we benefited from it and i think because there is diverse and different [indiscernible] able to be down here that everybody kind of benefits from it. . >> thank you all for being here. this is a great day. you all good? good. okay great. from our first day in office public safety has been our number one priority and our

first seven weeks we have worked closely with our public safety leaders and members of law enforcement to make sure that the city is safe and feels safe. we have hosted major events the jp morgan health care conference, the chinese new year parade and the nba all-star game. the jp morgan conference was so successful that they are coming back next year and the parade last weekend was the safest on record with a 30% drop in crime from last year. the eyes of the world have been on san francisco and we have risen to the occasion. there is a long way to go but san franciscans know that we are on the right track. crime was down in january year over year and new initiatives like our speedy hospitality's own task force and the federal state of emergency ordinance

will help us continue to collaborate, deliver results and help keep people safe. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. first i want to welcome and congratulate wilson liang who was confirmed unanimously by the board of supervisors this week to join the police commission. >> chief wilson is extremely qualified for this role with 14 years as a federal prosecutor and as private sector experience he has the expertise to help our police department keep people safe. and wilson is a native san franciscan who wants to see his hometown come roaring back as a vibrant, safe place for everyone who lives and works here.

i am confident that wilson will serve with integrity and dedication and it will be an honor to formally swear him in shortly. i also have the privilege of introducing another leader who will shape the future of public safety in our city mattie scott has dedicated her life to keeping our communities safe and preventing gun violence in san francisco and across the country. i am proud to appoint her to the police commission today my maggie has lived through tragedy but she has turned it into motivation and to a life of service. since losing her 24 year old son to gun violence, she has spent her career supporting survivors of gun violence working directly with those

impacted by violence and promoting promoting intervention strategies. she has worked with young people and families faith based organizations and people who are currently informally incarcerated to create lasting change. mattie will bring invaluable experience, deep compassion and a commitment to our communities. her voice and the police commission will help us strengthen public safety and build trust across our city. mattie thank you for being on the front lines and stepping up to serve as you have done your entire life. thank you to the board of supervisors. >> i want to thank the board of supervisors who are here today and also all of them for their careful consideration of our appointees. i'm optimistic that mattie will receive the same overwhelming

support that wilson did as well. wilson lee young and maggie scott are highly qualified with decades of experience in and around public safety and our communities. i know they are ready to work collaboratively, collaboratively with the commissioners, police department leadership, the board of supervisors, the mayor's office and our residents to move our city forward. we are in a new era of collaboration in city hall and we are going to make our city safer together. now i want to invite up wilson liang to say a few words. >> actions speak louder than words so i'll keep my remarks brief. first i wanted to thank the mayor and the new administration for this opportunity. i appreciate the trust that you've provided and i will not let you down.

second, i wanted to thank all my friends out there old in you for their support over the years for their guidance. they're both both moral and otherwise. >> so thank you. >> you know who you are. and of course i'd like to thank my family, my parents, my sister with shaun for all their guidance over the years. you know, we were immigrants of hong kong and we grew up here in san francisco. and this has been our home for so long. and i think this is a great opportunity for all of us to make a difference. >> thank you very. >> we're going to square wilson and right now. all right, wilson, you ready? just repeat after me. i state your name i, wilson lang do solemnly swear. do you solemnly swear that i will support and defend? that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states? the constitution of the united states and the constitution of

the state of california and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies. against all enemies foreign and domestic, foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance. that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same. >> that i take this obligation freely that i take this obligation freely without mental reservation, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter. the duties upon which i am about to enter. and during such time and during such time as i serve as i serve commissioner. so the police department commissioner for the police department. >> for the city and county of san francisco. for the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations. >> i before i introduce maggie

scott i want to thank supervisor dorsey supervisor melgar mahmud. supervisor cheryl for all being here with us today. i think i got you all. yes. thank you for for being here. and now i'd love to introduce maggie scott to say a few words. >> maggie. >> well, being a woman of god i like to say give an honor to him for the work that i do. thanking him for all of us being here today and thanking you, me and laurie for the appointment and for chief scott and all the board of supervisors and my dear mother who is going to be 103 in april . my beautiful family, my son and my grandson and my daughter

in law and my granddaughter who put up with me and my long hours and pushed me so hard to do this work what they love and support and what and what from all of you the community leaders and everybody who's here. i'm so grateful for this appointment. thank you. and i look forward to not disappoint in our city making this safer and continuing all the great work that we've done without past leadership. mayor london breed and all the work that we did with her and the former chiefs and the a's. san francisco is a great place . it's a great place. we're a melting pot and we are city that gets things done. we're a city that comes together collectively in a diverse environment that respects all humanity and all people. and so i'm so grateful the day to be about healing, healing the hurt and the pain that

we've suffered and also see all the hurt that we have here that we can help support to get people healed from fentanyl to help mothers that's grieving from the loss of a child or a loved one to come together collectively to do this work. because this is about all of us none of us. and together we you, me, us. this is about all of us and none of us. and together we can stop the killing and start the healing. we can stop the killing of fentanyl stop the killing of homelessness stop the killing of not getting our kids educated and in schools. we can stop the killing across the board against the lgbt community. we can stop the killing and start the healing in every aspect to represent the beautiful city of san francisco that we are. you know, i look at each and every one of us in this city as a beautiful flower. everybody all of us are beautiful flowers. but when you put those flowers

together like we are here today in a vase you have a bouquet and a bouquet is beautiful. so today this is a bouquet of justice. a bouquet of freedom, a bouquet of love and respect for humanity. so i'm so proud to take this position and be part of the book for san francisco. so thank you. thank you all. thank you all for being here. p.s. just to be

going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids. nathan jessica. going 90 charlie. go ahead. we

moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids nathan, jessica and iva. i was really young. when i had neat, i turned 19. and then two weeks later, he was born. so when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time. all the time and so he would watch with me. head his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. and then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. i think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i attended the same elementary school there was an officer bill. he would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said, mom, i touched his gun. and he was just so happy about it. everything happened at five minutes. i would say everything. happened at 4 to 5

years old. it's like one of those goals to where you just you can't you can't just let go. high school. i think you know everybody kind of strays. he was just riding the wave. and i mean, he graduated. thank god. one day i think he was about 20 or 21. he told me, he said mom. i want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. no you're going to be a firefighter. but that'seally not what he wanted to do. his words were i want to make a difference. and that was a really proud moment for me when he said that my dad was a cop in the philippines for 20 years. i think a lot of that played a role into his becoming a cop. my dad was reay happy about it. my mom. she was kind of worried, but i just figured i

can't stop him. he can make his own decisions. stu. i just want to say what's up? how you doing? good. good. no i'm trying to look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the police academy, mind you this d was not a very studious kid. but i've never seen him want something so bad when he was home. he'd be in his room studying the codes. he really fought for it. hi. what's your name? i'm nate. nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers. i think that that's a positive influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. once he makes that connection with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and

so that i think will reach people more than anything. you could say you later, brother. thank you. all right, see you. it's a really hard job. i know you. you see a lot of the negative for me. i would not put myself through that if i didn't care. you know, you have to be the right kind of person. you have to have the right heart to want to do that. when people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him he's a cop , and i just feel like i'm beaming with pride. i always told him when he was young that he would do something great. and so to see it. it's i have a moment. i'm very proud of him.■'

>> district 10 is the place to be. having a opportunity to represent the last real black community here in san francisco was very important to me. not only just the black community, but all the communities of the color in district 10 from bayview hunter point to potrero hill to visitation valley to dog patch to little hollywood. [music] my family originally migrated from louisiana and they came in settled in san francisco. my grand father worked on the ship yard, i had great uncles and

aunts who worked thin shipyard or did domestic work for families here in san francisco. most of my entire life it was my mother and i. i was raised by a single mom, single apparent. parent. we lived with imy grand futher and potrero hill and spent early time in san francisco and spnt time living in the haight. it was important to me to become the supervisor of district 10 for so many different reasons. one is the place where i'm originally from, the place where i actually had my biggest opportunity after graduating from college coming and working as executive director of young community developer jz having the opportunity to run for the board of supervisors and be able to effect policy, effect change in the very community where my family is from. >> my name is kelly, the owner

manager along with my husband ken. >> mission blue we are neighbors first and so when we first came to the neighborhood we entered the stories and got involved and learned there was a opportunity to get plugged into the merchant corridor and so we see mission blue as setting the table for the community to come together around good coffee, good pastries. >> when we move today the neighborhood we were volunteers to the [indiscernible] i asked what is a butterfly of this area and says the mission blue and we said if we open anything we will call it mission blue. because the neighborhood was so beautiful and we wanted to be a part of becoming along with the neighborhood. we want td to add value. and, one of the great great heavy secrets of the valley, we are

awhere the cross town trail starts. if you are not familiar with cross town trail, it is a 17 mile trail across san francisco and cuts through not only our commercial corridor, but the greenways, and there are six gardens built by the neighbors for the neighborhood and they have been here over three decades and they are a incredsable treasure. >> the rolling farmer market, arrives every saturday morning 10 a.m. and there is fruits and vegetables and they take ebt and accessible to every of the neighbors so we have a whole neighborhood with fresh fruits and vegetables and we love to ask local musicians to come. it is really like a ecosystem saturday morning, which is one of our goals. what a neighborhood is all about. >> my name is lisa, and i'm coowner of sf dog parler.

we have been here going on 9 years. it is in visitation valley i walk to work 6789 it is very diverse and everyone is friendly. rewarding we meet a lot of new people. a lot of different dogs. >> we have done a lot here since i have been in office. we opened another grocery outlet, we have a new lucky store right in the bayview plaza, which is exciting. this facility we are in right now 1550 evans the brand new southeast community center is another amazing accomplishment for district 10. if you x had from visitation valley across bay shore and come into third street you see a nice bayview sign that demonstrates reflection of one you are coming into bayview hunters point, but also it is a art project to make it more visually appealing when

you enter our community. >> i'm barbara, the wine maker and owner of [indiscernible] in bayview. we started wine making as a hobby actually in our garage here in the neighborhood in 2006 and 2015 we had the opportunity open a tasting room when we have done in this space and here we are. we expanded to add in food options and caf e experience. i opened the business in bayview and inspired by the community. done a lot of pop up aventsds events in the neighborhood, let's try to take this to the next level and that was really what drove us with the support we got from the bayview community. you can expect to get a local bayview hospitality and welcome. you will experience wine tasting

without going to the wine country, because we are small producers and we have not only our wine but introduced italian varieties as well so you can stit and enjoy all that, plus comfort style food. >> my name is anthony, the owner of [indiscernible] ice cream in the bayview. me and my [indiscernible] my aunt used to take us out to eat ice cream all the time and that was our bonding time. we would spend hours eating ice cream and talking and cratching up. one day my aunt came with a idea, why don't you bring ice cream shop back to the bayview. there hasn't been one here in some time so i thought it would be a good idea to bring something back to the community i grew up and something i haven't seen a new business come back to community. i want to create the environment, the sit down environment you can

enjoy a banana split, a root beer float, milk shake, just creating the environment for people to enjoy. got the passion to do it being here in the community and from my family. >> we celebrated with the parade at the opera house. as we talk about beautification and promoting the arts, we talk about the culture of bayview hunter point and the things we have been doing to make sure we preserve opportunities for communities to come together and it is also is a larger amount of people in community that have the opportunity to come out and see what is going on and we'll continue to do that every black history month to promote not only our corridor here and southeast sector, promote black people coming together

during black history month and put on display the talent and great amazing residents we have here in san francisco that come out to support and promote black history during black history month. >> my name is lena mills and the owner of creative ideas. really inspired me to open my company because i was tired of working for somebodyential. else. we have columbian and mexican food and diverse menus for any occasion. the menu is when i was a kid growing up with my family, we always want to cook all different things, so i learned how to do a lot of things we do here at the

cafe. it amazing because we are in communication with supervisor shamann walton, especially when he does coffee and he talks with everybody in the neighborhood that wants to talk to him and ask about how things are going with our community, right? we get together with other businesses that organize singing and doing that in our neighborhood on our street and people see that all the businesses get together and they know what we are doing in the neighborhood. we are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. we do local events. with the churches. we did two at the park. >> my name is--the owner of christopher books in san francisco.

