Transcripts For SFGTV Replay BOS GAO Committee 11316 20161104

Please turn off your phones. Items will be on november 15th for the supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you miss major and thank you for member of the public for your patience mme. Kirk can you please read the first item. Yes, its a contract between dominique and david the owners of 1330. From the Planning Department, ms. Ferguson . Good bargainmorning. With private Property Owners. This agreement provides property tax reduction in the story product pretties. Every local landmark building as well as what is on the National Register is eligible to pry for this program. The Program Creates an incentive for proper maintenance of our citys architectural and market provides Property Owner to delay largescale programs. The contract for 1338 which is designated as landmark 232, the owners have artie completed substantial work to the property and plan to invest over 900,000 properties for exterior work. Funny department preservation staff work closely with the Property Owners to provide professional guidance. On october 5, 2016, the Commission Unanimous recommended approval of the contract. Behalf of the commission, the Planning Commission remake recommends approval. Planning staff is available to answer any questions about the plan. Thank you. Thank you ms. Ferguson. Any question, supervisor . Are there any members of the public who would like to testified on this item. Good morning. Good morning, members of the committee. I am the president of the San Francisco heritage also coauthor of the Preservation Foundation on the mills act and obviously heritage which keeps me involved in this area. With respect to the application before you for the 1338 filbert st. We have some concern in regards to the mills act and property tax release in this instance. It implicates a policy concern with respect to the fact of the 2 million in rehabilitation costs claimed in the application. This, about over 1. 7 million of that work has been completed or will be completed before this contract takes effect. Also, we have some questions regarding the need for some of the rehab work and whether it was triggered by the subterranean tripling of Square Footage of the property, whether that would have been necessary otherwise. We have some concerns, and we believe that this contract warrants further scrutiny. Thank you mr. Blumer. We have a letter from miss holly that was emailed to us last evening, i have a printed out copy and i will make that part of the record. Good morning, supervising spirit susan. I am opposing this contract. This is a wonderful tool for Property Owners and benefits the city and its population in our historic resources. As you know, this is a historic landmark. But in this situation, the Public Interest is not served by this contract. I ask that it not me be entered into the point of the mills acts as referent in the state law and also the city ordinance, to provide tax relief for Property Owners that are willing to rehabilitate Historic Properties that other ways may not receive those benefits. In this case, i noticed in reading the files that its not really reflect that that this project is not simply a rehab but prompted by a desire to change what was then a ten unit project into four units and create an underground parking garage. Greatly and completely changing the property was controversial at the time which was a number of years ago actually, in litigation by a local preservation group. The friends of the landmark and also adjacent neighbors because there was no work being done. Environmental review. The project, i have part of me. The project is going to actually reduce city housing funds down to four units and the cost involved for this project thats going to create whether there was ten into four. As mr. Buehler indicated, many of the costs may well relate into the underground garage and the significant changes of this property. The board has a need to find that this is not in the Public Interest and this is a kind forprofit project that in fact, it destroys a historic landmark and its not necessary to achieve the purposes of this. Thank you ms. Brent holly. You have any other members of the public that would like to speak. This is the number of units in the building. Can you explain to me specifically where that is located on the document or comic and staff from the city provide us with clarity of whether or not that has occurred . Mr. Fry, i realize that this is not directly related to the mills act but it is related to the project that was approved, as far as yours. Good morning Committee Members paper the project in question was approved by both the Planning Commission and the Historic Preservation commission a number of years ago. The number of units is included from a 24 . That is correct. That happened before, this application was submitted . That is correct. This application was for the mills act was approved by the Preservation Commission as well mark they did review the contents of the application and felt that it qualified for the program. Can you explain what the reasoning was . For applying . Know what the commissioning was for approving application . From the perspective of the hpc would some contracts on our books, or many cities like los angeles and san diego have hundreds and even thousands of contracts that are in effect, a desire from the commission over the last three years is to really promote it. In one, is a landmark and has completed or is on its way of completing a rehab, they are generally in support of approving our or recommending approval for contract. I would say that the bar for them is slightly low, because they want to encourage use of the program. And thats the only financial incentive. Thank you. I have a concern, first of all there is a building that has the ability to afford to reduce the number of available units, therefore, increasing the Square Footage of the existing building footprint significantly and, i guess i just dont see why we would allow a tax break for this particular purpose . I think thats what im most concerned about. It sounds as if, there is Financial Support in order to maintain the building. I will support the motion at this time. Thank you supervisor. Without objection, the matter is tabled unanimously. Mdm. Clerk . A resolution in a mills act. The owners of 1036 and the city and county of San Francisco. Is ferguson . Please put the overhead please. Good morning again. This next contract is for 1036 which is located in the russian hills via hope, National Register. They were going to invest over hundred 50,000 for upgrades, with a replacement and restoration work. The staff was at the meeting on october 5, 2016, the preservation Commission Unanimously recommended approval of the contract. On behalf of the commission, the Planning Department recommends approval of this contract for 1036 vallejo st. Planning and staff is here to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you ms. Ferguson. Are there any members of the public that would like to testify on either number two . C not, will close public on a comment. This is a project befitting of the mills and contract. It is much more in keeping of the intent of chapter 71 of the code if theres no objection, i suggest we send this to the full board with recommendation. I have a question. Can you explain why you believe that to be the case, that this is an application thats deserving of this particular use . Absolutely. Unlike the previous manner this not a whole scale project where theyre adding or expanding something to 17,000s were fever reducing the number of units. It is a modest project to upgrade the facility and to appropriate exterior treatment to further the historic of that particular area. I guess im just saying that whites historical significant . I will leave that to plann g planning. Good morning. Its listed as a contributor to the vallejo street, sorry the crest National Register address. It is listed in the National Register. Okay. Okay. That helps. Even if i dont visual c with my eyes. We do have pictures of it. I opened up to Public Comment we have no Public Comment. Send it to the board please without objection. This good item number three. Item number three is a resolution approving the Circle Property contract. The owners of 101 through 105 steiner st. Is ferguson . Matt please have the overhead. Good morning again. This is a contract for 101 105 steiner st. The owners have agreed to invest over 270,000 towards the work, replacement of exterior work and window repair in return for the property tax adjustment. Planning Department Staff work closely with the owners to create this plan, on october 5, 2016, the Commission Recommended approval and on behalf of the commission, they recommend approval of the mills act contract for 101105 steiner st. Were happy to answer any questions. Thank you ms. Ferguson. I do have any members of the public . Say not, we will close Public Comment. Any question for