Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget FinanceBudget Appropriations Committee 20240712

S. Fewer good afternoon. Well start with the meet and i welcome our councilors and president norman yee. Id like to thank our clerk and thank you sf gov tv for board offing this. Madame clerk. Clerk the city chamber and Committee Rooms are closed and others will be participating remotely. Caution is taken various local stayed and orders and directors. Well have the meeting through Video Conference and Public Comment will be available on each item on this agenda and theyre streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed 10 minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 415655001. Access code 145 254 1827 best practices are to speak clearly and alternately you can email for Public Comment and theyll be forwarded to the supervisor and included part of the file and items are expected to appear for the agenda june 17 than otherwise stated. S. Fewer call items one, two and three together. Clerk [reading items] members of the public wishing to provide Public Comment on these items should call 415655001 access code 145 254 1827 and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3. Wait until the system indicates you have been muted and you may begin your comments. S. Fewer madame clerk are you muted . Check your microphone. You were unmuted the last 20 seconds. S. Fewer colleagues we had these items last week and there was a discussion around the increase for iahh workers and there was a difference of opinion and happy to say well have an amendment today. So we have heard the report already and also heard from the b. L. A. We have assessed and i just want to say i want to appreciate the mayors Budget Office for working with me in the last week to address our concerns regarding the mcl increase for ihss workers the board unanimously passed legislation last year to put into place legislation coauthored by supervisor romen and myself. Putting our equity principles into practice is critical. Im happy weve been able to come to an agreement for our lowest wage worker and we have an amendment to introduce today. This amendment will restore 75 of the wage increase through the minimum compensation ordnance beginning september 1. I would like to read the amendment into record. To increase the Human Service agency in fiscal year 20202021 by for increases for ihss employees and we reduce the curb rent in the project public work by the same amount and once again i want to thank so much to to the mayors Budget Office for working with us to find these funds. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Yes, president yee n. Yee i want to thank to the chair. I appreciate your addressing this issue. Youre right and correct that we need to find ways to support those that are at the bottom of the pay scale. I just want to show my appreciation. S. Fewer thank you president. Supervisor ronen. It was an honor to work with you on it and a want to appreciate you for once again championing and standing up for the lowest wage workers who do such critical work in our city and to the Mayors Office for finding this solution. I really appreciate your work on this. S. Fewer thank you for your support. Having said that are there any other comments or questions from my colleagues . I think we heard the presentation last week and heard the report. All we have to do now is listen to Public Comment. If i dont see any other comments or questions from my colleagues, madame clerk, please open up Public Comment for items one, two and three. Clerk operation is checking to see if theres anyone in the queue. I have one call i will queue them up. Hi, can you hear me . S. Fewer yes. Caller i wanted to comment on the nco for the ihss. I do appreciate this effort though 75 of the increase and i one of the reasons we are low paid workers is that because we are black jobs matter. We were excluded from regular workers legislation were still try to catch up. The president of fdr to get the wagner act passed had to sacrifice black jobs and agriculture and Domestic Workers were qualified as Domestic Workers. We do need to try to eventually get back on track with an additional 25 at some point i hope because our negotiating committee worked to do as much as we could for the lowest paid city workers though we are not technically city county workers we do the work of the city and county and frankly are a good deal for the city and council. Our disabled and seniors and keep them in their homes and weve seen with this Pandemic Group housing is not the best solution. Home care is. I hope the city will recognize this and if we cant do it now restore the additional 25 were not able to do this year in the future in the future life of the contract going another two years. Its so important that this work be compensated in a way that keeps workers able to be dedicated to their consumers and to the work of the city. My name is bradley weidmyer. Thank you. Clerk hello, next call. Clerk are there any callers that wish to comment on these items . Hello . Caller [indiscernible]. S. Fewer madam clerk is there a way to assist the caller. Theyre breaking up and we cant understand what the caller is saying. Ill move on and then go back to them. Clerk can the caller come to a place where they get better reception and well come back to you. Caller hello . Staff go ahead. Caller im speaking spanish. Somebody translate for me, okay . [speaking spanish] staff i want to let you know we dont want to delay because we have on the front line. We are risking our lives to take care of our consumer and were asking please not to delay the wage increase for us. Thank you so much. Caller [speaking spanish] staff hi, my name is helen campos i want the rect of the contract with the wage increase july 1st. We are on the front line and taking care of the elderly. We are at risk all the time so we can in the wait for a they are for our wage increase. Thank you so much. Clerk thank you, next caller, please. Clerk well go to the next caller. Caller [indiscernible]. S. Fewer perhaps you can go back to the original caller. S. Fewer i dont believe they can hear us. Perhaps we can skip over them. Staff that completes the speakers. S. Fewer apologies. Are we done with Public Comment . Staff yes. S. Fewer . To those waiting to speak, my apologies. I know this is difficult im so sorry. I know it is challenging to call in to give Public Comment and i just wanted to thank you for being on the line and i again apologize i think theres difficulty to express yourself through our conference line. Apologies. Also, i believe that there was ive been told was there a consideration from the v. O. A. We didnt take up last week . Staff im from the budget and legislative analyst office. We had a recommendation in our report last week on the income budget recommending the chief privacy officer either be deleted from the interim budget or be put on reserve. I believe the committee accepted the recommendation to put the position on the reserve. S. Fewer okay. Thank you very much. So today colleagues we have an amendment i have introduced. I would like a second, please, to make a motion to accept that amendment. N. Yee seconded. S. Fewer thank you. Can we have a roll call vote please on the amendment madam clerk. Clerk its on the interim budget and appropriation ordnance item no. 1. [roll call] clerk all ayes. S. Fewer id like to move items 2 and 3 with a positive recommendation. Can have a second, please. H. Ronen second. S. Fewer roll call, please. [roll call] s. Fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk please call item 4. The recurring state grant Funds Department of Public Comment fy20202021. Those members of the public who wish to state Public Comment call 4156550001 and access code 145 254 1827 and press pound twice and star 3. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until it indicates you have been unmuted and then begin your comments. Commissioner thank you, madam clerk. We have the department of Public Comment joining us. Staff good afternoon, supervisors. You have a total of 49 grants, 12 million for your approval and review. These are all recurring state grants that support vital programming to pay for contracts and personnel. They are included as appropriations or will be included as appropriations in the upcoming budget but they require a separate board action for accepting the grant award. I can take any questions or provide details as needed. S. Fewer any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, well open it up to Public Comment. Madam clerk please call for Public Comment on item 4. Clerk operation is checking to see if theres callers in the queue. Let us know. If you have already done so, press star 3 to the added to the queue and those on hold continue to wait until it indicates you have been unmuted. This is for those who wish to comment on item no. 4. Staff we have no callers for item no. 4. S. Fewer Public Comment is now closed for item 4 and would like to move it to the board for a positive recommendation. May i have a second, please. N. Yee second. S. Fewer middleinco madam call, please. [roll call] clerk there are five ayes. S. Fewer madam clerk call item no. 5. Clerk public work budget analysis and impact on services and expenditures. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 4156550001 and access code 145 254 1827 then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to speak until the system prompts you have indicated you raised your hand and wait until the system indicate us have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. S. Fewer the very much. Is supervisor hanney joined uey . I wanted to welcome him if has joined us. Today we have acting director of public works. We have also support staff march the 1 is a series of hearing the budget and Appropriations Committee is holding specifically to better understand the budgets of the department. We asked the budget and legislati legislative analyst to produce a report to help the committee deepen the understanding of governmental budgets and how theyre structures and how theyve grown over time and more. The proposed budgets for the next fiscal year and rather the intent is to deepen the understanding of the current fiscal year and historical context. This will help us be more informed as we move towards august. Thanks to public works for being the First Departmental hearing. I will first be calling on the b. L. A. To present the report first and then we have a presentation from acting director of public works. So infrastructure design and construction and administration. Within each division there are multiple bureaus often referred to as programs. The Directors Office includes the Emergency Management program, policy and communications, university of public works, which is an inhouse training and education program. The Operations Division includes most of the direct municipal offices within the department and the bureaus within the Operations Division include building repair which provide professional construction and repair to cityowned facilities and Emergency Repair services 24 hours a day to ensure police, fire and other Public Safety operation fully functional. Street and sewer repair which oversees paving and work including patch paving and filling potholes as well as sewer repair on older pipes that require brick work. The Street Environmental Services clean streets and curbs using mechanical street sweeper receptacles and oversees work crews. Though sidewalks maintenance remains the responsibility of Property Owners it cleans dog waste and other bio hazards and another responsibility is Tree Planting and maintenance of all street trees and median maintenance and cement shop and repair medians and curbs and design and Construction Division providers comprehensive planning, project management and Building Construction management, contract support and compliance monitoring, Hazardous Materials investigation and abatement, materials testing, Quality Assurance and controlled service for the development of New Buildings and the modernization of existing buildingfests in publish ush building facilities and publish urban landscapes and often referred to as vertical construction. The bureaus include architecture, landscape architecture, Construction Management, project management and project controls and services. The infrastructure design and Construction Division has similar functions to the Building Design and Construction Division and includes engineering, planning, project development Design Construction manage in the and Consulting Services for a range of Capital Improvement projects and rightofway infrastructure including street, truck structure, sidewalks, curbs and streetscapes. Most the work of this division is the department horizontal construction. Bureaus include design and engineering, Construction Management, project management and street use and mapping. Street use and mapping ensures the citys sidewalks and streets are safe and accessible by permitting and inspecting the use of the public rightofway including the installation inspection and inspection of sidewalks. Finally, the finance and Administration Division includes administrative units that provide budget, capital planning, analytical, Performance Management and Contract Administration and Information Technology support services for the department. The cost of this division are accounted for under General Administration as well as reflected as overhead charges to the other departments and the department upper division. Te adopted budget is 387 million. The total budget which is the number you see in the annual appropriation ordnance aao, includes Significant Program cost which is draw a large amount of support from Nongeneral Fund sources such as federal, state and local enterprise funds. The departments current total year General Fund Budget is 144, 075,313 and 48 is supported by general fund primarily for street resurfacing and often referred to as Capital Projects but there are other Capital Projects also in that departments budget. The total number is up about 224 million for about 138 over the last 10 years. The departments General Fund Budget is up about 118 million or almost 450 over the last so years versus 107 for the general fund city wide. Most growth is driven by the Street Resurfacing Program from the Street Safety bond to the general fund in fiscal year 20142015. The general fund support for continuing project primarily road resurfacing has increased from about 6 million at the start of the 10year period in fiscal 2011 to nearly 59 million in the fiscal year 20192020. If we look at the operating side of the departments general fund support, we see the increases are closer to the growth in the general fund. If we look at the growth in fiscal year 2008 and 2009 and make it a 12year look back wed be looking back at a similar point in the Economic Cycle. Fiscal year 2008 and 2009 was a point before most the large cuts were made in the general fund resulting from the recession that was caused by the 2008 financial crisis. If we look to that year the general Fund Operating support went up 124 versus 101 city wide for the general fund. It looks closer to the actual city wide general fund growth. The department of public works staff attribute most the growth in the departments general Fund Operating budget to the expansion of Street Cleaning Services including the initiation of the Pit Stop Program and increases in negotiated salaries and benefits. In addition, voters approved a measure in november 2016 to shift responsibility from street trees to the city. There was a significant associated increase in general fund support to the bureau of urban forestry in 20172018 to account for the shift. As shown in exhibit 2 on page 8 of our report, the departments total budgetapproved fte position are 1,761. 5 and what youd see in the annual salary ordnance. This number can be broken down to better understand the growth in the departments positions by offbudget ftes for those position are project based and funded versus onbudget positions which are funded by the operating fund of the general fund. The total number of approved project based positions in the current year is 589. 3ftes. Projectbased positions have increased 65 over the last 10 years. The total number of approved operating positions in the current year is 1,172. 2 ftes. The department operating position have increased by 36 in the last 10 years but only by 7. 4 if we look back again to fiscal year 20082009 a similar point in the Economic Cycle to where we were at the beginning of the current fiscal year. Exhibit 2 on page 8 includes the details of the 12year history. One key area id like to highlight is the second column from the right which shows the total funded and offbudget ftes. The numbers include operating positions funded. Which means the number of positions the department can hire after their attrition was budgeted into their budget plus the offbudget for projectbased positions. This is probably the best number to focus on in terms of the departments budgeted position. The total onbudget funded and offbudget ftes in the current year is 1,660. 3 ftes. The departments position by this measure have increased by 44. 7 in the last 10 years and 19. 8 in the last 12 years. The Building Design and Construction Business and infrastructure design and Infrastructure Division have seen the largest increases in positions over the last 12 years. A detailed breakdown of fte growth is included in appendix a of our report. And the accident reports over the last three and a quarter years they entered into contract totalling 1. 4 billion. Construction constitute 82 of the total amount and professional services constitute 12 . Department staff note these services are mostly for specialized work that dpw doesnt have in house or when the Department Needs to supplement inhouse staff. The Services Include but are not limited to architectural and engineering for large projects, geotechnical work, training, elevator design and surveying. And on page 12 details the approved budget by division over the last 10 years. The programs with the largest budget in the current year are infrastructure, design and construction at about 134 million. Street Environmental Services at about 94. 