Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240704

Either little following ways email to the Government Audit Oversight Committee clerk if you submit by email forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the initial files and sent a written communications to our office at dr. Cal to room 244 San Francisco, california 941 owe 2. Downtown support special use district please submit them to me before the end of meeting and silence all cell phones to prevent in any interruptions of todays proceeding and items are expected to appear on the board of supervisors on march 19th unless otherwise stated thank you you madam clerk call item agreement with a nonprofit Owners Association for Administration Management of the established propertybased Community Benefit district Community Benefit district Community Benefit district highways code, section 36651, for a period effective upon approval of this resolution,through december 31, 2033. Thank you um, and this item is sponsored by legislative audits and supervisor is here to welcome sir. Supervisor preston thank you, supervisor stefani and xhvrndz i want to offer brief remarks this item before you a continuation of work that supervisors savvy has been involve since his first day danish or establishing the excelsior one of the Top Priorities when he first took office and frankly was an issue that has consisted within the communities and to get it going and happy to see that as stage it is now and the effort within the Excelsior Outer Mission neighborhood storm drain that was established in 2017 and it was worked on up to the pandemic period unfortunately, that was put on ice for period during the pandemic but picked up nearly two years and were excited that is the board hsa had itself first meeting an february 12th and the residents are excited for the results of that and im here also i want to recollect the work of the folks within my Office Getting to this place and wouldnt have done it without her and want to see recognition here and recognize chris as well as jackie for their incredible work and lastly recognize the Excelsior Action Group been in place for many years and crucial organization had heels us under the vibrancy of the corridor we appreciate your consideration. Spca of ms. Hazel wood the floor is yours. Thank you, xheshgd and good morning. Today before the resolution for the excelsior excelsior Community Benefit district and the board of supervisors adopted the resolution established the district in july of city a 10 year term and expired 31st 2023 and the district will be managed by the association as the Excelsior Group and provide the day to day operations for the Management Plan and the Excelsior Action Group a Nonprofit Organization that is diligent in supporting this over two decades and here today with the director and in getting the cvd to the finish line and in order for them order for them to serve as the Owners Association for Administration Management of the established propertybased Community Benefit district inclination with state and local law preventing the anniversary property Business Owners in order off a corin woods recognize of the Contract Period must enter the contract with a cvd and it is developed by deputy City Attorney and adjust for each cvd and at noted the committee in february this contract and the cvd was a whole were updated to highlighted the prohibition of legislation that is in action. The contract formally established the oc d to make sure they are meeting the plan and providing services outlined and looting the assessment bond if approved this will allow the fund to be sdrersz in april. Thank you, ms. Hal he will wood thank you for the Fund Position the standard for all cvd downtown support special use district that is important to me and other colleagues and appreciate that added in this not in this amendment but. Thank you very much. And next, we will hear from ms. Ramos the director of the Excelsior Action Group welcome. Iementz i didnt prepare any comments but elaborate obtain about jackie and jeff presented here really excited to bring the funds im and this opportunity for the excelsior in the Outer Mission we have a general commercial corridor and investing those dollars button cleanliness to so vibrancy and supporting the Small Businesses in the community really excited and um, grateful for this opportunity. Thank you very much. And thank you for your work on this so i see no questions or comments from colleagues open up for Public Comment. Yes. Members of the public wish to speak line up on the side by the window and all 13shgz have two minutes to speak and the first speaker please come forward and begin your comments. Mr. Chair comment. Public comment is closed. gavel and i would like to go ahead and make a motion to send this yes, maam to the full board with positive recommendation. On that motion to the full board with a positive recommendation Vice President supervisor stefani and supervisor preston and supervisor chan three is that passed with everyone that has referenced thank you for your work appreciate it and madam clerk call item 2 through 5 together. 2 through 2 through and highways code,sections 36600, et seq. , section 36650, and the districts Management Agreement with the city, section california streets and highways code,sections 36600, et seq. , section 36650, and the districts Management Agreement with the city, section with the city, section with the city, section approving an annual report for the east cut Community Benefit district for fiscal year fy 20212022, submitted as required by the property and approving an annual report for the north of market tenderloin Community Benefit district for fiscal year fy 20212022, submitted as required by the thank you madam clerk and um, we i have i want to recognize and thank oewd for the legislative aid and been working with oewd in reviewing those downtown support special use district and any questions . Answered before the hearing spend our thanks and recognition to her and im going to turn it over to jackie has he will wood with the oewd and if you could kickoff with addressing the items and introduce the various directors with us today and whatever order you choose thank you, multiple voices . Thank you, combhergd and oxen that to our staff md 5 legal. Thank you. And ill introducing those on behalf of oewd as you my be aware they are combfrndz by the legislation with the california streets and highways code,sections 36600, et seq. , section 36650 and second tax regulation article 15 and oewd is charged with making sure that all cvd are providing services at outlined in the plan for the assessment. Those finding with tallied in the memo in todays presentation and this slide provides an overview they have sra budget i want to recognize theyre all positions to the organizations. As part of the memo oewd reviewed did following benchmarks for each cvd benchmark with the current fiscal year budget and two is none of the budget obligation were met and it three compared to actuals and 4 identified in the projects in their annual report and going to start off the cvd met all theyre benchmarks and cvd leading the pilot and in this reporting period they drafted the tickets and in addition the Organization Services they focused on running businesses through a variety of event and cvd led throughout the service area and the cvd a Strong Partner for the downtown corridor and Conference Center and this period saw a leadership transition during the by kathy and after a robust search beginning in fy202223 and the executive director prior served as Yerba Buena Center for a decade about scott and the technology did apply with the technology and not reported violations during the brown act and moving to the next cvd so japantown met 2, three and 4 in the