he actually is and as are a tenant. i know that victor nelson may be qualified, but i think that he probably -- he has probably a lot of things on his plate already. so i would go half and half, to be fair. i would say half for victor and half for charles, but more emphasis on charles because the think charles brings more of what we need in an sro tenant there. chairperson kim: thank you, mr. nulty. >> hello. my name is nan. i still live in a shelter. lj has rescued me from being thrown out in the seat -- the street, so i am for lj. i actually know mr. pitts and was very impressed by the top for the third candidate. you guys are going to have a tough decision to make. but lj brings a unique enthusiasm and real good perspective to this, so i hope you choose her. chairperson kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john nulty, and i am here to request that you appoint charles pitts, because i have seen him at community meetings going back a number of years. he is been actively involved with the community

i also want to thank the tenant and tenant advocates who are here. you have certainly made us consider all of the issues that are at hand. as you know, i am actually the one tenet sitting on the committee today. i have listened to you and have considered your concerns deeply. this is why we included the many protections for tenants that were laid out in this agreement. i am not going to reiterate all of the provisions that were already reiterated in the discussion over parkmerced, repeated today, but suffice it to say, with regard to costa hawkins, there is an explicit exemption that we are complying to. under the ellis act, currently, tenants do not have protection under the spirit we have tried to ensure is that tenants have more protections under this development agreement that they currently have. from my perspective, -- and i can understand the concern that have been raised -- but i believe the city has made very significant steps to respond to that. that being said, my guess is it is probably no surprise that i do not agree with the findings ar

and then changes for the protection of tenants. the planning department and my department worked with stakeholders and solicited input of many. everyone involved was most concerned about the tenant relocation provisions and the rent-control provisions and numerous clarifications and revisions were made between the time the draft was reviewed by the grand jury and the date of the report, as well as the grandeur report but before supervisor approval. this is one of the more important point. the grand jury, by the nature of its existence, the work it does, really takes a snapshot. they were provided with a draft of the d.a. which significant change over time, and many of the changes were addressed subsequent to the report being issued. item that margin in the d.a. not included in the draft include requirement that each tenant lease the rent control protections creating a direct contractual connection between each owner. it includes provisions that each tenant be given the express right to enforce the rent control provision directly ag

a little less known, i consult privately with tenants through hotels, with tenants that are reticent to come forward and deal with the more traditional apparatus. i believe beyond this experience my contribution includes empathy, compassion, and respect. if seated, my goals will be to -- one of my major goals is empowerment programs to the hotel community. that would look like something designed for technical know-how and self-sufficiency for the tenants, creating a safe environment for women and seniors with in the hotels, and better relations coordinating with the sf pd. i am also in dialogue with the assistant public defender's office, with talks with them. thank you very much for your time and the community for hearing me. chairperson kim: thank you, mr. nelson. next, we have lj cirilo. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for hearing as today. i know it has been a long day. i would like to submit this letter of reference. my name is lj cirilo. i am currently the chair of the shelter monitoring committee. i worked as a homeless advocate in the community, representing clients

insightful about the issue of the rights of tenants and the concerns of the tenants then -- what is remarkable about him is the very quiet and yet the very affective way in which he advocated. his loss is a huge loss for tenants in san francisco. also tenants in immigrant communities have lost one of the most effective advocates they have ever had. this is a tragic loss and i just want to say that he was a really remarkable individual and he will be dearly missed by the entire san francisco community. i would like to join supervisor mar's comments. this is a very important institution. they have played a very important role not only with respect to education and also informing the entire city and county of san francisco on so many different issues. >> thank you, supervisors. >> i would like to echo the comments that were made about -- he is someone who helped to educate me and i think many of us on tenants issues and really helped to insure that the san franciscans who are being threatened can continue to live here. >> i was going to make this a request. i think that you said it quite eloquent

and we start having tenants moving in in january. and we would bring people and with the understanding that we're going to do work around folks. and will have the time line, and improvements that will take place. the other option is that you do the construction and wait a couple years which seems like not a great approach. the question about the budget has been raised and where we are now is really a working with the architects in getting a sense for what the budget is going to cost. we are in close conversations, and we know there is the money coming into the southeast center for the last several years. they hope to have its seven in. we can continue to engage in the southeast facilities commission. we have hundreds of meetings and that is why we have done about reach. we really do see the southeast commission of something. we have been there, it is the first bullet. we want to move as quickly as possible. we have been focused very much on the inside, stakeholders around the outside space. they complete the structure and design impr

