Transcripts For SFGTV Transbay Joint Powers Authority 20240713

Members of the public and staff for watching us live on sfgovtv. Madame secretary, please call the roll . If you could respond. Director forbes . Here. Director haney . Haney present. Hursh present. Lipkin, i think youre on mute . Director i think hes having internet problems. Weve seen him. Hes waved at us and said a little bit before he lost connection. So im sure hell be back shortly. Director tavares is absent. Director tumlin present. Vice chair gee present. Chair sesay present. Madame chair, you have a quorum. Call your next item . All right, directors, the next item is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. Callers can dial in and listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. Members of the public have three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. I will announce when Public Comment is on each item or for general Public Comment. During each Public Comment period, viewers and callers will be instructed to dial 1 888 3634735 and enter pass code 4134030 followed by the pound sign. Press the pound sign again to enter. This number will appear on the screen during the board meeting. When public callers are connected, they listen to the instructions and when prompted dial one and zero to speak to specific items. Theyll be lined up in the system in the order they dial 1 and 0. While theyre waiting, the system will be silent and will notify them when they are in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. And everyone must account for the time delays and speaking discrepancies between live its best to call from a private location, private and quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly. Turn down television or radio. If there are no other comments from Board Members, i dont see any hands, madame chair, im not aware of any other Communications Board members have. Chair sesay call the next item, please. It looks like we may have it looks like we lost video connection to director lipkin, but did you just maybe call in and b. Lipkin yeah. Im having a little trouble on the technical side, but im on the phone here. Understood. So well note that, director lipkin is with us via phone. With that, madame chair, your next item. Item 4 is board of directors old or new business and i am not aware of any. Dont see any members of the board indicating theyd like to comment on this item. We can go ahead. Next item . Chair sesay please. Item 5 is the executive directors report. I would like to update you on the continued efforts to respond to covid19. We continue to operate so that essential workers can commute to work, work so that residents [inaudible] were also remaining zone [inaudible] weve been able to do so while partnership with our we are supporting the policies of social distancing, businesses and educating people to wear face masks. At the same time, we continue to engage in increased facility provide for the [inaudible]. We continue to monitor by area of officers ensuring they are in compliance and public [inaudible] we know that the coronavirus pandemic is not over. We expect well be living with it for a long time. Thats why were [inaudible] center at which we are planning for additional signage and education and outreach. Social distance to wear masks and expand their obligations to prevent the virus. I would like to also update you on the former as i chaired San Francisco covid19 as well. Its my understanding that the test of potential uses and alert us when they have decided if and how they would like [inaudible] raise concerns about the terminal. My understanding, work with and notify the community once they have decided i will continue to update you on the response to the rapidly changing outbreak. With regard to operations, remain open, however, its [inaudible] by working with operators, ridership and Partners Center safe and clean staffing. As we continue to chief finance officer. Our tenants as you know, placed order, open for business temporarily closed. I reported that locations be open for business. They reported us recently that they have just converted those to however, the time line of completion. And opening retail construction, the construction phase is unknown due to the impact of the order outreach. We are able to reopen because of the actions. Our goal is to be Public Interest and i also want to be consistent with other public agencies just as others are providing in regards to the expansion project, we received an allocation from the authority in april to allow us to resume work. We expect that the San Francisco planning sorry, Pacific Rim Program by the board last month be later this month. At which time we expect to have a report. On todays agenda, which i will present later, we have an item moved by the board that allows us to use the funding with the board and to our work. Resume our work. Announcing a new hire. I am happy to report that has that by the board to allow us to madame chair, director haney would like to speak on the item. Chair sesay thank you. Director haney, nice to see you. Supervisor haney good to see you. Director, i have questions about the transbay, the old transbay site, and what exactly happened and what is going to happen in the future. Can you speak a bit more about the decisionmaking process that you took in deciding to sign that lease. It was i found out about it from your email as not only a member of this board but also as the supervisor of the district, and as far as i understand, our board was not consulted on this. And also the community, the surrounding neighbors, many of them found out about this from the email that you sent out. Im can you talk about the decision and how it was made and who was consulted and why the neighborhood wasnt consulted on this decision . Sure. Supervisor. We were approached by the Mayors Office in april with the desire to [inaudible] to be a partner with the mayor, solve the issue we didnt think it was an agreement with the mayors. [inaudible] decision to is moving my authority provided by the board. I used that authority to [inaudible] partner with the mayor on which to i do apologize for not consulting with you. I did assume that that i apologize for it. However, we did it in partnership with the mayor. My understanding that the Mayors Office with the community once they have decided when to use the site. [inaudible] supervisor haney thank you for that. A couple of things. At least as far as my perspective on this, i do think that we should not just be completely saying, you will handle this and its their responsibility. This is our property as a transbay authority, weve signed a lease. I do think that we are an important and critical neighbor and stakeholder in the area and definitely in my conversations with surrounding residents and businesses, they feel this was not only, you know, what the city has done, but it has damaged trust and the relationships with transbay specifically with the neighborhood. Which i think is important for us to maintain. So, i would say that im not certain that it is the right strategy to completely defer all public input and public process to the city on this. Can i ask you about the lease . So is the lease