Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use And Transportation Committee 20240712

Good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors today. Im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by dean preston. Do you have any announcements. Yes, due to the covid19, to protect the city, the board of supervisors legislative chamber rooms are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stayathome order, declarations and directive. They will attend via Video Conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv a streaming the number across the stream. Comments are available via phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting id is 1455134299. Again, thats 1455134299. Press pound and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted. When your item comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television and radio. You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways email myself, and it will be forwarded to the supervisors and it will be included in the official file. Finally, items will be appear on the june 30th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, and we have been joined by vice chairs safai and with that, could you please read the first item. Yes. Item number one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to add tourists or transient youth under the Residential Hotel conversion to set it at less than 7 days to provide a process by which owners or operators of regulated hotels can request that the period be longer on a casebycase basis, to amend the definition of permanent resident and affirm the appropriate findings. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, after hearing Public Comment, i would like to make a motion to continue this item to be called of the chair. Is there any Public Comment on item number one . Members of the public who wish to provide comment should call 4156550001. The meeting id is 1455134299. Press pound and pound again. Can you check if there are any callers in queue. I have one caller in the queue. I will unmute them now. Thank you. Hello, caller. Hello. Im a manager here at San Francisco sro and tourist use hotel. I just want to say that after, you know, weve gone to court about this, its been a long difficult road to get through to be on board. I just want to invite to the table the owners, the people who run these buildings. I want to say youre making this a little short for me when you buy the business, you have to go and give five years of the history to find out what kind of money they were making, what kind of people they were having, what their average daily rate, five years of business. I think its short to be taking it one year and its where everybody purchases a building is a permanent resident. Its okay, but i have permanent residents. Its not that. To get to one end thats meet lee going timmediately going toa permanent resident here, it doesnt work out, they have issues or Something Like that, dont get along with other tenants, whatever it is, im saying, do you know how much money it costs to get a tenant out . A lot. Im just saying, would you consider that because i think its really important that you think about those sort of things. Its not just like i mean, i have monthly visibility. Its just i dont have every Single Person coming into the building becoming a permanent tenant. If that makes any sense. Thats my comment. Thank you for your comment. Are there any other members of the public for item number one . Yes. I have three additional callers. Next speaker, please. Linda chapman representing nob hill neighbors. Together with nob hill together with chinatown, the original legislation passed back in the day when [indiscernible] housing committee. I would very much like to be able to participate in this and have other people who have maybe even more direct and recent experience than i do. On nob hill. We have thousands of sros. On my block are three sro buildings with over 200 units. The rest of us in flats and apartments, there are no more than 30 or 32. Many of our sros have been lost to unlawful conversions, including at least one and maybe two on my block. Only the chinatown one was saved. 1499 california, which used to contain nob hill residents. They became a hotel. Now, i see that they are leasing, and in talking with one of the women who actually lived there, she says, well, they were caught and they restored part of it but not all. I have to say that when i i acted as paralegal to the author of the legislation back then, and i have to say i was young. It was an experiment. Certainly there are enforcement provisions that could be a lot stronger. Now that i have more experience, like enforcement systems, i would make changes there. I would some of those ideas to supervisor peskin for provisions. I didnt comment on this. I didnt know it was coming up. I have called a number of people that i was calling in the past trying to get in touch with chinatown today and Freddy Martin who is now head of the fda and housing. Carl is also interested in this. Im glad to hear its being continued. Maybe what is proposed now is perfect, but i havent seen it. I think all of us who have experience with this, like sue hester, some that were taken, you cant succeed sometimes because the legislation is not what it should be. I would like to help make it what it should be. Your time has expired. Thank you, ms. Chapman. Next speaker, please. My name is samantha and i manage a mixed use sro, tourist hotel. This is a Family Business. We do rent rooms by the week and the majority of our events are San Francisco residents. Were able to rent by the week without requiring a deposit plus the full months rent. Many of our occupants also cant afford to pay by the month and they dont have access to that capital where they would have to provide it. So i suggest no. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. You have two minutes. Hi. Good afternoon, chairman peskin and supervisors. This is an attorney for the Hotel Coalition and numerous other individual owners. Many of my clients are immigrants who have made a life for themselves in San Francisco with a Family Business operating an sro. This is a lawful business renting rooms by the week with seasonal tourist rentals as allowed by law. The ordinance would take away their businesses without compensation. Simply wrong. The worst time is inflicted on the people who the city is trying to protect, the sro occupants. They are unable to pay a months rent let alone a security deposit. While it may be wellintentioned, resulting harm is obvious. It will be on the city itself in the inform of Environmental Impacts which has not been evaluated in a proper ceqa review. Its illegal for a number of additional reasons. The am oartization period is insufficient and the hearing process is vague. The Building Inspection Commission is not empowered to hold them in the first place. They have certain powers and serving as a quasi judge is not one of those powers. The board of supervisors have the ability to grant that power as it was created about i a vote roinishivetive. Were talking about a judicial function. It discriminates between sro owners, hotel owners, and the owners of other uses. Lastly, as were discussing a land use category change, a rezoning, it needs to be referred to the Planning Commission. We submitted a letter to you detailing these objections and others. This ordinance is being pushed through at break neck speed. We would reflect as the previous caller did, previous time to review it, make comments on it more fully and to engage with your office. We urge you to please vote no on this proposal, thank you very much for your consideration. Counselor, perhaps you missed what i indicated at the beginning of the meeting that this item will be continued to the call of the chair subject to Public Comment. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Mr. Chair, that completes the queue. Okay. Then i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair on that motion, madam clerk, a roll call, please. On the motion to continue to the call of the chair. [ roll call ] you have three aye. Next item. A resolution on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco to apply for accepted extend 1. 5 million in local early Action Planning grants program, funds from the California Department of housing and Community Development for citywide planning projects. Back from a twomonth dsw stent putting up a field hospital, james lick on behalf of the department of city planning, the floor is yours. Thank you, sir peskin and supervisor safai and preston for hearing this item today. Im james with the Planning Department. My colleagues and i are here before you today with a resolution to allow us to apply for a grant that would help fund two planning projects, the Housing Element Environmental Impact report and planning for housing and Priority Development areas or pdas on the west side of the city and county. The grant will be part of the citys budget process and it will go before the budget and finance committee as part of the Planning Department budget. The California Department of housing and Community Development is looking to support citywide planning projects that streamline housing approvals and accelerate housing production. The state requires that the city and county provide a resolution authorizing us to seek a grant for this work as part of the application. We request that you approve this item in committee today to allow us to provide that resolution to the state. If you have any questions about the Housing Element update, the Housing Element eir, or the website pda projects, my colleagues are here to address them, and, again, thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Glick. Are there any questions from the members of the committee. Yes. Supervisor preston. Thanks, chair peskin. Can you just explain a little more the purposes of the grant and particularly im curious when we talk about the analysis of streamlining as well as incentivizing development, whether were talking about housing generally or any priority on Affordable Housing in the context of this grant. Yes, supervisor peskin. I can direct you to my colleagues with some of the specifics, but let me talk to the general intent of the grant. It is not specific to Affordable Housing. In fact, encompasses a lot of different potential rezoning, environmental clearance, general policies that accelerate housing production, preapproved site and architectural plans or objective design standards, and there is a specific components which we are sort of using to address the Housing Element eir, which is the funding allows for the meeting with fixed cycle Regional Housing Needs Assessment or allocation goals. A huge portion of that is our Housing Element eir. If you have specific questions about either the Housing Element portion, i can direct you to the proper person, and they can speak to the project if you have specific questions about that. I hope that answers your question and explains a little bit more the scope of the grant. Yeah. Thats helpful. I think im trying to understand, though, if thats a choice we are making in terms of it not being specific to Affordable Housing or if thats the criteria for the grant to keep it broad in terms of the criteria that you just described applying for. It is not a specific requirement that we focus on Affordable Housing. We have actually specified it in particular in the west side pd as housing for persons with special needs, developmental disabilities, the intent, i believe, on the west side portion is to certainly explore all Affordable Housing opportunities that we can. There was not a specific call in the grant to focus just on Affordable Housing, though the Planning Department obviously intends to focus as much as possible on that. Well, im just getting up to speed. This is not one we were briefed on before. I dont know to which extent the supervisors were involved in this. Obviously with limited funds, i would like to see the prioritizing of Affordable Housing in this context. Now, maybe that can happen. I understand they are planning grants so maybe there will be more consultation as they move forward. But i did just one other thing, trying to understand the timing here, so is this i understand theres a deadline on this coming up for this to be submitted, is that right . Yes. The deadline for submitting the application with the agreement to apply for the grant is july 1st. However, as we go forward and refine the process as we did with the sb2 grant, the prior grant we applied for under Similar Program from acd, there was some refinement of our process and our projects as it went along. So we are going to get the application in prior to july 1st, and it will probably be subject to negotiation with hcd and potential changes as we go through sort of a Technical Assistance and Consultation Program with them. Im sure that our planning staff would be happy to work with your office and with the committee however possible to address any concerns in terms of how weve specified or scoped the projects before a final Grant Agreement is signed. Unfortunately, this was a bit of a scramble to pull a draft together so that we could both submit it to you and get it submitted in time to hcd. Got it. Has there been any consultation with the west side . Obviously this is primarily impacting part of the west side. Wondering if theres been any discussions with either district one, district four, or district seven about the scope of it. Let me ask paolo or mary ann to speak to if theyve had any conversations with supervisor moore or any of the other west side supervisors, please. Sure. Supervisor, im with the Planning Department. Let me address, first, the affordability component. The Housing Element is different from previous elements, different from previous updates. Its based on racial and social equity the center of this update. This grant will support Environmental Review addressing some of the social indicators that we need to include. On the west side, weve been working for more than a year with supervisor moore, president yi, and fewer. The work on Community Engagement and housing strategy is on district four. We have partnered with one of the Community Organizations to carry that coordination. Were working very closely with preston on Family Friendly housing, and theres a proposal for a pilot and a sketched proposal by the end of the year. Theres also a commitment to collaborate strategy that the Planning Department and supervisor yee will be agreeing upon with supervisor fewer, were starting the work. There is some focus on the transit corridors and were starting the Engagement Process. The three of them are under the west side strategies, and as you know, you approved the extension of the Priority Development on the west side of the neighborhoods and theres a commitment to support those neighborhoods in terms of addressing some of the Community Planning needs as well as some of the investment strategies. They are part of an overarching framework called homes housing outreach media and engagement strategy where were starting the housing strategies with Engagement Process. We also have on the line paolo who is planning manager for that effort if you have more specific questions. Supervisor preston. I still my only remaining question is, as i understand the general concentrations have occurred, i guess im trying to understand how this particular grant and i confess. I dont know the flexibility that you all have in how you can define the scope and the terms of this agreement in order to carry out the work and whether there is a roll for supervisors of the impact of districts in shaping how this 1. 5 million will be applied for and the condition on which it will be received. Im just trying to understand if theres been consultation about this specific grant or not and frankly if not, you know, whether its more appropriate to, you know, look at this week, you know, when after that consultation has occurred or maybe its already occurred. Thats what im trying to find out. Supervisors, may i answer the question . Yes, please. Please. We have been working on them in shaping the scope of this grant as well as some of the Additional Resources that the Planning Department needs to allocate in order to carry the work in these three districts. Thank you. All right. Supervisor safai, any comments or questions . Seeing none from supervisor safai, why dont we open this up to Public Comment. Thank you. I dont have any questions. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 4156550001. The meeting id is 1455134299. Press pound and pound again. Operations, are there any callers in queue . Mr. Chair, there are no callers in the queue. Okay. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, if theres no objection, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with recommendation as a committee report. Seeing no objections, madam clerk, a roll call, please. On the motion as stated. [ roll call ] thank you. Could you please read the next and final item . Yes. Item number three is a motion to approve [indiscernible] for unnamed streets located on the San Francisco Park Commission property within dc lot 337 and mixed use project area. Members of the public who wish to provide comment call 4156550001. The meeting id is 1455134299. Press pound and pound again. If you have not already done so please star 3 to line up to speak. Thank you, ms. Major. We are joined by rebecca from the port of San Francisco. I understand you have a short powerpoint you want to share. The floor is yours. Hi. Thank you. Thank you, chair peskin and good afternoons preston and safai. A presentation for you, and just a background i direct the Waterfront Development projects. Give me a frown face if my voice is cutting out. Im here before you on the mission rock project. This is the official naming a motion to name the unnamed streets in this development site. Youre probably familiar with Mission Rocks from previous actions. A bit of a background, weve been working on it for 12 years, the city, the state, the voters of San Francisco, and were on the cusp of construction and phase one and then occupancy in the next 24month construction schedule for phase one. Overall, mission rock is about 28 acres, including that pier 48 site you see on the righthand side jutting out into the bay. Its 2. 