Plan i shared with you is going into what we call a deep dive, so we are actually working with each one of the divisions and reviewing each individual project and have that dashboard, color coded dashboard to review and im aware where each project is. Thank you for the opportunity to present and i certainly look forward to working with all of you on Technology Projects for the city. So, im happy to answer any questions. Thank you, linda. Colleagues . I do have a few questions. So, thank so much, for presenting today. And it feels like you know, theres quite a bit of work that needs to be done, but im glad that we are moving towards a process of addressing it. I had, i wanted to bring up somewhat separate concern, although related to this audit, which is expense of our licensed Software Usage here in San Francisco and i know i bring this up all the time at the Board Meeting when we have licensed software contracts that come before the board. And its really not a criticism on each individual contract, but just the citys overall vision and work on what we are doing at reducing our reliance on licensed software, paid licensed software and the work we are doing to figure out which systems need to be on licensed software and which are on free or open source. This is something ive been bringing up continually since at least 2011, and neither of you were on the board when i first began speaking about this. But i do think that government spends an inordinate amount of money on licensed software, some we have to do, probably not other times of operating systems that we can include that isnt paid licensed software. But some of which i think we could wean ourselves off of and save the city millions of dollars, you know, taxpayer dollars. So what i want to ask the department of technology and this has come up in previous years, but what has been the continuing discussion and vision about how we can relook at how we do licensed software here in San Francisco. Im happy to address that, and i agree with you, i have always been a proponent for open source solutions, having said that, open source is a unique type of software implementation, and its not just about the, how the software is coded, it is the infrastructure thats around it. So, having said that, i know there have been discussions with the p. U. C. About their use of open Source Software. They have demonstrated that they are using open source. And quite honestly, the Biggest Software system that d. T. Supports, or did support, is an open source product. You may not be aware, the citys entire web presence, both internal and external, is on druple, an open source environment. So i think that shows the commitment to that type of technology. Having said that, we also need to recognize that druple is widely supported, has a very Large Community of support that makes it viable. So i think as we move forward and talk about how we make technology choices, i am always going to come down on the side of reliability, sustainability, and its ability to be improved and stay secure into the future. I think an open source project needs to demonstrate that just like we would require that of a vendor and i think we look forward to lowering our license costs by also starting to use more standards. So, really adopting a strategy that says lets look at the portfolio, the Technology Portfolio that we have today. Lets use the Software Technology we have in place today. Lets expand that. We gain so much when we do that through training thats already in place, support thats already in place. All we have to do is expand a bit of capacity and its operational as opposed to a complete implementation. So, im an advocate for, lets always before we implement something totally new, and i know there are lots of industry conferences that people go to and come home with a new shiny widget, lets look at what we have in the city. The more we can standardize, the more we can share data. You heard the conversation this morning about shared data. The more we share systems, the more we share data. Thank you so much for that response and i think its great the website is operated on open source, im not sure everything should be open source although i question whether licensed software is more secure than open source, in particular given what we are seeing in the National Headlines what we assumed were the most secure agencies in the country that is getting hacked. But i think its that is the answer that ive gotten before, that its something thats being examined, that we look at it. I guess i want to understand if we are going to establish protocol so we start to see less licensed software contracts come before the board of supervisors. I guess i have not seen that reduction yet. And so im not sure if departments are seriously examining the options. One great example is the fact all of our emails on microsoft outlook. There are clearly other Free Email Software thats out there that other government uses, and so you know, there are just some easier ones that seems we are not tackling. I get it with the recent, for example, the recent p. C. Contract with oracle that came through, there probably is not a lot of open Source Software that deals with bill management and construction communications. Seems like for some very specific types of operating systems we will have to pay for licensed software, but for stuff like microsoft word and email, there clearly are other free options that are available to the