Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority monthly meeting, im scott weiner the share of the authority, would you call the roll . Commissioner avalos . Present. Breed . Here. Campos . Absent. Coen . Present. Farrell . Ab scent. Kim. Here. Peskin present. Tang, present. Weiner present, commissioner yee . Yee is absent and we have the quorum. Okay, we will go to the chairs report, colleagues i would like to again by reporting that our transportation Charter Amendment revenue measure and proposed sales tax increase have been placed on the ballot as propation jand k. Each one requires a majority vote of the voters to pass during the summer, contra and santa clara also put on to sales tax on the ballot. In addition to barts regional bond measure is on the ballot and all three part counties, San Francisco, alamena and contra costa and the city of oakland, and ac transit are also going to the voters to approve local measures all of these measures are needed to be part of the streets and transit systems continue to require repair and vinestment and we cannot wait for the state and the federal government to take up the tabs, over 50 percent of the transportation investment or region through 2040, is provided by the local sources in the summer has increased over the years. That is because this approach is working. Counties like ours, especially delivered the voter Proof Projects small, to get them grant ready so that they can compete for and Leverage Private funds. To help the best use of the funds, our Transportation Authority is working in conjunction with the Planning Department and mta and other agency to develop the long range transit plans, including the subway vision, and the legislation and the call for such a plan, so the master plan, and to the board of supervisors passed last year, and i was pleased to see the out reach conducted for this study over the summer. And to hear about the response from the public on the question of where San Francisco should build the new rail lines. I am told that we received, 2500 responses across the city and region and i look forward to seeing the stud at the transpower Passion Committee on october, 17th as we plan the next big rail lines and we are glad to see them partnering with the agencies on the solution to reduce the crowding on the systems including the various, incentives and this pay lot program, the trip to a less busy time, such as before or after the morning peak rush hour, and about the passengers who do shift the travel times could earn the points with the fun online game, 16,000 sign ups and 29,000 in rewards, to providers were optimistic about this program and i thank you and that concludes my program remarks. Colleagues any comments in is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We will move to item three, the executive directors reports. Good morning, commissioners. Executive director, chang is on a jury panel for the new bus terminal and so keep you postd on that. You sh you had have the executive directors reports in front of you. And i will highlight a few of the items that were not addressed by the chair already in the chairs remarks. But it seems like we have not met for a long time because of the recess and so some of this has already hit the nut papers and we have been covering it in committee one of the items in the newspaper was the legislature and the agreement on cap and trade and even though the revenues from the last auction have been way over anticipated one of the up sides of the more conservative approach to dulling out the revenue earlier is that there are some revenues from the previous proceeds that were sort of on goal and in the bank, 60 percent of the revenues have been going out to the programs like the transit inner city rail program that have been delighted to receive the new lrvs and there are several other related programs and this agreement distributes 900 million, in unallocated auction, prohe seeds and those go to the transit rail program and the state program and other programs. Which i will speak to you a little bit later. And the state legislative session is over. And the governor has until september 30th to sign or veto a bill that are on his desk. And we will go through those now, but i will say that the finance committee at its october 11th meeting will be getting sort of a session and a summary of where we are on the legislative advocacy for mark watts the sacramento representative and it mentioned one of the beneficiaries of the cap and trade is the state active Transportation Program and this funds particularly a lot of bicycle and pedestrian projects and the education and out reach and capitol improvements. Right now, there is an under way surge cycle of programming. And there are two at the state level, 120 million that is competitive distributed to the ap mri indications state wide and those results are anticipated next month. And at the regional level, the metropolitan agency has 20 million to dull out. This cycle is a little bit odd in that the funds will not be available for several years, knowledge next the fiscal year, 1920, which is challenging for sponsors but we are pleased to work with the Municipal Transportation Agency and the public works in submitting several projects including the gene va project, and the play streets pilot, and the safety, and the vision zero, and safer intersections and jefferson street, improvements phase two and so we will keep you posted if we are as successful in those applications. Plan bay area has been a big topic and i know that our representatives on the metropolitan transportation commission, appeared with several presentations on that plan, early in the month, the two regional agencies or at least the draft preferred scenario and this includes the land use vision for the distribution of housing and jobs within the region. And corresponding transportation investment tragedy and we just had an up date at the plans and Programs Committee and we expect to have one over the next couple of months as the region moves toward a planned adoption of the preferred scenario and i just summarized for those who did not watch the Committee Meeting that right now, it looks like we are doing pretty barn well in the transportation and Investment Strategy and i qualify that by saying, it looks like all of property jects that need to be in there for San Francisco in this up date are in there and it looks like we are getting the amount of regional funds that we asked for. And i am not being completely definitive because we are lacking the details, but it is looking promising and the land use and working with the Plan Department to make sure that the projections of the housing and jobs makes sense, and the housing looks reasonable, with the zoning on the job side and it looks like they have given us a little bit more and different places than we are anticipating and so we are working with mtc and the Planning Department to reconcile that and see if that will trigger any changes in the transportation and Investment Strategy one of the things that i do want to call out were raised by the commissioners in their mtc and the abag representatively is the rereg n reregional agencies about an evaluation and there is a whole bunch of target and metrics and unfortunately on two of the economy metrics the draft preferred were moving in the wrong direction, they were the percentage of income that the low income households spend on housing and transportation, and instead of Getting Better it is actually getting worse, and displacement risk is increased. And mtc did some analysis which indicates that most of the increase, the wrong direction increase and the metric atribable to the decade long deficit in helping supply, 12 percent is attributed to the housing issue and one percent to transportation, but i think that our commissioners and others, raise the questions as if the 2040, vision that we as a region want to bless, is there more that we can do with the transportation funds and the planned bay area and probably more importantly what else can we do beyond the plan bay area to address this . Nobody is happy with this out come, so we will keep you posted and working closely with the Planning Department, and the mta in particular on trying to come up with the recommendations. So moving a bit to your projects and as you may all recall, ta commissioners and the board of supervisors this summer, we approved a supply mental, and a cost increase for the cal train, program and that increased the local contribution from the three member counties, from 60 million to 80 Million Dollars each. And i would just call out for that item 8 today. We have annual indication of 3. 9 million of sales tax funds and that is San Francisco first piece toward that 20 million increase, and we are looking towards the Charter Amendment on novembers ballot to help to fund the 16. 1 delta with the last increase and cal train is now awarded the contracts for the design build of the infrastructure and the poles and the wiring and also for the electrified vehicles. So, related, the Planning Department has been leading quite a mouth full, the relatives and the boulevard feasible study, known as rab for short is looking at a number of things, it is looking at alternatives to the cal train, king rail yard and it could be down sized or relocated and the alternative alignments for the downtown, rail extension. It is looking at the possibility of taking down part of i280 and replacing with the boulevard and looking at associated land use changes and i know that there is a great deal of interest in this and it impacts a lot of the key projects from the cal train, to the downtown extension. And the Planning Department held the second Citizens Working Group and i think that it was last week, and we are planning another one this fall. There is anticipated third round of Public Meetings that will happen this fall where there should be more information on the final alternatives that are looked at, including the cost estimates that were not previously available, i know that this is a great interest and came up with the plans and Programs Committee and as soon as Public Information is available, we are planning on the information, and or we could come back to the board as a whole of this years discretion. And just a few more items i just want to congratulate the transit riders, the San Francisco Transit Riders Union and all who participated in transit week, which was held the week of september 12th, and the authority was proud to sponsor that event with the celebrated users who help to make life in San Francisco better for everybody by getting the cars off of road and increase decreasing the greenhouse emissions. And i know that tly y is excited to report that we have a lot of progress on the neighborhood transportation improvement program, the prop k, funded program and we will just a couple of quick highlights, we have the project completed in supervisor cohens district and this is dealing with the hair ball in other terms, and the bay shore and the avenue, intersection project. And this project includes a number of improvements from the plan for the entire area, and bicycle and pedestrian path, and the street scape and improvements and so forth, the good news is that the mta has the funding for the recommendations in the five year capitol plans and we will be working with them to try to find the rest of the funding. It looks like i will leave that one there. Commissioner camposs district, the alamene interchange, i will just call out, this is in with a lot of safety and improvements right near the boulevard, and the farmers market, and there are some great out reach opportunities this week, where we are presenting tomorrow night, the neighborhood, association on wednesday, and we are presenting to the tas, and the Citizen Advisory Committee and on october the eleventh we are presenting to the plans and Programs Committee and so you can get a look at what those are for that effort. We had earlier this month, an out reach activity on the lumbard street which we are doing in concert with commissioner ferrills office and i want to thank him and his staff to help on that project. The intent of that project is to find the ways to help with the increasing vehicle on the crooked part of lum. Bard street and they say that it is a