7 square feet, 1200 new homes and apartment buildings. Some affordable. And then office, retail production, and then that pier 48 site will be developed in the next maybe decade or so. We also have 8 acres of parks and open space sitewide. On the phase one final map back on june 2nd allows development of the first four buildings. You can see in the picture here, it comprises phase one is comprised of two Office Buildings or exactly two Office Buildings, two apartment buildings, delivering 540 units overall, 200 of which will be restricted affordable, and the china basin park is a major open space in phase one. The project has a number of elements that you can read on the slide here that we can talk about if you would like to in the future. The motion before you is on the specifically they come along with the final map. They would have come along on june 2nd, but this trailed a bit due to timing. So its before the committee today. There are six streets total at the site. We are proposing that four be extensions of the nearby street grid. You can see that on the far right. We would extend this from the south and it would terminate at that beautiful park in the north end of the site. Lawn bridge, bridge view and not ha he will would be extensions. Long bridge and bridge view would come up bridge view would come up north. Long bridge would come from the east and channel street would come in im sorry. My directions are off from the west. There are two new names proposed at the site. One is blank road, this blue street, and the other is spur street. The two names are back to the site history. Spur makes reference to the site as a long time rail yard dating back to the late 1800s. You can see the picture of the spurs and the rail yards. Plank road is an homage to mission plank road which was a toll road that operated in San Francisco from about 1851 and connected parts of mission bay over to mission delores. The process for naming new streets that weve gone through just briefly noted here, it began in Community Meetings back in 2019 when we were discussing what different public space features should be. During those Community Meetings, we heard names that should reference the sites history. We proposed three names to make sure spur, plank, and the extensions were fine through emergency standpoint. They were compliant. Then we presented the names to our advisory groups back in december. The Port Commission had a hearing on the street names and adopted or proposed we bring these to the board in january, and were now seeking that approval from the board. The motion before you is for the six names, four extensions, two new street names, and i think we have folks available from vsm, mr. James ryan and bruce torres may be able to answer questions about process. Im here for any questions you may have. Thank you. Are there any questions from Committee Members . Yes, supervisor preston. Thank you, chair peskin. In this moment where street names and other things are very much on our mind, were taking a close look at various names in our district of street names, and i realize this process started quite a while ago, but i am curious, especially with the new streets, not the extension streets, but with the new ones, theres obviously a lot of interest in naming streets after civil rights leaders, other activists and folks. We are in the process tomorrow of bringing back before the board of gauge junior resolution to name the street after the first africanamerican firefighter. There are many more folks who have been underrecognized or not recognized. Yet, i realize you are well into this process. So i wanted to understand just what is there an opportunity potentially on the new ones, particularly on plank and spur . If there were alternatives, would there be a way to potentially consider other names on those without slowing down the many other aspects of this project . Thank you, supervisor, for the question. Im sure that our Port Commission executive director appreciates what youre talking about. The sentiments are well discussed. As i mentioned, the process weve gone through to come up with different names, we go through that process again. There would be some concern there with regard to timing. Our real mandate from wanting to get this project started is to Start Construction in july and then we would be starting the vertical construction in september, october. So perhaps i could defer to the City Attorney as to whether or not this sort of integration of a new process starting issuing with permits and starting construction on those buildings, if thats appropriate. Deputy City Attorney jensen. Good afternoon, chair, and board members. I have been informed by my colleague and the City Attorneys office that there would be no slowing down of construction if the committee and the board do not push through this item right now, that the construction can continue on its current track. So that is my understanding. So subject to Public Comment, supervisor preston, how would you feel if we continued this item to the call of the chair while we Work Together with the port and the port works with the project sponsor and the various committees and folks that you had vetted this idea with. Supervisor preston, that would work well for me. Potentially, continuance of however much time it needed for those discussions. Im throwing that out to you for your response and thoughts. Okay. Wonderful. My thoughts are a couple. We have other streets at the port we might want to do a quick survey of potential future projects if that is of interest to supervisor preston and others. So perhaps we could provide that information and have a discussion and figure out whether or not there are other opportunities. The only concern with these is that going back through the process. I understand if that may be the desire. Perhaps a broader look at port streets is a good way to provide information. Sorry. Go ahead. My apologies. No. Go ahead, chair. I was just going to say that we could also potentially and im looking at the verbiage in the subject resolution, maybe approve this in bart without spur or plank, but with the extensions of the existing named streets. So maybe that would allow you to go forward in part, and then the other two new ones could be part of the more global look that youre suggesting. Thats a potentially good route. Those streets intersect the first phase of instruction. We would have to get to those in the nearer term. We have other projects. I think this global look would actually be a Good Opportunity to look at what streets are coming before the board in the near term as well that hasnt gone through the process just yet. Thank you for your willingness to have that conversation, and i think it would make sense to separate out the new ones. Approve the ones that are extensions and then maybe it would give more time limited so we can have that conversation about the broader look at names and then it may well be that these particular ones should just move forward as is and there are other opportunities that these should be rethought out. I apologize. We raised this just initially just today, so i think in a period of time we should have that conversation. That works very well for me. Thank you. Anything you would like to add or subtract . Yes. I have my name on the roster. Thank you, chair. So i was going to Say Something similar to what both of you all said. I think we should definitely move forward with the names that are extensions of the existing streets. I think theres no debate there. I think it makes sense to have a conversation if theres other projects upcoming or other projects to name new streets. I think this would be the time to have looking through an equity lens. I do think that, you know, when i look at what the port what the port has presented in terms of the reason why they chose spur and plank, theres some history there, but its not anything really of super significance. I think that since this is a mission rock, this is a San Francisco giants, i think it will be worthwhile to include them in the conversation and see if there is some historic athletes or current athletes that we could incorporate in. I know if i lived in that area, it would be pretty wonderful to have someone that had significant history with the team but also with a homage to where we are today in terms of our africanamerican history or other history, you know, in terms of the commitment from the team and the name. So i would definitely like to see that. But i certainly would like to see that the current streets that are not up for di for debas straightforward. I think people know that he was the first africanamerican supervisor of the board, and i think thats a wonderful history to kind of, again, reaffirm. Those are my comments. Thank you, supervisor safai. Before we go to Public Comment, deputy City Attorney jensen, as im looking at the subject resolution, all of the names are set forth in the public streets and port open spaces lift. So i think if we were to move forward in part and remove plank and spur, that lift would have to be amended or we would have to add another moved clause that specifically deletes those two names. What is your advice . I think probably the cleanest way to do it would be through an amendment, but its not your only path. You could i suppose you could split the file, but it seems like a great amendment would work just as well. I think i cut off the port representative. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Im getting notes from staff that it may create some confusion to take half the legislation. So if it would be possible through the chair, can we continue the item and not try to split it up . Im hearing this might cause confusion with some of our permitting and whatnot. Okay. We can certainly do that. Supervisor preston, it looks like you wanted to Say Something. Nope. Okay. Why dont we open this up to Public Comment. Are there members of the public who would like to comment. Checking to see if there are any callers in i in the queue. Press star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. Mr. Chair, there are no callers in the queue. Okay. Public comment is closed. Why dont we sorry. Im sorry. One second. One caller just popped up. All right. Then well open it up to Public Comment. My name is hello. Go ahead. I dont know how to push unmute it. Youve been unmuted. Okay. My name is bill graziano. I live in the bayview. We have a street called bridge view. So im wondering if there will be some confusion. I notice that it said bridge view way, but bridge view street is in the bayview. So its just a comment. Thats a helpful comment. Thank you, sir, for the comment. Are there any other callers . That completes the queue. We will close Public Comment. We can i can schedule this on any thursday by 10 00 in the morning for the following monday. So what i would suggest is that we continue this to the call of the chair so that we dont put it on multiple agendas. When we have figured this out to everybodys satisfaction, i think we all know what were doing here, plus we just got a very helpful comment that may not have you may not have heard before from the member of the public. If theres no objection, i would like to make a motion to continue item number three to the call of the chair, and on that motion, a roll call, please, madam clerk. Only the motion as stated. [ roll call ] okay. That motion is approved. Item is continued to the call of the chair. I look forward to working with you and, of course, feel free to work directly with my colleagues as well. With that, the land use and Transportation Committee is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you all. My name is miguel gustos and this is the regular meeting of the Community Investment and infrastructure for tuesday, may 19, 2020. Id like to welcome the members of the public who are listening or watching on sfgov tv or by phone. Id like to welcome our staff and partners who will be presenting today for todays meeting. Due to the Current Health emergency, the San Francisco department of Public Health, mayor london breed and governor gavin newsom have declared that the coronavirus is a Public Health emergency and have extended the order for people to shelter in place. This meeting is being held virtually with all members of staff and commission participating today via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of everyone is well taken care of. The Mayors Office has determined that the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure has an urgent need to take action on the matters before us to ensure Public Health and safety and has authorized the commission to meet for these matters. Madame secretary, please call the first item. The first item of business is role call. Respond when i call your name [roll call] all members of commission are present. The next order of business is item two, announcements. 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At this time, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 8885578511. Enter access code 7500645 followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again. When prompted, please press 0. You will be placed in the queue. An automated voice will let you know when it is your turn. Our phone moderator will let us know if there are any callers on the line. Madame secretary, i have no speakers on the line. Well just give it a few more seconds to ahow them to call in, to make sure. Mr. Chair, at this time, there are no more members of the public on the phone. Wishing to comment on this item. Ok. Hearing no request to speak on this item, i will close Public Comment. Turning to my fellow commissioners for their comments or questions and i will start with commissioner scott. Do you have any questions or comments . No concerns or questions at this time. Thank you. Commissioner brackett . Do you have any comments or questions . No questions at this time. Thank you. Commissioner vice chair rosales, any comments or questions . No, but i do offer a motion for approval of the minutes of january 21 and april 7, 2020. Great. Thank you, vice chair. Do we have a second motion . Commissioner brackett seconds the motion. Please take roll. Please announce your vote when i call your name. [roll call] mr. Chair t vote is four ayes. Thank you. Please call the next item. The next item is the regular agenda. Agenda item 5b through 5g related to the proposed plan amendments for the redevelopment project area will be presented together but acted on separately. 5b, adopting Environmental Review findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act related to the approval of the amendments to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project t Mission Bay South owner participation agreement, the design for development for the Mission Bay South project area, the mission bay blocks 29 through 32 major phase application and the basic Concept Design Schematic Design for Mission Bay South blocks 29 through 32, including findings concerning the implementation of the threshold of significance for evaluating transportation impacts based on vehicle miles traveled. Mission bay south redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution number 52020, 5c, approving the report to the board of supervisors on the amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment promise in connection with a hotel and a Residential Development on blocks 29 through 32, adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act and authorizing transmittal of the report to the board of supervisors, Mission Bay South redevelopment promise area. Discussion and action resolution number 62020, 5d, approving an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project in connection with a hotel and Residential Development on blocks 29 through 32, recommending adoption of the redevelopment plan amendment by the board of supervise source and submiting the recommendations, including the redevelopment plan amendment to the board of supervisors and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution number 72020, 5e, conditionally authorizing a seventh amendment to the Mission Bay South owner participation agreement with focilmb, l. L. C. , a delaware limited liabilities company, and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution number 82020, 5f, approving an amendment to the design for development for the Mission Bay South project area in connection with a hotel and Residential Development on blocks 29 through 32 and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution 92020, 5g, conditionally approving amendments to the major phase application and the basic concept Schematic Design for Mission Bay South blocks 29 through 32 to add a mixeduse building consisting of hotel, residential and associated retail uses and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the California Environmental quality act, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. Discussion and action resolution 102020. Madame director . Thank you, madame secretary. Im excited to present to you today the redevelopment plan amendment that allows for a range between 129 and 230 hotel rooms and between zero and 21 residential units. The plan amendment will also increase the amount of retail and would also allow for the flexibility for the project to aggregate some of the small size of these spaces. In addition, we are also proposing an increase in height and staff has been working with our partner, Golden State Warriors, for the last year and working through the kinks and making sure that the project we have before you is sound and we on ocii staff are recommending approval of this item. What you hear today from richard he heckman and the Development Team is the benefits of the promise and the commitments that come with it that the developer has made in consultation with our office. In addition, theyll talk about next steps and were thrilled to be before you today because of the amount of work thats been done and the partnership with the warriors since the completion during the construction of the arena and since then. So looking forward to hearing your feedback. With that, ill turn it over to Gretchen Heckman to present on this item. Thank you, director. Good afternoon, chair bustas, chairwoman rosales. My name is gretchen heck man and im a Development Specialist in the mission bay group at ocii. Today im joined by the Development Team consisting of peter bryan, the Vice President of construction and development at the Golden State Warriors and eugene lee, a senior associate who is the architect for the proposed project. There are six items before you today regarding the Golden State Warriors hotel and residential project, which is proposed within the existing chase centre site on blocks 29 through 32 in Mission Bay South. This project requires an amendment to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan and associated plan documents ton the already approved design documents the major phase and basic concept or Schematic Design for the chase centre site. All of these actions together require environmental findings, which are also before you today. Please note that in your files for this item, you have an updated version of the redevelopment plan amendment and the commission memorandum, which were redistributed with corrections. In addition your files and our online posting were also updated to include the technical studies for the addendum. Next slide, table of contents. Here is an overview of todays presentation. First we will cover the six action items before you and will understand the context around them, then the warriors and gensler will review the project. Well they think talk about community out reach and the status of the warriors work on this project in meeting ociis contracting and workforce requirements and finally well end with a summary of all the actions that will happen after this hearing, including a schedule for the Planning Commission and various board of supervisor sessions. Next slide is, approval action summary. Resolutions five through 10 are before you today for approval. Ing to, the amendments approved through these resolutions create new land uses for the existing chase centre site on blocks 29 through 32 and they set parameters that match the specific proposed design for the hotel and residential project. Next slide proposed promise. Project. The warriors have submitted a design for a 160foot building with 129 hotel rooms on the lower floors and 21 residential units on the upper floors. While the project is specifically designed in their Schematic Design package, the plan documents allow forability in programming in the event the warriors need respond to changing Market Conditions in the Residential Market and thus must pursue a higher hotel room count. The whole set of planned document amendments does four things. It allows for the submitted bcsd design to move forward, the document language allows for potential changes to hotel room and a residential unit counts, up to as many as 230 hotel rooms and as few as zero residential units. The document three classify retail entitlement on the existing chase centre site and increase the entire retail entitlement in the project area in order to do so. And finally the document amendments define the fee amendments that are required to build the project. All of the approval items will go before the ocii commission today and then various agencies will review and approve a subset of them. For instance, the board of supervisors will only review the redevelopment plan amendment and the Oversight Board will only review the owners participation agreement or what we call the o. P. A. Next slide, proposed project location. This slide orients us in the Mission Bay South project area and shows us where the hotel and residential project is planned on the chase centre site. Currently within that footprint stands a threestorey retail building which will be demolished once the warriors are ready to Start Construction. Next slide, neighbourhood [inaudible]. Mission bay is near completion. The project area is wellserved by Neighbourhood Retail Services and transit as shown in this amenities map. Next slide, site plans. This slide is a site plan for the chase centre site, shown looking down from a birds eye view. It shows the existing arena, the existing two Office Towers and the proposed hotel and residential project. As you can see out of the four blocks that comprise the chase centre site, the hotel stretches across two of them, 29 and 30. There is a building in that Northeast Corner that will again be demolished once the warriors are ready to Start Construction on the project. The next few slides will cover the proposed changes in the redevelopment plan to. P. A. And the design for development document. Next slide, redevelopment amendment. The redevelopment designates the boundaries of regulates land use four and defines general controls and limitations on development in the project area. Overall t plan amendment increases the number of hotels and hotel rooms as well as the amount of retail entitlements. These overall increases are restricted to block 29 through 32 and specifically for the hotel and dwelling units they are restricted to blocks 29 and 30. This is the third redevelopment plan amendment since the plan was adopted in 1998. Next slide, blocks 29 through 32 after plan amendment and design approval. This slide shows the land use summary before and after the hotel and residential project entitlements for blocks 29 through 32. The leftmost column shows the applicable land uses on the site and 18,000seat arena, hotel, residential, retail, commercial, those are the two Office Towers and the arena and finally open space. You can see that the hotel and retail are being added to the site and that the retail Square Footage appears to be increasing. This is more akin to a reallocation which we will discuss further on the next slide. Finally, youll notice the open space decrease slightly to accommodate the footprint of the project from 3. 