staff . C9 . Yes, this is on the registry as well as a mark m this is located on the its a contributor. Because we saw that with other particular homes in that area. My question, i know that there are home that dont necessarily have a means even with this particular tax incentive and i guess my question is, what is being done to support them . Were providing this incentive for this district which help those owners who have the means to do the work on that particular home. I do know of one personally that doesnt. And thats an elderly individual whose homes clearly stands out as one that is not necessarily wellmaintained, the question is, what is the point of the district that allows for those with means to develop their usage while others can go through this weekly progressin the process dont understand it, what happened to them . Thats a great question. Because of that, over the last two years we have been trying to target operate specifically to persons that may have limited means. For instance, weve had to work shops in the tenderloin area because it is one of our largest registered district. Also targeting, other workshops in the future within the dogpatch area. Were trying to expand and serve the people that we reach to let them know that one, if you have Technical Expertise that can help you prepare your application, too, this is really meant to help support financially some of the routine maintenance that some people have difficulty doing on their own. Workshops are great, im thinking of people who are mostly elderly, who may not, its not natural for them to go out and attend workshops. They are the kind of people that you would actually, physically go to their home and have the conversation and basically explain, but also make them feel comfortable that what youre trying to do is in their best interest to provide support for them. And we are absolutely open to that. What we found in talking to these folks and other organizations or other city agencies is that, one is to qualify to program you actually have to own a property thats either listed on the National Register designated. That really reduces the number of persons that can apply. And, there are some areas within the city they just dont have those designations. But we are certainly open to partner with other agencies to reach those populations that we may not be able to reach. Part of the reason that im asking is i know and one in particular, sits within this category and is in that particular area and i feel that all of these homes around this one home are just being going through this process getting this incentive and there is someone whos been left out. And i know that they are the homeowner of that particular property. We would love to meet with them and help them through the process and get them, hopefully next year timeframe. Thank you. Thank you supervisor. If there are no objections, we will send this item work with recommendation. Mdm. Clerk could you please call item number four. Any comments for that . Im sorry, did i not call Public Comment . Are there any members of the public for item number three . Comment public is close. We please call the final item . Item number for the short form registration and enforcing activity of the office of shirt her administration and enforcement and any help for additional and policies to enforce the law. Thank you ms. Major. This item was originally before the land use committee, it was introduced by supervisor weiner and given his schedule, he transferred into this committee with the promotion of president reed. This is just an update on the what is going in the opposite shortterm rental. With that, i will hand it over to kevin guide. Thank you and good morning. As it was mentioned, to give an update on the status of the office, put together the registration and enforcement effort. Also, the summary of the impending restoration. If i can have the overhead please. So for a quick background. The short Terminal Program on 2015, the program does not permit resin to rent out the dwelling unit for less than 30 days subject to conditions for limitations. The short terminal itself is still much in july 2015, to administer the program overseen those registration and enforcement. Here, you can see our current registration and statistics. We have received around 50 applications, and have currently have 1000 over 1600 registered host. 229 applications of been approved and another hundred and 33 are being complete. 57 applications are being in review. We have continued to reduce the review time for the application. They are complete process within 2 to 3 weeks of submittal. This chart, shows trends over time going back to january. At that time, we had over 1300 application and nearly 900 register codes. Here we are ten months later we stand around 2200 applications received with nearly 1700 registered host. This is another chronological look. This is the application received by month, on the bottom row and then the blue line at the top shows the number of applications over time. We did have a search of application when it first lines and again around december and january, since that time weve had a steady receipt of application, but certainly the levels are below of search of the initial launch of the program in december and gender. Going back a couple of slides to the 76 certificates or can l cancel, can you explain that to us . Yes. Some of those cancellations are made on the request of the hosts themselves. They simply arent doing any more activity. Or, we issued, they landlord indicated that they did not want them doing this activity. Some of those have been counseled for failure to file the quarterly reports. Which we will get into it later, but thats one of the requirements of the. Submit corded programs. We have some people who have kind of repeated failure to follows reports, were certain to revoke certificate on that basis. Thank you. I would like to touch on the steps that we take to approve the process. We had great greater appreciation participation by hose. We have better hours and location. We have a weekly walking hours, everyones afternoon and we have monthly evening walking hours for folks that cannot make it over business hours. Thats a first end of the month. We expand our appointment hours as needed to make sure that nobody is waiting for a scheduled appointment for more than a couple of day. And then, we have a vest in the spring and summer including an allday registration in city hall. We had a table in april set up and we held a series of evening events. So, i should note that in the past before the sicily staff, our timeline and applications was a bit longer. In response to that, we implement it a general practice on specific properties. A review time there down several weeks, but we have maintained this practice as a process of improvement. Its not quite the same as issue of temper license, but it has the same effect. We have launched a new website as well, one of the first so that was added was a online quarterly report. And then, work and have a series of other to the content over time. We expect to add a light of the new functional realities at the end of the month. Or doing right now is working with the online application submittal. Right now, we have around through an in person meeting dorsett. That is a critical step for us right now, with the lack of data transfers that we get. One of the ways that we want to be sure that we have confidence in our applicants and the information that theyre giving us for the program is to hold these type of meetings. We recognize that there are some meetings that can come in for the program. Where the we are developing an online tool to streamline the process that helps with the applications. Depending on, ultimately were things land and the platforms. We may require some of a personal meeting with the application but at least will file the Application Online and come in and picking up in person with a brief five minute meeting. Show us their id and verify the residency. If we do reach a future or we can very very well launch an online process that involves any sort of meeting. We would have the ability to backcheck and audit the information given the application. This is really critical for us to seek a more process and shorting timelines for the registration. Has there been any efforts on behalf of the platforms to share any Additional Data . We have reached out to several of the major platforms in february, of this year, they did come in for sears submitting where data transparency was one of the topics. We did receive responses from other platforms, right now, the mechanism for us to obtain the data would really be through the city for Attorneys Office gets a penis. In other words, there is no sort of informal or agreedupon sort of collaborate sharing of data happening with the platform. Thank you. And that was a letter that the city administrator wrote back . That is the letter that i cosign with the administrator naomi calley back in january. So