city where you know, i think security is probably equal between paid and unpaid. And im just wondering why we havent been examining the resources so we can save our taxpayer dollars and put them towards street cleaning. So, i can address that. I think you have to look at the total cost of ownership on any project and you also need to look at integration, which we have also heard can be crippling when the systems dont talk to each other. So, the fact that patch management for Office Products is integrated with its security, integrated with its identity managements, integrated, so its not just email, its the whole suite of applications that interface with email and can those be delivered in a Cost Effective way looking at total cost of ownership. Integrating or trying to manage identity differently in maybe a siloed email systems versus how other desktop tools are provided might actually increase the cost of ownership. We can always do a study on that, if you would like me to. But i think its really looking at as we move forward and i agree with you, have new conversations about new investments or even look at old ones as contracts come up for renewal, lets look at that total cost of ownership, look at what it takes to integrate, deliver and secure, and make sure we are making the best investment possible. Supervisor kim im not going to put this on both of you, you were not here when i was bringing this up, when i was on Budget Committee in 2011 and 2012, but i have not seen a plan come forward, and i think its often too late at the point that we are procuring contracts to begin to examine open source. I feel we have to do that work now and have a longterm plan for the next 10, 20 years. In the time we do contract procurement, we dont have a lot of time to look at massive kind of systems change, and i think what im asking for is more of a comprehensive system change look that will take time to implement. So, 5 or 6 years down the road when we are finally looking at what type of email system we will use, today we have already determined that moving to this system, you know, is the right move and the Cost Effectiveness for the city. I just think these decisions are going to take a lot longer to implement. And so i just think what i would ask, actually, is that we begin to examine that now so that, you know, we can say by 2025 we will move our email system to a free service, or you know something along those lines. Im not suggesting it be email, although i do know municipal governments and other cities use g mail for free, i believe others are on g mail, not saying it has to be google. But i think we should be looking at these systems and seeing how we can save taxpayer dollars and put them into, you know, put them into uses that, where we really need some changes like improving our parks and our streets like i said. So thats something that i asked 5, 6 years ago and i think there was some lip service that was given to open source or Free Software but i have not seen the city really move in that direction. And i think department of technology is in a very difficult position in the sense that you know, we would like you to lead and manage for all of our departments around their technology but thats just not frankly what happens today. And so there is just some incredible inefficiency on the executive side in terms of the project management that you have been talking about. We put the accountability on d. T. , but i dont feel like we really give you the authority and power to make sure all the departments are aligning under one vision and one system, i dont know how we can fix it. Its frustrating we have the same conversation year after year about improving efficiency and direct management but that does not seem to actually happen the next year we have the same discussion. So im not providing any answers, im just venting a little bit of frustration that ive had over the conversation thats been, at least for me going on for seven years and i have not does not appear theres been a lots of improvement and it may not be on the department of technology. I think we can look at it. Overall frustration ive been having. I think we can look at it. But remind you, its always on the business requirements as well. So, and business requirements change and the technology changes. So, there was a time when many of our peers were looking at g mail. But it does not support other requirements, which are required for Law Enforcement so then we would be supporting two environments. Now duplicating infrastructure for two environments. Its the total cost of ownership. What is it going to take to support, what is it going take to deliver the Business Service and is it Cost Effective. We may get the license for free, but staff up 25 people to support an environment, its more costly than possibly another solution. So, thae absolutely, and i think i think thats why an overall plan is really helpful because when we get these contract by contract kind of Decision Making here at the board its really hard to understand the overall thinking and vision that went into why that individual contract comes before the board. Very, very good point. The contracts are incredibly expensive. They are millions of dollars, and so for me as someone who is a steward of public dollars i think its important for us to always be asking questions, is this the most cost efficient way to deliver these services for the city. And often i feel like i dont get the