5 million and urban forestry at about 50 million. Programs with the largest growth by dollar volume over the last 10 years are the same departments. Infrastructure, design and construction but the horizontal construction of the department is up by 77 million and street design Environmental Services is up by 58 million. Again, we discussed the services under this bureau have been scanned scanneded expanded in the last 10 years including the creation of the Pit Stop Program and the expansion of that program and the bureau of urban forestry up about 33 million which again inherited responsibilities for all the city street trees after voters passed a ballot measure shifting that responsibility. The department switched to providing only essential services. Routine maintenance was suspended. Community events were cancelled and most construction work was curtailed. Exceptions were provided in the shelter in place order that allowed public works projects relating to construction for the homeless, Pandemic Health care related budgets an essential infrastructure to continue. Public works that generates revenue through direct services suffered due to business disruption such as the bureau of street use which allows revenue with reduced activities and the mayor cut support for street projects and other Capital Projects by about 17 million as discussed two weeks ago as part of the current year rebalancing. In addition to that 2. 9 million was cut from curb ramp projects as an outside [indiscernible] the department has decreased expenditures to assist in their Pandemic Response including the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the department of Public Health. The biggest single programmatic increase related to covid19 was for additional pit stop and hand washing stations to be opened and monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Department Projects approximately 8. 3 million million will be spent through the current year and the department will seek reimbursement from fema and cal oes for expenditures. Now i just want to turn to the final part of our report which is the policy questions that were presented to us that were specific to the department of public works. The first question was we were asked to provide some information on the departments oversight on contracting and procurement. And the city what we found was the City Attorneys Office and Controllers Office are conducting ongoing investigations in relation to conflict of interests and exchange of gifts and focussing on employees and contracts and the Controllers Office is focussing on systems failures. The Systems Office in coordination with the City Attorneys Office will make decisions affecting all city agency. The second question we were asked was to present summary information on the clean street programming of the department. What we found is that street remains a top concern of City Residents according to the controllerss 2018 survey of residents and infrastructure is the third most cited issue with 40 of respondents saying streets have gotten worse since 2017. Exhibit 6 on page 15 and 16 of our report detail the Street Cleaning Services provided by the department. Exhibit 7 on page 17 of our report details the bureau of Street Environmental Services budget since fiscal year 20122013. As shown in that exhibit the bureaus budget has grown from 40 million in 2013 to 94 million in fiscal year 20192020 for an increase of about 135 . Finally, we were asked to conduct the highlevel review of potential redundancies between department of public work and other departments. We conducted the highlevel review of the relationship between public works and the Public Utilities commission and with mta to determine if any potential redundancy exists. We did not find any apparent redundancies based on our review. Public works collaborated closely with the Public Utilities commission because many puc assets, water pipes, sewers and storm drains are located under roadways that are the assets that belong to the department of public works. Weve learned that sewer or pipe failures often cause roadways to crumble and public works has the ultimate responsibility for their integrity and public works is often the First Responders to these collapses. To respond effectively to these situations theyve set up annual work orders so staff can perform repairs on stew we ares smaller than 36 inches in diameter which tend to be the older sewers in the city. The work also helps with the roadways structural integrity. Public works and puc also work closely together as public works is the only department in the city other than the airport with architects or landscape architects. Additionally, public works is a key provider of Construction Management services throughout the city. Dpw provided Construction Management services for the pucs newest headquarters on golden gate avenue. And theres a discussion on how to provide the work services. Due to the limited amount of time to prepare the report we cannot provide conclusive findings on the efficiency of the work orders but we have a policy option you have probably seen in my report related to the findings. That is the board of supervisors could request the Controllers Office or direct the Analysts Office to conduct a limited audit of sewer repair through work orders between the department of public works and the Public Utilities commission. And with that my presentation is concluded and im available for questions, if there are any. Thank you very much. That was a very s. Fewer thank you that was a comprehensive report and very informative. Colleagues, any comments or questions . President lee . N. Yee can you repeat the report again . [laughter] s. Fewer supervisor walton. S. Walton i thought you said there was one other position in house and mta wouldnt have those positions as well . Staff my understanding is that mta does not have architects or landscape architects. S. Walton thank you. S. Fewer any other comments or questions, colleagues, at all . If not we will yes, supervisor . H. Ronen i want to make a recommendation of the audit theres overlap between puc and public works and theres a way to do it in a cheaper way. S. Fewer supervisor ronen, lets hold that motion until the presentation by puc, if you dont mind because we will have that report and public works, the floor is yours. Staff it sounds like theres an echo so im going change computers to try to avoid that. Clerk it wasnt you echoing. You should be find. Supervisor fewer i believe its you. Staff okay. I will share my screen. Dpublic worksdef staff good afternoon, chair fewer and supervisors. I want to say thank you for offering and providing public works the opportunity to present today. Today im going to focus mostly on the structure of public works also going over the budget as a revenue and expenditures and giving you the history of some things weve done over the last 10 years and more recently some things were going with regard to covid. I know there was a presentation so ill try to focus mostly on the areas that will be things that werent covered. One of the first things i want to talk about is who we are at public works we have the core values of respect and integrity and responsiveness and things that support that for us are our three main goals. We want to be the best place to work and we want that to be the best place to work, period. We know its a lofty goal but one of our main goals here. We also want to drive innovation and we want to work with partners in the community and business to improve Public Safety in the city. Whether things weve done recently in response to economic recovery partnering with the Mayors Office, Planning Department and nta to use our sidewalks to try to find ways to spring back revenues in the city. Thats finding ways to make our Public Safety better. Again, this is a quick summary of our flow chart. This is covered before so i wont spend too much time on it. Again the main thing to takeaway is were structured in four different departments or divisions here within public works. Infrastructure, building, operations and admin. Each of those divisions has a Deputy Director that reports to me and the things we address under these as divisions will be under eight bureaus. This is something you heard in the presentation just before mine regarding what each of the bureaus do so im not going to spend too much time going over what each of the bureaus do but the one thing i do want to emphasize and talk about a bit is really the level of the coordination and discussions and the work that takes place within each of these divisions. Obviously theyre all very different as the building and design and Construction Division we refer to as bdc and as mentioned before they do a lot of the vertical work but some of the things we dont think about is that that division works a lot with the bureau working with the building and repair bureau. Thats a Different Division within public works and in partnership and collaboration that goes on there. For example, if there is a problem with one of our buildings and we have to look at it, we may have in the building and repair bureau go and fix it. The same could be said for the infrastructure and design and construction bureau. They do a lot of the design work where it relates to street ste we are and repair or sewer and whether it relate to medians. We see employees doing design work to reach out to industry and sewer repair or urban forestry to talk about if it makes sense from a maintenance standpoint. Theyll reach out to the street and Environmental Services bureau to talk about the angle to make sure its not too steep or not too wide and the street sweepers wont be able to get into crevasses. I want to emphasize theres a lot of coordination that does take place within these bureaus and the value in that has a useful impact to us here in the city. This to summarize to give you an idea of the extreme amount of work the 1600 people here at public works do for the city every year. Were looking at just under 1900 perha programs constructed. In fiscal year 1819 we were able to maintain trees at a growing number. 15,564. And street sweeping goes up as the population of San Francisco goes up and as the use of the 311 app goes up we get more requests and day in and day out were painting over graffiti and planting trees and building repairs. This is just a snapshot of the work thats done by the men and women of public works and again something that takes place 24 7. This is a chart thats kind of showing the expenditures of public works for the fiscal year 1819 echoing what you heard from the budget analysis that both the expenditures from public works comes from outside the general fund on the chart before you. The first column in the general fund and then the column four or five over regarding the general fund and the capital work that we do adds up to about is 23 and it results and general fund is a mix. And if were doing work on behalf of others we have other bonds sources and things like that and the department gets funding from a lot of different sources but the main one we can see in the goldcolored columns are through every Capital Project and that is any number of flavors whether in the building which is referred to as the vertical work. Also horizontal work we do on behalf of the city work on sewers and designing things of that nature. And then we also see as a smaller portion but we also see it on the Operations Side of the house as well. To summarize it matches up with the previous chart showing you we talked about the expenditures. This summarizes where people are working within the department. We have three of our bureaus make up of 61 of the total head count in the department in the bureau of infrastructure and Environmental Services work. Of that work looking at the top two, the bulk is funded through offbudget meaning its coming from operating funds. Those are usually funded through the project itself meaning as a Capital Project. It can also be funded as a work order or a nonoperating source. Going down through the bureaus below that, thats where you do see more of the Funding Sources that are relying on operating funds to fund those positions mostly on the Operations Side of the house. Again, ill go over this quickly, as discussed before, talking about the number of contracts that public works has over the past few years. In the 1718 fiscal year we had 1. 4 billion worth of contracting. The bulk of that falls under construction. I want to highlight one thing very important, we do some big projects here well in the hundreds of millions but in large part though that number youre looking at at 198, there are a lot of projects that would be considered within the city and Construction Contracting to be small. I can tell you public works ly has the highest participation of the local Business Enterprise department in our contract. Which means we have smaller, local contractor actively participating at the prime level or sub level of our contracts. This is something vitally important and more important in the next few years as the country and state and San Francisco, to be more specific, goes through some tough times. Thats where youll see public works will have a big role in helping local contractors get business and work. Theyll help to work with department of Public Health to make sure or local Construction Contracts were able to continue during the shelter in place as it leads to employment for the same groups. Over the years as weve seen the population grow in San Francisco weve seen the demand grow. It starts to show what the population has done in the city and county of San Francisco in the 12 years or so and see during that time the number of the Service Requests that have come to public works have grown over the numbers grow through unhoused residents grow resulting in more demand for the work for us to do here at the Public Works Department. This is a chart that individualizes some information you heard previously from the Budget Analyst Office when we were in the 2007 fiscal year we were at the peak of our staffing and this was also the peak of the economy and then we kind of moved into a recession and we started to see and we took the general fund and resulted in us having to reduce some of the staffing in the street cleaning bureau. Thats what youre seeing here. In the last 10 years or so weve been trying to grow that number because referring back to the previous slide weve seen demand for Services Grow and the main demands weve seen as it relates to street cleaning. As much as possible you have public works trying to meet that demand. The last slide summarizes what public works has done to respond to the covid crisis. Weve worked on something that we take pride in in public works. It goes back to something i was referring to before about the level of team work that happens within public works. Within the bureau of building, design and construction, they basically went out and did a design of these sites and went out to the tenderloin and are currently in the Mission Middle School and got an idea of the number of tents we can put in an area with an architect and shared that with the Operations Team and you can see in the picture we paint the squares. We installed water access and had electricians out to make sure there was power. These are all things public works was able to do. We would not be able to have the efficiencies needed if it was done with different groups and we were also able to do during the covid crisis expand the Pit Stop Program. Since the onset of the covid crisis weve added 33 different locations across the city most in the tenderloin area but i want to emphasize we have added those throughout the city. We are operating those around the clock because we realize the need to provide the services and hand washing stations. We worked with umi to board up the station to keep them safe and secure. We worked to help set up drive through Testing Centers for covid and provided assistance in the streets. Weve done a number of things to support the city and community in our response to covid. As was referred to before but again these are things in public works is proud to do and proud to be a goto department in the time of public crisis. With that, that concludes the presentation and id be happy to answer any questions. S. Fewer colleagues, any comments or questions . Supervisor mandelman . R. Mandelman for stepping into what was already a challenging position. More challenging than you could have possibly imagined. I think the folks that work in your department are heroes. And sheroes and ill start by saying that. Staff thank you. R. Mandelman i have been perplexed and troubled an confused with the Street Management budget for the time ive been on this budget committee. As you know its more than doubled since 2012, i think. Yet the outcomes as measured by the response of residents are not good. People are not happy about the conditions of our streets. We are gaining an International Representation for having dirty streets and this is particularly true during covid but even before covid just massive collections of stuff out on sidewalks and Public Places pretty much is driving a lot of folks up a wall. You dont have to answer the question because its a hard question but im wondering if theres amount of money we can pour into street cleaning that will cause us to have street streets as long as were chasing around people camping in our neighborhoods. I feel its a potentially infinite budget. Were cutting where ever but the marginal dollar for street cleaning and others things are decisions we have to make without detracting from doing what keeps the city looking like it does and raises the question whether the additional tens of millions of dollars we put into street cleaning over the last several years have gone to the right place and how we think about impacting this and whether street cleaning is the way to do it. Staff thank you for the kind words. Its ever challenging but i would not want to be and public works is trying to solve the problem were all dealing with. To answer your question specifically, its probably not the best thing to say but throwing tons of money at the issue of street cleaning is necessarily the answer. Its more of a policy decision. I think to direct it to behaviors that call people to throw their trash on the street or the way our cans work, thats what we need to solve. When i go around with my crews and see the streets whether it be in your district or capitol or ten den tenderloins and see our streets at 6 30 