today how we communicate and interact with each other, how we share information, and how we use that information, and then for the city as a whole, so that the city as a halt knows what is going on as well. . welcome to the san francisco public works commission meeting. today is thursday, february 13th, 2025 and it's 11 a.m. mr. orwell please call the roll. >> good morning chair post we'll start with chair post here. >> yeah okay that is i'll be present at paul woolford present eleanor bloom present

gerald turner. okay. >> with four members present we do have quorum public public comment is taken for all informational and action items on today's agenda to comment in person please line up against the wall near the screen the audience is left when the public when public comment is called for. members of the public wishing to comment on an item from outside the hearing room you may do so by joining via webinar through the link shown on page two of today's agenda and to be recognized select the raise your hand icon in the webinar you may also comment from outside the chamber by dialing 14156550001 to raise your hand to speak press star three the telephone log in information is also available

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suite 1600 san francisco 94103 and on behalf of public works commission we expend we extend thanks to s.f. gov tv building management and media services staff for helping make this special meeting possible. >> thank you. are there any requests to change anything on today's agenda? the order hear anything off of consent into the regular? no and i have nothing either. all righty. good. then we'll proceed to the first item which is announcements and i do have one that will not surprise anybody i'd like to call attention to the january issue of in the works which celebrates the works of course is the department newsletter that comes out every month. the january issue though is noteworthy because it celebrates the public works department's 125th 125th

anniversary after its founding in 1900. >> the january edition is a unique edition featuring a decade by decade historical look at how the department and the city grew and changed over the course of the century and a quarter juxtaposed with significant local, regional and national historic and cultural events from archival photos to links to music of the periods to the newsletters always engaging narrative the january 2025 in the works really is required reading for anyone who enjoys learning about san francisco and califor nia and national history and seeing how the past directly leads to the present and will influence the city's future big congratulations to the department's communications teams for an outstanding job. i hope there are avenues for

wider city distribution of this noteworthy and enjoyable addition. january 2025 in the works. >> that concludes my announcements. do any of my colleagues have any announcements today? >> all right mr. otwell any announcements today from you? yes. just one reminder to the commissioners that form 700 completion as well as ethics and sunshine ordinance training are due on april 1st. you should have received a message about this and instructions earlier this week. if not, please contact commission affairs manager bob fuller who can share it with you. >> thank you. please open this item to public comment. >> thank you. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on item one announcement by the chair, commissioners and secretary may line up against the wall to the audience is left if coming from outside the chamber please raise your hand usually raise

your hand button in the webinar or press star three on your phone to be recognized and we do not have anyone in the queue. that concludes public comment. thank you. please call the next item which is the directors report and i just did before director short begins want to acknowledge again a thank you to the contracts team in the department for providing what will now be a monthly summary of the contracts that have been approved by director short that of course our commission used to approve but that we thought would be more prudent to hand off to director short in the interests of common sense and efficiency. >> i wanted to again thank the contracts team for producing this report that we'll be getting each month and i particularly appreciate their them citing the reasons why contracts are modified. these explanations are very helpful to the commission and

to the public director short okay. >> thank you chair post good morning commissioners. carla short it's hard to believe we're already halfway through february. a lot is happening this month. before i get into my report i do want to echo chair posts rave review about our january issue of in the works. it is i think an extraordinary newsletter every month. it's fantastic but this one is so unique and special. i've read it twice and i need to go back because i feel like i there's still more to learn so thank you for highlighting that and congratulations again to the team. >> okay as i'm sure you are aware san francisco is about to welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors to our city this weekend for two major happenings and we are welcoming them with some beautiful rain. >> starting tomorrow san francisco will be host to events surrounding sunday's

all-star game at chase center with concerts fan experiences and other special events on tap at many locations including mosconi center, pier 48 and downtown our street cleaning operation has been and will be in full swing to keep the city looking good just as we do for every major event that comes to san francisco our street inspectors also will be on the ground to keep the public right of way safe and free of hazards. >> we've been working closely with our partner city departments, the nba and the mayor's office to coordinate our operations. a big thanks to the department of emergency management for leading the citywide operation we've expertly handled big events like this before and i am confident that team public works and our entire city will step up again to make the nba all-star weekend in san francisco a great experience for everyone. we also have been on the ground readying chinatown for the

lunar new year festivities painting the decorative light poles on grant avenue power washing the dragon gate and removing graffiti part of our annual operation to spruce up the historic neighborhood for the new year's festivities. on saturday our team will be tailing the chinese new year parade with a big squad of public works staff armed with brooms, blowers, rakes, steamers and pickers followed by our mechanical sweepers and flush our trucks. this is a highly choreographed operation and one that can make all of us proud. happy new year. >> and as all of this is happening, we've also been dealing with a series of storms that have brought localized flooding, downed trees and a couple of landslides. >> i want to thank everyone in the department who has been working on storm response from our arborists, communications staff and general laborers to asphalt workers, engineers and dispatchers. as always, they've stepped up

under challenging circumstances. i want to give special thanks to the new head of public works emergency management nick whole sapo for his great coordination work on to a few other highlights. >> on january 30th we held our annual partnering awards ceremony and had a great turnout with represented with representative moves from multiple city departments as well as our private sector partners to celebrate all of the fantastic projects throughout the city that have been completed over the last year. >> i am proud to announce that once again public works was well represented in the ranks of the winning projects. this year there were five public works led projects that received partnering awards four for the 2024 calendar year including the various locations brick sewer improvements project which won a silver award for public infrastructure projects under $20 million. >> the wawona area stormwater improvement and vincent street water main replacement project

which won an award for its insanely long title joking which won a bronze award for public infrastructure projects over $20 million. the soma street tree nursery site improvements project continues to win awards. we got a silver award for building projects under $20 million and the golden gate golf clubhouse which also won a silver award for building projects under $20 million and the hertz play playground which won a silver award for building projects under $20 million. >> i want to extend a huge congratulations to all of our public works colleagues who are involved in the design, construction and management of these projects. it is always great to see your hard work and expertise get recognized in an official way like this. >> i would also like to thank all of our colleagues who helped plan and organizing organize the partnering awards ceremony itself. >> and of course i want to make sure that you mark your

calendars on sunday, march 8th public works will be hosting our annual arbor day tree planting work day and community fair in district five. the community fair will be jam packed with free family fun and earth friendly activities including bucket truck rides, information booths and a build your own planter box station. the event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the grounds of civic center secondary school at 650 mcallister street. >> we'll also be hosting tours of our award winning street tree nursery site on fifth in the south of market. and at the same time we'll be planting more than 150 street trees in the tenderloin and south of market. as you all know by this point arbor day is my favorite day of the year. i hope you can join us kick off is at 9 a.m. at the civic center school. >> and finally, as is tradition for us every february our

department joins the national celebration of black history month. when we have time to recognize and celebrate the contributions of black community, not only will you find engaging did you know emails but we also have a chock full of wonderful events with topics ranging from everyday heroes valuing our black flint frontline workers to the firsts to ever do it. san francisco's black trailblazers. a big shout out to the black history month committee for putting together another inspiring roster of activities. as a department we value our different backgrounds, cultures and experiences that together make us a stronger team. and with that i will wrap up my report. thank you and i know my colleagues join me in congratulating the department for the awards at the partnering award ceremony and it was it's nice to see so many projects that aren't necessarily visible to the public. so many projects underground

that are just as or even more important than some of the pretty projects that are above ground that we all enjoy. but it's very nice to see recognition of those below ground projects as well. and i will join you in expressing my appreciation for the black history month. did you know emails? i've been enjoying them myself and would like to thank the staff people that have agreed to be profiled because that's a very personal thing and not everybody is comfortable with that. but for those staff people that have agreed to be profiled in those emails i know i've enjoyed reading about their past and professional experience and their goals and aspirations. so thank you very much. commissioner zoghbi yeah, thank you for the report on such a rainy day to get such a great great news about the awards that public works is receiving and i hope all city departments would learn from public works on how to do projects. i also wanted to say happy happy new year to our asian community which we will also

have the parade on this saturday hopefully won't rain too much that i just wanted to congratulate you public works team and communication team on all that. >> thank you. commissioner bloom

thank you. please open sign to public comment. thank you chair. i would like to add that commissioner turner has joined us for the record. okay. and members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comments and person on item two the directors report may line up against the wall to the audience is left if commenting from outside the chamber press d raise your hand button on the webinar or press star three from your phone to be recognized and i'm checking with s.f. gov tv if we have any callers and we do not. >> that concludes public comment.

thank you. please call the next item. item three is general a general public comment for which are four topics under the commission's mandate but not related to a specific item on today's agenda members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general public in person may line up against the wall to the audience left if commenting from outside the chamber press the raise your hand button in the webinar or press star three on your phone to be recognized and we don't have any public comment we may have to pause for some technical thank you.

all right please call the next item. >> mr. clinton excuse me. mr. all well okay. >> item four is the department consent calendar of routine matters and it includes the draft minutes from the january 9th and the january 23rd meeting of public works commission ten contract awards and one contract modification consent calendar items can be heard individually upon request by commissioner staff or the public adoption of consent calendar and all resolutions contained in it is an action item before a motion is made. i'm happy to take corrections to the minutes and any questions. thank you. i did send some typographical corrections to the minutes and i understand those got made. none were material so i had one

question on one consent item. it was item c the master as needed to general and during services amounts in contract award. couple of questions. director short i'll direct them to you. i, i was just a little confused about a couple of things can or cannot an lbb requirement be waived and is a requirement on this project 15 or 20% and i also just want to be sure i understood how the sole non responsive bidder became responsive. i think by swapping out a non lbb sub for an lbb sub after being contacted by public works that there was a problem but i just wanted to get some clarification on that. >> thank you. yeah thank you chair post i'm happy to answer that and i do want to recognize we have our project manager here in the audience so feel free to rest. >> come up if you'd like to the the lp requirement can be waived but that needs to be done before the contract is advertised and it must be requested by the director and then a waiver is typically only

granted if the work is highly specialized and does not offer subcontracting opportunities for this project. >> there are subcontracting opportunities available so and so the lbb requirement would not be waived and for this contract the requirement was 20% and then as you noted with the initial bid the contractor believed they had reached a 20.1% lbb participation about after the review by cmd after bid opening they determined that they only met 10.86 of the required 20% because one of the contractors one of the subcontractors listed had recently graduated from the lbb program and so we issued a non responsive memo under the admin code if no responsive bids are received the city has two options we can conduct additional outreach and rebid

the contract or we can adjust the project scope to meet the minimum qualifications. >> if neither of those options are feasible the city can then negotiate with the contractor. >> in this case we didn't feel that rebidding was a good option because historically pavement preservation projects so that we don't typically get more than two bids so additional outreach was not likely to be effective and adjusting the scope was not an option in this case. so we worked with the pcc to secure a new subcontractor that met that lp requirement. >> thank you. what sounds like good news then that that absorbent chapter graduated from that would be status. >> i mean since mr. pos you took the time and trouble to come to the meeting was there anything you wanted to add? >> thank you for coming. oh, hi. >> good morning ter post vice chair's all be commissioners director short and deputy city

attorney tom i just wanted to introduce myself. i'm trista partial. i'm a project manager with public works sheet resurfacing program. >> nothing more to add. i think director short pretty much emphasized everything i wanted to say but i just want to say thank you. >> great. thank you for coming. thank you. so no further questions. thank you very much. i will then move that we adopt the consent calendar. >> is there a second? >> second? great. thank you. please open the motion to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make a three minutes of comment in person on the motion to approve item for the consent calendar and all resolutions contained in it may line up against the wall to the audience is left and if commenting from outside the chamber press the raise your hand button in the webinar or press star three on your phone to be recognized.

