Transcripts For SFGTV Public Utilities Commission 102715 20151030

Minutes of october 13th minutes my additions, deletions, or changes can i have a motion. Moved seeing all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries general Public Comment i dont have i new general Public Comment is there on any Communications Commissioners any questions or comments. None are there any questions or comments from the public on communications . Seeing none, thank you 0 the commission business. There is 0 none moving report of general manager mr. Kelly. My first update on the drought steve richie. Thank you steve richie assistant general manager for water slides please. Begin the standard chart where we are in storage hetch hetchy is 73 percent of capacity and water bank a third of its capacity at one and 90 thousand and get approved acre and water bank from the water bank a pretty good year Lake Elsinore is down it not a typo substantially for a construction project to modify values values for the dam the precipitation a new water year started october 1st a new red line off thegraphy as you can see were ahead of the curve this time maybe that will continue well see how it goes actually, i have a chart showing the precipitation another hetch hetchy it is almost an average for the month and some potential for precipitation tomorrow night as well as over the weekend so we may be above average for the month of october it is early but something. Total deliveries after our summer peak of 23 hundred and 5 m g d weve dropped down and demand is a redondo strained by folks were seeing very, very the outside irrigation people are conferring substantially. And the total water savings is well above the target and continues on the upward trend the entire year. Briefly about the only thing lastly as i mentioned last time we are that running a full scale at the time of the aqueduct systems used in 1992 drought we begin into the mountain tunnel and it is down to the bay area of october 14th the test is winding down now well return to hetch hetchy other than november 3rd weve targeted november 12th but had some precipitation in cherry that caused a spike so we elected to start the bach off of the cherry supply but be able to fully test the system and found were a little bit of a challenge but by the knew the test was successful and delivered water to the cherry customers a reminder noted to this is what the cherry aqueduct for a period of three weeks and ran effectively here to answer any questions. Thank you very much mr. Kelly. That concludes my report thank you. Bosco update. Public comment on general Public Comment. Public comment on the drought report . Good afternoon eric brooks San Francisco green party sustainability chair a quick question for staff you noted that a reservoirs was drawn down to do Technical Work on the reservoirs and i think pipe connections i was wondering whether when this happens is that storage transferred somewhere else especially during a drought it is doable or do we lose the storage the other question i thought a sf clean power update is that later on in the agenda . Okay. Lets take a look. Good afternoon, commissioners commissioner Vice President moran congratulations on our election as Vice President i hoped to be able to congratulate commissioner president vietor in her president i was not here at the last meeting but thank you to the for commissioner caen and her kind comments about the relationship that is well, this year for the Drought Campaign as evidenced by the slides it steve richie put up i wanted wanted to start off i wanted to speak about mountain tunnel very pleased with the action that is before you today puc has an Engineering Firm to provide the vitality plan for the assistance to fix the mountain tunnel i urge you to move forward and act think that recommendation from our staff and getting this firmer on board quickly to protect the water users from the collapse from this water system the staff recommend an agreement whether result in step up to the plate the connective reliability risks of mountain tunnel and i agree i also want to urge you to this commission to address two other major actions required to eliminate those risks of water supply outage as i said over the past 22 months since we were informed the mountain tunnel might have a catastrophic flurry talked about the risk and the possibility of extending when the tunnel is shut down your staff concluded it could be done i appreciate the response as well and hope that the opportunities to shrink the Overall Program we examined this work as it moves forward second on september 22nd i spoke to you at the time i spoke about the 5 part plan with the completion with the acquisition to fix it in the effectual of a failure from the tunnel collapses and raping to create an Emergency Response plan but the fifth part of this total plan to identify and implement plans for how to meet water supply needs not region in the event of an not planned option and if bosco is at risk today of not having the sufficient Water Supplies in event of the collapse of the mountain tunnel and to address this issue including the identification of alternative Water Supplies that is necessary to prepare for and reduce the risk of a water supply shortfall for the entire region an urgent i believe will require assertive leadership in negotiations by San Francisco to meet this challenge all 5 parts of this mountain tunnel plan plans will be required to begin the task and specific actions and completion date each felt 5 parts should be examined to determine if their schedule schizophrenia be short end i appreciate the commissions opportunity to speak today that concludes my remarks ill answer any questions you might have and i have a copy for the commissioners. Thank you, commissioners. Thank you very much. Actually, i have a question. Okay. Youve spoke of this before have you and boca received anything of us in terms of a timeline . For an Emergency Operations plan no, we have not i have taken the initiatives of scheduling meeting with the agencies to look at what flexibility they have and their supplies and your staff is attending those but there is no timeline for identifying when that question will be addressed and resolved. Okay. I do notice on i asked for in timeline we did june 23rd and under the hundred 2 dash 19 an Emergency Response implementation and it is a solid line but nothing addressed 0 this. To the Emergency Response plan is scoped specifically at tasks that need to be done on motherinlaw to fix the tomb or prepare to fix the tunnel in an event of a collapse construction work to repair the tunnel thats moving forward i asked for the other part that is from the tunnel is going to fail what is the plan for making sure we have sufficient Water Supplies because right now the expectation the failure is up to 9 months to fix and so in the meantime, your staff has come forward with the local supplies is 3 months maybe a little bit more certainly not 9 months of supplies so until my request how to plan to get through that and do some thinking ahead to understand more what might happen and the opportunities to remove some of the risks. General manager this is safety for all of us not only for bosco but san franciscans that should be addressed. Yeah. I think one of the things that steve richie you might want to speak on it were looking at not only if it, it is a failure other not having assess to the hetch hetchy how long what we go without you know the hetch hetchy water i thought that was more than 3 months. Yeah. Yeah. Steve richie assistant general manager yes, we prepared a technical memo weve finalized well provide to the commission we seated the potential for outage of 90 days excuse me. 90 days one hundred and 20 and 90 days we have plenty of compatibility to provide one and 80 days we just fall short so contrary to the comments there is not this huge gap beyond 90 days we can get one 80 days with the demand management we can manage that 200 and 70 days we have to have more significant actions we met with bosco and identity the shift by the customers is an important thing to do we agreed to meet together with the individual customers to do that i want to make sure youre clear we have been work on this and on all the correspondence to bosco we have supplies available and manage our supplies in the event of a shortage from hetch hetchy for whatever reason we do that not certainly not frequently but every year we have a month or two shut down we always go to alternative supplies that basic plan is there so i get irritated with had it is indicated no plan we have a plan to do deal with those situations 9 months is a long time we have more work to do to cover that thank you. Any other questions. Thank you. Public comment . Seeing none, well move on to the consent calendar mr. Secretary read the items. Item 4 a consent calendar all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine there will be no separate discussion of these items discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. A ward agreement and authorized the professional services with goodwill solution not to exceed 3 million with a duration of two years and number one to the joint agreement with the geologic safer and c approve the terms and conditions with the readvocate license and thank you commissions any items you want taken off the consent calendar. I move the cleaned. Second any pubs what to all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The puc. Mr. Secretary read item 10. To amend c2 to a 6 and authorize the extension of the term by 3 years. Okay. Any presentations any discussion any questions. Ongoing can i is there any Public Comment on this item . May i have a motion. So moved. Moved and seconded emphasize none opposed the that motion carries. Item 11. Approve the selection of the award agreement and authorize the position for the agreement for the amazement, 201,129,000,000 for a duration up to 10 years. Thank you members . Ill second both and seconded i have a question in the scope of work for this agreement the firm would be advising us during the hearing phases and correct to be doing deals of whatever option adapted by this commission. Thats correct. So okay. Theyre helping us with the interim repairs well have them for the duration whatever alternative. So theyll be the engineers of record for whatever alternatives. Correct. Thank you. Any other questions. I have a question. Yes. Im a little bit fuzzy on this concept well go into the mountain tunnel and repair that. First, were going to do a condition ascertainment the placing last assessment was under 2008 so mick mill on and jacobs will be doing the actual Condition Assessment they did the 2008 assessment to theyll been going back into the tunnel to do an updated assessment and do repairs in 2017 right after the Condition Assessment and then the plan is that the following year excuse me. The following year in 2018 theyll do additional repairs and at this point, a theyll say should we continue with repairs or look at a tunnel alternative. I know that was discussed but you have informational or forgot even and i have a motion and second. All in favor, say i. I. That motion carries. Item 12. Approve the plans and specifications and award the contract to 654 in the amount of of 11 million plus to the quality and responsive bird in t k construction. Commissioners, any questions. I have a question about the protests. Okay. We had the one protest from gordon ball because they had stated we needed or the low bid had to be prequalified when we rebid it didnt have that requirement so basically no merit to the protest. Isnt that unusual we had it before but not this time. I dont think that is unusual i think that is a lot of vegetation work we wanted to expand the pool of contractors who can bid on this. I see okay. Any other questions for the commission any Public Comment . May i have a motion. Ill make a motion. Second. All in favor, say i. I. None opposed the puc approved the contract n p and authorize the general manager to implement the project. Commissioners . Ill move the item. Youll move the item. Second. Moved and seconded any questions or discussion any Public Comment. Seeing all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . None opposed the puc. Next item. Project c w w s i p and authorize the general manager to implement the project. Commissioners . And all im sure the staff is prepared for a presentation if you want a more detailed and ill move the item. Seconded. Any any Public Comment . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . None the puc next time please. Item 15 approving the project and authorize the general manager to implement the project. Commissioners. So so moved ms. Casco mr. Chairman. Second. Its moved and seconded any discussion . Any Public Comment . Seeing all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . None opposed the puc. Next item, please. Item 167 public hearing and possible action to the f water sufficient irrigation for the Public Utilities Commission Rules and regulations. Mr. Richie give a thumb nail presentation and on the second page the California Water Commission Approved a revised lets see we use the acronym model water landscaping so the amendments were proposing in the states revised landscape ordinance from one thousand to 5 hundred square feet and the definition used to determine the water budget to result in a more sufficient water use and the existence to the installation of the irrigation centers and master shut down values and to approve the irrigation equipment and the appendix peculiar for the calculations those are more a matter of technical changes except the Square Footage their consistent with the landscape ordinance. Thank you commissioners any other questions or comments . Any Public Comment . May i have a motion. So moved. It is moved and all in favor, say i. I. Fair to say there are none opposed that motion carries. Item 17. Approve the section of the qualified 0 respondent to the cleanpowersf for conditional authorize the general manager to execute one or more contract with a qualified Court Reporters and seek the approval from the board of supervisors for the approved prequalified respondents to the extent. Ms. Hale barbara hale assistant general manager for power you heard the brief summary and including were seeking the pool of suppliers the ability to move forward with the Contract Negotiation and execution let me review for you to emphasis the specific conditions that were laid out in the agenda items those conditions with happy new year the pricing is consistent with the commissions adopted policies and this is the issue of having the cleanpowersf program meet our availability goals renewable contents for supplies through this pool of bidders from eligibility portfolio those are california compliance portfolio standards resources located here in california that is achieving the clean power of the program and moving to some of the other aspects of it we want to make sure that the approval is conditioned on counter parties or counter parties are the suppliers meeting your support requirements so have a good Counter Party to move through the program with us and volumes are limited to the 60 megawatts the commission authorized us to got rid of and bid option one contract are not to steady 5 years and the same for the Resource Adequacy that same 5 year limitations and bid the Firm Renewable contracts that will be limited to terms of greater than 25 years the Resource Adequacy contracts with limited to procuring the quantity required by law and finally, the total cost of the Energy Supply will not steady 35 million per year that is placing constraints on the general manager authority in that will presented in the context of our expected costs and rates for the program our Business Plan and Risk Assessment well be bringing those forward for your review pursuant to the schedule on the 7 in draft form on the eighth and final form and finally we adopt best practice on december 8th under our current schedule with that, well be seeking approval to move forward to the board of supervisors on a track for approval of those tracks with that, ill be happy to answer any questions i would note that you know our common practice to include some additional dripers of how we selected the bidders and in this situation we selected a pool of bidders they did Evacuation Team went through a paved fail test as opposed to a scoring test and those bidders that passed were brought forward to the pool and were seeking approval to negotiate in this pool setting to make sure we leverage has much Competition Among the counter parties and bring the lowest price to the program with that, ill be happy to answer any questions. Commissioners. Question commissioner caen. Im very happy with that plan the question i have for you are were going to know what green pg e chosen. Before we choose ourselves if ours is better green well know that you that. We will know penguins we know what pg e has filed as planned we wont know exactly what theyve committed to by the time we sign confirmation for the supply we know theyre commenting solemnly swear committing to california compliant portfolio content category one power we do know what the particular mix is i understand it is largely solar. So what we know about the program is was it they stated at the california puc. Okay. Were shugz u choosing at the same time, they are. Yes. And theyre planning is my understanding to launch their program in the spring of 2016 as well. Oh, i thought that was before that. No. Were on pretty much the same schedule. So which reminds me a typo in the agenda we indicated january 2015 rather than 2016 that needs to be corrected. If i can add to that our premium product is super green that is what pg es product would be theyre green takeover one hundred percent renewable the difference with pg e you can decide on how much green how much of that power you want to pretty much is like a scaleable. Actually, i building that general manager kelly that was a concept they had attempted to implement but not sure they have authority ill double check on the concept whether pg e customer could elect to participate in pg es green Takeover Program for that a portion of their supply so they could have their own mix of 100 percent and not 100 percent percent to get a blend ill come back to you with an answer on that question. Okay mr. Brooks asked inform a general update this is cosponsoring to the schedule by other schedule. No others schedule changes the schedule we presented here and the last Commission Meeting we presented at bosco and were on track we have had the opportunity to present Additional Information about our customer outreach activities to lafco and want to take the opportunity at the chairs pleasure after the vote. Okay. Any other questions or comments on the item any Public Comment on the item mr. Brooks. Good afternoon again commissioners eric brooks San Francisco green party our city of San Francisco and San Francisco clean power advocates i urge you to move that forward and move all aspects forward as quickly as possible the sooner we get our act together the better well beat them to the punch on marketing a side note, of course, this idea that pg e is going to have a quote unquote 100 percent green theyll allot the customer to decide how much percentage from their energy from 100 percent is basically having a way of noted having 100 percent and calling that 100 percent they know the customers will choose lower percentages or percentages that leads me to the next point that i want to kind of followup and sort of hopefully change the angle where things were last meeting with regards to advocates and when we have criticisms what were bringing to the table on cleanpowersf many of us for over a decade and all of us for many years have been fighting pg e and pg e marketing in some cases our fulltime jobs almost those locally and in San Francisco and on the state level in 2010 with prop 16 and 2014 with ab 2145 with the two bills weve become extremely wellversed to how to respond to pg e tactics and pr and so just and things like timing of the program and things like that please understand i said to lafco on friday when we have krivenlgz for what is being done by the staff and power enterprise were no longer in the contention mode 3 years ago we thought the program was off the radials now working collaborating with the staff to approve the program and make to stronger were missing something we h the thing that got us a a Strong Program that lair when she was here had monthly mergers with the public the public helped to make the decisions in leveraging to monthly meeting with the advocates helped to make the decisions it was very contention program but staff and advocates made the decisions totaled o together we were better now staff invites us to meetings and asking them to help us do their plan when we raise cease were moving forward we need the collaborative monthly process back, please work on that thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment. Yes, sir. Hello, im jarring any the new orientation or organizer for the sierra club id like to support a lot of of what my friend eric said we want to see more collective collaboration and i like that eric said were in a friendly place for more than 10 years the sierra club and others friends of cleanpowersf have talked i talked about more than 10 thousand people we have reported and we want to see it 10 years ago and were very happy were in the place we are were looking at bids and starting to plan like to echo we would like to see this with as few details as possible. Jason fried executive director for lafco we did a great presentation from our staff about what is going on and fully supportive of moving forward we want to encourage this be moved forward of