, reaching a height of approximately 200 feet. as part of the project, an existing building at folsom street will be demolished to accommodate the relocation of the fire station number one that would result in the expansion of the project on howard street. the construction of the new fire station would be faced with the overall project given the fire destruction and protection services. you may recall in november 2011 the commission considered several actions regarding the expansion and the associated fire station relocation. adoption of findings under the california environmental quality act and regulations of the board of supervisors for a general plan amendment associated with the project. the board of supervisors rejected an appeal and certification of the environmental impact report. the first leading was subsequently passed on second reading january 24. the action before you is to consider the design of the expansion itself as well as several exceptions being requested in accordance with section 309. the project sponsor will

the lessee would pay the airport approximately $2,870,000, and there would be cost of living adjustments on the minimum annual guaranteed. we recommend based on the competitive process that you approve this with resolution. supervisor chu: are there members of the public that wish to comment on item number one? supervisor avalos: motion to move forward with recommendations. supervisor chu: we will do that without objection. item two, please. >> authorizing the issuance of a revocable permit by the san francisco public utilities commission to union sanitary district for the improvements to the regional water supply system, otherwise known as project # cuw35302, for pipeline numbers three and four for a term in excess of 10 years. supervisor chu: we have a representative from the puc with us. >> good afternoon, members of the board. thank you for hearing this item today. i am the project manager with the san francisco public utilities commission. the resolution before you authorizes the sfpuc to enter into long-term permit with the sanitary district to relocate as part of the seismic upgra

we have approximately a $33 million project. the good news is, we have the funding program for all phases of the project, in particular, for the remainder of the preliminary engineering, design here. we have small local match from the treasure island development authority. finally, our recommendation is to increase the amount of professional services contract with wmh corporation by $4.3 million, for a total not to exceed $5.9 million to complete the engineering, environmental analysis and design, and to authorize the executive director to modify the contract terms and conditions. that concludes my presentation. available for questions. commissioner wiener: thank you, any questions from members of the committee? does that have any comments? we will open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? >> commissioners, my name is francisco decasta. i have heard some of these presentations before, and as you can see the gentleman who spoke before you took his time, i hang becaus

this will be an approximate hit to the general fund of about $6.5 million if the current numbers hold. we spoke with these departments and will be meeting with them tomorrow to go over in detail. the mayor's office is working with them as well to see if there is any way of reducing the general fund allocation to the health department. this is beyond additional funding that might be proposed, that is another piece of legislation in the pipeline. the city attorney has a $3.2 million shortfall largely based on work that is being done for general fund apartments above and beyond what they had budgeted. this year, we don't believe that the city attorney will be able to close that. of the mayor's office and the comptroller's office are working closely with the city attorney to see if there are reductions that can occur or if they can shift some of their work to the enterprise departments that have the ability to pay. supervisor avalos: when the budget was set last year, was very believe that this could have happened to the city attorney? that they were right on the cusp of viability? >> no,

approximate 70 or so has since came to the department within that 90-day period. president garcia: there were 130 people out there who weren't wear of the new legislation and needed to reapply? >> the one thing the department nodes to know pennsylvania once the department issues an applicant to -- application to the applicant, and if they choose not to operate, it was given the previous system -- it was almost no cost for renewal so the tracking was from the police department and others was more in the beginning of the process to ensure they satisfied the requirements but there was a lack of coordination with health department, fire department, the tax certificates were tracked less so by the police department. there, -- therefore, based on this and the cumbersome confusion by not only the applicant but within the city agencies that was provided, it was determined the department of public works would be a better agency to manage and oversee this program. so in these kind of specific cases, permit holders could very well stop -- cease operations so their facilities

and we have approximately... our studies are showing us that approximately 2 million young people between the ages of 12 and 17 have also been diagnosed with a major depressive episode. compare that to a statistic for substance abuse for instance; 5,000 deaths occur in substance abuse with young people, ages 12 to 25, with underage drinking in particular. so there is a difference, as well as a difference in cost, which we can get into later. jordan, you have had, yourself, some experiences with the problems of mental illness and substance use disorders. correct? right. i think the two and two go hand-in-hand. i think that, myself, the first time i picked up a drink was when i was a freshman in high school. statistics show that ages 12 to 17, a young adult in that age, they are twice as likely to pick up their first drink or drug if they experience some type of depression within that year. i was diagnosed with depression in 10th grade. for me, i look at, you know, when i speak to high school and even college students, is that 7 out of 10 young adults who have a serious substance abuse prob

