Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240712

Are from any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the bubble the board of supervisors such as chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely and this precaution is taken purpose to local and state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the extent they are physically present. Public comments are available on each item on this agenda. Call 415 6550001, meeting i. D. 416 1617499 . Press pound twice and when connected, youll hear the meeting discussion and youll be meeted and in listeningmode only. When the item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Speak clearcall clearly and slo. You may submit Public Comment in either of the furthering ways, email or if you submit Public Comments via email, it will be forwarded and included as part of the official file and items toda. Can you please call item nr 1. Item number one, motion orders submitted to the voters at an election to be held on november 3, 2020 and the business and test regulations to impose an additional gross receipt tax on businesses greater than the ratio of the compensation of the businesses. Members who wish to provide Public Comment call 415 6550001 and meeting i. D. 146 1677499 and press pound twice. If you have not done, dial star 3 to line up to speak and a system prompt will indicate you are there. Thank you. Supervisor hainey. Thank you chair fewer and thank you for having me back and for hearing, again, the overpaid executive tax and i want to thank or cosponsors chair fewer, supervisor ronen, walton, mar, preston and mandelm man for ther support and the San Francisco labor council, local 21, local 1021 and all nurses, doctors and Healthcare Professionals for their support. If this measure passes, any company that pays Top Executive one hundred times more than the median worker, well have a. 1 surcharge added to the payment and the more inequify between the Top Executive and workers, the higher the surcharge. The tax will raise up to 140 million every year and this measure not only raises muchneeded funds to fix cracks in our Healthcare System but incentivizes the companies to invest in their workers and not executives. Businesses can avoid the tax by paying executives less or by raising their employees wages. Big businesses, i hope, will be on the right side of history here and this is a very targeted tax only on businesses that are still doing very well, Large Businesses that are still paying Top Executives millions of dollars. We need a little more support as we face one of the worse budget deficits that weve seen to ensure we can hire nurses, doctors and essential Health Workers to fight this pandemic on the front lines. I hope you will support this overpaid tax because this is a critical measure to boost our services and protect our services and ensure that we recover economically during this difficult time. Thank you very much. We heard this last week and we are to practise today, assuming we are all sponsors of this, but madamadam clerk, lets take pubc comment on item number 1. Operation is checking to see if there are any members in cue. Iqueue. Press star 3 to be add and for those on hold, please continue to indicate. Mr. Clerk, please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on this item. Clerthere are no callers in e queue. Public item 1 is closed and i would like to move this. role call . Are three ayes and madam clerk, can you please call item number 9 out of order. Item number 9, reason actme f number 20, with third party to provide staff and maintain restrooms equipped with toilets and handwalking facilities and one restroom per 50 and concentrated in areas with the greatest need within one thousand feet of my encantment. The board of supervisors approve these Service Agreements forestroom equips wit equipped s and handwashing facilities. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, call 415 6550001 and meeting i. D. 146 1617499 and then press pound twice. And if you have not done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak didnt. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. Thank you very much. Supervisor hainey. Thank you so much, chair fewer. Again, i want to thank you all for supporting this ordinance the first time it came around and i think all of us have benefited from it in terms of the public bathrooms and handwashing stations that have been greatly expanded and the hours expanded and i can tell you youve been there a lot on the tree street streets lately. Even with some of reopening, there still arent Public Restrooms opened. As a result of that, these public bathrooms out there right now are as critical and essential as ever, especially for the people who continue to be homeless on our streets, but not only for the people who are Homeless Partnership know that many essential workers are relying on public bathrooms. Every time i walk by them, theres a line and its been hugely critical and an essential part of our citys frontline response to prevent the spread of the covid19 and especially as we see a surge of covid19 cases throughout the city, including in places like the tenderloin which now has one of the highest infection rates and i think it is critical and essential that we renew this emergency ordinance so that we can continue to provide access to ban bathrooms and handwashing station which are key to maintaining Public Health during this horrific public Health Emergency. As i understand it, the costs of implementing this ordinance are reimbursable through fema and i hope that you will consider supporting this ordinance and extending it so that this essential service will continue to stop the spread of covid19 amongst our residents and also provide an essential service that needs to be there tor peoples human dignity. Again, this is something that people are relying on all over the city and i hope its something that becoming standardized, but ultimately, theres to doubt in my mind that we need to extend this emergency authorization for another 60 days which will continue to provide services for the 63 pitstop locations including the ones that had been added over the past fewmans. Few months. I hope we can put this forward and extend this emergency ordinance further. Good morning. Im from the Budget Analyst Office and as supervisor hainey said, this would extend the pit stop locations for another 60 days. We show on page 16 of our report, the current budget for all of the pitstop programs, not just the ones that are extended through the emergency ordinance, but also the ones that predated the emergency. Our estimate is that extending the emergency by 60 days would cost 200,000 per week or 1. 7 billion over the term of the extension and we consider approval to be a policy matter for the board and im available for questions if you have any. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, madam clerk, can we open this up for Public Comment, please . Yes, operations is checking to see there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please wait until the system has been muted and please let us know if there are callers who wish to comment on item number 9. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Item 9 is now closed and i will make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Role call, please. role call . There are three ayes. Can you call item number 2. Resolution authorizing the pull utilitys commission to execute amendment number 2 to Planning Project Services Agreement for a specialized planning and Engineering Services for the proposed work facility at the southeast Water Pollution plant between the city and increasing the agreement by 21 million for a total not to exceed agreement amount of 54. 5 million and with a time extension of two years for a total Agreement Term of 11 years from december 1st, 2014 through november 30th, 2025. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001 and meeting i. D. 146 1617499 and then press pound twice. If you have not done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been muted and you may begin your comment. Thank you very much madam clerk. Today we have with utoday we hac and i believe theres a powerpoint in front of us. Good morning, budget and finance committee chair, supervisor fewer, supervisor walton and supervisor mandelman. Im the project manager for the sfpuc. Thank you for providing the details on this proposed amendment resolution and explain the planning and engineering needed for the southeast plan facility. First, ill provide a brief project background and function of southeast plant and ill then provide project evaluation and then dive into scope up Engineering Services and then explain the need for an amendment and will take any questions you may have at the end. As you are aware, the southeast plant is located in bayview and the southeast plant is bound by evans avenue on the east and south street on the south. Caltrain on the north side and oakdale on west side of the facility. I want to make sure my slides are progressing. Southeast plant is the largest of the three waste water facilities in the city and they treat 80 of the sewer flow in the city and some of the southeast plant facility processes operations have been in operation since 1952. Its an aging facility and poses significant risk of regulatory noncommines annoncompliance andh and safety if not addressed. To address this, our commission endorsed a multi phased program known as the sewer System Program with the specific level of Service Requirements to meet with the program. And the three red boxes on the slide that you see signifies the item, namely headworks project elements and its one of the many projects in the Larger Program in the southeast plant. Headworks is the head of the plant and all enters from this facility and the table items and other debrises that come with the wastewater flow to the plant. The process equipment is operating well beyond its useful life and inefficient in moving debris currently. Part of the commitment to the community, this will maximize control of orders and improve the visual aesthetic quality of the plant. To meet the regulatory requirements, the new facility will provide the liability and flexibility to the Plant Operations and most importantly, the new facility will comply with latest seismic codes to meet condition and bring service back within 72 hours of seismic event. And at the last capacity, it will remain to the current level that is at 250 million gallons per day. And so, this slide depicting the project components. Due to an active treat facility, the project construction needs to bees phased by radio scopes and thats why you see three distinct scopes on the slide. Scope one includes relocation of utilities and readout pipe on evans and demolition the wet weather facility to make room to build new headworks. You will see some photographs to give you an idea of enormous nature of the work and scope two, which is across from the street, from the main headworks known as the pump station and thats also part of this project and lastly, the scope is the main facility with the stateofart and ordercontrol technologies. This next slide provides overall project cost, scope and schedule and the anticipated total cost is 618. 8 million and the scope is described in the early slide. We have completed scope one and were at 95 on scope a and just started the foundation for the main headworks which is scope three. The project is anticipated to complete by december 2024. So if you see the mark at the bottom, we are in the middle of the construction currently. Next, ill go with a construction project at the plant and so this photo exhibits the demolition in progress of wet weather facility to be able to make space to build a new facility at this site and you ts is a construction in progress. The next photo is for scope twoway, which is the pump station and what is shown is the large pushes, th pumps and the g facility and that is for order control and the facility being install at this time. And as i said, once the site was cleared up to make a space to build a new headworks facility, the photo exhibits the current work going on for the main headworks facility. Once the facility is completed, this is the rendering how the new facility will look like when we are done with this project. The public realm will have art please wall and aesthetics that does not look like an Industrial Facility at all. The art features and architecture have been blessed by civic designreview committee. And so let me next walk you through the project evaluation. And so Large Infrastructure Projects of such a size and magnitude and complexity to reduce the construction risk as well as to control the capital cost and headworks project has not been a different case. The left side is what the project looked like in the middle of 2019 and significantly evolved as it looks like right side of the graphics and as you can see, there are two major differences in the graphics, the tall older control super structure, which is sort of north on the left side is now turning to a low profile onestory structure slightly west of the headworks facility. I dont know if you can see my curser, but this is a new resign facility. And the second difference is the lift station and existing lift station for building a separate new pump station. So let me come to the topic about Engineering Services. The engineering experience is required for this type of project in the field of waste water process engineering. And geotechnical engineering, order control design and construction startup and testing and the scope of services are delivered in three phases. Not the phase one is to complete the conceptual engineers and design phase. We completed that in 20162017 and we pleate completed with the original design and the third phase is for engineering support during construction and value engineering to reduce the cost of the construction. Also, you will notice on the photographs, we are in the middle of the construction phase while continuing to operate the facility with minimal equipment until this new project is complete. So the need for this amendment is basically twofold. The first major component relates to engineering support during construction and the original amount of 4. 