at 49 south van ness. so the numbers that you referred to just now, commissioner nakajo, have to do with operational permits. they're broken-down to annual permits -- like a place of assembly, gas station, it could be a cleaners, and then, there are temporary permits, or one-time use permits. operational permits are down significantly, and the main reason for that is the bulk of our permits are associated with public assembly, and given the covid and restrictions we've had over the last year, that has really limited those type of permits. i don't know if that answers your question. i can speak more to the construction permit, but the biggest hit has been to the operational permit. >> commissioner nakajo: you answered my question. [inaudible] >> commissioner nakajo: my general question was to general permits or construction permits or operational permits that you're having. one more question, is that on page 30, there's a section that has to do with permits annual inspection on the port, and i know we do in

station 1, here at headquarters, down in the basement, pump station 2, we foot of the van ness, which can pump 10,000 gallons per minute. we have 135 miles of pipe. 1600 high pressure hydrants. 229 cisterns. and five manifolds for our fire boat. so, the original a.w.s.s. or auxiliary water supply system, you'll hear interchangeable terms. a.w.s.s. and there is also e.f.w.s., the emergency fire-fighting water system. which is a all of them together. it was transferred to the puc and they conducted an initial assessment and found that only 40% of san francisco had the reliable enough water supply to fight fire generated after a 7.8 earthquake. if you could see on the map, i'm not sure if it's big enough. but the light blue areas in the western and southern neighborhoods, they had the lowest scores, meaning they're not served by the a.w.s.s. system out there and they serve coverage in these neighborhoods. this is when bonds used to be issued to improve and strengthen our system. there is also research demonstrating the vulnerabilities of urban areas to fire following earthquake. the grea

, there's a line in van ness where you can build up to 130' i guess.s to bear 65'. some planner has issued different maps, totally different with i.m.a.s it took me a year to get this after i was informed that a building that was was allowing the building at the corner of a huge site, by the way, a historic neighborhood commercial district at the corner of california and all these high-rises are suddenly going up between van ness and polk street. proposed for official designation promoted by a group called lower polk neighbors. before we get into the corruption of two groups, the other having defeated my friends in knob hill association and robert barney and robert passmore and so forth -- >> clerk: thank you, ms. chapman. apologies to any speakers this afternoon. we are setting the timer for two minutes. okay. so we have six listeners. excuse me, we have seven listeners and six members of the public in the queue. let's hear from the next speaker, please. welcome, caller. >> blessings everyone. my name is dominique howling. i work at community united a

portion of van ness is on time and budget. the underground portions of van ness, utility relocation work is where our troubles lie. mostly came into play because we didn't know what exactly was underneath a street over 100 years old. what we find in our internal audits there is a scale of project we are among the best at in the country. that for our larger projects there are key lessons learned that we are incorporating to make sure we don't make those mistakes again. we look at our procurement processes full of flaws including having a select low cost rather than high value vendors. we are looking at project planning procedures which in the case of central subway were not led with maintenance thinking. the federal subway project there were project management flaws well before the project construction started that burdened the project construction itself. it had 4% contingency. for a major underground project where we didn't know what soil we were going to hit and a station that is most complex ever built in the western united

, there's a line in van ness where you can build up to 130' i guess. everything needs to bear 65'. some planner has issued different maps, totally different with i.m.a.s it took me a year to get this after i was informed that a building that was was allowing the building at the corner of a huge site, by the way, a historic neighborhood commercial district at the corner of california and all these high-rises are suddenly going up between van ness and polk street. proposed for official designation promoted by a group called lower polk neighbors. before we get into the corruption of two groups, the other having defeated my friends in knob hill association and robert barney and robert passmore and so forth -- >> clerk: thank you, ms. chapman. apologies to any speakers this afternoon. we are setting the timer for two minutes. okay. so we have six listeners. excuse me, we have seven listeners and six members of the public in the queue. let's hear from the next speaker, please. welcome, caller. >> blessings everyone. my name is dominique howling. i work at co