>> based upon the square footage, it will be approximately the same about a sidewalk that would needto be replaced. you will be replacing from property line to curbside. >> on the warping, i remember prior testimony from you that the department had already determined that it is not really -- it could potentially create an additional hazard rather than serve to -- >> the warping is a very inelegant solution. it will be flat and then you immediately start ramping down. you want to form a v. they will be going up and down accordingly, immediately along the threshold of the entry area. since the sidewalk ramps away from the threshold, they will be walking at a slant. it creates different issues for pedestrians. >> one more question. when you looked at the property and came up with a solution, was the third store occupied as a separate store? was a combined at that time? >> my understanding, it was the checker that was on site. his understanding was that all three thresholds' and 03 doors were going to be used at various times. >> id has changed. if you went out there with two doors at th

so 50 million people approximately are uninsured. congress comes along and says we're going to eliminate the discrimination of those with pre-existing conditions and insist everyone be rated at a certain level in a community so that you can't stick the bill too high to particular individuals. now the problem with that is once insurance companies are told well, you've got to insure folks and at a fair cross section of the rate, then everyone could just wait to the buy insurance till they go the sick. you would wait till you got to the hospital before you the had to sign up for insurance. and then that way, you'd econ mize on your costs up till you got sick. well, that obviously would create massive adverse selection problems and did in the states that tried to reform the insurance markets through pre-existing discrimination bans and the like. so what congress did is said we're going to have an individual mandate so that everyone has to have a certain amount of insurance precisely to avoid that adverse selection problem. right now, con

>> approximately $190,000 the past couple years. down to 48,000 others. supervisor chu: thank you. >> moving forward, because i know it has been a long afternoon, looking at the changes we are proposing, we have, as angela mentioned, the records manager position. at we are changing that classification to 1823, which gives us some savings there. we have some retirements we are expecting the next fiscal year. as new employees, and at lower steps, we will have some savings from the employees at the end of their careers being at the top step and new employees coming in at the first that. unfortunately, we will see some increased costs and are vacancies, because we're filling those this fiscal year. we will not have the salary savings we had intentionally kept this year through this point. we have identified cost recovery for city-wide and countywide membership, and initially we had hoped we might be able to get up to $85,000 of the cost recovery. upon further investigation, it looks like we will get $57,000. it is a little bit of a change from what we had dis

this is an approximate two-year time frame. we started this effort about six months ago. we have about a year-and-a-half to complete the planning work and to go through a dialogue that is going to be focused on essentially a decision matrix. everyone will have to make compromises to support both systems. this will essentially lay out the upfront investment and compromises that would be needed to get the return on investment and for us to quantify what that return on investment is. i will mention one more thing before i conclude -- i think that the hardest

that totals approximately $292,000. as i stated in my opening comments, we were all muni drivers in 1984. this is the key to our agreements. where are our checks? we want our money, too. we are not looking for a handout. we all worked hard for this money. it was in the 250 a mou. why were we left out? i was told by a trusty that it was logistically impossible to locate those still in the property. we do not agree. most of us are retired drivers receiving city benefits. therefore, the city has our contact information. notice to these retired operators should be sent by certified mail. the truth is that no such efforts were attended by these trusties. no one even tried to get in contact with us. we know that there is still money in the trust fund. use this money to pay out our $1,880 each, which is fair and equitable. if you think we are too old and senile to understand that we have been bamboozled, this is our first step in trying to right this wrong. we hope that it can be resolved at this level. if not, we are prepared