independent book store. we have been here 33 years. the bookstore housed in a victorian [indiscernible] who runs the potrero hill archive. this space is used for number of different things. the pharmacy being one of them. what makes us unique is we maintained the original character of the space. if you look up here, you see the ancient retrofitting. these are the original fixtures of what was here in the early 1920's or so. one of my favorite parts is sitting in that chair out front and saying hello to people when they come in and one of my favorite parts is when someone asks me oo recommend a book. you have home, you have work, well a third place is a place where you look for community and you build community, and i think of christopher's

and other businesses like that as a third place. i had kids who come in that i knew when they were born and they come in and introduce to their kids. that is how long i is are been here. that feeling of history and connection and family and just being a sole proprietor in one of the most amazing cities in the world. i still enjoy coming to work every day. >> we definitely have a lot of amazing places to go here in district 10 whether the bars around for decades. bottom of the hill. connecticut yankees and we have newer spots like gumbo social, [indiscernible] so excited about all the things we have been able to do, but i wanted to make sure as supervisor i really address the

concerns and issues that community has and left with tangible assets on the way out, but also put policies in place that out live me as a supervisor. [music]

. >> all right. good morning everybody and welcome to the march 10th, 2025 rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor walden and chair of the committee joined by vice chair supervisors sherril and president mando min. our clerk is victor young and i would like to thank jaime savary from s.f. gov tv for broadcasting this meeting for us this morning. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes. public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called please to speak on your right alternatively you may submit public comment in in writing in either the following ways email them to myself the rules committee clerk at vc your y o u n g at s.f.

cardboard if you submit public comment by email also be included as part of the file. you may also send your written comments via a u.s. military office in city hall when dr. carlton be the place room two for four san francisco, california nine for 1 or 2 please make sure to silence also phones and electronic devices documents to be included as part of the forest should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today should appear on the board of supervisors agenda of march 18th 20 25. >> that completes my initial announcement. >> thank you so much mr. clerk. would you please call item number one? item number one is a ordinance amending the administrative code to permit for reasons that may compromise personal safety . redactions of information otherwise required in the annual economic statement of city funded organizations. >> thank you so much, supervisor madam chair. >> thank you, chair walton i want to begin by thanking the

office of the city administrator and organizations that worked with us on on this legislation. we have heard some interest concerns from the dv community and want to have some time to talk with them about addressing those and so i'm going to make a motion that we continue this item for two weeks but i think we do have public comment which you know would be fine to hear any time. i think. >> thank you so much mr. clerk. would you please call for public comment? >> yes. members of the public wish to speak on this item should line to speak at this time each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> i thank you for taking public comment. sounds like i will be back again so thank you. supervisors i'm laura thomas. i'm the senior director of hiv

and harm reduction policy at the san francisco aids foundation and a resident of district ten. and i just wanted to say thank you for proposing this ordinance. it sounds like there's a little bit more work to do but as an organization that is determined to stand in our values and stand up for our clients staff volunteers our board made the decision to move forward with a lawsuit against the executive orders of the current administration and we understand that that is necessary and we also appreciate the potential protection that this ordinance may provide to our staff and board members in particular. so we are very much in support of this and thank you for putting forth this ordinance. thank you. thank you. >> are there any additional members of the public would like to make comment on this matter?

>> there are no additional speakers. thank you. seen no additional speakers. >> public comment is now closed mr. clerk on the motion on the motion to continue the matter to march 24th 2025 rules committee meeting vice chair sherril i all i member management and management i chair walton walton i that motion passes without objection thank you motion to continue carries mr. clerk please call item number two. item number two is a hearing to consider appointing seven members terms ending december 31st 2026 to the sugary drink distribution task administration committee. >> thank you so much. and first of all i just want to welcome everyone here and thank everyone who is willing to serve. we have a lot of applicants, a lot of folks with a lot of good experience and so i just want you to know we appreciate each and every one of you. obviously we only have seven seats and there are 19

applicants and so of course you put this committee in a tough, tough situation where we have to make a decision and pick from a lot of qualified folks. but i do just want to say ahead of time i appreciate and thank everyone. well, we are going to do i'm going to call folks up in order of how they appear on the agenda and everyone will have up to two minutes just to tell us about themselves and why they want to serve. and so you may or may not be here but i'll call in order of what i have on the agenda for today. and first we have chester cao williams. good morning, gentlemen. mr. williams here currently serving on the on the the committee i've been on there for about maybe a year or two years on the committee. i am very happy with the way

that the committee has been functioning since i've been on there. i still consider myself to be a newbie but somehow i became co chair but in reality my background has been with the community community living campaign here in san francisco. they've been around for a long time in helping mostly seniors but helping a lot of people in terms of their health and particularly fdg which i work with in the bayview. mr. bolton's district we have been functioning very well in that district and because of his leadership and because of the needs of the community i feel that i have something to offer based on my experience. i've been with community living for almost ten years and since then we've been able to expand our program from a very small

outfit to a very big outfit now we can now partners with meals on wheels where we do most of our deliveries. we cover all of the bayview in a good majority of visitation valley that's our district. i want to say that i really believe the program should expand not to not only to those areas but also to the west edition and also to lakeview. >> so thank you very much. thank you. thank you. and now we will call up christina for taylor. no christina diane area color hirano i did hear from this applicant and they have withdrawn their application. >> thank you so much gabriela castellanos rumbough hi, good

morning rules committee. my name is gabriella castellanos from what i am a new applicant. >> my current position is the mission children's oral health task force coordinator at garrison, the central american resource center of san francisco. >> prior to that i was a registered dental hygienist for seven years. >> that experience combined with my lived experience as a first generation mexican-american gives me valuable real world insight on just how important the work that the soda tax dollars fund are. >> my years as a clinician showed me just how underserved our communities of color are and how crucial and necessary these programs are. in my current position i provide spanish language oral health workshops to the latin x community which we all know is

one of the communities of color targeted by the marketing dollars of these sugary drink companies. >> while living in bakersfield where i went to school i spent time organizing outreach to farmworkers and new mothers by offering services and preventative education. >> the reason that i became a dental hygienist was because of my mother. >> she lacked preventative education and resources and lost the majority of her teeth by the age of 50. >> i have witnessed firsthand the effects of that on her quality of life and overall systemic health. since then i have done what i can to make sure that her story is not repeated. >> these programs have real world effects and consequences . >> throughout my career i have shown a vested interest too bordering on moral compulsion in the health of my community. this is what i can bring to the

advisory committee passion and lived experience. >> thank you. >> thank you. next we have dr. john moore. >> good morning chair walton president mandolin and supervisor sherril my name is john moore. i'm seeking reappointment having served previously from 2019 to 2021 as a general surgeon first generation chinese-american and military veteran i bring decades of experience to elevate the san francisco soda tax to the next level nationally. my work to curb the consumption of sugary drinks began in 2003 as the president of the american heart association who were one of the first to recognize the connection of rising rates of obesity and sugary drinks and have championed efforts since to reduce the adverse impact on america's health. the hra was joined by the san francisco medical society who launched the bay area movement with a 2009 soda tax resolution first adopted by the california medical association and then the american medical association. in 2014 i served as the fundraising chair for the prop san francisco soda tax which

inspired the 2016 prop vs soda tax where i was featured in the television commercials. i summarize the accomplishments accomplishments in a 2018 johns hopkins university paper while i was serving as president of the san francisco marin medical society and i was also a panelist during the celebration of the five year anniversary of the tax. our bay area success has changed the world's only 20 nation's tax code in 2016 but today over 117 nations globally tax sugary drinks and 2025. a key reason for me to seek reappointment as the success of the 2024 santa cruz measures soda tax i was featured in the campaign and learned of new convincing arguments the soda industry's role in environmental pollution and the population health evidence that soda taxes reduced body mass index bills have emerged in maryland, connecticut and across the nation and i believe in 2026 we have the opportunity to fulfill senator wiener's vision to craft a special tax and to double the revenue. the key is to fund programs and create the scientific base that will prove to voters the efficacy of the tax.

i'd be honored to be appointed to a health equity seat on the state's tax. thank you. >> next we have a dinner safer . >> hi. good morning, supervisors. i'm thrilled to be here today because i'm deeply passionate about the future of our youth and their health. throughout my career i've worked tirelessly to create innovative health care programs always with a focus on roi and measurable impact. recently i've been especially dedicated to empowering young people and lead change in health care particularly in pediatric school based interventions and adolescent behavioral health. i'm not just another candidate. i'm someone who has dedicated years to making a real impact. i have two master's degrees focused on health care. i serve as a board member on the san francisco health plan. i spend time thinking about the city's 180,000 lives many of them young people on this plan

. this role is giving me an inside view into the real world challenges of our communities and what they face. professionally, i started a company. i sold it to cvs and spent ten years there working on health care programs for all types of rare and orphan conditions. in the last ten years i've helped young entrepreneurs launch health care businesses that directly address these challenges. i've seen firsthand how critical it is to elevate their voices in shaping solutions. my leadership roles at oregon elementary gateway charter school and the san francisco education fund further prove my unwavering commitment to the city's future. i'm committed to building programs that drive results not only for today but for the long term. i believe in continuously improving and experimenting with new outcomes measures to ensure we're achieving meaningful change. >> as a parent of two wonderful children raised here and attended public schools here in san francisco, i'm deeply invested in ensuring the next generation is healthier both

physically and mentally. i'm ready to push this advisory committee committee to think boldly experiment with new strategies and always focus on outcomes that matter for our youth. >> thank you for considering my application. >> thank you. and now we have presented patel . >> good morning. my name is shante patel and i'm honored to be considered for a new position on the soda tax advisory committee. as a chief operating officer of senators dental health, the nonprofit dedicated to improving oral health access for underserved communities in san mateo, i bring both strategic leadership and deep commitment to health equity. throughout my career i have worked at the intersection of public health health care operations and community advocacy. i have led strategic initiatives focused on reducing health disparities particularly in communities disproportionately impacted by preventable diseases linked to nutrition including dental disease one of the earliest and most visible consequences of sugar consumption. i have experience with san

francisco citywide oral health initiatives, quality improvement program and equity driven health policies making me uniquely positioned to contribute to the work of the soda tax committee. beyond my professional role i am also a parent of two in the staff usda daniel webster and a community advocate. i understand firsthand the challenges that many families face in accessing healthy food and nutrition education. my experience leading community programs such as my role as a girl scout troop leader has reinforced my commitment to ensuring that public health policies are not well not only well informed but also practical and accessible to the communities they serve. i'm eager to contribute my expertise in health care operations equity focused public health and initiatives. my time at the department of public health and community engagement to help guide the allocation of these funds in a way that maximizes impact. i believe in data driven solutions, cross-sector collaboration and centering the voices of the communities that are most affected by these health disparities. i'd be honored to serve in this capacity bringing my professional and community

perspectives to the committee. >> thank you for your time. thank you. next we have john aisha in. >> john is not here today and next we have melinda burse to melinda marty mcquade the frances abigail cabrera. >> good morning supervisor mandolin sherril and and walton. my name is frances abigail cabrera but i go by abby. and i'm the associate director of research and community engagement within the department of family and

community medicine at ucsf. i've had the honor of serving in the research medical institution seat number four since 2021 and the honor of serving as co-chair since 2022 on our sugary drinks distributor tax advisory committee. i'm seeking reappointment with a desire to continue contributing to the committee whose recommendations have resulted in positive impacts in reaching priority populations that are targeted by the sugary beverage industry and they experience the highest rates of chronic disease such as type two diabetes, chronic disease. so heart disease and tooth decay. i'm happy to share that the sugary drinks distributor tax funds have directly supported these populations and neighborhoods by investing in building community power and capacity to lead efforts to decrease sugary consumption and promote healthy eating and active lifestyles and create healthy environments and policies. in the last fiscal year the sugary drinks distributor tax programs have won provided