>> and speaking of tv, do we have any callers in q we do not and that concludes public comment. >> thank you. there are no further comments all in favor of the motion please say i or yes i i it's unanimous the consent calendar is passed and all the appropriate resolutions will be posted to the commission's website. thank you mr. carville. please call the next item item five a turning to regular calendar items is the san francisco public utilities commission millbrae lab and yard engineering professional services contract award project manager paul de freydis is here to present and this is an action item. >> good morning. >> good morning chair post commissioners director short deputy city attorney tom my name is paul jeffrey this i'm

an architect with public works and i'm the project lead on the millbury campus improvements project. this is a project that we're delivering in conjunction with the san francisco public utilities commission who is the project manager on the project and we have a collaborative working relationship with them. chair post i did receive some comments and some questions from you that i would like to go through at the end of the presentation if that's okay to make sure that we do address those. clint will you be advancing the slides or okay so the request is we recommend that the commission award the san francisco public works contract for the sfp you see break campus improvements project for engineering services the amount of the contract is $9,630,000 and 600 and $0.07 or $607 for calendar

date for a duration of 2920 calendar days that is eight years. this is extendable by the city an additional two years for a total of 3650 calendar days or a total of ten years to the contractor era for us incorporated. the reason is to support the public works project design team with integrated engineering for the new mass timber laboratory and administration building and for specialty consulting site wide. >> i can take care if you want . thank you clint. okay. as i mentioned before this is a collaboration between sfp see and public works sfp is

providing project management and the construction contracting of the project. they are also providing regulatory affairs and environmental clearance. public works is the professional services lead so we are the project lead for architecture and engineering. we are managing and coordinating all of the consulting services and all the consultant contracts and management. >> for many people it's a mystery of why we have projects that are outside of the city and county of san francisco those geographic bounds. but our colleagues at the public utilities commission have properties throughout the peninsula, the east bay and all the way to hetch hetchy and we collaborate with them on many projects throughout. in this particular case this is the millbury campus or currently as it's known as the millbury yard and that is the center of operations for puc's peninsula operations for the water department. they have similar facilities in and all that is the center of operations for their east bay and also in moccasin which is

the center for hetch hetchy water and power. so they're geographically broad and we partner with them to service all of those facilities project goals the current existing millbury yard also has a water quality laboratory there. we as a matter of expansion and consolidation of programs we are building a new water quality laboratory building and office building. we need to accommodate growth in the staff and the fleet that is at this facility and enhance resiliency for the entire facility through seismic design and an enhanced site power and building systems. >> the campus needs to remain operational throughout the construction period so we have phased construction in order to ensure that we are consolidating different divisions into the single campus. so we have lots of new folks coming on board and we need to

make sure that it all works cohesively. >> we need to enhance efficiency in the workflow both in the buildings as well as in the yard and circulation and this is also a great opportunity to provide a campus identity. so using the site organization to maximize efficiency, safety and collaboration and creating a cohesive campus design that maximizes the best attributes of the site and creates a unified vision for the department. >> here you can see an aerial view of the existing millbury yard. it is bound by el camino real and the caltrain tracks on the east side. one of the major features that you can see is there is the crystal springs pipeline that occupies the western 70ft of width of the site along the entire street frontage that is the pipeline that brings all the water into san francisco. so it's a really critical piece of infrastructure and it's something we have to design around as we develop the the

campus plan you can see that there is an existing administration building there and then there is a south tenant lease area. this is an area of the site that is currently leased out for retail uses. there is a restaurant and a retail hardware store that is there as a part of the project we are taking over those lease spaces and utilizing the entire campus and creating a 15 yard or a 15 acre campus for the new yard space. some views showing the existing campus it's principally has a lot of surface parking areas and surface storage areas which is not the most efficient use of the site. there's an existing admin building that is there. that's where the water quality lab and offices currently are. the building dates from about 1980 and part of our plan is to do a gut renovation of that building renovations of buildings of course are much more carbon friendly and a and a really great opportunity to

reuse building resources that are there while we can also provide them a new a new headquarters and home the project that we're now doing is the culmination of many years of master plan studies that were done identifying many different ways to utilize this campus and that changed with programmatic adaptations from puc as well as real estate transactions and purchases such as taking over the south campus. >> what that led us after many, many iterations to get to is the construction of a new two story laboratory and administrative headquarters for water quality anchoring the north side of the campus flanked that allows us to flank the existing administration building and join the two with what we call is the green heart and the green heart is an existing garden of redwood trees that is currently on that site and it provides an

opportunity to provide cohesiveness and a joint space that can be used by both the water supply and treatment staff as well as water quality and everybody on the campus flanking that is a small wellness pavilion which will be a an amenity for everybody that's on the campus to the south where the existing hardware retail store is. that building will be a gut renovation and an adaptive reuse and it will be turned into new workshop spaces for the water supply and treatment staff. so you can see this kind of divides the overall campus into a more operations heavy zone on the east and the south portion and then more office and lab and people centric zone in the northwest quadrant going into the phasing that we need to do in order to keep the the campus operational during construction the first phase will be on the

south campus because that's not currently used by the the the operation staff and that is to develop the new south shop, develop all the site work that's there in order to clear the north side of the campus to allow us to build the new lab and admin building once the new lab and admin building are built on the north side then we can embark interface three which will be the adaptive reuse and gut renovation of the existing admin building and then we will also complete all of the new site work along el camino overall construction schedule. we anticipate starting hard construction in october of 2026 and going through october of 2031 so that is a total of five years for the three different phases of construction we are overlapping our design and construction schedules so that we can get maximum flexible ity there and i'll go into a little bit more about what that what that means overall overall project budget is $428 million

and we have a construction budget of $315 million. >> a little bit more detail on the different phases. the first phase of the south campus and the operations workshops largest piece of this is the new workshops at the former ash retail store that's an adaptive reuse and gut renovation of that that will provide new workshops for welding, painting, plumbing as well as amenity spaces, break rooms, locker room spaces and some office space associated with that is a small renovation of an existing warehouse that's there which will be used as a workshop for natural resources group. >> there's also an extensive amount of site work and infrastructure chiefly among these is new jeannie power infrastructure that we are bringing on during this first phase and this will occur in two different phases because we are using two different power sources from pge and all of the facilities in this campus will be fully electrified and as

well there's an entire electric vehicle charging for the entire fleet of vehicles. so there's a huge demand for electric power and we're going to be collaborate with puc and pge and e to secure this. phase two would be the north campus that's the largest piece of construction that we will have that is about the 66,000 square foot mass timber laboratory at administration building with full backup power that's lab and office space for water quality laboratory natural resources it folks it also has shared amenities and conference and and commons for the entire campus service yard for deliveries and staging. there will be a wellness pavilion portion of this and as well more site work and infrastructure with an additional power feed from puc that will feed both phase two and phase three.

>> phase three is the gut renovation of the existing building that's there. so that will be fully renovated into a modern office building and the current lab that's in that building will be vacated and moved to the one that we've constructed in phase two as well. we will also be undertaking public realm improvements along el camino real and we're designing those consistently with the millbrae urban master plan for el camino to provide better public space there. >> back to the contract at hand that we're talking about. this is a hybrid project team of both public works, in-house teams and consultants and we arrived at this collaboratively with our internal staff of engineers. we needed to provide specialized expertise for the laboratory building and the mass timber building which requires a high degree of integrated coordination as well. we also needed to address temporary workload and staffing

impacts to our staff. so arriving at this allows us to balance those things in a meaningful way. >> so we embarked on an rfq last year that was approved by the civil service commission back in may where we solicited an integrated engineering team for that new lab building as well as specialized sub consultants that would be working with us sitewide we bid that out. there was 32 interested parties. there were seven prime teams that were interested in that and at the end we issued a notice of intent to award to air up on in july of last year . >> after that we began joint negotiations of the proposal terms and costs and schedule with them to arrive at our our target contract volume and as well as ensuring that we're complying with the criteria of the rfq and that we've evaluated the cost schedule and staffing hours to make sure that all was fair and reasonable overall team

structure. >> so sfp you see is the overall project manager and they housed the akm-gsi construction contract that contract has now been awarded to clark construction so they are currently finalizing all the agreements to that and we will have them on board in approximately april where we will all start working with them in their pre-construction services. public works is the project architect and project lead and we are coordinating the entire design team bureau of landscape architecture is the landscape architect throughout the project and bureau of engineering for structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing on the phase one and phase three portions and civil engineering throughout the entire site we have a team of consultants that we currently have via as needed contracts that will continue on the project. those include cost estimating lab planning, traffic consulting, geotechnical spec writing etc. the arab team is coming on board for integrated engineering consulting so that is for the phase two structure

mechanical, electrical and plumbing as well as a facade and an elevator and they're an arab as well as their team of sub consultants on board many of which are on board to meet the lbb criteria at 20% for all phases and those include sustainability analysis energy modeling site electrical underground utilities acoustics lighting, wind consulting etc. so we have a very well rounded team that's all going to be working collaboratively. this kind of complex diagram shows the the scope overlaps and and coordination between the different phases and the different consultants that are working on the project overall project schedule right now we're in schematic design and schematic design will take us approximately through june. we are doing schematic design for all the phases simultaneously so that we have a very solid basis to work with our contractor and have very

solid cost information to work from contractors, pre-construction services comes on board during this time period and then we embark on detailed design of phase one through the middle of 26 looking to start construction in october of 26 and that's chiefly driven by the sequoia analysis and the environmental clearance that would allow us to do that. then we can go into phase two design while construction is already ongoing in phase three design with targeting completion of hard construction in september of 2031 of course with close out dragging out beyond that. >> so in summary we're recommending that the commission award the public works contract for the sfp. you see middlebury campus improvements and engineering services in the amount of 9,000,630 and $607 for 2900 and

20 calendar days extendable by the city to 3650 calendar days to arab us incorporated to support the public works project design team with integrated engineering for the new mass timber laboratory and administration building and specialty engineering consulting site wide. so if i can go into some specific questions that that chair post had asked us, there was a question of why wasn't public works retained as the project manager for the entire project. this is actually very similar to other current projects that we're doing with puc including the seven an m building and the moccasin engineering and records building as well as other projects that we've successfully done in the past and the arrangement is flexible and it allows sfp see to manage the overall project financials and the construction contract and environmental clearance while we handle the full team

of architects, engineers and consultants. both of us work hand in hand and we work collaboratively together during design and construction in order to make sure that this gets delivered successfully. >> you also had a question about how we will remain involved during construction and through completion so we will remain involved where the project lead and the architect of record and we will be there throughout construction and close out will be providing for construction and administration services alongside sfp uses construction management team so and again will be working with our r c mgc contractor clark construction and our third party construct ability reviewers and cost estimates is to make sure that we're all reaching the same goals. you also had a question about can we speed this up any further? so this was a lot of we spent a lot of time going through how we can do this as fast as possible so we've already taken efforts to overlap design and

construction where we can. but one of the big drivers here is we have to get the environmental clearance to do this. >> so currently the sfp u c is leading that process with aecom and with s.f. planning department and they're looking to complete the environmental review in october of 26. so that's when we can really get in the ground and at that point those construction periods start. that said the construction period itself is only five years for all of this construction which is actually pretty pretty quick. and then the other piece also is sfp. you see is using their capital improvements funding for the project and they have to fund it in phases as well so they can't just send all the you know the the $315 million all at once, right? it needs to come in chunks so that helps us break out their cash flow with that capital improvement program. and you also had a question about the new wellness center asking if it's open to the public would be great. >> but this is a secure and

very controlled campus because again there's that pipeline that leads to all of san francisco's water supply and the laboratory that monitors and develops all the drinking water for san francisco. so it is a highly secure campus. it is only for employees. you asked also if the client rep from puc could attend. she's not available to attend but if there's any questions i think that we can relay those to her or hopefully i have addressed this. >> thank you. thank you very much for answering my questions. i'd just to follow up to mine before we get to my colleagues, commissioner woolford, based on your professional expertise and your review of the project, does the timeline look reasonable to you? the five year construction and i mean obviously our goal is always to deliver projects as fast as we can to save money and save time and get the deliverables out to the public and to the users. the puc does is seen like a reasonable the timeline seems reasonable. >> paul i did want to ask you so the construction dollar per square foot is premium and can

