primarily these hotels are not run as tourist hotels. they're really run as residential hotels. it's pretty hard to rent out rooms in these residential hotels to tourists because the clientele that are there. and, so, that's not usually how it's done. >> but there are tourists in some of those rooms? >>> not really, no. >> okay, thank you. >> other questions? time for public comment or rebuttal first? do rebuttal? okay. do you want to do rebuttal? >> no. >> no. any public comment? >> public comment is three minutes. >>> hi. we're doing like a mini presentation, but we'll be quick. so, my name is [speaker not understood] and i'm an organizing coordinator for city center [speaker not understood] by the huntington clinic. we work with -- we are funded with dbi to work with dbi inspectors and have issues with the tenderloin and south of market. what i'll do is briefly give the framework of what we do, and my coworker here is going to talk about specific issues in [speaker not understood] hotel and we have tenants who are going to address the issue. so, what we do is we have tenant o

these are private hotels and we don't have control over every single unit in the hotel. there are people that come into the hotel to sell drugs. this is a reality in the area we're talking about. there are neighbors that are using and it's tempting it use with them. we don't have as much control over the situation as we would like, but at the same time if you want to expert more control then you have to have a higher bar. so it's a dynamic that we struggle with all the time. but by and large, over 95, 97 percent of people are extremely happy to have a space that they can actually, they get a key, they can lock the door, they can have a place that's private for them and a place where they can store their belongings and just feel safer. overwhelmingly it's a positive response but by no means is it perfect. >> i would say for the permanent housing, you know, 97 percent or 98 percent of the people are extremely happy and i mean we have a much easier environment than what raj is dealing with in the sense that we have our support services on site, we have 24 hour desk clerking

did would increase the average daily rate for the hotel rooms and occupancy rates for our hotels. and the rev par, a return of the rate for hotel rooms is supposed to increase by 6-7.5% when the expansion opens. we also expect a higher occupancy rate in the hotels of 87.6% and the hotel value will increase as well for the properties. we anticipate new jobs in about 3500 to 600 -- 6800 new jobs and $699 million to $1.4 billion by these increases conventions. i wanted to go through the timeline. it takes some time to fund the expansion. right now we're at the petition phase. so the petition phase is when the hotels received the petition and they were able to vote yes or no if they wanted to pay funds into the assessment district to fund this proposed expansion. the petitions came back and they are at 54% of the weighted support among hotels. those are submitted to the board of supervisors, so right now we're at the ballot-mailing stage. the board just approved a resolution of intention, which is just stating the board's interest and intent to form this district, if there is enough v

that converts into hotel tax into the city's general fund. the occupantcy will grow to 86 percent when the expansion grows. >> the projected occupantcy of the rooms? >> since the rooms is where it comes from, we have to say that the hotel will benefit from the assessment. >> where is it at? >> 1.5 percent. >> what is the occupantcy? >> it is about 80 percent this year. >> 79, 80 percent, thank you. >> excuse me, office of economic and workforce development. i wanted to go over the approval process, this is for the district which is proposed to fund, you know, over two-thirds of the projects, regarding the moscone expansion, but in addition, the district wants to fund a few other things which i will go into in a minute. a few junctions where there will be a few processes for the approved project. today, we have submitted petitions, actually, they have gone up to 53.97 percent weighted in support of forming the proposed mascone expansion and today is the resolution of intention that you are considering. and after if this was approved, at the fu

working phone jacks are required by state law; a residential hotel, tourist hotel is required to have that. pretend that i did not say that. in sros, every room is required have a working phone jack. people are dealing with a lot of isolation. i mentioned people with disabilities who may be in the room where it is hard to get out. the staircase to be rickety. the elevator may be broken. there's a myriad of problems where people can be stranded in the room. phone jacks are one way that people can connect with the outside world. even if they're not physically stranded, to be able to call a friend, to connect with the neighbors, to set up a doctors appointment, critical for seniors and people with disabilities. for everyone to have a working phone jack. they are not being enforced. there issues with the department of building enforcement. we have recently introduced into the board of supervisors legislation that requires working phone jacks and grab bars in sros. supervisor marr introduced legislation that about two three weeks ago. they were very excited about this happening moving forw

i'm a tenant at the war field hotel. even though we have the bathrooms, we don't have one -- we only got one tub. it is filthy. bed bugs still. we have a lot of roaches. our privacy is denied, you know. we don't have no access. if somebody comes up, they'll say, he's not here, she's not there, right. okay. they should have a phone down in the lobby to call upstairs. we're denied our privacy to come up there. and they're very, very rude. you know, if you said -- i didn't have a bathroom. i have aids. i asked for a bathroom. my doctor wrote a thing for me to have a bathroom. [speaker not understood]. vertical, too. i'm denied a bathroom. it's very difficult in the building and it's very -- it's filthy. that's what it is. and the environment period is ugly. bathrooms, the shower heads, okay, i have got tb, right, and the shower heads don't have no shower heads in the bathroom. you know. it's just straight water. i'm like that, you know. it's off and on. and when they do do water construction thing, they don't post and say,

