Transcripts For SFGTV Commission On Community Investment Infrastructure 8216 20160804

August 16, 2016, at one p. M. At city hall and b announcements of Electronic Devices please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, of cell phones, Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. K announcements of time allotment for Public Comment. Please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to address the commission unless the commission the commission wishes to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit it to the commission secretary. The next order of business is item 3 reports on actions taken at a previously closed session meeting if any no reportable actions the the next order of business is item 4 matters of Unfinished Business no matters of Unfinished Business pursue the next order of business is item 5 matters of new business with content and regular agenda first, the content no content items the the next order of business is 5 a authorizing the Second Amendment to the memorandum of understanding for environmental and Design Review services with the city and county of San Francisco acting through the San Francisco Planning Department to extend the term if fiscal year ru78 to 2018 and to increase the budget not to exceed 450,000 a total ago gait not to exceed one Million Dollars plus discussion and possible action resolution number 352016 madam director. Thank you, madam secretary good afternoon to the commissioner and the members of the public thank you for joining us commissioners as needed as you may know we enter so into mou or other agreements with City Departments or consultants to help us complete our work this is a mou with the citys Planning Department with campos the occ planning and the design the manager of planning and review for occ pardon me will be presenting this item thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners inaudibl inaudible . Claudia check the mike please. Yeah. Good afternoon chair and commissioner rosales and director bohe im the manager the design and review for occ today, we have before you the item were asking you to authorize a Second Amendment to occs existing memorandum of understanding with the San Francisco Planning Department extending two fiscal years for the fiscal year 2018 as an overview this original memorandum of understanding or mou was adopted and authorized in august of 2013 it is its purpose twofold to summit the occ staff for Design Review and services and provides a fraction in which the staff at the occ confer with the planning dependent on the matters the original mou was for two fiscal years focusing 2014 and fiscal year 2015 during the term of the original mou we began to work on the Golden State Warriors project that project presented a large body of work beyond anticipated in the mou so in september of 2014 the commission authorized the first amendments of mou to allow us to work with the Golden State Warriors using the Planning Department and Environmental Services and extending the term one fiscal year to 2016 now were requesting the Second Amendment which will allow continued assistance on the Golden State Warriors and extend the terms to 2018 to give you goodic context of the area those are redevelopment project areas on this map that shows you where encouraging occ has land use for the right the areas where occ is responsible for be agreements and permits and they include im sorry to take you from north to south at the top the transbay the zone one of transbay that is a portion of redevelopment project around fulsome boulevard and main and beal streets there is rincon hill being that area in orange adjacent to transbay zone one the embarcadero in the south beach surrounding the ball park to the south in purple youll see mission bay north and south and further in the bayview Hunters Point and red called the bay area industrial triangle this area expires in 2020 and is an area along the third street corridor in the northern portion of Hunters Point we have land use jurisdiction and finally to the for the southeast portion of Hunters Point phase one phase two redevelopment project areas and Little Candle stick point that is actually zone one of the Hunters Point project area within those areas the development controls and standards are regulated by project area design for development documents not the planning code however, the planning code often applies we often confer with the Planning Department on the implementation of those areas i also wanted to show you areas that are designated by the city as Priority Areas the enar circled areas on the map pursuant to the coordination within the City Department theyre required to produce expeditious processes of approvals those areas to the north the first red transbay zone one that is mission bay north and south and Hunters Point and candle stick they does not conduct the rincon hill south beach project area nor the bayview Triangle Project area with respect to the memorandum of understanding dwiftsd into two areas of discipline the Design Review and Environmental Impact when respect to the design the agreement calls up to 0. 5 staff to assist the Design Review that we are required to do and these as your familiar are basic concept and schematic and after the approved schematic we have more work to do in the construction documents it includes justice a general land use and urban design policy assistance and basically Technical Services from the planning code i mean, the Planning Department related to the planning code and general plan the section portion is the Environmental Reviews up to one and 50 staff hours to support occ on the Environmental Review project areas they include basically our requires requirements and the sort of of the documents we are obligated to prepare in the California Environmental quality act they include the surexemption and negative declarations and reports as well as possibly an Environmental Impact report or as youve seen before you addendum to the Environmental Impact reporters i wanted to show the history of budget of this mou from its beginning in fiscal year 2014 to what were proposing in the 1e789 through 2018 those are 5 years of collaboration and use of Planning Department Staff Services and as you can see every year we loot the same amount of money under the vieira one and 50 sthoidz for the Environmental Review and point review 75 thousands an amount of 200 plus for the next years to authorized that extension the 450,000 and little full amount will think an aggregate not to exceed one Million Dollars plus one thing to keep in mind those budget amounts are top told her weve not expended this much but prefer to be prepared in case of the additional workload i want to touch a little bit more on how we are managing the Golden State Warriors scope of work you should not in the mou we didnt include the amount of staff time and budget in the actual be agreements to be paid out of occ or as a pass through occ instead we facilitated an arrangement within is groundbreaking so the Planning Department can bill directly to the Golden State Warriors and pays directly to the Planning Department without going through occ for that reason the amount of the Golden State Warriors are not included in the table i showed you before the dbis e Golden State Warriors has been approved and moving forward with the Design Development and ultimately the construction documents so we anticipate within the next two years within the term of this extended mou this project will begin construction and during the construction period what is crucial that we insure proper tracking monitoring and reporting of the required mitigation measures pursuant to the eir so the Planning Department agreed to offer 0. One 5 hours for the passion or prejudice of the monitoring of the hours during that construction phase this is that slide. Now as far as staff recommendation that concludes my presentation we recommend you authorize the Second Amendment it will will extend through 2018 it will increase the budget amount to an amount not to exceed 4 hundred plus aggregate one Million Dollars plus im here to answer any questions thank you very much. Thank you. We will take Public Comment first is there anyone from the public that would like to comment. Tom curious weve god got a sinking building on Market Street downtown one. 5 point one 57 quality hours what does that mean were increasing the Environmental Review to 4 hundred and 50,000 its obvious we have a sinking building downtown a highrise i dont think we want to continue to push that along all the other agencies just is that for the transfor downtown or transbay or is that all of these Development Areas thank you enemy that would like to come and speak . Okay commissioners any questions or comments for staff. Commissioner singh. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to know that lots of things going on against the Golden State Warriors how is it looks now we see the other people. Counsel might want to say and approximately 2 and a half weeks ago the superior court ruled against those petitioning and challenging the arena and the complex on all accounts and that was 2, 3, 4 two cases against occ and case against the city substantially the petitioners had 5 days to appeal with the court of appeals and if not file the briefs due within a month that will be an, an expedited basis we expect to prevail on this. Was there any problem you know any kind of you know how long it will take to come forward. Well Start Building that. Sure as you recall this project was certified by the governor an as an environmental stuarty provision under ceqa that requires the litigation to be complete essentially within a year less than a year both the trial court and the appeals finished between 200 and 70 days after certification of the record so were in the middle of that period and have several months then until the courts have to resolve understanding inexclusively all the matters with that litigation so the warriors understand have take a look at it and have a commencement and schedule that one shumz well prevail as well and occur after the 200 and 70 day period when it is complete. Thank you. Any questions. What is the breakdown monthly of hours for staff out of one and 50 thousand . Commissioner pimentel are you referring to the one and 50,000 for Environmental Impact Environmental Review fulltime staff 22nd weve not needed that much work yet. I have a couple of questions want to make sure that i understood why 9 so is in the this is the Golden State Warriors project the point one 5 fulltime equivalent hours will be reimbursed directly paid by the warriors thats not in our mou just a component of their direct payment to claim. Jeff commissioner rosales it is we causality it out as something under our purview but something that the Planning Department has budgeted and agreed to provide as far as services. Separately. Yeah. However, not paid throw us. Right i get it. Through the Golden State Warriors and to answer the gentlemans question it was 6 hours a week. Okay. Okay. Then the other question i had was i have it here somewhere we talked when we approved the block 4 in transbay the transbay block 4 partied up others parcel f the transaction through the executive director well ask the Planning Department of education to moonlight to make sure that parcel f process was expedited and so im wondering a did we do that and b did he respond laughter in transbay a declaration for the transbay project area that incorporates two zone one one on the map and the portions that includes block 4 and the portion to the north up to the Transbay Transit Center that includes where parcel f it is zone two we separated it zone two administrative code by the c3 downtown zoning and zone one is a different animal at occ ocii administers in house through a declaration agreement Planning Department to be responsible for land use permits and Land Use Authority in zone two of the declaration agreement requires a john updyke and staff meets currently once a month to discuss the permits in both areas perhaps we can future our collaboration on block 4. Through the chair the planning director was aware of the development off parcel f under the planning jurisdiction and land use jurisdiction as mr. Campos and block 4 land use and proprietary overview their tied together in addition not working group we have our transbay project marry that is part of likely each and every meeting the staff has with the project sponsor for parcel f on the planning side i believe there was a meeting at the end of july the planning director first meeting with the project sponsor to kickoff their plans and projects and our staff was present and an ongoing presence those two are tied together and as to what our program will be on block 4 and the expedited review the faster parcel f goes the faster for the project. Great i dont have those are any questions. Any members of the commission have a motion commissioner singh has made a motion commissioner pimentel as seconded it call the roll. Xhoibd commissioner pimentel commissioner bustos is absent commissioner singh commissioner mondejar is absent commissioner rosales i have 3 is and two absent. The item is approved. The next order of business agenda items 7b b and c related to the contracts for bonds will be heard but acted separately 5 b authorizing the contract with the lumbars for the Counsel Services not to exceed 50,000 related to the issuance of the Successor Agency of the city and county of San Francisco tax exempt tax allocation revenue bond discussion and possible action 20165 c authorizing a legal contract with bartley a professional allow corporation for the services not to exceed one hundred and one thousand dollars related to the issuance of successor action to the redevelopments agency of the city and county of San Francisco taxable tax allocation revenue and refunding the revenue bond the multiple project easier and discussion and possible action 2016 and 57 d authorizing a Service Contract with a professional Law Corporation for bond Counsel Services not to exceed 200 and 7,000 related to the issuance felt Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the city and county of San Francisco taxable and tax exempt allocation revenue bond in multi series and discussion and possible action resolution number 382016 madam director. Thank you, madam secretary commissioners that is very exciting to bring forgot this set of Legal Services contracts before you as you recall gopher signed a law in the bill a special San Francisco only provision that we needed to complete broad scale of our enforceable candle stick Point Shipyard in go transbay and in mission bay awhile that was clear the infrastructure components for Hunters Point and mission bay we have issue in the post world not clear for our Affordable Housing obligations and we had no such authority in transbay for the Neighborhood Service infrastructure so the budget you approved this past fiscal year really relies on that special San Francisco only provision that you supported the mayor and certainly this office had a hand in providing inform that special San Francisco only provision in sb one 07 before you housing bonds and infrastructure and transbay under that sb one 07 and bonds for housing we need a series of consultant to complete the work program that is the cash that provides the aggressive work program with that introduction john our senior final analyst for ocii will present overseeing items youll act on separately. Good afternoon commissioner rosales and director bohe im john the senior financial analyst for ocii items 5 b c and d before you as director bohe pointed out are resolutions for the Legal Services contract or Services Related to our 2017 capital. Can you speak closer to the mike for the members of the public. Sorry those are the first steps in bringing on the Financial Team to allow the fiscal year 2017 capital Bonding Program to go forward. Yeah. So the ill grow with a quick summary on the bonds the 3 classes we intend to issue this year first 23 million in new money taxable housing money bonds 4 projects in mission bay 30 projects in Hunters Point shipyard and two projects in candle stick point so next there is 90 million taxable refunding housing bond a number of candidates ive listed them on the slide but spare you reading them this expands or contracts the Market Conditions the 99 is an estimate we dont know it could get bigger or smaller. Last but not least we have a 37 million in taxexempt infrastructure bonds for transbay these are needed to fund the fulsome streetscape, the dollar ramp park are the transbay park and another park. So bring the recommendations for tree contracts one important bond counsel and two for bartley and the law offices of alex chiu the johns hall contract covers all 3 bond issues the amount is 200 and 7,000 and broke down into you know a base fee of 45 million for the 23 million and taxable housing bonds and 55 thousand dollars