units so that clp holders would have access to those units. part of our housing report that comes to us every year about clp holders is also am my

levels in this report it says over and over clp holders make 50 over 50% of them make less than 33%. >> am i? we are not building that type of housing as oci right now. yes we're building affordable housing but it's not directly addressing the needs of clp holders. so when we passed that replacement housing bill 111 of the things that was told to us as our commission and our subcommittee was that there would be a replacement housing policy that would address not only some of these things in terms of making sure that the units that we're building moving forward because we've already lost those 10,000 units that were built that we couldn't we did not have access to because as maria benjamin said, people could not afford them and we have a limited amount of subsidies on the federal, state and local level to be able to make up the difference between what people actually make and what the units actually cost.

>> so here we are today after two years of asking over and over for replacement housing policy from our executive director and no replacement housing policy however it went before our oversight board earlier this month to use replacement housing funds to start buying to start building units and to start the groundwork for building the units and for different project areas. we had a clp subcommittee meeting earlier this month none of this was mentioned in the clp subcommittee meeting. >> this was not mentioned to us at all. >> had i not asked for details which i later got in a meeting with dr. scott and thought that was when i was able to decipher where the actual units for replacement housing were going and at what am i they were being built so i'm going to go

to my notes about that so that the public can know clearly what's happening because it was not clear in our documents that we received as a commission. so we were told that most of the housing that was going to come in the mission bay area was going to become be 60% and below affordable housing however that there were not going to be any units between the 0 to 15 or 30% range because it was not affordable. however, we would look into using loss and other things to subsidize. >> i was upset with that as anyone else would be because again we are talking about building housing that clp

holders cannot afford and while it's being promoted as affordable housing at 60% ami and below we still have that gap of the 0 to 33% that in our report housing report i believe i'm not sure what page it was on but i saw that only one unit was available and i believe the last two years that was in that army that wasn't a senior unit. so we're building senior units at 0 to 30% ami but we're not building enough units for the regular population of clp holders who actually need it and i understand that there are financing challenges with getting any project off the ground so i'm not going to deny that we're not dealing with that and that the cost of how to build housing in san francisco is not expensive. i'm not going to say that there's not limitations and how we have to use our tax increment dollars and our other tax funding instruments. however, i'm also saying that there are a lot of funds that

we as taxpayers have voted for and approved to address some of these issues to build the deeply affordable housing units that we need. and in fact the most recent report that went to the budget and legislative committee committee from the board of supervisors around social housing was specifically talked about by building this type of housing. they talked about ways in which we can layer our cities current bonds and programs to actually build more units at that. and so yes, i have a right to ask what are we doing as oci to partner and to make sure that we're delivering those deeply affordable units that people need. we went to sacramento so i remember. dr.. hunnicutt you were almost in tears talking about your experience and the displacement that you felt. i also saw mattie giving that same testimony and i've seen countless and hundreds of other people giving that same testimony.

so to me it felt very disrespectful to trot our elders to sacramento to say that we are being displaced and that we need these 6000 units back for our people and yet there is a disregard to the fact that those housing that we're proposing to be built won't be inhabited or won't be affordable to those very children that are being born tomorrow. >> so yes, i'm going to speak up about that. >> i'm always someone who wants to collaborate with everyone no matter how many differences we have differences of opinions we have but at some point there comes a time when you have to call a spade a spade and i'm no longer willing to keep playing the game of waiting. >> i'm no longer willing to

play the game that we have no enforcement obligations as oci to protect community to protect vulnerable housing, to protect vulnerable species. i'm no longer in the position that we should be begging for scraps as community. i also want to give a shout out to the cac and dr. hunnicutt for also allowing us to use some of the legacy funds for the 410 china basin project and we had to advocate for almost a year remember. >> dr.. hunnicutt to get that to happen. but guess what? we're having challenges again with that. >> we have clp holders being told that there is no down payment assistance money for them so some of them dropped out from applying for the four hundred china basin program. okay these are facts i had clp

holders contact me and tell me that there was no parking for them at that housing place when we knew that there was 20 parking spaces and that because clp holders get first at the top of the list they would have first rights to that parking. >> that's another issue that i know me and dr. scott have been very passionate about and also commissioner aquino about ensuring that when we build housing that that was one of the things that clp holders identified as one of the reasons why they rejected housing is because they did not have access to parking. >> so when i complain about things i'm not complaining because i want to not work with people. i'm not complaining because i think that i'm better than anyone or that i just want to be loud and unruly. i'm complaining because we need to get together and use our common sense and fix these issues and we should not be telling community that these

things are just doing great when they're not like part of it is accountability on ourselves and i take it seriously which is why i often put myself out there as you heard from the young gentleman that spoke earlier, i've had to advocate that is not my role as a commissioner, my role as a commissioner is yes to be a voice and ear to community and to advocate for things. but i should not have to step in and say that things are being done wrong. we have city employees who know the law just like we do and know their positions and make discretionary decisions to help people into housing. why is that same type of care and concern not being given to our clp holders? >> why are they having to go through this process traumatized again?

