Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Budget Finance Committee 10715 20151008

Supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Could you call item one . Resolution, authorizing the sfpuc general manager to accept an additional award through the sfpuc mlu, with the Solano County water agency for the implementation for a Regional Water conservation program, funded in part by the grant funds from the California Department of Water Resources for a total of award up to 1 million. Good morning. And chair person, and the members of the budget and finance committee, i am amanda and the administrator with the Public Utilities commission and i am here to present on item one, part of the background, the board of supervisors in 2012, approved the sfpuc expenditures. Could you pull the microphone closer. 863,000, to support the high efficiency replacement program. They received a greater number of toilet installations and eligible for the reimbursement and several of the 13 agencis that also received the round one grant funds, did not achieve sufficient, customer participation to extend the total grant awards and these unused funds are what were provided to the agencies that exceeded the target, as a result, eligible receive an additional 123,000 in unused grant funds, these additional funds will further support the water, conservation program, and helping customers replace old, inefficient toiletwise high efficiency models. This agreement, and the sfpuc will be awarded a total of 986,000, with reimbursement for high efficiency toilets, i thank you for your time and happy to answer any questions. Supervisor tang . Thank you Association Much and we think that this is a Great Program for the city and i was wondering if you could talk about how the out reach as gone in terms of San Francisco and i know that it is very successful. But just curious as to the work that pc does to reach out to customer and let them know about this program. Sure, as originally targeted at the puc customers on the Assistance Program and receiving a discount on the water and waste water rates. So we reached out to them since we have the customer information through notices on the bills, and direct mail and notice and things like that and they we broadened the program to also work with the Mayors Office of housing to target the Affordable Housing properties throughout the city. Great and once the grants are exhausted, are there, i mean does the puc foresee this continuing, and or, other future grant opportunities, i mean, again i think that it is a Great Program and i hope that it will be able to remain in San Francisco. Definitely, so we are continuing the program, and we actually Just Launched a different version of the program, for the municipal, facility and buildings and targeting the old fixtures that remain throughout the facility and that is going on now and we are working with the department of public works on that. And in 2016, we are also launching a revised program that will be eligible all of the customers both residential and nonresidential customer and trying to target those fixtures. Great thank you so much. Could you consider the important. And mr. Chairman, supervisor tang and on page, 3 00 of the report, we report that the total budget of the puc high efficiency toilet, Installation Program is 5. 2 million and which 86,000 will be reimbursed by the Grant Funding for the california board of resources and 4 million, is for moneys previously appropriate ated by the board of supervisors, from the puc that were enterprised operating budget and that is shown in table one on page 3 of our report and we recommend that you approve this resolution. Okay, thank you. Seeing no questions we will open it up to Public Comment, anybody wish to comment on item one . Okay, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All right, would the chair like to make a motion to send forward this resolution with a positive recommendation to the full board. Okay, we can take that without objection. Madam clerk, could you call two. The resolution, authorizing the lease of real property, located at 598 portola drive for the initial five year term for the base rent of 100,000 a year to commence upon the approval of the board of supervisor and mayor. Good morning, Honorable Committee chair, and supervisor tang im the assistant director of real estate. The resolution before you and for your consideration, involves a fiveyear, lease with one five year option, for a local Small Business. Twin peaks, also known as twin peaks auto care at 598, portola at the top of the hill there. Which has been owned and operated and managed for over, 30 years by the current tenants nancy and michael, and which is basically a community, servicing serve station. And i have would like to thank the budget analyst, office for their thorough report, in which mr. Roses office nicely summarizes the history of this citys use of the property which i will not go into today. However, to say that the station is one of the few remaining independent, gas stations in the city, and i think that you will be hearing from the tenant and his supporters who will say that it is a neighborhood institution. And serving the community as both the gas station and a service garage. The existing lease, expired on june, 30th, 2014, however, lease negotiations started back in 2013, when an appraisal of the site was performed. The Small Business has been continuing on a month to month, hold over tennessee, tenant at their risk and the prior rent was 45 per square faout and it has increased to 68 cents per square foot. And which an additional 3 pernts percent year rent adjustment, this is fair market value. The Analyst Report correctly points out that the base rent in the first year of this new lease will be less, than the per month rent paid under the lease, because the actual, Square Footage of the site has diminished by approximately, 501 square feet, and the tenant had asked us to go out there and measure it due to rightofway and other improvements made by the city on the property. And plus the price per square foot has actually increased two times the original, base rent of the lease and approximately, around 30 percent, greater than the first square foot rent in 2004. The new lease, also provides an increase of 40,000 and a Security Department to 50,000 and increased in insurance. And while the city and tenant quickly came to an agreement on the rental price based on the appraisal, the initial condition, including the banning of Tobacco Products were a pivotal, for the tenant and the negotiation his to continue based on the new conditions. The real estate agrees with the budget Analyst Recommendations the first two and has provided an amended resolution to you with additional language, including making a finding that the competitive building, procedures would be impractical for several reasons, including in light of the existing zoning and that the tenant is a successful local, business which actually owns the tank and the lines on the property. The service station is grandfathered in but would not be allowing the ois under the current zone. Also on the second recommendation and adds language regarding the city administrator, conducting with the Real Estate Division and the other City Department to identify the property, including this one, under the city control to determine which property or under utilized and set forth, excuse me in San Francisco, code, 23 a. With the additional language, real estate believes that this relatively short term lease, considering the use as a Small Business, and gas station, should be approved, and recommends that the committee amend, or adopt the amended res lieus. Aous resolution. Okay, thank you very much, and seeing no questions at this point, mr. Rose why dont we move to your report. Mr. Chairman and supervisor tang. Incidentally, i am at the last comment, the short term and this lease is and five years and five year option, and it is ten years basically. And on page 5 of our report, we note that based on the reduction of 501 square feet, and 499 net square feet and based on the 2013 appraisal, the proposed annual rent of 100,000 is approximately, 6. 96 per square foot per year. On page, ten of our report, we note that the 598 parcel contains the only privately owned gas station located on the city owned property and the east for the gas and Convenience Store and garage has continued for the past 43 years, since 1972, without any Competitive Bidding since the original, establishment of the station in 1972. And under initial fiveyear lease. Was completed. Furthermore the propose ad five year lease with 1, five year extension option will be awarded without under going, Competitive Bidding process. In accordance with the code, 23. 33, all leases of the City Property result in more than 2500 per month in revenue must be awarded in accordance with the Competitive Bidding procedures, unless such bidding procedures are impractical and impossible and we explain the reasons that the Real Estate Department has stated wie they are impractical or impossible on page 10 of our report. As the department, indicated and mr. Up dike advised us, they have received, the significant, Community Support for the continued city lease of this site, with the existing gasoline station operator. There is only one gasoline service, there is one gasoline and service station located within one mile driving distance and there is outing west of the subject lease property at 800 street, and there are six other gasoline stations located in two miles and, that is 2399, 19th avenue, and 2000, 19 avenue, and 1855, taravil and Mission Street and 2399 market street. On page, 11 of our report, we know that the proposed new lease will continue the grandfathered use of the gasoline station which is not confirming that the public, zoning of the property. And without Competitive Bidding, the budget and Analyst Office has insufficient evidence to conclude that the current nonconforming use of the site is highest and best use in serving the best interest of the city. The proposal leased will be awarded based on a 2013 appraisal. Without cost limited adjustments over the past two years and will be awarded without the use of a Competitive Bidding process. If the board of supervisors decides to approve the proposed new lease, the board of supervisors is required to make a finding that Competitive Bidding will be impractical and impossible that it is in the best interest of the city to enter into the lease, based on the direct negotiations with the current operator of the gasoline station without a competitive bid process. The recommendations on the bottom of eight, we recommend that you amend the resolution to make a finding that utilize the Competitive Bidding would be impractical and impossible. And we also recommend that you amend to urge the city administrator to work with the director of real estate for the highest site and, to conform it for the highest and best use and we consider approval to be amended to be a positive matter for the board of supervisors. Thank you, mr. Rose. Seeing no questions, why dont we open it up for Public Comment, i have three speaker cards and i have george, and joseph, and migal and if there is anyone else, come forward everyone will have two minutes. Special almost, like iconic in the neighborhood and it is the last gas station and it also carries the name of the twin peaks, which identifies as the surrounding area. And so, everyone uses this gas station in the area and i think that it is the best use of the gas station. As far as Competitive Bidding, i agree with mr. Rose. It would be impractical to have any other kind of bidding on this site. And there is already been the city presence in effect from bidding in prior years. Starting in the last time in 1994. Was it was now bidding at all. It would be impractical i think on the current guidelines and rules in that the city would be trying to build basically homes with the shelter and housing. And i dont think that would be again, as strong a use as a gas station that the public loves in the area. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please . Mr. Chairman and members of the committee my name is joe. Joe, sorry, would you put the microphone, there you go. My name is joe huphreys and i am a long time resident, and the 800 home neighborhood on the western slope of twin peaks, i serve on the board of the home owners association. Both as an individual, and on behalf of the board, i am here to support the extension of the auto care lease, the service stations have become an endangers species in San Francisco, and twin peaks is the only one that is convenient for the neighborhood and it sits at an important cross roads and serving much of the commute traffic into the southern and the western parts of the city and downtown. And between those same neighborhoods, and the two major freeways. It serves no ones interest to require that the traffic make a time consuming air polluting and energy, wasting detour to find a service station, which the, and by eliminating the only, service station that now sits right on that, and on those routes. From a Public Policy standpoint, the highest, best and really only rational use of that little piece of territory at the corner of woodside, and portola and ais shanasi is to extend the gas station for those who have been serving the needs of san franciscans for many years and urge you to adopt the resolution of approval. Thank you very much. The next speaker . Good morning, im the owner and operator of twin peaks auto care and this is the third time in this chamber. And i have been operating this location since 1985 and so about 31 years. We served the community, we have 650 cars that go through every day and most of them are from the neighborhood. And there is a mid town terrace or for the forest hills and we serve that whole community. And i have, and we have to ask the customers to sign a petition and i have copies for you, and i have not counted them but we ran it for a couple of months and we have numerous signatures. And i hope that you guys, approve of our new lease. Are there any other members that have the public that would like to comment . inaudible any other members of the public that would like to comment on this item . Okay, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor, tang. Thank you and, thank you to everyone who came out and the Real Estate Department and i do understand that given how far back the timing goes, the gas station has been in place since 1972, i do drive by it. On my way home as well, sometimes. And i know that the budget analyst has made a couple of recommendations which i know that you noted, and so at this time. I am fine with adopting them. And moving forward with the proposal that is before the committee today. Which is the initial fiveyear term, with a fiveyear, potential for extension. And i do think that right now, the city, i have not seen, another kind of viable, or a better use for this particular small site. And i do like the fact that it is an independently owned gas station. And so, as part of the amendments i know that the city administrator will work with the Real Estate Department to see whether in the future there may be some other opportunities, that i think that at this time, in order to not disrupt this independently owned gas station, i think that it is fine for us to approve this particular item before us today. Okay. Mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Rose. I just wanted to clarify one thing, on the recommendation the budget and analyst has not concluded that it is impractical or impossible to bid. We are stating to the board in order to approve this resolution, it is a requirement that you make a determination and it is impractical and impossible to bid. But that was not our conclusion. Thank you, i appreciate that clarification. And likewise, we want to thank you for coming out and members of the community and i have been a customer there. And i understand that the location there, and so certainly, the neighborhood support for it. And i am, happy to accept these recommendations and adopt that finding ourself as a committee. And move this item forward. And so there is a motion on the floor and happy to support it. Through the chair and again, thank you, mr. Rose for that clarification. I think that again, this history of this gas station is something that predates many of us. And so it is a little difficult here. But i think that i find the amendment sufficient here today. So i would like to make a motion to adopt the amendments before us. And then after that approve at mended resolution, and send it forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. Okay. We have a motion by supervisor tang on both item and take it without objection. Do we have any other business in front of us. No further business. Thanks, everyone, we are adjourned. As registered voter francisco before each election you receive a voter information pamphlet in the mail it has the digest for each local proposition on the ballot how does a context sometimes proposition get semido if i had. Inning. I dont know the specific process. Its done by a committee a ballot tim simplification. 3 steps the City Attorneys Office create a working digest the Ballot Committee holds public meats and creates final digest the simplified is published in the guide lets look at how this work after a proposition has been approved the sxhoofz drafts a city digest each digest we prepare has a couple of different saektsz the first is the way it is now provides an overview of the state of the law before the measure goes into effect addressed the second section is the material turn of the measure and finally at the bottom there are two sections one is called a yes vote and no vote means and if prep those we try to tell me the voters if the measure passes are not passed uses the City Attorneys Office delivered it is to the 5 Member Committee created in 192376 the members are nominated business the leak of women voters two members are appointed by itself may and 2 by the board of supervisors the committee holds Public Meetings for two weeks before each election arrest you the chairman has the sterilized ability to direct the meeting and lead the discussion. Theres no politics involved at all because were all journalist or people that worked with communications that has our goal the free right to communication without agenda or boys or political involvements all. Before the Commission Meets each member reviews the digest along with the material. We get the protective technicalities and the actual yaurgd background and letters from different departments and from the advocates and perpetrate for the meeting sometimes for and 5 days in japs sometimes someone will sigh did you understand it no one understand those bond measures of one hundred and one hundred owe 25 packages down to three or four had found words. Amendments and the general Obligation Bond members it is marred to explain what a general Obligation Bond is. Wow, it gets interesting sometimes. Well talk about it but we talk about it in session we dont talk about it before we get here. The committee acceptance the city attorneys draft or edit it. The reason we rewrite the city attorneys digest is because it oftentimes in more legalize than the voters see understand were quick to ask questions we dont is this is the way its going to be we come in as journalist questioning exactly which that is to put out into the digest exactly what the legislation means. The committee may hear from drafrt of the digests and they consultant with the committee educational specialist to make sure if meets the requirement to be written as closed those as possible to the eight grade level. We say is that really an eight grader words sometimes yes and sometimes grab the addicts and find substitute and it requires the city to maintain all the golden gate park. During the editing of the digest its displayed on large monitor. Theres no mystery of what the public sees. They hear outline your discussions they know what were thinking and after the Committee Makes the changes the proceedings radio on inform the public for comment. Poach have a right to voice their opinions in democracy people come before us are dead serious depending on obtain on the side and their passion is strong. July 4th with 9 committee theres a lot of airmentd argument pro and con and well, you could take out the voter initiative. I want to address someone that was mentioned. I take exception to the previous comment. 0 hopes 0 provisions thank you. After Public Comment the committee discussed all the points in an open session. Sometimes, we change our draft sometimes, we literally tear our draft apart. After the possible changes made the Committee Takes a final vote to adapt the digest. I move we adapt the measure. At least 3 members must agree. All in favor, say i. The public hearsay twentyfour hours hours for the submission of a reconsideration to the department of elections. The following week the Committee Meets publicly to discuss the appeals and take Public Comment and decided wloovr whether or not to adapt the final digest. What we really want is for the voter to think for themselves read what we say and read for themselves and look and make up their own mind were in their corner ready to fight for them and the administrations fight often it didnt matter your obligation is to the voter we want them to be able to look at it and understand it. Learn marrow missouri bhr the committee at sf election. Org before every election find a ballot simplification in the ballot it is rankle 1 english chinese spanish and filipino it is mailed to all voter and can be found at sf election. Orgyou. As a voter you have a choice on how you can vote you might cast your vote by mail or vote earlier in city hall if you choose to vote earlier youll go to our powell plays might be a church or in regards garage theyll make the voting as uncomplicated as possible yes what does 3 take to be a poll working and what exactly does a poll work working do letting meet some. Aim jack. Im coauthor la. Im tiffany and charles and my name is elizabeth im jeff im bruce hi, im karin a fulltime student addressed city college ive been a pole working for 10 years. For 13 years your 10 or the 9 or 10 years. Those poll workers and thousands are an essential part of election day 31 they provide the safeguarding of democratic processed theres a feeling in the poll place youre a feeling of something that has a special place in the world the democratic process in the United States is model to the rest of the world. Its a relay sequence e sense youre part of that history and being able to keep that going and it is really does feel good. I feel overhead this is a great civil dude and get a different idea. In my residential area i dale feel im Transbay Joint Powers Authority to the community as a wloel in the communi community. So San Francisco poll workers have a Service Based mission the first to protect the voter rights we make sure they understand the rights on the ballot and the right to an essential polling place and many languages around english. Its like someone that didnt know how to read im more happy to help you like ill help you. The second part to serve the voters like workers and language they respect the voter and finally the last myths is offsets the which i see to come to the polling place. This takes a lot of pole working for each election they higher 26 hundred pole workers to staff over 5 hundred polling places this chose 6 senate victories and thousand clerks and high school students. Look at the address of our polling place on line or visit it a day beforehand. Every pole worker has been trained the Election Department holds for one hundred hundred clads a month before the election they vary into one and a half to 3 hours and classes focus on the right to voters including language and other access right for voter and step up polling place and equipment and procedures for voting and vote and mail. The Election Office is constantly streamlining the process so there the good of the training in order to tap into the continuing Better Process in their creating. Pole workers learner about clothing procures like completing the posted ballets and transferring the memory packs and others materials for the traffic officers or Deputy Sheriff. I like how the training every year improves. So as the inspector the first is all introduce user to the collect and assign them their job cards. A polling place nodes someone to supervisor and that pole working is called an inspector and responsible for that