6 million was mainly used for scope one because the level of effort needed for scope 3 was not clearly defined at the time of last amendment. Due to the evolvement project, the evolvement of the construction project as i explained to you earlier. So now we have better resigned 100 stine of the main headworks and we will be able to determine the Engineering Network to determine the construction. The second component has to do with the value engineering and resign in order to control the construction costs. So the value engineering we begin late last year required to design the control facility that i showed for you and the liftstation resign and if you approve this amendment today, it will allow us to control capital cost by resigning the two elements i discussed earlier. And the amendment resolution in front of you today is to amend the Engineering Service contract by 21 million which will result in not to exceed the value of 54. 5 million and in the analysis report is equal to 8. 8 of total project costs, which is, in fact, in line with our past capital project, as well as the industry standard. With that, im happy to answer my questions that you may have. Any questions . Yes, supervisor mandleman . Im maybe left with this particular amendment but the josepoverall project which has e to 600 plus million and now valued, i would love to understand what mechanisms the puc has in place to sort of keep projects like this on time and within a budget and if those have worked here or how weve gotten so far off of being 200 million projects that was supposed to be done by 2020. Supervisor mandleman, thank you for asking that question. And so this type of large Infrastructure Project is looping duis longdur eight, duration, as you can realize, taking 12, 14, 15 years. The budget is based on conceptual design. Its not detailed out at all and the requirements are not set and we learn about geotechnical conditions when we do the preliminary drilling of the site to determine what kin kind we wl need. So the way the project budget is set is based on very minimum information at the beginning and we do have a puc controls project where we go through change management process and get approved by our commission, and so we have so far been to our commission for two amendments and that is the process we use for any change for original budget and, also, we have a process of realigning and so as the Detailed Design gets developed, we find out more about the ground condition and we find out about the conditions underground and those things have to be included in the project. And so those are some of the main reasons about knowing more detail as we progress the design phase. Thank you for that, but when you initially select the contractor, if presumably youre going through a competitive process and youre evaluating bids or Different Companies coming in and saying theyll get the work done for different costs, right . Supervisor, you make great point. One thing i like to correct, the project is not ending in 2020. I think there might be a typo somewhere. It will end, as i showed in my slide in 2024. Coming to your question is about Competitive Bidding and one of the things were doing in this project is not the lowbid, designbid build. Were using something called cmgc, construction manager general contractor. So what we do is bring the contractor early on at about 35 design to get the input into the constructability, sequencing. One has to realize the complexity of the plan because we have to keep the flow alive while constructing this new facility and so its complex construction and so its not a lowbid contractor as a city is used to. So this project did go through the Competitive Bidding for cmgc and as they get in the design phase, they give the input to reduce the risk of the plans with the regulatory and then the project gets divided into bid packages. So on this project, we have Something Like 80, 90 bid packages and thats beat out and then we take the low bid on those bid packages. So its not a one huge package that gets bid out. Ed it gets bid out as a trade package along the way and our cmgc contractor helps to time it out. If the work was going to happen in 2023, you dont want to bid out in 2016 at the start of the project because market condition could be different, lower or higher may that be, right . But we want to bid out the bid package at the right time, not bid out everything upfront. And so thats the reason that its not a lowbid contractor. And so is corolla the cmgc . No, the design engineer and so, i dont want to say much about the matter, but there are two basic matters. One is the design build where the designer comes under the contractor. Sow would hire a design builder and in this case, this was the design build project and we would help corollo work under the contractor as a team. We hired on a different track, the designer, brought them in 20132014 and hired cmgc as the contractor. And they came on in what year . Cmgc came on in 2016 and the designer came on board in 20132014 timeline. And the incentive or accountability for the general contractor to keep costs down is what . So the packages are being done, as i said, in multiple phases and so the cost depends on the current market condition at the time they bid out, right and so, you are right if this was the design build or guaranteed maximum prize model, we would have been in better control. But with this one packages being bid out, the bid is still the low bid we select out of all of the packages and the means of control, you can achieve this by guaranteed maximum prize which we do not have the ability in this project. We beat out the trade packages to get the final price. Do you do some sort of evaluation after a contract is finished to sort of i mean, youre trying this cmgc method and whether thats been effective in controlling the costs . Yeah. And so, you know, its good you mentioned that. So the project is divided in three scoped scopes, one, two ie and scope one we completed in may and we are taking a Lesson Learned in the project and apply that on scope three and not even waiting until the whole completion of the project. We are including what Lesson Learned on scope one and scope 2a which is at 95 construction complete and take the Lessons Learned from that and include in scope three and its ongoing value engineering, as well as the Lesson Learned implementation. Ok, thank you. Thank you, supervisor. Madam chair, youre muted. Chair so sorry. Supervisor walton, do you have any comments or questions . I know this is a really big project in your district and it looks like it will go on for many years. Do you any comments or questions to ask about it . Actually, i dont. I stay well versed and i am well informed most of the way. Realizing the phases and realizing why the cost change was explained to me several times over and i have concerns just like supervisor mandlen man and im sure you do with the costs of this project, very concerning. This is not new information and ive had an opportunity to talk with some of this through the puc. Chair thank you very much. Could we have the bla report . Yes. Item number 2 approves the Second Amendment to the existing agreement between puc engineers for the headworks facility at the southeast treatment plant. The amendment increases the contract amount by 21 million to 54. 