>> and i know city workers are also stretched thin but come on and we can't fix this. this commissioners if we're not going to be about setting the policy and enforcing it if there is no policy anything can happen and even when there's policies if we don't enforce it, it means nothing which was my original complaint about the closed session meeting we needed to be able to talk about this is commissioners in a closed setting because if we don't that is considered a violation of the brown act and a serial meeting. so no i was not saying that to be disrupt if i was trying to find an avenue by which we can discuss the failure of monitoring on our sb projects

which resulted in us only getting 6% sb participation and a $200 million project. so yes dr. honey you've heard a lot of rumors but they haven't been accurate. and with that being said i just want to go into details about what wasn't written in our book that i had to get information on. there's going to be about 130 replacement housing units that will be used in the shipyard so my fellow commissioners, if you're not aware that is what's going to be happen replacement housing will be in the shipyard

replacement housing will be also in trans bay. there are there are looking to use anywhere between build anywhere between 250 to 340 units of affordable housing and using some of the replacement housing in that area as well also as you mentioned mission bay so that we can increase the number of affordable units there as well. so for my fellow commissioners ,if you're not aware that's where some of the initial 600 and something units of replacement housing is going and like i said for us not to know as commissioners where 10% of the replacement housing units were going to go and no details about that and that going through the bond without our commission knowing that was unacceptable.

are you complete commissioner? i'm not totally finished but i'll i'll defer to someone else right now because i have to get my notes together. >> director koslowski thank you, madam chair. >> we have a handful of items to address some of the questions asked by commissioner brackett do you want to continue with questions or do you want to hear from staff who have information you can have staff provide additional information? >> thank you. if i can alaska pam, maria or elizabeth i do just want to correct the record there are no transbay replacement housing units planned so i'm not sure what commissioner brackett was referring to but there are none planned in transbay the items that are in hunter's point shipyard are just opportunities

. there's no staff working on it and there's no money allocated for it. we do long range planning in our project areas. they are decades long so we always identify affordable housing opportunities when we become aware of them and i'll turn it over to ms.. simms to that's more information. >> thank you. i'd just like to address some of the comments made by commissioner brackett. >> first of all, process improvements to the c o p program as highlighted by maria benjamin that actually may have been mentioned by the copy committee. >> however, the process improvements have come from individuals who are searching for a copy and or individuals who have received a copy staff understands what are some of the barriers and the improvements are in place to address those barriers that

descend into legislation. while yes, director blackwell did introduce it as an idea it really didn't gain any traction until deputy director orth working with city hall actually got the legislation over the finish line. you know, as some of the men excuse me commissioner, the i don't know about the developer copy i'll let general counsel morales answer that question. as for the businesses that have been displaced, all businesses that were displaced have received certified it bs have they used them? no. but did they receive certificates? yes i have certificate numbers for every single one of those businesses links are looking for and confirming contact information.

did that happened before the copy committee was established and while links is finding descendants the descendants are not they're not in our purview because we are in a wind down form so we concentrate on the original displaces a's and c's descendants are there individuals that we're locating as we're trying to find original displaces the average names for copy holders again who applied for housing it was 44% ami yes there were no individuals who rented oci units during the 2324 year or the 20 to 23 year.

that is because we leased no projects during those years we were obtaining funding which you'll hear from elizabeth carmelo the state made the funding that we need for our affordable housing projects competitive. we were during that time we were obtaining funding to build additional housing and as for parking all copy holders are at the top of the list if in fact a copy holder applies for a unit they will receive parking there the first 2 or 2 and if there's 25 parking spaces copy holders are at the top. >> they will receive parking and finally ask for the copy holders who applied for for china basin. all of them will be afforded the opportunity to apply to

apply for and obtain the legacy and town funds per the legacy foundation in the shipyard and as far as i know no individuals have no copy holders have dropped out of the 400 china basin process because of a lack of parking or a lack of downpayment assistance. there are other reasons but definitely need not be for lack of downpayment assistance. >> thank you. and pam, may i ask and maria has some to address. i ask you one question. sure. regarding links and their work and they're doing such a great work but one of the things i've found that they're not paid to do is to help with the paperwork. is that true? yeah. and so that's the truth. but then that becomes a huge barrier because we get in the

community many folks that don't get an answer to the phone with san francisco housing and development kathy davis organization being overwhelmed and overworked and not able to do it mo htc now that you have more staff but still very hard to get through on that line and i've tried it you know several times myself. how is it possible to allow is my question links to help with that paperwork they have the person they're holding them and i see with some of the other organizations they sit with their seniors and one of our problems with our seniors in our communities is when you don't understand the paperwork or it looks too overwhelming, people tend to walk away from

it because they they can't process and they don't know what to do. this was something that i do know linx was trying to do. lynnette mackey was working hard but then she was told they don't get paid to help do that and then that flipped it over and made it extremely hard because the contract didn't allow them. >> dr. scott to look at that. that's why we had asked for the contract amendments. it limited their ability to look at things. so what staff is doing now is they're asking individuals who they have contacted are you interested in obtaining your certificate of preference if the answer is yes they are provided the link to go to to complete the application. it's very straightforward and i want to provide my telephone number if anybody is having a difficult time maneuvering the website please call me my

telephone number is (628) 652-8532. i am happy to help any individual who is having a difficult time maneuvering the moated website to put in an interest form to inquire about their clp. >> i'd like to call oscar james to the stand as well as ask for jamie to pull for our next meeting all of the meeting notes from our cfp subcommittee from december 2021 to present because there was misstatements being made today and i want the record to show the truth choir maria benjamin here i could go over a lot of things in the for the sake of getting the truth out. i'm not going to do that. there are a lot of

misconceptions or misunderstandings being articulate, stated and so my what i want to say to folks is if you have a question about your certificate of preference or how to access it or how to get affordable housing or the process or the the any of those things, please reach out to us and i'm going to and mr. james asked for the telephone number that is being answered (628) 652-5801 if you have to leave a message usually cora will turn the return the call within the the day the next day and i'm so i'm sorry if if we have not if that has been a miss with anybody she's really very good about returning calls i do want to say that

homeownership there are is absolutely the down payment assistance programs are alive and well and certificate of preference holders are more than welcome to apply for them . >> i have to tell you homeownership is hard and if you there's a lot of stuff bureaucracy to get into affordable rental housing to get into an affordable homeownership unit you have to go through all of the lending financing institutions, bureaucracy and their what they what their requirements are. >> i'm not going to i cannot speak to any individual transactions but i will say that the the problems that folks come into when they're trying to purchase a homeownership unit are more than often more than i don't have any statistic to tell you but the problems are with the financing of their mortgage not