for the 90 million taxable rotunda and 65 thousand for the 37 tax exempt transbay infrastructure bonds expenses are invited 3 for a total of 9,000 and contingency amount of 33,000 roughly 20 percent this is subject to executive director approval the contingency is there to allow for six driven changes in scope so we dont get setback to square one and that example that will be a change in size a dramatic size in the change of refunding in scope of one of the other bonds the term with all the contracts will be in effect fill the financing are complete id like to introduce representing joan steve our lead counsel. Secondly, we have recommendation of Charles Bartley our counsel for the take into considerationable housing and taxable refunding bond the total amount is one and one thousand 8 hundred not to exceed amount that is come Property Line of a base fee of 30,000 for the 23 housing bonds and 44,090,000,000 refunding bonds and expenses not to exceed one thousand and contingency amount of 16 thousand 8 hundred subject to the executive director approval the term of the contract to remain in effect until the financing is complete id like to introduce erica and welcome her back. Finally we have a recommendation of the law office of alex chow for a Disclosure Services for the take into consideration exempt transbay infrastructure bonds invited is 50,000 comprised of a base rate of 4 thousand nine hundred and also an allowance for alleyway compensation not to exceed 6 thousand for the participation and credit discussions for the taxable housing bonds the reason as we go forward with our new Bonding Authority certain elements that are unclear theyll be and i applicable to the bonds more efficient to have mr. Chiu participate in the early discussions the first bonds for 23 million housing bond rather than the whole Financial Team back to square one hell have compute with the definition of the disclosure items well get to that and the contract allows for expenses not to exceed 25 hundreds and a contingency of 7 thousand subject to the approval the executive director and as with the other contracts remain in effect and welcome back alex chow alex has worked with us not in recent years but in the past on bond issues at this time, id like to conclude by recommending the approval of those items and welcome any questions. Thank you we need to take Public Comment first. Is there anyone interest the public that would like to make Public Comment . A question on the back on this disclosure counsel al legislation chow disclosure Council Services for tax exempt transbay the dash under 50,000 is 37 million taxable transbay funds i dont how those funds were tax exempt and going for taxable transbay infrastructure bonds. Ill be happy to answer thats a typo their tax exempt bonds. Great, thank you. Any other Public Comment . No any questions commissioners. I have. Commissioner singh. What is the interest in all this for the taxable bond and nontaxable exempt. It is, of course, early to say but you know perhaps 6 months from now if it were done it would be favorable for the high 3s that would be my i would say in the high 3s or 4 percentage. In all the areas. Typically the bonds are 3 years but maybe shorter because it may follow the life of the bonds it is funding. Has this firm worked with us before or new. We have worked with every one of those law firms alex worked with us for the disillusion and crows bartley and continues to work with us and john halls worked with us on most of bond issues. Many years. Thank you. Any questions. Okay excellent so well i have no questions this is important work we need the money laughter we need the lawyers to get the money so, yeah and the plain english response we need to go each one but commissioner singh a hundred moved each one of those items and commissioner pimentel was seconded and we can take them individually for item 5 b. Okay. Xhoibd for item 5 b. Commissioner pimentel. Commissioner bustos is absent commissioner singh commissioner mondejar is absent pursue commissioner rosales. Madam chair 3 is and two absent okay the contract with the law offices of alex chow is approved the agenda item 5 c. Commissioner pimentel ms. Houston is absent commissioner singh commissioner mondejar is absent and commissioner rosales madam chair, i have 3 is and two absent the Legal Services contract with Charles Bartley is approved. 5 d commissioner pimentel commissioner bustos a absent commissioner singh commissioner mondejar is absent and commissioner rosales. Madam chair, i have 3 is and two absent the Legal Services contract with the jones hall is also approved thank you. Thank you. So next item. The next order of business is 5 example working group by the city of San Francisco office of Economic Workforce Development welcome to the peoples palace on the southern bay front Central Waterfront and bayview candle stick point areas and interagency for the citywide investment and bayview Hunters Point and Hunters Point shipyard and Mission Bay South and north discussions madam director the suffice office of Economic Workforce Development is under a taking a Strategic Planning process for the southern bay front and the Hunters Point shipyard and senior project manager will provide a brief introduction and im going to turn it over to representatives from oewd. Thank you executive director bohe and good afternoon senior project for the candle stick point im joined by ken rich and others from the office of Economic Workforce Development they have been working with various City Departments on the strategy in the working group and the southern bay front is run from south of Mission Creek by the ball park to the candle stick point and obviously that covers two ocii project areas mission bay Hunters Point shipyard and candle stick point it also covers several untitled sites where development is not approved including on southeast pier 70 and into the abstinence the goal of the working group is to create a negotiation framework for those untitled sites in order to leverage investment and Community Benefits for those untitled sites and then in terms of ocii project areas we obviously have Robust Development plans and Community Benefits program that are established the goal to coordinate the goals with our city colleagues to provide and deliver those communities infrastructure with that, ill introduce ken rich director of oewd. Good afternoon, commissioners im ken rich what oewd nice to see you thank you for the opportunity for this so though weve worked on as a partnership with the oewd into producing the best results for the city for a number of unique large developments permitted in the areas of the city we started to call the southern bay front so to get context lets setback on the slide and look at the entire waterfront we suggest that one, think about four zones moving clockwise the first two zones in the red and green are primarily under federal control with a little bit of city rec and park ownership and those well see little hang in the future the third shown in blue we youll classical think about when we imagine the San Francisco waterfront this Ferry Building and the photographers and amount of that in all likelihood changes in the future the last limousine in joel stretching in at t park to the southern board of the city that is part of waterfront with that we believe well see the change we believe many if not all observers will welcome the change as it transitioned out of heavy industry as long as the change is for the benefit of surrounding neighbors the remainder of the presentation focuses on the changes in the right way. So sdoem on that yellow area the key point this is a place where people live and work and at the same time we building will be the most growth in the residential and commercial growth how do we shape this growth the city sorry shape that growth for the good of the city and good of the adjacent neighborhoods. So the fact is most of largescale Development Well see in the southern bay front is on the horizon in some form whether many implements such the project area Hunters Point and candle stick point in the middle of the project like the port pier 70 and mission rock or more in early stages like the baseline and pg e and Hunters Point and power plant just to underscore the importance of getting this right take into account the statistics on the slide well see 20 though now e new Housing Units in the project area created in the southern bay front and 6 seven hundred had been affordable we expect 