move forward as soon as possible the question that comes up is what the pentagon green Takeover Program look like and the things to remember we might not know the process but the general mix so it is easy for our staff to say with confidence theyll go back with a Greener Program maybe we have more solar or what is relevant how have Green House Gas emissions and the program by your staff will be emitting less Green House Gas emissions and what are we emitting less Green House Gas and the contractors youll be talking about with i encourage to you to give the general manager to give the go ahead to save the Green House Gas emissions until a program rudolph were not saving any Green House Gas emissions but we can control that better by having our own program. Commissioners any additional questions or comments. I do i think in first of all, with with all due respect with all the effort getting us to this point from our own staff but the folks from the sierra club and the green party it is admirable and im enthusiastic to move the ball along to address the point that was raised about the Comfort Level of certain types of engagement that may or may not be take place or take place in the past ill ask staff to give us a horticulture memorandum to understand we dont have the lecturer of hearing what kind of dialogue and the agenda is set and how the announcements are made i remember i dont think i got a chance to work with laura but since it was referenced what piece of pulls might we be able to put into play to gleaning folks as we move into 2016 id like to get information from staff about those engagements the thirty thousand foot levels thank you. Any other comments questions . May i have a motion. Ill make a motion. Second. Moved and i. Opposed . Number one, the that motion carries we will be going into closed session mr. Taylors read the items im sorry oh. I have a presentation updating the outreach activities that we have been engaged in with cleanpowersf the same presentation to lafco we have four or 5 slides charles. And well call that part of general manager report . We left it under cleanpowersf so you can actually do it here if you like. Okay. Commissioners whats your pleasure. Lets hear it. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners Charles Sheen the communication manager for the cleanpowersf program well run through slides quickly and see if you have questions at the end. There we go. Okay. Perfect. So i wanted to give you a kind of an overview of the activities weve been engaged with and the Community Groups. What is scheduled for the next month as you can see we started mid december with the programs and Westwood Park and in the Southeast Health fair most recently in the past saturday we tripled we were at the Community Fair in chinatown the bayview and the environment called bright and supervisor president breed district those 3 outreach teams doing different fence on saturday and Going Forward Community Groups and our goal is by the time we launch phase one a list that is two large but hit all the nonprofits and Community Groups all who has a meeting in the southeast part of city we want to get to them and do it citywide as well that doesnt show completely the slide it is our outreach timeline the ones Hidden Valley high school in green is where well spend money to do paid advertising and mailers, etc. Right through october 22nd some of the activities weve done the new brochure and the website and last week, we had a productive merging with a chat and chew a lunch meeting we handed out toll kits to all these offices they have a number of items for their education and publicist to talk about cleanpowersf and coming up on november 9th the fourth advocate meeting i can assure you state will be collaborative and welcome ovb he just left so meeting with them on november 9th and then once january hits well spend the money on january 4th the first marital that goes out before the opted notices and following january 15th our first opt out no is to the post office and begin advertising in february and the Second Post Office and march one the Community Groups and the nonprofit organizations in the southeast to do some visibility do leave letting and people coming home from work and door hangs and another way to reach out to people not just the mailbox and billboards and transit places and serve customers so we have is an aggressive schedule we want to be ambitious and make sure whether at the post office or a another the front door encourage you to sign up for super green and, of course, make sure you stay in the program for good participation rates these are some of the same categories of stavkz on a timeline ill run quickly through them i talked about the media and the education mailers and the opted notices and partnering with the folks at the fairs and festival we will start early next year doortodoor legislation and meeting with some of the larger businesses throughout the city to begin to educate them and so often them up when we get to them in phase two and 3 theyre aware of the program and ready to participate that starting next year as well to the levy that is some of the citywide outreach well be doing while were doing the specific take into account for the southeast and again, some of the same things at the fairs and festivals and Community Groups trout the city and social media both paid and own media we control so again, a pretty comprehensive list i think this is my last slides some of the unspecific televised hoping e hopefully with a video from our manage and encouraging people to do that and go to the supervisors offices we talked about that the supervisor aid last week want them on camera signing up for super green for their personal message with the advocates meeting on the 9 and a couple of ideas ill call out one an event where the price of admission is super green sign up some beverages nonalcoholic, of course, and some something to eat and neglecting event youll come to this and sign up for super green or bring a friend to sign up and a couple of fun judges as well thats it for my outreach slides so if you have any questions if not thank you furbishing i got a cue a draft tshirt and we had the final in two or three weeks as long as you sign up for super green well get you one everyone in the audience and using those for contests to encourage the super green sign ups. Do they come in bigger sizes laughter . Yes, a size for everyone. Well, for all those folks watching on tv wanting a shirt it is on the website you can sign up the harder part to know your account number. Were twaeshg that evicting it is nice to know the account number but we recognize that people are ceased by the impulse to sign up for super green well make sure that we caution everyone on the website that if we dont have our pg e number well call and or email you are who you say you are before we enroll you in super green for no false signups. Thank you, commissioners. Cleanpowersf. Org thank you. laughter . Any Public Comment . Okay are you standing to leave or talk. Ill be much more brief a little not on the marketing stuff one was brought up in local Agency Formation commission make sure the hash tag for twitter is cleanpowersf and not sf water that didnt relate to twitter and need to make sure that cleanpowersf. Org is much more prominent on the materials that are being handed out it is small when we had a meeting staff come to 350 sf less make that big so as many people as possible gets on to cleanpowersf. Org and sign up there was concerns raised by the Staff Members we dont want to premutually sign up people thats not a problem they can go on a waiting list the last thing everyone m that watches me on government tv and all those commissioners probably know i wear black tshirts do a small super green shirts that is great laughter . Second. Always asking for someone jason fried executive director for lafco commissioner Vice President moran you mentioned the pg e account number is an important thing ive been working with our staff and talking with the other people that are up and rubbing how to get around the projecting problem and out at an event people will not have their pg e account im sorry, i dont carry mine smart phones they can get up but were going to be discussing and marin sent the information how to potentially get around that information at a street fair it might be the Biggest Issue the signups making sure we get everyone in this is something that is being worked on right now. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, now we will be going into closed session mr. Secretary read those items please. Item 20 conference with Real Property negotiator at San Francisco 1975 San Francisco under negotiation prices in terms of payment. 21 state farm automobile insurance visas city and county of San Francisco. 22 existing legislation phil for the revocal trust versus city and county of San Francisco 23 david versus city and county of San Francisco 24 existing litigation hetch hetchy versus city and county of San Francisco, and items 25 through 31 will not be heard today. Thank you. Public comments on items to be heard in the closed session . Seeing none, could i have a motion whether or not to assert . Motion. Move to assert may i have it second. All in favor, say i. I. Carries. Were back in open session the Commission Approved settlements on 21, 22 and 23 no additional action taken can i have a motion regarding whether to disclose. Not disclosure moved all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The that motion carries any Public Comment on what we just did . There is nun thank you. Any other new business. I have new business. Go for it. I had a drink with todd a couple of weeks ago he has a puc hat that is black and orange and id like to question request we all get them. Second. laughter . Thank you i think the general manager will take that under appropriate advisement. Is there any other new business. Thank you all this meeting is pamazing district. Some of you know that i grew up in Public Housing. I live there more than half my life, right down the street at eddie and laguna. Good morning out, everything my name is linda and breed in him the supervisor for this amazing district. Some of you know that i grew up in Public Housing. I lived more than half my leaf at eddie and laguna. When i became a supervisor and met with the mayor he asked me, what my three Top Priorities were on the board. And, number one, Public Housing. Number two, Public Housing. Number three, Public Housing. Since then, the mayor and i have been working hand in hand to do something different. 