you unpack that a little bit? i mean it is 66,000ft2 and it's nearly $2,000 a square foot. >> yeah. so there's there's a given that it's a lab building. there's a high degree of of mechanical systems and things like that that are quite expensive to do. the other portion of that is this is designed to an essential facility standard so it's essentially equivalent to a hospital or police station or fire station. so it's the highest degree of seismic resiliency. we also buried in there have an extensive amount of onsite power generation so we're on this campus. we're looking to generate about one megawatt of photovoltaic power and a lot of that is on the buildings themselves. there are battery energy storage systems and generators associate it with that and that all of those things kind of work together to drive up the cost. >> these costs were developed off of the concept package report and we'll continue to refine those as we go down and

that's going to be now a process with clark and with our cost estimating team to to drive down and deliver as efficiently as we can. i think it probably would be helpful to unpack that a little bit, you know, in the future because you know, contemporary laboratory buildings are coming in at about half that price understanding we're paying a premium for the pv service, the electrical upgrades, the mass timber but it is a premium and i guess is probably you've appreciated it because it's going to be delivered five six years from now. >> yeah. so there is definitely escalation that's that's factored within that most of our projects right now are around $1,400 a square foot in that in that range and so we'll still continue to to to carve into this a little bit. >> okay. when you come back and give us an update, i think it would be great. i'm sure everyone would understand just breaking it down into a more itemized list

just so that people understand what's actually construction costs versus the mechanical costs versus the premiums for mass timber, etc.. yeah, we can do that after our schematic design period so we get tighter information from everybody. >> great. thank you commissioner wolford and we will of course look forward to hearing an update on this a year from now. i have one other question you addressed a little bit. >> it's about the wellness center and maybe some my colleagues with more development experience and i can comment on this and i realize the clients not here but are we in the habit of building wellness centers for employees and public projects? to me just gut reaction on light sounds of it seems like a waste of of money. i mean it'd be lovely who who among us wouldn't love to have a brand new wellness center in our place of work? we all would of course enjoy that and would understand the health benefits that that would convey to all of us as employees. >> but just asking the question perhaps my colleagues have a comment also that sure, maybe

and again it's not really you to even probably answer your you work from public works and you're not giving this to public works employees. >> but you see my concern i just that's why i well, the center was open to the public as a picnic grounds and things like that i just so it was given to us as a program factor from the client they expressed the desire to have that much like everything else there are various items in a project like this that could be viewed as on the chopping block if costs get out of hand that may be one of those items. so we're designing everything now will further continue to evaluate the costs and then the client would have to make decisions about the program. right? it's obviously it's a thing that they want to keep in the program but it also may be one of the things that go in the event that the costs are getting out of hand. >> thank you. i mean we all pay our water bills. >> it's just that's where some money will be going i presume so i just wanted to raise that dr. short, it looks like you want to respond. >> if you don't mind if i could just weigh in a little bit.

i think we actually do have a very modest gym at our operations yard and it is greatly appreciated by our employees because sometimes there's many of the folks working here are also operational employees days like this we're working around the clock so providing a little wellness benefit our employees are our greatest assets if we can invest in keeping them healthy then we get better work out of them over the long term . and so i think it i think it's a good use of of resources if they're available because i suspect it will pay dividends in productivity and employees staying healthier on the job longer. thank you. just based on you know contemporary projects that are done with this kind of program with multiple different disciplines involved a wellness center for fitness allows people to stay onsite with having to leave so it's not

unexpected and the price point is would be normal for that. >> all right. i know i'm dating myself. i mean i could i could actually see it for the operations yard where so many of our operations jobs require physical strength and fitness. right. or you can't do the jobs and that is a large component of this. the majority of employees on this campus are operations employees. >> thank you. thank you for clarifying. thank you very much, commissioner bloom. >> sure. our so a couple of points for first to to take the i take final note on the also say as a government employee the state and and before that for the feds i think one of the really important things that government employee employers can do is make the work environment better more conducive to people being

there, people wanting to stay. i think it is part of being a good employer so wholly endorse the idea with without a particular view on the appropriate cost per square foot for construction. i think incorporating a wellness center into the design this is a great thing to do so couple couple other points first a point of information. >> the project timeline that you laid out was six i believe was six years six and a half years. the contract that is in front of us is for eight years extendable by the city to ten years. >> can you explain why there is up to a four year period be yeah, so what i was talking about that was the construction period so we're basically starting this contract now. so from 2025 to 2031 is our effective time frame. we also need to have in the agreement when it's mutually

agreed to an extension. so for example if there's factors beyond control, you know natural disasters, things that that occur that could delay the construction of the project it's good to have that in the contract to give us a timeline to extend forward three maybe my math is but i think that we have in front of us a contract that would run the affected construction period or the expected working six years and we have up to ten years. is that does that mean we have four years of buffer in there including two that are contracted for and then two that are extendable so we're starting the the we're starting the scope of this contract now. so let's say 2025 to 2031, right? that's six years. the contract duration is four eight.

the option to extend is kind of just one of those legal avenues that allows us to not come back for a different contract in this case if something drags out. so it could be a shorter duration. but in the rfp we we specifically made it eight years at that point extendable and i guess to part of the question is is do you see this as anomalous or is this typical i think for the duration and the scope of the project eight years is is pretty typical. >> very frequently we have one year extensions but given that this is already an eight year contract, a two year extension seemed reasonable. >> that's 20% right. thank you commissioner wolford for clarifying what i was trying to get to the second substantive question given the sensitive nature of the side of the pipeline, the kind of activity that's going to be happening there, can you take a moment to describe what some of the security protocols? >> yeah.

>> so yeah. so the building itself will all have a secure perimeter fence throughout it's gated entries into it that's actually different than what's on the campus right now and space has had quite a bit of unauthorized access into their facilities that they want to avoid. but currently outside of the scope of this project they are redoing the fencing all around the campus currently to deal with that on an immediate level our project will be changing out and redesigning the fence line that's along el camino to something that goes with the esthetic of the property that will be developing again. it will be secured. there will be gates that you'll need to be buzzed in and carted into the facility and that said that 70 foot setback along el camino that's over that that pipeline that provides a lot of visual buffer into the into the facility. and when we come back we can have updated renderings that

that illustrate what that all looks like but the intent is that we have a secure facility that doesn't look oppressive to the street and will be providing a new streetscape along el camino that facilitates our thank you commissioners obie thank you for your presentation. i mean i can i can see that you know the project is about $743 million in total and right now we're just talking about the 999. 6 million project. i didn't see much was there was there only one bidder for for four? yeah. so when when we went through this arab was the only responsive bid that we had at the end of that rfp period we went back with our contract staff and validated that we reached out to bidders that did not end up proposing on the contract. there were three other ones that we reached out to and inquired why and it really had

to do with duration of the contract and their current commitments to other projects. so at the time that we were doing this in july there was actually a lot of these engineering firms that were quite busy with other work and they couldn't commit to this long term. so at the same time we were also not just doing the engineering for one building we were bringing on specialty engineers to work long duration site wide throughout the campus and essentially that entails arab having to manage subcontractors to them, right? so that's an administrative burden to the to what the proposer is is doing and there was less interest in doing that work. so we went back through we looked at other options, we looked at options of did it make more sense to reopen this and rebid it and get more interest? we had 32 interested parties. we had seven primes that were really going for it and they were active throughout the process in giving us rfis on the project on the on the

proposal and inquiring it just at the end it didn't make the financial sense for them and that's where we ended up with with arra. i also didn't didn't see in the attachments what the public works estimate of this of of how much this project would cost for construction cost. >> well the whatever we're whatever we're approving today so the contract within the services yeah we're only we're only approving the services we're not this is not to approve the construction contract that's under puc jurisdiction. >> got it. and last question from us maybe but it looks like arab is arab is a us is going to be because start getting involved in this project in phase two. >> no they have their core engineering work in phase two. they're also they're also working in schematic design which is in all phases and they

also have work on site engineering site utilities, these site electrical systems throughout. so they're involved throughout all the phases is just the core of their engineering work for structure mechanical building, electrical and plumbing is in phase two. >> okay. thank you. you know if i if it's helpful so the the services the contractual services that have been put out there are frankly complex and kind of labyrinthine and because of the different types of construction that were going on, it's not it's not unimaginable at all that you know, like after everybody looked through it they looked at this and they decided that it was too complicated to be able to pull off. and arup is one of the few firms both in the city in the country that could do this. it is one of the finest engineering firms in the country and in the city. so the fact that we got them to do this work as the city and you'll be well served. >> mr. turner thank you. >> and commissioner woolford,

you just made the point i was going to make and all of this you know we are in a time in a space where we need to be very pragmatic but at the same time we cannot forget who we are and the fact that we can get that caliber of a project, that caliber service providers i think it says a lot. i also want us all to be mindful again the time we're in commissioner woolford mass timber used to be a premium between builder's risk cost and others have it's a different day either in tariffs, labor market there's but i bring that all up to say that i have full trust in our staff ability to do the due diligence, to do the vetting and to hold the line. i've never seen a project come before us that i felt was too expensive, too crazy but complicated absolutely. and this is one of them. yeah. and so i ask that we remain

diligent and i think all the questions are great but what a day we have in front of us. but again and again commissioner woolford i think you just you started where i'd like to end. look at our ability to attract the world's best and that it's really truly about the staff, it's truly about our dedication but it also truly is about our ability to serve san franciscans. >> thank you commissioner turner are there any other questions for mr. difference right now? >> all right. is thank you. is there a motion to approve this contract? >> so second. great. thank you. please open the motion to thank you honey. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in person on item five the san francisco public utilities commission, m.b.a lab and yard engineering professional services contract award may line up against the wall to the audience left if commenting from outside the

chamber presti raise your hand button on the webinar or press star three on your phone to be recognized and we have no callers and that concludes public comment. >> thank you. there are no further questions all in favor of the motion please say i or yes i know it passes unanimously and the contract award to eric and resolution we post to the website. mr. freydis again thank you for coming today for your excellent presentation and for answering all of our questions. we look forward to seeing you probably about a year from now or so for a nice update on this project. and to dig a little more into commissioner wolfers question about cost per square foot. >> thank you. thank you mr. will please call the next item on today's agenda. >> thank you. item six is the mirror and the thomas streetscape project contract award project manager project manager arun bhatia is here to present and this is an

action item . hello. good morning commissioners nice to see many of you again. for those of you i'm meeting for the first time my name is arin bashir and i am a project manager with the streetscape group at public works. full screen it i'm also the

project manager on the minuteman streetscape project so i am here today to recommend that the commission award the minuteman streetscape project rebid to bellman landscaping construction in the amount of $6,946,382 with the construction duration of 600 calendar days. this project brings pedestrian and beautification improvements along minute and thomas streets and helps activate this public space. the project is located on main street from third to second and on natoma street from sfmoma to second street within district six more information about the project can be found on our project website which is updated regularly with the latest upcoming milestones. so our project started planning phase in 2019 detailed design in 2022 and following approval

of today's action it can start construction in 20 25 on the right side this slide is a map that shows major landmarks that border this project on the west we have the yerba buena gardens and sfmoma and on the east we have the salesforce transit center. these landmarks along with events in the area such as first thursdays fridays at s.f. moma were a major driving force for the project vision. we see this area as a place that residents from all over can gather to appreciate san francisco's rich art history. >> key stakeholders on the project include s.f. arts commission s.f. mta, s.f. moma and the yerba buena and east coast cbd's all of these stakeholders were vital in the design of the project but especially in relation to the design, construction and maintenance of the art elements. and here's a few existing