i live in the 16th street hotel. many other people have. this bed bug legislation will cause a manager -- will ensure the managers will have train curriculum on exactly what and how to deal with bed bugs, inspectors and the dph to make sure managers don't just say that they took care of. it they will have to prove that they took care of it. this legislation would give tenants peace of mind. managers would have to fulfill their obligations or be issued a violation from the dph and i would be on their tails to make sure that they do their jobs. as a tenants' right organizer i'm known in the mission district as the tro for the sro from hell. thank you. [ laughter ] >> thank you. i'm going to call a few more speakers. rd. >> good afternoon my name is michael harrington with the mission sro collaborative on dolores street and live in the dog patch area in the mission. i have been living there for over ten years and i have had bed bugs twice in that period of time in 2007 and in 2011. i'm a very clean person. but as we all know bed bugs don't dis

four or five locations simultaneously and going into hotels and taking hotels, all these things contributed to, you know, making the situation very, very difficult one. >> barely a stone's throw from police headquarters, kasab and ishmael, the two gunmen who had slaughtered passengers at the railway station, were looking to regroup. they drifted down a back street, towards a row of shacks. >> leaving him to die on the floor of his shack, the gunmen jumped over a gate into the women's hospital next door. alerted by the gun fire at the nearby railway station, 450 patients, relatives and staff had locked themselves in the wards. a civil servant had also heard the gunfire and thought the hospital would be a safe place to hide. >> on the stairs, he bumped into ishmael, kasab's accomplice. >> now the gunmen roamed the corridors, testing doors, looking for hostages. in one of the locked silent wards, a woman was about to give birth. >> her daughter would be born >> now the gunmen roamed the corridors, testing doors, looking for hostages. in one of the locked silent wards, a woman was about to give

the alarm guess off in the hotel and people are told -- the alarm goes off in the hotel and people are told they have to go the problem was a boiler emitting carbon monoxide it got into the hotel. the story may begin yesterday 6:30 when someone who was staying here was taken to the hospital. 12:30 this morning we are told that the fire department was asked to come back out and check the air. there may be a tie in between the person taken to the hospital and the situation out here that led to the evacuations. we talk today a person who spent much of the night sleeping in his car. >> rude awakening about 1:00 when the fire alarm went off. first we thought it was a drill. then all of a sudden the police department came on and said this is carbon monoxide everyone needs to evacuate. >> reporter: the bad news at 1:00, good news now at 5:00 people are allowed to go back into their rooms, everything is clear. a lot of emergency vehicles still out here, california disaster, medical support, police and fire from all over the central and northern san mateo county still on the scene out here but

i live at the hotel on -- and have lived there for 9 years. i have been a tenant organizer for the last three years; recently i am the disaster preparedness organizer for central city. for the 22 odd years in sros, one thing that has always bothered me is that people with disabilities and seniors are on every single floor of the hotels. (indiscernible) there are two wheelchair accessible rooms in the fifth floor. i know something can be done. it should be done. if there could be some type of legislation introduced that would require all sros, if you have a disability you are on the first floor. start from the first floor, working up. rather than indiscriminately. we know it is after is going to hit san francisco. we know that. what we don't know is when. the sooner we can get people off the top floors and down a lot more lives will be saved. thank you very much. >> chair: thank you. does that conclude our presentation? >> thank you for letting me shed some light into the issues. i want to start the conversation through the chair as to how do y

so they are not going to pay the same as a large hotel would, a small hotel. it's just based on their actual room revenue. but because there is such an increase in their room rates and the demand for their rooms when a convention is in town, that is how they drew the distinction between sort of east of van ness and west of van ness, but the small venues, if they don't have as much revenue they wouldn't pay as much. >> has there been any reach-out to the smaller operators? >> yes, the council are actively doing outreach to all of the hotels. >>> all right. >> commissioner riley? >> hi. thank you for your presentation and after the $500 million project which would increase the space, how is that compared to san diego and some of our competitors? >> how does that compare to the size of their venues? that is a very good question and i will have to get back to you because i don't have that at the top of my fingers. my understanding is that the conventions that we have been losing to san diego and to other places, you know, have told us why. and these enhancements w