with the program not with the assistance, not with their understanding of it. it's the personal finances of financing a mortgage. >> so and or a real estate count complex and real estate transaction because of this we have started a program through the dream keeper program the highly successful downpayment assistance program that we've used to provide resources for clp holders culturally competent for black folks so that we can help folks get through those questions of is this me or is this part of the regular process? >> are you going to ask everybody for all this information? and so i really encourage people to check out our website for that as well. those programs we're going to launch our del program which clp holders can apply for in march i believe or maybe april

and to be able to get to get more support with homeownership. >> maria what i was saying and lynnette mack has just stepped back in and so i go back to the question could they fund the help because i was able to help 25 homeowners into their homes and to keep it but that was by helping them? oh yeah. step by step with the paperwork holding doing it with holding hands and this is what lynnette mack was doing but without that help it's just like all the other cultures they help one another and there is the cultural understanding of the language and communications. it's a great help when we can help each other absolute but they need to be paid. so that was my reading. that's a question for the

contracts and all that that but i will tell you dr. scott that we our staff now is doing that work. they are they are helping people fill out their what do what do you need know this is what you need. >> oh no, no, no. >> let me help you. let me show you this is the kind of work that is happening now and and with with a with a larger capacity to do it. >> but as the program grows and more and more descendants come, there will be a need to expand . >> so okay. thank you. i'm maria benjamin. >> i had a quick question. can can i so, so sorry. >> i do want to put in my before because it's 4:00 and i'm definitely aware of time and i know we have more items on the agenda before we continue i just want to make a

comment and my my input i just want to i had to write it down. i want to take a moment to sincerely thank maria and pam the team for the hard work really. i mean just hearing that you just have a fully full staff that speaks volumes. we i understand as a san franciscan born and raised as well i'm proud of this city. you know i know it takes time to develop a team like you did right now and it's la quinta right? new born new member. so congratulations and thank you. i know we all work hard and i know there's a lot of work to be to be done but to lighten it up a bit i just you know, that's what we're here because there's so much work to be done. >> but to lighten it up a bit i

just think that it's encouraging to hear that the program is fullest staff were dedicated team including la quinta who is committed to ensuring its success. this dedication reflects the importance of serving the community and continuing to make meaningful progress. i would like to say let's focus on the positive steps being taken while also remaining mindful of the work ahead and that's pretty much all i want to say. i just i support everything that i chair. scott dr. scott has said as well as our commissioner bracket and of course we have so much work but let's keep the momentum going. thank you. we're human beings. yes. you know so yes. >> and i'm with you all the way. thank you. thank you. thank you. we have a hard stop at five and yes, we still have more of the

agenda to address. >> can i motion for a continuance of this item to our next meeting because there's still a lot of things that need to be addressed. i'd like to make a motion to continue this item to another meeting so we can move forward with the agenda to the next items which is that aside a second so a motion second and then we go to a vote and it needs to be a majority. okay so motion by commissioner brackett seconded by commissioner lim that we continue this item to is at the next meeting, commissioner brackett that you're proposing ? >> yes please if i may after you do your motion and second just a few questions.

>> director okay. thank you, madam chair. i'm just curious, commissioner brackett how many more questions how much more time do you think you might need? some time because there's definitely want to go back on the record and reflect on what has been said at previous meetings by amoy city as well as by the clp and as well as by pam that was not said today that this as well as identify some of the ways that we have asked to move forward and address those as well and what will happen or won't happen because at this point i just don't like the mischaracterization that is happening today and it's really not okay for staff to take credit for things that they know they did not initiate and to give credit to other people for things that they know they did not initiate when we have it actually on records and

meeting notes of what actually happened in those meetings and how we got to this point. and i think and i think that when you leave out the voice of community and the things that we're hearing and we're pushing for that one actual things get done you give credit back to community. so the commission like to have another commission meeting have this on the item, have this item on it to be heard again for let's say call it a part two of some sort. it's up to you know you know, kind of jamie can just take the vote to fellow commissioners. can we take a vote on this then move on second just to repeat it. commissioner brackett moved seconded by commissioner lim commission members, please police announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner brackett yes, commissioner lim. yes, vice chair aquino? yes. and chair scott. yes, madam chair.

the vote is four eyes. this item will continue to the next agenda. >> shall i call the next item? >> can i call madam secretary? police call the next item. >> next is item five c workshop on the madam secretary, can we take a five minute break, please? >> sure. we're going to recess for five minutes. we'll return at . >> okay, we're in place. director thore will make an announcement at excuse me. thank you, madam chair and thank you for the commission for reconvening due to the time constraint i want to make a recommendation to the commission the item five d which is the small business

enterprise and local hiring policy. some of the staff had to go to other commitments and so i recommend that we continue that for the next soonest meeting we could meet on that. >> i also recommend you take item six out of order which is legally required which is public comment on non agenda items for anyone who wants to comment on non agenda items and then i also recommend you just continue item seven through 10 to 4 in the interest of time. so so the next item would simply be the annual housing production report remaining and of course public comment on non agenda items if there's no objection from the commissioners are there any objection fellow commissioners a motion no objections. i make a motion to continue items 5c5d as well as move item six public comment up and in

the interest of time and that item seven through ten is that correct also be moved continue to the next meeting that we have is okay i and i just need a second i second and we i'm sorry i'm sorry i think five c we were still planning on hearing or are you proposing that b continue to five c as the annual housing report we're keeping five c only five de o'connor okay. thank you. so we're keeping five c then so would five provision thank you. >> are we going to have enough time to finish five c yeah okay. >> okay so chair per the proposal were your you were going to move public item six out of order and calling that item first can i go ahead and proceed. >> yes okay thank you. >> oh wait i'm sorry. i thought we were adding five c