35 thousand new jobs of various kinds and in some cases the most exist 5 hundreds and 20 acres of open space that is virtually all the new open space well see in the for seeable future. So what ive done on the next slide faded back the projects that are approved in the prelims like yours that leaves 56 large proposed project to be approved ass all of the proposed are seeking to transform from the industrial land with open space and commercial activities while the investment with, of course, beneficial for the city were focused on claiming as much of that value for the residents and neighborhoods surrounding it all of the projects will be in variance commissions and the board of supervisors in the next couple of years as negotiated Development Agreement that gives us the opportunity to do what were here to side to propose to all of the Decision Makersers is negotiating framework for the projects so as question negotiate the Public Benefits around the transportation and open space and affordability were better late than never all the projects at once and not bringing drooishgz e Decision Makers one at a time im going to turn it over to my colleague that will take you through the benefit categories we hope to create the framework for. Thanks ken and hi, im with oewd. So as ken discussed the negotiation framework will coordinate from the proposed project into a number of key areas as you can see those are summarized on the slide and the next well grow those in detail so for the most part Affordable Housing is a critical area where we want to direct the investments in order to achieve our goal of 33 percent affordability on average across all the projects over 65 hundred units of new Affordable Housing which have of the shipyard well directly benefit the local residents and existing communities through the neighborhoods Preference Program that is 40 percent of the units for existing residents and, of course, as per city law the certificate of preference holders and ellis act adapted tenants will get the First Priority for all of the units on Sea Level Rise the city is commit to protect the Vulnerable Community and on the slides as you can see from the mayors Sea Level Rise action plan that was published earlier this year those developments will play a collaborative roll in the citywide effort and transforming by adapt and raising the grades to protect against Sea Level Rise how supporting future district wide through long term adaptation and through Financial Resources that those projects my provide on transportation we know that transportation investment a critical component for existing and future residents along the southern bay front the city is working to meet the demand with a host of projects online as early as next year in the slide as you can see the new projects under implementation and will be delivered between 2016 and 2020 and on the next slide as you can see the next set of projects between 2020 and 2030 i wont name each of them putting them together and including some future projects as you can see the significant package of transportation need in this district so how did those proposed projects fit in through collaboration with each and everyone and through negotiations with the city we aim to channel the transportation obligation from those together so they can have a collective go impact than otherwise individual from each were focusing to our efforts on 3 categories the first is on localized infrastructure so this means bike paths, streetscape and especially to coordinate for example, at the 4 pier 70 and the n r g adjacent to one another we need to make sure the Opening Statements o improvements are cohesive the second to invest in the proclamations this is how to booster the light rail fleet and bus fleet to make sure we have the service we need the mta is able to keep up with demand and the third is planning for the future so this means how can we think about how the projects contribute or fit into a long terms picture of planning for a second transbay crossing or helping the city think about core capacity improvements on open space ken mentioned we have the creation of over nine Hundred Acres of new and renovated open space and this is in shipyard so were going to organize those projects 0 through a couple of ideals one making sure that the new open space that is created in our promoted projects and connectivity with new communities this is going to create a waterfront that is pubically assessable as you may know part of waterfront not pubically assessable in the past we want to make sure that access is defining carved out in the design and in the implementation of open spaces we also want to make sure those open spaces have connected through the Blue Green Network of the plan and finally we want to make sure we have an open space sometime that creates a cohesion of programming that this understand, of course, those open spaces will be managed in a different way maybe maintained in a different way those decisions are going to be made down the road but make sure that the public knows that all of the open spaces are assessable and used in concerto with one another. On sustainability our proposed project will achieve a highlevel of sustainability through the revitalization of formally industrial spaces improving those to residential unit through the use of resource and utility design and new technology and most exciting the approaches to infrastructure to provide long term benefits to the border district on Community Facilities this really means Public Safety like Police Station but other facilities like Grocery Stores and schools those kinds of elements because were not doing a major, major neighborhood area plan those kinds of elements awhile important we need to make sure we include them in the better late than never the growth of this district and through the leadership of the Planning Department to look at the resources and facilities that to help us plan over the long term to make sure people have access and make sure the communities have assess those too important facilities and then last but not least we have Workforce Development to contribute to the Employment Opportunities to the provision of new office space, pdr and railway opportunities they go also make candidates to the professional Service Fields through the partnership of oewd Citywide Program and while the projects are not far enough long for the candidates to distinguish we have been working with city build to build accomplish plans for organizing the workforce across the projects for example, the pier 70 forest city and the giant project both pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Lands have committed to the local hire demand and implementation those projects are also going to comment to 50 percent first hiring goal and in the construction environment and in addition to the candidates the port has explored how to support the city build for the office and the pdrs employments sectors because both of the uses will be fined on the project and make sure we have people properly trained for the jobs on the Construction Side thinking about how to work with city build to have a Training Program specifically for construction pile drivers this is on identified need for both the projects with a lot of use for pile drivers and identified there is a lack of skilled workers in the trade those are the kinds of ideas to target the workforce candidates with that, im going to turn it over to ken to finish the presentation thank you. Thank you were almost finished can i have the shied one of the things were most modifications about the ability to use various forms of Public Finance to stretch the dollars we can ask for from the developers as we negotiate as you may know the project out of the areas dont have access to the poufrlt tools tax increments but building there are tools out there and icon fesz i normally dont do this slide laughter so we have the ability to assess Community Facility districts and other sorts of ways of targeting the way we spend our impact fees and different forms of tax increments to make those things stretch so one of the things that in fact, we are existed about is as we fund the near term infrastructure and other things through the Public Finance for example, for a melloroos you can establish it for thirty or 40 or 50 years pass the first set of bonds after thirty years and still have the income we need to focus on Sea Level Rise infrastructure experiencing so can we fought something the first bopdz gets us the road and whatever and in the future bans that income stream that is continuing get us whatever infrastructure we know what what it is to help not only those projects but the surrounding neighborhoods were excited about that and really trying to focus on the Public Finance opportunities here. This is just concluding to remind you how important to focus on an area with 20 though new units and open space all of those things in terms of a schedule as you can see that of the projects coming forward the 5 projects that are not approved necessary cluster in the next year or two mostly in 2017 a couple of them into 2018 that is when we expect the approvals i cant have a vacation or the staff thats when were approving all the work this is a a joke i wanted to take the opportunity before concluding to reminded you that nothing were doing changes anything in terms of the redevelopment the formal Redevelopment Area it is all about corresponding around transportation and other things like that were not in must way revisiting the long years of work it took to get the shipyard and candle stick point going far from that and just to remind everyone the list of agencies if i can have the slide back for one second with that, were finished and enjoy any questions you have. Great, thank you. Before we take any questions from the commission do we have any comment cards. I dont mr. Oscar james. Mr. Oscar james mr. Oscar james mr. Oscar james all present one thing city build with the developers and others have done a tremendous job i want to applaud one problem i have one of the first jobs i had was working on a pile driver you know youre going to train someone i was holding the rope doing the project and that concrete broke off thats the day i quite so if you train someone train them to run the pile driver not hold that rope that is 50 years ago pretty much and i had put Better Safety factors and the other problem we im talking about e2 in the Hunters Point shipyard i went to a meeting Hunters Point power plant did a tremendous job in cleaning up but e2 and yosemite has Hazardous Materials youre talking about putting housing i want to o these two areas 100 percent clean and it behoves this commissions to make sure that happens this is 100 percent a lot of things in the yosemite and all of the areas i know my grandfather knew when they were dump sites we talk about housing and what have you in those areas im hoping this commission and the city do some Homeless Housing we have a lot of homeless families 2, 3, 4 bayview Hunters Point and potrero hill people are losing their homes their apartments you need to get overseeing part times for homeless families a priority open there and homeless seniors doctor davis housed quite a few of the homeless seniors in their project but it will behove the commission that the shipyard was free property from the government just Like Mission Bay was free property build some housing for homeless families im begging this commission 0 do that and thank you very much. Thank you mr. Gold. Tom exactly where i was going to start off with it is well, not exactly preference 40 percent preference preference is nice but mandatory is better those housing for local people and for x amount of years and find in the area that means if you dont find somebody that is from the area to more often you cant rent or sell them your price has to drop to a good price in the area. Then i was going to go to exactly with that gentleman said what about the 20 percent of our people that are living that are seniors are running out of their ability to find a home the veterans just on shaky ground or the homeless that live there it is a nice rosy picture but there is nobody in our backyard you know we dont want them and other backyards but here we are creating new backyards and those people are already there their surrounding the area we need to incorporate that of the negotiations need to say you have homeless on our site we dont we want to get away from the site theyll pay into a fund we want each building to have Homeless Veterans and graduated fosters kids and section 8 people and a community of what San Francisco is all about climatic change were putting 0 off climatic change that is the second the time im glad we are negotiating and collaboratively with the private sector that means we dont have to insure their property we dont have to be on hold for the damages when Climate Change goes whoops we donna didnt plan or wide enough we have a building downtown in the news that settled 10 inches before they dug a shovel at the transbay the other thing is transbay do we know how many people the 20 percent that are less fortunate on this site there will be there i think thats where we need to go seniors and young folks thank you i have 30 seconds and the other thing is kids and i want kids to grow i was good morning to say for the section Affordable Housing needs to be rent control also thank you. Thank you. Any more speaker cards okay. Thank you this is a workshop so questions. How long does it take to complete that how many years. A little bit difficult but how will it take us to get the projects approved i think by 2019 with luck well have all the entitled pg e project is probably the last one in terms of how long it takes for them to be built out it is speculation and depended on the parking ticket kiegz but certainly quite a bit longer than that in the 2020s before we see them built out i cant be more accurate. Is and im sorry. Is it 2020 a well not have all the units by 2020 in the 2020s more like the latter of that decade. Other things i see this year next in 5 minutes is the buses on page 12 and they run every 5 minutes thats pretty good. laughter . You see this item. Thats. 5 minutes. Thats what i like to see when im waiting ill say when the central subway opens in 2019 the head ways on the t are expected to Visitacion Valley through bayview Hunters Point to go down to 6 to 7 minute head ways. Far important frequent trains thats part of investment. Thats give you a little bit of background thank you. Commissioner cohen. I have a couple of questions the first one on page 16 and it talks about city build the allotment we had a meeting they mentioned the barriers in terms of getting people on with a project mobility a day or something that is long term but getting those individuals into management they absolutely can have a career and others barriers are licenses if someone has a suspected also that pays the thousand dollars for the Redevelopment Program but you mentioned work with city build how to do you plan to address those barriers but also reach a wide variety of the Community Members thats my first question and two more. Thank you weve specifically been in conct with city build he mentioned he gave you a presentation were aware of barriers i think that the city build folks are spearheading the areas to the one thing i can say the earlier, you start training and Pricilla Chan people and making sure that people understand what the barriers are to get over the barriers by addressing this now for the future projects those jobs will start not for a number of years but by thinking about them well address those and were thinking how to possibly use some of the resources up front or at least during the implementation to help he specifically help city build and not just supporting this program. The gentleman from the public mentioned work with homeless families are you guys worked with for example, the Prenatal Program they had a couple of families and sunnyvale to make sure they have access. Ill say first of all, the mayors focus is heavily on dealing with all sorts of issues we have new homeless czar for a lack of a better term so we dont pretend to be experts but certainly as we shall happen even the areas and reaching out to jazz and making sure we im not going to try to answer and question im an expert but this is what the mayor wants us working on. Definitely reach out for example, if you organization wanted to understand their barriers to make is the information and the other gentleman said about preference it will be great to see on a Grassroots Level and findings out with the local communities and the local Grocery Stores you didnt i dont run two 5 people that are leerlz oftentimes the mailings and the emails are not getting to those individuals their mailbox is blogged and their workingclass people and tight schedules. Thank you for that i understand from various ours i can it is a southern of supervisor cowen that even if you setback units if people dont know theyre available it wont do people good i appreciate were learning as we go forward but again with so much unit coming online that will be preferred to the surrounding neighborhood we have to figure out how to do the outreach and a lot of times people are not understanding they are qualified i came across a companies didnt realize she quality and recommended looking at the city family to see who qualified all types of parents and kids next door is a way to engage with the community as well and stay safe. Thank you yes. Any other questions. Those are Great Questions or comments i had a few also that followed that mine are more in this vein of the coordination so start with the City Departments so in the last slide all the City Departments and maybe it is two earlier to know what is the coordination continue and among the departments but perhaps some idea. Well, no not two early in the past year our office has monthly meetings with all the departments and really getting ahead too often i think when youre doing a big project you wait to reach out to mta at the end not the way to be doing it all the departments you saw are sitting in meetings monthly at the Department Head or the Department Head level the staff is working with each other and happening more than a year. How does our agency fit informing and all that so weve been at many and sally at some and director bohe at some i dont know all of your staff has been there and that is a little bit different you have an approved project were not negotiating but where the rubber hits the road on the transportation improvements that cross between the india base project north of your project and a lot of back and forth and on the open space we definitely want to work with our staff and have bang to make sure that the open space reads to any average citizen they dont need to go to a different website for a picnic table but to the citizens of the city it should be open space and designed to make sure it welcomes the existing neighborhood and not look at it is for the condo owners or the developers in the new developments those are the things weve talked with our staff i dont know if you guys want to add anything but around the transportation and open space. Okay. Good i was going to ask about the rec and Park Department and how that over laptops with the jurisdiction part. Rec and park has been engaged in this project what were doing is twofold number one started to develop an idea when it is appropriate for them to manage open space and applies to some of the private projects and some of the newer projects that are planned so to speak of specifically purchased nine hundred units in the park in concert with the bay area project their directly involved in ownership of a new park and managing that park i think the odds of the coin we talked about earlier which is how to make sure those open spaces feel public and draw on the resources that rec and park really inheritedly has to do Community Programming and summer camps and all the great programs and how we we reflect on the other parks especially in the two port projects o parks will be owned by the port so what roll in rec and park bringing they expertise in recreation to the new open spaces and so this i think we have not in the shipyards the port project and the private projects nothing has been decided yet but were trying to create a framework so we kind of have various options we did this really well, how can we help to activate those spaces. That sounds like great okay. The other question about the developers youve mentioned a numerous times ive noted when i was reviewing the package about developer negotiations and so clearly some developers that have been selected but not all; right . Well, almost know who they are the two port projects have sleshthd their developers thats the process the Mission Creek across the channel from at t and pier 70 for the forest city theyre the developer and going south from there the former potrero power plant that is on for some time by a company n r g their currently out in public looking for either a Capital Partner or an out right buyer that 20 acres we dont know that is this a piece of land a local developer in hayes valley were negotiating with them thats their land and south from there pg e ounces the pg e power plant and intent to dispose we dont know an alternative developer with the exemption of the n r g folks when they put the property on the market we wanted to see what was buying it we know who wore working with. With regards to Affordable Housing obviously marketrate housing is easy but with respect to Affordable Housing and the comment i agree with making sure that we benefit i will start with the neighborhood weve been talking about the certificate of Preference Program and you know my question really is how or what can we do or might you be thinking to insure we know that commissioner pimentel question as well who is in the neighborhood that essentially, if you will, the target population for the affordable units or folks if not affordable the marketrate folks and what is in process. Let me talk about with we know we dont know everything to be honest but working on that we have made it clear i think the shedding candle stick point is hitting 32 percent right in there the port projects have already nailed down mission rock the pier 70 is hitting thirty percent weve made it clear to the remaining one we need our average 33 based on what we told be around thirty something in there we imagined to be into well and moderate income we want that those are great opportunities we will be working with our private developers theyre all getting up zoning and things we ask asked him about we kick in Public Resources well ask them and push them in the limitations of their performa the neighborhoods preference legislation that was passed by the board so we what are your grandkids know what. Guys did to make this a better place we were talking about these museums and what have i worried the kids and those School District not to go to the museums and see what the historical ill say the mexican museums and the nativeamerican i get upset when i hear about donald trump talking about people coming both to country theyve been in the country we should let the young people know who facilitated for them and who was hear and the pride that they should have for the nativeamericans for the mexicanamerican and the people that have been here and doing things and the museums didnt if we dont have programs in the school i remember in Grammar School we are went to the zoo what have you and some kids thats the original time ive been there and maybe as old as i am and not been interest since we need to get the young kids to see the Afghanistan Museum and the Jewish Museum and have replacement for each culture sorry for taking much of your time thank you. Thank you. Tom last time i spoke the last time i was here commissioner rosales said i was to finish my thought i hadnt heard of that that was a stunner and appreciate that in letting people have finish their thoughts i said before i entered it over here he want 20 percent of new 0 housing for the less in and of itself and mandatory and i said it ill go to the other microphone for the overhead thank you i said before that South Beach Marina apartments was a cavity the overhead over there. Oh, i have to turn around. It is an 80yearold woman on the last day in her apartment she got a 600 rent increase 7 thousand 200 rent theres a year so admiral for the israel couldnt more often this is the south beach apartments; right . A woman when they brought they are child home from the hospital when she was born she went back to the hospital shes been here shes had her baby here then cack and obvious and tells you telegraphy pregnant we held our breath until we saw her push a baby carriage i wasnt able to see her second rent increase the first year was 4 hundred and 96 rent control needs to be here is the second officer in the management at the south Bay Apartments now 20 down the peninsula with santa clara and this past christmas the rob are south bay we didnt have any kids friends he asked his mother did i have any friends i was 20 years old he couldnt remember restore building apartments and i mean you he couldnt remember any childhood friends this is eight and market do we know the information of who is moving into those apartments again are we helping our locals and glad youre hitting on that thank you. Thank you were in Public Comment would you like to comment please. My name is silvia johnson. These apartments that are supposed to be security with the agencies for commission on you know out to say 7 and i do you know admit that i had asked for these people that ranld rajd that the Police Department should be making money off of an those progresses and this is where a lot of our organizations have been really confused in a lot of areas and we need to you know maintain you know this ordinance so that with we can you know make more procedures and businesses in our ordinance because confusion and massive productions is not you know helping many of the businesses here in San Francisco and city hall to maintain you know different progresses in different amounts of money in privilege and our you know economy conversation this is what i was talking about i think that the legal procedures do not you know coordinate right in this department of ours i was talking about with the Police Department. Maam, maam, this is the commission on Investment Infrastructure is this the commission. This is the commission ill talking about. Okay. Okay. I have asked about the you know investigations on my cameras that were preceding in my rural apartments there was postpone everywhere in my room and that day theyve not preceded on that i want to get it as soon as possible thirty minutes and thirty days so the film to the Police Department. Im talking about investigate this. Thank you. Okay. I think we dont have any other cards. Cack information. Call the next item. The next order of business is item 7 report of chair. Madam chair. I dont i dont have a report. The next order of Business Report the report of madam director. Just an amazement as you may know Mission Bay Kids Park is accepted by the city through the department of puc the motorbike families are organizing and Opening Celebration as of july one but were really a Community Celebration hoisted by the motorbike families and the neighborhood is kind of a neighborhood event and commissioners families, and the like are all invited on august 13th from 10 to one that concludes my report. Since a public announcement do i need to ask for Public Comment okay. Thank you next item. Item 9 commissioners questions and matters madam chair. Yes. Commissioner singh has a question of matter. No, i just want to thank oscar james for his comments and i think i agree with him and were just we should be krntd and sit in i dont know, you saw the newspaper this sunday about the amenity of believes that are sinking 18 inch and the roofs to my comments on that. Through the chair the building is within planning jurisdiction not park just as backyard the Planning Department provided the land use approvals for the rezoning district approvals in the Building Department and provided the permitted and immediately adjacent to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority that was the first time ive heard of the matter we certainly will reach out to the colleagues of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority so just some backyard information we have no further information other than the news article. I think that lots of lawsuits before we approve all that how many stories ago and how should she can built theyre built with a you know steam around the concrete would have been better. I dont know. I dont know anything but you know, i just wanted to i saw in the newspaper you know. That was one of my questions as well do you have a question commissioner. I agree i mean as information just understand the backya background facts or results Going Forward we understand the risks that are potentially available the office of the city administrator only question he had was on a convections policy or concessions person weve talked about a Public Relations office but make sure the conversation are pub communicated ive not in the very good articles on the legal wind on the warriors project and the superior court that was a comment by the warriors understandably and the city were the main defendants and coming from our office emotionally what we shout u thought one example what ive seen so do we have selected or. We have been the approved budget a room for a limited term assignment for a kind of Program Society to help with communications we certainly about go out for a solicitation for a firm for a targeted as needed weve done some initial review and terms the firms are acquit. Large. Yes. So for the needs of organization will be important and opportunity and challenge but we certainly agree that concessions of the successes of this commission and furtherance of the mayors goals are goals your implement on the ground through the long term projects is very important. Were doing excellent work and we have i dont know. I cant comment on this item but for instance, on the cop policy one way of dismatt information people are tracking more id like hood that folks will be inrmed and engaged exactly. Next order of business item 10 closed session no closed session items and the next order of business is item 11 adjournment madam chair. Yes. The the meeting is adjourned at 2 56 p. M. Thank you. Welcome to the Ribbon 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] we 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 whole entire 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 ve 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 thingsshape 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 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. Hi. Welcome to San Francisco. Stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. Lets look at common earthquake myths. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. We have 3 guest today. We have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. I want to talk about urban myths. What do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance . Hes sleeping during those earthquakes . Have you noticed him take any special . No. He sleeps right through them. There is no truth that im aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. You hear the myth all the time. Suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something i hear they are aware of small vibrations. But yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. Today is a spectacular day in San Francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. Is this earthquake weather . No. Not that i have heard of. No such thing. There is no such thing. We are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. There is no relationship. I have heard its hot or cold weather or rain. Im not sure which is the myth. How about time of day . Yes. It happens when its least convenient. When it happens people say we were lucky and when they dont. Its terrible timing. Its never a good time for an earthquake. But we are going to have one. How about the ground swallowing people into the ground . Like the earth that collapsed . Its not like the tv shows. The earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but its not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. Its not going anywhere. We are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. Southern california is moving north. Its coming up from the south to the north. You would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. Maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. For better or worse. Yes. This is a tough question. Those other ones werent tough. This is a really easy challenge. Are the smaller ones less stress . Yes. The amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. I think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4. 7. So small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future . Not anyway that you can count on. I have heard that buildings in San Francisco are on rollers and isolated . Its not true. Its a conventional Foundation Like almost all the circumstances buildings in San Francisco. The transamerica was built way before. Its a pretty conventional foundation design. I have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. Is there anything of value to that . Yes, if you are in your room. You should drop, cover and hold onto something. If you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. If you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, its not a bad place to be. The reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. You are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. You are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. You want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. Where can i buy a Richter Scale . Mr. Richter is selling it. We are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. They are not available. Its a rather complex. In fact we dont even use the Richter Scale anymore. We use a moment magnitude. The Richter Scale was early technology. Probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. Is that true . Loma prieta was different. The ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. So anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. We are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to San Francisco and a fault totally independent. Much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. So people who were here in 89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isnt really the threshold of damage. When you triple it you cross that line. Its much more damage in earthquake. I want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They had an exhibition at city hall. City officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. We thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. Since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. How has the Program Changed over the years . How has the program what can the public has an artist engage with . For the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. Over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. Conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. That has really expanded the program out. It is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. Why would an artist when to come here . Mainly, access to the materials. We also give them a lot of support. When they start, it is an empty studio. They go out to the public area and we call it the big store. They go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. It is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. When you are talking about recology, do you have the only Sculpture Garden at the top . It is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. It is the only kind of structured, artist program. Weit is beautiful. A lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. The pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. We talk about recycling and conservation. They can meet the artists. Fantastic. Lets go meet some of your current artists. Here we are with lauren. Can you tell us how long have been here so far and what youre working on . We started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. I am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand embroidered objects from our daytoday life. Can you describe some of the things you have been making here . This is amazing. I think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. I have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. It is also very windy down here. There is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. There is a pamphlet about hearing dea nearing death. This is a dead rabbit. This is what i am working on now. This is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. It is for a very special friend. While we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. I am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. When he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. It is probably one of the least thought of compositions. People are getting rid of this stuff. It holds no real value to them, because theyre disposing of it. Were here in another recology studio with abel. What attracted you to apply for this special program . Who would not want to come to the dump . But is the first question. For me, being in a situation that youre not comfortable in has always been the best. What materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here . There are a lot of books. That is one of the thing that hits me the most. Books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. Also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. Of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. Job mr. Some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. Taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. The first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. It was actually a poster. It was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. In terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. So being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. How do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the threedimensional . Maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. Everything is in the process of becoming. Things are never said or settled. The sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. It becomes a part of something else. Theres always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. At the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. Thank you so much for allowing culturewire to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. Is there anything you like our viewers to know . We have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. Everybody is welcome to come out. We have food. Sometimes we have gains and bands. It is great time. From june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. We encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. We want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. How many artists to do your host here . 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. Very competitive. But everyone should be encouraged to apply. Thank you again for hosting us. Thank you for including us in culturewire. This lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. These shallow concrete pools dont have fish. This is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. Ith was built in the 1930s and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. Every year, the World Championship of fly casting is held in San Francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. We are here with phil, general manage of San Francisco rec and Parks Department at the anglers lodge. What do you think about this . It is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. There are people from all over the world come to San Francisco and say this is the place to be. Yeah. Its amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. I flew from ireland to be here. And been practicing since for the competition. All the best casters in the world come here. My fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man. Its unique. Will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the world. Competitions in ireland, scotland, norway, japan, russia each year, the facilities here in the park are second to none. There is no complex in the world that can touch it. Im here with bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. Im going to suit up and next, were in the water. What any gentleman should do. Golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. We have equipment show up on the 9 30 on the second saturday of every month and well teach them to fly cast. Ok. We are in the water. Let me acquaint you with the fly rod. Nice to meet you. This is the lower grip and the upper grip. This is a reel and a fly line. We are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. Exactly as you moved your hands. Thats it . Thats it. Im a natural. Push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. Push forward. I did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. I met someone else with real fly casting skills. Her name is donna and she is an International Fly casting champion. I have competed in the casting ponds in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. I spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. Its a great place to learn and have fun. On a season day like this, it was the perfect spot to be. I find fly casting very relaxing and also at the same time very challenging sport. Takes me out into the nature. Almost like drawing art in the air. And then i can make these beautiful loops out there. Even though people from across the globe come here to compete, its still a place where locals in the know relax and enjoy some rely unique scenery. Until next time, get out and play of the Entertainment Commission tuesday, august 2, 2016, Deputy Director call the roll commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner caminong and commissioner joseph so director now youre sitting up here i guess you shouldnt call the roll