Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Rules Committee 71416 20160722

The chair of the Committee Aaron peskin joined by supervisor london breed . We need a motion to excuse supervisor yee. We will take supervisor yees motion without objection. I want to thank the folks at sfgtv for streaming our meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices. Copies should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on august 2nd, board of supervisors agenda. Thank you. Please read the first item. 160551 [reward for information about underpayment of property tax Charles Scoble 1,848. 17] thank you. I think that item is pretty self explanatory. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item no. 1 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor breed, if there is no objection why dont we send this to the full board with a full recommendation. Seeing none. Lets skip over the next item because supervisor campos is not here yet. Why dont we go to item no. 3. Clerk 160514 [accept and expend grant state Transportation Development act, article 3 pedestrian and bicycle projects 995,524] supervisor aaron peskin thank you madam clerk. I am in receipt of mail from last month that it has only 783,900. I would like to make a motion to reflect that smaller malt of 973,909. Moved by supervisor breed. Well take that without objection. Please come forward. Good morning. Im rachel lonzo from public works. To spend the total of in grant funds from the metropolitan transportation fiscal year 1517. Earmarked 100 quarter of the total tax sales of bicycle facility and pedestrian street and Road Development projects. Funds annually in accordance with the sales tax collected in each county. As we have in the past, public works and mta are submitting a joint wide application. It plans to expend funds for the maintenance and engineering bicycle projects. Public works propose to use 242,487 to prepare sidewalks. The remaining 243,477 will be used for planning and design of curb ramps throughout San Francisco. It will be developed by public works and the office on disability. Well be happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you, any questions . Seeing none. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Why dont we send this to the full board with a recommendation as a Committee Report to be heard july 26th. So move. Moved by supervisor breed. Madam clerk, please read item no. 4. Clerk 160793 [resolution of intention Central Market Community Benefit district modify the Management Plan and engineers report] sponsor mayo known as the Central Market Community Benefit district. Good morning. My name is chris, project manager with the program. Today im presenting the resolution sponsored by mayor lee for the Market Community benefit district. Oewd would like to offer an amendment to clarify the legislation. I am in receipt of those. Do we have a deputy City Attorney . No. We dont have a deputy City Attorney. The question i would ask the deputy City Attorney, im in receipt of the suggested amendments. Is the removal of the district wide cap on the annual assessment revenue not substantial . It seems substantial. The amendment to the previous language introduced on the 12 of last week, is a syntax change, sir. I can send him a text message. What supervisor breed and i are seeing in red are the corrected changes, right . Thats correct. Removal of a wide cap is not a syntax change. In accordance with the ballot language change to make it clear to the Property Owners to when they receive their ballots. Okay, why dont you walk us through what we are doing here. Okay, in 2013 when the cbd renewed, there is a 3 limit of cpi increases that a cbd can take annually and also a limitation which it can collect in a given fiscal year. According to government code 53750 subsection h b 3, it allows for any parcel change due to density, intensity or nature of land use to be put into the assessment formula in the Management Plan and not go against the cbds. If you have an empty lot that goes into a skyscraper. It would be charged to the assessment with the rest of the district. With the highway code is the way we need to go with that, however for a cap, if a cdbd has a change in the market since they did in 2015, they may go above the assessment level which is allowable in the highway code but not allowable due to the Management Plan. Understood. Any questions on that . Supervisor breed. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Please come forward. Public speaker good morning, supervisors, my name is david harrison. A Property Owner in the district and member of the board of directors. Im here to offer my support. It allows us to equitably assess all the properties in the district. It does not change the assessment for any existing Property Owners who dont change their properties. So, its fair. I believe its consistent with the original intent of the district. So im in support of it. Thank you. Have we heard any objections from these folks of the Land Use Change in the intervening years . No, sir, i have not heard any objections on this. Okay, thank you. All right. We will close Public Comment. Madam president , if you would like to offer these amendments, we can take them. So moved. Moved by president breed. Why dont we take those amendments. Then send the item as amended to the full board with a recommendation as a Committee Report for full recommendation for july 26th. So moved. Without objection, that will be the order. Supervisor campos is not with us yet. So mr. Krugs dont go away. Item 5. Clerk 160556 [yerba buena Community Benefit district annual report to the city fy20142015] sponsor kim the floor is yours. Thank you, supervisor. You have your beautiful powerpoint right here. Thank you very much. Ms. Moiven is running late. All right, why dont you call item no. 6. Clerk 160753 [civic center Community Benefit district annual report to the city fy20142015] sponsors kim; breed weve got your beautiful powerpoint for this one too. All right. Civic center cbd is located in downtown San Francisco. It assesses 289 parcels. Its a property based district that has an initial assessment budget of 691,964. It will expire june 30, 2021. The Program Areas for the civic center are safety programs, and Community Service ambassadors which you can see outside at the Civic Center Plaza, at the garage as well as the evening. A cleaning program which is allocated for street cleaning and on call graffiti. Beautification which is a street clean up program. And we have don with the programmatic achievements. Oebd follows the bench review marks for the Service Categories within 10 points from the Management Plan. Whether 1 percent of cbds came from sources other than assessing the revenue and the budget amount for each category 10 Percentage Points from actuals and the amount of funds carried over from the current fiscal year and the projects spent for the upcoming fiscal year. For the first benchmark cbd met that goal, this requirement. For the second benchmark came from their revenue and the cbd met this requirement as well. The third requirement compared their budget versus the actuals with the 10 of the Management Plan and the cdb met those requirements. On this one, the cdb did not meet this requirement because it did not include it in the report. However in 2013 and 2014 annual report. Currently based off our review, the cbd is ahead of their spend down timeline from last year. Findings, the cdb met all the requirements except to the Management Agreement with the city and state code. They should include their spend down plan in the future annual reports. Well work with them to ensure that is made more clear. They have made significant progress in the carry over from last year. In conclusion, they performed well in their service plan and included public activation events and stakeholders with the new implementation of the project in 1415. You will start to see the fruition outside with the summer Concert Series and made active the board of directors and subcommittees. If you have no questions on the benchmark, don will present the programmatic on the cdb. Good morning, chair peskin and president breed. Im here to go over the fy 16, its hard to go back in my mine, but we will go over it. Lets see. Its my part. There we go. Sorry. I seem to be at the end of his presentation. Its all good. The committees that we have included are our executive committee, finance committee, services committee, Capital Improvements and Planning Committee external affairs and this is important for the arts groups in the area. We have worked with the Service Provider and working with the task force, oewd, programs th have started m the this neighborhood. We developed a close relationship with the department of recreation and parks, the arts, and travel. The grant referred to was the neighborhood grant we got for the epicenter web portal that is feeding information on all the areas which is the tenderloin and the Central Market. We have transitioned into a program that Central Market is now managing. The neighborhood is obviously in transition. We expect in the next 5 years to have several new thousands of residents. The playground at the Civil Center Plaza is being redone with a grant from ptl. The school announced they are putting a ballot for the bond measure to help with the arts. The transit is any day now as i have been told. And the Civic Center Plan which is a plan for van ness and market. We decided with our plan that we had extra money to attend the program that we have a permanent program. Last summer, we e did as an experiment to the elevator in the plaza which is the entrance to the parking garage to be very scary at night for patrons and people. We put a uniformed ambassador and found that to be extremely popular. We did that for 2 months last summer and now included it a part of our work plan and now the recreation and Parks Department is seeing a benefit to their patrons as well. This is what i find quite interesting. In the last year, we helped get medical attention for 190 people, assisted 80 people with disorderly complaints, removed 728 needles and garbage to whole mattresses and gave out directions to visitors 1600 times. Here is an example of graffiti where they are trying to figure out where that is which is actually the opera house. We also clean anything in the public realm which includes bus stations. The partnership to establish has been very beneficial us. We have the art groups coming together which they said its something that couldnt be done to bring them altogether. But when we talked about important projects, that was important. The Patron Experience with the parking garage. They are working on the street. Also includes Traffic Congestion and safety where on a thursday night at the corner of grove and franklin, you can see how bad it can get with the traffic. We are trying to work to maybe get signal lights and crosswalks that are safer and try to make the pedestrian experience more safe because you have the Vision Zero Initiative as well. One thing that weve been very successful for because the seed to start in this program was in supervisor breeds district. We worked with them to get involved as the living alley for the department of planning. We have a Community Challenge grant again for them for 200,000 for district lighting and district improvements for that alley. We continue to give out awards for people that helped us. Its the day connect program. And holidays we had 6 in this 2015, and we expanded it to 2016 to have 19 concerts over the holidays. We have summer concerts just out of this fiscal year we just started in july in the Civic Center Plaza and started again this month. We do have some challenges still. The bill graham civic continues to be a problem. This is what was finished before. We also have a problem with the drought impacts and cleaning and regular schedule of that. The challenge is perception of safety when you are walking through the plaza at night on the way home from the ballet that you feel overwhelmed, thats what we are working on. The beautification project we are having a challenge. We cant do anything on van ness because of whatsen it and working on the rest of the plaza and those streets. We are waiting to see how that plan shakes out and Market Street plan is also evolving. We are kind of in odd little window of time which is why we planned for the project on ivy street. Which is available to us. The opportunity is coming with the public realm to help get public input into that process. I want to thank you for your time. Thank you, don. I appreciate your work. It seems like things are going quite well through your first 10year period. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Core gus, any final words on this item . No, sir. Okay, why dont we send this resolution to the full board with recommendation. That will be the order. And supervisor campos has joined us for item no. 2. Mr. Korg us. If you can stay for that item. Clerk 160422 [fire, housing, building codes fire safety requirements for existing buildings supervisor campos, good morning. Supervisor david campos good morning, mr. Chair and president breed. I understand that i will be subbing part of the meeting for supervisor yee. Welcome to the committee. That means the president has given you a vote . Yes. Okay. Supervisor david campos thank you, again, colleagues. I want to begin by thanking my incredible staff, carolyn gussen who has been relentless in doing the work on the issue of fires. We have seen too many fires in this city and too many fires in the mission community. Over the past few years, hundreds of Mission Residents have been displaced because of fires. Sadly three people have tragically died in those fires. In 2015, alone, 130 people were displaced by fires in the mission. In 2016, we have seen dozens more displaced by fires including 50 people who were displaced last week because of the fire that happened on 29th street. When low income residents are displaced the result is that they are not only displaced from their home and neighborhood, but sadly from San Francisco altogether because they can not afford to live in the city. The latest fire on 29th street is only the latest in a string of fires that have led to a temporary and often permanent displacement of our tennants. The legislation before you comes from actually months more than a year of work. In response to the number of fires that we had seen, more than a year ago, we created legislation that put together a task force that was basically asked how do we address the number of fires that are taking place in this neighborhood . Please examine all of the options that are available to this city to prevent these fires. With the task force that consisted of the three departments that are responsible for fire safety in San Francisco, the San Francisco Fire Department, the department of building inspection, the health departments. It actually included San Francisco agencies like the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to have a robust discussion. The legislation you see are the first set of recommendations from that task force, the things they prioritized where they felt they needed action from us as soon as possible. Before i get into the specification of the legislation, i want to talk about the issue of sprinklers because thats another issue we put before this task force. In fact we had a hearing about the task force and about what they thought about that issue. If you look at the task force report, they say it sounds like a great idea, but we need more information. With that in mind, this coming tuesday i will be formally requested that the budget and legislative analyst and i see the amazing staff, ms. Campbell here from that office, that they conduct and do a report that outlines the issue of sprinklers for the city that addresses the questions that were raised by the task force. This is a complex issue with potential for unintended consequences. So we want to know a lot more data. We will ask the budget and legislative analyst to layout all the facts to offer options for the city to look at best practices in other parts of the country and how we might actually implement sprinklers here in San Francisco including whether or not it made sense to do a pilot and if we do a pilot, what the focus of that pilot should be. Should it be for example on the most vulnerable wood frame buildings, should it focus on rent control buildings . What are the options . Im asking to explore also the cost of this and how we can incentivize landlords to comply with this law since we know that sprinklers are costly. We also know and this was another issue discussed by the task force that there is a fear by tennants that the installation of sprinklers can be used as a tool to evict people because of the cost and repairs. We want to be careful how we address that but at the same time we want to move expeditiously. At the same time, im calling on the Fire Department and department of building inspection and any other workgroup that includes tennants, boards, contracts and anyone that has anything to say and bring some recommendations to the board of supervisors. We found with the fire at gray wood, sprinklers were very effective in keeping the fire from spreading to that hotel. We know that they work. Now we need to figure out how to make it work in San Francisco. The legislation thats before you today, again comes out of the work of this task force. These are the specific things that it does. One, it requires that owners have common area of fire alarm systems that are inspected and tested every year. And that they provide proof of that to the Fire Department that they in fact have done that. It also requires the Fire Department to maintain a website where tennants can look up their building to see whether their landlord hassen insured the fire alarm is in order. What we hear is we need to know more about our own building and code compliance for where we live. The second piece is that this legislation require a new higher standard for the alarm systems to ensure that people can hear the alarm. Thats one of the many things we heard directly from some of the fire victims that they are in their unit and they did not hear the alarm go off. The standard that is included here in this legislation is socalled pillow test for audibility. It has to be loud enough so it wakes you up if you are actually sleeping. The third item is to prevent the spread of fire from one attic to another. The legislation is requiring to install fire blocks installation and open accessible attics. The idea is to keep the fire from spreading from one building to another. The idea that when a fire occurs, the tennants are displaced and requires the landlord, this is important. The landlord is required to detail an action plan within 72 hours and within 30 days it is also required this plan be accessible to tennants. The information required if this plan is the time and schedule of repairs. The estimated date of reoccupation by tennants and also when tennants can get their belongings. What i have seen after the fire is really heartbreaking because there isnt a lot of information that is given to the tennants by the landlord. One thing that i would add to that, something that we need to explore is adding more resources on the city side. Because right now we have one individual at hsa who has the responsibility of dealing with this, amazing as this 1 person is, its not sufficient. Finally requiring to have english and spanish information to renters and the landlord responsibility to repair smoke alarms when they have been broken. We also would like, and i actually have here a set of amendments that i want to hand out to my colleagues. This set of amendments are as follows. These came out of discussions with tennants groups. One key amendment is that dbi must inspect buildings where a fire occurred every 90 days. This will ensure the city is maintaining oversight of buildings. The perfect example and you cant make this up is the 22 and Mission Building where there actually a number of fires following the initial fire. Making sure that dbi go out and regularly inspect the buildings is critical. And the second the department will be inspecting compliance and i know the Fire Department and the department of building inspection have worked this out and when landlord are meeting these requirements they are posting information in the common area of the building. I want to thank my cosponsors of this legislation, supervisor kim, tang, breed, supervisor wiener. I want to thank the many people who worked with my office on this legislation and in particular Deanna Flores and the entire Incredible Team. Tommy and his Incredible Team on the housing rights committee, and the San Francisco apartment association. Rosemary, vazquez and dbi by the way, played a really incredible role. We couldnt have done it without him. I want to thank chief white and olivia at the Fire Department. Thank you for your involvement in this effort. And thank you to City Attorney, judy, francesca for all the hours that went into drafting this legislation. Sorry for the long presentation. Colleagues, thank you for your consideration. I do want to thank my other colleagues, president breed, supervisor wiener and others have also done work with supervisor kim as well on fires. This is a very important issue to all of us board of supervisors. Supervisor aaron peskin thank you for your work and the city family for its collective work on this item. Do you want anybody from any of the departments to present, supervisor campos . Unless they want to, i think im okay. Would anybody from any of the departments like to present, if not, why dont we open up for Public Comment. Supervisor london breed i wanted to thank supervisor campos for his thoughtful piece of legislation. We know that unfortunately tragedy has struck in regards to fires throughout San Francisco specifically in my district weve had a number of fires where the majority of those individuals have basically left the city because they couldnt afford to find, they couldnt find another place they could actually afford to rent. That is definitely devastating. I think the combination of this legislation as well as our Victim Assistance Fund and allowing for more people to qualify for that fund for rental assistance, are things that can be used as tools to help in this effort, but whats great about this legislation more so is the fact that this is prevention. This is going to help us put the tools in place that can make sure when residents the safety of our residents who arent certain about the condition of their building, their safety is protected and there are ways to understand, you know, if Property Owners are in compliance. I think that making sure that we prevent these fires from happening through the right tool is whats going to help us you know prevent these fires from happening in the first place. And also protect members of the public, and, so im really happy we are taking things a step further. There are definitely questionable fires that have happened in my district and im really concerned. But also i appreciate the fact that we have increased the number of arson investigators at the San