Transcripts For SFGTV Transbay Joint Powers Authority 20240713

Before we do, id like to rerecu recuse myself for the closed session. Id like to ask that director hirsch, as i did so last time, take control of the closed session. So ill be back in the board room and hopefully come back out today. Good luck in closed session. All right. Thank you, vice chair gee. As he noted, we are going into closed session. This is an opportunity clerk all right. The tjpa board of directors meeting is back in session. And in item 8, closed session, there is nothing to report. Go ahead and move into next item . Please. All right. Item 9 is communications, and director do directors, im not aware of any. Item 10, new business. All right. Well go into item 11, the executive directors report. Good morning, directors. We have a busy morning, but before we get started, id like to update you with some items. First, id like to update you on the Community Response to the novel coronavirus. We have taken several measures to enhance the health and safety of all Salesforce Transit Center services, including coordinating with federal, state, and local Health Officials and other transit agencies. They include the San Francisco Mayors Office, our officers at a. C. Transit and muni, and the department of Emergency Services and transit and joint information center. We have also expanded our cleaning measure including the frequency of cleaning of the touch points such as door handles and sink handles. We have Updates Information on our Digital Screens and were posting the posters from the department of health San Francisco department of health all over the building. Information can be found in common areas throughout the Transit Center, public rest rooms, and staff areas, and we and as we all know, the situation is changing rapidly, so well continue to monitor and respond appropriately. Next, id like to update you on our way finding project. As you know, after opening the Transit Center, it was determined to anecdotal feedback that the current wait signage needs improvements. We have been working with the San Francisco Transportation Commission and our operators to conduct a way finding gap analysis and these efforts are underway. The way finding Consultant Team has completed a general assessment through a deep dive into the existing systems, survey research, Public Public passengers interviews, pedestrian journey tracking, volunteer test journeys, and a series of interviews with everything, including our janitorial staff as well as the cap riders. The analysis is expected to be completed by the end of this month or early next month and once this is done, ill present the findings to the boards. Im happy to announce that phils has opened two locations. They have already added to the neighborhood, adding more vibrancy options. At this time, id like to ask rich payette from lincoln property, our asset manager, to provide you with a brief operations update. Rich . Thanks, mark. Thanks. As mark talked about, we are addressing the covid19, so we have a very good Janitorial Company thats working with us. Theyre a vendor, and theyre cleaning everything that people touch. Doorknobs, touch screens, elevator railings, and we do have signage up educating people. The third floor bus deck continued to operate at normal capacity with a. C. Transit, greyhound, and they continue to operate at the corner of mission and fremont. Onsite was our first tenant that opened, and they opened in november. Our anchor tenant, fitness s. F. , opened in december, and we have two fill coffees that are open today. A quarter after that, well have spring fertility and happy lemon, and later, well have charlies philly steaks, kaiser, and others. This slide just shows some of the activity of our construction. Fully built out s. F. Fitness, fitness s. F. , and things in progress, and Stores Coming opening soon. 69,000 of that square feet is already executed and board approved, so thats 81 . Another way of looking at it, 35 retail spaces, and 25 of those spaces have been executed and or board approved at 71 , and our committed rent is 98 of of what we projected. We have l. O. I. Promising l. O. I. S on seven of those spaces, but we have interest in all 11 spaces. The next few will just be kind of, like, site plans or floor plans of each floor. That might be a little hard to read, but this is the first floor. Anything in purple is already committed, and everything in green is still in negotiation. Heres the same thing for the second floor. Kaiser, fitness s. F. , springtime fertility, and they will have that lease signed this coming week. That will leave just one space, space 232, that were still working on. We have strong interest in that space, and we expect to have the second floor fully leased shortly. And then heres our third park level, same thing. The restaurant, fully committed, and then, were still negotiating on the pad. Now were at the point if anybody has any questions. Any questions from the board . Thank you for your report. Thank you. Directors, just to resume my report, we have a financial report. If you have any questions, aaron can answer them, and my last item, i wanted to update you on the m. O. U. With the metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco Transportation Authority, San Francisco transbay joint powers board to enhance the facility of the downtown extension. This is to implement a new organizational structure do i have it . To support the tjpa projects in the most efficient manner in collaboration with the Partner Agencies in the bay area. The goal is to is to be to take the d. T. X. To shovel ready status in the next two to three years. As way of background, in july of 2018, we received an allocation of approximately 10,000 million from sfcta tot resume work on the preliminary engineering on the downtown extension. That was suspended in december 2018 after a discovery of the fiss fissures detected in the tunnel under the street. After that, the sfcta initiated a peer review of that effort, and at the same time, the board asked me to initiate a peer review with the American Transportation association. The peer review was concluded in may 2019. That concluded in recommending that the tjpa have less reliance on consultants and have more depth on tjpa staff to have more institutional knowledge. But they also recommended that the tjpa consider retaining an independent engineer to assess and monitor the program and report directly to the board. The report that was done by afta was done by Public Sector leaders with proven experience in managing delivery of large complex projects. They included the assistant manager with the denver regional transportation district, including the receive Program Manager for l. A. Metro, including the Vice President and senior priVice President w lewis and berger. After some discussions, the sfcta review was adjusted to recommend a new organizational structure for a new tjpx under the sfcta. So so moving forward, the new organizational structure thats being discussed right now contemplates the formation of a new structure. The expectation is the Steering Committee will be driven by managers and executive managers of these agencies. And then, the first order of work of the executive Steering Committee would be to approve or recommend to the tjpa boards a work program that analyzes the roles and responsibilities of each entity, and give us a clearer road map how to get from where were at right now to shovel ready for the downtown extension. The the the under discussions right now with the e. F. C. Roll will be to made recommendations to the tjpa board, but the tjpa will remain having final authority over the downtown project, and they can accept or reject the report of the executive Steering Committee. The executive Steering Committee will meet on a monthly basis and can report to the tjpa on a monthly basis when theyre ready. So thwe welcome that, but itsp to them to do that. It would be composed of the same agencies and led by the tjpa project director. And the work plan will include items to be delivered, and whos going to be delivering these items, and whos going to be reporting about these items . On this is a draft organizational chart thats contemplated as part of the discussions that were having on the m. O. U. On the righthand side, youll see that this is a normal operations of the Transit Center. Tjpa, right now, we have the executive director reporting to the board, and the executive director is supported by the chief of counsel, facility director, chief security officers, and the c. F. O. On the righthand side, we will have, at the very bottom, the tjpa managers working on the on the downtown extension project. Theyll be managed by the project director, which is a tjpa employee, but he or she will be part of the integrated management team, theyll report directly to the executive Steering Committee, and the executive Steering Committee will report to the board. The formation of the o. S. C. Would provide another tool in the tool box and have leaders of various agencies, tjpa, high speed rails, and others, to really give the project a shot in the arm and the tjpa a shot in the arm in regionalizing the project and making sure were doing this in full collaboration. And itll also better position us in securing funding, especially at the states and the federal level and also helps us with resolving any any discrepancies or conflicts in the development of the project, especially when it comes to operations and other issues, so well have all the parties in one room, discussing in a formalized manner. Some of the challenges that this structure introduces, as there is no Single Person thats really responsible for the downtown extension, youve got a committee composed of six individuals representing six agencies reporting to the board, so when the board receives this recommendation, there is no one particular person that could be held accountable. The chair and the vice chair of the Steering