indefinite based on the amount of the length of the state of emergency . What specifically does the lease say in terms of the length at which this could be used for this purpose . Which basically it sounds like weve signed a lease that allows the city to use this for this purpose and whenever and if the mayor decides . Supervisor, i do apologize that we didnt consult with, more closely than with the neighborhood. The partner with the mayor. The lease is specific that expires 30 days after [inaudible] order is lifted. Again, i think that decision emergency, what i understand [inaudible] supervisor haney just so i understand, in that sense its not a monthtomonth lease, its an indefinite lease because we dont know when the shelterinplace is going to be lifted. It could go on for many months. In fact, that side is slated for development at some point. How do we know that this wont delay or interfere with the plans for that site . If the lease that is signed is essentially indefinite, we dont know when the shelterinplace is going to be lifted. We dont know when its going to be lifted, but i hope its sooner than later. I think [inaudible] willing to start housing supervisor haney and executive director, this is deborah miller. If i could add a point of clarification. The city did request, its a license request and the city did request that the license agreement extend for 30 days after the mayors order is lifted, but we inserted a clause providing that the tjpa may terminate on 30 days notice. So it is 30 days notice. Supervisor haney i would look at how it could impact future plans of the site. We dont know how long the shelterinplace is going to last and how to define what that means. Its possible if the site was used for that purpose, that it could be there for many, many months to the point that it affects longterm plans. I do think this is a very impactful decision for the work of this authority. And i dont think it should be taken lightly about this board in terms of whether this moves forward. So i would, you know, ask that we are consulted more on what this means for our responsibility as the board authority. And, supervisor, i would note this is deborah miller, because its term nabl on 30 days notice permanent consistent with the redevelopment plan and options for the site, so there was thinking about that and that was part of the reason for inserting the 30day termination, so there wouldnt be impact on the longterm planning for that site. Supervisor haney i appreciate that. But if we move 80 people into that site, it does have longterm questions in terms of our ability, even if we were going to terminate it, then there would have to be a plan for where all these people go. I dont think its as simple to say we can simply terminate in 30 days considering what the intended use would be. So i raise all of that. And you know, i hope that you can understand that this does that many thousands of people in the neighborhood contacted me and they were asking about the role of transbay in it and this has had an impact on our relationship are the neighborhood as transbay and we should consider that as we plan forward and not completely defer everything to the city. And assume that is going to be done well or effectively. Its ultimately our property as the transbay authority. Chair sesay thank you, director haney. Do we have any Board Members wishing to speak on this item . Any questions for id like to speak on the item. Thank you so much, director, for the report. And recognizing supervisor haney, cochairs comments, i think it is a difficult situation in that as Property Owners, were to provide resources for the citys response and integration with neighborhood concerns, discussion of programming, et cetera, its difficult for the Property Owner to put themselves completely in that position given that its a citywide response that requires property and resource execution across the system. So id just like to make that comment and figure out how we can support what supervisor haney is saying and i completely support it in a way that recognizes that there are very serious needs that require resources across the system to accomplish. Thank you. Chair sesay thank you, director forbes. Anybody else . Wishing to comment on the item . Any other members of the public that want to comment on the item, madame chair, it does appear we have one Public Commenter to comment on the item. Should we go ahead and play it . Chair sesay yes, please. If we can go ahead and put them into the system here so they can begin commenting, moderator . You have two questions remaining. Hi, caller, please state your name. You have three minutes once you start speaking. Good morning, directors. The only comment id like this make at this point is that director zabaneh is inaudible. I dont know if you can hear them, we cannot. Either can sfgovtv. The closed captioner is captioning everything as inaudible. What i would request is that you ask mr. Zabaneh to post the director report on the website, on the agenda, on item 5, and the last that we have the same two days ago. That could be addressed as soon as possible it would be much appreciated. Thank you. Moderator, please, put through the next caller . You have one question remaining. Please state im a neighbor hi, there, please state your name. Hi. Yeah. Thank you. Im a neighbor of the transbay site and i just thought it was very surprising that there was zero outreach about the making it a safe sleeping site. The mayor didnt reach out to us at all, so i appreciate director haneys comments. And i believe more information is needed about this. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Moderator you have zero questions remaining. All right, madame chair, that concludes members of the public that wanted to comment on the item. Next calendar item . Chair sesay yes please. Item 6, we have the presenting ball to you. Good morning. Good morning. Okay, ill share my screen. Good morning, directors and public. Pleased to be here to give you an update on the closeout. And let me see if i can share here. Can you hear me . We can hear you. We cant see you anymore. Yeah, the the application wanted to switch over to something. Im not sure what happened here. Can you see my screen at all . No. Oh, boy. If i can i have it. I figured just in case, i can share it and ron can speak to it. Let me try it. Give you the ball, one sec. Right. Lets see, hes passing the presenting privileges to you. And try sharing your screen. Okay, am i back . I can hear you, ron. I see denniss screen now. This is what youre showing, dennis . Yes, ill be switching over to the pdf here and then ron should be ready. Okay, thanks dennis. Can you expand that, dennis . Yeah, and get to the fullscreen mode. And then, ron, you can let me know when you want to forward. Ill just forward to the next screen there. Yeah, please, slide that slide. Thank you so much, dennis. Just in brief since the last report was made Good Progress on the closeout despite all the obvious challenges that weve had. We are down to one last trade package that is in the finalizing stage to close out other than the previously discussed dozen or so trade packages that will be going through the dispute resolution process. In fact, we were tracking about 13 trade packages that were going to take the longer dispute resolution process and weve narrowed it down to 12 now. So Good Progress leaving us to allowing us to be at 36 trade packages completely closed out. We will be reporting in the upcoming meetings with the legal team on the details of the dispute resolution trade packages. I think im ready to go onto the next slide, please. Our contingency cost has been a little bit of a drawdown on the construction contingency of . 