this hotel dates back to the 17th century. of krcroissants, you'll find a blow-up in the room of wallpaper. there are some elements very contemporary, some very modern, but there is just a whimsical and fun. if you're going to paris and want to stay somewhere that doesn't feel cookie cutter, this is a good choice. in the november issue of travel magazine, we feature this area as kind of a buzzy place to go for shopping, eating and exploring. >> it's hard to be in paris and not be inspired to shop, anyway, and then you're surrounded by christian lacroix. how can you go wrong? >> i'm concerned about the credit card bill, but it's worth it. >> and then the dominican republic, and that would be a famous stomping ground of an oscar de la renta print? >> he has gone back and put his signature on a gorgeous hotel called ortega bay. this has 14 different villas. obviously he's popular for many red carpet gowns. it's very low key at the hotel, beautiful area rooms and obviously the star of the show will be the beautiful white sand and

we ventilated the hotel used a natural ventilation blowing air--hotel.we also have mechanical means of evaluating the insulating the hotel. we have monitoring of equipment where we can sample the air we have sample the air the levels have been dropping. all this event and to the point where they are back down to acceptable levels for exposure. >> that boy is offline out. >> yes correct that boiler has been taken off line. >> let us show you the same again. you see the ambulance there was no need for that it was here for precautionary measures. what happened was they evacuate it a couple of hundred of people they tell them to stay outside the was a shelter in place. is he the canopy where they could stay. some of them just checked into a nearby hotel i did not know if they get reimbursed. some people are leaving because they're going to the airport. it has been a cold long night. i got a couple of text from people who are in town staying here and or sang this is awful the alarm kept going off. according to some of the people i know are staying here it was

you're not a hotel company but you do pay a hotel tax, correct, in san francisco? >> that's part of what we're talking about the city of san francisco. there's been a lot of -- the rules on the books have been around for decades and never anticipated this kind of model. they don't make it easy for people to do what a hotel would do, which is -- >> you tell san francisco, hey, we're bringing in $56 million worth of goods and services and economic good, this is an argument i think you need to be making with practically every city, here's what we do and why we do it. >> certainly. we have to educate the city about the opportunity, something that didn't exist a few years ago and the magnitude is quite large. >> i'm curious, scott mentioned lift and other collaborative consumption academies disrupting existing industries. at what point do you say, like, this is a disruptive service and we still need to continue with this even though you're getting incredible pushback from cities across the country. >> i think it's really on us to demonstrate the opportunity, right. so l

, -- the hotel sounded the alarm, 500 guests cleared. one guest described it. >> it was orderly. the hotel staff i didn't see any of them but the police department was good at directingphobes to get out and keeping everybody informed. once we go in the parking lot i was he said-she said. >> reporter: he didn't see any -- [ unintelligible ] two sides of this issue i can tell you for a fact all guests are back and the hotel is cleared the problem was a boiler emitting carbon monoxide it has been turned off and everything is back to normal. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> this morning a man is in custody after a pipe bomb was found in his car in san jose the bomb squad detonated that device after a man was pull over. no one was evacuated. a nearby holiday inn did warn guests to stay in. traffic at the intersection was shutdown for a few hours. >>> the man suspected of killing a retired school teacher in hercules is scheduled to be arraigned in richmond. darnell keith washington faces a multitude of charges. police say he and his wife murder

there is no doubt that this -- these hotels have the problems. this is not the only one that runs into this. it's in the location of taylor and turk. i remember a few years back i was out there at nighttime at another hotel and walking around. there were bullets flying around and police cars. it's a really, really rough area. honestly it's hard to maintain these places with the tenants themselves who cause problems. i've been in many of them so i know what it's like. it's very, very hard work to keep them maintained from the cockroaches. i've seen people when they leave food and food has rotted away and sitting there in the room and just a lot of issues. before us is the matter of the bathrooms. that's what we've got to look at and concentrate on that. these other issues are separate and we should not be looking at that. so, getting back to the bathrooms, if you commissionerses decide we need to add these other bathrooms, we certainly would consider that, but we will need some time so when the rooms come up vacant, we'll go ahead and do that. tha

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the other thing i wanted to bring up which wasn't mentioned here is hotels. i know cory and jim worked long and hard on this and i know hotels is a peripheral component but it's a major employer in san francisco and there are programs at san francisco state and city college and right now the hotels are restricted to 75 rooms and 25 along folsom and frankly it's just not going to have many hotels built under those restrictions. in fact i would suggest probably none and i think the hotel rooms count need to go beyond townsend and clear need for it. there is not enough in the city and major employer and where you get jobs and no hotels along folsom and they have taken that out of the marketplace, so i think you've got to go upwardos both locations. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there additional public comment? okay. commissioners i will give you an option. if you would like to take a break now this item went longer and more in-depth and take a break with commissioner comments we can do that. i see some heads bobbing. so the commission is going to take a short b