this is an approximate two-year time frame. we started this effort about six months ago. we have about a year-and-a-half to complete the planning work and to go through a dialogue that is going to be focused on essentially a decision matrix. everyone will have to make compromises to support both systems. this will essentially lay out the upfront investment and compromises that would be needed to get the return on investment and for us to quantify what that return on investment is. i will mention one more thing before i conclude -- i think that the hardest part of doing this coupled with the interests of san francisco laid out in the fast project approach is all the stakeholders are sort of on a different pace. we cannot go too fast or we will lose the majority of what could be potential support for the project, but we also realize if we go to slow, there may be opportunities missed. so one of the things caltrain is focused on is the challenge of going through this planning process in a very thoughtful way, especially for our peninsula cities that are dealing with very har

, we plan to have a full rollout to all the kindergarten's throughout the city, and it will be approximately 4800 students in kindergarten next year. supervisor chu: thank you very much, and, again, if you could follow up with some of the statistics, that would be helpful. >> thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you. why do we not open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will send this without objection. thank you. item two, please. clerk young: item two, to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,352,141, to participate in an incentive. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have a dph representative on this item. >> good afternoon, or risers. my name is dr. joanie -- and i am with community programs at the san francisco department of public health. before you today, i am to see your approval and support for the initiative collaborative grant that we have with partners across community programs in dph. this is an effort that is a very integrated across our heal

or approximately 200 a year?e-year reporting period. >> commissioner sugaya: ok. that seems a little alarming to me. i don't know. 200 a year -- more than that. anyway, 2,000 over five years seems like a lot ofi] housing loss. and i don't know if this statistic is -- you know, if%q we'd been made aware of this previously or not. it seems like a lot of units being lost to this kind of activity. the other thing is in all the reports there is a table of unitst( lost in san francisco between 2006 and 2010 and 129 units over that period were attributed to unit mergers.ç having been on the commission during that time, i don't remember that we've approved 129 merged units, except that maybe there are mergings that aren't subject to commission approval. >> that's true. we based this on the -- not on Åat was approved here but actually from the department of building inspection records, which shows when units are merged when they either remove a wall or remove a kitchen and it's stateed that it'sñr mergin commissioner su

we have approximately 223 vacant units. 100 of which we are processing for families. there are approximately 115-123 baking units -- vacant units that are getting ready to be utilized for families. the typical methodology is to get a unit substantially ready within a day or so of families moving in, bring in the appliances, because we discover without closing up the units we are subject to vandalism and squatting and theft of appliances, so we tend to for these up as soon as we assess they are vacant. we then start working on them to get them ready, and typically the lesser work that has to be done to get those units quickly come of the more work that has to be done in large construction work, they take longer. i should mention also that the budgetary constraints of the federal level have reduced the ability to do that quickly, so what we're doing to expedite these units is to simply attach families to these units. we will delay other capital activities to get the units ready. that sense that there are large number of vacant units are not correct. we're typically oper

it has been, like i said, around since approximately 2003. along with the homeless prevention funds, there are funds under park and rec where people can donate. it has been in around for a wild. supervisor kim: since 2003. >> correct. supervisor kim: do you have a policy for how we expend these funds? >> not a written policy, but we do have initiatives that we like to use the funds for. supervisor kim: which initiatives? >> the current one is the homeless family initiative, which we built upon with the donation -- supervisor kim: the one we launched in november? >> that is correct, that we launched in november. supervisor kim: is there a way we develop these priorities? is it based on federal and state funding? is there a way we prioritize so that these programs do not have -- they do not have funding, so we prioritize them with private funding? i am curious to that process. >> well, you asked the question last year when we got the infusion of private donations which allowed us to expand upon the initiative. we have had the family initiative

