to request a variation for a project in the redevelopment on fremont street i'm joined by the project manager jay. that's - (laughter) >> we're san franciscans. >> yeah. thank you. the project is located on fremont street north even if howard street adjacent to the transbay transit center as well as assembly bill requires that 35 percent of the residential unit in the transbay area be made affordable to low to moderate homeowners and with the stand alone unit and 15 on site 14 percent affordable housing on all resident projects in the zoned area. the redevelopment plan gives the commission the permission to meet the affordable housing requirement if it results in practical hardship

to request a variation for a project in the redevelopment on fremont street i'm joined by the project manager jay. that's - (laughter) >> we're san franciscans. >> yeah. thank you. the project is located on fremont street north even if howard street adjacent to the transbay transit center as well as assembly bill requires that 35 percent of the residential unit in the transbay area be made affordable to low to moderate homeowners and with the stand alone unit and 15 on site 14 percent affordable housing on all resident projects in the zoned area. the redevelopment plan gives the commission the permission to meet the affordable housing requirement if it results in practical hardship enforcement will constitute an unreasonable plan and their unique restraint applicable to the property it gives the commission the authority to approve a variation to secure the goals and the related documents. one 91 fremont street is a mixed neighborhood high i rise project in zone two of the project area designed by the j paul company it's currently under construction and was approved in 2014 it's a 52 story sev

okay, please come on up >> good morning, chair farrell and supervisor avalos, i am the moh, project manager, and thank you for giving me the chance to submit this resolution for your review and approval. resolution before you is a follow up from the march 2014 enducement resolution, which is this committee unanimously approved, that authorized the mayor's office, to apply to the debt limit committee, and that was approved by 2014, and the current resolution, for you is now approve the issuance of up to 25 million in the bonds for the development and the bills of the community, which is located at the corner of 6 and howard streets. and it will facilitate the development and will help the developer obtain the financing at 3.1 percent, the project will involve the new construction, of 9 story, 67 unit multifamily, 8 studios, 24, one bedroom and 25 two bedroom and ten, three bedroom units. >> the community will include, the ground floor courtyard, social services space and ground floor commercial space, and 52 will be affordable for houses making no more than 52 percent of the median income an

and so would i like to invite greg who is the project manager to come forward. >> absolutely. okay. >> with respect to 1168 we have been tracking that bill and it is the regional ground out project is designed to be consistent with the intent of that bill, as well as our project that was approved by the commission. and both the south water has the ground water management plan that was adopted. we are working to develop a plan and we kicked that earlier off this year. >> that has been approved by the state water board? >> no, the, the ground water management plans are approved by the local entity. but we would follow the state... >> the standards. >> yes. right. >> so part of the problem has been and i know that this may not impact us directly yet but perhaps it does incorrectly, but all of the pumping that has been going on in the central valley, and for obvious reasons and, for irrigation purposes. now we have a controversy dealing with some water agencies, santa clara for example, that has an underground aqua fer and may not have access to it and i want to be sure that whatev

to start off this presentation and she'll also be joined by courtney, the transbay assistant project manager. >> good afternoon. i'm elizabeth, development specialist and i'm here with those two requests today. i did want to mention that in the rezs there's a change. now back to the project. the project will be an affordable 85 unit family project and will include a child care facility and open space. this project is part of a larger master block development in the transbay redevelopment area. the transbay redevelopment project area was adopted in 2005 with the purpose of redeveloping 10 acres of property that were owned by the state of california to generate funding for the transbay power authority to construct the new transbay transit center and meet the affordable housing requirements. 8812 is an enforceable obligation that requires ocii a successor agency to the san francisco redevelopment to ensure that they're affordable to an occupied by very low, low and moderate fk households. the implementation agreement is an enforceable obligation that requires ocii to sell that state property to

manages its major construction projects. mr. speaker, it is no secret that v.a. has a poor track record in managing major medical facility projects. major construction projects are routinely completed years late and tens of millions of dollars overbudget. unfortunately the critically needed v.a. hospital being constructed in aurora, colorado, for instance, has run into major problems. as have a handful of others around the country. this legislation would direct the inclusion of an outside entity, the army corps of engineers, which has a record of on-time, on-budget completion of projects, to assist in the management of v.a.'s major facility construction efforts. no longer can veterans afford to wait years for needed facilities to open. this bill finally would move v.a. away from the status quo which clearly has not served veterans over the -- or the taxpayers well at all. and i would like to commend my colleague and friend, representative mike coffman, and applaud his leadership on this important issue. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro t