8 acres to 3. 6 acres. This decreeds amount is still above the 3. 2 acres of open space originally approved by ocii in 2015 during the arenas entilements. Next slide, blocks 29 through 32, retail summary. This slide breaks down the reclassification of alreadybuilt retail space. The 15,000 square feet of the top of the slide is the amount of retail entitlement provided to the warriors at the time of their arena entitlements at the time of 2015. The redevelopment plan calls out certain exclusions for retail space, one of which is for spaces under 5,000 square feet in size. Such space has been and is currently excluded from the retail tally in the redevelopment plan. But as long as it is considered exempt, it is restricted to a size of 5,000 square feet or less. The warriors had requested more flexibility in these spaces so they can freely move [inaudible] walls according tenants needs. This currently excluded space that is already built tallies to 54,000 square feet on the site. In addition to the previously exempted space, there are a few outdoor terrace spaces attached to alreadybuilt retail that require flexibility in their level of enclosure. O country, i is proposing to add those tariff bases to the retail entitlement to redesign screens and coverings to indraoes comfort of future patrons. Next slide, south o. P. A. Amendment. The south o. P. A. Is a Development Agreement between ocii and through an assumption of rights and responsibilities, to match the developer focils. It has been amended six times in the past. This proposed seventh amendment authorizes hotel and Residential Land uses on blocks 29 through 30 and specified development range of up to 230 hotel rooms and between 0 and 21 residential units. The amendment also lays out the fees required in order to build the project as well as augmented housing fee and additional contribution toward open space. Next slide, public and fiscal benefits. This slide shows the impact fees required in order to build the project. The first section shows all the onetime funds that would flow through ocii in the city. These funds mrafp whats in the planning code with the exception of the inclusionary Housing Programme which is an augmented fee. Over 1. 3 million by increasing the percentage of gross floor area assessed from 20 to 30 . The part of the slide shows a Park Maintenance fee intended to offset the Maintenance Cost by patrons of event centre utilizing park 22, which is direct across from blacks 29 through 32 in the chase centre as you will see an up coming rendering. The amount of the fee was determined in conjunction with the Management Company that maintains parks in Mission Bay South and is used for cleanup after giants games at oracle park t. Fee is an annual fee and acrews upon opening of Bayfront Park, which is currently under construction and is expected to finish next summer. Next slide designed for development amendment. The Mission Bay South design for development is the government earning document for design controls for each land use type specified in the redevelopment plan and is care out through the south o. P. A. It is also referred to as the d for d. As we go through the amendments on the next slide, one thing to keep in mind is that these amendments are restricted to blocks 29 through 30, specifically in order to meet the needs of this proposed project. Next slide, designed for development amendments. The main proposed changes to the d for d have to do with height and bulk. As we saw in the site plan slide, the footprint of the hotel and residential project within the existing built conditions on blocks 29 through 32 are quite constrained. In other words for the warriors to fit in all the necessary programming, staff recommends allowing an ib crease above 90 feet to allow the residential portion of the building to increase up to 160 feet. In addition, the proposed d for d changes show an increased plan length from 200 feet to 240 feet. Allowing for additional length for the Hotel Portion of the building. Again, to create a feasible project. Vument of the height and bulk increases, the tower developmentable area for the block and that is for the height zone also increase slightly. There are a few minor additional d for d amendments that the warriors have requested. These include a change to the percentage of the buildings rooftop area that a recreational structure can occupy and this change was meant to create a comfortable amenity for the residents of the dwelling unit and then the final amendment is for a larger projection in the form of a canopy that will help mark the hotel entrance. Next slide, major phase amendment. The final of the six actions a conditional approval of an amendment to both the existing major Phase Development and the bcsd for blocks 29 through 32. The major phase document provides the Overall Programme and infrastructure needed for the 2015 event centre and mixed use project. This proposed amendment incorporates at a high level the new hotel and residential project into the site. Next slide, basic concept and Schematic Design overview. The proposed hotel and residential project amends the 2015 event centre bcsd as well to allow for the replacement of an existing threestorey retail building in the Northeast Corner of the site and to make changes to the retail entitlement open space and parking counts. The project includes 129 hotel rooms, retail and use associated with the hotel, such as meeting rooms and a ballroom, as well as 21 residential units on the upper floor of the massing. And now im going to turn over the presentation to peter bryan, Vice President of construction and development from the warriors. He will speak in more detail about the project, its programming and the Development Team. Thank you, gretchen. Good afternoon, chair, vice chair, commissioners and director. Its a pleasure to see many of you again, albeit remotely today. We are excited to present to you our Hotel Project blocks 29 to 30. We believe there is a great need for hotel rooms as envisioned in the original plan to support the area today. With an ultimate plan area buildout of over 6500 residential units or 4. 4 million square feet office, an 18,000seat event centre and active hospital complex and ample open space, we believe and have heard from many neighbours during our outreach efforts that having a hotel at blocks 29 to 30 would be a tremendous asset, not just to the redevelopment area, but the city as a whole. You have been provided with several letters of support from some of these neighbours. Including local business in mission bay and surrounding neighbourhoods, residents of mission bay properties, residents of nearby neighbourhoods. We at g. S. W. Are confident in the long Temple Health of our community and intend to be a vital contributor to the Mission Bay Community and San Francisco as a whole. Im joined today by many key members of our project team to assist me in presenting our project and a in answering questions you might have. S. H. Hotels and resorts our management and operating partner. And will operate this property under their one hotel brand, which is wellsuited to San Francisco. One hotel focus on being environmentally consciousness and a member of the local community. From sourcing locally to reducing the use and environmentally damaging materials and to bringing nature into the interior spaces, one hotel is a brand we will be proud to have operating at blocks 29 to 30. Gensler is our exterior designer abarchitect of record and jones la salle is the Development Manager for the project. Next slide, please. Gretchen already gave you an overview of the programme for the project. And this is a bit more detail of that programme. Of the 129 hotel keys, there will be 115 standard rooms and 14 suites. Ott 21 residential unit there is will be 13 twobedroom units, two threebedroom penthouse unitsful supporting this will be a ballroom and meeting room spaces, a fitness centre, utility spaces and around 12,000 square feet of leasable retail comprising of a spa and three restaurants, two of which have exterior terraces above ground level to take advantage of the views of Bayfront Park and the bay. Next slide, please. The proposed project does not change the current pedestrian and bicycle paths of travel for visitor and workers that the chase centre, thrive city and the Office Buildings. We believe this project will help to activate warriors way and the Northeast Corner of the property. Next slide, please. This is a rendering of the entire site and includes the proposed project shown at the back right of chase centre with the downtown skyline in the background. We have attempted to be conscientious and considerate of how this project faces Bayfront Park and the waterfront. We have designed the portion immediately adjacent to terrier francois boulevard to be the lowest at 84 feet and step it up to a proposed height of 160 feet on block 30, which is one of the action items in front of you today. We have worked extensively with your staff to make sure that the fencing and roof designed a to the architectural character of mission bay while being sensitive to the plan area. At this point, i would like eugene lee to walk you through some of the design components of the project. Thank you, peter. The proposed mixed use hotel needs to be blended really well with the neighbourhood. As Mission Bay Community is an important, vibrant neighbourhood for San Francisco, new massing has to represent other mission bay massings. First, top massing is at 160 feet in height, which is at the same level as other mission bay massings. And it steps down toward the nature bayside. Step down massing and the 84 feet in height and it is well integrated with other lower massing a along terrier francois boulevard. Because of stepping down terrace massings, new massing fits well between urban in nature. Next slide, please. It is also very important new proposed mix. Mixeduse Hotel Architecture creates a great relationship with marine architecture. We apply arena architectural curvature lines to create a natural gateway for people. There will be a lot of people on new Bayfront Park to enjoy community and nature. With the arena, new massing will invite people up to arena level where there will be new programmes that say restaurants and cafe amenities will enhance peoples experience. Next slide, please. This view is taken from warriors way. Currently, warriors way is not excavated because there are either backside of retail at upper podium level or garage louver system at ground level. But new design will activate the street with a special Hotel Amenity programme such as ballroom and meeting rooms at upper podium level. And condo Hotel Lobbies at ground level. New massing with a new programme will activate the warriors way for people. Next slide, please. We also like the share four elevations with you. First one is north elevation. Which is the warriors wayside. Dynamic facade design will bring transparency and texture to the community. Youll stephane dionsinger fa . Ad many different ways. From right to left, it gradually changes from urban fabric texture to nature terraces will where you will see more horizontal shadows. Next slide, please. South elevation also highlights massing the curvature. Roofline is also very dynamic and it is well integrate with the massing below. Next slide, please. If elevation is very transparent with horizontal terraces to maximize the experience of nature. Next slide. Less el will anchor the urban side with a texture that reminds you of the city grade. Next slide. Please. And peter bryan will walk you through the plans again. Thank you, you gene. At the ground level, we want to activate warriors way as you hear from eugene. The next slide up. Not yet. Ok. Give it a second. There we are. Perfect. Hopefully everyone can see that. So at the ground level, activating warriors way has been a critical component of this proposed project, given its current state. What you see here is the ground level. The blue being the main lobby reception areas that serve the proposed building and spaces within it. And on the right side in pink is one of the three restaurants. This one having, you know, direct connection to the public rightofway, Pedestrian Access and across terry a. Francois boulevard to Bayfront Park. Next slide, please. One level above grade, we begin our ballroom and meeting Room Programme space that you see in the pinkish colour. Next slide. Level 200, this level not only has a continuation of the ballroom and meeting Room Programme from below, again the pinkish area on the middle to left side of the drawing, but also a cafe, restaurant and terrace overlooking Bayfront Park on the right that you see in the lighter pink and the yellow colour. Next slide, please. Here you can see a typical hotel floor with the mix of standard rooms and suites. Next slide. At level 700, this is our primary amenity level. It sits 84 feet above grade and consists of fitness centres, spas, hotel rooms and a restaurant with outdoor terrace overlooking Bayfront Park in the bay. Next slide, please. And finally this is a typical residential floor showing five units with a mix of two and threebedroom units. Now id like to turn the presentation back to Gretchen Heckman of ocii and thank you for your time. Thank you, peter. Again, commissioners, this is Gretchen Heckman with ocii and im going to continue on with our Environmental Review slides. The sxhition required to make environmental findings pursuant to California Environmental quality act or ceqa as part of its approval of todays actions. On november 3, 2015, the Commission Certified the final Impact Report that covered the event centre in mixed use development at Mission Bay South lots 29 through 32 as required by and in compliance with ceqa. As part of the commission to consideration of the proposed project and todays actions, which are also refered to in the ceqa finding resolutions as the 2020 actions, ocii has prepared the first addendum to the event centre at sbir. The first addendum evaluates the environmental effects of the 2020 actions and makes conclusions that we will recommend the commission adopt. In compliance with state law, addendum number one uses a vehicle miles traveled based threshold for measuring significance of transportation impacts due to vehicle trips. Next slide, Environmental Review continued. To determine whether an environmental effect is significant, ceqa now calls for agencies to transition from using thresholds that are based on what is known as levels of service at roadway intersections to whats based on the vehicles miles traveled methodology. Next slide. Environmental review, continued. Staff recommends that the commission adopt v. M. T. Standard for purposes of analyzing the warriors related 2020 actions as recommended by the states technical guidance and as supplemented for vehicle impacts by the Planning Departments guidance. Finally, staff recommends that the commission, consistent with the conclusion of addendum number one, fine that the environmental effects of the proposed 2020 actions are within the scope of the project analyzed in the event centre sfbir and will not result in any new, Significant Impact or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects that would alter the conclusions reached in the sfeir. Next slide, community outreach. The proposed project in action were presented to the mission bay citizens advisory committee, or c. A. C. Twice, once in december of 2019 as a workshop and then again in january 2020 as an action item. At the workshop, warriors invited questions and feedback on the project. Some members of the mission bay c. A. C. And the public requested that the warriors provide more information on thing like staging during construction and any potential traffic impacts. Many expressed support for the project. In january, the mission bay c. A. C. Voted on each of these actions separately and, while the votes in favour differed for each action, all actions passed by majority. S the warriors also did significant outreach work to other neighbourhood organisations as shown in the list on this slide. As peter bryan mentioned earlier in your packet i dont say can reference letters of support for many of these organisations. Next slide, Small Business enterprise and contracting programmes. As you are aware, the warriors have worked closely with ociis contract compliance staff on the chase centre and dont do so as the team moves through its professional Services Hiring for the project. This project will comply with the south o. P. A. Programme in diversity and economic development, which includes can ocii Small Business enterprise or s. B. E. Programmes. The warriors are on track to meet s. B. E. Participation goals based on the teams recommendations and selections thus far in its professional Services Hiring. The warriors have also agreed to apply the requirements of the s. B. E. Programme to their hotel tenant improvement work. Which, unless performed by an owner as part of owner improve. S, it is currently excluded from the requirements of the s. B. E. Programme. Next slide, workforce programme. Once the project nears construction, the warriors will work closely as they have done with the chase centre with ocii as first source and local hiring for construction and permanent jobs. The warriors have also worked very closely with the office of economic and Workforce Development and workforcerelated nonprofits such as Mission Hiring Hall and Young Community developers and will continue utilizing those relationships for local placement on this proposed project. Next slide, summary of amendments. Here again is a summary of all of the changes for each planned document before you today which allowed for this submitted project to move forward but the flexibility in case Market Conditions change. As a note here, if the warriors choose to pursue a different project than is proposed in the bcsd submittal, they will need to resubmit a bcsd submittal that shows a higher range of hotel rooms and that will come before the commission. Next slide, next steps. Finally, as mentioned earlier, there are more approval entities that review the planned document changes after ocii commission and this slide lays out all the planning, board of supervisor and Oversight Board hearings as well as the final mayoral signature, department of finance determination and Effective Date for the redevelopment plan amendments. Next slide, conclusion and Team Member Updates or introductions. Sorry. That concludes the presentation and we can answer any questions you may have. Also, on the line for this item and available for questions from ocii are sally orth, jose campos, director of planning and the Environmental Review officer, george bridges, contract compliance supervisor and laura scheifele p associate planner and urban designer. And if the warriors have any additional speakers they would like to name, they can do so now. Thank you, gretchen. Yeah. We do have several members from our team here today, specifically we have yoyo chan from governmenttal affairs and the president of s. H. Hotels and resorts. And adam lutz and other representatives from our entilements team and gensler as necessary. Great. Well, thank you so much for the presentation. Madame secretary, do we have from the public wishing to speak on this item . Operator your conference is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, press 1 and then 0. At this time, members of public who wish to provide Public Comment on these temperatures should call 8885578511. Enter access code 7500645. Followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again. When prompted, please press 1 and then 0 to be placed in the queue. An automated voice will let you know when it is your turn. To withdraw your question, press 1 and then 0 again. Our phone moderator will let us know if there are any callers on the line. Well give the public a few moments to call in. Great. Thank you, madame secretary. Do we have any callers in the queue . Operator you have six questions remaining. Great. Hello, caller. Are you there . Caller yes, im here. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is jeanette and im a resident at the radion. Were a 99unit condominium building within three blocks of the chase centre and about three or four blocks from the Giants Stadium as well. Im in favour of the project. I think that its adding value to the community here on many different levels. And really my only concern Going Forward with any public space that is being developed that we acknowledge and support public restrooms. We seem to be at a deficit in our area. We have a lot of public urination going on all around our building on a regular basis. But in terms of the hotel, i think it is a great idea and i support the warriors. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much. Operator you have six questions remaining. Caller hi. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Caller ok. My name is deborah and my husband michael, we are residents at the madrone building which is just down the street from the chase centre. Unfortunately we object to this hotel and i sent a letter in with our comments. But i would just like to reiterate that there are several hotels in the area. The marriott that is being built just down the street, the via, the hyatt. So, to say that there are no hotels in the area is really inaccurate. We very much object to the height of the building, the hotel. Its just add aing more density to our neighbourhood thats already very dense and so we were really would object to the increase in the height and, you know, i just really feel that its so much easier for Large Companies to pay fees rather than to actually provide the things that the city really needs. Such as more Affordable Housing, more open space. And we still get lots of litter and lots of garbage from what is already occurred in the last year from chase centre coming in. I cant imagine that were going to have any cleaner parks, unfortunately, with more people and more traffic coming in with regards to a hotel of people coming and going, etc. We have very tight streets and the traffic is always abominable and so this just makes me feel that there is going to be more. Just one thing about this nature is the building is coincides with the nature of the neighbourhood. Well have a 16storey white wall from 16th street to the cove when this whole project is finished. And theyre looking at an artificial plastic with chemicals floating around. Its just theyll destroy nature. Thank you. Caller thank you. Thank you. Operator you have six questions remaining. Caller hello. Good afternoon. Im keith goldstein. I am president of the cherry dog patch association and the chair of the eastern neighbourhood c. A. C. , although neither of those entities has had the opportunity to take a formal position on the proposed project so right now im speaking as an individual. I think the proposed hotel seems like real benefit to the neighbourhood, to the waterfront and to the city. I think its going to bring new opportunity to those of us who live, work or operate businesses in the southeast segment of the city. Im confident the warriors will go out of their way to provide Employment Opportunities to nearby residents in such areas as they have done at chase arena. And the hotel, i think l help to invigorate a section of the city that has been so adversely affected by a virus. Firstly it will provide construction jobs in the short term and then it will, im sure, provide many long lasting employment opportunityings as weve seen at chase arena. I think the warriors will go out of their way to partner with locally owned business. They have done that in a really exemplarly manner with chase arena, hiring many locallyowned business as vendors there and even hopeful that some hotel guests might be adventurous and patronize our businesses beyond. I think the whole loyalty design is evocative off the waterfront and fits the neighbourhood. It looks anything like chase, it will be spectacular. I feel proud of our city when i walk along warriors way and it will be great to show up at that wonderful mission bay waterfront to our out of town hotel guests. Thank you for listening to me and i hope youll support this project. Thank you. Operator you have five questions remaining. Hello. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Caller ok. Great. Well, good afternoon, commissioners. My name is vivian lee and im the principal of etmans and me architect, a small womenminority owned business that is pa h part of the projects team. Were the architecture and interior design firm and our role on this project is the designer of the condos and also acting as the associate architect for the building. While the project is still very in its early stages, the warriors and the project team have demonstrated theyre committed to ensuring Small Businesses like ours are fairly represented on the project team. It started by participating in one of the public solicitation meetings a couple of months ago and have been working closely with the project team on this effort. While we are very much in this Uncertain Times of the pandemic. But we believe that projects such as this will help reopen the economy and the city and frankly were very proud to be a part of this team. Thank you and i hope you will approve the actions before you today and support the project thats proposed. Thank you. Operator you have four questions remaining. Caller good afternoon, chair, commissioners, executive director. My name is bruce aggad. For identification purposes, im a native san franciscan, 11year resident of mission bay, a board member and transportation rep of the south beach Neighbourhood Association. Im speaking in support of the Golden State Warriors proposed hotel mixed use project outlined in items 5b through g in the agenda today. As a resident of mission bay for the past 11 years, i believe this project in its proposed uses are much needed in our neighbourhood. Where hotels and hospital amenities are currently lacking. This proposed project will also complement the existing activities at the chase centre and help to create additional public activation and retail opportunities that will benefit our neighbourhood. I have a few comments regarding the warriors and the chase centre as neighbours. During the planning and construction of the arena, we in the community were engaged on a regular basis, learning about specific aspects of the project. Community impacts regarding design, lighting, sound, etc. Outreach to neighbourhood stakeholders and general next steps. Specifically during construction, contractors were sensitive and took immediate action to resolve any complaints or areas of concerns identified by neighbours and community. Our confidence it will be replicated in any efforts Going Forward. Since the opening of chase centre in september, ive been impressed with the Ongoing Operations and warriors collaboration in communications with the surrounding community. As a member of the Neighbourhood Association board and the Mission Bay Transportation Improvement Fund a advisory committee, ive had the opportunity to engage in very detailed conversations with the warriors team. It has pleased me to this point as their commitment to not only execute on what is required by their development and related agreements, but go above and beyond to engage the community, incorporate feedback, bring on resources to ensure deep dives into operational matters, and be proactive in managing all aspects of operations. As a result of their efforts has the Community Talking about the wonderful entertainment and experience associated with the centre and not about impacts on the neighbourhood. I hope you will support this item. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Operator you have three questions remaining. Caller hello, commissioners. My name is dana himmel and i work with urban Design Consulting engineers. Were a small, local 12yearold company and we work in urban Civil Engineering storm water and joint trench. And were an 11person, small local, minorityowned business as l. B. E. For this project, we were selected to work with joint trench and dry utility coordination which involves working with pg e to get the gas, permanent power, temporary construction power and also coordinate services from comcast, at t and other Communication Companies that will provide service to the project. As vivian, the associate architect previously mentioned t warriors and the project team have demonstrated their commitment to include Small Businesses, like urban Design Consulting engineers on this project team and were also very honoured to be a part of that. So i would also ask that you approve the actions before you today as we also believe that this would be a very important project to help open up the opportunities in the city as were recovering from the pandemic. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Caller good afternoon, commissioners. My name is alex lanceberg. Im a director with the San Francisco Electrical Construction industry. Im calling in here to lots our industries and really the entire building trade support for the warriors project. Theyve been operating under the they built their stadium under the project labour agreement that weve had at mission bay. They will be continuing to build this hotel under the project labour agreement that they have on mission bay and continuing to work with really all of labour, both from the operational side and local from down to the Building Trades to ensure that this project is entirely successful. I myself personally am a resident of southeast down in bayview hunters part and india basin. My family and i go through mission bay all the time. And its going to be great to see to see the progress happening. I think we need to embrace the fact that were in a dense city and people do want to come visit here and give them the funds to do so. We want to make sure that we capture those economic benefits of their visits and we want to make sure that we direct those to our community folks, whether its local construction workers, local contractors or the local employment through the operational use of hotel. So, looking forward to seeing you approve this and have it move on to the board of supervisors. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Can i remind folks if you have any [inaudible]. Operator you have one questions remaining. Caller my name is ralph hannity and im a resident of the madron building near the arena. Im opposed to the development on the basis that the height is outside the boundaries of what was the original plan for mission bay as well as the approved 130foot, which was a concession to the warriors. 160 feet is well beyond what was ever conceived on these blocks. Which are kept at 90 feet. My second point is that the hotel may be in addition to the neighbourhood, but the upper floors are actually luxury condominiums and everybody is glancing over it, but the only reason to have these upper floors are is to put luxury condominiums and im opposed to that. I have another opposition and that is that the warriors have made commitments to open stores and restaurants that would feed the neighbourhood needs and unfortunately most of these are shuttered and closed, not just because of corona, but because they have never really made an effort to meet the needs of the neighbourhood. Therefore, im very opposed to the variance on the height and the addition of these condos. Thank you. Thank you. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Mr. Chair, at this time, there are no more members of the public on the phone wishing to comment on this item. Ok. Hearing no further requests to speak on this particular item, i will close Public Comment. Ill turn now to my fellow commissioners for their pending comments and questions they may have. And id like to start with commissioner brackett. Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. Id like to say that in the few years that the warriors have been active with ocii and producing projects that ive been impressed with the commitment to Small Businesses, especially providing opportunities to bayview firms as well as womenowned businesses. To me that is one of my big highlights as seeing this project moving forward is that we have a lot of support going back to our Small Businesses who really need that support, especially postcovid. Three other points that i want to naention take me over the top to be able to say i would like to support this project is increasing in Affordable Housing amount, which is the 1. 3 million that far exceeds the city minimum requirement as well as preservation of open spaces. So not just having open spaces but additional investment and dollars to maintain any public space as well. And lastly, the workforce participation. I would like to see a little bit more increase in terms of Public Participation from People Living in dog patch area as well as bayview. Other than that, i dont have any questions at this time. Thank you. Id like to go next to commissioner scott. Do you have any comments can or questions . Comments or questions . Commissioner scott . She may be on mute. Yeah. If youre speaking, commissioner, we cant hear you. Ok. Im going to jump to commissioner vice chair rosales for any comments or questions until we get commissioner scott back. Chair bustas, good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for the presentation. And also the commentary by members of the public. Certainly the warriors are a tremendous organization, pretty much the chase centre and all in my memory, all of the agreements, the negotiation, the efforts were definitely in good faith had, i think, [inaudible] [garbling] there is room for improvement on the transportation side. You know, people coming and going from the arena. I think that comment by commissioners and staff are [inaudible] so i [inaudible] support this project. And actually id like to [inaudible] [audio garbling [ just want to understand a little bit more your your sounds like youre under water so i would just speak a little bit slower and so we can capture what youre saying. Ok. Yeah. I have technical difficulties here. How about now . Sounds good. Ok. Ill talk slower. So, one question i have is about more recent outreach. From what i understood, there was outreach to the Mission Bay Community, the latest i believe i heard this correctly in january. Do we have any kind of postshelter in place feedback other than the folks who have written to the commission . Have we gone back to the c. A. C. Postshelter many place orders . Thank you for that question, vice chair rosales. This is Gretchen Heckman with ocii. So, when we went to the commission in january, there was still one outstanding piece of the o. P. A. That was not yet finalized with the warriors and that was the specific amount of the Park Maintenance fee and we have updated the c. A. C. Members on that specific amount obviously since january. And during shelter in place, we have not received any direct comments or remarks about, you know, changed opinions on the project, from shelter in place from the c. A. C. And i dont know if yoyo chan of the warriors or peter bryan have any other anecdotes to share about outreach, you know, since quarantine. Absolutely. This is yoyo chan on the line. As gretchen mentioned t last opportunity we were at the c. A. C. Was in january. However, we have been meeting oneonone with different members within the Mission Bay Community as well as the [inaudible] and Bayview Community and continued to meet for oneonone on zoom post shelter in place, some for folks who may not have been completely brought up to speed. So that outreach is still continuing as were here today. But we have done a couple of individual meetings withle immediate neighbourhoods and shelter in place, namely about two weeks ago were be the dog patch business association. A number of other folks along [inaudible] in terms of getting them up to speed on the latest as youve seen today. And we will continue to update folks as needed. But that is the latest since shelter in place. Ok. Thank you for that. The other questions i have concerned the impacts of the project on not just mission bay, but this part of mission bay, the impacts for instance on the park. The park will have been open to the public for the schedule that i have in my mind and how this is Going Forward. So aye like to hear about construction impact, neighbourhood impact and and park use impacts as a result of the construction process, if you will. Yeah, commissioner, ill take that. This is peter bryan. Just so youre aware, we have been working extensively on a site logistics plan that actually doesnt impact the park we intend to stage the construction from the sidewalk of warriors way. Obviously with an active event centre and Office Buildings and the other retail that will be open on our site during construction. You know, we need to maintain that access, too. We looked at the end of every work day, how theres adequate pedestrian flow to allow people to travel west and east along warriors way to keep that connection to Bayfront Park if theyre coming from west of Terry Francois boulevard. Its something weve been conscientious of today and our neighbours have reminded us also we have a loading dock across warriors way that gapold navy uses so weve been in coordination there, too, on how we minimize the impact during construction. But the goal is to keep the park open, to keep our closet areas open and to have this really be more of a downtown construction site you would see in areas like new york city or even here in San Francisco where life goes on around or the impact of the spronl really not noticed as we ensure all the right Safety Measures are in place to keep everyone safe and open. Thank you. I dont have any questions at this time. Ok. Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner scott, are you here . I think you can hear me now. Yes, we can. Comments or questions you may have . Yes. Comments, i do, definitely. Again, as i was saying, thank you so much to gretchen and peter and eugene for this presentation. Im listening to the community. Im listening to the residents there. I, too, am native here, resident and live very close to your community. Were not in a Perfect World and i do hear all of your concerns. But we are in a world and a city and metropolis that has great needs and post corona, when we get there, well need the jobs, we will need the eateries and i didnt know we need help with continuing to better our transportation and the things around our parts. But i believe if we continue to keep the warriors feet to the fire and to keep an eye on their commitment, this is an organization that i am watching and may not be perfect and what is in our world today perfect . But i do see them as an organization moving toward perfection. I believe that they will stick with their commitment and work hard to try to make sure the concerns are met and addressed and that the Growth Development will happen. Im pleased that theyre still working with and commiting to our Small Businesses. Im pleased that they are with y. P. D. And the job and all that are possibly opening up. So, its something i am for and believe will be a great asset to the city of San Francisco. Thank you, commissioner scott. Thank you, commissioners, for your comments. You know, i i had an opportunity and ive been i think weve all had an opportunity to sort of, while weve been sheltering in place, you know, going for walks. Of course, at safe distancing and masks. And ive gone down to the warriors location many, many times as someone who grew up in the city, in the Mission District and that whole area was empty for a long, long time and i hear the concerns from some about nature and about density and the fact that anybody who lives in that area has contributed to the density. Because remember, i it was an empty space so we are a growing city. And were all contributing to the density and to this city. So, i just want to acknowledge those concerns but also we need to be very honest that there was nothing there before and there was a dream to build out that area and the dream is coming alive and so im really proud of this commission and this agency for its work towards that. But im also qualify proud with the partners who have many, before the buildings were built, you know had to sort of take a leap of faith that the city and the community would come along and the warriors were one of those partners that came to us a few years ago, asking us for their for our support for their dream and, as i mentioned, when the arena was being built or before the approvals, im not a sports fan. And thats not why i wanted to approve that project. But it is because of how they did the outreach and how they committed to local hire, how they worked with us to make sure that some of the Concession Stands were of local longterm businesses, restaurants that were here in the city and that partnership has actually bourn a lot of fruit. And not just the chase arena itself, but outside. So im really excited about what they want to do. I think that its going to bring more jobs. Its going provide more benefits to the community. And, you know they have been a very good partner thus far and there is no reason why i think we shoildened support this project. So i just hope that the warriors have heard some of concerns about litter, about traffic impact and i know that, because youve done it in the past, you worked with the local community and thats something that i know youll do because youve done it and youve really proven yourself as a good partner with the community and the city. I want to thank you for that. We have several votes before us that we have to do one in a row and so i would like the ask was someone going to Say Something . Ok. So, i will need a motion and a second, if there is one, for each of the items. Madame secretary, youll call item individually. But just to move this along, i will ask for a motion for this particular item and a second. If there is one. Actually, if i may, and with maybe we need councillor morales to chime in, it sounds like we had additional callers that didnt show up in our telephone queue and they wish to provide Public Comment. Would that still be allowed if we provide them a couple of minutes . Because i think there were at least a couple of item who somehow didnt get queued in and they submitted an email and they wish to speak. I dont know if we can do that. City attorney morales . I think the prudent thing to do would be to allow the speakers to give their testimony, given the possibility that there are technical difficulties in getting through. Since were not at a public hearing venue where you can see individuals who might want to speak so i would recommend that you allow them to speak. Ok. So, madame secretary, what well do we wont accept any motions yet until we hear these speakers and then get back to regular proceedings. Thank you. Ill pull up the Public Comment screen again. Ms. Nguyen, if you can activate the question and answer portion one more time to allow the callers to queue in again. Operator your conference is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, press 1 and then 0. For the members of the public who were unable to get connected to our Public Comment line earlier, if youre still on the line, or if you still wish to call in, well allow you a few moments to call in and provide your Public Comment. If youre listening, the phone number to dial is 8885578511. The access code is 7500645. Make sure you press the pound sign and pound sign again to enter as a participant and dial 1 and then 0 to be placed in the queue. And when youre prompted, it will let you know when it is your turn to speak. Again, that phone number is 8885578511. And the access code is 7500645. Do you have any participants on the participant list that may not have queued in or may not have dialed 10 . I dont have anybody queued for question and answer mode. Well allow them a few seconds in case they logged off. Thank you. Ms. Nguyen, is there anybody in the queue . No. Callers, can you please dial 10 if youd like to be queued in, please. I do have one on the call now. Operator ok. You have one question remaining. Caller hi. Good afternoon, commissioners. This is pete barmer, National Association of community contractors. Im pleased to see that you opened the phone line for Public Comments. First of all, thank you. Thank you to Golden State Warriors for the beautiful arena they had built and dont build Great Projects in the city of San Francisco. Personally, i would like to thank the warriors leadership, peter bryan. His engagement with our association National Association of minority contractors provided jobs in the community, created Contract Opportunities contractors, small contractors and also some of the bigger contractors and suppliers. This was a wonderful project and i hope that the commissioners approve this project and move forward so they can create more jobs in the community. It has been a great benefactor and a great leadership that warriors bring to the city of San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you. Are there anymore . Operator you have zero questions remaining. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you, mr. Chair. Ok. So, we are now closing Public Comment for sure. And we are looking at item 5b and i will need a motion and second if there is that. On b . I move that we adopt the environmenttal review findings. Can you hear me . Yes. Ok. Thank you, mr. Chair. I move that we approve and adopt the Environmental Review findings purchase student the California Environmental quality act a. Great. Thank you. Is there a second . Yes, i second. So we have a motion and a second. Madame secretary, please take roll. And mr. Chair, just to confirm, were taking one motion for all items that act on it separately . Yes. With all the votes. Got it. Ok. So, the motion for all action items. Wait. No. I think you need to get a vote on each item. Each. Right. Ok. Yeah. Thank you. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5b when i call your name. Commissioner brackett. Yes. Commissioner scott. Yes. Vice chair row salless . Yes. Chair bustos. Yes. 5b passes. Id like to call for 5c. May be use the same house . Commissioner scots and commissioner rosales first and seconding . I move that we move the report to the board. Commissioner, are you seconding that . Yes. Ok. So, we have a motion and a second and madame secretary, please take roll. [roll call] mr. Chair t vote is four ayes. Motion passes. I would like call the vote for agenda item 5ds. There somebody else who would like to motion and second . Mr. Chair, i move that we approve the amendment to the redevelopment plan. For the Mission Bay South redevelopment project. Thank you, commissioner scott. Is there a second . Ill second. Ok. Madame secretary, please call the roll. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5d. When i call your name [roll call [ mr. Chair t vote is four ayes. Ok. Motion carries. Calling the vote for agenda item number 5e, may i have a motion . I move. Go ahead. Yeah. I was going to move item 5e. Thank you. Additionally authorizing the seventh amendment. Si second that. Ok. We have a motion and a second. Madame secretary, please call the vote. Commission members, please announce your vote for 5e when i call your name. [roll call] mr. Chair t vote is four ayes. Ok. Motion carries. Id like to call the vote for agenda number 5f. May i have a motion, please . Mr. Chair . Yes, commissioner scott . I move that we approve an amendment to the d for d for the Mission Bay South project area. Thank you, commissioner scott. Is there a second . This is mara, i will second. Madame secretary, we have a motion and a second. Please call roll. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5f when i call your name. [roll call] mr. Chair t vote is four ay irks. Motion carriesful id like to call a vote for agenda item 5g. May i have a motion . Mr. Chair . Yes, commissioner scott . I move that we conditionally approve the amendment to the major phase application and the basic concepts and Schematic Design for the Mission Bay South lots 29 through 32. Thank you, commissioner scott. Is there a second . [inaudible]. Vice chair seconds this motion. So we have a motion and a second. Madame secretary, please call the roll. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5g when i call your name. [roll call] mr. Chair, the vote is four ayes. Ok. Motion carries. Thank you very much for the presentation to the staff and to the partners and thank you, members of the public for your comments. Please call the next item. The next order of business is item 6, Public Comment on nonagenda items. Mr. Chair . Madame secretary, do we have any speaker cards for this item . Your conference is now in question and answer mode. To summon each question, 1 and then 0. At this time, members of the bhoubl wish to provide Public Comment on nonagenda items should call 18885578511. Enter access code 7500645, followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again. When prompted, please press 1 and then 0 to be placed in the queue. An automated voice will let you know when it is your turn tom withdraw your question, press 1 and then 0 again. Again, that number is 8885578511 and enter access code 7500645. Followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again. And then enter 1 and a then 0 to be entered into the queue. Ms. Nguyen, just let us know if there are any callers, please. Thank you. Madame secretary, there are no callers on the line. Thank you. Mr. Chair, at this time, there are no more members of public on the phone wishing to comment on this item. Ok. Hearing no further requests to speak on this item, i will close Public Comment. Madame secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is report of the chair. Mr. Chair . There are no reports. Please call the next item. The next order of business is item 8, report of the executive director. Madame director . I dont have knowing report at this time. Thank you. I dont have anything to report at this time. Thank you. The next order of business is item 9, commissioner questionses and a matters. There anybody wishing to speak on this item, commissioners . Ok. Hearing none, madame secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item 10, closed session. There are no closed session items. The next order of business is item 11, adjournment. Mr. Chair . Thank you. Fellow commissioners, thank you so much for being a part of this meeting today. I would need to motion to adjourn. Mr. Chair, i move to adjourn. Moved by commissioner scott. Seconded by mutual fund i second the motion. Commissioner brackett. Thank you so much. We are adjourning at 2 31 p. M. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, of the public and of the staff. Please standby. June 19, 2020, lafco. Good morning, everyone. This meeting will come to order. This is the june 19, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the body. Our clerk is here. I would like to thank madam clerk, do we have a name from sfgovtv . I think you are on mute, madam clerk. No, i am sorry. We did not receive the sfgovtv name. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do you have any announcements. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, City Employees and public, city hall is closed. Members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state federal orders and directives. Commission members will attend through Video Conference and participate to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 415 6550001. Id1454037332. Then pound then pound again. When connected you will hear the discussions. You will be muted in his senning mode only. When your item comes up dial star three to be added to the speaker line. Best practices call from quiet location, speak clearly and turndown your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment in the following ways. Email myself alisa. Somera at sfgovtv. If you submit via email it will be forwarded to the supervisors as part of the official file. Thank you. Madam clerk, please call item 2. Approval of the lafco minutes from the may 15, 2020 regular meeting. Any comments . Seeing none, open up for Public Comment, please. Are there any callers lined up to speak . Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 415 6550001. Access code 145 4037332. Then pound and pound again. Please dial star three and the system prompt will indicate you have been unmuted when your comments should begin. There are no callers in the queue. Public comment on item 21 closed. I make a motion to approve the minutes of the lafco meeting ma. Second. Roll call vote. Item 2 approval of minutes. Vice chair pollock. Aye. Commissioner haney. Aye. Commissioner mar. Aye. Commissioner fewer. Aye. There are four ayes. Thank you very much. Did we ask commissioner singh . She is alternate. When commissioner pollock is here, she is not a voting member. Please call item 3. Community choice agreedation activities report. We have Michael Hyams from the clean power San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Can you hear me . Yes. I am the director of clean power s. F. For the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. We have a full update for you today. I do have some slides. I will share my screen. Now, i think we are all set. Good morning again. For our update today, we will provide an update on clean power s. F. Enrollment and Service Statistics and what is going on the past couple months. We didnt present to this body last month. Our update will include information on covid19 related impacts. As commissioner fewer mentioned, i am joined by our Power Communications manager peter to share information about our outreach to the community regarding available relief measures. We will share information about clean power s. F. New program electricity rates and update on activities coming up including work for new Energy Efficiency programming and update on the integrated Resource Planning process. As for enrollment and Service Statistics. First, our clean power s. F. Continue serves customers successfully. We enrolled 405,000 customer accounts in the city. The program opt out rate is up a small an amount and is now 3. 9 of all enrolled accounts. That is more than 96 customer retention rate. Customer enrollment in supergreen, 100 Renewable Energy product increased. It is at 2. 0 of active accounts. That hasnt changed. It has been growing. Supervisor green activity sales represent 4. 5 of clean power s. F. Total annual sales. Clean power s. F. Is in the midst of completing the final customer enrollment. This was planned before the end of the 2020 fiscal year and includes new accounts that Began Service after our previous enrollments that had not been in concluded and some large commercial and Affordable Housing customer accounts we had withheld for additional engagement. The table here summarizes customer enrollment by customer type. To date. 3 of customer accounts opted out. What has been happening . Of course, covid19 is happening. It has had a huge impact on the community, nation and globe. As i reported in april clean power s. F. Is fully operational. Reliabilities of our electric service and commitment to customers has not changed. The Society Response has required sacrifice and many members are facing economic hardship. I want to emphasize as i did in april that we are here to help. From the standpoint of clean power s. F. Customers demands for electricity we have seen consistent reduction in usage 7 to 10 relative to preshelterinplace forecast since that shelterinplace order was issued. The chart on this slide highlights this change contrasting our preshelterinplace energy demand. That is orange line with the actual demand, which is the blue line. Examining specific customer groups sort of deeper within this chart. Our commercial customer demand is down 20 since shelterinplace began. It appears to slowly rise as the economy has reopened. We expect commercial demand to stay down as businesses activity is fundamentally reduced. Residential demand has been up relative to preshelterinplace forecasts. The significant increase in demand we saw early on with shelterinplace is on the decline. This is likely due to longer days and warmer weather, which reduce home electricity usage. With respect to power supply. To date no problems with our power supply or supplier solvency orable to operate. Of course, we continue to closely monitor this. However, we do understand for some projects in california shelterinplace policies impacted construction schedules. There is a concern it could disrupt Global Supply chains for new project development. We are in regular communications with the projects clean power sf will purchase power from. Neither projects under construction this year. The solar and the voyager wind project have reported delays. These are to begin operations and start delivering Renewable Power september and december of this year respectively. We are also working hard to bring on more Renewable Energy supply, including the first Battery Storage contracts as a result of the Renewable Energy solicitation issued in august of last year. I expect to have more information on the status of Renewable Energy contracting efforts in upcoming meetings. As i mentioned before, we recognize that covid19 has required a s Society Response tt involves sacrifice in economic hard ship. There are a number of measures to help clean power s. F. Customers. I ran through these in the last meeting, but we want to provide them here. We want the public to be aware of the programs and they include discount programs like care and fara, flexible payment options, protections from medical baseline customers requiring electricity to run the medical equipment. The state of california has ordered pg and e to cease disconnections of customers for late payment and the mayor directed the nonpayment. Finally, customers have been receiving the california climate credit on bills for the past few months providing credit between 17 to 35 during the time sab, reducing overall time span, reducing overall bills. We have also been proactively reaching out to customers to inform them of assistance availability. Peter is here with me. I want to hand this over to him to share the great work or Communications Team has been doing. Thanks, mike. Can everybody hear me . Yes. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. I am peter galata, Communications Manager for clean power s. F. At the sfpuc. I am excited to report back to you for the work we have been doing as part of our response to covid19. I think we can all agree information is power in a pandemic, and one of the first steps we took after shelterinplace order in march was to put together essential information for our customers regarding service impacts, payment support and ways to save on electricity billings. We created a dedicated covid19 web page on clean power s. F. Org. An image you can see here on the slide. This page is immediately accessible from the home page and is where we provide the latest information to customers. As mike mentioned we know many customers are using more energy at home because of shelterinplace and they are experiencing hardship due to covid19, we created a dedicated lower your bill page as a one stop information hub on available discount programs, Financial Assistance as well as actions customers can take at home to low on were their bill. I will share statistics later. I will say the lower your bill page is the highest viewed page on our website to date. We know customers are interested in this information and looking for it and we are providing it to them. All of this information is available in english, spanish, chinese and filipino on clean power s. F. Org. Commissioner fewer you asked we consider additional proactive outreach to low income and non English Speaking customers. We now have a Customer Support campaign which i will talk about today. The goal was to proactively reach low nick and limited english customers with information about how to save on electricity bill. So for this targeted campaign, we pursued a multi touch, multi linlingual campaign direct ema, print and digital ads and social media. The look and feel of the campaign was positive, friendly, and peoplefocused. This Campaign Began on may 24 with our first in language present advertisements appearing. We ran three sunday ads starting on may 24 through early june. We also purchased print and digital advertisements in a number of local newspapers. The San Francisco day view, sunset beacon. Those ads all directed customers to our website, two pages that i described earlier and the call center number. In addition, we mailed postcards to approximately 5,000 customers who have specifically requested in Language Communications in spanish or chinese. They directed customers to the translated information o on the web page and to the call center where they can access the Language Line and get access information through the call center. We also continue to promote Customer Support resources on social media and, finally, one of the most exciting things to share with you today is we sent our brand new customers the newsletter out to 11,000 businesses and 220,000 residen residents. You may have received the e newsletter in youre in box last week as customers. The content focused on covid19 Customer Support and directing customers to resources how to lower bills. For businesses on you they can apply for Business Loans to access the resources the city is providing for our businesses. While the campaign is still underway, we have some preliminary data to share with you today. What we see is customers not only received the information and it prompted engagement. Increase in power sf website traffic and increased calls to the call center. For the last 30day period from may 10 to june 8, there was a 66 increase in website traffic. In addition the lower your bill web page saw 1,000 increase in traffic. That page has had over 2200 views in the past 30days. Our translated chinese web page also saw 3900 increase in traffic. Prior to this campaign that page had about a dozen views. It has now had over 400 views in the past 30days. The call center has seen increase of of 290 for the fit week of june. The direct mail postcard was the top reason customers called in, and customers calling in were asking about discounts on their bill as well as payment assistance. Those were the most common reasons people were calling in. We sent out our customer e newsletter to commercial and residential customers. We saw a strong open rate of 36 for business newsletter, that is double industry average. We saw an open rate of 37 for residential, unsubscribe low and asking for Important Information on covid19 support. That was of most interest to customers. These are just preliminary results we wanted to share since the ads will run through the end of june. We will have a picture to share on impact probably in july. So far we are pleased with these results. I am happy to answer any questions you have. I will turn it over to mike. Thank you, peter. Thank you, commissioners, for the great feedback you gave us a couple months ago. As you can see, our great team took that input and ran with it. We think it is Generating Positive resultin results. In other news we have new electricity rates. You might recall at your meeting on february 21st i shadowier planning i reported we were bringing a action. They adopted a Rate Adjustment formula for the clean power sf program to support timely and efficient Rate Adjustments. Of course, maintaining program affordable as p. G. E. Makes changes to the power charge and pcia. As a reminder it is the exit fee we charge customers and other programs for the unavoidable above market cost of Energy Resource commitments it made on behalf of clean power sf customers prior to the formation of the program. The adopted rate action authorized formula add adjustment of the current clean power s. F. Rates based on three criteria. Those included clean power sf rate within plus or minus 1 of comparable pg and e rates after accounting from p. C. I. A. Two, they recover the program costs. Three, it did not increase customer generation more than 10 from the rates in place prior to this recent action. The resolution is noted the slide there. These formula add adjustments may only be triggered by rate changes resulting in the clean power s. F. Rates higher than the equivalent rates or more than 2 discounted from the equivalent be rates. The intent here is to allow us to be nimble in how we adjust our rates, recognizing that some of the costs our customers pay are not in our control and they show up on the pg e side of the bill. We are often times in a mode of responding to those changes. Following our rate action, pg and e received approval to change rates on may 1st. That resulted in increase of 1 for residential and small and medium commercial customers. Large customers saw a 1. 5 decrease. The rate change featured 20 increase of the power charge and difference adjustment. Without reduction in the clean power s. F. Rates the net results to customers would be that the generation supply cost would be 2 to 3 higher than Generation Service from pg and. Pursuant to the mechanism approved if february. We reduced rates after accounting for the pcia effective may 15, 2020. The new rates represent decrease of 1 to 3 in pg and e average green rates depending on the customer class. Bottom line. The customer bills will continue to be lower. Shifting gears. What is coming up . A few more slides here. I am happy to report that clean power s. F. In collaboration with the San Francisco department ofen vinement is developing a new Energy Efficiency program to serve Community Organizations. It would be funded through rate payer public funds administered by the Public Utilities commission. Staff is developing an application for submission to the c p. U. C. In the next month or so. If approved, this new Energy Efficiency program would expand access to Energy Efficiency services in the Food Service Industry including grocery stores, market and restaurants and nonprofit dining halls and food banks and Meal Delivery services for Community Members in need. By subsidizing the investments it will reduce costs and help improve financial viability. Before covid19 these businesses were threatened by increasing rents and operating costs and are now most impacted by the economic downturn from covid19. It will provide successor to the sf Energy Watch Program winding down this year. It will comment existing energy efishen seen programs funded by all rate payer and available through pg and e and bay area Regional Network often called bay rent. The targeted Program Design our team has been developing aims to help overcome the knowledge and resource gaps that prevent Food Service Customers from taking advantage of energy programs. It seeks to contribute to Greenhouse Gas reduction goals through electricity savings, fuel switching and the use of low Global Warming potential refrigeration. We are collaborating to machine age through both energy watch and frontier energy, a Consulting Group with experience launching the Energy Efficiency programs. If approved. The program will be funded through state mandated charge. The fee added to all bills to fund Public Interest programs. As such. It is not to have an impact on the clean power s. F. Budget. The application must be approved by the california puc. We will be accountable to the p. U. C. To make sure it meets cost effectiveness and Energy Savings goals. We are really excited that this is coming together, and we will continue to provide supdates as we have more Information Available on that application. Our staff is working on preparation of integrated resource plan, irp. It is a plan that evaluates electricity demand and supply over a 20 year timeframe to identify resources that can deliver low cost energy while meeting policy objectives. Under state law, clean power s. F. Must prepare the irp every two years and submit to california p. U. C. For certification. Planning for local Resource Development is a key component of our clean power s. F. Irp process. Earlier this year we brought a local Renewable Energy report, which identified projects that could developed on cityowned sites including managed by the sfpuc. The findings are in analysis we are conducting as well as capital plan. Local Renewable Development has long been part of San Franciscos clean energy initiatives. The board urged the p. U. C. To develop this plan. I want to reiterate that this is an ongoing process, recurring process. We will be getting into the schedule in a moment, but it is to be considered a rolling dynamic planning process. I want to emphasize that recurring element. Here is a summary of the key components of the analysis underway. We are developing longterm forecast of clean power sf customer demand with sensitivities for building de carbonization and electric vehicle demand, identifying options for meeting the Renewable Energy and Greenhouse Gas reduction while investing locally, key objective of the planning process is identifying a costeffective portfolio that meets our goal that clean power s. F. Electricity supply be 100 renewable and Greenhouse Gas free 2030. It supports the need to remain affordable and competitively priced with other options in the marketplace like direct access. Arhere are the time guidelines r the submission of irp with improved clarity we now have on the requirements we have resumed the analysis and modeling work which we had to put on hold as we waited for these guidelines. We will be starting the Stakeholder Engagement at the end of this month, and at the beginning of july that will run into the month of august. We are taking that off with two Community Power meetings at the end of this month and beginning of july. Those meetings will provide updates to Community Groups on clean power s. F. And will include information about our irp process. Finally, we will bring the irp for approval in august and submit no later than september 1st. Later in september we expect that the board of supervisors will be voting on the citywide budget to include the clean power s. F. First capital plan. Part of that Stakeholder Engagement will come to this body with the results of our analysis and additional information. That is part of the august schedule. That conludes prepared remarks. We are happy to take questions you might have. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from colleagues . I will give you a moment. Commissioner pollock, is that you . It is. Could you go back to the timeline slide for the irp. Yes. I just wanted to see if the irp would be presented to the stakeholders and then also brought to lafco prior to the sfp adoption of the irp to make sure there is input. I didnt know if stakeholders would just be saying what they thought was important or if they would review the irp in graft form. We do intend to provide an opportunity to review the ir p in draft form. We are targeting the end of july to circulate the draft and receive comments. We plan a two week period to review and provide comments back to us before the sfpuc adopts. The plan that we have is that the lafco meeting in july we will walk through the work we have been doing. We wont have a draft at that time. This is a complex analysis with a compressed schedule. The california p. U. C. Is even with these extensions pushed us to a situation where we have the final guidelines now in june but we have effectively a month to do work, circulate and get in put and finally. It is a tight timeframe. I want to emphasize we do view this as an ongoing dynamic process. Planning doesnt end with the submission of this report in september. Clean power s. F. Will continue to work with stakeholders and policymaking bodies to further develop its plan. I do want to emphasize that given the timeframe this is not the final word by any means. The San Francisco is in control of the planning process, but we do vs. State obligations and laws to submit to the california p. U. C. , but we are inconsider important rated incorporating opportunities before we adopt. I signed up for one of the stakeholder roundtables. I was interested and mr. Galata might have more information. In i could get a snapshot of who is attending those round tables, the organizations. Peter, are you able to comment right now . Yes, i can briefly comment. Thanks for the question, commissioner. At this point we have just around 20rsvps. We reached out to about 50 Community Organizations, inviting them to participate. I would say of the i dont have the exist list. There is a number of Racial Justice and labor organizations that have rsvped so far. In the next week we will see additional rsvps. The that is great. I want to ask specifically about jobs with justice. Do you know if there are represents from his. Jobs with justice will be participating. I have not heard back from dare but we did invite them and will follow up with them. That is great. They have been working the things that i think are important in terms of representation and making sure that this is how it will impact on Just Transition jobs as well. Thank you. Any other comments from colleagues . I would like to say a couple of things. Supervisor haney or mar . I had a few questions. Supervisor mar. Thank you so much, michael and peter, for the update. I had a question about the rate changes for clean power s. F. You highlighted once again the pretty high p. C. I. A exit fee that customers have to pay. There is a 20 increase in that exit fee. That is pretty outrageous. The new rate for clean power s. F. Includes that and they are 1 lower than the pg e rate. I want to make sure i understand that correctly. You do understand that correctly. When we talk about it can get a little messy in terms of terminology. When we talk about the pg e. We look at it from the perspective of the customers bill. When we say 1 lower our rates and the p. C. I. A together are 1 lower than the rates pg e would charge otherwise. For the p. C. I. A exit fee increase by 20 , when will that be another consideration of that possible change to that exit fee . There is an ongoing proceeding at the california puc addressing reformings to the p. C. I. A. There isnt an active consideration of changes to the rate method itself, not yet. The california pc laid out the schedule that included a number of different issues to address. You might recall that in late october of 2018, the california p. U. C. Adopted a decision with a new method that we have been living with for the calculation of p. C. I. A. Since they they moved to new phases focused on other options to address, to prevent shifting of costs to nonparticipating ratepayers, and those areas include optimizing the investor and utilities pg and e portfolio, providing opportunities to buyout the p. C. I. A obligation, and also more on the optimization side to find better ways to sell those excess resources that they may have to maximize value. We had been concerned that pg e had no incentive to maximize value of the resources that it had in excess, because it was guaranteed recovery of the cost through the p. C. I. A. Those are the issues that the california pc is focused on now. I should say the Cca Community is in discussions about other things we can do to improve the p. C. I. A, even if just incremental to help create more stability for the programs. Thank you. Any more comments from colleagues at all . Seeing none, i think i have a couple comments. First, i want to say thank you very much for this comprehensive report. Congratulations. I think everything i ask for you have done and exceeded and it turned out to be successful. I want to say the use of neighborhood newspapers and the language is just great. So often i think the use of the neighborhood newspaper and also the daily with a larger readter ship than the chronicle is almost always forgotten. I want to say i think doing it and the postcards, but through emails and everything. I think you have captured a wide universe of communication. I want to say thank you so much. I think that your data shows it was successful. I want to say thank you. I completely appreciate it. As a supervisor even many times it is the department. They should take a lesson from you. You have done it excellently. Thank you for your work and we will continue to see great results. Thank you so much. I want to say the new Energy Efficiency program, i am excitessed about it. This is an extension about the green whatever Program Awards program that the department of energy does and adds an element to it where putting it on, giving the opportunity for our nonprofits to participate is great. Another thing was it is horrible how pg e holds us hostage. Balancing their losses, the fact is just like maddening. We dont make those laws. I recognize that i it is an ongoing challenge. If anyone asks about the Stakeholder Engagement for irp, i would like an invite sent to all commissioners on this committee so they can maybe engage also in the process. I understand what you say about the timeline. I am open to bring as an agenda item after approved by the california p. U. C. To bring it back. As you said, it is sort of a revolving i forgot the term. I think i said recurring. Recurring, right. Which means we can make amendments and take another look at it and add to it. If commissioners feel they would like an opportunity to do that, i am happy to agendize that item to take a long hard look at it and add comments or suggestions. Having said that, i think that i just want to appreciate, also, that we have been reaching out to our customers how they can lower their bills but also during this covid19 very responsive to the fact people are struggling financially. You mentioned the state has now prevented pg and e from shutting off power. Is that just during the state of emergency . That is for a period of 12 months starting with the order which i believe happened in march. We are looking at at least until march 2021. That is great. It will take a while for people to get back on their feet. Thank you very much. Great job. If there are no other comments from colleagues. We will open up for Public Comment, please, madam clerk. Yes, madam chair. We are checking for callers in the queue. We will let you know. Callers if up not already done so press star 3 to be added to the queue. If you are on hold wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Anyone on the line . I have one caller in the queue. Caller thanks for the presentation. Nice to see your faces even if they are a minute behind your voices. I want to thank commissioner fewer and marfor the outreach on the pgia which gives me gray hair every week. It wasnt mentioned in terms of rule makes that much. Last week they gave more power by making them the central procurement and forcing energy from them. [ inaudible ] i wanted to pass that along. Really glad to hear the Energy Efficiency program that mike mentioned includes fuel and Global Warming refrigerants. Those are two critical ways to lower and push through energy efficiencies. I am gratified to hear that included. Clean power s. F. Joining soon a Regional Program on incentives for e pump water heating. [ inaudible ] a Regional Program through that. Clean power s. F. Will support that and we will get reports on that in the future. Lastly, on sfs tuesday agenda a strange item about Nuclear Energy clarifying clean power s. F. Procuring. It is about an accounting allocation of nuclea nuclear en. Your time is up. Anyone else on the line . That computes the queue. Thank you very much. Public comment is closed on item 3. There is no action needed on this item. We dont need to take a vote, is that right, madam clerk . Yes, thats correct. Again, thank