bigger birds eye view of why we decide to go down this route with each individual contract but it would be helpful to have the overall vision and answers of why the system is not going to work for us and thats why we went with this licensed software. I absolutely agree with you. And i am a very big proponent for what is called i. T. Governance, and that sounds kind of nebulous, but really isnt. For every project understanding many of the things in the audit, about scope, about cost, but really doing that cost benefit analysis over five years, its understanding what the market provides, and what are your options and alternatives and making that part of the business decision before procurement is done, and i will promise you that we are going to implement that. My final comment that ill make, and this is a comment i made several times, is that i in particular have a long standing frustration with Certain Companies like oracle who have been in the business of providing licensed software to government that have these ballooning payments in the final years when their software is largely outdated but we are totally dependent on it because everybody is on it so we pay the exorbitant amounts of money and i want us to be cautious as we contract with companies that there are Certain Companies in their Business Model with government have figured out ways to extract argue amounts of public taxpayer dollars and you know, that is how they kind of meet their bottom line. And so i hope we are thoughtful in the negotiations with these companies who put that kind of in there, the reports to their investors in terms of how they make money. I think its incredible irresponsible of those company, for example but its incredibly frustrating from our side to see these contracts come before us. Thank you. Thank you. So, if there are no further questions, why dont we open this up to public comment. I dont know unless d. T. Staff want to make public comment, you are welcome to do. Ok. Seeing no public comment, item number 4, closed, any closing comments . I would like to thank the budget and legislative Analysts Office and the department of technology and linda, you better stay for a long time, and thank my colleagues on the government audit and Oversight Committee and with that, i would like to file this item. Thank you. We will take a motion to file this item and do it without opposition. Any other items before this board . That completes the agenda for today. Meeting is adjourned. 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Good morning, everyone. I am mohammed nuru, the director of the San Francisco public works department. I want to gyp by just thanking all of you by joining us to celebrate the completion of our new office of chief medical examiners facility. [ applause ] just to acknowledge a couple of people that are joining us today i see the fire chief. His wife is here. I see commander laz is r is here, along with commander ewing from the police department. Of course, our sheriff, sheriff hennessee, who will be actually providing security at this facility, tom dewey, the director, and the office of occi. The office of Community Engagement and involvement. Yes. And, of course, all of you. I just again want to say thank you. What a tremendous project this is. It brings me great joy to welcome this new addition to the citys infrastructure to Hunters Point the neighborhood the prom has been in the works for a while. Were glad to have it in bayview. Not only is this facility a worldclass facility, its this facility has been delivered in a very fiscal matter and timely. I think, for me, one of the most important things that we like on a job and it happened on this job, it was delivered with a great safety record. Not one injury in the two years this prom was built. This project is a support project. Its and as the director of the project i want to say how proud hi am to deliver this project. And i want to take this opportunity to thank the Public Works Team in all of the work they did on this project. That was led by city architect edgar lopez. Several of our project architects, magnidina royal. I also want to thank our talented construction crew and construction company, clock construction, who did a very, very good in delivering this. And, of course, k. M. D. Architects, the designers of the facility. And, most important, our client and partner, dr. Hunter, and his staff. And i can tell you, with all of the projects in this city, none of them would be possible without the leadership of our mayor, ed lee. Who, ed, before you became mayor, you were at the city administrators office. You will hear from the city administrator today also. But his commitment and his dedication to making sure that we invest in capital improvements, especially towards our infrastructure project. And he has made that a top priority of his administration. And through his leadership, a lot of projects that the city desperately needs are actually happening. So im not going to say a lot of great things that ed has done, but lets hear from him, our mayor, ed lee. [ applause ] why arent you going to say a lot about what ive done . Whats wrong with that . Well, let me say this this is a fun day because a number of accomplishments are made. You know, i see our president , london breed, who is here just sitting down now because shes so busy doing so many other things. But she found the time. And working in partnership with the board is really born