portion of van ness is on time and budget. the underground portions of van ness, utility relocation work is where our troubles lie. mostly came into play because we didn't know what exactly was underneath a street over 100 years old. what we find in our internal audits there is a scale of project we are among the best at in the country. that for our larger projects there are key lessons learned that we are incorporating to make sure we don't make those mistakes again. we look at our procurement processes full of flaws including having a select low cost rather than high value vendors. we are looking at project planning procedures which in the case of central subway were not led with maintenance thinking. the federal subway project there were project management flaws well before the project construction started that burdened the project construction itself. it had 4% contingency. for a major underground project where we didn't know what soil we were going to hit and a station that is most complex ever built in the western united

station 1, here at headquarters, down in the basement, pump station 2, we foot of the van ness, which can pump 10,000 gallons per minute. we have 135 miles of pipe. 1600 high pressure hydrants. 229 cisterns. and five manifolds for our fire boat. so, the original a.w.s.s. or auxiliary water supply system, you'll hear interchangeable terms. a.w.s.s. and there is also e.f.w.s., the emergency fire-fighting water system. which is a all of them together. it was transferred to the puc and they conducted an initial assessment and found that only 40% of san francisco had the reliable enough water supply to fight fire generated after a 7.8 earthquake. if you could see on the map, i'm not sure if it's big enough. but the light blue areas in the western and southern neighborhoods, they had the lowest scores, meaning they're not served by the a.w.s.s. system out there and they serve coverage in these neighborhoods. this is when bonds used to be issued to improve and strengthen our system. there is also research demonstrating the vulnerabilities of urban areas to fire following earthquake. the grea

the city opened up 49 south van ness. including 30 van ness and 650 mission. some of our -- one of our buildings on mission street. we completed phase two. they're moving in to 350 rhode island and we're continuing to make progress and emptying the hall of justice. animal care and control recently opened a brand new finally, very quickly, we opened up another navigation center and expanded the navigation center. we're working right now on the seismic retrofit of the health center. we are doing work with homeless was put in place and developed we're maintaining a street block. we've planted 2,000 trees and some of our we've been replacing water mains and we've completed the dam project. but we've opened two stations systems and we're close to finalizing work at the park and ingleside police stations. education and parks and cultural centers. a lot of this renovation at 11 parks. for instance, francisco reservoir and shoreview. we've done a lot of work at the library in the lower level. we did work around our cultural centers. so we added hvac in many visions an

i also want to give you some news on the center at 49 south van ness. expansion of in person services. today was a soft launch of expansion of services. monday, may 10th is the official launch of expanding over-the-counter permitting. this is the first step to getting the permit center back up and running. customers still need to make appointments and will continue with the other agencies, pbi, to handle the volume of permits. they will be able to walk them in rather than dropping them off with the goal of getting same day approval which isn't feasible with dropping off the permits. over the next couple months we will phase out the need for appointments all together. we have been mindful of customer safety. they are updated the safety plan which is approved by dh r&d ph. i want to give thanks to our staff for their continued flexibility throughout this entire year as we adapted our services in response to the pandemic. that is my report. thank you. >> commissioner moore. >> thank you for that report. i would like to tag on a quick question. any possibil

the city opened up 49 south van ness. including 30 van ness and 650 mission. some of our -- one of our buildings on mission street. we completed phase two. they're moving in to 350 rhode island and we're continuing to make progress and emptying the hall of justice. animal care and control recently opened a brand new finally, very quickly, we opened up another navigation center and expanded the navigation center. we're working right now on the seismic retrofit of the health center. we are doing work with homeless was put in place and developed we're maintaining a street block. we've planted 2,000 trees and some of our we've been replacing water mains and we've completed the dam project. but we've opened two stations systems and we're close to finalizing work at the park and ingleside police stations. education and parks and cultural centers. a lot of this renovation at 11 parks. for instance, francisco reservoir and shoreview. we've done a lot of work at the library in the lower level. we did work around our cultural centers. so we added hvac in many visions an