benchmark one and in terms of that benchmark um, the benchmark one compares this to the management budget and japantown cvd met the requirements enhancement category that covers the services largely and in the economies beyond the Small Business the environmental enhancement category of the categorytion of their contract block by block in reality and provide hospitality for those categories cabaret located to those fy202223 report. So in terms of looking forward cvd should monitor this benchmark with the budgeted back in line with the Management Plan and had thereby a problem in the future reporting they should request cvd to assist them or address this as unintelligible . In terms of japantown Service Delivery the cvd was focused on offering and helping Small Businesses and community at large recovery from covid and in fiscal year fy 20212022 respond to the tickets generated and in compliance with the cvd and no reported violations from the backseat records act and mccormick to the east cvd met all benchmarks in the reporting period and in terms of period the cvd launched successfully for the application of temporary transbay terminal site and walking toughest Councilmember David ryu privately owned open spaces and also a key component of the funding to one has and 34 though serve requests and didnt employ Service Technology and no violations and last but not least the tenderloin cvd met all the benchmarks during this period except for benchmark 4 and benchmark 4 was next due to reporting and didnt or the are on moving forward theyre carrying forward and the oewd recommendations that the Organization Includes that information in the report which they did in fy202223 and do want to note as noted here that in terms of their reporting have had consisting been late in their official report starting in fy202223 when directly it will be helpful on time with this mission and that is um, a habit moving forward. And in terms of their Service Deliver cvd addresses that and im sorry continues to address the objectives and partners with the community at large for end goals including the passage the Incredible Program that cvd with the programs and closed out 55. 65 percent of those generated and the cvd saw the transition benchmark final year by the director simon and what is hired on in fy202223. And was innovates straggler to this program cofounder of Safe Passage Program and this cvd employs the technology but no technology in the cvd didnt include the information on um, key pieces of the program, however, followed u followed up with that information for 20212022 and complied for fy202223 no reported violations oewd to oewd of the brown act or the California Public records act. That concludes my presentation. On the cvd at this time open for questions from the committee or go ahead and have the cvd okay. Ppf so id like to. Go ahead and for the directors. unintelligible . From the yerba buena cvd. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Im scott the executive director for the yerba buena Community Benefit district and happy to present the 20212022 and. Couple highlevel um, i think youre aware of this but the organization for cvd for the quality of life for the residents in our neighborhood and queens and Community Spaces and reinforce the economic we clean and streetscape programs and martin anticipate our Community Benefits so ill highlight that one for you, we do a Regranting Program for Public Safety and Community Programs we reinvest back in the nonprofit and culture organizations to spreading the work throughout the community were proud of that program and want to highlight that for i today. Um, i think youre aware but on our neighborhood in the Downtown Core were on Market Street under the highway from Second Street and with a little um, on the west side of 5th street as well and um, yerba buena is diverse and sort of a showcase neighborhood for San Francisco were proud of that and south of market what is happening there have amazing array of organizations that are 16 culture institutions and museums and nonprofit high profile organizations and have 12 hotels large tourism in the district and mentorship an amazing district one had the and three 0 small restaurants and bars and multiple open spaces we have 11 thousand residents in the district were proud of that and obviously including the central San Bernardino county subway with the Diversity Community really the beautiful showcase neighborhoods so were very proud of a couple of highlights from the greater with an hundred and 13 10 thousand of graffiti have been removed and cleaning regular and on demand for each of those a him waste was removed seven hundred and plus times and multiple calls 16 hundred and 71 calls through the 311 we respond to and multiple bike racks one of the great programs created yerba buena cvd artist and so all the bike racks that are raptd are art designed and did murals throughout the neighborhood as well and had community guys on the street this year and out there from 6 00 a. M. To 10 00 p. M. Every day of the week and respond for services throughout the year and have a special hired m b sf police on duty in the neighborhoods and in addition to the various locations in the neighborhood. We brand ourselves as the artist District Museum districts obviously works well, for us and campaign highlighted in the year which was experienced the art of campaign but highlighted the yerba buena and again, this is back on art a quick culture festival kickoffs on the website and you can walk the tour through the neighborhood and see the amazing work and have um, sf tours, etc. A positive community and regave me our community and Business Community we secure with one of the organizations with 70,000 for public spaces and beautifuling around the Convention Center to the garner in this fiscal year and held forums for supervisors the raise that happened too years ago and had a director retirement an amazing director my procedure and i was on the board prior but honored to be the new director and we served as a team in the community with Advisory Board and i mentioned the Community Based a list of organizations supported in that that fiscal year and um, amazing organizations with the children museums and have foundation called the lab and sf mo ma and yerba buena among other things great organizations in our communities doing great work and jackie talked about the financials our budget to actuals within the threshold um, just highlevel we have our actuals at 36 percent of our services on the scene and scraping and three 4 percent of security. Um, 16 percent in management and on branding so Management Plan with our budget numbers but proud of those numbers that 36, three 4 and 14 serves beyond our modification and supporting the services. Come see the art thats our presentation. Appreciate your presentation and work and ive seen on the roster commissioner chan. About the spending on safety and security would you walk you through about through the through the chair what baa say is Public Safety spending. Sure we um, have multiple buckets westbound that as i mentioned earlier have a officer and hiring a Police Officer a large portion of that safety and security we hire them to with the availability and have a 10 heir shift every year each day and we have ambassadors four ambassadors on the street intart with the community and providing a safe space for the community and our population and so we have those two pieces and then at this point have the social Services Specialist to context the Service Members those are the three large finlands in fact, i dont have any breakdown but the majority ill see can be the second tier is um, the Ambassador Program this year is our social services. Understood so what im seeing in this more of a report you called a community