condition photos along and the thomas streets so the project includes all of your standard streetscape elements some of which include new ball belts with ada compliant ramps upgrade traffic signals to new crosswalks on new montgomery, new roadway and pedestrian lighting sewer and drainage improvements. roadway resurfacing and new decorative asphalt and sidewalk furniture. what really makes this project stand out is the beautification elements. they are unique in the sense that each block was designed by a different local artist which i'll go forward into further on the next slide. so here's a graphic of different art elements being constructed as part of this project. each of these five artists worked very closely with myself my project team as have arts commission mta and the cbd's to ensure the designs would not only be beautiful but also compliant with ada and mta regulations within the public right away i would like to read

a brief statement from each artist to provide the commission with their design inspiration. >> first statement is from barbara stafford or solomon who designed the decorative asphalt shown on the left top left corner in the blue box the story went that the alley was named after mary simpson, a notorious resident of san francisco during the rambunctious 1870s thigh highs have always symbolized empowerment for me and i've turned these boots into directional arrows marching down the road from an array and all the other girls who took to the streets to take care of themselves. next statement is from melva cruz who designed the decorative asphalt shown on the top right in the orange box. >> filipinos have been here in the us since october of 1587 but i feel we are still underrepresented. my designs are mainly homages to my people with inclusion and diversity in mind. the bionic design is universally recognized by filipinos and is a sleeping mat

usually weaved with palm leaves. this design is a bond to integrate not to separate because diversity and inclusion are main features of a city like san francisco. next statement is for music who designed the decorative asphalt shown on the bottom in the pink box a row of multicolored houses act as a mantra for grounding and solidifying the value of diverse communities. this work is also a calling up for the physical housing needs as a paramount issue towards the health and stability of these diverse spaces. a reminder that it's time for all of us to put these ideas onto the metaphorical pavement to start to produce equity for all that we value in a society . >> next statement is from masako miki who designed the furniture on ministry. a few examples are shown on the left. shapeshifters are a recurring symbol within ancestral japanese folklore often representing opposing dualities . my proposed works revisits these mythologies and recontextualize them within a contemporary society in which racial, cultural, gender,

sexual and national identities have evolved and expanded. and finally last statement is from jesse schlessinger who designed the furniture on thomas street, for example, shown on the right. the natural resources of this area have been a fundamental role in making the city what they are today. the proposed works intend to bring this natural presence to the foreground. redwood is endemic to this region and as such i propose sculptures that utilize or directly reference this material. where possible i would like to use salvaged old growth potentially harvested from recent fires. all right so project open bids december 18th 2020 for three bidders participated arnis as well and baumann. average bid price was 7.95 million which was 4% lower than the engineer's estimate. the low bid baumann was 6.95 million which was 16% lower than the engineer's estimate. >> chair post you had proposed

a few questions that i like to address on this slide. first, why was this contract rebid? what does that mean and entail? so the project was originally advertised in may of 2024. we had the same three bidders but two of them scovell and r.a. had come in above $10 million. baumann came in at 7.2 million but unfortunately their bid was submitted seven minutes late so we could not accept it due to no responsive bid within 10% of the engineers estimate. we opted to rebuild the project and that just means to go out with the same exact project. >> the project in the first round had a lot of cbds which means questions on bid documents and that come from the contractor. most of these were related to the artwork which as you can see is very unique and pretty new to infrastructure projects . so by addressing all those needs and revising our drawings and specs before the next advertisement we were able to reduce a lot of misunderstandings or unknowns that the first bidder may have

had as a result. the same three bidders came in much lower and ultimately the city saved $1.5 million as director short mentioned. there's definitely a balancing act when we are deciding if we want to rebid and it really comes down to time versus money. re bids don't always save money but they do always cost time and so we try to implement it only when we feel it would be beneficial to the city. >> second question was bauman's estimate is considerably less than the other two bids. why does public works have confidence that the project can be delivered for this lower amount? >> the largest difference between a balance between the other two bids was the traffic control. bauman came in over $700,000 lower than the other two bidders. we do believe the project can be delivered at this lower amount with proper coordination. the project scope is limited to mine and natomas streets both of which can be closed during work. other than local access and

this can make traffic control much easier to implement. additionally the bid being so much lower than the engineer's estimate does provide us with a comfortable contingency to cover any unknown should they arise. so to wrap it up i am recommending that the commission award the median of thomas streetscape project rebid to bauman landscaping construction in the amount of $6,946,382 with a construction duration of 600 calendar days as this very unique project brings pedestrian and beautification improvements along with in the thomas streets and helps activate this public space. >> thank you mr. bocce. it's nice to see you again and thank you for answering my questions. i had one more. i was struck when i reviewed the documents on those lovely painted pavements and i can't wait to see those. and you mentioned it but i just want to put a fine point on it. >> the costs once this lovely public artwork goes in the cost to maintain it because of

course it's going to get grubby fast as people walk on that road chewing gum on it, etc.. so are you confident that the public artwork including the paving can be maintained going forward once public funds are spent to in to put it in? >> initially, yes. so every element that we're putting on this project we we help with. we met a lot with the artists with manufac careers and we wanted to ensure that the materials being used were easy to maintain whether that be through graffiti removal or hard to break. >> right. and your bubbling the cbd they are taking on the bulk of the maintenance. they border basically the entire project area except for a small area of that east cut cbd does maintain. and you're ever going to cbd? i think due to our coordination and our conversations with the manufacturers, the artists and everyone involved are confident that they can maintain it. should there be anything that does arise where it's damaged coordination between public works, the artists and your people in the cbd will then tackle that issue as it arises.

we have a pretty strong mou in place that was signed at about two years ago that i think will hold well. >> great. that's that's great. thank you very much for that that comfort. >> commissioner woolford, first of all thanks for the great presentation. and i wanted to also thank paul defreitas for his thoughtful presentation too, which i didn't do and just a one question. and the question is to make sure posts inquiry so is the artwork painted a top first impregnated into the asphalt surface? >> how is it technically applied? it's overlaid. so it's heated and melted onto it. they come in these grids the various sizes but it's placed on the asphalt and then the heat is placed on it and it's overlaid into the asphalt similar to traffic striping. it has a similar thickness, similar longevity. you know it'll last a minimum of ten years upwards upwards up to 20. and it will it will have fading

but it will hold up. >> okay. so that was my technical question and then the follow up really is first of all i just want to say how so heartened to see san francisco continuing to commit to itself as a vibrant community. having previously served on the arts commission. i just can share that the work that the commission is doing that the year but when is doing the public works doing? i can't applauded enough. i know these artists these are highly esteemed artists. and so once again san francisco was making like we've done in other public realm places like we've done at the airport we're taking and bringing the finest art into the public realm and i just think we should acknowledge that because we spend so much time beating ourselves up that it's really important to remind ourselves that when we do fantastic things how well it's going to serve everyone. so thanks for your presentation and thanks for managing this. i look forward to seeing it and can we be invited to the opening? >> sure, sure. yes of course.

>> great. thank you. commissioner walton following up on that, i'd like to then make a request to the communications team perhaps a future issue of in the works when the projects completed could profile some of those artists i did not know they were renowned artists. i was pleased they were local. i had no idea of what their status was. that is very interesting to me. so perhaps in the future we can learn more about those artists in the works when the projects are completed or whenever the the department chooses to profile this project. >> so extremely thoughtful artists barbara starr walker solomon for example was the artist who did the original graphics at sea ranch. >> yeah. so she did pass away last year have artists of this know and caliber you know doing public realm work is is a wonderful yeah and you know i was a project manager on the project before our 49 southwest venice building was built and when it was built they had artwork in there and i recognized a few of the names and that was really surprising. >> so it was pretty cool to see that definitely commissioner resolving thank you for the

presentation and it's it's wonderful to hear that you know local artist san francisco has so many now so much talent and i'm very happy that we're we'll be able to actually see that on our daily walks and go into work. my question so it looks like so the the the company that received the bid is is actually considered an sba. >> can you just tell me what sba stands for the small business small business? yeah i don't it's an eight so it would be would be is local business local business enterprises but small on the the attachment it is it is is considered it didn't qualify for lbb but it was an sba what does that mean allocate if i were to go back and read and

deputy director of support services images i'll be about want to say 5 to 10 years ago within the lbb program we realized that there were a number of labs that were doing well and was beginning to graduate out of the program. so at the time i was the acting director or the director of the small business program at a at hrc which which oversaw that. >> so we as we worked with and lbb as community and we and created something called the sba in lv east. so this is really a subset of the lbb so these are lbb that have ever graduated from the city's f small business program but then and they still qualify as small businesses at the

federal level. >> so the sba relates to the small business and the thresholds at the federal level and those they'll be eas get as a 2% and for bid discount but those lbb cannot use that and 2% bid discount to take work away from as an lbb so it's a way to create more opportunities for small businesses in san francisco without taking away an opportunity from and the smallest i'll say of the businesses here. >> got it. yeah. thank you. and it looks like i mean i saw that they got a 5% instead of a 10% discount on them was i would say the first page of the memorandum. >> so that would be because of the sba is because they're an sba so they they we get as a small we're just going to i thought it was as a 2% but if it's 5% now i could be wrong. >> all right. thank you. thank you. all right. thanks a lot.

and you know, just to question that chair post asked it was the $4 million difference under our and your answer was it's for traffic control. >> traffic control who who charges us for the traffic is it is it mta coordination with mta or so traffic control is bid on by the contractor they typically bring in certified traffic control company for that and they provide them with that cost and then that's added into the bid. so bauman's traffic control costs which is a lump sum cost um came in at about 270,000 our engineers estimate was about 700 and the other two companies came in and about $1,000,000 million for this dollar amount is typical for traffic control but like i said this project is unique where we can have full road closures. typically we have to provide one lane in one direction but these are one lane for all

roads so they can close it and they can get in and then get out and just provide local access. so a part of us does believe that maybe we did overestimate the traffic control but regardless the whole engineer's estimate is so much higher than the contract that we do have that contingency now we were fully funded prior to this and coming in $1.4 million lower is going to be really helpful to us. >> yeah. and which which is great we just wanted to make sure that the quality itself doesn't get infected by but since we're seeing it's going to cost $1 million and they're like well no it's the 200,000. yeah. so and we could have avoided all my questions if we had if if we followed with my request of having all those breakdowns from each from each bidder we used to have we used to have that on on the attachment and showing what each bidder bid on all these including the traffic control. i would appreciate that. okay. again, thank you and good luck. okay.