the previous tenants put a clear coat on that to take the graffiti off and since debbie has been my tenant the last seven or eight months, no graffiti. the tenants upstairs which i believe one is here routinely about once every couple months or so gets a complaint about the noise. since debbie has been here, not one. not one. several violations i get from the city saying my tenant hasn't brought in the garbage cans or keeping a clean sidewalk. since debbie has been there, not one. insurance, you know you have to keep proper business insurance. i get notified that, it's a breach of lease if they don't do that. how many times have i got than with debbie? not once. as far as business operation that she runs, i can assure you because i go by my building three or four times each week at least, the place is spotless, spotless. she runs it very professional, very exemplary business. overall of that, my brother and i are both born and raised in san francisco, we're both raising our families here. this comes down to me a point of you want to be with people who contribute to our society and to our c

should take when it comes to protecting the rights of tenants. well perhaps some of us on the board and city government may be willing to take risks, at the end of the day when it comes to taking the risk, i will listen to the people off who ultimately have to live with the consequences of that risk, and i would ask the city attorney's office whether or not there is a reasonable argument that the protections that were included in this development agreement are not enforceable. could someone make a reasonable argument of that? >> charles sullivan, city attorney's office. as you know, i have given extensive testimony in the board -- to the board on open in closed session on this issue. part of the difficulty results from the fact that we relied on two exemptions. the first one was the exemption under the state's 10-city bonus. there is no case law on that, and that is part of what we were advising you. there is a lot of reasons why we believe we fit within that exemption. there is the second exemption that came up later that we discussed, at that w

i mean the tenants and landlords. basically we are the only ones that are going to be living there are as of tomorrow, and it is not our rental unit any more, so i guess it is a different situation, so we would like that permit that has expired retak-- our recourse is to revo, and we can move forward with the additional permit. is that clear? >> it is for a clear. -- it is very clear. when you purchase a house, you purchase it with the assumption it was a single family dwelling? >> it said on known -- unknown. >> it seems to state it was a one-family dwelling. >> but was of dated a few months ago, because i did some research, -- it was updated a few months ago, because i did some research, and they determined it was a single family dwelling instead of on k unknown. >> when you purchase it, it said unknown? so they have done a defacto merger. we will work that out. >> the permits they polled to make it legal to units, none of the work was done. >> thank you. >> good evening superior del -- good evening. i would like to

the next slide lists who the existing tenants and programs are., city college, human services agency, head start program. renaissance for success. hunters point project area committ committee. we have southeast community facilities staff as well as greenhouses. as a little piece of information all of the tenants are on a month-to-month lease and that has been the situation for a while as this has been under way with regard to thinking of the pobts possibilities for the space. people ask how much space is being lease bid whom. the tphebnext slide provides information on that. you see the first pie chart it shows city college leases 89% from the p.u. krfpc. head start baby pack are the rest. city college leases almost 30% to h.s.a. and 2% to renaissance. the greenhouses next door that were part of the original agreement represent almost three acres of space. this slide describes the conversations and dialogues we have been in since december with city college. for the southeast commissioners you will remember you had city college give an update to yo

access is obtained by the neighboring tenant and left on the appellate's roof. we voiced concern in january of 2007, but nothing has been done to alleviate this issue. it is our relief that it is a and violation of the building code and code of regulations. that specifies that openings in exterior walls have to comply which indicates that an alteration of an exting window on another property line which is clearly what we have here what violate the california code of regulations that require the alterations chow comply with the requirements of the code of new construction. you could not have a window there. it is of great concern. because the exists with less than 3 feet of fire separation, we ask that the term that should not have been issued or abated, and certainly not retroactively, finally, we implore the the board exercise the authority to inspect the property in order to perceive the scope of non-permanent alterations. where comprehensive -- confident that the modifications will confirm that dramatic changes have occurred over the past several years and we

i think only one of our master tenants has officially signed up, and two major tenants are looking at it. the plan is the same as everyone else's, which is in the event of an event, earthquake or something else, that renders a facility closed, then we have to go one by one out to inspect each individual facility. we have sought federal funding to allow us to get an engineer to create a plan for us so we could quickly resume at some of our key piers. we will not be able to do all of those with this funding. maybe you want to elaborate? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am the senior civil engineer. at this moment, so far we only have two facilities that are part of this program. one is the ferry building, only the building apart, but not the substructure, and the second facility that we were able to bring into this program was general 7 abc station, which is on the sea wall side. what we have right now is we have provided all the port facilities into three categories. we call category one at a high priority facilities, which is pier 1. >> need to articulate that is? >> department dea