6 million and replenishment of point 4 to the contingency and that was due to a credit back on an unused allowance. Generally, as i mentioned at the last meeting, our construction contingency is down to 1. 6 million and cmgc is down to 5. 5, with an Overall Program reserve of 30. 6 million. And i think the budgeting presentation will speak to some movement, because clearly, i believe well be needing to draw down a bit on the Program Reserve to address all of the closeout issues. And thats probably a good lead on to the last budget slide. Thank you, dennis. And overall budget, were staying within the Overall Program budget of 2. 259. 4 billion. Our phase one target, the estimate at completion is 2. 174. 5 billion. And thats a little over our target for obvious reasons with the challenges weve had, but as i mentioned, were maintaining the overall budget. And thats pretty much an overview. Were pleased were closing out all the trade packages other than the dozen that weve been tracking. And we will be narrowing those down or prioritizing. Some will probably be resolved through d. R. A. Process. Others may. And moving forward to mediation and or the courts. So we are very near to putting phase one down into the books. With that, ill take any questions. Madame chair, i do not see any members of the board that have indicated they want to comment on this item . Chair sesay okay. If we have no members wishing to speak on this item, can we do we have any members of the public which wish to comment. Yes, we do. Moderator, if you could please open the phone line and let the public caller come through . If there are any other members you have one question remaining. Sorry, can you hear me . Yes, please state your name. You have three minutes for your comments once you begin speaking. My name is ma dal, id like to comment on the previous topic regarding the sleeping site. And my comment is as a neighbor, can you rescind the decision to give free access to the city right now . Can you give access to the city if the rather was in front area was in front of your home . And three, would you comment to the safety of the neighborhood because our buildings would have to hire security and incur additional expenses because of the decision. I think this decision is shameful in the way the city was given free access and the neighborhood was not consulted. Thank you. All right. Madame chair, that does conclude members of the public who wanted to comment on this item. We can go ahead and move into your next item . Chair sesay thank you, yes, please. All right. The next item, item 7 is the cac update and chair derek holt has been advising there is nothing to report to you at this time. Go ahead and call the next item. Item 8, directors, Public Comment, which is an opportunity for members of the public to address the authority on matters that are not on todays calendar. And i am taking a look now to see if we have any callers in the queue to speak on item 8 . They have an opportunity to do so now to address you on items that are not on todays calendar. It appears we have one caller. If there are any other callers, please follow the instructions stra streaming on the screen that we relayed earlier in the meeting. Please put the caller through. You have one question remaining. Hi, caller, please state your name and three minutes will begin as soon as you start speaking. Hello, again. Th my comment is about the cac, the governments executive order is very clear, that members of the public must be able to participate and observe. Observe is a key word. We were not allowed to observe. The members of the cac on the video conference. Members of the public were not able to even join or observe video conference. So i hope that will be resolved by the next cac meeting. If you want to see how its done, i suggest that you watch the sfgovtv meetings that are forth coming later this month. Thank you. That concludes members of the you have one question remaining. There is another caller. Caller, if you could please state your name. Three minutes begin when you start speaking. Can you hear me . Yes. A little faint. Im a resident here of the neighborhood. I have a question. So concerned about use of the site from perspective and as a viable solution. [inaudible] and actually follow the proper procedures when it comes to doing the community. If the time comes to actually new contractor as supervisor haney highlighted things in advance, like when the election [inaudible] and what theyre going to be to proceed, how many people are going to live there, how [inaudible] just want to point out also that there is like because of the decision. Disrupt and [inaudible] market and i dont believe the decision was there was actually that shows multiple sites. So speaking specifically of the one. I would like to know why the decision was made. Thank you. Madame chair, that concludes. You have zero questions remaining. That wish to address you under this item. Next item is a consent calendar. All matters listed are considered to be are you teen and would be routine and would be acted upon by a single vote. There would be no discussion of the items unless it is requested. I will take a moment to see if there are any members of the board that wish to have any items considered separately . I see no hands. I see no indication. Well go ahead and check to see if there are members of the public that wish to have any items considered separately. We have zero callers in the queue to that wish to address the consent calendar, so madame chair, your items are, item 9. 1, approving the minutes of april 9, 2020 meeting and authorizing the executive director to execute the project specific Maintenance Agreement with the California Department of continuation to provide for Mutual Understanding of the maintenance responsibilities between the parties related to the tjpas ramp facility and associated improvements. Ill move approval. Chair sesay can i have a second . Second. Great. With the first and the second, director forbes . Forbes aye. Haney aye. Hursh aye. Lipkin aye. Tumlin aye. Gee aye. Sesay aye. That is seven ayes and the consent calendar is approved. We can go ahead and move into the next item. Chair sesay thank you. Directors, the next item is item 10, presentation of and public hearing for draft budgets for fiscal year 20202021, budget operating in 22,125,369. Capital budget for phase one, 2 and tenant improvements in the amount of 81,53 81,532,269. And we have our chief Financial Officer to present on the item. And i have thanks. Thank you, all, for that opportunity to present the 2021 draft operating budget, operating and Capital Budget. Our budgettime line is such that we present a preliminary budget to you in january and then a budget outlook in april and a draft budget in may. And then a final budget for approval in june. And the draft budget we provide a comprehensive overview of our projections for next year and then take your feedback and do further refinements until we can achieve a final budget that we present in june. For this year, 2021, operating budget, there is some overarching things that are tantamount to the budget. Overall, weve taken into the consideration covid19 and the shelterinplace orders using as guidelines, weve achieved an overall reduction of expenses and revenue of 6. 