you very much for your presentation. Can you please call item 4. Item 4. Consideration and approval of the final lafco budget for fiscal year 20202021. For members of the public who wish to comment, call the number on the screen. If thank you very much. Today we have bryan goebel, our executive director. If thank you, madam chair and good morning, commissioners. Today i bring you our final 20202021 budget for your consideration. At the last meeting on may 15th i brought you two proposed budgets, and you voted to approve the option that gives lafco Additional Resources to take on an increased workload and continue with the important projects that we began in the current fiscal year and new projects in the next fiscal year. However, with the citys worsening budget crisis more than 1 billion deficit over the next two years, i bring this budget to you today knowing full well that lafco may not get all of the funds from the general fund that it is asking for and i am prepared either way. We will operate on status quo budget until october 1st when the city budget process wrapped up. We will work within 297,342 status quo. If we get Additional Funds we would come back to visit after october 1st. We are prepared to operate on a status quo budget. Our main function has been to oversee clean power s. F. We have had that authority since 2007. Lafco can also conduct special studies. We have been successful at that authority under the act which governs all lafcos in california. They may make studies of existing Government Agency or broadly can conduct studies on issues that impact Municipal Services. Basically it allows us to support the city in assessing Municipal Service needs. When we pursue special studies we make an effort not to duplicate what other departments are studying but to fill gaps on ishes sho issues. We come up with policy recommendations. In the last fiscal year we completed important special studies projects. We commissioned the most representative study of on demand work to date in the u. S. Finally giving the city good data on the vulnerable work force. We offered a slate of recommendations to improve working conditions of on demand workers and continue to research and study this issue. Our Research Associate Winston Parsons produced an alarming report documenting power disconnections for inabilities to pay in communities in San Francisco that have already suffered burdens and environmental injustices. I am very proud of all of the work we were able to accomplish in this fiscal year and to pursue our special studies, particularly labor, we have had to do our own fundraising. It was the first time in lafco history we raised and received private foundation money. We raised 360,000 for our labor study. I say we because it was a team effort. I had help from the survey team, jobs of Justice Education Fund and jobs of justice San Francisco and research and funds at San Francisco foundation. It was a team effort. We continue to draw on mou fund from the sfpuc for work on clean power s. F. We did not spend a lot of those funds this year. That will change dramatically in the coming fiscal year as we sharpen the focus on clean power s. F. To move forward with consultants to strengthen our oversight role and take on related studies. I will have that in my executive officers report. We diversified Funding Sources more than doubling the budget this fiscal year. That meant the total expenditures were the largest expenditures in lafco history totaling nearly 680,000. One note on this slide. The private Foundation Grant total is not reflected in the entirety because they were not part of lafcos expenditures. This is particularly the grant for the family foundation. It was a rapid grant for the covid19 survey that the team conducted and was awarded directly to the vendor. The amount we spent was not far from what we requested from the general fund this year. With those increased resources we could definitely do a lot more regardless. We will continue research of on demand workers and potential opportunities to apply for more Foundation Funding there. If the board of supervisors passes public Bank Legislation we will provide support to move forward. We are prepared to follow the great work carry yee did in researching bank accountable during this covid19 pandemic. Additional resources would allow us to develop the First Communications plan for lafco. Only a few lafcos in california have done this to increase Public Participation and engagement on the important issues we are working on. It would also provide Additional Fund raising capacity as well as Additional Funds for our legal team who have been so valuable and so great to work with over the past fiscal year. Our work plan on clean power s. F. Requires no Additional Resources as we have funds in place. We have a much sharper focus on clean power s. F. In the year ahead. We will work with the Renewable Energy consultant. That will be in place in july to review the irp. We will manage the r. F. P. For power disconnections in San Francisco and then think about a long term funding to ensure lafco over sites of clean power sf. This budget i bring you today with increased resources with funds for two Fulltime Positions, public bank consultant, funs for continuing Labor Research with funds from private foundations assuming fundraising is successful. I am asking for Additional Funds modest request for communications plan. To accomplish everything we hope to do in the coming fiscal year lafco needs Additional Resources. A lot of the increases we are asking for have to do with bringing on an additional Fulltime Position and to support a consultant for public bank. Every year that status quo amount we receive from city and county is what we plan to work with. That number has increased in more than 10 years that funds basic operations. With the inclusioned reeseed workload 7 84,000 we are requesting. I am trying to meet the goals by operating within that status quo budget for the coming months to bring on additional Research Associate, apply for foundational grants for labor issues, what i propose with status quo is focusing on clean power sf and on demand labor study. I propose those be the two priority focuses Going Forward in that order. Here are all of the line items for the final lafco 2021 budget. Listing out the final budget and the other is the contingency required if this is required in the budget or if any of it is approved. There is a lot more detail in the staff memo. My recommendation would be to approve the proposed budget in the amount of 783,691,000 with any increases above the status coof above the stat insufficieny add wonted budget. That is my presentation. I am happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you very much. I also want to make some comments before i ask for comments from my colleagues. At our last meeting we approved the budget that was a increase in the final approved city and county budget. Since this the mayor released instructions for departments for 10 reductions next year and increase those to 15 the following year. Defendants have to submit the budget by last friday to the mayor. We did not have another meeting the board of supervisors included in the submission the full lafco budget which includes increase to expand our work in key areas. I think this is clear at the last meeting once the city budget is adopted by octobe october 1st. They need to make final amendments. I want space for discussion today what our priorities are for lafco given lafco given that departments are asked to make reductions. On page 3 of the budget memo is a chart showing our proposed Budget Approved at the last meeting and increasings to each line item. I feel strongly that the executive director position should be changed back because it was once a fulltime equivalent position rather than a consultant position as it was previously. This is difficult for me to acknowledge and hard to push for this development of a public Bank Business plan given the level of economic uncertainty. Even though i believe that existence of a public bank would be beneficial. It is related to several line items in the budget including the second staff position, 100,000 consultant fees and increase of 22,000 in the Legal Council line item. I want to share that my office has been meeting on the public bank work for the city and in discussion with advocates around the public bank. I think all of us realize that the public bank for it to launch would need a significant investment by the city, which at this time seems not feasible, unfortunately. I will open up the conversation today because the truth is we have to share the pain of the citys 1. 5 million deficit. What i propose is we approve the budget as is with is contingent on city funding and discuss where reductions can and should happen and we can refer to these notes after the final budget in september. Colleagues, i open up the discussion about where we think that the proposed budget cuts could be. Would anyone like to start off that discussion . I actually have a question. Assuming what would be our baseline competency if we dont get a budget increase for public banking . What would we be able to contribute, if anything . You mean to public banks specifically . Yes specifically. Well, i think what we could do is leverage the work with Research Associates. That is who i would draw on to conduct the work. We can bring on Research Associates. We can also follow up on the work that cary yee did in her report which isnt directly related. I did bring o on a Research Associate. That intern is in place for further research. Without the funds, considering we had the labor study and need to focus on clean power sf, it would be limited to Research Associates in terms of amount work we can do unless you want to deprioritize other im items i mentioned. I will commissioners fewers point about difficulty of getting a public bank off the ground. I want to keep in mind the public bank will be on several level, including Affordable Housing, potential integral to equitable recovery we are goingg to make when we havently get out of this situation. That is all for now. Can i ask one think, madam chair . Our intern, ricky tran, is researching the Affordable Housing issue. If you have specific suggestions where that could be headed, i would welcome them. Other commissioners comments . No one. Essentially we will approve the budget with the increases but we expect that there will be additional cuts to the budget . 29 7,000 is set. They cant touch that. That hasnt changed. They cant take away that base amount. That is the status quo budget. We have significantly quite an increase in the budget. I think i would like some direction on some things we could can you tell if we put things on the table. This is adding to our budget and there is not another Department Adding to the budget. Everyone is cutting the budget 10 and 15 the following year. It would be tonedeaf to increase by this amount, which is almost, at least doubling the budget or more. That is why i just shot on the proposed budget i would like direction from this committee where we think they could cut. I have mentioned the public bank just because i feel like we have already started our work on the labor setting. We are pretty far and have recommendations. Also through our work on the public bank as supervisors we know it would take a significant investment to move this forward. With the lack of money and billions of dollars and we thought we might have a source for it before covid19. Now with covid19, i think that all of the reserves and everything are going to be put toward balancing the budget. That is why i thought that might be a place where we might be able to do some cuts and continue our work on the study. I want to say that i feel strongly that this executive director for lafco used to be Civil Service. Through the vote of the board they eliminated that position for lafco. The executive officer is working as a consultant. This is a job that should have job stability, it should have full benefits with retirement plans, and that this position actually should be reinstated. If you would ask me, i would say this would be one of my Top Priorities to have the executive officer position to be a f. T. E. With the city and county of San Francisco. I agree with all of that. Because all of the other departments are asked to reduce the budget, i dont think we should add to the budget. I support the work that we are doing is critical and important, and i would not support increasing the budget. Obviously, making the director of Civil Service position fixing something that should be in place. The other things are priority, i dont think increasing the budget is there. Thank you very much. Commissioner mar, any comments . I want to thank you, chair fewer and bryan for the work you have done on the budget. We have been considering this for some months now, and sort of trying to balance the important work that lafco has been engaged in, wrapping it up more next year with the budget constraintses we are facing as a city right now. I guess i support the prioritizing making the executive officer fulltime and the oversight work. The increased capacity by clean power s. F. Is critical and lafco looking ahead. The labor study, groundbreaking study that lafco has supported over the last year that we are poised to support moving forward to support the recommendations turned to program and legislative action in the city. That should be a high priority. I respect your perspective on the important public bank work that lafco has started to develop. To play a more significant role next year, your perspectives on that as a leader on the board and in our city for chair of the Budget Finance Committee seeing that if we had to make the hard decisions. Thanks. I have to say, colleagues, the public bank thing. It is heartbreaking to us and to our office. We had been leading on this work. As you know my staff, chelsea, has spent so much time on this. It has been an incredible investment of time of my staff. It has been after hours, multiple meetings. This is not just recently. This is going on for years that my staff has spent so much time on this. Also, the people involved in the public Bank Movement and working so closely with the coalition. It is heartbreaking at this time. When we proposed this budget, it was before covid19. I was ready to go for the mat for this. Not only lafco time but my staff time, we have put so much time but also really put our heart into this because we think this is part of the change that we are all looking for. Bankings dont own us. It is heart breaking, i want to say. This recommendation doesnt come easily. It is a realization after being budget chair what departments are going to be cutting, and we had to take a hard look at this. I didnt want to make this decision. I wanted to share that with you that it is heartbreaking, but it is also heart breaking that we look at loss of jobs and loss of wage increases for some of our lowest wage earners. The whole situation is horrible. I think commissioner pollock, do you have a comment . I do. It is heart breaking to pause the work on public bank. The areas i have concern about abfeel like could be cut would be the communications plan. I think that would be one area that we could cut. Our website is frustratingly complicated. It is hard to find the reports and the information. A website overhaul would be amazing. Maybe that is a project for the future. I think it is possible to put the work on public bank on pause, and i think the areas i would want to see to stay in the proposed budget would be around the clean energy consultant. I think bringing mr. Goebel in compliance with ad5 is necessary. The executive officer position being removed from the charter was not a budget decision, it was a political decision. Returning that position to its prior setup, i mean to the way that it was in the charter, i think is imperative, especially around new state law. I would be interested in having a third budget come back to this body. It does mean we might have to have a special meeting to approve it a second time before it is sept to the board of supervisors. I think it is important to have something in the middle. Maybe that includes a slight increase but not a double. I think that is reasonable and be the context of the city budget. Lafcos request from the general fun for pennies. I do think that it is reasonable to have a slight increase, but i dont think it is reasonable to double in the current context and the request for budget cuts anywhere. I think it is possible that we fund raise again for some of the important work and perhaps there is more Funds Available externally for continued work on the labor setting. Those are my comments. Thank you for your presentation. Commissioner singh, any other comments . I think after hearing what all of my fellow commissioners have to say, and i do want to reiterate that i do agree that the executive directors position should have full benefits that he deserves, and maybe putting the Communications Budget on hold. I think everything on public bank has been said. I understand and i think it is heartbreaking for all of us, but it is something we have to deal with. That is all. Thank you very much. Open this up for Public Comment. Madam clerk. Are there any callers in the queue. To callers press star 3 to be added. Anyone on the line . Yes, i do have one caller in the queue. This the eric books california for Energy Choice and city of San Francisco. I want to speak to public bank. We are being penny wise and pound foolish on this public bank. The whole idea of making budget cuts is because we need to save money. Public bank will save us a lot of money because it enables us to fund things locally. It includes clean power issues. We need to have a public bank in place. It is going to take five years to get one in place to fund clean power. I am involved in a Coalition Fighting the biggest landlord in San Francisco, rar varitas, we d to turn buildings into coops and get away from private domination of housing in San Francisco. I would support the commissioners proposal to come up with another budget to figure something out about this. We cannot put a public bank on hold. Those are my comments. Anyone else on the line . That completes the queue. Madam chair. Thank you, Public Comment on item 4 is closed. Colleagues, i think what i heard from you is and thank you for giving me direction. I think that we could propose the budget for this coming fiscal year and your priorities are continuing our clean energy work, reinstating executive officer position to be a city and county position, i just want to say that mr. Global will have to reapply for the position once it is posted. This is just to of course we love bryan goebel and want to thank him. This would not be a consultant position. It another would be fte to the city and county. We will put the public bank work on pause, and we would continue Fundraising Efforts again and we would also the work we have done on the groundbreaking labor study. This gives me direction. I would say that i would make the recommendation that you actually approve the budget, proposed budget with increases and that you have given me direction if we should need to cut things out of the budget. I am open to having a third budget meeting and a special meeting. That was the suggestion from the commissioner. I am happy to entertain that to get one on the schedule. I think as this moves along, this budget process. We will see right now the city and county is looking to see what ats, what cuts they are bringing in, revenue sources. I think because lafco had a arraignment of investment of resources over the last 10 years. I am comfortable adding to the budget but not doubling as mentioned by commissioner pollock. I would like to make a motion to approve the proposed budget that we had approved originally as the final budget and with the direction from the committee about if we were to have to make cuts that i think i have clear direction and it is on the record and the minutes reflect the discussion we have had today. I have a motion on the table to submit it with our proposed budget with additions in considering we have to cut and you have given me direction where we may need to cut. I hope that makes sense. Could i have a second please. Second. Thank you. Roll call vote, please. On