1960 housing policies cannot solve our housing crisis in the city and county of San Francisco. Nor, can we continue to allow the residents of Public Housing to be neglected. The conditions that exist in many of these developments existed when i was growing up there. Bad plumbing. Rodents. No response to fixing the problem. Discovering that we had about 10 12 million to fix over 4000 Public Housing units, and we had over 200 million of the deferred maintenance, well, it really upset me because there was nothing that i felt that i could do to change the lives of the people who live here. So, i did working hard with the mayor, with edward lee to try and figure out something different. No, its not a perfect solution, but its whats going to change this community for the better. Today, we have our amazing representative, leader nancy pelosi, who continuously fights for San Francisco and fights for the rights of those who dont have any fighting for them in congress. It is a battle she deals with every day. Ive witnessed it personally. We are so appreciative of her hard work. We also have the hud secretary, julian castro, here today was a former mayor, and he has a few words that he wants to say and whats great about having the mayor and these incredible federal, National Leaders, to talk to us today is that they get to see firsthand the experience of people who live here. They get to meet the residence. They get to see the conditions, and what i hope that they walk away with is a desire to want to do better. A desire to want to work hard for the folks who live in these units. Every single day i know its a struggle. I have not forgotten about where i came from. That is why, on the board of supervisors, it is been my priority to deal with changing the lives of folks here because even though i made it out, even though im a success story, even though so many people who i grew up with are proud of me, they deserve the same opportunity that i have and today, is a new day for that opportunity. So, at this time, i would like to welcome mayor ed lee to the podium. [applause] thank you. Thank you, pres. Lyndon breed. Were very lucky to have you as not only a supervisor for this district but as our board president and obviously all of you can feel the passion she has and we have ours to share our family stories with each other for quite some time now. With the hopes that we would have a better outcome for our residents here in San Francisco. Let me begin by saying that its not only a pleasure to work with the supervisor, it is a privilege because not only do we share the stories we get to do something about it. One of the things that we get to do about it, we get to and the description that oftentimes is made about Public Housing residents. That is to say that, i want to be here when all of us can say theyre not Public Housing residents. The residents of San Francisco. Thats a difference. Its a complete difference in the relationship that we have with our Housing Authority, the relationship we have with the tenants association, the people that live in a just so happens, it might be economically challenged, but theyve got the strength and hope like all of our families do. When we talk about our stories, we often talk about the strength of families, the hope that people have, the things theyre doing for themselves and for each other to build strong communities. This is what i think, but it was all about when they first began to build these Housing Units and over the decades been challenged with all of the Asset Maintenance jones, the lack of funding, the lack of cooperation between local governments and the Housing Authority. We have been through all that. But we have new leadership. We have walking torres and all the new commissioners that are in line with the Mayors Office of housing and the board of supervisors. We have a federal government that not only listens. They fight for all of us to make sure were doing the right thing. We have a hud secretary that i got to meet again. The last time sec. Castro and i met we had not won the nba championship yet. Of course, i probably stuck out my tie. Welcome former mayor. San antonio. This is warriors ground. Of course, he got it immediately but i also say to the secretary, too, having a former mayor in that position means an awful lot and will go into detail later on about that. I am here today to announce, again, that the robert pitts housing complex is the third of 15 sites that weve already begun. This result Assistance Demonstration Program with our federal government. We arty started at hunters view. If you go down there, take a good look at it. Without rebuilding Public Housing. Rebuilding a community with residents formerly of Public Housing. You are part and parcel of that through a program that leader pelosi has helped that be so much hope sf. It is giving everybody the chance and hope to be part, equal parts, of building a stronger community. Second project, up and center wasnt within urban and thats down that alice griffith. Thats already underway. In fact, the Senior Housing is under construction and pretty soon see some of the seniors that will move over from the dilapidated housing bearing, Public Housing, into a very modern complex as we knock down and rebuild their housing. Now, its robert pitts is turned until the 15 sites for this, over 700 million effort that we call phase 1 of that. Phase 1 of our rental assistance program. It is a program that is new, quite frankly, to hud and to all of us. Because when we got together with supervisor breed and with all of our people in the city we no longer wanted to have a Housing Authority that would build and maintain poverty isolated housing. We wanted to invest in the people first. We had to make people believe that we are going to do a new model. Something that involved them in their futures. So that we could try to do and demonstrate, what i think is a discussion all across the country. How do you and intergenerational poverty and needed to ask not just have poverty go from generation to generation, from kids to the grandkids, and it takes an entire village to do that. Housing is a great part of it. Affordable housing is a great part of it, and thats why we have a 310 million commitment on the ballot, opposition a to use that money, to use that resource to rebuild Public Housing but also in the private sector as well to upper middle classes as well as our low income residents have we built housing for them. But, we never lost sight of the other things that we have to do as a city to end poverty as well. Our communities have to be safe. So we invest in our kids. We invest in education. If a Good Transportation system. Will we rebuild all of this housing, its going to also be accommodated by worldclass Transportation System. How does it feel to have our kids writing for free by the second year in a row. He didnt do that with having a strong city. They got municipal so excited after we got the google donation that now we have free invisible for our seniors and people with disabilities to ride a worldclass Transportation System that is accessible to everybody and used by so many people. Dont have to own a car to get around to your job and anyplace else. You also have to be safe and thats why we are investing in not only police force, but in job programs. We have tech programs. We have healthy San Francisco. We have so many programs that were investing in to make sure communities are strong. So, i say to you that im a in addition to a revitalized Housing Program for Public Housing residents, where we are no longer building isolated low Income Housing, their integrated communities. They are building the strength of our best nonprofits that are now integrated with our Housing Authority. In working with the residents to make sure they are part of the voice as to how these units are built, and we are hiring as many of our Public Housing residents to do the building themselves to city built. Another Great Program that weve reached in to the heart of our residence in Public Housing and say, we can train you to build and to manage this housing at this same time. This is all part of what we call brad. It takes a lot of different parts of hard and i know that leader pelosi, every time i called her, shes been so wonderful in answering my calls as we explain the latest thing we have to do with hard and to make sure that everybody understands, because we are all subject to old ways of doing things. San francisco is subject to many old ways of doing things. That is why we didnt build enough Affordable Housing and how could we go for two decades without having an Affordable Housing in the city . Are we embarrassed by that that we do not build housing in operation for young family to grow up in different ways . This is what were fighting against. Old traditions of not building well, not building efficiently, not doing it in collaboration with our residents, and getting their talent involved in using the power of hope sf to do so. This is all part of those hours of conversation that ive had with london with the board of supervisors, with our Housing Authority, with our Mayors Office of housing, in our commissioners. So, we have a lot to celebrate as we begin these projects. Robert pitts is going to be retouched, we first, all 203 units. Guess what . Weve got to make sure we do this to give hope to families that are headed up with people like marty anna johnson. You know, she is a 15 year resident of robert pitts, and i know having raised two children herself and being a Strong Family leader, she cannot be more excited than any of us to see a refurbished unit become her permanent home for her and her family and to have it not only upgraded, but maintained for the long period of time and having the touch of other residents feel the same, that theyre not Public Housing residents. There residents of the great city of San Francisco. So, i would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to someone whos working directly with us. As a parent, as a woman, as a strong leader of the tenant here, residence here, Arianna Johnson. [applause]hello. Hello, good morning. My name is Arianna Johnson dominated here of San Francisco. I resided here at robert pitts for 15 years and am the mother of two beautiful daughters. Today is a very special day for me. My grandfather was James Henry Johnson almost San Francisco first African American Services Group what an honor and blessing and for for me to be here. [applause] this project is also very special to me. Not only is a resident here at the robert pitts community but also as a former employee of San Francisco Housing Authority. I was a building concierge here for six years. We as residents affected by this process are excited for a new horizon. For generations, Living Conditions have been heartbreaking and challenging. The majority of us residents that live in low Income Housing desire a clean, peaceful, habitable, safe, functioning and desirable place to live. The majority of us are working or senior disabled persons that are committed to the improvement of our community and our family and refused to leave our great city. But, the reality is, our city is very expensive. So, we have to live here in low Income Housing. We are praying that the citywide that project is not only improves the Living Conditions at home, but that it also ratifies permanent jobs and great benefits for all us residents, such as San Francisco Housing Authority has done for me and many other residents during its history. Im currently in the application process for Construction Administration jobs and renewing my security certification license. We are hoping and praying for new Youth Services and violence prevention here. Here, at the robert pitts community alone we have several mothers that lost children under the age of 25 years. So, i would like to say, let that stand forth. We knew, additional desire. We are the city of champions. The new, additional, desire, for all those who live here, welcome back, government officials and thank you. [applause] now you can see why arianna is our concierge. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Well, i get excited every time i leader is able to come back to it aint easy to maloney type working in dc these days. You all know that. We all read about it you will see it and you all feel it. Every time that we in San Francisco can demonstrate to our federal leaders what weve done locally, it gives them hope that all the arguments that they have to have them all the challenges that they have to meet on a daytoday basis, back in dc, it is not forgotten. It is deeply appreciated by those of us that are here in San Francisco, and someone who as i told you earlier, honestly takes our calls, goes into detail with her staff about what it is we need and what exceptions to different rules that we might want to be advocating for, but also gives us a forethought about where congress is going so that we can be prepared. I have been with her when we got funding restored in hiv cuts and aids programs. I have been there when she says, hey theyre not going to do but be prepared. Start working with your folks. Get ready. We are always ready and the constant partner for us. I so appreciate her every time her visits here that we have Something Else to announce because we are getting things done. That is of course democratic leader nancy pelosi. [applause] thank you very much mr. Mayor for your very generous and for your tremendous leadership. And for making possible this coming together here today. We use the word demonstrate, and the rad rental assistance demonstration has that word demonstrate in it. So here we all are to demonstrate to the secretary as to how San Francisco, not only responds to initiatives from the federal level, but really demonstrates how they could work and how they could work better. Its really an honor to be on the program with a arianna, James Henry Johnson, her grandfather is in a pretty exciting . How proud he would be to see you a leader carrying on in that tradition. Wasnt she wonderful . [applause] San Francisco is a very special pl. , mr. Sec. , honored to welcome you here to see how we respect people. We respect our residents and when were going to have new housing is oneonone replacing the residents who were here for those who want to continue to be here. It is also about their selfdetermination, about how a project will function, how it will be to run. This project, this will be a demonstration to the country of a way to get the job done. In San Francisco were entrepreneurial in our thinking. We like to take advantage of exploits in the best possible way every opportunity that hard provides to grants and policy and the opportunity that the code enables us as low income tax credits and other tax considerations, which enables us to have publicprivate ownership joined with our nonprofit partners. Really, demonstrating to the country how we can respect our residents, have them have Affordable Housing in a way that maintains community. Because, this site over housing is a challenge that is about the soul of our city. We are a city that wants to be representative of every aspect of life in our community that Cultural Diversity as wells economic variation is something that is important to the father of who we are. Our mayor has been such an incredible champion on this subject. He and london bridge, she said she was the supervisor from this area that she grew up in the neighborhood and the mayor acknowledged that she is the president of the board and has used that opportunity to benefit individuals. I salute london. Mdm. Chairman, mdm. Pres. That has a nice ring to it. [applause] for your leadership. The mayor has done a great deal to bring jobs to San Francisco and back dimension transportation mr. Mayor because it gives me another opportunity to salute our president barack obama. Under the recovery act that was passed we were able to do so many things for San Francisco. You know why . Because San Francisco could demonstrate that they knew how to be a model to the nation. To have initiatives that were of national significance. Its a continuation of thursday rail, central subway, transbay terminal, the puppy whatever it is, jobs immediately promotion of commerce and transportation, cleaning the air, promoting qualityoflife, this is really important but sometimes those advances raise the price of housing in a community. So we have to mitigate for that one part of that success by addressing it directly. That is the mayor is the full package. Job creation. Transportation initiative. Jobs immediately and jobs jobs long term but also recognizing the responsibility we have to have Affordable Housing in our community. This secretary is really remarkable. He was amir sue will grant him that. His brother served in congress with me. His twin brother. Joachim castro former mayor of san antonio. We will talk about the spurs in the warriors just now. However, i had the privilege of being invited to his swearing in. I wish you could have been there. I went of course to pay tribute to the new secretary of hud but i mainly went because i was honored to be invited so i could say directly to his mother , rosie, congratulation kit woolseys mom had was actually barefoot into archives. This is the American Dream personified. She made a success of herself but these twin boys trailing along to public civic events, growing up with a sense of responsibility. Of getting back. They had the advantage the best education someone say, that our country could provide, and they were prepared to give back. As i said, i served with walking in the house of representatives. His twin brother, and mayor caster went from being the mayor of san antonio to be the secretary of hud. On that day, read this i get it right. The president said, walking is a proven leader a champion for safe Affordable Housing and strong sustainable neighborhoods. In building a Housing Market we do some homelessness among veterans, thank you and connecting neighborhoods with good schools and good jobs that have our citizens succeed. He has in the one year he is been secretary, lowered mortgage insurance premiums to make ownership more affordable, help families access strong neighborhoods with sure housing choice vouchers and empowering local leaders with new tools to invest in their communities and thats one of the reasons we are here today. That is one of those new tools. In july of 2015, just a couple months ago, pres. Obama wants one of secretary casters signature project. Connect home. Which accelerates internet adoption in 20 communities providing broadband Electronic Devices to children living in public or assisted housing, secretary castro continues to strive to make housing a platform that helps folks achieve a better quality of life. How perfect. How perfect. These two measures, one for mayor my current mayor at that goal, to achieve a better quality of life for the people for whom we are responsible. We think, mr. Sec. , that San Francisco is a model to the nation. We are very proud of the successes and the challenges, and the successes that we have had. We think that when we take on a project we will do it in a way thats about national significance. We are not competitive or anything. We are not proud or anything. We just want to help others and i know you did to. Please let us welcome this wonderful great sec. Of hud, boolean castro. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much mdm. Leader. It is wonderful to be here whoever worlds great cities. I want to say thank you for hosting me. You know, my brother joachim is a privilege of serving with the majority with leader pelosi soontobe speaker pelosi. Again. And by brother joachim, habitually introduce himself by saying a way that tells about since wetlands, minute other than he is. So, hope youll disabuse them of that notion in the future. They told me that was unseasonably warm here in San Francisco. Some glad that i got home a couple days ago to 97 heat to practice for here. Mayor, thank you for having me. This is not the first time that weve had a chance to spend time here in San Francisco, but each time that you visit very impressed by the work that you and the board of supervisors and all the folks that you collaborate with are doing to provide housing opportunity for san franciscans. I also want to commend supervisor london reed could we are in her disappeared as she said, she is only talked about this shes lifted. Because of that emma i know like me, she feels very blessed in her own life to had opportunities in the doing everything that she can for Public Service to give that opportunity to others. Thank you supervisor breed for your leadership. [applause]i also want to recognize just briefly Barbara Smith the second director of this in francisco housing. What about ago . Thank you for the work that you are doing here we cannot do it without a Housing Authority. And of course, to Arianna Johnson. Great Community Involvement and tenant leadership is so important to success in all that we do, so thank you for your inspiring words today. Keep it up. Keep it up. I also want to just briefly recognize all of our private partners who are here. Theyre too many of them to name, but they are integral to the success the reynolds assistance budget please raise your hand if youre one of our private partners. [applause] thank you. We are here today because we believe that housing is a powerful platform for greater opportunity in peoples lives. And because we believe that everyone ought to have access to good Affordable Housing, to build up to other American Dream. We also know that our nation is in the midst of an a for the housing crisis. In fact, just a couple months ago the national low Income Housing coalition reported that in no single community, if youre working 40 hours a minimum wage, can you afford a twobedroom apartment. That in very few places, could you even afford to rent a onebedroom apartment. In fact, here in california the person would have to work 92 hours a week to afford a place. The Affordable Housing crisis comes at a time when our nations Public Housing stock is particularly challenged. We have roughly 26 billiondollar backlog in capital needs. We lose 10,000 units of Public Housing to disrepair every single year. Now, we know that leader pelosi and folks like her have been fighting like crazy and then right on this issue. To ensure that the resources are there. We also know, though, we live in a resource constrained environment and for that reason, in 2012 hud wants the rental assistance demonstration. Also known as rad. Fundamentally, it is housing authorities and owners of assisted housing convert to longterm section 8 contracts. That allows them to better Leverage Private debt and equity to improve their properties. So, instead of falling into disrepair, they get renovated. I am proud to announce that this effort has established a proven record of success in just three years, that has leverage over 1 billion in new construction dollars of Public Housing properties throughout the united states. [applause] that is making a difference in communities throughout our nation and committees like this one. The rack conversion of robert b Woods Apartments will of the San Francisco Housing Authority and its partner to invest 31 to rehabilitate over 200 family units. This investment will help ensure that these families have a modern and safe, good place to live. We want to see rad make a difference in more communities. So hud is working with congress to lift a cap on this program so that we can help more families across this nation also have good housing. We know that the Affordable Housing crisis is growing, and we also know that that is part of a solution. Ive had the opportunity now as hud secretary to travel to more than 50 cities in 14 months. I can tell you that San Francisco is a National Leader when it comes to collaboration and creativity in creating and sparking new housing opportunity. Congratulations, to San Francisco. [applause] so, we look forward to the renovation of these homes and to all the wonderful opportunities that will be made possible because of the work that you are doing here in this beautiful community. Thank you very much. [applause] my pleasure to bring back up leader pelosi. Thank you seconded. Well, let me thank everyone here today. I see across this wonderful field a bevy of nonprofits that i know i can help us rebuild all of our communities from Chinatown Development to bridge to mercy to tabernacle to tenderloin, and then i also does a thank you to bank of america. They won the right to leverage. Two words secretary breezy more often these days in San Francisco. When teaching it to kids. Were teaching it to parents. That is, invest and leverage. Invest and leverage. Because the best investment anybody can make in San Francisco is to start your family here because when you start a family, that means schools, transportation, housing, safety, are all been taken care. Thats the best investment. Then we got a leverage that by people participating making sure you vote and making sure we pass proposition a and all the things we need to do to build an rehab and stabilize our neighborhoods. Thank you everybody very much. Thank you to our federal representatives, two. [applause] use and Transportation Committee occurring on october 26, 2015 will begin shortly. Good afternoon. I want to welcome you to the regular meet ofg land use and transportation. My name is malia cohen and the chair the committee and to the right is Supervisor Scott Wiener and jane kim will join us. I like to thank sf gov tv, jim smith and [inaudible] to asest with todays broadwast please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices. [inaudible] submit today the clerk. Items will appear on the november 3 board of supervisors agenda. The first item is sponsored by supervisor compose [inaudible] 350 university street as a land mark under planic code article 10. I believe we have Shannon Ferguson from the Planning Department to present on this item here today to present on the proposaled laland mark designation of University Mound old ladies located at 350 university street. [inaudible] supported by tall slender columns in a sumestically composed facade [inaudible] of the colonial revival style. It also represents the work of master architects martin j [inaudible] best know for 1930s art deco style psychopathic ward at San Francisco hospital. It is few of the high style colonial institutional buildings in San Francisco. The building in the interior principle [inaudible] include the living room, dinning room and chapel sur vive with the relatively few alterations. In 2014 a nearby residence submitted a land mark designation application [inaudible] the Historic Preservation commission added the old ladies home to the program in 2013. The hpc [inaudible] hpc conducted a site visit [inaudible] there is no known public opposition or neighborhood opposition to designation of 350 university street. The Property Owners havent expressed [inaudible] happy to answer any questions that was easy and quick. Thank you so much. Appreciate your comments. Supervisor wiener, is there kneng you anything you have questions . Lets take Public Comment. Any mb of the public who would like to speak on item 1, please do so. And have 2 minutes. Please come up. My name is bill yelder, good afternoon supervisors. Im glad you gave us this tonight opportunity to come here and listen to you. On behalf of 222 petition that i collected and we signed for land mark to be the University Mound ladies home and also supervisor david campos sponsored this and we were for it. You know the history of that building was 18 84 and established by jim link who was the [inaudible] man who dedicated about wn00 thousand dollars with 25 acres of land and it was supposed to be Non Profit Organization for assisted living for the elderly people. Evidently there were a problem with their financial i guess they were trying to sell it and thanks to david compose he stopped it and also the neighborhood we stood against it, so we tried to keep it as it is because that was the whole purpose of that building was for elderly assisted living to live at that place. So, im for it and if that is what you want to know. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other members of the public who would like to speak at this time . Ronald, please come up. Thank you for letting me speak. That was great. The thing i have been trying to figure out the problem with homelessness and the one thing we are certified buildings. You know in [inaudible] we certified [inaudible] we certify buildings but the thing we forget to certify are people. That are the most important thing in the city and think the older people get the more wiser they gelt get and we forget. The most pressure c[inaudible] painting everything and seeing beautiful things but those things were made by beautiful people. If i recall correctly it was we the people began a very document in history and the history of those people are the founders and masons and brick layers of the country. They were not buildings, they were people. That is [inaudible] we the peopleeveryone is the same. We need to pride the historical people in the city and it is something that has been forgotten especially the elderly people. Thank you for making the city beautiful. It is the most beautiful city in the world [inaudible] they came in and love it and look at this place. The most important people are you people behind there because you are the ones that make this happen, so make this land mark beautiful and mr. Campos is fighting. I have to give him a big thank you because i lived in a land mark building and it was so terrible and still needs work but this is a beautiful thing you doing and thank you madam chairman and everyone involved. Have a good day. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who would like to speak . Seeing none comment is closed. Any comment on item 1 . Supervisor wiener. I support the land marking and appreciate supervisor campos and the Planning Department for savoring the institution and giving it the historic designation it deserves so move to move item 1 to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation, i agree with the sentiments. I grew up in the neighborhood and know the ladies home very well and happy to support sthis motion. The motion passes unanimously item 2 is ordinance amending the transportation code to declear city policy the city develop a subway master plan within 12 muths and up hpidate every 4 years madam chair before us today is legislation i introduced recently to require the preparation of a comprehensive subway master plan within the next year with a updateing on the plan every 4 years mptd i think it goes without saying we are experiencing unprecedented growth in San Francisco. San francisco has 200 thousand more residence today than our city had in 1980. We have grown by about 100 thousand people in the last dozen years and currently adding a net increase of 10 thousand residence every year. We are projected to continue to grow by 150 thousand people in the next quarter century. Woo we have the highest population in San Francisco history. The bay area is projected to add 2. 1 Million People in the next 25 years and know from past experience that quh you have population growth like we are experiencing in San Francisco and the bay yeaia area the people come whether you plan for them or not and our choices is when to plan. Sadly we have not always planned when it comes to public transportation. In the late 1970s we opened the bart system and Market Street subway and since then in the 35 plus years we havent added a inch of subway capacity. Well open the central subway in a few years which is a great but need to make sure we dont make past mistakes by opening up the subway and resting on our lorm laurel. The streets of San Francisco are unbelievebly congested and that wont change. In a fewyears it will be back where it is and get worse and worse. We cant 100 million cars on the roads of the bay area and [inaudible] and that is where we are heading if we dont get it together come it come tooz public Transportation System that dont have enough capacity. The muni bus system amazing, i take it all the time and took it today. Buses are pornlt. We also know the buses travel at the lowest speed of average transit agency. The buses get stuck in traffic and move slowly and even though we do great work we need to move more of our transit under grounds off the streets. It makes a huge difference with subway service. San francisco without the Market Street subway i bet it is hard to envision what our city would be like with the Market Street subway or bart going down town through the mission to glen park and to daily city. We need to expand the subway capacity so this legislation will require comprehensive planning to take a long term look where we want to build subway capacity and what the priority is in terms of is this top priority. We need to look at western San Francisco which has no subway service. The southeast of San Francisco that has zero subway access and take a look at when wherewe need to expand. This wont happen over night but now is sth time to do the planjug get the projects into the queue and move forward sowhen funding is available locally or state level or when Congress Finally gets the act together and starts toperticipate in transportation we are ready to move forward. This is what this legislation is about. I want to acknowledge there is a lot of transpartation planning in a couple years and this legislation doesnt suggest there currently isnt a lot of terrific planning going on so we want to take the best work that is done over previous decades from great work happening now and senthsis into a subway focused plan. We want to keep the bus system moving forward and light rail mauveing forward but not letd subways get lost in the process. Subways are expensive and dif culth so sthra tend to focus on other transit. If there are no opening questions or remarks i would like to invite Michael Swarts from San Francisco couny Transportation Authority to present followed by graham nob nab from sfmta. Thank you. Thank you very much chair cohen, vice chair wiener. Michael swarts Senior Transportation plainer. I am joined by graham [inaudible] from the Planning Department is here and other stuff. We areigateful rur fr your leadership. A lot of staff had been thinking about this over the years and cont plate the next big moves and we are coming together the agencies across the city todo lang range plaining. We varoquest for proposal to work on that long range plan [inaudible] we hope to get good ploposal tooz move ahead on this effort. So, it goes without saying we need rail transit. Anybody who has road transit knows how [inaudible] cal train ridership is explording and muni rail and bus just challenging to get on during the peeks. This is really a sign of success. This means San Francisco is a great place to live recollect work and play and in the short term that is a good thing but in the long term if we dont do anything about it it can [inaudible] aequify, access, Green House Gas reduction and environment. We do need to take a strong approach here and as a vice chair noted, for many oof the corridors surface transit works. [inaudible] but there are some corridors where the demand is so great we need something greater such as a subway. To echo the comment that this has been before, in the 90s there was a 4 corridor plan which is the focus of the transit expansion and that was adopted as the transportation element of the general plan and resulted in improves about to go in construction on van ness and geary soon, third street and central subway. In addition to the [inaudible] came out of the county wide tranlz portation plan and that becomes the network and transit effectiveness project and now muni forward. Bart exsknangz down town extension [inaudible] we have seen a lot of great planning work and our goal with the long range Transportation Planning program is to bring all this together to say how does this fit toorlth and what is the San Francisco network and map for what we want in terms of the rapid transit. As the vice chair said this work cant be done over night. Many of these things take a number of yours and now is the time to get ahead of it. With that ill hand it to my colleague graham thank you michael. Graham [inaudible] there is a lot of good plang work under way. I want to highlight the most recent efforts, the bart Metro Program identifies opportunities to invest and increase capacity and efficient of the bart system. The mtc led cor capacity study focus on near and long term capacity enhancement to down town San Francisco and the transbay corridor with a potential for a second tube. [inaudible] alleviate crowding on the existing system and introduce high level concepts of system enhancement and expansion and michael mentioned the cal train downtown extension to provide cal tain and high speed rail to down town San Francisco. Each of the plans will be valuable but what they havent done is taken a comp hnsive and coordinateed look of transportation in San Francisco and that is what the Transportation Program would do. It is a multiajs effort to build a shared vision if the future of transportation in San Francisco cht it includes a few major components i want to highlight the establishing a long range Transportation Vision and this is a key components is lachbd use integration. [inaudible] a great partner in developing the plan. It would identify these big major moves we would need and that can include initial identification of subway corridors. The transit [inaudible] study will take a deeper dive and project development and refine where we want to invest when and both feed a update to the county Transportation Plan in 2016 2018 and that is a [inaudible] the last note is that part of the output of this would help inform a update to the transportation element im sure you know it is about 20 years old so slightly out of date. All the planning is great, but it takes a lot more to get action and in fablth dividing what we want is a first step but we need to do a lot more. Everyone of our transportation projects had a moment where there was a crise of confidence about whether it is built. Moment when it was too expensive or other barriers. Today we take the improvementss a given to meet the needs for had city in terms of mobility and the region and there will be touch conversations about planning and project development and implementation for the future. We cant just continue doing business as usual, we need to start with a compelling vision that says why we are making the Major Investments and make it clear how it helps achieve the sustainability, equity, mobility and Economic Development goals. We also need to recognize traditional sourceoffs funding are not able to make the inivistments we need to make. We need to be open to partnership squz be prepare frd the new fundsing source could be that we not aware of yet or materialize in the years to come. We need to continue the land use coordination. We need that inclusionary and efficient process so we can come together one voice and be clear about the cities priorities and where we see the city going for moving forward for transportation. On the project delivery side we need to continue to build our expertise and alternative deliver and contracting methods and look for opportunities to streamline the drirfb at the state and local and regional level. It takes people to make thesethis happen so we need to continue to build the staff capacity both of the planning and on the Engineering Design and delivery side of the equation and the last bullet is by no kent. We need champions at the city and regional level and state level in the citizens and Business Community across the board. It will take a lot of effort by lot of folk tooz make it happen but this is infirst step and think we are starting on the right track with the erftd you said something i want to reiterate that the projects i dont think there is sig cants transporzpation project in history that isnt more expensive or taken longer than we thought and experienced contversery. The Golden Gate Bridge had 100 lawsuits and bart was controversial. [inaudible] opt out of the system. High speed rail experiencing the challenge of interstate high way cyst squm every time we complete the project over all the lawsuits no one can imagine not having that whether it iscan you imagine not having the golden gate braij or bart and within a few years of high speed rail no one will be able to remember what it was like not to have high speed rail and people will wonder why it took so long so it takeathize political will to make it happen. Thank you. Madam chair i dont have Public Comment cards. I think i have two, john swark and estersterns. Anyone else like to speak please line up after mr. Swark. I did want to use the overhead for part of high presentation. Put your material on the overhead. I dont want to cover up until i refer to it. I would like to say im very much in support of this legislation and i would like to talk about the history and give context. From the launch of the firstbert study to the day the first people riding it was 15 years. Bart started a study and this time it is said it will 25 to 40 years to complete a new line. We should consider this a Public Policy farrier but a second failure would happen if we dont realize this weakness and get ahead of it by setting up a process where we look forward and studying so we can keep things in the pipeline. We have run into a catch 22 in San Francisco that we cant add density without increasing traffic or transit. People resist getting out of the car until transit is faster. It can take a hour to get from market kwr geary to beach on 38 at peek times. Brt is expect today reduce that by up to 30 percent so we are talk about 40 percent. I would like to take you to a city with a world class Transportation System, this is a tokyo subway map. The central part of tokyo is about the same size at San Francisco. It is interesting to see how many subway lines rin that space. It is great to get there. You can the equivalent of putriro hill to geary and market to the beach in 31 minutes in 17 stops. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Thank you im ester sterns and mission bay resident and representing the San Francisco transit riders. We would like to speak in favor of long term planning and one thing we can all see is short term planning with long Term Investment is a downward spiral. Every day we dont have the roit plan we get further behind and we particularly hope to see this plan represent not just where the city is today, but how the city is changing and in 2 ways in particular. The greater and greater concentration in the south east and far west areas of the city and movement of work centers spread throughout the city. We hope the plan will take into account the shifting patterns of commute and particularlyicide have benchmarks for how long it take tooz get to employment flaum far west and southeast part nof city so thaes residence have equal access to employment and prosperity in the city as we develop. We applaud the effort and look forward to seeing a human centered plan that talks about how people use transit, not just how transit operates. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Tabor. If there are other members of the public that would like to speak please come up. Thank you. My name is Stephen Tabor and chair of transportation for russian hill neighbors and also par tis paint in sf next stop which supports the sprl subway. I want to speak in favor of this motion. I think it is high time we got comprehensive Transportation Planning particularly for subways and rapid transit. A mention was made of 230ur cor doors plan and believe i came with the idea for the [inaudible] we are just completing one leg of that and one of those corridors were just completed and the others are still under way so it take as long time to make a difference. One the problems is the 4 cordders plan isnt a plan and that is very important to understand. 