because that's the workforce piece is in five c and they had of five days and david is the one where the staff had to go and that's the small business enterprise and workforce that that has to be continued and then five c as in kent okay you got it okay i'm thinking at the round but i'm sorry that was thank you. >> sorry. no problem. apologies. oh, it's getting confused. i was on five c from the previous meeting. >> sorry about that madam chair. can i go ahead and call? >> would you call? yes, thank you. the next order of business is item six public comment on non agenda items if there are any members of the public who wish to provide public comment on non agenda items please call 415 6550001 enter access code 26600818667 followed by the pound or number sign then the pound or number sign again to enter the call please press star then three to be added to the queue if you're listening

to us by phone please press star three if you'd like to provide a public comment again on non agenda items we'll begin with members of the public here in person who would like to come up to the podium at this time. mr. williams hi again i'm demetrius williams, president of the san francisco hyper local building trades contractors collective. i know the name is long but so are we. we are a bunch of contractors from the bayview that collectively get together every tuesday at 8 a.m. 1550 evans and discuss contractual opportunities that's coming down the pipeline for the bayview. we specifically try to emphasize on requirements and try to make sure we have inclusion and understand it.

so i just want to read this once again and we we deeply appreciate the intent of the policy which was established to foster inclusion, diversity and equality in san francisco long before the principles became widely emphasized. however, we find ourselves constantly passed over for opportunities with little resources available to address the concerns. >> as such we would greatly value your census and understanding the policies currently implement implant implantation and impact specifically we would like to ask the following questions. is there is there a unit response for in force in these policy? >> who holds who holds the developers and owners accountable for not meeting the goals of these policies? are there assist in programs

available to help the b v p residents mean contracting requirements? are there reports on the outcomes of these policies and so are they produce monthly, quarterly or annually and can the collective access them where resources for the developers or contractors who fail to meet the policies requirement? who are the members of the psc or what avenues are available for raising objections to projects that we believe bypass local residents or violate the policies such as has been done over at again at mission bay i mean not just only mission bay but trans bay. so we're trying to figure out who is the account holder we come to for accountability. >> what is the recourses and

how do we make sure that inclusion is definitely involved with the community contractors? we wouldn't be here raising these questions right now and if we were contracting contractual opportunities because we would be obligated to be doing research and reports to make sure that we are in compliance. but because we don't have contracts we are out of compliance and we want to make sure that somebody is held accountable. >> thank you. thank you, mr. williams. thank you. >> are there any other members of the public wishing to comment on non agenda items at this time? seeing none. we're moving over to remote callers. we do have one caller. >> hi, this is gloria berry from ten. born and raised in district five, the fillmore didn't live there anymore because the whole building was evicted for conversion of condos so i'm

invited anyway, i called in earlier to speak at public comment and i kept getting told that my hand was being lowered so i didn't get to speak. >> i tried it twice to start three and both times my hand was lowered. >> so sticking with non agenda items i would like to support demetrius and what he's saying as far as contractors and i will say specifically black contractors we brought up this matter with the city attorney david chu and he hid behind proposition 2o9. however i suggested that if you can't say the word black when hiring you simply use different language like culturally copied or those most harmed by a system than san francisco or any other way to finally get

around this and get some black contractors hired that especially on projects that affect our community. and i just want to say as far as outreach or marketing on any matter, all city departments are guilty of doing a poor job if people want to complain there is misinformation out there. >> okay then obviously your outreach and your marketing is not being done well other than that i do want to say that any program that qualifies people to be eligible one way or another keep in mind it causes pain. there's people trying to find out if they're eligible for different things that when it comes to housing period that

have to research obituaries, they have to find out family secrets and ask questions of people who don't even want to talk about the path. >> so if trauma being inflicted trying to be eligible to get in all sorts of new is through all sorts of programs and we need to be cognizant of that and perhaps include some type of professional people that are used to dealing with trauma and help people personally and handhold them through this process knowing that it's painful. i also would like to say that when people brag workshops done whether it's with them always see the or whatnot.

so there you say it's doing a good job. >> how dare you say the problem usually is because of a person's finances? >> excuse me miss barry. sorry. if you could wrap wrap up please. >> your three minutes were it was up. oh, okay. well, thank you. and i had a lot more to say and i'm sorry that the raising hand system thing doesn't work for only certain people. >> next caller. hi, commissioners. can you hear me? yes. um, thank you much. mr. dennis williams, micro real estate developer. i had a whole thing written but i'm a little bit under the weather so i'm not there in person but it was very hard to listen for three hours so

several things and i address those instead of my normal speech start with commissioner maria was taken aback when you speak several times and even gave an example when you say several times like black folk their interpretation of it or how you make people's mannerisms is racially condescending and it was very disturbing and it was very bothersome to me. when you speak on your experiences when you say something about black folk and then your voice changes as it doesn't mimic my black people is a very disturbing it had a racially to it and excuse me at many times today commissioner beauvais spoke on her findings and lack of compliance and officers lack of accountability and allowance is miserable and sounded irritated and it feels like to me and others that are here watching i'm not going to say who.