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but one big final shout out and thank you to our project manager, mary hobson who worked tirelessly to pull this off. [cheering and applauding] >> and, mary, you get your very own lafayette park sign. congratulations. (applause) >> all right. now it is time to cut the ribbon. if you are a kid, come on up. and if you are -- had a hand in this park, come on up and we're going to be right here behind the ribbon right here. and do we have our big scissors. electeds, join me. if you are a kid, come on up. and what i will do with the kids is together we will use the big scissors. why don't you guys come on in here. all right, hold on, we're not there yet. let's not do it yet. be careful. all children with scissors, please be careful. all right. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. yeah! ladies and gentlemen, lafayette park is officially open! >> yea! >> this coffee memory i remember having coffee with any grappled. in the old days myelogram ma get together >> i was six or seven i made a faces a good face. >> when i was younger i know it did something to my body. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i've been dri

the project manager says that could help it withstand another storm and the future. to be back on the ground, because it is frightening up there. >> rate story. >> thank you, i try once in a while. kidding. we haven't had anything like that recently in the last couple of days. >> the weekend has been hot and humid, labor day weekend is the unofficial end to summer and it feels more like mid july with these temperatures. up to 96 at reagan national. quieter, the storms are on the eastern shore of maryland. warm and muggy with 1.5 inches of rain. here is the progression of storms as they move back to about 5:30. all of the storms now east of chesapeake bay. temperatures beginning to quiet down. pickedat the rain gauge up at the congressional country club in bethesda. 1.5 inches. we are talking about spots earlier in montgomery that were without power. unfortunately, temperatures tomorrow will be in the 90's were a lot of people will want to find some relief from the heat. oh to the movies, go to the mall. springtures in silver more than 90 degrees. -- the humidity is u

shelby campbell project manager. my apologies for the typo in the resolution. it's actually for preconservices so that's the wrong day. >> that was the only issue? >> pardon me? >> that's the only issue? >> yes. >> moved as amended. >> second. >> all in favor? opposed? the motion carries to amend. now i need a motion on the main resolution. >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment. >> public comment on the amendment. >> public comment on the amendment. >> i would like to move the main resolution. >> which is? >> we just moved the amendment and now this is -- got it. moved. >> second. >> do i have public comment? all in favor? opposed? motion carries. okay. item 12. >> item 12 approve the warnerville substation project and authorize the general manager to release of $3,143,000 in funds on reserve with the board of supervisors. >> any questions on this? >> i thought ritchie had left. move to approve. >> second. >> additional comments? all those in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries. item 13. >> would you like public comment? >> oh public comment. seei

had a lot of the folks thank you both for working with me in a manner be that was the best project management team i've worked with. and jeff was a big support his project is 96 prts funding. we have a number of key individuals you'll hear from but let's talk about itself history the island itself in particular the name of the island it had a interesting name it was called wood island and even goat island if you can imagine that the gold rush days there were a bunch of goats on accident i'd like and that's why but it was chingz changed in june of 1981. that was the original name the connections to the past is important but the connection to the future is a lot more important and the other speakers will discuss that and i have the pleasure of introducing our first speaker who's the mc for the event chang is the transportation authority person she fester the local sales tax and they're the congressmen management agency for san francisco so, please well billy chang (clapping.) thank you very much i need to grow a couple of photo for this job. thank you for you're opening remarks you and our depu

and a project manager has been assigned to all of these. and then at the very back to address the add-back projects. those have been identified as district specific projects and city-wide projects that will be using add-back funding from supervisors. any questions of specific projects? >> is that the entiratioe presentation? >> this is just a summary of your packet. we could go through the specific projects. >> yes, i would like a status report on all 40, and where the project is, and the eight completed and the time line for the 16 others and the budget process. sorry i went through this in the introduction. >> okay, wasn't sure you wanted to go through every single one. >> yes. >> okay. the eight projects that is complete, we did curb extensions and lines at 6th and howard. that is district 6. i will start with the complete ones. >> that one came before we called the vision zero, i couldn't call that part of the 24. that was identified by the office and funded through the office budget and the mayor supplemented that. >> okay, i can discus