streets are fine and two hours later theres trash every. The trash doesnt magically show up. Theres something causing it and we collectively need to figure that out. Whether that be helping to support additional funding with Mental Health services to address it, it may be the answer. Those are more policy decisions. Certainly though id say cutting budgets in half isnt going to help. We all agree its not one for one for every dollar you put for street cleaning will lead to one less piece of paper. Its a behavioral issue we as a city need to help try and resolve. R. Mandelman thank you for that. I want to express the incredible gratitude, again, i have for your folks who are out at 5 00 and 6 00 and 7 00 in the morning and who every day are confronting incredible conditions they shunt have to. Shouldnt have to. I do have tremendous respect for that. But thank you for engaging in this conversation with me. Staff yep. S. Fewer president yee. N. Yee thank you, chair fewer. I guess i have two questions. One is in regards to what you pick up in the streets do you have a sense of volume of garbage we are picking up as a city . I dont know that number off the top of my head but we take debris to the dump and theres a dump fee or a big scale you drive on to and that can assess the weight. I can give it to you within the next day or so the average volume. N. Yee thats helpful but youve been with the department how long now . Staff five months next week. N. Yee dont you know everything yet . [laughter] is there a comparison whether 10 years ago we were picking up the same amount of garbage. Staff i cant say from the volume standpoint but i can say from the number of Service Calls were getting and i can send it to you if you dont have a hard copy but we have seen the number of Service Calls rising. Theres more debris and things youre seeing on the streets. N. Yee okay. Just trying to figure out if the budget is increasing. Staff as the budget is increasing and something supervisor mandelman mentioned and the Pit Stop Program didnt exist 10 years ago and its a costly program but a little needed right now and added in services right now. I can probably go back with my staff and show you pieces on apples to apples and street sweeping budget and what thats done and incremental adds in the other programs. N. Yee the next question is for clarification, you end up doing some work and a lot of it is contracted out. Youre acting almost as a middle department. Staff it only allows six departments to did construction. One of those puc, airport, parks and the port and those are the only departments that are allowed to do construction work. Police and fire cant do their own work. And in the sense we are performing work on behalf of the Police Department on behalf of the hospital, its kind of a passthough but then at the same time you wouldnt presumptively doing te work themselves because they dont have enough volume to just tie doing their own justify doing their own work to hire persons and then fire them the next year because they built their building and renovated whatever the structure is. Im assuming the rationale is some departments have enough work theyre always doing it, puc, airport and others, fine, you guys can do your own work without coming to public works. Everybody else, what were going to do is try to maximize economies of scale and have one department do construction whether its the design and engineering and all this for everybody else. Theres a large amount for contracting on the construction side. For the engineering, we do a lot of our own Engineering Work unless tea attempt to do all the more complex work ourselves. If the dollars youre seeing being contracted out, thats actually construction work. Nor same reason why and its cyclical you have all the trades. We contract out what looks like is a passthrough but really were bringing on board contractors to build things on behalf of the city and then public works manages that work. N. Yee okay. Thats clarification i needed. You do still have a role in those contracts out. Staff yes, sir. N. Yee thank you. S. Fewer any other questions or comments . I have a question. Can you tell me a little bit about your University Program is this a new program, when did it start, how much of your funds sit and is it government grants or state grants . Tell me about that program and are the participants and that type of thing. Staff sure. The Public Works Department provides information on the city and how it works. Employees and we provide training and be specific on job duties and things like that. We provide ongoing training in education through our employees through that. S. Fewer so this isnt a Training Program you entrylevel jobs people are entering into. This is more of like for your employee come to public works you do an overall and your organization, is that correct . And id also say that its more than just training about who we are but also about getting them the skills they need in order to success in their own careers whether with engineers we have and we have programs that are in the workforce and development program. We partner with various groups within the city to provide opportunities and things like that. And we may provide training as a trainer over from the university to talk to someone within the public works workforce groups and trainees we bring onboard but arent tied together. S. Fewer would you say in your university how many employees do you have that are assigned to the university . Staff three. At the university we have massive numbers of people, theres only three people. S. Fewer do you use the university as an investment into your Management Team . For example, growing talent within public works . Staff absolutely. We see it as an investment to the folks in public works. We have courses whether its negotiating, public speaking. If youre a public works employee we provide the tools and to recognize we have a large number of the public works employees that dont work additional hours. Were trying to design tools so a person can pick up courses offline and pick it up. Were also working with the same group to provide economic training and public works employees struggle month to month to make ends meet and were expanding training to employees not only to help them directly with their job but provide life skills as well. S. Fewer is not a resource for your employees . They dont have anything like this . Staff its similar but not quite that. S. Fewer whats the budget for that . Staff approximately 640,000. Commissioner okay. How many participants on an annual basis may go through your university . Staff probably 1500, 1600 people each year. Well, i said people but some people go through multiple classes. It could be,000 and thousands of classes. S. Fewer employees do these classes on their own time or given time to do it . Staff both. Some classes they do on their own and others they do other times. If its a class specifically job related something regarding the safety and the way youre performing your work, that is obviously something they are getting paid to do. But if its something less related to their work like i was saying before were trying to expand some offerings regarding life skills and budgeting your own finances and that its something they did on their own time. We offer the classes during the day so they can take it during lunch but thats not something were able to pay them for. S. Fewer thank you very much. Others dont invest in their workers and there are some departments that do invest in their workers. Its interesting how public works has chosen to create their own resource for their own employees and help them with skills they need. Its super interesting. I also want to thank you for all the work youve done. Up my neighborhood we have a fairly large one so thank you so much for the pit stop and washing station. I think its really helpful. Supervisor ronen did you want to circle back on questions to concerning a policy recommendation . H. Ronen sure. I wanted to hear a little more in person but it would be good to here from about your thoughts or from v. L. A. On the different points of view between puc and dpw on the question. I didnt read it in the report itself. I may not have gotten to it yet. Staff it was at the end of the report. H. Ronen i was halfway through it when the meeting started. Staff its okay. And the puc was was previously part of the department and in the mid to late 90s that function was moved out and moved to puc but not 100 shifted over to puc. Some of it stayed at dpw. A couple things that stayed, hydraulic engineers stayed behind at dpw and they have skilled brick layers and the smaller constructed pipe is made of this and thats why they contract for bricks instead of hydraulic engineering. And move over to puc. I believe dpw staff and they can speak for themselves but the work theyre doing through a work order is sufficient. And theres rates on work orders from dpw to puc. We werent able to completely flush that out but something that came up. H. Ronen is the work more stream lined . Staff i believe its more than a million a year and i can dig that up for you if you give me a minute. H. Ronen good to know. Thats all the questions i have for right now. S. Fewer great. I see no ones in the queue. In the meantime why dont we take Public Comment on this item. Madam clerk please call Public Comment for the item. Operations see if theres callers in the queue. If you have not already done so, please press star 3. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates have you been unmuted. Let us know if theres any callers who wish to comment on item number 5. Staff there are no callers in the queue. S. Fewer thank you very much. So lets begin Public Comment, please. Staff there are no callers. Commissioner s. Fewer Public Comment on item no. 5 is closed. I had one question about city bills. I was wondering do you hire directly from city bills . Staff we have our own apprenticeship programs. City hires are on the won tra tract contract side for apprentices. We also have programs that we manage internally. S. Fewer i am wondering about your apprenticeship program. Do they feed to all four different departments on your org chart . Staff no, primarily into two divisions. Mostly operations an one into infrastructure and design. S. Fewer assuming a large part of your budget is hiring subcontracting out for example, is that correct . S. Fewer how many participants do you have on an annual basis . Staff it varies every year. S. Fewer about jobs. Staff too 50 staff 50 of the graduates get apprenticeships. S. Fewer any other comments or questions from my colleagues . We have employees through the programs and they had transitioned into other positions throughout public works we had street inspectors as well. When they come to the public works family theyre not forever tied to that one position. Theyre exposed to have the opportunity to grow their careers throughout the organization and thats where things like the public Works University plays a big role. As larry was talking about our total grants and every 2 goes into this but its not a large role. S. Fewer any more comments or questions . Seeing none i would then like to make a motion to file this. We will hear from public works again during the budget but thank you for being here and giving us an overdue and thanks to the vla for their extensive report we can refer back to when were deliberating during the budget cycle. Thank you to your team for participating today and giving that summary information about the appointment and thank you to your workers for a great job you guys are doing and also nor hard work you do every day to keep us clean and for helping to us build San Francisco. Id like to mation motion to file this item. Can i have a second. N. Yee second. S. Fewer great. Roll call vote, please. [roll call]. You have five ayes. Commissioner madam clerk is there any further Business Today . Clerk no further business. S. Fewer we are adjourned. Thank you, everyone. What were trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. Its not just the old european style food. We are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. All we ask is make it flavorful. [ ] we are the first twoyear Culinary Hospitality School in the united states. The first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. Im a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. So students can expect to learn under the three degrees. Culinary Arts Management degree, Food Service Management degree, and Hotel Management degree. Were not a cooking school. Even though were not teaching you how to cook, were teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus youre getting an associate of science degree. My name is vince, and im a faculty member of the hospitality arts and Culinary School here in San Francisco. This is my 11th year. The policemrogram is very, ver in what this industry demands. Cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. Its quite a complete program to prepare them for whats happening out in the real world. The first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. He was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. This program, its awesome. Its another world when youre here. Its another world. You get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. You get to explore Different Things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. Ive been in the program for about a year. Twoyear program, and im about halfway through. Before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. I had few injuries, and i couldnt pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. When i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. The good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to we have kids from every area. Facebook and google. Kids from everywhere. They are all over the bay area, and theyre thriving. My name is jeff, and im a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in San Francisco. I attended city college of San Francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90s. Nopalito on broderick street, its based on no specific region in mexico. All our masa is hand made. We cook our own corn in house. Everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, were making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. A lot of love put into this. [ ] used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. Now, its shades of gray, and were trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. Fine dining calls into white table cloths. The cafeteria is Large Production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those kitypes of kitchens. And the ideas that change every year, again, its the notion and the venue. One of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. Its been a pizzeria, a taco bar. Its been a mediterranean bar, its been a noodle bar. People choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. We, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. Were open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. The menus always interesting. They change it every semester, maybe more. Theres always a good variety of foods. The preparation is always beautiful. The students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and theyre so proud of their work. Ive had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so its more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. When i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90 of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. We do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of San Francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. We hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. My partner is also a graduate of city college. So my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. I actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. Im thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. Yeah, i want to go back to china. I want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. So we want them to have a full toolkit. Were trying to make them ready for the world out there. [ ] i just dont know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. It is an experience that you cant have anywhere else in San Francisco. [ ] [ ] district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. We have four neighborhoods that i represent. St. Marys park has a completely unique architecture. Very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in San Francisco. The Bernal Heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of San Francisco. There is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. It is as if you are swinging over the entire city. There are two unique aspects. It is considered the fourth chinatown in San Francisco. Sixty of the residents are of chinese ancestry. The second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. There is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. Not only for San Francisco but for the region. And of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the citys second biggest park after golden gate. Many people dont know the neighborhood in the first place if they havent been there. We call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. Every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. Where we are right now is the Mission District. The Mission District is a very special part of our city. You smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. They have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. And then you walk further down and you have sunrise cafe. It is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. Twentyfourth street is the birthplace of the movement. We have over 620 murals. It is the largest outdoor Public Gallery in the country and possibly the world. You can find so much Political Engagement park next to so much incredible art. Its another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [ ] it was formed in 2014. We had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. We worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. Most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. So the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. In the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the Mission District have been displaced from their community. We all know