can't wait to actually get invited to the opening just like that. >> thank you. thank you. commissioner bloom right agrees ology all right this fantastic project is a great improvement to this streetscape and the hey look that maybe we just needed to knock the locks a cover. >> okay. thank you. so this looks like it will be a great project, a great improvement to the streetscape. the pedestrian experience and to that whole neighborhood around your point i think i'd say this is a really nice, really nice project. >> question on site selection and how was how was this particular how was this particular site chosen for the kinds of art infused

improvements to the streetscape? >> how was that chosen and are there other sites like this across the city where public works at least on our in our own view perhaps in consultation with us mta and the arts commission, are there other sites that you're looking at for these types of projects in the future? >> yes. so this project was selected in collaboration with sfmoma and the arts commission. so as part of the second street project which went in i think in 2017 2018 they i have a photo of it here i can show i don't know if you could see it on my screen. >> it's in the top. it's on the top right. i don't know if you see it but that's the transit center and that's natoma. and so what we did is we created a fully raised up pavement and we put integral color alternating color concrete. so that is basically the exit out of transit center and that connects directly into our project and the site was chosen

because how successful that alley was and its connection to moma from the transit center we thought was a really good opportunity to implement these different art elements. a lot of people in the area come to the area because of the art you know sfmoma the first thursdays as i mentioned it surrounds that entire area so that's how this project was selected. we're expecting a lot more westward lead foot traffic from the transit center and so we are extending sidewalks. there's all the standard infrastructure improvements that are definitely in a benefit to pedestrians just walking through increased street lighting and whatnot. other projects like this our street group does have a lot of our projects do have decorated basketball and art elements included into them sixth street which is in construction now it has three different districts that have implemented their own decorative crosswalks and so we do have a lot of different projects like that. there's also very old projects i think polk street, fourth street have decorative asphalt as well and it seems to be

something the community really wants to see more of. i get a lot of calls from people that they want to try to love our neighborhood permit and they want to figure out how they can bring in decorative asphalt into their neighborhoods. so i think that's just definitely something great to see a lot of more of when that permit is fully rolled out as people who are working with the city and working with the same stakeholders we have here the cbd's to try to fund their own decorative asphalt. so it's definitely something i think we're going to see a lot more of in our public works design groups and as well as in community groups. >> thank you. i appreciate that. and i think you know as as we are undertaking streetscape improvements, clearly the kinds of beautification efforts both for the pedestrian experience and like on the sidewalks and the art on the sidewalks and on the streets, it seems to be something that people are really responding to and i think in addition to our projects thanks also anything as we've talked about before and we'll be talking about i'm

sure and regularly anything that brings more people downtown which this where this is is a good thing so this is just part of the whole mosconi center. that whole is as you said mr. barcia enhancing the city for people who visit and who live here. >> commissioner woolford i'm just going to tag on to commissioner bloom's comment. i mean we honestly just love the streetscape improvements. i mean everybody goes north beach, chinatown and the castro it'd be great to i think as chair post mentioned is to do a feature on what you have implemented and and what the city is looking to implement in the future as a part of the public works newsletter because they're just fantastic. >> thank you. i appreciate it. yes agreed and i would just note that in our december newsletter we did feature some decorative asphalt on maiden lane that our own in-house team designed and i thought had a very cool story of the connections to both the frank lloyd wright building on maiden lane as well as the textile industry. and so it's really beautiful

work so i think we should collect them all and highlight them. >> thank you. all right. >> thank you. if there are no more questions from mr. bhatia, is there a motion to approve this contract to bowman landscaping construction. >> is there a second? second. great. thank you. please open the motion to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make a three minutes of comment in person on item six the minute an item streetscape project contract award may line up against the wall to the audience left if commenting from outside the chamber press the raise your hand button in the webinar or press star three on a phone to be recognized and we have no callers. >> that concludes public comment. >> thank you. if there are no further questions all in favor of the motion please say i or yes i it passes unanimously and the contract is awarded.

the resolution will be posted to the commission's website and again mr. bartos, thank you very much for your presentation today. we'll look forward to seeing you also probably about a year or so from now to report on how the project's coming along great. >> thank you. thank you mr. white please call the next time on the agenda. >> thank you. item seven is the department of public works fiscal year 2025 2026 and fiscal year 2026 2027 operating and capital budget priorities the public hearing of the proposed budget was held on january 23rd in a joint session with the sanitation and streets commission during which the public was able to comment on the proposal. it is the commission's charter mandated duty to approve the budget by february 15th ahead of the department's submission of the budget proposal to the mayor, deputy director of finance management and

administration bruce robertson will present this item and this is an action item. >> good afternoon commissioners bruce robertson, cfo for san francisco public works. it's a pleasure to be here today to go through some of the changes and update you on where we're at with our budget this year. again, i'm going to start out this presentation again because i would be remiss to not highlight and thank the people that are truly making the work happen. joining me in the audience are donnelly and jennifer marquez who if i'm the manager they're the hitting and pitching coach respectively but then the team are all back in the office at 49 south annex actually making the budget entries into the system so that's the true unsung heroes and without this none of this is possible. >> so in the nature of time and expediency i thought i would highlight primarily some of the changes in the presentation and as opposed to what i talked about in the much broader presentation last week. >> so with that i'm just going to dive right in.

>> this is an action item so we are before you seeking your approval of the proposed f y 26 and 27 capital and operating budgets for fiscal year 26. it's a it's a total of 406 million and for fiscal year 27 it's 351.9 million again for fiscal year 27 that delta and the decrease is because of the operating not of the operating of the capital budget being excluded. so we expect that number to increase. again just to reiterate our current budget is just under $453 million and slide you've seen before. >> i'm going to we do have you of some this slide i'm going to highlight again 15% reduction for the general fund requests for public works of about $13.8 million. again that's compounded by the fact that we have a $16.7 million loss of funding from that to your supplemental 20 fte. so that really equates closer

to a 20% reduction that we're staring in the face that would be effective come july 1st of 2025. we've highlighted there will be operational impacts. i'll go through the operational impacts in more detail as i get further along in my presentation this afternoon. but there will be reduced workforce development programs that will be skinny down and some will be eliminated. we will have a delayed response to some of our street cleaning service orders and we will see reduced level of proactive street cleaning that we're doing. you will notice one difference the reduction to illegal vending enforcement is not on there. we will not be proposing any reductions to that critical program. moving on again, this is just a slide that outlines kind of what happened in the midyear and then i've got numerous slides that go through the five year financial forecast that led to the 15% reduction again that $13.8 million. i do just want to stop here because i want to acknowledge the greatness of this slide because it really does that so

well. the red line again being the exponential increase in expenditures while the blue line at the bottom shows the modest increase to revenues and you can see that $253 million deficit ballooned to almost $1.5 billion in fiscal year 33. that's the nature and really the crux of what we're all dealing with not just in this budget cycle but in future budget cycles. some of the recommendations in the five year financial plan, some of the assumptions and i'm going to make a quick pause here and highlight some of the uncertainties because i think we're starting to see within the presentation made in january to today we're seeing some of the uncertainties really come to bear the 25% increase on steel and tariffs for those of the commissioners that have been around for a while. the fall in fire station during the first trump administration we saw the impact of the tariffs on steel and aluminum then we're likely to see it now

. the trump administration this morning also issued an executive order for his staff to recalculate new tariffs under the countries so we expect additional tariffs to come down and be imposed and then i think the inflation numbers for the january report were higher than most economists anticipated. so some of the uncertainties unfortunately i think we're already starting to occur well spent a little bit on this slide again, this is really in many ways these are our instructions of what we need to do for the mayors priorities from the previous administration focus on core services with an emphasis on safe and clean streets again the clean streets being critical to public works and what we do. but i would say we also have a role with the illegal vending enforcement of safe streets. look at continued progress decreasing for unsheltered homelessness, mental and behavioral health activities and look at ways to increase efficiency which i'll touch on on the slide and then again i'm

repeating myself 15% general fund reduction $13.8 million. i just want to make sure they're on the front of your head is their mind numbers that i think my wife and children can rattle off to hear so much coming from me and then as the new administration came into office in january we had some additional instructions coming from mayor daniel luis office a citywide hiring freeze, a pause of new contracts or programs that hadn't yet started and then the request to do not submit a budget that's practically that's politically unacceptable. the mayor's interim budget director benjamin mccloskey was before the board of supervisors earlier this week or last week and his term was it must be reasonable. so that's something that we're trying to make sure we do. we did get a couple of questions about some of the items in the instruction so i thought i would touch on them now one of them was about returning to the office five days a week. so as i mentioned earlier, the budget staff are currently in the office so you're correct your post most of our staff about two thirds of our

employees do come to the office five days a week and that's more than just our operations staff. a lot of the staff at 49 south l.a. come into the office five days a week. we heard two presentations on the millbrae project and the in a coma streetscape project all of the construction managers that work on those projects are in the office five days a week as our street inspectors that are doing illegal vending and or other construction enforcement activity having citywide all staff return to the office five days a week will certainly improve tax revenues. it will increase a lot of foot traffic in the 49 south business civic center area mid-market areas and it will really help revitalize a lot of the cafes, restaurants and some of the other businesses in that area. i will say one of the lessons learned that we have seen during the pandemic is when departments have not gone with a citywide approach. there's often a cascading effect while we are in a hiring freeze and i'll touch on that in a minute. when it happened during the pandemic, if one department was

an outlier we saw either staff wanting to try to go to that department or conversely leave that department and are examples of both ways. so one of the approach we've been monitoring and our director carla short has been really working with the director of the department of human resources is really to try to ensure that there is a citywide approach whether it's five days, four days remains as the status quo. what we've been doing during the pandemic is we've been following the lead and the instructions from the department of human resources which means are it staff for an office a minimum of one day a week. our accounting and payroll staff two days a week and the rest that are do have jobs that allow telecommuting to work in remote there are a minimum of three days a week in an office two days a week. so our plan is to again make sure there's a citywide approach and follow the lead of the department of human resources regarding the hiring freeze. it is a broad far reaching hiring freeze. quite often when something along these lines is impacted it may not apply to the

enterprise departments such as the non general department airport puc for instance or to come to mind the hiring freeze does impact all of those departments so it is a broad and far reaching hiring freeze. >> so there are some exceptions public safety so it is a broad

and far reaching hiring freeze. >> so there are some exceptions public safety the mayor's office to review. we submitted our first batch on february 1st. we're still waiting to hear what has been approved or not and once we get a sense of that we'll we'll know what we can go in, what we can proceed to try to hire. as of now we've not received word we still don't know what is being approved or rejected or being put on hold. once we know then we will go forward. some of the other departments are starting to hear and we anticipate like i say we'll hear either today or tomorrow certainly before the weekend. and i would just say we don't know. there are no exception. there is no guarantees that we're going to get any of them and that's why i paused and i'm going to go back to $1.5 billion in fiscal year 34 is a lot of fiscal instability in the city coming from both the

federal level and then just what's going on locally again, i spent a fair amount of time highlighting really what are the details of the sources and uses within public works. so here's the use of again most of it is labor departmental budget by the division and bureau spent a fair amount of time on this. this is the same slide in fte again as we all know i'm just going to keep repeating myself on some of the key elements for the budget in the middle slightly to the right the -20 fte from the supplemental being our world game the general fund budget this is about the $97 million of direct general fund support we get in the operating budget since we have to cut 13.8 million most of it is going to have to come from here but not all and i'll get into that in a minute and then details on the supplemental. what makes up those 20 fte? most of them are general laborers. these are folks that are out on

the front lines cleaning the street to street inspectors, doing illegal vending enforcement and graffiti as well as just some front line supervisors that make up the remaining three positions. so again to the mayors budget instruction so the 15% the 13.8 but i think most important are really the two bullet points in the bottom. what are our options? where can we go to make this reduction? you've heard me speak before the commission before and on a lot of the streetscape and paving projects the funding sources, a lot of external non general fund sources whether it's gas tax revenue or prop k revenue. so if we could cut that there would be no general fund savings we would still need to do that. so we really only have two options the general fund obviously of which we get a dollar for dollar match and then an overhead fund that we get through our into a cost plan and we get about a 30% reduction in the general fund when we cut there and we've gone there with a knife and

we've made some pretty significant cuts there because really that's the back of the house operations. it's it's i.t., it's accounting ,it's budget team. it's a lot of the other support services we have. >> so i'll talk about some of the cuts we made there. and then at the bottom we do list initiatives insofar as the economy turns around. there's additional revenue found or that there's a big policy decision that either the mayor of the board of supervisors wants to fund in the event that there's additional funding we provide a list of what we would consider initiatives. we don't enter them into the budget system but we just provide the cost what it is and then some scope and some detail and provide how it benefits the city in terms of what we could provide to help the city. >> so we have about 13 of them knowing that the likelihood of them getting funded isn't actually all of them getting funded to zero. i'll just be completely honest but this is something that we've done forever and it really is a best practice where in the event that there is additional resources we could ask for some additional

funding. one of them for instance is doing beautification projects in the downtown area to help revitalize the economic recovery of the city's core. but two of them that i've listed here are enhanced illegal vending enforcement that would really just to make it more of a 24 seven operation where we're doing more enforcement on the weekend and during the overnight hours and then the private graffiti expansion program. so that program we've got $2 million currently where we offer residents and businesses in the commercial quarter the opportunity to sign into a program. well then we provide courtesy graffiti abatement. we've got over 1800 businesses that have signed up to enter that program and it's been highly successful. so one of the things that we were asking for is additional money to expand that program even further not just to expand the commercial corridor area but we could get additional staff and we could really improve the graffiti abatement in the commercial corridors and it's became a big issue of post