culture relevant community led direct services to approximately 90,000 participants to 85% of food insecure participants who were in sugary drinks programs worry less about having enough food and 385% of participants reported drinking water more often and much more. with a new mayor and administration i'm aware of our budget deficits. i'm seeking your support for reappointment because i am committed to continuing the work and i bring the knowledge and context to bring our committee to support all the efforts of our supervisors and your committees. i'm passionate in this work and would be honored to be reappointed. >> thank you for your time and consideration. thank you, anderson. jane the morning reviser walton

supervisor amendment and sherril thank you for having me here today. first and foremost i am a native san franciscan. i've been here my whole life and i am committed to the city as long as i am living and working here. >> and second, i am a believer . i am a committed member of a church in the bayview and i am applying for this seat in this committee to improve human flourishing here in the city. i come from a public health background. i spent the first five years of my career as an evaluation associate at the tobacco control evaluation center where we provide evaluation support to public health programs and organizations to help them inform their work around tobacco control and policies. and drawing parallels from that work. i am now looking to help

evaluate the sugary tax dollars that are being put into different programs to improve community health. currently i work at ucsf as a research analyst within the department of general internal medicine. >> i support projects that deliver more chronic disease care and management through digital technology. >> so i am skilled in research methods, data analysis and i am a i am a data person. i am i love data all sorts of data and what i can bring you on to this committee. if i were to be considered for this seat is my my standards for data integrity and having

an unbiased approach to how we're going to spend the money, how are we going to spend the revenue for for the common good here in the city? >> thank you. i can. >> thank you, jamie schmidt. >> good morning. my name is jamie schmidt. i am an incumbent on the advisory committee and i am seeking a recommendation to continue into a second term. i'd like to thank you the board of supervisors for the opportunity and privilege to serve on this committee. i have seen the dedicated efforts of the department of public health backbone staff, the partnership of the committee members who work in various departments of the city and county and the collaboration work collaborative work from the community membership. the recommendations we make to the mayor and share our neighbors your district constituents innovate programs that seek to solve the community's needs. i am grateful for the creative and passionate neighbors we

share to ensure healthy food is available to the food insecure water fills filling stations and parks for the thirsty and we are checking the teeth of our preschoolers and kindergartners. this committee is supporting our neighbors for the entire life cycle is it's really cool. i am the senior director of clinical research operations at sutter health. prior to that i was the director of clinical research at sutter health california pacific medical center. and in addition to my role as an operations administrator at sutter health, i'm also a researcher investigating the impact of sugar sweetened beverages in the workplace. and in that research i seek scalable interventions to improve our health and wellness while at work. the research i conduct is funded by private foundation grant and the national institutes of health. >> i'm also a dietitian. when i moved to san francisco i worked at san francisco general hospital as a dietitian and a researcher working with patients with hiv and aids. wherever i find myself in san

francisco i encounter passionate people who care about the health and wellness of our people. >> it is just the city is just so great and i've lived in san francisco with my husband who was born and raised here and we raised our two daughters here. and like all of you i wear many hats with all the hats i wear. i see the pervasive impact of the food and beverage industry that seeks to persuade us that we need to eat their food and drink their beverages. the impulse is strong. the feeling is good. yet the outcome commonly ends with preventable diet related diseases. >> i would like to continue to work on this advisory committee to support the priority populations of san francisco to encourage healthy lifestyles. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. will joseph alex tender coo.

good morning everyone. my name is alexander coo and i'm currently a sophomore at the base school san francisco. in the past i've worked at nonprofits such as city hope and the institute on aging and through being a high schooler i've seen firsthand the effects of sugary drinks at local corner stores where peers of mine have started to over rely on sugary drinks instead of their healthier counterparts. >> got my life. i've also been passionate about learning about racial discrimination in my in our own society and through researching this problem i found that racial minorities bought more sugary drinks on average compared to their white counterparts. finally sugary drinks have had an impact on my own family where the sugary drinks have caused health issues due to overreliance. i've lived at the i've lived in the city my entire life. so working with this committee i would love to share my personal thoughts and solutions as a youth fellow while working with intellectual individuals to help the city i truly love. >> thank you for considering my application. >> thank you.

connor thomas meek schuman. >> okay. good morning everyone. my name is sharon and thank you so much for having me. i am a current junior at law high school and a resident of district four. and my advocacy mainly stems from student at law high school where i serve as a representative when talking to a lot of them administrators like on the principal advisory council or on the ptsa at school safety committee chair where i work with a lot of our administrators at law to meet to examine statistics from school wide and citywide surveys and discuss our findings with students and other school administrators. so connecting this to the study to see i'm aware that we do a

lot of research surveying and publishing our findings. so i would say i have the necessary experience in that to participate in discussions and not be afraid to speak up for my fellow youth in san francisco. so moving on to the committee i have always been one for advocating for people in my community whether it is students at law or on my family living in san francisco. overconsumption of sugary drinks and the lack of awareness of healthier alternatives is a really big issue that a lot of we a lot of people face in all communities in san francisco. on a personal level i have witnessed the impacts of diabetes and dental health first hand from my dad. like i mentioned in my application since my family and i immigrated here in 2018, i've helped my parents with their health policies, insurance and bills by translating on the phone to helping schedule appointments. >> so being on this committee i would work to give really impactful feedback to support the people of san francisco as

a young person, asian immigrant and advocate. and although i have not attended a meeting before i've done extensive research through on meeting minutes and published findings. so looking at the evaluation report for the fiscal year 2023 to 2024 i noticed the strategy used to increase community driven health, education and services as well as collaborating with small bands of businesses and local organizations which are all things that i hope to continue and work towards along with the committee if i am appointed. >> thank you so much and together we can drive commitment into action. thank you so much for listening and i really appreciate your attention. >> thank you. thank you. the mill and we're doing my apologies if i mispronounced anyone's name. >> hello. good morning. my name is jim yamada. dean sorry. i'm a sophomore in high school and i can't do enrollment student at los casitas college

. i'm really thankful for to be here and to be able to run for this committee and my experience is it's quite diverse. >> you know, i've i've taken the job to solve these deep unsexy problems in ways that, you know, you wouldn't even think of. currently i'm leading the h.r. 1511 bill across the whole united states affecting 50 million undocumented immigrants. and i'm fighting for this. another thing is that i am a representative on eric congressman eric cuomo's east bay congressional youth council where i represent over 800,000 constituents within the youth committee and overall within the community and beyond my policy leadership i'm big within local communities. i'm big within you know the small city councils i'm sure you've seen my face thrown if you have it it's good to meet you and i hope to see you more and to connect this to the committee. i believe in kind of pledging my hands into the i hate to be, you know, uncensored here san francisco's filth we see the poor homeless people. we see how easy it is for young people to get their hands across like unfortunately

substances and i want to put that money towards education. i want to put that money towards helping people quit. i want to help the youth stay away from that. i want them to stay in school. i want to focus on the community and giving back and i think the only way we can do that is by kind of putting our time into important things. we need the youth involved, we need me involved and i think i can really provide a lot of value. >> it's more than policy. it's more a culture change. it's just this change around being healthy, being safe. it's a good thing staying in school is good. you know the underrepresented communities need us to help them and with that i thank you for your time. >> thank you. thank you. laura urban good morning. my name is laura urban.

i am the associate director of health nutrition with children's council of san francisco and i'm seeking reappointment for seat 16 representing children 0 to 5. in my current role i oversee programing that supports child care educators create and implement policies and programs that encourage physical activity and good nutrition including limiting consumption of sugar sweetened beverages. i have nearly 13 years of experience implementing and overseeing nutrition security programs at the state and local level, including overseeing the nevada department of health and human services office of food security where one of my roles was to oversee our funds for healthy nevada, which supported community based organizations statewide distribute healthy food to their community. currently as a member of the study tac, i co-lead our data and evidence subcommittee. i also work to enhance collaboration and alignment with shape up asf coalition where as a part of that coalition i am the policy systems and environment action

team lead. so as a part of that work i work with other cbos to support them in their advocacy and policy efforts which includes supporting the cdc recommendations. i've learned a lot over the past couple of years and seen the incredible work and impact that this fund that these funds can have. and i would love to continue to be a part of it. so thank you so much for your time today and for your consideration. >> thank you so much. and i believe that is all the candidates that we have. did anybody come in late that i may have missed? >> if not, we will go to public comment on this item. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public would like very public comment on this matter. >> there are no speakers for public comment on this matter. thank you so much. >> scene of speakers public comment is now closed.

obviously like stated before this is definitely not an easy task with so many qualified applicants. one i just want to say i love the diversity of the applicants that we have here the experience of the applicants that we have here. we received of course emails and some applicants. we also receive recommendations from folks who work in this field and so all of you are qualified and all of you of course we want to just thank for being willing to step up and being willing to serve. >> with that said, i'm going to make a motion to appoint chester cao williams to seat one gabriella castellanos rumbough to seat to. >> we are going to continue see three to next week's meeting and give our applicants a chance to be present. >> we're going to move abigail

cabrera for a seat for jamie smith for seat five shown motion for seat six and laura urban four seat 16 yes on that motion. vice chair sherril sherril i remember madam and i met him and i chair walton walton. >> i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion carries and congratulations to everyone and again we encourage anyone who was not successful today to continue to look out for ways to serve the city. we most certainly want and need your talents and appreciate you for being willing to serve. >> mr. clerk, would you please call item number three? >> yes. item number three is a hearing. consider appointing one member term ending march 17th, 2027 to the veterans affairs commission

when seat three applicants. >> thank you so much and again we will provide an opportunity for everyone to speak. that is present. we have one seat available and three applicants and i will call folks up and order of how they appear on the agenda. >> and first is nicholas russ enough. good morning. good morning supervisors. unfortunately nicholas rubinoff cannot be here this morning. he was called late and there's a medical emergency. i serve as the commission's secretary. >> i wondered if i could share a few comments on his behalf. we will let you speak a public comment. >> okay. thank you. of course, joshua wagner,

chairman walton vice chair sherril supervisor gentlemen, my name is josh wagner and i'm a candidate for seat nine on the veterans affairs commission. originally separated from the navy and moved to san francisco six months ago after 12 years of service. during my time in the military i participated in four aircraft carrier deployments to the indo-pacific where i served as a navy fighter pilot. i'm a graduate of the united states naval academy and stanford university was first introduced to the bay area over a decade ago. in fact i married my wife in this very building almost exactly ten years ago to the day. now that i'm out of the military i've been looking for ways to get involved in both my community and local. i've attended board of supervisors meetings. i've joined next village san francisco, a nonprofit serving our elderly community. i'm also involved in the world affairs commonwealth club becoming a member of the veteran affairs commission would be an excellent way to broaden my public service. i'm intimately familiar with the challenges facing our veterans. we're separating and

transitioning from the military. i myself am still going through the process of seeking approval for my own disability claim. i believe that being a member of the veterans affairs commission would be a perfect avenue to combine both my passion for our community and my experience as a veteran. thank you so much for your time and consideration. >> thank you so much. >> barkley sanders good morning supervisors. my name is barkley sanders i'm a resident of district six. since i moved here about eight years ago i'm a former signal system support specialist within the army national guard and finished in 2020. i've also worked in the tech industry for robinhood and facebook where i supported over 100,000 different employees and in my time here i was a probably homeless veteran that does really understand the process and benefit process to essentially be able to take