>> we may not lose existing tenants, but new tenants, it gives us better ability to negotiate. what you are delegating, really, it is this range, the bottom and the suggested top. we always try to get as much as we can. i know commissioner lazarus had this exact question last year, and we were able to get the as nchor tennant at pier 9 because we reduced the rate. so it does make a difference. >> in terms of when we look at the categories, you have class b fees, i am not sure how relevant, but given the location of this, location, location, location and real-estate, the fact that the building may be a certain class, but the other factors in terms of the view and others being considered. i guess when we talk to prospective tenants in terms of their alternatives, i would think somewhere house, at it is not as easy in the south bay. if you need warehouse space, you need it warehouse space, at a premium. all i am asking is hopefully to maximize what we can do in terms of office space. i know you are thinking of that as well. given the market is beginning to stabilize, whether we th

office depot is an existing tenant and property. that becomes available as a result of the downsizing of office depot. we're looking for flexibility to expand them. this represents the second floor of the proposed target promises. this is basically 100% of the former good guys space and the mervyn's space that was located on the second floor. this is the layout. there will be utilizing this loading facilities are -- that are on site. the show's a general section or a few of -- this shows a general section oor view. this shows the area where target is proposed occupied. they will be on two levels. the first and the second floor. their location on the first floor is based on taking the former mervyn's space. the dotted area is not included for the expansion of office depot. the final slide shows the same sections and dotted areas where the proposed target tendency will be. this shows, this is the same allegations which shows some of the proposed renovations that we're looking to do is part of a upgrading the property and freshening it

and if it happened again, the tenant's guest privileges would be suspended. this is part of our house rules. our house rules also cover acceptable behavior in common spaces and in the building. the fact that rent needs to be paid when it's due. it talks about noise, quiet hours, etc. it's an addendum to hour lease and legally enforceable in a court of law. we will have a resident manager, who will be living there, who might have a day job, but will be living there, available for backup support for the lobby services staff that are there. in addition to that, community housing partnership has an extensive on-call, 24-hour-seven response system, everything from maintenance to senior staff, all the way up to myself as the executive director to respond if there's a crisis or an emergency, like an earthquake. to issue the staffing question and the security question, there's also during the day a building manager who will do rent collection, maintenance and coordinate with the services team on any issues they deem puts housing at risk. do you want me to answer the

perhaps there are items there veto about that needs to be done, otherwise there are other tenants? >> you would run into a lot of work if the violation is there. some of it would be ok if what i know this is quite a lot of violations that would not be covered under this from the foot that is not a solution. >> that way we can clean this up. >> that does not affect this plumbing permits. i think we would like to go ahead with the bathroom remodels, which is final, and then the logical permits which are fine, and then take all of the notices of violation of this permit. >> when you are going through line by line, can you add something about the lead paint abatement? >> i would like to contact our housing inspections. we want to make sure that the contractor does comply. >> is very motion? >> i want to be perfectly clear. >> there are probably appropriate portions that we don't want to delay for a different tenant. if we continue this, would that delayed the ability to do that work? >> yes, we can finish the remodel on the bathroom. >> what problems do we present to you if we uphold t

>> when i talked to the tenant, i told him what they needed to do. i suggested that as a resolution and that is what we agreed to do. >> it doesn't seem odd that a woman would not accept that? does that strike you as strange she felt that way? >> i understand that in the work we're doing is a huge inconvenience. but it is work that needs to be

>> when i talked to the tenant, i told him what they needed to do. i suggested that as a resolution and that is what we agreed to do. >> it doesn't seem odd that a woman would not accept that? does that strike you as strange she felt that way? >> i understand that in the work we're doing is a huge inconvenience. but it is work that needs to be done. in addition to that, i had been given reports that she has keys to at least one other unit that she is regularly seen going in and out of. i have reason to believe that she does have access to shower and bath facilities in the building. could i prove that, probably not? commissioner garcia: what does the code provide for? what does it require you to do in that situation? >>-only know that it requires us to give them notice of what we are doing. >> for instance, when there will be a major innovation -- renovation, there has to be fees paid. in addition to the rest that they will have to pay has to be met, all of that is new to you? >> that is when there is a long- term -- i can assure you that has suggeste