guide. Yes. And in this is you different from to our overlapping i understand youre over laura pena the sf travels and not part of that. Not part of welcome master plan the master is Advisory Committee visitors and greeting ours are a different level of service and Amazing Services that complement each other. How many do you have people up to two. Up to two we had three if that fiscal year but two on the average and mentioned the officers that is great and i said literally 10 hours per day. Thats our goal we dont i mean San Francisco has a second challenge with the program and officers in general and filters down to the program. So we in the period seeing better retention in terms of selection and seeing pretty good potentially amazing officers who support our community on a regular basis and im curious, you know, have the aid program as well. Not they not have a shortage but suffering. And not right now but like to learn more about that in terms of hiring and sounds like you know about the i could shift three around can be but weve looked at and other solutions were not hiring a private security the programs are the best effort to get cash in the community and connect the connection to southern station and the police force helps to implement and supports our team were aware. But again, this interesting, you know, we have retired Police Officers program and at least i want to say that is working out real really well, so it is good to see youre hiring officers. And kind of an additional investment unintelligible and types of unintelligible . Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Xhvrndz and no more questions lets move to the japantown cvd welcome. Great. Great to see you in city hall ill say before i get started when i saw the one benchmark didnt have something about Small Business i was baffled i couldnt imagine a v d not i providing Services Within the japantown cvd during that specific times glad to learn that was a budgeting allocation and technical issues glad that has worked out and thank you for your support in Small Businesses in japantown and the floor is yours. Good morning and thank you, supervisor preston supervisor stefani and supervisor chan thank you for your giving me the opportunity to give give a summary about the fiscal year japantown i had to say that feels like many moons good i have my newsletter we did in that fiscal year, you know, of course we were coming out of covid and focused on covid and testing and providing at home test kits by to help the Small Businesses. Um, and on top, of course, japantown clean and safe is was is always will be a priority too to slowly a lot of the seniors are coming out of their dwellings and i think you see in the district ambassador al keeping our eye on that on the seniors to make sure they cross safely on the streets dangerous crosswalk and, of course, we started the Community Clean up and, of course, our great way to keep the trash out of the way and as our cleaning staff thats the way it is cant believe how many cigarette bulths within the city blocks have two o two Shopping Centers and theatre and two Grocery Stores and 200 Small Businesses so it, you know, we see a lot of foot traffic during covid saw a lot of foot traffic that is what you see here um, safe and secure to make sure on the Small Businesses for staying alert on safety issues in japantown and brevend my staff regularly put out safeguard 2010 of break in car issues and during 20212022 we saw a huge jump in break ins in japantown and you were ambassadors were cleaning as you know all throughout the day has been luckily has been improved and but, you know, keeping i am the news on what is happening in japantown and our surrounding neighborhoods that really when our folks met with the surrounding neighborhoods and part of that work is part of a Northern District station board and that kept us in tune what is going on in the surrounding area we created a crisis plan for the district and for their annual event that was a good wake up call for us in japantown one thing we dont have in japantown a plan so this was a big step into the right direction really great that we dont have currently and promoting santa any background is marketing and communication in japantown and it is always a fun thing to do and this is for the fiscal year fy 20212022 we partnered with the cvd and sf office of Small Business for fleet week and shop and dine for the we also were fortunate to meet to introduce to a Japanese Company if tokyo and active art exhibits and brought that here to japantown i think that december we say over 15 thousand people evolving that was a great partnerships and to let you know, we continue that partnering today. Could putting together Visitor Friendly maps and with the quality of life and adding temporary murals were all part of and fun part of promoting japantown and making it lively as well and youll see the street centers were created we also participated in a lot of webinars to help to promote jpa and going back to supporting the Small Businesses a lot of grant were available for Small Businesses during fiscal year fy 20212022 a as you know japantown we have a lot of Small Businesses that are not English Speaking first language that is where we stepped in to assist them making sure they knew about that one for thing to help to guide them through the month of time online application process. Um, and also supporting Small Businesses meant we had to keep them updated with covid rolled news providing them with post covid testing again test kits as well. And then our budget as jackie mentioned as well as supervisor preston that we had a little over budget for the environmental and in japantown we met with the two Community Ambassadors and looking at the block by block contractor block by block youre contract was one hundred and 53 for a small cvd was a small biggest put a dent we tried to figure out what else can we do and later on we figured beauties of the hospitality portion and the Small Businesses indeed working towards the Economic Funds of the budget. And um, it is what it is one thing oh, i wanted to say in Previous Fiscal Year we need the raise half a Million Dollars from the Resilient Fund that fund helps us purchase masks whatever throughout the fiscal year fy 20212022. And being a smaller cvd was the small budget we are constantly looking for opportunities and always seeking support from our bigger businesses in the japantown with too so i mind also thing oewd chris, of course, and commissioner adams me, me part of the team and it is what it is. Thank you supervisor chan. Um. Thank you. For all the work youve done in japantown really one of my frankly my i like japantown my favorite spot and virtually can name all the doors doughnuts but have you know, you fill up some store funds with the shop calls kettle to for my kid but great to see kids enjoying those spaces i really appreciate it and i cant say enough all the shops and during a tough time in the pandemic and what i find youve done during the pandemic and was curious if youre because of unintelligible some great combinations of outdoor space and in door space in the middle for people between the one side and the other and bridges the entire space for japantown. And make that robust because you really have proclaimed the piece like so many things over the weekend im curious like i have calendar out and basically on the market that you put out on the calendar and again, which was happening will you be doing that for the year 2024. Definitely and we received certain cannot were waiting to hear from for the Small Businesses or will be a way finding to make sure that people know which entry they can come in and partnering with the director and i personally asked them for the support buses out there to show japantown is