care of other veterans and may have to go through the same process as me as probably homeless veterans. >> i've also served on sfp back and i'm the current chair of the power subcommittee. i was also on the treasure island development authority cac to help them expand housing rights be able to get exempt from tolls and also just help to fix the park for the kids there. i've also worked with other fellow veterans myself to use things like charity t to help process their claims quickly. one of my own buddies when he got out he was struggling with finding employment and getting access to benefits and i was able to work with him just over two hours and leverage the technology that's currently out there and available to everyone to essentially be able to help him process his claim in two hours instead of sometimes what would people consider basically an average of about 100 days to process a va claim? i also leverage a lot of this the public records request system to get information to

essentially fix a lot of these problems. so i'm hoping i get the opportunity to serve other veterans in my community. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. and i believe we have heard from our candidates seeing no statements or questions from my colleagues. >> mr. clerk, would you please call for public comment? yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item shall line up to speak at this time each speaker will be allowed two minutes. thank you. good morning supervisor if i could just read am some comments from commissioner rubinoff and supervisors i sincerely apologize for not having been able to attend in person today. yesterday i was in the hospital receiving treatment for a serious foot injury and the

resulting medication has made me unwell. however i do not want to miss the opportunity to express my deep commitment to continuing my work on the san francisco veterans affairs commission. over the past years i have dedicated myself to strengthening the commission fostering a team that actively advocates for veterans and working closely with the veterans justice court to ensure that those who serve the country our country receive the support they need. looking ahead i am committed to elevating the role of the county veterans service office securing funding necessary for its critical work and expanding support for programs like veterans healing veterans which provides essential resources for rehabilitation and reintegration. i appreciate your time and consideration of my reappointment and look forward to continuing the important work. thank you. and i'd also like to note that currently the ic is serving as a vice president of the commission which he also

volunteered to do last year. >> thank you supervisors. thank you so much. >> are there any other members of the public would like to comment please line up to speak. >> if you wish to speak please line up to the right side of the podium. you are you have the mike i. >> good morning commissioners. my name is john rice weber. i am of a vietnam combat disabled veteran. i live in san francisco and have for 21 years in district nine and i am currently one of the commissioners on the san francisco veterans affairs commission and have been for approximately a year. during that time i've come to know and admire nicholas bruce and off he performs his duties as vice president and commissioner and amplifying

fashion with personal outreach to the veterans community to evaluate and identify their needs to bring them to the committee for review and discussion and then submit them to you. >> supervisors being passionate about veterans nick is also kind and compassionate. his outreach includes being extraordinarily involved in the veterans court aiding and assisting san francisco veterans who are most at risk in our community and helping them receive assistance with housing counseling and additional treatment. getting them off the streets and into programs to enhance their life and enable them to lead productive and fulfilling lives. he was unanimously elected as vice president of the veterans affairs commission last

december, which demonstrates his leadership ability. i am honored to know and work with nick peart moose and off and cannot think of a better person to be on the veterans affairs committee commission. >> thank you very mh and next speaker please. >> my name is john gibson. i'm a marine corps veteran and veterans rights advocate. i've. >> i wanted to say that barkley's work that he's done with the homeless veteran community is second to none. >> i apologize. would you mind getting a little closer to the microphone barkley's work that he's done with the veteran community is second to none. he's identified key linchpins within our community and he's not only applying a level of

vision but also a level of action. and i feel like this is the type of initiative that we need in this commission. thank you guys. thank you. are there any additional members of the public who like to make public comment? hi. >> hi. good morning. i'm carrie barnes and i recently joined the leadership of moms demand action. around the time that i got these readers so i. i have to have them on my face . we support mayor larry's appointment of manny scott to the police commission. >> so just just to stop you real quick, we are i apologize. public comment on the appointment of the veteran affairs commission. >> oh, i'm so so that item is item number five. i am so sorry to skip ahead. i guess i was really excited about it and so are you, matty. okay, we'll wait patiently. thank you. so i will come back. thank you.

any more public comment on item number three seeing no more public comment public comment is now closed and again i just want to take the time to thank all of the applicants. obviously all of you are qualified and we appreciate you having the willingness to to serve to serve. >> unfortunately we do have one seat. and there are qualified applicants and i will say that commissioner, just enough as vice president who continues to come highly recommended from his colleagues as well as the veteran affairs office itself, someone who i think deserves the right to continue to serve. so i'm going to move that we appoint nicholas ross enough to seat one seat nine. >> i'm sorry to see nine my buddies yes. on that motion by sherril

sherril i remember amendment i mean i chair walton i will deny that motion passes without objection motion carries and again thank you so much to our other veterans who are willing to continue to serve this city and now we call for item number four. >> item number four is a motion approving rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of alfonzo felder to the municipal transportation agency board of directors term ending march 1st, 2027. >> thank you, mr. felder, you have the floor. >> please tell us why you want to serve on the mta board of directors. >> yes. good morning supervisors president management supervisor walton and sherril. thank you for having me here today. i am a native san franciscan and i'm honored to have this opportunity to serve san francisco and its citizens in a role that i think i'm uniquely qualified for. >> i've been a muni rider since before i could walk. i've relied on you need to get

to school and to work. >> i know the mta well and can see it from many perspectives. i have the perspective of a parent who's raising a family in san francisco and i appreciate that every generation of residents has different needs that we need to recognize. i also see the mta from the perspective of a member of the business community. i've worked with the mta for decades through my work at the giants and through our work on the mission rock development. i understand the importance of the unique multi-modal transportation system that we have here in san francisco and i appreciate the obligation that we have to uphold our city's values through our transportation system. we must be focused on continuing to set a high standard in terms of sustainability safety and service to all san franciscans despite the significant financial challenges ahead of us, i'm incredibly optimistic about the future of our city and the mta. we'll have to make tough choices but i'm committed to facing these challenges with a practical common sense approach that seeks out diverse

perspectives to make informed decisions. my background and experience will serve me well. i have a degree in urban studies and i'm a lifelong student of san francisco. i'm currently the executive vice president of administration for the giants where i serve in an operating capacity and as i said have worked with the mta for years. my first professional assigned it was to oversee the transportation plan for pacific bell park. that was a tough that was a tough task. but i worked with the city and we as the giants worked with our fans to make sure that that plan worked. and i'm proud of the sustained success of the ballpark's transportation plan my work on the development of the ballpark and the transportation and the mixed use project at mission rock have taught me how to engage, collaborate and build consensus within our community. i've also led a nonprofit with a mission to preserve neighborhood cinemas in san francisco. this role is connected me to neighborhood groups and small businesses and i know how to engage the public and that's a that's a key role for me if i'm

so lucky as to be confirmed for this role at the mta. ultimately we're fortunate to have a great transportation system in san francisco which i have great confidence in it. it's a system that has come really far. it is more equitable, more accessible and safer than the system i experienced as a child in san francisco and it will only get better. i look forward to serving the city and welcome any questions you have of me. >> thank you so much. >> i see so far the show has a question or comments or questions if i can ask for a clarification. will public comment come next? yes. after yes. >> great. thanks man. thank you. i do have a question, mr. felder, what's your philosophy on how to address the fiscal cliff that mta is facing right now? >> i mean i think the first thing we need to do is we need to recognize that we've got to listen we've got to listen to the needs of our city and the constituents that we serve and then we've got to listen to the

mta itself and take the good advice that they're going to provide and then we're going to have to evaluate what what options we have to bridge that gap. i think the near term gap that we have is manageable over the course of the next year. but as you look a few years ahead that's a bigger challenge and we're going to have to make tough choices. but in making those choices we've got to do the best we can to serve the majority of our citizens as best we can. and that's going to that's going to require us to evaluate the system in its in its in its current state. but i'm confident that we're going to be able to do that smartly and wisely and consistent with our values. >> thank you. see no other questions or comments from colleagues. we're going to call for public comment on this item. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on the sign up sheet line speak at this time each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public would like to provide public comment on this matter? >> there's no speakers that you see no speakers. >> public comment is now closed. president madam thank you chair

welcome. i just want to say i think this is a very strong appointment. >> mr. felder has contributed in numerous ways to san francisco and i'm looking forward to seeing him contribute in this way as well. >> so happy to support this. thank you. supervisor sure. likewise. i want to thank mr. felder for being with us here today. i appreciate you coming and speaking with me directly about our experiences as parents and as someone who's a lifelong san franciscan and who lives in the house he grew up in. i think you have a unique perspective to lend to us and your experience operationally developing transportation plans around very important areas specifically the ballpark for this city. so i'm very grateful for your willingness to serve and i'd like to move to amend the motion to remove the word rejecting and move forward a motion approving alfonzo felter to the mta board of directors.

>> thank you. and before we vote on that, i would like to just say to mr. felder i, i definitely recognize your contributions to this city and i want to say that once this appointment is moved forward you will have to get a little bit more specific on how we're going to address the fiscal cliff that exists for mta but definitely am supportive of the roles that you have played here in san francisco. >> mr. clerk yes, on that motion vice chair sherril sherrill i remember and i know me and i chair walton i will deny that motion passed without objection to amend to a to approve the nomination by deleting the word rejecting and recommended to the full board. >> thank you. motion carries mr. clerk would you please call item number five? >> item number five is a motion approving rejecting the mayor's

nomination for the appointment of madi scott to the police commissioner for a term ending april 30th 2026. >> thank you so much and i believe miss scott is here present you have the floor. thank you. good morning for giving honor to god for getting me and up this morning and all of us and good morning to you chair shimon walton, president mandolin supervisor sherril and clerk mr. victor young, it is an honor to stand before you today with this nomination for mayor laurie for this position. i am humbly grateful for it as i've been working in this field for over 50 years now. >> as you all know i lost my son to gun violence july 17th, 1996 right here in the fillmore west in addition two blocks from city hall and i've been

doing this work prior to his death because of all of the tragedies that we faced here during the crack cocaine epidemic and the police brutality that was taking place at that time i know that i can bring unity and resolve to the police commission by serving i've worked with the police department under the last three administrations chief shaw and now chief scott. my work speaks for itself. i love doing intervention, violence prevention, intervention and education awareness around community policing and i know that i can bring the community and the police together to make our cities safer and stronger. we have both that now this last year crime has gone down but we know we have a lot of work to do and thanks to you all supervisors in our elected

officials working together and rolling up our sleeves is the answer that is the answer and violence prevention holding police accountable at the same time holding our community accountable and looking at both sides and working with them strongly. >> so i'm honored to stand here before you representing victims of violence on both sides representing those who are hurting in our community and to bring peace, peace, unity and strength to the police department, to our communities and to bring accountability on both sides at the same time to raise awareness to deal with public safety in the best way possible. engaging policemen to join us in our community efforts getting to know our neighborhoods, walking the beat

,our children not being afraid of them our young men not being afraid of them and empowering them to someday want to serve and become police officers themselves. >> that's what we're working toward our young women and our young men from our communities engage in them and teaching them as we always say, each one must reach one and teach one. that is our goal too. that's when we will stop the killing and start the healing on both sides. it's just like a good part of gumbo. >> we need all the ingredients l the ingredients to make a good part of gumbo. so we need you our board of supervisors. we need our young people. we need our organizations, our sybil's and our faith leaders. we need our mothers, mothers and fathers in the community to work and strengthen and build these relationships that we have done so successfully here in san francisco. i want to continue to do that. i want to continue to serve so that we can walk down the street proud what our officers knowing who our children are,

know who our grandchildren are, no one who is suffering from mental illness now, no one who has a problem you know, and get and seek and help for them that is the goal of surgeon on this police commission to build and strengthen the relationships that we've already done and to help stop the killing and start the healing for safer environments for safe safer san francisco because our city of san francisco is beautiful. >> i love the city. thank you, miss scott. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> seeing no comments or questions from colleagues, mr. clerk, will you please call for public comment? yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item shall line up to speak at this time each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> hi again carrie barnes i am here to speak on behalf of mary scott appointment to the police commission. as i mentioned a couple minutes

ago i recently joined the leadership team of moms demand action. so i represent the many i've been asked to represent the many for moms demand and brady who wanted to be here today. we support mayor lurie's appointment of manny scott to the police commission. matty is a public safety advocate and gun violence survivor as she discussed, it's important to have voices like matty's in the room when confronting issues like this which disproportionately affect women in general and moms in particular. gun violence is an epidemic and needs to be treated like the crisis that it is. here are just a few crazy stark stats. >> gun violence is a leading cause of death for children and teens in the united states. >> that's just one number to approximately 75% of pregnancy associated homicides are committed with a firearm. and lastly, every month an average of 76 women are shot to death by an intimate partner

in the united states. this really impacts all aspects of women's life. these are just a few of the stark suggest kicks in and really we need to put a stop to it. as a city we have to prioritize public safety and set a model for other cities to follow. confirming madi scott to the police commission would demonstrate our commitment to gun to gun violence intervention as well as elevating the voice of a woman who represents peace, strength and accountability. >> so thank you. >> good morning. >> members of the board of supervisors in this committee. my name is nancy tongue. i am the chair of the san francisco democratic party. i am also a career prosecutor. >> but i come before you today as a mom. i became a mom in 2017 with the birth of my first child and five months later i became a mom demanding action in sacramento.