Francisco Fire Department, and i do want to ask a question to the author as well as possibly the budget and legislative analyst, the City Attorney because i want to make sure that funding is not the excuse as to why we cant implement this legislation, and i know that for example dbi has specific requirements i was wondering if it were possible especially because dbi has from my understanding a large budget, a surplus budget, and there will be cost associated with this implementation of this legislation both for dbi which im sure they can cover the cost, but the question i guess i have is the Fire Department and my concerns about the Fire Departments ability and based on the requirements of this legislation, is it possible that dbi could cover the expenses of whats necessary for the Fire Department to spend to make sure we can develop the right system for tracking, we can do the right investigation on these properties to make sure people are in compliance. I wanted to make sure that funding was not an obstacle to getting this implementation implemented properly. Campbell from the budget analyst office. We did look at this in our report. The Fire Department estimated for 1617 cost for four positions cost 670,000. These cost were already in the budget order with dbi. Dbi has 52,000 in their budget. Dbi ordered this . Thats great. Perfect. There we go. Never mind. It looks like we are good to go. Again, supervisor campos, thank you for your leadership. This is really great legislation, and i look forward to seeing it implemented and making sure and hopefully we can see the results by the decrease in the number of fires we have in our city. Thank you again. Supervisor aaron peskin why dont we open this up for Public Comment. I have a number of speaker cards. Please come up to testify. Public speaker good morning. It seems like this is definitely on the mind of san franciscans and evidence in the news that this is a real issue. My name is Deanna Flores, the organizer for casa husta. To provide the return for the right of return that exist there and being able to be established we see that there is other loopholes in being able to ensure this is exercised. The recommendations that are included in this ordinance really address the ability for us to apply pressure continuously by different agencies to consistently collaborate with each other, and maintain the tennants hope alive to be able to return to the city that they have been longterm tennants and contributors of. We want to continue to avoid temporary displacement to become permanent displacements. We encourage you for passing this ordinance. Thank you for your work. Next speaker, please. Public speaker [ spanish speaker ] good morning, interpreter. My name is liliana, i was displaced by this fire. I want to share with you whats going on with me and especially here to talk about my daughters. We are living in a home that cost twice as much as the one we lived in and on a daily basis my daughters ask me when are we going back to our home. I really cant tell them anything because basically thats not a possibility. So im here in full support of this legislation because it will do two things one, it will force the owner to get a move on basically telling us whats the timeline for our return to our house. Thank you. Sorry for what you have experienced. Thank you for your translation services. Next speaker, please. Public speaker greetings, my name is brian with causes and just cause. That makes me a part of the sro collaborative. I have been previously working with several tennants at the gray wood hotel who have been historically exploited at their hotel already. I do want to give a big shout out of appreciation to dbi for staying on top of that building over the last several months. The tennants at the gray wood, there are already various people. One in particular, ms. Nancy lopez, a senior citizen, 85 years old, makes about 600 a month, lost everything due to water damage in her unit. The landlord in the building snots being very cooperative right now. Hes trying to wash his hands of the situation. Isnt communicating properly with the tennants. And this legislation is going to be entirely beneficial for the tennants. I really commend the supervisor campos for introducing it. The piece about the landlords accountability in this is going to be critical, and also to the next step to be able to get relocation payments for fire displaced people. There is something to think about moving forward for on going legislation, things that might come up later on. Im going to stop there. Thank you very much for your work. Supervisor aaron peskin thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, my name is Yadira Sanchez with just cause. Im here also on the fire ordinance. It will improve and ensure consistent maintenance of fire safety systems. An is a tenant counselor the owner is responsible for maintaining the systems in an operable condition at all times. Often longterm tennants are living in the most neglected buildings. The city and agencies need to make sure to enforce this legislation so the landlord can comply with the laws so folks can return. Families have lot everything due to these fires. What are we going to do in order to prevent another family in San Francisco from losing their homes because of negligence. Thank you. Will supervisor aaron peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker hi, my name is gabriela, a resident in the district and my parents own a business in the district. Im in support of the legislation because it really emphasizes that safety should be a standard, not a question. I think after all these fires they dont only affect the families, but the communities and safety as well. I want to commend the element where language is an issue. Language should never be a barrier to understanding your basic rights. I would also like to commend everyone behind the legislation and make this a standard. I appreciate it. Thank you. Supervisor aaron peskin next speaker, please. Public speaker hi, my name is alicia sandoval, a district organizer of rights committee. Also born and raised in the mission district. Im fully in support of the legislature. As a counsel or many tennants coming into our office. Many questions are where am i going to be able to go back and why isnt the landlord not discussing this. They have a right to return under rent control, but again they write three letters, two letters and no communication from the landlord at all. And this is unacceptable. I feel there needs to be something in place when tennants, fire victims are coming to us asking us where can i go . We did help a couple, a senior couple to get some emergency housing for a few weeks, but there is other tennants that are coming to us, fire victims telling us, im sleeping in the car for a month, im sleeping in the floor, im couch surfing. Thats what they are telling us. We dont know what to tell them. There ought to be emergency housing. We are organizing tennants and we are visiting them at their buildings and we are seeing there is no fire alarms that are working. Some rooms dont even have fire alarms. This legislation is very crucial. There are so many victims who have been displaced. Its not fair. We have to act as a community, as a native from this community, i really feel, this is our familia. We are treating our familia, we really need to treat them with respect. Thank you. Supervisor aaron peskin thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, im lucas from casa for just cause with the San Francisco clinic. Im here to support this legislation as well. Mostly because this legislation really gives us the tools as counsel ors to go through the road blocks we see again and again. We see consistently how folks are left in limbo, not only dealing with the hardship of going through a fire but also with obstacles that limit their return home. There are systems that need to be in key to show them to be able to go back. I think her testimony speaks to that. We see families and elders on a fixed income that are longterm tennants. They are being displaced again. Not being able to stay there, right . So the lack of Affordable Housing means that these displaced families are no longer here in San Francisco. They stop by our offices years later after a fire from all around the bay asking whats going on with my building, whats going on with my repairs, whats happening. They leave the city, they leave the communities and the services they had here and their homes. While we try to make information accessible to the tennants, there are delays in the system that lacks communication. Tennants should be be unsure of what decisions to make in their lives for their families well being. This legislation will force landlord communication and offer clear timeline so they know whats happening and they can plan their lives accordingly. Im fully in support of this legislation and will help keep folks in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker good morning, supervisors, my name is charlie goz from the San Francisco housing association. We would also like to speak in support of the legislation. We would like to thank supervisor campos for this issue. This legislation is a result of a process that should bear legislation. The city recognizes the problem with fire safety and multifamily buildings. They can bring the task force with all stakeholders with the city departments and this is the result of that legislation. The legislation does a lot for improving physical fire safety and also improving communication between the tenant and landlord after the fire. We feel its important and will make tennants feel better after their building has burned. Right now we are working with 87th and dolores that happened 5 years ago. It seems to be helping. We are very much in support of this ordinance. We would like to request one amendment and we apologize after this task force. But the legislation has a trigger for if you pull a permit of 50,000 or more to install a fire safety block, we would like to ask for an exemption for mandatory seismic retrofit work. Those are between 150200,000. If you are pulling a mandatory seismic work that you do not demand that fire block. It makes sense not to volunteer that program. Thank you and we would like to have you move this forward today. Thank you. Supervisor aaron peskin thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. By the way, while i have dbi sitting in the audience, there is something i have been meaning to raise with you, which is at 585 columbus avenue 1636, through 1642 there was a fire a number of years ago in 2014, all of those units remain vacant to this day and i would love to be able to see those tennants return to that building. Anything you can do with my office to help ensure that would be very much appreciated. With that, supervisor campos, do you have any additional amendments . Supervisor david campos thank you, mr. Chairman. Again i want to thank all the departments for coming out for this. I want to thank my colleagues for this support and more importantly i want to thank all the members of the community that have been coming to city hall for the last couple of years to talk about fires including victims of fires that have shared their stories. Thank you. I know thats not an easy thing to do. I have circulated the amendments that i hope this Committee Adopts prior to sending this out to the board. My understanding is that the Department Association has requested an additional amendment. We have discussed that request with all of the different stakeholders and i think we are all in agreement that we can live with that amendment. So, given that the City Attorney is not here, maybe my suggestion would be that we adopt the amendments that i have circulated, and we will be requesting that the City Attorney draft the language for the amendment that the Department Association has requested and we e will introduce that when the item comes to the full board. That will be my suggestion for moving forward. So with that supervisor, why dont we take the item that you have introduced today that does have some amendments in it. Take those amendments and then send the item to the full board with recommendation as amended as a Committee Report and i would like to add my name as a cosponsor. Can we do that without objection . That will be the order. So that will be heard this coming tuesday, the 26th. I believe we have already called item no. 5. Mr. Korg us, welcome back. Thank you, supervisors, glad to be back. Today we have the yerba buena Community Benefit district annual report. As you know Community Benefit districts are governed by two laws in San Francisco, article 4 act and tax regulations code. This resolution covers the annual report for 20142016. Yerba buena cbd is located in downtown San Francisco approximately 2001 parcels. It has an sessment budgets of 2,509. 21. It was renund on june 30, 2015, for a 15year period. Congratulations. The executive director is kathy moven who will be here today to talk about the programmatic achievements. The beautification in order and improvements as well as administration and corporate operations. Reviewed four bench marks for the cbd. The first benchmark subjected their annual budget. The cdb met their requirements and the checkmark versus revenue and other income. The cbd general requirement is around 5 . They succeeded with that with 6. 35 . The budget for actuals, all various opponents were within 10 . They met this requirement and they did include a carry over and indicated how it was going to be spent. They met this requirement as well. In conclusion, yerba buena krbd was placed they completed the process in support of renewal. Is that 84 the weighted . Yes, sir. They marketed neighborhood events such as yerba buena fair. They included the Community Stakeholders and municipal agencies and continue to maintain an active board of directors and several committees. If there are no questions of me, ms. Moss is here to present. Thank you for the to present today. The my name is kathy moss, the director of cbd. The organization was approved by Property Owners in 2008 and i came on in 2009. So you can either blame me for everything or otherwise. But i just want to give you a little bit of background about the organization today. Our boundaries through the renewal process changed slightly. We added a little bit and we removed a little bit based on input and feedback from the community. We are a large district with over 2100 Property Owners and cover about 172 acres. Recently we were the largest geographic cdb district in San Francisco. Since 2008, our services have been really focused around clean and safe activities in the neighborhood. We have our clean team, Community Guides and work in partnership so we launched this branding campaign. One of our early wins was to get mta to rename at folsom to rename from just the masconi station. We are seeing it used more and more in the neighborhoods in San Francisco and starting to see neighborhood calling itself the yerba buena neighborhood. We want to make sure that people know whats there so they will come down to support the institutions and businesses that are there. We also bring people together. Our big annual is yerba buena night. Its usually on the saturday in october every year. Its this onslaught of music, dance Performance Art for people to come and experience. The things that you wouldnt be able to experience otherwise. The event has grown gradually. It continues the grow. In 2016 it will be our sixth year. We constantly hear from people that want to come back. Thats one of our goals. Quickly another one of ours which is really important is we established the Community Benefit funds. We actually give away about 175,000 a year to organizations to focus on community engagement, public art. We gave grants out. We gave a grant to renaissance entrepreneurship for lighting because they have a lot of evening classes. We wanted to support that. We support temporary art. We have a long list of grantees that we have given funds to support the areas. The details, our budget of 3. 3, we spent 2. 6. Im kind of frugal. Those are the percentages that you can see from our budget. Moving forward, from 20142015. In our renewal effort people wanted us to double down on cleaning and safety. We couldnt literally afford to do that. We added two more cleaning guys. We have custom design bike racks in our neighborhood that each 30 have a different artistic insert if you will to play the artistic bent of the neighborhood. We will install another 90 this year. We are doing this graphic crosswalk. We just approved the artist. We are approving another artist. We are doing this bought of the art. We want to do high visibility crosswalks because pedestrian issues is a big in our neighborhood. They want to figure out how to make it safe for all modes of transit. We are in that eir will be some study about turning howard and folsom into two streets. We want to wait for that before ween vest any money in this process. If thats true, it will have a big impact. Thats a huge issue for us. In marketing you see we have our event coming up october 15th of this year. I will tell you, its a ton of work to pull off, and the minute the first act goes up, it becomes magic and i forget all the months of the sweat and the pain if you will. I encourage you to check that out. We are going to be resdeening our website because everything changes and we need to add. Then we are doing a lot in the neighborhood, and we got authorized to at a four staff member. We are currently staffed at 3. Well put out and announcement for that position. Supervisor aaron peskin thank you for the years of work. You look like the flagship cbd, any other questions from members . Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Without objection, supervisor campos we will send this recommendation to the full board without objection. One more. Madam clerk, please read item no. 7. Clerk 160754 [north of market tenderloin Community Benefit district annual reports to the city fys 20132014 and 20142015] sponsor kim thank you, supervisors. This is the fiscal year 1314 and fiscal year 1415 in the market tenderloin report. Its located in the San Francisco tenderloin neighborhood and the property based cbd. Its initial assessment budget is 981,487. Established in 2005. Expires in 2020. With me is Deputy Director steve gibson joined in 2016 and prior to that susan mcginnis. The director as well. We have district identity improvements and management operations. Ohewd checks for bench marks and the annual plan to meet the budget. They met the requirements for fiscal year 1314. The fiscal year the cdb met this requirement, however the 20142015, the tenderloin did not meet the requirements. We are working with them to work on this in the future years. Hell be speaking about this as well. What was that due to . It was due to a serious transition. The board replaced about 7580 of their members due to term limits and the director was influx. Prior to that, did they have a long term executive director. In 20112012, based on my understanding of the program they did. Based off what i was told prior, that changes in 2014, and they have had a few executive directors. Mr. Gibner is interim at this point . Yes, his contract last until july 2017. For benchmark 3 which is their budget versus the can actual, they met the requirements for 18 . For the carry over, the cdb did not meet the benchmark for 20132014. They did not have a carry over. But that still should have been indicated in the annual report. They also, their cdb did not indicate their Carry Forward for 20132014, but it did in the final review. Well work with them an all the the other cdb to clarify this. That seems to be a problem across all cbds. Thats going out in the email. Great. For the tenderloin, they need to comply with state bid law by including the carry over fund from previous fiscal years. In the annual budget they did not comply with the past 5 years. They did not meet this requirement with the oebd. Well ensure they meet this requirement and im happy to report they have made progress with the report for 1516 and made progress since their last report in 20122013 in identifying errors and specifically not spending within a fiscal year. In conclusion, they have submitted their plans for the district and improved in management issues. Oew believes the new board of directors and the interim director are executing steps to rectify previous issues and improve the organizations overall capacity. If there are no questions of me, mr. Gibner is here to present as well. All right. Lets hear from mr. Gibner. Thank you for allowing me to present this morning. As chris said, the interim executive director. I will be here through june 30, 2017. Mr. Gibner, given the sound like the whole scale change of Board Members apparently due to term limits within the board and the instability that created both at the board level and staff level. It sounds like you are on a relatively term contract. Is there a reason why the word interim remains . Yeah. First of all we are a consulting firm. We were brought in and we began working in july of 2015 to really help the new board that had replaced the board deal with some of the serious issues in the management of the tenderloin cbd and the board relationships and a number of issues and a number of business improvements with cbd throughout the country in these issues. What Consulting Group is that . Urban place Consulting Group. Are there other clients as well . We have other clients, the firm does. Im up here with the majority of my time now. I have an apartment now and im part of the community. I also live in long beach, california. I have a dual personality, my personal focus is on this project. How many staff do you have in the north of market tenderloin cbd . All of the stand is urban placed staff. I have three of my staff that put part of their time into this project and we have one other full time person thats now working in the tenderloin in the project. Who is the president of the board and how many Board Members are there . Currently there are 13 Board Members. Julie with development is the chairman of the board. We actually at our last Board Meeting which was this monday expanded the board from 13 to 15. The reason we chose to expand the board is we had a really strong support and strong member of potential Board Members that came out of the community that wanted to be on the board that playing a significant role. It is a new board at 75 . Its a major turn around to the tenderloin to the Community Based organization. Could you at your convenience furnish my office with the list of new Board Members . Sure. You might be interested in the cbd plan that led to us being management and led to the changes Going Forward. I would like to see that as well. Please proceed. Thank you for the question. You have the map of the area. Basically it has been since the beginning of the cbd, the majority of our money, about 80 of the assessment dollars goes to cleaning of the tenderloin. Its been that way from the beginning and still is, and we do the normal things, pressure cleaning, sidewalk sweeping, graffiti, picking up needles, all of those. You can see the numbers. Over 2700 graffiti tags in a 2year period. We are talking about. A lot of liter pick up. We get very involved with it picking them up. Also part of our agreement with San Francisco city equipment we bought in 2013. One of the things that we are really proud of Going Forward we are trying to figure out how we can do it even more effective is providing jobs for people that come off the street in the tenderloin, and helping to provide them a way up, and one of the ways we do it is through our subcontractor that hires mostly from the tenderloin and people that are difficult to place in jobs. We give them their first job on their step back up. We have two standing committees. They are looking at cleaning services and other issues, project way, cleaning projects, anderson the other identity streetscape improvements. They are open to members of the community. We have somewhere between 1015 active members on each committee. Most of which are not Board Members. Its a way for the community to be involved in our projects. They did a number of projects in these two periods, Banner Program, community survey, what are the needs, what would you like us to do. More engagement programs and involved in the prototyping zones on market. Created a new website, a new identity, a new planning project. The summary of the core accomplishments are similar to most of the cbds and dib in San Francisco. Its all the cleaning and basic things like picking up needles and basic time things. So, looking ahead, one of the things im really looking forward to is when we come back when we report on 1516 because that will be the report that i was involved in and can personally explain it in more depth and more passionate about what we have accomplished and how we accomplished it. They did revise the bylaws and put in financial standards and did a lot of infrastructure things that needed to be done before we even got involved. Projects and Pipeline Development and strategic plan, in this case it was, but now we are in the process of developing that strategic plan. One of the really important things that came out of it was well use a lot is the board created a purpose statement about why they are in business, and the statement to lead the area of tenderloin for all. That is what we do it in the tenderloin which is for all the people. We talked about expanding the board and looking forward to, we have a number of projects that we are currently working on. Our Street Lighting project which has been a little bit in the news. The project Camera Program that we are implementing in the district recently. A new Banner Program that we are in the process of designing. It will be up sometime this year. We have a number of things Going Forward. As what chris pointed out for the benefit other than the assessment money, we are well over the 5 by a lot. In the 2year period, since weve been here, we now raised over 500,000 of new money invested by foundations and corporations into the the tenderloin cbn to help with our capacity and to help move us in the right direction. Mr. Gibson is that an argument to say that if you were to average out that 5 over a 3year period you would hit 15 . Yeah. If you went backwards we would more than cover the deficiency we have. We have already raised enough in july to cover the year 1517 Going Forward in that area. Again, thank you for your time and we are excited about being here to work with the tenderloin cbn. And we look forward to making the next report and showing you all the milestones and things we have accomplished. Thank you, mr. Gibson. I appreciate your presentation. First, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item no. 7. Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Mr. Koergz, is this the last of the reports. Its the last report for 1314. The tourism report, we are waiting for one final report. We have the Controllers Office assist us with that. Im just referring to the fact that in so far as this is the 20132014 and the 20142015, the 20132014, should have been heard last year. Correct, the tourist and Improvement District will have multiples as well. Then well be all caught up with a report and not fall into another hiatus. Got it. I dont want it to take place in the efforts at the market for the cbd. There has been some in terms of reflecting. I dont want to point fingers at anybody because it is what it is. It also would it be fair to say that we the city kind of ab abrogated some of that role. I could not comment on that. A lot of these reports happened prior. So i dont understand the history of them, i dont know the history of them. I can look into that and get back to you on that. This is not just a comment on the north of market cbd. Some of these hadnt done their annual report as required under the law for a number of years. It sounds like across the board you are in the process of cleaning it all up and we are almost done with a backlog and there is moreover sight and supervision and checking as in the past. The reason this is important for the government and Audit Committee is that as the city goes on to create more cbds i want to make sure we have the capacity on the city side to make sure we are scrutinizing and making sure they are fulfilling the position and what all are taxing themselves for. Absolutely. Back in january when we started the annual report process that once we got fully staffed up with were able to get the annual reports moving and get them moving on time. The cbd program is currently staffed well. Thank you for that. I look forward to getting that list of Board Members with the strategic plan. With that, supervisor campos, can we forward this item to the full board with a full recommendation . So moved. That will be the order. Mr. City attorney. I think its time to move to our closed session items. Items 821 are various ordinances and resolutions for settlement and litigated claims with the city and county of San Francisco. All right. Well go into closed session. Supervisor aaron peskin is there any Public Comment on items 821. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Clerk is there a motion to convene in closed session. There is a motion by supervisor campos to convene in closed session. Clerk clerk we are now back in open session. Continue item no. 8 to the call of the chair. To forward no. S 9, 15, 17. And to recommend items no. 18, and 21. There a motion to not disclose. Yes. Well take that without objection. I would like to excuse president breed. We will excuse president breed. We are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] good morning everyone. Good morning. Amandaregional initiative for the gen. Service administration pursue the claim region and of your master of ceremonies today. I do the short straw and jake to the longshot. Congratulations, jay. Welcome to the United Nations gaza. On to gsa Regional Headquarters and the physical home of super public. Today, we celebrate the official launch of super public. The nations first collaborative workspace to host city state and federal policymakers under one roof. The Innovation Lab is running in collaboration with San Francisco Mayors Office of civic innovation by the city intimate foundation and the gen. Services administration will solve common problems that affect all levels of government. Uc berkeleys center for Design Research at Stanford University and Mit Media Lab have also partnered with super public. Super public will provide space. Program convened summit, roundtables, and Training Programs to build capacity so that all partners in the lab can maximize time and impact. By working in an open innovation environment, super public intends to create extorted exportable models and solutions facing governments throughout the nation. The city of San Francisco and city intimate into gsa and other superpower concept, was an immediate, yes. Each level of government is really reinventing the wheel around a common problems. The silo nature of government has stymied the Public Sector from adopting innovative tech, and business models, and the sharing of best practices. So our hope that super public will break down some of the silos and allow us to share Common Solutions across government at the city state and federal level. Not only will gsa provide a physical space which we had quite a bit of, but we will also provide some expertise in certain areas. Gsa is a leader in procurement and also Digital Services in our digital consultancy etfs house just down the hall. Minute you walk by their offices. Just today. Weve seen a significant amount of success at the federal level addressing the german challenges and changing the way government bills and buys technology. Etf and Parent Organization the technology to Information Service can bring these past successes past and failures to the conversation. So, without further ado, we are very excited to commemorate the launch of super public and were honored to have with us another special guest. From you hear from the harsh reality recognizer speakers from todays event. Gsa administrator Denise Turner ross, mayor of the city of San Francisco and family. San francisco district 2 supervisor mark farrell. Executive director of the city intimate foundation cameron sadik, and the city administrator naomi i can name is not on your last name . Kelly. Thank you. In addition to our speakers today i like to recognizer panelists discussing women and government and Technology Early 21stcentury government. Gsa initiated denise ross we joined by codirector of the transportation sustainably Resource Center at uc berkeley. Atf deputy executive director Hillary Hartley and city oakland chief resiliency officer karen jane. Now my pleasure to introduce the speaker per todays event. I bus and head of gsa this Denise Turner ross. Ms. Ross is the 21st Senate Confirm administrative and general furnaces ministration brother 18 years of Public Service shes old there is a leadership positions in washington dc and greensboro North Carolina the focus on driving Economic Impact in ms. State of change. It is a gentleman, denise ross. [applause] thank you very much into. Thank you all for being here at gsa in this beautiful old building. I think when we had the chance to actually renovate the space we were very fortunate and what a great day to see how far its come. Im not sure that when we were renovating the space just a few years ago that we had this opportunity and vision in mind but indeed, here we are today and its just wonderful. Mayor lee thank you for having us in your subject is a beautiful subject is been here all week and its been a wonderful time. Thank you for your partnership always. I think using the mayor has been called on frequented by the administration and its because we like to go to leaders sought. Its not been by accident youve seen us here working with the mayor quite often. As administrative gsa, i have the pleasure of working with people are very committed to a really having a joint effort when they come to any community could gsa manages over three 75,000,000 ft. 2 of space. We manage over 50 with spending occurs through the federal government and has been a straighter and you pointed out, i do have a deep deep background in City Administration as well as in other capacities that i care a lot about how we are partnering with community could because when i know him and were working together both at city state and federal level, as well as with the private sector and Public Sector, the we are at our best and thats when we achieve our best. So when i came in as administrator i prioritize how do we use our physical footprint on knowledge, our access all resources to partner with