great input received at the open house and we are working to develop a set of recommendations, for handling that. Switching gears, i wanted to thank our bay area air Quality Management district. Representatives, and i will draw a blank and i know that one of them is commissioner avalos. And the air district has the purview over the transportation funz, and these are on the fees and they go to j ekts that help to reduce the motor emission and it may sound like of geeky but it is super important, and the guidelines, previously have only allowed us to fund new bike lanes or paths and this really just disadvantages San Francisco, where we want to go and upgrade, infrastructure that we have had to make them more safe, and putting in the bike lanes or the cycle tracks that was previously ineligible and we are excited that the guidelines are now, recommending that that change be eligible and we thank, commissioner avalos for helping to get that through. Lastly, we have a couple of Ground Breaking ceremonies coming up on september, 29th at noon, in supervisor peskins district we have the broad way, china town Ground Breaking ceremony, the city of broad way, and powell streets and this is the 4th phase of the street scape and safety improvements that the ta has funded from a multiple of fun sources and we are very pleased to see that project getting going, and in supervisor yee and all of the district and that is right on the border we have the area of the Ribbon Cutting of the new unity plaza and the project and this helps to connect the new terminus for the stop and the city college and with a prop aa funded pedal connector and a new plaza that is up and under way. And lastly on the boulevard, we have seen the implementation of the various, bicycle and the pedestrian, improvements on the boulevard, and with more permanent things with the concretes to come out when the streets are paved in 2017, we are excited to see the whole generation of the projects and i will give out a shout for her and her staff for working with mta and your office to keep those things moving forward. Last two things are special shout out to the finance and administration, and to mike and the policy division to another clean audit. And the transportation funds for the clean air program, and then behind the scenes shout out, and we have a Branch Management data base called pour tal and this is how we track the invoices and the back engine that up loads to the Interactive Data base, where you can find the information on any of the projects i just spoke about, and anna has been working with the staff in the division to continue to make things a lot easier for us and for the sponsors to use and i will just note that you may have seen the changes in the allocation in the form in your packet and may not look like much, but what they have done is eliminate a lot of unnecessary fields, and stream lined and entry so that we are able to extract the data from the forms right into my street and into our data base, that will conclude my remarks and i am happy to answer the questions. Thank you, colleagues, noo he questions or comments on the executive directors report . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment . One item three, seeing none, we will close Public Comment. And this is an information item and we will move to item number four. Item four, approve the minutes of the july, 26, 20 is 6 meeting this is action. Are there any comments or questions or changes to the minutes . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And can you call the role . Four, avalos . Aye. Breed . Aye. Campos . Aye. Cohen. Aye. Farrell. Aye. Kim . Absent. Mar . Aye. Peskin. Aye. Tang. Aye. Commissioner weiner . Aye. Commissioner yee . Aye. Minutes are approved. Great. Before we go to item five i did neglect to thank sgtv for broadcasting todays meeting. And he with will know how go to item five. Approve the resolution urging the league of california cities to adopt and implement virgs zero strategies and initiatives for eliminating traffic deaths and see vooer injuries and to prioritize task safety throughout california, this is an action item. Okay. Any comments or questions or thoughts . Colleagues . Seeing none s there any Public Comment on item five . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We will move to item 6. Same house same call . Excuse me, colleagues could we take item five, same house same call, without objection. Item six. Reappoint santiago lerma and appoint shannon wellsmongiovi to the citizens sad vicery complitties. Any questions or comments . None. Any comment on iks . Seeing none, closed. Colleagues could we take item six, the same house. The house has changed. Commissioner kim was absent for the vote on item five. Okay. Ten we then we will take a roll call on six. Avalos. Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos. Aye. Cohen. Aye. Farrell. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Peskin. Aye. Tang. Aye. Weiner. Aye. Commissioner yee . Aye. The item is approved. Okay. Item number seven. Item seven, amend the prop k Strategic Plan and the guide wise, muni 5 year program, this is an action item. Colleagues are there any questions or comments on item 7 . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on item seven . Seeing none, we will close the Public Comment. And the house is the same, colleagues, take item 7 the same house same call. Without objection, that will be the order. Item 8. Al kalt, 20,88,900 in prop k funds with conditions for 14 requests subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules this is an action item. Commissioner peskin. Thank you, chair weiner and colleagues, as i indicated in the committee i would respectfully like to suggest that we temporarily remove the 6. 774 Million Dollars for additional studies and design work on phase two of the transbay terminal project. Specifically would i raise in committee as somebody who served on the board years ago, when the tjpa was first created a project that we obviously want, and we have, but that has cost substantially more. I think that given what we heard from miss lumbardo that there are a number of studies ongoing, with the rab, and given the fact that this is going to require the condemnation of the Additional Properties given the uncertainty about the project and given the passenger of facility, and the charges, that may not be sustainable, i would like a little bit more time. To think about this to have a Public Policy conversation, about it. And quite frankly, when we go into phase two, we should go in with our eyes wide open, we should know what the alignment is going to be. And we should know whether or not downtown is going to be disrupted for years. Are there better ways of doing it than cut and cover . We should have that conversation before we get just a little bit pregnant. Because this is going to be the next ten million and the next 100 million and the next 200 million and so why dont we slow down and do a little bit of thinking about this . And wait for this process, and it is, and we are in the fall and this process is going to become much more definitive in the fall, and so i would subject to comment public like to make a motion that we reduce the 20. 88 Million Dollars by 6. 774 Million Dollars. And send the item back to the plans and Programs Committee for additional policy discussion and debate. I do not want to be in a situation where in a number of years we all regret this vote. Commissioner campos . Thank you. Mr. Chair, i have a number of questions about this item. And quite frankly one of the key questions is actually having a better grasp of what the oversight actually looks like. We have a long history of issues with this project. And at some point, the tjpa actually had problems with the county Transportation Authority providing oversight. And i am glad to hear that that is no longer the case. But i do think that as we are dealing with our own leading tower of pisa here in San Francisco, i think that we have a responsibility to make sure that we do everything that we can to make sure that Something Like this project is handled properly. And quite frankly, there are issues around some of the existing litigation that has been filed around mellineun sky scaper that raises questions about what the cta own liability could be. And so, i will support that motion. Supervisor kim . Or commissioner kim . Thank you, and i, i can support a continuance of this, this dollar amount and i am just curious how long we plan to place it on hold . So, and what the expectation would be in order to release the remaining 6 million specifically. Through the chair to commissioner peskin. Kim. I would like it to go to our next plans and Programs Committee. I would like to use that as an opportunity to hear from the mayors transportation advisor and have a more robust conversation about the alternatives, i would like to actually have a much more definitive briefing, whether we are interested in the embarcadaro, and we asked the questions of how many pieces of property will have to be condemned along 72nd street and there will also have ton property condemnations alounge townsend and that was all high level and vague and i would like to hear what the rab comes up, and lumbardo said that they will have more information this fall and we are now into the fall and so depending on the answers that we get in october, and maybe we could send it back to the full board in october, and hopefully we have a much more definitive set of answers by november. But no later than november. And i see that our Transbay Joint Power Authority staff is here. And so i just wanted to bring up either the director or our Government Relations liaison just to answer a few questions. And in terms of whether there is an agreement on bringing it to the committee and that there will be answers to what peskin has asked and any impact of the delay of the 6 million disbursement to tjpa. Good morning, i am the director with the transbay, port authority, and here to impress upon you, to pass this item and provide the needed funds for the tjpa moving in partnership, and very Close Partnership with the San Francisco Transportation Authority and the mtc into advancing the delivery of phase two. With wrour support, and it is fully funded and we are grateful for that and it is on track to be completed december, 2017, for the construction and shortly there after for the bus administrations and our focus at the tjpa has shifted to phase two and advanced stage two in collaboration with the region and to that extent, i presented to the board, the juj meeting this year, a road map to deliver phase two along with a funding plan and this is just basically a road map that allows us to advance, phase two and possibly be able to bring the trains to the Transit Center, late, 2025, and 26, and i shared that the road map with the sfjta and the mtc and i got their support to or their encouragement to move forward, is to take the design to 30 percent completing and that will allow to develop the bottoms up estimate for the construction and will allow us to also, determine the right away impacts, that will go long ways to answer supervisor peskins question, and we move to move the designs, 30 percent in order for us to be able to determine what properties are impacted and how are they impacted . And to how, impacted would you include, in the temporary construction, easements is it permanent, construction, easements or is it the property acquisition, and no condemnation, or the acquisition will take place as part of the money that we are asking for today, and it is to move the design forward so that we can fit the scope properly and he can come up with the bottom up estimate, and do an up to date, study to allow to us confirm, what you should except from the charges to the compliments or the funding plan and also to up date the program cost estimate and to do a Risk Assessment. And we need to do a Risk Assessment after the 30 percent design is completed and in order to identify the risk and provide, and fund the proper amount of program reserves. And so what we are asking today, is basically, advance the project, so that we can answer a lot of the questions that we brought at this committee, one thing that i would like to highlight, regarding supervisor camposs concerns, we