it seems like bullying is going on. it's almost two hours. it's like a back and forth match when of your commission or part of the commission is telling you what can not only her findings but what can be done to fix it and the role that ocr should be playing is being battered down and black history month is giving me the story of her passion and our commitment to black san francisco who are continuously underrepresented under represented excuse me and rights and their rights are turned a blind eye to should be held in a higher regard. >> not saying that you don't but the way you guys are cutting it down or going over the things that she's saying as if she doesn't know what she's talking about is is wrong and i don't want to hear this and it can be a complaint can be made or someone can look accountable ability oversight committee can look into this problem that's

going on which is needed for the betterment of people that are suffering through the c o p if there's no housing being built then let's build it and make a comprehensive plan. some commissioners continue to poke out their chest when speaking on the shipyard or candlestick of what's going on but that sounds racist if you do not and if you do not include the same passion about the black history of those communities and the communities working on those projects from our real estate developers we keep we keep forgetting about the developers. let's stop that right now. there's many minority developers that are looking for work and partner opportunities. i continue to say that and others as well as our contractors, truckers and cleaning crews and our workforce development oci what is the problem this is not a code and if everything is working perfectly then john stewart and mccormack and ben salazar wouldn't horrible corporation and slumlords at

the san francisco chronicle stated when asked responsible for discussing mr. williams exemplary believes that was three minutes are up okay well i hope thank you mr. williams thank you mr. williams. >> madam chair, i'm madam chair. it does not appear we have any other callers but let me double check just to make sure i do not see any other hands raised other than the two that we've heard fellow commissioners. are there any comments, concerns for anything that's not on the agenda? >> i have due to the time. thank you chair. >> i just want to say it it is black history month. i'm back. >> my apologies. a point of order, madam chair. i think that was just public comment for non agenda items

for the public not the commission. thank you. you're right. >> are we obligated to answer those? no. >> no question no, no. just to listen. thank you. i'll go ahead and call the next item madam chair i think it's five c which is the workshop on annual housing production report fiscal year 2023 dash 2020 for discussion and director koslowski thank you madam secretary and greetings members of the commission members of the public who are here. >> this is ozzie i's annual housing production report. it talks about the housing production through our enforceable obligations and our three project areas hunters point shipyard candlestick jointly transbay and mission bay and it talks about our financing the army levels and the units that we have in

construction, the units that we're completing in units that we have in what i sort of look at is long range planning or pre-planning predevelopment and to present this is elizabeth carmel osseo is housing manager. >> elizabeth thank you. director kozlowski good afternoon. chair scott vice chair keno commissioners i'm elizabeth carmela, housing program manager. today i'm here to present on our annual housing production report. this report covers fiscal year 2324 so keep in mind the results you're seeing are for the period between july 1st 23 to june 30th 2024. the report is in draft form and we'd like any suggestions or input you have after incorporating revisions will distribute the report to interested parties and posted on our website as we've done in years past as i'm going to try to go quickly through the presentation given the time. so this is just the major highlights in the presentation so we're covered much of this and moving on to this is our

project areas our major development project area is trans batemans bay north and south and the shipyard and candlestick point and this chart reflects oates's obligations for each project area the status of housing production percent complete. it includes both market rate and affordable units under oates's purview overall there will be 27,776 housing units once all obligations are complete of which 47% will be affordable including the newly approved sb 593 replacement housing obligation. nearly 40% of total units will be in the shipyard phase two and candlestick point once units are completed and occupied, the projects are transferred to the mayor's office of housing and community development or most cd as housing successor agency under dissolution law. >> so this is a summary of who has served in our affordable housing. we serve households with very

low to moderate incomes that would otherwise struggle to find housing in san francisco the median incomes are arms we use are based on data from hud and are calculated by most cd while 50 while 50% is considered very low income. as we discuss a lot here housing at army levels below 50% remains sorely needed for our preference populations and all populations applying for our housing. so we do strive to include units with rent serving armies lower than 50% in each project and typically we are able to set aside some units at between 30 and 50% of am i. however, as commissioner brackett correctly pointed out, the number of the number of units targeting armies below 50% is limited by ensuring that properties can continue to fund ongoing project operations and maintenance. another way we make our units affordable to the lowest armies is to seek local and or federal operating subsidies that further lower the rents and ensure people with the very lowest incomes can be housed. over the last several decades the federal government has

continually reduced federal resources going toward this type of housing subsidy. san francisco has filled some of that gap with local operating subsidies for permanent supportive housing and senior housing. but there remains a great need for more operating and rental subsidies to reach our lowest income populations. with all that said, there is some good news of 662 oci funded affordable units under construction during the fiscal year 23 and 24 419 are at 50% ami and below of those 135 are at 30% army and below and 176 have an operating or rental subsidy. >> we were able to secure rare project based section eight vouchers for our two shipyard phase one projects that are finishing up construction in just the next few months. >> before i go on to our 2324 data, i'm going to provide a brief and i'm going to try to make it briefer summary of how we fund our affordable housing in the current funding environment. most of our projects are funded by a combination of tax exempt

bonds allocated by the california debt limit allocation committee or sedlak in the low income housing tax credits allocated by the california tax credit allocation committee or sedlak. we also tap into other state sources when possible, some of which are outlined here on this slide and typically that covers up to about 60% of project costs oci funds the remaining gap that is needed to build the housing since 2020 for the first time in over 15 years, those funding sources have implemented a competitive allocation system for tax exempt bonds and and the associated tax credits as we've discussed a lot in presentations since that time, this has severely affected our ability to secure these sources. we've been able to be successful with our current crop of projects in construction due to both advocating for changes in scoring to the state that provides more value to our deeper affordability and through structuring financial structuring of our projects where we fund certain elements

such as commercial spaces separately. so we expect to continue to have success but we also expect that the competitive nature of these sources will continue to affect our projects and could result in project delays. finally the market conditions in fiscal year 2324 affected our projects and we expect they will continue to impact our projects with construction costs continuing to increase interest rates remaining high and we've also been experiencing unprecedented increases in operating expenses particularly insurance and utilities. of course this is an issue not just limited to affordable housing or even to just our area but it remains a huge challenge. >> so honing in on 2324 we provided gap funds to transbay block to east and to west with which both started construction during the fiscal year transbay to east includes 182 units of affordable family housing and to west includes 150 units of affordable senior housing. both of these projects include subsidized permanent supportive