3 million. We assume there will be a sixmonth delay in occupancy by our tenants. We are taking consideration of our reserve position. With these adjustments, weve also been able to achieve some additions that are necessary for the cooperations of the Transit Center. Those additions are, dollars for the park Landscape Maintenance, physical Security System maintenance, critical i. T. And hardware maintenance contracts, dollars for capital maintenance repairs and replacement and to take into consideration rising insurance premiums. The overall 2021 draft operating budget is reduced by 22 from 28 million at our preliminary budget presentation to 22 million. Most of the reduction is as a result of lower revenues and then commensurate expense cuts. You can see in this slide, weve cut administrative costs, weve cut the park costs and the overall transit operations for 22 reduction. Some areas taking larger reductions to accommodate the full 22 . Turning to revenues. The most impacted revenues in retail leases. Were expecting 54 decrease in revenues. 15 reduction in advertising. And 15 reduction in dollars. Those reductions have been offset by increased contributions from our transit operators, ac transit and sfmta, to achieve an overall Budget Reduction of 6. 3 million. This slide here shows you itemized, the specific revenues, arm 2, arm 3 and all of our other revenues that the Transit Center is able to generate, the full impact of the reductions compared to our preliminary projections. On to expenses. Weve employed several balancing strategies to reduce our expenses commensurate with the revenues. Weve scaled the operational budget as a very lean operation. Weve modified our administrator costs significantly and shared the costs across the whole program. Weve scaled back maintenance, janitorial and utility costs based on diminished business use. We found efficiencies in scheduling security to achieve savings. Weve adjusted Park Management for passive parks to reduce. And weve removed commissions from the operations budget. Again, the additions we were able to add while balancing the revenues and the expenses were adding the park Landscape Maintenance contract, adding the physical Security System maintenance contract, the i. T. Hardware costs, Transit Center insurance and maintenance and repairs. The itemized operational costs, as you can see here, each category has been reduced with the exception of insurance and Park Maintenance and programs. The Park Maintenance and programming line is a shift taking maintenance, janitorial units that are allocated specifically to the park. The reductions in the overall maintenance, janitorial, facility, some has been shifted to accommodate that. Weve gone through significant lengths to reduce all of the expenses to our best ability and continue to look for other opportunities in either additional revenue or other efficiencies that we can gain for this reduced operational budget. Moving on to the Capital Budget. This presentation separates the various phases of the Capital Budget. So phase one, there is phase two and then there is improvements. As we pull tenant improvements out of phase one calculation. Our overall Capital Budget is 81 million with 27 million being allocated to phase one, 23 million for phase 2, and 30 million projected for tenant improvements and supported by various revenue sources, our anticipated bond receipts from our intending bond sales, our allocation from our sales tax, reimbursements from cfd bonds, some remaining loan proceeds, and Transit Center impact fees. Weve also had a line for transfers from program or fiscal reserves to accommodate the projected expenses as we move forward. In terms of expenses in these Capital Budgets in phase one and phase two, we have minimal amounts in salaries, benefits and admin costs. And more of the costs are in construction, either intended improvements or the construction closeout in terms of phase 1. Specifically in phase 1, the 27. 5 million falls into two different categories. Its the administrativelegal, any direct administrative costs, project management, project controls, claims management and dispute resolution. That accounts for a small portion of it, but the majority of the 27 million is in the construction claims program. There is an opportunity as mr. Alameda referred to earlier in needing some transfer from the fiscal the Program Reserves in order to support the construction closeout. But as we move through may to june, well refine those numbers to provide a specific amount that might be needed to facilitate this project. For phase 2, weve projected 23 million in expenses and it is a robust projection. We assume 2. 6 million in administrative costs. This cost is bolstered by two new positions to support the executive Steering Committee established by the San Francisco rail program. It would be the Program Director and administrator in support of the esc. Additionally, we have 3. 8 million in professional services which is financial management, legal counsel, economic analysis, real estate and possible right of way costs, depending on how quickly theyre able to ramp up and move forward. Additionally, weve cited Engineering Design Services Costs at 17. 2 million. It is very optimistic and were really hoping to move it forward so our presentation now provides dollars although they may be refined to a lower amount based on conversations and work plans developed through the esb and tjpa. For tenant improvements, weve projected 30 million in additional expenses and this covers tjpa admin project management and commissions at 3. 