. >> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. uth vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. >> the city of san jose and i'm honored to be joined by friends and colleagues as part of

other significance, there was a may 6th, at the 2300 block of van ness there was a aggravated assault robbery of an elder abuse and subject came to the store with an empty bag and loaded the bag with bottles of wine and stole alcohol spirits. the victim con fronted the subject stating him to leave the store and leave the bottles of alcohol. the subject refused and swung it striking him in the right arm. the subject left the store with the stolen bottles. stunt driving. there were no stunt driving events to report as of may 9th. major events and updates, community outreach, community liaison unit has assisted in 90 cases year to date and these involve home invasions and homicides, traffic collisions, related deaths, assaults, elder abuse, robberies, burglar he's,d hate crimes. they have nine case this is month and six cases involving asian americans and the outreach efforts are the wilderness program has hiking plans on thursday may 13th and community walk that the police department is invited to on this friday, may 14th between 2:30 and 4:30 and the units will attend. no major events.

you're going to do is to shift the cars to other streets i don't drive lombard from presidio to van nessand i go down chestnut because it's already backed up and it will be backed up more. so you're going to put more cars on chestnut and green and on 4th 14th avenue. so you're going to spread it out and to make it more difficult for the richmond district residents. and maybe you should shorten the hours. why don't you have it on the weekend? there's probably more families driving on the weekend. i don't understand why -- i would try it first on the weekends when you know that there's more families there. you know, this program was -- you know, wasn't what advertised and there was no community meetings in the richmond district. i don't know why -- >> 30 seconds. >> caller: i don't know why they didn't reach out to the richmond district with this. thank you very much. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker, please. >> you have eight questions remaining. >> chair borden: next speaker. next speaker. moderator, maybe move to the next line and that person can try again. >> you have seven que

it happened on the northwest corner of 16th street and south van ness.he 2 were inside a wooden box. they were using as a home along with the reward. police are releasing this sketch a person of interest. they say anybody with information is being asked to call san francisco police. >> the oakland police department along with the anti police terror project work together to de escalate. a potentially dangerous situation that happened earlier this week on east 25th street in oakland, officers were responding to a reported car crash when they say they discovered a man with a gun in his lap and a vehicle when the department's tactical negotiator couldn't talk to the man a community member alerted oakland activists, cat brooks and the anti police terror project about the situation brooks arrived on the scene and offer this option to the officers. >> let's get somebody he knows, right. they can help navigate that situation. community got the mom, their son, his mom and sister shut up. i was able to talk to not like they're going to kill him. and i think that t

station 1, here at headquarters, down in the basement, pump station 2, we foot of the van ness, which can pump 10,000 gallons per minute. we have 135 miles of pipe. 1600 high pressure hydrants. 229 cisterns. and five manifolds for our fire boat. so, the original a.w.s.s. or auxiliary water supply system, you'll hear interchangeable terms. a.w.s.s. and there is also e.f.w.s., the emergency fire-fighting water system. which is a all of them together. it was transferred to the puc and they conducted an initial assessment and found that only 40% of san francisco had the reliable enough water supply to fight fire generated after a 7.8 earthquake. if you could see on the map, i'm not sure if it's big enough. but the light blue areas in the western and southern neighborhoods, they had the lowest scores, meaning they're not served by the a.w.s.s. system out there and they serve coverage in these neighborhoods. this is when bonds used to be issued to improve and strengthen our system. there is also research demonstrating the vulnerabilities of urban areas to fire following earthquake. the grea