on a lot of things in the planning mode. So which is the construction done . Piece plaza after the cherry. In may and how long will the construction last. They said 18 months. Yeah. And about two years. Great. laughter unintelligible and so during the time the construction time what will be the plan for the Small Businesses like especially im thinking will the construction been happening in the garage parking . From what i know the garage will not be effected and maybe under construction but no mention of closures for garages. As far as, how were going to help Small Businesses is really making sure that we have activations in the other areas working closely with like the boutique and the Japantown Task force and church, i think has garnered the pays for u. S. Bank property and utilized that to mc it comfortable and, you know, just spread the love for the eastwest community. And for the construction is focused on unintelligible and correct. Will you move some of the committees to space . unintelligible . So much of the outdoor activations is happening i think a lot of the organizations will utilize like i mentioned the Hotel Boutique and the Japanese Community center in california fortunate we have those buildings organizations around that with i know utilities. Thanks to chair, i had the opportunity to join him in the community with a unintelligible and, you know, renovation and just really im so excited for japantown and in the future that comes, you know, what in step with the theatre adjacent all of the in moa of of any thinking about that conversation immediately adjacent to that. Not this year we stay close with the property planners family so i think when the time is right will reach out to us and letting us know what is go on were a small cvd so well keep you posted. I know the president can help you. Yes. Optimistic laughter and im sure that supervisor preston and i will tag team to make sure that especially, when construction begins youll need space to activate and happy to support you another alternative i see, you know, a couple of hotels and can activate for festivals and many other things for the activists in japantown and glad to help you with that. Thank you supervisor chan and definitely is Pretty Amazing how i think that japantown has um, come from a period during the pandemic where that was really a real question of survival of japantown and what was happening to the businesses and occurring for the subjective this reported a period like coming back and reopening and i think the cvd and all the neighborhoods really california together to really overcome a lot of adversity and show resilience and encourage japantown back and strong and want to recognition um, supervisor chan mentioned that the investments and you mentioned some of the various investments but around from the voters and investing in bonds and the peace placing the state money on that as well and unintelligible renovation and celebration of that kickoff a bunch of money from San Francisco and as well as from community and great to all celebrate that together so its good to see and hope to be more in terms of investments in the community as well as celebrate a lot of the businesses around for a while and have actively you work with and the status around the bridge recently is celebrated and just one other thing that is really relevant this the topic how active many of the businesses and the neighborhood groups were if not just advocating for japantown but one of the things i think that get a lot of attention how japantown businesses um, and neighborhood organizations and chinatown organizations advocates came together with our office with my colleague peskin around protection passed for Small Businesses i i guess evictions during the pandemic and again, providing some defenses for businesses around its been a long time coming. Debt and championed but what is significant about those they were helpful in protecting the businesses in the area that were advocating but protection benefited Small Businesses all across San Francisco so wanted to recognize that and thank i and a lot of the businesses i work with that are still involved and also before i give up the mic for the next person i wanted to say everyone listening and watching to come and celebrate it is coming up and in april so, please join us. And supervisor stefani. I want to thank you for your good work and japantown thriving all the time and someone that lived in japan for over a year so nice to be able to invite and go to the marketed and then go to the restaurants and just feel that um, sense of japan here in San Francisco it is important and just love is so much. Thank you very much for all your work for the continued success. Thank you. Thank you. And next up on the east cuts cvd robin. Thank you very much. Supervisor preston and supervisor stefani and supervisor chan thank you for having me here today here we go so im robinson the Deputy Director to give you a report on fiscal year fy 20212022 and it is interesting and a challenge to remember what we need the but. Great. Experience just from the east side of Second Street yerba buena to constituting street south market in fiscal year fy 202120224 thousand parcels plus in the last report 4 thousand 5 hundred parcels and increased by 4 hundreds and one of the interesting aspects were building Residential Housing at a really impressive rate especially in San Francisco the challenges for development here we currently are 200 percent affordable projects and looking for Affordable Housing in the next week or two happening in the terminal and um, like most of my peers do public stewardship we provide twentyfour hours from 5 30 to 10 00 p. M. And overnight security and throughout the day. And in commissioner adams nearly 800 needles and 120 tons of trash and on top up the trash cut to the chase trash cans and my team regularly connects folks to shelters and every day duty of our team and a few action hostile before and after cleaning up garbage and we have a man to take care of the park and we have mo park at harrison and doing the first park and maintained the funding for the microscopes and landscaping programming that happens in the park and partner with rec and park on mini park a small pocket park and small streets in the neighborhood it is just really an amazing oasis away from the hustle and business he will we have and landscaping and precovid three three programs a week few were getting close back to thirty from tuesday to lunchtime music to fitness classes and the target sort of teenagers and started after school dj program. And a shameless plug on the Easter Egg Hunt an amazing that event and then have two future parks one acre a temporary terminal sites and the other is the dog park and the project is under the dog park to get more attention to it but cvd is raising funds for the dog park and 1932 that entirely and participating with the rec and Park Department on the pelican park and lastly, a really now we have 15 thousand residents we have over 8 thousand housing in the neighborhood and 20 of how do we in the neighborhoods how we develop an identity and a place of pride a picture of a silence disco with the sales force park and as mentioned by jackie even before the terminal closed we negotiated with the dj to and ccii three acres and have two acres and Affordable Housing project as i mentioned, and brought in two soccer programs for the Affordable Housing and have pencil or pickle ball courts and has become the communities crossroads the center that has been an amazing source of pride for our organization but for the neighborhood. Um, and in to be a pretty hard streetscape we look for opportunities to sort of improve and enhance the community in amend opened the East Community garner 20 Community Garner 7 are dedicated