fully intend to move forward to deliver this project. It is not one agency alone, it has to be with the region, to that extent, moving forward we will be working close, as we advance this project. I impress on you to move forward, and it is basically on life support for up to three years and we have not done much work. And our focus has been phase one, and phase one has a lot of difficulties that we have overcome and, if this money is not allocated this month, and i am afraid that the dtx you will be pulling the plug on the dtx because we have a lot of momentum Going Forward now, we have updated the mtc and updated the federal partners on how we can fund the project. And the loans to fully fund the dtx, and so, i think that if we are not able to move to 30 percent design, i am afraid that we are going to lose that momentum and lose the project. Question . Director, do you feel that you can come up with adequate responses to commissioner peskins questions at the next meeting . I will be more than happy to continue to meet with supervisor peskin and his staff, and a lot of his questions will be answered and i can see your supervisor peskin and the acquisition will take place before we come back here and that is where we show the funding and more appropriately, up date you on the status of the 30 percent, drawings and the impacts that it will have on the property. That is 30 percent, drawings . Yes, 30 percent design, this money is going to allow us to finish the 30 percent design and determine the impacts as far as the acquisition are concerned. I think that i dont, i may have misunderstand, commissioner kims question. But i think the question or my question is, by next month, will you have the answers to the questions that commissioner peskin is asking . You will have, you will have parts and we will be able to answer parts or portions of his questions, and some of his questions we kneed to finish the 30 percent design to answer the questions. Which of the money is helping to the funds . Yes, sir. I want to ask you, will you have the answers to commissioner peskins questions by next month . Without this money, i cannot. Okay. I cannot give you a cost estimate and i cannot give you the impact acquisition. Commissioner tang . Thank you, i think that, and i know that there are some troubles here i think that is what i was struggling with during the plans and programs meeting last week, which was, you know, i respectfully disagreed with trying to put the funding for the design, on reserve because i felt that we actually needed that money to be able to answer a lot of the questions that supervisor peskin and others have. And i will likely continue to support, so that we can get up to the 30 percent design today. Okay. Commissioner campos . Skept cal if we are on the same path, many of the people that were involved here are involved here before, and so that not very comforting. And they, the sure, the executive directors are out there, but you have some of the same players here. And i went out of my way with supervisor weiner, to advocate for this project at the mtc, and the city and county of San Francisco has put itself on the line, and i am really disturbed that there is such a fear in answering questions. And if hewe had actually taken time to do what we are doing here we would not be in this mess, and so i will be voting no, and quite frankly, unless the approach changes, i will make sure that at the mtc, my concerns are reflected because this is not a good thing for San Francisco. And it is not a good thing for the region. My. My response . I will give you a chance. Momentarily. And commissioner peskin . Thank you, chair weiner and colleagues, and lets examine this a little more closely. First of all, we are voted advanced the quarter of a billion dollars to bail the tjpa out. And as commissioner campos says there may be other liabilities that they are now facing. And there are a series of Unanswered Questions that dont require 6. 7 Million Dollars to answer, they require a level of transparency, and a level of honesty in answering some questions and having a real honest dialogue. About it. What are we doing getting 30 percent design drawings, when we have not deci this decided i this is the alignment and that is the cart before the horse and the whole relationship between the tjpa through the staff has always been to jam us. Wow, lets slow down a little bit. Lets have that conversation. And so that we do not end up in the same position that we are now, and the reason that phase two is not funded is because they borrowed from phase two to pay for the cost over runs of phase one, that is a fact. And look, if this thing has been dormant for the last two or three years, all of a sudden, one or two months of our discharging our duties is going to make some profound change . Hogwash. And for the record, when i asked miss change about this prior to the plans and Programs Committee, she said a month or two. No big deal. Enough of them jamming this dually elected body and i would make a motion to take that 6. 774 Million Dollars and send it back to the plans and Program Committee for the october meeting to be discussed. I thought that you already made that motion. It didnt get seconded. Seconded. And made by peskin and seconded by campos. After supervisor avalos, and breed i would like to hear from our staff. So commissioner avalos . Excellent. I would like to hear from the staff, a two month delay that that was not going to be ab is an issue. And then, also, contention that we are being jammed by the pjpa, and also has been a contention that we are not practicing the oversight, although, i think that this discussion is practicing our oversight, and could we have a. We have 6. 4, and is there a portion that we can enable, something to go forward but that we could actually make the project go forward, those are my questions. The great questions, thank you. And the chief deputy, director. And let me just take this not necessarily in order because i want to agree about the oversights. And i am one of the old timers who is here, with phase one of the project. And at that time, as i supervisors know who are around, we tried to do oversight, and but we are not permitted to do the oversights. And that has changed now and you will see attached to the allegation request, the oversight protocol that is a models off of what we used very successfully with the mta and the central subway and pretty much the same protocol that we are applying, to the project and i am more confident in the oversight, and tjpa is working with open arms and my understanding is that protocol will be offered to the Funding Partners and the mtc and the federal administration, and mta, and to the question about will we have answers. The question there, what portion of the funding for the over all project is actually coming from the Transportation Authority from the cta . Phase two of the project is a rail extension . I mean that it is pretty naul, right now, the total project is just under estimated 4 billion dollars. And we are talking about 6 billion here, at most prop k, maybe has if you accelerate all of the money, 12 million. Over all what would you say . At this point in time, there isnt much money committed to phase two. Thank you. So lets see, the other comments about will we have answers . Next month and what are the impacts of the delay, the fair questions and this really goes i think that your Comfort Level as a body and you they ever have all of the answers on the major capitol project of this size, when it is at this stage of the project, and we give the directors, that it is correct for the request for the funding to get all of the project elements including the elements like the bart underground 230 to the 30 percent design that will enable a grounds up cost estimate to be able to verify, the 3. 99 billion cost which mtc came up based on a useful but it was a shortened and a cost review. And in terms of delays, sure, you can delay, and it is not the end of the world. And i know that it isnt what the djpa wants but it is not stopping anything and i think that the question that commissioner kim asked is pointed what will be the marker for the Comfort Level for this body to decide to move forward . We may be able to get some answers, but in terms of the rail yard, and i was going to say that rab that the rab study and we are hoping to have the cost estimates in october, november, december, time frame, which covers all and i dont suspect that it will have a preferred alternative for the city and be aware that all should have more information. In terms of prohe vieding partial funding, so that if there are and i have been told that we are not going to be aible to have any answers unless we do the study and we cant do the study without the funding, so is there something that can be pro provided that will allow for that to happen and still hold, you know, the greater portion of the funding up . So that we can actually get a report back and release that based on what we hear . Yes, as a body that allocates the funds you will have the ability to let out just that amount of funding for the particular scope, but i am not sure, is what he would need to answer the questions raised by commissioner peskin and i did also ne glekt to say one thing, attached to the form is another special condition that acknowledges that there are these other studies out there like the rav and it gives this body the ability to stop, if you approved the allocation to stop the work at any time. If it picks a different alignment and to renegotiate the scope of work my understanding is that 85 percent of what is funded is stuff that would need to happen any way regardless of alignment. What specifically about that 900,000. So that the transbay authority, recently did a supply mental eir, which modified some elements that have been previously cleared and previously we were at 30 percent design and also, added some new elements and so it will give you two examples. And so, when we went through the cost of the mta, and you know that many of our east bay commissioners felt strongly about including the bart, and muni connector as part of the project scope. And that had not been part of the project scope, previously and so part of the fund sg to bring that project from basically close to zero, to 30 percent design, and there were other elements that were cleared before such as the underground station of fourth and king, that used to be under the yard, and to allow for the potential development of the yard, they have agreed to move the station under the townsend street and so that requires the redesign as well. There are elements like that, that you could if you wanted to dissect what is needed and what is not needed if the alignments were changed commissioner peskin . Well i will defer for a minute to campos. I have seen, this movie before, many times, and it is what the tjpa has done in the past, and consistently come to us with a parade of horribles if we dont approve this now, the world was going to come to an end. And you know, i always think that with these kinds of things you have to trust your gut. And my gut tells me that we are better off getting more information here, especially given that it is sort of a shifting target, what they are saying, today. As opposed to what they seem to have said in the committee. And by the way, if it, it was so critical that they needed to have this, vote in on today, they had a few days to actually get more information that they could have brought to this body today. And quite frankly, part of the problem that i have with this project is the attitude, right . Which is lets move forward, because the bulk of the work that is going to done, even if there is a different alignment, it is needed. And yeah, sure, we may lose, 15 percent, but, you know, 85 percent, is still going to happen regardless of what the alignment is. Well, 15 percent, is significant. And it is, and it is through, through the accumulation of 15 percent after 15 percent, after 15 percent that we get to where we are right now. The project that is a lot more expensive than was anticipated and in phase two that is not funded because some of the money that was going to go for it, had to be used for phase one. And so, i am sorry, but the tjpa is not in the strongest position here. To come and lecture us about the need to trust them, and to move forward. And for the county Transportation Authority, we have to do a better job. We have to do a better job of providing oversight here, and yes. The relative to the large amount of money that is being spent, is a small fraction, but it is still tax payer dollars. It is still money. That we have a responsibility a fiduciary duty to make sure that it is spent, properly. And if 6. 