covid 19 pandemic where we weren't doing a lot of graffiti abatement because it was placed on hold. so this is just you know, some two of the examples of the 13 that we have implemented and put forward in this budget submittal. so this one is again a little bit more color on the general fund and the overhead fund are really focus on the general fund. i think you all are at this point acutely aware of what the general fund funds in this department but in the overhead it's again the back of the house administrative functions of which about 54% is salaries and then 40% of it comes from the central work quarters. and so that's the work quarters that i highlighted last time we pay almost $11 million for at 49 south us. so a lot of it is non-negotiable items that we cannot really really cut. so here's the big slide of the entire presentation. so this is where we landed with our recommended budget

reduction scenarios that i want to run by you and this is really what we're seeking your approval on today. so i'm going to spend a little bit of time on this slide because it has changed a little bit. so the pit stop program we are recommending $4.7 million in reductions to the pit stop program. the pit stop program currently is about $12.5 million. we do generally underspend a little bit under that $12.5 million where it may be an instance where the unit is out of order and needs to be repaired so that may need to close for a short period of time or have reduced hours. so we do draw some savings but what we also did is we were very surgical and alexander bourdeaux and her team from the performance and planning team are not here. they looked at every location on a 30 minute increment and a day by day basis to see if a random tuesday was consistently

higher than a random thursday at the same time period. so they were very surgical and i want to commend them publicly and the great work they did here to try to minimize the impact. so that said, there will be some closures, there will be some reductions in hours and that's going to be a large percentage of our recommended cut. but again, going back to the mayor's budget instructions assess cbo, look at the performance data. the mayor's office has indicated that during the mayor's phase after we submit the budget they're likely going to want to see performance data . so we have that data where we're well positioned to be able to provide that data very granular levels that we're just not coming up with an arbitrary $4.7 million reduction that we really did think this through. that said there will be impact and i'll get into some of the impact on the next slide temporary salaries we did mention this last time that remains unchanged roughly $2.1 million of a reduction of staff

the you primarily see in the orange bars point of our big and sweeping sidewalks. i will say i've been in conversation both yesterday and late into the evening last night with the department of human resources i mentioned this last time as well as seen if they have any other funding options. so that's an avenue we do continue to explore and i'm working with their cfo and their operational staff that are more familiar with the program and any potential funding opportunities. so when we report back hopefully will come with good news that we were able to tap into those non general fund dollars. >> the third line is overhead reductions. so to get $1.5 million in general fund savings we cut over $5 million of the administrative back office operations and that ranges from attrition adjustments. we're basically we're going to slow down hiring quite a bit because we have the hiring freeze that seems like a logical cut but there's also 73 other line items so it's death by a thousand paper cuts.

where can we trim here? cut there a lot of it is on contracting again, if you go back and look at what some of the recommendations were for from the mayor's office, look at your contracts and see if you can be a little bit more strategic. so that's what we did on a lot of these operating overhead budget reductions. we also did we cut air travel, we zeroed it out. there's a the mayor's office is not allowing air travel for city employees. so we just do that out across the board was a debenham escort. but again i just want to highlight that we're really taken to heart the instructions that we receive from the mayor's office to be what i like to consider a good actor and following the instructions were given however painful they may be salary reductions again same thing with the hiring freeze we're able to slow hiring and increase what's called salary saving through attrition savings where you're basically defunding positions and that's what we're doing there. the next one is $1.2 million in grant program savings. we have two programs currently

that do power washing and sidewalks that's one and the other one is enhanced street sweeping of sidewalks and a very painful, difficult, hard decision. but we're going to eliminate both of those programs and again i'll go through the impact of those. >> i want to be very clear and transparent there are impacts swap funding that's one i mentioned last time. we have general laborers that have the ability to work both in the public right away doing cleaning but they also can help prune and maintain trees so the tree funding from the tree maintenance fund proposition that was passed several years ago now with almost 80% of the vote is an external non general fund source for some we can transition staff over there that they can just not charge the general fund but charge another funding source and that's a savings we can get that $1 million of ongoing savings that i mentioned last time from the overall $3.4 million reduction. i'm going to spend zero time on

the $600,000 of technical adjustments because it is just that technical and the team can highlight the technicality of it. it's a lot of little just adjustments here and there. we usually get some of those every year and this year is no different. and then finally we're going to do a very slight overtime reduction. we have gone back and looked quite closely at what all of our overtime numbers were and we look like we can make a very, very modest haircut. >> i want to be clear there that is a modest haircut and in the unlikely event that we do go forward and over overtime in fiscal year 26 or fiscal year 27, there are provisions in the admin code that allow us to shift money within our department to cover any overtime expenditures. it just needs to be done in advance before you actually exceed your overtime line item . so that's one of the items that we monitor quite closely as does the comptroller and the mayor's budget office.

>> so that's a lot. i'm sure there may be some questions coming on the slide and i would expect nothing less . >> but we did just highlight a few of the questions and some of the comments that we received. so one of the questions was around are there any low cost measures we could do because a lot of what we do is reactive and it's street conditions and street behavior. so if you can alleviate some of the street cleaning requirements on the front end i.e. not littering you could reduce the work on the back end . >> so we have done a lot of work around that area. we've done multi departmental initiatives, we've done our own i have the do the right thing i'm sure you've all seen i've got that here. so we've done some of our own outreach to try to get that. i think if you look at the teal cbd you will see these on their trash cans. so we partner with cbds, we do work with other departments such as the mta and others to help do a wide broad multidisciplinary multi

departmental outreach to try to get people to change street behavior, to improve street conditions before we have to respond, you know but that can be quite costly. some of the enterprise departments spend well north of $1 million on these type of efforts annually whether it's items on a muni bus or on the inside of a muni bus you'll see advertisements you also see robust social media campaigns some are free but some can become quite costly other ways we do do other things we're about to roll out an advertisement campaign with jcdecaux there's going to be some avenues there we can explore and rachel can speak about this in far more detail and much more eloquently than i can. but really one of our most important and key ways to do it is just rachel gordon's team doing the community outreach. it's having those interactions, it's having those discussions. it's the outreach and enforcement team talking to businesses and residents saying

you need your recology service. you can't just dump illegally on the street. so in quite ways that's in some ways the most effective element we do. and then we have the tagline hash i'm not a social media person. i think it's hash tag love our city i'm sean major so we have that that's our that's our tagline and you do see it quite a bit both in social media and the various social media platforms. >> so we do try to do a lot around outreach and and in some cases enforcement commissioners you asked at the first presentation what were some of the operational impacts and that's really in many ways what this slide is. so this slide shows what some of the impacts are for the pitstop program. so if we close locations and reduce hours again we were strategic in how we did that

but some areas we will likely see a 21% increase in service orders and that's not all of the areas we're doing it that is very pinpointed in certain areas and certain times of the day. so one of the things that director shaw and deputy director did jada durden and her team will be doing is seeing what we what can we do to try to proactively minimize some of those numbers so some of those conversations will really start happening in the months and weeks to come and certainly come july 1st if these reductions are indeed accepted by the mayor's office and the board of supervisors. so i talked about the temporary staffing in the 99 sixteen's some locations may see an increase of up to 20% increase in service orders. and so just i want to highlight both of these as we were running budget scenarios and we were looking at the operational impacts, we were kind of adjusting on the fly. it was a really fun and interesting exercise where we're recommending for this program to cut $1.2 million. we looked to see what would be the impact for at one point for

what if we were at 1.8. conversely, what if we were down to $600,000 and we really feel this is kind of the sweet spot 20% is not that sweet of a spot but it's kind of a good spot of where where we needed it and then just the overall cleaning impacts, you know, we may see an additional count of 10,000 i will say if you look at some of the slides that have been before you and i didn't include it here generally speaking our tonnage continues to increase what we're picking up what recology is picking up that tonnage continues to increase unabated. what is going down is the number of 311 requests not just from public works but kind of citywide. >> it's decreasing a little bit. you know lower population. but what we think a big part of it is and the data backs us up on that is a lot of our proactive cleaning efforts have led to there's no refuge, there's no refuge, there's no debris there. there's no reason to call it

in. so we do expect to see an increase with that as we have some reductions in terms of our proactive efforts. >> so that said, one of our other strategies not mentioned here is we're very much going to continue to partner with our cbds. we've really been working quite closely with the nonprofit organization with refuse refuse. we've been partnering with that organization really to make sure that if there's an event that we're holding they know about it and vice versa. one of the things we do for that organization is we provide them garbage bags, pickers so we provide them a lot of the materials so they can help keep the city clean. at our most recent neighborhood beautification event in district seven, the civic joy fund was there so we're really working to enhance and bolster that partnership as well. and another philanthropic organizations and nonprofits. >> the other thing we are really looking to do is is improve it's a continuous

process improvement with the various cbds as we have to make these reductions hopefully the cbds can help but it's really important that under state and local law the cbds can only supplement they cannot supplant what we do. so that's going to be a key area that we work on going forward as we face some of these difficult budget times. also i mentioned last time but we weren't quite ready for so we will be doing some very minor increases of fees similar to last year. we were very clear in talking to the small business community that none of the increases will have an impact on small businesses. again our strategic plan one of our key items is help be the driver to revitalize the city. the last thing we would want to do is increased fees and make them cost prohibitive to do just that. >> so a lot of the fee increases here are really around excavation fees and

subdivision fees where we are significantly under recovering our fees. so we've got some fee increases on parcel maps and subdivision maps that have to come in and they go before the board of supervisors. we also have a minor increase on major encroachments. so again very surgical to make sure we're not hurting the city which ultimately would then be hurting ourselves. >> so with that there's a lot more dates of action items to come we thought would be a little interesting really to show you everything that's going on. so this weekend is a federal holiday. our staff will be working off the saturday, sunday and monday finalizing our entries with a budget due on friday of next week. so that is the charter mandated submittal date and then i included a lot of items around the capital plan because again i've mentioned before that that really happens after the fact and you can see some of the action items that are pending

before the capital planning committee, the review of the capital plan is in february. there's a middle of the capital plan is in march to the board and then the board has to approve by may 1st. so that's the ten year capital plan. but then we get the capital budget and how it impacts us and you can see the dates we're presenting in front of capital planning on march 3rd the public works will be i'm sorry the overall capital plan budget is march 3rd. our specific element of the capital plan is on the 10th of which were a large part portion of it and then the capital planning committee has to approve by may 5th and then i mentioned prop b, proposition b was the $390 million general obligation bond passed by the voters in november. public works is going to receive some of that money directly and providing services to client departments ranging from mta to public a department of public health and a lot of that $390 million. >> so a lot of that bond

proposal that was before the voters just had buckets and not necessarily specific name projects. so there's a whole process to identify which of those projects will be included and funded out of that $390 million and which ones will not. >> and then the last bullet point is in this year the comptroller's office is the deputy administrator and the refresh rate board which is made up of three individuals. they will be updating their that suite process which is what businesses and residents pay for recology to pick up funds. we get some money out of that for some of our cleaning efforts. there's a meeting coming up on that on the 24th or the following week the 30th of february and then a few more and so that's some money that we received for steam cleaning of trash cans some of our labors the one team, the outreach and enforcement is funded from that bucket of money. so that's additional money we get. we also have some fund balance that the board will be looking

into to see if we can use that for the procurement of new trash cans. and with that i would like to thank you for your time. again, this is an action item so we do request your approval for submittal of the $406 million and $351.9 million in fiscal year 26 and 27 capital and operate reading budgets and thank you for your time i try to be quick and want to just again not only thank you for your time in listening to me but thank you so much for your support. i know for myself personally the budget team i don't want to speak for karla but i know for the executive team as well your support is invaluable and is incredibly appreciated. so thank you for that. and with that i'm ready to and available to answer any questions you may have. thank you very much deputy director robertson for i think your third time on deck here and of course i want to call attention to what the most important slide which was slide 20 which of course was the how