the beautiful be in february and march. But ultimately, we didnt come back to any sort of agreement on any arrangement other than the process that we would go through anyway, which is to seek that information to a subpoena. Thank you. I would like to talk about are forced to work. We are conducting a lot of enforcement today. Where be more proactive with enforcement with a public or focus on a couple of major categories. Houses with multiple units, vacation rentals, people there continue to rent after and violating. Russell working with the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to development and enforce the low market rate units are being used illegally for short time rental. Russell working with the City Attorneys Office to pursue individuals who have been repeat violators in multiple propert s properties. I show that week she graphically have efforts, anyone who have come on you certainly see concentrations where neighborhoods are desirable for shortterm rental. We think its very important that we focus that we have enforcement attention all over the city. Regardless of whether or not, its a hotspot neighborhood for short terminals. Have you seen relative to these offenders close to multiple units, have you seen any change in that behavior since there pronouncement has occurred . Yes of the delisting and multiple units. Its really difficult to tell, they have insured in the daily with us. Giving us any lists that we delisted. We do get data monthly of all the listings on the bmb there seems to be some individuals that have multiple listings in a manner that is not legal. But its really hard to gauge the exact effect of that effort. Its something, i think its based on the pledge and the media that they have undertaken relatively. There been talking about it sometime. It will be something that we will continue to monitor the data that we have. And see if we can see any tangible effects. There continue to add aid and abet illegal behavior, okay. As i mentioned, were using data to facilitate are in vacation and prioritize her cases. Just in terms of staff and members we have over 856 cases that weve open to the launch of the program. You should notice, 349 dwelling units. 470 enforcement cases are fully close with another 151 pending closure. Involving another 180 dwellings. We process over 870,000 of penalties today, we collected 350,000 of those penalties. I have a question. Im just curious in terms, this reflects those listings were, like hotels . Is it reflected in your somewhere and how often does this happen . And are you talking about the hotel that has a multiple listing . Theres a couple of different ways that they have. Some are legal and some are not. The legal version would be a registered host who has for five bedrooms in their home. And they create a separate listing to each one of those bedrooms and rent them out separately. They have one, all of the vendors together. That would be legal situation. A permissible registration for a hose. You met chen hacker homes. Depending of the size of the hacker home and operated, that could potentially be allowed under the short rental program. And the number of People Living in all these areas is it so high that it wouldnt trip the wire into being sort of a group houston. Something other 28 accessory. Furthermore agreed of the listings and categories would be those individuals who either directly or have leases or participate in this rental of multiple properties all over the cities. Those actors, i tremendous part of the population but there are some out there. And those of the people that we have been pursuing. Are those listed illegally, what will make it illegal . Thank you. Met we go back to the enforcement cases. When you say a case is fully close, youve issued notices of violation for 349 of 856 cases. Say 400 something cases are close, what is that mean . Those close can mean, several things. It could mean that we investigated and found out that there was no violation. No, we investigated and there was a heavy violation but they embedded fully. Those are the two scenarios. We investigated and find no violation or investigated and issued a notice of violation and it was updated with penalties. How often do you find the case were, theres a craze debated and it happens a case . Its not common but we do have issues on the second notice of violation on a couple of properties. I would say common occurrence, but we certainly proactively monitor that we opposes and make sure the activity isnt popping up again. If you look at the entire universe of your 417 cases that were closed and hundred 51 pending closure, foretold for about 500 cases are so, the balance are soaping investiga r investigator . That is correct. Were subtracting out, from 856 the 151 pending closure. Those are cases are still under investigation. They generally fall under the pockets of either been recently opened cases, cases that were having a lot of difficulty finding a listing and its entirely possible that the lesson is down and the activity has stopped. We want to be confident before we close a case that the activity has stopped. So we dont necessarily, we make a concerted effort to find a listing and see if we can tie the complaints to another one. How many of the 852 cases are complaint driven versus proactive . Right now were doing about 5050. Have proactive and have referral act. I have a question. So, i wanted to ask about this process just a little bit because of the complexity of different scenarios that exist. There are once particular situation where, the person actually owns a home. But technically, the person doesnt may be live there for second time of the year. Because they have various concerns about chess, what happens with the number of people who use this home. We dont understand how garbage works other smokers, all of these Different Things that exist in the neighborhood which make, creates concerns for the surrounding neighborhoods. They reported this unit, that it was i guess primarily been used as a nonhost place. The office in the castigation and found that, this is in fact persons primary residence, there has been technically no violation. Based on the reporting and everything else. I guess, in those particular cases, truly challenging. I was wondering, do you have a way to help address that . I think the issue for this neighborhood wasnt about the ability to use a platform, as much as it was as his concerns that this person does not live here. This is what theyre using this particular place for and theres no real accountability for their guest. They are concerned about what may happen to their home. This, based on their part disability with minor issues. With garbage, with smoking with, just a number of issues that have been problematic over, pretty much over a regular basis . Thank you. A couple of things i would like to say is, number one, part of the reason we go through the detail process of our application is to try to make sure that we are only giving certificate to people that only permanent residence. And thats part of the reason for the two year renewal. I say, we can issue a certificate to someone but their life circumstance can change. With regards to, yes with regards to the permanent resident status, i keep coming back to this, its all about the data transparency. If we dont have better data share from the platform, it could be really tough itevent difficult for us. There may not be evidence thats available, like their listing or anything, you know that they may be posting online that cooperates the idea that they move. Its really difficult for us to prove once we issued a certificate that someone is in eligible based on the resident. And i dont think that they simply moved i just think that they probably have two homes and maybe stay in one home more than this one. And i think that is a benefit of the problem. Theyre probably registered to vote and have most of the male come to this particular place. But they live someplace else and just use this. They may never put this unit on the rental market necessarily, but the issue here is really about the neighbors and their concerns about a possible fire cleanliness of the neighborhood. Basic qualityoflife issue that can sadly you know, create some challenges for them. Yes. The other point i wanted to make, once a certificate is issued to someone, we talked about the residence issue. But once its issued to us short terminal holes its not as if they, have a heather ticket and the have no more obligations after that point to comply with the Good Neighbor policy. We have a situation that we have issued people certificates but either because are not present at the property are they just dont operate very well, theres a lot of those type of concerns. Noisy parties. And proper trash disposal. We deftly want to hear from neighbors if those are kind of repeat individuals. We do have the ability, but it takes some amount of collaboration and we dont want to revoke people certificates the first time