4. So weve moved some of our staffing costs to tenant improvements to provide closer oversight. Weve allocated a million for base building finishout. Weve added 14 projecting 14 million for tenant improvement construction. These Construction Costs include additional projections for the utility relocation. The phase one, phase two, and tenants improvements all project uses of fiscal or reserves. Phase one is projecting use for the construction closeout dispute resolution. Phase 2 would use program or fiscal reserves for engineering and design services. And tenant improvements would use the fiscal reserves to accommodate the increased cost for utilities, relocation and finish out. We understand that in these times that the budget is the operating budget is in flux as we get new information about revenues and the shelterinplace orders and how the restrictions will be eased and how were able to accommodate those. So we fully intend to come back to the board on quarterly basis to provide updates about new Revenue Opportunities or new cost as they shift and well continue to have refinement as we go along allowing for comment and being nimble in our operations here at tjpa. So with that, ill take any questions. Chair sesay madame secretary, can you see any members of the board of directors wish to speak . Yes, madame chair. I have not i dont see any hands up, but i would turn to the directors now to see if anyone wants to comment on the item. It does appear that we lost director haney. Im not sure if it was a connection and director forbes. Im on the phone. There you are. Thank you for putting that together for us. I like the way that youve balanced the shortfall you see today realizing that is information we dont fully know at this point because were in such a financial crisis as a country and city. So its very important to me we have flexibility to iterate with the team as more information comes clear to leverage funding opportunities and also only to make those cuts that we need to make, because its very important that the tjpa emerge in a strong position just like other organizations to deliver key improvements, transit improvements, for the city. So i think it was very well prepared and i want to compliment staff. Thank you. And madame chair, director lipkin. B. Lipkin yeah, good morning. And thank you for the great presentation. Director forbes i wanted to echo her comments and reiterate the importance in the uncertain world that we live in, that we do have those opportunities to revisit the fy21 budget as we go along because of what we know today is the best information we have. And i want to praise you for the great work of trying to forecast all those Different Things out. But you know, at least my world has shifted a lot in the last eight weeks. To say its not going to shift in the next 15 weeks is not practical. I appreciate youre already think being that and will come back as necessary to make shifts as we know more. And hopefully, its better news than where we are today, but it seems like a prudent start to the fiscal year. Thank you. Chair sesay any other directors . M. Hursh thank you, id like to echo director forbes compliments to staff. Id also like to compliment staff for working with my team at ac transit. I am going to vote yes, i think tjpa staff have done an excellent job and thank you, and ill vote yes for this today. Any other directors wishing to speak on this item . Madame chair, i dont see any other hands up from Board Members. Chair sesay okay. Id like to express my gratitude as well. Thank you for putting this together. Its helpful to see that were refining the budget in light of what is going on. And looking forward to partnering with you in the approval in june. Hopefully, things will change for the better, but we flow its going to be a know its going to be a while, but were happy to work with you on that. With that, madame secretary, any members of the public who wish to speak on this item . Madame chair, we have one member of the public queued up. I wanted to mention if members of the public are on the line, we have other listeners, if they want to speak to this specific item, they should press 1 and 0 to be placed in the queue. For now, if you could put the caller into the open line. You have one question remaining. Hi, caller, if you could state your name. Your three minutes will begin as soon as you start speaking. Thank you, this is roland again. The first thing id like to bring to the boards attention is that i was extremely surprised there was no cac report, because there was a robust discussion about the funding. Specifically, i would like to attract your attention to the transit authoritys april 14 board meeting, item number 18, which is where the allocation is. The allocation is for 12 million, not 23. But not only that, weve seen two separate notices of proceeds. 8 million. And it will be on reserve until released by the board following, number one, both acceptance of the projects phasing strategy and main stream budget and schedule. And number two, the identification of a new Program Director, through a mum dumb memorandum of understanding. The last comment i would like this make. I recommended that once they figured out what theyre going to be doing here, they provide animation that can be seen by the board and the public saying exactly what theyre going to do. In my letter to the board, the link at the bottom, one was a trench, the other was a tunnel. They were both rejected because of the foreclosure around palo alto. Thank you. You have zero questions remaining. Madame chair, this does conclude members of the public who want to comment on the item. Chair sesay thank you. Call the next item. The next item is the item 11, authorizing the executive director to execute an amendment to the professional Services Agreement for program controls, exercise remaining option to extend the agreement by four years, july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2024. Increasing the budget by 14,600,000, 0 to support the advancement of the Transbay Program phase 2, downtown rail extension to ready for procurement and status. Ill pass you the ball, one moment. All right, mark. Should be getting those privileges shortly. Have you got it, mark . Can you see it . Not yet. There we are. You can see it . Yes. M. Zabaneh this item would extend the Program Agreement with urs by exercising the remaining options for four years. Also increase the budget by 14. 6 million to be done in the next four years. [inaudible] next slide. This contract will extend the term from july 1, 2020 to june 30, 2024. The term of the extension is based on the and process of four years. [inaudible] because funding depends on the plan that has the different scenario and just adjust that as we move forward. Order contract prior to each fiscal year, staff develop a work plan based on needs for the [inaudible] annual budget. So we have the money we need to do the work and were going to use it as work [inaudible]. Acts of extension of the staff scope of the work is knob proposed services, also support for the work of the Steering Committee. And also [inaudible] summary that we executed partners. Support [inaudible] status and for program be able to capture [inaudible] funding become available as well as the public funding with the [inaudible] some background. Urs was authorized by the 2014, for ten years. There was a base term at options for the board to exercise the extent of the agreement. [inaudible] closing was project in project services for the completion of the center in construction. As a work, prior amendments of the agreement have allowed for continue to work student services, and also to operations. With little bit of work on the [inaudible] but limit number 4, increase the by 5. 