these partners. As well as to partner with the federal agencies of course. An idea is for us to be able to bring the best foot forward in any place were entered weaver wants to never call her Economic Initiative which is really about how do we take a footprint and look for opportunities with communities. I think this is a great example of that. You are aware is into pointed out of our 18 f and pts and the work they been doing in Digital Services and Current Technology in bringing together that effort to our efforts and the federal government and its been really exciting. So when asked about what is super Public Meeting for gsa why are we partnering in what respect to get out of this . I spoke to see us be able to continue to partner with other communities did for me this is just the start. To start an example and a strong example of what it means for how we can really leverage the space we are managing. This space the resources, the people be accessed. Thats what is happening here. That is what were all part of today. So this is just a really exciting time for us throughout gsa not just the Technology Space but for all this that are here because were burning at the same time and will take these learning and share with other communities as well. So, mayor thank you again for coming here. Thank you and your team for having the vision as well as city innovates. Ive just been excited getting to know the work that youre doing and vision you have not just your locally but international. What a wonderful thing. So thank you for coming here and thank you for choosing this partnership and thank you for having the vision. [applause] thank you, denise. Our next speaker has incredibly strong track record of driving Collaborative Partnerships in the first mayor in the nation to create an Innovation Office and City Governments. Please, welcome mayor ed lee. [applause] thank you into for that introduction. Gsa of instead of ross, thank you for being here. This is one my favorite buildings outside of city hall. It shouldnt surprise you that we share the same architect and its one of the few buildings like my office that still has curbed the wars. So theres a lot of history that we share but being here in gsa again, connotes a lot of good memories. Certainly, it harkens back to city administrator these two director of purchasing a less political position in the city there i had fun. I truly had fun when i was director purchasing, spending the publics money about 1 billion a year buying things but trying to do it smartly and trying to incur local jobs, Small Businesses, get them involved in the economy of our city. And, even as mayor, we are still making sure were trying to do the right thing as all of our governments are. This idea of super public is exciting because in a few years, youre going to see an absolute necessity for this to happen. While it seems volunteer and innovative to do it now were actually creating the conditions the private sector, for the Public Sector, or academia, for those in government want to innovate, were trying to equate those conditions now so it has a lot more opportunity to be successful. As a city of innovation, i want to say that were already working not just as a city but is the region, im already deep conversations with mayor schaaf and mayor ricardo with our supervisors, in San Mateo County about regional issues and making sure were paying attention, more than just what the part on has for the immediate future. More about our challenges and how we can really work outside of our sideload cities and counties and into arena where we can really and truly invite the private sector to work with us. The academia sector and our innovative arms. Its no surprise that gsa is a partner because its fast becoming the most innovative arm of the federal government ive ever seen hit their really pushing it well ahead and theyre challenging us to be a great partner and we want to be. Because we have a lot of things that could withhold benefits to our public if we didnt start working cooperatively. We just are thinking outside of those silos that and you mentioned that we all know is a very fact that prevents us from doing better. And i say that we started this over a year and a half ago as well thinking that to be smarter city, not just an transportation but Everything Else that we do but transportation is a great example to start out with because if were not thinking more , not thinking more collaboratively and innovatively, beyond the cities and into a regional if not a state and federal approach, were going to fail. Whether its bikes, whether its public transportation, whether its getting less cars have thinking about Automated Vehicles and how to make them safer, how to use them how to use automation and delivery of goods and products, were going to fill it we dont innovate now and have that spirit. Thats why im excited about joining our gsa partners and our city administrator, our members of our board of supervisors, and our innovation arm of the city working with the other innovation arms of federal government and State Government. This is more than exciting. As i suggest to you super public is going to have to be a necessity because as you look around, not just United States, thats starting to happen in new york and los angeles and allow places, you look at what International Cities are already doing. You dont have to lookhas, by the way, happy the steel date those of you who have french foundations. Paris story got a super public that we are studying and looking at as a model. Toronto, under the Great International city. Other International Cities have already figured out that indo global competition that we are engaged in, and we must recognize that, that is those regions that recognize how collaboration and innovation is going to help their cities become that much more successful in a global competition. When not opting out of anything were opting in to a global setting and making sure we are ready to do that even better. So, i am excited as you can probably tell because i didnt, i visited the offices this year and the space that were talking about and i know into says we have not got the furniture yet. But, i will tell you, you got the calendar ready. Furniture comes after the talent arrives. I think that talent is here the dedication the commitment is here and i will tell you, i have never stopped trying to figure out how to decrease red tape. How to really convince our public who has to pay a lot of our taxes to say, your money is going into a smarter collaboration that we can be more transparent and telling them how we are cutting red tape. How Small Businesses can have a federal partner, a star partner, a local partner that says youre going to have a lot less red tape to be more successful. I have never stopped and effort in making sure that our city is talking with all our federal partners to it smarter and we better get how i say procurement officer as our city administrator is, to suggest that we can buy things and still have it at a less expensive price but get payments to our local Small Business faster so that we can really have a foundation for good employment in the long run. How we can tackle transportation, tackle homelessness, tackle poverty in ways which we never talked about before. Yes weve got good ideas in San Francisco but the navigation centers, like a cherry, like car sharing. How can we make this a regional thing and academia, with its berkeley mit, stanford were all part of this effort, going to contribute to that because they know that weve got the document we got to talk the man could we do to make sure our models are examples of things we can really share with people, and weve got to prove that we can do it better than the last generated so, excited about this. Im excited about super public, and i know just in the few years is quick to be an absolute necessity for the global competition and we are helping our country by doing this. We are hoping much of the federal people be better quit estate people be better on local people be better, but as a community of people interested in being smarter about what were doing we hopefully will the public was a breathing that much deeper committed to using your dollars smarter to making sure we do things in language data can really drive and help us. This is what i think super public is and i want to just say, ken, thank you to organizations like the innovate fund and our innovation civic innovation leaders, i did sector comedies like at t stepping up with berkeley folks and others to really say we can do this even better. But weve got to think regionally now. We can just think is that independent circuit either to make sure talking with sam ricardo and their interest in san jose. Mayor schaaf people in oakland and san mateo because our challenges are no longer just within our region with its housing, dissertation, with theres even a simple idea of procuring. Weve got to do it smarter and better in this consistently foundation. Its exciting to be in a room full of innovators to do this. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you mayor lea. Our next speaker is the event supervisor mark farrell. His work to communities which the Digital Divide. Please, welcome supervisor farrell [applause] thanks everyone could post about is a tall our gsa partners, the winners always like this in San Francisco. You come out for entire week. So please come out more often. Im truly excited to be here today. From my perspective, super public is the future. It is what we need to be doing across all every single city in the United States. When we think about San Francisco as much as we have a booming economy we have issues as cities have all the time. Whether it is mayor lea mentioned, the housing crisis, we have transportation issues, but theyre not singled out for steve and cities across the United States are facing these issues. With the homelessness were bridging the Digital Divide these are issues we need to work in San Francisco that matter to our residents. Doing it alone in the government is something that is not going to be part of the future could need to partner with a private sector. Need to partner with academia specialist visit here in San Francisco today the Innovation Capital of the world and thank you to all our private sector partners will contribute to make this happen today. Partnering with you partnering with academic, this is the future. We need to do it together because i will tell you, we cannot do it alone and several also city hall. We certainly cannot do it set up chambers of the board of supervisors we need to do it together as partners. Binders and with the federal government or State Government together we can do it. We also need our private sector. We need academia to be able to do it together. So im incredibly excited to be part of this. Take you to all the people who contributed to it. Congratulations to all the founding members. I know this is a long time in the making. The most excited about, is not just today but the future. This about our children and making sure as we think about problems as my son jack sits over there, honest will, this generation when we tackle problems not just San Francisco problems the regional problems and were not tackling them the City Government were tapping together with private sector with academia and that the wording of the best solution yet so congratulations to everyone and thank you i just cant wait for the future here together. Thank you. [applause] thank you, market our next speaker is naomi kelly with the city administrator of the city of San Francisco. I am agree with sympathetic partner in the gen. Services administration did we know how hard your job is. We get to do it for the federal government to the other one a come over and talk shop were always here for you. Ladies and gentlemen, naomi kelly. [applause] good morning. I was thinking about all the numbers of how much office space you manage and how much procurement you have and its enormous. I was very proud of our numbers we manage the city of San Francisco about 4,000,000 ft. 2 of office space and 1 billion in procurement and we manage 25 yeartenure 25 million capital plan. And compared to those numbers thats small. Compared to the gsa. But, its really great to be here today because of the chair partnership that will have with each other in sharing best practices, learning new innovative procurement policies, it policies. It will be very helpful in that its helping us share relevant data, figuring out what the data we have with the city but good data the government has put together super public is that we can share with each other so we can be much more innovative. Theres things were doing here in San Francisco just in the city administrator in our local gsa office, looking at how we manage our fleet. How we are using telematics or black box which will behold so helpful to us to figure out when a card word vehicle needs to go into maintenance versus guessing,. Rb rightsizing the fleet we see theres a lot of analyte underutilized vehicles but we can reduce the number berkeley. His rc fleet sitting in idling speed we can reduce our Greenhouse Gas emissions by a relevant amount of data were getting from that. I also upgrade during the next week and am in the process creating a Digital Service team. We are actively recruiting for Digital Service officer. This is all about the public experience. How can we in government better serve our residents, art tourists, visitors is a Neat Services from the government, a website how can we approve our website so they can get the information they need from a resin with the residential parking permit, whether its a productivity, but its a marriage certificate theres much we can do to provide Services Online so folks do not have to come down to city hall or wait in line to get services they need. So, were very excited about our Digital Service team working with a private industry, working with Customer Service looking at a processes how to better streamline them as we dont want to automate a broken process and of course working with our it department to make sure that our systems are running smoothly and to make sure all our data is secure because we dowe do want to make sure that everything we do is secure and that were not violating any private information that gets out there. Im so looking forward to this partnership and thank you very much. [applause] thank you naomi. Now, last but not least, the executive director of the City Innovate Foundation and very much the leader for super public, we are very lucky to have cameron and of leading the charge for us that its been fabulous working with him so far. You are a welcome breath of knowledge on all the things foundational things we need to make this a reality. I hope gsa has been a good partner to good is and gentlemen, kim and city [applause] i think a lot of you have been on this journey for the last two years and its been tough but i want to keep it short because of that people that sing to me for the last 5 min. That the mayor needs to live soon. What i do undo is actually think mayor ed lea. The sender gsa administrator District Supervisor mark we met a few times but farrell and naomi kelly city of mr. And people behind the scenes like andrew the month, the republic of under atf, krista and jacob Mayors Office of Senate Innovation to grace upon is at uc Berkeley Susan and also been great from day one. Gifford in the City Innovate Foundation team. james to make sure we talked about regional issues shes achieved resiliency officer in oakland she is working the on the past 18 months over this and not least the private sector. Dont forget them because they do help pay our bills can i do i think microsoft socialize and evangelize the passage be described. The of our friends from deloitte who are good partners and now at t and one of the things that i think a lot of people talk about the project that weve been looking at one of the other areas than looking at with San Francisco, open and others not to forget their smart cities but were looking at inclusive cities. We should try this with communities so we part up with civic makers in a couple of model youre looking at a cut program rolling this out engaging the community and doing it the right way. Again thank you all for coming out here. Yes, we hope that that show will change and his major was pointed out, there will be a lot of International Cities that come in and us cities to learn about the bit about what were doing here. Thank you. [applause] okay. So, now we get to get to the good work of actually running super public which were more excited about any event. Gsa loves doing things but im going to invite all our guests right now and we will cut this with him. I think this is as are behind me the very large service. In the very careful handing these out. [laughing] have to bring the semicarry on tonight. Can be tough to get through the airport. [laughing] three, two, one cut it. [applause] hour. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the peoples palace and im here this morning to announce yet another milestone in our citys commitment to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour by and people will work this fourth of july weekend we are celebrating our countries birthday but recognizing in the celebration throughout the weekend people like the people had that are standing with me are working whether the restaurants or hotels or Health Care Workers and others and and we all feel for working people that is hard in our expensive city to survive unless you have a december sent wage thats why a couple of years ago i destined or joibd the board of supervisors full board of supervisors to place before the voters an 15 an hour minimum wage and people that work in all those industries we did it together and were celebrating because today it goes from 12. 25 an hour to 13 and up to 15 and after that cpi takes over i want to remind everybody this city was brought together with our labor unions and your working families made up of all the exit are represents our city and got this done in a strong collaboration with everyone and showed not only the cities around the bay area but the state of california if we got together and thought about peoples lives what glosses the challenges every day we can get this done for them i think were happy here to see the wages go up are rehappy yeah, well have more to celebrate in addition to, of course, the bitter of our nation and things we enjoy we picked this date it is a significant move and i also want to say that we know that our workforce all those peoples here they are still an affordability gap so this is going to help people he you go that suggest that a lot of people are working two jobs to support their families we want to celebrate those moms were all ushth together to help them but for also myself and mayor libby schaaf of oakland that recognizes our workforce is more regional than ever do more than benefit the residents that work in our city and so we joined. Today and cities that are committed along with cities like new york and seattle and los angeles and portland and the others also raised their minimum wage we want to the state of california to do the same thing because what could happen i think all the labor advocates know and people that we raised our minimum wage just and ourselves in the city of San Francisco or just in oakland we would probably be golden state talent that belongs to where everybody lives and not as affordable to them as it is to those were helping so mayor libby schaaf and along with the united Health Care Workers started a process and emigrate hundreds of thousands of snatches set the minimum wage higher of 15 an hour tour the state of california in uniting all the cities with the labor unions and workforces and people good minded across the region we got the governors attendance and the state of california attendance such that a few months ago governor jerry brown signed the legislation to raise the states entire minimum wage for everyone for 15 an hour over a period of time those movements wouldnt happen unless we place the needs of workingclass families that work hard to build that consensus im here to join in the celebration and here to say that im going to be working this weekend as well as in addition the celebrating but also acknowledge the people that always serve us at the hotels and restaurants and people that are working the janitorial and Building Maintenance and all working class in the city were there to be of help this will be consistent raising the minimum wage to attack affordability challenges is part of solution paid parental leave is part of the solution making sure that we work so that no one is a theft of their wages thats why your head of the department the labor enforcement is joining us with the advocates of people that earn those wages im saying they earn every single penny they deserve to make sure they get it in their hands thats why we announce these and make sure that everybody is prepared adequately ahead of time to make sure those wages are paid and wage theft we have to make sure that our workforce that speaks many languages dont get capture and been take advantage of this is how we really in city year ago we have a benefit and make sure that everybody obtains that benefit i want to say at that moment im proud of the working folks in San Francisco but the intensify region and proud of state of california and your legislation for working with the governor to a raise the minimum wage that adds to the celebration of the fourth of july and makes that more meaningful and then we hope that the entire nation does this as well question hear a lot of stories from a lot of places across the country that the liveability is under challenged or were taking care of business in the city and state and lets go on the National Level and support of the prosperous country to make sure they get a december sent wage wsip think we have paula to speak for her experience and what that means to her paula clapping. good morning. I want to again thank the mayor mayor ed lee for being the vera person that was instrumental in making in milestone occur and happen my name is paula im a home care worker and worked in the city there are challenges with the rising cost of rental rates and even though im covered by rent control im still monthly yearly challenged and with different increases that i have incurred in the last few months and years this new legacy life act 15 minimum wage will surely ongoingly help me through my endeavors thank you. clapping. good morning. Im naomi kelly the city administrator i should tell you that paula was ininstrumental in working with m and mayor schaaf she helped to organize snatches for the measure. Thank you paula for all your hard work i want to introduce antonio a Health Care Worker an organizing member of unit health care woeft west and worked to race erase the minimum wage and allowing home care workers to apply for overflow room he speeded there was something wrong with his mother it was alzheimers i want to introduce juan antonio. clapping. buenas dias. speaking foreign language. so good morning. Thank you for inviting me to prestige events for people i feel blessed. speaking foreign language. my name is juan antonio and in 2015 specifically he which is a Health Care Worker for my mom. speaking foreign language. i just want to be very clear even San Francisco home care workers work very hard we do that because the standards of living inform San Francisco was very high we work very hard to meet those needs. speaking foreign language. so the job was basically like this door by door house by hours snatch by snatch people refused to sign this will make that worse we said no join hands and Work Together and talk to the leaders theyll help us there was a Great Success this doesnt he said here the initial is very important we need to keep on working so the situation gets better for all of us. speaking foreign language. you cant say that as good but thank you to everybody especially mayor ed lee during that time when the Campaign Began until today to fight for this measure to come through we want to thank them from every member in the United Health care west and give them this im not sure what you call that laughter . Well, thank you. speaking foreign language. ed lee. This is especially made for you ed lee our mayor thank you. Okay. This is a beautiful portrait up next, we have the director of Office Standards and enforcements mr. Pat mulligan working with these men and women in the Office Enforcement who are here behind us in the audience and ones that are the advocates of minimum wage paid sick leave and parental leave and Health Care Accountability act not only fierce advocates by our enforcement and making sure that our businesses and contractors with the city, our all of people are getting a fair wage and benefits so my honor to introduce pat mulligan. clapping. thank you, naomi it is the mission of Office Standards and enforcement to provide enforcements of all local labor laws and approximate protection for all workers and an honor to serve those who support of aggressive and Labor Protections in the United States and do through the hard work of all the staff there the office of labor improvement id like to remind the employers indicating the increased minimum wage throughout San Francisco id like to add that is also particularly fitting we are celebrating this announced of an increase in minimum wage throughout San Francisco as we lead into the fourth of july depicts day weekends for many workers and modest increase or any increase in their earns represents real and a very well defined dependence have a great weekend thank you. clapping. and okay. And this ended our press conference i have to say the growth and strength of our local economy will prosper so hi, im corn field and welcome to doing building San Francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. Lets take a look at that. Here at the spur urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. I have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both Structural Engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do . Both structural and maybe even important nonstructural things. You hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. What you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. If you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. If you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is nonstructural and your chimney and water tank. Lets talk about what the structural things might be. And he is exactly right. You dont want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. There are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the Building Department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a Building Permit and hire a contractor. But you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i dont have to worry about going to a government shelter. That is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. Here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. If you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. If you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their Due Diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. When i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. Especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. And the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. On top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. And that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. If you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the Fire Department is going to have to fight and we dont want to have any more fires than we need to. So bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. And so easy, and you go online and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the Hardware Store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. That is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. If you are in other types of building it is complicated. If you are in a highrise building you just cant anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owners and the managers about earthquake preparedness and dont take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. That is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. What is the right question . Will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake . Is that a good question to ask . Yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. Thanks, pat. Thanks, harvey. And thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on i love teaching. It is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. This really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. This is very enriching as an artist. A lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. There are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. That is a really big draw. This is a signature piece. This is the bill largest darkroom in the u. S. There are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. I think it is the heart of this place. You feel it when you come in. The people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. We get to build the community here. This is different. First of all, this is a great location. It is in a lesspopulated area. Of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. It is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. The people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. We offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. We offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. We offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. There is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. Hello, my name is jennifer. My name is simone. We are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. Cmon, cmon, cmon. Actually, i have been here a lot. I have never looked closely enough to see everything. Now, i get to take pictures. We want to try to get them to be more creative with it. We let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. You can focus in here. That was cool. If you see that . Behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. The see any more hills . These kids are wonderful. They get to explore, they get to see different things. We let them explore a little bit. They get their best. If their parents ever ask, we can learn they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. Some of the things they come up with are fantastic. That is what were trying to encourage. These kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. A lot of people come into my classes and they dont feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. This is kind of the best kept secret. You should come on and take a class. We have orientations on most saturdays. This is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. Ready to develop your photography skills . The Harvey Milk Photo Center focuses on adult classes. And saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. Feel like it really is a community. They are not the same thing, but it really does feel like theres that kind of a five. Everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. The best lit in San Francisco. Friendly, free, and you might get fed. [applause] this San Francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. She was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990s and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi its ic in the mission. Although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. People writing poems about being jerks. Beatty their chest onstage. She was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. Touring the country and sharing genx 7 as a. Her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. Theses San Francisco Public Library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. A lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. Theyre just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. Coming in to the library is awesome. Very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. At first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really . Things like that. As a documentary, there are interviews [inaudible] radar readings are focused on clear culture. Strayed all others might write about gay authors. Gay authors might write about universal experiences. The host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. There is no cultural barrier to entry. The demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. It is very simple. If we want more people of color, you book more people of color. You want more women, your book more women. Kind of like that. It gets mixed up a little bit. In general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. Their ages and very. We definitely have some folks who are straight. The loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. Established authors bring in an older audience. Younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. Raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. It ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. And there are so many different literary circles in San Francisco. I have been programming this reading series for nine years. And i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. The supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. A deep explorationer of a single work. After the talk, she bounces on stage to jumpstart the q a. Less charlie rose and more carson daly. San francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the United States. Multiple Reading Events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. Radar was voted the winner of these San Francisco contest. After two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her fulltime job. I am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. If i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. It is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. I can match that person with that person. It is really fun for me. It is nerve wracking during the actual readings. I hope everyone is good. I hope the audience likes them. I hope everybody shows up. But everything works out. At the end of the reading, everyone is happy. 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. 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For the next steps, go to knowhow2. Org. [gavel] good morning. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting of july 21, 2016. I am katy tang chair of this committee. Our vice chair eric mar will join us shortly and we have supervisor cohen and supervisor yee and we would like to thank sfgtv. Mr. Clerk, are there any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and submitted to the clerk and items will be on the and items will be