we received a complaint about a property. But if it happens on a repeat basis, and causing a lot of headache for the neighbors, we want to know about that. And we have the ability to revoke the certificate if they dont abide by the Good Neighbor policy. Thank you. In regards, when you make a decision to revoke certificate, do you notify the host . No. The hosting platform, they dont necessarily have any obligation on the law to delist that person. Our notices basically enforce the host that their license to conduct this activity has been revoked and they need to take down all their listings. We go back and check out heather still listing and the subject themselves or our enforcement actions. Maybe we dont have to but it seems that it would make sense that its not that much trouble to notify license and so we revoked. When i say to them that have to do anything, although we should. But if they want to be good sort of good partners in all this, they may voluntarily wish to not allow these places to be listed again. Thats a good suggestion and were now coming to the end of another reporting. And were to go back and reevaluate who is failing to file these reports and start revoking, a substantial number of certificates for failing to report. I would be happy to share that information with you. Would you at least, next time you do the report come back and update us and let us know if you made a decision to do this . Yes. I would like to acknowledge we been joined by a supervisor in the conference. And feel free to jump in at any time. Anymore questions about enforcements . If not, lets move on to host reporting. We touched upon earlier, we gave you another reporting. That is 7d2 percent response rate. Im sorry. I will more question. The other issue that we deal with a run enforcement for example. And this is something that im trying to understand how this is happening or what we can do to change it. There are people who are tenants who are necessarily registered and because are not registered, there is no way to notify the Property Owner that an application exists. I think most people who probably do that do it because they dont want to deal with the issues that come with their landlord who may say no. Clearly. One of the issues that we deal with the last time that we approved the registration requirement were Property Owners who had tenants who did this particular rental platform but the Building Owner or the homeowner was sent the bill. In some cases, the tenant is still there they can probably work it out and figured out a way to deal with the fines. But if the tenet is gone, the Building Owner is responsible. How is that right . That the person who is the owner i made, or we going wrong and how do we fix that . So that the person who is basically the one who is breaking the law, is responsible and not necessarily the homeowner in that particular case . That is an issue that we talked in length with the City Attorneys Office. I should start by saying that the vast majority of cases where a tenant was a hose, were contacted by the hose. We work with the tenant and host directly. And we resave penalty from them. We do have those cases where we have a tenant who is in violation and they receive the pay. Again, we talked to the City Attorney about this and the fact not just the way we do it but the way a lot of enforcement is done. That a violation is tied to the property and not a specific individual. But if the tenant doesnt pay, that becomes a financial application left on the property and therefore has to be addressed by someone. What we do but thats a question. How is that fair. If they had no idea that was happening or any control over the situation. I guess, to take it back just a little bit, why isnt there at least a warning to the person who is committing the crime . For example, maybe something that saves you have these many days to remove your listing or, you face penalties. Something that kinda makes it work a little bit better. Im trying to get to the bottom of that. First of all the weight structured, doesnt provide any sort of warning. I would, i would question the applicant see if Something Like that were talking about an issue like shortterm rentals. Something that is Something Like that. The threat of penalty is a huge incentive to do this activity illegally. And, i think for some people, theres plenty of people out there that are renting our units for amounts higher than that. So the penalty in of itself has to be calibrated in such a way that its an incentive for people to deceptivelyivan illegally. I would be concerned letting you off the forced warning system. It gives people latitude for mischief. Popping up under different name or property or Something Like that. I agree, it creates a difficult situation between the landlord and the tenant when there is a disagreement over whos paying the penalties. We do a couple of things to try and do our best to addresses and the concerts of the landlord. Number one, we can name that tenant and the documents that we issue following the conclusion of the case where we assess penalties. The ability for the landlord and go to court and recoup some of those damages from the penalt s penalties, they may have the ability to withhold that amount from a Security Deposit for example. Again, its not necessarily a perfect system for everyone involved that the property is sort of a, where the fine and the penalty itself plans. In the more g the majority of cases, they dont want to face eviction to contact us and pay the penalty. But just to be clear. Tenants to get a warning, they cannot be evicted like immediately because of the situation . There is a. That they have to be worn . In advance, correct . That is correct. And once we issue that notice of violations we take her steps to get that tenet to see if the activity, there being unwilling or other situations. It is not as though we sit there and continue to find the Property Owner day after day. We put pauses on those penalties and recognize the fact that they only have 70 tools at their disposal to get a difficult tenant to stop that. I guess last thing ill say is, this is why, this is really frustrating for us. Im really disappointing in the hosting platform because there are a number of scenarios that i dont believe we should have to deal with as a city when trying to allow this platform to be used in this way, but the illegal activity in setting the abuse and the disconnect and uncertainty and trying to manage this whole situation from a city perspective is deftly challenging without the cooperation of these hosting platforms who have the power based on their ability to list and have the information and know how many days are booked. Also, know whether or not the one is registered, is quite frustrating. Because it would eliminate a lot of challenges that i know your office is currently dealing with a course of enforcement. A lot of frustration between the landlord and tenants as well as Committee Members who are concerned about this particular issue been extremely problematic in certain neighborhoods. I guess were putting, on putting that out there to say, if there are recommendations that your office has that can make it even easier to enforce. Easier to, work to eliminate some of these challenges that exist. I just want to say there were open to that and we know that this platform is consistently changing and that, it is definitely important that yes, we enforce but there are again situations are creating unnecessarily. I think thats a real frustration for me and trying to basically enforce this industry properly without making it so problematic for individuals who want to use this every now and. Thank you for those comments. I would mention that. Just getting to the topic that is out there. Its kind of been forcing hose by wholesome property by property can be effective. And also getting problem property shutdown. In terms of dealing there are listings in a balloon over the last several of years. Going host by wholesome property by property is not only, with everything and the process is something that you just cant get anybody a ticket not given any type for appeal in this property. Assuming all of that going host by host is certainly a lot slower than enforcement. The start from a place of, only line your register to post a list. Which is a subject of the legislation. I think, those are the kind of things that get us out of those land areas. This brings me to, something that i am just, im not an attorney so i dont understand the legal parameters. We have platforms that are breaking the law and in that particular case why not the City Attorneys Office to watch, our own lawsuits against the hosting platform for breaking the law, which would, help us because regardless of a requirement around a specific Registration Number technically before we pay set legislation even then the law would not be followed. Is not something your office has a capacity to may be addressed in a more timely manner and the question