the new third story would be set back of the front and rear property line by approximately 15 feet. both from the edges are characterized by a unfinished concrete that would receive numerous enhancements. the club intended to consolidate the athletic and traumdrama programs. yeathe conditional use authorization is required as the facilities as well as for the expansion of permited conditional use, and the zoning administrator would also be considering several variants requests. first of project would result in expansion that does not comply with the rear yard requirements. the third story does not comply with rear yard requirements. goothe project does not include four new parking spaces that would be required. i should note there are four existing parking spaces medicated for use by a club staff in the edgy since parking center. staff has received opposition to the project, primarily addressing an increase shadow to the alley, which is narrow, and to adjacent properties. the staff has received substantial communication praising the mission of providing after-school opportunities fo

half of what we are proposing is indicated on the ground level, approximately 6 feet lower than proposed>> can you go back to the one window? >> this is the current kitchen window. >> of the permit holder. >> i have a direct view of the bedroom. that is not the only bedroom window in question. there are also two windows that face the real property. >> that is operable or not? >> i believe it is operable, but you have a window replacements. the current configuration, the access through the yard is the same it would be in the exact same location. the exact same location. it is 3 feet away from the property line, approximately 6 feet higher, so people are going to be walking through their eyes they do now. -- as they do now. regarding the window itself, i have not seen the shade " and, we did the shade open. it is not of private window now. -- i have not seen the shade open. it is not a private window. the idea that we are changing it is simply not the case. the issue of privacy screen has been brought up, but as we said, and if i am standing directly right now, i can see mr. garcia, but if

based on the new commercial development, we estimate that approximately 2,600 new office and retail jobscommodated this is based on an average employee density, and it's just an estimate. the new p.d.r. space, on the other hand, can accommodate an estimated 130 jobs. now for the residential development trends. 2006 to 2010 were very good years for housingç production san francisco. an average of 2,500 units a year were built -- were added to the city's housing stock during this period. the eastern neighbor saw an decision of 2,100 units. as this slide shows where the units were built. 43% of the new units were built in east soma. as for affordable housing, just under a quarter of the units constructed in the eastern neighborhoods are affordable. this is about the same as the proportion citywide. about 60% of these units were affordable through public assistance. specifically this would be the rebuilding of thei] valencia gud skns new construction in the mission. the remainder are inclusionary units. this slide shows where the affordable units were built. you will see that the mission sh

we issued a memo about 10 days ago, and we find in that report is they had raised approximately $800,000 by the end of last calendar year. the city had neither invoice nor had they paid the city and the cash to date, but they did have on hand of 22 documents and revenue-sharing agreements that told millions and payments to them. that payment schedule is over three years, not all receivable in the current fiscal year, and as you represent pledges, so they are not binding, but they do indicate a company's commitment to pay. i will leave it to this body and others to interpret the language which is in the agreement. from my layperson's perspective, it does lead was lacking here in claire nÉe in what was intended. fundraising. cash receipts. it ashley does not speak to the requirements to the city. we will leave it to you to make that determination. supervisor avalos: and i will say that as one of three on this board and one of the board of supervisors, this does not give us certainty, and that is what i was hoping to have at the time, but that is my bad. chair chu: did you want to speak to

the department experienced a significant decline in permit and application volume of approximately 18% from the prior year during the economic recession. this represented the most significant decline in volume over the prior 8 fiscal years. last year, the department anticipated that volume will increase by 3% in this current year with six months of data complete during the year. volume through december is relatively flat year on year. although that a volume increase has not yet materialized, we are experiencing some rapid growth in volume in the more recent months, in november and december, particularly in the environmental cases. this is a sign of increased activity that we anticipate seeing through the remainder of the year that will hopefully flow through the remaining budget years. the premise that is anticipating a 3% volume increase in fiscal year 12-13. moving into the revenue budget to more than 80% of the revenue comes from the fees that we generate from our project sponsors and there are three main assumptions to the growth that we anticipate in the upcoming budget years. fir