it outlines a lot of san francisco principles in the rfq. it talks about the san francisco experience in building and owning and managing affordable housing. why is that important? it's important because san francisco based affordable housing developers are really the envy of the country. they have done a wonderful job of creating up to this point somewhere between 12 and 15,000 units of affordable housing in san francisco. and when you compare that to the size of the housing authority portfol portfolio, it dwarfs the housing authority portfolio. they have had a long track record of working in san francisco and boards and with residents in san francisco. we want to award that through the rfq process. >> any other city or county like that? >> no, even in new york city. most cities have one or two nonprofit developers. even new york city has a few nonprofit developers. obviously their scale is greater and they rely much heavier for-profit developers. and we use for-profit developers in the city too, but they have san francisco experience. and

this rfq will allow to have a prequalified list of vendors that we can then contract for and without having to go through a full rfp process. the communication, the vendors would be for health benefits and wellness communication consulting services. these are large rubrics of services. it's communication strategies, design, eligibility, website engineering, wellness tuesday and digital support services. so we cannot come forward right now and give you a list of vendors that we ask to not talk to you. we try to get as much as possible prequalified list of vendors and we continue to work on the website or work on the communication strategy for the wellness well being strategy. so, in looking at the advice that we would like to get in terms of the blackout period, we went back to the governance policy and when there is a provision that is not possible when a time of providers for which the blackout period provides it's a good faith effort to comply with the blackout provisions by taking all reasonable to determine if providers communicate with our potential candidates in an hhs search p

the housing authority will be doing an rfp and rfq, rfp for lenders and investors. and the goal is to obviously to get the best price to do more work for the developments. so moving on. where we are now, we will seek the approval of the section 18 applications. the developers continue their due diligence at the properties. the goal is to extend the bond by january and begin work by june 15. part of the reason why we don't have lenders and investors right now. we want the developers to get onsite, to look at the buildings, work with the residents and determine the scope of work and get a costing on it. we had a consultant do a preliminary estimate of the cost. but that does not sort of substitute for developer and contractor trying to get the cost of the particular development. so we talked a little about -- so we talked a little bit about, and the questions were raised about what does this do for the reside residents; right. one there is no change in how the rents are calculated. no rescreening. again this is not a demolition program. so hopefully we will not have p

this rfq process will allow us to bring web designers and other folks to use technology and learn how to make those choices and i want to mention the retirement survey. we are timing it so we are fully moved and ready to take those phone calls. it's scheduled to go out at the end of this week or early next week. finance has been working on making sure the contract is one of the last ones to complete and we are doing the fsa and cobra rfp which is released on monday. that will be three rfp's on monday and the controllers report that will provide some information for the data basis going and we are working on the data for union negotiations. a lot of request on that and there is city's report is being updated and we providing a lot of report and data for that calculation. i think we've talked about the wellness efforts and it's launched. they are doing big conferences down there in the big conference we have and starting to do other trainings and in terms of meetings, we wanted to just highlight that. we are working with the city's cat program so the catastrophic illness program and lon

if an rfq is a preferred vision we'll be happy to provide the committee with approved station for your final approval. we are available to take any questions. >> thank you. colleagues, any questions? okay. seeing none, we'll open to public comment. supervisor breed? anyone wish to comment on this item. public comment is close. supervisor breed? breed breed thank thank you, i think it's important that these meetings are broadcast on radio. as a former redevelopment agency commissioner, kpoo was at the forefront to ensure those broadcast were clear and provided the community with a place to actually listen and hear what was going on in city government. i think that, personally i listen to talk radio and i still listen to kpoo and rely on that to understand what's happening in the community. it's a lot of great programs and it often what i appreciate about what they do and other local radio station do is they bring actual people from the community into these stations to talk about issues that impact us directly. i think having that direct connection between a local radio station and the b

lee talked about the values that went out in our rfq, and we have to ensure other values strong in san francisco, that is public oversight and involvement in the creation of these changes. i want to be sure that our city can uphold that value as we are making changes. i think the issues raised around tenant rights, the right of tenants to be have assurity of staying in their property. that they will be able to return to their units. and the ability to be transferred. whether it's, you know, trying to avoid a dangerous situation they are living in. or other ways, other reasons why they have been transferred. i think it's a right that has to be upheld. i am concerned about financing and who the investors and lenders will be. often we are at the constraint of the banks and the lenders. it's incredible that the profit model, even if we are creating a public/private partnership, the model from the lenders perspective compromises our resources, i am concerned about that. i have worked on since july of 2011, to create our own municipal bank that could be infused with our values as a city, and