becomes why are we as a city, basically filling the hosting platform for breaking the law . Right now under administrative codes 401a, which is part of the shortterm rental and program. The only application for the hosting platform is to inform their users that, there are San Francisco specific requirements and that they need to get registered. There are some specific language that they need a post somewhere on their site. That is the only obligation that they have. We have issued notices of violation for violating because they did not have a sort of language referencing San Francisco ordinances. There was generic language around with check with your local requirements. Some do have a page that goes in some amount of detail about local ordinances and requirements. We did issue violations and penalties. Those are the only obligations at the platforms have. This can pivot the way we view our enforcement efforts the way we view the tool that we have at our disposal probably would result if some form that is implemented. Looking whether the platform are in compliance with the new rules set forth by what we have. But again, that is currently in litigation the ordinance is set right now and listen to we get some sort of outcome that was held in october. Thank you. You know that this hosting platforms were the tenants that this could be a grounds for eviction . If its a violation of the lease . They have a pretty deeply service. I read that clause in there. I dont know i have to take a look at that. Just to go back to that in some insistence i think that there is a disconnect. With the fact that we passed a law and the hosting platform to know that we pass a law their inability or lack of communication between the law we pass and the requirements of those individuals who basically are using the platform sometimes as a disconnect between the hosting platform and those individuals knowing that there is a law requiring them to register. Which, for example i basically talked to a tenant who use this platform and who shut down and who basically used it to help them pay rent. They didnt understand the law, they didnt understand that there was a lot. Its, when you pass a law and they basically you know, run into a lot of problems and stress over the whole situation i worry that we have again, in this platforms, the ability to communicate through the host so that they are not getting in trouble and theyre doing what they need to do to register and comply with the law. And more importantly, a number of unnecessary fines are not happening with undue stress. This is separate from the people that we know are problematic who we want to shut down. Like the individuals who are taking entire units off the market and creating fake scenarios that allow them to use this platform rather, rather than provided as a way to basically take valuable rental units off the market which is really the most frustrating thing, i think were dealing with a lot of different scenarios and how do we, how do we get the right balance from a legislative perspective but more importan y importantly, i think part of it is, again this could be made easier with support and cooperation from the platform and part of that is, the negative volunteer to do that, we need to use legal means to force them to comply with the law. And thats just something i hope, hope that thats the direction were headed. Supervisor compost . Am i was not here for the presentation so i apologize for worse on the middle of it. . 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I still feel the more, i think about where we are with the enforcement the conversations that we had months ago and the additional tools we thought your office should i had. I think its sad in a way that your office advocated for less tools. I thought you would do a lot more than what you would do right now. Ive heard of people calling your office and not getting a response, i think that its clear to me that it is in office but is not a priority for the mayor. I know that he is understaffed. To do the kind of enforcement, think you have to kind of fork is on a new listing and on every listing, if your office is not able to do that with your current staffing, the staffing should be increased to make that happen. There are some of us who have measures on the ballot for this november, without going into them, because we feel that somebody has to actually be proactive about this and in the office is not being proactive, somebody else should be. I think youre smart guy you do good work and you have a lot of good people, but i think that youre kinda working with your hands tied behind your back. I dont think that we have given you all the tools. Legally. I dont agree communal resources because of that, i think there was so much we can do. Only so much you can do. With that b b in these five ports, they will file you iq every opportunity. Thats over court. I think its just a reit recurring theme for this registry and we have to we remain watchful and mindful of the fact that, who were dealing with. Thank you. If i can just address a couple of things. With the respect to tools and resources. I think a lot of this, let the elements that were passed over. This is an over, a state were were approving you application and identify fine individual problem hose. Those are exactly the kind of tools that we will see if they sort of survive the process. Those are extremely useful tools for our office to look forward to. I do want to touch upon a couple of other pieces of legislation here. In october 26th, ford supervisor, he changes to the regulations to all rentals at 60 nights per year. That will modify our action and timeline in our interest. Also in october, our office introduced a piece of legislation to exist the application right now. Chapter 41 a. Records at the Comptrollers Office to an assessment of Cost Recovery on our application fee and recommend, oppose the increase. Several months ago the controllers to issue their analysis to 250. Our office entered this to initiate discussion. To do a number things. Number one talk about the merits considering the penalty revenue that we did as being a means to look at overall area. Theres a host of ways that we could look at the fee. Right now, strong 250,000, thats a uncle at the amount to set up a particular case. We have other penalties that are older for collection. I would like to close with the information here we certainly are more than happy to receive complaints. Either via email or post line. Just wanted to remind anybody who may be watching that we do have walking hours available. Unless you have any further questions . Have any question from Committee Members . Thank you. Other members of the public would like to testify on the ongoing short form rental saga here the city and county of San Francisco, cynthia . And thank you supervisor. Thank you for your continued attention to this issue. A couple of quick points. Supervisor breed wondered if there was anything we can do to help Property Owners . Managing situation for activity that they dont know about. Perhaps your office can send the Property Owner and noticed that a complaint had been filed. As soon as it comes in. The landlord has a bit more time to deal with what is going on. And has ability to hang on to the Security Deposit for the tenant moves our mossad. Supervise and peskin you talk about the policies. And i want to make a couple he pointed out. The b b announced that they will carry multiple listings on the platform. Unless youre ready had multiple listings, in most cases any policy would affect you. You can continue to have them on the platform. And that would make exceptions if you called him and asked for an exception for example, you have a property manager looking after your unit and he has multiple listing, he can continue to have imperative of a dozen units and i hire a property manager i continued to rent 1000 units on her b b. Lastly, lets put some perspective on these numbers. Mr. Guy say that we have hundred 62 registered right now. They say that they have to market of San Francisco and more than 7000 hopes. In San Francisco. That means its 12 or 13,000 people doing shortterm rentals. And we havent registered more than 50 of them. Hoover has 35,000 drivers. And before any uber driver picks up his first passenger. Huber verifies that has a valid drivers license. Your b b audit be able to do the same. Thank you. Good morning. Cynthia pollock here. I just want to thank you for the hearing. Its been very informative to hear is how this is evolving. I have a neighbor who is running a b b cash cow. The four units in the building that brent every day and this property was completed in 2014. And stop but then began again. I filed a complaint in july of this year and it is still pending. I do know and believe that the office of shortterm rental is not able to do this process of investigating completes in a timely manner. Because they are short staffed. I think the legislation is not enough. Up issues. Theres no way that they can have this in a single unit of this property. And its frustrating as a neighbor. The way it impacts her neighborhood. I would just encourage you to swiftly move forward with this legislation lastly, i just want to give a shout out a friend who is visiting. Thank you. Thank you ms. Pollock. Next speaker please. Hi i am laura thompson. We have met with many of you, im not here to do the fed any b b, we as a group have put you to be more transferred as well. We dont have a lot of people in that area either. Specially all of us are try to be very compliant. My situation is, i do have multiple listings. They did call me and the reason why do it is because i have two levels that are connected by an internal staircase that my exhusband used to use as an office. Im using that right now to pay for my mothers bills. I have been very compliant and appreciate supervisors to attempt to take care of those of us with the spin compliance. I think ever, what youre doing is youre not focusing on the problem. But the simpson. The problem is is that a lot of people who are doing this are renters. Theyre trying to avoid avoid the rent. They know that if they comply, they will be potentially evicted. I think the thing to think ab t about, we have recommended is a shortterm or temporary license that would allow people to do two weeks a year. And maybe not have to notify their landlord. But only two weeks a little year. Im a homeowner but i appreciate the concern the landlords have. I think that would take 30 of homes off the market, 30 are rented. Please look at why people are not registering and not just the simpson. This is an expensive city living. Try to bring people forward to comply by understanding why theyre not registering. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please . Good morning supervisors and thank you for this hearing. Two things first of all, what the previous speaker said alleging that 30 of the rentals are by tenants, we have no basis for that that particular allegation. I would also like to say, if you want to give a license to tenants to make profit on the apartment at their renting, thats a very questionable matter. My main point though, the Tenants Union has provided a number of complaints. I believe that they have reported approximately 3000 violations of the law. Those, many of those have been discarded or somehow ignored by the office of shortterm rentals. I would like you to respectfully consider expecting some information be provided some complaints that were made by the Tenants Union and where those are. Im not on the list. Thank you. Thank you. C no other members for comment. We will close Public Comment and of their no other comments supervisor. Thank you. I just wanted to ask mr. Guy a question about the process around notifications. When a complaint is filed, its my understanding that a posting goes on the actual property. And is at the case . When we determine theres a violation of the second we received the complaint. But once were ready to receive the notice of application the penalty clock to start. Lets everybody on the property that there is a violation. I know for example, some of the registers and theres a notice that goes down to the Property Owner. I think you bring up a good point. Notification. Is there something that we need to do or something you could do to do the same for example, when a complaint comes in could an official notice be sent to the building or Property Owner immediately that a complaint has been filed . Is that possible . Yeah. Thats something that we can look into. Again, i would want to, be a little bit cautious about sort of the method that, it should not be about making money but providing people are compliance. But there certainly ways that we can set up a notification. I think the same way that we will send a notification registration, we should do the same in the case of a complaint. I think that would be really helpful because, part of us as you said we want people to be compliant. Part of doing so misses her complain of Property Owners notified in many cases, potentially they could probably make sure that their tenants or themselves may be our compliance or immediately you know, begin the process of stopping doing with her doing to wreck a lot. I agree. I do want to mention, the variety and nature of complaints of we received is really all over the map. We had some very detailed complaints. Some of them are just people fording us unregistered listings under b b. Which, it doesnt tighten address it doesnt give us anyone to notify and its not terribly useful for us once he began the process. Once you have the information you have i think that a notice is appropriate for you get to the point of posting the violation of what that is going to be. Im not certain how that would work but i do think that is worth looking into because i think it can help get many of the folks were basically breaking the law to comply before we get to a point where there are large penalties assessed. Bamboo look into that. I want to say that we have been reaching out to some of the larger property, apartments and management. Let them know that we are here. We can assist them. Finding out information sending out some of a template that they can put to their occupants and remind them that not only is it against the law, but its a violation of their lease. Were try to reach out engage in these folks and provide them with that type of tools. But we can certainly explore your suggestion of sending a notification. Okay. Thank you. Did you respond to the last speakers statement about the tenants filing or whatever complaints . With record, im not sure where that number came from. We have received complaints from the tenants unit and we have followed up on that and have violations abated. I do with a 3000 number comes from, again, as i mentioned some of our complaints that come on are just in the form of someone fording us sort of a list of a bunch of b b listings. Again, those are terribly useful for us. To be honest. We go out and we routinely find out those ourselves so around that. In terms of prioritizing not just the fact that somebody is an unregistered house but they have multiple properties at their doing a great vacation and we know that. If there was a spreadsheet with 3000 b b listings, thats one thing. We have received complaints from the tenants as an organization we followed up we brought the properties into compliance. See no further questions. We will continue this item to the call of the chair. 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[applause] i am kelly tang director here at the county Transportation Authority. Thank you all for taking the time to join our celebration. The four i begin i would like to recognize some of our officials and special guest who are with us today. Assembly membered david chius office we have judson true g5 staff. Over here. Per david hes who i understand is celebrating his wedding anniversary. I wanted to be here but is celebrating his wedding anniversary. Smart man. [laughing] we are grateful. So grateful to judgment and Assembly Member two 480 7324 over the finish line this past session which provides us and other sponsors with Construction Management general contractor Delivery Authority which will help our next stage project the westside ramp and bridges next year. From the betide a board we have president s panel and window bridges and linda spoken our groundbreaking 2. 5 years ago on so pleased and grateful for your participation today. And bobour executive director from tida his team. This man get so much done with so few words. Bob. Thank you, bob. From the tac presenting district 6 and herself a resident, did i see becky hope . I saw her last night at the tiedye event but becky is ours on our Citizens Advisory Committee did thank you, becky and from our board we have chairman scott weiner and commissioner jane kim. Thank you chairman weiner and bobby thank you so much [inaudible]. And from the Us Coast Guard we have right rescue. Thank you, greg and your team. And the captain as well. You been tremendous allies throughout our project. From the chp we have commander christopher sherry. His team will be speaking later as well in our program. And from the cpc even mahler is again thank you so much for being here, stephen. And for your support and from ntc we have executive director Steve Preminger as well. Thank you, steve. Steven has a striped cap. [inaudible] so youve got the biggest giants fan up here as what could id also like to recognize several people who were unable to be here today. Who provided critical advocacy legislative and funding support for this project. Senators feinstein and boxer, sen. State sen. Mark leno. Former state sen. Carol mcginn and Assembly Member john amato at the time. This project was 90 million project funded by federal highway Bridge Program funds. Not easy to get. And state prop b b1 funds as well as local match provided by tida and it was through their