Committee are not permanent members. They could come and leave, so two or three years later, the board will not be able to hold anybody accountable for these particular decisions. However, its also going to heavily involve the engagement of the executives, so theyll really have to free their time up and be involved in the project. And also, the success of this structure predicates on everybodys engagement. I want the board to know theres some costs involved here. That concludes my report as directors report and m. O. U. Again, i hope to finalize the m. O. U. And bring it to you for your consideration at the april board meeting. I do recognize, and im sure you do, that given that this changes the way that tjpa does business, we need time to finalize this m. O. U. Any questions from the board . Director chang . Through the chair, thank you, vice chair gee, and thank you for that. I wasnt aware that we were going to be discussing this, the potential for the m. O. U. , the hope that it comes out. On behalf of our prior work on the transportation committee, just want to highlight the goals for this effort particularly for some of the members and members of the public who may not have been following it over the past year. Its to regionalize the project further, but to further promote participation amongst the regional state, regional, and other partners who are already on this board and involved. Also, to boost capacity of the effort, and there are different way to see do that, of course, but this way, i think brings the benefit of the coordination that is sort of inherent about having all these folks around the table with the resources and to move this project forward, and to frankly try to accelerate it and make it receive more state and other funding. So those were sort of the intent behind it, and i think some of the issues that you raised behind accountability, we have seen partnership approaches to development. Its a fair concern, and i think something that we should be, you know, better able to address once weve finalized the m. O. U. , but i think there are better ways to address it, and the wa and address it in the ways that weve seen these partnerships work both nationally and internationally. Thats all ill say right now. Thank you. Sorry. My intent was not to highlight the m. O. U. In a negative fashion. It was just to highlight theres some complexity in the reporting structure, and i wanted the board to be aware of that. Thank you for this. We need the entire board aware of all of the hard work going on to create this m. O. U. As well as the public. As cited, the two previous reports in the peer review, and one of the greater reasons is transparency, so transparency to the board and to the public. Clerk and well move into item 12, the construction closeout update. Good morning, directors. Ron alameda, director of design and construction for the tjpa, specifically phase one. Also, the acting city architect for the city and county of San Francisco. We have were at that stage of the project where theres a lot of background activity and somewhat Modest Movement but steady movement. Most of you are familiar with this pie chart as we start trying to gray out the pie chart and achieve closeout on all of the 49 subcontractors which will clear the path for us to close out with webcor on phase one. As we sit today, weve got four trade groups that have moved into the final pathway towards four and final change order closeout. We remain with 13 that are in dispute resolution. Out of the 13, i anticipate six to seven will probably take the longer path of either litigation or mediation. Were aiming for may, but i think the trend is towards june to have a closed session legal briefing for the board as we move a little bit closer to that stage of the closeout. And that leaves out of the 42, weve got 39 that are closed out. I believe that was a movement from january of 29 total, to a total of 32. So as i said, lots of activity in fact background in the background, modest but positive movement achieved in that. As we look at the construction contingency, we look at the actions that were taken on closeout, probably the most thing to note of it since the last report, weve got 2. 3 million drawdown on construction contingency, and weve actually had a replenishment of 2. 4. Although weve been very successful with the d. R. A. , the resident path issue, which was originally earmarked as a cmgc contingency, the d. R. A. Recommendations are a result move that responsibility to construction contingency, so thats what youre seeing there on that slide. In summary, weve got a remaining balance of construction contingency of 1. 6 million. Getting a little thin, and probably an indicator of some movement of some reserve in the future, but thats to be shook out. Cmgc contingency sits at 5. 9, with an Overall Program reserve of 31. 8, totaling an availability of 39. 3 million to work with as we navigate through the remainder of the closeout activities, we takes us to the budget slide. Again, the total Phase One Program of 2. 21594 million stays steady. A little bit of movement internal, with an estimated at completion of construction sitting at 1. 454 1. 45482 billi or million and for phase one, a total of 2. 174 billion, and below that line is reflective of the unanticipated drawdowns on the overall phase one improvement, and that would be the tenant improvement and the 301 mission. So that was, in total, about 62. 6 million drawdown on the overall budget. But again, were Holding Steady to stay within our the confines of our overall budget despite all the ups and downs with t. I. Legal, cracked beams, and the such, so were bringing this thing home. And that concludes my summary right now. Thank you, mr. Alameda. Questions from the board . Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Clerk all right. Go ahead and move into your next item . Next. Item 13 is the Citizens Advisory Committee, and i did see derek holt, the tjpacac chair. Good morning, directors. Good morning. Im derek holt, and this past evening, we the c. A. C. Appreciated the updates from the tjpa staff, including christine, erin rosema, direct director zabaneh, and others. Several members have reached their term limits, and well miss their comments, their plans, and their analysis. Several applications have been placed for strong candidates. Our c. A. C. Utilized the Transit Center resources as well as the rooftop park, and we have stronger appreciation for the covid19 Safety Measures that have been put in place and the use of the website and other means of communication. We really appreciated the comments, and were excited by the Transit Center tenants that are opening in the next few months as well as later on this year. We do recognize that the temporary closures delayed some of the momentum that was building last summer, and we still believe that contributing guilty parties should still be held accountable. Our thanks to the High Speed Rail Team that presented to us thursday evening. Their 2020 high speed rail Business Plan looks strong, and they particularly focused on northern california, the central valley, san jose, San Francisco, and the role of the d. T. X. Ii project. I can tell you i cant wait for the option of taking a 45minute commuter train to fresno instead of the threehour drive that i had to make this last month. I think that the d. T. X. Will help with that from what i understand. Weve been helping you out. Thank you, thank you. I didnt hear the date. Noteworthy was the finance presentation focused on the 2020 tax allocation bonds by the tjpa chief financial officer. It was detailed, focused, and very clear that these strategic steps will save significant money, especially freeing up 35 million that can be used for the d. T. X. Project. It sounds like a very wise move to take advantage of declining federal treasury rates over the last six months or so. There was strong analytical discussion of the use of the money that could be saved. The csca took a vote, and it was unanimous. The c. A. C. Has gone on record to, one, request that the Financial Strategy be employed, and if second, if there were 35 million freed up, that could be dedicated to the phase two project. The c. A. C. Recognizes that the d. T. X. Plays a role in the San Francisco safety project that was presented at our meeting this past january. The c. A. C. Recognizes that the d. T. X. Has been voted on and approved on by regional voters, we recognize that the d. T. X. Is a significant piece of the Transit Center and the overall expansion of region. We, the c. A. C. Strongly encourage the tjpa to support the proposed d. T. X. Project. There was rigorous discussion by the 15 members of the c. A. C. Tuesday evening, and we acknowledge that the introduction of additional regional players could lead to preventing or resolving conflicts, keep the tjpa involved in daytoday politics, and theres recognition of the tjpa as a megatransportation in the region and the state, california, so we, the c. A. C. Are requesting the board to support the funding and strategy actions and do what you can to raise the influence of more regional influencers to champion the d. T. X. Project. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions from the board . And mr. Holt, please extend our thanks to the members that are opting out because of their service. Clerk okay. Next item. This is the time for Public Comment. I this is the time to address members of the public i see mr. Patrick. Id like to address the members of the board. This came out of the Transportation Authority of San Francisco and has effectively delayed this project two years. Out of this delay, weve studied the project, and weve said were going to put a new Management Structure between this board and the operations. That matters been structured who we composed of substantially the same people who sit on this board, or maybe one level down. This is a quid pro quo. The quid is we have to change the Management Structure. The quo is well then give you the money. I dont know about you, but i find that objectionable. Weve essentially delayed the project two years. Now as i look at this next thing, what will flow out of that, in my opinion, is a tremendous amount of money for transportation improvements as we need to gin up the economy and get it going again. We will be sitting with our shoe in our back pocket, not ready. I think this whole thing has been terrible, and its a boondoggle. Thank you. Clerk okay. That concludes members of the public that wanted to address you on that item. Move onto the consent calendar . Yes [agenda item read]. Clerk at this time, weve not received any notification that anybody wishes to have any items severed. Your items are 15. 