. ♪♪♪ >> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. ns from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. >> you know i've always wanted to do this job that drives my parents crazy we want to help people i was

they were shot and killed in december of 2016 on the northwest corner of 16th street and south van ness. the 2 of them have been in a wooden box that they were using as a shelter home along with the reward. police also released this sketch of a person of interest. they say anyone with information is being asked to call police a standoff between police and an armed man came to a peaceful resolution today and the officers accepted help from an unlikely source to make it happen. kron four's haaziq madyun has that story. >> that down the block. the hope is is because a few neighbors are the cops know the neighbors are watching. >> it was first reported to opd has a vehicle collision around 10:45am tuesday on east 25th street. however, it turned out to be something potentially more dangerous oakland police chief leronne armstrong officers responded to the scene and must responded to the scene. >> they i have observed a fire in the lap of the individual chief. i'm john says officers followed protocol retreating to a safe distance. it created time and space between themselves and the man with

were shot and killed back on december 16th of 2016 on the northwest corner of 16th street and south van ness avenue. the 2 were inside of a wooden box that they were using as their home along with the reward. police also released this sketch of the person of interest, anybody with information should call san francisco police. >> new at 9. we now know what caused a church in concord to catch fire contra. costa county officials say that it was caused by someone believed to be staying underneath the church, but they cannot determine whether or not the fire was intentionally set the fire sparked yesterday at christ community church of the nazarene on ashbury drive near clayton road and galindo street. firefighters say the fire caused the to building the 2 story building, rather to collapse. the church pastor writing on facebook to thank the firefighters who responded to the blaze and the other community members who have offered to help out. >> now to big story this afternoon, governor gavin newsome says new mask mandates are coming soon for fully-vaccinated, california. yeah. just yesterday the

. >> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. women's networ sustainable future . n's networ >> san francisco streets and puffs make

. >> san francisco's famed house of prime rib on van ness avenue in the city will shut down for 24 hours starting tomorrow owner joe betz is inviting the health department stop by for an inspection after there were concerns over food safety and some people reported becoming sick that says he made the decision to invite health inspectors on his own because he wants the public to see just how that restaurant operates. >> kron 4 has a special section on our website just for coronavirus resources. you can use your phone camera to scan the code there on the screen. it takes you directly to our web page and resources include how to get yourself or your children vaccinated also the latest pandemic news, a step outside. see how things are looking at the golden gate bridge you know, getting close to someone. there's fog. and catherine, i don't really see any fog out there. no, not really. but it but you'd arc little. that's part of it. but cooling down, lawrence yeah. and there is cloud for the kids right to fog is when the clouds actually touch the grounds for stratus. that's coming on shore. bu

. >> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. test test ss avenue. test >> 2021 to order. this meeting is being conducted pursuant to

. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're plantin

of blatant destruction to thirds occupied by debris was captioned here real estate is booming on van ness avenue a signpost lurking amid the rebel underlines this caption it suggests that the destroyed terrain could be easily advertised for sale. so connecting the the wasteland here with real estate the maker sarcastically adopted the the booster rhetoric in using this cartoonish tone the album's voice becomes increasingly political the author draws attention here to common practices at the time because thanks to facilitated burning building permits investors could rapidly occupy the land although decides had not been cleared and futurists risks had not been properly investigated. the album compiler demonstrates a familiarity with comic images that were disseminated after the disaster in the shape of postcards and articles so images like this one for example marked the newly entre entrepreneurial spirit or stride of san francisco, which was hard keep up with. although the profession of the compiler is unknown. they must have felt the imminent imminent threat housing in the city. many busi

and are to get -- and so he and i are to get together to go over the entire area between polk and van ness. somebody has issued false maps in the case of that california and polk street project that was up just before you. i'm going to have to ask your indulgence and come in a few times to ask to set the record straight because my area has been turned into a development area. i know you are public servants, and you do a tremendous job of studying these things up, but when false information is presented to you, and presented by false groups pretending to represent the neighborhood, groups like lower polk currently, it does the most tremendous job of defeating the people who actually are affected, such as the neighbors, for example, in the case of the grub stake site or such as robert varney, who was leading that 900 members of the nob hill association at the time they were fighting the masonic, and up pops this group calling itself the nob hill coalition that defeated robert varney and the 900 members of the nob hill association. so i'm going to be bringing up these associations that deserv