>> and over the course of the subsequent years i got to know maddie scott as a person of integrity, a person of community and a person who really wants to pursue not just justice but fairness. >> she has been a lifelong advocate for her community for reduction of gun violence. she participates alongside of brady in gun buybacks and making sure that our communities are safer. she is there for survivors. she organized and hosts a mother's day survivors luncheon for people who have lost their children to gun violence. >> and she has been the tip of the spear in the community for making sure that there is safety and reform within the police department in san francisco. >> not only is madi scott this community hero, she is my hero

because to continue to do this work for the decades that she has and to center it around victims and survivors of gun violence is something i think that is essential and missing from the police commission and i urge you to support her nomination. >> thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is lawrence lee. i'm a san francisco native and a resident of district eight noy valley. i'm also a member of the community police academy and a and i'm speaking today as a member of the board of the advancement for asian-americans. this is a this is a group that's been involved in a lot of report card for for politicians. i want to speak as a representative of this board and we we as we as a community have come a long way in the last few years and a lot of it

has been very painful and speaking about pain and suffering and this is something that is still very important in this in this important time . and we recognize the voices of people who have worked with us when it was harder when it was tough and and there are so many people who have spoken to us about how many spoke up with us for all the cases that have been tough that have been continue to go on and so we really appreciate all her work and we support her nomination for this board in this time. >> it's it's very important to to think about pain suffering and i've done some reading about buddhism and there's a story about the second arrow and the story goes of someone who received an arrow and obviously it was very painful but it's the second there's the second response. it's a second response of how you act and how you feel, how your mind works under that

situation and her response her story is so inspiring and we would appreciate it if she can have this chance to join the board. >> thank you. >> good morning. board of supervisors rules committee. my name is michael siracusa. i am a d-3 resident here. i'm here to voice my support here for madi scott. i think her amazing background both in community violence prevention as well as working with the police department would be a very, very valuable perspective on the police commission and helping shape our city's environment of safety here. in addition, after hearing her speak today about her passion for community policing, i think that that's a very, very important aspect of the police department that i'd really like to see developed and encouraged more and so she has my full support. >> thank you. thank you. >> just a reminder if you do wish to speak, please line up

to the right of the podium. >> good morning, chair walton president randleman supervisor sherril my name is john. i'm a general and acute care trauma surgeon from district two deeply honored to rise in support of the nomination by mayor lori have met scott to the police commission. i became involved in the firearm safety topic while serving as the president of the northern california chapter of the american college of surgeons in 2012 after newtown. as honored to be appointed to the brady regional leadership council where i met mattie about five years ago. i've been most impressed by her determination, by her translating a very powerful story of the loss of her son george into action. i believe that her efforts are unparalleled here in san francisco. i've been most impressed by her activity nationally with the brady campaign in the white house. one of our leadership, cath sokoloff focuses on her way here to speak in support as

well. but i urge you to support the mayor's recommended action in nomination. i think she will unify and catalyze great change for the city of san francisco. >> thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm christine pelosi, a resident of san francisco and a long time friend and supporter of mattie scott. and i'm here to speak in support of mayor lori's nomination of mattie to the police commission. i first met mattie years ago through my own mother nancy pelosi when they were fighting for enforcement of the assault weapons ban and they were fighting for resources in the community after sandy hook. it is all three of you well know suddenly the nation was gripped by with the pain of gun

violence. but the fact of the matter was there was a lot of pain that was democratized but not the hope and not the resources. mattie scott and friends were still camped out on the steps of city hall during mother's day not welcomed inside. and in fact then supervisor london breed and i moved the mother's day line to the pre mother's day launch inside and then reverend amos brown took us in at third baptist. but that happened because of mattie. mattie didn't stop. mattie made sure that there was one unified vigil on the sandy hook tragic nursery and that it was combining everyone in the community not just people that look like me but people who were living mattie to experience the fact that mattie over and over and over again brings mothers of perpetrators and mothers of survivors together. even doing that once would be exhausting emotionally for

anyone. >> but for her to do that over and over and over again is why she has the fortitude to do this work. and i hope that not only will you support her and vote for her but also that you will support the reforms that she champions when she's on the commission. >> thank you. next speaker please voting supervisor is my name is carlotta jackson lane executive director sojourner truth foster family services agency is a founder of saving a dream incorporated. i am past co-chair and member of the san francisco behavioral health commission, a mediator for the office of police compliance i'm sorry and a member of the african american police advisory board. i have been a resident of san francisco since 1960 and i am the proud daughter of of my father james dale jackson,

senior 35 year veteran of san francisco police department and i support the appointment of manny scott by our mayor daniel levy. i know i have no memory for over 25 years and work with her side by side since the days at paradise baptist church appealing for our support group on san jose's street in lakeview near to sit in city. i recall when kamala harris was the new district attorney and her staff would come to support mothers who had lost children to gun violence. they were looking for information and to bring justice to those unsolved homicides. maddie's not only an advocate for the families in the fillmore in the western district but she worked tirelessly with families in the visitation valley and my office the village to 99 sunnydale and previously was sharing hewitt marie's love and compassion for survivors of gun violence, gun violence prevention and a willingness to speak truth to power has empowered communities

and families throughout the city serve francisco the state of california the brady campaign and nationally with mothers in charge. thank you for your time. >> good morning. my name is dorothy tsuruta. i'm president of the golden gate section in cedar in c and w and i'm a college professor and i've got to knowing betty her dedication and her hard work anybody who's known somebody killed by violence or heard of it most of us have although mine are in detroit and chicago but i know that that is such a horrible situation and for mattie to give her life to fighting the violence and gun violence, it's

she would be just perfect on this commission. police commission. she's she's got a great humanity. >> she's got a sweetness. she's got a calmness and she's non stopping in her dedication . i plead with you to please support her to be on this commission. in many ways i'm just an ordinary citizen asking for support of this wonderful woman. thank you. my name is frank noto. i'm speaking on behalf of stop crime action, the stop crime act an action supports victims and crime prevention. >> ms.. scott has had three years spent three years of her life supporting victims and crime prevention especially prevention of violent crimes.

so it's naturally natural that that we would support her for this appointment. we believe she supports supports a strong well-trained police force. she's worked with the police intensively and observed them over the last 2030 years and we hope she will work for that and work for doing changes that will make the our police force increase recruitment and retention. >> thank you. thank you. >> still mourning. >> yeah. oh, thank you. i'm here to to you know, just to bring up the you know, me and matty we're mothers and we've lost our children to homicide so i feel the need to support her that she supported me even though i don't

understand the ticklers of this position, you know, and the expertise of this position. but i guess we all have to start somewhere and you know i bring these can i use the overhead? i bring these pictures of our children as you see here is her baby and here is my baby and and just what the what the system has left us with is emptiness and no no resolutions for our children. so i'm hoping that this position helps us as mothers and fathers who've lost their children to homicide and police brutality.

again, like i said, i don't understand this position. it's been it was a surprise to me but i think as we all come together this mothers and fathers and support each other i am for that and i wouldn't want that to happen to me as i go on with my endeavors for supporting my child that was murdered shot 30 times with a semiautomatic gun and it was community violence. it didn't have to be a police violence. but you know the grief is the same. so i stand and i pray that we all support each other and keep supporting each other. again, i don't understand this position but i don't care as long as is helping us. >> thank you. are there any additional members of the public who like to provide public comment on this matter? there are no additional speakers. thank you. seeing no additional speakers, public comment is now closed. >> president madam thank you

chair walton and i will be brief but again as with the mta appointment i think the mayor has made an excellent, excellent choice. i have not had the opportunity to work closely with mattie scott but i am a san franciscan and therefore i know that mattie scott is a legend and and adding your voice and perspective to the police commission seems to me like a very good thing to do in this moment. so thank you for your willingness to serve and thanks to the mayor for this appointment. >> thank you president madam and supervisor sherril thank you chair walton mr. scott, i want to thank you first and foremost for your willingness to serve your commitment to action both before and after the deepest of tragedies is incredibly inspiring to me personally. gun violence is a scourge and it's a preventable scourge and i want to thank you for your work. i'm highly encouraged by three things you said. first, prevention. it's indeed the best way to keep our city safe.

second is accountability and i appreciate you brought that up because without trust we cannot have safety. and the third was community. please continue to push for engagement with the community both of our officers working with the community but also spending time in the community. i really appreciate that you said that. >> i also want to voice my support for your continued efforts to shine a light on communities at risk that don't get enough publicity. >> marginalized communities suffering from gun violence, domestic violence and especially protecting children . as a father i see how your work is driven by love and i want to thank you. >> with that i'd like to move to amend the motion to remove the word rejecting and move forward a motion approving the appointment of mattie scott to the police commission. >> thank you so much, mr. clerk on the motion? yes, on the motion to amend and recommend to the full board

vice chair sherril hyatt. know i read momentum and i and i mean i chair walton i will deny the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. motion carries. >> mr. clerk do we have any more items that completes the agenda for today. >> thank you so much. we are adjourned. >> thank you. thank

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come on out to u.n. plaza well we have the most recent addition to our fabulously renovated un plaza. it's 21,000ft2 of incredibly designed space by alexis sablone who is a nationally recognized skater and architect . >> and this particular project is a great partnership between the richmond park department, the civic center cbd converse and the skate park foundation.

and ultimately the goal here is to make sure that un plaza is a place where we are all welcome, where we all feel safe, where we can all enjoy each other and recreate and we've had over 350,000 visitors to this space and very significantly we've seen a reduction of unhealthy activity and crime here approximately 80% and skaters are absolutely welcome here. we want to celebrate the skating community, its incredible history and what it's done for the texture and fabric and culture of our city

>> (music). >> (multiple voices.) >> landing at leidesdorff is as the new public school in downtown san francisco for people to come together for 0 lunch and weekends a new place to enjoy the architect and our culture. >> landing at leidesdorff one of several initiatives to the road map for the initiatives all

about using your public space and network for now environments to 0 invite people adopted not just to the office but any time of the day. >> it shows there is excitement and energy and people wore looking forward to enjoying the space that people may want to end up in downtown. >> we've been operating in the financial district since 2016 with the treasury and coming up we had a small surge in business in the leidesdorff and in about the financial district and a good time to grow here. >> as a small business the leidesdorff is making us being part of it as being part of in project. for me makes we want to be part of san francisco. >> so landing at leidesdorff for me represents hope for san francisco and the sense that

this is become such a safe welcoming area. >> we local artists coming in and exercise boxes and live music but the hub of culture. >> the downtown partnerships has a studio in san francisco. they identified 6 locations throughout the downtown area we come together with new activity and spaces. >> is between us a place to tell our own story and history. >> it was named after a captain one the black leaders of san francisco before that was called san francisco he was the first treasurer of the city and commercial street a cross street the hifblg original shoreline of san francisco was just a few feet behind where we're 12357b8z around opportunity to bring people to locations we have an

opportunity to tell stories and for local businesses. >>

♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed

by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle.

after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island

development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master

plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure

island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is

complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate

and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure

island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class

and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that

could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the

plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down

the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's

defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea

level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's

commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you

know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is

shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the

heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value

for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we

identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island

and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants

are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were

installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics

was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another

thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one

of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can

live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the

animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or

400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be

successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's

a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will al provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry.

>> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan,

it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.

. so it's yeah, we'll see. it's going to get worse before

it gets back to me. >> called meaning to please. >> thank you chair tung goo morning and welcome to the february 10th, 2025 citizens general obligation bond oversight committee meeting. the time is 9:33 a.m. and we will begin with roll call vice chair crawford. >> member fox president member larkin present member matthews present member pentaho present chair tung tong president thank you. >> we have a quorum. >> excellent shall we do the national thank you. >> we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the rama to charlotte. who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the rama to

challenge you have never have never ceded loss nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the dramatic community and by confer excuse me and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> excellent. thank you. >> and for our next item would like to welcome formally welcome will fox to our committee. >> this is his first meeting officially as a committee member. i know he's had an opportunity to meet some of us so thank you all for volunteering and making your time available to this important task for these geo bond programs. would you like to to say anything or introduce yourself to the public? >> i'm yeah, i'm serving in the civil grand jury seat and i'm happy to be here kind of bring aspects of transparency

and oversight you know are very much of interest to me. my background is in hospitality and in sales so it's kind of interesting to dive a little bit more into some of these issues facing our cities, you know, and really the full scale of these bond measures, you know, really encompass everything for city government. so happy to be here and put my work in for this committee. thank you. okay. i don't number two thank you. item number two general public comment. members of the public who wish to provide in-person public comment please line up at the podium now. >> each person will have three minutes to speak. >> for the record there are no in-person public comments. >> this concludes the public comment section for this agenda item. >> item number three please. item number three approval with possible modification of the meeting minutes from october 28th 2020 for any discussion or

corrections to the meeting minutes on the motion to accept second, so do we have a motion from member mathews and a second from amber? >> we we do have a second date i'm sorry. number one number like i thank you. there a need for public comment? >> there's a bullet for it here. members of the public who wish to provide in-person public comment please line up at the podium now. each person will have three minutes to speak. for the record there are no in-person public comments. this concludes a public section public comment section for this agenda item. >> and then let's take the vote please. vice chair crawford i remember fox. >> i remember larkin. i remember matthews. >> i remember pentaho. i chair tom. >> i thank you. the motion passes item number

four please. >> item number four presentation on the 2016 public health and safety open programs in time child and sorry boys today for their cuda. >> thank you chip this hi good morning chair tongue morning vice chair crawford members of this committee my name is joe chen public works program manager for the 2016 public health and safety bond program futures for short i'm here this morning to give single back an annual update on the 2016 futures program. >> before i start with the formal presentation, i'd like to acknowledge and thank members of the public works project management team as well as the client department representatives are present in this room today in support of the futures program and help

answer any specific questions that i may not be able to answer today in the room i was looking earlier to see who's here. i do see and i see representatives of from different public health fields . yeah, but regardless thank you for those that are here today my last formal presentation to see go back was december of 2023. this first slide is a quick reminder of the bond allocation for the 2016 futures program. this bond program was approved for a total bond authorization amount of 300 50 million. the total bond authorization amount for purchase is currently showing as 364 million because it includes approximately $14 million of punches earnings that have been appropriated as of this fiscal year. of the 350,000,272 has been allocated to three components

which include the csf building five southeast health center and the community health centers. 58 million has been allocated to two san francisco fire components which are the ambulance two point facility and a neighborhood fire station. 20 million has been allocated to the department homelessness and support housing for the homeless service site component this next slide provides an executive summary of the program accomplishments this past year of milestones status, the bond sales and appropriation and there any risks issues or concern on budget schedule or schedule. this year marks the beginning of the ninth year after the passing of the purchase program as of 2023 the core projects under three of the six components have been completed and currently in the closeout phase. these three components include the community health center southeast health center and the ambulance deployment facility under the usg building five component we have seven projects are in active construction with a target to

complete by early 2026. there's one smaller project that's clearly in the building phase and one project where construction type was issued earlier this year. the clinical laboratory project is also targeting to reach substantial by march of 2025. the key takeaway is that six of the seven projects is targeting to be completed by the end of this year or early 2026 and the new fire station component the emergency generator projects are all in construction with the last host our project afforestation 15 to start bidding by first quarter of 2025 on the homeless services component both 2001 polk street 525 history or any construction with 1001 post to be completed within the next six months regarding bond sales and appropriation for the program the main update is that approximately $14 million upon interest earnings have been successfully appropriated for use by the respective projects. however $2.8 million of the 14 have been placed on controls

reserve pending the resolution of potential albatross liabilities. the albatross review will be completed by the end of this fiscal year. there has been no significant changes to the risk in our challenges that we have been tracking since the onset of the program. the current budget for this year's ag building five component is 216.3 million which has been increased since the last report due to appropriation of the bond interest earnings expenditures and encumbrances combined is approximately 204.3 million with approximately the remaining balance of 10.2 to the clinical laboratory track revision project. this is 97% complete and within a few months of achieving substantial completion the rehabilitation depart relocation phase three is 83% complete with 33c restroom finishing first and the rest of the projects be completed by early second quarter 2025.

the dialysis relocation is 85% complete with a focus on finishing all final finishes and starting up of dialysis equipment safety upgrade scenario percent complete with the continuation of various discrete seismic scopes throughout the building scopes include saw cutting of relief joints column enlargement fiber reinforcement polymer insulation for pe for short steel plate installation and the news 24 inch seismic joint specifically 124 the 2011 locations are now completed with 40 locations in progress by the late summer of 2025 we are expecting to complete the seismic joint construction through the roof level and will start working away downward from the roof level back to the third floor with sakkari and demolition of the existing building structure to create a new seismic joint public health lab is 60% complete with the completion of all underground plumbing excavation and backfill framing and overhead mep installation is ongoing.

>> our infrastructure is 20% complete with restroom showers typically by march of 2025 the rest of the project goes which includes majority of the water piping has also started with the completion of trade package bidding and negotiation to the completion of this project however, is constrained by the progress of the public health lab project because the new chilled water piping will be utilizing the utility chased as billed through the public health lab project psychiatric emergency services is 5% complete as it represents one of the latest projects to start construction in tpi was issued last year in may of 2020 for the family health center phase one is the most recent project to be issued construction in tpi earlier this year because of deviations ability to leverage as of duty foundation care funding this project was able to resume and proceed in the construction of the phased approach to match with availability of funding the

southeast health center has been open to patients since july of 2022. the team is currently focusing on wrapping up one last owner request a change order which would then allow the project to issue final completion by third quarter of 2025. the community health center component tracks two comprehensive community health center projects that include both seismic retrofit and interior renovation scopes. there are the maxine hall health center in district five and castro mission health center located in district eight, maxine hall was open to patients or has been ocean patients since october 2021. castro mission has been open to patients since august 2022. the team is also anticipating the completion of one final warranty punchers item which also then alled this project to be to be closed out. the ambulance deployment facility has been used since may of 2021 with final

completion issued in february 2023. the neighborhood fire station component consists of the host hog removal at six fire stations fire station six 1112, 15, 21 and 38 to indicate the seismic risk associated with them emergency generators mercy general replacement three fire station three fire stations they include fire station 1837 and 44 both emergency generator phase one projects afforestation 3744 and 18 are currently in construction reforestation 3744 to be completed by the end of march. the final host tower project afforestation 15 is targeting to start building by first quarter of 2025 on the homeless service site component there are two remaining active construction projects 1001 polk street consists of hpc upgrades as well as limited structural repairs 525 history courses a renovation and upgrade of all

shower restrooms and showers kitchen replacement and new stores in the dayroom 1001 polk street is currently at 92% complete 525 fifth street received construction cpe in september of 2024. for the past few months the project has been focusing on a multitude of migrating projects and the base scopes to start this month. this final slide is a detail summary table that shows a regional and revised program budget and expenditures encumbrances for all bond components since the last report i do want to point out that the program budgets by component have been revised. the reasons as i mentioned earlier are due to the $14 million bond interest earnings that have been appropriated to the various bond components of the 14,000,012.4 million will be appropriated to 1.26 million to as a fire and 375,000 to address each. as i mentioned earlier, 2.8

million of the 14 has been placed on controls reserve until the till the reconciliation of any arbitrage liabilities that might be assets. that concludes my presentation for today. my team and i are available to take any questions that you may have. >> thank you. >> yeah joe, good to see you. too long. >> um, i had a question about the soccer board s.f. general hospital budget. um, remind me what you include in project controls. okay. thank you. member larkin the project controls typically includes almost everything that is non concert related so does not include the construction contract or any of the you know, nuts and bolts or that

puts into the the finished product. so in general project controls includes all design cause planning calls, management calls, inspection costs that are kind of support staff to support the construction effort of the project. and the reason part of the reason i'm asking is that on the zuckerberg portion of your report the construction cost was less than project controls. you know, project controls is more than half and i just it didn't seem to be typical of the others, you know. >> well there was a lot in there and the number reflects that. i didn't see why there would have been this number would have been great and what the construction cost was. >> yeah. um thank you for the question. that's a very astute observation. a lot a lot of those costs for project controls is related to projects running late and a lot of that is kind of related to the a you know, a standard project. let's say was originally

programed or the construction duration was say it was for 12 months and due to either design issues unforeseen conditions you know code issues that tends to extend the project duration unfortunately that also also leads to you know additional expenditures from the either from design team or construction manager to support the effort to build the finished the project or you're getting delay claims from the contractor because of the increased duration. >> um depending on the project we we have resolve some construction claims for example on the rehabilitation department phase one and two we did go through a pretty extensive almost like a almost a 2 or 3 year claim with the contractor. i think earlier last year was when we were able to the city and the county was able to come

up with a a settlement that was approved by the board of supervisor just last year. so that did resolve one issue and you include that in the construction cost or the that come on the project controls the the actual settlement with the contractor in terms of construction will be tracked under his construction budget. the soft costs in terms of supporting the effort for the litigation is part of project controls. you say litigation did it go to court? >> no sorry. in terms of the i think we went through mediation so feel free litigation. affirmative dispute. yes. oh, big fan. correct. all right. so that that answers my questions. i'm sorry to put you on the spot over. >> okay. any other questions from the committee? i have a question more about process on slide number eight. you talked about the warranty process. >> i think for one of the was

it one of the public health clinics or one of the community health clinics was casa mission health center? >> yeah. yes. so can you just talk about that? i was a word that was relatively new to me warranty i think that's going through the punch list. is that correct that comes before close out or is that part of the close out process? >> this is a situation where for cash machine we also had some owner recourse to change orders that we also just finish up last year and the same time there was also a very like 1 or 2 i call it warranty as items typically purchase items can be completed after substantial because the difference substantial is that the the facility itself can be used for is for design intent. so in this case the you know as you can tell from the day the clinic was already it was being utilized in 22. so for a period you know there was other change orders that

did not impact the usage of the building. he went in from cash remission . we had to do some waterproofing for the facade so we wanted to just take care of all that. and same time there was also a warranty of punches. i know that was never finished so we wanted to have his capture all that work, get it done so we can then officially close out the project and then have to track something off the books. >> got it. okay. thank you. >> any further committee questions or comments on i was curious just generally speaking ,you know for the projects related to this bond measure, do you have any quantification for asset renewal versus new construction or is everything just kind of lumped in project by project? >> um when you refer to asset renewal, can you help me define what that i guess kind of taking care deferred maintenance and general upkeep for existing facilities for for

a job on funding we we typically focus on capital actual major capital improvements. it is a maintenance type item that will be taken care of by a different funding source and that is typically done by the client department using their maintenance or operational budget. so we try to keep the scope separate in terms of maintenance versus capital improvements. >> yeah. thank you. okay. i think that's all the committee discussion for this item public comment you members of the public who wish to provide in-person public comment please line up at the podium now each person will have three minutes to speak the next year. >> joe for the record there are no in-person public comments. this concludes the public comment section for this agenda item. >> thank you. item number five please. item number five liaison report on the 2012 queen and safe

neighborhood parks gabon programs that's me. so on the jawbone excuse me the bonds part programs. unfortunately you have time to meet with the park department for that report so i'll have something for our next meeting . just any any and should we reschedule this item to our next? we can do that given that's on the agenda. sure. okay, sure. then let's yeah, let's go ahead and take comment now and then we can reschedule this item for our next meeting. >> okay we'll do. thank you. members of the public who wish to provide in-person public comment please line up at the podium now each person will have three minutes to speak for the record there are no in-person public comments.