to part of our housing building in the picture and that are for Community Beds and multiple people Work Together and the other 10 are awarded to a lottery the property is owned by ccii we magazine this Community Garden and have getting my peers through the newsletters we do a Quarterly Property management with 50 project managers representing millions of tenants and View Community events tonight to office on 28 fulton with a happy hour and if you want to come and social media and banners were trying to finally as youll see on the screen overwhelmed chair screening safety that limit sliver the pink sliver the communication building we are screwing every ounce of those dollars out thats my last slide any questions . Thank you. Mr. Robertson and supervisor chan. Thank you supervisor preston i think in our more detailed kind of really pertain that and wanted to understand and look at both again, just sections you mentioned about the parks and screens just the Maintenance Work that you said i think that is what i also think that in our last year was that last year . The year before you tabbed the earnings that you the cvd made can you walk through that. Ill use sales force but a center that is operated and we are joined by j p members for the cvd Board Members for the oversight and stewardship of our finances and partner with the staff and the ventures to participant in the landscape walks for the programming calendar for the year. Who are we reaching . Or not reaching and better be reaching . And one of our goals for sunsets and years Going Forward how to make people more aware of sales force park innovative and the Everything Else this San Francisco should be coming to beautify and a beer garden and that is i think does that answer your question . I think so because youre in collaboration so is it for promotion because youre talking about the marketing and how does that overlap. For parks will be for the stewardship and maintenance for the park is paying for the grass and the trees and pcia for the park and in the case of guide Place Community park our money on the closing decorative gate. Vp. It is staffing yeah we do stewardship. I think i know the answer i think that is some of our yerba buena but i saw the photo with the really in his pink jacket but walk through more in details about the plan for like Public Safety . Yeah. Sure we do not have the resources or not a program we dont have a Camera Program with that said, one of the features a tremendous unintelligible we are on the streets twentyfour hours and have people out there i have a staff member on the Southern Police station and do meeting with the project manager Property Managers and ambassadors doing all sort of things with the eyes and ears with the and elevating to nonemergency or two emergencies and circumstances but really just hours staffed. Remind me quarrel maybe a different cvd in terms of the cvd have a special hotline and you we dont i mean, i guess we do twentyfour hours i think all of us have it so we dont but, yes, i called them on my way here wanted to address multiple voices . Has. multiple voices. and a number. multiple voices . Actually call for assistance. I think that was one of our reports. Actually is on my report i think a little card has a anybody on that. How is that going . I think people look to the et al. My peers like the really nimble to the solutions so if there is graffiti or someone having a Mental Health issue there is someone there. Thank you. I had a question as youre talking for ms. Hazel wood one of the things in the different cvd reports that we have some cvd mr. Robertson said dont have surveillance cameras and others dont; right . We have some cvd choose to work with the programs with bringing on the that dont. Um, and i think so the circumstances of the neighborhoods different cvd are working in, you know, call for or, you know, different approaches but im curious like is oewd generally kind of neutral on the choices and i imagine that in the Technical Assistance role with the different cvd are asking about some of the people we contact with the ambassadors for example, lots of options and just yeah, im wondering if shed a light on how oewd approaches and suggestions around those different issues or um, yep or have recommendations how does that work . Yeah. I can speak to it and also i do benchmark unintelligible Deputy Director who has been in the role for a number of years but to speak quickly in terms of where were at in terms of where were moving forward and a lot of their efforts and limiting budget is identified whether cleaning or Safety Services or Economic Services that guys in terms of where potentially that tonnage comes from and in terms of conversation will turn to chris in terms of the guidance. Welcome, sir. Any light you shed on that im curious about a range of options like up to 5 or 10 places; right . And that is the decision the cvd maintains im curious what if any roll oewd places in laying out the options or making recommendations or an approach. Thank you thats a great question. Vice mayor perkins Economic Development that is a fantastic quell i wish i had three hours by generally speaking when a neighborhood row 92 or cvd renewing or forming a cvd they voep an management and that plan has generally what the services will look like and sometimes a higher degree of specificity for example, the tenderloin is incredible in their Management Plan and what kind of services theyll be presiding and others are more vague and up to their Owners Association board of directors and we are neutral during the conversations but a by the end partner in terms of the planning we need a long term 10 to 15 years and for example, if someone is talking about Safety Services and have you talked about to talked to another cvd what works and what does but well not say good idea or bad idea but not legal and they cant do something. Okay. Im wondering like cvd is could go that plan . Are we satisfied or something and come to oewd for Technical Assistance and they get like okay. Heres the list of the 5 or 10 cvd and before a recommendation of work with this group or work with that group and the same on, you know, whoufg it comes to cameras the owners are involved funding did cameras we dont know if on the other hand, recommended do or dont have surveillance cameras; right . Or heres the way the land is and creating the plan for the group. Just to be clear, we have never i tell all the cvd we dont provide names of contractors if they have questions about contractors they can talk to their colleagues and get recommendation from other cvd we dont do that if this he ask if we know of their works to they didnt work with cvd thats all we provide if cvd want us to provide recommendations we tell them no thats not something were in the business of doing and on their board of directors to typically issue competitive excelsior is going through right now. Solicit those and review those. Thank you for clarification thats helpful and echo actual the last three talking to kate about vendors and not just cameras but rely on each other. And in in any effort to be brief i would be remiss to not thank jackie and chris and oewd they really play an amazing roll in playing making sure we are doing what we are to do and stewards of the public funds and issue an rfq by being good surprises when you wanted to see who is doing cameras or the options unintelligible . Thank you very much. Yeah and i appreciate that clarification and entirely appropriate role; right . And what the gentleman said about encouraging the partnership and options which is organizations around what is working and what is not then having oewd do sort of a neutral is an important analysis. So unless there are other questions for mr. Robertson im not seeing any at the for your