were shot and killed back on december 16th 2016 on the northwest corner of 16th street and south van nessenue. they were inside of a wooden box that they were using as their home at the time of their death. police have released this sketch of a person of interest if you recognize this person and you have some information you should contact the san francisco police. contra, costa county officials say a church fire in concord was caused by someone believed to be living underneath the building. they're still trying to determine if it was intentionally started the fire sparked thursday at the christ community church of the nazarene on ashbury drive. firefighters say the fire caused the 2 story building to collapse. the church's pastor took to facebook to thank the responding fire crews and community members offering to help. the oakland police department along with the anti-police terror project worked together to de escalate a potentially dangerous situation that happened earlier this week on east 25th street in oakland, officers were responding to a reported car crash when they discovered a

station 1, here at headquarters, down in the basement, pump station 2, we foot of the van ness, whichump 10,000 gallons per minute. we have 135 miles of pipe. 1600 high pressure hydrants. 229 cisterns. and five manifolds for our fire boat. so, the original a.w.s.s. or auxiliary water supply system, you'll hear interchangeable terms. a.w.s.s. and there is also e.f.w.s., the emergency fire-fighting water system. which is a all of them together. it was transferred to the puc and they conducted an initial assessment and found that only 40% of san francisco had the reliable enough water supply to fight fire generated after a 7.8 earthquake. if you could see on the map, i'm not sure if it's big enough. but the light blue areas in the western and southern neighborhoods, they had the lowest scores, meaning they're not served by the a.w.s.s. system out there and they serve coverage in these neighborhoods. this is when bonds used to be issued to improve and strengthen our system. there is also research demonstrating the vulnerabilities of urban areas to fire following earthquake. the greatest i

stuff and that material supposed to be available to the public to review at the office on south van ness under sunshine ordinance section 65.9 and 67.23. since that's not available for the moment and it's unclear when that will be available -- because it's a good idea i ask you to find way to at least create a correspondence log that's available as part of the meeting materials and hopefully, attach or link all correspondence received redacted as appropriate. so the public has access to the same materials that you have access to. right now we have a totally unleveled playing field. you're getting all kinds of comments that other members of the public can't see. you can ask staff to find a way to fix that. please do. i think everyone would benefit. thank you very much. >> chair borden: next speaker please. >> caller: hi. i like to respond to the gentleman about slow streets. it's easy to say it's easy to drop in slow street to see how people like it. it is entirely different one to live on one of the streets. i would encourage the board to talk with the residents who live on the street th

tumlin, this person was suggesting as a four-lane to three-lane on van ness besides these speed limit settings. staff is already in alignment, but i would just strongly endorse to use the tools that we have in these shared spaces. thank you. >> thank you, director eakin. director lai? >> i agree with director tumlin that this effectively is an investment by m.t.a. to our community. not just the business community but for our urban community, and i acknowledge and definitely respect how conscientious director heminger is with our fiscal situation, but from my personal perspective, you know, $10 million a year is kind of a drop in the bucket to the m.t.a. budget. to me, it's so worthwhile to make that contribution especially for the current theory, much needed economic life and cultural life that the city needs. i do have to point out a couple of concerns that i do have. nothing that would hinder moving this forward today, the legislative piece, but for the draft policy for staff and my colleagues to consider, well, first, i'm very glad to hear that we as a city have had a chance to exp

tumlin, this person was suggesting as a four-lane to three-lane on van ness besides these speed limit settings. staff is already in alignment, but i would just strongly endorse to use the tools that we have in these shared spaces. thank you. >> thank you, director eakin. director lai? >> i agree with director tumlin that this effectively is an investment by m.t.a. to our community. not just the business community but for our urban community, and i acknowledge and definitely respect how conscientious director heminger is with our fiscal situation, but from my personal perspective, you know, $10 million a year is kind of a drop in the bucket to the m.t.a. budget. to me, it's so worthwhile to make that contribution especially for the current theory, much needed economic life and cultural life that the city needs. i do have to point out a couple of concerns that i do have. nothing that would hinder moving this forward today, the legislative piece, but for the draft policy for staff and my colleagues to consider, well, first, i'm very glad to hear that we as a city have had a chance to exp

. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're plantin

. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're plantin

these last couple of years, we did have a lot of emphasis on van ness for example, because all the transit system and basically everybody was coming together on that. that took a big lift. thankfully we're out of that. those necessarily our highest priority but because of the construction project, it did become our highest priority. we had to back off on some other may replacements. we are constantly looking at different ways to protect main breaks. i noted that we are doing one pilot program where we have about 200 sensors in one area trying to give us an hint to where links may be occurring that come up turn to breaks. we already have four or five main breaks caught before they really broke. that was a real good outcome. we'll be doing more that overtime. >> president maxwell: do you think traffic, like heaviness of streetcars and cable car, would that have anything to do with it? oit's not affected? >> sometimes those things do occur. i know that as i drive in to the city from time to time crossing market from 9th street, there's one particular valve, it's little falling apart. there ar

the next is the van ness also distributed to 15 businesses and so those funds were disbursed, $120,000. next slide, please. so in contrast when we're used to managing and overseeing and contracting out about $4 million during the span of one year, through covid, which it is more than a year, so we have put out and managed and continue to manage $52.8 million with covid relief with the same staff -- actually reduced staff -- because many were deployed, including myself. one thing that i want to sort of highlight here -- actually i'll wait to the next slide. next slide, please. so in terms of -- okay, we have this funding, and how are we prioritizing it? and how are we reaching those that we know that have the hardest time accessing resources? how do we minimize the barriers knowing that the usual way was a paper application, door to door. our storefronts are closed now, we can't do that. it presents, you know, a lot of -- also we wanted to make sure that everybody was safe, right, in terms of covid and the spread and that we were managing that. and our partners also had to deal with tha

community service programs possibly in the field so that we don't make people come down to south van ness. so those are five clear action items that i got coming out of this. and that said, i can also tell you that i have -- i mean, shawn and i and others in the streets division have multiple requests for every district in the city to address very, very -- very, very acute situations in the street where there are vehicles they think that would certainly fall on this vehicle needs to be moved side of the line as director yekutiel said, and i'm very nervous about going three months without the ability to do that. >> director yekutiel: i don't think that anyone is proposing that right now, at least i'm not. i think we're all interested in giving that flexibility but we have a lot of questions and we have had them mentioned on how this policy is not leaving folks behind. if you could get that to us within three months? >> we can accomplish that for you, yes. >> director yekutiel: that would be great, thank you so much, director maguire. >> chair borden: great. any other questions or comments

community service programs possibly in the field so that we don't make people come down to south van ness. so those are five clear action items that i got coming out of this. and that said, i can also tell you that i have -- i mean, shawn and i and others in the streets division have multiple requests for every district in the city to address very, very -- very, very acute situations in the street where there are vehicles they think that would certainly fall on this vehicle needs to be moved side of the line as director yekutiel said, and i'm very nervous about going three months without the ability to do that. >> director yekutiel: i don't think that anyone is proposing that right now, at least i'm not. i think we're all interested in giving that flexibility but we have a lot of questions and we have had them mentioned on how this policy is not leaving folks behind. if you could get that to us within three months? >> we can accomplish that for you, yes. >> director yekutiel: that would be great, thank you so much, director maguire. >> chair borden: great. any other questions or comments

. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're plantin

and are to get -- and so he and i are to get together to go over the entire area between polk and van ness. somebody has issued false maps in the case of that california and polk street project that was up just before you. i'm going to have to ask your indulgence and come in a few times to ask to set the record straight because my area has been turned into a development area. i know you are public servants, and you do a tremendous job of studying these things up, but when false information is presented to you, and presented by false groups pretending to represent the neighborhood, groups like lower polk currently, it does the most tremendous job of defeating the people who actually are affected, such as the neighbors, for example, in the case of the grub stake site or such as robert varney, who was leading that 900 members of the nob hill association at the time they were fighting the masonic, and up pops this group calling itself the nob hill coalition that defeated robert varney and the 900 members of the nob hill association. so i'm going to be bringing up these associations that deserv

. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first ofall, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting