Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Special Rules Committee 71816 20160728

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For more information,. clapping. in 2013 San Francisco legislators newsom agreed to allow the reciprocate of our soft story buildings those building house one and 20 thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have the first earthquake retrofit a huge success were repeating this model what weve done it put together venues that are time professionals and contractor are financing institutions a other services that help people comply with the retrofit and as you can see the thousands of members of the public their assessing over one hundred vendors to comply with the ordinance or make improvements on their property i came to get specification information and puck h picking up information if you dont know what twaur doing i take it overwhelming. Were pleased a Critical Mass of people are keying into knowing their relents and understanding what had are the next steps to take and theyre figuring out who to talk to not only the contractor by the mustards and the architect and the Structural Engineers and getting the full picture of what options are necessary and being proacti proactive. So im very pleased to see the soft story buildings 99. 9 percent complies the highest of the program of this scale of the history a citywide effort high Blood Pressure in every stretch of San Francisco to understand real risks associated with earthquake and those are universally agreed on. At some point you need to gather information ill be talking to another engineer to come out and take a look at it and basically get a Second Opinion im for second and third opinions it is inspiring to see all the Property Owners that want to do the right thing and for proactively figuring out what the solutions to get them that. What is amazing to me here we are over two years of first retrofit fair and at the time we are rh2 out to contractors to help us and reaching it out to Design Professionals that soft story buildings is in any and people understanding how to comply now it is different an industry that springs up as a result of the their professed and gotten the costs down with lower Financing Options and these are defined and now the gene progression and have the buildings are buildings and the compliance we understand the 2020 one and 20 thousand San Franciscos 15 messenger of our population will live in a retrofit building those people buildings or lives in buildings with 5 or more residential building is soft story and wood frame and built before 1978 that house that one and 20 thousand san franciscans. San francisco is being the leader in getting in done and as you may know los angeles passed their retrofit law two months ago at the sort of taken San Franciscos lead on the one and tenth anniversary as the residents San Francisco this is a road map to the city and going to give us us plan are these to keep folks here on a disaster and steps to build a resident waterfront by 2020. This involves more than one and 80 individuals and over 60 nonprofits and other companies this is a huge plan and what are the challenges we realize that people are concerned about climatic change, Sea Level Rise and not only the affiliated hazards but things hike youre our amp infrastructure and consumed by social and other things we see this in society everyday and how we try to mitigate those are ultimately a direct result how resident we are after earthquake other issue out of the strategy of the concept after a major earthquake of keeping 95 percent of population here in San Francisco thats the single best thing to help a equitable recovery to keep people here keep people back to work and kids in school and a residents of normal after a disaster. Alliance energy in our partner undertook comprehensive bid process we interviewed a halfdozen of folks who wanted to have a part of our soft story buildings are ordinance so Alliance Energy project programming is a clean assess energy a special financing that is done using the taxed authority of local multiples and one of the interesting features the loan is tied to the property not the vital if an individual didnt have good credit but it is another option for people not able to comply to find another avenue the assessment is actually places on the property and the builds for in that come literally a line item on the tax bill thats how you pay off the segment and tax. 20 or thirty years is all paid up front there are advantages your property tax well it is important to give people on option and many private banks that provide loans over a are shorter term we wanted to create a longer pay back term. I think the next step for Property Owners after at the create themselves to take the plunge and quit the working downey done and have works of work done right of the right rest of the Property Owners can understand this process across the city. We need to do it. It is safety you know thats the bottom line safety. Earthquake safety a everybodys responsibility that is providing the resources that people need to get done if you want to know more of the resources as a san franciscan please visit th shouting. . More and more citys high San Francisco is committing to dislocate to end all traffic death that means improving safety for people walking and driving and safety on our streets is everyones responsibility people can make mistakes but not result in injury or death all traffic collisions are preventable as drivers you play a large role that will give you the tools to drive safely on streets a recent survey asks hundreds of drivers about save city introduce driving what did they say watch for distracted behavior and slow down and be patient and check for people before you turn the facts about city driving shows how important to be alert most collisions happen in good weather allowance even at 25 mileperhour it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop this is almost 7 car lengths slowing down makes collisions less savior when a person is hit by a passerby vehicle 25 minor the chance of death is 25 percent 40 percent that increases inform 85 percent slowing down didnt cost much time driving behind a person takes 9 extra semiautomatic and stopping at the yellow light takes only 30 seconds by hitting someone costs you hours and weeks of our time and maybe a life take a deep breath and take youre time cities Cross America are being safely for walking and driving some streets are confusing heres what you need to know all intersection kroukz of novelist marked some are marked to make them more visible other crosswalks and intersections are raised to the level of sidewalk to actress as speed bump and people are maybe crossing be cautious and watch for people when you approach any intersection advanced limit lines and pedestrian yield signs show drivers where people walk and stop behind the lines at stop signs and for people crossing bulb outs where the sidewalks extends into the street make that tease easy to see pedestrians and remember to slow down whether making reasons and watch for people on sidewalk estimations extensions that maybe closer than you expect and bicyclists may motive to the left to get around bulb outs this gives people a head start allowing pedestrians to enter the crosswalk before transfer starts moving makes them more visible pedestrian scrimmage and stop the vehicles in all directions allow people to cross including department of building inspection scrambles are paired with no light restriction and rapid beacons you turn bright whether the pedestrians are there or the center is activated precede slowly as you approach the beacons especially, if their activated a Pedestrian Crossing light turns yellow before turning sold red back to flash red procedure after making a full stop as long as the sidewalk is empty and, of course, stop whenever the light is red traffic circles reduce conflicts you must stop at the strewn and precede around the raise your right hand of the circle watch for people in crosswalks and people in bikes coming around the circle arrows indicate where people with bikes share the intersections and people have ride to people on bikes have the right to use the lane whether or not in the sharing bike lanes are for people protected by parks e. 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Parked cars and stay out of separated bike lanes unless an emergency dashed bike lanes are a shared zone four for vehicles to change lanes slow bike lanes allow the circles their unusually sprayed before me from other traffic some bike lanes are built to the level higher than the street but lower than the sidewalk they provide a safe separated space sponsor cyclists are around vehicles the box areas are marked with the stencil at intersections act as advanced limit lines for people to garter at a red light this increases the 1r0ir7b9 to drivers people will ride past stopped vehicles at the fronltd of the intersection give them room and stop short of limit line behind the bike without objection and cross only after the green light and people cleared the bike box bicycle traffic lights allow people on bikes to proceed while vehicles are stopped be unaware aware of those bike San Francisco General Hospital but stay alert and only skrans when the vehicle is cleared the intersection lets take a quiz to see what all of learned here we go number one when do month collisions happen did you say in daytime youre correct question two if an intersection is not marched is it still a crosswalk yes did you get it right great job one more before we go on whats one of the best things to do to avoid collisions . You can it take a breath Pay Attention and slow down city streets are crowded and chaotic so seeing everyone every single everything is difficult heres a test how many times did the white team pass the ball . If you answered 11 youre correct but did you notice anything else also be aware ever youre surrounded and remember that is easy 0 miss something if youre not looking for it heres some basic principles driving near peep e people from youre drivers seat it is difficult address our mirrors to reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk before starting youre turn watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience pays off take a moment to make sure youre clear while it might feel youll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you wont save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someones live heres important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the rightofway people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilities are the most vulnerable think city strits give buses and streetcars a lot of the space or people returning to catch a train dont block the box this creates dangerous situation for people walking how are forced into moving traffic and people bicycling out of the bike lane and people on bikes most city streets are legal for bicyclists even without signs people biking can fall in front of you provide a safe amount of space when passing someone on a bike a minimum of 3 feet is required by law in california and people on bikes prefer to be in the bike lane in for the this is often to avoid accidents give them room people on bikes will stay away from the traffic or watch out for open doors whoops that was a close one expect people to go to the front of the light and pass on the right a tap of the horn maybe useful to make youre preservation known but avoid using the horn it may saturday night be someone vehicles anybody right turns are especially dangerous important biking always approach right turns properly signal early and wait for people biking through the intersection move as far to the right to people on bikes can pass on the left lets try a few more questions who are the most Vulnerable People on city streets . Children . Seniors, and people with disabilities why do people on bikes ride close to travel there to avoid car doors what is one of the most dangerous situations for people walking and riding bikes . Turning vehicles and what can you do to make sure that everyone is safe in any situation . Thartsz stay patient and alert and, of course, slow down parking and loading a vehicle on accredit city streets is a challenge weather parking and unloading always check for people in our mirrors and blind spots and on the drivers side with our right turn right hand this causes you to look 40 on your left for bicyclists when passersby exiting the vehicle make sure about opening the door know where loading zones are if not loading zones available use side streets never stop in bike lanes or traffic lanes. Bad weathering and visible rain and fog or low lighting make it hard to see youre vehicle is likely to slide or loss control in eye i didnt controls and create issues for people walking and biking they tried try to avoid pulled and umbrellas and construction get slippery for people the safety thing to do in conditions whether wet or icy or dark slow down and drive more carefully remember going fast may on this save you a few semiautomatic but speeding may cause you a life or youre job people walking and biking are Vulnerable People can be distracted or make unsafe decisions as a driver the responsibility for safety lies with you a collision could mean the loss of our life or youre job and dealing with the legal implementations could take years or an emotional toll if someone is killed in a crash help us achieve vision zero and everyone can use the streets safely. Thank you for watch and following the important driving tests your remember were counting on youtest test test good morning and welcome to special meeting of board of supervisors. Today july 28, 2016. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Thank you. Supervisor avalos. Present. President breed, here. Supervisor campos, present. Have visor cohen, present. Supervisor farrell, absent. Supervisor kim, absent. Supervisor mar, absent. Supervisor peskin, present. Have visor tang, appsent. Supervisor wiener, present. Supervisor yee, absent. Madam present, you have a quorum thank you. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, colleagues is there supervisor farrell, asked to be excused. Motion by supervisor cohen, second by campos. Without objection supervisor farrell is excused. Any communications . You Just Announced farrell would not be present. Items 1 and 2. Pursuant tew proved motion at july 26 the board of supervise uzgrud to convene committee of the whole pr public hearing to consider mments to the Charter Amendment item 2. Transfer responsibility for the maintenance of street tree tooz the sate and establish the street Tree Maintenance Fund to pay for such maintenance and maintenance the San Francisco Unified School District property and require annual contribution by the satey of 19 million and adjusted for changes in city revenues for election held november 8, 2016. Item 2 amend the charter to transfer responsibility of street trees and establish a fund for maintenance to include maintenance for San Francisco Unified School District and require annual contribution to fund 19 million for changes in city receive news and election held november 8, 2016. Supervisor avalos. Thank you president breed. Colleagues thank you for united together for the street measure. This is a effort going on many many years. Supervisor wiener and myself have been working closely with resident in the district not just to plant trees but make sure the tree program is funded into the future and friends of the urban forest is a essential part of the effort and look forward to really be part of the future effort of maintaining trees looking forward. Believe today we just have to continue this on to tomorrows meeting, is that correct . Then we can vote for it for sending to the ballot tome. E tomorrow. Thank you. At this time i will open up to Public Comment. Any members of public who would like to make Public Comment at this time . Tom gillbirty. Two months ago [inaudible] appeared with 4 or 5 people and next week came with 4 or 5 people and next week 7 or 8 people. Mr. Gillbirty isnt this Public Comment . No this is about the trees sorry. Anyone else like to make Public Comment. In regard to the trees like to talk about what is in the paper and website. I assume the budget set aside will be in the charter. Generally im not in favor of budgeting at the ballot box. The sales tax revenue is maintenance only and not goget of the urban forest by 55,000 trees contained in the urban forest plan. I stress maintenance of existing trees. Two lessons learned, the 26,000 trees for tomorrow by mayor nusem with no funding maintenance was tip of the iceburg cost of 60 million and failed to recognize the maintenance cost. And also i have come to the conclusion the friends of urbb forest planted 50,000 trees and property owns are not properly informed to maintain them. This is from the planning departments urban forest plan stating the city trees are maintained in a better condition than private trees and with the overall degidation we are faced with the situation we are in. In conclusion i say proceed cautiously and perform your duties in adult supervision in the candy store. Any members who like to speak at this time . Are the trees going to include the sidewalk . I see a nod, yes. Thank you kindly. Good morning. Thank you very much for coming this morning. I want to clarification that this initiative will only be for the care of tree jz not for the planting of the 55,000 extretrees but if more trees are planted there is enough money in the plan to take care of additional trees. It has nothing to do with planting tree. Any other members who like to speak on the item at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. A motion to continue this to the meeting of july 29 at 10 30 a. M. . Motion by have visor avalos, second by supervisor wiener. Without objection this is continued to july 29, 10 30 a. M. The hearing is held and file. Please call item number 4. Item 4, we will take general Public Comment at theened. Item 4 madam present and Public Comment is taken oen this item is considered for adoption without Committee Reference motion to modify time requires under board rule [inaudible] boards agenda of the Charter Amendment regarding the city responsibility for trees to be submitted to the november 8, 2016 election. One second. Madam clerk, lets keep this meeting open and we will now since it is passed 8 40 go to our 8 40 special Board Meeting and i guess well need it call the roll again. Supervirez avalos, present. President breed, here. Supervisor campos, present. Supervisor cohen, present. Supervisor farrell, absent. Supervisor kim, absent. Mar, present. Peskin, present. Tang, present. Wiener, present. Yee, absent. Madam president you have a quorum motion to excuse supervisor farrell . Motion by supervirez mar and seconded by supervisor avalos. Take this without objection . Without objection supervisor farrell is excused. Any communications madam clerk . No madam president. Please call iletms 1 and 2. Pursuant to motion at july 26, 2016 Board Meeting the board will convene committee for items 1 and 2. Item 1 is public hearing toconsider item 22, Charter Amendment to amend the charter to remain the office of citizen complaints gives Dpa Authority over the budge squt requires performance audit every 2 years of how the Police Department handled claims of officer misconduct and election held negative 8, 2016 any members who like to comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This hearing is held and now filed. Madment clerk, item 2, please callsupervisor cohen . Good morning i like to thank everyone coming to the compromise and moving this legislation forward. On tuesday i believe [inaudible] to move efforts on Police Reform forward and bring accountability to San Francisco. I like to thank the Community Organizations and residents who came up to speak and advocate what they believe is the right thing to do for Police Reform. Colleagues i ask for your support and move the measure forward to place on the November Ballot and want to recognize my legislative add [inaudible] for leadership motion to continue this item to july 9 at 1035 a. M. . Motion by supervisor mar and second by supervisor tang. Take this without objection . Without objection this will be continued to july 29, 1035 a. M. Madam clerk, please call item number 3 and 4. July 26 the board approved a motion to Schedule Committee of the whole for item 3 is the public hearing to consider item 4, the Charter Amendment 4th draft to create the office of pub lb advocate powers and duties and authorize the public advocate to review administration of city programs and authorize to receive and investigate whistle blower complaint and authorize public advocate to avoid the director of citizen complaint to provide for election removal and salary and set city policy regarding funding and minimum staffing for the office and sets dates for election held november 8 rkts 2016. Any members of the bublic who like to comment at this time, please come forward . Tom gillbirty. Im curiouswe have [inaudible] here, part of what i was going to speak about my two minute was they are looking for a ear. They are looking for a advocate. I kind of thought supervisor tang said that the best reason not to have a public advocate because that is the job of the supervisor. Last tuesday night we had this room filled with [inaudible] after two months of obviously the situation not being taken care of. Would [inaudible] gong be part of the public advocate . That is a question i like to have answered. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who like to speak on this item . See none Public Comment is clezed. The hearing is held and filed. Supervisor campos. Just briefly, along the lines of what supervisor cohen noted. Im glad we have a package so the voters have a option in november and want to thank shealy chung haighen from my staff working hard on this. Thank you. Supervisor campos you like to make a motion to continue to july 29 at 10 a. M. . Iect correct second by supervisor mar. Can we take the continuance without objection . Without objection this item will be continued to july 29, 2016 at 10 a. M. Madam clerk please call the committee report. Item 5, considered by the budget and finance subcommittee at regular meeting and forwarded as a committee report. It is a ordinance to approve two agreements to enable the city to obtain access to fiber optic facilities. Agreement between city and bay bridge for excess of 10 years and city and pacific bell for excess of 10 Year Contract and with respect to agreements waibing requirements of the administrative code prohibiting automatic provisions and contract. Supervisor kim, absent. Supervisor mar, aye. Supervisor peskin, aye. Supervisor tang, aye. Supervisor wiener, aye. Supervisor yee, absent. Supervisor avalos, aye. Supervisor breed, aye. Supervisor campos, aye. Supervisor cohen, aye. There are 8 ayes. This passes on the first reading. Madam clerk can we go back to item number yes, just for clarification lets go to general Public Comment. Item 5 will be sent to the august 2 regular Board Meeting. Thank you. And we will be taking general Public Comment, so specifically if you like to comment on the items for adoption without reference to committee including item 4 from the 8 30 meeting and item 7 from the 8 40 meeting. This is a time to comment during general Public Comment. Mr. Gillbirty, this is general Public Comment so you are welcome to come forward. Thank you t is a little early. I want to emphasize the falen gong disaster we are having brewing here that isnt addressed. A couple weeks ago i started my comments saying i hope this issue gets resolved and the whole room was filled with young kids and folks and they sat 7 and a half hours. I like the supervisor who ever is handling the per aid route to address the situation. Im kind of thought that the First Chinese mayor of the city would step in and handle part of the issue here. There is a void of any interest, any involvement. I guess in the land of if fruand home of the brave we are searching for a ear. From the mayor, i can expect that because he is part of a political machine and their job is only to stay in power and not offend anybody with their any power sources. Now, i presumeis there another Public Comment . No, so let me go toon tuesday i dried to mention something about insurance policies because basically i have been living with a settlement for 27 years. I know something about it. A 5 million settlement for getting hit by a car or truck will land you probably 3 million after the lawyer and insurance take care of their share and hospital take their share. 5 million and that leaves 3 million to cover your ass for years. In the city that is a tough play. Uber needs to center that. I cant finish what i wanted. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of the public who like to provide Public Comment . Seeing none, pub luck comment is closed. Madam clerk, on item number 4 of the 8 30 agenda and item number 7 of the 8 40 a. M. Agenda, can you please call the roll. Madam president i just remind mei believe we called fori know we called 4 and called item 7 as well . Can you please call the adoption without Committee Reference item. Item 7 is a similar motion. Modifys amoupd of time requires unter 2. 227 between first appearance of the Charter Amendment for file 160586 regarding Police Accountability and boards ofordser of submission for november 8, 2016 election. You didnt call item 4 i believe. I believe i did. It was motion to motion time for file 160381 regarding cities responsibility for street trees for november 8, 2016. Okay, call the roll. Item 4 for the 8 30 agenda and item 7, supervisor kim, aye. Supervisor mar, aye. Supervisor peskin, aye. Supervisor tang, aye. Supervisor wiener, aye. Supervisor yee, absent. Supervisor avalos, aye. Supervise r breed, aye. Supervisor campos, aye. Supervisor cohen, aye. Those motions are approved unanimously. With that colleagues, since there is no further business, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] [gavel] good afternoon and welcome to the city of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Regular meeting. I would like to call the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Regular meeting of july 26, 2016 to order. Mdm. Sec. , please call the roll. Commissioner moller caen here. Commissioner courtney here. Commissioner kwon here. Here. Pres. Vietor. And commissioner moran is expected shortly. Next item isitem 3 is approval of the minutes from the july 12, 2016 meeting. I have a motion and a second. Minutes of been approved. Your wholesale customers last year were about 36 gallons per day which was very low. Thats about half of what the wholesale customers use on average in less than six times what city shoes. The contract is limited. So limited that they dont know that they can approve the Development Projects within the community. Last week thecity approved a moratorium project because they cant guarantee enough water. I want to be clear its not about the availability of water there is plenty availability within wholesale costs here but i seems unfair and on a and for years the system that they have been in, and we have been in and it needs to be fixed and as a result theAffordable Housing is on the back burner in East Palo Alto. Im hoping that you folks can work with boston and others to fix the situation thank you. Thank you. We received quite a bit of testimony and a lot of letters from the East Palo Alto community in support of the issue that you have raised to try to address the water allocation issue. We have directed our staff to move forward as quickly as possible to find some resolutions to these issue because we want to make palo alto hole and make sure the sticks. Also we have a trip to meet with some officials that is right we have a trip to meet with some officials and tour palo alto and meet with the commissioners. Thank you, any other Public Comment or general, comment . Seeing none pleaseitem 5 is communications. We only really of two slides we see that hetch hetchy is about 200 or 300 feet and were seeing this will come down throughout the summer and were meeting that demand with the two Treatment Plants down here and the water bank is about 73 so were still in a decent position regarding the storage but obviously, we did not fill up and that is why we are calling for a 10 reduction in demand by all of our customers. Then, my second slide is the one that is deliveries. That is the one that really is changing during this time of year. As you can see, it appears that the demand is starting to flatten out the summer. I just saw the report for last week and it was down another 3 1 2 million gallons per day about 200 or 300 feet and were seeing this will come down throughout the summer and were meeting that demand with the two Treatment Plants down here and the water bank is about 73 so were still in a decent position regarding the storage but obviously, we did not fill up and that is why we are calling for a 10 reduction in demand by all of our customers. Then, my second slide is the one that is deliveries. That is the one that really is changing during this time of year. As you can see, it appears that the demand is starting to flatten out the summer. I just saw the report for last week and it was down another 3 1 2 million gallons per day to about two 22 million gallons per day and demand is kind of leveled off during the summer and it is well below the 10 reduction dash line that is on there. Again, our customers are still conserving water which is good and our storage is seeming relatively good right now so basically we are going to just ride out the rest of the summer and probably not see much change in any of these things until we get into october or november. So, i would recommend potentially altering the frequency of the reports until we get a into a season where these things would start to happen again in less we get into a change in which we would report that to the commission and that is all thatwe have today. I would be fine with that. Me and the commissioners of what the consumption levels are and keeping track. See if there is any slippage on that that we know about and we can address it at this point i think we should put a memo into the communications further . And when is that . October . October. Any Public Comment on the draft report. Good afternoon Michael Himes i will be speaking on behalf of the power sf programs and be providing an update of our operations forkind enrollments and plans underway for future enrollment. Clean power sf continues to serve we are in our 13th week of service and now there are about 7000 Commercial Accounts and about 400 a residential. As of the beginning of this week the opt out rate for the amine enrollment was 1. 6 . The last time that we were here we reported 1. 7 opt out rate. So a 10 update. I believe we build every customer that was enrolled in may by this time. The super green Participation Rate is currently 3 that was the same that it was the last time that we reported. I wanted to state that we continue to promote the super green offering and we will be sending outa notice soon for existing customers to encourage their friends and neighbors to sign up as well. We will also be doing an Advertising Campaign in the fall to educate and specifically to promote the super green enrollment in the auto enrollment areas that we will be serving. Can forward to our next enrollment we have 551 customers signed up for the august Enrollment Period last month ms. Hale reported that it was 497 so weve had 54 new signups in the last couple of weeks. Customers and they are super green and 28 are super green and we are also finalizing our notice for the next Enrollment Period and we have worked at a little bit differently this time so thatit still informs customers of the terms and conditions of services that were trying to put more emphasis on super green to encourage and opt up. We have also launched a bill calculator on the clean power sf website. And, that is available for both green and super green rates. Id like to thank sfpuc it staff for making that happen in a short order. We are also helpinghave. Customers understand their utility bill and enroll customers started to understand all bill and rate omparison as mandated by sb 790. The comparison shows average rates for residential and commercial customers and provides a comparison of the average, monthly bill. Staff is also in the midst of procuring additionalto meet approximately 30. During planning, assumed a 30 opt out rate that due to the opt out they were seeing we are considering a 20 megawatt reduction megawatt reduction in the fall. What you we viewing later today will allow clean power sf to meet our Program Policy objectives and regulatory requirements consistent with the Commission Adopted business practice policies. Action also set a new limit on the initial size of the program to approximately 75 mw average. This would allow clean power sf to continue to enroll customers to sign up for the program until the next auto enrollment is established this would allow the program to an additional 50 to 20 mw of demand and we expect that to come in in the form of small, periodic enrollments that serve customer enrollments. So not like massive for trying to provide for customers in the fall. We are preparing a growth plan to identify all options to expain cleanpower sf Service Citywide and were working to have that program completed by the end of the year. If the first phase is expanded beyond the 50, this action is intended to allow clean power sf to procure shortterm supplies to meet our customer demand and not delegate authority over multiyear supply commitments which we would intend to bring to the commission. Which we would bring to the commission. Furthermore any supply commitments under this authority would be done in a manner consistent with the power enterprise existing trading and Risk Management policy and the business policy that was created and opted in december. Then finally, related to this action today i wanted to express that now that program is actually operating and not in launch planning mode we realize that it would be beneficial to come back to the commission, again, likely in the next couple of months to layout authority delegated to the manager to meet its policy objectives and regulatory requirements and act at a pace to take advantage of costeffective supplies that we see on the market. But again, bringing again to the commission large supply contracts and multiyear supply contracts distant with what weve done so far. And, that does conclude my report. I just wanted to show you what the bill comparison looks like an any of you that are cleanpower sf should be seeing me soon. I got mine. It looks great. Could you please pass it around . Sure. Commissioners do you have any questions . I have one question. Anybody that signs up by the first will be included in what,november . That is right. And anyone that is interested should sign up . Yes, please sign up and encourage your friends to sign up too. I think it is great news and i think that we will talk about it when we talk about the resolution again but im thrilled that 75 is on the table appreciate the staff and all of the effort that has gotten us this far. And, i am pleased that in the next couple of months we will get more from you from the power agreements authority. I would like to understand better how its going to affect the rollout of the Program Overall and the different components and how they will fit and i know its a moving target but i dont know how that will affect the local buildout schedule or the financial and revenue picture is so if you could continue to feed us the information as you get it in real time and i think that is ambitious just keep us informed in what the implications are that we stay ahead of it and if we need support from a policy perspective please let us know. That is great. Thank you. Our super green is 100 wind . It is 100 wind as of now. It actually changes. So yeah, our super green product will evolve as we employee additional products over time. In the distant future i think we will see a lot more solar, mostly because solar represents the new resource opportunity and Development Opportunity its also the most competitive from a cost standpoint today. What we had to do for this program was to execute a contract with an operating resource and it turned out that wind energy was the most competitive operating resource available to us. So, the 30 we are involved in now what is the composition of that renewable . All of the Renewable Supplies that we are using today are 100 renewables we are also receiving supplies from hetch hetchy and also from the natural gas and electricity through our combine process as well. Where we using the hydro . It is ours. That combined with the lower oi opt out rate will incorporate into our portfolio and to utilize the patch had she resource in the clean power resource. So, this is a commitment that we have made and also based on the information of the contracts that weve had executed. That will be trued up in next years report to customers. It will be a historical summary of our power content actually is delivered in 2016so staff is working very hard to make sure that pans out. Okay thank you. Any other questions or comments . I have a comment. I just want to say again that the work that you are doing is Pretty Amazing and also given all of the background that we have had i know we deal mostly with the workforce. I did have a conversation with jason earlier today. I still want to stay very much on top of the employment items and staffing and whatnot as we go down that road just so we have a kind of deliberate not necessarily conversation but that we just keep touching on that as we go. But, even materials they think are impressive and i think its a Job Well Done up into this point. Thank you very much and on that point, i want to emphasize, or clarify, that the staffing the staff resourcing will be a major part of our growth plan because we need to have strong staffing to meet the needs of this program and meet the needs as we expand citywides and to make sure that it meets all the comprehensive needs ofour service and that will be part of the conversations we will have as we develop that plan throughout the year. And also to actually identify resources and positions to cca as we roll out the program. Thank you very much. Any Public Comments . Jason fried,executive officer for San Francisco lascaux. We just had Rain Forest Network encouraging them to join super green so theres a lot of buzz and effort out there to get folks into the super green projects. That is what we want to get everyone into. Were very excited when we get them into supporting the program as well. Hopefully over the next few weeks or months we will see those emails but if you are not on their email list you wont get those emails but if you are you will get that type of female. I am also happy to hear the working towards expanding the program and seeing how we get the program enrolled in a quicker way i think going from 50 to 75 is a very positive way to go. I dont see them getting up to 75 because the policies in place that will keep them from getting to that 75 number right away i think its a good step in the right direction instead scaling back to residential just figuring out how to get that same amount of numbers while building more into this mix. The staff has figured out how to address that and get some of the hetch hetchy power to help supplement the needs your water team will tell you that you never know if next year will be a drought are not. You never know if you have that drought have that energy available. I think that your staff is an excellent job and i congratulate them on doing so. Tany other Public Comments on this item . Thank you. Anything else from the general manager . Next item is theall matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the San Francisco Public Utilities commission, and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public so requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. 8a,approve amendment no. 1 to agreement no. Cs1007, Structural Engineering services for 525 golden gate, with soha engineers for continued Structural Engineering support during construction of building modifications; and authorize the general manager to execute this amendment, increasing the agreement by 60,000, for a total nottoexceed agreement amount of 160,000, and with a time extension of one year, for a total agreement duration of four years. how b award job order contractno. Joc60. Approve amendment no. 1 to general engineering alicense for San Francisco, san mateo, santa clara, and alameda counties, for a nottoexceed amount of 5,000,000, to the lowest, qualified, responsible, and responsive bidder, cal state constructors, inc. , to perform general Engineering Construction tasks for all San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Enterprise operations and bureaus. how c accept work performed by Michels Jay Dee coluccio, joint venture, for contract no. Wd2531, Bay Division Pipelines reliability upgrade bay tunnel; approve modification no. 48 final , decreasing the contract amount by 401,175, for a total contract amount of 217,619,067, with a time extension of 319 noncompensable consecutive calendar days approximately 10 months , for a total contract duration of 2,252 consecutive calendar days approximately six years, two months ; and authorize final payment to the contractor. how d accept work performed by jdb Sons Construction inc. , for contract no. Wd2779, college hill learning garden; approve modification no. 1 final , increasing the contract amount by 57,252, for a total contract amount of 580,652, with a time extension of 119 consecutive calendar days approximately four months , for a total contract duration of 189 consecutive calendar days approximately six months ; and authorize final payment to the contractor. how e accept work performed by shimmick construction company, inc. , for contract no. Ww490, Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant 620 digesters sbr tpad conversion and facility improvements; approve modification no. 11 final , increasing the contract amount by 158,021, for a total contract amount of 19,034,533, and with a time extension of 167 consecutive calendar days approximately five months , for a total contract duration of 1337 consecutive calendar days approximately three years, eight months ; and authorize final payment to the contractor. how f authorize the general manager to negotiate and execute, on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, a memorandum of agreement moa with the California Department of fish and wildlife cdfw , for an amount not to exceed 585,000, and with a duration of 12 months, which will allow for the sfpuc to provide funding to cdfw for the design, procurement, and installation of a temporary Water Treatment and reuse system pilot recirculation system at Moccasin Creek fish hatchery. Cdfw intends to implement the pilot recirculation system to enable the hatchery to successfully operate from january 3, 2017 through march 4, 2017, a period in which water deliveries through mountain tunnel will be interrupted due to maintenance, and consequently, water deliveries to the hatchery will be significantly reduced. ritchie regular session 9. Authorize the general manager to exceed 50 mw average demand for the cleanpowersf program and set the new Program Enrollment cap at approximately 75 mw average, as long as the additional demand can be met in accordance with the adopted cleanpowersf power content and phasing policies. I would urge the commission to remove the full load of San Francisco and i think that staff should be free to move at whatever pace is expeditious and im not sure whether you would get this information from anywhere else so i will run through this with a couple of things to buy comparison our neighbors in the peninsula will offer a 50 renewable and 70 gst three default product for 2 1 2 cheaper than pg es rates. Theyre going from the date of serving customers to full rollout to their Service Territory will be six months. Further down, the Silicon Valley cca further default product will offer a 50 renewable and ghd project that will be closer to ours and again, that rollout from the date of serving to total rollout to the whole Service Territory will be six months. That will be october 2017 schedule for both of them. So, this achievement in our neighbors and we are the leader in the south bay and were talking about the rollout staff i support your staff i support being prudent and fluid i think we can do both. I urge you to support your staff and following the policies that you have it adopted to bring them as expeditiously as possible to full enrollment in the city with a priority of as soon as possible these will be fully enrolled in shorter time than we are generated a Program Growth plan thank you very much. Thank you. Yes, commissioner moran. Yes, a question and a comment. Is there a rate impact for existing customers with the expansion . We will be assessing that went before we make any supply commitments to serve the expansion. That is part of the business practice policy is the Commission Adopted. The supplies that we looked at to support Fall Enrollment do not cause a rate impact. Okay and if we were getting into a position where the market might require a rate change the commission would know about it for those changes were made . Absolutely the other thing that want to mention is if we go out to purchase power and it is so expensive that we have to take pause. So, that is why we have to be very cautious because we talked about affordability and that is why that has to be measured instead of trying to roll it out just to roll it out. We made a promise to try to make this affordable. So when we do come up with a rate to expand and its more expensive than pg we will have to have you come and we will have a dialogue. That didnt expand beyond that. And finally understand why we have a cap of approximately anything. I dont know how on earth you would administer that. If 75 isnt enough then approximately 75 is meaningless. Question to straight. Yeah, i agree with that. I think we could amend that. That would be my proposal. It sounds like you also have another proposed amendment that is not addressed in this resolution that has to do with the rates. I want to make sure that there was reference to existing policy and unless you have read the policy, its not altogether clear what that entails. I want to make sure explicitly that those polities were such that by extending the program we were not obligating ourselves to a rate increase. If the answer from staff was that the existing policies cover that it would not result in a rate increase i dont think there was an amendment there necessarily. But, i appreciate your support on the approximately and i would make an amendment to move the word approximately in the resolution. And, to delete the number 75 . As long as 75 can sufficient to get us to that point i dont see any point in deleting that. And when would we get updates on that . The end of this year. I think again, the most important part of this rollout is the ability to find the capital or the reserve that we need to continue to purchase contracts and i mean, that is really the main reason why weve been doing it in phases because we want this program to be selfsufficient. The other thing is, we talked about lockbox versus not lockbox and advantages and reassessing that so theres a lot of moving parts and things that we want to include into the program that were talking about that. So, it is a lot of stuff and remember, we shift from residential to commercial and it sometime this year you want to do commercial so all of that were trying to put together and as we mentioned today, we will come back and talk to you about the things that we are thinking about so that you will at least know what we are planning to include and look at the different options and stuff like that. I wanted to make one comment on the approximately term and to explain why that is in there might be helpful. So, a couple things that are at play, whenever we do an auto enrollment there are opt outs. In order to meet a targeted resulting demand we enroll more customers then our demand. We use the data that we have citywide to make projections for customer enrollments and because we are serving a subset of the customers in the city we might have outliers in there so there is an amount of variability thats created due to that. So, the approximate wasnt intended to be510 movement necessarily, but what we didnt want is if we ended up point megawatts to be in that regulation. If you need more headroom well give you more headroom to deal with that availability it sounds like you dont need that initially and if you do you come have plenty of time to come back for an amendment for that. I motion to approve that. Do i hear a second . I second. There is motion and a second is there a Public Comment . I think the approximate 20 we should leave that approximate 20 if we get a higher opt out it will be less. You are talking about paul 75. I will agree with that amendment to my amendment. Only if it is above the 75. Jason fried, michael can correct me on this if im wrong but there is a formula to between the two but if you want to get rid of the word approximate that is fine and i personally agree with some of the comments that the public made about the being there and its as long as you are staying within the pricing policy goal is you should encourage staff to get as big as it can well stay in the procedure in some ways i think take out the word 75 because as long as you stay within your policies and procedures because as long as her staying within your policies and procedures it shouldnt matter if it is 75 or not. This is just bad drafting. At least is clear drafting to take the word out. It should be Something Else and come forward with Something Else. Yes . Jed holtzman i didnt identify myself for the tv earlier but i would like to set can officer frieds comment on the amendment because if we remove the number 75 or commenting on the established policies and proceduresthat your staff is approving and were counting on that to move us forward and of course any report if there is a significant retribution and that path. I would urge you to take officer freids suggestion and remove the number 75 ae thank you. What is the disadvantage of 75 . Do so with the unlimited. And will be governed by the policies and practices weve already adopted civic to be read impact or purchase and supply issues that could potentially come up. Feeling this will come up again if we go to 100 are to 200 at some point. They said they are going to come back and address the longterm growth issues and hopefully it will come back in a way that we dont have to keep rehashing this. Staff hasnt said that they need more than 75. So, i dont see where we need to give them unlimited. If we were giving them Unlimited Authority i would want to review the policies to make sure they were consistent with that kind of authorization and absent the kind of review im not ready to give them unlimited authorization. It removes checks and balances of its unlimited. If i could just comment that this authority is important for our next enrollment and, 75 does give us room to grow the program in a manner that is responsive to customer proactive demand. Customers are reaching out to us and saying they want to be in the program and a staff, one thing we could really use is additional headroom to say that will get you into the program. And, this will help that. And, i think that i can understand the comments of the public and we want to grow the program as quickly as we can and as prudent and that will come out of our planning effort and we do see with the other cc are doing and we are in touch with them and i think that the 75 will help us to be responsive to the customer demand that we are seeing and ensure that we stay on track too with this current phase. I think the issue is if we are limited and the limiting factor is their ability to support above 75. So our son everybody to understand what our top margin is now and we need to reevaluate that if we do something differently may come back and propose changing some of those policies so that we can expand faster. So, that is why we put the 75 in there. Is there any other that is helpful. Maybe when we have a rollout plan we can understand what some of those implications are and the rate of rollout if we were to go to 100 or 300 whatever that might be thats a very important consideration. And, there are different options for scaling the program. We actually took a path that no other cca has taken to date. We secured power outside of secure account with a single counterparty in a single supplier that was the model that we were investigating earlier and in earlier efforts to launch the cca program. Will we did here there was that we solicited from and ultimately a broader pool of suppliers in order to create as competitive of solicitation as we could. But, there has been a lot of motivation happening because we are learning there are multiparty out boxes and there are many paths we can take to scale the program up and it might be that we take multiple options. It might be smaller phases or even larger auto enrollments. There might be smaller options available to us now but i just want the Planning Commission to understand what the options are now because i want this to remain competitive. I dont love natural gas i think that is a fuel we should be moving away from. With the solar and all of the great news and supply questions that will give us an opportunity to clean up our green. I should say there is a companion plan to our Expansion Plan and that is an integrated Resource Plan and that is actually part of our business practice policies but we will develop an integrated Resource Plan that provides supply, demand, and the resources going forward. It will make a projection of that plan going citywide and this is really a buildout place of that program aspirations and supply needs and that will bedone in conjunction with the growth plan. It may follow it a little bit because we want to do is lay out some low growth projections and put some inputs into the Resource Plan. So, i wanted to put that out there and with respect to natural gas something that i wanted to do is have as many specified resources as possible rather than just leaning on the grid where you can lean on a mix of unspecified supply projects. That is one of the emphasis of what we had done before and that is to specify within the mix. Yeah, but you specify with natural gas . Isnt that right . There is a third option you can go with the grid, you can specify or you can specify without the gas. The natural gas would have to go 20. As part of the growth plan is it the same as the rollout plan . The two together is what i think you think of as the rollout plan. The growth plan is whether we meet the demand and the rollout plan is the supply and resources and technology and type of Energy Supplies that we will want to procure or developed to meet that plan. I think the integrated Resource Plan we cant even have have them done in the exact amount of time as the power energy enterprise. The Silicon Valley plan is how much less than pg e . Well, the question is how did they achieve that because we arent there, are we . Just to be clear, Silicon Valley has right now just one product. Is 100 ghd free but it is only 50 clean power. In that area its in 50 below. We have an amendment on the floor. Are there any other questions or comments . And, the proposed amendment is to remove the word approximately before 75. I think we have a motion and a second already on the main resolution. Any Public Comment on the resolution . All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. Can you read the next item please . 10. Approve the revised records retention schedule and record retention policy of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. sandler is there a motion to move the revised schedule . I will move it. I will second it. Is there any Public Comment . Is there any Public Comment on the retention schedule . [indecipherable] thank you. Are there any other Public Comments on this item . All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. The motion carries. Next item please. 11. Approve amendments to agreement nos. Cs211ad, specialized and technical services, Natural Resources division, water enterprise, with cdm smith ats, joint venture cs211a ; icf avila, joint venture cs211b ; shaw environmental and infrastructure, inc. , cs211c ; and Urs Corporation cs211d , to provide continuing permit compliance monitoring of Water System Improvement Program wsip habitat mitigation sites; and authorize the general manager to execute future amendments within the existing contract capacity of 20,000,000, with no single contract exceeding 7,500,000. Is there a motion . I motion i will second. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. The motion carries. The next item will be closed session16. Conference with Legal Counsel pursuant to california Government Code Section 54956. 9 d 1 and San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10 d 1 ambrose existing litigation federal insurance co. , et al v. San francisco independent taxi assoc. , et al. San Francisco Superior Court no. cgc14543173 City Attorney file no. 150762 17. Conference with Legal Counsel pursuant to california Government Code Section 54956. 9 d 1 and San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10 d 1 ambrose existing litigation federal insurance co. , et al v. San francisco independent taxi assoc. , et al. San Francisco Superior Court no. cgc14543173 City Attorney file no. 150762 19. Conference with Legal Counsel pursuant to california Government Code Section 54956. 9 d 1 and San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10 d 1 ambrose existing litigation stacey a. Lawrence v. City and county of San Francisco, et al San Francisco superior court no. cgc14542269 City Attorney file no. 151275 20. Conference with Legal Counsel pursuant to california Government Code Section 54956. 9 d 1 and San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10 d 1 ambrose existing litigation Civil Service employees insurance co. V. City and county of San Francisco San Francisco superior court no. cgc14538389pursuant to california Government Code Section 54956. 9 d 1 and San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10 d 1 ambrose and items 23 through 25 will not be heard today. Thank you. Are there any Public Comment on the closed session items . [indecipherable] we have to learn about our earthquake issues. We have proceeded in these kind of ways and they say they dont understand that there are understandings that they have to clarify on this request. I think there would be a lot of problems for getting an officer in city hall and, to [inaudible] the supervisors because we really need this office in tune to our needs it we havent been getting answered [timer [gavel] we are back in open session. And we have settled on the items is there a motion on whether or not todiscuss the items during closed session . To not disclose. I second. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay is there any new business . O was asked to do is Water System Improvement Program and one thing i looked at is about the 4. 8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. We looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscans and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local San Francisco lb program. So, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. I was on the First Committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. In the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. We wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. Our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. I like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to Small Businesses and lots of creative ways. Help the community as well. There is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. My faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many Small Businesses. [inaudible] Women Owned Business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. It is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. Everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. He got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. Pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. It completely changed his business. My name is nancy [inaudible] the Office Manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. Worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. Today we are doing Site Maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. In order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. This is a Successful Program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. The sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of Capital Program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. That is what warms my heart. My name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. Bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. Small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of San Francisco we can also perform services. This program had tremendous impact to the region. In fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. This has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded 50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. And, i significantly helped the business. It is one of the major contributors to our success. Welcome to the ri cutting and Community Preview for there bayview opera house, Ruth Williams memorial theater. [applause] everybody wants to go ahead and grab a seat or find a place to stand. We are so thrilled that the sun is shining on the bayview today. Im tom ducaney and director of Public Affairs for city and county of San Francisco, director of San Francisco parks commission. On belandfall of my colleagues and commissioners it is a honor to welcome you all for the ribbon cutty for newly renovated bayview opera house and Ruth Williams memorial theater. [applause] the city of owns and operates 4 brick and mortar culturalsenter buildings, all of which provide Affordable Access to high quality arts and culture in communities across the city. Built in 1888, the bayview opera house played an incredible role in the ist history of the bayview and beloved by all of us. I want to acknowledge members who are here today who are champions of the building over the e years and arts in the bayview neighborhood. In the front row we have family members of [inaudible] Ruth Williams [inaudible] children and grandkids and joined by marry booker. [applause and cheers] and mrs. Doris [inaudible] and her family. [inaudible] welcome. On behalf of [inaudible] you are such incredible parts of making this a great space and arts qu culture hub and place for advancing Racial Justice in San Francisco for years. [applause] are thrilled to have mayor ed lee with us along with house democratic, nancy pelosi. Assembly member david chui a great campion for the arts in sacramento. We have supervisor malia cohen. And i believe do we have Supervisor Scott Wiener here today . No. President breed was going to try to join us as well. We also have [inaudible] george gas gone. Im also joined on the stage by reverend calvin [inaudible] [applause] director of San Francisco public works, mohammed nuru. Bayview opera house vise president theo [inaudible] [applause]. And also our brilliant Landscape Architects walter hood. [applause [. I want to ocknowledge the San Francisco Arts Commissioner is. We have jd veltram in the audience. I believe commissioner greg chui is with us. Commissioner chuck collins. Kimberley striker, thank you for all your work on behalf of the San Francisco Arts Commission. I also see fellow colleagues here including [inaudible] department of environment. Director elaine forbs joins by Port Commission Vice President Kimberley Brandon and Deputy Director of [inaudible] Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs. Police chief tony [inaudible] policy and Government Affairs for rec and Parks Department, alex randolph. Board member and neighbor, hydra mendoza and parks commissioner Eric Mcdonald is here. Thank you for coming and being supporters of this project. There are so many people to thank and so bear with me. We have [inaudible] to realize the transformation of the beautiful plaza and osaddress the less visible but improvement tooz the building itself. The project architects walter hood and paul cooper, amy elliott [inaudible] give them a round of applause. [applause] i also want to thank project consultant deborah [inaudible] other members of the project team is [inaudible] elliott who i believe is here with us today. I also want to acknowledge john updike from department of real estate. He is a incredible partner. [inaudible] vision of access to quality, words spoken by late colleagues Carla Johnson for Mayors Office of disability. [inaudible] the Mayors Office of disability was a champion of the project from the beginning and carla was here every day by our side make tg happen so today we remember her. [applause] i want to thank [inaudible] colleagues also from Mayors Office of disability [inaudible] john paul scott. [applause] next i like to thank colleagues at the capical Planning Committee for all your support for all Cultural Centers [inaudible] brian strom and staff from john updikes team [inaudible] i want to thank the city partner recollect public works and San Francisco municipal transportation authority, Mayors Office of housing [inaudible] economic and workforce development. Clearly the project was a city wide family effort and could want couldnt have done it with all you. There is generous support from Kaiser Permanente and [inaudible] here to celebrate. Next and bear with me, this afs very big team work ong this project and can pass it [inaudible] executive director of bayview opera house, barbara [inaudible] [applause and cheers]. Thank you barbara for everything you do every dayism we look forward handing the keys to you next month and you can come and open the doors every day [inaudible] lastly i want to thank colleagues at the Arts Commission who couldnt be here today because he is celebrating her daughters wedding back east, judy [inaudible] does a incredible job. [inaudible] which wh i came on board 4 years ago and it was [inaudible] judy has been the greatest champion and all the Arts Commission staff that are such a honor work wg every day and [inaudible] of the arts in San Francisco. Thank you Arts Commission staff, can you please raise your hand . I know many are here today. Thank you. We made it through the thank yous and i assure i wont be [inaudible] it is my great pleasure and [inaudible] reverend calvin jones junior from [inaudible] thank you again. [applause] [inaudible] lets hold hands. Thank you god. God we thank you for the time together and ask you to bless this occasion and lord, work and people that have put time in down through the years, we just thank you god for your grace and mercy. Let this be a time where we can come together during the god times in our liferbs and even during difficult times in the city we can come together and see what god you have in mine for each one of us. Continue to bless those in leadership and god, ask that you touch those that are being locked up, too many young people going away. Help us and let us use our Creative Energy [inaudible] amen. God bless you. And now it is my great honor to introduce a true champion of the cultural center, somebody who made a great investment in the city over a life time, mayor ed lee. [applause] welcome to the bayview well, i am so glad to join all you on this moment. I know today is a soft opening, but walter and mr. Cooper gave a walk through of this restored gemyou have done a magnificent job. The wholentire teami know tom went through all that, let me say thank you to everybody but most especially. You know how much we spent on this center . It is serious money serious money like 5 million. That is serious money. Why . Because this is a serious center. It is a bit of historicsenter. More than community history, it has been Family History. I can just imagine a few decades ago [inaudible] running around listening to the [inaudible] get sent out here and say, one of these days i will work at hrc and be a part of the city. I know tim said that because he was singing those songs when we were working at hrc 25 years ago telling me about the history of the community and how much his mother and family were contributors to this. It is Family History along with community history. Thats why it is serious investment. We are also making serious investments in the entire bayview along [inaudible] thanks to the leadership of malia cohen and others who led the way to inform us about the linkage that we have. This is a center of seriousness because i have been here when it was locked up. When it wasyou have to go through locked doors to get from one place to the other. Now we have a floating canvas where the kids go from the theater, from the Historic Flooring that have above it some really nice historic play House Theater type of lights. You can say i can sing here, even though i cant sing. You want to be here to perform because this is where the youth will be really inspired with what the board is doing, what the directors are doing with the programming that is about to come forth hopefully in september when we officially open this up. You wim be proud of this investments. We are making investments not just in buildings but the people of the neighborhood. As i often said, we are not making new promises, we are all together carrying out promises of investing in the neighborhood. This is the bayview and promised when we built [inaudible] we will invest in more. This is another part. You have a new Branch Library and have more to come because the commitment we made investing in people at a important time because we can afford the investments and need to make it now and build more Affordable Housing and prevent evictions and help the homeless and make sure the Police Department is working for the community to do all the right things in Public Safety and da included. All this works together so this investment means something for people. That is why im here today to show my gratitude for the entire team from the board to the director to all the groups working together and to officially declare on this day july 20 to be bayview opera house, Ruth Williams memorial theater day in San Francisco [applause and cheers] Ruth Williams [inaudible] with this i take incredible honor and pleasure to introduce the next speaker. You all know her. She is a champion for our city, a champion for bayview, someone i know that if we got a chance in this country to bring her back she will be our dem ocratic leader, nancy pelosi. [applause]. Thank you very much thank you for your time and for your great leadership of our city and focus on the bayview. I am very honored to be with all you. I was really looking forward to being here but didnt realize it would be on the very day. I always say, why dont you tell us earlier in the day so we can park around here without getting a ticket. [laughter]. Anyway, it is really wonderful to be with all of you and to pay tribute to Ruth Williams. [inaudible] official family of San Francisco. [inaudible] Ruth Williams family thank you for sharing this enthuse amp asm. Carla johnson [inaudible] judge people not[inaudible] what they can do not judge for what they cannot do. The physical accessibility is something very very important and it really is a example to the world when you see the accessibility here. That accessibility is one part of the accessibility. The accessibility to the yung people of this area to demonstrate what is inside of them in terms of the arts. That unleashes them with who they are to be who they are and not to be judged by who they are not. So many moms in bayview and Hunters Point and all over, when i go places, they say Police Support the arts for our children. It is a place where they gain confidence and enjoy work and learn they can do other things, where they find their creative spirit. That contribution is so important. This place is not only physically accessible, but spiritially accessibility as well. Im very proud of [inaudible] the mayor put 5 million and we put in the first 200 thousand and barbara told me without the floor nothing else [inaudible] some of us were together 10 years goy when we celebrated [inaudible] i can say to my colleagues in wash ington it wasnt just about transportation but Economic Growth of the community and now the spiritially and intellectual and cultural life of the community. This is really a cause for great celebration. It is a recognition the arts are central to who we are as a country. [inaudible] over and over again, but more importantly and more personally to everyone here, lets the art sing to the community. [inaudible] every time we come here, one of the [inaudible] always say our community has the word unity in it. It brings us together. A person who works very very hard to bring us all together newly wed supervisor [inaudible] she is a champion for bayview Hunters Point and housing and fairness and safety in the community, the list goes on and on. [inaudible] how beautifully she spoke about the opera house inside and well hear that now. It gives me great pleasure to take the opportunity to recognize the leadership of your supervisor, malia cohen. [applause] well, by god, if you take a moment and take it all in, [applause] you think about what [inaudible] it is more than just a day of celebration that we are recognizing in San Francisco. For those that grew up here, you know what the opera house means. [applause] the opera house was a safe space for people when they were rioting. The opera house was a safe space for school kids to come here. The opera house was a safe space for seniors to come and congregate. You know what the beautiful thing is about today . Is that it bayview opera house will remain all of this. This is tremendous. You see the people on the stage before you . This is our gift to all of you. When i look out here you know what i see . Generation upon generations of people that raised their families, that have been champions fighting [inaudible] i want to take a moment and pay the respect to the [inaudible] to the beautiful namly family of Ruth Williams, thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible] given us more than just a name to put on a historic building, she gave us a vision and she gave us a place where we can continue to teach and pass down our culture and pass on that vision. I want to recognize mary booker who kept [inaudible] alive and strong. [applause]. Taught people how to act and how to project their voice and have stage presence and having stage presence is more than just being center stage. When you walk into a room you walk with your head held high and that is what mary booker taught us. [inaudible] that was right there with her. When i look in the audience i see so Many Service Providers people who dedicated their lives whether working through the bayview Hunters Point foundation or [inaudible] or ministry on the plaza. [inaudible] everyone has a continued role making bayview Hunters Point more than a point on the map. This is a destination and home and community with real culture and traditions we will pass on from one generation to another. We are here to celebrate a wonderful day and historic absolute beautiful building and want to recognize the many talented people who made this come to fruition. It is always important to respond and respect and acknowledge those people who contributed beyond cht we need to recognize Carla Johnson who is still giving from the grave. She passed in the completion of the project and donated a sizable portion to the opera house. She was a city employee. [applause] [inaudible] bar people with disabilities to having access to this building and so this building is so centercenter piece of the entire community. When you think about the construction we facilitated here in this building. Ang leak thompson, belva davis are in the audience and facilitate being healthy. There are tremendous amount of people that deserve to be recognized. I want to recognize sister Linda Harrison who is [inaudible] [applause]. It is absolutely important we connect the dots of once people have left a [inaudible] it is how [inaudible] we are connecting the dots and make sure Bayview Hunter point get a piece of that action. We will build a program to connect [inaudible] right here to this building so we have our own state of the arts arts exhibit right here. You already heard recognition from barbara occul and bayview opera house board of directors but you know who else was pushed to the way side . I know you know him . How many know [inaudible] i dont know where he is but this is the man who opens up the building and closes the building and walks you to your car and cleans up what is left behind. This is a true gentlemen that had our back in this community. He is a unsung hero and asks for very little recognition. [inaudible] [applause] this opera house has been a place where people have come together to advocate for issues, important issues impacting our communities and that is what this opera house will symbolize from now for the next hundred years moving forward. We will be stronger and blessed by this and our responsibility to keep it in the community and keep it for us. Thank you. [inaudible] supervisor of district 10. [applause] thank you supervisor. I want to acknowledge supervisor cohen fl her ongoing support. She committed a number of [inaudible] for the operation. Third on third and continuing to make sure the programs here thrive. Thank you so much. [applause]. Next is great pleasure to introduce a city partner we could not have done this without who works in all the Cultural Centers to make sure they are up to code and Community Ready and that is director of public works, mohammed nuru. [applause]. I am very excited and proud to be part of this project as public works director and long time resident of bayview. This is where i raised my children and where i start my day, this is where i end my day. Im right up the street here so im very happy this project has come to fruition of many years of work we have all been putting together to get to this stage. The bayview opera house is a Community Gem in our community. This is our neighborhood [inaudible] if you can feel the excitement i have, [inaudible] when we talk about San Francisco, those from bayview this is our spot right here [applause]. The work we have done here in San Francisco will continue to make this building serve many more generations to come. As our neighborhoods evolve, it is important to preserve buildings like this to remind us of our history. At this time [inaudible] from our team, one of our partners with sfmta, director riscon, [inaudible] they were very instrumental helping bringing this project to fruition. Please give them a hann. From public works, city architect, [inaudible] lopez [inaudible] who is on site every day. [applause]. Janet [inaudible] they were all part of so many people coming together to make this project. Please give them a hand. A couple things about the project. While we sit out here and enjoy the garden and stage and all the other places, there a lot of details and work that went into it preserving the building. An the other side from the ground level to the top was rebuilt while trying to keep the building together. The building is no very accessible and has 3 bathrooms, all of them are accessible. The stage is has a ramp that you can go in and someone in a wheelchair can actually be on stage and many many of the [inaudible] garden and hear a lot about the guard squn what the design of the garden is and how it came about. You all know, behind every successful project team there is architects and electricians, fire marshal and all kinds of people, so today [inaudible] i want to send all these people, so many of them for all the great work and contributions they have done to make this preservation possible. At this time, i t is also my pleasure to introduce a board member vise president of bayview opera house. She was born and raised in bayview and served on many city commissions and volunteer groups and serves as director of Public Affairs for our own golden state warriors, please welcome [inaudible] [applause and cheers] thank you. I was expecting [inaudible] good evening. This is great. I woke up this morning and was thinking about what i would say and they said i have two minutes and i was going to come up and say it is about time and walk off stage. Many of you have seen this building transform, many have seen the neighborhood transform, but im excited because i can officially welcome to the bayview opera house, Ruth Williams memorial theater. [applause]. I want to particularly thank members of the community because this is your facility as much as it is ours on stage. As malia mentioned this is gift to bayview Hunters Point and the rest of the city of San Francisco and im proud to be a part of that process. So, there has been a lot of build up to this event and as i was reflecting on this i tried to think of my earliest memory of the bayview opera house. When you talk about history and preservation, one person that comes to mind is my grandfather who raised me. He migrated from the south, punchsed a property on third and [inaudible]you remember . And he put all his family in the property. The one vivid memory i have is he would walk [inaudible] pick me up from the opera house and save me from ballet class and [inaudible] it is those moments that shape me. If you look where we are standing to my left you have [inaudible] you have joseph lee jim, 3 strong institutions, cultural institutions, educational institutions in the physical fitness recreation center. 3 vital things i think the Community Needs and 3 vital things that shape the community and 3 things that we need to thrive. All that to say, that we all havewe take the personal responsibility to make sure that there is arts and culture in the facility and not only preserve the long standing history of many folks who come before me but also welcoming the new folks moving to a neighborhood and embracing bayview Hunters Point as their home. This journey will officially begini will say this date, september 17th. You can hold us accountable. [applause]. [inaudible] if you are on the board of directors for the opera house, please raise your hand. [applause] [inaudible] who works tirelessly for this moment and will continue to work tirelessly for the program and for this community. Judy [inaudible] who is not here today. She is for the past 10 years has made this her top priority. Supervisor cohen, when she speaks, when she says she is for the community, she means it. She walks the walk each and every day and we appreciate that. Mayor lee, continuing on the promises that he addressed and i appreciate that and [inaudible] leader pelosi, you are absolutely right it started with 200 thousand 200 thousand investment and built this from the ground up and appreciate that. How many people with a show of hands are ateneded event or taken a class or participated in a program . Keep your hands up because i have another question. This is not the end, this is just the beginning of Something Special and we need your commitment and need you to volunteer your time. Hands are going down[laughter]. We need donations. We need Board Members and staff. This is the beginning and hope all you can come on this journey with us and i appreciate it so much. [applause] before i leave, i need to introduce walter hood. Walter came to had bayview opera house about two years ago . Three years ago and i remember the first meeting. It was chair and microphone. A meeting with chairs and micro phone in the bayview is unpredictable to say the least, but walter listened and carried the vision out that was for the community and you dont get that all the time. Walter, you appreciate you and we thank you. [applause] good afternoon everyone. Dont hold it against me, im from oakland [inaudible] [applause] the next thing i like to say, [inaudible] do fantastic things. I just saw a young man on a scooter come up the stairs and come along the ramp and he came [inaudible] all of our kids should be able to experience all these landscapes. Hopefully in his mind this is not something [inaudible] i like to thank [inaudible] [applause] [inaudible] this takes a village to make these projects. We only have 5 or 6 good projects [inaudible] you think 5 projects in 30 years and i loick like to say it will be great to have this project [inaudible] i want to come back and [inaudible] i want to see performances out here. [inaudible] the building does not [inaudible] thank you for giving us that mission and allowing us [inaudible] [applause] just one step away from the big moment of the Ribbon Cutting. I want to show a couple acknowledges. Supervisor wiener has joined us. [applause]. And i believe [inaudible] give a big round of applause for all [inaudible] thank you so much for your leadership. I want to do two things, there will be tours available for [inaudible] are going to give tours. If you are interested after the Ribbon Cutting [inaudible] there will be tours for Community Members and get information about the accessibility features. The new bathrooms on the downstairs level will allow young people to go to the restroom without going all the way around. This is a [inaudible] at the bayview opera house. I like to invite some the neighborhood young people that are here today to come on stage to join us for the Ribbon Cutting. Can we get some the young people here . Come on stage. [applause and cheers]. This is if you are a bayview opera house board member please join us. Our elected officials hydra mendoza and [inaudible] join us up on stage, please. I need you to help us count down from 10. Are we all ready . Alright. Please join me counting back. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [applause and cheers] please stay and enjoy refreshments. 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