when it comes to earthquake safety and Emergency Response. So let me give you the larger picture of why today is so important. We have to get ready for the big disasters. Weve seen it happen. Its gotten really close with the fires up north. And you realize how much things that should, could have been done to prevent that. But we also have the your honors in but we also have the hurricanes in the south. We have manmades and we study them. Thats why so many of our participants today are part of our First Responder agencies and personnel because this facility is that important. When we were in recruitment and interviewing dr. Hunter for this job as chief medical examiner, he asked because he toured the original place. Im sure he mild at the recent news that were getting as many people out of the hall of justice as possible. Well, buried in the basement has been dr. Hunters office for quite some time. He smiled when he sat down with us and said, youre going to help us build a brand new facility, right . Because he cant do the worldclass modern Toxicology Laboratory work at this office that hes commanded to do. He cant have parents and families of people who want to know what happened on any incident be disrespected in the basement of the hall of justice and sometimes waiting for weeks, in fact, months to have some dignity for what happened h. You cant have sheriffs and other people waiting for the same reason. And you cant have less than professional standards operating in that office. And not only did we head up one of the best in the country for that office, we had this office. Thats why i enjoy working with mohammed so much and the city administrator. We had this whole office and the chief medical examiner inform us about how to design this place adequately. Thats with edgar and the k. M. D. Actorra tects architects designed the building. When you involve the professionals, you are going to get a topclass product when you work with them at the top. And when we have the firstclass responders of a worldclass facility, then youre going to get that. But the real conversation is this with supervisor cohens support, with the entire board of supervisors, the conversation started back in 2010, where we want that conversation with the public what should we do better and be prepared better for . And they voted in a very strong, over 70 support for earthquake safety Emergency Response. And they did it twice in 2010 and again in 2014 when we asked that all of our police facilities, our stations, our fire stations, our department, our Emergency Response facilities get upgraded to withstand a major shake. Now we have a worldclass medical Examiners Office that, for all of the reasons i said earlier, the public can trust. We did it, as mohammed said, on time and on budget. Thats why i invest in public works. When we want to get something done, our board and mayor says lets get public works in charge and, with our city administrator, we get the job done. We also get the job done when we work with our partners in labor. And i must say to the carpenters union, to the labors union, thank you, thank you, thank you for making this such a safely built place, but also for your embracement of programs like city build and local hire. Because there are 44 individuals from San Francisco that help build this if facility with allf the work and that is a great milestone for the Bayview Community. Because the saying says around here, if the community doesnt build it, nobody builds it. I know thats the feeling we accomplish right here in this building. And more an more of our public projects will always involve graduates of city build, local hire, the community. Thats how we build things with the communities, with our own hands. Its not just these buildings. Its the downtown building. Its the chase arena for the warriors. When people say we built that, then 2010 and 2014 conversations with the public about general Obligation Bonds and all of the other financial tools that we have to have our voters vote on, theyll be that much happier. When we finish this project and i know our city administrators and our finance officers are really happy. When we retire debt, then we create even more room for the next bond programs. And the public will put trust in putting their votes in on that. Not only did we do it in this fashion, as i said. We involved, yet, another examination that i think is becoming more and more important to the quality of work we do in these buildings. That was the Art Commission. The Art Commission got the first 2 out of this public project, the full 2 . And i know susans really happy she she doesnt like the 1 . She likes the 2 . And shes done really well because im i havent gone in and seen it yet, but weve honored and i know dr. Hunter is really joyful to honor somebody that hes known throughout the country having been the historic medical examiner hex pert for the city, dr. Boyd stevens. And i know his own coat is somewhere in there in some remnant in some classic fashion of art work. So we honor our historic leaders, as well as our art and art for this, for them that will work here and people that will visit here. It is about infrastructure. It is about First Responders. Its about the first level of medical professionalism in the medical examiner world. It is about having a worldclass forensic Toxicology Laboratory. Thats a lot of scientific words. What it comes down to sometimes is we need to know what happened. We