7 million. And the work limit was never completed because the funding by so we have [inaudible] amendment move forward with work on the extension. The contract project services [inaudible] and process or finalizing preliminary Engineering Services that we hope the board in the next couple of months. We need both contracts. We need the project Management Contract as well as the [inaudible] in order to be able to [inaudible]. And this completes my presentation. Any questions . Ill be [inaudible]. Thank you. We have directors wishing to speak on this item or ask questions . Supervisor haney this is director haney, i have a question. Chair sesay please go ahead, director haney. Supervisor haney it seems to me this is an extension of four years, is there a reason why we didnt put this out to bid and why we are simply extending it rather than having a more open process . M. Zabaneh supervisor haney, this is a 10year contract that has years and the board is able to extend it two terms to enable the [inaudible] work. Wed be going out with a new Contract Services that was provide that will provide work on the project. Terminate the contract and not extend it [inaudible] full services and a lot of certain knowledge of the project. And would also delay work on the project for [inaudible] supervisor haney what sort of assessment of the performance of this contract has been done in terms of been working on it for a while and obviously, there have been some things that have not gone well. How have we assessed and what sort of metrics are we looking at for performance on the contract so far . M. Zabaneh yeah, this well qualified. And tender of the projects was to elect funding so there is a lot of stops and starts for the project. And that is kind of the [inaudible] be able to be more sufficient. Now that we have the money from tjpa, were able to move forward along with the Engineering Contract that in the next couple of months. Supervisor haney okay. Chair sesay any other board of directors wishes to speak on this item . J. Tumlin may i ask a couple of questions . Chair sesay yes. J. Tumlin good morning, my apology for the technical difficulties. I can see the presentations but not you. My apologies. Sort of following up on director haneys questions and the executive director minutes for the meeting. I would like to ask that the june meeting, that, mark, you come back to the board next month and give us a presentation, a highlevel presentation or overview of the services and the procurement methods that youll need for initiating engineering on phase 2. Youve said you shared with us that you need Engineering Services. Youll need project controls here with this item. May need to recruit a project director. How will tjpa go through the process of procuring those services . What other services are needed . At a high level. I dont think we need to see the details of the r. F. P. S or the solicitations, but what services are needed. What is the timeline . What is the process so that the board and the public can be informed . Likewise, i think, while i understand the need for this extension of services, its also difficult to continue for four more years and say then were going to open a recruitment for new project controls while this team is four years deep into phase 2 or d. T. X. So there is a balance point of when new recruitment for project control services is needed versus the Institutional Knowledge or project history. So, at the next meeting, hopefully, we can meet members of the esc, be able to provide us a highlevel overview of the procurement strategies necessary so were all on board. M. Zabaneh ill be happy to do that. Thank you. Chair sesay okay. If no other directors wish to speak on this item, ill turn it over to madame secretary, if we have members of the public . Thank you, madame chair. Lost some connection myself. We do have one caller. That is lined up and again, if folks are listening on the line, dial 1 and 0 to be put into the queue. Moderator, if you could put the caller into the open line. You have one question remaining. Hi caller, if you could state your name. Your three minutes begin as soon as you start speaking. Thank you. Be very brief. Also following up on the director haneys comments. The first thing id like to bring to your attention, the urs. Corporation was acquired four years ago. The other thing i want to bring to the attention is the principle engineer on the project was a man by the name of mark odell. He left three months ago. I believe hes with hks. And through the chair, id like to bring to your attention that mr. Odell is now on the cac. And i, as a member of the public, would like to inquire as to the process that is being followed for appointing various members of the public to the cac and whether these appointments ever come to the tjpa for approval. Thank you. You have zero questions remaining. All the members of the public that wanted to comment on that item . Madame chair. Chair sesay thank you. With that, can you call the next item. Well, i know that i checked out for a bit not intentionally but do we have a first and second on this . Chair sesay good point. Do i have a motion. So moved. Chair sesay do i have a seconds . Second . Second. Chair sesay okay, i have a first and a second. Madame secretary . Thank you. Director forbes aye. Director haney no. Director hursh aye. Director lipton aye. Tumlin aye. Gee aye. Sesay aye. That is six ayes. Item 11 is approved. Go ahead and call the next item. Chair sesay yes, please. Item 12 is approving the use of the additional operating reserves to cover revenue short falls in the Transit Center operating fund for fiscal year 20192020 in the amount of 2 million. Our c. F. O. Will present the item. Thank you. So this item helps tjpa to cover revenue shortfalls in the current fiscal year. Our predecessors before me were smart enough to sock away some money for these sorts of opportunities and times. The temporary terminal fund, which is a distinct Accounting Fund within our financial system, has had an operating reserve for emergencies and such. And so as we decommissioned the temporary terminal and moved into operations at the Transit Center, our existing agreement and our lease and use agreements require us to roll over the operation of maintenance reserve from the temporary terminal to the transits and our operating fund. So were making those moves with this action. And then asking your permission to use some of these reserves to cover the current year revenue shortfall. Reserves are generally reserved for extraordinary circumstances and i believe our covid19 and shelterinplace orders qualify as extraordinary times. So were seeking approval to use 2 million of this reserve that were rolling over from the temporary terminal site. Ill take questions if you have any. Chair sesay thank you for that presentation. Any Board Members wishing to speak on this item . Madame chair, im not seeing any members indicated by way of raising their hand. Not sure if they would like to do so verbally now, they have an opportunity. Okay, so then chair sesay do we have members of the public wishing to comment on this item . There does not appear to be any callers in the queue. Did want to remind folks if theyre listening in, they would press 1 and then 0 to enter the queue. No. Confirming we do have no Public Commenters for this item. Chair sesay thank you so much. Well close Public Comment. Do i have a motion for the item . Ill move approval. Second. We have a motion and a second. Please call the roll. With the first and second, director forbes aye. Haney aye. Hursh aye. Lipkin aye. Tumlin aye. Gee aye. Sesay aye. That is seven ayes and item 12 is approved. That does conclude your agenda for today. Chair sesay thank you. Do i have a motion to adjourn . Yes . Were good. Were adjourned. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, be well. Thank you, be well. Thank you. Todays special guest is claudia dume. Hi. Today, my guest is claudia gorham. Shes the deputy managing director of the real estate dri division at the city and county of San Francisco, and shes my special guest. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. I know that your department is the department for managing and renting properties, and also cleaning for the city. How has your department been preparing for the crisis . Well, because our citizens are sheltering in place and our buildings are closed to the general public, a substantial amount of city staff and city departments are still open and operating and doing city businesses. So we still have to do the cleaning and engineering on the portfolio and things that need to be service. And the other thing is all our workers are Disaster Service workers, so we have been providing the Emergency Operations center with various staffing needs such as drivers of trucks and accounting staff to assist them in this crisis. Have you obtained Additional Space for the city to use during this crisis . Yes. The crisis has actually required numerous transactions, and so we help basically the department of Public Health, the department of human services, and the department of homelessness determine where they can put the services that they need. So, for example, if they need a testing site or if they need a building a vacant building to put supplies or if they need to put some trucks, we will help them locate that Office Building or that property based on their factors that they need. We will then contact the landlord or the Property Owner of the space or the Building Owner decides they want, and then, we negotiate the terms that they need, whether its a permit or a lease, well help the City Attorney draft that agreement. Nice. So can you talk about how some of our iconic buildings, such address the palace of such as the palace of fine arts, has been repurposed during the pandemic . Certainly. The city needs as much space as it can use during this pandemic, and the department had to relocate to Moscone South Convention Center so that we could do social distancing as required by both the city and the state. We have hundreds and hundreds of staff people working on this covid19 crisis. All of the department of Public Health and the departments of homelessness and human services, including several other hundred people, they need several different sites. They need testing centers, they need shelters for the homeless, those with the covid19 virus, those who need a place to stay after they get out of the hospital. So weve been assisting them with places to stay. You mentioned the palace of fine arts. It has over 100,000 square feet of space. It could it we were going to use it as a shelter, but now, were going to use it for different needs. Were going to negotiate a different lease so that the city can use it for this crisis. Were using the bill graham Civic Auditorium and tfor the deployment of ambulances. The Fire Department needed additional supplies, so were using it for that service. Thats great. I also understand you have a staff of custodians, electricians, janitors and other support workers. How are they helping the city . We could not be more thankful for our civic and engineering staff under our real estate division. They have been working 247 since this crisis began, not only doing their daily responsibilities to keep the public buildings open and operating for the city staff continuing to go into the office but also because once the crisis started, several memos came down as to additional cleanings and how to do disinfecting, and we have to do the c. D. C. S recommendation does. So not only do they do recommendations. So not only do they do their regular cleaning, they are also doing deep cleaning and disinfecting in places like the Public Safety building and the haul of justice. But theyre also going in and doing a deep cleaning and disinfecting after we had a suspected case or a confirmed case of a person having the coronavirus. So theyre going in and doing this every night since this started. Our workers are continuing as laborers to make the buildings safe and secure and maintained. And however we help or however we can help the e. O. C. , we do that. Well, thanks for coming on the show, claudia. Id like to thank you and your entire team on behalf of all the residents of San Francisco for all the work you continue to do. Thank you very much. Its been a pleasure. Thats it for this episode. Well be back with another pandemicrelated episode shortly. This is coping with covid19. Im chris mathers. Thanks for watching. Hi. My name is carmen chiu, San Franciscos aelectricitied assessor. Today, i want to share with you a property tax savings programs for families called proposition 58. Prop 58 was passed in 1986 and it was helped parents pass on their lower Property Tax Base to their children. So how does this work . Under californias prop 13 law, the value we use to calculate your property tax is limited to 2 growth peryear. But when ownership changes, prop 13 requires that we reassess properties to market value. If parents want to pass on their home or other property to their children, it would be considered a change in ownership. Assuming the market value of your property has gone up, your children, the new owners, would pay taxes starting at that new higher level. Thats where prop 58 comes in. Prop 58 recognizes the transfer between parents and children so that instead of taxing your children at that new higher level, they get to keep your lower prop 13 value. Remember, prop 58 only applies to transfers between parents and children. Heres how the law twines an eligible child. A biological child, a step child, child adopted before the age of 18, and a soninlaw or daughterinlaw. To benefit from this tax saving program, remember, you just have to apply. Download the prop 58 form from our website and submit it to our office. Now you may ask, is there a cap how much you can pass on. Well, first, your principal residence can be excluded. Other than that, the total tap of properties that can use this exclusion cannot exceed 1 million. This means for example if you have two other properties, each valued at 500,000, you can exclude both because they both fit under the 1 million cap. Now what happens hwhen the totl value you want to pass on exceeds 1 million. Lets say you have four properties. Three with current taxable value of 300,000 and one at 200,000, totaling 1. 