where you get to your 13.8 to respect the mayor's request for we're i guess not request demand that we cut 50% and how this department intends to do it in meeting his requirement of being politically palatable and it seems to me you've done that and i know none of those are easy but thank you for walking us through them explaining the rationale behind every one. the repercussions of everyone which was on later slides and i mean i just i think that the slide that you said that that shows that the revenues and the difference between the revenues and expenses over the next five years that images seared into all of our brains it's not going to go away and i just can't imagine this problem is going to go away and wishing it to be so just isn't and i mean commissioner blue mentioned earlier that not even locally but from the federal level and state level it's just going to come out as inflation's going up etc. etc. so thank you and to your team for all this good

work. i think we're going to have to bite the bullet and i just a couple comments just putting a fine point on something you said clean streets beget clean streets. right. whereas dirty streets well, what difference does it make if i throw my coffee cup into that pile of garbage? there's already public garbage but there's no pile of garbage. >> well, maybe i'm going to keep my coffee cup till i find a garbage can so thank you for your attention to trying to keep our service levels where they are as much as possible because i think that will continue to keep us on the upward swing we've all mentioned about the streets are cleaner. i hear that from people not affiliated with the city just walking around now things are looking better so thank you for that and again i'll just conclude by saying director short you know you have to play a delicate dance. you don't want to get started on the wrong foot with the new mayor but anything i think you can do to just encourage him and your colleagues at other departments for a citywide effort on how to keep

engendering pride in san francisco so that i mean in addition to public works and i appreciate you addressing my question, deputy director robertson about what can we do to get the word out and that, you know, director gordon's team is doing that on how to keep the city cleaner and how to respect public spaces. but anything you can do director short to somehow have some sort of citywide campaigns or initiatives that again get people to not want graffiti or litter or in the streets whatever they're just somehow it's a new day. it's a new layer, new pride in the city. you can't change public behavior just by telling people not to do something but anything that you can do to advocate for this new day and how public works is fully there on whatever citywide initiatives the mayor wants to launch to help everybody sort of come together in these difficult budget times and keep san francisco on the upswing we've been seeing. i just would hate to see us

lose that. so thank you again to your team, deputy director robertson for these difficult cuts but for meeting the mayor's request . being a team player which will help director short in her relationship with the mayor and with this john baptiste who you are just technically reporting to now. so i just think public works dig on the high road will always you know the department always do well by staying on the high road because you're going to have to work it have to be competing with every other department saying you can't cut us, you can't cut us. but but for us to say we know we're going to have to have some pain here we are doing our part. i think that will hold you in good stead. director short with your colleagues. so thank you for your work on this into your team. >> i know it's not easy. commissioner turner good afternoon. i've thought about today just as i was last year how often perplexed i am and what i have

to do and i recognize i have to do it but this year i'm going to do something a little different if it's okay i'd like to offer some thank you's in advance to our staff. i'd like to thank you advance a today like today a weekend like this weekend with weather lunar new year nba live and just normal days we're going to need you to do more. so thank you in advance for what you've done for nearly 100 years showing up and doing more to the residents. >> i want to thank you in advance for hopefully not throwing that cup on the ground but also recognizing we are in a very tough place and things will be slower. you will be impacted. but we want to thank you for knowing that it was not because we don't want to be there, it's because we had to make a hard decision to the businesses. i'm really grateful i many people know i live in the city

. i live in the financial district and many of them have implemented a five day return and boy do i see it. i thank you business for doing it but i also thank you for making sure that you recognize again our services, our ability ,all those great events, all those amazing things that you want to do. be ready. lastly to the united states of america. we are san francisco. we are you and we thank you for visiting us for spending your money, for spending your time. but we need you to do a little more. >> this is a chance and an opportunity for us as a commission as a city, as residents to recognize times are different. however, some things remain the same and i think that our ability to come together to recognize reality it's tough that we should be pragmatic about that. but somehow some way folks if

you just say thank you, you just acknowledge it's going to be difficult. it's interesting how we bootstrap it. it's interesting how we work together and so echoing chair post director sure to our communications team why not be upfront and send those thank you's in advance, let them know it's coming but when we have an arbor day when we have a weekend cleaning show up because it's going to be more impactful, it's going to be more important. and so i really hope as we i believe as commission get ready to do something i know i don't want to do i know i'm doing it for the greater good and i also know what it means and what it's going to take for us to get not just through the next several months. let's not forget we got the super bowl next year, right? a plethora of things that are coming at us. and so i hope that today as we take this action we do though recognize and plan to send those thank you's in advance. >> they will be needed. >> thank you commissioner

turner commissioners be thank you sir post and then thank you bruce for the representation. i really wanted to see the tonnage that is going to be added. there's going to be there's going to be on the street. i know that those trucks that go around and pick up the garbage they weigh them at the end of the day. i mean i want to i mean my my my rain is saying okay, great numbers. we're doing good. we're cutting it for we're doing what the mayor is asking for 15% down. but my heart here and also as a resident in san francisco, i just want to be put on record that i think public works would be the last one to be cut in this because just today we just we just approved wellness center for four for you see we approved we approve now almost what is it nine $6,000,007

million for beautification of a street which will at the same time we're going to have a conversation with 50 of our team members letting them know ,well, sorry you're not going to bring any food to the table from now on because we need to cut it by 15% just to put it on on record that you know, cutting down the pit stop the pit stops lets people going to use that pit stop guess where they're going to go and they're going to go guess what? >> well, we just cut we just cut the steam cleaning at the same time we kicked we kicked the garbage the garbage bin, the project down, down the road. well, if someone does that cup of coffee in the in the street in that pile well we just got 50 people that might come out usually come and come and pick it up. >> i'm not saying anything that that what you're doing is you know we are just following instructions. our public works is a city department and it's you know,

at the pleasure of of the mayor and that's the request. but i really wanted us to get that message out there that public works is the one that is that is you know, keeping this the city clean is the one that keeping keeping it safe and yeah, i don't know i mean again talking having that conversation and one question about the salary reduction can we can can anyone reduce someone's salary according to california law commissioner it's not necessarily a salary reduction on individuals. they're part of the mou and it would have to be a citywide effort to open up the mou with the various labor organizations. what that phrase salary reduction means is just a bucket of salaries and it would be reducing that item based on flow and or not filling positions. so that would create salary

reductions. the the term in a lot of places is called salary savings in the city and county. it's called attrition savings but it means one in the same. so if you have ten staff and each one makes a dollar you would get a bucket of $10 but you would naturally have some turnover. so that funding may not be the full $10, it may be $9.50. so what we're doing here is reducing it down to $8.50 so we wouldn't be allowed to fill all of our positions in a timely manner or at all. that's in essence what that means. >> got it. so it's just the timing of of of hiring could be slower and with the hiring freeze and what's going on in the city overall in terms of the financial picture let's say i think a reduction that many other departments not just public works they're going to be making in the coming months but thank you was just a comment i didn't i didn't have any questions. i just had that request of the tonnage to be added just to show that there is a lot of garbage that's being picked up

every every single day by public works and by you know, it's a temporary project of those street sweepers. they pick up a lot of garbage too. and that should that should also be noted. >> thank you. i don't have that information in front of me but i'll certainly provide that to you after this meeting. >> i'm about to the mayor, not to me. i don't i mean i know. i know. i mean i. i know there's a lot of garbage that is being picked up, but someone needs to you know, tell the story and see the impact. but thank you. thank you. >> your team did great going through this whole thing. oh, credit goes to them. they just allow me to look good in front of you all. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner xavier. commissioner bloom, thank you so much. i appreciate the very hard choices that you have to make and director short that you have to make you think you know you have you have endeavored to

explain to us very well where the cuts are coming and why. so i applaud the work of you and your staff and making these hard decisions and making these hard choices, putting together a budget and then being able to explain it to all of us as as the lay observers here. >> a couple of questions on specific points here, particularly on slide 20 and 21 and i'll just rattle them all off and then you can take them take them in turn one you address some of my questions on the overhead and how we are getting to $5 in administrative services. that's the big cut in administrative services. i also a minute government employee one working for the state and have seen some of the places where those administrative cuts come in and so seeing the thing that figure come out of one department is is really significant.

you addressed some explanation for where those are coming. any other color that you're able to provide on how we're getting to that $5 million reduction understanding those have some odd lines there would would be helpful in if they're going to be any operational impacts on the department besides of course the very real ones from day. >> department staff not being able to confer with their colleagues if that would require say taking taking an airplane. >> and second question the the reduction in overtime even though very slight thing that paired with the reduction in time with reduced and slower hiring is that are we actually going to be able to achieve that reduction in overtime time or is that an aspirational i recognize like that's $200,000 a very minor part of this 15 $13.8 million cut that we're

doing and then and then finally on the sidewalk cleaning services. >> i know that that is a reduction in temporary salaries . >> we discussed in one of our prior conversations about this trying to find some other sources for where we may be able to continue to support the street cleaning services. has there been any any movement toward that? those are my questions and then a comment on slide 21. i think this is really striking to the point that everyone else here has made. i think it's really important that we communicate to the mayor and budget office and communicate to the public what the impacts of budget cuts will be and also that there is this tradeoff in efficiencies between the proactive work that the department is able to do and then what will be responsive next time is more expensive when we are responding rather than doing that work proactively.

i think that the map on slide 21 is really striking in that regard and seeing where across the city notably there will be impacting every part of this there will be impacts on like the sleepy west side where i live there will be impacts right here where many of us work and there will be impacts in the higher density corridors where we have so many more visitors people working in greater higher density of people living in small. so i, i think fy 21 is a really important one to be messaging out incorporating into how we explain what this these kind of budget cuts are. >> thank you commissioner good questions all for the overhead cuts it is a four page an 11 by 17 paper i gradually i can make that available after the meeting if you're interested it really does range and i'm just i'll read off a couple of them because it really is we often

use the word surgical really is a lot of these are surgical but it is a some rightsizing of software licensing fees and maybe instead of getting licenses for 20 of the product maybe we can really do 15 or 10. so some of those are in here. we've talked a little bit about work orders where we have the ability to reduce some of the work orders for other departments such as reproduction. maybe we can do some of that or we don't need to produce as many paper copies or some of the banners or fliers that we currently do training through a reduction to training we did zero out the overtime hours but not the overtime the air travel costs. >> full disclosure i personally took the largest brunt of this $5 million because i think we will find a way to manage and i think in many ways we are the most backbone element of the organization. we are the least front facing of the services and my personal philosophy and i think is

shared by the executive team is really we should be trying to strive although it may not look that way the front of the house, the core services whereas the biggest impact and myself my team will make it work. we'll find a way so we pay property tax a little bit to san mateo we rightsize some of that so it really was surgical. some of them are as small as a couple hundred dollars. you know here's one that we're reducing training a lot of contracts around staff coaching we reduce that pretty significantly. so you know taking some pretty significant hits and really looking internally and what can we do to save as much of the frontline cost as we can because that really is what you all know public works as is what the people who visit and are in the city know public works has and that's really where we should be trying to save as much money as we can. >> regarding your just on that point yes, i'd like to say i, i, i have a you know and also can communicate to your staff that we recognize that they're

cutting cutting the administrative cross and cutting the backbone of the organization has very real impacts on employees and on the department as an employer and some of the ways that you're able to do your job in making it make it harder for people to do their jobs when when we cut a lot of that. so i recognize that and that and applaud you for being able to figure out ways to do it in a very hard situation. >> thank you. it's very true and i appreciate the comment. it's all factually correct regarding overtime it is about it is a de minimus cut in the grand scheme of the $13.8 million i give you my word and anyone else listening we will make it work. we will not have to go before the board of supervisors where we are going over budget. i think it's based on some historical under expenditures. i will say there is one caveat if we have significant rain events that are prolonged much worse than this we have wind