housing units and transbay block to west includes 60 units with a local senior operating subsidy to further deepen affordability and here's a rendering of that of those blocks to west and east. they both started construction last year and we expect them both to be complete by july of 2026. here's a rendering of block 52. you may remember that our 5254 project in the shipyard is made up of two noncontiguous blocks on the hilltop. this is one of those blocks and this is the other block 54 we expect construction to be complete on both of them in may of this year. >> here we show the distribution of housing types in our completed affordable units to date this is cumulative not just for fiscal year 2324. so you see the majority of our projects are family rental with 13% homeownership a small percentage senior rental in permanently supportive housing we do have more senior and homeownership projects under

construction as as we've discussed and these will shift the percentages somewhat in the next several years. however, family rental will remain the largest single category. >> here you can see the army breakdown of those same completed affordable units i reported on in the previous slide. these units are not just oci 100% affordable projects but include inclusionary or bmr units funded by developers in our project areas you can see about 70% of completed units are at 50% ami and below and 10% are at 30% am i and below in 2324 in addition to the two construction starts we had three oci funded and one market rate with inclusionary project under construction here you can see our two 100% affordable family rental shipyard projects that i just mentioned block 5254 and block 56 mission bay

south block nine a 148 unit 100% affordable homeownership project was under construction throughout the fiscal year and just completed last month in addition to the three blocks i just mentioned being under construction during the fiscal year. the project on the other side of our one point shipyard shipyard block 52 it's a market rate homeownership project being developed by lennar which was also under construction. it has 77 units total with nine of them being affordable to households at 80%. am i so obviously this was a busy year for construction for us. >> here's some photos of the construction of our projects in the shipyard in mission bay south. now i'll move on to marketing and copy which i'll keep short since we just had a much larger presentation on this. as you know it was your contracts with most to oversee marketing of our units and mostly provides marketing outcome reports for each of our projects. oci closely coordinates with

most through our senior development specialist tamsen sims particularly around oses occupancy preferences which of course includes the copy including descendants of original copy holders. as always number one preference that applies to 100% of units. then there's the displaced tenants housing preference or up and the neighborhood resident housing preference or rhp in fiscal year 2324 no projects leased out no oci projects leased up. so we have no outcomes data to report on that front. however 319 new certificates of preference up from 115 last year were issued and early outreach began for our two shipyard projects in our mission bay homeownership project here you can see our copy program results for the last ten years. during that time there were 1482 lottery units available in total 85 copy holders have been housed in oci funded housing

with 31 of those returning to san francisco 366 copy holders applying for housing and 893 new certificates issued. as i mentioned this is just four new oci units during the last ten years and it's just for oci affordable units. it doesn't include market rate units which the copy preference does not apply to and it doesn't include re rentals. >> but you just heard a lot more about all of that in pam and maria's presentation. now we'll touch on our small business and workforce goals. developers on our affordable projects worked closely with oci to achieve our overall 50% goals no professional services contracts were entered into during this fiscal year so we don't really have anything to report there. but in fiscal year 2324 over 45% of our construction contracts worth a total of about $105 million were awarded to sbs.

over 42% of our contracts were awarded to san francisco based sbs. as far as local construction workforce participation we achieved 28% up from 23% last year this represents 605 san francisco residents performing over 170,000 hours of work. >> also during the fiscal year the housing team was working away on a variety of projects that didn't make it into this report. you've heard a lot about them over the last few months so i won't go into great detail but i wanted to note them. those projects include mission bay south block four east where we issued a request for qualifications and selected a development team led by curtis development and bayview hunters point multi-purpose senior services for a site that will include two 100% affordable family projects and up to 400 units. we also had the copy holder location project phase two underway for much of the fiscal year with as they were continuing to locate current contact information for copy holders through our contract with links, insights and investigations and new community leadership foundation

. here's a little preview of what we have been working on since the close of 2324 mission bay south block for east pre-development got underway and we expect the schematic designs to be brought before the commission by the end of this year. we've started copy holder location project phase three you heard more about that earlier and transbay block four since the option with the blocks master developer expired during the last fixed fiscal year we've been working on ways to advance the affordable components of that block and we expect to bring you more on that before the end of this fiscal year. >> before i wrap up, i just want to say that oci housing accomplishments are really a joint effort of our developer partners design teams, property managers and our project area citizens advisory committees such as dr.. hunnicutt who you heard from earlier and high point shipyard s.a.s.. of course none of this would be possible also without the commission's ongoing guidance support and collaboration and

all oci staff contribute to oci as housing developments. but i do want to call out our small but mighty housing team who have all contributed to this report and of course the projects that we are reporting on so that's pam sims who you heard from earlier kim obstfeld jasmine kuo who i think is still here philip wong, alicia andrews and natasha jones. and last but certainly not least our newest staff member channing jackson who jumped right into working on all of our projects including putting together this report that we are discussing today. she's an able to be here today but i just want to give her a huge shout out for all the work that went into this report now so i want to give a big thank you to george bridges and maria pico for their contributions on the sb and workforce data in this report and their work on our projects to help them achieve the numbers that we reported. and also thank you to laura shively who helped with some of the graphics in the report. so this concludes staff's presentation and i'm here to answer any questions you may have. >> sorry, sorry.