8 million is going to slow down this project of this magnitude, what does that say about where this project is headed . And how it is being handled . I am going to vote no on moving forward with this and support the motion. Commissioner breed . Thank you. And i appreciate supervisor camposs comments about this, when we discussed this item, in committee, and a number of questions were raised, we sent it to the full board, in support of it, with the expectation that many of those issues would be addressed. I did definitely appreciate the additional oversight from the ta for these particular funds. But i do think that there are a number of outstanding questions that still need to be addressed. And my Comfort Level with the tjpa is just not there. Unfortunately to trust that by issuing over 6 Million Dollars we will be able to answer questions that we need answered before wei actually issue the money. So i definitely will be voting to support the motion at this time and hope that a better job is done at communicating to this body in the future, and especially when a request of any magnitude whether it is one mill object, or 6 million, or 20 million, you know, there is just, the Comfort Level with this particular entity is just not there. From my perspective and so i do think that a lot more work needs to go into a request of this nature. To make sure that we are comfortable with issuing additional dollars and we are not just pouring money down a black hole. Thank you. Commissioner kim . Thank you, i am happy to support the continuance today of the 6 million, but i would like it if the ta staff could work with commissioner peskins office on coming up with a ligs of deliverables that we would expect. I think that my one concern is that i do think that it is not absolutely clear to me, all of the answers that we would like to have answered at the next plans and Programs Committee but i dont think that i think that it is good to have a greater discussion and i think that unfortunately tjpa is also caught in the middle in the sense that the city and other departments have been raising questions about an alignment that we have committed to, and we have completed the eir, and study for. And now there is a request by other entities for us to examine other alignments that might better work for downtown, extension and i am open to that process. And i think that if there is a better alignment, we should certainly study it. But i think, you know, tjpa has been committed to the original alignment, and i understand certainly, the reason why they are as it has been fully studied and it looks to be maybe the fastest way for us to complete the dtx, and that being said, i think that if we are going to put something under gro und that we should do it the right way even if it takes us a little bit of time to do that. I think that clearly that question is not going to get addressed by the next plans and Programs Committee, so i would like to get to a more reasonable set of expectations for the next plans and Programs Committee, i would like to move this money forward seeing that i do think that the 30 percent design process is important to many of the other questions. But now, i can support this and hopefully we can Work Together on getting to a better place at the next Committee Meeting. Thank you. I want to give tjpa a chance to respond to the conversation ha happened today. Actually i was clarify myself, my intention was not to jam this item at all to the board and my apologies, supervisor campos, that was not my intention. I used this what i was trying to say and i will say it again, is that we need this technical data in order to answer some of the questions, but given that, and there is no support for this item we will continue to work with the commissioner to make sure that their answers are or their questions are addressed before we move forward. I fully intend to move forward with stage two, different that stage one and i mentioned with the mtc and we signed an oversized agreement, access to our staff and data and we are going to move forward, to deliver this project and again, i reiterate a 4 billion will not be done or delivered by an agency alone and it has to have the help of one region. That is why we are reaching out to do that. Okay. So the petitioner peskin could i clarify, that the original motion was to send it back to the committee and you referred to it as a continuance, could you clarify what the motion is. The motion is out of the 20. 88 billion dollar item to remove the item in the first portion of that, allocation of prop k funds in the amount of 6. 774 million, and 400 dollars and send that portion back to the plans and Programs Committee for their october meeting. Thank you for clarifying it. And commissioner campos did second that motion. And i am not going to be supporting this motion. I have in the past obviously been critical of tjpa and some of the way that the projects have been handled and with that said, i also believe that it is critically important that we move phase two, forward. And even given the uncertainty around the alignment, and the vast majority of this money is irrespective of what alignment is chosen and so, to me, the downtown extension is important, and this is while, a 6 Million Dollars is certainly, it is a significant sum of money they are not asking for the moon they are asking for enough to keep the design process moving forward and to get the 30 percent, and i also will just note i, completely respect commissioner peskins view on this and not supporting the commercial paper item that was before us, earlier. This spring or summer and has the prospect on the city, and i respect that and i have a different perspective and i am concerned that what will happen, if it goes back to the committee, and i have a feeling that i am going to on the losing end of this vote, and i request that whatever that group is that is working with tjpa i would like my office to be a part of that as well. So with that, we will open this item up for Public Comment. Yeah, Public Comment, and you can have a seat, thank you. Please excuse me . All of item a . Please come forward, public xhe comment. Sorry i am late, i guessed that the missed the Committee Meeting and there are a number of my neighbors who lived on the street who are worried about a smaller part of this sitem and t is the plan to lower the traffic capacity on eddie and elis street and i guess what we are asking for is a similar kind of action and to hold up the money. And the study that was done at this action was based on was made in 2005 and it has been quite a bit of difference in it. You know, the capacity and everything else, and at that time. The problem is that if the people are, in one lane in either direction, there are about, somewhere between, is 800 and 200 people on the street. That would that this project would apply to. And they have a variety of needs, and the needs are met by light vehicles and small vehicles. And they have to be able to park, and many times there is double parking. And well, if there is only one lane in one direction that really clogged up the traffic and the road is in recent years it is very well used and you know, the history of the traffic pattern is that it when the price of gas went up in the recession, we had a very, we had an extreme drop in the amount of traffic on that street, but then, you know, starting in the last four or five years it has been creeping up and you know, many times and i think that it has to do with the traffic changes on the other side of Market Street as well. Many times there is bumper to bumper, and as the horns honking. And well, what we have, for the neighbors there and what they have there is they have the service vehicles, and the families that are always, dropping off the neighbors and they, and their kids sometimes. And the food bank and there is disabled, and there is emergency vehicles, and the Police Department is expanding. There is the 31 balboa which is if it locked and grid locked i dont know see that is going to increase that, there is a great amount of need on that street for the two lanes in one direction, from levenworth down to Market Street. As it we would like to ask you to you know, to hold up the funds or to have another study. Thank you very much. And is there any additional Public Comment on item 8 . If there is come forward. And if there is anyone else come forward if you are tiebl stand up. Good morning, commissioners my name is Rob Burmingham and i would also like to support commissioner peskins request for a holding up of these funds. I am a stake holder. I own 5 parcels of property at the corner of second and howard street. And so i do care how the dtx is going to eventually, the route is going to take place. I agree with what you are saying, commissioner weiner but not at all cost and not as quickly as possible, by far and away, the most important thing of this project is that we get the route correct, and there is no question that it is going to happen. But, there is a rail road line, or a rail road yard, area which can be developed, there is two stadiums that could be served much better than the present alignment, and this idea that tjpa needs to quickly, move forward to the 30 percent design phase, is so strange. I am an, engineer by profession, and the idea is that they have to or else, the project is going to stop, even if we dont get funded even though we are doing the studies about the alignment is counter productive and it does not serve this body the most important thing for you to guys to focus on is getting this right. The transbay, and the Transit Center did not, did not make anyone here looks like stars, this project is about 1,000 times more complex and you need to get it right and get tg right, lets make sure that we get in the 30 percent, as quickly as possible and that just makes no sense. Take your time and get it right. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment on item 8 . If so, please come forward. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I just wanted to appreciate the Public Comment, and i appreciate mr. Berminghams comment and if these funds were on a particular alignment, i would be voting against them because that is up in the air and i completely agree that there may be a better alternative alignment, and that is why we are going through the process and i would also be fine if the votes were there to move this forward to slice off that 15 percent, and that 900,000 that is predicated on the alignment so that we are just moving forward the 85 percent, that is applied no matter what the alignment is. And but, again, it appears that i will be in the losing end of todays vote in any respect, so if i happened to prevail on the vote, i will be open to slicing off that 15 percent, and commissioner avalos . Just a request for the staff on what was brought up by mr. Duffy on the alignment or the traffic work oban ellis and eddie street and you mentioned that the work being done on this was based on a study in 2005 and that was work that i had helped with as a legislative aid. And for chris daily back, and way back when and in another lifetime. And so wondering, in response to his contention that there is old data that this is based on, i knew and i do know that there was talk of going from two to one lane and looking at their enclosures i am not seeing that in here. And so if you could just that is what he was referring to, but that is the right alignment, to have for those streets, given sort of the study that was done in 2005. Great, absolutely. And i will see if craig and mta wants to jump up to correct me. My read of this is that it is not reducing the number of traffic lanes but changing the streets from one way to two way, in order to achieve the vision zero goals to calm the traffic down, and well, the original study is old, we have been implementing it since then in pieces and so they have been keeping up to date on the traffic information. Great, thank you. Okay. Colleagues, seeing know other names on the roster, we will proceed to a vote on commissioner peskins motion to sever off the funds for dtx as he described and to send that portion of item 8 back to the plans and Programs Committee. And mr. Clerk, would you please call the role on that motion . All right, on the amendment to item eight, avalos. Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos. Aye. Cohen . Aye. Fer el . Aye. Aye. Kim . Aye. Mar . No. Peskin. Aye. Tang. No. Weiner. No. Commissioner yee . Yee is absent, and the amendment is approved. Okay, so that motion to amend and to send back to the plans and Programs Committee is approved. Okay, now we are passed this item, item 9, i am sorry, on the remainder, my apologies, and so, we now have the remaining funds, minus the dtx funds and could you please call the roll on that item . Avalos. Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos. Aye. Cohen. Absent. Farrell . Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Peskin. Aye. Tang. Aye. Weiner. Aye. Yee is absent. The underlying item is approved. Okay. Item number 9. Introduction of new items . Colleagues, are there any items for introduction . By seeing none is there any Public Comment on item nine . Relating to introduction . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And this is an information item. Item ten . General Public Comment. Is there any general Public Comment. Please come forward. Yes. inaudible some people have shock abilities and they understand immediately upon having inaudible thank you. Next speaker . My name is duffy and just extending on the last item that i wrote up. I dont think that the city and, i dont think that the city is giving us a forum to explore the issues that are coming in the last several years, since this was first proposed. Obviously, it was not given to us today. So when do we discuss the trade offs and whether or not there is a better way to use this money for Pedestrian Safety . For example, mccallister and leven worth street that is where some of the work was done and part of this project and yet it is a very dangerous and very imperfect solution set. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item number 11 . Adjournment. We are adjourned. Thank you. Coming. clapping. good morning and thank you for joining me im Jose Cisneros the cochair of financial and powerful coalition i want to acknowledge a number of people including beven duffey the mounting evidences about San Francisco Hometown Bank is shocking it reveals that wells fargo used personal information about their clients to open without their permission and transferred funds as treasurer im responsible for keeping the city save and 10 years ago i started the bank an inform program i believe that everyone money is safety in the a banknote held in cash or under a mattress when i learned that protecting people in the city if have basis assess he worked with bans and Credit Unions to create lowcost accounts without barriers to assess now thousand of san franciscans every year opened their first behind the eight ball through the bank on San Francisco and bank that programs in dozens of cities across the country and last year, we annunciations bank think standards for save behind the eight ball with no Overdraft Fees so after hearing about the actions of wells fargo i met with an executive to find what information and advise to provide to the san franciscans he couldnt give me basic information including how many san franciscans were effected had they been notified how much recess stews this is unacceptable im outrageous on behalf of all customers but for every on Bank Resident to keep their mean in cash instead of a Financial Institution given their widespread egregious and potentially criminal action im 13u7bd wells fargo from the bank an San Francisco program effect immediately clapping. and we cant wait for wells fargo to help people through this terrible experience thats why the balance the Community Partners offered free oneonone coupling for anyone effected started day they can call 9006006 and speak to a qualified council to run their Credit Report and found out what to do next we want to thank balance for stepping up their phone call will be on the website just to be clear this is a free Serve Service and anyone will semi you anyone thats why balance is our partner in the program and i give you my word theyll be trusted with our Financial Information next week im headed to washington, d. C. To talk with the powerful coalition at the Financial Bureau and with members of the california delegation and im calling on my all my colleagues to stand request bank on the other hand, on San Francisco Police Commission weve been the leader in the nation and continue to stand up against Financial Institutions that breach our trust there are many Unanswered Questions he want san franciscans to know well get answers from wells fargo to resolve negative impacts on your finance now next id like to invite andrea if the cancel reinvestment code violation to join me at the podium andrew. Thank you there are go many san franciscans without a safe bank account spends husbands of thousand of these dollars buying money orders and paying bills and icon all over town and they need to conduct a financial traction the comboufrt through the Treasurers Office and nonprofit have worked to hard to make bank account more assessable to all families including low income and spanish families and another new immigrants who are not familiar with the Banking System or historically left out of the bavng system weve made progress as a treasurer mentions last year the National Bank on coalition adopted the standards to make those accounts save so people will never face an Overdraft Fee and low monthly fee can be waivers those are the accounts that people use that work for them and meets their interests wells fargos actions are undermining our work now is the perfect time for them to not only express sorry and say this is never going to happen again but step forward and do the service for the clients and help them to repair in any damage to their credit we shouldnt have to do it they should be doing it but were thank you to Jose Cisneros go leadership two many people dont know theyve been treated with this way now it is the time to call balance and feud have you paid fees has a new credited been opened without your knowledge and impacted our krrdz were you offered a higher Interest Rate that question also at our o are calling open the bank reshthsers to restore trust in the work query doing to really for the banks to step forward and say that wells fargos didnt speak for us we dont look at our consumers and potential fee revenue were trying to karate this to pad our bottom lines there are so many banks and Credit Unions that offering those truly save accounts and working hard to meet the needs of protecting families across the back and forth we applaud them and ask them to step up and reassure they are commissioners what wells did will not happen to them thank you very much. clapping. thank you, andreas and introduce shawn the head of our Empowerment Office and introduce lee phillips the great partner in San Francisco and at this time introduce katherine president and ceo of the balance to explain how their staff is ready to assist folks. Thank you for being here this obviously been a lot of news in the media on this incident and the biggest thing that concerns us no information for customers and last week to applaud the city of San Francisco for step forward and recognizing that consumers that have been impacted may not know what to do and consumers dont know theyve been impacted weve set up a town hall free number and help them get access to theyre free Credit Report consumers still dont know how to assess their report and let alone get a free serve a Credit Report review walk through with that consumers to help them understand how to clean up that up one of the things that concerns about this situation it is not the credit produces at wells fargo but a consumer opens a product with other institutions did they receive other is recreates has in their credit been impacted we want to work with our consumers to resolve that we, of course, will provide a assistance and resources in terms of how they contact wells fargo we know that consumers dont not review their Bank Statements so more to look at balances we want to remind and encourage folks to review Bank Statements where you get them online or paper another piece and in closing to echo this is so unfortunate that we still have so many folks unbanked and those that place their hope and faith in Financial Institutions we believe the piece of our job to make sure they understand the process and have the confidence in the safety of working with the Financial Institution so thank you very much i applaud the city of San Francisco the treasurer and my fellow nonprofits that do this work every single day. Thank you katherine hell repeat 8007066006 were handing out a flier with the information that number will be on the sf treasurer. Org i canned is enough about the great work and theyll help people going through this difficult time that may have happened in the wells fargo account im existing to introduce supervisor campos david. clapping. thank you good morning buenas dias and thank you to the treasurer he knows the thing again what wells fargo did the damage is beyond the impact on anyone that has been impacted by these accounts those fake accounts it is on the issue of trust because we have been working with the community that has been very distrust of Banking Institution for a lot of reasons and the so we had to do a lot of work in putting your money into the Banking Institutions and now we have to redo that work and sort of sea you know what we were not completely right about wells fargo see let me say. speaking foreign language. so it is very unfortunate but im very proud of what our treasurer is doing and it make sense that San Francisco will lead the way and proud to be associated with that and thank you to you and our office for that. speaking foreign language. clapping. thank you very much supervisor it is great to have our partnership were trying to let everybody in the city to make sure they, keep their money safe bottom line we want to make sure the city is here to help and our good friends are vertebral to make sure in their money is safe let me repeat number 800706006 please share that information with everybody in our community anticipate your family make sure we have a safe account to keep our money and were successful financially thank you for good afternoon the meeting will come to order. This is the regularly scheduled meeting of the Land Use Committee my name is supervisor cowen and to my right is supervisor wiener and commissioner peskin your scheshg is clerk victor young at this time, id like to take a moment and thank leo and justus from sfgovtv so for assisting us electronic devices. Please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. Items acted upon today will appear on the september board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much call item one. Item now and then ordinance amending the achievement planning code by rising the achievement scoping map to rezone olsen street as public and 50 x to usher and 85 x. Supervisor campos is the achievement sponsor of this item will lead the achievement discussion from this moment forward just said to recognize well have presentations from geo0 of planning and ann of the Mayors Office of housing supervisor any opening remarks. Yes. Madam chair and colleagues the achievement Land Use Committee for hearing this item we are the very critical time here in the city and county of San Francisco especially in neighborhoods like the achievement mission where we have the worse affordability crisis in our history the last number i saw as of february of this year, the afternoon rent for a two bedroom agreement was 4 thousand one and 26 very few people can afford to pay that amount we many my office have been working over the last 8 years to make sure we have development that is representative of the needs of our community that means especially right now to have development that