need to have Scientific Trust to it so that our trust and public knows what happened to a person, what happened to a family, what happened in a major event. We need to have it safely done in this building. These bonds are going to be important constantly. When we build on time and when we build within the parameters that the public expects us to do, theyre going to give us a lot more support for our public bonds and for our public programs. So public works, city administrator, to all of you and the way you did this, thank you very much. Lets get on with not only opening this and having people move out of the hall of justice as quickly as possible. If the courts were smart, they would not be at the state level. Theyd be at the county level. So theyve got to get them out as well because we need everybody to be out of the hall of justice, quite frankly. Its not a safe building. Everybody knows that. So lets get on with building the worldclass, safe buildings for all of our staff. But, ultimately, these are public buildings. We want to respect every role that the event plays. When the event hits we want everyone to be prepared. Dont forget your 72. Org. And thats what they wanted me to say. Thanks for supervisor cohen, for the Bayview Community supporting this. It is not easy having a medical issue in your neighborhood. Sometimes people have a little issue with some of these public functions in their neighborhood. But this was embraced for the right reasons. Well have a lot more people down here who will be active in creating a higher level of safety for everyone. And i want to thank our police department. Weve got a couple of our officers at s. F. General right now. I pray for them for a quick recovery. Theyre doing the work we ask them to do. Community policing isnt easy. Its not easy these days with the Opioid Epidemic and, perhaps, some of the things the medical examiner is going to be engaged with. We need to support our Public Safety agencies because theyre doing a darn good job to keep them safe. Thank you, everybody, for supporting this. Congratulations. Thank you, mayor lee. I see ken bukowski. He was definitely instrumental in making sure all the monies were there and on time and thank him for this. I see our director, john updike, who has also been helpful in many of the projects that the city has been implementing, so thank you also. And i know you heard the mayor talk about those 44 individuals from the community that were able to work on the job. Those 44 people actually represent more than 40 of the work force that actually worked on this job. So i want to give a good congratulations and thank clark for giving our residents an opportunity to build something in their own back door. It gives them jobs and theyre able to take care of their families. And i know, you know, as you heard the mayor, it takes a village. So there are a lot of people who were involved in making these projects happen. And at this time im going to welcome our president of the board of supervisors, london breed. If you would. Thank you, mohammed. Thank you, mr. Mayor. Im really excited to be here today. When i first became a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, i would get emails and phone calls from people who were trying to find out exactly what happened when their loved ones passed away. They wanted closure. They wanted to know what happened. Because of the if a will silts the medical examiners was in, we were almost at risk of losing our accreditation. This is why this building was born to build. This is why we needed to build quickly. And, yes. As the mayor said, we needed to move rapidly in getting people out of the hall of justice. We know that no one should be in that building. Here we are a step closer to moving one of those departments at least out of that building and into a stateoftheart facility. Members sometimes will have to make that journey to this particular place in order to find out exactly what happened. And the great news is that they will have a warm, welcoming, beautiful facility, incredible public art. I think that the staff will probably feel a lot better, too, working under these conditions. So im excited about the future. Im excited about what is to come. I think this is a step in the right direction. I wish it were raping money all over the place so we can do this for every City Department we know needs to be out of the hall of justice. I know everybody shaking their heads right now actually work in the hall of justice. Were going to get to each and every one of you. Because here in San Francisco, were really fortunate, as the mayor said, to have some generous voters. Emwho say, you know, when we put something on the ballot, they support it. They know its the right thing to do. The infrastructure project, all of the things that we need to do to make sure not only that our city is working today. We need to make sure it is working for generations to come yes, were all upset over the congestion. Yes, we dont like van ness avenue right now and a couple of other places. But at the end of the day, its going to be even better. This is an example of what we can accomplish when we make these projects work for san franciscans. So thank you to each one of you. Thank you to the department of public works, thank you to clerk. Thanks for these folks who had the opportunity to work in their backyard. This is really amazing for the city today. Thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you, supervisor