Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240712

Of, in the meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local state and federal orders, declarations and directives. Committee members who attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate to the meeting as if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available on each item. Both channel 26, sfgovtv are streaming the numbers across the screen. Public comment is available by calling 14156550001. Again, 14156550001. Meeting i. D. , 146 136 7075. Again, 146 136 7075. Then press pound twice. Youll hear the meeting discussion, but youll be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, dial 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 or radio. You can make Public Comment in either of the following ways, conservative to myself or the budget and finance clerk. If you submit it via email, it will be forwarded it supervisors. Thank you, madame chair. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item number 1 . Yes, item number 1, retroactive approve the First Amendment to the contract between the city and the county by and through the Human Services agency and allied University Security for an amount not to seed 17. 2 million to commence on july 15, 20 and to revise the term end date from 60 calendar days after expiration of the local emergency as declared by the mayor for an amended Agreement Term of april 1, 2020 through december 31, 2020. Members who wish to provide Public Comment should call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 136 7075. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system says youve been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. We continued this item from last week, pending more demographic information about who are actually providing the Security Services. And so today we have with us again elizabeth and thank you for joining us, from the Human Service agency. Did we have a b. L. A. Report last week . Im sorry, youre on mute. Yes, sorry madame chair yes, they provided a report. Supervisor walton, i think this is an item you requested for the department to come back with demographic information. Would you like to ask our speakers today about that information . Supervisor walton correct. Thank you so much, chair fewer. Just my first question, did you prepare to report on the questions we had. Maybe they have something they want to share with us. Supervisor fewer sure. Well, we prepared the memo which has all the demographic information, so were here to answer any questions about that. Supervisor walton why dont you just supervisor fewer yes, is there a power point . Supervisor walton, would you like them to put the demographic information up on the screen . Supervisor walton they dont necessarily have to put it on the screen, but i would love to hear the numbers for the record so folks know where we stand. Enid, can you present that information . Youre on mute. Thank you. Yes, let me bring that up right now. In regards to the demographic information, the contract with allied universal Security Services out of 200 security guards employed through the contract, a total of 53 guards are residents of San Francisco. Gender breakdown is 19 male, 34 female and the ethnic break down as part of that service, were transitioning to other security contracts with four different providers. And with those, weve seen an increase in the amount of San Francisco residents. So a total of the transitions, there was about 242 guards. And 104 are San Francisco residents. So that would be around 43 as compared to 27 , so by transitioning were increasing these. Supervisor fewer thats good to know. Supervisor walton, any comments . Supervisor walton it is good to know were increasing percentages through transitioning. My last question is, in terms of plans for the future contracts or even working with allied security, are we asking them to provide an update and some kind of plan that theyll put in place to make sure they do everything they can to provide employment to San Francisco residents. Yes, we will make sure were engaging them with the hiring program which will help them get more San Francisco residents as guards. Supervisor walton thank you. I appreciate the response. And thank you for getting the demographic data. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Public comment, please. Yes, madame chair. Operations, check to see if there are callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers ready. If you havent done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. Those on hold, wait until the system says youve been unmuted. Any callers . Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Public comment is closed. Supervisor walton, would you like this make a motion . Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair fewer. I would like to move item 1 forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Roll call. Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. There are three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you for joining us again. Thank you very much, supervisors. Supervisor walton thank you. Supervisor fewer can you call item number 2. Ordinance waiving for a two year period permit and renewal fees in the public works code for cafe tables and chairs in public sidewalks and roadway areas and waiving fees for use of parklets. Members who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 14156550001, 146 136 7075. Then press pound twice. If you have not done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak. Wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Today, we have, of course, a sponsor and speaker today, supervisor mandelman. We have the lovely lee hepner from supervisor peskins office and public works. I think that mr. Hepner, supervisor mandelman, do you have opening comments . I think mr. Hepner has amendments also, is that correct . He does. I will just briefly say express my thanks to the lovely lee hefner for all of his work and his office work on this item. Prior to the pandemic, supervisor peskin had been leading the conversation around relief that could be provided around various fees paid by Small Businesses. In particular, his office and i and my office have been interested in the fees that are paid for use of sidewalk for things like table and chairs. And since the pandemic began, and since we have been for allowing our Small Businesses to move out into the rightofway, as a lifeline to help them survive this unprecedented challenging time, provide relief all the more important. I believe that supervisor peskin also wanted to start a conversation about a thing we must do is thinking about how to extend this beyond the end of the year. Because right now the only certainty the Small Businesses have are theyre going 0 tb able going to be able to use the shared Spaces Program through december and there is a general intention that get extended. So supervisor peskin and the lovely mr. Hepner wanted to start that conversation and have and it sounds like that conversation is a little more time. But im grateful to them for getting it going. With that, i turn it over to mr. Hepner to talk about the legislation. Supervisor fewer yes, the floor is yours. Thank you so much, chair fewer and Committee Members on this wednesday morning for hearing this legislation. Supervisor mandelman really said all of it and i want to thank him and his staff, my colleague, jacob, for working with me on this legislation. I do have amendments to move this morning. Before i do that, i wanted to add we started this fee relief project in august of last year when we sent a letter of inquiry to every City Department asking them for fees assessed against Small Businesses throughout the city and through that process, we were trying to identify fees that are that provide relatively low revenue to the city, but great value to the Small Businesses who can avail themselves of these permits. Tables, chair, display merchandise, parklets were right up there as one of the benefits that Small Businesses can enjoy, but for which the barrier to entry is thousands of dollars and arduous process. Shared spaces has demonstrated how we can do this a different way and how we can reallocate the time, going out and doing inspections. We can transfer that time to the back end to make sure that people are complying with their permit conditions. And enforcing those permit conditions. So that process is ongoing. I want to thank the doesnt of public works for working with us. We will continue to work with them to make sure they can make the appropriate changes to their application process to accommodate the fees that are being waived and hopefully, again, working with the Lessons Learned from the shared Spaces Program to make sure that the reliability and the permanent nancy of some of these changes is there for the businesses benefitting from them. I have amendments i circulated to the Committee Members. They are very minor. On page 1, removing the period and more substantively on page 2, were back dating the waiver or rather this is the expiration of the fee waiver is april 15, 2022 and its now back dated to april 15, which is requested on page 3 of the legislation to give a full twoyear fee waiver here. Well see where were at in the expiration of those two years. If we want to extend it further, we can. I would request that the committee make those amendments this morning and forward it to the full board with recommendations. Supervisor fewer could we hear from the b. L. A. . Good morning, chair fewer, members of the committee. Yes, as mr. Hepner stated, the proposed resolution waived fees for sidewalk cafes, tables and parklets. These are renewal fees specifically. Retroactive to april of this year, extended through april of 2022. We actually wrote a report based on the legislature, or the amendments that were discussed in this meeting. On page 11 of the report, we summarized the fees waived and on page 12, we look at the estimated reduction. Fiscal year 1819, the initial permit and renewal fees, the income was approximately 665,000. Our estimated in the revenue reductions from the fee waiver would be quite a bit less than that because it would just cover renewal fees, but we dont have a specific estimate. And we consider approval because its waiving provisions that is a policy matter for the board. Supervisor fewer any questions or comments . Could i ask mr. Spitz a question, please . Mr. Spitz, are you there . Hi. Hi, good morning. Supervisor fewer good morning. I just wanted to know, is your permitting, i was under the impression that your permit department is actually costneutral. Is that correct or am i wrong in assuming that . So, were actually doing a study on that right now. Our fees are meant to be Cost Recovery fees, but i think that we are operating at a subsidy right now. I dont think theyre fully Cost Recovery based on the preliminary results of the work were looking at. So i think we are with the current fees, were currently spending more in staff time than receiving in fees, so this would just be more funding from the general fund that we would need to supplement our work to review the permits. Supervisor fewer got it. Mr. Hepner, did you want i see your hand up. Yeah, i was going to say and at risk of arguing against myself or this legislation, just for the sake of transparency, i think what the budget and legislative analyst presented was based on revisions that were not making this morning. Were passing the legislation more or less as they introduce with the provided dates, so there were other numbers in the report that was before the Committee Last wednesday that i think are more pertain to this, including the waiver for the application fees. Supervisor fewer okay. So from the b. L. A. , could you give us the number from last week, please . Yes, i apologize. We were working off a version we were provided at the time we submitted our report, but the amount we said last week was fiscal year 1819, the initial permit and renewal fee of 665,000 per year. So the assumption would be that if these fees were waived, it would be approximately that amount in each year of the ordinance. Supervisor fewer okay. Great. So, mr. Spitz, what youre saying to me, you, right now, it is not cost neutral, the money that you get from your youre actually subsidizing some of that for your department, its costing more for your department. And this would be added onto the cost because youve been minusing the 665,000 a year annual fee that actually goes toward the expenses of permitting, is that correct . That is correct. Yes. And i would also yeah, we we are discussing with supervisor peskins office and mandelmans office ways to reduce the staff time required to review the permits. Our hope was that the fee waiver would be in conjunction with those changes to the code that would allow us to spend less time reviewing the permit. And there is Public Comment and appeal process that is involved in these permits. So it can be pretty staffintensive. Theyve committed to working with us to make those changes to the code to spend less time on them, so we hope that work gets done as soon as possible. Supervisor fewer good to hear theyre committed to working with you. Supervisor mandelman im happy to recommit here in public, in front of everyone, to working with public works and supervisor peskin on this and to find ways to make the processing of these applications less time intensive. I do think, you know, this is one case where it may be worthy thinking about the revenue generated. Yes, this is going to be a drain in terms of a modest drain, several hundreds of thousands of dollars, on the other hand, Small Businesses, if theyre able to survive and thrive, which is very much of a question mark right now, do generate money for our general fund as well in other ways. There is money that may be coming into our general fund for our having allowed some of these businesses to survive. Supervisor fewer its not your commitment i was concerned about. Just kidding. Lovely lee hepner. So any other comment or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open up for Public Comment. Yes, madame chair. Operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 2 . There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you. Public comment on item 2 is closed. Supervisor mandelman, would you like to make the motion to accept the amendments and make a motion about sending this to the board . Supervisor mandelman im happy to make those motions. First, i will move that we accept the amendments. On the motion supervisor walton . Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Your ayes are three ayes. Supervisor mandelman and then ill move that we forward this item to the full board with positive recommendations. As amended. On the motion, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. There are three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Thank you for joining us, mr. Spitz and mr. Hepner. Approximate call item number 3. Item number 3, resolution approving terminal 2 bookstore lease number 200049 between books inc. And the city for the term of ten years and minimum annual guarantee of 220,000 fords the first year of the lease. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 14156550001. Meeting i. D. , 146 136 7075. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. You may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer we have the San Francisco international airport. Good morning, thank you for having me. The airport is seeking your approval for a bookstore lease in terminal 2 with locally owned books inc. For a lease term of 10 years. Percentage structure or minimum annual guarantee of 22,000 220,000. If that occurs, books inc. Would pay percentage rent which may be lower than the mag. The budget analyst has reviewed this bookstore lease and recommends approval, but im happy to answer any questions you may have. Supervisor fewer thank you. Can we hear from the b. L. A. , please . Yes, chair, members of the committee, repetition of what was just presented. Board is asked to approve a 10year lease with a minimum annual guarantee of 220,000 a year, or 2. 2 million over the 10 years of the lease, however, as also consistent with the airport policy, because of the reduction in deployment, it would be suspended in the beginning of the lease, receiving a rent that is lower than the mag. This has been previously approved by the board, so we recommend approval. Supervisor fewer thank you. Any questions from colleagues . Lets open up for Public Comment. Operations, please let us know if there are calls ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. If youre on hold, wait until the system indicates youre unmuted. Operator, please let us know if there are any callers. Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Public comment is closed on item number 3. I just want to say im happy it is an independent bookstore and a San Francisco bookstore. I think we all know books inc. Theyve had a long and good reputation here in San Francisco, so pleased we have a San Francisco based company taking over this spot in the terminal. With that, id like to make a motion to move this to the board with the positive recommendation, could i please have a roll call vote. On the motion, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Thanks for joining us today. Could you please call item number 4. Item 4, hearing to consider the release of reserved funds to the San Francisco Public Utilities commission in the amount of 9. 5 billion placeded on budget and finance committee reserve to cover planning, design and Environmental Review for the transmission lines upgrades project. Members of the public who wish to comment call 14156550001, meeti meeting i. D. , 146 136 7075. Please wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Supervisor fewer today we have with us Margaret Hanford and meagan. Is that you . Yes, it is. Supervisor fewer the floor is yours. Thank you so much, good morning. I am Margaret Hanford and i am the Division Manager of hetch hetchy water. First id like to thank you, chair fewer, for scheduling this hearing on the release of 9. 5 million for the transmission lines upgrade project for lines 7 and 8. In january, 2013, the board of supervisors approved ordinance 413 that approved the Public Utilities commission to enter into mitigation agreements for projects that impact the Public Utilities Commission Power access. Requiring that any future funds in excess of 100,000 for a given mitigation agreement, be placed on budget and finance committee reserve. Separate from the general fund. The Public Utilities commission has identified three project clusters totalling 24 active generation projects that would affect the Public Utilities Commission Transmission lines 7 and 8. Lines 7 and 8 extend from oakdale, to the city of modesto. The total estimated cost of the transmission line 7 and 8 upgrade project is approximately 37,970,000. The Public Utilities commission anticipates receiving a total of approximately 33,328,000 in mitigation payments for the project, including 9 million in payments already received and the balance in future payments. The remainder of the project budget, approximately 4 million, will be funded by the hetch hetchy water and power Capital Program. The proposed release of reserves would fund the bulk of the projects planning, design and Environmental Review which is estimated to cost approximately 10. 1 million. In the future, additional mitigation agreements are completed and payments received and prior to beginning construction, the puc will return to the budget and finance committee to request additional funding released. Hetch hetchy water and power respectfully request the release of 9,465,559 in reserve fort transmission line 78 upgrade project. Thank you. Im happy to answer your questions at this time. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, could i have a b. L. A. Report. Yes, chair fewer, members of the committee, the proposed hearing would release 9. 5 million in mitigation agreement payments for transmission line projects. We show on page 19 of our report, the total cost of 38 million which includes current and future expected mitigation payments and Capital Program funding. Noted in the report, the 9. Approximately 9. 5 million is currently available. The hetch hetchy would use Capital Program funds to fully fund the project in the anticipation of receiving additional mitigation payments from future mitigation agreement. The actual value of the funds is 9. 6 million, rather than 9. 5 million, therefore, were recommending the release of the 9,465, 559 currently on reserve for this project. Im available for questions. Supervisor fewer thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we open up for Public Comment. Yes, madame chair, operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Please indicate if there are callers to wish to comment on item number 4. Madame chair there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer Public Comment on item 4 is closed. Id like to make a motion to move this item to the board with recommendation, could we have a roll call. Excuse me, this is a hearing item. Can we have a motion to approve the release of the reserve fund . Supervisor fewer oh, id like to make a motion to approve the release of the reserve fund. Thank you. One more clarification. Would you like to release the 9. 4 million that the b. L. A. Recommended or 9. 5 million. I think the 9. 4 that the b. L. A. Recommended. On the motion, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Three ayes. Madame chair, can we file this hearing. Supervisor fewer yes, thank you very much. On the motion by supervisor fewer, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Your ayes are three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you, madame clerk for your assistance. Can you call item number 5, resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the District Attorney to renew the agreement with the california victim consayings board in the amount of 75,000 to establish a process to pay expenses on an emergency basis when the claimant would suffer the substantial hardship with the payment was not made and when the payment would help the claimant with an immediate need for the period of july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2023. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment, call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 136 7075. Then press pound twice. If you have not done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Supervisor fewer supervisor walton, youre sponsor of this particular item. Any words youd like to say in the beginning . Supervisor walton no. Ill wait until after. Supervisor fewer thank you. Now we have the District Attorneys office. Good morning, supervisors. Im the chief the conservatives for the District Attorney office. Im here today to get approval for the retroactive fund that we use to pay compensation to victims of crime. We have a contract with the california victims crime compensation board to review, certify, approve and pay victims crime compensation to victims of violent crime. We process claims and pay out compensation to victims in San Francisco. In 2019, we paid out 1. 3 million to San Francisco residents. The grant that we are asking for approval is called the revolving fund, its a small 75,000 grant. It helps us expedite payment of the claims to victims. Typical processing in sacramento takes between 3060 days. Often victims cant wait 3060 days to receive compensation. This allows us to use the fund to pay them immediately and then be reimbursed when their claim is processed and paid. The money goes back into the fund to allow us to assist other victims of crimes. It pays for medical bills, funeral, burial, relocation and other expenses. The dollars are paid out to the victim. That keeps revolving so we have the money available for emergencies. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, there is no b. L. A. Report on this. Lets open up for Public Comment, please. Operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Are there any callers . There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer Public Comment for item 5 is closed. Supervisor walton, a motion . Supervisor walton thank you. I just do want to make a brief statement and say, one, i was actually happy to sponsor this with the District Attorneys office and weve also applied for more resources to make sure we can do everything we can to provide compensation for victims of crimes and to give them the resources they need when it comes to relocation or any support for victims of crimes. So were going to continue to work to do everything we can to support victims of crime. And just wanted to say this was something we were proud to do together with the District Attorneys office. With that, i would like to move this item forward with a positive recommendation. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Roll call vote, please. On the motion, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer can you please call item 6 through 9 together . Yes, item number 6, resolution authorizing the office of Contract Administration to enter into a Second Amendment for Technology Marketplace purchases between the city and cct technologies inc. , computerland of silicon valley, to increase the contract amount of 21. 5 million, not to exceed 44. 5 million with no change to the threeyear term to expire on december 31, 2021 with twoone year options to extend. Item 7, for a total contract amount of 33. 5 million with no change to the threeyear term to expire on december 31, 2021 with two oneyear options to extend. Item 8, resolution authorizing the office of Contract Administration to enter into a First Amendment for the Technology Marketplace purchases between the city and Intervision Systems to increase the contract am of 15 million for the total amount not to exceed 35 million with no change to the threeyear term to expire on december 31, 201. Item 9, resolution authorizing the office of Contract Administration to enter into a Second Amendment for Technology Market place between the city and xtech jv, for a total contract amount not to exceed 82 million with no change to the threeyear term to expire on december 31, 2021. With two oneyear options to extend. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment, call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 136 7075. Then press pound twice. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Joining us today from the City Administrator Office is is that how i pronounce your name . Im the acting director of the office of Contract Administration under the city administrators office. Supervisor fewer you have the floor. Thank you. Im pleased to be here today to present on the Technology Marketplace. I am here with my colleague, and she is the assistant director of the office of Contract Administration. Thank you. So, ill be providing Background Information on the Technology Marketplace, followed by a summary of our four proposed contract amendments. What we call today, the Technology Marketplace, started in the 1990s as the computer store. Its a pool of as needed contracts awarded and its intended to streamline procurement of technology services. They work to implement process improvements to improve technology procurements and keep changes with paces in the industry. Through continuous process improvements, the market place now consists over 50 suppliers, competing against each other for each transaction above the threshold value. 29 of these suppliers are local Business Enterprises or lbe. The marketplace model serves to create a partnership between the city and the technology providers, increased levels of service and expertise provided to the city. Generate the best value in the investments in technology and increase diversity and participation in the contracts. The market place consists of a prequalified pool of suppliers. Conducted by oca. Each supplier that meets the requirement is then awarded asneeded Term Contract equal in amount to everyone in their respective tier. Ill describe the tiers in a moment. Contracts are used by all the City Departments to Purchase Technology goods and Services Based on each departments needs. All transactions above established thresholds must be competitively bid out to the appropriate group of tech market place suppliers. I think its important to note while o. C. A. Manages the contracts, the purchases are funded by the department seeking the Technology Product or service. So funding to pay for goods and services under each contract is subject to board of supervisors annual appropriation approval in the departments budgets. Here, youll see a breakdown of the Technology Market place tiers. We have three tiers which range in contract size, technology offerings, transaction limits, and competitive solicitation thresholds. Tier 1 consists of 19 suppliers. These are larger more established businesses that are able to provide the widest offerings. The starting Contract Value is established at 20 million for each contract. Tier two are medium sized businesses with less experience than the tier 1 and tier 3 are lbes, smaller less established businesses. This year there are 14 micro lpe, but this will soon grow to 24 suppliers, following a refresh of this particular pool. So the tier structure alouis businesses to allows businesses to compete against Companies Similar in size and experience levelling the Playing Field for the smaller vendors. The limits for tier 3 are based on whether its for commodities or services. The competitive thresholds are currently 25,000 for tiers one and two and 129,000 for tier three. Under these threshold values, the departments do not need to conduct further solicitation to select a vendor. So these thresholds essentially allow flexibility and streamline transactions. The contracts were awarded in january of 2019. They are threeyear contracts that will end in december of 2021 if not extended. The total spend on all Technology Market place contracts is 157 million. The total value of all transactions eligible for lbe subcontracting is 47 million. Not all transactions require lbe subcontracting. For example, hardware and software purchases dont require the lbe participation. Only contracts and Welding Services require lbe subcontracting. Youll see here Additional Information regarding the total number of transactions to date and the average transaction value. I mentioned competitive solicitation thresholds previously. Its important to note that the majority of transactions are awarded via competitive solicitations. In tier 1, 88 of the transactions were awarded via a competitive solicitation. Next slide. Now ill discuss lbes spend to date. The lbe requiremented is 15 for each eligible transaction, meaning those with a services component. That amounts to 6. 5 million that must go to lbe subcontractors. Youll see here to date, 8. 4 million has gone to lbe. So 19 of the total, 47 million that is eligible for lbe subcontracting. And a total of 16. 4 million has gone to both lbe subcontractors and the prime contractors that we have in all three tiers. Additionally, here youll see a breakdown of the lbe spend by tier. And next slide, please. Now ill briefly review the total spend to date for each of the four Technology Marketplace contracts were requesting amendments. 23 million has been spent on the cce technologies contract, 33 was subject to lbe subcontracting requirements. As i mentioned before, hardware and Software Transactions are not subject to the lbe requirements, only the services transaction. So 23 of that 7. 5 million has gone to lbe subcontractors under the cct technologies contract. For the xtech jv, 42 million has been spent to date. 48 was subject to lbe and 3. 8 million of that 28 million has gone to lbe subcontractors. On the insight Public Sector contract, 14. 5 million has been spent to date. Of that amount, 7 or 1 million was subject to lbe contracting requirements and over 600,000 of that 1 million has gone to lbe subcontractors. Next slide, please. Finally, 16. 1 million spent on the intervision contract. On this contract, 100 of the spend was on hardware and software, which are not subject to lbe subcontracting. Next slide, please. Here youll see the proposed contract amendment not to exceed values recommended by the b. L. A. The proposed value is on the average spend of each contract. We are requesting that the budget and finance committee accept the recommendation to authorize these contract amendments. And further we ask the committee to approve the proposed resolutions as amended. Thank you. Happy to take any questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Can we hear from the b. L. A. . Yes, items 6 through 9 approved amendments to four existing Technology Market place contract increasing the not to exceed amounts, but not changing the term of the contract. Youve just received a detailed presentation, so i wont go into too much depth on the contract. Page 24 does summarize the expenditure projections on the contracts. All of which are slightly less than the increase in the not to exceed amount. So we have recommended amendments to the contract. We recommended amending to approve not to exceed amount of 44 million rather than 44. 5 million. To amend 938 to approve, not to exceed amount of 28 million rather than 33. 5 million as stated in the resolution. In 939 to approve not to exceed of 31 million rather than 35 million and then to amend 940 to approve amount not to exceed of 82 million. Supervisor fewer lets open this up for Public Comment. Madame chair, operations is checking to see if there callers in the queue. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Are there any callers that wish to comment on items 6 through 9. There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you. Public comment is closed. I have one question. I wanted to know, are we soliciting feedback from our clients, our City Departments, about the marketplace . What feedback in particular . Supervisor fewer just about the vendors and the process and the people that are purchasing the services from . Yes, we generally do receive feedback from the departments. If its okay, id like to actually ask my colleague to respond. I have been at the Covid Command Center for several months and she is better positioned to answer these questions as shes been administering these contracts. If she could be added to speak . Hi, am i i just unmuted myself. We can hear you. Hi. Thank you. Yes. We do definitely both receive solicited feedback and unsoliciteded feedback. Were trying to launch a tech market place 3. 0, basically meaning that once the contracts end in december 2021, were hoping to launch the next iteration of the Technology Market place rather than extending the existing contracts. In doing that, were definitely connecting with both the Business Community and our City Departments because we want to structure it slightly different version of what we have currently today. For various reasons. I dont have to go into here, but in order to do that we need feedback and yes, were actively seeking that. Supervisor fewer great. Thank you very much. And thank you for joining us today. Id like to make motion to accept the amendments on items 6, 7, 8, 9, as outlined by the b. L. A. Roll call vote, please. Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Your ayes are three ayes. Supervisor fewer id like to make a motion to move 6, 7, 8, 9 to the board with positive recommendations. Supervisor walton chair fewer, my apologieapologies. I just wanted to ask if with the increase of these contracts, what type of opportunities are provided for San Francisco residents in terms of employment and opportunities . Because these are large numbers. Yeah, so each of these contracts are subject to the citys First Source Hiring Program regulations. So there would be some opportunities made available by these vendors. They at least need post any entry level positions publicly and make them available for San Francisco residents. I want to see if you have any additional comments on that. Right, if you look through the slides, you can see that the distribution of spend is most of it, 70 of it is for passthrough sale of hardware and software, commodities. 30 is for services, laborrelated transactions. Those are subject to lbe. So by being required to use lbes, technically speaking, lbe, local businesses are headquartered in San Francisco. They hire local people and that is how the business is flowing to local businesses. In addition, we have as one of the slides showed, we have a significant number of micro lbes. Actually we have an lbe in tier one, five in two, and 10 14 growing to 24 in tier three. Those are direct spend with those. When theyre issued, a p. O. Is going directly to them and theyre not acting as subcontractors. Again, its not that the work that is done under these contracts is necessarily hiring people, but its going to be businesses that hire people. And a lot of those businesses are local. Thank you so much. I think we should you should be having conversations with colleagues across the City Departments and letting them know, if we have subcontracts and contractors and folks are going to be getting millions of dollars from our city, that they should be focused on making sure theyre employing folks that live in San Francisco. So this is something that well be continue to come up and something we will continue to focus on. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor fewer i do appreciate also the increase in the lbes. I think that is something this board has brought up before about the market place. Thank you very much for addressing that. Supervisor walton, are we good to continue with the vote . Supervisor walton correct. Im sorry, before you proceed, can we also adopt a motion to clarify the board is approving the contract amendment and not the original contract. There is a technical amendment we need to approve. Supervisor fewer absolutely. Lets make that motion. Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. There are three ayes. Supervisor fewer then i would like to send 6, 7, 8, 9 to the board with a positive recommendation as amended. On the motion supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Tli three ayes. Can you call item number 10. Item 10, resolution authorizing the lease of Real Property located at 598 portola drive with twin Peaks Petroleum, 25year term at base rent of 200,000 per year to commence upon board approval. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call 14156550001 and meeting i. D. , 146 136 7075. Then press pound twice. If you have not done so, dial star 3 to sign up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Is jen here from president yees office . Yes, im here. Supervisor fewer hello, jen. I see that youre a speaker and also claudia. I think the owner Michael Gharib is here also. You have the floor. Thank you, chair fewer and the members of the committee for hearing this item today. Im speaking on behalf of supervisor yee, we represent district 7 in which the twin peaks auto care resides. We are in support of this approval of the lease amendment as we have seen over the years how much of beacon and Foundation Twin peaks auto care has been for the community. We recognize it is unusual to have public land leased to a use like this, but it is a historic use. We actually register the twin peaks auto care as a legacy business in 2016. Michael gharib who is here today is an independent gas station owner and we have very few remaining in the city. While we recognize there might be changes in how we maximize the use of our public lands, whether its for housing, alternatives to fuel, we were not able to determine that during the time from 2015 until now and so we would recommend continuing the use of this land to maintain the familyowned local business, twin peaks auto care, and provide that essential service to the neighborhood surrounding it, which crosses over to not only district 7, but 8 as well. So we hope to count on your support. There are technical amendments as well, which i think claudia is prepared to speak about. To clarify in the resolution, this is not necessarily a new lease, but its an extension of that. So we wanted to make sure that the whereas clauses and the title did reflect that. If its okay with you, chair fewer, would love if Michael Gharib could share words as owner of the site. Supervisor fewer okay. Good morning, chair fewer. Thank you. Supervisors. As stated, this is basically renewal. There was a bit of language confusion ill say between the city Attorneys Office and our office. The tenant did ask to renew under his old lease, the 2015 lease, the option. And during that time period and with supervisor yees offices help, we renegotiated a lease. That renegotiation kind of requires on amendment to the lease, otherwise we might not even be here. So the new amendment to the existing lease basically takes the entire old lease, updates it with all of the City Attorney requirements and the city new requirements and allows instead of for fiveyear option, gives a 25year option and one new fiveyear option. There were several reasons i believe why he requested that. One, just uncertainty of the market and what not at the time we were negotiating. But also because this is a legacy business and because its been there so long, it gives him some confidence and some understanding of where hell be, not just in five years, to do tenants improvements and other things. I dont think anyone knows what is going to happen with the vehicles, automobiles of the future. Maybe none of them rely upon gas in five or ten years, so hed have to change the use of his gas station. Come to us and request how that would happen. But the amendment allows him time to save for changes, time to do the changes and make his market make his gas station whatever it may need to be in the future. There is also been both between the tenant and the city, you know, what else can we do with this site . Certain other departments, the department of environment is interested in putting charging stations there. So all of these issues would take time, would take review. We cant do that in, you know, 68 months. So this would allow this lease and the term of it would allow all these things to be taken into consideration and try to Work Together as partners to move with the technology and whatever happens in the future. We did get an appraisal even though we werent required to under the code so we could come to a Fair Market Rent. It does substantially increase the rent. I believe it was 9,000 a month, now it will be approximately 16,000 a month. The percentage adjustment per year remains the same, 3 . The tenant pays all of the utilities and all permits and taxes. So there is no real downside in the sense that the tenant actually pays for everything that is going on at the property. It is unique. Its a oneoff. We have a couple of those in the city. It was there when the city took it over way back when, back in the 70s. Unless you have any specific questions, i think the b. L. A. Report covers everything. I think severin will talk about it and if you have specific questions, i can answer those. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer supervisor mandelman, would you like to ask a question now or after the b. L. A. Report . Supervisor mandelman after the b. L. A. Report. Supervisor fewer can we hear from the b. L. A. Item number 10, approves the 25year lease between the city and twin Peaks Petroleum for a gas station, 598 portola. As stated, this has been existing use of this property. They also approved suspension of the competitive process. The legislation finding the competitive process to be impractical and indemnifies and holds the city harmless for the costs incurred by the lease. We summarized the lease terms on page 29 of our report. The initial rent, based on Third Party Appraisal is 200,000 per year, 10. 3 million over the 25year term of the lease. We do recommend approval. Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer. I will say that i had a little bit of heartburn over 25year lease for a gas station on public land in this moment in San Francisco and the world where we should be getting away from using gasoline. It is my hope and expectation that 25 years from now, this station is not a place where people go to get gasoline for their cars. I am first of all, out of respect for our board president , secondly, this lease does contemplate that this service station may be used for things other than, you know, fossil fuel. So it specifically contemplates the idea of this being an alternative fuel station, continuing to be a service station, car wash, store. There is a lot of uses for this if this property is providing the gasoline for automobiles in 25 years, were in even bigger trouble than we are now. But i understand that this lease does not necessarily say that is what is going to be happening. So with a little bit of heartburn, im still [inaudible] supervisor fewer thank you. I have a question. So this is a piece of property that is adjacent to the parking lot of is that correct . Its on a hill, so, yes, but not directly, yes. Supervisor fewer has there been any discussion about building housing there, because we dont know what is going to be happening to that building . We have not had those discussions. I dont know if others within the city have had those discussions. Supervisor fewer ms. Lowe, has there been discussion about what is happening, because were closing Juvenile Hall and it will make it a very large piece of property that is adjacent to laguna honda, also, that whole area. And i know president yee has thoughts about laguna honda. Im just wondering, has there been any discussion or conversation about using this land to build housing . Or any other public use . Yes, thats consideration as claudia may have mentioned as part of the appraisal. That is probably the maximum use for this land. I think for supervisor yee, those constitutions have happen discussions have happened, but we would not propose anything. Its probably go to be the next supervisor, because we dont know the full extent of how much land we have. We did try to look at how many units you could fit. Its a little bit of an odd site, but to your point, i think we want to look at the neighborhood comprehensively. And were undergoing one for laguna honda because we want to build Senior Housing there. Many of the people in the neighborhood have their eye on what is going to happen to the juvenile center and this piece of land. And hopefully that conversation will take place in the next 25 years. Supervisor fewer supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair fewer. I just wanted to express similar concerns that supervisor mandel, but i think he said it best, if were still in 25 years from now dealing with gas powered cars, we have a bigger issue. This Business Owner has been in the community for a long time and i dont think will get through the entire duration. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. My concern about it is were tying up this property and we have the opportunity to build Affordable Housing there, that i wouldnt want to tie up that and prohibit it from another use there. I think so im wondering if we have ever discussed a 20year option with a side option to renew after five years to extend it, instead of 25year lease. A 20year lease with a fiveyear option to extend. Which would give us a little more flexibility if we were to build in 20 years. Okay. The 25 years was at the request of the tenant and negotiated for a substantial length of time. The director of property did not want to give a longterm lease for all the reasons and more that everyone has been discussing. Thats why it was with the idea that, look, you have to change with the times. We have to allow you that opportunity to change with the times. And whatever that may entail, you know, you come to us, we come to you and we attempt to do that. The tanks, the underground tanks have to be changed by 2025. Thats the first order of business i believe for the tenant. Then after that, that gives him 20 years to do whatever needs to be done to move along with modern technology. If that means putting in alternative fuel, then that will allow for that. We did not offer specific other years because the director wasnt wanting to enter into any longterm lease, so we had a number, a fair market value number, and had the understanding that there was a partnership going on here for that. So 20 years and 5 years wasnt necessarily on the table. The fiveyear option was on the table and then what the tenant wanted to negotiate between the supervisor yees office, the tenant and us, that was that was 25 years with the idea that Fair Market Rent would be paid. Supervisor fewer okay. You know, i know that gas station well. I havent had my car there or anything, but it is sort of an institution around the corner. Up on the top of the hill. It stands out. I can see its sign right now actually. And i think that, you know, for those of who are long time san franciscans, it is one of these things that anchor us as an institution. Its like a beacon on the corner. If michael could get on, well hear from the owner now. He can give us an overview of his business. Thanks for having me on. I think jen described us best, but ill give you a short introduction. You know, were one of the few remaining independent gas stations, family owned gas stations left in the city of San Francisco. Ive been serving this community, my community, for since 1985. Im kind of dating myself here, too. We do recognize as a legacy San Francisco business. Weve gotten awards from speaker pelosi, as far mark leno, as well as late mayor lee. I employ about a dozen San Francisco residents. And look forward to being here for foreseeable future. One thing that we do have going is, as claudia mentioned, the tanks have to be replaced and thats a significant cost. And that was part of the reason that we needed that many years to recover this investment. And by significant, as upward of 750,000. So for me, that is major. Its not something that i can recover in five or six years. So, without taking too much of your time, if you have any questions for me, ill be glad to answer it. Supervisor fewer but that place has been a gas station before you purchased it . That is when i came in, i purchased it in 1985. Initially, i was a mobile dealer. And then they sold their interest to British Petroleum. So i was a British Petroleum dealer for five years and b. C. Has the ground lease with the city. I think it was 1994 when British Petroleum pulled out of Northern California and i was able to buy their improvements, which it wasnt much at the time. It was just underground storage tanks. And then we made some improvements as you see today with the canopies and so on. And secure the lease from 94, initially it was a 10 or 20year lease. Then in 2015, with claudias help, we got the five year plus the five. And were at the end of that five. Supervisor fewer was it a gas station before . So it was a gas station starting when, what year . Im guessing the 70s, early 70s i think. Supervisor fewer kind of dating myself here. Got it. Thank you very much. Having said that, lets open up for Public Comment. Please check to see if there are callers in the queue. Let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system says youve been unmuted. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item 10 . Yes, i have one caller in the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is george, im the president of the mid town terra terrace. We have the neighborhood adjacent to michaels gas station. First off, weve sent a letter of approval of this project which hopefully is on file. The citizens in our area, community region, surrounding twin Peaks Petroleum, it is an institution. It is a beacon on the hill. We identify with it. Beyond that, people recognize how important gas prices. Twin Peaks Petroleum has become to the neighborhood. Extremely extraordinarily Good Neighbor for 30 years or more. And as was said earlier, he has a legacy business status business. Its operated in the city for 30 years or more and contributed to a Community History or cultural quality for legacy status. So, hes been recognized everywhere. The simpsons love his business, but he reaches into the community. What he has done, just last year, he featured a movie for our neighborhood at his own cost for that parents and children could watch an outdoor version of the jungle book. He didnt have to do that. He did it basically on his own. So [inaudible] supervisor fewer did we youre on mute, madame clerk. Do we have any more speakers . Madame chair, that completes the queue. Supervisor fewer Public Comment is now closed on item 10. I want to say, im a little apprehensive about it, because 25 years ties us in, not knowing what were going to do with Juvenile Hall and we dont know what were doing with laguna honda and it seems that all that property is connected to each other. I actually feel much more comfortable with a 20year lease with the fiveyear option to renew. But i dont know if you think that is something that is feasible, or do you think thats unreasonable . Or do you think that we have time to go back and ask michael if hed be willing for that option . Either a 20year lease with a fiveyear option to renew . And i think i do it for Different Reasons than what supervisor mandelman and walton said, about our dependence on fossil fuel. The reason i say it, i see this public land as having other uses and i dont want to tie the hands of other supervisors that may come after us to fully develop that property. Having said that, my preference would be to continue the item for one week to see whether or not that those terms are actually agreeable. I would also, you know, i defer a lot to president yee and his opinion, but it would give us time and i apologize, ms. Lowe, i didnt have a discussion with president yee before this, but if we could continue this for a week, just to see if the feasibility, if its possible. I think we all on the board and the full board would probably feel much more comfortable bit, knowing that we have so few places of public land to actually imagine building Affordable Housing. What say, Committee Members . What do you think . And ms. Lowe . I definitely think we can certainly talk to the tenant. We certainly can do that within a week. Well probably do it today and see how he feels about that. I think that the director would do whatever the board wishes and that would be fine with him. Supervisor fewer okay. How do you think president yee, representing president yee, do you think he is open to this discussion . Of course. I mean i think we want to make sure people are comfortable, but just for background, i think theyve been very responsive and working for several months on this and so has president yee. Weve gone back and forth quite a number of times with the variations of the negotiation, but were happy to continue because we want to make sure everyone is comfortable with what theyre voting on and id be happy to have president yee reach out to discuss. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Committee members, what say you about the suggestions ive made . Supervisor walton im in agreement, chair fewer. Supervisor fewer i know this board is your district. Supervisor mandelman im open to one week continuance. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I want to say to the small Business Owner. I want to say thank you for being such a wonderful small Business Owner. No way do we want to curtail your ability to be profitable there. And the neighbors who received email are quite in love with you. I would like to make a motion to continue the item. Another week for discussion. And make a motion to continue it until the next budget and finance committee meeting. Can you call the roll . Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Your ayes are three ayes. Thank you very much. And again, i want to respect the time that you and also ms. Gorem have put into the project, so i also will call the president to have a discussion with him, too. But thank you very much. Madame clerk, any more business before us today . Clerk there is no further business. Supervisor fewer were adjourned. Thank you, everyone. Good morning, and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for todays meeting, tuesday, september 22, 2020, our clerk is ms. Britney milton. Could you call the roll. Supervisor fewer present. Supervisor haney present. Supervisor mandelman present. Supervisor mar present. Supervisor peskin present. Supervisor preston present. Supervisor ronen present. Supervisor safai present. Supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton present. Yee absent, we have quorum. I would like to make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda, via telephone by calling 14156550001 and when prompted entering access code, 146 226 7339. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. To make Public Comment on the item when the item is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. The operator will advise that you will be allowed two minutes to speak. When the two minutes are up, well move on to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order which they are received. Best practices is to speak slowly, clearly and turn down audio around you. That concludes my announcement. Supervisor peskin thank you. Could you read the next item. Item 2, chairs report. This is information item. Supervisor peskin ill be brief. By congratulating our Regional Transit partners at bart on winning an extraordinary federal grant in the amount of 1. 2 billion, thats with a b, billion dollars for their core capacity program. And this grant is the largest that bart has ever received and will fund the purchase of over 250 additional rail cars, a new communicationsbased train control system, a new railcar storage yard and enhanced power substations in San Francisco as well as the east bay. Together, these investments will grow train frequency and capacity by 50 . Improving the service for millions of riders for many decades to come. Weve seen firsthand how impactful direct lobbying for critical federal funds is with projects like the central subway and the caltrain electrification. I want to thank two of our bart representatives for going to our Nations Capital to advocate for these funds alongside bart staff. And that would be i want to appreciate chair simon and my former colleague director duffy and bob powers and his team. And thank you so much to our federal delegation, as well as barbara east from the east bay for their support of this multiyear effort. Just yesterday, we saw the next phase of opening our economy with the resumption of lowrisk indoor and outdoor activities. And we hope everyone continues to travel with care and follow Public Health orders and sfmta protocols to maintain distancing and, of course, wear facial coverings. Many are enjoying walking and buying on the slow streets. A final funding approval is on our agenda today and supporting our local Small Businesses through the citys shared Spaces Program that was pioneered in north beach and with that, colleagues, i conclude my remarks. Are there any Public Comments on the chairs report . Clerk there is no. Supervisor peskin seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Well go on to the executive director report. Ms. Chang . Good morning. Can everyone hear me all right . We can hear you. Thank you, chair, for again congratulating our partners at bart that is a tremendous effort. Congratulations again to the whole organization. And also in the federal front, i wanted to update the board that this coming september 30th does mark the expiration of the federal fiscal year and the federal transportation bill known as the fast act which is the multiyear bill weve been working under. And while the house did pass its proposal to renew the act, the senate has not yet responded. So we dont expect that to be taken up until the next congress, but, however, on monday, the house did announcement a continuing resolution that would continue the funding for another year to september 2021 at current funding levels. This is critical, but by no means is this adequate for many of our transportation systems, including public transportation. We need congress and the administration to Work Together to continue covid relief for transportation, particularly transit across the country. As well, i wanted to note another piece of good news, turning back to the bart topic, that is a new grant that we received notice that San Francisco received for the 5th street Improvement Project. Its been awarded a 420,000 grant in the first round of the bart program. This is a subprogram of measure r. R. As youll recall we approved a few years ago. This is barts bond program and is spend intended to fund projects. This would be for the portion between townsend market to townsend and would include vehicle lane reductions, protected bikeways and our prop k and double a funds will continue to leverage the bart grants, transit boarding islands an restriping. Sfmtas request for funds will be presented in the october Board Meeting. Thats another piece of great news. Thank you to bart for that grant. As i turn over to the regional picture, mtc, wanted to mention that tomorrow the commission will be acting on the final blueprint, which is the federalregional strategy, investments and policies designed to help our region achieve our equity, housing and climate goals. And we want to thank our mtc and abag commissioners for their engagement in the process, as well as our city agencies and representatives on the bodies. Particularly, supervisor ronen, thank you for advocating for more equitable policies, including discounts for the toll programs on the Regional Express lanes network and for the first time on the freeway in addition to the transit. We have these meansbased toll pilots in the region. I want to recognize our team, the chief deputy director. Together theyve worked hard over the past year and a half really to support all of our agencies and San Francisco reps and partner agencies. I want to thank you all for your support as we track this project to its final approval, environmental clearance stage next year, and move into the implementation planning phase this winter. Staying on the regional theme, we wanted to report out some data that our data team is tracking on regional budget volumes. You might have seen this reported on the local news. As you know, in march, as covid shelterinplace was instituted, Traffic Congestion virtually disappeared over night, but in the summer months we see that bridge volumes returned to 75 to 80 of precovid levels. This increase has been uneven with the northern bridges and bay bridge seeing returns of 7580 , really in that range, however some of the south bay and peninsula bridges remaining in the 50 level. 5060 level. And were surmising with the regional partners, the area toll authority, these differences could be the different employment basis in different parts of the region. With the Technology Industry workers more easily able to work from home than other industry workers. And so you in my report, which you can see online, youll find a graphic that demonstrates these trends, the Traffic Volume as a percentage of precovid across the seven bay area bridges overlaid on top of the share of workers who we estimate are able to work from home in the north bay, the central bay and the south bay. So, please, let us know if you have questions on that. Its just a note for your information we continue to track these trends to establish a covid baseline for traffic modelling and our transportation studies. On the local level, in addition to the announcement that chair mentioned about thursday and s. F. Transit week, the 59 of october. I want to mention a few studies and provide updates. Our ocean beech Steering Committee met last week. I was joined by commissioner mar and several directors and staff with the National Park service and all the folks along the ocean beach lower segment to discuss the critical and related improvements for the ocean beach Climate Adaptation project. Safety improvements at a great highway boulevard connection. And, of course, our Transportation Authority District Board mobility study at the request of supervisor mar. All of these are interrelated and theyre advancing. Its complicated. We have some federal funds we must make sure to retain and apply as that picture continues to evolve. Now we have the Planning Department just release notice of preparation for the Environmental Impact report for its ocean beach Climate Change adaptation project. Just want to let the public know there is an updated proposal and its been released in terms of the n. O. P. , the environmental notice for that study. And includes several pieces of traffic and transportation circulation. Were happy to bring it and update to you at one of your future meetings. At the local level, the octavia Improvement Study is under way at the request of commissioner preston. Its focusing on survey, seeking interim transportation, uses and challenges, by not just the local study area or the extended study, but really citywide. Everyone really uses that whole system. Its a regional connection. Its a local, of course, network as well. And through the b5 study well identify in the survey, recommend eventually a list of projects to address safety and accessibility in the neighborhood as well as regional access. And this week will released a webbased and textbased survey, check out the website for more information. Its the octavia Improvement Study. Well also be reaching out to neighborhood and Community Groups, businesses and residents in the hayes valley and citywide upon request. Our downtown congestion pricing is in outreach mode. You may have seen our online and textbased messages. Thank you for those of you who included them in your news letter. Take the game we have called unfog the city. Weve presented to 40 Community Groups who are working very hard, some cases, two or three meetings a week, to reach neighborhoods and groups, community roundtable, which we were grateful to appear before, the Vision Zero Task force, and many, many more. The project team has also hosted Community Presentations with the mission, sf Interface Council and walk sf, which has conducted its own study and will be presenting results in the bayview, tenderloin and client at our Vision Zero Committee on september 29. Please stay tuned for that. Finally turning to project delivery. Lots to report. Caltrain has nominated a Bicycle Safety project on 13th street to receive funds under a new complete streets program. This is 100 million statewide program that ctc has approved and is ultimately selected the section between valencia and fulsome, right there it is hairy and the entrance areas will be improved. We look forward to getting confirmation of this, but its very good news. If so, we have longterm improvements, lane reductions, protected bikeways and upgrades. With that, im happy to take any questions to conclude my report. Supervisor peskin thank you, ms. Chang. Any questions for our executive director . Seeing none, thank you for that thorough update. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on the executive directors report . Yes, there is Public Comment. First, speaker, please. Good morning, caller, your two minutes begins now. Good morning, can you hear me . Supervisor peskin yes, we can. Good morning, its david pilpel. Very extensive report, very comprehensive. Just wanted to mention i didnt actually hear it on the better Market Street project. I understand that a finding of Significant Impact was issued in the last couple of weeks on that which i think is significant. Also the better Market Street project. I also noted since last weeks Board Meeting ran long and you werent able to hear the federal and state legislation update, im wondering in is any important federal or state legislation that the board or the public should be aware of, particularly sacramento, given that the governor has until the end of the month to sign the bills from this session . Thats all for now. Supervisor peskin thank you for Public Comment. Any other speakers . Yes, there is, hold on, please. Good morning, supervisors. Roland. Through the chair, a very quick question. Given that this report was so extensive, i was wondering if it would be possible in the future for the director to post the report at the start of the meeting so that the members of the public can review it. Supervisor peskin thank you. Any other speakers for Public Comment on the executive directors report . There is no more Public Comment. Supervisor peskin Public Comment is closed. And director chang will post her comments, so mr. Lebrun it should be posted every month. If folks can check the website. Supervisor peskin there you go. Thank you, madame executive director. To the previous speaker, as mr. Pilpel is quite aware, pursuant to the law this is not a dialogue, but his comments have been noted w. That, can you read the Consent Agenda . Friendly reminder to keep the camera off, because it causes technical glitches if there is more than nine on. Item 4 is the concept agenda. 5 through 11 were approved and now are before the board for final approval. Staff is not planning to present, but is available for questions. Supervisor peskin is there any Public Comment on the approval of the minutes from september 15. There is Public Comment. Supervisor peskin first speaker, please. Hello, colleagues. Can you hear me now . We can hear you, mr. Pilpel. This is with regard to the approval of the minutes. Thats correct. Its actually on the minutes. Page 11 on Public Comment from last week, the third line should read be discussed in addition not in additional. About four lines down, the first day of the restart of rail service, looks like there is an extra space in there. The next line after that, all of the overhead lights should be singular, not plural. On page 11, there are references to jamie parks, the director with sfmta, which are fine. I see at the bottom of page 11 it refers to mr. Parks as jamie and perhaps that should be consistently read as mr. Parks and not jamie. Those are my suggested changes to the draft minutes from last week. Thanks very much. Supervisor peskin thank you. Any additional Public Comments on the approval of the minutes from september 15. There are no more callers. Supervisor peskin okay, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, i would like to and thank you to the speaker make the correction to change additional to in addition and remove said space. We will remain with the colloquial jamie instead of mr. Parks. On that motion, is there a second . Second, mandelman. Supervisor peskin seconded by vice chair mandelman and on that, a roll call, please. On the Consent Agenda, commissioner fewer . Aye. Commissioner haney . Aye. Commissioner mandelman . Aye. Commissioner mar . Aye. Commissioner peskin . Reluctantly, aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. There are 11 ayes. Consent agenda has final approval. Supervisor peskin no, no, the item number 4 is amended and now we will take item 4 as amended and the balance of the Consent Agenda. I making that motion. Is there a second on that motion . Second, mandelman. Supervisor peskin seconded by voice chair mandelman. On item 4 as amended and the balance of the Consent Agenda, a roll call, please. Yes. Item as amended. Supervisor fewer aye. Supervisor haney aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor mar aye. Supervisor peskin aye. Supervisor ronen aye. Supervisor safai aye. Supervisor preston aye. Supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. President yee aye. The Consent Agenda as amended has approval. Supervisor peskin those items are approved. Could you read item number 12 . Item 12, van ness bus Rapid Transit update. This is an information item. Supervisor peskin thank you, madame clerk. I believe that all of us, because so many districts come together along van ness from supervisor haneys district to supervisor stefanis district to supervisor prestons district to the district that i represent, and i think many of us traverse that corridor whether on Public Transit or other means of transportation and have seen the evolution, albeit a little behind schedule, of the bus Rapid Transit project that was fishes initially first initiated by then executive director of sfcta moscovitch some 20 years ago and now together with a lot of work that nobody can see, because it is below ground, has been moving forward with massive lane changes in recent days. And with that, i will turn it over to sfmta who has a present for us. Good morning and thank you for joining us. And thank you for slogging through what i know is a very, very difficult project and i promise to keep my expressions of frustration to a minimum. Good morning, chair peskin and commissioners, thank you for the opportunity to present. Let me pull up the presentation. Can everybody see that . Yes. Okay, ill move forward. Okay. The van ness Improvement Project is working along one of the citys premiere boulevards. Its a critical street for Civic Affairs and for regional transportation. Its part of highway 101. We are building the first bus Rapid Transit system within the city of San Francisco as well as doing complete infrastructure upgrade from Property Line to Property Line along van ness avenue. At the completion of this project, we expect to have significant improvements in travel time and reliability. We have dealt with the covid crisis. We expect our ridership to increase by up to 35 , all of this with these improvements, will lead to actual cost savings on a perpassenger basis. So well be carrying more people for less costs. More quickly and efficiently along van ness avenue. For those who are not entirely familiar with bus Rapid Transit, the most obvious feature is the red lanes, but in addition to the red lanes, less obvious feature is distinguish it from exclusive transit lanes are transit signal priority and dedicated boarding islands which will increase the efficiency of the buses moving up and down the corridor. These lanes will be exclusively used for the form of transportation in the form of muni buses and transit buses connecting downtown San Francisco with the north. There will also be available emergency vehicles, which will actually have the ability to use traffic signal preemptoion to gt a clear run through van ness avenue for their work. In addition to that, we are putting in new bus shelters, new pedestrian crossings, signals, signage and striping to generally improve Pedestrian Safety along the corridor and brand new streetlighting which will improve the visibility and Pedestrian Safety at night. This Cross Section shows what weve been focusing on. The areas in blue are primarily the underground work that chair peskin referred to. We have found that 15, 20 feet underground and with the installation of the new streetlights going up 25 feet in the air, were putting in new sidewalks and new roadways, so were going from Property Line to Property Line along the length of the corridor. Im happy to say were wrapping up the utility work and moving into the actual transit portion of the project. The portion in the middle of the road, which is the running ways and new boarding islands and shelters, new overhead lines and planted median. To date, the project is approximately 57 complete. Weve laid just over 25,000 linear feet. We are just short of 25,000 linear feet of the water work. We upgraded the emergency auxiliary supply system for use in firefighting along the length of the corridor. And have installed just short of 12,000 linear feet of power, communications, lines for the sfmta and other City Departments as well. All of this has been going on along a very busy corridor, right in front of city hall, which every effort to coordinate with. And not only city hall, but the opera house and the symphony and the other major civic venues along van ness avenue. Currently, as i said, were moving into the center lanes. Were starting to build the red transit only lanes. Were bringing in the new planted medians. The boarding islands and new transit shelters. Weve taken advantage of some of the drops in traffic caused by the covid19 crisis and moved as much work as possible to daytime hours. Right now i believe the only night work that we have on the schedule is the last of the water work, which should be wrapping up. That is done because we dont want to interrupt Peoples Water Service in the middle of the day. The largest challenge and weve been working closely with our contractor to maintain social distancing and make sure everyone has proper safety equipment, but to date with covid, the challenge has been a shortage of type 2 cement used for roadway work. This is a problem in the supply chain that affects california as a whole. Were working with a contractor to prevent this from having Significant Impact on the schedule, but its affecting all Major Projects in the state right now. Ill go through this first slide relatively quickly. This is a history where we were working alongside the outside of the roadway. The areas in orange and red show places where we have active construction going on. That work is finishing now and moving into what were calling phase 2, where were transitioning from the outside of the roadway to the middle. You can see well be taking up large sections of the median. We have to take parking lanes on the outside of those median construction zones so that we can continue to move traffic down the corridor. But as soon as the work is wrapped up, were putting those lanes back, including the traffic, and it will be its final configuration after the construction of the project. Again, sewer and water work and the duct bank work is finished. There is a fair amount of sidewalk work that is left to be done along the corridor. But that work can go on in conjunction with the median travel lane work that is going on. And will be wrapped up in the near future. To keep everybody abreast of some of the challenges of the project. We had a total of seven claims from the contractor totalling just under 10 million in value. Weve negotiated for the first three supervisor peskin peter, wasnt there an early claim about 20 million in size relative to sewer work . So those are claims 1 and 2. The original claim was around 20 million in hey, guys. How you doing . All right, what is going on. Sasha. Yes, put yourself on mute. Sorry about that, sir. The first claim the first two claims are 20 million in total value. The final settlement was 4. 8 and change. And so that claim has been settled and the contract has been written and signed. Supervisor peskin so about 25 cents on the dollar. Yes. Thats correct. There was initial third claim for additional potholing work because of the conflicts we were encountering. I forget what the original claim was, but the settled amount was 1. 7 million. Claim number 4 is for additional pedestrian monitoring to help control the volume of pedestrians around the construction site and keep people from wandering into our construction site. Supervisor peskin the 2. 6 is the face value of the claim . That is ive got it listed as pending because we havent written and signed the final contract mod, but that is the settled amount. Supervisor peskin got it. Okay. Weve agreed between and, yeah, this was a discussion what value we should put down, but i went with 2. 6 because between walsh and city, we greed on 2. 6 million, that is all the pedestrian monitoring for about 1. 5 and then 1. 1 million that is moving forward to get us to the end of construction. Supervisor peskin peter, was that not in the original budget . We did not have a line item for pedestrian monitoring after our experiences on third street and other places, central subway, where weve had pedestrian monitoring, that was not in the original scope . So, a peek behind the occur taken. When walsh was first brought on board and we were negotiating because this was a cmgc construction manager general contractor contract negotiated the construction amount with walsh. Pedestrian monitors were discussed in negotiations. However, the various parties involved felt that we could do the work with just the flaggers that were required. In the end, we were mistaken on that and it was determined that we needed to put in Additional Support for those flaggers. So, yes, it should have been accounted for. Supervisor peskin you would have think we would have learned that off third street, off central subway, unconscionable, but whatever, it would have been a larger number in the beginning, but, okay. Next item. The next three items are still in negotiation. Were not close to it. Third Party Utility coordination is kind of compromised of the conflicts we had. There was some question as to sewer cleaning and whether that was required in the contract or not required. And finally, 9,000 claim for having to adjust man holes. So those are supervisor peskin those are the face values of the claims . Those are the face values of the claims. Supervisor peskin got it. So the 2. 6 is real. The other half Million Dollars well be no more than that, but potentially less than that depending on the settlements. And are there any potential future claims that you are aware of . There are no we have a change order request in our hands from a contractor that covers the balance of days in delay that we have. You can see from the time extension days, weve already agreed on extending the contract by 279 days. Supervisor peskin without no lds . With no lds. The city has agreed to the overhead, thats part of the 4. 8 million and 149 yeah, 149, the contractor has agreed to extended time with no extended overhead. And weve waived the right to ld on those days. The contractor has put in a changeorder request for the balance of the days. Supervisor peskin the 149 . Correct. No, not the 149. Those are settled. The balance because right now with the supervisor peskin 135 . With the 279day extension we should have finished the construction in july of this year. So this is for from july of this year to when we have substantial completion on the project. So they put in part of the reason that isnt up here and we havent i dont have a value to give you on that right now is since we havent actually reached substantial completion, we dont know what that total number of days is. Walsh has requested change order has put in a change record request asking us to extend the contract to substantial completion. We said lets get the substantial completion and see what the days are and figure out responsibility. Im hoping it does not become a claim. They have submitted scheduling information. We requested additional scheduling information as well as information on the extended overhead. The two parties are now negotiating what they think a fair settlement for that is. Supervisor peskin thank you, peter. So, on business support. We have first of all, i want to thank the members of our Advisory Committee. Van ness set up a Business Advisory committee in addition to a citizens Advisory Committee that is made up of various businesses on the corridor, those businesses with concerns about the project to come in and talk directly to Business Owners and representatives as well as project staff to see if we can address their concerns. So weve been meeting regularly with them. Weve also been working closely with the office of economic and Workforce Development to provide support services to our local businesses. And have hosted some meetings where businesses can come in and find out about the services, early w. D. Offers. And the direct Business Support Program that was started with central subway has been extended to include van ness Improvement Project. My information is that Small Businesses request compensation of 5,000 or 10,000, have their applications in by october 31st. Supervisor peskin i apologize. As you know, in the case of the central subway when then mayor lee and i agreed that for the first time in the citys history we would do relatively small amounts of Cash Compensation in addition to the Technical Assistance with businesses. My understanding is that in the case of van ness brt project, not a single one of these grants has been distributed by oewd. And we have a lot of very frustrated people hanging on by a thread. So id really like to drill down into the status of that. This project has been going on now for years. And my understanding is that not a single amount of relief or dollars of relief have actually been forth coming from oewd. Do you have any Additional Information on that . Im sorry to say i dont. Ill be happy to go back and talk to the people at oewd and talk to the outreach people about what businesses have contacted us to participate in this. Supervisor peskin i know several businesses that applied many, many months ago and have not seen any response from oewd, sfmta or the city and county of San Francisco and it is very frustrating. And i will suggest at the end of this hearing that we continue this hearing to get a presentation on exactly this issue at our october meeting. But the money is there. We appropriated the money. But not a penny of it has been distributed to the van ness brteligible businesses. Yes. The person heading the outreach effort is telling me she has Additional Information on this, if she could step in. Supervisor peskin that would be great. Fantastic. Hi, everyone. Hello, commissioners. Thanks for pulling me in, peter. I wanted to share that we only just opened the application process for the van ness directive Business Support Program. Supervisor peskin are you new with oewd . I am with sfmta. I work closely with oewd on the program and im the lead outreach person for the bsp. We have the application process open now. Were doing serious outreach to businesses now to let them now they can apply, but the project needed to be delayed enough and we needed to set up the application process in order for them to be able to apply. And we were still wrapping things up with central subway and with covid19 it took additional time to make it happen. But businesses now have until the end of october to apply and we made it a relatively short application period based on what we learned from central subway that it needs to be enough time for folks to sort of like make it happen if we extend it too long applications drop off because people forget about it. Supervisor peskin and can you, for all 11 of us and members of the public who are watching, tell us how a business on the van ness b. R. T. Impacted corridor can apply between now and the end of october. We have information on the oewd website and today well have information on the sfmta website to direct folks to the oewd website. I believe it is oewd. Org constructionmitigation and i believe that owed. Org vannecessary. There is supporting business documentation that should not be hard for folks to pull together. Supervisor peskin thank you very much. That was super helpful and important. Back to you, sir. Thank you. So she has been helping got a lot of things on her plate, including the ongoing outreach process. Were publishing a forecast to help people know what construction will be close to them and what work is going on. Supervisor peskin if i can say, peter, on that, i read those every friday afternoon religiously. But the one thing it doesnt have in that email is what youre actually presenting here which is the final substantial completion is estimated to be the fall of 2021 and that its good insofar as it tells people along the corridor what to expect next week and the week after, but it would be helpful i think i said this in other hearings if that email could also say, by the way, you know, if you can slog through for one more year, we will be donedone and youll have a beautiful new b. R. T. , so just a friendly suggestion on that. Okay, well take that into account in the upcoming announcements. The 72hour notice for night work. Supervisor peskin night work is just about over . Im not going to say its finishedfinished because there is intersection paving work that needs to be done. Im hoping that can be done during the day, but it all depends on when traffic levels go back up. Well make every effort to minimize it. We have a citizens Advisory Committee as well as a Business Advisory committee. People have concerns and they want to talk to private staff, those are great opportunities to attend and let us know what is going on. Regular briefings such as. This and our quarterly newsletter. And thats the end of my presentation. If you have any other questions, id be happy to answer them. Supervisor peskin thank you. And just relative to site cleanliness, which i had heard a number of complaints about and is also mentioned in the staff document, can you tell us how were doing on site cleanliness during construction . Yes. It has been a challenge. Its a long corridor. Its been getting better. Our Construction Management staff specifically our new construction manager Lance Jackson and engineer hubert wong are walking the corridor regularly and have been working closely with the contractor. I think its gotten better. Its not perfect. We have to keep working at it. But were making improvements. And, again, people working on the corridor have specific concerns about areas, i encourage them to reach out to our public information. Supervisor peskin kate mccarthy. Its now kate is away handling covidrelated information, Service Change information. So she is temporarily reassigned and she has taken over the work. Got it. That is helpful. Look, today is the equinox and were a year out, so anything and everything you can do to keep that entire corridor clean, as clean as possible during construction would be greatly appreciated by me and my fellow commissioners and their constituents along the corridor. With that, colleagues or staff, any questions or comments . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on this information item number 12 . Yes, chair, there are two callers. Ill move to caller number one. Supervisor peskin before we do that actually, lets hear from the public and then ill go to commissioners fewer and haney. Thank you, caller, your two minutes begins now. Can you hear me now . Yes, mr. Pilpel we can hear you. Excellent. Five points starting on slide 6. The reference to awss i believe is the auxiliary water supply system. Not the alternate Water Service system. On slide 11, claim 7, i believe that is man hole adjustments. I think there is a letter missing. Based on the discussion with chair peskin, it would be great if this slide in the future could include the initial claim amounts that you were discussing. That would be a great addition or additional column. Item 3 on slide 12 and 13, business support. If those represent models that other large mta or City Projects could use, then it would be great to document those efforts on this project so that those other City Projects currently or more so in the future could use the models or adapt them as appropriate because i think we developed and honed some ideas good ideas there in business support and outreach for large and complicated projects. Item 4, i still note the unfortunate choice to not replace the historic concrete overhead support poles. I think that was a bad choice, but perhaps that can be rectified in the future. Maybe there will be leftover project funds we could do that with. And finally, peter and nahama are doing great work on this project and thank you for their great work on that extremely complicated and delayed project. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin next speaker, please. Caller, your two minutes begins now. One important fact about a senior citizen. In the past was weve had this project be the third street, the central subway, other projects. We have not made it a point to include our seniors and what their needs are so that they have input. Also on van ness. So if you are a senior and you have obstacles, it makes it very difficult. If youre a senior, and you have to carry something with you three or four blocks, it makes it very difficult for them. So lets not bypass our seniors. When it comes to contractors and ongoing issue of change orders, we see it in a very nonchalant manner. And then youre having a talk here as if youre having a fireside chat. Where is the accountability and where is the transparency . And do we really need the f. B. I. To be involved with van ness Rapid Transit process . It hasnt been a good one. And, you know, was part of it. Ed was part of it, no more part of it. Soon Harland Kelly thank you, caller, your two minutes are over. Thank you. Supervisor peskin two minutes up. Any other members of the public on item number 12 . No, chair, there are no more callers. Supervisor peskin Public Comment is closed. Commissioner fewer. Supervisor fewer thank you, chair peskin. I just wanted to also express my disappointment and frustration about the funds not getting out to the stores and Small Businesses along the corridor. Weve had the discussion at t. A. Over a year ago. Yeah, and i just want to say it is very frustrating considering the economic crisis that theyre facing also and theyve been, you know, double and triple whammied, i think not only by covid, but then this project that has extended far beyond what they actually, i think, thought was going to happen. So just very disappointed. I think this is something that the commission has really taken to heart and i think that it was unanimous that we allocate these funds to these Small Businesses. I just wanted to say how disappointing it is that we havent been able to offer relief to the Small Businesses along this very impacted corridor. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, commissioner fewer for the comments and backing me up on my similar frustration. Indeed, this conversation has been going on for a long time. What i would like to drill down to, our october meeting, is how quickly after the october 31st date these funds will actually be distributed . And if these businesses are out of business, there is not going to be anybody to give it to. And this really, as you just said, should have happened a long time ago. Its unconscionable. With that, commissioner haney . Supervisor haney thank you, chair peskin. I was just going to back you up on that, too. I hope that we can learn from this experience, because when we do these larger projects, which obviously are needed and required, we want to be able to say confidently were going to be able to support the Small Businesses and residents impacted. And if weve failed to do that here, even when money has been allocated, its incredibly concerning and it puts into question whether we can honestly tell folks in the future that were going to be able to, you know, ensure their protection and their support as required considering the impact. I would like to know, not just kind of who is getting the grants when they come back hopefully theyll have start to have been issued but also if there have been surveys done of businesses and residents in terms of their needs, what the impacts are. I believe it has been supervisor peskin that has been done and maybe we can hear from staff as to the results of that on the ground yacht outreach. There have been businesses and some of them highprofile in the media that have gone under very early on in the van ness b. R. T. , but can you respond to commissioner haneys question . Hey, everyone. We have been trying to figure out how to best do outreach considering covid19 restrictions and not really being able to engage in person with businesses in the way that we have before. We have conducted a lot of outreach to businesses online, the phone and weve done a couple of things doing social distancing and wearing masks. We are canvassing businesses over the next two weeks to get them information about the grant and to find out how theyre doing. Supervisor peskin right, but i think what commissioner haney is saying, and i believe this to be true, we have a lot of precovid premarch 16 data. So i think when he hear this at our first meeting in october, it would be very helpful if the sfmta and oewd can present what the precovid data is, as well as the results that youve been getting on the phone through electronic sources and in your ontheground social distanced survey youre doing over the next couple of weeks. We look forward to seeing that at our first meeting in october. Commissioner haney, back to you . Supervisor haney that was all. I appreciate that. And i think a lot of the questions have to do with the business focus and residents and how to improve this in the future. So i was done, thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Are there any other members of the commission who have any comments. Seeing none, i would i wont make a motion to continue this. Im just going to ask staff to agendize the hearing that we all want for our next meeting. That is an information item. Any introduction of new items . Seeing none, is there any general Public Comment . Yes, commissioner, there is. There are two callers. First speaker, please. So, again, commissioners, this pandemic, as you can see, very few people want to participate in any of these Major Projects. So we leave it to you, our representatives, to do Due Diligence based on third street, which is a mess, the central subway, we are waiting for the opening, the van ness bus Rapid Transit, the businesses that needed to be helped have gone. And we havent learned anything what happened on Market Street before. We always dont seem to learn something from the past projects and we dont seem to have a checklist. We just live it to become project managers, who are not really project managers, because they cant do a needs assessment. And then we love to have our fire chats, the Public Comment period, where we allow them a couple of minutes and you dont seem to be paying attention to us. Its going to come to bite you all in the back. Supervisor peskin next speaker, please. Thank you, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank you. Supervisors. I apologize, what im going to say. The first thing i would like to do is thank you about some of the downtown [inaudible] from the meeting and the new improved [inaudible] classification is appreciated. The thing i do want to bring to your attention. On the one hand, we have the c. A. C. Moving along and potentially a general Engineering Services contractor meeting for the proposed. You have a parallel track between caltrain and high speed rail on this alignment. I would like to bring to your attention, there is a high probability that this analysis will essentially make it impossible for caltrain to rail yard potentially however. So i would suggest moving forward, you do something to delay the award of the contract, because [inaudible] problems and capacity, thats we can have on the line fort person have to take it from there. Thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Supervisor peskin any other members of the public for general Public Comment for todays meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and were adjourned. Thank you, chair. Please remember to remain on team. Sfgovtv and producers, getting ready for timm [ ] [ ] so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m. I. T. , studying urban planning. So this is her hometown. So, we fell in love and moved to her city. [ ] [ ] i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. I was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. So it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. This is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. I mean we are the part of San Francisco. Its the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. Everybody likes to talk about how San Francisco is not familyfriendly, there are not a lot of children and families. We have predominately Single Family homes. As i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [ ] its different because again, we have little small storefronts. We dont have Light Industrial space or space where you can build highrises or large office buildings. So the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. Turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. Thats my usual. Mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. He worked in the drugstore forever. He saved his money and opened up his own spot. Were always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. Its like a Little Community gathering spot. This is the part of the city with a small town feel. A lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. There is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. I think there are some people that would embrace that. I think there are others that would prefer that not to be. I think we moved beyond that conversation. I think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and Small Businesses that we have here. In fact, its more of a mom and pop style business. I think at the end of the day, what were really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. Were the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. A lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. Im very fortunate to have that. Hi, good to see you. Just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how hes doing. Everything okay . Yeah. Good. We spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to Small Businesses. We put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. This is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a Significant Impact as you can see. What an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. For sure. We have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. So i think thats the richness of the mission and it always has been. Its what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i San Francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for San Francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] fire station 35 was built in 1915. So it is over 100 years old. And helped it, were going to build fire boat station 35. So the finished Capital Planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on Sea Level Rise. The station 35, Construction Cost is approximately 30 million. And the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. It is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. Were looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. The historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. This totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of Sea Level Rise over the next 100 years. Thats what the citys guidance is requiring. It is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. So if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. It does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. So that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. The fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. The access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. In that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. Both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utilitys only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. So electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. High boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. Currently were staffed with Seven Members per day, but the Fire Department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. Looking into the future, we have not only at t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. There are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. Were looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but theyre the only good reference point. We look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. It is very unique. I dont know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. The fire boat is a regionalesset tharegional assete used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. We have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. This is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. Were proud to serve our community. And were willing to help people in any way we can. Hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about checking with your neighbors. Start off by giving your neighbor a call to see how they are or if they need help. If they dont answer, dont get anxious. Try again later. Check to see if their car is parked nearby. Are they lights being turned on and off during normal hours . If you still cant contact them, contact your other neighbors and see if theyve had contact with them recently. You can also leave a note in their mailbox, and when you do get in touch with them, ask if theyd like to share their Emergency Contact information. If youre getting groceries for a neighbor, get a mask and sanitizing wipe. Put the groceries by the front door and then move back and call them from the sidewalk. If you need to ring the doorbell, dont use your hand. Use the wipe or paper towel that you brought. When you call, stay on the sidewalk at least 6 feet away from them. As youre talking to them, ask about any other help they might need. Some might need further assistance with groceries or just need to chat. Maybe they might need you to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. And as always, as soon as you get home, wash your hands. Heres a quick recap. Well, thats it for this episode. I hope you found it useful. Go to sfgov fortoday. clapping. ive been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol Small Business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit ive been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. My name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you dont want to wait 365 day if you make that brickandmortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything weve done to celebrate that. 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It is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, well be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, well be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. We we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know youve made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. It is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. It is really nice to have a restaurant that is very Community Focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. We have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. When those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in San Francisco were doing an average of 6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand thats a lot to chair ronen good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 21, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor Hillary Ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the call is rules Committee Vice chair Catherine Stefani and supervisor gordon an m mar. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, d clerk yes. Due to the covid19 emergency, city hall and offices are closed. Members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and other various cable channels and sfgov sfgovtv. Org are streaming the numbers across the stream. Public comment and opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1468449547. Again, thats 1468449547. Then press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star, three to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are you speak slowly and clearly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit your comments via email to me at victor. Young sfg. Org. Comments submitted to me will be included as part of the file. That concludes Public Comments. Chair ronen thank you. Can you please call items 1 and 2 together. Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you so much, and well start with mr. Harrington. Youre back. Good morning, supervisors. Thank you so much for taking this up today. Chair ronen of course. Im happy to start with comments or questions, whatever you prefer. Chair ronen well start with your statements. Okay. I have a long history with the city. I have a history and a love for the organization. Just briefly, so if youre looking at the different values i bring to this, and i want to talk about three Different Things to talk about three different parts of the organization. One is the concern for the environment, and so clearly, when we impact so many lands and water ways, like the p. U. C. Does, theres always a bit of attention between trying to make sure were taking care of those lands and taking care of these water ways and our obligation to our kpust custom and some of that tension is bubbling up right now. But one of the things that i always prided myself being able to do was working through things like that. I hope to bring that to the organization. Another is environmental justice. We have not always been the best neighbors when you look at the having a Treatment Plant in the bayviewhunters point, before i left, whie started to put in digesters in that area in San Francisco. But we are still in their neighborhoods with a wastewater plant, so we need to figure out how to be better neighbors in terms of what we do. The third issue is kind of rate fairness on the power side. I think its pretty clear to most people, any way, that you can run a public power agency, you can have it cheaper, you can have a better green mix. They do it in l. A. And sacramento and silicon valley. The real problem is how do we get it there . How do we buyout pg e, and how do we do that without causing rate shock, which is something that i would be focused on. Again, im here today because i love the p. U. C. , the communities that we work with, the staff that are there, and im grateful if you would let me work with them again. Chair ronen fantastic. Its so good to see you again. I have two questions. One is to your last point, if you could tell us a little bit more. It sounds like youre very open to the city acquiring pg es structures to distribute energy, but of course we have to do so in a responsible way and address all those issues that you brought up. I just want to make sure confirm what i heard you say and make sure i heard correctly. Sure. When i was there [inaudible] until Something Else happened and delayed that for a while, and the only reason for doing that was on the way towards really running your own power operation. It is a better way to do for the people, it is a better way to do it for the environment, sure. Chair ronen fantastic. Couldnt agree more. And then, the second question that i had for you is, you know, because youve been the director of the p. U. C. , and now, assuming we confirm your your your appointment, we would have two former directors on the p. U. C. Board, and is that a little bit too many cooks in the kitchen . Thats my concern, is that wed have, you know, a general manager, and then two former general managers on the board. How would that affect you as a general manager, and do you think thats a little bit too much . Love to hear your thoughts on that. Its a very fair question, supervisor. When i was city manager, i argued with the mayor to appoint andy moranz. I guess theres a couple of things. One is ive always been somebody who has a job, and then, when you leave the job, you have faith in those that follow and theyre in charge, and youre not. Its great that i talk to Ben Rosenfield every once in a while, but i would never just butt into your world. Im really clear about that. Other thing is there are some departments in the city. The p. U. C. S Division Goes they go out 20 or 30 years. You just dont pick up the knowledge of the hydrology of the Public Utilities commission overnight, so i think theres a reason to not be as concerned in this case, but i totally understand why it could be a concern. Chair ronen do any of my colleagues have any questions . Supervisor stefani yes. Just to follow up on what youre saying to having led the p. U. C. , i thought it kind of an advisory council, you know, that people that leave are there to experience and guide. You are a former controller, manager of the p. U. C. I remember when i came here in 2007 and just remember hearing so many good things about Ed Harrington. Obviously, the concern for the environment, we cant say that enough, given the fact that the sky went dark, we cant go outside, we cant run. We need people like that in all sorts of places. Environmental justice. I think you were here when i worked for michaela, and remember we were so adamant we werent going to have those coal fired electric plants, and then, ive had constituents that have challenged that they werent my constituents, they were michaelas. So i think your ability to approxima serve on the p. U. C. , its undeniable. I have no questions, only the deepest admiration and support, and im thanking the mayor again for appointing you. Thank you, supervisor. Chair ronen supervisor mar, did you have anything to add . Supervisor mar yeah, thank you, supervisor ronen. Thank you, mr. Harrington for your years of service and highlevel service to our community, and thanks for your willingness to step back in to the Important Role at the p. U. C. I just had one question. As youre aware this year, weve been dealing with a number of crises in the city, unprecedented, but one of them has been around a crisis in in faith in our government, and, you know, as the the federal corruption investigation, you know, you know, has been playing out over the last seven months, and thats really lead to charges and directly impacting many of our key departments here in the city with documented evidence of corruption and and particularly around contracting, you know, the public works department, d. B. I. , and the Mayors Office of neighborhood services. And so even in july, you know, there was a federal subpoena that extended to the p. U. C. , and theres an Ongoing Investigation now, so i just wanted to see what your thoughts are around, you know, the federal investigation into corruption here, and thats now extended to the p. U. C. Sure, supervisors. So theres many different examples of fraud and corruption in several departments of the city. When i went to the p. U. C. , i added an audit function there because we were spending 3. 5 milli 3. 5 billion of rate payer money to upgrade the system, and we had had some scandals there. One of the things that i did was i set up a system of meetings and trainings for anybody in the Public Utilities commission to design anything time sheets, purchase orders, contracts, everything. And we went through and did training for about 300 staff in the p. U. C. To talk about the important of tone at the top for honesty, of how you do business with each other, that your signature means something, and if in fact you dont do right or you dont call out someone else thats doing wrong, thats your responsibility, and there will be consequences. Over the years, ive fired people, ive reprimanded people, and ive issued orders to stop doing people with the city. I think as we talk about these things, we have to be aware that we are actually, we have a lot of people that are honest, and we should keep their morale up by commending them and congratulating them. At the same time, if someone is working against us, then you take them out. Supervisor mar yeah, thank you for that. I appreciate that yeah, your past history on implementing controls and oversight practices but also your point about the need to support and and the you know, the vast majority of our and pretty much almost all of our Civil Servants that are doing their work at ethical and high standards, so thank you. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. If theres no further questions, then we will move onto the second appointment, tim paulson. Good morning, tim. Thank you very much, supervisor ronen, my supervisor, as well as supervisor mar and stefani. So should i follow the same lead as chair ronen you got it . As the previous candidate and just say a few comments about what is happening today . So as you know, i have been appointed by the mayor, and it is now in front of rules, and i just am looking for your approval because as you, you know, approved me the first time, i ran around to come into this job because i went into a little bit kicking and screaming, i guess is what i tried to say because ive advocated in front of commissions but never sat on them. When people recruited me to come and sit on the Public Utilities commission, i accepted it, and i took it seriously. I have to tell you, i have learned more about water and power and sewer systems and public power and pg e and Environmental Issues than i ever thought i was going to learn, and ive taken it i just want you to know, ive taken it very seriously. Ive asked questions, ive engaged the staff and by the way, there are some incredibly talented professionals in the six different departments of the area. Every time i ask a question, theres a powerpoint its not like they made it up for me, theyre actually prepared for a commissioner to be fully briefed. As i continue to go into public service, im going to continue to take it seriously. All three of the different agencies and the six departments have been great. As you know, ive worked in the Labor Movement on behalf of working men and women for the past 25plus years. Thats been my job, and thats been my passion, and thats what drives me is the workers who make this city work, and the workers in both the public and private sector to move forward. So im going to continue to, you know, that is my advocacy in my day job, but in my life, id like to be able to bring that piece also to the to the commission as i continue. I do want to let you know something that i havent put in, and i think all of you know this in general, but, you know, i do come from the construction industry. You know, i have you know, ive been you know, ive run jobs back in the day, you know . I was a construction worker, you know, that ran as a foreman and whatever, you know, i ran many jobs. I know what a change order is. I know what a board foot is. In the trades, your college is your Apprenticeship Program where you spend four or five years of your life, and you dont have to pay money to go to a college, you actually get paid to learn your trade, and you can go to school at night or on the weekends or whatever else it is. I was an apprenticeship coordinator, also, for a few years. When i was also at the Labor Council and the Building Trades council, i worked on a lot of these project labor agreements. When we sit down with developers, public or private sector, its all about money, and thats where we fight to make sure we get the best bang for the buck. And as i think i said in the First Press Release when you guys first approved me, and the mayor nominated me, you know, the rate payers are the first priority. All the other issues are because this is an important and complex commission, and a major part of the structure of our city, that we have a lot of issues to deal with that. So, you know, i dont know if i should just stop right there. I really care about finance when it comes to things. During the downturn we had in 2007, when everything just fell to crap, and wall street kept putting money into work and housing and everything else, i actually had the silly idea of going with lennar and ed lee to china because they wouldnt invest in our city. It actually was a lot of union funds and trust funded that started putting money in the stuff. I was one of the teams that was invited to go, of all places, to main land china to fine some money. But i hope that these comments let you know that im honored to be on this commission, and i really want your support to be able to continue to do this work, and more than willing, gang, to take any questions that you might have, so thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. I keep calling you tim. I should be calling you mr. Paulson or commissioner paulson, but ive known you so long, its hard. I just want to thank you for taking on this new role that is hard for you because youre so used to being on the other side of the podium. But i appreciate your willingness to serve in this capacity, and im excited that the mayor thats chosen to support you. Do you have any questions . Do any colleagues have any questions . Commission. Supervisor stefani i dont have any questions. Mr. Paulson, hes been a great member of the commission since last year. You will continue to do a great job in your first full fouryear term with this appointment. Youve done so much work for not only the p. U. C. But the labor community, and i have nothing but positive experiences and nothing but the greatest faith in your ability to really do the work necessary and advise the p. U. C. , based on your experience, and i just i cant sing your praises enough. So again, another great nomination that is so easy to support, thanks. Commissioner, im honored, thank you. And chair ronen, you just segued so fast. Thank you for this. Supervisor mar yeah, ill just add thank you, chair ronen. Ill just add to this, thank you, commissioner paulson or tim, for your decades of work supporting people in this city in the Labor Movement, and now for your service on the p. U. C. I just have the same question i would ask you the same question that i asked of mr. Harrington, whats your response to the investigation and now the prosecution thats been playing out in our city around misconduct, fraud, and corruption by city officials that has now expanded to at least the investigation looking into the p. U. C. Since july, and how does that relate to the important oversight role of the p. U. C. And for you as a p. U. C. Commissioner . Well, you know, ive been very briefly briefed by the City Attorney, that this was an expansion. I think what im going to say is former director harrington said, that all of us in the Labor Movement, whether were in government or any part of public life is going to be incredibly diligent to make sure that somebody, you know, that is cheating or taking public dollars or whatever else is going to be exposed, so, you know, as part of the oversight committee, we will you know, im going to take this very seriously. I dont know of anything, but somebody might or somebody might not. We know the most high profile pieces that have come out of this investigation, but im going to take the oversight very seriously, but to be honest, i havent seen anything. Its in the grand jurys hands right now, so, you know, but obviously, im curious as to if anything comes through. So i will be diligent. I dont know if thats the best way to put it, but just like all of you as supervisors. We hope that this department is as clean as ive seen it, but if theres something there, you know, well keep our i will keep my ears wide open. Supervisor mar thank you for that, tim, and yeah, i think right now that its really important for all of us, like the on the board of supervisors and members of important commissions like the p. U. C. To really focus on our oversight role and really to restore confidence and faith in our City Department and critical departments like the p. U. C. , so i appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor. Chair ronen thank you so much. We will know open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public who wishes to speak on these two appointments, youll have two minutes to do so. Chair ronen vic tore, youre on mute. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1468549547, then press pound, and pound again. If you havent already done so, press star, three to lineup to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted, and you may enter your Public Comment. Mr. Qao, do we have any speaker for Public Comment. Operator yes, we have one caller. Hello. My name is larry mazzola, director of Plumbers Union 32. Im here to support tim, to reappointment him on the p. U. C. He has a long history of representing workers in San Francisco and well thought of in the city. Hes well respected in our industry, done a great job on the commission since hes been on board, and its very important to have labor on these commissions to have a invoice with the important decisions that are made on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. So i urge you, on behalf of the Building Trades, to reappoint tim paulson, and i appreciate your time today. Clerk thank you. Mr. Qao, do we have any additional callers . Operator madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair ronen then Public Comment is closed. I wanted to say how excited i am about both of these appointments. I think theyre terrific candidates at this time, and im happy to support them. I do want to mention to the mayor and staff since there is one appointment coming up, it would be great to see some additional diversity to this p. U. C. Its such an important commission in our city, and we want to make sure that people from different backgrounds and perspectives are able to have this power and voice on the commission, so thats the one request that i have of the mayor, but its hard to deny how wonderful, qualified, and committed these two appointments are, and so im happily going to be supporting them today and will make a motion to move forward with positive recommendations both Ed Harrington to the ive got to get out my notes here to fill seat one, and tim paulson to move that forward with a positive recommendation to fill seat three. Can we please have a roll call vote. Clerk madam chair, may we amend the motions to delete the wor wor words rejecting on both motions . Chair ronen yes. One day, im going to get this motion right. Victor, thank you. Clerk so on the motion to approve and recommend, on that motion [roll call] clerk the motion passes to amend and recommend the motions for the appointment of Ed Harrington and tim paulson. Congratulations on your appointments, and thank you, thank you, thank you for your willingness to serve the city and county in this way. Thank you. Thank you. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item number three . [agenda item read]. Clerk we have six seats and 23 applicants. Chair ronen okay. Well, thank you so much. It is with great joy that we are hearing this item today. As you all know, i offered, together with supervisor matt haney and many frontline workers who serve people battling Mental Health and addiction every single day, and we wrote this law because our system has not been working, and we know that by what we see in the streets every day when youre walking in most neighborhoods, but especially in the mission near general hospital, in the tenderloin, and soma, which is why supervisor haney and i teamed up to create a system that works. Mental health sf is the vision of a new and hopefully innovative approach to serving people that need health care for Mental Illness and Substance Use, and hopefully in a few years, were able to say we have the best system in the country. We were able to fully fund the implementation in the budget that is before us tomorrow. It is a massive systems overhau overhaul, where coordination and collaboration dont exist today although. Theyre fabulous programs serving the population, they arent operating as they should, because in San Francisco, we have a belief that most Mental Illnesses and addiction is a curable illness. You can take someone whos very ill and get that person healthy and to a place where they can participate in society as a full and well, you know, participant. We have so many interest in these seats, and when i look at this list of people, i really already jumped for joy, and unfortunately, we only have six seats, but i just want to remind the candidates today that if you arent recommended to move forward, that the mayor will also be appointed six seats to the Mental Health implementation working group, and the City Attorney will be appointing one person, so there are other possibilities. And then, of course, once this committee is up and running, all their meetings will be public, and there are many ways to participate in making the vision of Mental Health sf a success and fully implementing this groundbreaking law. So with that, i wanted to call all of the applicants forward. We have many applicants today, so if you could keep your comments to three minutes, we would appreciate that. And then, well hear from the public, and each member of the public will have two minutes to speak. And then, of course, if either of my colleagues have any questions, feel free to chime in at any point. And with that, i just wanted to ask supervisors mar and stefani if they have any opening remarks or if we should just get into the presentation. Presentation . Supervisor stefani yes. Chair ronen okay. Fantastic. So we will do that, and well go in order as youre listed on the agenda, and we are starting with amy wong, if she is here with us. Hi, good morning, supervisors. Can you hear me . Chair ronen we can hear you. Yes, hi, good morning. My name is amy wong. Im member of iftte local 21. I have worked as a Mental Health Treatment Specialist for over 20 years at the San Francisco Behavioral Health center. I am honored to be considered for a seat with the San Francisco Mental Health committee seat. As a shop steward for local 21, i empower coworkers, clients, to standup for their rights to live with dignity. My empowering others with justice and dignity came when i was bullied by others at work. This ad advocacy started with becoming involved in the arts and Culture Commission through the very ordinance that supervisor Hillary Ronen and mat haney matt haney crafted and that all of you approved. Since the pandemic, our city has been hit with more homelessness, job losses, and services are often inaccessible to these folks. Many programs are running independently of each other, lack of oversight, and we need specialized programming and leadership to ensure these services are organized, coordinated, and accessible. And as a Mental Health professional, i am prepared to use my expertise and decades of experience to help shape policy that will provide Effective Solutions to the adjusting Mental Health conditions, Substance Use disorders and provide strategies to reduce stress accompany homelessness. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much, miss wong, and thank you for your decades of work, incredible work. We appreciate you. Thank you. Next, were going to hear from lucretia bolin. Good morning. Hi. Good morning, chair ronen and vice chair stefani and supervisor mar. Ive spent the last three decades working in Public Health. The majority of this time has been in direct Clinical Service in the field of addiction, Mental Health, family practice, Sexual Assault and sex trafficking. I do this work for a variety of reasons, and some of those reaso reasons are deeply personal. Many of the people that i work with rose from the similar ashes and are shaped by similar adversity. Im vested in protecting workers rights and vested in making sure that they can live in the city. I grew up in public housing, lived with my grandmother. We had no black dentists. I was part of the great Desegregation Movement in the early 70s, and this is when i began to have some visceral sense of difference and access, black and white, rich and poor. Following the 1965 debate with william buckley, about the age of five or six of seven, i learned to know the shock and the disaffection and the gap is based only on the color of ones skin. My grandmother never finished high school, and im indebted to to innumerable people. Should i be appointed to the work group, i will work to make sure that members have a voice and a seat at the table in the implementation of services that they may be working with. I want to represent the voices that may not have this platform. I have a tremendous amount of privilege because of my education. I want to ensure that elected and appointed servants in body and practice [inaudible] i want to thank you. Im happy to answer any questions. Appreciate your hard work, and please stay safe. Thank you very much. Chair ronen thank you so much. Appreciate all your hard work, as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Chair ronen if theres no questions, then we will move onto shon bufor the record. Buford. How you doing this morning . Chair ronen fine. Thank you, papa. Basically, ive been a member of the San Francisco Fire Department for 27 years now. Most of my time has been spent working downtown in the bayview or Mission District where i was able to see the effects of stress first that has affected our society. During this time, by biological father has also been part of the system for many, many years, suffering for drug addiction, and ive seen how the type of resources can help people in and out and making sure they get the help they needed. Also moving forward in the Fire Department, i started to see how our Public Safety providers and service, those who work there are affected by it, and i wanted to make sure that we had thinged in place, not only for to help the citizens, but also to help the providers, whether theyre nurses, doctors, sheriffs deputies, firefighters. So i can bring a talent to work with people collaboratively. I have a personal and professional perspective. Im not afraid of constructive conflict, and also, you know, i wanted to make sure that our city understands the importance of that, as well, and know the stresses that affect our city, what are the challenges that affect our city, what organizations and resources are available, and if appointed to there, i believe i bring a leadership skill that will help bring everyone together on all sides and make sure that the city is healthy from all perspectives. From that, ill ask that you nominate me to this seat, and i thank you sincerely. Chair ronen thank you. We appreciate your time and service to the city, and we thank you for applying, as well. Anyone have any questions . Thank you. Thank you very much. Chair ronen next, well hear from c. W. Johnson. Are you here with us today, c. W. Johnson . Okay. We will come back to it just in case he joins us later. Next, well hear from darnell boyd. Is darnell boyd with us today . Okay. We will come back to mr. Boyd in case he joins us a little later. Next, we have john smither. Is mr. Smither with us . Okay. We will come back, as well. Next, we have liza murawski. Good morning, supervisors. Thi it is my honor to be among such committed applicants, and i share in your enthusiasm to finally implement Mental Health San Francisco. I have 16 Years Experience of living with Mental Health and suffering from addiction and Substance Abuse. I am a state certified drug and alcohol counselor and educator. Im applying for stage three, which is for an individual suffering from a dual diagnosis. My Life Experience spans from nob hill to the corner of turk and hyde. In november of 2019, i had the privilege to do my presentation on a blueprint to wellness and recovery with the Mental Health Association International conference. This outline, this blueprint outlines the needs and mimics the needs for the Mental Health San Francisco implementation group. Im currently a member of the tenderloins People Congress and also serve as a Health Justice leader. I hope youve had time to review my credentials as well as my history. I look forward to working in service and collaboration to create a Mental Health system that works for our diverse culture and systemic needs of our community. Thank you for your consideration, and if you have any questions, feel free to address me with them. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much for applying. Is there any questions for my murawski . Thank you so much for applying for the seat. Next, we will hear from peter thomas murray. Great. Can you see me and everything . Chair ronen yes. We cant see you, but we can hear you perfectly. Okay. Any way, my name is peter murphy, and i appreciate this opportunity to speak with you this morning. I mean, i think Mental Health sf is a wonderful project, and im really glad that its getting close to fruition. Im with the Mental Health association of San Francisco, and i would say that i well, i identify as an alcoholic and an addict. Ive been clean and sober for around 25 years, through 12step recovery, but im also very familiar with the principles of Harm Reduction and the the value of that. Im not somebody thats going to try to, you know, i dont know, foist a 12step recovery on somebody thats not ready or not interested in it, and i also identify with Mental Health challenges. Id say for my whole life im in my early 60s now, and its taken me that long to realize how my Mental Health and substance issues have impacted my life. I got clean and sober, didnt really address my Mental Health issues very well, so even though i was clean and sober, i would continue to still have issues and problems. And its only in the last, say, six, seven, or eight years that ive found Mental Health recovery thats been consistent. I believe in peer recovery, and the idea that a 12step recovery to me is about one alcoholic or an addict helping another. Mental Health Recovery or peer recovery is one addict or alcoholic providing a model of help for another. I think the idea of having universal access to Mental Health care is so important, and that a lot of our services now exist ive you know, ive heard the expression exist in silos, and i think thats true. I think we need to have a comprehensive service so we can best address how to serve our community. I look forward to it, and yeah, if theres any questions at this time, im happy to entertain them, and i thank you for the opportunity, supervisors ronen, stefani, and mar. Thank you so much. Chair ronen thank you so much. We really, really appreciate everything you had to say, and you applying to this position. Is there any questions for mr. Murphy . Nope . Thanks. Thanks again for being here. Clerk mr. Murphy, can i ask that you turnoff your camera, as its been on during most of the meeting. Oh, sorry. Chair ronen no problem. Next, well hear from phyllis jones. Hi, he have beeverybody. I just want to say thank you for this opportunity, and im really filled with gratitude, and it really helps the work that im doing to be in a position to be able to give back. So for my personal experience, i am a young person of color. I just recently aged out of the t. A. Y. System. I identify as African American and latinx. I spent my youth in and out of jail, Mental Health treatment facilities, and addiction facilities. I am formerly an i. V. Drug user, and i currently have five years of sobriety, so i directly relate to the populations that we will be trying to make an impact with in this position, and in the last recent years, i have overcome those things myself, and i hope to bring that perspective to this position. In my professional life, i have become rather successful. I am a student at San Francisco state studying in the social work program. I also am a willie brown fellow, interning with h. S. H. My current role, i am a case manager for jail services, working with populations that are affected by drug abuse, have cooccurring disorders, homelessness, and are trying to navigate the criminal Justice System. Before this role, i worked for ucsf doing very similar work. I worked at a drop in center at 850 bryant, and i once again worked with those populations. So personally, for me, i have dedicated my life and the greater part of my 20s so far to apply what i have learned and make an impact on people who are like me and going through similar situations. I hope that young people can see some of them in me, and it gives them hope and inspiration to per severe over what they are persevere over what they are going through. As a person of color and someone who experienced what i did early in my life, i offer a unique perspective and needed perspective to this position. I just want to thank you. All of the applicants have been amazing thus far, so im glad that we have some really good choices, whether its me or someone else, to make choices in San Francisco and all the communities that have been looked over. Thank you so much. Chair ronen thank you so much. You all are creating an impossible choice right now, but thank you for applying with your wealth of experience and understanding. Any questions . If not, thank you so much for much here and for applying for the seat. We really appreciate you. Thank you, guys. Chair ronen next, we will hear from charles ryan. Charles ryan . Not here, and i will give him another chance at the end. And next, well hear from kara chen. Good morning, supervisors. Chair ronen good morning. My name is kara chen. Chair ronen hello. I am a deputy public defender. Ive been working as a public defender for 30 years, and i am currently the managing important for the San Francisco Mental Health unit. Its an honor to advocate for miselfamongst the group myself amongst the group, and i think all of the applicants are so impressive. I serve as a member on the San Francisco Mental Health board, now its known as San Francisco Behavioral Health commission from 2012 to 2017, and from 2015 and 2017, i was the chair for the San Francisco Mental Health board. And also, i i serve on the jail reenvision jail replacement work group, and i also serve on the a. O. T. , assisted Outpatient Treatment Program on the implementation group. And currently, i am also working serve on the San Francisco sfpd crisis intervention work group with the community provider. And also, i cochair a work group from my thats work related, which is transitioning clients in jail, in custody, and inpatient from the acute facility or in jail into treatment. And i think, based on my work, i realize that the importance of participating in Mental Health sf in order to make sure that services and availability of services to be delivered to our clients and consumers in a dignified way, and i think that my Knowledge Base and my problemsolving skills will be enable me to serve the client population in a in an effective way. So i thank you for your consideration, and and i think this is a great opportunity to participate because i think if sf San Francisco, if we implement it in a way that is effective, i think we could be the model for the rest of the nation. So thank you very much for your time. Chair ronen thank you so much, miss chien. I just want to take a moment to thank you for all that you do. You are such an expert in the field in so many ways. Just feel so grateful for all of your works. Thank you. Chair ronen lets see. Who is next . Kate franza. She could not be present, but she sent an email, so thank you so much. Steve fields, are you here with us today . [inaudible] chair ronen we cant hear you, steve. Are you on mute . Not anymore, i hope. Chair ronen nope, now we can hear you. Good morning, supervisors. Its an opportunity to say a large thank you, supervisor ronen, for being a part of the leadership on getting this essential reform moving right at a time when its needed most, and the board of supervisors that supported the measure by 100 . Its this is an opportunity that working with the Mayors Office and the board may not come around again, and so im excited about this. [please stand by] whats been exciting in any career to get a chance to do programs that are based on the kinds of principles that i believe have to be core to the Mental Health if its going to be successful. I think the biggest challenge facing all Behavioral Health systems is the problem over recidivism. We have never seriously confronted that we have a cycling population of individuals who going into acute care, coming back to a community where there isnt adequate treatment, follow through and a dedication to recovery being a possible outcome if we build a continuum of care in the community. Were reliant inpatient. We have not made the deal we need to make to actually commit to a communitybased system of care. No jurisdiction has try to put together this effort on a policy level. No other jurisdiction has the wealth of agencies and services and providers that we have. If we just find a way to Work Together with a common vision of our outcome, we can attack recidivism and seriously change the course of what it means to a young person today who comes into an emergency room with a dual diagnosis problem that they need to have treated. I want to be in this from the beginning because ive been in it from the beginning. I bring to this group an experience of what it takes to stand up a program. What it takes to find the funding for a program, to leverage other resources. I have worked in the system of care my whole career and my dedication is to try to find ways to avoid the mistakest mistakes we made for decades to leverage the politics and the strategy and the resources for developing full articulated Community Treatment system of care, from the inside. Thats what im excited about working with the people i heard so far this morning this is really an opportunity. I dont want to miss it. I want to be in with this group working on solutions. Thank you. Any questions, id be happy to answer. Chair ronen i want to thank you so much. I started my 53rd year. Chair ronen thats incredible. Thank you so much. Very much appreciate you. I dont think theres any question. But thanks so much for being here today and for applying. Really appreciate it. Thank you supervisors. Chair ronen i understand that vitka eisen withdrew her application. Well skip over her. Next well hear from Monique Lesarre. Can you hear me . Chair ronen yes. We can hear you. Good morning. Thank you all so much. Im going to read my comments because theres so much that i can respond to. Good morning supervisors ronen, mar and stefani. Im deeply grateful to be part of this conversation today. It is my honor to apply for the seat 6, 7 and 8. I had sleepless nights dealing with Behavioral Health department in San Francisco, specifically around [indiscernible]. My frustration is lack of community that has been shown. Im excited to work as a team to engage Mental Health, substance and the community. As a longterm africanamerican resident of San Francisco i worked on equity for all people. Im the daughter of two parents that were impacted by Mental Health, ptsd, depression, anxiety and Substance Abuse, addiction, trauma, violence. As a survivor myself of trauma, i have dedicated my life to working to understand what my parents and family and went through and understand how to support and provide safety to people of healing. I work everyday to provide more resources for our community. I have my doctorate and masters degree in clinical psychology. My specific focus is on africanamerican Mental Health and wellness, especially intergenerational trauma and healing. In addition to my main job, where our mission is to eliminate health in black and marginalized communities. I worked as a clinician with moms and children and day treatment and psychological services. I worked as a director of children youth and Family Services and as a Mental Health Services Director at california mental studies. I continue to be a tireless advocate in the San Francisco and bay area that actually serves the community effectively with chair and excellence. My engagement has been a volunteer on projects for the community as a volunteerled [indiscernible] i volunteer regularly mentoring healings for communities. I thank you for your time and consideration. I agree with mr. Jones, theres been amazing applicants. We must find a way to address recidivism. I really want to be part of the solution. Thank you so much and if you have any questions, im here. Otherwise, thank you, amazing applicant and thank you so much. Chair ronen thank you so much for all your inspiration. Thank you for being here and applying. I dont think theres any questions. Next we will hear from aggie quinn. Aggie quinn is not here. I will call one more time to make sure. Next we will hear from Andrea Salinas. Good morning madam chair and supervisors. I will be honored to serve on seat 7. Im a clinical social worker. We are the largest contract partner with d. P. H. Providing services to 1200 individuals across our program. Our clients has severe Mental Illness, many use substance, have complicated medical needs and are diverse. We are also the Mental Health provider with program dedicated to serving the mentally ill. We also provide Substance Abuse treatment through our staff program. Up until the pandemic, we had a lively social Opening Monday through friday. I serve as the supervisor to our lgbtq focus team and oldest program, Community Focused Case Management. We are organized and culturally focused Team Including our africanamerican focused team and latinx and korean focused team. We meet our clients where they are at honoring their particular experiences. I have been working as a case manager in San Francisco for over 20 years. I always worked predominantly person of color. Over the years i developed expertise working with latino population. Im aware of the unique needs [indiscernible] thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much for all your work and applying for the seat. Really appreciate it. I dont believe theres any questions. Now asking for kathleen johnsonsilk. Is she present . Good morning. Thank you, madam chair and supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity to participate today amongst such an Incredible Group of applicants. My name is kathleen johnsonsilk. I was born and raised in San Francisco. Im a family therapist with focused on trauma and care. Im applying for seat 7. I worked for 17 years with people in criminal system in diverse capacity. Serving the Behavioral Health safety net and Community Organizing and prison rights litigation. I currently oversee 450 treatment beds in San Francisco and up until march, had the distinguished honor of spearheading the implementation of the Meth Task Force recommended Drug Sobering Center in district 6. I see Mental Health sf has a tremendous opportunity to improve the system. One major problem is that the public behavioral Health Treatment can perpetuate trauma and depression of the criminal system. This can happen without intention or awareness but it does happen as treatment can emulate and sustain damaging elements of the criminal system. I oversee treatment and Supportive Housing for people coming hope home after serving life sentences. Things like the behavioral surveillance, stigmatizing terminology can trigger lack of control, reinforced dependence and loss of identity which recalls the ways of feeling and being they experienced. Treatment is all too often another part of the poverty and incarceration cycle. Mental health sf is an opportunity to address the systematic fault. I see an obligation to overhaul Healthcare System to be less racist. As we move into a future where we are able to envision ways in which Police Departments can and should be defunded, how jail and prisons can quickly reduce populations instead continuing to overcrowd to deadly capacities where black lives matter truly mean something, sf can show the rest of the world how we do it. Thank you. Chair ronen thanks for applying. Next we will hear from veronica forbes. Good morning. Chair ronen we cant hear you. We still cant hear you. Can you hear me . Chair ronen now we can. Hi, im veronica forbes applying for seat 7. As formally homeless queer with mentally ill incarcerated father, i work to reduce recidivism, prioritize Public Safety and enhance victim protection, provide Trauma Services and efficiently use San Franciscos resources to divest from incarceration and depression. As lead medical social worker from kaiser Transition Team i know that Funding Program according to the positive outcomes pays for itself in fiscal savings by reducing high medical spending. I collaborated with Jail Psychiatric Services and jail Aftercare Services as Behavioral Health where rereduce the use of criminal justice and Mental Health services with a net benefit by stabilizing patients. My goal is to further increase saving by cutting unnecessary jail time and fund more case managers. My other goal is to extend our countys practice of neighborhood courts, Restorative Justice and use of social workers sentencing planners to defund our criminal Justice System especially in our schools. Juvenile criminality being the highest biggest predictor of adult criminality and males ages 15 to 24 having highest rates of arrest, its why i created a Pilot Program for ucsf citywide focus. As a Behavioral Health specialist and the First Program manager of navigation center, i know that federally funded employment, job training reentry programs, Mental Health team and protecting undocumented individual who report crimes can successfully reform our criminal Justice System. Ive also volunteered on campaign for the Mental Health sf to create a National Model for universal Mental Health care. It is for all these reasons that thank supervisors, ronen, stefani and mar and colleagues for their time. Chair ronen thank you so much. This is so difficult. You all are so amazing. Thank you very much for all your work and advocacy. Next, we will hear from aaron buchbinder. Are you here . We will hear from oiyee wong. Ms. Wong available . Then last but not least, sara shortt. Are you here . There you are. Good morning. Good morning. Im just super excited about Mental Health sf. Im passionate about being involved in the implementation. Ill tell you why. I think it was probably when i graduated with my masters in social work about 20 years ago when i first started to understand some of the challenges with our Mental Healthcare system. I knew a bit about it before that. I do have an uncle whos chronically mentally ill. Family has been working to get decent care for decades understood firsthand all the barriers and the challenges and the obstacles. But also how important it was for him to get decent care. Care that emphasized things like harm restructure, care that was sensitive coordinated, compassionate. Thats what were talking about with Mental Health sf. Im also excited about it because as a member of the treatment on demand coalition, weve been working on the issue of reform for Behavioral Health services for a few years now. It just so happen we were starting to talk to members at city hall about what can be done about this type of reform that was needed. It coincided with the ideas with Mental Health sf and we thought, this is wonderful and we jumped in and got involved with working with supervisor haneys use Supervisor Ronen Office and department of Public Health to actually craft something. Having involved crafting the legislation and help pass the legislation, i have a Real Investment in making sure that it works effectively. My other reasons are, i spent three years in skid row in los angeles. I ran a Homeless Outreach program there. We had multidisciplinary teams. The teams included nurses and outreach workers, Substance Abuse counselors. It included Mental Health clinicians. That was a big part of the program. I learned so much about the role that Mental Healthcare on the streets that will meet people where they are and will particularly work to integrate the issues of homelessness and Mental Healthcare how that played out, again some of the flaws and some of the amazing benefits that occur when people are approached not just by an outreach worker but someone whos trained clinicians and who can correct them to Mental Health services. Thats where i started to see benefits, the way that housing is a Mental Health intervention. The way that housing intersects with Mental Health and Behavioral Health needs, in a way thats almost miraculous sometimes. After working on skid row, i started here in San Francisco working at Community Housing partnership. Were a Supportive Housing provider. Im applying for seat 11 which is for Supportive Housing provider. Thats when i continue to see that Supportive Housing makes all the difference in the world. Its not a silver bullet. But, when you can get people who are mentally ill or dealing with Substance Abuse issues off the streets and into good permanent Supportive Housing where they have the services on sight and they have the connection, the case managers and clinical support, Mental Health issues are absolutely also being treated through that method. Its one of the most effective methods so that people with get the stability they need to then be able to be successful in treatment. Community housing partnership, we have 17 buildings across the city we primarily provide houses to homeless folks. One of our main goals is to provide that type of stability so people can work on Substance Abuse and Mental Health issues and link them to the services they need and provide housing. I will definitely bring that housing perspective and the intersection and will have an eye out for that. Other thing i can say, ive been on a lot of working boards and commissions within the city. Thats on my resume. Im member of the conservatorship working group. Its being now increased, expanded due to changes in the law. Just would like to say that everyone who has spoken today, seems so amazing and has great experience. Im so ready to roll up my sleeve and put my qualification and experience and expertise into making a great program. I know we can do it. We talked a lot about various ideas people have, weve looked at National Models. So many people come up with super resourceful ideas, based on direct experience, working in the system. Thats what we need to make this program work. We have such dedicated supervisors, leaderships at the helm, supervisor as supervisor ronen and haney. I know that the department of Public Health is fully on board. We had enough considerations to conversations to know they are ready to do this. This is an opportune time that we can bring all these amazing people together to work from different perspectives to make an new day in San Francisco. A new day with people with Mental Health issues and Substance Abuse issues will get treated with parity and will bring equity to the system rather than this whole long history weve had of segregation Mental Health and physical health. Thats not the way of the world anymore. Its about integration and this program will do that. Im just grateful for the opportunity to apply. Im grateful that this process is moving forward. Im excited to see what comes out of it. Chair ronen thank you so much. Appreciate you and all your work. Now were going to give one more chance for the people who werent present the first time around ill call all the names one more time. If you present, let us know. Aggie quinn, cw johnson, darnell boyd, john smither, charles ryan, aaron buchbinder, oiyee wong. Any of those applicants show up . Okay. Seeing none. Mr. Clerk, hoping you can open up for Public Comment and if youll excuse me for one minute, i will run to the restroom. Supervisor stefani can take the chair. I will be right back. Thank you. Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. Then press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait for the system to indicate that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. Do we have any speakers at this time . Yes, there are two callers in the queue. Hi members of the rules committee. I hope you pass supervisor ronen as soon as she gets back from the restroom. I really support sara shortt, i have all the confidence in world that you will appoint her. I also want to see liza muraws murawski. Shes my neighbor and i worked with her on issues. Housing is a component to Mental Health. We need someone not only experience with Mental Health [indiscernible]. Thank you very much. I yield my time. Clerk next speaker please. My name is joe wilson. Im executive director of hospitality. I got accused by the technology. I was trying to testify in support of darnell boyd for seat 3. Will acknowledge members of the committee and especially supervisor ronen for her leadership on this important issue to really help redesign the citys Mental Health system. Long overdue. Darnell boyd, i believe, is an accomplished both consumer, advocate and activist in the community for many years. Worked at power for a number of years. Hes been an activist and advocate to the coalition of homelessness. Hes a veteran. He is formall formally homeless. Former member of hospitality and board of directors. He has commitment to lifting up lived experiences in the community and with the struggle of Mental Health issues, i think reflects the need for us to recognize how important it is and benefit of viewing those who lived experience as assets, not liabilities. We need to invest in the least restrictive interventions possible. That often stimulates the unlimited possibilities of the individuals own potential. That has collective benefits for us all. I want to acknowledge incredible depth and breadth of experience clerk thank you. Speaker time has expired. Do we have any additional speakers . Hi there. My name is eric. Im speaking on behalf of philip jones for seat 3. Im the mentoring and Peer Support Program coordinator with jail Behavioral Health and reentry services. Philip is a mentor working with our program. We work with most of the treatment court, Behavioral Health court, misdemeanor Behavioral Health court drug court, Veterans Court and Mental Health diversion. I want to speak up on behalf of philip. Although, i think, he did really good job presenting. All of you did. Philip had become a Substance Users when he was younger. He became homeless. Hes bipolar as he had said. Hes amazing with working with people really natural using motivations and interviewing. He joins with people in jail and guides them through the process of making it through the criminal Justice System showing them how they can go on living accessing services and pursuing a dream of sobriety and stability to also reduce recidivism. Hes a role model doing work at the cast, organizing the sort of entire lobby. Hes respected in every court by the judges, the lawyers all the social workers, case managers in the community as well as here in the jail. Hes able to really inspire people to manage their own Mental Health issues. I just love to see philip fly, especially with him going to school, getting scholarships. Hes tireless. Thats about it. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker please. [indiscernible] thank you for letting me speak with you. Im calling today to speak in support of liza murawski. I understand the dedication, work ethic and the breath and depth knowledge she brings. I think they would make really invaluable memories on the implementation committee. I want to say to supervisor ronen, thank you so much for bringing this legislation forward. Its an amazing opportunity for San Francisco and for our community, most importantly for our residents who are in such dire need of reliable services. Thank yru so much again, thank you for your time. Clerk next caller. Its sara shortt again. I wanted to comment on some of the folks that have applied who i think would be if i am appointed, great colleagues. The working group with me. These are people that i worked personally particularly with the treatment on demand Coalition Work that weve done. I would say that amy wong is remarkable and would be a great at representing the interest of labor and thats an important seat that the working group does have. Andrea salinas is clinical social worker who really knows the ins and outs of the system. Kara ka wah chien has such good criminal justice background. Steve fields hes been in the game a long time. Really knows about the larger system. I dont think i heard anyone else who really knows that kind of the breadth of knowledge around department of Public Health functions, Behavioral Health services and the landscape the community Mental Health program. Finally, philip jones, i havent worked with him. He struck me as having a very important viewpoint to bring to the table around particularly youth but also as a user of services, would be extremely important to have his reflection and advising it does seem like hes been in different parts of the system. He has that upclose knowledge. Those are people that i wanted to reinforce, struck me as really important beneficial people to the body who would really be able to talk from clerk speaker time has expired. Do we have additional speakers . That completes the queue. Chair ronen thank you so much. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, did you have any comments or questions . Supervisor stefani thank you chair ronen. Just a few comments. First of all, thanks to your leadership and supervisor haney for the overhaul and the focus Mental Health in San Francisco. Im so glad that we all came to a consensus and moving forward. Obviously we know this is something we struggle with. Theres so many qualified applicants. I know three, shawn, sara and steve theres a treatment home in district 2 that i toured with steve. One thing that stood out to me, chair ronen and supervisor mar, i thought about the seats that sara shortt said something about working with different perspectives. Im looking at seat 6 about Substance Abuse, treatment providers and expertise of Mental Health treatment and Harm Reduction. Also in seat 3, someone who identifies as having both Mental Health condition and Substance Abuse condition. For me, i think its so important to look at all aspects of recovery and obviously Harm Reduction is one. I think fatebased programs has to be considered. I think a lot of people have the feeling that lot of these abstinence based program prograe somehow religious or something. I think thats a myth in needs to be dispelled. I was impressed by everybody. What stands out to me is people in recovery. People that have dealt with that beast of addiction in hair their head. They know what its like to overcome that. I think its really hard for people that dont understand what its like for people. Its not a will power thing. I just want to make sure the voices of recovery are heard. Not at the expense of Harm Reduction because we know that is important too. I think peter Thomas Murphy touched on it. He bravely told us about his recovery and hes sober and he participates in 12 step program. He also sees the value of Harm Reduction. That one on one thing, alcohol to alcohol its that peer thing. That has to be a component of this working group. It has to be something thats respected. Again, not at the expense of Harm Reduction. There are people in this world with Substance Abuse disorder that cannot take their drug of choice. That has to be respected. I think so many times it isnt. Its not to say that people who engage in an abstinence based program, once they do they relapse and its a huge part of sobriety and its a huge part of Substance Abuse disorder. Lot of people relapse and they start up again and try in abstinence based program. Theres nothing wrong with that. I think its important that we have voices of also not only Harm Reduction, not only treatment providers but people who have that thing inside their head and everyday wake up in the morning and make a decision whether its conscious or not, to not take their drugs. To not take that drink. To know what its like to pay that forward to somebody else. I think it has to be considered and we would benefit someone on the working group that really understands not only abstinence based programs but also knowing thats an attraction rather than promotion idea, that they are able to talk about in a way thats personal and helpful to the working group in our situation that were facing. The working group and everybody on it would benefit greatly. One last thing about shawn buford, i worked with him for so long. I know he applied for seat one. Also the thing weve been talking about lately is looking to our Fire Department or others to take the emergency calls th t was long assigned to police department, how we want to steer away from that. How we know em6 can help us do that in the future. I think shon is uniquely qualified to lend his voice to that part of the conversation. Its crucial to the conversation having other people respond to Mental Health responses in a way thats effective. Everyone i can say is so qualified. For me, i would like to recommend shon buford for seat one and make that motion. I dont know how everybody feels. I think that for me sticks out. Thank you to all those that came out today and applied. Like chair ronen said, its so hard. I want to thank those who shared their recovery with us. Its a brave thing to do. Theres a lot of stigma around people that are in recovery and people who suffer from Substance Abuse disorder. I hope one day that people realize that recovering alcoholicses those with drug addiction are afflictioned with a disease like somebody with diabetes. It is a disease and there are ways to treat it and we have to look at all way. Supervisor ronen, i want to thank you for your leadership and im looking forward to this moving forward. Thanks. Chair ronen supervisor mar, did you have any comments . Supervisor mar thank you chair ronen for the incredible leadership that you and supervisor haney have brought to the Mental Health sf campaign and working with all the community and labor stakeholders and mayor breed and d. P. H. On getting up to this point. Its such an exciting moment for our city to think that we can were going to be moving ahead with such visionary and transformative approach to addressing such huge challenge for our city. Thanks to all of the 23 applicas for the Mental Health sf working group. Im impressed and blown away by all of the work that you all are doing in all of your different ways. This is an extremely difficult decision to make to figure out who we as a board will appoint to the six seats. Its got to know that the mayor, theres additional seats that the mayor will appoint to. I appreciate supervisor stefanis comments and remarks. I would defer to you chair ronen since you been the most intensively working on this. Chair ronen thank you. I think for the first time on this board in the seat, i would appoint every Single Person who spoke today. It was a remarkable set of applicants. From the bottom of the heart, im saying that in a genuine way, theres not one of you that i would not appoint to this if we could appoint every single one of you. There is really good news. The mayor and the City Attorney have some additional appointments. Particularly luceretia bolin. Again, this is such i would make a motion to move forward and i want to speak to seat 1. I would actually move forward amy wong for seat 1. The reason for that is not because shon buford wouldnt be amazing. If this goes forward, im extremely hopeful that the mayor will consider appointing him to the seat that hes qualified for. Amy wong works very close with us while we were working to create Mental Health sf. She has such an incredible experience, particularly with the boarding care side of longterm placement for Mental Health. Such a particular set of experience and knowledge that wouldnt otherwise be represented on the board. Together with her labor, shes a very active member and runs the only city care facility that we have. Those are the reasons i would put forward amy wong name with some knowledge that i think we could all be really supportive of mr. Buford with his appointment and hope that we get both of them appointed on this board. For seat 3, i would put forward philip jones. I never worked with mr. Jones. You blew me away in your presentation today. Hearing from some of the Public Commenters about you, and your particular personal experience mixed with your professional experience, its so unique. If you are appointed, i will be so looking forward to getting to know you better and working with you to implement Mental Health sf and to hear your voice on this committee. To seat 6 with a residency waiver, i would put forward steve fields. Who has 52 years of experience. Its hard to beat. Especially given his role he plays on the state level in terms of Mental Health reform and working groups. I think he can bring that statewide and larger knowledge of the system here locally and combine those so they Work Together. So many of our dollars that we spend on Mental Healthcare and Substance Use care comes from state. Having that advocate and thats so knowledgeable and how to access those dollars is so important. To seat 7, i would put forward, this is an extremely hard choice. We have so many qualified applicants. I would put forward Andrea Salinas to seat city. Citywide Case Management plays such an Important Role in our system of care in San Francisco. I believe they, case manage close to 70 of the cases that we have here in San Francisco and because of that unique role that they play and then salinas incredible 20 years of experience on the front lines, providing Case Management and especially with those that are touched by the criminal Justice System. We know are so many individuals that are living with Mental Illness and Substance Abuse. She is the right person for this seat at this time. For seat 8 i would put forward dr. Monique lesarre. We are in a moment in our citys history where we are paying special attention and grappling with failing the black community and Africanamerican Community in ways that were finally making up for in sort of radical and new ways. I think were all very proud of that work. Dr. Lesarre is the leader this that work. We know that the Africanamerican Community is disproportionately impacted. Thats because of trauma inflicted by this country on this community in a very particular way. Her experience and voice on this implementation working group, i believe is essential. Last but not least, i would recommend sara short shortf of r seat 11. Her knowledge of permanent Supportive Housing intersect with wellness and stability for those living with Mental Illness and Substance Use is unique. Thats the possible possible cht i would recommend. Knowing that we have the opportunity to advocate for many others of you to be seated to the working group by the mayor and the City Attorney. Then finally, every one of you is over qualified to serve on this working group. Not having a vetoin seating s not mean you cannot participate. There will be opportunity for Public Comment and share your expertise and guidance with this working group. This is a historic moment in the history of San Francisco. I do believe with your help, were going to create the best system in the country. Were going to create a model that we can share and that other cities and counties can replicate throughout the united states. I cannot thank you all enough for your daily work, for your willingness to serve. With that, mr. Clerk, i know we have two different motions on seat 1. Maybe if we could did you want to Say Something . Supervisor stefani you made your motion and obviously, i support shon in that role. I did make the motion. With the mayoral appointment, hopefully that will work out. Im willing to respect your appointments that you said. I know that i really think that shon will be great. But sam i appreciate that. Are you willing to withdraw your motion . Yes but with my support still very much on record. Absolutely. I hope we can Work Together because i am very hopeful that the mayor sees in shon what you and i see in shon which is someone that should be on this body. I think this might be a moment where we can have it both ways. Very much hoping thats the case. I certainly will be working to hopefully see that as a reality. I know that the mayor has Great Respect for mr. Buford. I have a feeling that well be able to see that happen. With that, i really appreciate your willingness to do that supervisor stefani. I share your passion and respect for mr. Buford and believe that hopefully we can Work Together to share that respect with the mayor and these appointments. Mr. Clerk, did you get my motion on all those seats . Clerk i did get it. We have amy wong seat 1, philip jones seat 3. Steven fields seat 6, Andreas Salinas seat 7, Monique Lesarre seat 8 and sara shortt seat 11. Chair ronen can we have a roll call vote . [roll call vote] the motion passes without objection. Chair ronen thank you so much mr. Clerk. Again, thank you so much. What an Amazing Group of candidates and leaders and this work in our community. We appreciate you all. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, please read item number 4. Clerk appoint its a motion to appoint supervisor rafael mandelman, term ending december 1, 2021 to the California State Association of counties. Do we have any speakers on this matter . There are no callers in the queue. Chair ronen thank you so much. Im happy to make a association to motion to send this item forward with positive recommendation. Please take a roll call vote. [roll call vote] motion passes. Chair ronen thank you so much. Please read item number 5. Clerk hearing consider appointing one member for investment term to the Food Security task force. I wanted to mention that ms. Monique was accidentally appointmented to the seat last week which is not a vacant seat. We have scheduled this matter to appoint vacant seat 9 which has the same qualifications. I apologize for this error. Chair ronen no problem. Thank you very much for flagging it for us. We can this up for Public Comment. Clerk members of the public who wish to speak on this matter can dial 4156550001. Please dial star 3 to lane up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please waive to the system that you have been unmuted. Do we have any comments for this item . There are no callers in the queue. Chair ronen okay. Thank you very much so much. Then if i could make a motion to send this item forward with positive recommendation. Can we please take a roll call vote on that motion . [roll call vote] the motion passes without objection. Chair ronen thank you so much. Any other items on the agenda . Clerk that completes the agenda for today. Chair ronen thank you. Have a good day everyone. See you soon. Hi, were live. Chair sesay good morning. I call the board of directors special meeting of september 10, 2020 to order. I am the board chair. The Board Meeting is being conducted pursuant to provisions of the brown act and recent executive orders by the governor to facilitate teleconferencing to reduce the risk of covid19 transmission. Ordinarily, the brown act sets strict rules for teleconferencing. The executive order has suspended those rules. As noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this meeting by sfgovtv and they may offer Public Comment by calling the published Public Comment phone number. Id like to welcome members of the public and staff who are watching us l