is affordable i am proud that with respect to this property before this committee that my Office Working closely with the city with Community Folks to take the city owned parking lot at the corner of fulsome and 17th street and turn it into a parcel where half of the site will become one hundred 100 percent Affordable Housing and the achievement other half will be become a new park the first new park in San Francisco in more than a decade the purpose of this legislation to cut red tape to make sure that more affordable units are built on this site particularly what you have to legislation that rezones the parcel from p to urban mixed use and increases the achievement height from 50 to 85 feet so as to maximize the achievement number of units i constructed on this site approving this reZoning District will piece of the achievement way for construction of within hundred 39 new affordable units in the mission one of several Affordable Housing projects in the pipeline im proud this number of one and 39 apartment for families in transitional youth in this neighborhood the ground floor at the 2060 fulsome will excluding include a purchase infant toddler care by the organizations and a retail use that is intended for a cafe the last 100 percent Affordable Housing site in the mission was completed in 2011 and again, were sow excited excuse me about this project i want to thank the Achievement Development team of the Mission Economic development and the Achievement Center for working on this project and also thank all the communitybased organizations that will be bringing much needed programs to the spacing calling names jamestown and the goorn and as noted by the achievement chair we have a number of speakers here the first thing being gwen 0 from the achievement planning code. Planning Department Staff the property ordinance to rise the zoning use and height and bulk district maps for fulsome from the achievement determination as public and its height and bulk of 50 x to urban mixed use and height and bulk determination of 85 tedious e they do e beds that was introduced by supervisor campos so the tublt the subject property and owned by the cities and counties of San Francisco currently the project site is developed with a surface parking lot with the achievement vehicle Parking Spaces this rezoning and height recomplication or clarification to allow for the construction of 9 story 85 foot threelegged stool one and 65 square feet mixed use building on july 28th the Planning Commission heard the legislative amendment for the achievement reclassification after Public Comment that was overwhelmingly supportive the Achievement Commission voted 5 to zero for recommending the achievement board of supervisors adapt this proposed ordinance that is before you. Some of the basis for the recommendation of approval the fact this zoning and height will allow construction of 100 percent in the Mission District that was experiencing the issues of gentrification and displacement the rezoning with the enhancing of the citys supply of Affordable Housing in the Mission District neighborhood and additionally the achievement mixed use rezone is appropriate for the achievement site it is consistent with the achievement Zoning District found in the immediate neighborhood thank you, supervisors that concludes my presentation. Thank you, colleagues unless any questions id like to call upon shannon the achievement Chinatown Development center which is one of the two Affordable Housing developers that have been working on this project. Good afternoon chair cohen and supervisors pleased to be before you today to present this major Affordable Housing project chinatown cdc was niefld to be codispensaries we have submitted entitlement application for one and 39 that may be fewer but were having all units affordable to household with 60 of medium area income and most been 2 and three bedrooms and about 20 percent of the apartment will be preserved for transition youth existing foster care or homelessness including some that will be reserved for parents the achievement height and bulk is essential for the achievement special site next to a park i wanted to show an image or two of the project our Architect Team of solomon along with Mission District have really developed a great project design and we are very happy to say with 3 Community Meetings and Extensive Community outreach we have not had opposition but great feedback from neighbors and continue to tax the achievement comments take into consideration from the achievement neighbors and public ill be available to answer any questions about the achievement project thank you. Thank you, ms. Dodge next it ann ramos of the Mayors Office of housing. Good afternoon chair cohen and members of the board im ann project sponsor at the Mayors Office of housing i like to indicate our departments strong support on 20 fulsome street as youve heard cdc have owned the achievement city with rec and park that purposed the parcel to develop the achievement park and meta was select to develop the site in 2015 in response for the achievement high quality project for 20 percent of units targeted to homeless with transitional youth the lp has an option to enter into a long term lease we firmly believe that is ideal for families housing and have a preamount loan in my mind of 2 million and in the range of 21 million so thank you for your consideration. Thank you, again thank you to the Mayors Office of housing for all the achievement work that has gone into this project colleagues unless you have any questions i would a number of speakers ill call their names calling names . Please come on up. speaking foreign language. state your name speaking foreign language. good afternoon. My name is marie. Speak into the mike for translating. Good afternoon. My name is marie im here on behalf of the delores services and all the achievement families that live in the sros in the Mission District. speaking foreign language. it really hurts to see the families housing built with money for money and not enough for families living with low income. speaking foreign language. i ask that you, please take into consideration all the families families under those conditions and create Housing Available for them attorneyclient. Thank you next speaker. Next speaker. Good afternoon madam chair and mrbz im a senior project manager with the families agree working with Chinatown Corporation to bring this project to fruition here to express our support for the item on the agenda and to reiterate just the families urgency and the families need in the community as youve heard from our partners as well as the Community Members this is a project that if we built it today would be filled immediately as you may know that the families need more Affordable Housing at every level the Families Income spectrum is incredibly, incredibly urgent throughout the city as well and so we look forward to bringing this project to fruition with cdc and the partners with the Mayors Office of housing if you have any questions im available to answer them as well thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon chair cohen an immigrant from mexico when i recently moved to the states my neighborhood and first home in the Mission District i live in two buildings for 5 years and because there was high rent and also, because of need of the space with my brother and sister they got married we moved into the excelsior we lived for 12 years and on the downturn of the economy our landlady lost her home our home we cannot afford anything on the mission we were looking at for some landlords would not take children it was difficult we had to split up some of the rooms were 8 hundred and only allowed two people to live in the room lucky we found a home for 4 rooms 3 bathrooms that is my neighborhood and home for the families past 3 years and the story of my family or large family is one of hundreds in San Francisco especially in the mission where we feel more comfortable to shop im sorry to shop and look for resources in the mission thats why i urge you to approve this building and more so families can stay and live in San Francisco thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I always go to the Planning Commission but the residents i work for the Families Mission in the office of Economic Workforce Development and have been part of this project Community Planning in 2006, we were part of the neighborhood plan that side is this parking lot was puc land and we identity that has a neighborhood as Affordable Housing we have been fighting this is the response to organizing we have 8 hundred unity of Affordable Housing in the mission right now this has been a lot of progress to get this in the mission and im encouraged and urge you supervisors to approve that project and more coming in the pipeline yeah. This is this is big and we have seen all the families families in the studios and theyre not allowed to live this is the only resource that latinos can live in the mission we need more after i hope we will be able to achieve the families goal of 24 hundred new unit in the mission to apply the demand of Affordable Housing those corners were severing in the mission in the School District more families can under they earn under 50 or 60,000 we dont need nor condo and people coming with high incomes in our neighborhood because of the education thank you. Thank you. This point any Public Comment . Who has not spoken that would like to speak seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And madam chair that includes the Public Comment and the presentation one last point i want to thank sheila in the chambers of my office weve been working on this for many, many years and its been a Long Time Coming this is exciting thank you. Thank you. Okay. A motion for this item . So moved. Motion made by supervisor peskin and without objection that passes unanimously thank you supervisor campos. Thank you to the community for come on and congratulations. Thank you. Mr. Clerk anything else. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, the meeting is adjourned support. Im going to get starting this is a great opportunity a great momentum im using the your host with many other hosts including the residents this is grouching foreclosure transbay 78 and grand opening of gained 6 this is at first mixed income in transbay if this was a vision that our redevelopments agency ocii and the city has had of creating communities that are truly mick all the amenities you need to live a wonderful life in a transit rich location without driving a car all the time he know that we have the chief promoter of number one driving cars your mayor, we have a pot and get you to transit 7 right now the salary didnt work were lucky to have a couple of residents that offered to speak and give me tare perspective on what it is like tobacco live in the did you development first, i want to start by welcoming up your mayor were particularly lucky in San Francisco i think we have a cast of elected officials that support Affordable Housing like not other thank you and 23w7b jane kim and your mayor go comments weve here but open up to mayor ed lee. Thank you doug for the introduction good morning, everyone todays lucky numbers 6 and 7 laughter 6 because we are in district 6 i know that supervisor kim know that for sure they represented this district and a partner to make sure that every opportunity we have whether that you are ocii tiffany and the the commissioners are here i see all the commissioners very proud of their role in infrastructure and investment for your communities and they have not failed on the steps of going from a redevelopment that was kind of extinguished to make sure what happens in the city and county so i want to thank you to ocii and thank doubling and mercy housing for o for being a great partner many projects that olsen and the Mayors Office of housing working together in collaboration on and particularly ive been asking recently years my ocii list i need to really be on top of what tiffany and the commissioners are doing i want to be there when theyre making announcements about another 69, 100 percent unit our city this is what were doing today with the lucky numbers of 6 and 7 as doug said were block 6 and block 67 that is groundbreaking with another one and 11 units all 100 percent affordable to low income and middleincome families this is fulfilling promises of our city that we will build Affordable Housing along with the marketrate housing were doing and weve make sure that 50 percent of all relevant units we put an there are middleincome and low income this is what 50 percent of ami is important to understand those are deep, deep substances for those teaches projects just a year ago reiskin ca a apartments for that formally homeless was built and opted out the residents reinterviewed them ill see a lot of smiles in their oath the streets into Supportive Housing we need to do more to articulate our goals for thousands of holes it on the street in between that well build as many Affordable Housing we can i know that recently you read in the newspapers i have courageous the developers to go as high as 25 percent of their marketrate housing to be affordable we have to, of course, Pay Attention what is economic and feasible so that number will adjust but it is still a something that the cities have to the figured out we have taught figured with our serious investments in fights last week there blocks 6 and 7 again are examples of what we cocktail to mc as a affordable in those cases 100 percent you cant change that is not to be were interpreted any on the way than a strong commitment by the city as we gain control on the sites well make it as affordable as we can the people were representing and others people that does have a vows unless what we are doing with the sites take a look at the squander for ocii over two years and see an active organization working with the Mayors Office of housing and the former Housing Authority that are a hope sf for all the Public Housing and making sure we encourage anyone that owns vacant lots in the city . If so it vacant arrest empty gas station give it up we have a need we can build and do Better Things are and encourage Public Transportation because one of the reasons were able to gain much such a site is because of electrician Transit Center for the entire area it will be i look forward to being here because i want to ride the high speed rail from the basement to la marble well beat the dodgers as a result of that all of you in the Housing Development the private and nonprofit eastern working with our city agencies thank you to you all of you thats not easy to accomplish and takes a lot of different skill sets to put it altogether but now it is 69 in a few moms another one and 11 units you put those kinds of things together with the other projects were under construction under permit and you emigrate potentially 10 thousand more Affordable Housing units by 2020 and this is what were committed to and making this another example questions are on the way to accomplishing this thing together with all of you have go solar conversations with the board to do more thank you very much. clapping. were blessed in San Francisco to have elected officials that are supportive and many of you know the supervisors track record on there for mercy housing on many, many occasions and building more Affordable Housing in her district marathon any of the districts i want to thank the supervisor and bring her up for a few minutes supervisor kim. Thank you doug and actually over the past year the mayor and i have been mercy housing Ribbon Cutting with 24th street i housing for the former homeless families in mbe the reefrment halls been an amazing promise weve eye to build high levels of affordability all the way into families to the formally homeless and lives on the street to mifrment families that cant afford to buy a home in San Francisco and transbay neighborhood is within of the neighborhoods way before the mayor and i negotiated 33 percent trev o transbay had a loft i didnt gel of Affordable Housing clapping. i want to recognize hes not here but our former state senator john burdening what is from it is in the midst of the housing crisis were seeing units for low income and mifrment families through the work that happened many years ago and part of the solution of some of the households today block 6 and 7 were the First Development up in bid i want to recognize ocii, tiffany the director and commissioners commissioner myrna melgar and commissioner singh to make sure we are building Affordable Housing mifrment on time and schedule thank you for all your hard work thank you for all you do and mercy an amazing participate one thing to get the funding and one thing to find the site but to have the capability and know how and knowledge is incredibly inmental and having nonprofit that help the communities they work here already and provide services onsite to the residents so to critically important we want to make sure were serving your families and households they can stay in the housing were building today so im very excited for the opening of blocks and congratulations and thank you for choosing San Francisco to build in and really xiefrtd about Building Blocks 7 next well be heading over to the groundbreaking and thank you to everyone that is involved in making it happen today. clapping. all right. As usual the supervisor cadet me to the punch thank you tiffany and her staff theyre a lot of people from the city does that really, really couldnt have done this project it relied on the Mayors Office partner and thank you to others ben and gretchen and jean im sure one more name sarah price all of whom are miscellaneous those are truly partnerships this had three or four stages thank you to the commissions for your support and the ongoing support were excited to be about to begin to mark soon with the ocii and candle stick point he cant agree with the mayor more well make progress im personally happy if the perspective that those are truly mixed income communities trying to build together to make sure we have the right amenities as an example when the one and 20 apartments requester up in the middle a very affordable Childcare Center another part we need to take into account a lot of people to thank ill entering first this if you have comments wait a minute. This was a very im not going into the gory details but a scomplashthd building more complicated than most youre sitting or standing on top of a garage a garage that is actually, the foundation for both it highrise tower and ours so i would not say i should would build two buildings but in project sponsor couldnt have done it without the work of the Team Innovate because the most important but they did an amazing job i dont see the folks but chuck sorry chuck of k l gordon and buck and others this was a labor of love sometimes a very peaceful a lot but you guys made that happen we appreciate that and our architect an amazing joint effort between solt solomon. Prescott sanchez and societies they worked together well bruce we want to thank naomi and peter noon and i think thats our crew from the architects they did an amazing job not an easy project to coordinated but one of the things that the city and county takes an amount of prides and he certainly merry 1 00 when we opposite side one of the buildings in a neighborhood the goal no idea which one is the favorable i can tell you from the fact every time we open your building with the ocii we have lots of people want to know how to rent our Affordable Housing units and people are shocked they cant sdwisht difference our partnering not only with the agencies decide this is the hallmark of work in california to make sure we make sure were building the heist quality building for everyone involved so that leads me to a key if you have any questions, well be happy to answer them for block 7 umgs the ins and outs of cap trade with the climatic change within of the features of the climate plan is trying to invest in various different teaches initiative a key program the Affordable Housing Sustainability Community an hidden gem as jan explains to tie in detail that will not be hidden by block 7 we are lucky enough to have 6 nature Million Dollars the first insulate of director rubke but not the last theyll have an award announcement and im sure San Francisco will make more wonderful things happen correct me if i am wrong we believe this is the most at the time of trial rich project in all the projects in the stating base 6 commitment to the transit and caltrain and muni and with all the great bus services to thats why the state is investing in will the system and why 9 pocketbook is open and everyone project will continue to get more money so from the mooechlz. I cant get more excited than that. Happen happy birthday to all and everyone loves a birthday so heads up to everyone as we celebrate birthdays together you know this goes without assessing this was an Election Year how many of you really realize that today is an election day yes it is because in my world he hope it will be in yours everyday is an election day not the noise we hear an tv and social media by god but everyday is an elect day of making decisions its a an election between self or others every day we make a decision about our lives are we thinking of ourselves or others and amy doing something that is good for society or am i being passive or creating walls you know id like to introduce go preserves as we celebrate this day the perspective of a planner a funder act and then a resident unfortunately, he wouldnt have the privilege of being a resident like to do my best and talk about that you know because what were experiencing today is a wonderful example of how transit development; right . Is smart planning and best smart and theyre not inclusive we realize we wrooks that planning and design must be sustainable for a future we roles that Affordable Housing for families and seniors is smart housing and having san martin transportation refresh infrastructure is important because infrastructure binds us together doesnt it we walk the same paths we drink the same water and were there few Diverse Communities last week San Francisco and people are riding at the time of trial; right . And living in transit developing together tied into density housing and active translation and getting at the time of trial passes you know murphy housing was one of 28 westerns in the first launch of this Affordable Housing and Sustainable Community program it was the pilot year were now in the thrills of funding our second round in october youll hear the news about that in a few weeks im here to talk about planning and clefks i you know have a deft opinion he recognize that has we know the governor is forceful that climatic change is a big issue you can choose to ignore it just if i choose to ignore people in the so forth but and a change the existence you see a little description of the program the Agency Program its not a program about projects we use projects a lot but actually a program about project areas translated communities because we believe in building homes and not walls amen and lightwells talk about community from the perspective of a resident at the core of words community is unity; right . We realize today that all people deserve Affordable Housing are regardless of where they are in the economic scale so on this election daywear taking responsibility artists we to care and invest in our community in the residents of San Francisco we vote for the associate quality to pull together they can Work Together as were seeing it in front of us and will see it in just a few years. Nearly 50 years ago a approximately candidate it was 1968 and he was on the commissioner antonini trail and that candidate was Robert F Kennedy junior and he had to give the hardest campaign speaking speech of his career on that day in pretty well of 1968 he had to announce to the crowd that Martin Luther king was assassinated there was no twitter and it was talking in front of a substantially black audience and know it was sparked into a firestorm that would further send the nation into certain racial populartion and those are his words that resounds like today what we need to the itself not division what we need in the United States is not hatred what we need to the United States is not violence or lawlessness but wisdom and compassionate to one another and a feeling of justice towards those who suffer when theyre in your country he knew the temptation of base violence was going to occur and i knew he was thinking whatever was in the minds of peep what is quality one the same law in the nation im sure thats where we are today you feel the recess alsoness the vast majority of whites blakz want to live together and insure the quality of life and want justice for all human beings we declared and call on that day he would let us decade ourselves to what the greeks wrote to some years ago to tame the sageness of man and make gentle of the life of the world if we can only live that and make gentle the life of this world i think you all participating today you get that message you see the savageness and see the injustice and want to make gentle the lives of this world unfortunately about 60 days later that have speech he helping was taken down and it was o he was in la and there was an iconic picture of him lying on the ground in the kitchen and the busboy cradling his head and told her monk his last words were is everybody okay . 3 simple words on election day is everybody okay. On any given day im not okay. He need smoking someone to say eugene are you okay please, please ask the question and do something about it last week doug and his team and this at the and your elected officials are doing something everyday thank you. clapping. i feel very fortunate to work with someone like eugene people dont recognize the department of passion not feeling it agency a recovering Public Agency official myself i just want to acknowledge the great work that people in government do and not get enough crediting credit u dispense e general we appreciate that a lot of people at about adc i want to thank and objective the director calling names ellis and kim thank you for you guys making the trip appreciate our support were also blessed to have private partners one standing relationship with Silicon Valley valley bank and want to bring up fiona if i would. clapping. good afternoon, everyone on behalf of the Silicon Valley thanks an honor to be here and celebrate the grand opening our San Francisco office is just a few blocks away this is a gleaming ray of light in our backyard we are proud to play a small roll in bringing this project to life and 69 new homes very worthy families that are welldesigned and high quality and hopefully brings a wonderful opportunity let me share a quick joke so as a new mom he live by the words it takes a village some days my moerpgz are helped by the many helping hands this particular morning he was navigating around the world i was trying to Practice Gratitude and my drive took me past our building and the engine kicked in, yes it takes a village to raise a child additional a takes a village to build an urban village and this village comprised of a qualified Visionary Team that led by the murphy housing and all the partners that are here today you know from the outset we knew the project will be inform testify as a first Affordable Housing project in is this transbay district and knew that had some unique features that at times to moments as doug mentions the shared space with the marketrate project and underwrite a project like weve never done and moments we called kwirm to ask his impression but keep our eye on the price pricing whether in the empire Life Sciences are Community Development we want to help our clients have you ever seen into uncharged territories and designer approaches that led to leave sxans results and today is complex problems we need mercy housing like the city of San Francisco lied by the mayor and the supervisors and ocii and for your dedication to help the and make the impossible possible my team tuchd that project over the last few years and got the successful results calling names and thanks also to dbi banks. In the presence of such commitment im truly grateful thank you so much everyone. clapping. thank you, fiona the widens is kicking up well get through 24 reach out and hug anybody to that will keep you warm and none will sue in this setting so we do want to thank a couple of other people katherine and the jshths theyve been critically generous donors i want you thank you for your support and Federal Home Loan Bank a grant from the Affordable Housing program and Silicon Valley bank is an Important Program and a peas to make the developments work and hopefully for transbay 7 as well if this is your fit on the grand opening not heard the work tax credit an ovsh secure part of irs tax code that is responsible to make those knowledge areas roobl if you dont know where their tax dollars go but this is the building plain clothes for all the Affordable Housing in the city and what comes with the tax credit the opportunity to work with an investor we have a long another Long Term Fund that worked about mercy to make this work the more complicated we turn to tattooed theyll make sure it works i wanted to bring up todd and thank him. Thank you doug it is a obscure the tax credit a my family didnt know what i do everyone were principles to actually be the tax Credit Investor mercy housing is one the long even though partners in our history 25 years doug i counted on the database and thirty odd projects across the country and is tax credits the National Primary resemble to raise capital and invest into community thats right what we do on a daily basis for thirty years and 12 billion later id like to see is we cant do it without partners we have Silicon Valley bank not only provided the financing they were trusted us with 28 million of equity thank you, fiona and thank the mercy team william i dont know where sheila with that ill ill leave it at that. So in my effort inform work it in while were going there are projects recycle this mercy and your consultants do a lot of Work Together we are lucky enough to have a long term partner calling names all right. I cant find page 3 but someone on page 3 okay. He found it thank you very much for all that work. clapping. i also want to thank this was a project that required a fair amount of trust our biggest partner the company out of chicago we took a chance we didnt know how big a chance but had we known who knows what we would have done we and the rest of the folks are fantastic people to work with and driven people it was a hard project we worked on that together and no moment did we separate from each other thank you to the company and obviously theyre doing more work in San Francisco and obviously b be a great Interest Rate to the San Francisco skyline he wanted to take a moment sense it was raised earlier by the todd to thank the mercy staff this was a really recreate it started with julia and handed to william weve had people touch this project at mercy tells us how hard it was we want to thank all the mercy staff calling names if you have not met the guys hes wonderful in youre from mercy if you wouldnt mind raising your hand to be acknowledged. Also want to thank our chair the Reality Committee i dont see oh, and kres from the Board Members advisors and chris and obviously a nonprofit are driven by the volunteers that give me your time and expertise were deeply appreciative of they are help there are two projects we mixed up some stuff quarry crazy like this so we heard from todd that led the Development Investment on block 6 and block 7 were happy to have a partner in Wells Fargo Bank this is a tough couple of weeks this is truly a fantastic project and for us in the Affordable Housing there is wells fargo is a tremendous partner their construction lending and the investment that is similar to the projects and again, it takes someone with an understanding of our world and to me is excellent partner ill bring up tim and i throughout the groundbreaking was simple lucky i dont dress last week this but confused i think we Close Construction in june and here it is built already thats a joke im from wells fargo the equity manager and i think a number of people from wells fargo here terrance on my team and laura is here and maybe john he want to thank them and everybody and also to echo doug shoemaker i didnt have time to write everyones name down calling names everybody at the mercy i appreciate your help thank you very much and thank our partners olsen lee and everyone at ocii and in the city and county of San Francisco thank you so much for partnering with us along with h cd and Silicon Valley bank i appreciate all the financial parnsz and thank you to you all the members of the audience as fiona said it takes a village and everyone worked hard in Affordable Housing and i know i think this project and to project across the street is the good work of all of us i didnt prepare a speech but thank you very much. clapping. and especially doug all right. Were in the homestretch i think as a said to a person none wanted to hear from us but other residents were lucky we have two residents that have offered to share their story i dont think i bunched your last name shes with an of the newest resident and her boyfriend; right . And baby. Hi, everyone and good afternoon. Im a current resident all the way up to the 8 floor he heard about mercy housing through the friends when we wereplegic for long term and couldnt get in i decided to give a shot and i applied i remember you were somewhere sorry. It was my application that i turned in for housing i remember that was someplace in march he turned in any application in one today, i received a letter assessing he won and my lottery number was 54 i never won the lottery in any life i was pregnant at that time, and turned in any that application and life was hard before moving into this amazing place within living with a parent in a oneroom apartment and really couldnt afford for 2,000 to rent for every month he moved into this home right before giving birth and my baby was barron in my home we want to appreciate it and say thank you to mercy housing and they have a program that gives me opportunities to a young formally person and helps us thank you very much clapping. all right. I forgot a couple of shout outs i have two more shout outs mercy one of the things to enable us to have success in San Francisco this may be different we take a lot of pride in the work we do around making sure the ground zero of uh our building contribute to the neighborhoods we have someone nancy who is in the back one of a kind person from mercy housing that does our leading thing if i like filled scoff nancy was on early adopter thank you for being on the ground floor and providing coffee and the south of market childcare that is moving in and thank you so much were looking forward to having you in that space without further ado, a stylish guy i met him yesterday. clapping. it is windy. Good afternoon welcome everyone to my neighborhood and my name is leonard i won the lottery which is a program and he was displaced in the san jose from the western edition and me and my family had an opportunity to live here based on the cop and i reilly enjoy 24 place and people here i mean, the amenities the bus services and stuff like that but some things im disappointed with but this is a great place to live and he looks forward to living here many, many years and my wife and daughter live here right there clapping. and they were inmental in that my wife pushed me in putting in certificate of preference is a great place and clean and xhofsht he enjoy being here i think i have a great opportunity to enjoy this place thank you clapping. okay. Not to put pressure on leonard it is amazing you think about the certificate of preference many of you are familiar in an earlier area of redevelopment less gentle force people are displaced from the western edition and for 2, 3, or 4 is decades people had many disappoints we were critically happy to work with the staff of ocii that worked to track individuals over the year and 5 cop hollers from the commissioners to the staff thank you and letting us play a part with that, were done with the official ceremony we have tours and a little bit of food for folks that are in the front right now come over and perch a shovel of dirt with us and everyone else thank you for coming take a tour and ask the mercy staff theyre happy to tell you the details of this building thank you for food in just about expensive eat but food for everyone and theres organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. More and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from well look at
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