5 million and extends the term to 2025. We showed this on page 5 of the report and theres a Powerpoint Presentation. This is an increase in the overall budget. The approved budget is 194 million. The forecasted budget is 619 million towards the end of the project. It is funded through the sewer System Program and we recommend approval. Thank you very much. Chair lets open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers ray. Icallers that areready. Madam chair, no callers in the queue. Chair im two is now closed. I would like to move this with a positive recommendation and may i have a role call vote. role call . There are three arc yes. Item number three in the amount of 3 million on the budget and finance committee reserve for a settlement to the condemnation arising out of said damage during major rainstorm in december of 2014 and winter of 2016 through 2017. Members of the public who wish to comment on this item should call 415 6550001, meeting i. D. 1467499 and press pound twice. If you have not done so, please dial star 3 to speak and wait until the system indicates you have. Unmuted and you may begin your comments. Chair thank you very much. And this is a hearing for the approval of the release of funds from our own budget and finance committee that was put on reserve and so, we have with us greg norby and megan imperial. Good morning to all. Im greg norby and im the assistant general manager for the sfpuc waste water enterprise and thank you, chair fewer, for scheduling this hearing on the release of the 3 million from the budget and finance committee reserve for the purpose of the waste water enterprise flood claims. And some items here with a brief background for the supervisors. In april of 2015, by ordinance 184115, the supervisors aappropriated 5 million for the public utilitys commission waste water enterprise to pay claims and settlements and Legal Expenses and costs related to the extraordinary expenses incurred as a result of the december of 2014 rain storms. And then later, in may of 2017, by a similar motion from ordinance 11417, the board of supervisors appropriated 5 million for the waste water enterprise designated for general reserves, for the commission, Public Utility Commissions to pay claims and settlements and Legal Expenses related to claims from the 20162017 winter storms and in that action, the ordinance also placed 3 million of that 5 million into the budget and finance committee reserve. And the request before you today is to have that 3 million in reserve be released, be used for paying the settlements reached totals 4,395,000. Upon the relief of the reserves, if approved, those would go to paying the 19 settlements reached out what is referred to as the david alfaro et la versus the city and county of San Francisco case, relating to the inverse condemnations costs arising from the flood damage relating to the winter storms. There are currently no additional outstanding claims from those events and though, i do think generally, theres expectation that there are some coming our way but there are none outstanding. Some of this includes the Floodwater Grant Program for which Grant Programs can get up to 100,000 for improvements to their property to make them more flood resilient and we also have a one hundredyear flood risk map officially adopted and a disclosure ordinance for property transactions within that defined risk zone. And there is also an ongoing rainready Public Awareness and Outreach Program that is used to build awareness and preparedness for those Property Owners and residents within the flood risk areas. And we want to assure the board of supervisors that the Public Utility Commission takes these resiliencecy efforts extremely seriously and we look forward to continuing our work with the board of supervisors to reduce the flood claims exposures that the city has and we are requesting today, again, that the board of supervisors approve the release of the reserves to fund these 19 settlements and if that is the result from todays consideration, those settlements will be introduced for consideration by the full board of supervisors in the near future. And with that, i will stop and be happy to answer any questions that you have. Chair thank you. Supervisor fewer. Will there be more claims higher than the 1. 2 million that is needed right now . Yes, supervisor walton. I would call this an incremental request and we would anticipate coming back in the future for additional requests as needed so the 3 million takes us as far down the road as we can see with the settlement of the latest batch of claims. And the reserve is the only area of the budget that is allowable for the type of expense . My understanding, theres a line item, as i would generally refer to it, in the puc budget that we use for settlements and that budget item gets replenished partly through these actions and we are pulling both from the existing balance in that budget item and we would be utilizing this release of reserves that is the topic today. I would love to know the other areas of the budget have been looked at before we jump into any reserve. Ok, certainly. Ive been to hearings where the flooding in certain spots that is consistently throughout our city and talking about rona and then 17th and fulton, i think, the three areas. Now, what we have her is that some of it is actually topography of San Francisco and in this mitigation and plus, you know, were seeing more stores thastorms with our climae and we might be anticipating heavier rainfall and so homes ae flooded repeatedly during these storms and some of these floods are actually significant to the waterflow. Im wondering, weve had many discussions about this in the city, about the homes there and iwhat is the probability even with mitigation, even with homeowners learning how to shore up their homes, that we can actually address this issue since its part of this . Yes, so i think let me try to answer that, chair fewer. So in terms of is topography contributing the floods, i think the short answer is yes. The three general locations you just referred to, we know historically from the city mapping and topography that these were areas, they are essentially along significant waterways and they are at typically at the bottom, so to speak of the watershed, where the rainfall and the resulting runoff accumulates