work and presentation and want to thank you for um, the pride if which you are talking about the Affordable Housing communities i know that is really important and i think it is just great you are you feature that in your report and it is point of. I apologize for interrupting but never received an ami from anybody in the neighborhood were built over 1,000 units and how do we build it Climate Change and. multiple voices. and may it be a others take note of what i think a lot of us have talked about Affordable Housing in our communities and just did want to note thank you for that as well and advocacy for open Space Community gardens and the neighborhoods that is a challenge and so with those thanks im going to turn it over to last but definitely not least tenderloin and executive director only been this time period you have been the cvd because of the district it happened like the sum of increased involvement and knowledge that your work is since youre the the direction but hard to mention the cvd before you but i guess the first youre coming on board. This is the year i almost want to skip this year this is the year i worked for a different county and bring me back to the tenderloin please laughter . Welcome laughter and the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor preston and really im so amazed by what was presented today and just thinking about that time though i was not in the city that year but knowing that um, this was really partnerships and leadership coming out of the toughest time for our city and our cvd were really in the for the most part of direct response work and amazed by collectively all the work um, that was accomplished if year and um, the True Partnership and support from oewd and other cities partners. Um, so, yes, i had my coworkers help me with this prediction for fiscal year fy 20212022 where i was not my gap year out of tenderloin the work continued and i worked with the community and um, and my coworkers during this time so just to start, you know, as you likely know our neighborhood and the toifrnd is so densely residents have the most concentration of Affordable Housing protected housing and that brings um, many immigrants and refugee and teachers and individuals living in sros over three 5 hundred children call the tenderloins home and have 6 thousand seven hundred and 50 um, seniors and have the ecigarette highest density of seniors living in the tenderloin and medium income of 38,000 a low income neighborhoods of people of color and we have over three hundred Small Businesses that are largely women and immigrant owned and really the most rationale kur89 neighborhood in the city and also host the largest open air drug trade in the city as well and have to mention that um, so your ill start with the Camera Program a program that is not covered under the assessment well talk about this more when he go into the budget but tlc communities are above the tax assessment none of the programs with covered and we do significant fundraiser every year as a nonprofit to grow and manage our all of our programs so we um, thats of pa year of Significant Growth for the Camera Network and just to be clear, a camera retreatal system no live monitor of our cameras and we work with im the Police Department the public defenders office, the District Attorney and even unprivate citizens to seek justice for violent assaulted crimes and two Staff Members read into the record to h responding to the from tone per coverage to 60 percent. Um, your Safe Passage Program this is a big transitional year for im our team our safe passage what happened started as a volunteer Program Volunteers and up until this year so fiscal year fy 20212022 was the year is transitioned into nonexempt hourly employees all the team members run the program all within the tenderloin the tenderloin residents. Um, you know this during this year our safe program was focused on emergency responses a lot of food access, you know, we switched to delivering meals to housing sites. Um, and helping provide escorts working safe walking escorts to it food pantries throughout the neighborhood that was children went back to school and it was, you know, really challenging our streets deteriorated significantly during the pandemic and if not for the presence and support of urban unintelligible i really fear what that would have been like to be a corner captain if phase it was dhainl for our corner captains to help kids again to and from school and a lot of focus under and different activations and fence a lot of street closures and we did play streets a lot of activities to help get the seniors and children out of their homes where they really were um, you know, still sheltering in place and coming outside for supportive resources and activities including covid testing i want to mention that is the year were celebrating 15 years of programs i want to thank you, supervisor preston for honoring the podium in the 15 year for me and really is the best investment of a tax investment right back into the neighborhood through jobs and employment and, you know, the program itself really came direct from neighborhoods and a direct response to their voices. Um, thats also the year that um, we shifted from the prior year our team was asked to expand our Safe Passage Program to the parks the parks were closed and macula park and others parks. Two of the three parks had just been renovated and i remember having the Opening Celebration and the next week was sheltering in place and those parks closed all three in them during the early stages of the project and the city asked us to have a presence in the parks it to reactivate them to open them back up it is the year question um, really solidified this is a the program built out the program of having statedship and cleaning at the parks every day we also had a lot of different activations and services in all the park on daily basis we coordinated with covid testing and today, we employ 20 residents as parking stewards and open to close every single day. So this is also the year our both our youth boys and Neighborhood Pride efforts deepened as we built the capacity direct the direct advising of the from tenderloin youth, residents, Small Business all were suffering greatly during the pandemic and november of 2021 was a resident march to city hall for young girls attacked trying to get to school and really sparked, you know, really the same thing this sparked the safe passage among the mother a sense of who is taken care of of our children and how do we keep them safe . This was really residents and a lot of small Business Owners coming together and saying, you know, we need immediate action we need Immediate Intervention and p lc v d has built that for direct voices really a funnel of organizations getting the needs met directly. So, you know, today were seeing, you know, the results of some of those collective efforts including the tenderloins action plan that brought 4 million to the toifrnd an incredible partnering that the planning department. Our clean team wisp under contract in the past year brought them in house and this was the corresponding app brought the 311 apps to the tlc for a quick Rapid Response during the toughest years of pandemic i cant say enough about the team and how they remained potential workers throughout the entire pandemic every single day out there from exempt one day of the year. As i mentioned before our budget, you know, we ended up significantly raising money over our tax assessments this was the year of Significant Growth for tlc v d to 5 million above the assessments and the park because we were front line workers in many ways and staffed up significantly. I kind of surprises me when i starred at tlc v d i was was on the boards before that thereof one board member and today 70 