that the rising cost of living in San Francisco has led to many people being displaced. Lower and middle income all over the city. Because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. Its a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. There is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. There are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesnt completely erase the communities. We try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more Equitable Development in the area. You need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. The people on the businesses that came before you. You need to dialogue and show respect. And then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [ ] i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. So we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and workingclass. Back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. This is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. We created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. That is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. We have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [ ] one more statement. We are the one. That is our first single that we made. That is our opinion. I cant argue with you. You are responsible please do not know his exact. [ ] [ ] [ ] i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. I took a seven year break. And then i came back. I worked in the library for a long time. When i started working the San Francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. I thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. So i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. She was very interested. One of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. This is definitely a valuable poster. Because it is petty bone. It has that weird look because it was framed. It had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. We had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. It wasnt a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. We have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. That i could donate myself. From theyre, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well . The historic moments in San Francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [ ] it brought all of the punks on the web west coast to San Francisco to see this show. The sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to San Francisco. They skipped l. A. And they skipped most of the media centres. San francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. Their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. We were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. And the nuns were also asked to open the show. It was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. It was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l. A. , obviously. To San Francisco to see this show. There are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. It was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. It was also, the pistols last show. In a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. The city of San Francisco didnt necessarily support punk rock. [ ] last, but certainly not least is a jello be opera. They are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. If we are blaming anybody in San Francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. There you go. We had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought that he thought was obscene that had been put up. The city of San Francisco has come around to embrace its musicians. When they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. That was, at in a way, and appreciation from the city of San Francisco for the musical legends. I feel like a lot of people in San Francisco dont realize what resources there are at the library. We had a film series, the s. F. Punk film series that i put together. It was nearly sold out every single night. People were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. It is free. Everything in the library is free. It it is also a Film Producer who has a film coming out. Maybe in 2018 about crime. What is the title of it . It is called San Francisco first and only rock n roll movie. Crime, 1978. [laughter] when i first went to the Art Institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. I did not know i would turn into a punk singer. I got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. One of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. I was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. I did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. They are in the San Francisco history centres s. F. Police department records. There are so many Different Things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i dont have a library card. Ive never been there. They need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. The people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the futurit. Shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so were will you shop dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in San Francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown welcome to jason dessert im the fifth generation of candy in San Francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals thats why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they cant walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. Beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is i really appreciate they love this art. From the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you dont have to go far. Small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. You dont have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. San francisco has to all my name is alan schumer. I am a fourth generation san franciscan. In december, this building will be 103 years of age. It is an incredibly rich, rich history. [ ] my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. I am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. I have two ways of looking at my life. I want it to be i wanted to be a Fashion Designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. I ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. The work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the Garment Industry. I had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. It is almost like an extended family. I have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. She was a dressmaker of the first order. I would go visit her, and it was a special treat. I was a tiny little girl. I would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. The Garment Industry had the at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. You will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. Women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. There was a woman by the name of diana. She was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. She classified it as a third i. Will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of San Francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. I believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. The board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. Jeffrey heller, the city and county of San Francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. To impart to the history of this building is remarkable. To see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you Start Talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. With children, and i do mainly all of the childrens tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can Start Talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of San Francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. At times, my clothes make me feel powerful. Powerful in a different sense. I am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. Usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. I have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit . Retirement to me is a very strange words. I dont really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the peoples palace. You want a longterm career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something youre then yourself. Follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. We call this hearing to order, please. Welcome to the San Francisco Historic Preservation remote hearing for wednesday, june 17, 2020. As i have done in the past id like to enter the following into the record. 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I believe that commissioner foley and commissioner black are having technical difficulties in joining us. If our team could reach out to them and try to send them a new link to join the hearing i would appreciate that. Commissioners, first on your agenda is the general Public Comment. At this time the members of the public may address on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter of the agenda items. Your opportunity is afforded when the item is reached in the meeting and each member may address up to three minutes. Why dont we go ahead and open the Public Comment portion through the at t bridge. Your conference is now in questionandanswer mode. To summon each question press 1, and then 0. Clerk the members of the public this is, again your opportunity to call into the 800 number and to the access code and then press 1, and 0 to enter the queue. You have two questions remaining. Caller hi, good afternoon, commissioners. This is katherine howard. The San Francisco chronicle ran an investigative study on june 7th called how is San Francisco is indiscernible and it describes actions that they took under the california indiscernible act. And they have considered exemptions for at least a dozen projects on stateidentified toxic waste sites and the city exempted nine of these projects with the state Environmental Review process. Im very concerned with how this kind of misuse might be afforded by the new ceqa ordinance with the standard. The ordinance is implemented and the result would be that even more projects would be made exempt from public review under ceqa. It was to enact anxiouses to document and to consider the environmental implications their actions, and the Environmental Review process that is involved in the process by which a public gave input to public agencies on projects and policies. By limiting the Environmental Reviews with the proposed ordinance to have a negative impact on transparency and public participation. Of course we all hope that the past uses outlined in the article are not predictive of future problems. But i am concerned that the ordinance could cause more abuse of the public trust in the future. As you commissioners are aware, the ordinance will be reviewed on july 15th. I encourage you and the listening public to read the june 7th chronicle article and please reconsider and do not further weaken the ceqa process in San Francisco. Thank you very much. You have two questions remaining. Caller commissioners, good afternoon. I will be speaking later during another matter, but i just wanted to take this time to publicly to recognize jonas. I have hosted many Virtual Meetings during these trying times and i know that at times that it can feel like youre herding cats. Having watched jonas performance, your hearings as well as the general Planning Commission, i think that its done a spectacular job of maintaining order and getting as much of a semblance of a normal hearing during these trying times. You have one question remaining. Caller hello, my name is richard blockman and i am here talking about w. T. A. Murals. Im sure that the Commission Read about what they want to do with the murals at the hall. While i know they dont have any jurisdiction, i would hope that the commission would have a hearing on it. And i have murals. I have some of the murals at my website richardrossman. Com and its important to shed a light on these murals and see how beautiful they are. They need to be saved. In the indiscernible i spoke last august about this. I talked to the staff and they said they would prepare a hearing. The last i heard was in february. And thats when this happened. And i just want to urge the commission that they should have a hearing and should make this building a city landmark. Its already a national landma landmark. A. I. G. Did an extensive report on it, all of the material is ready to present to the commission. It just has to be put in the right format. And we need to shed light on the building and to make sure that its preserved and we need to make sure that its considered a landmark. Thank you for your time. You have zero questions remaining. Clerk very good, commissioners. That concludes our general Public Comment portion of the hearing. Placing us under department matters, for item 1, directors announcements. Jeff, any ahouse inments on behalf of director hills . No, jonas, i do not have a report from the director this week. Clerk item 2, review the staff report and announcements. I will only note that last week the Planning Commission adopted a resolution centering the departments efforts on racial and social equity. And i believe that there will be further commentary on that under commission matters. See if jeff has no additional announcements or Staff Reports we can move on to item 23, president s report and announcements. I have no reporter on announcements. Clerk very good. Item 4, krrgdz of the draft minutes for may 6, 2020. We should open this up for Public Comment. Your conference is in questionandanswer mode to summon each question press 1 and then 30. Clerk i remind the members of the public this is your opportunity to call the 800 number and press 1, 0, to enter the queue. While we wait for that, commissioner . I have a few things or should i wait jonas has people on the line. Should i do this now about the resolution . Or what do you recommend . Clerk were on a minute right now. So once we get into the next item you can vicepresident matsuda okay, sorry. Clerk you can speak to that. President hyland are there any Public Comments . There are no callers. President hyland commissioners, any comments on our minutes or a motion for approval. I move that we approve them. Second. Clerk seeing no further comments, we adopt on that motion. Commissioner black. Yes. Im sorry, commissioner foley is still experiencing technical issues. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. And Commission President hyland. Yes, that passes unanimously 60. I would want to remind staff and the commissioners if youre not speaking to mute your microphones. We seem to get a lot of static in the background and dogs barking, for that matter. Commissioners, that will place us under 5 item 5, commission comments and questions. I believe that commissioner matsuda was requesting the floor. Vicepresident matsuda yes, sorry. Its me with the dog. And i will try to see if i can calm him down. I have a couple of questions and comments. But, first, things that i would like to have the commissioner to consider sorry last thursday on june 11th, the San Francisco Planning Commission requested the Planning Department staff to prepare a resolution for them to consider centering on the Planning Departments work Program Related to social and Racial Equity. And i am requesting that our commissioners, the commissioners of the h. B. C. To consider doing something very similar to this. It is quite a long document. In its entirety its 10 pages and its very good and the executive summary just talks about the things that they would like to encourage the Planning Department to do. As many of you know that we have as a Commission Approved or anticipating the racial and social equity plan and this week is it this week i cant remember last friday commissioner hyland and i joined a call with several Planning Commissioners to talk more about this. And just about how we could proceed in general. And how we could Work Together with not only the Planning Commission but with other commissioners to make sure that we create a program and that we create very clear i think Institutional Reforms to go with social and Racial Equity. So i would like to request that the Planning Department staff to create a similar resolution, focusing on things that the h. B. C. Should include in their resolutions, or parts of this resolution that clearly pertain to Planning Commission matters, but i think that there are very specific things that pertain to the h. B. C. Matters. And i would be happy to provide that information or provide suggestions for the Planning Department staff. So thats number one to ask for the commissions consideration. Number two, its my understanding that the city and county of San Francisco staff will not return back to their offices. And im not sure if that was for the fiscal year or for the calendar year and i just wanted to know if anybody had any comment on that. The third thing, should i stop jonas, i am asking to you answer that. Clerk i can quickly respond to that. The City Administrators Office has essentially directed staff that are able to continue working w remotely and to expect to do so to july 2021. Vicepresident matsuda 2021, wow. Clerk so essentially another year of remote work from home. And as much as i personally believe that we will be able to reoccupy offices sooner, i remain optimistic at least in that regard. I think that theyre simply preparing for the long haul with remote work. Vicepresident matsuda so what does that mean for us . Clerk im not sure. Because it doesnt speak to commissions, it doesnt speak to reoccupying city hall, it doesnt speak to Commission Hearings. Its really directed at staff reoccupying city offices. And i think that they are remaining extremely cautious given our pandemic. And the Health Issues associated with it. So quite understandably, but, again, i believe it to be a mental preparation for staff to just sort of get in that mindset. We will be all hopefully be sooner than that. Vicepresident matsuda okay, thank you. I was not hoping for that answer, but, thank you. And then just kind of continuing on, yesterday president hyland forwarded me some information about a free webinar that the California Preservation Foundation had on state historic tax credits. And it was very good. But i was hoping that maybe we could get somebody from the Planning Department