quickly and so those physical elements of those small portions of the city is not something that we obviously have the ability to change and it is a big part of the risk profile. The general consensus is its difficult to build your way to anything approaching 100 assurance that you will not have flood risk in these or similar types of areas and so i think the best Public Policy approach, you try to use a layer of resilient actions to reduce the risk as much as you can, to what you consider reasonable as a community and thats a very Important Community decision, is to what is that acceptable level. And so, when other item i know, again, youre well aware of this, the very ability we face and the severity and frequency of precipitation of storms is an uncertainty for the hotspot areas. Not a simple answer but these are contributing factors to the risk. Frustrating to say the least. Could we have the report, please . Chair fewer and members of the committee, item 3 approves the release of 3 million on budget and finance reserve to pay 19 claims related to the storms in 2014 and 2016. We show the spending on page 8 of our report. We estimated given existing funds that the need is 2. 1 million rather than 3 million and were recommending the release of 2. 1 million which would be retain about 165,000 on reserve. Were available for questions. Thank you very much. And so, you heard the recommendations from the bla and are you in agreement with that . We are in agreement with the bla recommendation. Thank you very much and having said that, madam clerk, can you please open this up for Public Comment. Operations, please let us know if there are call es ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added and for those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on item number 3. Yes, i have one caller in the queue. Is. Chair welcome, callers. Speaker im francis ko fraa decosta and i see you are not paying attention to what is happening right now. The fbi is investigating this case and you are looking at this in a very general way. I dont give a damn if somebody is representing the city on any level says yes. We cannot begin the outreach at this time, at the 11th hour with this pandemic going on. You have no clue what happened to azul. Its p about the runoff and the flooding. I dont even have to comment as im doing now. I can go directly to the fbi because i have more information. Thank you very much. Thank you. Madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair so colleagues, this item does not need to be forwarded but we need to have a volvote to release the funds. Im making a motion to release the funds. Supervisor walton, so sorry. Thank you, chair fewer. I would like to get a response that this is the only Resources Available to address the lawsuits. Mr. Norby. I dont have an answer this morning but i can get an answer as soon as possible and provide that back to the supervisors. Chair fewer, im wondering if this is something that has to be approved today, because before we start dipping into reserves, i would love to see if there are any opportunities for resources within the puc budget to address this revenue. Supervisor walton and chair fewer, if i may, megan imperial here and i just want to give a quick overview of the Available Funds. So right now, we currently in our budget from our analysts have notified me about the Available Fund balance from the puc is 2,763,857, which is why the additional funding is required as a 2. 1 million, give or take. And so, we work with this with the bla and we came to that number due to that conclusion. Thank you so much and i have no discrepancy in the numbers and i understand that quite clear. My question is, is the reserve the only place in the puc budget where you have to take out the 3 million or the exact amount of 2,131,243 that is owed to cover lawsuits at this time . Is there another place in the budget where these dollars are available, is my question . I think what hes asking for, is there another source of funds besides this reserve . And then i see, if you dont minmind supervisor walton, i see supervisor mandleman in the queue. Do you have a question. This is a finance committee reserve that we put on reserve and i guess, utley ultimately, s the board of supervisors. But the reserves were asked to dip into is a budget and finance committee reserve because the budget and finance committee has not previously wanted to be sending more money over than was definitely and thats right, right . Am i getting it . Thats my understanding. As you know, supervisor mandleman that has happened where the bla will recommend and back to money in our own reserve. So, indeed, you are correct, that this is our budget and finance committee reserve and this has been, i think, suggested, im assuming, by the bla, that we would hold this in reserve and so, this is what is coming back for, the release of the funds and i do think that supervisor waltons question, though, is even if we decide to vote on this today to release the funds from our own reserve in the puc, is there another fund that helps to pay for these sort of expenses . Is that correct, supervisor walton . Correct, or would even allow for revenue to be released for these expenses. Sure. So i think that what he is correct me if im wrong we were wondering, there is a timeline for this or this can be continued to the budget and finance committee, and is probably getting crowded right now or is this something you would accept in writing from the sf tv or to the committee, that they could answer this question if we were pass this on to committee, pass this today, that they could respond to you in writing and respond to the full committee, quite frankly . Thank you, chair fewer. I would accept that writing and i want to get the departments to get in the habit of trying to use other resources before we dip into the reserves, to cover any expense. And so i am satisfied with getting this in writing of what other options are available for future conversations. But i want all of our departments to be mindful of that. Chair i have mr. Norby and supervisor walton, what this committee is asking. Very much. Chair we look to see that in our mailbox and with that, i would like to make a recommendation to approve the release of 2,135,000 from the budget and finance committee reserve. Call the vote, please. role call . There are three ayes and could we please file this hearing . Yes, i would like to motion to file this hearing. role call . Chair madam clerk, can you call item number 4. A revolution approving the issuance and sales of revenue obligation by the california statewide Community Authority and aggregate principle amount not to exceed 10 million to refinance the rehabilitation and improvement of educational and related facilities operated by school for boys. Members who wish to provide Public Comment call 415 6550001, meeting i. D. , 146 1617499 and press pound twice. If you have not electric done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak. Chair