Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Budget And Finance Subcommittee 20170427

Good morning. This is the budget and finance subcommittee meeting for april 27, and it is 1005. The chair malia cohen, is on her way. She said lets get started so im the vice chair norman yee and to my left is supervisor tang. So, todays clerk is john carol and linda wong, and i want to thank sfgtv for airing or recording this and which will be made available to had public, and want to thank the staff there jesa larsson and leo deosis. Any announcements . Yest. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the may 9 board of supervisors ajendsa unless otherwise stated. Okay, could you call item 1 mpt item 1 is resolution authorizing department of Public Health and expend a gift in proxly 664,567 from San Francisco General Hospital foundation to par tis pace in Public Health Community Outreach cam page from february 1, 2017 through january 31, 2019. Okay, thank you. Come on up, and good morning superriser yee and tang. Im rachel caigen and director of communications from Health Department and here to request approval for the 664,567 thousand gift to support Public Health Community Outreach campaign by funding two positions in the Health Department for two years. The positions are patient communication manager and Web Communications manager. Both positions are essential to improve 664567000 gift to support Public Health Community Outreach campaign by funding two positions in the Health Department for two years. The positions are patient communication manager and Web Communications manager. Both positions are essential to improve zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital to attract and retain patients and for patient tooz understand it is part of the San Francisco Health Network and arare of Services Available to them. The San Francisco Health Network is a community oaf top rated clinics and health programs. We connect san franciscans to quality healthcare. My i describe each position briefly, would that be helpful . Yes. The communication manager is responsible for communication and straj ate for network. We serve more than 100 thundershower people such as castro, miz, xhinea tune and Southeast Health sent. The Network Serves about 40 percent the medical market and uninsured jun documented residents. As the city public helt system we provide emergency, trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use care to any san franciscan who needs it. The manager will support the goal squz build a foundation to communicate with current patient squz medical irks medicare and uninsured population and other patients. The manager wim execute methods to help the network find, enroll and serve patients throughout the life time including in primary, specialty and hospital care. Retention of current patients squu traction of new patients are key Network Goals that this position will help to achieve. Reaching these goals allow the network to be a self sustaining as possible. This position the patient communication manager follow oz an year long assignment of [inaudible] who helped to identify the need and to develop the required components of the job. Good morning, supervisor cohen. Thats the first position. The second position that we request support for is sth web communication manager. That position is responsible for developing the overall website and social media vision for the Health Department servicess including network and hospital servicess and manage the implementitation improvement and coordination of these sites. The web communication manager implements project starting with user needs asaysment, design and analysis and moving to testing, marketing implementitation and measurement. Coordinate the strategy of web service in support thf Health Department communication and outreach strategy and Health Network business goal. I do want to point out this position fills a key gap to have a staff member with overall responsibility for the departments internet presence. That would include maintenance, strategy and coordinationment we dont have such a person now, which makes it difficult to be effective in this increasingly important area. So, those are the two positions and i wanted to just make a very brief remark about the Public Healthmunity Outreach Campaign which you may not be familiar with. That campaign is funded by 8 million of a larger 75 million gift from prusilla chan and Mark Zuckerberg to San Francisco zeneral hospital foundation. That gift, the whole 75 million is in a Gift Agreement of february 6, 2015 and within that agreement the 8 million designation for the Public Health outreachsorry, public helths Community Outreach campaign is described. Im happy to read the exert, but one of the goals is feature the high quality and caliber of patient care that zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital provides in order to attract new patient tooz the San Francisco Health Network. So, that is what we believe that these two positions will be slsh essential to help us accomplish and thats what we are asking support for today. A quick question. In regards to the patient Communication Network team i guess, are there sort of bilingual capacity . Yes, all our materials are being produced in english, spanish, chinese and tugolic and provide Language Access in more than 20 languages throughout the network so where additional language servicess are needed in terms of marketing or patient communication we work with that location to insure that is provideds a well. Thank you. I guess ill turn it back over to the chair at this point for Public Comment. Great, thank you for the presentation and thorough. We will go to Public Comment at this time. Ladies and gentlemen, Public Comment is two minutes. You hear a shoft chime indicating 30 seconds remaining. Public comment is open if anyone would like to speak on item one. Public comment is closed. Thank you. Colleagues what would you like to do . Is there a motion . Make a motion to send forth item 1 to full board with positive recommendation. We take that without objection. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Item 2. Item 2 is ordinance authorizing the Fire Department to accept a grant in 8. 5 million from the federal Emergency Agency for staffing and fire and Emergency Response Grant Program and amending the salary ordinance to reflect flee 6 grant funded Fire Fighters. Today we have mark coursey in the chamber presenting on behalf of the Fire Department. After we hear from you we will hear from the bla. Good morning madam chair, supervisors. Mark corso. We are excited to present the next item which is acceptance of 8. 5 million feema grant. This is second year the dp apartment is awarded the grant, which is great for the department. It coferbs the salary and benefits of 36 mew fire fighter hires including the training cost which is 20 week training academy. Upon graduation from the fire academy, these positions enter our operational staffing workforce and reduce over time. There is no matching requirement what so ever for the grant. The department was able to add to the hiring plan aproouv 3w50id the Mayors Office and the board. The department in the current fiscal year graduated 2 h 2 fire fight Academy Classes and began one last week in april. At the end of the two year grant period, these positions will be absorbed in into our operational staffing model replacing retirements and other pgdss lost to attrition or separation. There were a couple of as noted in the budget Analyst Report, there is a modification submitted changing the performance period from december 2016december 2018. With that, there ulfsest was also due to administrative delays thrfs ret roactive language being inrorpicated into the resolution. This academy was brought on board in december and renely graduated in april. Happy to answer any question youz may have. Thank you, just for clarification observe we get into bla report, this grant funds do not cover Academy Classes, is that right . It covers the cost of the salaries and benefits for the recruits in the class but does not cover equipment, uniform health exam, correct. Thank you. Well pivot to mr. Harvey rose. Madam chair and members of the committee. On page three of our report, the 8 8,533,872 pays for salaries and benefits for 36 h 2 Fire Fighters over a two year period and that is shown in table one. We do recommend you mends the proposed ordinance to reflect the grant award period. December 19, 2016december 18, 2018. And that you approve the proposed ordinance as amended. Thank you. We will take that under advisement. We have a couple questions. Supervisor yee. Thank you, chair cohen. Just curious in regards to the 36 individuals that would be part of the department, was there salary budgeted for this year . It was not, these are additional hires from what was budgeted in the current year. Okay. So, if we had not received a grant then we couldnt hire them . Correct. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, we will go to Public Comment. Ladies and gentlemen, if you like to come and speak on item 2, please come forward. Seeing none recollect Public Comment is closed. Thank you very much. A motion for this item . Ill make a motion to accept the amendments the bla suggested and pass it out with positive recommendation to the full board. Thank you. Well take that without objection. Thank you. Next item. Item 3, resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department to accept and expand grant in approximately 217 from different Park Alliance to Fund Community events, staff developmenter recreation for fiscal year 2015 and 16. Thank you very much. Supervisor sheehy is the sponsor of the legislation and today we have nathan st. Claire from rec and park to present ft nathan [inaudible] with rec and Park Department Partnership Division and here to present approval of grant from the San Francisco Parks Alliance to Fund Community events, staff development, recreation programming and other activities from fiscal year 2015 16. Over 40 years the San Francisco Park Alliance and predecessor organization supported the rec and Park Department including serving as a fiscal agent. This resolution representings ret roactive approval of the grant made from the department in fiscal year 15 16. These grants supported a variety of programs including Community Events like the four annual seasonal events, activation of civic center plaza, Natural Areas Program including trail restoration. Park volunteer programs, adaptive recreation and much more. The Parks Alliance continues to be a crit clael important partner to the department providing support for many programs. We are very grateful for the Ongoing Partnership and hope you will support approval of the resolution. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Letsthere is no budget legislative Analyst Report so well go to Public Comment. Anyone like to speak on item 3 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. A motion . Ill make a motion to send forth had item 3 to full board with positive recommendation. Thank you very much and take that motion without object 6789 item 4 is resolution authorizing the general manager of public utility position to execute 1 planning and Engineering Design agreement between the city and brown and caldwell for total amount not to exceed 154 thousand and extended the term to december 31, 2025. One of my favorite topics, bio solids. Good morning chair colon and supervisors tang and yee. Im cathy how the agistant general manager for infrastructure at pu c. The item you have before you is a vital part of the sewer System Improvement Program. Sewer System Improvement Program is upgrade the infrastructure. Brf i move into the reyested aamendment i want to give backgrounds ochb the bio solid facility at the southeast plant in the bayview. This red line shows the proposed location of the new bio solid facility with the digesters will bebuild built along the raised cal train tracks as far away from the resident as possible and the maintenance buildings will be along gerold avenue. The objectives 06 the project are address aging infrastructure, outidated technology and provide operational reliability. We spent the last few years selecting and kzineing the processes with modern technologies including energy, recovery and odor control in aidation to laying out the facilities that take synchronize to consideration operational maintenance and neighborhoods impacts. The new bio solid facility apply the best available technologies, more efficient and effective treatment processes. For example, well be able it reduce the number of digesters while having the capacity to meet future neesds of the population. The treatment will be improved to allow for more options for use such as land application. Additionally, generate enough Renewable Energy to power the new biosolids facility and lastly, we are most excited achieving the level of Services Goal of limiting odors to within the plants fence line. The bio solids team is work wg the Arts Commission and civic Design Review and this is the conceptualroundering the project designed to bring indust raerks community and environment together in a integrated urban campus the community and sfpu c can take pride in. Here is a high level schedule. A draft eir will be out next month, next week to be specific and we are scheduled to Start Construction august 2018. The 2013 rfp for the project identified two phases of the contract. Phase one consisted of preliminary engineering, which was clearly defined and funded in the contract. Phase two consisted of Detailed Design procurement and Engineering Construction support. For phase two, the rfp stated, the scope of work in phase 2 should be considered as needed until project dlivy methods are select jd performance of the proposer in phase one is evaluated. The 2013 crauckt agreement stated this team would carry design through the 35 percent design phase, help development rfp documents for separate design builder to come on board, and the design builder would finish design and construct the project. And then the consultant would serve as owners representative during construction. Once we reached 35 percent design drawings, the sfpu c analyzed the options for project delivery and concluded the best option formoving forward in the most Cost Effective and time sensitive manner was the cmcg approach. This approach allows the design to proceed semilously without suspension as we wait for certification the Environmental Impact report and acquisition of the proposed project sites while maintaining the same design team for efficiency and continuity. We ask for amendment to had c3isting contract to increase by 73,500,000. For Contract Value of 153,500,000. We are also asking to extend had contract for two years to include support for start up and testing the bio solids facility. The sfpu c apruchb the budget and schedule in fr the project in 2016 and this extension does not change or increase that budget or schedule. If anything, it insures we stay on this approved budget and schedule. The bio solid digester facility project is a flag ship project for the sewer System Improvement Program which is why approving the amendment is critical to the project success. Construction of this project is slated to begin in 2018. Staff is in agreement with the budget Analyst Report and recommendation to approve the proposed rez lose. With that, happy to answer question. Thank you, i appreciate your presentation. I do have a question. I needmy question i heard in the presentation but need you to translate it into every day terms. So, one of the key things you are asking us to do is acknowledge the pu c selected a contract management and general contractor as dlivy method june 2016, i want to know why the original contract amount was based on design and engineering rather than Construction Management and general contractor methodfelt at that time we thought the environmental veview process would go faster so with design brild we could have gotten a contractor and design going sooner, but because the Environmental Review process and Land Acquisition took time, the advantage having design build went away and so we still wanted the contractor on board earlier and then we have worked well with our Design Consultant and so we wanted to also have that continuity. I understand. What is the benefit of having the contractor on early . So, the contractor can help inform us on their means and methods. How they would construct based on the design as the design is progresser so they can interact with the contractor and if the designererize not sure about sequencing of which structure is built first or which equipment is brought in first, the contractor check with the contractor. Okay. And so the additional funds requires the resolution required in the resolution is included in the digester budget, is that correct . Yes, the is included in the budget. It is included in the sewer System Improvement Program, the project budget and also matches the 10 year capital plan. Alright. Thauchck very much for your presentation, we will goat to the budget legislative analyst and hear his thoughts. Yes, madam chair and members of the committee. As the department indicated on page 7 of the report, the contract not to exside amount under the First Amendment increases by 73,500,000. From 80 million to 153,500,000 and the reason for that is because brown and caldwell will provide as the department is indicated more design and engineering to the biosolids digester facility project under the construction manager delivery method rather than the previously anticipated design build project delivery method. These Services Include Design Services up to 100 percent of design completion, rather than 35 percent design completion. Increased engineer support during construct and assist wns the facility start up, testing and commissioning. It wasnt cont plated under the ariblginal contract the scope of work performed would depends on the project delivery method. Table one on page 8 of our report shows the difference in the original brown and caldwell contract of 80 million the pu c selected design build contractor to construct the biosolid digester facility project and that is compare today the proposed First Amendment amount of 153,500,000 in which the sfpu c selects the construction manager general contract to construct the project. We recommend you approve the resolution. Thank you very much. With that, well go to Public Comment. Any member like to talk on item 4, please come up. No one wants to talk about bio solids . Planning, engineering. No, okay Public Comment is closed. Thank you very 34u67. Colleagues, how about a positive recommendation 250 full board. I will make that motion. Motion by made supervisor yee and take that without objection. Thank you. item 5 is resolution declaring intent of the city to reimburse expenditures from boned indebtedness and oughterizing mayor office och housing to debts lim Allocation Committee to permit bonds not to exceed 90 million for 1150 third street. Good morning. Benjamin branen with Community Investment and infrafruc structure. The resolution aul u authorize the application for bond proceeds to pay for construction and Development Cost frz Mission Bay South block 3 east. Affordable housing at 1150 third street in mission bay. China Community Development center and [inaudible] project cosponsors. When completed the project will be a 119 Unit Development housing formally homeless veteran jz low income families. Comprised of 12 studios, 551 bedrooms, 3, 2 bedrooms. Earning no more than 30 percent area income medium or21, 200. Low income are earning no more than 60 percent or 69, 200 for family of 94. Mission bay sauth is a midriseu development on thirfd street between mission rock street to the south and private street to the north. Market Rate Development occupies the western portion of the block 3. The Development Team of cddc request for proposal issued of Community Infrastructure and investment. Thee transactions are conduit finance. We anticipate submitting the application to the california debt limit Allocation Committee this coming may. If awarded the allocation we return to the board of supervisors to approve issuance of bonds. The project is slated to begin construction the fall of the year and complete construction by october 2019 and appreciate your support and look forward seeing you at the Ground Breaking event. This concludes my report and available for questions you may have. Thank you very much. Look forward seeing you at the party too but until then we have work to do. Colleagues, any questions . We will go to Public Comment and see what the public has to say. Any member like to speak on item 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion . Make a motion to send forward to the full board with positive recommendation. Take that motion without objection. Next item. Item 6 is resolution authing the exercise of option to extend the lease at 1449 webster street with wcpi commercial for economic and Workforce Development Western Addition employment assistance prament for 3 13,000 monthly with increase between 2 and 5 percent with maximum of 157,300 in the first year and adding 1 option to extend the term with the same terms and conditions for additional three year term. President breed is the author of this item we have claudia gorem representing department of real estate and the floor is years. Good morning madam chair, pr visor yee and supervisor tang. The resolution before you extend had existing lease for 3 years at 1449 webster street for the oewd Western Addition neighborhood access point job training center. The three year term coincides with granted funding for the program. This city will continue to have the right to terminate the lease without penalty with 6 months prior notice. The city has leased the property since 2008 for one of the several job training sites across the itisy. It is approximately 3900 square feet of the grund floor space in the multistory apartment building. Rents adjusted to 95 percent of the Fair Market Rent value based on compareable rental spaces, however, since it was below 45 square foot no appraisal was conducted. Theerant will be approximately 40 square foot up from 28 and the city will also continue to may about 2500 in monthly charges mpt the landlord pays water sewer and ref eug. If you have questions regard thg program itself rkts cat daniel is here from the department. Thank you, supervisor tank. Tang. Thank you, i wanted to ask about shrecktive impact and get a understanding how many people go through the organization each year. Obviously it is very Important Service and just wanted to get a sense of that. Thank you supervisor. Success center is operating the neighborhood access point right now and as of 15 16 enrolled 430 participant in Adult Services and 58 in young adult transitional age youth services. That was 143 percent and 97 percent of their target respectively. They placed 231 adults and 28 transitional age youth into unsubsidized employment rbs which was 132 percent and 112 percent of their respective goals. As of the Third Quarter of this program year, they have enrolled 293 adult participants and 72 transitional age youth which is abovethey are meeting more than their targets. Thank you. That is nice to hear. Supervisor yee. In regards to theit is great they are reaching the target, but just curious in term thofz percentage of those that enroll and then versus those that are placed in jobs. It seems like about 50 percent of the other people . The services they offer are very focused on job placement and also placement into training and education pathways particularly with regards to the youth and so many of their participants are also placed into education pathways. Do we have those numbers . No. We didnt bring the numbers of the participants placed into training and education pathways so we only have the job placement numbers today. For those that are placed in education or job training, are they tracked at all to see what happens to them later . They are, yes. So, we track them over a year. All of our neighborhood Access Points are very connected to our sector academies and we track their placements into sectors academies as well as any Training Programs that are offered outside of the workforce system that we procure and fund and we track their credential attainment as well as the skills gain based on assessment prior to that inromment and training and then post to for a year afterwards. And what has the tracking shown in rar to regards to success or is there something you learn from the tracking . So, most but not all of the participants complete training, which is good. I think that ouri can get you the specific numbers. I believe that our overall training complation rate is around between 70 and 80 percent of participants, and generally that does translate into employment post training. We would have to dig into those numbers. I would love to see those numbers. If it is that successful we should need to brag about it. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you very much. Lets go to the budget legislative analyst to hear his thoughts. Yes, madam chair and members. On page 12 of our report, the red does go up by approximately 35. 2 percent but as the Real Estate Division indicated, it is fair market value and therefore we do recommend that you approve this legislation. I would also opponent out that the on table 2 on page 13 of our report shows the total estimatederant and operating cost of the lease extension by fiscal year and assuming the maximum allowederant increase of 5 percent per year the total rent to be made by the office of economic and Workforce Development is 495, 88 and there is additional operating cost, 93, 191 so a total cost of 589, 079 is over the three year lease extension and recommend approval the resolution. Thank you very much for the recommendation. Well go to Public Comment. Any member like to speak on item 6 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ill make a motion to pass this item out with positive recommendation to full board. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next item. Without objection the motion passes. Item 7 is ordinance aminding the administrative code to trandsfer the mu cono Center Garage and perfornling artss garage from Parking Authority to mta. Alright. Thank you. Do we haverafe. The intent behind this is the city identified these two properties as potential sites for development for housing and commercial use, is that right . And yes, that is correct. The two property said under consideration mu conny garage and performing arts garage are property ies already oined by the sfmta that has the benefit and burden of the properties from revenue and cost standpoint but techtually own bide the parking thote of city and county of San Francisco quh is a state agency created in the 1940s. Effective the operation of the Parking Authority and sfmta are merge for the past 30 years but state law precludes the Parking Authority persooging Development Opportunity aside from 100 percent parking use on the property so effectively it is a semantic change flaum ownership of the Parking Authority to the sfmta that allows to explore Development Opportunity on the properties. We are not presenting a specific development at the point. We started to do Due Diligence on the properties but will be consulting with the board of supervisors and with mta 3w0erd as the concepterize finalized. It is prudent to be saccharifiesing a parking garage for housing . Such as pronounced demand for parking . Thats certainly some the balance that we will be evaluating since we dont have a specific Development Concept in mind now. We dont know how that is going to work out at those two praurnt properties. We are looking at parking impacts at mu scono garage and have a consultant looking at parking scenarios 23 we pursue redevelopment at that property. What the impact and parking occupancy and parking performance will be. Do knroi how many unit we are talking about . The mu scony garage is 73,500,0002 space garage and and look at 4 different parking scenarios at decreasing increments. Maximum of 732 to evaluate a potential parking process . That is correct. Both of these projects once we get more fnlized development in place we have to come back before the board for the required revuz. What is the process for this project to go through on the mta commission side . We would bringonce we have the results of the mu scony parking study we will go in front of the policy and guver nns committee and mta board to flnt results of the study. Once it is finalized at the mta it knhs to this body . My understanding is that when we have a Development Concept in place and when we are going through all the discretionary approvals for entitlement and Environmental Review and lease terms we go back before the board of supervise rbs. In the mean time does the garage remain open 1234 absolutely. This doesnt effect garage operation what so ever until we have a Development Concept in place and at that point it is at any potential groundbreaking we would effect garage operation. I should say at the performing arts garage it is a Small Surface lot that we are looking at on the same parcel as the garage ifself but that is at the corner of gough and grove and that is the only portion of the praurnt. Im familiar with that. Supervisor yee and then supervisor tang. So, just going to follow supervisor cohens line of questioning. Once you have Development Concept that would probably include housing, is it to plan for mta to build housing orwhat was the next steps . Essentially what we have done is look at the projects we are working already in the predevelopment phase and work wg partners in the city family. Two projects well into the predevelopment phase one is at the corner of 4th and folsom near the mu scony and the other is upper yard site near balboa park bart station. Thoest projects wree work wg with the Mayors Office of housing and community gement to pursue Development Projects so signed a memorandum of understanding with them, they have a process and routine for procuring development entities, so essentially we are working collaboratively so wree not cutting teeth on projects we havent done but leverage the experience and the expertise of other partners in the city family. With Mayors Office of housing or other departments that might development or work in getting contractors to develop the housing piece of it, is there a necessity to for mta to sell i kness guess sell the building or sell the rights of the building . Im thinking in terms of otherit seems when we transfer things within city departments like pu c we have to pay for the land balboa reservoir. Is that similar to what might happen, or isi guess what imhave anxiety about is okay, we need to transfer it and by the way, now real estate has to pay for it and since mta got it for free, how does it work . Well, essentially we look at this on case by case basis. So we are cognisant it is essentially balancing act. We want to retain val fruthe mta. At mu scony garage it is a praurnt we own so not get thg property for free, it is own bide the mta in all but name only so that property generated about 2. 5 million in revenue that goes back to the the mta so if we pursue a Development Project there and determine 2que789 is feasible we have to be cog nisant of the 2. 5 million generated so want to get something in the same ball park in terms of value back to the property. At the same time we are cognisant of city policy goals and goals for Affordable Housing. That is a reason we are doing this. Two projects we are pursuing currently that i mentioned the upperer yard project, that is a good example where that project was transferred orwill be transferred to the mayors oufs of howing below market. So, woo retrying to work as collaboratively as possible to balance the value and imperative we have as a agency for the property jz balancing the poles goals of the city to make sure we are not adding undo cost to the project. Appreciate your answer. Supervirez tang. Thank you, can you clarify mot sure what you meant by what might potentially be the development portion forper forming arts garage . Sure. That garage is comprised of several parcels. So there is the garage itself, which is 4 or 5 story garage and then at the corner of the north east corner of gough and grove is a Small Surface lot. So any development will have minimal impact on that property because that lot is occupied by 2 hand icapped van spaces and car sharing. Just that little portion that is what we are looking at for this point. Is there thoughts around maybe redoing the existing lot itself, the 4 story . We can look into that. We havent thought through how that would work and how that would interface with this project, but we can certainly talk to your office if you have concerns or thoughts how we can make improvement there. The only thing i observe is because it is in a Civic Center Area with all theit is called the performing arts garage, people from the symphony and ballot and opera and jazz center it is heavily used and congestion in the area so recommend whatever you think about may want to think about the broader impact to the Community Even if you only gep one particular site. In terms of traffic flow. Absolutely. On thatd lot there is ingress and egress and what we heard fraump the Parking Group is we want to preserve that intrns and exist to the parking garage so can take that into consideration. Last question, how did mta decide which garages they want to potentially seek future development on . We are lookingt at a number of properties so not just these. There were are properties who city is city and county of San Francisco and under the mta and that process started with a comprehensive inventory of the Real Estate Holdings done in 2013, the real estate vision report which identified as part the scope of services of that study the property said that were suitable for development or that could be suitable for development. That is a combination of factors ft, it is location, the size of the property, zoning, it is the allowable height in that particular area, it is effecting the current use the property so all those things in combination directed us to the properties we are looking at not just these 2 but the other ones in the predevelopment phase. Thank you. Perhaps im getting ahead of myself but who manages the unit . We would work with the private developer so put the project out to rerequest for proseal and have a private Development Build and manage the property. In the case of Affordable Development that is done in tan 2c78 with mayor afs offense housing. They have subsidy dollars so play role in construction and procurement and management role to make sure the developererizeliving up to their obligations providing Affordable Housing and service and delivery. Im away the sfmta board kw Parking Authority recommended 7 different sites to be transferred but today you bring 2. What was the policy rational to bring 2 . These are the only 2 we are looking rep. Joe atkins this point so it seemed premature to look at the other 5 sites. Those are not really again for all the reasons that i mentioned reasons of zoning and location, the size of the property, those are not seen as particularly promises as potential Development Sites, so really for simplicity sake just to present two at this point as the two in the cohort, the ones that have the greatest potential to be developed. For the folks listening at home, the total list of 7 sites enema cono performing arts, also north beach, polk and bush intersection, General Hospital, surface lot at 2450 california street and lombard street. But you are only recommending the transfer of two and those are the ones before us today. Thank you for your presentation. I think we will go to the budgetsorry, no, we will go to Public Comment. Thank you. Public comment . Yes. Mr. Doug block. Thank you chair cohen and supervisors tang and yee and my apologies i was not prepared to speak on this item today, but i do want to flag that theim representing Teamsters Joint Council 7 and teamsters local 665 represents the parking lot attendance at the Moscone Center where we had staff cuts last year down to about 8 members, but i will say that seeing as we do represent all the workers in all the mtas parking garages and all the citys including most of the private sector ones that we do work very cooperatively with the mta as they select operators to manage the parking garages who are members work for and we look forward in the event that the transfer happens to a very thoughtful process with the mta to make sure that our members come out okay on the other side. Thank you. Thank you very much. Seeing no other member of the public, Public Comment is closed. I have one more question if you could come up. Could you talk about the timeline for the transfer of the remaining properties . The other properties 5. It isnt cont plated atprint. I think if we essentially have a pretty full cohort of potential Development Sites currently so once some of those projects get under Way Developers are selected and Broken Ground on seberal projects we could pivot to other properties under sfmta jurisdiction or Parking Authority ownership to determine whether those are potential Development Sites. But atprint we really dont have timeline for the transfer of those properties so they remain under sfmta ownership and management and technically under Parking Authority ownership. Got it. Thank you very much for answering the questions. Seeing there are no other names on the roster how about a motion . Make a motion to send item 7 to full board with positive recommendation. We take that without objection. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 8 amending the administrative code to create a gift fund fl construction and furnishing of the new Animal Shelter. I know our director of acc will be coming up shortly, but in a nutshet item ailth is establish a new category 8 fund. Thank you Controllers Office for helping administer this new fund mostly to help with construction reconstruction restoring, repairing or improving furnish and equipping a new Animal Shelter that we will be building and very excited about. I will bring director dawn hew to come up and speak to it. But this is pretty basic and gives our Animal Control Department the authority to accept and expend any donations without further action by the board of supervisors. Thank you. Virj virj dawn hew executive director of animal care and control. Supervisor tang explained what it would do but as back ground, now we are in the design phase for the new shelter and expect to begin construction the summer of 2018 assuming the mta is able to move out of the facility on that timeline and this gives us a opportunity to create a environment that is safe, effective and enrich frg the animals and their people. We believe allowing to accept contributions from the community would help insure that the new facility meets all those goals. Do you have any question . Thank you. No. Supervisor tang, any last minute remarks . Just one last remark, there will be a reporting comment so annually the acc will report to the board all the donations received and how they were expended. Those will occur in the first 2 weeks of july. Thank you. We will go to Public Comment. I have 4 cards. First is marybeth [inaudible] ian murray, doug block and dr. Robin hanson. Welcome to you all. Im marybeth [inaudible] resident of ingleicide and support in the acc gift fund. I think we share the goal that the building be safe and dependable thmpt gift fund seems to be a step in the direction of the goal and ask you to support it. Thank you. Ian murphy or doug. Cut the queue. Thank you, deg rr block with Teamsters Joint Council safety representing 100 thousand teamsters in Northern California and 12,000 in city and county of San Francisco including animal care officers at the animal care and control shelter. I want to thank supervisor tang for coming to the aid of teamsters 856 twice in the last year. First for our members at edgewood and now for the gift fund which we strongly support at the shelter. Our members have done a very good job working in the current facility, yet we need to know they are protected and the animals they work with are protected in the event of a emergency a catastrophic earthquake and we know the citys ownerating system said this building is not going to withstand it. So, im here to urge your aye vote and thank you for your support for our members and for the animals and for San Francisco. Thank you, next speaker. Ian murphy is officer animal control officer for animal care and control and also a member of teamsters 856 and shop steward. Thank you for introducing this legislation and being a great advocate for animal jz people who care for them. The integrity of the current shulter is out of date. At risk of personal injury. The building is below acceptable for a city agency. The building rates a 3 on the scoring system of 1 to 3. The building is not seismically safe. In thevent of a disaster it 1 our department insuring the animal population is protected. As it stands the brick and mortar facility and popeal who work will not sur vive a moderate sized earthquake. That you thank you. Im vet in San Francisco. A commissioner on the animal control and Welfare Commission but here on my behalf today. I support any kind of improvements to the animal sholeters and animal control. I see it as a important factor for health and safety keeping animals off the streets that may be carriers for round worm and giardia. Any improvement on that front im in support of. Thank you. Thank you. At this time public is closed. Supervisor tang, any last minute remark snz no, thank you. Thank you for avenue wn coming out and just want to make a motion to send forth the ord noons full board with positive recommendation. Thank you, we take that without objection. Any other business before the body . There is no other business. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. 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There is a lot of [inaudible] we are at a point now where our [inaudible] two halve oz the mos connie and think what we desire is one space. We are adding space about 200,000 space. We are connecting the two existing north and south exhibition halls that excavate under Howard Street to increase the largest exhibition space to 1 contig ws space over 500,000 square feet. The spot im standing in will be inside the lobby. The building will be pushed out to Howard Street and connected north and south above and under ground. When you go on the north our south side you enter into a hall that is divided into major ways this is Public Private partnership. The Hotel Industry [inaudible] splitting it up of the building. Since we have a north and south Howard Street it [inaudible] to make [inaudible] improving the bridges to make them more accessible so go over Howard Street [inaudible] developed to look at several different proposals for a light [inaudible] to work with that bridge and the selection of the [inaudible] he is on what i think is a beautiful piece that is very animated. You will be able to see it as [inaudible] cross the bridge and can see it as a resident of San Francisco looking up. There is a second bridge and this bridge replacing an existing bridge over Howard Street that links yerba buena gardens to a childrens playground. Make a much larger public space as well as aplaza space that brings you up to that in a visible way. We worked on the playground to make it safe and invited and added more open space the area will be connected with the neighborhood. [inaudible] much better space for everyone. Why is such a fundamental part [inaudible] could be thought of as columns and beams [inaudible] the areas that you walk to check in prior to [inaudible] all those activities [inaudible] opposed to [inaudible] we thought of ways to bring light into these occupied spaces including skylights and [inaudible] highest level of [inaudible] recycled steel. The concrete is [inaudible] we will be harvesting all the rain water and storm water and reusing it. In [inaudible] they extend down into the aquifer level of the water level which means water is being pumped out to remove the pressure and there are over 15 million gallons of water per year that maus coney center pumps out so the water is wasted. Our idea is disconnect the ground water system from the [inaudible] and reuse the water and save and preserve and use it for [inaudible] and use it for other irrigation uses. We have excess water to fill up [inaudible] there will be limited traffic impact during construction there is a 8 month period where we have to take a lane of traffic out from Howard Street so we can expand the tunnel. We anticipate the construction to be minimal. [inaudible] make the center statef the art and much more competitive. [inaudible] having the space. [inaudible] underneath howard. Having [inaudible] this is a [inaudible] worked with the residential, the merchants in the neighborhood, the non profits to make sure this is a vibrant area. Even if you dont come to the convention and enjoy the public space, it is something that helps revitalize revitalize the neighborhood [horns honking] announcer the first step to getting into college is finding someone who can help. For the next steps, go to knowhow2. Org. shouting. . More and more citys high San Francisco is committing to dislocate to end all traffic death that means improving safety for people walking and driving and safety on our streets is everyones responsibility people can make mistakes but not result in injury or death all traffic collisions are preventable as drivers you play a large role that will give you the tools to drive safely on streets a recent survey asks hundreds of drivers about save city introduce driving what did they say watch for distracted behavior and slow down and be patient and check for people before you turn the facts about city driving shows how important to be alert most collisions happen in good weather allowance even at 25 mileperhour it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop this is almost 7 car lengths slowing down makes collisions less savior when a person is hit by a passerby vehicle 25 minor the chance of death is 25 percent 40 percent that increases inform 85 percent slowing down didnt cost much time driving behind a person takes 9 extra semiautomatic and stopping at the yellow light takes only 30 seconds by hitting someone costs you hours and weeks of our time and maybe a life take a deep breath and take youre time cities Cross America are being safely for walking and driving some streets are confusing heres what you need to know all intersection kroukz of novelist marked some are marked to make them more visible other crosswalks and intersections are raised to the level of sidewalk to actress as speed bump and people are maybe crossing be cautious and watch for people when you approach any intersection advanced limit lines and pedestrian yield signs show drivers where people walk and stop behind the lines at stop signs and for people crossing bulb outs where the sidewalks extends into the street make that tease easy to see pedestrians and remember to slow down whether making reasons and watch for people on sidewalk estimations extensions that maybe closer than you expect and bicyclists may motive to the left to get around bulb outs this gives people a head start allowing pedestrians to enter the crosswalk before transfer starts moving makes them more visible pedestrian scrimmage and stop the vehicles in all directions allow people to cross including department of building inspection scrambles are paired with no light restriction and rapid beacons you turn bright whether the pedestrians are there or the center is activated precede slowly as you approach the beacons especially, if their activated a Pedestrian Crossing light turns yellow before turning sold red back to flash red procedure after making a full stop as long as the sidewalk is empty and, of course, stop whenever the light is red traffic circles reduce conflicts you must stop at the strewn and precede around the raise your right hand of the circle watch for people in crosswalks and people in bikes coming around the circle arrows indicate where people with bikes share the intersections and people have ride to people on bikes have the right to use the lane whether or not in the sharing bike lanes are for people protected by parks e. 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Parked cars and stay out of separated bike lanes unless an emergency dashed bike lanes are a shared zone four for vehicles to change lanes slow bike lanes allow the circles their unusually sprayed before me from other traffic some bike lanes are built to the level higher than the street but lower than the sidewalk they provide a safe separated space sponsor cyclists are around vehicles the box areas are marked with the stencil at intersections act as advanced limit lines for people to garter at a red light this increases the 1r0ir7b9 to drivers people will ride past stopped vehicles at the fronltd of the intersection give them room and stop short of limit line behind the bike without objection and cross only after the green light and people cleared the bike box bicycle traffic lights allow people on bikes to proceed while vehicles are stopped be unaware aware of those bike San Francisco General Hospital but stay alert and only skrans when the vehicle is cleared the intersection lets take a quiz to see what all of learned here we go number one when do month collisions happen did you say in daytime youre correct question two if an intersection is not marched is it still a crosswalk yes did you get it right great job one more before we go on whats one of the best things to do to avoid collisions . You can it take a breath Pay Attention and slow down city streets are crowded and chaotic so seeing everyone every single everything is difficult heres a test how many times did the white team pass the ball . If you answered 11 youre correct but did you notice anything else also be aware ever youre surrounded and remember that is easy 0 miss something if youre not looking for it heres some basic principles driving near peep e people from youre drivers seat it is difficult address our mirrors to reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk before starting youre turn watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience pays off take a moment to make sure youre clear while it might feel youll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you wont save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someones live heres important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the rightofway people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilities are the most vulnerable think city strits give buses and streetcars a lot of the space or people returning to catch a train dont block the box this creates dangerous situation for people walking how are forced into moving traffic and people bicycling out of the bike lane and people on bikes most city streets are legal for bicyclists even without signs people biking can fall in front of you provide a safe amount of space when passing someone on a bike a minimum of 3 feet is required by law in california and people on bikes prefer to be in the bike lane in for the this is often to avoid accidents give them room people on bikes will stay away from the traffic or watch out for open doors whoops that was a close one expect people to go to the front of the light and pass on the right a tap of the horn maybe useful to make youre preservation known but avoid using the horn it may saturday night be someone vehicles anybody right turns are especially dangerous important biking always approach right turns properly signal early and wait for people biking through the intersection move as far to the right to people on bikes can pass on the left lets try a few more questions who are the most Vulnerable People on city streets . Children . Seniors, and people with disabilities why do people on bikes ride close to travel there to avoid car doors what is one of the most dangerous situations for people walking and riding bikes . Turning vehicles and what can you do to make sure that everyone is safe in any situation . Thartsz stay patient and alert and, of course, slow down parking and loading a vehicle on accredit city streets is a challenge weather parking and unloading always check for people in our mirrors and blind spots and on the drivers side with our right turn right hand this causes you to look 40 on your left for bicyclists when passersby exiting the vehicle make sure about opening the door know where loading zones are if not loading zones available use side streets never stop in bike lanes or traffic lanes. Bad weathering and visible rain and fog or low lighting make it hard to see youre vehicle is likely to slide or loss control in eye i didnt controls and create issues for people walking and biking they tried try to avoid pulled and umbrellas and construction get slippery for people the safety thing to do in conditions whether wet or icy or dark slow down and drive more carefully remember going fast may on this save you a few semiautomatic but speeding may cause you a life or youre job people walking and biking are Vulnerable People can be distracted or make unsafe decisions as a driver the responsibility for safety lies with you a collision could mean the loss of our life or youre job and dealing with the legal implementations could take years or an emotional toll if someone is killed in a crash help us achieve vision zero and everyone can use the streets safely. Thank you for watch and following the important driving tests your remember were counting on you