challenges and the requirement to coordinate with the internal and the state systems, strong project management, approach and technical capabilities and experiencing in the past lead and hers providing value, and suggestions in response to answer to the questions and proven track record in even stake holder involvement with the bay area. and since we will be using federal and regional grants to fund a portion of this contract, we are required to follow federal regulations around procurement and invoftment of disadvantaged business enterprises, for this contract we established a 12 percent, ed goal, all, net or exceeded this goal and the team, includes, 15 percent, db participation, and from 5 firms. asian pacific owned firms and include, william (inaudible) and association, and pacific inc, and yei engineers and the hispanic owned firm includes canter solutions and garcia and associates. this request if phase one of the scope of work which is estimated to cost, 250,000 dollars. is to begin our work on the engineering side in support of the finding efforts if the transportation authority satisfi

additional speakers (calling names) >> good afternoon commissioners my name is jennifer i'm the project manager at spur and here to support the mucus center first of all, that project we appreciate the economic significance of the tremendous importance of tourism in san francisco and ridicule the sites social and contacts the yerba buena sites is a community resource so the needs of the mucus center must be balanced. we evaluated the project according to land use and building design and economical effect we find the design commendable it will improve the realm 6th and it will improve the pedestrian environment by bringing facades of mucus north and south closer to howard street and it will be repalatium for pedestrians the third street ramps to the loading docks will-less on the impacts opening up morality space on howard we are intrigued by the children's garden and welcome the better for block and the emphasis and encouraged the project design team to select the right uses and visible he elements to make it better the way it is constructed and managed will help to keep it safe. we kurng the b

>>> project managers are pleased with the morning commute. are some buses behind me but can you see the cars that are flowing freely with no backup? that is our fremont side of the off-ramp and not impacted. it is open. here is a map. you can veer left and exit fremont although veering right is not an option. the full some side is closed. detour signs are up to help you and they shut it down last night and this is the first test drive. folsom side is actually not so heavy with traffic so not that many vehicles need a route the. >> we do not expect congestion. it is not a heavy use ramp. we would prefer they split. >> this protect has two goals: to make the intersection safer. they want to move the ramps to build housing. it will be this way until march so officials say you only need to add a couple of extra minutes to the morning drive. the exact is not that bad. do consider teaing -- taking harrison or veer to the left and take fremont. >>> the honest opened up a new front in the battle against isis launching airstrikes in syria. american fi

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. >> reporter: a mother of four and project manager at the association of molecular pathology said she did not believe the broken marriage defense as a reason they could not have conspired to enrich themselves with jonnie williams' money and gift. she says they may have had problems but could have conspired and did. what about bob mcdonnell "throwing his wife under the bus?" was that distasteful? >> as a mother, as a wife, i found it very disheartening to watch this, but it did not affect ultimately the decision. personally speaking i found it -- i don't think it was very noble. >> reporter: she also did not believe that the mcdonnells were financially sound. the jury put aside the tawdry details of the case, the broken marriage, the crush, the shopping spree. they focused on the evidence which led them to one conclusion, that the mcdonnells knew exactly what they were doing. you never found a smoking gun. >> i don't feel so, no. >> reporter: what did you find? >> a lot of evidence that just added up. >> reporter: she says the jurors knew as they made their decision the guilty verdicts

division, today i am here with (inaudible) and the maritime division and brad benson the special project manager who will present with me an overview of the planning efforts in the southern water front. which we are adjacent to today, and it will provide information on the existing plans and uses and proposed developments for the 80 and 96 area and this presentation is part of an ongoing conversation with the port commission is report advicely committee, and both times, to assess the opportunity for activity in the area. the existing plans, which are the , bay, conservation, and metropolitan and supporting the water use plan and the blue, green way and planning and designed guidelines, identifies the piers 80, as a maritime area. covers 190 acres and has (inaudible) it is located along the truck routes and has access. it has been involved in the mrabing and marketing and site condition study to determine the viable uses for the remaining land and under utilized areas. for pier 80 to 96. in october of 2008, port staff with the area stake holders, presented for the preferred uses for the under uti