1 million in value. Assuming that you decide to pass on properties one, two, and three, we would apply the exclusions on a first come, first served basis. You would deduct properties one, two, and three, and you would still have 100,000 left to pass on. What happens when you pass on the last property . This property, house four, has been existing value of 2 has an existing value of 200,000, and its existing Property Value is actually higher, 700,000. As i said, the value left in your cap is 100,000. When we first figure out your portion, we figure out the portion that can be excluded. We do that by dividing the exclusion value over the assessed value. In this case, its 50 . This means 50 of the property will remain at its existing value. Meanwhile, the rest will be reassessed at market value. So the new taxable value for this property will be 50 of the existing value, which is 200,000, equaling 100,000, plus the portion reassessed to market value, which is 50 times 700,000, in other words, 350,000, with a total coming out to 450,000. A Similar Program is also available for prepping transfers fl interest r from grandparents to grandchildren. If youre interested in learning more visit our website or. The San Francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. Its basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office for the city of San Francisco. They passed legislation that said okay, 13 of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and were going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester Greenhouse Gas emission. The grants that were giving, theyre anywhere from 15,000 to, say, 80,000 for a two year grant. Im shawn rosenmoss. Im the development of Community Partnerships and carbon fund for the San Francisco department of environment. We have an Advisory Committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund . Because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. I heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. Im a School Education team. My name is marcus major. Im a Founding Member of Climate Action now. We started in 2011. Our main goal it to remove carbon in the public rightofway on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. If its a greening grant, 75 of the grant has to go for greening. It has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. The dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. It was the seed funding for this whole project. The whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. We usually issue a greening rft every other year, and thats for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. We were awarded 43,000 for this project. The produce thats grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. In this garden were growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. Well be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. The first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. The reason for that is a lot of people in San Francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. We kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. One of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. Pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. My name is david, and im the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. We were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in San Francisco San Francisco. We also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after School Programs for children with special needs that serves the Public School system. The Sf Carbon Fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. We received about 15,000. The money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. We have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. We actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. This is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. They learn about our work in the greenhouse. We have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. We have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. One is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. The thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how were going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. This is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the Sf Carbon Fund at the department of environment. San francisco carbon grant to for us, opened the door to a new a new world that we didnt really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. When you look at the Community Gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. Thats a huge impact, and were just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. Our debts are not for sale. A piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and its a long Family Tradition and these people that look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. I have been cure rating here for about 18 year. We started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. The most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. In Traditional Mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. Keeps u. S us connects to the people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that Community Dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. When i first started doing it back in 71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. I think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. I think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us its not asking us to make mexican altars if they are not mexican, its really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. People are very respectful. I can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. What should we wear . What do you recommend that we do . They say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and its all hybrid in this country. What has happened are paper cuts, its so hybrid. It has spread to mexico from the bay area. We have influence on a lot of people, and im proud of it. A lot of tim times they dont represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. I can see the city changes and its scary. When we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. As someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. I have been through three different generations of children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. In the 80s, the processions were just kind of electric. Families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in San Francisco. Service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a Family Practice of a very strong cultural practice. It kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many Different Directions but i will always love the early days in the 80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. Our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. Thats what makes it unique. You have to know how to approach this changing situation, its exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. Whats happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well its relevant and its relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but its become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. Our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know . We have artists as black and brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss interesting. The common. Good afternoon. My name is ann moller caen. Im the president of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. At this time id like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, may 12, 2020. Roll call, please. President caen . Here. Vicepresident vietor . Present. Commissioner moran . Here. Com