staff to give us at the h. B. C. A more further overview or a more further information on how it would specifically pertain to us here in the city and county of San Francisco. I know thats a low priority, but i just want to put it out there that i think that this is a great opportunity. I mean, i didnt realize that it took so long from start to finish to get this done. And i just dont want us to forget about it here in San Francisco. And then the third thing is we president hyland and i had a webinar or a zoom call yesterday with two members from the office of Small Business as well as paul long from the supervisor ronens office about the legacy business program. And i guess that well discuss that later with that agenda item. Thats all. Thank you. President hyland thank you, commissioner matsuda. And i just echo that the weak wr was worthwhile and its available and its recorded on the Foundation Website if you would like to watch it. Its the save california historic tax credit. And one item of note for us in San Francisco is that its a 20 tax credit with an additional 5 for Affordable Housing projects. So we might end up seeing quite a bit of it in the near future. Commissioner so, did you want to did you have an item or to respond to something that commissioner matsuda said . Commissioner so i do have an item that id like to bring up and then i want to also respond to commissioner matsudas item. And first let me respond to the commission matsudas item. I am fully in support with the Racial Equity resolution drafting, and im really think that this is very important, especially where we are at right now for us to really take another step forward and be actively advocating to do what we can do in our jurisdictions, in our responsibilities. So, thank you for suggesting that. And thank you for your time, commissioner matsuda and commissioner hyland, to have these meetings in collaboration with our fellow Planning Commissioners. And the new item that id like to bring up is the. And understanding that it is a ucff jurisdiction but id like to bring up that those artists is very significant in our local community, in our history of fabrics and also depicting the history of medicine. Especially applying to the context of San Francisco and california. And i really hope to see perhaps id like to see the staff could reach out to get a better understanding of what we can do to facilitate in different matters of preserving it or even if theres a part that is unreservable and how we could continue to make sure that the next the virtual versions of preservation of these murals theres 10 of them, from my understanding it is really truly representing the essence of what our future generation could be. I would like to just get a better understanding where we are and what we could do about that matter. Thats all i wanted to bring up to all of you. Thank you. President hyland great, thank you. Commissioner black, did you want to speak to matsuda commissioner black yes, i just want to say that i support her recommendations that we adopt a resolution. I think thats a very Important Role for us to provide. I support it. President hyland then mr. Johns did you have anything to speak to . Commissioner johns yes. Staff would be happy to work with the Commission Towards the developing resolution. In fact, the recent events and actions that have affected us all have triggered a number of discussions among staff and preservation staff specifically about ways in which the Preservation Program might engage these issues. So well begin work on central resolutions, assuming that is the general will of the commission. President hyland great. Thank you. Commissioner johns . Commissioner johns yeah, i just wanted to to say to commissioner black that i think that commissioner matsudas recommendation is something that we definitely should do. President hyland great. Thank you. So maybe ill work with in regard to the murals and the project, i will work with staff and see if someone will reach out to the ucff. They do bring their projects before us as a courtesy. So maybe its an option here. But it would be a clerk president hyland, they do have an e. I. R. Associated with the project that is reviewed by the department so there may be an opportunity for the Historic Preservation commission to deliberate on the manner through that process. But that would be really the only avenue. Theyre outside of our jurisdiction. I would also like to remind members of the commission that the chat room is really intended for a request to speak and not to converse. So if you could delete your entries, that would be great. If there are no other items, commissioner matsuda, a motion to direct staff to add a resolution for your consideration regarding social equity on your next Meeting Agenda . Vicepresident matsuda yes, it is a motion. Clerk do i hear a second . Second. Clerk thank you, commissioners on. That motion then to direct staff to draft a resolution for your consideration regarding racial and social equity and add to your agenda next week, commissioner black. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda, yes. And president hyland. Yes. President hyland and i see that commissioner foley just joined us. Clerk excellent. Welcome. Clerk welcome commissioner foley. Commissioner foley thank you, team. Clerk so that passes unanimously 60. Commissioner foley you were absent during the deliberations so well move to the next item. And actually were on commission comments and questions if you wanted to add anything, commissioner foley, before we leave that. Commissioner foley i finally got Technology Working but, thank you very much. Clerk very good. Well, if you heard it and you were participating audibly through the hearing i will ask for your vote regarding the resolution to support the departments effort regarding racial and social equity. On ma motion, commissioner foley. Yes. Clerk so were unanimous 70. President hyland for that. One of the most important things that we talk about. Clerk commissioners that will place us on item 6 for the letter supporting the legacy business program. This is for your adoption. Thank you, jonas. Shelly, did you want to speak . Shelly drafted a letter and i hope that the other commissioners were able to review that letter. We have a letter also from s. F. Heritage. That you have hopefully been able to see that as well. Shelly, did you want to speak to your letter . Sure. I didnt prepare a presentation but i wanted to note that im here and that i am happy to take any notes on amendments that you might have to the letter and i will then finalize the letter for revow and we will send it on to the mayor and copied on it. To briefly summarize the content, this was based on your conversations from the may sixth period in which we provided an update on the legacy business Registry Program. And so we summarized your recommendations to the Mayors Office in the letter beginning with a recommendation that we have the commission to be allowed to resume hearing legacy business registry applications as soon as possible. And that we have an Economic Task force to consider the Registry Program as a venue or a mechanism for delivering services as they prepare their plans. Lastly, that we wanted to note that in any aid programs that the mayor is able to lend to the legacy business program. We went to the most vulnerable communities suffering from this pandemic, and due to the shelterinplace on businesses and on districts 5, 10 and 11 in specific. And if you have anything to add to the draft, ill take notes now and can read back to you at the end of your discussion. Thanks. President hyland great, thank you, shelly. Commissioner matsuda . Vicepresident matsuda yes, thank you. So as i briefly mentioned under commissioner comments, we president hyland and i had the opportunity to have a conversation with paul mung from supervisor ronens office as well as the members of the office of Small Business yesterday. And one of the things that was suggested is that, shelly, we add as entities or as individuals are to receive a copy of this letter to the office of workforce and economic development, as he is in charge of the resiliency indiscernible that are going out to Small Businesses. And to maybe have a conversation with him in the near future about making legacy businesses a priority would be the Mini Grants Program if another round is to happen. The second one is to the cochair of the covid19 Recovery Task force, shes one of the several cochairs so i recommend that we address a carbon copy to all cochairs to that committee. And then also, again, to paul mung of supervisor ronens office, as you all know that supervisor david campos was the kind of the creator of the legacy business and supervisor ronen i think was the staff person at that time and continues to make legacy business a very high priority within her administration. Or within her reign. And so we want to make sure that we continue to keep her and her office involved. Thats all. Thank you. President hyland great, thank you. Jonas, do we take Public Comment on this. Is there anyone from the public that wants to give input. Well do that. Clerk why dont we go ahead your conference is in questionandanswer mode. To summon each question press 1 and then 0. Clerk i remind the members of the public to hit 1, and then 0 to enter the cue. You have one question remaining. Caller hello, this is woody lavante from San Francisco heritage. I wanted to thank you for writing this letter and shelly for putting all of those points into it so well. And i also encourage you to send it on to talk to joaquin, who we directed our letter to. And i really do like this idea of trying to prioritize certain districts. Its a great addition to the letter and thank you for your attention to this. Clerk thank you. You have zero questions remaining. Clerk very good, commissioners that. Concludes the Public Comment portion. The matter is now before you. President hyland okay. So a couple comments and if we could San Francisco heritage as it is called now wrote a letter and they had one item that is not in our letter. And that was to prioritize maybe mention this item the grants. So we would need to add a sentence in one of these paragraphs, the third paragraph possibly, to ask the mayor and staff to prioritize legacy business in the future grant programs. And i would propose that we actually address the letter to mayor breed as well as mr. Torres as well as the economic Recovery Task force. So that all three would be addressed in the letter and not just a c. C. If that would work. So do we need a motion to do this . Clerk we need a motion to adopt, yes. I will make the motion. Second. President hyland very good, commissioners. Theres nor furthe no further d. Theres a motion [broken audio] to be read into the record by the commissioners. Clerk commissioner black. Yes. Commissioner foley. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes, commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. And Commission President hyland. Yes. So moved, commissionersthat. Passes unanimously, 70. And so under the items for continuous, 2018009197coa 1772 vallejo street, for continuous to july 2020, and case eight, 556560 scott street for continuous to july 15, 2020. And item 9, case 20190177767des for the lake street landmark district. And its pr proposed for an indefinite continuous. Wcontinuance. We should take Public Comments for items for continuance. Your conference is now in questionandanswer mode. To summon each question press 1 and then 0. Clerk again, members of the public, this is your opportunity to enter the queue by pressing 1, and then 0. You have one question remaining. Caller commissioner, i disagree with the request for the lake street landmark districts continuance. Although it appears that the Planning Department staff agrees that sanot ready for primetime and this is informational presentation only, the project sponsors have been not forthright and not inviting all affected neighbors to participate in informational sessions for the neighborhood. And have only invited those that seem to be agreeing with them. And i would like to have the commission to use this time so that they can at least inform the rest of us who thought that this was going to be heard today to provide us with information about the project. If the commission chooses to grant the continuance, we respectfully request that they instruct the Planning Department staff to hold Neighborhood Outreach at staff request as opposed to the project sponsors request and so that all neighbors can participate and the commissions time is not wasted further. You have zero questions remaining. Clerk very good, commissioners. The items for continuance are before you. President hyland any comments or questions or do we have a motion . We move to accept the continuance calendar. Second. President hyland and well definitely work with the staff on the community outreach. Just to respond to the Public Comment. Clerk theres a motion that is seconded to continue items as proposed. On that motion commissioner black. Commissioner black, you may be muted. Commissioner black sorry. Yes, sorry. Clerk thank you. Commissioner foley. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. Commission president hyland. Yes. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 70. And placing under your consent calendar and you have one item on consent, item 10 for case 2015014170coa02 at 804806 22nd street, and we have received a request to move this off consent and through the chair we will take it off of consent. And place it at the first item under your regular calendar. So well go now to your regular calendar for item 10 case number 2015014170coa02 804806, 22 could street. Can staff present . Yes, can commissioners hear me . Clerk we can. The Department Staff here on behalf of monica giacomucci. This is modifications approved by the Historic Preservation community in their public hearing as approved in 0392. And as part of the review of this project, a discretionary review was filed by the by a member of the public, and it was heard by the Planning Commission on march on may 7, 2020. The Planning Commission required a revision to the project to reduce the rear addition by five feet and set it back from the rear Property Line. Therefore, i revised with appropriateness as required in order to approve the project fully and to move it forward from planning to the department of building inspection. This concludes my presentation and im happy to answer any questions. Thank you. President hyland thank you. Clerk i are you ready to make a presentation . Project sponsor . You may need to perhaps unmute yourself. This is mark, the architecture for the project. Clerk you have five minutes. Okay, we have complied with the Planning Commissions requirements to remove the rear five feet of the proposed the originally proposed project. This reduced a deck area that was to be on top of a onestorey addition that would have originally provided or proposed full lot coverage for the commercial use of the ground floor which the zoning permits. The project was revised to sit five feet away from the rear Property Line in the adjacent neighbor, the d. R. Applicants property. And we have complied with the Planning Commissions requirements under the d. R. Orders and removed the last five feet of the building and have maintained the remaining roof deck area to the project. We have a diagram that i think that could be pulled up which shows a privacy screen that originally had been proposed when the original design was adjacent to the d. R. Applican applicants indiscernible which would have been provided for privacy. That privacy screen was no longer required as we were now five feet away from the rear property and, furthermore, if it was to have been maintained, which hopefully the diagram will indicate that if we could get it on the screen, which shows that the yellow areas still would permit now with the screen and the whole building five feet away from the rear Property Line, would still permit views to the light well. So the screen is really serving no purpose. And so the screen has, thus, been removed. We have proposed a required 42inch high guardrail along the back of the deck area. And we feel as does the planning staff that we are in compliance, again, with the Planning Commissions directive. Thats pretty much concludes my presentation. Thank you. Clerk very good, thank you. We should open up for Public Comment. You are now in questionandanswer mode to summon each question press 1 and then 0. Clerk again, members of the public, this is your opportunity to get into queue by pressing 1, and 0. You have one question remaining. Caller hi. Good afternoon, members of the commission. Can you hear me . Clerk we can. Caller great. My name is Cheryl Hoffman and im the attorney for the neighbor indiscernible and who was forced to have this discretionary review. She requested d. R. With concerns about privacy and light blockage, and it would have been adjacent to her light wellbeing seen from the bedroom windows. And its a primary source of light. And the bedrooms and bathrooms for the property. And the Planning Commission agreed with her concerns and required the rear horizontal extension to be pulled back by five feet from the Property Line. However, in a revised project plans, the project sponsor has also removed the proposed walls and the sixfoot high privacy screen on the second store deck instead of proposing a 32inch high rail. And this creates privacy impacts on both properties. Theres a barrier between the rear deck and the windows which are just five feet of the edge of the back deck. The Planning Commission did not require or authorize the project sponsor to make this change. So we are asking that the railing to be replaced with appropriate privacy screens as was initially proposed. In the alternative, it was considered to be outside the h. B. C. s purview and we ask that the conditions of approval to be revised to make it clear that the open railings at the rear of the project can be revised without the indiscernible . And to Work Together to find a solution for this issue without worrying about whether were going to have the subject sponsor to further indiscernible . The rear railings are not part of the historic structure and are not visible from the street. We consider that the staff review if these changes should be sufficient. And we circulated in a letter to suggest language for this position and we are happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much for your consideration. You have zero questions remaining. Clerk very good, commissioners. That concludes the public portion of the hearing. The matter is now before you. Presidencommissioner pearlma . I think that youre on mute. Commissioner pearlman, you are muted. Commissioner pearlman sorry. I found that call to be a little strange because we got an email from the neighbor who i believe that filed the d. R. Saying that she was in support of the project and now we have this particular attorney who says that the attorney for that same person saying that they have some objection. I think that its completely out of our purview. Something that definitely just needs to be handled by staff and there is no change to the historic character and issues in this project. So i make a motion to approve this project for the c. O. A. With conditions. Second the motion. Clerk if theres nothing further, commissioners, theres a motion to approve with conditions. On that motion, commissioner black . Yes. Commissioner foley. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes. Commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. And Commission President hyland. Yes. So moved commissioners, the motion passes unanimously, 70. And that places us on item 1 for case number 2015013876pta at 207 powell street. This is a certificate of appropriateness. Is the staff prepared to present . Yes. Good afternoon, commissioners. Alex westhoff, Department Staff. The item before you is a request for a permit to alter for the property at 207 powell street. A contributor within the article 11 conservation district. And located in the Downtown Retail zoning district. And the building was constructed in 1906 by architect william loser of the Howard Building and the proposal includes a three feet height extension of the existing rooftop elevator shaft to match the finish and materials of corrugated metal siding. No other work is proposed through this scope. No members of the public have expressed support or opposition to the project. Staff have determined that the proposed work will be in compliance with article 11 of the planning code and the secretary of the interior standards. And staff, therefore, recommends approval and this concludes my presentation and that theres a short presentation to be made. Clerk very good, sponsor. Are you prepared to make a presentation . Public sponsor . You may need to hit star, 6, to unmute your telephone. Do we have a presentation to share . Yes. Would you like me to share it. Clerk go ahead and share your screen while the sponsor tries to overcome his technical difficulty. Okay. Clerk project sponsor . Is the project sponsor prepared to make their presentation . If not, Commission President hyland, if i may suggest that we go to Public Comment until the sponsor returns to make their presentation. President hyland sure. Clerk great. Opening it up for Public Comment. Your conference is now in questionandanswer mode to summon each question, press 1 and then 0. Clerk members of the public, this is your opportunity to get into the queue by entering 1, and then 0. Do we not have anyone in the queue . Very good. It appears though that mr. Hacker is having some technical difficulties. I think that you had him on the line previously so lets go to commission deliberation. Sure, if i could start and i am not sure that we need a presentation from the sponsor. I think its a pretty straightforward project and i think that the packet that we have received was sufficient in my opinion for immediate support for this. Are there any other commissioners that would like to comment on this item . I dont see any. So i want a motion to approve . Approve. Second. Second. Clerk thank you, commissioners. On that motion to approve with conditions, commissioner black . Yes. Commissioner foley. Yes. Commissioner johns. Yes, commissioner pearlman. Yes. Commissioner so. Yes. Commissioner matsuda. Yes. And Commission President hyland. Yes. Thank you, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 70. And places us on item 12 for case number 2017004557env, at 550ofarrell street, this is a Draft Environmental Impact report for your review and comment. Is staff prepared to make a presentation . Yes, we are. Clerk great. And, commissioners, this is the first time that jennifer has made a presentation in front of this commission. So we did want to introduce her. Jennifer kel joined the Planning Department as an environmental planner and originally from canada. Jennifer completed undergraduate degrees in chemistry and economics before spending eight years working in the private sector. During this time jennifer had the opportunity to live and work in different cities which inspired her to complete a masters in Environmental Science and policy at columbia university. After working in the environmental sectors in various roles, jennifer joined the San Francisco Planning Department as an environmental planner. Jennifer performs Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act and contributes to a broader department initiatives within the air, quality and indiscernible and as part of the team. Jen, you have the floor. Thank you. Good afternoon, president hyland and members of the commission. Jennifer mckellar, Planning Department staff and e. I. R. Coordinator for the 550ofarrell street. And joining me is tanya shaneer, an environmental planner, and the senior preservation planner and alice vanderslave clerk can everyone mute their microphones . Were having feedback. Okay, ill start over. Clerk you can just pick up where you left off. Thanks. Joining me today are my colleagues tanya shaneer, the principal environmental planner and justin grubbing, the senior preservation planner and allison vanderslave, and mya small, architecture and design manager. And members of the project sponsor team are present as well. I will now share my screen with the presentation. Can everyone see hang on clerk yes, jennifer. Here we go. Clerk there we go. Okay. Oops. My apologies, im trying to expand this. There we go. Okay. The item before you now is the review and the comments on the 550 ofarrell street project, the Draft Environmental Impact reporter on draft e. I. R. And pursuant to the air quality act in the local procedures for implements ceqa, chapter 31 of the San Francisco administrative code amended in 2013 requires the Planning Department to schedule a Public Meeting and to obtain any comments that the Historic Preservation commission may have on a draft e. I. R. Prepared for projects that contain the resource that the Environmental Review officer determined is a substantial evidence to be a historical resource. The public review period for the draft e. I. R. Began on may 21, 2020, and it will continue to 5 00 p. M. On july 7, 2020. The Commission Members were sent electronic copies of the draft e. I. R. Which included appendix c to the background reports for this project. That includes the Historic Resources evaluation part one significant evaluation. And the Historic Resources evaluation part two, compatibility and impact analysis. Today were here to provide an opportunity for the commission to hear public testimony, to discuss Historic Resources issues pertaining to this project, and to formulate any comments that you may wish to submit to the Planning Department on the draft e. I. R. The comments will be provided to the Planning Commission prior to the planning Commission Hearing on the draft e. I. R. These comments will be addressed in the response to comments section of the e. I. R. Now i would like to introduce my colleague justin grubbing who will provide you with a brief summary of the findings of the draft e. I. R. With regard to Historic Architectural resourc resources. Good afternoon, president hyland and h. B. C. Commissioners. Justin grubbing, Planning Department staff. The project comprised of a single parcel with one building, a Public Parking garage. And demolish most of the existing building but it would retain its existing facade and construct an approximately 105,000squarefoot, 13storey 130foot tall mixeduse building with 111 dwelling units and 1,300 square feet of retail or amenity space. And 22 of the 111 dwelling units would be affordable and inclusionary units. The draft. I. R. Analyzed the project variance to demolish the existing building and construct a new 106,500squarefoot 13storey 130foot tall unit with 1,30 square feet of retail or residential space. The building at 550 ofarrell street was constructed in 1924 and it was designed in the gothic revival architectural style by a master architect indiscernible and the building is eligible for listing on the california register of Historic Resources as a good example of this style of architecture. And 550 ofarrell is a contributing resource to the National Register of the uptown tenderloin district. Which is with the association for the development of hotel and apartment license in San Francisco during a critical period of change and under criterion c as an existing building types that serve the urban population of office and retail workers. And 550 ofarrell has integrity that its able to communicate its indiscernible and to be a contributor to the Historic District. The parking garage is not in the gothic revival style. The defining feetires include lowscale two store massing and a facade organization separated by piers and decorative elements that are referred to as gothic revival style. Looking like arched windows on the second floor and the balcony with arches at the center bay, among others. Based on this, the 550 ofarrell building and the Historic District are resources for the purposes of ceqa. And the draft e. I. R. Concluded that the proposed project would have a substantial change on the significance of the individual Historic Resource at 550 ofarrell street. It was determined to be a project level with unavoidable impact to demolish most of the 550 ofarrell Street Building and the proposed change to 550 oh, fair i street would not comply with the second of interior standards and it would result in the removal of characterdefining massing and reenforced concrete construction and contributing to a substantial loss of the Historic Building materials and form. Similarly, the draft e. I. R. Concluded that the project variance would result in an adverse change on the single Historic Resources indiscernible this was determined to be a project level change and unavoidable impact due to the fact that the project variance would demolish the 550 ofarrell Street Building and in contrast to the proposed project not retain the primary facade. Two mitigation measures are identified for the significant and unavoidable impact to the individual Historical Resources resulting from the proposed project. The first measure requires the project sponsor to undertake the documentation and video representation of the building. And to require a permanent display of the interpreted materials concerning the history and the architectural features with the relationship with the uptown tenderloin district. While it reduces the impact on the Historic Resources at 550 ofarrell, this remains significant and unavoidable. Through mitigation measures are identified for the significant and the unavoidable impact to the historic architecture resources from the project variance. The first two are identical with those identified with the proposed project. And the third is applicable only to the project variance that needs consultation to determine whether any character defining features of 550 ofarrell could be sel salvaged materials. While these mitigation measures would reduce the impacts, this impact would still remain significant and unavoidable. Also proposed project and the project variant were determined to have a less than Significant Impact on the uptown tenderloin Historic District. To address the significant and unavoidable impact of the proposed project on the individual historic area, they have three alternatives to the project. The no project alternative, a full preservation alternative and a partial preservation alternative. And developed in consultation with the h. B. C. Whose members provided feed back during the april 17, 2019 hearing. They recommended the project sponsor explore putting more height on the full preservation alternative. And increase the setback above the retain facade at one of the partial historical preservations. And the revised analyst indiscernible in additionally with direction from the Planning Department decided to convert one of the partial preservation alternatives into the proposed project and originally proposed project would modify to be the project variance. The no project alternative would keep the existing building and the parking garage and it would not indiscernible the addition. While this reduces impact, it would not meet any project objectives. And the full preservation alternative, the front portion of the building would be retained and rehabilitated as part of the proposed project. A fourstory addition with the first two stores set back from the main facade by 30 feet and the other 57 feet from the primary facade. This would avoid the Significant Impacts to Historic Resources and no mitigation measures would be required. This project would also meet some of the project objectives. The partial indiscernible alternative would construct a new 13story building with a set back from the facade of the existing building. This would have similar impacts to the proposed project and reduce the impacts with the project variance. However, it would not avoid the Significant Impact related to demolition at 550 ofarrell. And the mitigation measures would be similar to the proposed project. This alternative would meet most of the project objectives. And now i will direct you back to my colleague to conclude the presentation. Pardon me. Thank you, justin. Before i conclude i would like to remind everyone that a public hearing on the draft e. I. R. Before the Planning Commission is scheduled for june 25, 2020. In order to be responded to in the final e. I. R. , comments on the draft e. I. R. Must be submitted orally at the planning Commission Hearing or in writing to the e. I. R. Coordinator for the proposed project by 5 00 p. M. On july 7, 2020. In other words, comments heard by Public Commenters today will not be responded to in the e. I. R. Process. After the planning Commission Hearing, the Planning Department will publish a response to comments document, which will contain our responses to all relevant comments on the draft e. I. R. We anticipate the publication of the response to comments document in december 2020 followed by the e. I. R. Certification hearing in early 2021. That ends our presentation. Staff and members of the project sponsor team are available to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. President hyland great, thank you, why dont we open up Public Comment on this, jonas. Your conference is now in questionandanswer mode. To summon each question, press 1, and then 0. Clerk members of the public i again remind you to enter the queue you press 1 and then 0. Caller this is steve from the sponsor team. Could i briefly speak. Clerk well, this is just the draft e. I. R. So through the chair, Commission President hyland do you want to have this response . President hyland sure, if theres something pertinent that he thinks that is necessary. Two minutes be enough . Caller sure, thank you. I just wanted to emphasize what justin had said is that one of the partial preservation alternatives that were reviewed by you in april 2019 became the proposed project. So i wanted to thank the commissioners for their comments on that partial preservation alternative that did become the proposed project. And that proposed project does have a full floor hyphen between the preserved facade and the tower. Again, its a suggestion of the commissioners in december 2019. And so i just wanted to make sure that the commissioner was aware that your previous review of this project and previous comments were very helpful and in shaping the proposed project as analyzed in the e. I. R. And im available as well as the architect and the project sponsor if you have any questions. Thank you very much. Clerk very good, commissioners. Im advised by my Operations Team that are there no callers. So we will close the Public Comment and open it up for commissioner deliberation, if any. President hyland okay. Commissioners, while you are getting questions in line, if any, i wanted to point out that this was one of the first projects, if not the first project, that we brought to the full commission during the scoping phase of the draft e. I. R. Process. We have been looking at ways to improve improve our influence on the project early on. And so i believe that this was one of the first projects. And as you have heard already that we have had a major impact on the development of the project. And have not caused the applicant to have to redesign. So this has been really been good. The other thing is that this project as a de facto demolition, does fall squarely into our retained elements policy that we have helped to prepare and was adopted by the Planning Commission. And so with that if theres any other Public Comments on the e. I. R. But ill let other commissioners speak first. Commissioner pearlman . Commissioner pearlman thank you, i think that i have my mike on this time. I wanted to echo many of the things that commissioner president hyland just said. I thought that the proposed project is actually a very effective way to do two things. One, is to retain the facade, which is the counter defining feature of the gargoyles was not mentioned but those are some of the most awesome gargoyles that we have in town. That those would be retained. And then the massing is such that it meets with the character of the district for housing. Because this is, of course, no longer a garage as it becomes housing and it then has the facade coming the mass of the building coming right out to the street edge which is the character of this uptown district. So i thought that the proposed project actually i had forgotten that it was originally the one of the partial preservation alternatives. But i agree with commissioner hyland that this is a very effective way to get to a very good solution. Because the variant is