i want to thank project manager michael who is one of the people we worked alcohols with in 2011 and, of course, tilly chang and her incredible staffs that partnered with cooperating with this. it was a complicated project. i know it was difficult for community members to come out but there are good times here and our office regularly conveniences from public safety including open the island so their input and feedback was integral so thank you all for being here today and thank you tilly for helping us to organize it (clapping.) thank you to really enable the community to get the project this community deserves. our theme is building our connections to the future would never have been possible without the transportation development authority we appreciate they're capable staff bob beck and michael additional jack. the transportation authority at it'd district attorney have partnered collaboratively to work together and i'm delighted to welcome ms. linda richardson i worked with president richard son in her capacity of the community land use and transportation commission i've known he

project area. specifically the request to approve a ground lease to respect the option i previously approved the ground lease it necessary for the fidel street with the rental housing unit and one manager unit for 50 percent medium income or ami the unit bedroom is 26 two bedroom units and one and two bedroom units also. the approval for that peeped project began with the approval of the sixth amendment in defenseless 2012 then in october 2013, the occ commission approved the schematic design and you approved the option to ground lease quickly you approved so the developer so apply for variances so they can apply for various funding for the development and the developer did secure both it's bond and tax credit requests and are preceding ready to proceed with the construction. quickly he wanted to show you the map how the development fits it is borrowed by kicking wood to the northeast and fidel to the southeast and it allows for sun and light elements for the outdoors common areas especially because families and children will be playing outside. the h p.s. development lp or lenore requires them to develop one hundred and 48 houfrz units with a maximum of 40 percent of the units are aff

project area. specifically the request to approve a ground lease to respect the option i previously approved the ground lease it necessary for the fidel street with the rental housing unit and one manager unit for 50 percent medium income or ami the unit bedroom is 26 two bedroom units and one and two bedroom units also. the approval for that peeped project began with the approval of the sixth amendment in defenseless 2012 then in october 2013, the occ commission approved the schematic design and you approved the option to ground lease quickly you approved so the developer so apply for variances so they can apply for various funding for the development and the developer did secure both it's bond and tax credit requests and are preceding ready to proceed with the construction. quickly he wanted to show you the map how the development fits it is borrowed by kicking

on our discretionary review a request for discretionary review we received a request from the project manager >> is there my comment on the consent calendar. >> this is the project sponsorth. >> hi thank you, commissioners for your time and thought today, i'm tracey the owner the property next door to the property in question we moved while mayor jordan was in office and gpr as suffering from hard times we needed to buy. >> i'm sorry to interpreter you we're discussing whether or not you're in favor of a continuance. >> i'm in favor of a continuance. >> there's no comment. >> oh, thank you. >> okay is there any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore >> this is a motion for continuance this is. >> for continuance yes. >> move to continue as noted. >> on that motion to continue item 13 indefinitely. >> commissioner antonini. >> also the 20th. >> commissioner antonini. commissioner hillis. commissioner johnson. commissioner moore. sxhishd. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes those items have bee

and secondly, although, we applaud the efforts of the executive director, and the project team to effectively manage the costs associated with phase one of this project, we remain concerned with the costs for two reasons. and first, based on the passed trend of higher than anticipated amounts for awarded bit packages to this point in the project and it reserve eand with that said, we are cautiously optimistic which you will hear later on today's recommended awards for the plumbing, hvac and fire sprinkler packages which came in, approximately, at ten million dollars under cg estimates in specifically, since these awards are 1.12 million under the estimates from the july, 2013, and why this is so important, is that these are the estimates which make-up the authorized 1.89, billion for the project. and we hope that the approach is used to achieve these gains can be replicated which evaluating and awarding the remaining bit package and in addition, not only to secure the bids, but to find the additional savings and this could help to offset the higher than antase participated award of the bit packages