1, approving the minutes of the february 3, 2020 meeting, 15. 2, approving the meeting of the february 20, 2020 meeting, item 15. 3, 15. 4, and 15. 5. Thank you, miss gonzales. Any questions or comments . Ill move approval. Is there a second . Second. All right. Theres a motion and a second. Clerk great. With a moved and a second [roll call] clerk thats seven ayes, and the consent calendar is approved. Thank you. Please continue. Clerk all right. We are ready to move into your regular scecalendar, and with concurrence of the board, well go ahead and all items 16, 17, and 18. Item 16, approving the issuance of not to exceed 315 million, and finance additional costs associated with the construction and design of the transbay terminal project. Item 17 is approving changes to item 17, Debt Management policy, and item 18 is amendment 1 and amendment 2 to the 2020 operating budget. Directors, this will be presented by our chief financial officer, erin roseman. Im not trying to influence your vote, but id like to thank her for her work on this program. So were here presenting to you the 2020 tjpa bond sale. This will be our inaugural bond sale, the tax allocation bonds. We have three main goals in doing this bond sale, and this is to refinance our tifia loan, to refinance any balance, and to execute our loans. We expected a loan in 2010 at an Interest Rate of 5. 7. It currently has an Outstanding Balance of 179 million with a final maturity in february 2051. We anticipate in this market that we would be able to refinance the full amount, the 179 million, still secured by net tax increment. Our good faith estimate as of february 20 had a has a saving or an Interest Rate of approximately 3. 5 . The market is continually moving in the last few days, its been rather volatile, but still moving in a direction favorable for us. We would anticipate level annual savings and a net present value savings of at least 10 or about 20 million based on that good faith estimate. This slide is actually stale now that weve gotten to this point. You have to get all your documents together, but as of march 6, the 30year m. M. D. Was 1. 52. It is dependent on the day of this week. It has gone down and up, and down and up, and today, its essentially been suspended, but the rates are still lower than our good faith estimate and kind of moving in our favor. Were hoping to be able to capitalize on this good market by the time we get to a june closing. The city financing is another debt that wed like to refinance. Out of the risk analysis the m. T. C. Did in 2015, we were able to increase our Program Reserves by 260 million for contingency. Part of this 260 million was city financing. There was 100 million from bota, and then, 160 million from the city and county of San Francisco. Weve only drawn 103 million out of the citys portion of this contingency. That 103 million had been secured by net tax increment, and it was on parity with our tifia loan. The Interest Rate on city financing is a variable rate interest. As a requirement of our tifia loan, since weve added the city financing, we had to get Interest Rate caps to the hedge the variation in the Interest Rate. We had taken on three different Interest Rate caps over the lifetime of this. The Interest Rates did what they were supposed to and kept our payments within reason. The city financing expires in 2020, so we had drawn 103, and weve repaid some to our Outstanding Balance, but theres no ability to draw anymore on this facility. We anticipate the city financing to be refinanced, one, through the citys own efforts to issue c. F. D. Bonds, or Community Facility district, at a fixed rate. We would expect their bond sale to proceed around the may time frame, and our bond sale to close around june. If there was any amount that the city wasnt able to capture in their financing, then our tax allocation bonds would take up the difference. Our third goal in this financing is to generate new money proceeds. Wed anticipate 115 million new money proceeds that would go towards tenant reserves, replacements, and then any other reserves, fully fund a debt reserve and the cost of issuance which would be final to the buyers, trustees, etc. The capital replacement reserve is an account that was required by tifia, and with the refinancing of tifia, we would like to continue with that practice and formalize it into our practices of tjpa and not just the requirement of a loan. So were attempting to fully or not fully fund, but fund a portion of capital replacement that we identified with tifia. There was a schedule that we provided to the tifia loan that programs are informed how much we should have over the life of the facility, and so we feel like 29 million is a good starting point. We should fund it to or weve committed to funding it to 193 million with the tifia loan, so 103 million is a starting point. 29 million is a starting point. If the rate will allow, wed like to go up to 40 million if the fund is available. So the total source for the bond sale, we anticipate generating 318 million from the proceeds of our bond sale, and another 176 million from the citys bond sail, for a total of 394 million, as a repayment to tifia, funding the phase one Program Reserve, funding the program cost of issuance, and slowly funding the debt service reserve. The structure of the bonds would be we in our documents, were asking permission to issue a par amount of not to exceed 315 million. We would expect the bonds to be primarily tax exempt. The only bonds that wouldnt be taxable would be the capital replacement reserve. All the bonds would be reserved with net tax increment. A term of 30 years, we would expect the bonds to be all fixed rate. Weve gotten indications that we would be green bond certified by the climate bonds initiative. Our building is silver lead certified, or were in the process of being silver lead certified, so it was an easy process in that record. The net revenues would be held by a trustee, and payments would be made by a trustee. Our good faith estimate assumes we would be able to achieve 3. 86 with the market refinancing, and if the downfall continues, that could belower. In order to achieve this, weve done our fee to secure underwriting syndicate. We went through an extensive to come to the selection of steve full and dean witter stanley. We felt like as theyre leaders in their industry, they would be best positioned to help us. Additionally, weve chosen morgan stanley. They have a great Distribution Network that can help distribute our bond. The finance calendar has this coming to you for your consideration, and then, wed move to the city and county of San Franciscos board of supervisors so that they could consider finding a resolution of significant public ben any time in this term of refinancing would be a net present value savings that provides a benefit to the public. So reducing the amount of debt, generating the 10 net present value, should be considered a significant value in regards of public financing. In addition, in april, we would finalize the Credit Ratings in discussions with our insurers and do the offering of documents in may and have a bond closing in june. Since the city is doing their bond sale in conjunction with us, there is a bit of a pause between april and may to have their bond sales matriculate from theirs to ours, so we know the exact amount that we need to finance of our bonds. In order to if we were successful with this bond sale, and in order to affect all the new proceeds and all the different changes, there would be a budgetary impact with all these this financing. The budgetary impact would require an amendment to the operations budget, an amendment to the Capital Budget, establishing and increasing a separate Debt Service Budget, establishing a tenant improvement budget. We would bring money in to phase one and take an equal amount of phase one so theres a netzero to the Phase One Program budget. It would also generate additional funds for or Funding Availability for phase two in the amount of 35 million, so it would be a shift of funds that now have an available use for phase two. We would create the capital replacement reserve and fund that. The next few slides are tables of just the changes, so theres more lines to the operations budget, the Capital Budget. But for brevity of the presentation, im only showing the lines that have differences. The totals on the columns agree to the amounts that were approved before in the original adoption or amendments, but were just showing the modifications. So the operating budget would decrease by 11 million, going from 37 million to essentially 26 million. The biggest difference would be taking out the debt service as a line out of the operational budget and then creating its own separate budget. And then, theres a series of revenue and expense adjustments downward by 5 million to recognize a delay in construction and a delay in revenue in the operational budget due to the overly optimistic occupation of the Transit Center. Theres an adjustment due to the reduction of residents. This shows or explains how the rearrangements happen. Theres proceeds brought into phase one for tenant improvement, and then, the tenant improvement expense moved over to its own tenant improvement budget. Theres money brought into the fiscal reserve thats created to to go into phase two, and then, additional bond proceeds brought in to support the tenant improvement Capital Budget with a contingency of the tenant improvements going into fiscal reserve. So a lot to follow, but im willing to help anyone understand what all were doing. In the Debt Service Budget, we initially contemplated just Interest Payments to tifia and city financing, and now as were doing these refinancing, this is a request expenditure approve to make the payment, so were adjusting the Debt Service Budget by bringing in the proceeds and expanding in t bringing in this in to expand the budget out. The next budget movement is the expression of the tenant improvement, so taking tenant improvement out of the budget and phase one, bringing in the bond proceeds, showing that the 35. 