efforts were able to help secure those funds. Gov. Schwarzenegger brown, and sec. Bonner reinhardt, kelly and caltrans dir. Kempton [inaudible] generations of leadership at the state level have all been great partners in support to our project as well. Of course, radical California Division administrative [inaudible] who cannot be here again but we do have mr. Cole who will be speaking. Going back to the beginning of our partnership with oewd that is the office of economic and Workforce Development the Mayors Office and tida that was in 2008. We appreciate the leadership of then mayor newsom and his key staff which is continued with mayor lee and his administration. Item objectand there he is. We work so closely together. Jose luis and speaking of jose luis we must recognize our great former executive drucker here at 58 who he had another operative produced so he senses congratulations to all of you, all of us. Jose luis demonstrate a great commitment to this project as well. Also great wisdom in taking eric cordova are amazing project manager and now deputy for Capital Projects the quarterback this after. Eric. [applause] so eric will be up in a moment but eric led the procurement the resultant selection of golden state bridge and the a team who is here about the prospect [inaudible] from golden state rage, president and are the Construction Management team, pb, with mike scott and Mark Whitehouse is here. Thank you so much. This group with their team has built this amazing project and we are really fortunate to be working with golden state bridge and this writer team not only do they manage every challenge from the migratory birds that wouldnt migrates [laughing] to the difficult and really challenging crowded site conditions. We had our project we had the tida construction of the homes in the golden gate excuse methe baby rich project all in the same site. Also we have frustratingly late shipments of critical supplies we guys made it all work. You pushed through by champs and you deliver this project on time and on budget. Take you. [applause] not only that they met are disadvantaged Business Enterprise goal of 12. 5 . Thank you, dave and for dsps commitment to achieving that goal and help create jobs and opportunities for local Small Business community. Thank you for sharing those b van values. Finally, we are proud of our collaboration with our little units and workforce on our project later this morning youll hear from pat karen and whose without local union 34. Pat. Thank you for representing labor and how important this is such an important project speaking about that to the local workforce. Because of your collective efforts, as policymakers, community leaders, funders, and project delivery partners and builders we are here to celebrate the opening of the ybi west bound rampart. This is a connection to the future of speech robert yerba buena and Treasure Island about a round of applause for all of you. [applause] now for Transportation Authority staff many of whom im so glad earlier it is a really special initiative. Because it was our first largescale construction project that we read and delivered from a to z. I like it a moment to recognize several Key Team Members from the sfmta a loving critical to the success of this part. Of course, first and foremost, eric Cordova Deputy for Capital Projects. Our project manager and human project delivery juggernaut. [laughing] [applause] anna laforge director for policy and programming and her staff who helped us get all those funds and keep our partners coordinator limo Maria Lombardo chief Deputy Director 70 phone Deputy Director for finance and administration who seven Straight Year clean audit. Go team. Eric young on Communications Officer and Bridget Smith are fabulous Graphic Designer who spent about his job present your project to the public. Thank you, all. Please join me in giving this team a hand in their Excellent Teamwork. [applause] now speaking of excellence in transportation, it is my pleasure to introduce our chairman scott weiner whos led the mta for the past two years and also represents San Francisco on the metropolitan transportation commission. Chairman weiner. The clapping thank you, kelly. I want to just thank kelly chang and her incredible staff as well as those eight lisa moskowitz. We are really blessed in San Francisco do have amazing amazing Transportation Leaders at our Transportation Authority as well as that are mta and Planning Department. And we are really lucky in terms of the internal capacity that we have to do good work in San Francisco and to work with our regional partners to make sure that were all moving forward together. So, thank you telling. This is really exciting. On the one hand when you first look at what this event is about its about an off ramp and you might be pensive to say its just an offering. Its not just an offering. This is really one of the i think early steps towards the complete and utter transformation of Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island to be an amazing sustainable urban Walkable Community to help with all of our really daunting goals here in San Francisco and the bay area around housing in particular and transportation as well. Of course, when this project is done and it will be done and its going to be phenomenal, its going to house 20,000 people with a great commitment to Affordable Housing and also to formally homeless residents. We will do wonderful transportation improvements relating to the bridge but also robust ferry service. We need to make better use of our ferries here in the bay area. And its going toit just want to be amazing. And the fact that this effort both these operands but ultimately for the entire project, will be such a great regional collaboration is a real testament to where we need to go. Because we know that today in the bay area we can no longer go it alone as San Francisco or any other community. We are all in this together around housing and transportation in particular in this project will ultimately, i think show that in spades. So i want to just thank all of the agencies that made this possible including our federal government, and the state, the mtc on which i circuit as well as our local county agencies, the coast guard as well. Just one of those it takes a family kind of situations and im just really honored to be here to be able to take this great step four. So, thank you. [applause] thank you so much chairman weiner. Next let me welcome Barbara Lopez legislative aide to district 6 supervisor jane kim. Chairman kim services are Treasure Island mobility chairman. Barbara. Speak good afternoon anybody but its a pleasure to be here with all of you. I think the last two days has been really great day for the Treasure Island and yerba buena communities. How many folks out last night celebrating tiedyed . Yes. Lets give it a hanford tiedyed. [applause] tiedye is an Amazing Organization that serves an acre. Treasure island helping homeless families and stabilizing the community and helping build what were going to look for it it makes sense that we talk about tiedyed when we talk about the opening of the ramp because just the kind of partners we have and need to great a smart sustainable city. I know our office as work with all of you for many many years and even before our office many of you were working on these items for 10 years. To make sure that we have the kind of design with its bike access, or account cart access or ferry access with a kind of transportation access we need to make this a Sustainable Community. We talked about that a lot. What is a Sustainable Community looks like that i think the historic commitment of folks like caltrans and county authority board, tida the residence of Treasure Island, all the other partners were here the Mayors Office, it shows what awful were able to get Affordable Housing at the levels we need to great the communities we want and b we can create the infrastructure on some projects to make sure that our residents have the kind of transportation they need to get to work were to enjoy the city. I just want to again thank everyone here and say really this is your work. I think [inaudible] get the levels of respect you show. Comment read our offices we nod our heads and weekly or disagree but really you are the ones doing the plans the engineering plans, the plans to make sure that the project go forward on time. So, thank you. [applause] thank you, bob. Thank you so much. Next, were honored to have say 10of the tida and perhaps the so fortunate of the trust and support of tida do an amazing job of the implantation of the implementation and vision. Thank you. Welcome everybody to Treasure Island. And Yerba Buena Island. What a Beautiful Day for this opening. My name is faith then i service the president of the board of directors of the Treasure Island development authority. Before i begin i would like to recognize my fellow Board Members especially the past german window richardson. Racer hand which