the motion as stated by chair fewer. Vice chair pollock. Aye. Commissioner haney. Aye. Commissioner mar. Aye. Chairperson fewer. Aye. There are four ayes. Thank you very much. Clerk please call item 5. Presentation and discussion on proposed next steps for lafcos recommendations to address problem attic issues in the on demand economy. Thank you very much, mr. Brian goebel. I wanted to present our next steps to advance the preliminary recommendations that i made regarding the troubling issues that we found in the labor survey. I am just going to pull those up on my screen. The labor survey gives a deep set of data on the vulnerable Front Line Work force. One of the fundings is that most work is done by people fulltime and not just doing it as a socalled gig. At the last meeting i presented 12 recommendations that are very preliminary in nature and all of them require further research and engagement. At the meeting i was directed to the recommendations to ensure workers and groups represents workers are included with research and ideas. Considering the current resources and amount of staff time it would take, i have come up with next steps to move the recommendations forward and i think this is all realistic to accomplish given our current and future capacity. As we continue to share the recommendations and gather feedback from workers, city departments and stakeholders will adjust and report back. The goals of the next steps are, one, Research Policies that bring Delivery Companies into compliance with local and state labor laws. That means complying with ab5 and the San Francisco minimum wage including sick pay and health care ordinances. Within the last couple weeks the pressure is also on Delivery Companies from c p. U. C. Who said tnc workers are employees under ab5. You may have saw the news the District Attorney filed suit against a Delivery Company door dash to comply with ab5. The other goal with the uc survey team in pleas is to gather data that reflects the lived experiences of at base workers afternoon policies that improve the lives of people of color and immigrants to improve public safe by requiring a food handling license. The goal of next steps to elevator survey findings. They are moving very useful. I have five steps. We will now go into each one of them. Of all of the recommendations we considered i think it is possible that this recommendation in particular could have the most immediate effect toward regulating the Delivery Companies and bringing them into compliance. It could enable the city to set a list of requirements to obtain a permit, such as following labor laws, you dont follow labor laws, no permit. Ensuring Consumer Protection and food safety by requiring food handling permit. City data on work force and location pick ups and drop offs and host of other data the city could use. How would this work . To be honest i am not sure. We want to be careful we dont recommend a permit process to place Financial Burdens on workers and workers and organizations represents workers will be involved in this. Some of the recommendations i will propose next will comment this one. I would like to keep researching this idea with help from the survey team and Research Associates. 2. Conduct further research and engagement on a task force to explore a ride hailing and delivery cooperative in San Francisco. As i said in my initial presentation on the recommendations these companies, Business Models we know are not sustainable and we think the city should prepare by establishing a task force to explore delivery cooperative in San Francisco. How would that work . What are the best practices from other cities and around the world . What Homegrown Solutions are in the bay area . How can the city support Homegrown Solutions and how can we improve upon best practices. Lafco Research Associate ryan powell was looking into this. He was in the graduate class to regulate Delivery Companies. As we noted the u. S. Santa cruz survey revealed interest in switching from cars to he bakes. E bikes. In some of the presentations about this this particular survey seems to catch a lot of interest and excitement. So we have lafco Research Associate jackson nuttbeers looking into this. They are interested in switching to e bakes. They are expense e bikes. How could it work . What are best practices . We will engage with city departments, workers, companies, bike manufacturers and report back in july or september meeting. The other thing that we want to do and that we are doing is to really just make sure that this survey data is getting widely distributed and out there. It is useful for other cities. The methods can be replaycatessed. It was replicated in seattle with a survey of uber and lyft drivers. We presented to the Planning Department staff that went well and the staff were interested in the findings and commented the work. Also, to gain Media Coverage we are looking to use existing Foundation Funds to retain a Communications Firm for two months to help us get the word out to garner more Media Coverage. The goal elevate the survey findings. The fifth and final recommendation that i propose today is to develop a new scope of work for the survey team. Delivery workers were harder to capture in the survey. This is to target only the workers to understand demographics, earnings and working conditions not just independent contractors that we are thinking about potentially surveying other delivery workers who are employees to note the differences in the pay and earnings and working conditions compared with independent contractors. What we want to do is understand the demographics and working conditions, develop a clear understanding how the delivery work is informed for the policies, develop a specific replicable survey method for delivery workers to collect data through the cooperative app and this would be using existing funds and again we would be applying for private Foundation Grants. This will require no Additional Support from the general fund. I did propose 45,000 to help, but there are a number of opportunities that popped up. In terms of foundations we are in the process of applying for more grants base on your feedback and support of this recommendation. The contract with the survey team expires at the end of august. The terms include an option to extend the contract and so i would like to come back at the july meeting with the scope of work and ask for your approval to extend the contract potentially for up to another year. That concludes my presentation on the proposed next steps for our work on the on demand economy and at that point i am happy to answer any of your questions and get your feedback. Thank you. Any comments or questions for mr. Goebel . Commissioner mar. Thank you, chair fewer. Thank you, bryan for your work on groundbreaking project with the Research Team and the intern and thanks for bringing this back to more refined policy recommendations and action steps today. I think these are all the five proposed action steps and priorities all sound great to me. I support them. I am interested in supporting them in my rome role on the board of supervisors along with chair fewer and be commissioner haney. I did have a question around the policy recommendations from the preliminary list that you included in this today. Particularly in the 12 recommendations. Enforcement of local and state labor laws especially ab5 with the app based companies. Also the recommendation around the formation of a Worker Resource Center like in seattle and in portland, i believe. Those two seems like important to me as well. I was wondering why i did want to say about enforcements of ab5 and the local labor laws for the app based companies that is something the board of supervisors have been working on. Supervisor haney and i couldsponsored a resolution in march surging more rapid enforcement of a b5 in San Francisco. Thank you for that question, commissioner mar. In terms of the other recommendations, particularly the driver resource center, that would require a lot of further research and engagement. It is something we are happy to work on. Based on the feedback i have gotten, i know a lot of Community Based organizations are focused on the election. There was a lot of questions about the time and effort it might take to the do the Engagement Process before the election with other organizations and workers and there was a feeling it is better after the election. We are continuing to research that. We are staying in touch with portland and see a little. If you seattle. I would be happy to include that. The five recommendations that i am giving today were based on our current after at this moment. As we continue to share the findings and recommends with other city departments and stakeholders. There may be other departments to take that recommendation on. We continue to share the recommendations, to gather feedback and refine and report back to you. Does that answer your question . Yes, i appreciate that. The five you felt like lafco it makes sense for lafco to prioritize further research right now . Thats right. I mean i looked at these and thought what would have the most Immediate Impact . The idea of the permitting system to attach a set of requirements to the Delivery Companies. Follow the labor laws or no permit. That could have the biggest impact and was worth further research. We havent stopped looking into the other recommendations. As we gather feedback, different recommendations could popup on the list and i would report back and i am welcome to prioritize those not in the five steps you think should be more prioritized. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other commissioners . Commissioner singh. I want to thank you for these recommendations. I think all five are wonderful, and i wanted to ask a question regarding as you noted i suggested about the e bike program. I know i sent this in an email. For the benefit of everybody i think this could have a lot of effects that are positive for all of us, particularly not just in terms of affordability or less loss of wages for the wages and the effect on Traffic Congestion in the city of San Francisco which would in term have effects on the ability of functioning properly and i believe that the director has suggested trying to talk about the role of congestion and physical health. There is a lot of benefits from this. I want to ask if there is any prospects of collaboration with s. F. M. T. A. Or the m. T. A. Board or commission, which i know currently has a few seats open. They are in a state of flux. I wanted to see thoughts or if you were thinking about talking to them. That is all. Thank you for that. Yes, we have. I have not communicated with director tumlin directly. The director brought this up, the lafco survey and study findings up at two m. T. A. Board meetings ago and asked staff to work can us. I have been in touch with m. T. A. Not about this but a presentation earlier this week there were like four or five m. T. A. Staffers present. We have a dialogue with the m. T. A. At the moment and we will reach out further as we conduct the research to the ebike rebate program. Sounds great. Thank you. Any other comments on these recommendations . Commissioner haney. That is great. Commissioner pollock. Are these in the status pro budget included with the fundraising on the study . Yes, thank you, commissioner pollock. I will tell you that all of this work that we are moving forward with doesnt require any additional budget resources. We have in the survey budget about i think about 70,000. We had to cut it short. We have a couple of grant opportunities we are in the process of applying for now. In all of the foundations that supported this work are superexcited to continue supporting us whether or not it is an additional grant or helping us find Additional Funding. We will be able to do this without requesting Additional Funds out of the general fund. Thank you. I just want to add my voice to say i love all five of the recommendations. I think that certification is something that we have been trying to do, and i think we know we need it to help regulate. Some of it we felt was out of our hands. If we can do our own certification it is fabulous. People should comply and this is one of the things certification you must comply with better. I want to say i had a conversation and i have been working on the taxi issue, which is very complicated. That is another thing that is extremely heart breaking. I have been speaking to m. T. A. For about a year about solutions around the taxi business. M. T. A. , i think, is open to a public ride sharing sort of thing. Including the taxi drivers. You know, this was precovid19, but we were on the brink of doing something. This collaboration with mt a is something they have discussed. The time is opportune except for the funding of it. Who knows . I think that this is something that they have an issue with the meddalons and they need to do something and this could unite taxi drivers of the different medallions and work toward the public system that could be better for workers and also fill the need for having that. Thank you, mr. Goebel. It is amazing if you can do it in our budget. I want to commend you for such excellent work. Would you please open this up for Public Comment. Yes, we are checking to see for callers in the queue. Please call the number on the screen. There are no callers in the queue. Public comment on 5 is closed. No action needed on this except to thank mr. Global for his hard work. Please call item 6. Executive officers report. Update on the request for qualifications for Renewable Energy report, update on the lafco report assessing Bank Accountability in San Francisco and new intern introductions. Thank you very much. Mr. Goebel, the floor is yours. Brief updates on those three items. First on the rfq for Renewable Energy expert. I am happy to report lafco completed the evaluation process for service area 1, which is assisting lafco with oversight role. This week they sent a notice of intent to award a contract. Of the four firms considered this company scored the highest with deep experience working with Government Agencies and deep fencer working on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy projects. We are entering into contract negotiations, and i am planning to bring a contract to you for approval at the july meeting. Then with your approval we can get to work. This also means, as i mentioned in my budget presentation. We will have a consultant in place to help us provide feedback on the i rp that clean power fs is developing. We will have a consultant to provide feedback on the local buildout report as well as the capital plan for clean power s. F. That is the update on the r. F. Q. We are also following up on the Bank Accountability. I did send a copy to members of the board of supervisors per your request, chair fewer, and i also met with staff from the treasure and tax collectors office. We agreed to Work Together on the first recommendation in the report which was a statement of intent or resolution on Bank Accountability. In a couple of the other recommendations we also agreed to reach out to Community Organizations to make sure that some of those recommendations involving engagement in the report dont be duplicate what some of those other organizations on the ground doing this work, not to duplicate what they are doing. I also brought on ricky tran as Research Associate, us f student who worked on the delivery recommendations. It concerns research on Affordable Housing recommendation. Histic reeleven his particular research will Research Policy solutions to prevent and mitigate the eviction crisis and Affordable Housing insecurities. We are open to your discussions. I have reached out to some of you for feedback. Also, i mentioned we have three new interns with us. Rick cretram getting his masters in urban and Public Affairs at the university of San Francisco. His cap stone project is on establishing public bank in the south bay. He lives in san jose, interested in public banks working to housing solutions. Jackson nuttbeers at us f with policy experience with scott winners, pa black studies from university of santa barbara. He lives in San Francisco. Ryan powell is a masters student who lives in San Francisco. His studies began in 2009 at sf state and he investigated Environmental Issues with public transportation. He hopes to continue working for local government after his graduate program to help the city achieve more Equitable Solutions for disadvantaged communities. Very excited to have the new Research Associates on board and so i welcome all of them. That concludes my executive officers report. Thank you very much. I also want to welcome a new interns mr. Muttbeers, powell and tran. I want to say that we look forward to looking at the contract in july for Renewable Energy. Commissioner pollock do you have any comments . Great. Is any of the comments have comments or questions . Okay. Lets open up for Public Comment. Madam clerk, please have Public Comment on item 6. Yes, we will let you know if there are callers in the queue. If you have not done so please press star three to be added to the queue. Is there anyone on the line . One caller in the queue. Californians for Energy Choice. Two things one is i is if the ao is difficult and probably for a lot of other people. The second point is very important. On the next San Francisco Public Utilities commission is on the clean power s. F. As you might know and brought up earlier in the meeting, i missed the clean power item, pg and e is trying to get Community Choice programs to accept credit for pg and e Nuclear Power on the power mixers. That is uterly unacceptable. Only one Community Choice program has gone along out of the many. It is vital that San Francisco maintain that Nuclear Power is nisin no way connected to clean power s. F. Or energy use in San Francisco. I would urge lafco to stay on top of this and communicate to the Public Utilities commission that we do not want Nuclear Power to have anything to do with power mix. Thank you. Anyone on the line . That completes the queue. Thank you. Public comment is closed on item 6. Would you please spelling out the name of the company that we are going to contract with for the Renewable Energy report. Yes. It is the veneer group. Vanir. It is based in los angeles with officerses in San Francisco and sacramento and other parts of the country. I will have a detailed memo outlining the background on vanir in my memo for the july 17th meeting. May i note that we have no meeting scheduled in august. Our next regular meeting is friday july 17, then the next meeting in september. Thank you very much. If there is no action needed on this item. Can you please call item 7. Item 7 is Public Comment. Is there any members of the public to comment now during Public Comment time. Any callers who wish to make comments please press star three. Is there anyone on the line . We have no callers in the queue. Thank you very much. Public comment is closed. Can you please call item 8. Item 8 is future agenda items. Colleagues any future agenda items . We will open up for Public Comment. Please check to see if there are callers in the queue and let us know if callers are ready callers press star 3 to be added to the queue. There is one caller on the line. We have one caller. Welcome, caller. Caller eric burkes with california for Energy Choice one more time. Please have a special meeting about the budget and finding a way to move the public bank issue forward as soon as possible. We cannot drop the ball on that. It is absolutely essential to clean energy and essential to housing and homelessness. We have got to get that thing rolling immediately. Please do call a special meeting on it. Thank you. Thank you. Does that complete Public Comment . Yes, that completes the queue. Thank you very much. Public comment is closed on item 8. We have no action needed on that item. Madam clerk any other business before us today . That concludes the business for today. Thank you everyone. We are adjourned. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the june 22, 2020 rules committee. I am chair of the committee. With me is vice chair stefani and rules Committee Member mar. We are also joined this morning by matt haney. The clerk today is victor young. 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