this concludes the public comment section for this agenda item let's go to item number six then please item number six liaison report on the 2018 embarcadero seawall earthquake safety go bond programs. all right. thank you. so as the liaison for this this bond, i was able to have some time to meet with our support mr. cologne and myself, opportunity to tour the embarcadero and view and view many of the ready projects that the port has lined up ultimately is about $170 million in early projects. these are needed and we'll work with the overall future of the major project of the seawall resilience and safety for example the expansion of so one of these small projects is actually not a very small project but it's the expansion of an earthquake seismic joint in a in a building that

actually at the exploratorium. so this is something that is lined up to be worked on and then also the building next to that does not have a seismic expansion joint and for those who may not know what that sounds like, what it means basically allows the building to move to different ways in an earthquake so that it doesn't crumble apart actually is able to withstand an earthquake. so there's a building that needs one that doesn't have it and so basically you're cutting the building in half cross section adding this expansion and also allows for the water you know, and some of the sea rise. >> so these design early projects will use the use our bond funds and assist in the ports. so in order for the port to gain leverage or to gain some of the federal all the federal funding they have to put forward a certain amount of money. so these projects will hopefully work towards that funding. i believe it's 30% 35% thanks

for this 35% local funded and then the fed will cover the rest is the idea and so for far seven and the seven and a half miles of embarcadero see to shore up i guess if you put it simply short but ultimately our seawall resilience that's a lot of billions of dollars. so the 170 million is going to chip away at that 35% on these early projects. so the army corps engineer actually approved the planning design for our resilience plan but there's still some more time and work for a final approval and approval for congress. >> so hopefully in that time these smaller projects are going to be useful for what we need now but work towards that greater project. so the port has got a lot on their their plate to make this happen as we all know if ever if anyone's been down there you can see the water you know

comes up higher than it used to. there's some areas that are now no longer accessible because the where people used to stand and look out at the bay is no longer it's underwater. so this is a real thing. the see ultimately if we did walk out to the the walkway kind of just near under the bay bridge and you can look out and see the different levels of buildings. >> some were built ten, 15 years ago or some of the the piers that are much higher anticipating the sea level rise and see the older ones are eight ten feet below that. so there's definitely a lot of work to be done in our on our coast so so thank you to the port for taking the time to meet with me and show me those things and that's my report. >> thank you. >> any public comment for this report or could you take public comment committee discussion? any comments from the committee

? comments. okay. >> okay. we'll do i have a question about federal funding keeping in mind some of the funding freeze threats that have been coming out of the administration over the past few weeks, has that federal funding been approved and passed by congress yet or is that something that you're anticipating? no, it hasn't been approved by congress yet. but carlos, if you want to address the specifics, please come back. >> good morning, carlos cologne the waterfront resilience contracts manager. so for the $13.5 billion program that we're working towards with the army corps that has not been approved yet but the draft plan has been approved by the army corps of engineers. the final draft the final plan will be submitted to congress

in the summer of 2026. now the funding that's the thing everyone's concerned about, right? so congress will vote on funding after the report's been submitted and approved by congress. >> right now what we're doing is we're working to get an agreement with the army corps. it is called the 20 2021 agreement which will allow us to move forward now and be eligible for credit towards our 35% in the future. so that's what we're doing now. we're working towards getting these projects in place now because they are needed and then hopefully we'll get the credit later on once congress approves the program. >> but yes, we are very we're all concerned with that. any other committee comments or questions? >> okay. can we take public comment please?

q members of the public who wish to provide in-person public comment please line up at the podium now. each person will have three minutes to speak. >> for the record there are no in-person public comments. this concludes the public comment section for this agenda item. >> thank you. let's proceed to item number seven. >> item number seven liaison report on the 2010 2014 and 2020 earthquake safety and emergency response. gabon programs. >> okay. thank you. so i'm presenting my liaison report for the easter programs. the most recent quarterly report for the easter program reporting as of december 2024 is attached to the meeting agenda. i was able to meet with the program managers last month and had a good discussion with them on the status of various easter bond projects and they were very responsive to my questions. the projects generally appear to be progressing on the trajectory discussed during staff's last presentation in august 2024 which is good.

the third bond sale under the 2020 authorization was completed last month which provides continued funding for the capital projects under the easter program. >> specifically $41 million for the emergency firefighting water system, 88 million for the fire department division of training and $87 million for the police facilities. my understanding is that the fourth and final bond sale under this bond authorization will take place in about 2 to 3 years. >> during our meeting i asked the program managers about the potential impacts to the easter capital projects considering the recent los angeles area fires and the competing demand for labor and raw materials required for rebuilding in that area. staff was able to provide an industry report that expects a 4% to 6% increase on project costs going out to bid in the next few months. staff also noted that the lead times for critical pieces of equipment such as transformers, generators and load banks are extending even longer than what they had indicated to us in the past. now in the range of 12 to 14 months for that equipment versus 7 to 10 months as had

already been long in the past in terms of the city's ability to mitigate these impacts, staff noted that for projects that are being developed using the construction manager or general contractor or cmc product delivery method, they're able to bid out some of the long lead equipment early to take advantage of current pricing and that's one of the advantages of having a contractor on board early in the process when speaking with other bond programs. please consider discussing this with them so that these issues and some of these mitigations can be properly socialized across all of the job on programs. >> during our last committee meeting some of my fellow commissioners also noted that the section of the quarterly report under risk issues and concerns on budget scope or schedules did not seem to be changing very much over time. and so i was very pleased to see that for this most recent quarterly report that several

of the issues that i discussed with staff at our meeting last month were incorporated into an update in this section including some of these issues around the impacts from the early fires, michigan's concerns about impacts from tariffs under the new federal administration because for projects that do require steel or other raw materials that are being imported we can expect some significant cost escalation if tariffs are going to come into play. so we do have some exposure to this from the prior trump administration. so we have at least some idea of what impact that could be but something definitely to be cognizant of as we go forward. >> in terms of the concerns that i have or have expressed in the past, i continue to be concerned about the funding gap for the keyser pavilion project since the identified sources are insufficient to complete that project. my expectation at this time at least is that additional bond authorization will likely need to be requested from voters in the future absent any new sources such as philanthropic grants.

>> i also continue to ask staff to close the books on older bond programs that have relatively small remaining balances such as the 2010 easter bonds because these programs still require staff time for monitoring and reporting and this is not a particularly efficient use of staff resources. this concludes my liaison report so open to any questions from the committee members. hmm. >> all right, let's proceed to pop comment. members of the public who wish to provide in-person public comment please line up at the podium now. each person will have three minutes to speak. >> for the record, there are no in-person public comments. this concludes the public comment section for this agenda item. >> let's proceed to item number eight please. item number eight liaison report on the 2020 health and recovery group on programs. >> so this will michael and i

were in on this. michael did all the talking. >> most of the talking when we were talking to the project leaders we did this on the phone a week ago today. >> and if you're prepared to talk, michael will have the floor will will and sorry least you look like yeah. yeah, so do i. we all do. yeah. >> yeah. so i did kind of just prepare a general overview, you know, to update as colleagues liaison for this bond measure. so on the 2020 health and recovery bond was authorized by san francisco voters to finance the acquisition and improvement of property around three sectors. so for facilities to house and deliver services for people experiencing mental health challenges, substance abuse disorder and or homelessness for parks, open space and recreation facilities and also streets, curb ramps, street structures and plazas. so having talked to the program

managers around this bond we can report that allocated funding from bond issuances for this authorization so far meet the statutory requirements laid out in the bond measure for both the named projects and for general programs around the broad scope that you see for this bond measure. so there has been some cost escalation and projects but you know with the exception of the dpw projects regarding streets and right of ways all programs rely on an additional funding to the bond authorization. so bond spending remains, you know, within expectation and fair practice of the total bond program authorization of 487.5 million. it was split across rec and park department homelessness and supportive housing. department of public health and dpw. according to the program managers 93% of the bond authorization has been issued with the first issuance in 2021 and then 2023. however, looking at the balance

sheet provided by the comptroller's office in the document see go back project summary i see that issuances are listed as 287.3 million which is only 5050 59% of the bond authorization. so i'll look to clarify my understanding of that discrepancy. you know as we will hear from this program later on this year, perhaps in august, a third issuance for this bond is scheduled to be introduced to the board of supervisors in april of this year. looking across the four sectors authorized by this bonds for rec and park the named parks from the ballot measure or all under construction will be completed by mid-next year and the projects are being delivered within the time frame that has been reported to this committee in the past. the recovery parks so these are projects not listed but approved of can be used for general funding will be

entering construction from the design and planning phase in the coming years with projects to be concluded by 2028 for this group of projects are observations for the rec and park portion of this bonds were that some project costs have escalated in the last couple of years compared to updates in the past. specifically the gene friend rec center hers rec center india basin and the japantown peace plaza. these cost escalations were met through other funding and have not affected the effective spending of bond measures of the bond funds and additionally, you know these escalations were a result of the bidding process kind of right sizing the project, the budgets of the project and there have been some additions to the projects made after the fact based on the availability of additional funds outside of the bond authorization and looking to update on the dpw portion, they have completed almost all of their authorization

and projects here so the only things remain they've exceeded the goals for the curb ramp and street resurfacing portions and there's one positive left u.n. plaza as well as one street structure that remain to be completed later this year that should wrap up that portion of the bond and then moving to bph and department of homeless supportive housing. they're proceeding along with construction projects and during this year across a few different areas. so those are proceeding kind of in line with the expectations of the bond spending as well and they've been able to exceed their goals in adding a supportive housing. so everything kind of proceeding nicely on that. so kind of a continuing with questions that have been asked today we asked the program managers about concerns for any city budgetary constraints as well as obstacles to federal funding with the new political landscape nationally and any impacts from tariffs on

construction costs. so they're working to lock in any grant or additional funding before access to funds is lost and moving as quickly as possible to issue contracts for projects where relevant to lock in funding for any potential construction cost escalations. so everything moving along will there is there anything you wanted to add? >> just well a couple of things but just say will you did a good job as your first time out. >> that was a comprehensive report and a tough act to follow but when i spoke to the presenters monday i asked for a clarification. >> they had two projects listed separately one was peace plaza in japantown and one was buchanan street mall and i figured they were the same but i was thinking in terms of buchanan street mall being north of geary whereas that project is primarily south of geary. >> so my bad i'm educated.

they are two separate contracts and should be a the question i had was and will correct me if i'm wrong but they they are working on under the permanent supportive housing portion of the bond they're adding 114 units at 835 turk street and 685 units at pardon me 74 units at 685 ellis which is pretty major contractor scope to the project. >> they have people living in their temporary lee while they upgrade the facility to be permanent rather than temporary and my concern was what are they going to do with the people who are in those two facilities and now when they're ready to be turned over or permanent housing and they the staff said that they did have

places lined up. i think a place called the granada which at first they said was 4200 geary but granada is elsewhere. i didn't write down the address anyway. >> they're confident that they can accomplish the transition without more people being out on the street and that is all i have to talk about. okay. any questions from the committee members discussion? it sounds like we do have several recurring themes through all of our liaison and reports in terms of concerns about cost escalation tariffs, impacts of federal policy. so elephant in the room. yes, definitely. so continuing to be mindful of all these issues and the potential impact the program has and of course as projects do become more expensive, the potential for for lower priority projects to be crowded out and then how do those projects get funded?