>> thank you, elizabeth. thank you. >> i'll call public comment please madam at this time members of the public who wish to provide public comment on item five c should call 415655000 one enter access code 26600818667 followed by the pound sign then the pound sign again to enter the call press star three to be placed in the queue an automated voice will let you know when it is your turn. >> would like to begin by inviting members of the public who are here in person. >> mr. williams can my name is demetrius williams president of san francisco hyper local building trades contractors collective i heard some reports that is so alarming the contractors part about inclusion what the community

contract is 50% goal i have not no weren't that is not true no way i see made accurate i don't know if she's just reading off what she heard or whatever but she has not that is not accurate information that she has about inclusion of community contractors and reaching out to us and making sure that we have inclusion once again this is what we're talking about the fail of the system when we trying to educate and help out make sure that we have inclusion, make sure that we participate with the community, keeping the community san franciscans at home, the san franciscans, the people who live and thrive in san francisco that live in bay view that reside in bay view, that bank in bay view that educated in the bay view that go home to bayview is not being served. we're being underserved and being lied on saying that we

get an edge and get an opportunity to bid on contracts that we are not getting the opportunity to be on. so i would say that we can go back and fact that true and come back with some realities, some results that shows yes listen you may feel is working in bay view will carney class and is working in bay view and targeting first class it is norm and is working in bay view you some real statistics that shows that we are actually being included c i w nassar's plumbing dc williams developer sterling framers these are all people that's from the san francisco that live and drive in bayview and some live in west in addition that's out of work so how can we prove that we actually have facts when i'm telling you and i we work we

meet every tuesday and say that we out of work that's not the truth that we're coming out and getting o.c. i don't know where you got your facts from but i challenge you to the fact that we are not working. >> thank you for mr. james thank you, mr. williams. oscar james again, i'd like to ditto on with mr. williams just spoken on none of the contractors in our area are receiving these contracts. i don't know where these minority contractors are coming from but they're sure not coming from my communities. so i just want you to guys keep that in mind and hope that whatever goes this forward that we become a part of the development. so i oh my brother william said

we live, we work, we grew up in that community and if we don't benefit in that community should nobody else benefit in the community? >> thank you very much. thank you mr. james any other members of the public in person who would like to come up to the podium seeing none. we're moving to remote first caller hi this is gloria very this for ten again yeah, i really have a problem with inclusion. we're being used in a presentation. >> at what point are people going to be held accountable for just blatantly lying and for putting this in a you a presentation presenting it and looking back people looking back saying oh sam, this goes full inclusion because this slide said so when no that's that's that's disgusting. also i would like to add that

any housing period should not be bragged about that's being built with that thought that is trickling down to the black community the false narrative we need housing period that's not deeply affordable or does not occur make clp holders is just a sham so yeah we're glad to have some affordable units but any other types of housing market rate is not necessary in san francisco there's a plus for a vacant market rate housing i just moved out of my apartment. somebody needs a $3,200 one bedroom apartment. >> i got it. we don't need any of that

expensive stuff. >> we need all really affordable not just fordable vaguely affordable and other than that i just wish people could stop lying. >> thank thank you. >> you have one more caller. thank you, commissioners. mr. dennis williams again micro developer and i know the oci commissioners don't give the black community a chance because without even knowing them we're going into these communities i finding these early he's in my brother search stating the experience how can we gain experience if we're not given any contracts to show you our work? and then secondly, like president mr. mr. williams student demetrius that spoke

earlier as a contractor excuse me i'm still a little sick as a professional contractor he helped build the southeast community center which you guys a lot of you guys meet at or have been to different events and you see the modernization of it in the beauty of it. so that's a give you this is standards statement to what the great is that black the contractors can do i wasn't a part of that project but i can stand with those contractors and put an advocate but to do more things like that in our community that serve our community as a beacon of hope and inspiration. but back to that experience part that for myself i'm the head of the community alliance. i'm the head of the east advisory committee. i hosted monthly meetings with san francisco, several department heads notably working mr. walking tours

excuse me hrc and housing authority which i have a meeting with miss linda basing friday. so when you talk about experience we that is a cop out my great great grandfather maybe i missed a great but was on the stockton call in 1964 my family goes a lot of your family wasn't here in san francisco but you guys make the rules about our land and about our communities. my mother is darlene williams, retired from the redevelopment agency. oh i interned at candlestick viewed when we lived on general street in those housings developments that was made for minority workers in the city. my father is a retired captain of the san francisco sheriff's department and those are adjacent to the shipyard. so when we guys when you say all these contracts that are going out and they're not going to people in the community that

are qualified like myself and others, it's wrong and it's illegal especially in black history month, nothing is being done. >> it should be historical events going on pertaining to these developments pertaining to carved out sections for our it'll be is in our developers and it's just like we keep having these meetings and saying the same thing i commend commissioner of the bet like i stated you're like a modern day angela davis or a record in my book so thank you mr. really just thank you so much mr. williams thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you sir. but with time as it is we have a hard stop at five and for the reference to that in respect of that time we need to continue on with the item i. i know that both myself and commissioner might have a lot

of questions about sb so i'd like to make the motion to continue this item to the next meeting so that we can have a full discussion about it. i know specifically i pulled out our old 2017 housing reports and sb reports and it looks like the numbers have gone down so i know we need to have some robust discussions about some solutions to that. so if i can get a second from a commissioner that way we can get out. >> i second that and i'll call the next item. >> madam chair in the interest of time. next item is item 11 adjournment. >> okay. may i just say, you know we're all moving towards the same goal. we've had the same concerns and commissioner rivette has brought up many that i've suggested worked with and our other commissioners. we have different roads and ways that we express it but

we're all moving towards a better city, a strong our work towards it and it's going to take time to unpeel this and do that work. but again director thor pam oci staff we are not perfect but i thank you for moving towards a better way of reaching the goals. thank you so much. >> can we get a meeting a motion to adjourn i motion to adjourn we can't hear you. >> oh it's 5:03 p.m.. thank you, commissioners. >> we could do that next time. okay

