Transcripts For SFGTV Planning Commission 20240712

Todays agenda. Its available by calling 14156550001. Entering access code, 146 444 1860. When your item is reached and you would like to submit your Public Comment, press star, then 3, to be added to the queue. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. And when you have 30 seconds remaining, youll hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. When your time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and please do mute the volume on our television or computer. Id like to take role at this time. President koppel . Commissioner koppel here. Vice president moore here. Commissioner chan here. Commissioner diamond here. Commissioner fung here. Commissioner imperial here. Jonas great. First on the agenda, is consideration of items proposed for continuance, item 1, case number, 20206148, 2843 geary boulevard. A conditional use authorization proposed for continuance to november 5, 2020. Item 2, case number 20203045cua, 1600 ocean avenue, conditional use authorization proposed for continuance to november 5, 2020. Item 3, 20200056drp, 695 rhode island street, proposed for continuance to november 12. Item 4, 20201942, 1699 van ness avenue. Conditional use authorization has been withdrawn. Further, commissioners, under the regular clent, item 12 for case number 20162135, 2214 cayuga avenue and 3101 alemany boulevard, we received request from the project sponsor to continue out to november 12, 2020. I have no other items proposed for continuance. And so we should open this up for Public Comment. Members of the public, this is your opportunity to raise your hand by pressing star, then 3, to enter the queue. Well take the first caller and youll have two minutes. Go ahead, caller. Were taking Public Comment on the matters proposed for continuance. Okay, that caller hung up. Or lowered their hand. Good afternoon, this is jeremie, representing the owners of 2214 cayuga avenue requesting continuance for another 45 weeks to work out additional changes with the District Supervisor and the surrounding neighbors. Thank you for your time. Good afternoon, commissioners. This is the architect for 695 rhode island street. Were looking forward to presenting to you and hoping we get on the november 12 calendar to show you our project. Thank you. Jonas go ahead, caller. Caller, would you like to submit your Public Comment for matters proposed for continuance . Okay. I am going to clear and ask one last time if anybody would like this submit Public Comment, press star and 3 to enter the queue for matters proposed to be continued. Seeing no members of the public requesting to speak, commissioners, the Public Comment portion is closed and the matter is now before you. Just so youre aware, commissioners, commissioner koppel is having technical difficulties and is joining us via his mobile home. So ill be calling upon you to recognize and acknowledge your request to speak. Commissioner imperial move to approve items 1 through 4 and number 12 as noted. Vice president moore second. Jonas thank you. On that motion when, including item 12, to november 12, commissioner chan . Commissioner chan aye. Commissioner diamond aye. Commissioner fung aye. Commissioner imperial aye. Vice president moore aye. President koppel aye. Jonas thank you, commissioners, that motion passes 60. Places us under the consent calendar, matters listed here on the consent calendar are considered to be routine by the Planning Commission and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public or staff so requests. In which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. Item 5, 2019, 22108, 1560 haight street. And item 6, 20203825, 390 valencia street, conditional use authorization. Unless you wish to pull either of these items, i will entertain Public Comment. Members of the public, this is a chance to remove 5 or 6 off of the consent calendar. Seeing no request to speak, commissioners, the matter is now before you. President koppel i just wanted to step in and say a couple of comments about item number 6, 390 valencia street. This is something on the very cutting edge of electrical technology, Energy Storage and our goal to get rid of Carbon Emissions and slow down the deterioration of our environment with greenhouse gases. This project is something we havent seen often in the city. Its taking valencia garden apartments, tying in a large amount of Energy Storage battery devices that will tie in with the existing solar panels that cover most of the entire property. So more often than not, obviously the solar panels are going to be collecting sun throughout the day, but typically, if you dont have anywhere for the energy to go, its not used or goes back into the grid. The sun will be harnessed and stored in the battery devices. I have to say that the project sponsor has gone above and beyond working with the community, working with the trades to make sure this is a hugely successful and safe project for all of those in the neighborhood and city. And hopefully, well be seeing more projects such as this that will just help us achieve our energy and climate goals sooner than later. Jonas thank you, commissioner koppel. I would take this opportunity to remind the commissioners that to comment on matters on consent, we need to pull them off consent. But in the future, you might submit those comments under commission matters. Commissioner moore . Commissioner moore move to approve and thank you for president koppels to have given us that overview. Notwithstanding were not supposed to do that [laughter]. Move to approve. Commissioner diamond second. Jonas thank you. On that motion then to approve item 5 and 6 under your consent calendar, commissioner chan . Commissioner chan aye. Commissioner diamond aye. Commissioner fung aye. Commissioner imperial aye. Commissioner moore aye. President koppel aye. That motion passes unanimously. Placing us under item 7, consideration of adoption of draft minutes for the october 1, 2020 hearing. Oh, we should take Public Comment. Members of the public, if you wish to submit testimony on the minutes, this is your opportunity to press star and 3 to enter the queue. I see no members of the public requesting to speak. Commissioners, Public Comment is closed and the matter is now before you. Commissioner chan move to adopt the minutes. Second. Jonas thank you, commissioners. On that motion then to adopt the minutes for october 1, 2020, commissioner chan . Commissioner chan aye. Commissioner diamond aye. Commissioner fung aye. Commissioner imperial aye. Commissioner moore aye. President koppel aye. Jonas so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously, 60. Item 8, commission comments and questions. I see no request to speak from commissioners. If that is so, we can move on to department matters, item 9, directors announcements. No announcements today, jonas, thank you. Jonas item 10, review of past events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals. Historic preservation. The Historic Preservation commission did not meet yesterday, so i have not heard regarding court of appeals, but i dont see the Zoning Administrator here either, so i assume there is no report for the board of appeals. We can move on to general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Members of the public, this is your opportunity to submit Public Comment by pressing star 3 to be entered into the queue. Good afternoon, commissioners. This is georgia chutetice. I sent the commission an email for general Public Comment on monday and the point of that email was the two sets of photos that i sent, one from 2015 and one from 2020, shows why section 317 b2b and 2c which are the demo calcs in the code should be adjusted by the commission. These two examples are not unique to the problem. The 2015 photo is used in the 2016 staff training manual, but theyre two different noe valley projects. The intent of the three subsections of 317 is not to have more hearings. But to preserve housing. To allow reasonable alterations or expansions, bedroom or two, larger kitchen with a deck. Not to be a project that is demo, or de facto demo. The way to preserve housing is to preserve it and the rationale to adjust the demo calcs is to make them more true to the intent, more in line with the intent, by adjusting them. Because preserving housing, existing housing, is preserving more Affordable Housing. As first proposed in 2007, the calcs were more stringent. The ability to adjust the calcs allows the commission to do a fix if they were uneffective in reducing alterations. And the fact that there was a project in 2020 that looks just like a project from the 2016 training manual, and frankly, even more of that 2020 project has been demoed since i sent you the photos on monday. I was up there this morning looking at it. Shows why the commission should use their planning code powers and adjust. Since i have more time ill add this. The 2020 project, which im going to assume is a spec project, had a udu that was in the web ads and was touted as a discreet unit. There was a breezeway to the rear of the building, but the udu was not approved. And the 2015 project which was a speculative project, also had a breezeway that could have allowed for another unit behind the garage. Plus, now you dont have the garage requirement. So there are ways to densify without demolishing and, certainly, ways to expand without demolishing a house, especially the spec projects. Thats it. Thanks a lot. Take good care. Have a good day. Stay hydrated. Byebye. Jonas go ahead, caller. Hello, can you hear me . Jonas we can. Yes . Jonas yes. Yes, my name is maria, im a native resident of Mission District and calling in support of legalizing the unit at 2839 jonas im going to interrupt just for a moment. Were on general Public Comment for matters not on todays agenda. So ill have to ask you to raise your hand by pressing star 3 when we get to item 11. Okay, its 11. Okay, thank you. Jonas members of the public, if you would like to submit your testimony under general Public Comment for items not on todays agen agenda, press star and 3. Seeing no okay. I think this is the same woman again. Yes. Thats what i thought. Okay, commissioners, that will conclude general Public Comment and we can move on to the regular calendar. Item 11, case number 201917022, 2839 24th street. Conditional use authorization. Is staff prepared to present . Yes. Okay. Thank you, commissioners. Kimberley durandet Planning Department staff. You have before you a request for conditional use authorization to legally establish a ground floor residential use in an existing twostory mixed use building. The project would result in a total of 4 dwelling units in the building. In order to proceed, the Commission Must grant conditional use authorization to allow the dwelling unit in the ground floor. And to grant a modification to the required ground floor commercial use requirements under planning code section 145. 4. The department has received one letter in opposition stating that they feel that this is not suitable as a residence and should be returned to active commercial use at this location. The project sponsor has conducted outreach to the cultural District Organization and has stated they have their support. Further, for your information, the project is located within 300 feet of a place of entertainment and is subject to review under chapter 116 of the administrative code. Entertainment Commission Staff says a hearing is not required, but noise conditions will apply and is included in the conditions of this c. U. The Department Finds that the project is on balance consistent with the area plan and objectives and policies of the general plan. Also, it results although it results in a loss of commercial space, it has been occupied by a residential tenant for at least a decade. And allowing the legalization will add housing to the city housing stock. The Department Also finds the project to be necessary, desirable and compatible and not to be detrimental to persons or adjacent properties in the vicinity. Commissioners, i have two corrections to the staff report and the draft motion. On page 9, at the end of the general plan findings, on the third line, it reads although the project would remove a small scale retail use, the overall condition of the mixed use Zoning District would be affected by this conversion and it should read would not be affected by this conversion. On page 10, a correction to the planning code section 101, findings under f for seismic and safety in an earthquake, the first line should be struck because there is no structural or seismic upgrades at this time, although the proposed change of use will not impact the propertys ability to withstand an earthquake. So that first line would be deleted from the draft final motion. Thank you. Im available for any questions. Kimberley, is there a project sponsor presentation . Yeah. Theyre going to say a few words and i have one photo montage to share. Jonas do you have the name . Tom tunney. Great, thank you. Tom, you are unmuted. And you will have five minutes. And kimberly has your presentation up on the screen. Okay. Thank you, can you hear me . Jonas we can, yes. Thank you. Okay. Kimberly, could you thats fine. Are the photos visible . Jonas yes, they are. Thank you, thank you. Thank you to your secretary, president koppel, Vice President moore, commissioners, im tom tunney on behalf of the project sponsor. We appreciate your consideration of our application and request. I mentioned the project sponsor, the Property Owner, would like to address that first thing as weve had questions about that this Property Owner is in no way a corporate landlord. Theyre descendants of the original owner of this property. This is a family ownership. The property manager who is with me today and available is a member of the family as well, though not one of the owners. She knows this property inside and out, everyone in the building, knows everyone in the immediate neighborhood. This building and others nearby have had the same residents and businesses for many years and as ive come to learn, is its own micro community. Turning to the facts of our application, as ms. Durandet described, the property is located in the 24th Mission Neighborhood commercial transit Zoning District. Planning code section 249. 59b provides that the quattro is intended to preserve the character of the latino cultural district. The application before you seeks to legalize a long time residential use. Therefore it would preserve the prevailing nature. Section 3 provides for the c. U. To be approved, the proposed use must be necessary, desirable for and compatible with the neighborhood or community. Well show how this is the case. The subject building, as you can see, two stories with a mix of residential and commercial uses. You see the subject unit outlined and then turning the lower photo shows the bryant street facade. There are three rent controlled units upstairs that have been occupied for over 15 years. The space next to the subject unit had a tenant with his own Small Business in the space who was there for over 50 years, until he recently passed. This will be a fully commercial unit and was found by the Planning Department to not qualify as an unauthorized dwelling unit. The bathroom and kitchen will be removed. The subject unit is approximately 850 square feet. This has been used in residential for many decades, perhaps since the buildings original construction. The Property Owner had no idea that a conditional use was required for this residential use. That was a change in the code, not a change in the use. They had no way of knowing about. This is commonplace in the city. The existing tenants of this unit are a family that have been displaced because of this process, but intend to move back in. Before this family moved into the unit in 2013, another family with one child lived there for ten years before that. They moved to another property managed by these same people. We know that sprinkling will be required to legalize the unit which will be an important upgrade to the unit and the building. The rent will not be increased when the tenants return. The father is the manager of the Small Convenience store shown at the corner, also located in the building. They have three children. At times theyve taken in two nephews of theirs who lost their father and his sister in the Mission District fire 12 years ago. We know there have been complaints filed concerning this property. Were happy to answer any questions you have about them. This is a large and older property, so things come up. I can tell you that they are most of the time found to have no merit or were just an oversight that is easily abated. At no time has the Property Owner or manager ever done anything intentionally unlawful at this property. Theyre responsive. Id like to conclude by addressing the 303 findings. This ground residential unit is necessary and desirable for the neighborhood because small affordable family occupied units are rare and highly desired and this allows the current occupants to remain in their home. It is appropriate given the control. This is an immigrant family with a residential and Business Opportunity that the city has made clear as a matter of policy it very much wants to promote. We submit [bell ringing] to do just that. Thank you. Were available for questions you may have. That concludes my presentation. Jonas thank you, mr. Tunney. Commissioners, we should take Public Comment. Members of the public, again, if you would like to submit your testimony on this item, for 24th street, press star and 3 to be entered into the queue. Well take the first caller and youll have two minutes. Yes, hello. Jonas yes. Im calling to residential use of 2839 24th street and keep the tenants at the same rental rate. We must do all we can to keep our families and tenants with a roof over their head and protect them from becoming homeless. There is enough homeless on our streets. I am in support and keeping this family, they have many family members that live and work here on 24th street. So i am in support of legalizing this unit and keeping those tenants after the work has been done. Thank you. Hi. My name is marie sorenson. We support this allowing the ground floor unit to be converted into a lived space. Theyre good members of our community. Its a small store front. Its not a large store front. And it falls within our design guidelines. And in the era of covid, we need to protect people and have them give them homes as they need it. Thank you. Good afternoon. Can you hear me . Jonas yes, we can. Hi. My name is eric. Im the consul president for the cultural district and were in support of the legalization of 2839 24th street. The family has lived in that location for many years. Theyre well respected, known in the community and loved. If its not legalized, the family will have no home to come back to and be displaced. Because of covid19, we have 15 empty store fronts in the latino cultural district. This space will also be an empty store front if its not legalized for residential use. The community has experienced a high number of covid infections, devastating families and businesses here in the mission. The lack of Affordable Housing has caused overcrowding in many of our homes for our essential workers. The owner has given us a written commitment to return the family at the same rent and terms. We need to protect our families and keep them safe and preserve housing. Please support the legalization of this unit. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im a mission resident. My family has lived in this community for over 60 years. I not only live in the mission, i work here and i do my shopping on 24th street as well. Im in support of the change of use from commercial to residential and i think it would be a wonderful idea because we do need to continue to house the people from our communities so theyre here in our community and able to contribute to our community. I personally know the family that would be receiving this wonderful blessing if they were allowed to come back there and live there. Ive known them over 10 years. And their family has become like my family. Their kids are wonderful. The parents are wonderful. Including the extended family. So im truly in support of this change from commercial to residential. Thank you. Hi, good afternoon. My name is andrew chris. I am just calling to express my strong support for this item. Im a resident of the neighborhood and i strongly urge you to allow a residential unit here. Thank you. Jonas go ahead, caller. Caller, are you prepared to submit your testimony . Yes. Can you hear me . Jonas yes, we can. Thank you. My name is patricia and im a native of San Francisco and the Mission District. I am in favor of 2839 24th street. For it to be converted into the housing. I really believe there is plenty of empty Retail Stores available right now. I am in favor for this family, who has been part of the community, my family my family has lived here for well, my mother definitely 50 years, and maybe longer now. Its been 47 years ive been a native of the Mission District. Im in favor of this family staying with the same rate. We need to protect our families, especially during covid. So i ask the commissioners to please support this item. Thank you. Hello, can you hear me . Jonas yes, we can hear you. Hi, my name is john mendoza. Im a 44year native of San Francisco of the Mission District. And ive known this family for probably over 10 years. I help volunteer at program that they go to. And their kids are wonderful. I shop very often at the market that they and i feel that this project is good in supporting this unit turning legalization into a unit this family can stay at the same rate. Yes, thank you. Jonas thank you. Members of the public, i will make one last call for Public Comment. Seeing no members of the public requesting to speak, commissioners, Public Comment is closed and the matter is now before you. Commissioner moore . Commissioner moore let me start by saying im in full support of seeing this particular residential unit retained. I want to thank the Mission Community and everybody else who came out in support of it. This is indeed a micro community. A lovely building, which indeed by its layout fosters neighborhood interaction and i couldnt be more in support of what unit has been occupied for a long time and not returning it to commercial as other people said. There are plenty of commercial store fronts already empty. And preserving this for family at this time is a guarantee from the owner for the same rent is a wonderful idea and im in full support. Commissioner imperial i also share the same sentiment with commissioner moore. I fully support, as well, the legalization into residential use. When we initially see this, this is displacement of a family. This time, its different. It will retain a family household. It is heartbreaking to hear there are 15 empty store fronts right now. And you know, of course, we would have to hear in the future as to what the store fronts will be, but in this particular item, since it is retaining a family to remain, im wholly supportive of this. I would like to hear the other commissioners. Hopefully, they feel the same way. Commissioner diamond im very supportive of this proposal and move to approve as proposed. Second. Jonas seeing no other requests from commissioners to speak, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions as amended by staff. On that motion, commissioner chan . Commissioner chan aye. Commissioner diamond aye. Commissioner fung aye. Commissioner imperial aye. Commissioner moore aye. President koppel aye. Jonas so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously, 60. Item 12 has been continued. Placing us on the final item today. Number 13. Case number 201916595cua, 1868 greenwich street. This is a conditional use authorization. Staff, are you prepared to make your presentation . Yes, i am. Jonas great. Good afternoon, chris may of Planning Department staff. You have before you a request to are conditional use authorization to permit the demolition of the existing 2story singlefamily dwelling and the constucks of a new 4story building and a 40x height and bulk district. Its located at the rear of the lot with only 7 feet separating it and it is set back 83 feet from the front lot line. The ground floor of existing building measuring approximately 784 square feet was previously used as a child care facility. The project sponsor has indicated that the child care facility is no longer in operation when the previous owner purchased the property in 2008 and the ground floor has since been used as Storage Space with no connection between the two floors. The proposed new building includes the fivebedroom unit on the upper three floors measuring 5287 square feet. And a twobedroom unit on the ground floor measuring approximately 1,266 square feet. The project includes 1,191 square feet of private open space in the rear yard for the lower unit and 550 square feet of private open space on second and third floor roof tear aiszings terraces for the upper unit. The project proposes the removal of a privately owned tree at the front of the property for which a tree removal permit from the Department Public works has not yet issued. Commissioners, since the publication of the staff report, the department has received one letter in support of proposed project. The department has found that the project is on balance consistent with the directives and policies of the plan. Although the project results in the demolition of an older unit, it does propose increase in the dwelling units which will maximize the density on the site. The Department Also finds that the project to be necessary, desirable and compatible with the surrounding neighborhoods and not detrimental to those in the community. Im available for further questions. Thank you. Jonas thank you, chris. Is there a presentation from the sponsor . Yes, there is. Jonas okay. Youve been unmuted and i believe mr. May will be sharing his screen. There you go. Your presentation is up. You have five minutes. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is fabian. Im the project sponsor for 1868 greenwich. First, ill read a letter from the owners who cannot be in the room with me because theyre out of town right now. Dear commissioners, my wife marina and i bought the cottage at 1868 greenwich back in september, 2008. Im an engineer living in the bay area is very important for myself and business. I have two sons and motherinlaw. For the time being, my wife is taking care of my motherinlaw in los angeles. Im traveling on a weekly basis between San Francisco and los angeles. This creates a lot of pressure for all of us. Obviously, a small twobedroom house is not appropriate to move my family permanently to San Francisco. Thats why we prefer to have a new house to accommodate us. As part of it, we would like to have one separate unit on the ground floor for renting. If you have any questions, please call me on my cell phone. I appreciate your time and looking forward to a favorable decision regarding my project at 1868 greenwich. So you can see here on the first page, the existing site plan where you can see the the existing cottage in the back. Greenwich street on the right side of the drawing. When they purchased 1868 with the intent of building a larger home, first advised them to retain the existing cottage which is located in the required setback. But after discussing the project with the Planning Department, we realized that we would have to keep a 35foot open space between the existing cottage and the new structure in the front of the lot. Which would result in a very weird open space between the two. The open space between the adjacent east and west fourstory property walls, the existing cottage and possible fourstory building in the front, did not seem like a good solution. It quickly became evident that the best solution would be to demolish the existing cottage to bring the property back to planning code requirements and build a new building which would improve the space and be a Better Solutions for all adjacent neighbors. They can confirm that the existing cottage did not have any historical value and we proceeded with the design of a new fourstory 36 quai des orfevres a larger fivebedroom unit for their family. Next slide. So we worked with the Planning Department and the neighbors and did our best to address concerns. We hope you will support this project and grant us conditional use to demolish the existing cottage in order to allow us to build a new twounit building according to the planning code. Thank you for your support. Jonas if that concludes project sponsors presentation, we should take Public Comment. Members of the public, this is your opportunity to enter the queue by pressing star and 3. I see no members of the public requesting to speak. If someone does, i will interrupt and let that person make their comment, but for now, Public Comment is closed. And the matter is now before you, commissioners. Commissioner moore . Commissioner moore i have looked at this project very carefully. While this is a very large replacement of a mauler home smaller home, i feel that the siding of the new building is recognizing the neighbors in terms of light, in terms of not extending beyond the adjoining building. And ive found the project as designed a well designed building and im in full support of it. Jonas is that a motion . Commissioner moore its a motion. Move to approve. Second. Jonas seeing no further deliberations amongst the commission, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions. On that motion, commissioner chan . Commissioner chan aye. Commissioner diamond aye. Commissioner fung aye. Commissioner imperial aye. Commissioner moore aye. President koppel aye. Jonas so moved, commissioners. That is unanimous and that concludes todays agenda. Before 2 00 p. M. That must be a record. [laughter] enjoy the rest of the afternoon, everybody. President koppel were adjourned. Thank you. Due to covid19 health emergency, Board Members are participating in this meeting remotely, Via Video Conference and theyre participating in the same extends as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. For members of the public to wish to make Public Comment, the number so use it 408 4189388. The access code is 146 308 6161. Then press pound and press pound again. When your item of interest is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. You may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. Director tsen. Unmute, director tsen. Yes. Present. Clerk director dunlop. Present. Clerk director richardson. Present. Clerk director kwon. Here. Clerk director shiffrin. Here. Clerk supervisor haney. We do have a quorum. Okay. Thank you. Im sorry were still meeting remotely. But anyways welcome to the public at large and thank you for being here on a beautiful, very hot San Francisco day. But at least its clear. It means we all have found out how important clear air is to all of us. But welcome. Well go to the first item, please, kate. Clerk item number 2, general Public Comment. This item so to allow the members of the public to address the board within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comment, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the the public may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. Members of the public who wish to address the board on matters that do not appear on todays agenda, please call 408 4189388. Then 146 308 6161. When you are connected, dial star 3 to be added to the queue. Moderator, are there any callers on the line for Public Comment . Well wait just a few minutes just to make sure that theres nobody on the line. It looks like a couple of Public Comments. Okay. Clerk michael, are you ready for the Public Comment . I am. Two minutes, correct . Clerk yes. Michael, you have to unmute yourself. Good afternoon. This is jailan. I was calling in. Im thrilled to listen to the Board Meeting today and glad youre having the meeting today. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thank you for listening in. Next, please. Hello, my name is Barkley Sanders. I was calling in in regards to the Public Comment. Ive been working with will [indiscernible] he is looking to deploy solar trailers and battery backup boxes throughout our community. And is looking for a connection to help our Community Via solar trailer deployment and battery boxes in puerto rico. And also we are looking for tida to donate about 200 u. P. S. Battery backup batteries through the community, so that we can have internet backups during outages, at a cost of roughly 12,400 basically 60 per unit. Were asking tida to explore purchasing 200 of these items. And we are also looking for a connection on where these solar trailers can be deployed on the island, in collaboration possibly with one Treasure Island. So feel free to reach out to will at will footprintproject. Org. That is all. Okay. Thank you, barkley, for phoning in. I know this has been an issue that you follow. But could i request that you make a written basically a written request and direct it to the staff, to bob beck. Mr. Sanders has provided a written item with the information from footprint. Org. Well be following up on that. Its included in todays package. Okay. I guess i didnt see that. So thank you. Okay. Good. Are there any other people on the line . There are no other callers in the queue. Okay. So hearing no other commentators on general Public Comment, well go to the next item. Clerk item number 3 report by Treasure Island director. Thank you, chair tsen, members. [technical difficulties] journalist had our variety Virtual Meeting on october 6th. And ten people showed up for that. So that went really well. We had not met since march. But everybody that attended that meeting expressed a desire to continue the work. Again were looking for leadership on that. We really had the biggest agreement that we need more people who are residents of Treasure Island to get on our board. So were looking for more members to be on the board, directors at the island. Because its really all about the island. People living there now. Theres going to be a lot more of them. I live in San Francisco, by the way. Always had a great interest in this island. We discussed the things we might be wanting to do. Weve had to not deal with that during the development process. As you know, its there. I dont know what the existing situation is. Are they occupying it or not. Whatever it is, we want to make a real effort to connect with the job Corp Leadership and how we can start working together to make it one Treasure Island. The process is ongoing, as you know, and we are all looking forward to a day in the near future to have that done. We follow that every time we meet. We hit the same kind of reports that you all get. And its amazing whats been done there for sure. So we had a presentation by the people from the Community Buildings. And the Community Facilities planning, that one Treasure Island is leading. So we feel we need to Work Together with them and one Treasure Island. So thats the focus of things we want to get involved with. And so weve got a list of, you know, another dozen things that people mentioned that we all get into. But, you know, its really going to be a Decision Point for all of us here and all of us on the committee whats our purpose exactly and how do we go forward from here. So we are ready to continue. And look forward to your input and any questions you have now or statements that would be of interest. If not, thank you very much. Im here to help. Okay. Thank you, tim. Thank you for chairing the board. We want to work closely with the new citizens advisory board. I welcome any time theres issues that you would like to discuss to do so. Were certainly working together to try to implement the vision of that master plan for the Treasure Island. And welcome onboard. Thank you very much. Okay. So with your permission, i will be here, either at every meeting, or whatever meetings you want me here. Maybe well be meeting in person soon. Yes. Thank you very much. Kate, do we have anybody else on the line . I have more to go in my report. All right. Actually i want to invite shonte lewis with the ymca to give an update next on the learning program that theyre hosting, in conjunction with San Francisco unify. There we go. Sorry about that. Hello. Thank you for having me. Always a pleasure to give updates to the group about the things that were doing here at the hub. So as you know weve been running a hub since technically august 17, but officially started with dcyf on august 14th. Since then we have enrolled 39 youth in total into the program. So we are averaging about 33 of them every day some of their schedules they dont have class every day. 39 youth in the program. We are currently serving 32 youth in all but five of them are all island residents. The other five are residents or children of an employee that works on the island. And needed a spot for their children to go. Other are actually former residents who used to live on the island and have requested to come back to our site. And a lot of the enrollment was done through dcyf so we had no control over who were placed here. So we were very excited when the numbers were so high, because theres other hubs around the city with two, three kids in their hub, as theyre waiting for more kids to come in. So it feels really good with our numbers. Of those 39, 32 are k6th graders, because as of right now, dcyf has not given us the green light to service 7th and 8th graders. Although it is approved in the guidelines. Dcyf is going out in phase. What weve been doing is having another special hub. So 7th and 8th graders and everybody we have a schedule. Every day we serve them the first kid arrives at 8 15 and were here until 5 30 every day. And during our day, we provide breakfast, two snacks and a lunch. And then we do academics with them from 9 00 until 2 30 every day. For the older kid, its 9 00 until 3 00. And academics is zoom, consists of doing a google classwork, connecting with their speech therapist, figuring out with other p. E. Classes, our special enrichments theyre suppose to be in. Its very challenge going you dont have a schedule. Because not all kids in the same group go to the same class. And even if theyre in the same school, teachers definitely do not have the same schedule. So its up to us to definitely communicate and get that information out. Because the families that were working on, and making sure the kids know their schedules. With the incoming kindergarteners, their their First Experience in a school. Thats also been an experience as well. But the middle schoolers are actually billion very consistent. They just guilty to their grades and we find out some of the kids made the honor roll and some parents are really proud, because its the first time that some of these kids meat made the honor roll. Were going to take it as a win. I dont know. Happy about it. Aside from that, we have so were waiting the phase of allowing the 7th and 8th graders to be included in our dcyf numbers. That will be hopefully at the end of the month. But were not sure. Were going to continue to work to serve them as much as we can, because the services actually have been very beneficial to the community. We are three spots away from being filled 100 . We can take 42 in total in our hub right now. And thats based on the current amount of staff that we have. And we are also actually looking to were actually looking to hire two more staff, because we did have a partnership with the Treasure Island salem center, multiple reasons didnt pan out. And they put us in a position where were two staff short. We did post the position recently and then we also pushed it out to all of our Treasure Island partners, because we would love to actually get the residents into the program to work working with the kids. Theyre familiar, close proximity. Wed love to support that. Other than that we are going strong and going good. I dont know if it came up or anybody has heard, i want to put this out there, too. Although some gyms are opening up around the city, right now our focus is still on the youth. Because they need the support more than anything. So were focusing on that. And i know specifically embarcadero, we need to get approval and we want to work with tida and make sure everything is good, too, when we open. Embarcadero doesnt have a plan to open yet until at least december or january. So once embarcadero opens, if this facility wants to continue to service the kids, were working out a deal to where the island the island residents can potentially can go to embarcadero to get to the workouts, because the facility wont have any kids. So we dont have any generational crossing until we have a clear to do so, with everyone in the building. Aside from that, we are going strong. We are here. If you know anyone looking for a job, send them my way. And thats all i have today. Thank you. Were always glad to hear from you. Its really great to see that youve got the program up and running, especially after all that planning. So good for you. Thank you very much. Bob, did you want to continue . Yes. I also wanted to ask Sherry Williams to say a few words about activities last month. Yeah. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. And i just wanted to shoutout to the crew at the y. We really appreciate them them on the island. They do an amazing job. So one Treasure Island. We continue to partner with the Treasure Island Development Authority and all of the other agencies on the island to provide Specialized Services during the covid19 pandemic and shelterinplace. We continue to host a bimonthly covid19 coordination meeting with all of the island partners. We ended the supper club. 12week hot Meal Distribution program september 17th. The pilot was a great success, serving 160 hot meals per week to island residents. And we are continuing to seek out funding to reestablish this type of service on the island. In partnership with tida, the department of Public Health and island residents, we assisted with the coordination of four weeks of covid19 testing on Treasure Island. Weve continued to provide supplemental cleaning supplies to all island residents at the food pantry. So far weve distributed bleach twice, Hand Sanitizer and masks, in addition to the weekly supplemental groceries that are offered at the food pantry. We are currently collaborating with tida and the department of Public Health to bring flu shots to Treasure Island during the food pantry. And this is going to start later this month and well also have some dates in november. A flyer for residents will be forthcoming. We are currently planning a safe, socially distanced flowthrough Holiday Celebration on Treasure Island with Hand Sanitizer stations. And our first event is going to be a socially distanced maskup flowthrough halloween event on friday, october 30th. Its going to be a fairly short event. Its really just for residents to come out and take a picture. And take home a goodie bag. It wont be people lingering for a long time. There will be a oneway flow is required by regulation. But just to have a little bit of a holiday spirit. We wanted to offer that. So were taking all the precautions. And weve been doing that in concert with everyone, all the other agencies and, of course, tida on the island. Then were in the process of planning to provide supplemental food during both the thanksgiving and the december holidays, because we understand, of course, that people are in great financial need and were trying to do what we can to meet that need. Weve hired it one Treasure Island has hired a Community Engagement coordinator. Bree anna banklys role is to provide Community Engagement activities. The halloween event is the first event. To build community and keep residents abreast of the island development. So we begin with weve begun to post island ver events on sol media. Our construction training program, as i have reported in the past, we were able to pivot it to make it a virtual online training. Were pleased to announce that were graduating our Second Online class, our eighth cohort of construction training program. 13 graduates will be graduating this friday. And all 13 are currently being matched with employment. They get 14 certifications that are uniformly recognized by all of the trades, including everything from traffic and flagging, confined space, osha 10, first aid, protection, and the like. And were pleased were really very pleased to also inform you that from the last training class, the cohort 7, all of those graduates are engaged now with employment, with 11 of the 14 currently employed. And the remaining three are union are awaiting employment assignments. So not only are we continuing to move forward, but were also continuing to place people in jobs, not just training, but also in jobs and in union employment. In terms of our Financial Services that we offer, we just came off another successful tax season, which we, you know, had to shift midtax season to go virtual. Were going to begin a series an online series of Financial Education and planning workshops that were calling wealth building wednesdays. And were currently surveying residents to mistake sure that make sure we have topics of most interest to residents. In addition to planning for how were going to be doing 2021 success season again virtually. So as you can see, theres a lot happening on the island and we sincerely want to thank the Treasure Island Development Authority. And you, the tida board for all of your support. Just everyone on the island has really come together during these very challenging times. We are grateful for everybodys spirit and support. Thank you. Thank you so much, sherry, for what Treasure Island does for the island and all of our nonprofit partners. You have really stepped up during this covid crisis and provided the services that the island residents need. So thank you very much for that. Linda, did you want to Say Something . Yes. Im extremely excited and i want to congratulate you for the ongoing work at the ymca. And sherry, in particular, about the graduation of the online. You know, for the commissioners, i think this format that we have, where we are showcasing our providers, people that are working on the ground at Treasure Island is very powerful. And often times we try to convey to the community what we are doing here at Treasure Island. And sometimes people dont get it. So we are providing jobs. People can distribute food, they are taken care of. We have the hubs. And i would encourage and second the suggestion for [indiscernible] she can do hiring for the residents of the island. We continue to build opportunities. We know that residents on the island are participating in the Work Development program. And we are also helping the city and county of San Francisco to provide Employment Training to help youth and adults. The candidates that we help have backgrounds, they have coming from they are changing their lives. We provide financial training, how to show up at work, and you name that. So this is great. I saw commissioner kwon here and echoing his congratulations. And i think that the supervisor and everyone that is listening remotely, and really understand what we are doing now. And i think that we need to continue to showcase other progress that has been made on the island and thank you to staff also. They made this day happen. Thank you to everyone. Thank you. Okay, bob, yes. Thank you. Just to add to shionte and sherrys comments, we are also completing some renovations at the ymca, that will allow us to relocate the San Francisco unified meal program from the ship shape to the ymca. Those changes should be completed next week. And this program moved over from the ymca, from the ship happy shape to the ymca. Sherry mentioned the Covid Testing Program we had last month. We were able to test more than 2,000 residents and commercial tenants with the 98 negative result rate. Also on the covid front, three tida Staff Members peter summerville, lorraine lee and Jack Nathanson have completed a second round of assignments, as Disaster Service workers in support of the citywide Covid Response function. Also in adapting to covid on the island, the Public Library has come out with a Public Library togo program, where they will be the bookmobile will be coming to the island again and delivering books that residents have requested to check out. People wont be able to go into the bookmobile, but will be able to pick up titles and there will be a reading area set up next to the bookmobile. Were also in the process of relocating the San Francisco Police Departments Motorcycle Unit from the school to a location in hangar three, in their new location that will open that will open up the part of the space to be utilized by the school district, when we go forward with a lease with the school district. Also we have a new tenant in hangar three doing Film Production. So we have a Film Production activity resuming on the island. And theyve leased 84,000 square feet within hangar three. On the construction front, the transportation authoritys project to improve the i80 hillcrest interchange is fully mobilized. The framing of the bristol continues and should be completed by the end of the year. The east excavation of the east side of the causeway is complete now. And the cement deep soil mixing work to improve the soil conditions, beneath that, half of the causeway is wind way. On Treasure Island the focus of activity has continued to be on the installation of new utilities north of california. The developer has also demolished the oasis and 12 smaller structures around hangars two and three, in preparation for the subphase three of development. Geo Technical Work in the first block of Clifford Cove is now complete. And work on the ferry facilities continues. The northern break water is more than 50 complete. The guide piers for the landing have been installed, as have the foundations for the gang way pier. The ferry contractor, or the Ferry Landing contractor power maining, also removed the pier on the west side of Treasure Island earlier this month. Over behind the ship shape, the installation of the civil substructures for the new electrical switch yard is under way. And the installation or the demolition of utilities in the subphase 23 area will begin shortly after the beginning of 2021. The navy completed their work at north point and resurfaced and reopened the north point roadway. And their next project will be in the solid Waste Disposal area west side, beginning early next year, as i had mentioned in prior reports. They had asked to vacate two existing residential buildings by the end of january. And the villages have been working with those households to relocate. Six of them have completed their moves, two others are scheduled to move before the end o end ofe month and the final two are expected to relocate in november and december. On the complaint that was filed last january, the plaintiffs filed amended complaint on september 9th. And multiple defendants filed new motions to dismiss on september 23rd. The plaintiffs filed response briefs to the court on october 7th. And our response to briefs are due on october 24th 21st, with a hearing scheduled on the motions to dismiss for november 5th. So well continue to monitor that process, as it moves forward. And that completes my report. Thank you. Are there any questions or comments by the directors . Yes. Thank you. There seems to be all kinds of activities going on on the island. I just wanted to because we on the outages and what are the steps Going Forward, just to kind of give an update on the outages on the island. Again to reiterate the timeline when the infrastructure, the permanent infrastructure will be completed. But also have a discussion on where the temporary temporary situation is and where do we go from here. And who else do we need to get involved with the broader discussions on whats going on. If you could just talk to that. Thank you. Thank you, director. The p. U. C. Has completed the installation of reclosures and fault indicators that we funded in last years budget. So that work has been completed. But that is intended to improve the reliability of existing infrastructure. Meanwhile, as i mentioned, the geo Technical Work for the new switch yard has been completed. And the developer is working on the installation of the substructures, the conduits and vaults and pads for the installation of new switch gear, which has been ordered by the p. U. C. Again that new switch yard is going to be the significant step towards improving the reliability of the system on the island, as was discussed in Public Comment, we are in receipt of the information from mr. Sanders about footprints and tida staff will be reaching out to them to learn more about their equipment. It appears to be solarpowered stations that could provide battery charming and Similar Services in centralized locations for residents. Similar to the generator that we had previously acquired to provide a charging station. But well look to learn more information about that as well. Thank you. And in subsequent meetings then we can, you know, rank them together and be able to discuss further. Thank you. Thank you. Kate, are there any Public Comment . I had a quick followup on that. Yes, ruby. Can you just let us know the longer term fix that you were saying that would be a significant improvement on the reliability of the grid. Do you have an estimate of when thats going to be online . Yeah. Were expecting that to be completed in january, february of next year. Okay. Great. Thanks. All right, kate, any Public Comment . Clerk moderator, are there any callers on the line . It appears there are no callers on the line. Yes, there are. One caller. Clerk caller, whenever youre ready. Caller hello, my name is Barkley Sanders again. I have just making a Public Comment on the reclosures and fault indicators, that after they were installed, as a way to help decrease the outages, that there were four more outages within 30 days of them being completed. So i was hoping to learn more about why they didnt mitigate the outages in the way that they were talked about. And didnt necessarily decrease the time to get the power back on, knowing that its new equipment, maybe adjustments need to be made. [indiscernible] the equipment was reinstalled. Thank you, barkley, for your question. Mr. Beck, would you like to answer it now or should we [indiscernible] there have been communication with mr. Sanders previously that from the p. U. C. That there was some tuning of the sensitivity of the reclosures, relative to the sensitivity of the switch gear itself. The existing switch gear that faults that were intended to, you know, where the reclosure was meant to fault, trip out, rather than the switch gear tripping out, the switch gear was still faulting. And so theres been some adjustments that have been made there by the p. U. C. But the reality is that the existing switch gear is very sensitive to these types of interruptions. And the fault the reclosures, in combination with the new switch gear, will yield even greater benefit than they do with the existing switch gears. Okay. But well be planning a more comprehensive update on the electrical system for our future Infrastructure Committee. Okay. Well, i think as you said, certainly this is an issue thats of concern to some of the residents. And if you could have another report in november, so that we can continue to have some attention to this issue. That would be helpful. Yes. Okay. Good. Kate, we can go on to the next item if theres no other callers. Clerk item number 34, communications from and received by tida. Do any of the Board Directors wish to comment on communications . Okay. Hearing none, is there any Public Comment . Clerk is there any Public Comment. Lets go on to the next item. Clerk item number 5, ongoing business by board of directors. Do any of the board of directors wish to bring up any ongoing business . Hearing none, lets go on to the next item, please. Clerk item 6, Consent Agenda. All matters listed hereunder constitute a Consent Agenda are considered to be routine by the Authority Board and will be acted upon by a single vote of the Authority Board. Unless a member of the Authority Board so requests, the matter shall be removed from the consents agenda and considered as a separate item. 6 an a approving the minutes of the august 8th, 2020 meeting. J6b, resolution approving the authorizing the execution of 7th amendment to the professional services agreement. 6c resolution revising the membership of officers to the infrastructure and Transportation Committee and the Sustainability Committee. 6d resolution authorizing the director to enter into amendment number 3, to the agreement with the sfcta for westside bridges and seismic rote refit project rightofway certification. 6e, resolution authorizing the director to enter into amendment number 3 meme ran of agreement. 6f, resolution approving the authorizing the execution of a First Amendment to the professional services agreement. To increase the annual zone scope of services and not to exceed contract amount. 6g, resolution approving and horsing the execution of the lease to lease number 1327 with aracely, hospitalities, a California Corporation doing business as aracely cafe. The former Treasure Island Elementary School located at 4 401, 13th street, Treasure Island. So moved. Do any of the directors wish to take any of the items off the Consent Agenda for further discussion . Okay. So then i think that we will have to do a call a roll call for the vote. So go ahead, kate. Clerk director tsen yes. Clerk director richardson . Yes. Clerk director kwon. Yes. Clerk director shiffrin. Yes. Clerk there are four ayes. Okay. So then the ayes have it. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 7, resolution establishing an ad hoc nominating committee, consisting of three members of the Treasure Island development Authority Board of directors to nominate officers to serve a oneyear term. Thank you. Bob, are you giving the report on this item . Yeah. I can provide context. Each year the officers of the tida board and members of any Standing Committees are reappointed or request for reappointment are presented to the tida board. So this would be to form a nominating committee of three members of the tida board to make recommendations for officers and Committee Members to serve for the year 2021, as representing the board and sitting on our infrastructure and Sustainability Committees. Although our Sustainability Committee was only able to meet once this year and our Infrastructure Committee twice, hopefully next year well be able to have more regular Committee Meetings. So all of those positions are up for appointment. Okay. The ad hoc nominating committee, that would be Linda Fadeke Richardson and myself and ike kwon will serve on that committee. And we will meet i believe in november. Before the regular tida Board Meeting. Yes. We would propose to meet our november meeting will be on the 18th, because november 11th, the second wednesday of the month, is veterans day this year. So we would hold the nominating Committee Meeting at 1 00 p. M. On the 18th. Okay. [indiscernible] okay. Thank you. Yes. Anybody . Thank you for nominating me, commissioner tsen. I look forward to the meeting. So well go on to the next item. Sorry. We have to make this is an action item. Yes. Clerk yeah. We have to actually make an action. So we have a motion. Yes. I move to accept the nomination, the Committee Recommendations by the president. Okay. And do i have a second . Yes. Ruby or ike . I second. So we will have we cant do is by acclimation, we have to do it by roll call. Clerk yeah. Director tsen. Yes. Clerk director richardson. Yes. Clerk director kwon. Yes. Director shiffrin. Yes. There are four ayes. That issue is approved. Clerk item number 8, Community Facilities Needs Assessment update. Ill say a few words of introduction. At our august meeting, we had a presentation by the National Institute of mixed income communities on work that were doing to build a mixed sustainability use from a Community Building perspective. One Treasure Island has also engaged m. I. G. To look at the Community Facilities plan that was adopted in 2010, to see if the physical space that were identified at that time, if our needs for physical spaces have changed. And so ill hand it off to lauren shifman to say a few word. Good afternoon. Im laura shifman with Treasure Island. Just to reiterate what bob just said, today were briefing you on the update to the 20102011 community Needs Assessment. Much has changed in the decade since the last Needs Assessment and the aim of this Community Facility needs is to check back in and learn from Community Members, stakeholders and partners to the agencies about their current needs and visions for future Community Facility space programming and locations. And also to incorporate Current Trends and best practices. This assessment is anticipated to continue through the end of this year. And then we plan to return to you with draft analysis and recommendations. But that will turn it over to jen with m. I. G. To give you an overview of the work to date and next steps. Great. Thank you very much, laura. Hopefully my audio is okay. Give me a signal if its not. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for having us here to discuss the Community Facilities Needs Assessment update and our progress. Im jen isaachof and im joined by my colleague lauren schmidt, whose video is also there. Im going to share a presentation here. Can everybody see that okay . Yes. So what were going to go through today is hold on a quick second. Okay. Sorry about that. Okay. What were going to go through today is just quick introductions of who we are and the scope of our work and show what were working on so far with you. Were going to focus a little bit on trends and stakeholder outreach, which is a big bulk of our work to date and let you know where we are in the schedule and timeline of the project. So as i mentioned, this is a core team with m. I. G. , which stands for our three founders. Im jen, lauren is pictured here and were joined by two our core members, jimmy and monique, who have been working tirelessly behind the scenes on Community Engagement aspects with some of the urban design pieces. All of us are planners and Landscape Architects with a range of expertise in Community Engagement and environmental design. And the firm itself, m. I. G. Was established almost 40 years ago. Weve got about 15 offices in the west. But we work nationally and internationally. And were a missiondriven firm. Our other commission revolves around the belief that the environment around us has a profound impact on our lives. We plan, design and sustain environments that support human development. And were a multidisciplinary firm. So we have focus areas in planning, policy, design, engagement, and we all work in an integrated fashion to ensure equitable outcomes in our work. So m. I. G. s values and approach are really in alignment i think with the shared visions that Treasure Island is a thriving and ip exclusive new neighborhood that celebrates diversity and offers opportunity for all. This vision is one Treasure Islands goal to champion integration and access to opportunities within a broader mixed income neighborhood, are the foundation of our Community Facilities Needs Assessment update. Laura mentioned that our colleagues performed the first Needs Assessment back in 2011. And those recommendations helped to kind of guide the Master Development for Treasure Island. Nearly ten years have passed since we assessed the Community Needs. The first phases of development are now under way. And we need to make sure that were planning properly for the future, instead of full buildout and those Community Needs. Were preparing for Treasure Island thats going to be growing from community of 2,000 to 20,000 or so, with a broad range of income spectrums over the next 15 years. There have been a lot of flew edgessal changes over the last few decades. We were reflects the other day on all of the Technology Changes alone. Things like the ipad, the kindle, alexa, lyft, instacart, instagram. All of these things. Wifi becoming available in parks. Just those innovations alone have really influenced our lifestyles and our use of Community Facilities and our needs for public spaces to function differently today. So our scope as laura indicated is going to really consider how Current Trends influence the future of the Community Facilities planning, and then well weave that with what were learninlearninglearninlearning s who are offering programs and using the facilities, the Community Members themselves through surveys. And focus groups and really try to understand how needs have changed over time. So were going to look at Current Conditions on the island and the ability to remain along with the planned development. And really focus on the community services, the amenities, the education and Cultural Facilities and public facilities. Well be making those recommendations for location, colocation, Space Planning requirements, and that sort of thing. There are a lot of Community Facilities listed here. The open space and recreation facilities and the retail and commercial are not part of our scope. Those are being taken care of in other venues. But we just wanted to share with you a little bit about what were thinking so far. And again reflecting back, the 2011 trends, you know, we were identifying existing conditions, the demographics, plus the trends. Back in 2011, the Needs Assessment really saw the outdoor lifestyle and integrated park and open space system as priority trends. And these have really been well factored into Treasure Islands plans for development. Back in 2011, we also saw planning for children and elders, as an important piece to include. And that is now not in the innovative idea, but widely recognized idea and an important one to have been shown to result in more inclusive and equitable design. So were going to be during a forward in 2020. Also a decade ago, many institutions were eager to adapt new technologies to better serve customers with communications and operating systems. Were finding way. Some of the interesting pilot partnerships that were tried out back then, have really stuck and organizations and institutions have decided that its not just more efficient to partner with other institutions, but actually its becoming very successful in serving families better. I think the ymca report early was an excellent example of how partners between different institutions are really meeting communitys needs more intentionally. Fast forward to today. In 2020, a number of overall trends that we believe will impact and inform Community Facilities of the future. Were seeing advancements of technology and rise of personal choice and ultimate flexibility dominating Different Service models for businesses and for facilities. Were starting to understand the effects and impact of Climate Change and traumas on the communities and were focusing on the need for community resilience. Were also seeing fewer singlepurpose institutions, like i mentioned, those shared pilot programs have evolved into different type kinds of shared facility combinations. And, you know, this drive for sustainability is encouraging different facilities to kind of reach out beyond the four walls to have, you know, outposts who are present in the broader facility. And then also were looking at lifelong environment, you know, planning for the full age spectrum from 0 to 100 and taking care of those most vulnerable population, so we ensure and include this community. So what does that mean for buildings . Were analyzing that right now. But just some highlevel thoughts. For ondemand lifestyle and convenience, you know, this i think i covered that pretty well, that what were seeing what were hearing from stakeholders is this interest in looking at the facility itself. But also how do they share space or presence in the outer neighborhoods. And looking at businesses Business Opportunities or facility opportunities, not necessarily right on main street, but that they can thrive in other areas with the presence of personal technology and social media. There can be other ways that they can connect and do outreach. For community resilience, you know, again were living with this heightened awareness of how major environmental and social crises reflect our lives. The Master Development goals for Treasure Island will guide the development into a moder resilient community. But the trend that we see in the concept of resilient be hads, the Community Facilities combine stat resilient framework thats being laid, would also be empowering communities and increasing community a capacity for handling crisis. Community facilities can play a role by supporting resident networking and communitybuilding, being a trusted Service Center with active might be and centrally located. Accommodating resource distributions and resources before, during and after National Hazard events, by looking at things like common kitchens, location. And the facilities themselves need to be built and programmed with the expectation that theyll serve dual purposes in times of crisis. Features like solar power, cooling and air Filtration Systems and flexible multipurpose stations can meet Community Needs for the long run. Were fortunate in the bay area to have some real pioneering leadership on the impacts of trauma on individual members of our society. And the Ripple Effect that that can have in the family, into the community. And were going to draw on this expertise. Weve had some great conversations with stakeholders. And we want to make sure that were avoiding creating layouts and conditions that make people feel unsafe or overwhelmed. And look to Strong Communitycentered institutions. We are looking at recommendations that will focus on integrated relationshipcentered, flexible, adaptable spaces that can be inclusive and again serve our most vulnerable residents. The nature of work is a trend that we are taking a look at. You know, where we work, how we work, training programs, access to workforce opportunities. All of these things are becoming more and more flexible. They were before covid. And after covid, weve been testing a lot of systems that are seeing things work. Things are still functioning. So looking at how to ensure that all residents have access to a Community Facilities that support entrepreneurship, that support staying in the workforce, that provide flexibility are key aspects that well be looking at. And hybrid community spaces. You know, again so these are looking beyond the singlepurpose spaces and designing public spaces to accommodate multiple uses. Libraries, community centers, schools and rec centers are all being constructed to provide a range of services, beyond the traditional institutional definition. And again ymca was a really great example of this. So there definitely are some efficiencies and shared operations here. But again user convenience and promoting communitybuilding, which is especially important on Treasure Island. Bob referenced the National Institute on mixed income communities, who weve been working with a little bit in this process. And are really impressing upon us that the facilities need to help support intentional communitybuilding among all residents. So we will be looking at strategic adjacent and colocation, different operational issues, and partnerships that will help support Community Needs, regardless of what the actual facility and Program Provider is. And with lifelong environments, you know, there are global movements now that are talking about planning for eight theyre 880 cities. And we really think looking 0100 is key for Treasure Island, especially when we want to make sure the 05 childcare is so essential for getting people started off on the right foot in life, for community benefit, for helping families get back into the workforce. And we will be looking at the Community Facilities and programming along all the lines of safety, flexibility and helping people to create that sense of belongings and reliability. There are some needs to have intentional standalone facilities, standalone programs. And well just want to look at balancing that with integrating within the community and connecting, so that especially facilities can support caregivers as well. Another key piece im going very quickly. I know. High level here. But another key piece that weve been working on is stakeholder outreach. Weve met with a number of stakeholders and thank Treasure Island for setting up these incredible meetings. The different stakeholders have operated different Community Facilities, either on or off field. Weve gotten a lot of insights from them related to their needs currently, to future programming, what they predict need will be in the future. And some advice to share on, you know, things that work well and things we might look to when providing when designing and planning for Community Facilities. So we really delved into also access and barriers to participation and inclusion and learn about these kind of key partnerships that work and dont work that will factor into the planning. Were still in progress. We have i think one or two final interviews and then analyzing all of the data right now. But some of our Key Takeaways are up here. Again integration into the community is a top concern. Making sure that the Community Facilities are actually serving folks. And extending service to those in the most need. They recognize that this may also not have anything to do with location. But really hours of operation or changing Service Models to be able to directly meet resident needs, especially given some of the barriers of transportation or, you know, timing of their own work life and picking up children. And food actually popped up as a very interesting and common topic, just a real interesting opportunity maybe, as a potential connector for looking at community, economy, culture. It came up in a number of different ways. Flexible spaces. I think we talked a lot about that. That certainly came out of the stakeholder interviews. And lastly, nearly every stakeholder really was interested in making sure that they could continue to celebrate the unique environment of Treasure Island and make sure that that continues to be accessible and affordable to the residents. So we are synthesizing all of the information that we are getting from the stakeholder interviews. We have a Community Questionnaire thats out, that we are receiving comments now. And i think thats out for a couple more weeks. We had a focus Group Workshop in early october. And we also presented to the cab a couple of weeks ago. They provided some comments that we will also weave in, related to, you know, art and food and again integration and communication and reliability of connectivity. All points that easily woven into the trends and issues that well be looking at. Laura indicated that, you know, were moving quickly through our process. We wanted to share our progress with you today, answer any questions, we have some comments that you have. And then well be quickly pulling together our findings and i think coming back to you with a presentation of those. So thank you very much. Thank you, jennifer for that report. Certainly is a study in progress. And we are looking forward to hearing your study and your recommendations. Certainly i think we on the board are all interested in developing an inclusive whole community, not just about the buildings. Its not just about the housing. Its also about the services and the feeling of inclusion that people live here can have. So thank you very much for that report. Are there any comments or questions from the board . Yes. Yes. Thank you again, jennifer. That was great presentation. It was impressive. You hit all of the buttons there. And just so we can help, you know, for those living in the communities in San Francisco and actually professionally and Community Wide be involved in helping to shape all kinds of stuff in San Francisco. The trend. As you mentioned, it has to be equity and inclusion. In fact, we know that Treasure Island, you know, we went all the way to new york about a year ago. And we also have been going worldwide to look at best practices. Because San Francisco is already an iconic city. Its because were a part of the decisions and all of the people making decisions. Treasure island has to be an iconic city. We wan want to eclipse San Francisco, and arts and culture will be an integral part of what were trying to do here with that. Given that well have more open spaces and parks, more than the mainland in San Francisco. So everything that we are doing has to be sustainable. And you mentioned transportation. Absolutely. How do we even get to Treasure Island. So thats a high priority that we are going to be helping you to provide that. Because tida is actually actually working on that right now. And anyone thats listening to tida board, the meetings, the president says all the time, the public [indiscernible]. Its becoming synonymous with our discussions here. Its not just the facilities or anything. How do we treat all the spaces here. How do we make it accessible, welcoming to all the residents there. You were correct. You highlighted the youth and the seniors. Theyre the population. They also have to be actively addressed. I sit on the senior board of San Francisco. I know of the need because of the aging population. Theyre also active. These are people who spent the whole life contributing to the city. In their older senior years also, they need to be actively engaged. You mentioned that theyre going to be able to help you provide that. And technology. There are great institutions in San Francisco, even some of them are shared by some of our, you know, our commission. And we are going to borrow and make sure that [indiscernible] we can replicate that in San Francisco on Treasure Island. So this is an active, robust discussion here. Were glad to have you onboard. And when we go there, well be actually helping your organization and one Treasure Island to kind of mold it so whatever coming out of it, its in line with the sustainable vision that we have for Treasure Island. And the fact that our development has already won [indiscernible] leed and all of the outstanding world, you know, kind of recognitions that other cities in the bay area and around the world can emulate. So thank you. Okay. Any other comments . Okay. Hearing none, are there any Public Comment . Item 8. Clerk michael, is there any Public Comment . There is one caller. Clerk caller, you may go ahead. Caller hi, there. Everybody, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Go ahead. Thank you. Im sorry. This is peter brasso with the department of environment. I was challenged with the technology and, if i could, id like to make a comment on the previous item. On item 6. Peter, were finishing item number 8. I will go back to the item 6, if you could hold on. Let me first finish item 8. And then we will return back to you. Okay. Caller okay. Thank you. So are there any Public Comments for item 8 . Clerk i believe it was just peter on the line for Public Comment. President yee okay. All right. This is not an action item. Its merely informational. So hearing no other Public Comments, thank you very much to the presenters. And we look forward again to hearing your presentation. And even before youre finished, we would like to have a conversation piece. Thank you. Youre welcome. All right. So well finish this item 8. Peter had wanted to comment on item 6, on a matter on the consent sedge. Peter, well let you go ahead. Yes. Hello, peter . Caller hello. Okay. I think im unmuted now. Yes. Thank you very much. Chair, i just wanted to make a comment quickly on the rubicon contract. As many of you know, i work for the department of environment and support tida, as an ecologist and we work closely with rubicon programs. And this contract amendment is top give them a great opportunity to work with us to expand our stewardship of the natural island and working with some other partners. So so were excited to do that. We just wanted to say that. And i appreciate you giving me the opportunity to do so. Okay. Thank you, peter. We have already passed that item, its part of the consents agenda. We know well the rubicon program. It actually helps to hire people who otherwise would be unemployed. So were glad that they are part of it. But there is an overall thinking that we have to do about the ongoing management maintenance of the open space and the parks system. This has been a major concern of mine and of the board. And i think that we havent yet delved into it as deeply as i would like. I know that the staff is working on a plan. But im hoping, bob, that we can have this as an item for discussion, if we can, in november. I do think that because were putting hundreds of millions of dollars into creating this open space and these parks, and that capital money is available, but theres so little money for operations, Maintenance Management that we have to look carefully at how we view it. And thats my hope that were going to have a dedicated staff that is going to take care of the planting fortunate landscapes that of landscapes that we have. Rubicon, certainly as a Nonprofit Service provider, will be part of that picture. But i do believe that we need to have dedicated staff, horticulturists, you know, others who are really dedicated and there at the beginning when we are creating these parks and open spaces, so that they can continue maintenance of a great, you know, investment of dollars. So if that could be a future conversation, i would appreciate it. Okay. So lets see. We can go to the next item, kate. Clerk item number 9, wayfinding signage and y. B. I. Parks name. And, yes. Who will be presenting here . So laura with c. M. G. Will be presenting on this update. Hello, lauren. Can you all see my screen now . Good afternoon, directors. Im happy to be with you virtually today. Some initial proposals for the yerba buena. Were at a really exciting time in the project, where construction is under way and were seeing the places that weve been designing start to take shape. As part of that construction, well be installing wayfinding signs that help people orients themselves and find destinations throughout the island. In order to finalize those wayfinding times, we need to finalize the names of the parks. Which is why the few items are combined in the presentation today. So before we get to the names, ill give you an update on the wayfinding signs. For the Wayfinding Signage Program was first developed in 2015. The signage master plan was presented to the tida cab and board, as well as the San Francisco arts commission. The plan was approved by the board in august of 2015. And in 2017, we also took it to the bcbc who conducted an initial review and comment on the access signs and the trail signs. From there the signage was designed to a 90 level, we specified the locations where theyll be installed and the kind of information on them. The final design and the Graphic Design and the maps and imagery have yet to be developed. Ill give you a brief overview of the Signage Program. So this is the cover of the signage master plan from 2015. And c. M. D. Worked with hunt design, a firm with experience developing signage for the National Mall in d. C. , as well as the wayfinding signage for the golden gate and National Recreation area here in San Francisco and marin. And the plan itself, the contents of the plan i listed on this slide. It includes the design, the types of signs and identify proposed location for the signs throughout the development. And to develop the designs, the team looked at and honed in on the bold styles shown in these images. The signs will have a clean background, a simple text and icons and a black background with color accent, as needed for clarity. And then in a nod to the marine environment, a Color Palette uses greens, blues and bluishgreens. As we develop the design and formal language for the signs, we wanted the many different types of signs to be united in style. Most of them use the type of wrap you see here, where it wraps around three sides of the post. This gives the signs a unique and defining feature that will be used throughout the island. Of course, accessibility is really important in the development project. There arent many codes that regulate wayfinding signage. But we wanted to ensure that were going above and beyond the codes that do exist. And, you know, we wanted to do things like making sure that the signs are easily visible and readable by as many people as possible. So making sure that directories are at the right height for people with mobility devices and using universal icons, in addition to text, that the signs are equally understood. And the wayfinding signage plan includes a digital kiosk at the ferry terminal, that can be updated regularly, with new information. But it also could be complemented by technology in other ways, including the development of a Treasure Islandyerba buena specific app. And we do want the signage to function at all hours of the day. We want to be visually appealing. Most signs will not be lit. But theyll be illuminated from the streets and park light. Some key signs could include light, minimal lighting. The most light will be unlit, since they want to minimize Light Pollution from the development. So the plan includes several types and scale to function for different user groups. So the different types are design for motorists for bicycles, for pedestrians, and interpretive signs. Most motist signs are directional and point people towards parking, parking or other destinations. As you can see here, we have a car for scale. Theyre quite tall and they have really large text thats designed to be visible from moving cars. Bicycle signs point cyclists to the best bike routes and find the dedicated networks throughout the island. They also include safety notifications like letting cyclists know when to walk the bikes heading into the pedestrian plaza areas. And then many types of the signs are geared towards pedestrians. So there are directional signs that point them towards destinations, map kiosk signs that help them orients themselves and find programs in the area. And also a. D. A. Signage that point visitors toward accessible routes or entries. Additionally for pedestrians, there are muni signs, the digital map will be at waterfront plaza for giving updates to arriving visitors. Then theres signs with necessary safety information. And then there will be a series of regulatory signs letting visitors know theres no smoking or where they can and cant let the dogs off leash. These will be adopted following the adoption of the park rules. A program of interpretive signage that will be developed as projects are realized. So there are several interpretive signs that that were assigned as part of the Community Transit authority work. Right now there are plans for additional interpretive signs to be installed at building one, teaching builders will the sculptures that will be installed as part of the park there. So you can see throughout these examples, how the park names will appear on the signs. Which is why the park naming and wayfinding signs are linked. So todays presentation of park names is focused on Yerba Buena Island. Were here to present some initial proposals for the names and wed like your feedback. Well also be presenting the names to the cab in december for their review. On the we anticipate well return one more time before gaining approval, likely early next year. And then once we get approval of the Yerba Buena Island park names, well present initial ideas for the first phase of the Treasure Island parks. And then following the adoption of the y. B. A. Park names and the park rules, well work with hunt design to finish the signage design. And that will be reviewed with the board next summer. And the signs will be b fabricad and be installed at dog park in the fall of 2021. So on to the park names on Yerba Buena Island. Weve used place holder names for the open spaces and c. M. G. And tadg working together with tida have developed proposals for the parks on Yerba Buena Island. And as a reminder, we went through one of the names processes so far on the project, which was for the streets. The Treasure Island street names were inspired by the Golden Gate International exhibition. The larger connecting avenues seen here were named after places from the exhibition shown on the exhibition map. [ please stand by ] the proposals for Treasure Island referenced the use of the this plan seems in o zooms in od but the side shows the place holder names that we have been using uptodate. Hill top park, quarters 10, beach park and the Senior Officers quarters over great white. And these are proposings for the park which ill explain in more detail in the following slides. In addition to the park names were proposing names for the trails both through the trail loops and for segments of the trails which ill also detail. S this is a historic photo of the island. Its the natural island in the bay and its neighbor Treasure Island is man mate and under construction in the photo. Most has plans to preserve and restore the native happen at that time of thatthat time ofnae island supports several native habitat types. The oak woodland and california grasslands as well as others. It has panoramic views to San Francisco and other landmarks around the bay. The history of the island is found throughout, theres ecological sites and also the naval building seen here from the senior quarters. As we develop the names for the parks and destinations, we wanted to acknowledge all the different characters of the island so we developed a few themes that you can see on this slide and then generated names based on the themes and so names thanamesthat reference the geolf the island and since the island has had several names through out the history and naval and nautical terms and we considered some names of the adjacent streets and historical figures is now ill go to and walk through in more detail. Starting at the top, Hill Top Park is, which has two peaks on the island becomes infinity point and signal point. This park is split into two tabs that each sit on a high point and have its own look out and character so we want they warranted separate names. They both the names reference the two large features in each parks so the communication tower or signal tower that existing on the site now and then also the prominent skull upture that will bsculpture and bothwill act as n the park and will be part of the regional destination that will draw visitors throughout the bay area to enjoy the unique panoramic view from the park. This is the eastern portion and you can see the existing signal or communication tower in the background here. 245 gives it the name signal point and in the western portion, you can see the future sculpture which its infinity see which is where we developed the name infinity point and we have variations of the name you can see in the upper righthand corner of the side we have several names like tank hill reference to the water types and we ruled those or and other existing parks. Moving down the hill from hill park is one of two central of the island the buck eye growth. And that name references two large buck eye trees that are being preserved on the site and as can you see on this picture, theyre beautiful, old trees. The photo on the right of this slide shows the and this photo is taken from the location of the new park. Its almost overhead and it will be a really prominent feature in the park. And also hear is a photograph of the native will be plant inside the park and the willow portion of that name in addition to willow bridge park we consider willow glen as an option. For the Senior Officers quarters historic district, we proposed shortening the name to the quarters and so this is the Historic House and the naval buildings around that as well as the individual buildings can be called out by their historic names and a group of building and the landscape we propose referring to as the quarters or quarters district. So back up toward the top of the island is the new dog park which were proposing to name the rock dog park. As you can see in this rendering, theyre defining feature in the design. We have a lot of mounds design using the boulders found on site during the excavation of the infrastructure so the rocks is a playful way to name the park after it is prominent and memorable feature. And here is another view of the park showing the proposed use of the boulders, which was assigned the space as well as active place for the dogs and integrated into the seating elements that you can see. Then, moving back down the hill is to the shoreline is clipper cove beach. And we propose keeping the name of the beach since it is specific to its location on the shore of clipper cove. It was named after the china clipper planes that flu in and d out of this area in the 1930s. This is a park that we have called quarter 10 or beach park and so we propose renaming this park clipper cove park. And this name we feel is fitting. This is a great use that overlooked clipper cove and the historic hangar one on to Treasure Island and beyond. And we also considered, because its up on the hill above the beach, we considered the name clipper cove which in reference its location overlooking the beach and cove. So for the trail were calling out two naming systems so we proposed the loop that visitors can use to surgery the island and those are portions of the trail that can be used independently and they can combine them into circular walking pats. This naming system is common in some trail systems and help people find both specific sections of the island and then also understand how to connect the segments into loops. So these are the segments you can see color coded on the side here. In orange, is the trail that were proposing to call the sunset trail and sunset point because of the western aspect on the island. They will provide great views of the city and the point there will be a great place to see the Golden Gate Bridge and it will be a great sunset viewing spot. The live oakville is not to be existing habitat and proposed press to bation for the island so its part of the scrub which is where we get the name live oak trail. And and in blue and old reference jack buller and as old jack and he is the person who is credited with bringing goats to the island that was briefly known as goat island and finally in the park blue at the bottom is signal ladder and this is a short segment of trail that connects from signals load up to the portion of the Hill Top Park that we propose naming signal park and were giving it the name ladder. It makes for a great trail run and this loop is made by combining segments of the the live oak trail and old jacks trail and signal ladder and the sun side trail. And the second loop connects several of the island existing and newly built so it goes from the beach to the navy here which will be retro fitted as part of the stairs project and then connects to some of the publicly accessible stairs through the new development. This will be the most difficult loop that connects or has the most elevation gain over the shortest distance on the island. And this trail connects the live oak trail signal ladder and portions of the sunset trail. And the Infinity Loop is the shortest and easiest loop and it winds through the park and the surrounding area and gives people a great view of all parts of the top of the island. So i will end on this slide that shows a composite of the ybi park name and wore looking forward to your comments and to finding the pro pre a approprian the island. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for that very comprehensive report on the way finding and the naming of all these different spaces. What it highlights for us, is what incredible new trails and new open spaces that were going to be opening up to the public. Not just for the neighborhood but for the city and for the region. I hope to be able to be hiking many of those trails when they are finished the renovation and creating of those places. So thank you very much for that. I would just like to add a few small details. You know, the way finding and the signage im glad that they are the comprehensive system and i note the particular tension for the bicyclist so often the signage is there for the pedestrians who can stop in front or for motorists that are large enough to see but for bikes first, its much harder to see the signs as you are cycling by and so i would just ask that you take some care and making sure that bicyclists also are able to find their way and that those signs are visible and at the height appropriate for people going by on bicycles. And the other thing i would like to ask is we got such a great, wonderful native vegetation that the transbay park at the top of the transbay center, they do an excellent job of identifying the plant materials that are there and it is enjoyable because its educational and you learn a little bit about the plants and the habitats as well and i didnt see in your signage whether there was any mention of that but i think its a good idea to have signage that is basically allowing people to understand the type of landscape, the type of plants, the type of trees that are there. I think that is a very educational way to involve the public to understand more about the plant and landscape tag is around them. May i offer that as a suggestion to your team. Thank you so much, lauren. You mentioned that in 2015, you came before the title infrastructure and Transportation Committee and we had a lengthy discussion about some visions for the row naming and representations so im going to first, for me, one of the primary interests here in the line of Equity Inclusion and we talked at length about the disabled and seniors and especially the visually impaired, given the fact that we are going to be having large local space and arts in a history of San Francisco to ensure its a signal of making you comfortable for us to go beyond the mainland of San Francisco, especially how would someone that subpoena visually impaired or some have disability to be able to access. I talk about that at length and i would love to be having something definitely by know that you have interpretive signals in here and this is something you have to pick and wait to see how we can refine what you have now. Also in the times of equity and inclusion, i know that the recommendations specifically the artist Sergeant Claude johnson i know you gave some i do not see his name there and also some of the names that would suggest it and this is comprehensive because i like to really see some of the names that were talking about in there so you can kind of look at that to have Claude Johnson in there and i saw such a there and there was some of the artist and weve also been getting a lot of requests from some of our partners regarding that Treasure Island was part of chicago its a great group, great historical event and the development on the island, given all the opportunities that we have here we ought to be able to have that and so that is something to consider. Could you go into the technology slide that you showed earlier on and there was something picture there that i could not muster, i dont understand what was depecked in that language and in that particular picture and i cannot say yeah, so the technology there and what is that sign that was supposed to be down here so you have desighs specific its something we click where is that object. So it shows a potential aspect to be developed to help supplement the Signage Program and the bottom, oh, god, no. You have the bottom here. Its looking that the where is that . That is a digital sign its something that could be updated regularly with more information. This is a person looking at the map . Yes. Yep. Yeah, i didnt understand you could do better with that picture and again, we have to be explicit here. That picture i would not suggest that. So you would understand what it is i could not understand what you are trying to do there and i feel this object looking at this there so that definitely is something from you to change and to look at and finally, the bicycle, because its an open space and you are going to have a law of traffic of a scheduled a bicycle and all of that and we had said all along that tuesday object a way of navigation making it easier especially i know there are going to be restrictions on the island but again, what is the entire picture going to be like and thats basically still something that i would like to see. Looking at the timeline, given all the here i think i would like to entertain you back itc because we always finalize these names and we are to know what is going to be included and if there all suggestions that the commissioners and the public would like to see so that before we move forward, were all really saying yes. When youve done the technical aspect of the work here but the naming conventions and its going to be there i think those are important too. Having said that, i want to acknowledge that a lot of work and you are been doing since you came back and so we are almost there and take off those suggestions and lets plan to see how we can all help you and also move forward on this item. Thank you. Ok. I see what commissioner lindas talking about. The image at the bottom is unclear of what that image is. It looks like the back of a hood and it could be a face so its very unusual and so i would suggest changing that i see that now too. Any other comments from commissioners. Hearing none, we can open up to Public Comment. Kate, is there any Public Comment . Yes, we have Public Comment. Go ahead. President , and directors, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Great, thank you. This is walt from Treasure Island museu museum and this isk at a wonderful public area that is going to be developed for San Francisco and for the new community and were very excited about the inter leaving of historic themes along with the other cry ter why for place names and as director richardson mentioned theres one historic event that really stands out above all others on yesh a on t. It was a turning point for the desegregation. Navy before the don of the Civil Rights Movement last century but it resinates so strongly with important issues of today. The struggle for systemic change and the black lives matter movement. Its something that really deserves to be commemorated in the place naming on Yerba Buena Island. It took place on Yerba Buena Island on the exact location was not well documented and the museum is working with academic partners, the navy, were waiting for the National Archives in maryland to reopen because they have building records from Yerba Buena Island but our best guest is its between the westend of Hill Top Park going down towards Treasure Island avenue. So that area would be a wonderful location for a place named memorializing the port chicago trial. And i hope your board and the developer will support doing that. Thank you. Thank you for that comment. I think at the very least, some sort of commemorative plaque, which marks that spot, and certainly tied to anything the Treasure Island museum would have would be a good thing. Ok. Any other comments . Theres no other Public Comment. Then we can go on the next item. Item number 10, transitional housing updates. Thank you directors and karen is going to give an update on the work that theyve been doing recently. Since last dis, the post eda residents at our december Board Meeting we still have had to cut back on the number of Public Comments he have with residents were still a future meeting but ill turn it over to karen to give an update on their more recent activities. Thank you, very much, president and members of the directors. I just wanted give you an update of some of the work weve been doing over the last three years under bobs direction under Treasure Island. On the island related to the regulation and the transition healthy program. As you are all probably aware, we have been charged with working with the households and we have currently about 110 households that are pre da with 153 households that are post pda households and moved in after june 29th. We were at 72 hours holds that are a mix of the two. Weve been working with Treasure Island with head staff since 2017 to help create Information Programs for the residents of the island about the thrr. And our team has been made up of us as the project managers and the translators and interpreters and Graphic Designers and infinity Outreach Team and more consulting as Community Outreach board. And in 2019, they expanded the outreach efforts to include the post pda households. I want to talk about 10 different areas of outreach or the work that we did to engage the community and the first and try to help who they were as households and how the thr and r applied to them directly. And then we have home buyer outreach and education and more recently we added the Early Payment Program and we working with those to work through that process and as we all know in march, we all shifted to virtual engagement of our committee so we didnt lose our momentum to engage folks in considering available housing that is coming available the lower market rate and yea Yerba Buena Island and b mentioned in his previous presentation we were working with the relocation requests and we want to talk about coming up in the future. So, prior to development suppose sort, the board has been wonderful in zeroing in some of the fission we put out and and developing for the timeline goals of the team about when to interact with folks and with to engage them and have open house and we have been working with head of staff and to talk about what is coming in the future and how we can prepare for that and how we can prepare the households for the Affordable Housing and the housing that will be available for them. We also worked with the tag members as the interpretation and communications. Making sure our messaging with correct and appropriate and on point. And here is say quick story of what weve been doing. We have 2017 we joined the team and we created initial outreach letters and Program Development that we can communicate clearly with folks. In 2018, we opened a relocation Resource Center that allowed us to interview people inperson and meet with households and help them understand the program itself and answer other questions. And we had open houses, we hosted home buy errorrentation and three home buyer workshops and to help people prepare to purchase homes and one of our major goals is to get people to have some of the low market housing that is available. We sent out notices of eligibility which was per household to help them understand what all of those regulations meant to them specifically. And then we talked more about the bmr housing and how we can get information to the community and make that presentation to the board. We continue to work with and continue with individual households in april we had meetings and that gave People Freedom to make choices and we were wasting time explaining that to folks and helping them understand what it means to them and claiming payment. We had another open house events in may of 2019 and in december as the board and elected to approve benefits for council and so we have been busy since then and creating a Campaign Around that helped them to understand how folks can receive business as well. And we continued to reach out in 2020 at free market notice for some of the first housing and yvi and then, as we all know, march hit and we responded to shelter in place we thought would be temporary and luckily, we really dug in and decided that there needed to be a forum to reach out 209 community so we created a portal which is allowing us to communicate with folks in a way that the people were communicating with that dont have printers or scanners or real sophisticated way of finding documents so we can communicate with them in a way where they can find things electronically with that in the investment and technology so we were excited about that and well talk more about that and lastly, were going to be launching this week our second premier notice for ybi. I want to show you some of the Program Support for the support tools weve used over the years. Its a timeline to help people understand that while this is a long process, theres a sense of urgency because things take time and how do we get them engage in being prepared to purchase homes. And also, just making sure that things like inaudible when they can see the timeframe. We developed frequently asked question pages, flying and handouts and post cards and brochures and all kinds of materials that our goal was to make it really clear that we were here and we were here to help and we have done that through some leg owes an logo ag that weve used throughout our documents and emails and our portals so people understand who they are and hopefully theyre not confused with many of the other voice thats are out there. And its been wonderful to get feedback from some of that and kind of help us pivot when we werent as inaudible as we hoped. Our hope house is in part because we really made every effort to reach people by email and by posters and by post cards and door hangers. Anything to get people tone gage with us. And we think its been really successful and we saw the languages that were really being asked to translate or interpret in spanish or korean so, again, we just continue to engage folks even with our new portal launch and in 2017, we had initial outreach letters to the legacy household that open house events in january 18, may 18 and february 18 we established a relocation Resource Center that was very helpful during the early times so we have folks oneonone and in march through june, 2018, we met individually with folks and in april of 2018 we hosted four home buyer education events which were really successful and were excited about that. One thing that was important to us is to really, especially in the early years before the boards extended the benefit and we really wanted to engage the households and answer the questions and really help them get on track, continue one of my meetings as needed and calls were needed and follow ups to the email answers questions and we saw it was helpful and wore hoping they were feeling very engage in that time. And again this just reiterates some of the tolls we used and the meetings we had have been really successful and we delivered the preliminary notice of eligibility that we talked about. Outreach was great and i touched on that a bit. One of the excite being things was now the home buying classes through virtual which is you can stay on track with our goals of engaging people and helping them get through the combine workshops. Again, some of our outreach materials, just trying to really help people understand that urgency of being one of those folks that get to buy the bmr unit and preparing for bmr purchases through the future with other condos on the island. And our outreach has been in english and what spanish and korean as needed and just really trying to help people understand these opportunities. And were able to do it through door hangers and email education and pro marketing notices and as i mentioned we have one more going out this week. Because its such an important part of this, we kind of were on round three of continue engagement different Marking Materials and helping people understand what opportunities are available to them. And some of the feedback weve gotten has been great. People who didnt know they were going to be able an opportunity to buy a house, especially in San Francisco. Theyre very excited about that and it gets overwhelming when you purchase homes for the first time and that learning to do that is pretty exciting and i answer those answers and the board approved and so we never thought all the households and we engage folks and help them understand about that opportunity. They have had 22 pre legacy households and were excited about that because it gives them the freedom to make choices about their life. Many of whom have been honest for a very long time. And in december, in 2019, expanding the outreach to households and weve been actively engaging them and helping them understand who we are and the opportunities that are available to them. And we in march we pivoted and tried to move everything electron you cannily so we dont meet people inperson and inperson the last resort and if someone really wants that but were available to work with people and make sure that the last person does not mean lack of progress on housing and or early payments. And the portal launch that we have is fantastic and its a great tool to communicate with folks and get information to them and a place where there are documents can live and making references as needed so were very happy about that and we continue to do about 25 launches a week in the purpose of that is so that as people have questions we can engage them oneonone and answer their questions and help them engage in the portal and see how it a employ applies. Its all mentioned weve been working with 10 households who have been asked to move as a result of maybe the naming of the building so thats Going Forward and we hope to have everybody moved out by the end of the year. Some of the events, this is the pre marking windows for how to engage and help people understand what a great opportunity that this is and also, we have murphy housing and just trying to understand how best to communicate the opportunity of the process to the community. And as Going Forward, we just want to support the goals of the Education Program and its now gone virtual and how do we get more and more people engage in that. Home buyer education and its one our big passions forward and housing opportunities evolved and what those opportunities mean to each household and coordination with partners to finalize the protocols for housing collection and engagement and household for all for rent and selfhousing opportunities. Well continue to process the claim and we will continue to update the board with our activity reports and we welcome any questions that you have. And just as you have about how to continue to engage the community and theres so much more that happened in the last few years and theyre not included in these slides and we just wanted to give you an overview of where weve been and where were going and were really excited and were going to open it up for the board. Do i have any questions or comments . So hearing none, karen, thank you for your report. And the history of hearing the issues. Thank you, very much. Im going to open up to the Public Comments now. Kate, do we have anybody on the line for Public Comments . Theres no Public Comment. So, thank you for that report and i think then the next item is kate clerk discussion of futures agenda items by directors. Are there any items that directors would like to add to the agenda . Just, echoing what you said earlier about a future report on th energy piece. I requested on the maintenance and operations about who is facing for us to have a continuing discussion on that and maybe we can have an initial report to november. One more thing too, which i think commissioner lie had requested this in pa th pasta pl gees ipast, what themayor set ak and wondering Treasure Island would get that funding . Wondering if theres anymore clarity on that . For future items. Right. So, is that something that you can report on in the future for now even . Theres an over all effort to do Racial Equity planning throughout City Government and i think write an update on that from the role in that over all. We have not been theres been no specific funding districted to coming out of the efforts but i believe those conversations are still going on at city hall. If we can perhaps have it on the week and tonight and just noted sometimes. That would be helpful. Great, so if theres no further items, then i believe we can adjourn so, be healthy be safe, i think the next Board Meeting we hopefully will know who our next president will be. [laughter] so, go out and vote. With that thank you. All right, welcome, everyone. [applause] today is the day, dr. Colfax. Today is the day. Its the day that our kids get back to the Serious Business of play, and so im thrilled to be here with our mayor, supervisor safai and our director of Public Health, and Many Community leaders and wonderful people to celebrate the reopening of playgrounds all across the city starting right now. We are here at mersed heights, so were not just opening up the gates to playgrounds but were also cutting ribbons on five amazing playgrounds that have just been waiting for children that have been renovated through the lets play s. F. Initiative, which is is an incredible partnership between the recreation and the Park Department and the Parks Alliance, San Francisco voters who support park bonds, and through lets play s. F. Were actually transforming 13 playgrounds that have been loved to death across our city and to creative places that spark imagination, connection, and Healthy Bodies and minds. So without further adieu it is my great pleasure to introduce our parks championinchief who has been a great nudge to make this happen. Thank you, mayor. Thank you. And thank you, phil, and thank you to all of the families in San Francisco for your understanding and your patience as we deal with a very, very challenging time, one that none of us could have ever predicted. And im so excited to be here at mersed heights because i know how hard this community worked to get this park to be a priority. For so many years i see mary harris over there shaking her head hard. For so many years, and a lot of the people in this community, they have been fighting to make sure that this part of town receives the support and the attention that it deserves. There are families here and there are generations of kids growing up in this neighborhood and in this community. And they deserved the opportunity to make sure that we rebuild the library, which your supervisor is pushing for. That we rebuild the parks and all of the other amenities that make life so great in San Francisco. And here we are, because ill tell you, supervisor, not too long ago i know that we came here, and we cut the ribbon or we broke the ground and this happened really fast. This is pretty amazing. And, you know, to make a park like this to happen, and it is absolutely beautiful it is so amazing. And i am so happy that today finally kids will be able to play in playgrounds all over San Francisco. This is amazing. And ill tell you that the reason why im so happy, because it is hard for children right now. You know, our private schools have opened and our Public Schools havent. Kids are not in school and theyre in front of a screen on a regular basis. And that is not good for them. We know that its not good for them. Its why i have been putting, of course, as much pressure as i can on the public to do our part to wear our masks and to wash our hands and to socially distance ourselves, and as much as we want to be around each other we have to make sacrifices for our children. So that they can go back to school, so they can play in playgrounds, so they can have a wellrounded life, because just imagine this is hard on us as adults. Just imagine how much harder it is on kids. How tough it is, and how we are seeing even now even though were providing devices and internet and other resources to kids, the achievement gap is still growing wide. So we have a lot of work to do. And thats why today is so amazing. And its so exciting. Because its not just that were opening up all of these playgrounds, we have renovated a number of playgrounds in San Francisco, and so kids are going to have an opportunity to just enjoy something new and exciting in the city. I am excited and im grateful to you, phil, and im grateful to the Parks Alliance and the lets play initiative and all of the friends of mersed heights, you will hear from some Community Members here today, because this work happened because of this community. This work happened because you had an incredible leader in supervisor safai. So with strong leadership, with Strong Community support, with collaboration and with years wait decades of advocacy, you have made something incredible happen for the kids of this community, for the kids who are part of this learning hub, who are hoping that this press conference is over as quick as possible so they can come and play in this playground. In fact, it wont bother me if they play on the playground during this conference, just let them have a good time. Because thats where we are now. And what this also does is that it gives us hope. It gives us hope that the time that weve spent in isolation, the time that we have spent, you know, doing what we needed to do during this pandemic, we know that theres a light at the end of the tunnel. We know that good things can happen if we all do our part. And so i really, really, really want to thank all of you so much for being here, so much for continuing to support our parks and the bonds that the voters have always voted to support because thats how this happens. And it is amazing, and its a beautiful day, and, supervisor, you should be so proud of what you have been able to accomplish for this community, unlike never before, and we are so grateful for your strong advocacy and leadership. And, ladies and gentlemen, i want to introduce the district 11 supervisor, supervisor safai. [applause] thank you, madam mayor. This day is super special. Ill just say that. When i first started working in this community, the mantra was, why are we always treated like the forgotten part of San Francisco . Why are we not getting our fair share . Why are the working people why are the hardworking people that get up and make this city run every day treated like this . And if you saw this playground, if you saw this fence, right, phil, it looked like a prison yard fence. It looked like something that you would never want to bring your family to. The same at mersed excuse me, allischalmers that is open today. And they used to ride by that to say look at how awful this park is, will you please give us money, because down the street was daily city and it was shining. But i can say with full confidence that this Community Fought hard, this community advocated and never gave up. I want to give a special shoutout to renard menro, working here tirelessly on a Little Island by himself, using every little resource he has, going into his own pockets often, to make sure that this community had something. I want to thank miss wilma gardner, she couldnt join us today and she lives right across the street there and said i want to see this park rebuilt before i die. Thats what she told me when i met her years ago. And im sorry that she couldnt be here today. Theres a lot of people that couldnt actually physically be here, but all of their blood, sweat and tears went into this. I want to thank Phil Ginsburg and his staff. They have made a commitment to ensuring that the neighborhoods that have the most children, like ours, under the age of 18 get their fair share. And all of their hardworking staff. And i want to especially thank miss mayor, madam, london breed, because every single thing now dont get jealous of the supervisors every single thing that i have brought to her to talk about this community she has said, yes. When we asked her for a new library, she said, yes. When we asked her for a new job center, she funded that and we opened that up a year ago to this day. When we said three years ago not recently but three years ago when we said that the African American community is hurting she said, asha, you dont need to tell me, i know. And i said were investing in this, and she said, yes. So this is one big step forward and i want to thank all of the people that have been involved in this, and all of the people that have dedicated themselves to this, and to all of the children and families that will enjoy this for many, many years to come. This is a new day in district 11, thank you very much. [applause] thank you, supervisor safai. The mayor and the supervisor, you know, eloquently articulated the importance of this moment. Playgrounds are happy, theyre joyous, but for children and their development and their social and Emotional Development and their ability to problem solve and the ability to take risks and the ability to share and to collaborate, this is really serious stuff to get kids back on our playgrounds again. I think that the mayor said it, that kids have taken it on the chin a little bit during this pandemic, lets be honest. And im grateful to the mayor and to supervisor safai and the community for screaming out on behalf of our children. We have to now do the right thing. Playgrounds are open. We need to keep our kids safe and our families safe. So, please yes, there are rules and there are capacity limits. There are we are supposed to continue to social distance and continue to wear a mask, right . Do not eat and drink in these spaces. Lets all do the right things so that our children and San Francisco families can be healthy. So the last point they want to make before bringing up our next speaker yes, thank you, mayor. Okay, do not if you are a parent, when you bring your kid to a playground, do not do this pay attention. No cellphone. Pay attention to where your kids are and how theyre engaging on these spaces. Again, the goal here is only to allow our kids to have the freedom to play and to do it in a healthy way. One last point which is that this should be a reminder as both the mayor and supervisor safai mentioned about the importance of investing in our parks. San francisco has the best park system in the United States of america. It is 150 years old. But we have to continue to invest in it, continue to nurture in it so we no longer have fences that look like jails and playgrounds that arent deserving of the children who use them. So i want to thank all San Francisco voters for supporting the 2012 clean and safe neighborhoods park fund, without which we would not be here today. Our most important partner in all of this are our friends at the department of Public Health who have as a tough a job as anybody right now in trying to figure out how to allow us to safely resume some sense of normalcy. And i am incredibly grateful to dr. Colfax and dr. Aragon and their team for working with us and truly understanding the importance and the urgency of opening up playgrounds. So dr. Colfax, the mic is yours. Well, thank you, director ginsburg, and really to acknowledge our gratitude to mayor breed, supervisors safai, director su, and mr. Robert ellis for their leadership in this work. You know that theres been so many challenging days during this pandemic. And so many sad days. And this is such a day of gratitude and beauty. Look out it here, and look at the kids playing. This is a Pivotal Moment as we Work Together to slow the spread of covid and realize that our children must go back to doing the things that we know that are important for their health and their familys health and the communities health. The reopening of the playgrounds is an opportunity to get our kids back something that we havent done since march, march. Incredible. We at the Health Department are so happy to be here as we have worked to get San Francisco to this place. To back to where kids can get in an environment where they can thrive, starting with school programs, Community Hubs, and Elementary Schools, stepbystep, and now playgrounds. We have made tremendous progress as a city. And we know that the sacrifice and the dedications of our families and our communities have made the contributions that have succeeded in slowing the spread of covid19 virus. And i thank you. We thank you. And we want all of our children all of our children to continue to enjoy the reopening of activities. And so parents, we need your help in ensuring that we open playgrounds as safely as possible. When visiting playgrounds, please be sure that your family follows the health and safety rules for playground visitors. Prepare your family for less children and for socially distanced fun. And i wouldnt be doing my job, you know what comes next, if i wouldnt remind people to, please, wear a face covering. They are required for all playground visitors, aged 2 and over. Please limit your stay to 30 minutes when other households are present, so that other people can also enjoy the playground. And, please, practice that good hygiene. And although playgrounds are outdoors, we still want to be cautious. We need everyones help in sustaining our gain and the progress that we have made. So lets have fun today. Lets take advantage of these beautiful seasonal days that we have in San Francisco, and, again, thank you mayor breed, supervisor safai and director ginsburg for your partnership and work. And everyone, lets continue to play it safe. Thank you. [applause] thank you, dr. Colfax. So were now going to hear from two important Community Members that have fought for children and for families in this neighborhood. Our first speaker, renard monroe, the executive director of youth first. Youve been amazing. Thank you for your partnership in our Community Hub program. I want to acknowledge executive director, dr. Mariea su, my partner in crime and all things kids and families. But, menard, you are running a Model Program and youre doing it for kids who really need the support. And were so grateful to you for your help in keeping these spaces safe and clean. Please come up and say a few words. [applause] good afternoon. This is a bittersweet moment for us as a community, because there are some people before menard who really put in some hard work to make sure that we have this space for the children and our community. And i need to acknowledge a few people who didnt make it to see this day. Our neighbor, she lived right there, her name was karen mccoy. [applause] she fought and she fought and she had phils number on speed dial trying to get this place renovated. She didnt make it to see it, she passed away and im thankful for her and her daughter, they both passed away. They fought for this park and im appreciative of that. And delores, who is also a resident fought for this park. And mary harris and al harris, okay, a lot of people put in wilma gardner, a lot of people have been fighting to make sure that this Community Gets what it needs. Im just happy to be part of the process and im thankful for today and im thankful for our mayor to allocate the funds and Phil Ginsburg, hes been awesome. Its been awesome. And i appreciate you. He comes out the first day they put this together and went down the slide with the kids and impressed the kids. Its just one of those things where San Francisco is supposed to be about community. And these type of events are so important, especially in a times that were living in and the covid19. I definitely want to thank our supervisor safai. [applause] for all of his hard work and pushing for our district to make sure that we can have spaces like this. Also i want to thank our community as a whole, first and foremost. Our residents right here, up and down the street. Using this park every day, and were so happy to have it back open, to have our kids back playing safely and in an environment, and something to be proud of. Im proud of our district. Im proud of where were going. Okay, we have organizations and c. B. O. S who are really making a push for this district to get the resources allocated here. And all of the things that we are doing just to make sure that the Community Gets what it needs and to make sure that children have a future. So, thank you. [applause] thank you, renard. So another Community Leader that had my phone number on speed dial, my phone number, my email and my twitter and my telegraph handle was edna james. And edna couldnt be here today, but she has asked one of her closest Community Partners to come up and to say a few words. Robert ellis. Robert is the Vice President of the o. M. I. Community Action Organization and a member of the friends of mersed heights playground, and to say a few words about the power of community when it comes to getting things done. Robert, the microphone is yours. Hi, i wish i had been first. All of these accolades have been handed out and its well deserved. And i want to thank our mayor breed for all of her dedication, all of her dedication to the city. And not only she is smart, but shes pretty. So thats a good thing. Like i say, i want to thank phil definitely if you stand here and you look around you can see the transformation of this park and the future is still bright. I have been on di dixie street r the last 50 years and i have seen the park deteriorate and now its like a Phoenix Rising from the sun. So you see that its bringing a whole new atmosphere to the community. Not only for the children, but also for the adults and for everybody in the community and the city. And im certainly glad to be a part of it and i want to apologize not apologize, but i want to give my regrets to miss james, the well documented partner was unable to be here today. So i want to thank everyone that invited me and phil and just say, phil, youre doing a wonderful job. Keep up the good work. And god bless you. Thank you. Just a few quick acknowledgements and then were going to wrap up and if there are any questions you have a few people here who might be able to answer them. Just a couple of questions. But i i want to recognize through the San Francisco Park Alliance that without the San Francisco Park Alliance, make no mistake that we would not be renovating or Ribbon Cutting five new playgrounds. Their partnership is invaluable and they lead with their heart and they care about the parks. Thank you, San Francisco Park Alliance. [applause] and then last to my own team, lisa brampton, lisa, thank you for all that you have done to bring private resources to help to supplement what the voters have done to allow us to renovate these playgrounds. To our park supervisor, Brandon Young bright and early here, mayor, making sure that this place looked super clean. So, thank you, brandon, for being here. And to dan mauer, our project manager for this particular project, and to all of the rec and park staff who really had to hustle to make sure that you can see these markings on the ground and you can see all of the signs in the last 36 hours we have put out maybe 750 signs and have marked playgrounds and, yeah, my staff always rises to the occasion. So a big shout out to the rec and park staff. Lets let them play. Thanks, everyone. Hell oh everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today. Well, covid has changed our lives. The fact it is has changed how we go to work, how we go to restaurants, how we interact with each other but this year will change how we vote. We want to make sure here in San Francisco, we make it as simple as possible. Im excited to be here to announce that although we cant do what weve done in the past, and provide early voting in city hall, we are going to be doing early voting right outside on grove street in what looks like a Beautiful Party at the present time. I want to thank the department of elections, and he will talk about more about exactly the steps that his team has taken to ensure that we not only make voting accessible, we make it safe. We want to make sure that people feel comfortable if they need to vote early. They can come to this Voting Center and it will be opening on monday. If they want to vote on election day or drop off their ballots on election day, well have 588 locations all over the city. And, what is dont be alarmed if you dont receive your ballot you wont be able to vote. This department of elections has received everything. If you didnt receive it in the mail can you provide replacement ballots. If you are going out of town and you need a ballot mailed to a different location, theres a system in place to do just that. For whatever reason, you are not certain or uncomfortable accessing a paper ballot, theres just a lot of options. Theyve been sending things in the mail, sending things online to say our goal is to make this as easy as possible. In the last president ial election, sa san franciscans tud out in record number. It was a 80 turnout. In 2008, it was 81 . This is a city that prides ourselves on making sure our voices are heard. Were not going to covid stop us from making sure that you have access to vote in San Francisco at your convenience. Im excited and i know that theres a lot of confusion out there but this department of election has done everything it can to make sure that its easy to call the department of elections, call 311, go online if you need information for where to pick up a ballot or a replacement ballot. We thought of everything. So, theres no excuse for anyone in this city who is a registered voter not to vote. And in addition to that, if you are not registered to vote, and you would like to register to vote, you have until october 19th. So, make sure that you take the opportunity to go online and this center is open and you can come here and register to vote and you can vote on the same day. In addition to the dress up locations on election day, and this Voting Center right across the street from city hall, we will have a number of of drop off ballot locations the weekend before election day. Linda brooks Burton Library and the branch library. Because again, were trying to make it easy as possible and its ballots inperson or on election day. If you need more information, please visit the department of elections website at spelections. Org. Call 311 or call 415 5544375. So with that, i just want to again thank everyone for their cooperation, the work they do. I really want to express a special thank you so john arts and the department of elections staff because they have been working very hard to make sure that no question is unanswered. Anything or any scenario that could occur, they wanted to make sure they were prepared to support and address the public. And they work with the number Great Community organizations and to get out the vote and some of those organizations are with us today, including George Chance from the chinese newcomer Service Center, jackie flynn, the ex you director of and these are organizations who make sure that communities all over San Francisco have accessed to vote. And we appreciate the work that theyve done for many, many years. I also want to thank martha cohen, the director of special events, for taking such time and care with creating a warm and inviting space. Thank you, martha for your work. And with that, i want to turn it over to our special guest, joining us here today, you probably recognize him because the tallest person here. Our state senator, scott wiener. Thank you, madam mayor. And i also want to thank martha and also our department of elections and john arts for once again really stepping up to make sure that san franciscans can vote and vote easily. Thats one of our core values in San Francisco that we want people to vote and we want to make it easier for people to vote so i have complete confidence in our department of elections that we will run a beautiful election here and that we will it will just be a really strong showing and a really difficult period of time. This is a partnership between the state and our counties including San Francisco we took action at the state level to people being able to vote during a pandemic and we authorized global vote by mail o so everyone gets a ballot even if you are not signed up as a permanent absentee and not put barriers in order to get an absentee ballot and normally, it has to be post marked byelection day and i do want to ask people please, try not to rely on post marking on election day and sometimes you can mail it after whatever the pick up is at that particular box and there are unfortunately thousands of ballots each time where people just mail it too late in the day. It doesnt get post marked. Make sure you are going to mail it, please, troy t try to mail tractortrailer dait theday bef. Even if theres a problem with the post office, which i dont think there will be. You have plenty of time if you mail it right up to election day. It has 17 days to a arrive instead of three and that is a huge change in stay law that weve made to just make sure that every ballot can be counted. What this is really about is auctions. We want people to make choices that work for them and people can drop it off in different locations and of course, we have absolutely amazing voting facility here which will respond to our health needs in terms of allowing people to show up and vote safely. And to be able to do it efficiently. The capacity here, as you can see, is huge. Its going to start on monday and also be opening two weekends before the election. Were making it so easy for people to vote in a way that works for them and their family and their own health situation. I have a digital town hall last week with our secretary of state, alex padilla and with con on cause and a representative of the American Postal Workers Union and she was very, very clear that she has confidence that the mail is going to work well for this election. Despite some of the turbulence we were saying, theyve been able to move through that and she assured us our postal workers, who are some of our front line essential workers, who are putting themselves out there during this pandemic so we can do what we need to do as eye society theyre going to work incredibly hard and they will deliver the mail and people can have confidence in the mail. So, again, thank you, madam mayor, thank you to our department of elections and lets just run a great election as always. Thank you. And now, i want to invite up our director of elections, john arts. Thank you, senator werent. Thank you mayor breed and also for organizing this event. This is a great timing for an event like this, just before early voting begins. Early voting will begin october 5th here at the Voting Center located outside bill graham auditorium. This is an example of the mayor and the senator wiener have indicated and the department and city have take ep steps to make sure that voting is safe and healthy experience for all voters in San Francisco. The ballots we mailed actually tomorrow and voters will start receiving ballots on saturday and then theyll most will receive ballots on monday going through the election week. We have a full compliment of polling polic Police Station ple want to drop off or they dont want to mail their ballot back, just before elections day, is they are outside the voting area so voters dont have to go mud the voting area. They decrease the amount of traffic that voters would experience at election day. And everything that weve done since really the end of the march election going through the cycle for november, has been to plan in relation to conduct an election, while trying to respond to a pandemic. So everything that is happening here at bill graham auditorium, is organized so that people can maintain social distancing and theres ppes that our personnel are wearing and useing and the public has provided ppe and Hand Sanitizers and sanitizing wipes, face shields and things like that and the same for the polling places. The voters and coworkers can maintain social distancing as they go through the election process on election day. Weve had p. P. E. S available for the voters and the poll workers on election day. And the inperson voting here at the bill graham auditorium and the polling places theres a cleansing of the areas and materials and the commonly used items throughout the day so voters will go into a clean voting environment when they go to cast their ballot on election day. Also, i want to echo the comments about the post office. Weve had conversations and meetings with the post office before this election and to make sure there was no issues and with the processing and to support the conduct of this election for november. The post office of senator wiener noted, has put tremendous men does attention and focus on their abilities and their requirements to give ballots up to vote and he is get ballots to voters to elections here in San Francisco. I want to share the city and the departments of elections has put much time and thought into this and so theyre safe and secure and everyone has a good experience on election date ill turn it over to george chan. And even we call chinese and were helping everyone. So this year were happy to be receiving support from the city to continue the registered people. So, this year, we see the ballot we mailed to you and we help people register. We follow that many times they dont know if you change your address, make sure you update it, ok. So also, if you do know your status, we can help you to check it as well. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is jaclyn flynn. Im the executive director of the a phyllis randolf of San Francisco and were working with the department of the elections in the city to really get out of vote this year. So i ask you, how important is your vote . 2020 is a challenging year as a nation. We have lost over 200,000 american lives from covid19 and these fires, as you can see, continue to raise and scorch our state and homes and businesses and and the california economy and our air quality and and they leap gap in time with racial tension zoos tie that they spilled into our streets. So i asked again. How important is your vote . This year and you can help redefine our jail system you can help reform our Law Enforcement system. You can help fund our parks, you can vote for housing and healthcare and your vote is a vote for change. I ask you, what can you do to effect change and if you can, do it early. Send it in my mail. Drop it directly into a ballot box and thank you to the city for creating an accessible space for folks to do that safely. And if you must safely head to your poll, please wear your mask and vote. I encourage awful us to ask our families, our friends, our work colleagues, our neighbors to do something important, vote. This year has been hard on all of us. And as i think about why its so important, i think about my own kids. And i realize that i have the power to set a clear example that im not satisfied where were at in this nation today and im not going to sit back. I will be an element of change. The a phyllis randolf institute will be on the frontlines reaching out to our seniors and over 5,000 units of low income Family Housing across is this city. Well be facing this year of covid, hitting the streets to ensure education and access to voting. You can help us in that fight. Im inspired by San Francisco. A city that votes for change. Im inspired by inspired by a t looks like me. When i vote i celebrate my skin, my lips and my determination to be represented by someone that understanding my perspective. To all my asian brothers and sisters and to all my latino brothers and sisters, we need you. We need bilingual folks and to my caucasian allies, we are all in this together. I challenge everyone to get education and make a plan and vote. Thank you. Thank you to the press and the immediate why for getting the word out and most importantly, we want to make sure that voting is easy. If you have any questions or concerns, what is interesting this past weekend, i heard from a lot of folks that said i didnt get my ballot yet, what is going on . What is happening. So people seem to be very excited about voting. We also want to make sure that folks are able to get their ballots and theyre able to get their questions answered and we make it as simple as possible and we also keep everybody safe. When were showing up to our polling places, or our Dropoff Center or this particular center here across the street from city hall, were all using the wash center to wash our hands and were wearing our masks and complying with our Health Orders because thats how were going to be able to continue to not only get through this but adapt to the needs to make sure that we are able to not only vote but vote safely. Thats what this is all about and so thank you all so much for joining us here to the today. [applause] we have private and Public Gardens throughout the garden tour. All of the gardens are volunteers. The only requirement is youre willing to show your garden for a day. So we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. Its a variety all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. I have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. In the early 1800s the portola was farmland. The regions flowers were grown in this neighborhood. If you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. In the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. One of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of San Francisco so they can share that history. When i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. We started doing this as a fundraiser. Since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. The Scholarship Programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a winwinwin situation all around. The Scholarship Program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. I was not sure how i would stay in San Francisco. It is so expensive here. I prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in San Francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i dont know where else i would have gone to finish. The scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [ ] [ ] you come into someones home and its theyre private and personal space. Its all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their Outdoor Living room. Why are you here at this garden core . Its amazing and i volunteer here every year. This is fantastic. Its a beautiful day. You walk around and look at gardens. You meet people that love gardens. Its fantastic. The portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. Mark your calendars every year. You can see us on the Website Health commission. Mark, would you please take the role. President bernal present. Commissioner green present. Commissioner chow here. Commissioner christian present. I saw her on here. I have unmuted you. Can you hear me