5 million that we had always anticipated is still the expense. Were also transferring a small amount of salary and benefits and marketing and leasing commissions and then putting 15 million into fiscal reserve for contingency Second Generation tenant improvements. Finally, this is a summary of all the movements to show the reserves, and so our total capital reserves would be 141 million im sorry. Skipped over one, the capital replacement reserve. Adding 21 million for capital replacement reserve for a total of 141 million. On the operational side, were requesting the operational reserve. Were asking for temporary use of the o. N. M. Reserve until were able to achieve the reimbursements from m. T. C. In order to all these budgetary movements, theres a couple of policy additions or changes as we have wanted to fund the c capital replacement reserve, its not listed in the policy, so were asking to modify the reserve policy to modify the capital reserve and fund it between 29 and 40 million and also add funding into the fiscal reserve through the budgetary movement. And ill take any questions if you have them. Thank you for your patience in walking us through that. Director forbes . Yes. The t. I. Budget, would those improvements come back to the board for review and authorization for actual projects of tenant improvements or is there further review . So with each of the leases that weve executed, there is a negotiation for each tenant on how much the tjpa is contributing to the tenant improvement for that specific space. So with the approval of all the leases, theres been this approve of the amount for all the tenant improvements. I see, so its cash were not performing the tenant improvement. Its an allocation to the tenant . So a portion of it is allocation to the tenant, and then, theres a base building modification to the tenants work, so it might be the floor, some of the utility relocation or bringing the utilities into the space. Director sesay or yeah, go ahead. Oh, similarly thank you, vice chair gee. Subsequently, there would be a budget action or any other actions to apply these funds, is that right . This is a tax allocation proposal, but whatever use would be reflected in the Agency Budgets or project budgets of the board. This is not a project afpprova, this is a tax allocation, that is correct . Theres three separate actions. One is the approval of the sale of the bonds, so yes, we could proceed with the bond sale. Then, theres the budgetary action. Oh, theres a budgetary action . Yes, theres an amendment to the Capital Budget creating and establishing a separate debt budget and establishing a tenant improvement budget. Those are the budgetary actions. Right. And its not necessarily a projectlevel budget. Im understanding it to be an agency action, correct . Correct. Oh, thank you. The Program Budget does not change, so the face one project of 2. 221 billion does not change. Theres money that goes in, money that goes out, but the thank you. Thank you. Director sesay . So i want to comment, the capital reserve, theres a footnote that you noted in your presentation that goes up to 40 million. So have we reflected that cushion in the authorized not to exceed amount . cause i know that youve made assumptions, so were assuming the tax allocation bonds does not payoff the city financing, but it funds these three different buckets, including repayment of t. C. F. And if the city does not generate enough funds im trying to think how that balances out . Do we have enough in terms of authority, nottoexceed amount for you not to continue on . Should there be an allocation be made to the result of the citys finance. Yes. Theres an amount that were asking for that could cover that difference. That cushion also includes a market contingency. If it moves outside of our good faith estimate, we would make sure that if the market moved so significantly that it wasnt advantageous for us to do this, wed come back before we closing. The city board approval process is so lengthy, you have to get it right the first time. In terms of the reserves that youve identified here, my understanding is are they, like, on board reserve so in the event that we want to withdraw from those, it couwou come back to the board to approve . For example, the capital reserve yes yes. So im just wondering whats not needed for phase one that goes into a Program Reserve, where does it get applied and what authority does the tjpa have over those dollars. For the Phase One Program budget, any withdrawals from the Program Reserve any withdrawal above 1 million requires board action. For the fiscal reserve, any withdrawal, regardless of the amount, requires board action. Contributions to the fiscal reserve in excess of 15 require board action. For a capital replacement reserve, the revisions that weve identified allow for the e. D. Or the c. F. O. To make moves in line with the Capital Asset replacement plan. And so the 193 million that we identified as tied to the life cycle replacement of the component of the building. Our guidance would be if its time for the kiosk to be replaced, and whatever that replacement amount is, that would be the recommendation, but then, we would also include it into the annual budgeting process so that theres always board approval for that. It wouldnt just be a unilateral sort of move. And then in terms of the disclosures that were identified here earlier, what most specifically, were talking about the capital replacement reserves that could potentially be on hand for longer than your typical spend down rule. So does that mean that would be a taxable leg so that youd have flexibility to bank that for longer than the threeyear spend down rule . Yes. Everything that would be identified for the capital replacement reserve would be taxable so were not subject to the i. R. S. Spend down rule. It looks like most of it will be respent, Program Reserves and so on. And then, in terms of the action that were taking today, the bond document identified, can you give an idea of what those are, just because thisll be the first time the board will be issuing the issuance of a bond and there are some Disclosure Requirements expected that we should be aware of. You called all the items together, and one of the items is the debt policy revision. So because we hadnt had a public sale before, our debt policy didnt necessarily address public bond sales, so weve gone through and added the things that are necessary for a public sale. So the first sort of action should be approving the debt policy so that it informs the bond documents or the sail of the bonds. In terms of the bond documents that you have that are included in the packet, theres the resolution going through the specific items, so not to exceed 315 million with a good faith estimate attached, so what we could expect by terms of Interest Rate and what were agreeing the terms that were agreeing to for this 315 not to exceed 315 million par. Then, theres a preliminary official statement thats attached, so that would be your offering document to your investors, but since we havent gotten fully through the structuring phase, there arent fill ins in the full amounts, but there are some good faith efforts of what those would be, and they wouldnt exceed 315 million. But you would refer to the actual statements, which is our investor documents. Additionally attached to it is the bond indenture, the disclosure certificate, and the continuing disclosure certificate. Continuing disclosure are the rules that we, tjpa, have to disclose to the investor community. Our financials, if theres any sort of material events in term of our credit changes, increases, decreases, so were committing to disclose to any investor our changes in our financial situation. The purchase contract is a contract between the initial underwriter and tjpa about the terms of the bond sale. And then, the bond indenture is kind of the full out terms of the description of the bonds and how the bonds will act. They wont be completed until we get through the rating agency, insurer conversations, and before we go to pricing, all the documents would become final and disclosed publicly. Thank you. Thats so helpful. And im going to go back to the numbers. So what were approving today in terms of the sources and uses, the 50 billion for t. I. 6, thats whats going to go back in the bucket. The Program Reserve of 35. 