then obviously we just need to have staff out there on overtime and it's unexpected but based on a normal year and we did look back a few years ago when we had you know, a very wet, very windy, very cold winter and we adjusted accordingly. and even with the reductions in staff i think we'll be okay. the other one in terms of just going back here on on salaries again, you know, i think i think you know it's consistent with what we've heard there's going to be impact that's going to be challenges and we just need to do everything we can to mitigate it especially as you also mentioned slide 21 is really how can we minimize everything that's going on? so all of the commercial corridors really are impacted to the to the extent where we can't. and so you know, advocacy and outreach and support really i think would help you know, the letter that came from the from

you all last year regarding the paving program was very beneficial and you know anything similar to that i sure would be welcomed and please we would be pleasantly surprised and appreciate by the by the staff within public works. >> thank you. thank you. commissioner bloom. >> commissioner woolford yeah. bruce you gave me a brief on this i don't know a couple of weeks ago something and thank you for your presentation today. it's it was difficult. i do want to share that this is not bruce's choice by any means. our city charter requires a balanced budget and i personally believe that we should not spend more than our resources. so i'm in alignment with that and i know that this was a tough year but next year and the year after going to be even more tough. so you know, we look forward to supporting you whatever way we can because the organizational shifts may be even greater. >> thanks, bruce. >> thank you. i do think going forward i would just add into that i think as the numbers balloon and i will continue to say the word, i think there's going to have to be some really

difficult choices made in terms of overall city governmental organizations and some of those conversations are starting to happen and that's going to be some of the the real hard choices are really in fiscal year three and one. it's $1.5 billion. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> and i just want to note that director short had to go to a meeting with the mayor and since we're running a little late and so deputy director digraph and reads pinch hitting thank you very much. >> so before we take emotion, i just want to again thank you deputy director robertson and as you just said is going to get tougher, not easier. but we applaud the department for being realistic like that and trying to make do with less and i thank all my colleagues for stating on the record how we all feel as representatives of the 820,000 or so citizens of the city and and i know that the department will do its best to negotiate ations with the mayor and doing what it can to help increase revenues because only by increasing revenues as

you say, commissioner wolf, will we be able to maintain city services and grow them. >> so is there a motion to approve the fiscal year 2526 department budget and 2627 proposed budget so moved so second thank you. we will now open the motion to public comment hearing no further item seven is the department of public works fiscal year 20 2526 and fiscal year 2627 operating and capital budget and priorities the public hearing of proposed budget was i'm sorry i lost my spot. >> i apologize. we're getting close to the end here. members of the public who would like to make three minutes of comment in person on item seven the department of public works fiscal year 2025, 2026 and 2627 operating and capital budget priorities may line up against

the wall to the audience is left if commenting from outside of the chamber press you raise your hand button in the webinar or press star three on your phone to be recognized and we do not have any callers. >> thank you. all right. if there are other questions or comments all in favor of the motion please say i or yes i eyes and that passes unanimously. >> thank you again deputy director robertson and i would just again urge you and your staff and director short and the whole executive team to continue pushing with the mayor for flexibility in how the department is managed within these budget constraints. i know i've mentioned this before but rather than no new hires you know, no new contracts that each department be given the flexible ability to decide how within these budget constraints it will do its business. it seems to me that that's fair

trade off that if we have to make cuts and hit a certain threshold that we should be able to decide exactly where we want that if we want to shift people around whatever. but anyway so i hope you'll just continue to push for we will live by those tough budget rules but we do want to be able to make our own decisions on how to meet them. >> but any closing comments that director robertson i just again want to say thank you on behalf of myself the budget team, the entire department for your support and advocacy. it's incredibly appreciated by all of us. thank you. well, we as as you get into you know, as a as a budget goes to the board supervisor or the mayor excuse me then the board of supervisors i mean it's early days still not for you all. you're exhausted but early days to this next phase so please let us know if we need to send a letter to anybody or testify at any sort of hearing if it would be helpful to have the commission advocate we don't want to hurt any things but if you think it'd be helpful certainly let us know. >> we'll do.

thank you so much again commissioner trying to do something at yeah director robertson i guess on that last point and you had mentioned we did do a letter last year i have not seen a request or any drafts of letters this year going out. >> so are you wanting us to engage in that level and then my second and i guess i'm trying to kind of i guess understand next step here so the next step is we're going to submit of the at the site. >> thank you very. so we're get ready to we are going to we will finish our approval of this budget and it will go on to the mayor's i guess i'm still trying to understand and chair pose it's almost to your point about flexibility and what does this actually look like? is it going to change any further or are we really truly expecting this is our budget going to be approved at the $4.6 million $406 million sorry

commissioner. on your first question, let me confirm with director shaw and the best approach in terms of support for the budget process going forward. i don't want to speak for her and since she stepped out and like the rest of the executive team director short, we'll talk offline and get back to you in relatively short order in terms of the next step. so we do submit it friday the mayor will likely make change in let me rephrase this there will be changes. it is 100% certainty there will be changes and those changes may be technical. the citywide rate of what health care costs may be have adjusted a little bit. the impact to everything every department and every staff salary you have to in the city and then there could be policy decisions where the mayor may say you know what, i'm not going to cut public works by 15%. i'm going to cut elsewhere and only have a 10% reduction for public works or conversely i'm

going to do a 20% reduction for public works. so it's a combination of both policy decisions coming from the mayor's office and then any technical adjustments that really come through the comptroller's office and then come june first when it goes before the board of supervisors and the budget and legislative analysts that will make their level of review and recommendations, there'll be further changes there. so that's why we come back and send you the off calendarr the the 4 or 5 page letter in august of after the mayor has signed it. this is what the final numbers look like. but there will be changes between now and then and we can keep you abreast of what those are. but really in many ways we may not know what they all all are until that june 1st submittal date. >> great. and then director of communications gordon, i'm wondering if you could come up please. the commission we've had i believe now three commissioners

really advocate for a public campaign of our reality in our future. >> is that a reasonable kind of a suggestion and what what and how could we support something that is a very public facing campaign of our reality in terms of our budget cuts and the impacts specifically the impacts and slide 21 right. >> so so i anticipate that as the public is as the budget is made public as it was today, as the reporters start paying more attention to the budget process that will we will be asked questions about the impacts and we will give them the information on the impacts. we also are part of the administration and you know we will give people the information that they ask for. i think it is a very serious there are very serious impacts that we're going to be having potentially on our budget. but as deputy director robertson just mentioned, this is a very early stage of where we are in the budget.

i believe that mayor as well as members of the board of supervisors share our strong belief that street keeping the streets clean is a top priority for san francisco. so in terms of a campaign you know, at the commission has done in the past and the ability to write letters to the board of supervisors or to the mayor's office, all of you were appointed by either an elected official or the comptroller's office and you might be able to use that forum as well to let them know of what your concerns are. >> i'm happy to answer more questions along that. so i would take that as no fair that that's a that's a no. >> am i going to do a proactive going out there campaign? >> i think i told you how we're going to react to those. >> yes. well it sounds like we're going to be reactive, not proactive. >> is that fair to say? i think we provided budget information today that shows

the impacts and it's in a public forum for that. >> am i going i guess i'm going to ask what do you mean by proactive in a campaign? >> there are several things that i think that would be great that we could proactively do including very simple things such as press releases. we don't have to wait for the media to pick it up. we can actually tell them what is going on. in addition, we have an amazing website that's actually pretty active and cool using utilizing slide 21 we could literally make it interactive. do you know what's going to go on in your neighborhood? i can go on and on. there are plenty of things that we could proactively do but it sounds like no what they have to do are we doing a campaign and no, we're not going to be proactive. >> thank you commissioner for that clarification. i think because of where we are in this budget process right now would be premature to put that information out on the website with scare tactics. i don't want to do that. i think there are very real concerns that we have as a department but we are in the middle of a budget process where the mayor's budget office as well as the board of supervisors needs to make some

policy calls again, i will never lie to the press or members of the public of what the potential impacts could be to the budget reductions. these are proposals that we're going to be giving to the mayor's office and they'll let us know if they're going to be going through with those or not . >> great. but the answer is no and no. >> okay. any other questions for me? yes. no, thank you very much. thank you. yeah, no, i think it seems a bit premature. i would like to wait the process but but it's but we didn't the budgets not okay. >> all right all right. if i think we just we passed that motion, didn't we? yes, we did. okay, good. so it's time then to call. thank you again, deputy director robertson for your presentation and for your team's hard work over many, many months and months to come including over this holiday weekend. >> regrettably, mr. otwell please call the next item. the next item is a new business initiated by the commissioners. >> thank you.

i know we're over and we need to adjourn very quickly but i do have one request for new business. i'd like to know if my colleagues would agree to ask secretary fuller and deputy city attorney tom and public works staff to take another look at our contract delegation process in an effort to streamline our meetings but also just to save a lot of work for staff and on the city attorney's office regarding the consent calendar, it's my opinion that many of the items on the consent calendar don't have to be coming before us. as you recall last year we streamlined our contract approval process to make it more efficient. i think that's worked out well. as i note at the beginning of the meeting we do get a report every month on what we would have looked at if we had delegated these contracts to director short. i'd like to even take another pass at it. do you even tighten it up even farther so that there is less on the consent calendar that we that we need to look at because

we have confidence that director short can approve these these contract modifications again, it would just make the list longer of what we would have looked at but we always can ask questions about those modifications and the reasons for them when we get those reports. so with your permission i'd like to ask as again the staff and secretary fuller and deputy city attorney tom to give us a new a new draft of a contract delegation policy that i hope will continue to save staff the staff work and our preparation time as commissioners in reviewing a lot of contracts. i really don't think we need to be approving is that all right with you all to to have them make another proposal to us for our consideration? yeah. okay great then. well thank you very much for that. any other new business thoughts before we open that item to public comment? i'm sorry. i don't think so. no. >> okay. item. members of the public who wish to make a three minutes of comment on item eight which was new business initiated by the

commissioners may line up against the wall to the audience is left if commenting from outside the chamber press the raise your hand button and the webinar or press star three on your phone to be recognized and we have no callers and that concludes public comment. >> thank you and since i don't think we need item nine that extension of general public comment there are no other questions or comments. our next meeting will be on thursday february 27th at 11:00 here in room 408 it's 133 and we are adjourned. i'm sorry that we went late today. >> thank you all very much. s.f. gov tv san francisco government television

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san

francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs

cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground

swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is

moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not

making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing,

kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the

richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as

strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

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i like to view it as like a museum experience. rather hahn sales people they might be like dossants they are not hard selling you but more conveying informing or knowledge about the products. teeth, that's the giant shark that would get up to 60 feet long. we are launching class we did them before the pandemic. a bunch of hand's on learn to do things classes that we are getting around to relaunching. this is our insect spreading kit. inside is a striped needles, forceps, instructions and the other tools you need to take up the hopy of spreading insects. had is a prize to many people is 80% of the stuff we get is from

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>> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break.

and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos

and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it

did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go.

>> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it?

>> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there.

they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. >> i'm sabrina, i own vintage in north beach san francisco. i started 7 years ago online selling vintage clothing and 9 months ago i opened my brick and mortar in san francisco. i have always been passionate about vintage clothing. always just been so passionate about what i do and i felt it was the right time after 7 years online. i think it is what north beach needed. especially because vintage

clothing is so good for the environment as well. very anti--i think it is great and a opportunity to be here. we have everything from the 20 to 90. i personally like to create more towards the 60 and 70 as you can tell. there is something for everyone. i just always want everyone to feel very welcome in here. i want to treat everyone like a guest in my apartment. i want everyone to have a good time in here and just enjoy all this very clothing. [music]

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

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

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

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

that alone is powerful. [music] mayor's press >> what's going on, everyone? good morning, good morning! my name is sealey, nba champion of the warriors and also