4 corridors plan was a concept of 4 corridors that needed service. A plan takes you several steps down the road to actually identify what it is you will build and that is where we have failed. When i was advocating for the central subway and was looking and advocating for spir and had a number of concerns about it and one concern is knl wl the plat form links were sufficient to do what need today be done and they said yes they are and it ends at jackson street. I said what about extending and it and they said you cant talk about that. The problem is we are having the same problem with geary where wree put in a bus Transit System while rail is in the Capital Budget but dont know what the rail system is or how the bust transit is coordinateed and it is intelligent to say make the bus rail ready [inaudible] thank you next speaker please. [inaudible] experience with construction. When it came [inaudible] like when i was going law school and when i was in euro[inaudible] about how upper market will sur vive during the construction of the light rail system. We moved through the metro and [inaudible] i am right now my office sits at market and powell. It is grid locked at l the time because ellis street is blocked because the construction down stockton street. The buses are rerouted. They go down 5th street instead of 4th and there is no Traffic Control. The thing im [inaudible] is dont only plan for a subway, plan for construction. The city needs more than anything trained Traffic Control officers. We could use themit should be part of every propeation to build a subway is the constructionthe people that control traffic during the construction period. We could use them a lot at Market Street now. When i say trained other countries train people. Switzerland control traffic with a whistle. We dont have trained Traffic Control officers. [inaudible] they should be also provided when they close streets like howard street. Traffic becomes a real problem when you do this kind of thing. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else . Okay seeing none Public Comment is closed. Supervisor wiener. Thank you madam chair. First i want to [inaudible] mrs. Hester i think in general there is little Traffic Management in San Francisco and you see the box blocks that is still exists and it is pretty rampant and bad. Putding that aside for the moment, colleagues thank you for hearing this and want to thank member thofz public and Transportation Authority and mta for being here today and i think it loob will be a good process. I want to make a minor amendment, right now the trigger for the time period for the planning process starts or states it starts on the Effective Date of the new section, 9. 1 and that will put us into the holidays so that means it wont get go until the new year. We dont need to wait until the new year so would like to make a amendment, this is on page 3, line 4 to strike outchange within 12 months of the efoketive date to within 12 months of the mayors signature of section 9. 1. I would like to offer that amendment and then i would move that we forward this to the full board with positive recommendation. Thank you very much sfr visor wiener. Well take up the motion in just a moment. Supervisor kim happy to make a motion. I want to address mrs. Hester, i did share this with sfmta last week but it is something i hear over and over again from the residence particularly in the south of market and other parts the city is request framore Traffic Control officers in the rush hour. I think it is important to plan for the future for the incredible transit need we 5ur8d have today, we know underground tunnel will take decades and bill whereins of dollars and political will on top of that and have to address what is hap ong the ground. Im excited sfmta is looking to work with wita and increasing water transportation around the city and also in and across north and east bay. I think it is important we look at the regional bus system and see how to make that more efficient and effective as we wait to build the second tube for the bart. I think thirdly our residence want to see more parking control officers so even if they move slowly there is movement and coordination and guidance. I know that we have been successfully launching the dont block the box and appreciate sfmta for all the resource squz work they put there. I still hear from the residence they would like to see more of course than we have today but do appreciate the [inaudible] going and think data is incredible that came back from that and think we should do work to promote that to the public so the public suweir is weir affthat work. Happy to support that item today i agree with supervisors kims comment and want to add dont block the box program, im surprised there is intersections that are not part of that. Third and 4th and 5 of market. The number of timesime im in a bus on Market Street and have to wait 3 light signals because of box blocking and there is no parking control officer to be seen. Back to the item at hand, i have a motion to make that minor amendment. Motion made by supervisor wiener that is seconded by supervisor kim. This passes unanimously. Ill make a motion to forward the item as ite amended to the full board motion made by supervisor wiener and second by supervieer kim. The motion passes unanimously. Madam clerk could you call item 3 . Item 3 is ordinance amending the planning coal to modify the measurement for roof top [inaudible] and create a process to authorize [inaudible] c 3 phroneing district which exceed the current height limit. Thank you very much madam clerk, i appreciate that. Okay. Good afternoon aaron star manager of legislative affairs. [inaudible] create a process to authorize certain types of infill flor area and existing structure located in c 3 zoning. The ordinance allows building to add roof top features. [inaudible] to add the features. This ordinance allows a [inaudible] permitted above the finished height in c 3 districts. This also allows the infill of uninclozed roof areas non compliant with regard to height. Any area about the height limit is considered non conforming and cant bex panded. The prose posed ordinance heard on july 21 of this year and voted unanimously [inaudible] we have no particular question for you at this time. Supervisor kim does. Thank you mr. Star. In reading the ordinance it is clore that it is not just about a wide spread change across the c 3 but seems to target a specific site so site is this amendment trying to target . When the down [inaudible] lowered the height limit [inaudible] non conforming with regards to height. We run into the issue from time to time with these buildings. What spurred this ordinance is 1095 Market Street and they wanted to add a roof top bar and acofemany bathroom. This orbd nns would allow them to do that. While i vaguely remember someone bringing this up months ago my ofice wasnt informed of the introduction of the amendment nor asked to have a briefing so we surprised to see this on the agenda today being this is a property in the district terrible sorry for that. It was hird july heard july 23 of this year and was told wednesday it will be at land use today. It would bei guess the scheduling issue and great to get a briefing before this came to land use. My last question is, how many other buildings are impacted by the change . We did a gis search on it. It isnt exact because i wont get to the technicalities but it is probably over 200 buildings that will be impacted. Thank you. Thank you. Letsis that all you have . Lets open up for Public Comment. Please come up to the podium. [inaudible] attorney for local [inaudible] we have been asking for a file to 1095 Market Street for the past week. The plans are not on the site. They are not on the Planning Department site. We were told not 2 hours or maybe 3 hours ago, they have to be ordered from hayward. There is major issue about the construction and layout of 1095 grant which proposed to add another story. We ask this committee continue this hearing to [inaudible] 3 weeks from now because files that are coming from hayward come about a week later. It is mindboggling to me that plans are not on the Planning Department site for a major project that is changing the building in the exhibit b plan to approveal of the planning commission. We are asked it continued to the next meeting which is in 3 weeks. Any mobe that would like to speak . Come on up. ; jim Abrams Abrams law to speak in favor of the ordinance. This is a issue that effects many buildings downtown particularly historical buildings [inaudible] many of the buildings particularly historic buildsings downtown are over the existing height limentd. When you build a new building down town or anywhere in San Francisco you are given a 16 foot height exemption for roof [inaudible] so long they dont exceed the roofair eye so you can add a elevator or restrooms to acompany open space. For this subset of building this ordinance will allow them to rely on the same grace that is provided to any new building downtown. [inaudible] that was legally permitted and down zoned in the 1980. Thank you thank you next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. Carolyn [inaudible] with [inaudible] our office represents the clift hotel. As pointed out by the Planning Department the 1985 downtown plan created a 200 plus buildings that are legal non comlying including the clift hotel. The clift hotel is in support of the legislation. [inaudible] has been very narole tailored to accommodate had enclosure of existing roofed terraces above the existing height limit in the c 3 districtsism the project is the incroze of the top 4 tearest am[inaudible] the clift hotel loitcaed in the c 3 zoning [inaudible] Mayors Office on a future amendment to accommodate another type of minor incluzier project specifically the incluzier of existing unroofed terrace below the unroofed building. We are here to request the legislation before you be duplicate today provide a vehicle for that potential future amendment. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members that would like to speak . Public comment is closed at this time. I heard the request for a continuance and if there is a motion for one i would like to entertain that discussion. I suggest that we continue the item for to november 16 because the 9th calendar is heavy i want to make a motion to continue to monday november 16 and request laning sit down with stake holdsers interested in the issue. I think if we impact over 200 buildings i would like to better understand the ramifications and what may sound like a simple change to allow a roof top bar and have a bathroom which makes sense i want to understand all of the potential