Staff Members and most of them around 50 are tenderloin residents that is really my commitment and into leading this organization we believe that tlc v d should be led by residents of the neighborhoods um, i digress this was a significant year of growth for the organization and um, and, you know, our at large focused on cleaning again, our assessment dollars dont cover the cleaning needs. Um, and so we through the state continue to um, work towards building out a more robust biscuit for cleaning and for our parks and big passage programs. Um, i want to say simon this growth was really under his time at tlc v d expanded our grant making efforts and brought us in 5 million above our assessments. Those funds really went directly to daily initiatives on improvements in the stabilization of the neighborhoods and up to 4 years of the growth and led a Strategic Planning process somewhat where the board and staff underwent a three year strategic plan. Um, through significant lose victories and changes and challenges simon served as steadfast leader up until he left as executive director in 2022 were grateful for all he gave to the tenderloin and were a Stronger Organization because he was there so at the and shout out for simon. Im so honored to be the tlc v d i cant building its been a year about a year and a half now and i guess want to share our values our team is really guide by our organizational courage and connections responsibility and just added the belonging. And i couldnt be more proud of this work and team really the favored we love and fight for everyday and so grateful for all the partnerships we receive, you know, day after day at tlc v d ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your time. Thank you, very much. And for the presentation and for all your work and definitely want to echo the congratulations and comments throughout the 15 Year Anniversary of the passage i want to say after toifrnd tenderloins was added to our district we went there the passage team and meeting the employees and volunteers it is incredible described many aspects not just about functionally about safer passage for kids to and from school by people in the neighborhood and caliber ac should be informational for others out on the streets and a enter acting with folks on a crisis in the street and whether a drug issue or ive seen this multiple times and aging with folks that are struggling and who was striking how effectively the Safe Passage Program has been engaging folks in a safe environment and resulting in a safer place cant thank that team enough and congratulations for the 15 years of that work and then, you know, a lot of the other work youve mentioned around the activations it is important people are landmarking what is Long Term Solutions and ways to keep the neighborhood stronger with the challenges so important to have not just the mentality of dealing with problems but what are the positive things were bringing to the neighborhood . I feel like the activation referencing and others are such. March 14th and multiple voices . Yeah. Yeah absolutely and i guess one final thing i want to say i noticed in the tenderloin um, i think there is an overall under investment by the city life talk about equity and how under investment in many ways in the tenderloin. Not just this mayor or the board this is a generation of under investments. In the community. So often we see that thing we would expect for Core Government Services why cleaning and operating parks and staffing parks and having um, a safe Passage Service things that one might hope will come a from the government; right . Are often limited and the policy discussions beyond thats what its all about. Talking about the cvd but the reality in in environment we see the cvd and other groups rely upon to provide a lot of service that better, more equitable would be provided not necessarily pushed on to the cvd i want to recognize that ongoing challenge that i think you all operate under you and i have talked about that with the partnerships for example, and in some ways cvd has helped people in a, you know, any violation of the city the parks would have the staff in there; right . But we know staffing is not possible right now. If i really want to activate the singularly part of tenderloin for hours and more availability of parks and so the cvd has stepped into some of those roles i want to thank you for that partnership and that willingness to sometimes it is frustrating. Are not prior by the city or may have to do those on a shoe string while the demands on our time i want to recognize that and i want to put that out there for the partners. With that, colleagues lets go ahead and open up all the items for Public Comment and members of the public with wish to speak on those items should line up now by the windows all speakers have two minutes to speak can the first speaker come forward . Mr. Chair comment. Public comment is closed. gavel . And i would like to again thank mr. C and hazel wood for their work and the directors we heard from and theyre team. So thank you and for your prediction and work and at the point send item 2 through 5 to the full board with recommendations. On the motion to recommend recommend 2 through 5 to the full board supervisor stefani, aye. Supervisor chan, aye. Supervisor preston, aye. I have three to silence your phones and other electronic devices. Public comment during the meeting is limited to 3 minutes and lets call item 6 to extend the resolution to the city and force chevron and usa as which parties has responsibility for the contamination of the property located in kern county california and on the usa Holding Upcoming eric without litigation to extend to authorize the City Attorney for the modification to the agreement not materially increase the obligations and a necessary to have the total agreement or resolution like to note this item has been agendized in the Committee Report. Thank you madam clerk and after open up for Public Comment and i want to note that it is my intention to let the colleagues unless they want to have a selection to act on that without kwooefrn in closed session go ahead and open up for Public Comment at this time a members of the public should line up by the windows and all speakers have two minutes to speak can the first speaker come forward and mr. Chair no Public Comment. Public comment is closed on this closed a while this i want to go into closed session and discuss this before i do i relatively have buffoon straightforward with the agreement i have no questions that require closed session thank you to the City Attorneys office for this information and colleagues anyone want to go into closed session before we act on that no comments and questions from colleagues so lets we will stay in open session and id like to make a motion to forward this with recommendation to the full board as Committee Report and on the motion for this forward to the full board. Supervisor stefani, aye. Supervisor chan, aye. Supervisor preston, aye. I have three is at the that motion carries. And madam clerk any other business before us and no other business today. Thank you we are adjourned gavel [meeting adjourned] [music] San Francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. At this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. One the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. There were 800 people in 1848 it was small. A lot of Historic Buildings were here including pony express headquarters. Wells fargo. Hudson Bay Trading Company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. Africanamerican decent and the first million airin california. Wilwoman was the founders of San Francisco. Here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. He spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. His