Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Government Audits Oversight Committee 7716 20160711

[gavel] the meeting will come to order. This is the regular meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee for thursday, july 7, 2016. Im supervisor norman yee vice chair of the committee todays meeting im joined by supervisor scott weiner good the committee crk is erica meijer. The committee would also like to acknowledge the that that sfgov tv winnowed the asus and jim smith who recorded each of its meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to sounds all cell phones electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 19 board of supervisors agenda. Okay. Before we begin can we have a motion to excuse supervisor peskin and supervisor breed . So we will with no objections the motion passes [gavel] mdm. Clerk these item the first item yes. Item number one, [reading code] it thank you. I would like to hand this off to supervisor weiner the sponsor of this legislation. Thank you very much mr. Chairman and thank you for agenda icing this important piece of land to legislation today. This legislation will be a significant step forward in our continuing quest to bring our Lgbt Community out of the shadows, into the sunlight and to make sure that we have all the information we need about our diverse community. The history of the Lgbt Community is a history of fighting against invisibility. Back to as long as theres been lgbt people, society has been trying to push us into the shadows and into the closet pretending that we dont exist. And trying to make sure that we are not fully part of society. Our fight for centuries or millennia, has been to not be invisible. To make sure that people know we are here, that we are part of society. Without data, we cannot fully be part of society get we cannot have that full visibility. We know that the Lgbt Community faces significant and disproportionate challenges relative to society at large regarding poverty, suicide, isolation, substance abuse, Mental Health and violence. There significant disparities with respect to the Lgbt Community and many of our health and safety challenges. Currently, there is no law in San Francisco requiring that our City Departments contractors or grantees that provide direct services to San Francisco that collect information about Sexual Orientation and agenda gender identity. Theres no requirement whatsoever. There required to collect data for other Demographic Data is not for our community. So, in general, we dont know how many lgbt people are accessing particular services. We dont know if there are services that are not culturally competent as reflected by a lack of lgbt participation. We dont know if this particular services that have a large number of lgbt people participating which tells us something about the needs of our community. So, this ordinance will require city dependence and contractors that provide healthcare and social services to our residents to seek collect and analyze data concerning the Sexual Orientation and gender identity of their clients. Of course, clients while the right not to provide that data but our departments and nonprofit partners will have to ask for it. The legislation mr. Chairman, was based on a recommendation by the lgbt 18 policy task force which as you will recall, was created by myself and supervisors campos andin 2012. The legislation the task force met for a year and havent made a series of recommendations to the board of supervisors to meet the needs of lgbt zenith. The first recommendation we adopted as legislation and that i authored with the lgbt senior bill of rights for People Living and longterm care the sorties. We have also obtained significant budget funding to fund recommendations of the path task force. This legislation is the next that in implementing the lgbt 18 policy task forces recommendations. The legislation applies to San Francisco department of Public Health department to services, San Francisco department of children and youth and families. Department of aging and Adult Services and the Mayors Office of housing and community development. Within 24 months of the operative date of the legislation, each department was amid a report to the city administrator including analysis of this data and identifying all services and programs with lgbt people are underrepresented along with a plan to make sure that the services and programs are more accessible to the Lgbt Community and more culturally competent. I also want to acknowledge that our Assembly Member and former colleague david chiu offered similar legislation at the state level last year that gov. Brown signed into law. Gov. Brown has vetoed that law previously and was a great step forward that Assembly Member mr. Chu was able to move it for. This legislation makes, womens Assembly Member choose work. Mr. Chairman, this legislation will help improve our outreach to support of all members of our community particularly the most vulnerable. And i ask for your support. We do have a few presentations today. First, i want to invite up dr. Marcy eight woman who is a member of the lgbt 18 task force and i want to thank dr. Aleman because she really was one of the people who came to me and to supervisors campos and45 years ago asking us for help and telling us, hey, when not doing we need to for lgbt seniors and so was in some ways her brainchild to do this task force oh dr. Aleman, welcome thank you supervisor wiener for that introduction and thank you for being such a leader on the needs and services of lgbt seniors in San Francisco. The lgbt 18 policy task force which convened in 2012 and ended in march of 2014 was charged with coming up with recommendations around service gaps and Service Needs for lgbt senior secured in San Francisco. To that end, of course the first thing we needed to do as the task force was to collect whatever data the city had and once we did that we realized we had a wonderful report given to us but we realized as much as is important as the report was for the data it provided was how little data there was. So, we set out to have another study, have a study done, and do focus groups in order to provide the task force with the meaningful information that they would need to make recommendations. You know, for me who has worked in decades for the field of lgbt aging this was another example of having to use resources and time tomoney and time to reinvent the wheel so that we could find out exactly what we needed to know to create the best policy and programs for our community. The task force took this to heart and realized that this was perhaps the most critical recommendation we could make. That critical recommendation was that the city mandate the collection of Sexual Orientation and gender identity data. Now, we could have just gone out and said lets just collect data for lgbt seniors, but that would have been poor judgment come i think at the end of the day because what we decided was that we would ask the city to collect data across departments, citywide good that way, [inaudible] lgbt seniors but seeing aging as a part of the lifecycle of lgbt people. So, thats what we have in this legislation. Theres youth and families, theres adult, data that will be collected on seniors as well. This for the first time, will give San Francisco the opportunity to create smart policy and programs not only for lgbt folks living in San Francisco today but for generations to come. So, thank you again so much. Thank you very much. Dr. 800 now i want to call up nolan, who in addition to his role at the mta iswas this staff member at the department of aging and Adult Services worked with the task force, to publicly thankfor being unequivocally supportive of the task force in the very beginning as well is this legislation and working closely with us. So mr. Nolan, he continues to work to move these items forward. So mr. Known. Thank you. Is your chairman and supervisor weiner im very happy to be here this morning about the department of aging and Adult Services and total support of supervisor weiners legislation and im joined this morning by the acting director of the department as look at inserting the Lgbt Community for many many years. In many ways wide variety of services we offer. The department has always been aware of the presence of the lgbt seniors and has supported a variety of efforts to assist them including number one, supporting creation of the lgbt 18 policy task was that supervisor weiner management contributing funding for the major way through the age of lgbt aging in the Golden Ticket the survey and focus groups that form the foundation for the lgbt passports recommendations provided and continues to provide sport that has forced now implanting this recommendation and the department is and was a key supporter [inaudible] verse in the kind in the nation bill of rights for lgbt and secondly, were currently about relating to proposals to provide culturally Probate Services for lgbt individuals around Dementia Care and isolation. There, and also funds lgbt cultural sensitivity and humility training in concert with the department of human resource. When the major findings of the passports was many lgbt seniors particularly those we see in baby boomers either extends determination or fear of it. Still because of their Sexual Orientation or gender identity. Thus, for some people back in the closet making it difficult if not impossible for agents to provide culturally sensitive and appropriate service. Supervisor weiners legislation is a big step forward. The first, google more than anecdotal information about the population and simply second simply asking the question will send a welcoming signal to lgbt seniors in vinton we are are enthusiastically supportive of this legislation. Thank you. Thank you very much. Finally, i want tosorry. Again, i recognize in some of the david chius work at the state level. Hello. Thanks very much for having us here to get im katiegunbattle Assembly Member david should these ugly member is in full support of supervisor weiners legislative last year hes only member offered 80 ab[inaudible] they did as they will level that supervisor weiner seeks to do at the local level. To better distribute government funding and resource to address needs in the Lgbt Community. The community counted [inaudible] window from Data Collected on nonprofit sister does exist in the Lgbt Community. Lgbt individuals are more likely to pay Certain Health disparities faced difficulty in finding and keeping housing and many other challenges than their straight counterparts. However with aggregated dad both used at the local and State Government level we can being in sight into the disparities that exist and effectively allocate resources to address these issues. We know this data will save lives help us target scarce Budget Resources achieve true in quality this ugly members the board of supervisors will support it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Richard chairman, if we may i like to open this up for Public Comment first of all, thank you for being in this legislation to us. I think the five departments that have been identified makes a lot of sense. I am just curious, was there any discussion or in regards to possibly looking at hsa . Also because as you know, they serve a lot of the low income and the foster kids and theres a substantial population around that. The hsa is part of this. I think it was referred to as the department of Human Services but thats the same thing as Human Services agency. I Guess Department of Human Servicesis that the official name . Okay. Yes so hsa is part of this just under its official name okay. I see that. If you look on page 3, line 6 definitions of departments, dph, department of Human Services, dos, the cys and moh cd. Thank. I will say the Youth Commission did come to us and as we include the juvenile Probation Department as well and we did reach out and weve had discussions with the juvenile Probation Department, with the City Attorney. Thus some tricky issues there around youth confidentiality and the criminal justice system. So, we have asked the Youth Commission to work directly with department of gen. Probation to come up with some ideas and if were able to do that i will its my intention to carry that as a trailing legislation. Thank you. Without mr. Chairman, if we may open it up to Public Comment did i want Public Comment card. Is there any Public Comment on item 1 . Please, come forward. Good morning supervisors. Im ashley, executive director of meals on wheels of San Francisco. I also sfgov tv you today as a former member of the lgbt 18 policy task force and look alongside my colleagues. I think dr. Aleman appropriately stated that our work has to be driven by data and that was one of the first recommendations that came out of the task force. But i actually want to speak you on behalf of being a leader of an agency in my experience with this ordinance and collecting data. I arrived at meals on wheels on in 2007 and as a gay man, when the first questions i asked of my team is, how many lgbt people do we serve . In fact, we do not know. Then, i asked her why and ultimately to a long conversation we realize how important it was restarted to collect this data immediately. Most people know meals on wheels as neil do what we are is a Service Provider in homes with supportive services. You cannot do that without trust. So beyond knowing whether or not we are serving people the right way, whether or not we should be changing operatives in the future, the biggest reason to support this ordinance is we have to build trust with all of our clients. This ordinance goes a long way to sending that signal from the very first interaction with any client in any department. So i want to thank supervisor weiner and also supervisor campos but their support of the lgbt 18 policy task force and thank you for moving this forward. Thank you. Next speaker. Mr. Chairman and supervisor weiner my name is keith baraka. On the from the San Francisco Fire Department and the reason why im here to make a Statement Today is because for some of the same reasons that dr. Aleman mentioned that we dont have information that we need to make sure our Fire Department reflects our community. Its been determined long ago that we best serve our city by having a department that is comprised of folks that are commensurate with our population are we can collect data on race, for instance, whether people are africanamerican, native american married filipino and such, but we are hands are tied when it comes to the collection of data on lgbt members. So i think this is a opportunity to also address the concerns that wethat i have had that sf rescue him player Resource Organization has had with the department and finding out how we can better determine with the numbers are for the Fire Department. So i believe it would be great if this measure could also cover departments for Public Safety like the Fire Department. Thats the statement i would like to make and i think that again, this is a great opportunity for us to voluntarily collect information so we can better our Fire Department. Thank you. Are you referring to employment . Yes. Thank you to this of the first am hearing of this but this legislation focuses on services that are provided to members of the community. This is not require any department to collect employment related data that is obviously a significant issue could i agree with you 100 , but thatsits important but separate issue from what this legislation is about. About collecting data on provision of health and Human Services, or services to residents of San Francisco. So the employment issue is important, but its notits not the scope of this legislation but thank you for raising that issue because we do need information about how many lgbt people there are in the Fire Department come in the police department. Frankly, in a number of different departments because we know we want our First Responders to be as diverse as our city is. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] i just want to say, again, i fully support this legislation. Ive done hotive been in struggles for trying to get data for other aspects throughout my life and we know how important it is to collect this type of data so that we can actually see what kind of services are provided, who is getting it and when we do an analysis that indeed, there certain groups that are not getting their fair share of services that the city could make some adjustments. Whether, in the past, and no data was ever collected, whether its about age or gender or ethnicity or language. These things have [inaudible] over decades and i think this is important as any of those other categories. So, given that, if you dont mind, the author of this legislation whether i could be added as a cosponsor . That would be great. Thank you mr. Chairman. Yes. Im happy to have you as a cosponsor. Thank you. So, again thank you to the members of the public and to our department and task force presenters for the dialogue today. This is important legislation to improve the visibility of our Lgbt Community and to make sure that as we provide Critical Health and Human Services to summon the most marginalized members of our community, that we are doing so in a knowledgeable and culturally competent way and that cultural competence does not just exist in some nonprofits were some agencies but universally. This legislation will help us to do that. So, mr. Chairman, i move that we forward item 1 to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation. Okay. No objection to motion passes [gavel] thank you. Mdm. Clerk item number two item number two, [reading code] okay. Thank you. I call this hearing today to get a better understanding of the citys actions and procedures regarding a winning place on the Pentecost Church also known as a place to meet jesus. The voice of the Pentecost Church owned the el rey theater, a historic theater located on ocean avenue in district 7. The city had a lien on the voice of the pentecost for not being able to pay rent for space on Treasure Island. Earlier this year we learned through the press that the theater was foreclosed upon and auctioned off on a front steps of city hall for 1. 06 million. What is perplexing to me is how this property could have been sold without the citys knowledge, especially given that we had a lien against the Property Owner. Furthermore, the el rey theater was also identified as part of the office of Academic Workforce of almonds neighborhood Asset Activation Program and is currently ongoing the community when marking process. I want to ensure that there is transparency in what transpired because we are not only lost money owed to the city but we also lost a beloved el rey theater to a new entity who as of now has not been responsive to the community. The purpose of todays hearing is to shed light on what exactly happened and to see if there are measures we can take to increase communication and possibly seize these opportunities in the future. So, the first presenter i would like to invite is bob back, Treasure Island director. Bob, please come up to the podium. Thank you by chair yee supervisor weiner. Bob back with the Treasure Island Development Authority and the Treasure Island developing a 40 did have a lien against the el rey theater. As you said resulting from property that they had leased on Treasure Island in 20062007 timeframe. I will go through the history there a little bit. At the time of the foreclosure, we were actually in discussions with the voice of the pentecost about ways in which they might be able to discharge the obligation of the judgment that been rendered and we were as surprised as anyone that the potential for closure had not been raised as an issue in our discussions. But i will go through a little bit of the events that led to the judgment being filed and then kind of where we were earlier this year when we learned of the foreclosure. So, the title was approached late 2004early 2005 about leasing space on the island for the purposes of film production. On june 1 of 2005, voice of pentecost entered into a lease a leasewith one or 40,000 ft. 2 and historical hanger three. For which they were paying a rent of . 12 a foot or little over 17,000 a month. That originally lease was close to run through march of 2006, with the options for up to five oneyear extensions. Beginning in january of 2006, the voice of the pentecost failed to pay their rent for that month. Between january and march of 2006 Treasure Island made repeated demands for payment of the rents due and the nonpayment of rent continued. The voice of pentecost did make overtures to make certain improvements and repairs to hangar three in exchange for rent credits and requested the exercise of an option to extend through march of 2007. Qaeda declined to extend the term or two Exchange Improvements for rent credits. At the end of march with the expiration of the lease and the nonpayment of rent, we sent a notice of default and termination to voice of pentecost. At that time, the accrued back rent were just over 55,000. From april through october of 2006, the voice of pentecost failed to vacate the premises and continued nonpayment of rent. The City Attorney during that time filed a unlawful detainer action on Treasure Islands behalf to vacate the property. In october of october 2006 the City Attorney and counsel to the voice of pentecost negotiated a stipulated agreement under which voice of pentecost would make a payment of 90,000 by november 15 of 2006 and vacate the property by the end of 2006. But then voice of pentecost failed to make that november payment. So, in december the City Attorney filed to enforce the stipulated agreement and the superior court entered a judgment on behalf of Treasure Island four winner 246,000 which is the accrued back rent interest and penalties at that time and the Court Ordered a 10 interest per annum be applied to that balance. In january 10th of 2007, notice eviction was served and the locks on the sony were changed and in january and february of that year the voice of pentecost was offered opportunities to enter the building and recover property. At that time, communication between voice of pentecost and the city discontinued. There was no further communication between Treasure Island and voice of pentecost for a period of several years until 2014, december of 2014 when the voice of pentecost approached Treasure Island and specifically, myself, at this point i had joined Treasure Island to discuss the judgment against voice of pentecost and the lien that it placed against the property on ocean avenue. With numerous conversations with course of 2015 and into early 2016 to discuss scenarios under which the voice of pentecost might satisfy or discharge their obligations under the judgment, or format for a settlement that johnck to recommend to the board of supervisors for approval. When in february of 2016 we learned also from reporters at the chronicle that the property had been sold, it auctioned by the lender in november of 2015so if that point the lien against the property was extinguished with the sale. The judgment against voice of pentecost is still there and we remain open to dialogue with the voice of pentecost on how that judgment might be satisfied, but we have not had further communication since february. When we are informed of the sale the property. So, at this point mr. Back, there is no more opportunity to actually collect any of this from the voice of pentecost . I think the opportunity exists. However, the judgment is no longer secured by the lien against the property on ocean avenue. But the judgment against the voice of pentecost is still outstanding can however, we dont have any assets that been identified yet do we could attach. I am just curious, this is not completely related to this topic, but it is related. How do you vet potential ecs . For vcs on the island they do provide certain Financial Information to show. Credit worthiness for the leases that they are entering into. Also, they are required to provide insurance for the facilities and property which they are leasing. Which, in the case of this was a fairly substantial insurance policy that they covered under their umbrella coverage for their church and their facility on ocean avenue. I guess this is all hindsight stuff. What else could we have asked in terms of information that could have foreseen Something Like this happening . Yes. I think, you know, again, i dont know in detail the depth of the credit check that was done in 2005, but perhaps more indepth credit check good also, we do carefully monitor and promptly send notices to tenants of nonpayment of rent so that we try to avoid the accrual of significant back charges of rent. So, we do try and stay on top of rent is there due to make sure that tenants are not falling into a situation where they have a large obligation accrued. So, you mentioned that you have attempted to reach out to them and communicate with and what actually have you done to do that . As i mentioned, over the course of 2015 we had a number of conversations with representative of voice of pentecost. They represented that they do not have liquid assets to fulfill the obligation and so we were having alternative discussions about alternative ways in which they might be able to fulfill their debt obligation, including potentially allowing a portion of their facility on ocean avenue to be used for communitybased organizations or other purposes. But, we did notthose conversations did not reach the point where we had a specific proposal to bring to the board of supervisors for consideration. When was the last medication with them . Last medications i had with voice of pentecost was in january, just prior to worry about this we were having a dialogue and then, when i communicated with them after learning about this, they said they would get back to us and we kind of have not had further to medications since then. Is it worth trying one more time or two more times . I think we can continue to reach out to the voice of pentecost. My understanding is there current focus has been on trying to retain or reclaim their property if at all possible. If its possible that the settlement of obligation could be part of a solution like that, we certainly are open to discussions. Maybe this is for a question for the City Attorney, but if we were to purchase it back are they still obligated to the lien . That may be a question for the City Attorney. I dont think the lien would snap back but i believe the lien could be placed against any asset whether its this church or another Real Property that we were aware of. Ill ask the City Attorney later i guess. Well thank you for your presentation. I hope that you continue communicating with them and see what you could retrieve back from them. Thank you. Any questions . The next person i would like to ask to present it would be the City Attorney by deputy city atty. John gibner deputy City Attorney john gibner. Im here today with two colleagues who have more background on this particular case is Matthew Rothschild is the head of our claims team and virginia how also on our claims team. We are planning to just run through the background mr. Back primarily ran through all of that good im not sure how much more we can add but certainly, in terms of answering your questions about how we got here in the unlawful detainer and the logistics of the lien, looking backward and looking forward, so i wonder if mr. Rothschild can speak on the background and maybe ms. Ho on the snapback question that you asked about the lien. Thats fine. Thank you. Matthew rothchild chief of the claims division for the City Attorneys office. And virginia ho is a claims adjuster on the team who worked on the abstract and filing the lien in this matter. Happy to answer your questions. So, what can we do legally in regards to if the church were to purchase or repurchase. Is there anything we can do legally . Well, i mean i would be speculating but we were, as bob said, we were in discussions with them and they were not exactly candid with us about they were not paying rent and they were about to foreclose on their mortgage. So come i think theres a lack of trust at the moment. Im trying to be diplomatic because they do not cause they were not paying their mortgage. So there is that just as background. Number two, the city has always willing to consider to talk to people we are in litigation with or have judgments against to try to resolve it and whats in the interest of just. Am sure we would always consider that. But, as we speak, we have a judgment. It is valid. It can be run in five yearsevery 10 yearsafter five years it can be renewed to add additional interest and we are entitled to the taxpayers are entitled to those funds. If they wish to, if the Credit Report is on a network that was to go forward our lien will show up. Anything else to add . Go ahead the lien is valid and if voice of pentecost decided to the purchase, if they need to refinance or get a loan, it would show on the Credit Reports and have to pay the city first before the loan would go through. I mean, i am justi guess where the committee and myself including, asking questions how did this happen . This wouldve happened without anyone noticing . Can you think ofwhat can we do legally or are their suggestions in terms of policies where we can maybe strengthen this so this does not happen again . Well they could have paid their rent to Treasure Island and they would not be in this position. What were they could have during the time when they were not paying the rent on Fisher Island they couldve tried to renegotiate the lease for what they could afford to pay or when there was an opportunity to work with them in 2014, when the lien was renewed, we did send them a document as required to under the law, that we are about to renew the lien and they couldve come forward at that time and im sure if they had come forward with pain the principle that was do we certainly wouldve looked at that kindly. But they did not do that. Yes. So, regardless of this particular situation, in terms of having entities of foreclose like this and none of us knowing that this was going to happen or happened, is there something the city can do to require maybe the banks to let us know . I just want this to be a recurringspit debbie City Attorney john gibner again. Thats a question that we just started looking to add your request supervisor, and i think the best way forward is for my office, perhaps mr. Rothschild are probably others on our Real Estate Team to continue look into whats possible. There are some are sections under state law that a hamstring us, and then report back to you about what options are might be to pursue legislation on this topic. Do you have a comment on this . Happy to work with you on a timeline. The person who will would handle this is out of the office this week. So i could not talk to him in advance of this meeting to figure out kind of what how complicated this task will be but, i will im happy to talk with you later this week, next week, to figure out a specific, so we can give you some options. Okay. Just been added, supervisor, we learned about the foreclosure at the same time you did. In the newspaper it was sold at christmas at the steps of city hall. We were hoping that there will be Funds Available for the city to collect somewhat on eileen. There was not. So, we were as disappointed as you are. I do think there arei agree with, john and we will research for you i think there are some state preemption issues about entities that dont pay their rent and theres foreclosure in city hall. I dont know that the city can say we want to know about it before its sold but we certainly will look into it for you. Yes. Arduously come i think this is one of these things people knew it was in a cell for only 1 million its worth a lot more than that. Whether the community were the city would step up to purchase it as an asset for our community. It couldve been done especially at that price. The other question i have, which is totally speculation on my part, supervisor, is why they do not sell the building. I mean, they do not have to foreclose on. They could have sold it for more and paid the city arlene and perhaps had some funds left over for the voice of pentecost that they chose not to do that. I understand and thats why i think we need to continue to monitor whether its 20 be flipped back to them. It doesnt seem very proper whatever was on. I guess ive been better not say any more than that. Thank you supervisor thank you very much. Any questions . No. Thank you very much. Walking tours from oewd, and do a short presentation. Good afternoon mr. Chairman and supervise. The pleasure to be here walking tours from office of economic and workforce development. I want to provide a quick and brief overview with regard to our work with the community and assessing and a level of engagement with the el rey theatre as part of a Larger Program referenced earlier. Our neighborhood as it Activation Program that looks at underutilized sites that have a positive neighborhood impact it activator across the city and particularly invested neighborhood corridor. We selected the el rey for a few reasons. One is because we blog setting working with the ocean Avenue Community through both invest in neighborhoods and the Community Benefit district program. We knew that was underutilized into disrepair with bacon looking storefronts and News Community desire to see more activated and potentially allow for some Additional Community use. We thought that maybe was going to be way to work with the Building Owner on these issues. However, we began assessing it like the rest of us, we learned it been transferred to a new owner the option after foreclosure by private lender. After as part of the assessment process, both our partner Northern California Community Loan fund and our office is out multiple times to engage the new owners to learn their intentions engage them positive with you we also reached out to the church and Community Stakeholders to find out what their intentions were for the property as well. The church nor the owners have been very willing to engage at all and they are pretty adamant theyre not interested in engaging in a conversation with us today. Despite our repeated attempts. Weve included multiple offers of assistance to Property Owner to open pursue any kind of renovation redevelopment plans. In march we have learned through i think is important process here in terms of how we monitor these types of sites it takes a lot of kind of gumshoe work in partnership with people of eyes on the street in our Community Partners let us know issues happening related to construction or renovation that had been properly permitted so we were able to work with your office and your staff on the community to make sure we assigned dbi right away to people that work there was taken an improperly. This work inbox is another development we been looking at. We do this both to raise Public Awareness of the value of a site like this and also it will inform the permitting process that we go through this when marking job leave a draft proposal is nearly completed writenow. From our Community Stakeholders. So that we can have the permitting process with any kind of alteration construction were potential demolition informed by landmark in process. Were a much looking forward to working partnership our office with the committing of pursuing that process. I think that would be the best kind of update i can provide at this time. Again, we are always very open throttle when marking process to continuing talks with the Property Owners. Should they wish to accept our calls. And have a conversation with us. We have also advised although not required for the Community Stakeholders to reach out as well to make sure that the Property Owner can be involved in that when marking process as well. Thank you very much. At this time, is there any Public Comment . Come on up, dan. Good morning. Thanks for having this hearing. My name is dan weaver and him representing the ocean ave. , Association Good almonds executive director and el rey theatre is the biggest thing on the ocean avenue. It may in fact be the biggest thing, biggest building west of twin peaks for that matter. Its been there a long time. When the church bought it in 1978 they proceeded to do the wrong kind of restoration. Systematically on the front, fortunately, the inside is remarkably intact oh according to the preservation consultants we hired, its hard to proceed from here because what i am hearing from the City Attorneys staff is that there is no need or law that says the senior lien holder has to notify the junior lien holder when theres more than one lien on the property thats going to be auctioned off on the steps. As a consequence, it just the way it is that San Francisco no one in San Francisco government learned that this was going to be auctioned off. Thats not my understanding of how the law works but are not a lawyer. So, it would be interesting to delve a little bit more into that to understand whether, in fact, the city was noticed or i dont know if this city knows if it was noticed. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Come on up. Ace washington. I just happen to be here at city hall today. On some other business. I could peek in here and see this item coming up. Just listening to the backandforth rhetoric that the city and county gives me just give a parallel piece of property in the Western Addition, which oewd and all these departments are involved with. This is parallel with the same situation is where a property went bankrupt and city and county went haywire into it they want the we in our community the building is still run by the city and county we dont know what the hell is going on. I think its ludicrous. I think its disgusting the way we are treated in the Western Addition. That alone on ocean avenue pier on very familiar with the building i used to congregate there years ago to my church used to fellowship years ago and had changed ownership. But just a parallel to its going on in the Western Addition of a building that went bankrupt and the city took back over and we the Community Try to get some parts of it which we can get nothing, cant get information about it. We dont know what is going on from wendy to another because the city and county in the department they are talking about right now is overseeing it. This same department was in here last week with a least [inaudible] yes, they damn sure need oversight on that department as well as others. Now i speak parallel speaking that the department and if the owners are here, i would not look at the department get the hell out of it if the city and county does not on. If they do own it they dont manage their own business. Theyll manage the buildings they have. What al is going on here . At city hall. I call it silly hall. Where accountability is needed thank you. Next. My name is neil ballard anglicized resident. The el rey theatre is the most iconic building on ocean avenue and the most prominent art deco theater in the whole city. It should be preserved and dedicated to a Community Use but instead it was sold for the cost of a house i think is the real issue here. So, why that happened is still unclear and if every City Department by god about this in the newspaper i think somebody who knows what really went on i like to hear from them especially. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Im Alex Mullaney and him and angle side resident also good i also publish the neighborhood newspaper. I lead say the el rey when i and other neighbors found out it was old we were very concerned. Because as you know, we could eat without for development when its a landmark and its farthest work product of the neighborhood i interface with a lot of neighborhoods and community. This like conspiracy theories about what happens. Theres a lot of concern that people want to feel like the city is on top of it and hoping this hearing could really put a cap on it. I wish the department of real estate had been your two kind of explain the process and i believe this post to monitor foreclosures were they have to the ability to anyhow. Anyway, i do appreciate having this hearing and i look forward to coming back bringing the land marking application. Thank you. Any othercome on up. Yes, my name is robert creed and i would leak with very closely to the el rey theatre. Im also the owner of the Victoria Theatre on 16th and mission. I just want to let the city know that that they had, or did have or may have a golden opportunity to enrich the lives of everyone in San Francisco. I took a theater 16 mission st. In 1978. It was boarded up. Since that time weve had programs from schoolchildren to musicals to stageplay two dramas and this year we hosted the San Francisco International Film festival. I mention this because this is a similar thing that could happen in the elegant in fact, the el rey zone was 10 times better than the Victoria Theatre and how no one could see the vision behind that and what it could do to enhance not only the neighborhood but the whole city, the school district, its just beyond me. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] it seems like this hearing was to try to get some answers and certainly we do not get too many answers and none of us seem to know how this all transpired until after the fact and moving forward, i would love to see us emendations, in regards to policies preventing such an action to take place again. I think it is true when of the Public Comments why the department of real estate was here. I dont know if they would have given us any more information, but it was something i should have pushed for a living more for them to be here. In regards to this particular item, el rey, im looking forward to working with the community in terms of this land marking and the historical aspects of this particular property. And hopefully this will come sooner not later so we can actually move forward with some things where it may benefit, not only the community, but also the whole of San Francisco. Without any further comments, then can i have a motion to file. I will move to file no objection. The motion passes. [gavel] thanks for coming. Mdm. Clerk please call item number three yes. Item number three, [reading code] okay. Ms. Thank you supervisors for hearing this today. Good morning supervisors. For the record my name is mary and ms. Ago thompson and im speaking on behalf of director todd with photo. We are here today to followup on the june 2 gal hearing regarding the legacy registry. Weve come a long way since june 2 but we recognize that we have a way to go. For the past four weeks we have been focused on creating the policies, the procedures, around the legacy business registry. Weve been building the of the structure for the program and putting systems into place. Prior to the june 2 hearing, director with cocaine to me and asked if i would take the lead on this project and we could on board a manager. Without hesitation i said, yes. I believe in supporting local businesses and by way of background, i am the project manager for shop and dine in the 49, by local campaign. It was just one small hitch. That was my vacation. Im a single mom of two teenagers and i went home and told him that the vacation was on hold for just a small bit of time. My daughter asked me, mom, what are you going to do on this project . I told her the first thing i was going to do with to meet with all 37 of the businesses would yet submitted their applications. Legacy businesses deserve the best Customer Service and thats part of what i am focused on. So, on google maps is 16yearold daughter who insisted that she come with me, we went on an adventure. That is to say, we shopped and dimes are way too 37 businesses in San Francisco. Each and every business and every Business Owner had incredible story to tell. From roseanne from the anchor oyster bar to billy, from the Castro Country Club canada from fog city market, victoria door restaurant oceanside sheet metal, yes, i even took my 16yearold daughter to this cinch, why not. These businesses are woven into the fabric of what makes San Francisco unique and each merchant corridor is different from the next. When i walked into swan oyster depot tom yelled across his customers a ms. Ago how is your mom. Those were the days when myused to go to the nine are games. I had to pause for a moment deeming Candlestick Park or did he mean [inaudible]. Then it was gypsy rose lee. The woman who used to style my grandmothers hair. I was struck at this moment with the profound thought its not the brick and mortar that makes the businesses legacy businesses. If the people and the owners who are the businesses. The owners who took a chance to grow, start, and stay in San Francisco and maybe when my daughter goes back to school and she is asked, what did you do this summer, she will say, i got to explore the many treasures of San Francisco and i got to touch its history. So, here we are today having completed a significant amount of work on the registry knowing we have more work to do. But now, as we this city family, can focus on our legacy businesses we can share the narrative and show residents and visitors what makes San Francisco so unique. I want to thank each and every one of you. I especially want to thank you or aids. Darlene in particular who was always helpful and always willing to give me more information or to send me more businesses. Adam who was always willing to help me with these businesses. Aides who allowed me to stop into their offices unannounced and help me get i really want to thank them because as a city family that we really came together to unite and to bring for this legacy business registry. So, with that im quick to turn this over to regina dick and jesse from the office of Small Business who certainly helped to move this forward. Thank you. Thank you marianne. I really want to extend my appreciation again to talk with and to Marianne Thompson kazuko four being able to assist and dedicate their time in really getting the registry up and going and launch. As then in the amount of time thats needed to the spring the process to our businesses. With that, under move on to providing updates from the last gal meeting in terms of what transpired to date. So, most importantly, we have now hired the Legacy Business Program manager. I would like to introduce to you richard carrillo, who is part of the invested neighborhood steam who is now the Legacy Business Program manager could richard has a stellar reputation in terms of Program Management and Grant Management and just the type of person we need to move this program for work. So i am very excited with having him on board and starting monday, july 11, he will be officially handling all the applications that marianne and i have been handling. Then, on june 8, we held a marianne and i held the legacy business registry application training for the board of supervisors aides,. Just to walk through with the nomination process, with the application process and just to make sure theyre very clear. Then, the legacy business weve updated the legacy business website so that it has allit has instructions for the nominees good in case you are aides need to refer back to the process if there on the osc website. Are we not on . Thank you. Excuse me one moment. Can somebody help with that and you continue with your presentation . Yes. Then we had all the applications translated into english, chinese spanish and that is up on the website. Again, following the last meetings we continue to reach out to all the nominees, especially those that have not yet submitted applications to make sure theyre clear in the process they receive the information and be available to answer any questions. So, all the businesses again that were on the initial list are deemed officially nominated and we do have a new list of nominees. There will beso the nomination process that we are able to accept 300 year and so all the nominees that were submitted that we have on our list that is before you are deemed submitted through last fiscal year and so we are now able as of july 1 to accept new nominations. Then, next week were starting and meeting with the legacy Business Grant program. So, as of today, there had and 79 nominations by the board of supervisors. 26 of these nominees have submitted applications some form of another. 53 have still yet to submit applications. Of the 26, received, 18 are deemed complete and ready for the hpc review. So, eight havent submitted to hpc on july 20. 10 will be cemented on tomorrows, the eighth. And then five on august 22. There were three that the applications that still need some Additional Information and if we do get that in soon we will be able to for that on to the august 22 meeting. Then, just to provide you with an update of windows applications when they come back from hpc window be heard at the Small Business commission for their final hearing and to be placed on the registry. So, for thoseokay, for those businesses that will be heard at the july 20 hpc meeting, they will have their official hearing the Small Business commission on august 8. Are those that are being heard on the august 8august 30 hpc meeting, they will have their hearing on august 22, and then for those applications that are heard at hpc on august 17, they will be heard at the Small Business commission on september 12. So, just to reiterate the priorities for the legacy business registry, which rick will take on, its really working to those 26 applications getting to the process and onto the registry. Completing a branding program and getting that launch by early november. We are currently working with oewd to codify a list of nonprofits who will fit Small Business with crafting their historical narrative. Some has expressed this is a bit of a challenge for them and you need assistance. Then, the Legacy Business Program manager will provide with monthly updates on the status of your nominees. So, the next step is the Historical Preservation fund so theres to Fund Programs theres the Business Assistance Grant Program and the rent stabilization grants. These two programs be mr. Guidelines will have their official hearing at the Small Business commission on july 25 get they will be forwarded to you for your 30 day i think you have 30 days to review and provide comments or make any changes and then because the businesses Assistance Grant to proposition j the filing, to file for that grant is between july 1 and september 30. Because we are delayed in the registry process in consultation with our City Attorney, to a ordinance we were able to extend that grant timeline and so i will be soon submitting and ordinance to the board of supervisors to extend that grant period for an additional three months. So that those businesses that are currently in the process where the ability to be able to apply for the Grant Program. Could you quickly just state largest amount for each category of grants . So, the largest or the range . Well, for the Business Assistance grant the largest amount that can be awarded based upon the number of businesses and the number of employees that end up in the Grant Application is 500 for fulltime employee up to 100. Employees per business, fulltime equivalent. So its 500 and for the rent stabilization grant its four 50 ft. 2 up to 5000 ft. 2. Okay. Attached in your package if you have any questions feel free to ask me. Is just a list of those that submit the applications, the righthand column is the schedule which theyll be transferred to the hpc. This is not the date they are scheduled or the date the application will be transferred to the Historical Preservation commission. Then, the second list is the list of nominations and were still waiting to receive the applications. So, with that if you have any questions away happy to answer them. Do we have on the website somewhere were rehashing publish beyond the september 26 for this year i guess, application . Going forward so people know when to hand in things . We will be placing information on the application in terms of the list of businesses that been nominated and those that been submitted in the process. We are still trying to figure out the best means of handling that information, but we are in communication with those with the businesses. Which one are you referring to . There is the 79 that is currently going through the process, 26 of them will be looked at maybe 26 willwe have applications. The majority of them are complete and ready to be forwarded onto the struggle Preservation Commission and some, we are still working with the applicants and get a few bits of Additional Information. So, the remainder of the applicants, the ones in the second sheet theres 53 that are denominated by the supervisors and we are still waiting for those applications, and so, i thinkyyes . Were real specific about the dates of the hearings and everything for the first 26 i guess. We have specific dates, deadlines and so forth for the other 50ish we dont until we have a pretty clear idea of when theyre going to be ready to summit their applications. I think with richard moving forward will be able to start reporting out to you those nominees. The status of where they are with completing their applications. Part of it is doing the written narrative and providing some supplemental documents and we have identified at least five of the businesses that you need them, some languages systems and drafting their narrative. So we are working with oewd 12 provide a. I guess im trying to push the dates a little bit because if the next set of applicants, and theres some that would have completed everything and have to wait around forever for the dates to be set it seems unfair and also if you set the date thats reasonable hopefully a few of these applicants will get things done quicker. I think i will work with richard, hearing your feedback on what is the best means for us to ensure that those nominations get their applications in as soon, as quickly as possible so we can get them scheduled on the registry. Im just a little bit hesitant to forecast a date for an applicant and if theyre not ready but another applicant may come in earlier than that would take up that slot so but i think what well do to hear what your concern is supervisor yee, is really get a good assessment and idea and recommendation to you in terms of how will work with those businesses. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions . Seeing none, any Public Comment on this item . Always great to come down here to city hall because you never know what you run into. With all these new positions in all these new programs, it is hard for you guys, the board of supervisors to keep up with it. Let alone for the community it affects. With these characters are doing. Excuse my french condom characters i would Say Something else. Im just appalled. Oewd, spa and all the rest of the socalled groups that recently got together could always seven just request for a new program, new positions, new money, when we dont know where its going. Im fully requested i like to know everything about this new legacy. It sounds good. But if you come to western edition theres no letters. Everything is closed up to the africanamerican black negroes are here in San Francisco. Where have you heard about the city by the bay . My name is ace, on the case. The outmigration, the fillmore corridor, somethings wrong with everything that you do. But ive not heard jack dougal about nothing. I am appalled. Because were bringing in new programs, bringing in new Staff Members and were going to be affected. We dont know jack about and i am sick and tired of being sick and tired of this bs with a call politics down here at city hall. I call it silly hall. Almond with a program together in the Western Addition and aint nothing coming to the fillmore. Unless i know about it so i can tell my community. I want to smell every fark and home who did it. I want to know everything in the fillmore. From this day out or file an injunction to stop everything get my name is ace, dammit and i am on this case. Any other Public Comment . On this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] could ii want to thank the presenters for coming today. I know this a very important item for the business to have applied good as you know, many personal businesses seem to be living our city and this is one way we can be helpful as a city to keep our Small Businesses which is really the economic engine in San Francisco. Because the two authors of this hearing were not able to come today, but to have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair . Supervisor weiner okay. There is a motion and without any objection that motion passes [gavel] mdm. 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