>> okay. >> let's go to public comment on this item please members of the public who wish to provide in-person public comment please line up at the podium now. each person will have three minutes to speak for the record there are no in-person public comments. this concludes the public comment section for this agenda item proceed to item nine please. >> item number nine presentation from the city services auditor on the whistleblower program liaison report on the whistleblower blower program. >> good morning commissioners. my name is david jensen. i'm the program manager for the whistleblower program. with me today is steven munoz. thank you for the opportunity to present to you again about the operations of the whistleblower program. >> we usually start out with a quick just brief overview of the legislative authority that

we've got but is derived from both the city and state law. new probably all old information for you and for the newer members. welcome the the charter in particular sets out items that are within the program's jurisdiction to investigate which is the next slide and that are the allegations of the misuse of city funds, improper activities by city officers and employees also deficiencies in the quality and delivery of government services and also wasteful and inefficient government practices. >> the charter spells out what we can do. the charter also spells out what's not within our jurisdiction and some things that are not in our jurisdiction that the charter mandates that we refer are asked items that are within another departments federal, state or local authority and jurisdiction to review matters that may be resolved through a grievance mechanism.

so anything that a union has negotiated with the city that's outside of our jurisdiction also outside of our jurisdiction are matters that involve violations of criminal law. anything that's also being investigated by another city body is outside of our jurisdiction. and then violations of governmental ethics laws are outside of our jurisdiction to investigate as well and that would include campaign finance violations as well. those belong with the ethics commission. >> so for the the reports that stay within our jurisdiction, our next slide shows the historical count of reports that we received over the last ten years or so. and so we except for a file a couple of years ago and we've always received an increasing number of reports and it looks as if that will continue this year over last. as of about 15 minutes or so ago now we received 65 reports for q3.

so 65 new reports in since january 1st which turns out to be about three new reports every two days that we are triaging and and adjudicating on behalf of the the filers just a little bit more information about the volume that we've seen so far in 2425 over the last two quarters we have received 304 reports so far this year and we've been able to close out 339. and so on december 31st we had 44 open reports which is significantly down from the number of reports we've had open on previous quarters. >> next slide we detail some of information about how we receive reports by far online is still the most popular option for getting our information. >> one of the policy directors we have received from this body

is to see if we can't close out 80% of our reports within 90 days the metric had been increased from 75% so far through fiscal year 2425 we're closing out 91% and our liaison has asked that we reexamine that 80% figure. see if we can't get that up a little higher, we'll take a look at it as we always do. so thank you for that. that cooperation and that suggestion as well of the cases that we have been able to close out we have received a number of those are closed after an investigation some reports that are within our jurisdiction we are able to to close out some others are completely without of our outside of our jurisdiction. we get reports about federal government employees or state programs that we need to get to a different agency. and so these are some of the reports that we that do not stay in-house. and then on the next slide we've got some information for

you about the percentage of investigative reports that result in any sort of corrective or preventative action. corrective action can be employee discipline. corrective action can also be reinforcing the city policies that are in effect or tweaks to city policies to improve them or close up loopholes and so that would be incorporated in the corrective action and historically it's about between 30 and 40%. so over all those years over all the things that were happening despite the increase in the volume of reports that we were receiving between 30 and 40% come through with some kind of corrective action either personnel or policy related and then on the next slide we've got some information about our initiatives for fiscal year 2425 mentioned the 80% closure rate we're at 90% for the first two quarters. we issue our quarterly public reports on the status of our activities.

we're looking for the q2 report to be completed probably within the month or so. so within two weeks, three weeks or so we anticipate having that report made public . we do our annual whistleblower training for all city employees that's done on our peoplesoft education module system that employees have access to 24 hours a day actually we also will be conducting our annual training of our department liaisons. we're looking to set a date this week probably in late april where we get all of the liaisons we have at the city departments together. if they have the time available to meet with us we go through some of our practices to highlight what we expect from them and our work with them but then also it provides a forum for everybody to get together and get to know each other. if we don't have an answer for somebody in department of building inspection about how department of public health runs a particular program, we know the people in department health that they can ask and so

this is an opportunity to get all those city employees together in one place and start making some connections. so we find that's a very valuable thing to do. we also host national webmasters to promote leading fraud hotline practices. the next one that we've got will be april third by a gentleman out of charlotte's in north carolina on the topic will be using artificial intelligence to fight fraud. i think you all should be on that distribution list. if not please let us know and we'll make sure that you get an invite for that. and then we wanted to give you a quick update. >> last time we were here we were talking about our new case management system that had just been debuted. so we've got about seven months of that under our belt now debuted july 1st and we're already seeing a lot of gains in how we're able to turn around the quarterly reports some of that public tracing information is now automated by the system that we're using. so we're seeing some time gained there but also in the nuance that we're able to report out.

so if we have a case that closes out based upon a charter referral to another department but another component we kept and investigated prior we were only able to report out one outcome that got charter reported. now we can talk a little bit more about the work we did and the work that any sort of corrective action that came out of that. so it's a much more dynamic program that we're working on now and only seven months into it we're already beginning to see some of the some of the benefits and we look forward to sharing more of those with you as we get a couple more months and a couple more quarterly reports under our belt we'll be looking at perhaps pushing this information live on a regular basis. so that's lifetime statistics our case closure rates how long cases are taken where they're getting referred to all of that information that everybody has to wait for four times a year could be updated a little bit more contemporaneously.

so looking forward to that as well. that concludes what we've got to present to you today. always looking forward to your questions and talk to you a little bit more about what we're doing for the whistleblower program. thank you. >> thank you. any questions or comments from the committee members? well, about you had a slide which showed like 30 to 40% group reports resulting in corrective action and or change to the procedure. >> would corrective action ever include prosecution for a criminal action that would need to be referred out? prosecution won't isn't something we do we're not prosecutors but in a criminal action we connect with our law enforcement partners either here within the city da's office, the pd or occasionally we've got contacts with federal law enforcement agencies and so a corrective action could be a

prosecution. they take a little bit longer than the 90 days that we're typically given. sure. but that is a potential outcome for corrective action for a whistleblower report that starts with whistleblower who do you get much of that and just an informal answer yes we do and it can come in any number of of ways. there are times when we get very broad allegations that don't have a lot of evidentiary support and then it's on the the officers who are assigned to that case to work that up. there are other times when stuff comes in very clearly that is criminal in nature and we need to get it to the law enforcement authorities quicker. reports of weapons in the workplace for instance. so we as the initial intake point if it's not ours we get it to where it needs to go and sometimes we get that type of reporting weapon in a workplace somebody who presents

a danger to themselves that's not our work but we get it to where it needs to go as quickly as possible. >> all right. thanks. i have a question on thank you so much, dave for this great report. and slide number six, you talked about open reports being down significantly. i think it was open reports that's that. can you talk a little bit more about why i know you mentioned the new case management system but i think you all have made some changes in or tweaks let's say in your process a bit. >> it's i think the process may be a little bit of it. i think it's it's the people behind the process that's that's driving that more than anything we've had a good period of stability amongst the staff who's working the cases that we get with that experience they are able to move stuff through a little bit quicker. we are steven here has instituted program where every

week we've got a list of target closures so we're not waiting toward the end of the month or the end of the quarter to get something closed. we're always close and we're always looking to see okay, what can we get done this week so we don't have to kick it off to next? so i think there's some of the procedure change in procedure improvements that the new case management system has brought. but i think it's the people who are using it that are really driving that the the work and the type of work, the allegation is that we get stays the same. the volume will go up and go down but the people working it with a little bit more experience know how to handle things and know the right person to call the first time. and so i think that's more than a case management system is is is really behind the the drop that we've seen last quarter well that continues next quarter. i have no idea but we've got a really good bunch of people working this program right now . thank you.

>> you know there are committee comments so let's turn to public comment then on this item. >> thank you. members of the public who wish to provide in-person public comment, please line up at the podium now. each person will have three minutes to speak for the record there are no in-person public comments. this concludes the public comment section for this agenda item let's proceed. item number ten please. >> item number ten updates from controllers office staff. >> good morning committee members chair tongue vice your crawford mark taylor was the director of audit for the comptroller's office. i'm here to provide you with some updates and items ten a and ten b and i'll have a director of city performance and show me how to join me on

the second part in terms of our public integrity reviews, this is something that is ongoing. so as we reported out back in october 2024 since our last meeting we continue to work on our public integrity audits and reviews. we are planning to issue our next public integrity deliverable in the coming weeks and this one is related to city contracts related to duane jones and affiliates which duane jones is a city contractor criminally charged in august 2023 related to allegations of bribery involving city contracts. so our assessment will be looking at the internal controls surrounding the contracts as well as the status on the various affiliates contracts with the various city departments. we also continue to work on our other audits related to the human rights commission as well as a couple of nonprofit audits that have been implicated on various public integrity matters in recent years.

we also have been working with a city attorney's office as part of our public integrity investigations and not very dissimilar from what dave johnson and team just reported out. we do work with the city attorney's office on the various facets of investigation both for whistleblower as well as public integrity for item ten b and this is for the city services auditor and mid-year reports for the csa audit side. we continue to work on our workplan for the year and so far this fiscal year 2425 we've issued over 20 mandated compliance and performance audits on cac audits. we have also completed a number of i.t cybersecurity penetration testing as well as i t cybersecurity maturity assessments citywide and one of the other kind of extra responsible cities that the csa audits has is leading the citywide disaster cost recovery

given the covid 19 pandemic as well as the two more recent winter storms which is helping the city recover from fema and colonias on various costs that we have expended over the years given those two incidents in addition to those, we also are working on a number of issuances in the coming months. we have an audit of payables citywide an audit that is in compliance in nature related to surveillance technology and as well as in terms of the geo bind expenditure audits. we do have one that's currently ongoing and the 2019 affordable housing job on which we hope to issue a plan to issue in the spring of this year and once we complete that we will then initiate the next one up which is the 2020 health and recovery geo bond program as part of our expenditure audit. with that i will turn it over

to natasha mitchell and we'll save some questions afterwards . >> good morning committee members. >> natasha mitchell city performance director since we last met in october we've issued a lot of things that is our busy time of the year to be doing annual reports and whatnot. so in december we issued some legislative mandated for us to develop nonprofit contract monitoring guide policy. this is doing things to direct departments on what they need to be doing for their nonprofit contracts. this includes having performance metrics and targets in the contracts. it includes reporting on the progress towards meeting those contract. it is including what monitoring practices should be, what a department should be looking for when they are doing monitoring that they the departments should have ongoing engagement with that nonprofit and that departments need to set up their own department policies and procedures for

monitoring these types of contracts. next week we're kicking off an implementation working group with representatives from all departments who are currently actively managing nonprofit contracts so that we can make sure there are lessons learned both from our team to departments but also departments across each other as departments are at different levels in their professionalism and capacity to do this kind of work and when i say professionalism it was more about the capacity not about individuals. everybody wants to do a good job so i just meant in the kind of structure third nature of the work few yes, i think part of this is that both nonprofits and city departments really do try to do good work and we come in with that assumption. we're trying to make everything balanced and accountable as well as not overly onerous for things that nobody is going to look at as part of that. then we issued our fiscal year 24 fiscal and compliance

nonprofit program annual report. so this is a program we've had for over 17 years where we do joint monitoring of that individual nonprofit that may work with multiple departments or might have a large contract