father and brother in new orleans. We know him for San Franciscos history. Establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. Was not california yet and was not fully San Francisco yet. Because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. He was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. Mexico granted him citizenship. He loaned the government of San Francisco money. To funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. He established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the First Public School here and helped start the Public School system. He piloted the first steam ship on the bay. A big event for San Francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. There is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. I walk today before am a cute side street. At this point t is the center what was all his property. He was the person entrusted to be the citys first treasurer. That is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an africanamerican the citys first banker. He was not only a forefather of the establishment of San Francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. He had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in San Francisco. Part of our dna. You know you dont hear his anymore in the context of those. Representation matters. You need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. Like you. Like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. To have the citys first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. That alone is powerful. [music] my name is bal. Born and raised in San Francisco. Cable car equipment, technically im a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car indiscernible and been here for 22 years now. I grew up around here when i was a little can i. My mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. I ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. [ music ] fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. I started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. Basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. This is your basic Public Transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. I work at the Cable Car Division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. This is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. Joking. This is called a barn because everything takes place here and the powerhouse is thats downstairs so thats the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a title there saying the barn. Since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now its electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. Yeah. I am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. And we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and thats causing the little extra noise were hearing now. We have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. Then with have two in storage. Theres four gear boxes. Its gears of the motor. They weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. We did the whole barn that year so its difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brandnew. Engineers room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. That sound you heard there, thats a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. The cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. The cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the cable. Its a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and they pull it back. The cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so its heavy, emergency pulling it offer the hill. If it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and its a billion pushing the grip which is pushing the whole cable car and theres no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. A lot of maintenance. [ music ] rail was considered to be the old thing. Rubber tires, cars, buses, thats new. There were definitely faster and cheaper, theres no question about that. Here at San Francisco, we went through the same thing. The mayor decided we dont need cable cars indiscernible , blah, blah. We can replace them with buses. They are faster and cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. He was right. Back in 1947 when they voted that, im surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. That was the headline. That was the demise of the cable cars. indiscernible came along and said, stop. No. No, no, no. She was the first one to say were going to fight city hall. She got her friends together and they started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. Are we going to keep the cable cars or not . Head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. This is just a bunch the city came out and said basically, 31, if im not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. And literately if it wasnt for them, there would be no cable cars. People saw Something Back then that we see today that you cant get rid of a beautiful and it wasnt a Historical Monument at the time and now it is, and it was part of San Francisco. Yeah, we had freight back then. We dont have that anymore. This is the number one tourist attraction in San Francisco. Its historic and the only National Moving monument in the world. The city of San Francisco did keep the cable car so its a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of San Francisco. And obviously, everyone knows San Francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of San Francisco, but thank god it didnt. How soon has the city changed . The diverse of cable cars when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the first cable car. We have three or four being a grip person. Fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. I want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. We have wonderful women come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what its about. Continuing to empower women. My name is Willa Johnson is and ive been at cable car for 13 years. I came to San Francisco when i was five years old. And that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a Christmas Tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didnt ride again until i worked here. I was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a change. Some people dont do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. It was a general sign up and thats when you can go to Different Divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. There were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a Different Division and cable car was it. I do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to repsent the cable car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so its exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. I have some people say i wouldnt make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. Its a good division. And i like ripping cable cars. I do. I think she just tapped into the general feeling that San Francisco tend to have of, this is ours, its special, its unique. Economically and you know, a rationale sense, does it make sense . Not really. But from here, if you think from here, no, we dont need this but if you think from here, yeah. And it turns out she was right. So. And im grateful to her. Very grateful. [laughter] three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] did i i did that on purpose so i wouldnt. I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the Community Ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. Good morning everybody [applause] good morning. [applause] and welcome. [applause] theres my grandma. Well come. Welcome to San Francisco James R Herman cruz terminal at pier 27. The first stop for all most 300 thousand people