5 is the number. Yes. The 29 million is what we will adjustment. That is correct. And if theres moneys to be refunded to the city financing, that would be a separate line item . Yeah. Just im just making sure that what were finalized except for the nuance on the capital reserve and the city financing refunding. Correct. Okay. Thank you. I do want to also acknowledge my communications and actions on this is simply as a board member. As you know, im ocii, office of Community Investment and infrastructure. Im not obligating or committing the agency at this point because there are references to our role in the transaction, more specifically as how increment is facilitatds to the controller. Im just wearing my tjpa hat as an ombudsman. We will have comments on the o. S. And the preliminary shifting. Thank you. Director hursh. Thank you. With that, im happy to move items 16, 17, and 18. Thank you, director hursh. Theres a motion to approve. Is there a second . Second. Motion and second. Clerk great. With a motion first and a second on items 16, 17, and 18 [roll call] clerk thats seven ayes, and items 16, 17, and 18 are approved. Thank you. Congratulations on all the hard work. Now we want to know your ratings. Clerk go ahead and call your next item . Please. Clerk item 19 is approving the applicants to the tjpa Citizens Advisory Committee. Kristina falvo is going to present the item. We dont need a presentation. Do you need a presentation . I dont need a presentation. Ill move. Ill second. Its been moved and seconded to item 19. Clerk no members of the public wishing to comment on that. On item 19 [roll call] clerk thats seven ayes, and item 19 is approved. Chair hull, please pass along our congratulations to the new c. A. C. Members. Clerk all right. Go ahead and all your next item . Yes, please. Clerk item 20 is the election of chair and vice chair pursuant to the tjpa joint power agreement. Looking for a nomination. Looking for discussion pursuant to the nomination of the chair of this board. I would like to make a recommendation. I would like to nominate director sesay to be chair. As many of you know, director sesay has a long history of building the center and the downtown rail extension, and shes also one of the lead architects of the entire Financial Strategy for developing the transbay district which was a central element of the funding strategy for getting built what we have now, and laying the groundwork for the downtown rail extension. She is one of San Franciscos great leaders in Creative Capital financial tied to economic development, and her leadership is not only here but at the california level. She serves on the california debt and advisory commission. I cant think of a better person to lead this project forward than director sesay. I second that motion. Any other nominations . Seeing none, by acclimation, all of those in favor say aye. Ill pass this over to you. So i guess ill open this up for vice chair. Im also happy to nominate, particularly the role that san mateo and caltrain have played in ensuring that the Transbay Center is indeed a regional effort, its in San Francisco, but as weve seen from the way the Citizens Advisory Committee has formed, this project is completely dependent upon the cannoted leader upon the continued leadership of our commission with jeff gee, who has shown strong leadership in this project and for projects throughout the region. May i second that, as well. Okay. All in favor . [inaudible] i look forward to working with you. Thank you. And board in this new capacity as chair. Thank you. Wed shake your hands no. Clerk all right. So director, just to clarify, we have chair sesay taking on and director gee continuing on as vice chair. That does conclude your agenda for today. Okay. We are adjourned. Clerk thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the march 12, 2020, regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. Im supervisor mandelman. Our clerk is john carroll, and i want to thank s. F. Gov. Tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Your completed speaker cards and documents as part of the file will be submitted today as to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 21st, 2020, board of supervisors agenda, unless other stated. And related to the coronavirus disease, we are asking all attend decees of this meeting to maintain at least four feet between themselves and others, regularly wash your hands for 20 seconds at a time, and try to avoid touching highvolume services as much as possible. Thank you for that, mr. Clerk. For reasons related to the Current Public Health crisis, we are likely to continue items 3 and 4. So if anyone is here for those, you should be aware of that. So mr. Clerk, can you please call the first item. Item 1is a hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 57 special onsale beer and wine Liquor License to the owners association, doing business as the four seasons private residences, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county. Thank you. Good morning members of the board. You have before you p. C. M. For 607 mission, Residence Owner association. They have applied for a type 57 license, and if approved, it should allow them to sell special onsale general. There are zero protests, zero items of support. Theyre located on plot 212, consider a highcrime area, and a high saturation area. The southern station has no opposition, and a. L. U. Recommendation is to approve the license without recommending any new conditions. Chairman great, thank you. Is the applicant here, or a representative . Yes. Good morning. Im beth hopalofia, representing the applicant. We understand that the Supervisors Office has requested a continuance of this item and would like to meet with the project sponsor. So were making plans to do that prior to the next meeting date. Chairman fantastic. Thank you. If there are no comments or questions, well open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. As the applicants representative said, supervisor haney has requested with continue this item to allow additional time for his office and the applicant to meet. We can continue this item to the march 26th regular meeting and still not go past our 90day period during which were trying to make action. I will move we continue this to the march 26th regular meeting. We can take that without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item . Item 2 is the hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 48 onsale Liquor License to buzz works incorporated, at 365 11th street will serve the convenience and necessity of the city and county. You have before you p. C. M. For buzz works. If approved, this would allow them to operate an onsale. There are zero letters of protest. I understand there are letters of support. They are located on plot 242, considered a high crime area. On census track 1082, considered a high saturation. And a. L. U. Recommendation is to approve this license without any new conditions. Chairman great. Thank you. Is the applicant here . Members of the board, distinguished chair, im ladd coupe, and im the owner and operator of buzz works. Ive been in San Francisco and owning a variety of nightclubs and restaurants during the last 30 years. I own butter, a legacy venue, that has been there for quite a while. I opened up buzz works about four years ago. And weve had seamless integration and carefree operations. Weve been operating as a type 42, which is 21 and up, craft beer sports bar. The only thing that this new application will allow us to do is add a line of craft spirits, in addition to our craft beer offerings, which are the widest variety in the city of San Francisco. We look to complement our existing operations, which wont change because well still be a 21 and up drinking place. There is really no operational changes needed, other than having an additional line of product. Otherwise, you know, we appreciate your support. And we have a lot of support from our neighborhood, from all of the residents. And people who have been patronizing and supporting our operations and our venue for quite some time. And we look forward to moving forward and having a great relationship with San Francisco and the a. L. U. , and the Police Department and fire department, as we always have. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, my understanding is that supervisor haney is supportive of this application. And i dont see any reason not to make a motion or not to therefore direct our clerk to prepare a resolution, finding that this transfer will meet public convenience and necessity, and i will move to forward that resolution to the full board with positive recommendation, and we can take that without objection. Great. Mr. Clerk, please call our next item. Item 3is an ordinance amending the health code to require the director of health to adopt minimum and healthy standards in adult sex venues, but prohibiting them from adopting or regulate doors or mandate unlocked doors in areas where Sexual Activity may occur. Chairman colleagues, as i indicated earlier, although i am eager to have this item acted on by the full board, as part of the citys response to covid19, president yee has requested that Board Members postpone hearings that have large turnouts. So im going to be moving to continue this item to a future meeting, on a date to be determined, by the call of the chair. We do need to take Public Comment on this. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. And so i will move that we continue this call of the chair. We can take that without objection. Thank you, colleagues. Mr. Clerk, please call our next item. Agenda item 4 is a hearing to discuss the affects of ondemand delivery and Delivery Companies on Small Businesses. Chairman similarly, this is an extremely important topic, but in light of the current crisis, and president yees direction to postpone nonessential legislation are hearings with large public turnout, im going to, after taking Public Comment, move to continue this to the call of the chair. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . So ill just rules in Public Comment are we allow you two minutes. Please state your first and last name. If you have prepared written statements, youre encouraged to leave a copy with the clerk. No applause ar or booing is allowed. I will ad lib a small part of Public Comment that i feel it is a wonderful topic for you guys to bring up as a member of Small Business, and seeing the impact of the Delivery Services have had on myself and neighboring businesses and throughout the city. I think it is time that the city does take some sort of steps to regulate the viral spread of this and its impact. I mean, its really killing small restaurants and bars and stuff. And its hurting our bottom lines. Theyve got no overhead the way we do, and most of them use tactics to take advantage of the businesses that they serve. And it really needs to be really addressed. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Are there any other members if there are members of the public that would like to speak on this item, if folks could line up on the far side of the chamber. Hi. I heard what you said about the reasons for postponing it, and i thought that might happen today, but i rearranged my whole week to be here today, and i called city hall to find out if this meeting was happening specifically for this item. Im trying to figure out how in the future to make sure i have to get coverage for people at home, so how do i know if an item and the agenda is actually going to be heard, or if it is not, before i come to city hall. Is there a way for me to check that before i get here . Chairman i answer that or try to attempt to answer that after Public Comment is over. Thank you very much. Chairman are there any other members of the public . You wanted to say the same thing . Im victor eskovito, and we own two restaurants and a food truck. Really, this is really affecting us, where location Means Nothing anymore. And so there is its a real problem. And it could work. We could make it work, and i think it should be something that we should really address because it is going to put people out of business, and it is really going to change. If you want to attract good chefs to San Francisco, they have to start out with a Small Business and then maybe get hired with bigger restaurants. The whole dynamic of the San Francisco culinary culture is going to suffer if this is not really just regulated, and it has to happen. So it would be great to have it really taken seriously. Chairman thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before i close Public Comment. Public comment is now closed. So this is an extraordinary circumstance that were in. I would say one way to check on whether a hearing is happening is to call the office of the principle sponsor. In the case of ondemand delivery, perhaps supervisor safai or peskin ts office wouldnt necessarily have known these were going to be continued. Mr. Chair, if we do know, we can pass on this information or we can provide more direct Contact Information of someone who works in the office of the sponsoring supervisor to provide the information. My phone number is also on the front of our agenda. 4155544445, and interested constituents can contact me directly from that phone number. Chairman thank you, mr. Clerk. And the other thing i would say is i would, now for the duration of however long this lasts, i think it is worth, particularly if the agenda item looks like it might be nonessential or something that could be deferred until later, its worth checking before coming down here because we are trying to significantly limit members of the public congregating in any of these rooms and potentially spreading covid19. And, yes, chair ste stephanie . Thank you, chair manhandlmandelman. If you cant come to the next hearing, you can email us and the clerk and let us know your story and it can be added to the file. I want you to know your voice will be heard no matter what, if you cant make the next hearing date. There are other ways to communicate. I feel this is such an important topic. I would like to be added as a cosponsor to the hearing, and just know your voice can still be heard if you cant make the next hearing. Thank you. And i would just like to apologize to the folks who did come down and your voice has been heard, but i hope youll be able to come to this when it does eventually happen, when we are on the other side of the curve. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items before us today . Youve made a motion to call the chair chairman i have made a motion. Well take that without objection. Thank you. There is no further business. Chairman there is no further business, so were adjourned. Thank you. Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the march 9, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. I am chair hillary ronen. Seated to my right is rules Committee Member catherine stefani, and seated to my left is Committee Member gordon mar. Id like to thank sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you. Can you please read item number 1. Clerk item 1 is a motion appointing Megan Wallace to the Treasury Committee for a term ending june 30, 2021. Chair ronen thank you. Megan, if you want to come up . Thank you. My name is Megan Wallace. I just want to share a little bit about my qualifications. First, ive been a Public Servant in the areas of budget, finance, and Public Service for approximately 15 years. In 2008, my family moved to San Francisco, and i began my service with the city and county of San Francisco in the Mayors Office of housing and community development, first under mayor gavin newsom and then under temporary mayor edwin lee before moving to the Port Committee and working with that budget. Part of my work was overseeing the Bond Committee and most recently delving into ifde and issuances. Prior to transitioning sorry. As c. F. E. Of sfusd, i now oversee the School Facilities bond program, and we are preparing to go out for a bond sale this coming spring. Additionally, i just want to share that i am a resident of San Francisco. Ive lived in the city just over ten years, first in the neighborhood of Bernal Heights and then in the neighborhood of m mira loma park. All told, im a dedicated member of our local community, and ive been a Public Servant for over 13 years. And with my experience of budget and finance, i feel im a good qualified fit for this role. So thank you. Happy to answer any questions. Chair ronen thank you. Is there any questions . Thank you so much. Were so glad youre willing to serve in that capacity, as well. Thank you for that. Now lets bring this item up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public that wishes to speak, please come forward. No . Seeing none, eric meinke isnt here . Page shaw, eric meinke is working at this time. If you have any questions for the treasurer and tax collector, im happy to answer them. Chair ronen i just had notes that he was coming. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Would you like to do the honors . Supervisor stefani yes. Im very pleased to support Megan Wallace for this position. Weve worked together in many different capacities, and im glad to see you nominated to this board. Id like to move to approve the appointment of Megan Wallace to the Treasury Committee and move this forward with a positive recommendation. Chair ronen and we can take this item without objection. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please item 2. Item 2 is appointing one person, term ending june 30, 2022, to the aging and adult advisory counsel. Chair ronen and is janet petty here . Thank you. Im honored to be here to be considered to be on the aging and adult advisory committee. I earned my doctorate degree in organizational learning at the university of San Francisco where ive been a professor for 20 years. Human services have been the cornerstone of much of my work. Ive worked with organizations like glide, city college of San Francisco, united way the bay area, and the red cross, where ive been tasked with providing services to the adult and aging population. [inaudible] and many of them, as you know, are seniors. I interacted with many, and i manage a team of 12 who raised the money to support the programs, and it was at that point that i became seriously committed to working with seniors in San Francisco. My i was the foreperson of the San Francisco civil grand jury in 2015, and it was during that time that year that i learned about advocate programs for independent aging populations in the city, and i now look forward to reengaging in these efforts to ensure Quality Services and attention to our growing aging population. We all know that we currently face a Public Health crisis challenge due to the spread of covid19. Its been noted that the elderly are at particular risk, heightened by the growing number of cases in california, attributed to community spread, and if a member of the commission on aging advisory council, i will support the work of the commission to provide services to the aging population of San Francisco through this crisis and beyond. So thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve. Chair ronen thank you for your willingness to serve. Any questions . No . No. Thank you so much. Thank you. Chair ronen any member of the public wish to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Supervisor mar yeah, id be happy to. I recommend that we make a motion to accept janet petty nominated to the aging and advisory council. Chair ronen thank you. We can take that without objection. Thank you so much. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item three. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you. Hi. I am ian fregosi, legislative aide to supervisor fewer, which she apologizes she cannot be here today. The purpose of the Reentry Council is to coordinate local efforts to support adults exiting San Francisco county jail, San Francisco juvenile Justice System out of home placements, the California Department of corrections and rehabilitation facilities, and the United States federal bureau of prison facilities. So currently excuse me. So there are Seven Members of the Reentry Council who are formerly incarcerated persons, but none of them are allowed to serve as an officer of the council who can chair the meetings. Currently, all of the officers who are responsible for chairing the reentry meetings are criminal Justice Department heads and members of the Mayors Office. So this would allow one of the formerly incarcerated members to chair the meeting. Jose bernal, a formerly incarcerated member, and the other six members, proposed that one of the members be allowed to chair the meetings, and it was supported by the other members. The council decided since they were seeking an amendment to the officer clause, that they should also focus on cleaning up the other language in the ordinance. This is in line with supervisor fewers resolution to adopt personfirst language, which was adopted unanimously by the board of supervisors this year. So if its okay with you, chair ronen, im going to turn it over to joffrey, who can speak a little more about this ordinance and can answer your questions. So thank you for your time, and we hope to have your support. Chair ronen thank you so much. Hello, supervisors. I also wanted to give you one more clause that was added is, like, a conflict of interest clause. So one of the beautiful things is that our seven formerly incarcerated individuals got a job with a Law Enforcement agency, and so it appears to be, like, two votes because she now works for a Law Enforcement agency, and one of those clauses is if you are hired by any of the city departments that sit on the board, within 90 days, were the according to the update, were asking you to resign. But that 90 days gives the person a chance to resign. We dont want to discourage people from taking city employment while theyre on the council. Ian did not speak to that, but i wanted to know that. Because she works for adult probation, and it look like adult probation may have two votes. Shes a very hard advocate. She doesnt care who she works for, but we dont want a conflict of interest. While we opening it up, we might as well clean it up. So that is the reason for that. So if you have any other questions . Supervisor stefani i just have one quick one. In terms of the conflict of interest, can you just expand on that a little bit more . Like, what would be the conflict of interest if someone was taking their experience being formerly incarcerated and now working for the city in any capacity . I understand that its adult probation, but i just dont understand where the conflict is . Like, where is the division that would arise . So you can work for the city, just not one of the departments that sits on the council, so if one is a member who came if she got a job at the library, it wouldnt be a conflict. But when they vote, our vote, especially when in april, when we look at criminal Justice Reform bills, it could look like adult probation, they could vote in line with Law Enforcement. Members were questioning that. Supervisor stefani okay. So like any board, the port, the p. U. C. Is not on our board. Its 13 boards, like criminal justice, department of health, all that stuff. People want it to be nonbiased. Supervisor stefani okay. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I think this makes a lot of sense and would love to be added as a cosponsor, and with that, i will make a motion to send this item forward with a positive recommendation, and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. [gavel]. Chair ronen thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item 4. Clerk item 4 is an ordinance amending the police code to make an existing exemption to the paid parental leave ordinance to employers with fully paid family leave policies consistent with recent changes to state law. Chair ronen thank you so much. Supervisor stefani, do you want to make any opening remarks . Supervisor stefani yes, thank you. Colleagues, before you is a small technical change to our citys paid family leave program. In 2016, San Francisco became the first city in the country to ensure that employees receive 100 of their salary when they took paid parental leave. So San Franciscos Program Works like this. Under california law, in 2016, workers could take up to six weeks of partial paid parental leave. In San Francisco, employers are then required to pay the difference of these employees salaries so they are making 100 of their salary up to a certain limit. And last year, i think we all know that Governor Newsom extended the partial paid leave by two weeks to extend to eight weeks of partial paid program. Our citys current policy has an exemption for employers that provide more generous leave than required by city law. If an employer zoo giving fully paid leave to an employee for a number of weeks equal to or more than what is required by San Franciscos current law, they are exempted from the law because they are doing more than we require. When the time was extended from six weeks to eight weeks, a loophole was offered. The change in front of you would strike the word six weeks and replace with as required by the city and the state of california. This item was heard by the Small Business commission on january 27. The Commission Voted unanimously to recommend that the board of supervisors approve the legislation, and as a mother and, i know, supervisor ronen feels this way, too, this is a very important issue. I had the benefit of strong paid leave laws when i had my daughter, and it made all the difference. All of our workers deserve this leave, when it is particularly hard for lowincome paid workers to get by. I ask you to close this loophole and make sure that all San Francisco workers have full leave. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you. Any questions . Did you want to make any statements mr. Mulligan . Okay. Thank you. That was very clear and thorough. Thank you so much. I really want to thank you for this legislation. I it it feels, as a new mother, almost impossible to take your child to child care before theyre a couple months old, so even that is too short of a time, so i appreciate the governor expanding that period of time, and this legislation makes all the sense in the world to me, and id like to cosponsor it, as well. And do you want to do the honors . Sure. Chair ronen and thank you for cosponsoring. Supervisor stefani id like to move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. Chair ronen and that item passes unanimously. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, are there any other items on the agenda . Clerk that completes the agenda for today. Chair ronen thank you very much. The meeting is adjourned. After my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the belowmarket rate program. I got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [ ] the current Lottery Program began in 2016. But there have been lot rows that have happened for Affordable Housing in the city for much longer than that. It was there was no standard practice. For nonprofit organizations that were providing Affordable Housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. Private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city weve been monitoring for some time since 1992. We did it with Something Like this. Where people were given circus tickets. We game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. At the same time, we started electronic applications systems. Called dalia. The lottery is completely free. You can apply two ways. You can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. If you a plo apply online, it wl take five minutes. You can make it easier creating an account. To get to dalia, you log on to housing. Sfgov. Org. I have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. I was born here in the hayes valley. I applied for the San Francisco Affordable Housing lottery three times. Since 2016, weve had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. If you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. For some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. There is a Digital Divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. So we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. Along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and theres also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a firsttime home buyer workshop and a oneonone counseling session with the housing councilor. Sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldnt be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. They still might get a value for an available, Affordable Housing unit. We have a variety of Lottery Programs. The four that you will most often see are what we call c. O. P. , the certificate of Preference Program, the dthp which is the displaced penance Housing Preference program. The neighborhood resident Housing Program and the live worth preference. I moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. The neighborhood Preference Program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in San Francisco. The next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. You have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. All city sponsored Affordable Housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. Every week theres a listing on dalia. Something that people can apply for. Its a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. Lets say the lottery has happened. Several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. And how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. This particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. In my mind, i was like how am i going to win this . I did and when you get that notice that you won, its like at first, its surreal and you dont believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. Some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. They have key less entry now. They have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. Mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. We will Start Construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. We also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. And life happens to people. People move. So we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. Best thing about working for the Affordable Housing program is that we know that were making a difference and we actually see that