clearly a nonstarter and the partial presservation alternative, while it retains most of the project objectists does diminish the rear of the property in terms of light and air to the whole back of the project and while it retains the physical form making of the street, that by the setback because of the switch from the garage to a residential building, it then is kind of out of character with the district by having this large mass set back. So i think that the solution is actually a good one and i think that its a successful process for this project as commissioner hyland said. Thank you. President hyland great. Thank you, i dont see any other commissioner projects. I had two. One is on the actual from typos or edits, the actual document. And, unfortunately, the page number is not numbered so its on the figure for s1. The hig hyphen is referred to aa vertical hyphen but i believe that its actually a horizontal hyphen. I dont know if, justin, if you had if you could speak to that. I think that its a horizontal hyphen, is that correct . This is justin grubbing. I believe that weve been referring to those differentiations as vertical hyphens but i can double check the guidelines to see if we used that video ta vocabulary or not. President hyland okay. Well, we can further discuss that later, we are referring it as a vertical hyphen, it seems that its more of a horizontal hyphen. The other thing that i would add is that im in full support of the proposed project. I think that in our recommendations to the Planning Commission that we should be specific as the project a variance is not something that we support. Specifically for the reasons that commissioner pearlman mentioned. Commissioner so . Commissioner so hello, yes, thank you. I think that i unmuted myself now. I love this project and i really appreciate the amount of detailing and rendering to be so illustrated and also including the context of the adjacent fabric of this site. And thank you for the staff and also the project sponsor working so nicely to prepare this report. I have two comments. I am in support with the proposed project version. I like the idea of the horizontal hyphen, but i would like to know if we could actually have further setback to the hyphenation, and considering the massing and the proportion of that hyphenation floor it is started to basically mimic the same pattern of the rest of the 12 levels of residential units and i would like to see if the hyphenation level could create a more setback. It doesnt seem that its 18 feet setback as if it would be in the partial preservation alternative. I would like to see if the project sponsor and the if they could work out the way to further delineate that separation. I think that would make it the language the pattern language would be more impactful for the delineation between the historic facade and the massing above. The second one that id like to ask is that looking at the materiality of the original well, not original but the photograph of what is the existing facade, it seems like they have paint over it over the years, like with the white thick paint. So my question is that for when were preserving and restoring it, are we going to restore back to its original state or are we keeping this white paint over the facade . Its just a technical question about what is the restoration and preservation of the facade of the existing infrastructure. President hyland justin, did you want to speak to that or jennifer. Maybe justin. Yes, justin grubbing. We i dont believe that we have any historic photos or original drawings that would demonstrate whether or not the building was intended to be painted. But i think that is definitely something that we would look into to see what the original condition was. And if there are any underlying layers of paint that would indicate an early facade treatment. President hyland so maybe we can just request a little investigation. Its probably terra cotta that has probably been painted over the years. Commissioner so yeah, i would really appreciate it. The reason that i brought that up is that it looks like from just the design standpoint about the materiality and also the choice of colors and of palette, that the architect on this job it seems like its illustrating a desire to create a harmony between with the historic facade and also the new addition, which is really great. And i like that aesthetic to continue to actually to create a holistic harmony balance of the material materiality for the old and the new. And thats why i bring that up of to know if we are keeping the white paint or is there Something Else that it would be for restoring. President hyland did you want to speak to our question . Yes, i wanted to clarify. So thats part what we can do as the project goes through Design Review. We can address these in the response to comments. And we would address those under clarification in the project descriptions in the r. T. C. And also ensure that those comments get passed on to the Planning Commission and to the current planners when theyre also looking at the design of the project and doing their project review. Commissioner so that would be great. Thank you. President hyland okay. Commissioner so, is that all . Commissioner so yes, im done. President hyland commissioner pearlman, did you want to speak . Commissioner pearlman yeah, i wanted to just comment on that paint issue. My understanding is that it was a powered concrete structure poured concrete structure. So it would have plaster over the concrete. And then it is scored to look like blocks. So it looks like stonework. So it is likely that it was painted, you know, at the earliest incarnation of this building. I think that it would be worth, again, just as a technical comment, to have, you know, paint samples done and see if you could discover, you know, what the first paint coat was and what that might have looked like. So i think is definitely a doable thing. Again, as miss vanderslight said, a technical review at the Design Review stage. I also wanted to just quickly respond to the setback of that hyphen, whether its vertical or horizontal. I would caution about setting it too far back because then it will make the top look top heavy. And i think that might be you know, so i think that theres some, again, something that would be reviewed at the design stage with staff, but the further back that you go the more top heavy the tower above will look. So, you know, i agree that there should be a very, you know, there should be a distinction thats clear when you see it from the street that there is this setback, but i think that it has to be balanced with the massing above. Again, those are design comments. Otherwise i agree with everybody on the proposed project is the way to go. Thanks. President hyland did you want to respond . Justin . Sorry, i just i wanted to provide the commissioners with the definition that were in the retained element guidelines. We did design a vertical hyphen as being vertical surface or space theyre is placed between two parts of the building to separate or otherwise to clarify a distinction between the two. The element is also used to denote an existing structure and a new development. So vertical hyphen may be short or a full form or its often combined with a Material Change and a small setback to increase its legibility as a change in the building vol all. And the horizontal hyphen is a horizontal spacer placed between two parts of the building to separate or otherwise to clarify a distinction between the two. So i think that what were seeing in terms of it being a vertical hyphen and that there is vertical space between the Historic Building and the new construction. So just to clarify how we came up with that definition. President hyland thats a lot of words. Okay, thank you. Commissioner black, if you want to speak. Commissioner black yeah, i really appreciate the opportunity to comment early on in this scoping session. I think that was excuse me i was happy to have it happen. I agree this is a good project and i agree with the proposal to approve the project, but not the variance. And its interesting, im a little torn on the hyphen, and this this plan it shows a pretty substantial its shaded so that it shows it it shows the setback that i dont think that really exists. Gray if it sets back too far that it will look the building could look top heavy. I think that its the sort of thing that can get resolved when fullscale plans get developed and well get a better sense of where that might go. And i can see both points here and i think that it will be something that can be worried later under the design phase. Otherwise, i think that the e. I. R. Is adequate. President hyland so we should include as suggested in the notes to the Planning Commission, because i believe that this would be the last time that we see this project. So commissioner johns . You may need to unmute. Commissioner johns speaking of things to include in the notes, i think that it would be very useful to make sure that the Planning Commission realizes that this came before us once and that something that we suggested as an alternative eventually became the project. I dont know just how to do that but i do think that the Planning Commission should be aware of a change in o our procedure for te better. President hyland thats a great idea. So lets make sure that is in the memo as well. When does this go before the Planning Commission . Is it very soon . June 25th. Jennifer mckellar speaking. President hyland okay. So its next week. Okay. Good. President hyland great. Maybe ill put it on my calendar to see if i can pipe in. Okay. So i think were good. Staff, do you have enough information to craft the memo to the Planning Commission . Commissioner black . You want to speak again . Commissioner black no, no, sorry. President hyland okay. I dont think that theres a motion. Its just a review, right . Clerk yes, correct. Its a review and comment. I believe that we have enough information and i want to reiterate that whether or not the h. B. C. Funds the draft e. I. R. To be adequate. President hyland i think so. I think the process is markedly improved over previous drafting processes. I agree. I agree as well. I really love this whole document. I love it. Thank you. Thank you. President hyland okay. So i believe that is our last item, jonas. So well adjourn. Clerk i will note and remind commissioners that the Mayors Office has authorized all commissions to reconvene remotely, so we will continue with the need to request formally from the Mayors Office to recon korea reconvene every o our next meeting is the 31st. Thanks, everybody. Bye, thank you. Announcer youre watching coping with covid19. Todays special guest is lindsey holmes. Hi, im chris manus and youre watching coping with covid19. Today my guest is founder and c. E. O. Of dispatch goods and former clinical profusionist at ucsf. She start add new initiative called project clean to provide alcoholbased cleaning products and Hand Sanitizers to atrisk bay area communities. Lindsey, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. Its lovely to see you. Tell us a little about your background and how dispatched goods of San Franciscos restaurant community. Sure. We launched, in october, weve been working on this for a little over a year. And we partnered with restaurants to provide them with a free reusable container system that could replace singleuse products. We partnered with yelp headquarters in downtown San Francisco and 10 Restaurant Partners as of february before covid19 hit and employees at our Corporate Partners could request the reusable containers when they were getting their lunch for takeout or if they were getting it delivered to their office. We then handled the pickup and dish washing. So, obviously the virus pandemic has hit and now youve had to pivot your company and i understand you lunched a new initiative called project clean. Can you let us know what the program is all about . Sure. So we basically when this hit, we asked ok, what we do we have and how can we help . We also noticed there was a gap in the supply for Hand Sanitizers to Certain Community members and individuals and we talked to a distillery about making Hand Sanitizer and, in true form to our mission, we decided i bet we could collect enough containers from the community that we wouldnt have to supply more singleuse plastic containers and we launched project clean and with that, we collected over 200 containers. Theyre spray squeeze bottles and working on supplying the cleaning products. What has the response been from the community atlarge and how have peopled help . Were donationbased and selffunded right now. We are buying basically the products at cost and is not charging us much for that. Theyre also just trying to cover our expenses and we had a little bit of donations coming in. But if you go to our website, you can either donate containers that you have, well come do pickup. Were doing it twice a week now. Or if you yourself need any of the cleaning products, you can fill out the form and request those as well. And then there is also a place to make a donation. So, where are you handing out the Hand Sanitizer right now . Were doing it in the same route as the dropoff route. So, the Hand Sanitizer will be finished today. So, tomorrow well be doing our first round of dropoffs and weve been contacted by Health Care Professionals who after they come home have nothing on their hands there. We have been contacted by retirement communities and contacted by physicians in their offices that they dont have anything and a individuals that just werent able to get the supplies because they were sold out so quickly. Basically during our normal pickup routes now, we will be doing the dropoff as well. That is fantastic. You know, i think that is a Wonderful Service you are providing, lindsey. Thank you so much for coming on the show and keep up the good work. Thank you so much, chris i really appreciate it. And that is it for this episode. Well be back with more stories shortly. Youve been watching coping with covid19. Im chris manus, thank you for watching. Now in terms of essential workers and whats available. What we plan to have this summer and what people can do to either sign up or what other programs to do to prepare under the new guideline for the programs that they want to make available to people. So, lets get started. Phil, you we hit the ball running, both you and maria su got together because we knew the schools were going to close. But we also knew that there was an essential workforce out there. People who were driving muni, people who were working at hospitals. They had children. They needed child care. They were concerned about taking their children to their elderly parents. They couldnt leave them at home. Tell us a little bit about the program that you established that is available currently and will potentially be extended once programming starts for june 15 during the summer. Thank you, mayor. Yeah. You asked us as soon as the schools closed to start thinking about our kids and working families, particularly our Health Care Workers and First Responders and people who were needed to help in the citys response. And so the department of children, youth and family and Recreation Park Department are working closely together under the guidance of department of Public Health, set up an emergency child care system that is now in its 12th week. We, over time, served over 475 kids, 19,000 hours of child care offered during that time and we served over 4,000 meals at over 25 different sites. The program runs between 6 30 in the morning and 7 30 p. M. And kids have been involved in Distance Learning and a little bit of recreation and its really been, you know, wasnt what we were used to doing and we had to stand it up pretty quickly, but it has been an amazing experience and im really grateful for my partner in runing this thing, maria, and the department of youth and family who have been terrific. And i want to just add because i know that, you know, sadly, you had these kids and these pods with limited number of social distancing. These are kids coming together on a regular basis. Something similar to what were going to be doing this summer. And, unfortunately, there have been people who have made nasty comments or complained or even yelled at, you know, the kids. And so what i want to say to people is to back off and mind your own business and to leave kids alone. Because at the end of the day, these are kids whose family members are putting their lives on the line to help support this city. So, i cant reiterate enough that its important that folks really just stay in their lane, mind your own business. Were providing essential service. And we want to extend this and make this available to more kids. So, lets talk a little bit about phil, can you just talk a little bit about june 15 . Sure. Were going start programming and were going to extend the number of kids that were able to serve. Not just in our park system, but our overall Summer Program so i want you, phil, to touch on what will be available for our park system, both for our young people and our teenagers and then were going to jump into maria su to talk about programming in general. Sure. So, our child care operation its summer, and child care was intended to operate while during the school year while the School System when the School System was closed and what families and kids are used to during the summer is camp. Youre right. The truth of the matter, it will look somewhat similar in that were going to have pods of 12, but beginning june 15, rec and park between rec and park t private sector camp providers and our nonprofit providers we expect that there will be over 200 different camps available to kids can. We are going to prioritize. Kids of parents who are working in essential businesses, who are part of the citys response, who are, you know, in allowable businesses and, frankly t kids who need us the most right now. Many of our kids in the city have been without their coaches and mentors for going on 10 weeks and we want to reengage and make sure that these kids, above all else, have something to do this summer. So, starting june 15, camp providers will be allowed to operate. Theyre going to need to certify that theyre going to comply with the health order and guidance coming out of Public Health, which means kids still need to be in pods