breed. Next were going to hear from city administrator, city administrator actually chairs our planning committee. When these projects get delivered or they get conceived, they actually go through a serious vetting process. It is a process to approve them. It is through her leadership that these projects are actually able to happen. When we work on these projects. When we have challenges or we have concerns, we always have to make sure the city administrator knows what happened h. Were very thankful to the voters. Theres only so much money. We have to finish these projects on time and on budget. Under her leadership, we developed another one. Welcome as city administrator. Thank you, mohammed. I dont know if anyone said it yet, but welcome to the new medical examiner facility. And you heard the mayor and supervisor breed talk about the hall of justice. We are trying to decant the hall of justice so we can demolish that building. I was watching the historic movie, bullet with Steve Mcqueen in the late 60s. They filmed a lot of the scenes in the medical examiner facility. I thought to myself, oh, my goodness. Nothing has changed 50 years later. I dont know if there was even an upgrade or renovation. It was exactly the same thing. Look at how weve evolved over the last 50 years, new technology. We were skinnier around the waist so it was for skinnier people and it was undersized and didnt meet standards. And this is a project near and dear to the city administrators hearts. It started for me in 2013 when i was trying to get this facility to be part of the easer program and with the director of Public Finance we were successful in convincing our capital plan colleagues to put this as part of the 2014easer bond, which went to the voters. It was a 64 million bond. I want to thank the voters because they moved forward with us to bring this new facility, so i just wanted to thank all of you for that. So we hit the ground running in 2014. What you may or may not all remember. I had an interim director of the office of the chief medical examiner. He was not a doctor. He was not a forensic pathologist. He was not a toxicologist. He was a great administrator while we started the International Search to find dr. Bukowskih. It started the design. Ive been working with public work works when we worked with recruitment. And i found dr. Hunter. Im telling you i found you just in time, dr. Hunter. We tried our best. When he came in, our input into the facility made it when you go on a tour, i think youll see what a state of the art facility is and how lucky we are to have this building. It was a lot of your great input. So thank you, dr. Hunter. When you tour this facility, supervisor breed touched on it. The family room. I mean, this is a time when you are grieving, especially when the families who come here, it is yourely an unanticipated death, so youre in shock. And the family room in here compared to what was at the hall of justice was just it will change the experience. It will try and it will be more comforting and warming to what youre already going through. And then for those who are squeamish, like myself, at the hall of justice, i would take circiquitous routes to make sure that i didnt pass out. The flow of this facility is excellent. Like i said, all of you will be very impressed when you go on the tour. I want to thank clark, public works, the Contract Monitoring Division and city build. Because you heard the mayor and the director say that we hit all types of goals with our local Business Enterprise goals and our local hiring goals. 6,100 working hours of local residents on this building, half of them from the bay view hunter s point neighborhood. 34 of the construction crews were from San Francisco. I want to thank all of your leadership throughout the city. So thank you very much and enjoy the tour. Okay. Were almost there. Were almost there. As i hear her speak i remember working for the city one of my jobs was to maintain the hall of justice. Can i tell you that facility with the news we just heard with the leadership of the board of supervisors and the mayor we are all moving out of there and delivering this facility. One thing at public works that we take very, very important is to work closely with our client and make sure that we deliver the state of the art project that our clients expect to have. And leading that effort is our chief medical examiner, dr. Hunter. Please come up and speak. [ applause ] and im also impressed with the amount of dedication and hard work of mohammeds team at public works shepharding this project from infancy to completion and that is what we have here today. I would like to recognize two individuals that were dedicated to this project and really did get us to where we are today. They worked very closely with me and the finer points of this building, i think, is is due to that interaction. I do want to its magdalina ryer in the crowd . Okay. Magadelena was the project manager who worked with the staff to ensure the design and construction of the facility completed as desired. Completed as desired meaning that is not an easy thing to do. We want this facility to be functional now and functional in the future. We want it to work. So we were arm in arm with public works and magdalena did a fan taftic job of making that happen. And did an amazing job at that. I would like to recognize a member of my staff. Christopher warziak who is my director of