today we have the controllers office. Supervisor stephanies office is available. Speaker good morning, im from the office of Public Finance and ill be giving background about the process and as chair fewer mentioned, we have Sophie Hayward and they can speak if there are questions. Tax equity and fiscal responsibility act allows for the Tax Exemption of interest on certain types of debt and in in case, the proposed finance is issued through the california statewide communitys Development Authority or cscda to which this is a participating member. The authoritys authorized issue bonds and other forms of indebtedness including previous issued debt. So this resolution is before you because federal tax law requires the governing body which the project is located approves the financing after providing the opportunity for a duly noticed public hearing before the bonds could be issue on taxexempt basis and the jurisdiction is not obligated for payment on the bonds. A hearing noticed was published on june 18, 2020 and Via Teleconference on june 26, 2020 and no members were heard or received through this public hearing process. A little background on town school. Since its founding in 1939, town school for boys has educated boys k8 to developing a lifelong love of learning and celebrating boys at each stage of growth and as an allboys school, theres rigorous educational addresses Energy Levels and developmental styles of boys and being a diverse and exclusive community nurtures sensitivity and respecting its boys and prepares them to be productive and contributing members of an ever changing world. There are 415 students in grades k8 and the town school intends to use the procedures to refinance taxes and certain obligations on august 7, 2013 for the benefit of the bar in amount of 10 million. The pro sees of which were applied to finance acquisition and construction, renovation, and eequipping of the education and Rehabilitative Services at 2750 jackson street which in the resolution is referred to as at 2013 project. The 2013 project is owned and operated by the bar or town school. Assuming all required approvals are retained, cscda expects tax exempt obligations in an amount not to exceed 10 million and its Rose Fullbright and approval, again, of the legislation will have no fiscal impact of the city and county of San Francisco. The original project was located in district 2 and the legislation is being sponsored by supervisor stephani and we appreciate the help of their office and coordinating this. If you have any questions, im here and also represents of the school and supervisor ste particulaphanisoffice. Chair do you have a Powerpoint Presentation to share with us . We do not. But im happy to answer question. We have statistics if youre interested in things like ethnic diversity, Tuition Assistance, the students we serve and how we serve them across the city. Chair sure. If you would like to share that data with us, that would be great. This is primarily from San Francisco and moran and 45 of the student body selfidentify as students of color. The ethnic breakdown of our students is 8 africanamerican, 28 asian, 34 biracial, 5 latino, hiss tan nick and 4 eastern and 17 multiracial, 1 native american and 3 are the other ethnicities. And we have a Tuition Assistance budget of approximately 2,126,000 and that serves approximately 20 of our students. Our tuition is about 37,964, but the average Tuition Assistance award is 24,464. A couple of other things were proud of at town school, we have leased a field for the past 15 years allowing us to make this available to many union organizations, including the San Francisco little league, biking, soccer, San Francisco boys and girls club at no cost to them. And in adig, about 30 years ago, town school launched the new Teacher Institute which is a twoyear Teacher Training Program and 200 individuals have completed the program to date, town underwrites the cost of the program as part of the operating budget and its graduates go on to teach in both public and private schools across the city and county and country. And i think thats all i was going to address in my comment. Thank you. Chair colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment on item 4. Operation is checking to see there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those oare there any callerh to comment on item number 4. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair thank you very much. No comments or questions, i would like to a motion to move this with a positive recommendation and can i have a roll call vote. role call . Item number 5,. 5. Pair indiscernible . This commences following board approval and execution of modification number two and with no changes to the term expiring on june 30, 2021. Members who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001, meeting i. D. 1461617499 and then press pound twice. Dial star 3 to line up to speak. Chair Kathy Weidner from the international airport. Thank you, chair fewer. Im Kathy Weidner with the San Francisco airport. The resolution would approve the second modification to the airports ground lease with United Airlines to recapture aircraft parking space through an exchange of parcels between the airport and united that would result in a net decrease of the united plot 6 premisses by approximately half an acre and a decrease in the annual rent payable by united by 95,000. And as a part of the airports ongoing efforts to maximize the use of ramp space in and around our terminals, the airport developed additional aircraft parking and made other related improvements to the area of plot 6, which required the proposed adjustment to the leased premisses for the airport to recapture portions of the space in exchange for slightly less space to accommodate aircraft parking. The terms of modification to provide for the exchange of parcels between the airport and united that results in a net decrease of the united lease premises and decreases the and rent payable by united by 95,000. The fiscal impact of this modification does not meet the threshold for a budget analyst report, but i would be happy to answer questions if you have them. Chair thank you very much. Any comments or questions from colleagues . And there is no billing report on this. Lets open this up for Public Comment. To. Operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Operations please let us know if there are callers that are ready. Please press star 3 to be add. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system in case you have been muted. Please let us know if there are callers to comment on item number 5. There are new callers in the queue. Chair i would like to move this with a positive recommendation. Could we have a role call. Pair role call . There are three ayes. Chair 6. Professional Services Agreement, criminal 51895 for the operations and maintenance of the baggage system in the harvey terminal for a total not to exceed 21 million for a term of two years and commencing august 1st, 2020 through june 30, 2023 and members who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415556001 and 166117999 and press pound twice. Chair Kathy Weidner from the San Francisco international airport. Yes, Kathy Weidner, the proposed resolution would approve a maintenance contract in the airports terminal one between sfo and gleamer Life Management through june of 2023 in an amount not to exceed 21 million. The contract has a one twoyear option to extend through june of 2025 which would be subject to future boardch supervisors boa. The current contract is the result of a 2015 competitive request for qualifications and proposals process for a design build contract for the terminal one baggage handling system. The design build contract was partially funded by the federal transportation administration, security administration, tsa and stated that the airport would enter into an operation and maintenance contract with the baggagehandling system provider through the guarantee to repair period for up to five years after the start of the system operations. They provide the individual carrier systems for baggage handling technology and equipment and the proposed contract will provide operational availability 24 7, as well as labor, materials, parts and equipment to perform operations and Maintenance Services related to the baggage handling system. The scope of services includes scheduled and preventative maintenance, oncall, unscheduled maintenance and input and performance report. There are performance standards that are a part of this contract which include 99 for availability, 98 for the checked baggage inspection accuracy standard and 97 for the floatation subsystem practicing accuracy standard and 98 for preventative maintenance and routine inspections. This is given to the current downturn in operations due to the covid19 impact, as well as the need for physical distancing of employees. The Budget Analyst Office has reviewed the contract and recommends approval but i would be happy to answer questions. Thank you very much. Could we have the daily report, please. Members of the committee, item number 7 approves a new contract between the airport and beamer for the operations and maintenance in the harvey milk terminal and 21 million through june of 2023. As miss weidner said, this is a contract under the original design build agreement between beamer and the airport. There was a fiveyear guarantee to repair period in which beamer would continue to be responsible for the operations and maintenance of the baggage handling system. We show the budget for this contract on page 12 of our report and revenues of the airport and we recommend approval. Im available for any questions you may have. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Supervisor walton. Thank you, chair fewer. Just a quick question, does this add or take away any jobs at the airport . Through the chair, supervisor walton, not city jobs. This is contracted jobs and they add some jobs to keep up the system that this company installed. Thank you. Last week, they approved the baggage handling system maintenance and whats the difference with this contract . The contract that was approved last week was for baggage handling in terminal two, as well as the boarding bridges throughout the airport. As you know, terminal one is the new construction project and this is an entirely new system for that terminal and this contract relates only to our heartvy milourouourharveymilk t. When you negotiated this new contract, you kept in mind that our airports may not be capacity as it was precovid, correct . Correct. Are you telling me that this contract reflects that, the price of this contract reflects the downturn at the airport in. The price of the contract that includes the labor, the staffing thats required reflects a lower amount than the staffing that would be required if we were to be at full operations and, again, this is one of those contracts where we only pay for the services provided, but in this case, the negotiation with gleamer happened during the downturn and all of that was taken into account. Madam clerk, lets open this up for madam comment. Operation is checking to see there are any calls in the queue. Please level us know if there are any calls that are ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 6. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair Public Comment for 6 is closed and i would like to move this board with a positive recommendation and can i have a role call, please. role call . There are three ayes. Can you please call item number 7. Resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development on behalf of the city to execute a Grant Application under the department of housing and Community Development, local housing for an amount not to exceed 5 million. Call 415 6550001 if you wish to provide Public Comment. If you have not done so, dial star 3 to speak. Chair we have ann romera. Im ann romera and im here to authorize on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco to submit a Grant Application to the California Department of housing and Community Developments, local Housing Trust fund program, notice of Funding Availability for funding up to 5 million. They authorized the bon act allowing for the allocation of 57 millions of bond proceeds for state and local Housing Trust fund program and this Program Provides matching funds to house funds established by city and counties like San Francisco under the Charter Amendment and the notice of Funding Availability was released on april 30th and the applications are due on august 3rd. Theres a maximum application amount per county of 5 million. And they propose to match state funds with an equal investment of the San Francisco Housing Trust fund and Construction Financing of 100 affordable new construction rental housing. Projects would be currently in our pipeline and would be affordable and restricted to households at 60 and would include 30 restricted to extremely lowincome households with incomes defined by hcd and if awarded, we will return to you with an acceptance resolution identifying a specific project as well as loan approval request for that site. I have one request from a minor amendment to the resolution and if we could please strike out the reference to adopting findings under sequa which is not applicable for this approval. Thank you for considering this resolution to increase Affordable Housing investment in San Francisco. This concludes staffs presentation and i am available for any questions if you have them. Thank you. Thank you very much. Chair i see, supervisor walton, youre in the queue. Just a quick question looking at the dollar amount. Why have we not identified a site . Yes. So that is a good question and we were looking at sites in our pipeline to see if we could identify the appropriate site and we have one that we think will work well. However, we want to apply these funds for units online as quickly as possible and we want to see if they are competitive e state funding. In addition, the requirement is that theres a dollarfordollar match and so we need to make sure that the housing San Francisco trust fund is a good match for that project. And we are zoning in on one that we think it will work and we are hoping to put it all into one project and that would be 5 million from the grant, 5 million from San Francisco, Housing Trust fund and we would bring that project to you when we come back. So we just werent ready yet to commit in application because all of the details werent nailed down yet. Thank you. Chair thank you. And then, madam city attorney, i am imagining that the amendment is not substantive . You are correct. Chair seeing no one else in the queue, let open this up for Public Comment. Madam chair, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue and for those on hold, wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 7. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair thank you very much. Public comment on item 7 is closed and no daily report on this and i think that you will get back to us once you identify and every little bit helps. I would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation and if we could have a role call vote, please. role call . Chair i make motion to adopt the amendments. role call . There are three ayes. I would like to move this to the board with a positive recommendation as amended. Thank you. On the motion role call there are three ayes. Chair item number 8. For this grant was issued on february 6 and that is the reason for the troat active requesretretroactive act. We wanl to immediately assist in covid, but threaten then hopefully, a e will become available and we will have this person move to other Communicable Disease needs and this may include tb, working with the Communicable Diseases or working with std and hiv work. But the idea would be to have this parole added to our workforce to be able to better serve the people of San Francisco. This is for 660,000 and what you said is that this is really to fund im assuming a nurse isnt making 660,000. Thats correct. That takes into account the indirects with the salary and, also, the general administrative indirects that the city has for budgeted positions. This would be for about a threeyear period that we would be funding the nurse through this grant. Chair any comments or questions from my colleagues . There is no bla report on this. If not, lets open this up for Public Comment, item number 8. Yes, madam chair, operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready and if you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue and for those on hold, wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 8 . Madam chair, no callers in the queue. Chair thank you very much. Public comment on item 8 is closed and i would like to make a motion to move this to the board and a role call vote. role call . There are three ayes. Chair madam clerk, can you call item number 10. Declaring an emergency under the administrative call during the may 2020 fire improving emergency contracts and enter into the port of San Francisco to take all necessary and appropriate measures to perform repair work to pier 45. Members who wish to provide comment should call 415 6550001 and meeting i. D. 164 1677749 and press pound twice. If you havent done so, press star 3. Chair thank you. Do very a representative from the San Francisco port today, katie pichioni. Im the Deputy Director of port finance. Im here this morning to ask for the boards approval of a resolution declaring an emergency under chapter 6 and chapter 21 of the administrative code in response to the fire that occurred at pier 45 on may 23rd. As you know, both chapter 6 and chapter 21 authorize a Department Head to award a contract in case of an emergency without engaging in a normal competitive bid process. The administrative code requires that the board of supervisors subsequently declare an emergency and an affirm the work done protects the public safety, health, welfare and property of people in San Francisco. On saturday, may 23rd, a fouralarm fire broke out at shed sea on pier 45. Thankfully, no one was injured, but the fire completely destroyed the shed. On june 3rd, the ports acting executive director who was actually me at the time, declared an emergency under chapter 6 and then a week later, we amended the declaration to include chapter 21 services, as well. And the declaration defined possible Contractual Services includes design and historic preservation, Hazardous Material abatement, engineering and construction, stabilization repair and restoration work at pier 45. To date, the port has used this authority to procure restoration and Cleanup Services at the remaining three sheds at pier 45. We have engaged a contractor to demolish shed c and also engage contractors to assess the site of the fire, to project manage the demolition and to perform Environmental Monitoring during demolition. Thank you. Chair please let us know if there are any callers in the queue wishing to speak. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 10 . I have one caller in the queue. Chair welcome, caller. Speaker supervisors, im francisco decosta, ten years ago, i attended a number of meetings at the San Francisco Port Authority and there was talk that they would report on this warehouse. And so some general statements have been made that this fire took place, but what about the sprinklers . It was Due Diligence to have the sprinklers in place. And having said that, one of the reasons im calling is, im good friends with the board to the fishing boat, Pioneer Foods and you have treated Pioneer Foods very badly. And ive spoken to them many times. On occasion, ive gone over there to the pier to buy fish and now and youve told them they can no do their business over there. And so, they are going to do their business even though you were kind of at fault for having no sprinklers. Speakers time has expired. Thank you, speaker. Is there anyone else in the queue . Madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair Public Comment is now closed and so i think i probably should ask you with this remodel, are you putting in any sprinklers . Well, the shed itself was completely destroyed and so, we will be rebuilding the shed and at that point, yes, i would expect we would install a Sprinkler System in the building. Chair having answered that question, i would like a motion to move this to the boar with a positive recommendation. Could we have a role call vote, please. role call . There are three ayes. Is there any more business before us today . No further business. We have adjourned and just for listening public that are meeting later, budget in Appropriations Committee has been canceled. Thank you very much. If the moderator can open the phone line to Public Comment on the minutes of the june 30t june 30th special meeting. Ok, were opening phone line, madam chair. Ok