of 12 for older kids. The minimum session for camp providers will be three weeks and the boll rationale behind that is to keep kids from normally during a normal summer kids go to one week of this camp and one week of another camp and the health and our Public Health officials have asked us to keep kids together in a consistent pod. So well have three threeweek sessions beginning june 15. At rec and park, were planning over 25 different camps. We expect there to be another 40 to 50 private camp providers operating in our park system. I believe that maria is estimating nearly 100 nonprofit camp providers will operate around the city and then there are some other muscle private providers that will be operating on, you know, nonpark property in different spaces. Were going to start working with camp providers as quickly as possible, right after were done speaking with you. And for our camps, for rec and park camps, well begin priority registration on may 26 for all of the participants that are currently in our Emergency Child Care Program and our kids in our Scholarship Program who are a little bit more vulnerable and who really, really need us. Were going reach out to those populations first and then citywide, registration for rec and park camps will begin on june 6. All of this information will be laid out on the department of children, youth and familys website, dcyf cares. Org. And ill turn it over to maria to talk about the other providers and program staffing. Thank you, phil. Thank you, mayor, for this opportunity to share with our residents of the work that were doing right now. So, like the mayor shared, we are in the process of expanding the opportunities for families, particularly for summer. Were really excited about this because, as a parent myself who has two children, this is going to be great opportunity for our young our young people to go out there and engage with others and just really address the social isolation issues that we know is happening in our families right now. So dcyf is really excited to be partnering with rec and parks and the rest of our summer providers in the city to stand up all of these programs for the dcyfspecific agencies, which are the nonprofit agencies, that our department provides supports to, we are going to be working with them to open up camps and programs that they will then be made available for all of our families. We are looking at around 100 programs that will be available for families starting june 15. We are asking all of our nonprofit agencies to follow Health Guidelines, which still has shared, restrictive groups of young people in consistent threeweek programming at a minimum. We will also put on our website, dcyf. Org care. More information around the health order, around the drexives and the guidelines, with how private camps are also fulfill all of those requirements and then document that they are going to open up. So look for that website to go live actually the website is live now. But look for the forms to go live soon. Great. And over time, mayor, i think were going to try to inventory try to provide parents with as much information as we can about all of the camp opportunities because we have to think about it as a network this summer because of the Health Guidelines. So, we hope to be able to have a list and some reference materials for not just rec and park camps, but all of the private camps happening around the city, too. Yeah. And i want to touch a little bit because, you know, child care has been important because we have allowed that to continue for essential workers. Can you talk a little bit, maria, what we can expect as it relates to the 0 to 5 age group and what might be available during the summer . Yes. So, were really excited that this new health order that you have authorized with our Health Department to allow the expansion of Child Care Services for more families. So, there are child care programs for children 0 to 5 right now that are providing services for our essential workers and other allowable businesses. Under this new health order, we are now opening that opportunity for more families. We have hear that there are families out there who are working, who need care, who really, really need care for their children. And for children to need to need opportunities to be with their friends. So, this health order will allow more families to have access to these slots, these child care slots. I do want to caution folks that we are still following Health Guidelines and so the slots are going to be limited. We are restricted to a Smaller Group of children per site. So i just want to set expectations for everyone that its not just usual child care as we remember how it was a year ago. Yeah. And i do think its great that, you know, this is providing an opportunity for kids to come together. So were talking about pods of 12 within the course of a summer camp or preschool or in other arenas so that not only can kids can parents get to work, but also it gives these children an tounlts interact with one another because im sure, especially if it is a child who doesnt have any siblings, to be able to play with another kid was like i know everything for me as a kid and i just feel so awful that these kids cant go out there and enjoy one another. This is an opportunity and a great opportunity. But i also, sadly, know it is a very limited opportunity. But do want to touch on, you know, teenagers because i know one of things that happens often times they are always left out. So i am commited to making sure that opportunities for all is available so that we have paid internships for kids during the summer. And that we make that available, especially for our teenagers. Because, you know, already theyre missing their graduations and activities and events. And we want to make sure that they have a productive summer as well and theyre not left out. So, maria, make you can touch on what might be happening with opportunities for all and i know that with rec and park, we have a number of teens that are going to be working and helping with these camps during summer. Lets talk a little bit about, you know, how kids who are teenagers can sign up for some of the programs. Thank you, mayor. So actually a lot of our programs are doing a lot of connections to young people now but theyre doing it remotely. Theyre doing a lot of wellness checks and followup on what academic support these young people need. So, once again with this health order, were now allowed to have facetoface and inperson connections with these young people. So, were going to work closely with our nonprofit agencies to help young people connect to internship opportunities or actual Job Opportunities at some of these Summer Programs or at offices that are slowly opening up. So, theres great opportunities for private sector folks who are now interested who are opening up and would be interested in being a mentor for a young person this summer. That would be amazing. However, if that is not available, our young people are actually engaging in projectbased learning right now. So a lot of our young people in our Workforce Program will be doing Small Projects that are that is remote for the agencis that theyre assigned to. There will be engagement but it is so much better if the engagement is in person and not remote. I do how do they sign up . Like a teenager that wants to participate and have access to a paid internship . For now, were directing everyone to go to dcyf. Org care so they can find out whats available in the community and make sections there. I also do want to say that, for young people and for families who are struggling right now because there are young people and familis who are struggling right now we do have a website that is available and under the mayors leadership, she wanted to prioritize Mental Health services for families and for our essential workers and other service providers. For those who are struggling and who need support, please go to fieldSan Francisco. Org to learn more about different resources for parents, for young people and for adults and service providers. And also can we call 311 and be referred if we dont have access to the internet . Yes. Well definitely make sure that thats possible. Great. Great. We want to make it as easy for people as possible because i know sometimes you jump on a website and trying to figure it out or if you dont have Internet Access but want to ma you are that your friend knows that this might be available for their family. Talk about what some of the teens are going to be doing in your program this summer. Sure. For the last 607 years, San Francisco has had a program called workreation, where we actually fund teenagers, kids between the ages of 14 and 17 to work in our camps. And because of your leadership and focus on getting these camps opened safely and getting kids an experience, were hiring approximately 200 kid this is summer that will be counselors in the camps that we just talked about. I also think there is an amazing opportunity, mayor, for those private camp providers that want to operate this summer to hire teenagers. Heres why. The health order and the Health Guidance requires a minimum of two staff for every pod of 12 kids. And for private camp providers used to operating with a ton of kids and a few staff, you wont able to do that this year and staff wont be able to move around between pods during the camp session. For private camps to operate, they need to be very wellstaffed and we highly, highly recommend that private camp providers hire teenagers to help and provide some support in making sure that your camps operate safely and smoothly and gives these kids a great experience and opportunity to make some money. I want to provide an example because, for example, we have been providing a camp at well, i guess it is called a camp, i dont know what it is called, but we have been providing support for young people whose families are essential workers at Hamilton Rec Center. So Hamilton Rec Center has several rooms that could be used. So, i know that the plan is there is going to be probably two or three pods of 12. And each of those pods have their own rooms and their own activities around their rooms and they are also able to go outside and enjoy the field but not in the same pod, although they have their workers that are assigned to their pods. So, it provides for more opportunity to support more young people. So, the good news is even when theyre in these situations, theyre social distancing, but you know how it is when youre a kid and youre out playing, most likely youre going to somehow have some interaction where you might touch or be next to each other. So that is really why the importance of keeping these pods to what they are is significant in preventing the spread of the virus and giving these kids a chance to have their community of people to hang out with. Yeah. I think that is what were going for. It is super important for kids to first of all get outside and reengage and, yes, there will be indoor spaces. But a lot more emphasis on being outside this summer for children. And as you know, mayor, for them to be together and hang out and a under the Health Guidance to your very early point for those who are concerned about the health of our children, under the Health Guidance, kids within the same pod can play sports. They can do certain activities. So, k they play basketball together . Can they together, within the same pod. They can do those activities. And that is why this whole pod concept is very important. Our Public Health officials have been focused on minimizing risk. It is impossible to eliminate it 100 . But minimizing it. And that is the whole premise of these long threeweek sessions and these pods of 12. Depending upon which spaces a camp uses a camp may be able to have only one pod of 12 kids but may be able to have two pods or even three pods. As you know in hamilton or season seth rec center where the richmond or jolie, some of our buildings have multiple spaces, some schools where camps might operate have have multiple spaces. And then weve got the best park system in the country. So, we have plenty of outdoor spaces as well. For each pod, each pod requires a minimum of two staff people and staff cannot circulate between pods. So, again, for all you private camp providers out there, hire kids to help you this summer. All right. Well thank you all so much for the insight. Im sure a lot of parents are excited about this. I am hopeful that, you know, some of the in addition to the private the public camps that well provide with rec and park and a number of rec centers and nonprofit partners will be able to provide a sufficient number of locations within the Public Sector and hopefully in combination with the private sector, many of our kids can have an enjoyable, effective, fun summer. So, we appreciate that and for more information, make sure that we reach out to department of children youth and families on the website or call 311 and before we wrap it up, i do want to talk a little bit about this weekend because its memorial day weekend and typically everyone first of all, the weather in San Francisco, even today, is gorgeous. And most of the time people want to go out and have barbecues and hang out with friends and family and i really like the idea of what you did in terms of circles in park to make it clear like you have to stay away from each other. We want to be next to each other so bad. But at the same time, were doing so well. We still see the numbers of infections going up. But we see the number of hospitalizations going down, the number of those who are in i. C. U. Going down. San francisco is doing well. And the last thing we want to do is get too comfortable and all of a sudden go backwards so we still need people to keep their distance. We still need people to wear masks. We still need people to wash their hands regularly wash your hands but phil, tell us a little bit about what we can expect with the parks this weekend because we are, as much as we know people would want to use the parks, well be out in force regulating during memorial day weekend. Again, we dont want to shut down any parks but if it comes down to that point where things are out of control and arent following the guidelines, we wont have a choice. We really need people to be on their absolute best behavior. So, tell us about what we can expect with our parks this weekend. Sure. I mean, mayor, you covered it perfectly, which is that, look, our parks are super important right now. They are the one place where people can get outside, get some exercise, connect with nature and you have been amazing at making sure that these spaces are open and accessible. But for them to stay open and accessible, people need to do the right thing and over the last 10, 11 weeks, most people have been. But we need to focus and not ease up so you can be outside but you have to socially distance. We still recommend that you wear a mask. No partying, you know, no big events, no big picnics. Just enjoy nature and enjoy a little time with your own immediate family or your own roommates. We will have park ranger, San Francisco Police Department, police officers. Well have sheriffs cadets, fire cadets, Police Cadets and the neighborhood Emergency Response team, all doing education and outreach. There are over 1500 signs in all of our parks indicating what you can and cant do. Just do the right thing so we dont put the mayor in a position where she needs to take more drastic action. It is amazing, mayor, in a lot of cities just threw their hands up and say, oh, parks closed because we dont want to deal with it. You havent done that. Youve kept parks open for people. So, you know, were all asking the public to do the right thing this weekend. The weather will be nice. You will want to get outside. If you have to get in a car, its too far. So go to your neighborhood park, enjoy it. But socially distance. If youre deloris or jackson or the marina green or washington square, weve offered a little bit of popup behavioral art to inspire you to claim your own space. That is the circles that are in some of the parks. And, you know, theyre intended to be joyous and inspirational, but intended to remind everyone that we need to be mindful as we continue to fight this virus. And i just want to say that please dont get offended if, you know, our park rangers or someone walks up to you and asks you, you know, are you guys in the same household just to, you know, make sure that people are following these orders. We have a responsibility. And the other thing is, if youre not the police, then please dont act like youre the police. We dont need you to walk and regulate and tell other people what to do because that creates more drama. It creates more tension. So we are doing the very best we can. We want to make this park and open Space Available to you because we know how challenging this has been. For the most part, san franciscans have followed the order and we are so fortunate that we have amazing residents in the city who are taking this seriously, even though not everyone is complying which has made life difficult in some respects. But please let us deal with that. Were doing our very best to try and reduce this curve to the point of it being nonexistence because i know how badly we want to get back to being out there, to going to work and allowing kids to play. But the fact is coronavirus is with us for some time. It is not about getting back completely to normal. Its about adjusting to our new normal in a responsible way. It is going to take time. Its going to take ai, patience. We appreciate everyone for what you continue to do to help San Francisco be a leader in this effort. Thank you, phil ginsburg, thank you, maria su for your insight. For more information call 311. I know there might be a lot of questions also about the schools and other things. Were happy to continue these conversations based on your feedback. Based on your questions. Because many of us are doing the very best we can. This is not like anything any of us have ever expected. So, were all in this together. Were going to get through this together and that requires us to continue to be patient, get information to you as soon as it is available and just really try to come together, lift one another up, enjoy the memorial day weekend. And thank you all so much for your cooperation. Have a great weekend and well see you next week