>> come shop dine and play. taraval street is open for business. >> i am a coowner at 19th. this establishment came about when me and my brother andy, coowner, we decided that it time for us to take a step up in the barber industry, and open up a space of our own. ory business is a community that shows their true artistic side of the barber industry. we are involved in teraival

bingo so stop by, get a hair cut and when you do you get the barber sticker made just for us. i say in three words we are community, arts and here to help any way possible we can, so come by, visit at barber lounge, 907 taraval in the sunset. you can find us on instagram. >> time for teraival bingo supporting small business, anyone can participate. it is easy, collect stickers on a bingo gameboard and enter a raffle event. my name is mark, the general manager of condor beach in san francisco. condor was created [indiscernible] when it started in 1964, the club becoming the first adult entertainment, club regal in america, that was

something big, that was huge. condor givers you a little of everything. we open in the day on the weekends so we have a live band that play and night time we transform where the entertains come on and we have the gentleman's club vibe along with the sports vibe. we show the ufc and boxing events and major sports and do little things like [indiscernible] comedy nights you can find what we are doing through our website. condor gives you a little bit of everything that you want when you want to go out and have a good time. being here in north beach and part of san francisco we put a lot of ourselves in the business. the good work we were able to do over the last decade to build it and make it what it is today t. is a honor to say, we are one of few businesses in san francisco that is a legacy

business. >> [music] >> this project is certainly the most significant of my career so far. the majority of my practice is portrait based. but thes is the first time i've represented someone so iconic. >> building a monument to maya

angela discovering the civic art collection. former san francisco mayor and u.s. senator diane feinstein and nursing florence nightinggale. >> this begun in 2017 and ordinance in 2018 that called for increased representation of women and public spaces. >> in october 2018, the board of supervisors approved the ordinance drafted by supervisor mark farrell and introduced by supervisor catherine stefani. >> item 26 is ordinance to direct the arts commission to erect work of art depicting maya angelou of depiction of women on city property and create a women public art funds. >> angelou attended washington high school and [indiscernible] at 16 years old the city first black female street car conductor.

the san francisco arts commission began a nation wide search to find the right artist to capture the essence of the icon. >> the process for choosing public artists is very simple. it is a transparent open process where you have panels that are determined which artist moves forward and panels of experts that know public art and understand it and know what to look for and how to judge quality. after that, their recommendations are taken to the visual arts committee and then approved and it goes forward to the full commission. >> this is the sample of the [indiscernible] >> from over 130 submissions, one artist, berkeley based artist [indiscernible] was chosen. >> the process began with research. reimursing in dr. angelou's work, her books, her poems, here performances, her interviews and then i

looked at her art collection. maya angelou was a champion of black artist and she had worked by elizabeth catlet. especially portrayals of black women. i was also inspired by [indiscernible] maya's life, which was commissioned by opera windfry. i looked at photographs of dr. angelou, i looked at public murals of dr. angelou and i looked how she was represented in sculptures and knew i didn't want to use a image of her already in the public consciousness. i was really drawn to her 1973 interview with bill moyers, so i used an image from that interview as the basis for the portrait. working in bronze was a

completely different experience. design for the monument is based on a drawing. transformed into a 32 dimensional object which was then used to make 3d print, which were there cast in the bronze, which were then welded together like a puzzle. it was actually the first time that the boundary created a portrait that is 8 feet tall and 6 feet wide. it was a innovative process which is fitting because maya angelou was a trail-blazer and innovator. >> called for the monument to be placed at the main library however there was discussion left for the art est to select sites they thought were the most appropriate sites for the arkwork. >> i chose the site

instinctively. it was really organic the way i made the decision. i walked back and forth in front of the library and since we read from left to right, i decided to situate the monument to the left of the opening. also, the portrait has eyes that follow you, and so i wanted her eyes to follow you as you approach the library steps, all the way until you enter the library. >> i can't think of a better place for this monument then here at our flag ship main library in the tenderloin neighborhood where maya angelou really gave so much of her time and energy trying to improve quality of life for the residents here. she was a long time member of the glide memorial church. she was part of the congregation.

[singing] >> it is my pleasure to well come you to this monumental community celebration and unveiling of dr. maya angelou monument, portrait of phenomenal woman. [cheers] >> let this serve as reminder of the importance of books and the acquisition of knowledge. my dear [indiscernible] has been in my life. always in my life. guiding and directing me towards my greatest expressions. as a woman, as a artist, as a teacher and a mother. >> from the sketches to final touches, the process has been a labor of

love. each stage of the monument creation has been infused with the spirit of dr. angelou powerful words and and unwavering commitment to justice and equality. >> i feel we center have the spirit of dr. maya angelou because they are both very committed to equality, women rights and to insuring that all voices are heard and people have the opportunity to articulate and express themselves in all their many forms. >> portrait of phenomenal woman the maya angelou monument. she is the first all woman of color that is being honored in that way with a monument. it is important moment for that and we are really excited. and we want to continue this. >> that ideal dr. angelou based her life on are as much as part of the monument as bronze and stone.

she's eternally optimistic and hopeful and i think that that is a message that we can all benefit from. i think that the monument will serve as an example for other cities to erect monuments to extraordinary women, because currently the majority of monuments in this country celebrate conquest, war and white men and that really needs to change. >> i rise from a past rooted in pain. i rise, a black ocean leaping and wide, welling and swelling i bear in the tide. leaving behind nights of tear and fear, i rise into a day break this wondrously clear. i rise bringing the gift my

ancestors gave. i am the dream and the hope of the slave. i rise, i rise, i rise. news hybrid in-person and virtual meeting the san francisco entertainment commission my name has been blame and on the commission president. >> we'll start with announcements we would like to start the meeting with the land acknowledge ment we the san francisco entertainment commission acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the dramatist jelani who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco