Chocolates theres a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. Now this is a given right there. Im curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities youve put together not only of San Francisco food in San Francisco but food across the bay area. This type of market with the local savors the highend products is great. I know people cant believe theyre in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i dont have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. How long has this been operating in San Francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. We have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. So lets talk sandwiches. Uhhuh. Can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. Our broadened is were going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. So you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. This is its own the city the Airline Crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and weve established relationships it feels good. When i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like im not city. I was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true we have a lot of regulars we didnt think wed find that here at the airport. People come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. The food is great in San Francisco its a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. Im impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. This is a little bit of things for everybody theres plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. Tell me about the future food. Were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what our passengers want. I look forward to see what your cooking up laughter today weve shown you the only restaurant in San Francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you dont have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating. Com good morning my name is allen im the competitive for the Probation Department honor and privilege to welcome you to the jungle hall that facility was opened in 2007 we moved from an 88 bed worn down delipidated facility to this one and 50 bed facility we occupy at a point the city and county struggled with overcrowding in the facility by april of 2008 the newly opted out facility exceeded the one and 50 bid capacity that same year the average daily population in Juvenile Hall was one and 23 we knew we could do better and the interventions were more effective than keeping kids it custody as a result the city embarked on a aggressive journey for the program see to serve as alternates to santa fe tension at the same time our juvenile justice shareholders 1r69d in Collaborative Partnership and Strategic Focus on the needs of youth and the families we serve depiction programs and Evening Reporting Centers and electronic referrals to Community Agencies all coupled with evidence based supervision resulted in the drama reduction in the number of youths referred to the juvenile system and those detained in Juvenile Hall last year our average daily population in juvenile halting hall was 56 now 45 youths in the facility and half of the units are unoccupied with the sequence reduce to alltime lows we want to repurpose the facility to address the root causes that bring youth into the jewel just system among them the many Adverse Childhood Experiences that shaped their values and dudes and beliefs and circumstances ultimately marketrateism in criminal conduct in the community the merit center the first of those initiative opportunity were excited to showcase today if we provide our youth with the matter of fact and support to change their barf and teach them the skills to steady in school at home and in the workplace we wont see them reenter the center and recuse recidivism further this merit center within jewel hall provides the youth with recreational opportunities to which we earn access by their completion of school work, active participation in unit programs and positive social conduct with peers and adults we like to thank the Unified School District the department of health the Public Library our jewel Probation Commission the bus project Sunset Youth Services city youth now and all the stakeholder persons for their generous support of the new center i also want to especially acknowledge director louis and the staff of the jewel hall for their hard work to open the center in addition to mayor lees remarks this morning youll hear from judge supervisor judge of the superficial and mr. Joe president of the jewel probation and following the remarks of speakers well show one of the vacate unit before we procedure down the hall to the marries center for a Ribbon Cutting ceremony im pleased and hoirnd to introduce the may mayor of that great City Wholesale ununderstanding work shaped the program and encouraged our Creative Ideas to further expand our Services Without further delay the honorable mayor ed lee please. clapping. thank you allen for that introduction your hour and commissioner and thank you to the staff you know, i guess my First Impression we come a long ways it used to be certainly when i came to the city it was all about confinement and isolation over many years and now as allen counterfeited the part and parcel weve had to create we really understand how much of a vinyl we had to create you know that goes back to the saying takes a village it takes a village to change kind of the behavioral in the way we feel proud of each other and more so than any other period of time that is when investing in our kids rather than the oldfashioned punishment and hopefully, theyll learn punishment confinement, isolation, have never been Great Teachers of changing that barf it is the village of support the merit stwrm, the attempt to identify what motivates the human barf in a different way to reimagine this center our Juvenile Justice Center no longer do you are refer to as a jewel detention but the jewel center but more importantly to have the money for people that are concerned about the change of barf and what cased people to come here to suggest we can have the best minds and practices right here to help people and motivate them into a different direction that works it is not just that we have less youth although i think that is as an incredibly piece of data but also how we measure how people are changing less violation a greater collaboration, and i also will never forgot the father and mother fact we have great partnerships leak hustling berry youth in the community to you make sure we are doing our best we cant just put it on folks he on detention facilities and put if on programs we have to intervene and understand the circumstances symptom their historic and sometimes years of abuse sometimes their reflection of what we can do to reinforce you are care for many of the youth that may come from very, very deft backgrounds im sure the commission understands going case by case sometimes pain staing to understand what families are going through and lack of a family is a truer circumstance we learn from each other not to be solely dont think but a holistic approach to what we want to have happen and as a result and then hold ourselves accountable we need our young people belief theyre in a society to be more successful and get them out of the danger and harming themselves and each other they get into a system where that barf can be reinforced for what we want to see happen that takes a lot of effort by a lot of people at different stages of peoples lives judicial based obviously enforced by our jewel Law Enforcement that joins this i come not to only cut a ribbon but reflective on a better understanding of the city what it takes to change peoples lives for the better and reinforce is a structure that perhaps if we had properly invested in many of the parts of society we might be better off we didnt we allowed lots of families to get to poverty holes in the city im trying to do in other areas rebuilding Public Housing and commissioner norton we know is evidence of violation getting kids jobs and careers giving a path forward and helping families reunite and helping the kids off the streets and into a better situation are part of elements of a great city but today, we focus on what happens here when the kids are brought here and how we can not just use confinement and punishment and isolationism and think that will help but that we actually use the best of your yadz and try to motivate people to a better direction and give life reinforcing skill sets to invest in themselves at the same time i want to applaud all the elements we put together into the staff at allen leads and i know a lot of you know we always give credit but allen youre the leader i appreciate the work with staff you kept me informed and any staff informed i want to say thank you to the commission that hears those cases appeal and otherwise and some of the horrible stories of the people and the judicial system more and more it is not about just dismissing citations not but how we use the ability to capture someones attention but not capture them physically but give them an opportunity to move forward we believe in San Francisco and in the values that we uphold it gets tested here we have less but also upon release people getting back to their families and communities and places where we want to be and having that reinforced in our onion communicated society we have back up programs so that what has learned cant think unlearned thats positive replacement this is what happens at the Juvenile Justice Center im happy it on up not merit based program that can work but that were also not foolish enough to think i have to fund the people and keep them motivates because people that do this day to day a base have a reason tobacco depressed you see that over and over and over again, thats is life and in a great city of San Francisco we motivate everyone to a higher level to make sure that the positive things we do truly want to believe this city is for and we can be a beacon to many other areas of our country perhaps that have not learned what that is to motivate people have is learn and until that well teach anothers this is what this merit system will allow us to learn from it and do better and the best example is kids and the quality of life 31 they will lead and be part of a Great Society so all of i want to say thank you very much for your intervention, your participation, your leadership and reminding me as the mayor and the board that we have obligations well beyond the budget, well beyond the immediate things that come before us we have to be holistic to what happens 2509 skids and families congratulation and allen to the entire staff for creating and now we get to sustain a great example thank you. clapping. good morning. My name is joe joe the supervisor judge of the family court an honor to be here im not say much more mr. Mayor you said it all ill add it is not just a village but comprised of people that care about the youth and community and future and i impasse the values of San Francisco mr. Mayor youve been supportive of program of the court. Thank you for your kind remarks allen youve been a phenomenal leader in juvenile probation and all the commissioners that help and guide us thank you but to everyone as partners in the Public Defenders Office jean from the district Attorneys Office, conflicts council all the jewel probation everyone that works in the program really cares about children you cant you cant sustain the caring and compassion i want to thank everyone and mayor for your support cleaver and keep any remarks under a minute there we go thank you clapping. thank you. I wont take long either i want to first time start off by threatening mayor ed lee and chief and the others folks weve its been a Long Time Coming i was a member of the city family when we had you know over one hundred youths in the facility and thanks to the contribution over the years through the budget process by the mayor and the board of supervisors consistently funding the department making sure it has the resources here we go i want to put this in perspective a city of nine hundred thousand with 45 facilities is striking and as you know, representing the commission i want to say that we dont want to rest on that laurels those 4 are here we need to address do root causes why theyre herethorax he applaud the department for thinking outside the box thinking of ways to connect with the youth whether taking them sailing or camp mather bringing in folks for expression of poetry and things were trying to do to correct connect the youth so they dont ends up here again and those thefdz of thinking outside the box are helpful as we you know move forward today with the Ribbon Cutting of merit center the commission strongly supports the efforts of the department and will doing everything we can to make sure that we continue to drive down that number and really help the youth thank you very much. clapping. so we will now proceed next door where you will have an opportunity to briefly see one of the existing units for who dont know the units and precede to the merit center where the Ribbon Cutting will our. Ill count down everybody 3, 2, 1 clapping. something you guys cooked up in here does if ring a belthat ring a b . Hi everybody, we down here at the ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. We were going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about San Francisco. How are you doing kelly . Very well, thank you for having us here. In front of us, we have a typical soft story building. When i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. A lot of people dont know these are problematic buildings. Why dont you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings . Soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. When we talk about the soft story, what were talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. So were looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. Now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in San Francisco look like. And the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. They have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea its significantly less country srabl in those stories. Now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. That very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. That wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. When the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and theres very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. So we know theyre vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing is this only a problem we see in sentence france . San francisco . No, this is certainly a national problem. More acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. This kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. When youre involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. We had a Community Group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. Tell us about how that conversation went. Why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings . There were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are vulnerable. And that effort brought in a lot of people from different aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the Housing Stock and the possible ramifications of losing this houbgs in the case of an earthquake. The financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make San Francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. Its such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this seurb but we actually did something about it. Now we have an order unanimouses put in place to protect 100,000 residents in San Francisco and retrospective in 2020. So on behalf of residents and employees in San Francisco, we want to say thank you for the work youve done in pushing this forward and making people more aware of these issues. And it was a fantastic community effort. So in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings . What happens when an earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. Its mostly the horizontal that were worried about. It starts moving the Building Back and forth and pushing on it. When you see im pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. Luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so its a lot easier. Now kelly, obviously these arent real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff . The easiest and most costeffective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall thats already there where you dont need to have an opening is where you maybe have a garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. But some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength thats required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant and less vulnerable. Ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above. If im a property owner, what is the first thing i should do . The first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. And third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. Well kelly, i cant thank you enough for being here today. Thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in San Francisco. And you the viewer, if you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website good morning welcome and thank you for being here bright and early on a post halloween morning and i hope everybody had their fill of candy happy to be joined by my chef deputy and City Attorney bother working diligently on the case well discuss this morning and filed documents this morning as you may know a natural civil rights equal justice under the law filed a federal claishgs illuminate again San Francisco amending the state money balances was unconstitutional it unfairly allows the wealthy to go free and the poor remain in jail it was filed two the city and city and sheriff hennessey oversees the city and county of San Francisco jails was added and, of course, dismisses the claims against the state and city my office represents the sheriffs as Legal Counsel up until now in my office harnt taken a position since this was filed we worked diligently to look at the argument and what theyre seeking in the value it of the bail law and hard work to protect the taxpayers from enforcing the law we successfully done those things and now the heart of issue the state failed system is unzuckerberg San Francisco general constitutional people andrews on suspension of a crime are held in jail unless at the pay money as collateral those amounts are a bail schedule and state law requires the Supreme Court judges in each certificate of occupancy and the sheriff enforce if you can pay you, get out of jail if you cannot you dont get out of jail that is a reflex to the Community Whether you can pay for your freedom a two tier stop one with money and one without not right and in keeping with the constitution it is time for it to stop to echo u. 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Attorney general loretta relinquish no price tag on justice i believe the states bail system specifically the bail system before arrangement is unconstitutional thats why my office filed papers in Supreme Court well not defend that law we are innovate taking issue with the law but about the existing bail process prior to the point of arrangement at arrangement a judge has the opportunity to review the circumstances and make an individual bail determination based on all the facts a bail schedule that lists the price of freedom without consideration of the individual circumstances is not serving the interest of the government or the public and unfairly discriminates against the poor Government Entities in other states tackle the problem in lawsuits like alabama, kansas, missouri and mississippi and louisiana have reformed their action but my action is the first time that a Government Entity has refused to dangerous people need to remain incarcerated how much money someone has is not picture measure of the 245e9 right now we have a system that someone can be locked up for days because they cant pay for your freedom and someone dangerous what about free someone for marijuana for sale can be locked up and not by a bail but someone paying one and 50 thousand can be out for rape that needs to change thats why were taking this step this is decades in Robert F Kennedy were attorney general only one factor determines whether a defendant stays in jail not guilt or innocence but the nature of the crime not the character of the defensive that is money in testifying in congress the attorney general told a store 54 days in jail one person couldnt afford a bail for the maximum penalty was 5 days in jail two years Later Congress passed its the bail reform act in 1968 that polishes the federal system uses a model that cantonese those people that are a flight reflex or danger to others maybe condition a dna sample or curfew and bail cannot urban design set in an amount a person couldnt afford in 1987 our society liberty that the norman and detention prior to trial or without trial is the exemption states, however, have not necessarily followed suit as an example report this issue by the nonprofit nonpartisan prison found 6 hundred and 36 thousand people locked up and in more than 3 thousand jails in the United States 70 percent are held pretrial meaning not convicted of a crime or legally presumed innocent in february 2015 did u. S. Department of justice arguing a bail that carding people before trial solely because of theyre not able to pay for this is violating the Fourth Amendment the u. S. Department of justice said they must not cause people to be incarcerated solely because they cant pay keeping people locked up for no reason they cant post bail has other consequences people loss jobs and family fall apart and taxpayers dont need this in terms of the current bail some h system is not only unconstitutional but bad Public Policy the district of columbia has been very proactive in the area and dont use prearrangement bail it workouts well, in the district of columbia and in fiscal year 2017 the district of columbia were realized 98 percent avoided arrest for Violent Crimes and 88 percent made all air scheduled court pioneers that is an issue that has gardened National Attention and the chief Court Justice convened a working group to come up with recommendation by december of 2017 to deal with that situation which Everybody Knows needs to be reformed were hopeful with our action well give impetus u tuesday and make sure we have a reformation of a bail system no doubt here in california unconstitutional you may note a need for reform for the bail system and the laws governing it we plan on working with the senator to make sure that the todays action has impetus to have reform at the state level to have a bail system here in california it is constitutional and fair and workable and protects the public that is it is intended to protect thank you all for coming i look forward to any questions question. Bob. inaudible . There will be two options number one the states attorney general can step in and defend the snuflt of the state law or number two already been a motion intervened by and bail bondsman that motion was denied i would anticipate that theyll renew that motion either the attorney general or the interskweern and rogers will make that determination and i think that is likely theyll be someone to step up to defend the uncomfortably. inaudible . No i dont think that is likely their wont be changes tomorrow are today bob alluded it to say likely that Something Else will make an effort to defend the law well have to wait and see how that litigation plays out this is a pretty good big statement the first time the city has stepped up it sends a message allowed there is changes in the future i think that at the lefrs the potentially or the evolve outlet there is a change in the system we have i dont anticipate we wont see anything in the self disease. Not necessarily a call to action a concrete step it is a further impetus to a movement growing across the country there are other advocacy groups that have a call to action my job to defend the laws and what i think one is unconstitutional ill not step out and defend this is what were doing today. inaudible . Do you know what the plan say you guys are right. Well the reformation has to starred in the state allergic i dont have the power assemblyman boca will be the leaders on the reform well wait and see there is a state mandate that each court system in each county as 5 bail schedule this is something that has to happen at the state level. It is been in what decades this is the Current System been around for decades and it is the combrefrnd as i alluded to nationally Robert Kennedy was talking about this in 1964 this is the norman in the United States and it certainly the norm in california that is a certain a very, very good step. What happened everything you dont have inaudible i guess im curious as to the people that have the money theyll basically be required to pay. If you look at it what needs to happen Everyone Needs to be treated fairly and equally under the law with the current prearrangement bail system a person who has the means just pays the money and walks out the as a matter of fact everybody should be treated equal in post arrangement bail everyone has their case yielding reviewed by the judge that makes a determination if theyre a flight reflex whats the risk to sorority of that yield being out on the streets here in prearrangement bails we dont have that we need fair enforcement of justice to make sure that all cases with yielding reviewed by a judge who makes sure that that person does not pose a flight reflex or minimize the risk to the community and a variety of other ways in which you can assure that yield is make their Court Appearance and show up for trial i can have all sorts of supervision from check in these with the court to emails, to supervised visits to make sure that yield is supervised and make sure theyre returning not based on money and everybody has to have their case adjudicated in a fair even way under the provision of a court officer. inaudible . Well, theyre the same standard or still have to pay. Well have to see every case is jashthd should be adjudicated by a judge certain a bail might not a component but not only the with only way to pay and get out. inaudible . The money bail is a bad thing inaudible . Well, ill say im not going to get into policy but certainly a prearrangement before a case it look at by a judge money in and of itself in our view as the only means unconstitutional what roles the money plays down the road as a component after a judge reviews a case well have to see but right now what we are doing to prearranging bail and having money and wealth the only dictator yeah. Relative to the a judge adjudicates a case well in a system you know each person stands out in inaudible . I dont think so no, no washington, d. C. Public school dont does that the federal system does that and you know what ive got to say convenience shouldnt be the dictator of what is just and what sorts of justice people charged with a crime get were all sdiermentd to equal protection under the law only if it is convenient it does not say or how much money we have thats right. Youre referring inaudible we filed affirming today, well nobody be defending the case im saying that is unconstitutional. inaudible . Correct. Okay thank as a society weve basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people dont have any of those im mr. Cookie cant speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. Open the door and walk through that dont just stand looking out. As they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure im david one of the cofounder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didnt know how to cook. I heard about the Cooking School through the Larkin Academy a. Their noting no way to feed themselves so theyre eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i w excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. As i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. Particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is Charity Foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this Charity Foundations and she said, yes. Im a cofound and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday theyre really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city theyre our stand alone colas we had a series or series still city of Attorneys Office style of classes our final are night life diners. Santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and ive been here about a year. We want to be sure to serve as many as we can. The San Francisco Cooking School is an amazing amazing partner. It is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. Im sutro sue set im a chief 2, 3, 4 San Francisco. Thats what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like its there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. Hi, im antonio the chief in San Francisco. The majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. I like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like its a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. I go for vera toilet so someone cant do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they cant use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me youre not successful. We made a vegetable stirfry indicators hed ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen id cook more. Some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasnt taught how to cook. I have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. The more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify theyre not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. It is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. Well have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 were really excited. A lot of the of the conditions in San Francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the San Francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. Wed never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case thats something people are 2rrd in doing. You cant buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids dont have this you have to instill they can do it theyre good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future fo everyone. Welcome and thank you all for coming this morning here my chief deputy City Attorney and evan that has been working diligently on the investigation in this case and thank you for your efforts part of my responsibility as City Attorney to protect San Francisco residents and taxpayers from unfair or lawful Business Practices my office filed a Law Enforcement over the tower the reason for the action is simply because of the facts in the case are so clear but not make them any less my Office Investigations shows the developer mission district, llc knew for a year before they began selling condominiums to the 58 story residential building was sinking faster than expected yet they went ahead and solid accumulated without telling the buyers about the situation we were legally required buyer be aware didnt cut it smol someone selling real estate must disclose that when construction of tower was completed in february 2008 it had already settled a lot of 6 inches 6 inches was a a maximum amount of engineering appreciated it would sink it had reached the point a year again, the developer began selling the condominium by february of 2009 just before the condos went on the market the tower settled 8. 3 inches more over the maximum amount predicted by the geotechnical engineer on may the developer had data showings the tower way continuing to settle at different rates in different parts of property that leads to the building tilting now the building has sunk 16 inches and news report say it is sinking at the base before they sold a single condominiums Mission Street development, llc knew theyre building sunk more than it was supposed to and that was still sinking yet doesnt dell the homeowners theyre required under the law Mission Street, llc turned over 19 hundred packages of documents with the disclose information about the property as a result of the subpoena that my Office Issued in september these disclosures documents discussed everybody from color and marble to noting the size and types of of the plans in the common area change but they left out of most important detail no where is the city aware of Mission Street, llc disclose that the building settled faster than it was designed to do thats not just a bit of information perspective homeowners would like to know the information the developer is legally required to provide and at the heart of the case the homeowners have filed define the Transportation Authority and the city and county of San Francisco my office is bringing this lawsuit to a cross complaint against the Mission Street, llc they filed it today in a case of a number of millennium homeowners have sued the joint Powers Authority and the San Francisco city center theyre building a tower next to the site San Francisco is one of the members of the authority the authority is a separate legal entity and our cross complaint we are seeking damages the court feels is appropriate in 2013 when it closed its for sale millennium brought in what delighted quota massive 78 hundred there are no thousand dollars it was one . 8 million my office has a duty to protect the taxpayers of 70 spot sit by and allow a developer to gunshot themselves by hiding information in their required by law to disclose that gave the developer in this case an unfair advantage and cheated the homeowners out of the information they needed to make an informed choice thats summarized the information and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Go in order. inaudible . No do not. Was there a choice to file a criminal complaint. This is a civil complaint i dont have the power under the law to file a criminal action this is a can i feel complaint were not seeking reference nor have i made referral to the duo District Attorney or any other entities that makes that inquiry yeah. Is the filing a cross complaint. Thats correct. The homeowners that sued the transbay joint Powers Authority and the city and county of San Francisco. Well, it is depend on what the findings is in this case, the damages according to prove and in the event there was a finding against a city an indemnity against the developer since their the party at fault. inaudible . Monetary damages yeah. inaudible . Well, i think that thats right what everybody that should be the primary concern of everybody were protecting life and safety i know theres a review going on by other city agencies to make sure that that the building is safe from everything im told the building is safe and would perform in an earthquake thats not the focus of my inquiry at this point but i know the city and the mayor and the department of building inspection and everybody has focused on assuring paycheck and safety. inaudible . Well, ill disagree as a matter of fact the department of Building Department dbi didnt have information about the current settlement until the past july so thats something that will be discussed in litigation. inaudible youve already said in some litigation the homeowners waited too late to file their filing against the city you said theyve known about it since 2015 and should have settled sooner you want the now your intervening that goes sg against the millennium developer and then he going against the developer and they dont have any money theyre out out of luck your Public Health theyre wrongly suing the city and on the other hand, youre saying it is millenniums fault. The as a matter of fact jackson i think what youre referring to a lawsuit that was filed against the city we filed and refiled today but weve been clear the vocal point of this needs to be on the responsible party thats the developer because if you accounted a lot the claim before us and the complaint against the city it is basically for a condemnation and the claim of the value it because what has occurred there was a loss of value not an adequate disclose made to the purchasesers by the developer at the time of the arbitration it was completed thats what cause the loss in value has occurred from my perspective the vocal point is on the responsible party the developer who has known about this all along and not disclose the information that was required to disclose to their purposeers or pro seismic purchasers. Im sorry. Ill come back to you. Certainly i do absolutely i think that you know this is every homeowners Worst Nightmare a lot of people go through this they know what happens when the investment it is to go and purchase a home or condominium sometimes you have peoples entire savings they put forward to purchase something thats why this is egregious and the california raw is to district and expensive whaven when it comes you must throwers for the purposeers the reason for the law in this area is to that people dont get ripped off and theyre protected and in our view what makes that egregious when you look at all the disclosures and the marble eloquently goes to the heart of what one considers had making an transaction yet i have compassionate for the folks thats why were stepping in to make sure the developer that the city is making sure that the responsible party here is paying for their misdeeds. You have a question. inaudible . It is it is. inaudible . Okay this gentleman here. inaudible . Im sorry inaudible . We received 19 hundred pages of documents in respond to a subpoena we issued in september. Oh, okay. inaudible 2011. Yeah. Do you think that although it is millenniums responsibility arent you you embarrassed the agencies didnt bother to tell nobody that the citys job for safety obviously they can step in a do the right thing in 2009 including those are by all measures the presented measure of settlement is he watched and the city knows the millennium is not telling you it is readily apparent or the. At least be careful with the words the gentleman asked about criminal activity im not sure anyone is committing a crime no doubt that dbi knew about settlement in 2009 but it wasnt until this past july dbi had Additional Information about the continuing settlement accordance of differential settlement they didnt have all the information number one but number two the second part of our question you whos the one that is dealing with the purchaser the city is not in a position of knowing what the developer is disclosing to pro seismic purchasers were not in a contract the city didnt interjefferson county themselves into all transactions we dont know what in their disclosing to the purchasers it was as a result of our subpoena that we preserved the disclose and went to the purchasers and saw what was and not disclosed if we followed the logic the as a matter of fact of the matter the city being sure on all home purpose in San Francisco stepping in and trying to monitor and interjefferson county themselves in that to see in profits are made or not made its simply your city is a aware of the position and let them get away with it and actually nobody recorded a crime so nobody recorded it. We didnt release or know that millennium was not living up to its obligations the second we got the information we were not aware they were living up to their obligation we taken steps to address that so ill say you know we operate laws are on the book people expect their live up to the obligations we become aware theyre not well take action and be aggressive about that thats what were doing today and inaudible . Im sorry in my office i have a code Compliant Office division. inaudible . Somebody from City Building look at this and you Start Talking about you have this building we talk about the fact that may not be seen a big earthquake was a threat i mean the city just walked away under the table. As dbi has gotten information the department of building inspection thats who i presume youre asking about theyre involved and making sure that the building is safe and i dont think that anyone is walking away and trying to say it is not anyones problem the city is aggressive in the health and safety and the terms of discloses to make sure that millennium their obligation is up and thats what were talking about today. inaudible . I cant speak to that thats something the department of building inspection will be continuously working with the developer as it processes and not anything i can speak to yes. inaudible to fix the problem and what you know what is the next step that building is still i cant speak to a criminal inquiry that is something for the District Attorney or Something Else i have were unaware of at this time but if we become aware nushgs we thought darned a criminal inquiry well make that referral but i dont have any indication. Yes. It is about monetary damage; correct. No according to prove the courts democrats as we go through the case. inaudible that are it is urban precedent have you not necessary developer. We sue people and entities all the time. This is obviously i dont think this is obviously a very, very serious case and a big case in a highprofile case but you yufgs one case is more important than at a homeowner feels their safety is threatened even though this is not a high profile this is a big case and a Big Development this is unprecedented case inaudible . inaudible . I cant will you at this point. inaudible . Well, we obviously directing your attention of this litigation looking at everything obviously well have to in terms of handling this case. Part of our toufbz about the disclosure inaudible part of our objectives we should be more scrutiny and will be scrutinizing this and the developers be wander and ill not is that actually, i think that here in california basis there are such robust and protective disclosure laws ill find in most incidents in purchases of hopes and development there is a lot of disclosure a lot of disclosure because buyers are sophisticated and sellers are they know what the law requires thats what makes this particular egging gregarious you have a very, very sophisticated developer but be assure if someone is not living up to their legal responsibility wed like investigate and take action where appropriate ill not say this is sending a message i think that most sophisticated developers and purchasers are aware of their legal responsibility and live up to it. Yeah. inaudible the stores youve done can you talk a little bit about more about the development. Thats the developer of an affiliate that was wraeshl for the sale of the condos in the beginning of the marketing of that. inaudible . An affiliate, an affiliate. Take two more questions aj has not had a chance. inaudible we thought that was the best deal for the case and knew we had to file an answer and orderly in a case like this if you going to file an answer you have a cross claim choose to go to this group two more questions. Obviously in terms of our case the millennium will be i should just to be clear Mission Street development will be served and with the complaint and theyll have an opportunity to respond file an answer and well see where that goes. inaudible . Said an obligation to disclose. Yep. inaudible im kind of confused those guys profited millions of dollars for failing to disclose a serious problem and walk away with the money that is why isnt this a crime and there when you file a criminal action i know that makes for a sexy sounds like bidded owl crimes very specific elements and as we reviewed this to date we are obviously im not a criminal lawyer but reviewing this and we see a violation of civil lay in the event we thought this was an element to the crime we referred it but does see any element of criminal activity we filed an action of a lawsuit i dont throw the word out criminal crime willynilly without having evidence i dont have any evidence if i did ill make the information to the appropriate party. Okay inaudible . No, thats were going to have to see where this goes if there is liability we found a contribution or who is held responsible for the payment of damages well have to see where things go in this case at this time it is premature to talk about that. But but if you think about damages yeah. I dont know what a mechanism would be because of the early stages of the litigation thank very Mayors Disability Council meeting for october 2016 and be here until 4 p. M. We will have sth introduction red by Denise Senhaux good afternoon and welcome to Mayors Disability Council meeting, this friday october 21, 2016 in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister streets via ramps. Wheelchair access is polk street carton b goodlet
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