definitely hope i'd like to have the board get an update on the problematic work maybe as item m the project manager has reached out to me but this is an important conversation it should come to the board and be on the radio but i'm wondering superintendent if you can tonight shed light to attract a more robust and better enrollment to the willie brown. >> thank you commissioner norton we do have a multi departmental team that meets regularly and working on a comprehensive plan at willie brown we can have a date of a vesting but it relates specifically to attracting students to willie brown we're discussing a number of initiatives one of the initiatives we're talking about has a suggestion to the board members can we incentivize students with willie brown with perhaps priority to high schools in the city. so we're exploring that particular idea as well and, of course, we want to make sure when we bring a recommendation to the board we've considered all the legal and procedural issues involved with that. we're also looking at in terms of our outreach having a multi lingual outreach plan that is very

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. >> we checked in with the project manager what was monitoring traffic closely. before the sun came up, the report was good. >> right now it looks normal if not possibly lighter. >> later, the picture was still positive. >> so far, everything looks better than we could have hoped. there are in backups on the ramp, nothing out of the or. everything is great. >> not that many people use this off-ramp. 10 percent of the total ramp traffic from the bridge uses this. the other 90 percent already use the fremont lane. >> the hope is those who used folsom leg will split, some take fremont and others take the harrison off-ramp which looks fine. it could be because commuters planned accordingly. those who for got, they had an easy morning. >> we did not leave early. i didn't know what to expect but it was fine. fine. >> are you on time? >> i am. >> the plan is to make this plot of land larger, sell it to a developer so they can will housing here and use the money to pay for the trans pay project and they will making the intersection more pedestrian friendly and friendlier

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. >> hi, i'm brit tanner, project manager at sf mta. municipal transportation agency i want to focus on the transit stops and the loading changes that are part of better market street project. first talking about the transit stops we are looking at changing many if not all of the locations of the transit stops, many, not all of the transit stops on market streets. when we are looking at changing the locations for various reasons we want to change the transit times and reliability and run our buses faster and reduce conflict with bicycles and reduce the amount of times and stops at red lights. this is another key feature. we want to introduce rapid service on market street by introducing rapid stops throughout the city on market while maintaining local access and as -- simon mentioned we would be improving accessibility at all our stops. i will talk about the rapid works on market. we change the way the lanes work on mark. we have a mish mash. all routes are limited. this is the 5l, 9l and 78l, the tracks are on the center lane and they h

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. >> good afternoon, commissioners director bohe i'm the assistant project manager here to talk about the phase two at hunters point shipyard candle stick ambassador before i jump in i want to give you a brief overview like the director mentioned the phasing has changed the transfer to the navy lands at the hunters point shipyard has been detailed i'm sure you're aware of the 49ers left candle stick park they were going to be here until 2023 so the stadium has been accelerated to make sure the project 34068d move forward and the transfer must be adjusted to allow ocii to transfer the entire stadium site to lenore i want to stress throughout this presentation the proposed changes are a different way of achieving the same outcome. so the project site to give you complexity e context, you know, is comprised of two landmasses that are hunters point shipyard and candle stick point i've identified in the lower left the stadium site the focus of today's discussion alice griffith is north of that and the navy land hunters point shipyard to the north of that. so also some phrases i'm going to

division manage and her a general superintendent for mechanical here in san francisco and i worked in the plumbing hav for san francisco for 20 years and have been involved in the transbay project since 2012, since it was awarded in this room, personally managed and supervised, and currently doing the plumbing below the grade, plumbing for the condition instruction. and today, the mechanical, has succeeded in not only managing our scope budget, but in the face of adversity and we met all project deadlines and milestones and we have built a strong working relationship. and now, as it results to sblbe has exceeded the goal of 40 percent and maintains 50 percent of lbe participation, and with the local hires of over 40 percent, and we continue this for seeing these goals in the plumbing and hvac bids as well. and mechanical has facilitated the installation of the (inaudible) and scopes from the treasure island, facility here in san francisco and the staff with the locally based employees, both in the office and the sthop and in the field. as you are aware, (inaudible) has protested the bids on multiple points and we have received the written evaluation, although, the mechanical do