difference on a daytoday basis. Being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, its a wonderful experience. Its a long process to get through. Well worth it when you get to the other side. I could not be happier. Good afternoon. I am the director of health. Thank you for coming today and late in the afternoon to learn more about the citys aggressive recommendations to reduce the spread of coronavirus and to protect the Public Health. We are proposing major changes for systems and individuals. I am greatly appreciative of the mayors leadership, partnership with the department of emergency management, with Mary Ellen Carol and the support of city agencies who work, clients and staff will be impacted by todays recommendations. After we learned yesterday of two coronavirus cases among San Francisco residents, we had proof that the virus is spreading in our community. We are taking swift action today. We are making strong recommendations for social distancing that are intended to reduce the spread of the virus and protect individual and community health. Here is the point. In order to decrease the impact of coronavirus on our community, we must reduce the times and places where people come together. We need to protect the people who are most vulnerable to getting sick or dying if they get coronavirus. In Public Health, we fight inif hifhefighfightdiseases all of t. Human viruses need people to carry them. They thrive in normal social circumstances. If we wait to take stronger action until we have multiple confirmed cases and deaths, the window of opportunity we have now will have closed. Looking at other places where there have been more cases and deaths, there are actions that we need to take before that happens. These actions are disruptive. It is meant to disrupt the spread of the virus. It is inconvenience. There will be hard ships and sacrifices for our residents and businesses. It is the best thing for Public Health to protect us from the worsens outbreak spreading across the country and our region. We are in good company. San mateo and santa clara counties have announced similar measures along with king county in washington including seattle. If this works in San Francisco, it may seem like over reaction because the virus spread will be reduced and fewer people will get sick. This is a lot to absorb. Let me review the key elements of the recommendations that the mayor announced earlier. We expect these measures to be in place for an initial period of two weeks, and we will continuously assess their impact to determine if they need to be adjusted. Now, i will go through the recommendations. Number one. Vulnerable populations. Limit outings. Vulnerable populations include people who are 60 years and older and people with Certain Health conditions such at heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, Kidney Disease and weekended immune systems. For these vulnerable populations dont go to gatherings of about 50 people or more unless it is essential. If you can tele commute, you should. Avoid being around people who are sick. Another recommendation number two. Workplace and businesses. Minimize exposure. Suspend nonessential employee travel. Minimize number of employees working with an arms length of one another including minimizing or canceling large in person meetings and conferences. Urge employees to stay home when sick and maximize flexibility and conferences. Do not require doctors note. Consider use of tele commuting options. Some people need to be at work to provide essential services of great benefit to the community. They can take steps in the workplace to minimize risk. Number three. Large gatherings. Cancel nonessential events. Remember postponing large gatherings such as concerts, sporting, events, conventions or Large Community events. Do not attend any events or gatherings if sick. For events that arent cancelled, we recommend having hand washing capabilities, hand sanitizers and tissues. Frequently cleaning hightouched areas like countertops and handrails. Find ways to create physical space t minimize close contact. Number four. Schools. Safety first. If there is a confirmed case of covid19 at the school, dph will work with the school and district to determine the best measures including potential school closure. Do not go to school if sick. If you have a child with Chronic Health conditions, consult with your Healthcare Provider about school attendance. Equip all schools and classrooms with sanitizers and tissues. Explore remote teaching and Online Options to continue learning. Schools should develop a plan for Countywide School closures and families should prepare for potential closures. Number five. Transit. Cleaning and projection. Increase cleaning of vehicles and high touched surface areas. Provide hand washing andtish anothers in station tissues in stations and in vehicles. Number 6. Avoid as possible to protect most vulnerable. Long Term Care Facilities must have acorhave a the coronavirus. Longterm care must screen staff and visitors and turn away those with illness. General public should afvote going to hospitals, Nursing Homes and longTerm Care Facilities. If you are ill call your Healthcare Provider ahead of time and you may be able to be served by phone. Do not visit the emergency room unless it is essential. Number 7. Everyone do your part. The best way for all those in San Francisco to get sick as always with seasonal colds or flu. Wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds, cover your cough or sneeze. Stay home if sick. Avoid touching your face. Try alternatives to shaking hands like an elbow bump or wave. If you have recently returned from a country, state or region with ongoing Coronavirus Infections monitor your health and follow the instructions of public Health Officials. There is no recommendation to wear a mask to prevent yourself from getting circumstance. Getting sick. Keep uptodate. Today is a new service to make that easier for those in San Francisco. Sign up for official updates by texting covid19 sf to 888777. That is 888777. You can also visit the Health Departments website at sf sfdph. Org. Thank you. I think we have time for a few questions. We will answer your questions about the cruise ship situation. Thank you. The status for us really hasnt changed since yesterday. The state is working with the cdc and the feds to continue to determine the most appropriate berth for the ship. Now we do not know what the time determination is. We assume San Francisco could potentially still be that location. We also are waiting information. We know about what you do. [ inaudible ] no, they are not. The people on the mexican cruise. How many are there . We have that information, and they have been contacted by the health department. How many . Over 100. I cant give you a number more specific than that. 100 people from San Francisco were on that cruise . Yes. Were they San Francisco residents . Okay. Can you tell us if they are showing symptoms . Or are they being tested . They are told to contact their Healthcare Provider and will follow the guidelines for testing. Are they in the hospital currently . I am not aware of any at this time. What about the situation has the student been tested. I can not speculate on individual testing at this time. What about the two from yesterday. There is no update on the condition of the patients. We wish them well. No one has tested positive since yesterday. As of this afternoon we know additional positive tests. What is your message . Are they to cancel concerts . I hope they will follow recommendations because that is for Public Health at this time. Our recommendation is to cancel large events. Music concerts . Our recommendation is to cancel large events. Is the city canceling large events . The city will certainly follow the guidelines for all city events. Will that include the st. Patricks day parade . The st. Patricks day would fall under these recommendations. Any update on the woman that has been to the campus . I am not going to speculate on individual cases for privacy reasons. I dont have information to share. Any other questions on the recommendations announced social distancing . We have time for two more questions. Are city workers told not to come to city hall . These recommendations will apply to city workers, and the city will add here to these recommendations. We will follow the recommendations as announced today. What about Public Transit . Is someone going to clean buses or trains . We are recommending increased cleaning in touch with our muni leadership to be sure this can be carried out. You mentioned the hardship this might create temporarily for San Francisco businesses. Can you go into that more . I understand this is a disruptive situation. There is a lot of people looking into the Economic Impact of this. Very concerned about it. Looking for potential sources of support with regard to the impact. Our focus is on the Public Health. We need to disrupt social engagement as much as we can to avoid transmission of coronavirus. These are based on the best Global Health information that we have at this time. They are informed by cdc guidelines and consistent with neighboring counties recommendations. Dont go out to dinner, stay out to eat for everybody . I would ask that these were detailed. We are making these available to everyone. Our recommendation is to follow these specific guidelines at this time. Have you compelled private businesses to not have concerts . These are recommendations. You cant force them . These are recommendations. Thank you. I dont think we have any more information about the ship than provided. The Vice President said it would go to a noncommercial port. We on wonder what that means . We only know what we have heard from the Vice President and the media. Thank you all so much for coming. Good morning everyone. The meeting will come to order this. Is the march 11, to 20 regular meeting. I am chair of the finance committee i am joined by