four or five clerks they get hands on experience. Youre also going to be doing other things at 12 oclock and 3 oclock to the inspector needs to hang into this. The inspector makes sure that the polling is smooth and greets people in a way with respect to make sure theyre going to the procedures so not only in the step of that but in the actual process during the day and the process of breaking the equipment down and tab latino making sure all the numbers gets to the sheriffs deputy and to the city and county. Theyre a key holder on election day they wear a i can rove that hat audience this is the voting machine. After the training inspections pickup bottles and other supplies their polling places need on election day. This is for the briefing. Inspectors are responsible for the chain of custody of ballot they sign for the battles and have you ever had your deposition taken transfer it to a Deputy Sheriffs at the end of the day. Thats one of the things i thought attracted to this to learner about the voting process and knowing that at the end of all this we take great pains to make sure that the routes are secure and save and delivered back to the ballet department. Their seals rewe having to put occupy the equipment and make sure that carry the key it secures the ballot machine so we have to be keen you know id say and areas open on dale what was going on election die when the voter voted if they messed up weve got to void that we have to keep track and get for every step as well as the procedural exponent to transfer the battles at the end of the nicest to the sheriffs detective and the memory card and data make sure those dont get tampa everyday with. Each inspectors manual excludes the cards that lifts different pole workers dudes. Theres one person that sets up the booth and others that set up equipment and again, we follow it step by step. We willfully with such culture diversities San Francisco has many languages spoken everyday to meet of diverse challenge the department of election assigned chinese pole workers spanish speakers to 2 hundred and 17 predicts and filipino to one hundred and thirty predictability and vietnamese and japanese to 7 priblts and theres a lot of chinese speaking people so theres been at least 2 people on staff that speak chinese and really comes in handy. They choose that pen. Id like to say that 70 percent of powell workers come back election after election thats inspiring theyre returning. Many people are glad to see us we know were in the predict we are there in the election before. I know people expect to see me now it is a regular occurrence so oh, youre working this one yeah. Theres a sense of trust they believe in us and theyll be protected. Working as a precinct worker learners about the process. Once you see the process you gain a new respect so ill encourage 80 anyone to get the experience. The department of elections needs new workers theyre looking for new powell its go to sf election. Org on election day to vote at your local polling place, in San Francisco, the workers, that greet you, check the roster, and give you your boll lot, might a little young, like they could be in high school, this is part of the poll worker program, this provides, every election, with thoun poll workers, how did they become a poll workers, and what is it like being a poll worker as such a young age . Lets meet some poll workers. Hello, i have been a poll worker for about poll workers for 13 years now. Hello, this would bymy my 7th year now. My name is eddie, im 20, im a senior, i will be graduating this may. [music] students dont just show up on election day, theyre recruited and trained by the department of election. [music] we visit to almost all San Francisco high schools, talk to students, in government class, and talk to them about being a poll workers. Students play an important part in poll workers in San Francisco, were going to hire about 1,000 this year, its a great opportunity for them to learn about the democratic process, they also earn a stipend in work, and earn credits. I was excited to see at my high school, to work for the department of elections, we can get extra credit for one of our classes. I was like, i need money, i want to do something for her, my city. I said, hey, why not, it might be cool, i have been an active community person. [music] it gives a real experience that takes the concepts im teaching in class, its real life, its not something that is just in a textbook, its representative of democracy, and direct democracy, all in one day, for the students to interact with the public, it is complicated, there are problems you have to you know deal with these issues as they arise immediately, and come up with a resolution. It was really crazy, and hectic, there were a lot of voters. It gives me experience with helping people and getting to know people, and how to treat people. Being a poll workers, its a cool way to see what life is about beyond school. [music] students must be 16 years of age, get permission from their parents and school, and have a 2. 5 student gpa, to become a poll workers, they also have a two hour training session. Im glad they had training, i had all my questions clarified, so i really prepare you for election day. San francisco is a multicultural, city, with many languages, spoken every day, more than 80 of the precincts. I know spanish, i want to help them. In addition to english, they proviet student voters with spanish, japanese, vietnamese. It does look grade on a resume, theyre interacting with the public, theyre problem volume ving. You have to be responsible what you are doing, you got to work with a partner, team work, its not just about me, its about us. Its kind of a precareer experience, and it can open up doors later in the future to job tunts. You feel more connected to our government for the participation in this program. I see the impact in my students work, i see it in their writing, in group discussions. I just really like the sense of going out there, doing something for the community and being part of the community, helping others voice their opinions, work as a student and be a part of their democratic process of San Francisco. I feel that i did something for my community. When you are a high school poll workers, you are excused in class, you gain so much knowledge in skipping school, its probably one of the best experience i had had, im glad i had it all throw high school. They recruit new student poll workers, through every election, for more information, go to sf elections. Org. [musi clapping . When you cast our vote in an election in San Francisco you might kaflt your vote at city hall or choose to vote by mail ever wonder what happens after you cast our vote whats the process for tal vote in San Francisco and how is your vote counted lets follow our ballot when you tall a certified by the department of elections first, well look at what happens to our vote another a polling place when you cast your vote it is set into a system called on in sight it read our ballot and the data is soared on a memory cartridge it is based in denver, colorado provides San Francisco with high sail balance scared and software to count the votes when the poll is closed the memory card is removed by the inspector cartridge is sponsored are stored in a anti static bag and a San Francisco parking control officer takes official custody to deliver to city hall the custody of the actual completed ballot is transferred to Deputy Sheriff it verifies delivers them to pier 48 managed i the election on Election Night pier 48 is a hub of activity bringing the ballots to poll line up audits to delivery to the team its a long night for those election employees staffer unpack and sort of all the ballot bags and i account for the ballots and dropped off at polling places and from the machines the inside ballots a counted to verify the total ballet for the polling places more to do with the ballots and well get back to them a little bit later meanwhile at systematically city hall the department of elections sets up a gone night only uploading center staffed by the employees and to transfer the memory cards by the parking 0 offices. On Election Night that he set up austin at city hall to process the votes and completely and accurately as possible in the bag it was placed on a reader that records the summary next the carriages are unpacked and checked in by our staff then the carriages with a vote so for etch print are fed to into the right sideers by the Memory Software is he see the vote by a line that is in the department rooms tabulations back at the polling place on election day you might cast our veto using the edge voting machine a bilingual that allows the voters with limited vision or other disabilities to have access to the ballot their recorded on a paper printout and stored in the edge machine. I also need the edge printer. At the end of the election day a Deputy Sheriff take custody of the field container from each edge machine. You on have one edge printer; right . Those deputies transfer the container with the plastic bottles and the departments warehouse on pier 48. The department of election staff opens the sealed container into every edge machine and reviews the printed record. Here at the Department Warehouse teams of two people roach the edge printer material and check and recheck if the votes are recorded a team have to people puts it onto a blank perspective and two different people confirm the votes and correct any errors all the edge printer are hyphenated their transferred to the Deputy Sheriff and the Department Employees transfer those ballots to city hall and feed into the machine for counting that way all the votes cast on the edge machine are included in the election tally. Voters are encouraged to vote at theyre assigned voting place people that cast in other marathon their ballet place their plaid in a special envelope to be verified verification is checking to see if the voter is registered in San Francisco if they are their votes are count for where their registered more than 60 percent of san franciscans cast their vote by mail ballets cast at city hall have also process as vote by mail process brother you receive our ballot in the mail it has to be received and sort of by the u. S. Post office the largest may progressing facility in San Francisco though it is get i quite a large operation about 5 hundred employees throughout 3 shifts that runs 24 7365 today what we have all the day when the city of chicago have arrived and theyll be processed for delivery so over here a truck that has come in were expecting about 2 hundred and 48 thousand ballots to come into the plant on 6 different trucks so for weve received 3 of the trucks as you can see theres a lot of mail here right now, were getting ready to run the mail on a bar code softer and we but u put it into a sequence it is good for the ballot constituents. Voters drop off 25 percent of the ballets at poll places at the end of the day custody is transferred to 0 Deputy Sheriff that transfers them to pier 48 at the pier battles are a collected the number of rushes is needed and quickly transported by two Deputy Sheriffs to city hall for process before any counting of any vote by mail can happen the voters signatures must be verified so first, the unopened vote by mail is run through scanner that takes a picture of the bar code and signatures the bar code identifies the voter and this information along with the voters signature is sent electronically to the voters place for verification while here in Voter Services we check the signature on the ballet envelope with the signature on the voters fill the name predict and name is entered into 9 election system the staff reviews the information on file and visually compares the signature and we challenge the valid of the ballot if it is severed theyve voted in this election and the official stamping of the ballots sent electronically back through the scanner envelopes radio run introduce the scanner again to sort of out any unverified ballets on the second scanner their sort of by predict Voter Services staff we proclaims every ballot to make sure that the voters are contract and their vote is counted. Though accepted vote by mail used to be opened by hand now opened by a rapid extract machine it helped on the envelope on two sides and the machine that opens the flaps are recorded you can reach in and pick up the ballot it is probably twice as fast as a manual process and the wlalts is then scanned by a 4 hundred highspeed scanner that counts the votes on each ballot sadder at the same time employees schek the dominion sheet and compare it the scanner sometimes cannot read a ballot due to damage or light parking garages by vote their transferred by hand by a go person team those new ballets is run through the ascertain sea the votes are add to the final tabulation wonders where your ballet is you can consortium our battle ballot was received and check the constitutes and conform our vote better to be safe than sorry was ultimate counted using the tool at sfgov ballot. Org. Then we transfer the data from the skarnlz into this laptop and tabulate using the do night time software. On the severe those are transferred into the memory cartridges once the data is loaded on the laptop the service tabulates the vote we generate the veto and put 12 on the website and the report also includes a predict by predict breakdown of the polling places and by mail a one neighborhood district of votes and the neighborhood turn out report. We can take a lot of information about the election including one of the most popular broke down by party and continue to look forward to improvements. Youd think that is the ends of the story but still more work at pier 48 that needs to be done california Election Code requires one percent of the predicts that are chosen added random by an elected official the one percent manual tallied it their counted by hand here to the department of the warehouse 4 employees count them there are 3 steps first in each team won person called the vote and two people tall the votes that are called second to the tall people have the same results and finally the tallest are compared with the electronic vote. This one percent manual tall is one of the last steps in declaring the official result of the election from your home or neighborhood polling place to city hall by memory cartridge high speed up scanner or manually our vote is tab laid and the results end up printed and posted and declared certified by the department of Election Services when you show up to vote auto our local polling place everything is running smoothly but a lot of details involved in running a polling place your may have a few workers with appear to be our or on their own what happens if if the polling place is not open on time are a machinery doesnt function who can they your honor, to for help those poll workers have a large support structure managed plths the department of elections let looking at behind the screens and running hundreds of polling place is made and smooth and seam also as possible. Before a polling place opens on 7 handsomely on election day did needs support supplies the delivery trucks garnet and Vice President s warehouses to load of the equipment and supplies before we set up to vote there be that a scanner once again you scan it will tell you okay. Oogs trucks deliver deny 3 hundred and 80 and 5 hundred 86 polling place depending on the nature of the elections and right now, were loading the delivery trucks those trucks contain all the equipment that pat polling place needs for voters open election day voter booth and election materials and most important voting equipment those pause contain the presync pacific their scanned and verified as their loaded into the trucks. The scanner that theyre using will be used before that comes on the lift date gate. Because those Voting Machines handle powell equipment it is important they go on the correct truck. Once again do push the benefits get the gate back down this driver knows thats the order that expects it that way we we cant deliver those machines to the wrong place theyve not work on to ballot and hell have to pull from his right thats as the the optical scanning and system. 7604. 76 a 4. Every time we move a vetting components is tracks its location and handling system. A week before election day 7 to 10 trucks roll out to deliver the powell packaged to the polls around the city. Hello department the elections dropping off the powell equipment and. Using the scanning manager an employee checks off to make sure they have theyre voting equipment and supplies on election day what happens in a powell worker delivers the door locked at the polling place . On election day the rather sedata city hall cafe is a beehive of the activity teams work to settle issues that may arise in the field. This is the Election Center and wall the Election Center essentially a bank we i put together and on election day the poll workers call in on a procedure or parolee issues and the calls or the polling place is locked often enough the polling place are late. The poll dispatch team comprised of 60 to 80 employers are ready to be snatched to any polling place with missing or possible sick workers and there are procedural issues how to complete the roster or a machine jammed it said interand it will reject it; right . You call them and a representative on the other ends whats the issue take down our issue and get people to help you with the issues they resolve and one of the issue is recognized into the database it routes the issue to the phone bank and list on the jeep in the category. The phone bank swings into the action and the steps to deal with the issue until its resolved. It is a transparent process the public looked at the issues were dealing with throughout the day starting at 6 oclock in the morning what. What happens in an edge print wouldnt work or a machine malfunction the Colorado Base Company Applies the materials runs a phone bank at the Election Center and trains and stages 20 to thirty technicians throughout the city on election day the fielder support team tackles the issue they help the poll worker over the phone. Oh, yeah. Or they get a field election deputy or fed to retaining respond out not field. Before each election the field election deputies learn the skills to support 7 to 10 powell placed in the field. This is a copy of the material in the fed binder those are coworkers do have. They receive special training to trouble shot. People on election day theres also a big support team for every single one of you. Then the fed checks in to their mar make sure theyre available to deal with issues. I want to confirm that is locked which it is and our edge is fully set up. Some questions we resolve easily over the phone and some with the deputies each field deputy has his or her on coordinator in the Election Center if correspondent gives the advice and informs home sharer of theyre specific polling place that needs assistance. The fields election deputies with the extension of the people in the field and on the grounds with Infrastructure Research and ballots. Your ballots a 5 part ballot. Their taking care of the final details we cant while were in the Election Center. The the fields deputy or feds are issued a cell phone and check list to follow. Theyll get a list of tasks to complete throughout the day. One example of the task between 7 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. The feds should make sure the polls are open and drop off the supplemental ballets and over completed the fed indicates by checking the box. And as the feds check each polling place with that smart phone applications the relatives are track work back at the Election Center there is realtime account of polling place. The correspondent is able to access the fed court tool it lists the feds team and all the tasks the fte is in favor of completing as the fed checks off picking up theyre bags and dropping off ballets and transfers the feds quotient seize in realtime as the tasks are checked off by the feds and this allows the fed correspondent to track in realtime all the feds work in the field. Perhaps things are going smoothly out at your polling place. Those are the blaults. The feds checked in and a all is well. This is the precinct. There the city more contract with the department of the election back and city hall proactively checking in with the polling place throughout election day. The voters turn out call serve that group of 10 coworkers is calling outline polling place to see how many voters. My name is joshua josh is this 33718 percent im calling to get the numbers on the front of our machine. Navigation to the overall turn out we are concerned with how many ballots into the sight machine. The last time as a member. That information is into a database it is visual at the Election Center that the voter turnout hits a 24rer8dz showing sight think outside the box that full they notify the deputy then the field election deputy and a Deputy Sheriff go to the polling place for a transfer from the sight think outside the box so voting can continue when the polls close poll workers account for the ballots the roster of voters the memory pack from the inside machine and others edge printer with the report those are the results of the polling place and need to be transferred r transported safety to the election they can count on the parole officer to take custody of the ballots and roster and edge printer and finally they confirm their polling place are secured after a long day in the days following the trucks that deliver the machines will once again be dispatched all over San Francisco picking up the machines and packaged for deliver to the warehouse for unpca and storage the next time your that he appealing palace look at the poll workers you may actually see the teams of people and systems and technology that stand behind the poll workers to make youre voting experience as smooth as possible 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 was 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 for hi. Welcome to San Francisco. Stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. Lets look at common earthquake myths. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. We have 3 guest today. We have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. I want to talk about urban myths. What do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance . Hes sleeping during those earthquakes . Have you noticed him take any special . No. He sleeps right through them. There is no truth that im aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. You hear the myth all the time. Suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something i hear they are aware of small vibrations. But yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. Today is a spectacular day in San Francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. Is this earthquake weather . No. Not that i have heard of. No such thing. There is no such thing. We are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. There is no relationship. I have heard its hot or cold weather or rain. Im not sure which is the myth. How about time of day . Yes. It happens when its least convenient. When it happens people say we were lucky and when they dont. Its terrible timing. Its never a good time for an earthquake. But we are going to have one. How about the ground swallowing people into the ground . Like the earth that collapsed . Its not like the tv shows. The earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but its not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. Its not going anywhere. We are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. Southern california is moving north. Its coming up from the south to the north. You would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. Maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. For better or worse. Yes. This is a tough question. Those other ones werent tough. This is a really easy challenge. Are the smaller ones less stress . Yes. The amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. I think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4. 7. So small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future . Not anyway that you can count on. I have heard that buildings in San Francisco are on rollers and isolated . Its not true. Its a conventional Foundation Like almost all the circumstances buildings in San Francisco. The transamerica was built way before. Its a pretty conventional foundation design. I have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. Is there anything of value to that . Yes, if you are in your room. You should drop, cover and hold onto something. If you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. If you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, its not a bad place to be. The reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. You are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. You are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. You want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. Where can i buy a Richter Scale . Mr. Richter is selling it. We are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. They are not available. Its a rather complex. In fact we dont even use the Richter Scale anymore. We use a moment magnitude. The Richter Scale was early technology. Probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. Is that true . Loma prieta was different. The ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. So anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. We are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to San Francisco and a fault totally independent. Much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. So people who were here in 89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isnt really the threshold of damage. When you triple it you cross that line. Its much more damage in earthquake. I want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for good morning and welcome to the budget and finance Committee Meeting and, my name is supervisor mark farrell and i am joined by tang and i want to thank the sfgtv as well as the clerk. Do you have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones, items acted upon today will be appearing on the october, 20th board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Could you call item one . Resolution, authorizing the sfpuc general manager to accept an additional award through the sfpuc mlu, with the Solano County water agency for the implementation for a Regional Water conservation program, funded in part by the grant funds from the California Department of Water Resources for a total of award up to 1 million. Good morning. And chair person, and the members of the budget and finance committee, i am amanda and the administrator with the Public Utilities commission and i am here to present on item one, part of the background, the board of supervisors in 2012, approved the sfpuc expenditures. Could you pull the microphone closer. 863,000, to support the high efficiency replacement program. They received a greater number of toilet installations and eligible for the reimbursement and several of the 13 agencis that also received the round one grant funds, did not achieve sufficient, customer participation to extend the total grant awards and these unused funds are what were provided to the agencies that exceeded the target, as a result, eligible receive an additional 123,000 in unused grant funds, these additional funds will further support the water, conservation program, and helping customers replace old, inefficient toiletwise high efficiency models. This agreement, and the sfpuc will be awarded a total of 986,000, with reimbursement for high efficiency toilets, i thank you for your time and happy to answer any questions. Supervisor tang . Thank you Association Much and we think that this is a Great Program for the city and i was wondering if you could talk about how the out reach as gone in terms of San Francisco and i know that it is very successful. But just curious as to the work that pc does to reach out to customer and let them know about this program. Sure, as originally targeted at the puc customers on the Assistance Program and receiving a discount on the water and waste water rates. So we reached out to them since we have the customer information through notices on the bills, and direct mail and notice and things like that and they we broadened the program to also work with the Mayors Office of housing to target the Affordable Housing properties throughout the city. Great and once the grants are exhausted, are there, i mean does the puc foresee this continuing, and or, other future grant opportunities, i mean, again i think that it is a Great Program and i hope that it will be able to remain in San Francisco. Definitely, so we are continuing the program, and we actually Just Launched a different version of the program, for the municipal, facility and buildings and targeting the old fixtures that remain throughout the facility and that is going on now and we are working with the department of public works on that. And in 2016, we are also launching a revised program that will be eligible all of the customers both residential and nonresidential customer and trying to target those fixtures. Great thank you so much. Could you consider the important. And mr. Chairman, supervisor tang and on page, 3 00 of the report, we report that the total budget of the puc high efficiency toilet, Installation Program is 5. 2 million and which 86,000 will be reimbursed by the Grant Funding for the california board of resources and 4 million, is for moneys previously appropriate ated by the board of supervisors, from the puc that were enterprised operating budget and that is shown in table one on page 3 of our report and we recommend that you approve this resolution. Okay, thank you. Seeing no questions we will open it up to Public Comment, anybody wish to comment on item one . Okay, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All right, would the chair like to make a motion to send forward this resolution with a positive recommendation to the full board. Okay, we can take that without objection. Madam clerk, could you call two. The resolution, authorizing the lease of real property, located at 598 portola drive for the initial five year term for the base rent of 100,000 a year to commence upon the approval of the board of supervisor and mayor. Good morning, Honorable Committee chair, and supervisor tang im the assistant director of real estate. The resolution before you and for your consideration, involves a fiveyear, lease with one five year option, for a local Small Business. Twin peaks, also known as twin peaks auto care at 598, portola at the top of the hill there. Which has been owned and operated and managed for over, 30 years by the current tenants nancy and michael, and which is basically a community, servicing serve station. And i have would like to thank the budget analyst, office for their thorough report, in which mr. Roses office nicely summarizes the history of this citys use of the property which i will not go into today. However, to say that the station is one of the few remaining independent, gas stations in the city, and i think that you will be hearing from the tenant and his supporters who will say that it is a neighborhood institution. And serving the community as both the gas station and a service garage. The existing lease, expired on june, 30th, 2014, however, lease negotiations started back in 2013, when an appraisal of the site was performed. The Small Business has been continuing on a month to month, hold over tennessee, tenant at their risk and the prior rent was 45 per square faout and it has increased to 68 cents per square foot. And which an additional 3 pernts percent year rent adjustment, this is fair market value. The Analyst Report correctly points out that the base rent in the first year of this new lease will be less, than the per month rent paid under the lease, because the actual, Square Footage of the site has diminished by approximately, 501 square feet, and the tenant had asked us to go out there and measure it due to rightofway and other improvements made by the city on the property. And plus the price per square foot has actually increased two times the original, base rent of the lease and approximately, around 30 percent, greater than the first square foot rent in 2004. The new lease, also provides an increase of 40,000 and a Security Department to 50,000 and increased in insurance. And while the city and tenant quickly came to an agreement on the rental price based on the appraisal, the initial condition, including the banning of Tobacco Products were a pivotal, for the tenant and the negotiation his to continue based on the new conditions. The real estate agrees with the budget Analyst Recommendations the first two and has provided an amended resolution to you with additional language, including making a finding that the competitive building, procedures would be impractical for several reasons, including in light of the existing zoning and that the tenant is a successful local, business which actually owns the tank and the lines on the property. The service station is grandfathered in but would not be allowing the ois under the current zone. Also on the second recommendation and adds language regarding the city administrator, conducting with the Real Estate Division and the other City Department to identify the property, including this one, under the city control to determine which property or under utilized and set forth, excuse me in San Francisco, code, 23 a. With the additional language, real estate believes that this relatively short term lease, considering the use as a Small Business, and gas station, should be approved, and recommends that the committee amend, or adopt the amended res lieus. Aous resolution. Okay, thank you very much, and seeing no questions at this point, mr. Rose why dont we move to your report. Mr. Chairman and supervisor tang. Incidentally, i am at the last comment, the short term and this lease is and five years and five year option, and it is ten years basically. And on page 5 of our report, we note that based on the reduction of 501 square feet, and 499 net square feet and based on the 2013 appraisal, the proposed annual rent of 100,000 is approximately, 6. 96 per square foot per year. On page, ten of our report, we note that the 598 parcel contains the only privately owned gas station located on the city owned property and the east for the gas and Convenience Store and garage has continued for the past 43 years, since 1972, without any Competitive Bidding since the original, establishment of the station in 1972. And under initial fiveyear lease. Was completed. Furthermore the propose ad five year lease with 1, five year extension option will be awarded without under going, Competitive Bidding process. In accordance with the code, 23. 33, all leases of the City Property result in more than 2500 per month in revenue must be awarded in accordance with the Competitive Bidding procedures, unless such bidding procedures are impractical and impossible and we explain the reasons that the Real Estate Department has stated wie they are impractical or impossible on page 10 of our report. As the department, indicated and mr. Up dike advised us, they have received, the significant, Community Support for the continued city lease of this site, with the existing gasoline station operator. There is only one gasoline service, there is one gasoline and service station located within one mile driving distance and there is outing west of the subject lease property at 800 street, and there are six other gasoline stations located in two miles and, that is 2399, 19th avenue, and 2000, 19 avenue, and 1855, taravil and Mission Street and 2399 market street. On page, 11 of our report, we know that the proposed new lease will continue the grandfathered use of the gasoline station which is not confirming that the public, zoning of the property. And without Competitive Bidding, the budget and Analyst Office has insufficient evidence to conclude that the current nonconforming use of the site is highest and best use in serving the best interest of the city. The proposal leased will be awarded based on a 2013 appraisal. Without cost limited adjustments over the past two years and will be awarded without the use of a Competitive Bidding process. If the board of supervisors decides to approve the proposed new lease, the board of supervisors is required to make a finding that Competitive Bidding will be impractical and impossible that it is in the best interest of the city to enter into the lease, based on the direct negotiations with the current operator of the gasoline station without a competitive bid process. The recommendations on the bottom of eight, we recommend that you amend the resolution to make a finding that utilize the Competitive Bidding would be impractical and impossible. And we also recommend that you amend to urge the city administrator to work with the director of real estate for the highest site and, to conform it for the highest and best use and we consider approval to be amended to be a positive matter for the board of supervisors. Thank you, mr. Rose. Seeing no questions, why dont we open it up for Public Comment, i have three speaker cards and i have george, and joseph, and migal and if there is anyone else, come forward everyone will have two minutes. Special almost, like iconic in the neighborhood and it is the last gas station and it also carries the name of the twin peaks, which identifies as the surrounding area. And so, everyone uses this gas station in the area and i think that it is the best use of the gas station. As far as Competitive Bidding, i agree with mr. Rose. It would be impractical to have any other kind of bidding on this site. And there is already been the city presence in effect from bidding in prior years. Starting in the last time in 1994. Was it was now bidding at all. It would be impractical i think on the current guidelines and rules in that the city would be trying to build basically homes with the shelter and housing. And i dont think that would be again, as strong a use as a gas station that the public loves in the area. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please . Mr. Chairman and members of the committee my name is joe. Joe, sorry, would you put the microphone, there you go. My name is joe huphreys and i am a long time resident, and the 800 home neighborhood on the western slope of twin peaks, i serve on the board of the home owners association. Both as an individual, and on behalf of the board, i am here to support the extension of the auto care lease, the service stations have become an endangers species in San Francisco, and twin peaks is the only one that is convenient for the neighborhood and it sits at an important cross roads and serving much of the commute traffic into the southern and the western parts of the city and downtown. And between those same neighborhoods, and the two major freeways. It serves no ones interest to require that the traffic make a time consuming air polluting and energy, wasting detour to find a service station, which the, and by eliminating the only, service station that now sits right on that, and on those routes. From a Public Policy standpoint, the highest, best and really only rational use of that little piece of territory at the corner of woodside, and portola and ais shanasi is to extend the gas station for those who have been serving the needs of san franciscans for many years and urge you to adopt the resolution of approval. Thank you very much. The next speaker . Good morning, im the owner and operator of twin peaks auto care and this is the third time in this chamber. And i have been operating this location since 1985 and so about 31 years. We served the community, we have 650 cars that go through every day and most of them are from the neighborhood. And there is a mid town terrace or for the forest hills and we serve that whole community. And i have, and we have to ask the customers to sign a petition and i have copies for you, and i have not counted them but we ran it for a couple of months and we have numerous signatures. And i hope that you guys, approve of our new lease. Are there any other members that have the public that would like to comment . inaudible any other members of the public that would like to comment on this item . Okay, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor, tang. Thank you and, thank you to everyone who came out and the Real Estate Department and i do understand that given how far back the timing goes, the gas station has been in place since 1972, i do drive by it. On my way home as well, sometimes. And i know that the budget analyst has made a couple of recommendations which i know that you noted, and so at this time. I am fine with adopting them. And moving forward with the proposal that is before the committee today. Which is the initial fiveyear term, with a fiveyear, potential for extension. And i do think that right now, the city, i have not seen, another kind of viable, or a better use for this particular small site. And i do like the fact that it is an independently owned gas station. And so, as part of the amendments i know that the city administrator will work with the Real Estate Department to see whether in the future there may be some other opportunities, that i think that at this time, in order to not disrupt this independently owned gas station, i think that it is fine for us to approve this particular item before us today. Okay. Mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Rose. I just wanted to clarify one thing, on the recommendation the budget and analyst has not concluded that it is impractical or impossible to bid. We are stating to the board in order to approve this resolution, it is a requirement that you make a determination and it is impractical and impossible to bid. But that was not our conclusion. Thank you, i appreciate that clarification. And likewise, we want to thank you for coming out and members of the community and i have been a customer there. And i understand that the location there, and so certainly, the neighborhood support for it. And i am, happy to accept these recommendations and adopt that finding ourself as a committee. And move this item forward. And so there is a motion on the floor and happy to support it. Through the chair and again, thank you, mr. Rose for that clarification. I think that again, this history of this gas station is something that predates many of us. And so it is a little difficult here. But i think that i find the amendment sufficient here today. So i would like to make a motion to adopt the amendments before us. And then after that approve at mended resolution, and send it forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. Okay. 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While were waiting for the mayor who is in the audience please raise your hand if if your part of the con tomorrow other nonprofits service paradises in the room please raise your hand clapping. do we have Commissioners Department heads are city officials or city staff to support this cause clapping. there office of the city administrator other Community Members to dedicated to uventd solutions for Domestic Violence clapping. all right. Thank you everyone for coming out we have a role in england Domestic Violence were especially Police Department to have mayor ed lee his comment to ending indemnification is evidence in the hectic budget and beginning later unanimous lighting of city hall purple youll have to come back to see city hall to demonstrate his commenting commitment a number of very important announcements to make many morning please help me welcome the champion to end Domestic Violence mayor ed lee clapping. thank you emily and thank you to you and the commission to our city agencies our elected leaders that are here as well to join me in a need to refresh our collaboration and to do more to end Domestic Violence were not just talking about reducing it we should really focus our sites on ending it and emily is right. I begin by making sure that the budget that we have and its a large budget but what ive tried rush very much in the years to make sure that the work with the board to say have it budget reflect our San Francisco values and one of the strongest value together agreement walter without any doubt to end Domestic Violence and in doing so i want to point out that more people and everybody has a role in this it is not just our eloquent Community Basis agencies that do an tribal wonderful job a key to our success noting not only the commission on the status of women not just me or elected officials we should find more partners and increase and build a movement constantly to find more partners to evidently ends Domestic Violence were finding out more and more it takes our entire voyage of San Francisco duo to do a better job im very proud of our budget an additional Million Dollars i know when we announced that not only were their smiles but conform that the voices and the ideas you have the penetration that goes into ignorance about this or excuses or misinformation we need to go deeper and wider with our message this additional noirldz is consistent westbound a direction weve had 90 in our entire budget in the years weve increased grants in our Domestic Violence programs by over a hundred and 10 percent and we will side more if there are better ideas to come up with those ideas penetrate that ignorance that we know is out there make sure were always doing many currently and competent way go to our youth and hit the next generation theyre with us and always say not only Domestic Violence it is skulks and Human Trafficking alls areas we care about we Work Together to make sure we do even more we also and know there are victims here we need to work but even better you can help us identify the things that led up to the horrible incidents youve faced but also about recovery how do we recover completely not no one gets left behind how to help their fathers and mothers the family nebraskas members dont even better so symbolically this city will be lit up and wear purple and show purple and have that meg out but as you may know those things are symbolic we need to have that message taken t taxi is deeper and wider today, im very proud to make sure that you know your city is not only supporting we want to be a great part of it thats why a couple of announcements today on very important programs were launching today the very first consistent with what i said we need to have a lot more communication so were providing very strong adds and were going to infiltrate spaces an muni buses to maybe anymore areas of the city that will want it place adds out to launch and Education Campaign that we fled to end Domestic Violence and we need to help people understand what to do so this launch on the muni spaces begins now we b have been working with muni were going to smartly not just kind of saying lets put up adds but took data from the family violations couldnt and look at the 911 calls come from in the city and concentrate our areas this is where things are or things are happening this is smart using dale data an Incredible Council of people report to us where things are happening and focusing our energy and hell on the other hand, youll see some are wearing ive getting got 3s in different languages and complained in areas of the city we know things are happening chinese and spanish and english, of course, and more languages to make sure he got to make sure the message is out so not just the symbolicness of purple as explaining what we do we are also part of the message here is that we created a website the website is called learn what to do. Org learn what the do again educating everybody about how to help folks in need and help folks recover and recognize and understand the red flags the commission has been great in identify that people on staff have identified there is also part of that launch and learn experience we now have a website you to go to a cultivating competent websites in difference of different languages to understand how to help im also proud in announcing implementation that connects our City Employees directly to the officer efforts in the community weve worked dwlos with nike and all the departments within our audience as i said earlier volunteers that xhimentd committed yourselves to be part of the movement within the city family of volunteers to create a liaison people who are going to do help others understand and make sure that things are record this is an incredible effort by the city i know that our director of Human Resources mickey is hear and speaking in detail im proud of City Employees ive worked alongside of you for 27 years and stwreel proud whether you work with the Police Department, in over commission on the status of women with our staffer on the board and staffer in the Mayors Office whether youre working in addition like the City Planning Department or commission i want everybody to talk about it and understand it even more this is a Great Movement this is something that weve been proud of i know in recent years we slntd you know months of no homicides and, of course, we are met up with unfortunate circumstances and this reminds us how much more work we have to do more than just standing beside you we need to bring more people in and have city hall with no room for standing of people that want to commit themselves for more we begin with the thirty thousand people government that we have im proud to represent but i also want to say thank you to the numerous communitybased agencies i repeat it youre the key to our success and able to talk to people their culturally challenging different languages and the things that happen in their families and connect in a right way the Police Department and the department of Public Health and the social department and responder to be we have to do better and more and more in government given a Stronger Foundation we have it were trying to prevent this from happening we know if we let go of things things will happen and get more and more about preservation we need more propose properly educated and trained in other words, to do that im proud to make sure your city is lit up and people to wear those the purple and to make sure that people are aware what im mostly proud of the day to day work the confuses the break there is no when our dealing with violence you know when i speak of a victim but people that know people that are involved in violence Domestic Violence you know it is sometimes extremely difficult to talk to people a brown that tension started happening and gets away this is a challenge a lot of people it is kind of easy after the violence has happened to then touch someone it is harder it is harder to get to those red plastic bags flags and say this is going in a bad way stop slow down and Start Talking and resolving that before it gets out of hand this is what youre city is privileged to do with a strong budget and have that budget reflected in our San Francisco values thank you for being here today and not only celebrating awareness but making sure that works more for everyone and thank you for understanding the more roles that everybody has to play in order to get to zero homicides but also stop the violence thank you very much. clapping. thank you so much mr. Mayor this year were focusing on the people who are working in the trenches we have our Services Providers and liaisons over here clapping. and were so fortunate to have our Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu clapping. and Supervisor Scott Wiener has joined us today clapping. and next up the president open the commission of status of women airbnb debris served over 15 years under there 3 marries a mayors a fierce leader please join me in welcoming our leader. clapping. thank you well, good morning San Francisco look at us my goes on every year we gather to acknowledge and get moving on Domestic Violence Awareness Month this crowd gets larger and it just makes any heard heart 80 so glad as emily mentions ive been on the commission of status of women for women for some time a privilege and honor when they says im the most Senior Member people are calculating my age im proud to stand with the folks behind me and most specifically with our mayor every time i hear the mayor speak to those issues i know from more than just strong policy stance and problematic efforts it comes from his heart i, tell i appreciate that so very much lets thank our mayor for the leadership hes providing on a daily basis to make sure all our families are savvy want to quickly acknowledge other folks with us certainly we have our friends from the district Attorneys Office that worked very hard give them a hand absolutely clapping. and our collaborative efforts sunny shorts a champion against Family Violence in the brainchild of so many great things including working with the sfiekz and the rfp program so were god gladys shes been with us for some time and dedicated leader on this issues that is the first Domestic Violence campaign at aimed at by a stands in the city that is very key and very important i think that maybe the first bystander campaign in this country so you youll are here not only to gather together to get things started for San Francisco but you, your leading the way for 24 nation so as the mayor mentions that were addressing all relationships all family relationships and espousedal relationships including the lgbt relationships the ads are in english and spanish and chinese and has mentioned we use and working hard to make sure that is driven it is database so we dont just go out and plaster the city with information and that may not necessarily target those audience or those members of our community that need it the most the Family Violence council has been just exceptionally so wonderful and so very helpful and so strong and they focus on this particular campaign so we thank them also be running adds an facebook so talk about a really powerful partnership with our tech leaders here that are based in San Francisco theyre going to be a very critical part of this particular add campaign along with okay. You cupping that i had gets the grinders laughter and people media so we thank them and any of their representatives many, many thanks and appreciation everyone has a role no stopping Domestic Violence we know a value of this city is Domestic Violence is a Community Issue is as Community Matter thats when we come together as San Francisco family to make sure that those persons that are witnessed to that are seeing as the mayor described feel safe and supported in their effort to possible save someones life to possible save someones life so we want to make sure that we create and atmosphere and environment and ethic in this city about safety for everyone that is appreciated and imagineable that someone can provide to be an aide and assistant ive very proud to represent the Historic Commission on the status of women and this particular effort and going to count on every single one of you to spread the word to make sure we end Domestic Violence so thank you all for being here this evening clapping. and one other thing that people can also go and visit learn what to do. Org got that is a that with me. Learn what to do. Org. repeated. spread the word. If i could ask the Domestic Violence liaisons to come over your next speaker someone making the first appearance so liaison come over here well recognize you. Go liaison. laughter . clapping. while with were going it a few for shout outs representatives from the Police Department lets give them a beg hand clapping. and folks from the Mayors Office km clapping. the juvenile Probation Department thank you for joining up i us clapping. barbara gazacy from the Health Department and joys and beverly from the office of labor standards i saw nancy from the das Office Someone making her first appearance in this annual Human Resources mick write callahan responsible for the recruiting and remaining over thirty thousand employees of the number one employer City Government a new program that the mayor annuity please help me welcome Human Resources director Mickey Callahan clapping. thank you very much it is a privilege to be here and privilege to speak about an Exciting New Program that dr. Murase and mayor ed lee mentions our Domestic Violence Liaison Program were struggling about how to reach out to at the employees with though thousand employees there will be 13 hundred City Employees that are survivors of Domestic Violence Domestic Violence is also a Human Resources issue with 65 percent of humans reports that effects their ability to work and the cdcs the Domestic Violence is 1. 8 billion nationwide we care about our employers we wanted to provide them resources in the same way as a Wellness Program were happy to work with wonderful staff in the department want status of women i want to call up kendall and some of the clapping. Human Resources our chief policy person clapping. and so the program is launching this month we have posters on the workplace and 50 people as you see men and women all backwards we want everyone to feel they can call someone they trust i want to close with at quote from one the application we received from a volunteer which i found compelling actually 3 but youll only cry but let me read this one ive been a victim myself and believable it is extremely important for someone experience Domestic Violence it have support and wanted to their my journey to emphasize it can happen to anyone and survivalable thats the wonderful kind of volunteers we have thank you very much dolores park thank you very much nike and a couple of folks we have the 3 Family Violence youll hear if later clapping. so next is we have a very special treat christian from a sfusd while at Burton High School startled an Innovative Group that helps athletics to raise awareness and your understanding a grant from the children of families please help me welcome christian organ clapping. hello and thank you one thing im christian im the cofounder of this my sophomore in high school there was so much t of assault from athletics and work with my quiche to the side he cape about how to be part of the solution he kauptd with that a rape preservation to know that athletics are telling the exultant that is going on and needs to stop at that time the other athletics in the High School Football team we trained them how to write grants and went back to the department and started that is consistent of a curriculum and taking talking about the infrastructure of rape and what is didnt understand as we talked about the deposition rape and soushl souls that he rape and gang we give them the specifics and the real life situations we got into the puma prevent they wanted to take this message out and showed what we leaders how to come up to reach a mass of people we calm can you came up with the annual preservation of rape we got approval from the staff from Burton High School i went to the principal and explained it and rape awareness from there, i took news to the academy and they were ecstatic from there we created poster in every language to plaster the walls of Burton High School so anyone that walked the hauls we are supportive of the victims after that we keep k kept Going Forward and now at santa fe state weave had our first rape awareness last year clapping. the pumping school to move forward having chapters United Nations nationwide to educate young men so they have a knowledge and opening the table for discussion which they grew up they can be better functioning adult and have a role in the conversation so sooner we can put an end to this heinous crime thank you clapping. thank you so much christian and telling missouri ma we appreciate that now turn to a Nonprofit Service committee as you can see the Society Director the asian shelter in so 88, 27 years ago i went to this year shelter which will go on to become only the third shelter in the country to help asian families please help me welcome clapping. good morning, everyone start to wiggle our tows so how calibration keeps going im very happy to be here im over and over kid with the asian shelter some of my coworkers are here on october fierce the start of the Domestic Violence month we know that Domestic Violence Awareness Month not the most were aware of Domestic Violence we know department of transportation Awareness Month is the month we push awareness heard than at t any other awareness we growing and working to address it in all the diverse ways so when i look across the room and till when i drive around San Francisco on any day this might be a mark but when i drive around the city i think about all the different was and the different people who are work on case of Domestic Violence every day i think about crisis workers and the shelter advocates and Police Officers and introoerm decreases and lgbtq advocates and burn staff and probation officers and leaders and journalists that be definitely putting a story out that Public Benefits worker in every sector but youth workers and teachers and childcare workers and attorneys in immigration law. Criminal law and judges and Family Members and friends and loved ones and it is a lot of people who are really toughing Domestic Violence every day with the roll im not talking about the people that are just in life i think about our city as people mentions a hard year in the Domestic Violence field so i think about children who have stopped their fabricate from killing higher mother and crisis to protect themselves from acts and about transgender women that have lost their life since we meet october 2014 im thinking about the access support for the people in the room and been the people that have not the people who lives have mattered more in the public eye or the mainstream movement and people lives that have not and people that come into contact and witnessing Domestic Violence and nerve and feeling there might be more dread of Domestic Violence and currently using a pattern the graduation and cell and denies october 1st what will i say what are we trying to make more aware and what conversations are the conversations we want to push ourselves this month than many other moments the sooner moment to have those conversations not the moments after a tremendous loss has happened we want to talk about more than that denies though sometimes starting the conversation is more than just recognizing Domestic Violence happens in 11th relationship not just straight relationship we the 80 want to go further, however, from the conversation starts there lets start where we or it is more than that making survivors and Community Members aware obviously the conversation should start there or not we want people to know what we provide in the city were not here to tell you what you do or judge you over the experience the violence were not here to say you must do abc d or whatever thats not what we were going we want to people to know im with the asian shelter or people to know weve trained anti advocate Domestic Violence protects to talk about what is happening to you not a special right were not going to think about it which someone calls what language is that we want people to know transpeople you can come o to a ows some save places in the area and other lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders we have programs that are not just thinking that we can fit you into what exists but programs trying to center you this is real and barriers our addressing and lowerincome but youre addressing barriers youre facing that deserve special attendance and special programming safety funding not other funding that gets cut i think also the things were trying to build is also more than saying there are all those bystanders with a role to play we know that every survivor didnt get programming he know that we do know that every survivor goes to someone that he trust at some point you go to the friend the trusted Community Member maybe not member who that will support you but go to Small Business that is our role to see those people as the kind of personnel whether they have a badge or degree maybe in mechanic engineering theyre also people that need support and training they need help with awareness and understanding that not just Domestic Violence happens but their victims or perpetrators but Domestic Violence is a nuance we want them to know we want to build their awareness if someone fights back or swears or there is no something that didnt mean that person a an abuser if youre a mythical unicorn of a human being we want our people to be seen as people and respond with xhashgs compassion and nonin the right direction judgment and support and in the papers all the time having the responses ive never seen him angry or upset which hes at my housed we start from different places some people start with that and hear department of transportation no, no were totally respect if he will if he thats not how Domestic Violence works what happens at home didnt happen everywhere thats the whole point we want to build are you think the awareness of everyone ourselves as workers and Community Members and family friend and sooner rather than later and action dominates from awareness so action in weve come a long way month is a big deal. clapping and next it alicia the volunteer corridor for women inc. It stands for women organized to make abuse nonexist shell let know about assistance to family and friends exercising abuse please help me welcome. The clerk will take the roll good morning, everyone. Good morning. Aim alicia the Economic Workforce Development corridor at women inc. Weve worked to empowers the survivors to create lives free of violence within the lastful few years we offer services to those if he should by woman we receive call many from survivors themselves and receive calls from Community Partners and friends and families seeking support how to help loved ones we notice the gap in San Francisco of Family Members of survivors weve created a support group with the Family Members impacted by Family Members the support group begins in october we encourage you to call for information we recognize denies can effect multiple people at levels we recognize that ding is a communities issue with a role to play the healing is important we hope by offering the forgives tools to take back to our communities to help the communities healing where our a friend or Family Member embarked by defendants no. 1 denies youre not alone and support it a big deal thank you clapping. thank you, alicia before we introduce your last speaker talking about how everyone has a big role to play shout out to her and her team theyve created an app for Domestic Violence i siefrlz looking for sincerity so, please checkout that auto save night an app on your phone next last but not least i want to thank Beverly Upton the director of the Domestic Violence consortium clapping. shes a true force of nature nothing gets in between beverly and woman experiencing Domestic Violence countless lives have an saved by her were pleased to stand together with her please help me welcome our hero Beverly Upton clapping. thank you so much thank you all im also so overwhelmed when i see our work is seen thank you all so San Francisco is on a long road and the road leads towards progress and safety and justice it is long i been at the consortium tech 10 years and youve been there 15 years were on a path heated in the right direction we have a lot to do and were going to do it were going to do it together when we look at the progress weve made over the last few years i wish mayor ed lee was here thank you for increasing the small budget but it gets bigger every year for people shelter and seeking hedge Fund Different languages to survivors everyday those dollars make a huge difference thats a Huge Investment in our community our beloves communities the Mayors Office wait laughter the San Francisco Police Department wow. I mean, look how far weve come bilingual apps on the phones and language lines figuring out how to speak to the survivors everyday trying to do berries the commission everyday under suzy loftus trying to do betters everyday is it perfect no do we agree on everything no, but we are on the path we are on the path clapping. c hr wow. Progress huge Police Radios making something that was a dream happening looked at our colleagues our advocates our friends in their purple lace how autism is that how autism is that we need to mix everybody and make sure that all the advocates know the liaisons and probation sunny and chief karen and andrea wow. A Great Partnership to make sure our Intervention Program is efficient active and Getting Better theyre too on the path to saving lives we have to help them get better we are we are clapping. and then we talk about the beloved community we have to talk about the department of the status of women born to do this work this was why the department and the commission was founded it grows every year and captains but this is added heart we love them we love their leadership the staff that does so much and the staff and emily who always such a thoughtful leader on those issues clapping. and then our beloved community our beloved communities while were at fundraiser and doing the things their answering the phones and getting people that are so afraid in so many languages to say you save wow. Thats huge you guys are are saving lives every single day i think about the department of the status of women the staffing and pulling together the council katie and shawn y in a and childs abuse fits together to continue on this path it such an honor im so grateful and have to say that we still have no more work to do the two lastly homicides i see you there you know my heart is with you the last two Domestic Violence homes we had and perhaps more but the 20 last who were gun violence someone that shouldnt have had a gun raised it in anger and killed someone at the end of a Domestic Violence episode we have to address gun violence the d b community clapping. and im part ever it i think weve been shy over the years because we have so much to do just doing what we are doing were kind of afraid to try to expand but look here is our opportunities we can join with our brothers and sisters trying to keep guns out of the hands of violent people those are our brothers and sisters were not alone all of us are moving on the path we need more i need to take a second before he hope to end on a high note i want to honor the folks that lost their lives to Domestic Violence and have to say it not as over and over kid said not always in the paper it is the suicides on the bmg or the Golden Gate Bridge or the child that was over and over infanticide over and over the person that left San Francisco or ended up in the bay they started here they are all ours can we have a moment of silence to think about them thank you silence . So with that, lets try to move into denies Awareness Month make sure that we all keep working together we all take care of each other that work is hard work lets move that path is wide and room for all of us thank you very much clapping. thank you so much beverly we want to ask my staff to come forward i want to thank all the Department Staff please come forward calling names. clapping. so given the amount of work our department do dont people think i have a department of the hundred people he want i to see our staff were also helped by policy fellows calling names who are here by really want to thank ken that has worked on this from start to finish please give her a big hand dolores park and so finally we want to thank the Deputy Director of staff paul monte sereno son and thank you all for joining us and be sure to take pictures of city hall purple tonight we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. 7th street about 10 years ago. The environment is huge. It is stronger than willpower. Surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. You are making it safer. Push, push. That is better. When i start thinking, i see it actually sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. It is like watching something being spawned. You go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. You may have a plan that this is what i want to create. Here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. So there has to be this openness for spontaneity. Also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. It is a lot like listening. Really listening to watch what is going to emerge. I like this thing where you put your foot on his back. Lets keep it. Were your mind is is how you build your life. If you put it in steel or in failure, it works. That works. It is a commitment. For most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. There is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. If that was taken away, artists would still do their art. It is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. How could that be . It is the relationship that you have committed to. It is the vocation. No matter how difficult it gets, you are going to need to produce your art. Whether it is a large scale or very small scale. The need to create is going to happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is your life. Francisco Unified School District for tuesday, september 29, 2015, is now called to order ms. Casco roll call ms. Fewer mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns dr. Murase ms. Chin and mr. Totiano thank you. Please join me of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you very much as i have been announcing at the past if you meetings the members of the public are reminder if