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hundreds out of the hotel. many allowed to stay in the lobby where the air quality has determined to be okay. the source of the carbon monoxide has been determined to be a boiler here, it has been isolated, shutdown the ventilating process has begun. these suites have sliding glass doors on a windy morning like this if the air is circulating well plus they have an in-house ventilation system to get the carbon monoxide out. it is winding down. the people who would like to be sleeping now are still out of their rooms. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> our other big story the weather, rain headed our way. >> that's the key, headed our way, not here yet. good morning. here's a look at live doppler, partly cloudy as we expected winds picked up overnight and breezes going to be more of an issue for the commute than the rain which is still near crescent city about to move into eureka over the last three hours moving to the east the entire system is sliding down to the south. timeframe probably after the morning rush hou

the issue of how do you work with the hotel managers, the ability we have to impression upon the hotel managers that things need to be a certain way is really the contract that we have with them and that there are certain expectations about cleanliness and about access and about safety that are in there. so when hotel managers are not following through, then we have a process by which we inform them that this is an issue. sometimes we actually involve environmental health, part of the department of public health, to help us with that. sometimes it's a matter of housing and urban health administers these units for us, it's a matter of talking to marc, talking to margo, this just isn't working out, perhaps you want to take 20 percent off because it isn't working out and let's get the equivalent number of rooms elsewhere. that's the type of bargaining we have to do. in general what the hotel managers will do is make some sort of fix that makes things better. it may not be perfect, but the client says that's fine. and when it doesn't work we have sometimes left hotels and gone on to others

boiler inside the hotel. as it was malfunctions, it was releasing carbon monoxide, which is a very dangerous, deadly gas. so what they have been doing in the meantime, if you are able to see, they have been airing out all the rooms in the hotel. they had all the doors open, windows open and lobby doors open and did shut off the boiler. within the past few minutes the fire department was telling us they are in the process of letting people go back in. they were trying to make sure the levels of co are at acceptable level, they have been letting guests go back up and grab their luggage in case they have a flight to catch but as far as people going back inside, they're still waiting on that. bottom line is no one has been hurt, no one has complained of any symptoms of co poisoning. what's interesting is the fire department received a call for public assistance around midnight. when they arrived here, they decided to do some air sampling and that's how they determined there was something be released that was some

most of the hotel chains, you will find which hotels have availability and, more importantly, what rates they are offering. so not only in washington, d.c. but in the region as a whole, we see that there are a lot of hotels that do have availability at this time. >> i have seen some hotels offering, one in particular an outrageous package that was $2.7 million. there is a limit people should consider on how much they should spend for this weekend, for this event since a lot of people think it's historic again. >> there are no limits. there are some historical things that happened years ago in terms of things which corporations did and citizens did, being in washington, d.c. for the first falling racial. some of the things that may seem outrage lust to us are deals for other people. we have been getting a lot of phone calls in terms the excitement but not only coming to washington but welcoming president obama for the next four years. we are anticipating the local, regional and national response but also hopefully an international response. >> are there any off bt beaten path places that

the next one is the stabilization fund, we know which hotel and revenues that are volatile, so the city negotiater will travel that will fund a stablization fund for future losses in all losses in revenues. and the amounts of $15 million and the goal is that as we move that portion of that $15 million it gets replenished and so it will be maintained through the term of the cod. in addition, as you know, the term of the district expires in 2045, we are proposing that we sell cops through 2047. typically when you sell bonds >> once they are satisfied this could go back to fund the future development and capital improvement to the center. so if you look at the cash flows, you will see that the number include the med pairs, we are going to use a combination of commercial paper with certificates of participation being used to take that out and we also are using general fund operation in this current fiscal year, aappropriated $1.7 million and there is a proposal to request an additional in this calendar year. if you look at this and you take into account, current interest, the city would go

it is likely that this will come back with a favorable approval from the hotels so we if you want to go forward with the expansion of the center with the city contributions. >> that would be a city-run project correct? >> yes, it would be a city-run project. the other folks will be managing? >> thank you, why don't we open this up for public comment, if there are no questions at this time. i will call the names on the card. 2012. >> okay thank you item 13 please. >>> item 13, department of human resources to execute a agreement for workers compensation work parties for a

it is likely that this will come back with a favorable approval from the hotels so we if you want to go forward with the expansion of the center with the city contributions. >> that would be a city-run project correct? >> yes, it would be a city-run project. the other folks will be managing? >> thank you, why don't we open this up for public comment, if there are no questions at this time. i will call the names on the card. 2012. >> okay thank you item 13 please. >>> item 13, department of human resources to execute a agreement for workers compensation work parties for an amount not to exceed $26 million and for a term of three years with an option to extend the term for up to two years. >>> thank you. good asp. madame chairs and i'm here with ed reis kin from the department of transportation agency we are joining together to achieve efficiencies in economy of scales we think in workers compensation for the cities you have the report before you the budget department has made some excellent recommendations which we are planning to administrator as part of this contract. >> would you l