operations. And christopher is right next to magdalena over there. And at this point, i suspect a lot of you in the crowd know christopher. If you had anything to do with this project or had anything to do with the coordination and the move, you know who christopher is. Hes been dedicated to the office. You no he him as a fierce advocate for the office, the medical examiner. Hes worked tirelessly from the early stages of the Building Design to construction and finally to coordination to make sure that this all come shz together and works cohesively. I cannot fully express my gratitude to christopher, other than to say thank you very much for a wonderful job. Lastly, i want to thank the residents for the city and county of San Francisco for making this facility possible. Thank you, San Francisco. [ applause ] lets give another hand to the medical Examiners Office. They work hard jobs. I mean, these are tough jobs. Okay. Our last speaker is from the San FranciscoPublic Art Program when we do projects in the city we are required to set aside some funding for art. And i think that its a very good policy because, when we do these buildings, we are able to also add some beauty and some art to the project. And speaking on behalf of the Arts Commission today is susan pontiaz, who will tell us a little bit about the art in the building. And when you get to tour it, it is beautiful, beautiful art that reflects the neighborhood and reflects San Francisco. Welcome, susan. [ applause ] thank you. Save the best for last. We are really lucky to live in a city that values art to beautify its public spaces like San Francisco. But many of you, to be blunt, may be asking with what is the role of art in the morgue . Many members of the public, when they come and are here in the midst of decent and deep grief with no art. Yet, it is prove than certain kinds of imagery can reduce stress and anxiety. This was our very special goal from the very onset of this project. Our goal was to select art that contributes to a sense of calm, peace, and tranquility. It is part of the way that the city expresses compassion, and we are really proud to be a part of that effort. And i know all of the artists who participated are also proud to be part of that effort. So as you enter the lobby, the first piece youll see is my murial axelrod. Is murial here . Yes. Murial is right there in the purple sweater. She has created a beautiful collage inspired by the salt marshes and wildlife of india basin. The work was created with thousands of pieces of fabrics that the artist has carefully arranged, pinned, and sewn together. I invite you to take a close look. It is really amazing. Some of the fabric that is in the birds, as merilee mentioned was a jacket worn by g. Boyd steven whos served the city over 30 years as the chief medical examiner. Theres also a collection of framed art works on the walls in the publicly accessible areas of the building. And these, woulds are all by San Francisco bay area artists, inspired by the unique beauty and scenes of the bay area. The artists are in the collection, and i ask you to raise your hand if youre here. Susie barnyard, who i know right behind me there. Whose studio is in the bayview. Elaine kummes, there. Stanley goldstein, b url e landow. There is b url e and alan mazetti. Theyre way in the back. And coming soon to the landscaped area right behind me will be a largescale sculpture entitled alma by sculptor, richard doitch. I dont know if richard is here student. The stainless steel sculpture is inspired by alma, a flatbottomed schooner built in 1891 by fred seamer in his shipyard at Hunters Point. At 22 feet tall, it will help identify this facility as a civic building and provide a major art asset to the community si also want to give thanks to all of the artists for their great, would. I want to thank project manager, mary chu, from our office, who was on the front lines making sure all of this coordinating all of this work to get into the building. I also want to thank other staff from our Arts Commission, jennifer lavorne, who is our senior project manager, and jennifer kranedoyle who is here as one of our registrars. I want to thank elaine from d. R. W. , the project manager for all of their support in helping us realize this project. Thank you very much. Okay. So at this time we are going to cut the ribbon. And after the ribbon cutting, the facility will be open for tours for just one hour. So well go from 12 00 to 1 00. So if you are available or have time, i would encourage you to walk through it. It is a very beautiful stateoftheart facility to seeing how things work through to how things flow from all of the labs that are up there to these capabilities to what this modern lab will do for us. So thank you very much for coming out today. I just really appreciate it. We look forward to delivering more projects on your behalf. Thanks. [ applause ] countdown. Ready. 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one whew [ applause ] [music] good evening and welcome to the november 15, 2017 meeting of the San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer this evening is president darryl honda, and also on the dais, we have commissioners. To my left is brad russe. Hes a Department City attorney and hell provide any legal assistance. Im cynthia goldstein, the boreds executive director. Were also joined by representatives from the City Departments that have cases before the boards tonight