linda. [applause] mark don mark is here as well. Mark is on the authority. We also john [inaudible] larry rizzo who are not here but they are members of the board and we worked very diligently for Treasure Island. I would also like to recognize actually, one of the most important people at Treasure Island and it is bob beck, who is the executive director of the Treasure Island development authority. All of you know bob and you know his staff and it is because of bob and his staff that we are here today. So, thank you so much, bob. You know, we have a vision for Treasure Island. It is a vision which has taken three decades to make. It has gone through years of Community Consensus and Environmental Review and it is incredible that we are finally at this point where we are starting the infrastructure and we are doing the work, starting the construction, for making Treasure Island the reality that weve all dreamed about. We very much appreciate the work of all of you in doing this , these ramps the old rams were so antiquated and in order to build the vision we had of 1000 homes of 300 acres of parkland and open space with pedestrian pathways and bicycle pathways that we have envisioned, we need to have the access. These ramps are the way to give us the access [inaudible] ve said and working on the west side as well [inaudible]. But, so we want to applaud the Transportation Authority dedication to this project. We havent they have been great partners from the planning stages to the funding plan to the financing role to that place to the timely project of events that its been a great job and thanks to you all. At the federal state and regional levels have supported us in this effort. And a shout out to golden state bridge contractors would have been an Excellent Team working with us to the successful conclusion. This is not the end of the transportation authorities work on ybi and Treasure Island. We look forward to working with them on many additional important projects. We have the west side rams ahead. Working together to realize our Overall Development plan and we are working for a comprehensive transportation policy which will also provide accessibility, not just to cars, but to varies, to transit Public Transit because thats very important part of the overall plan of accessibility for Treasure Island. So, thank you again to the Transportation Authority. And to tida that and to all the partners that work so hard to make today happen. Thank you for your continued support. [applause] thank you so much fate. This is really the first of many connections to the future that we are partnering on. Next, we welcome our great friend and leader at caltrans District Board chief deputy district director Dan Metrolink against the work closely with us every step of the way. To ensure successful connections to the east span of the bay bridge. Thank you, dan. Wow. Its a great day in San Francisco at Treasure Island. Thank you for having us caltrans is part of the team. Of course, for our great bridge here in the bay bridge area to have these ramps not only providing the safety on main lines for traffic moving through the ybi tunnel westbound but also for access to the island. That left him ramp to the island will be closed by saturday night. [cheerring] on dan macklin chief Deputy Director for caltrans and the bay area and when the city and the region and the state and the federal can come together for the bay area enjoy competitive we can be statewide for those highway bridge funds which are very its very competitive processits really about Building Trust and confidence in what we delivered today. The are competing for summer highway bridge funds for the next ramp going eastbound. So i want to thank hillary and honestly eric and the Board Members for the pa. Excellent excellent leadership for tida excellent leadership from the board. Ctc is a. Mr. Mallard. Mtc Steve Hemminger great leader for us on the bay bridge shared the bay Bridge Oversight Committee for many years during its construction and completion. As we compete for those limited bridge sites retrofitted account funds and come together all caltrans that, there are not many in support of this job. Theyre very small group but they do a lot of great work in support of kelly and bob back and i get to make it happen in our local systems local projects group and bridge design, construction, advisers, project coordination, very proud to serve sidebyside with the ta and tida staff caltrans maintenance get many of them here now maybe they just raise their hand. I want to thank him for all doing the great job caltrans staff. [applause] in helping make everyone successful. Of course, over my 30 years ive worked with a lot of contractors in golden state bridge to turn out to be one of the best and we are very impressed so thank you for your quality, your schedule and cost effectiveness. Solving problems because eric and i are tackling a number projects behind the scenes and its about problemsolving. Coming together as a team. So thank you for your delivery golden state bridge. The benefit of these rents is now about location. Weve overcome the gm metrics drivers without visibility that they never had on the previous rams for the safety has changed a lot since the 1930s. Emergency vehicles, driver safety, a long service. These bridges are going to be in service for a long long time so the investment will last many many years for the communities on ybi and Treasure Island. Lastly i want to thank the Us Coast Guard again and the california Highway Patrol and maybe ill wrap up with if we could give a round of applause for all women and men that serve in uniform statewide as well as nationwide. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, dan. Now we are honored to commander of the california Highway Patrol am a San Francisco office, capt. Christopher shy. Thank you commander for giving a cruise safe and supporting our lunch this weekend and beyond. [applause] congratulations to the sf va tida caltrans and all their partners on the spot. The interchange looks fabulous good unsafe roadways and insufficient traffic flows can lead to collisions and injuries. The yerba buena iad interchange Improvement Project will provide safe and efficient access to Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island from the San Francisco open they bridge. This will improve Traffic Safety and traffic efficiency on the on ramps for all of us. The mission of the california Highway Patrol is to provide the highest level of safety, service and security and you can count the california Highway Patrol will be there to enforce our laws on this interchange and be there to assist any disabled motorist. We are proud to participate in this momentous achievement which will support San Franciscos newest emerging neighborhood. We are very proud to be here to work on one of the most beautiful bridges in the world which leads to the most beautiful city in the world. Thank you. [applause] here here. Thank you so much commander sherry. Now, before i turn the show over to the man of the hour and the biggest lover of San Francisco, eric cordova, let me say a few words about eric. Eric is someone who i learned from every day. He is leading a dynamic and transformative team here at the ta. Leading us into a whole new role of our project Delivery Agency with expertise. His expertise experience and integrity of having worked with six case we were lucky to get him. Sure, jose lisa charmed him and together they laid a Great Foundation with early stages of the project going pretty smoothly but eric could have delivered the project as our consultant and not join the ta. What i think made the difference in his joining our agency was that eric cared so much about this project and so much about San Francisco. Having been born and raised here in the city and in the excelsior. He wanted to continue on another level. In public service. To work with the community and to mentor the next generation of staff. So eric, congratulations to you and your family were all here today. Thank you for your hard work, your dedication, and your sacrifice to get this job done. You know, the giant may of come up short this year but you, sir, get it out of the park. [laughing] i know youre just getting started. [applause] hi everybody. They convey much, kelly. On behalf of the trust addition authority Capital Projects division were think everyone for coming today. This is definitely been a labor of love for me. Yes, i am a native san franciscans. San francisco is the best city in the world. Actually an exciting day for the Transportation Authority to celebrate the completion of the ybi on and off ramps was spent on and off rain is on time and on budget and were proud of that but i could not have done it i think we could not have done it without everybody here is part of it. Im going to thank a lot of people get over to give a little History Lesson very quickly because i have been working on the project since 2008 and as we start the environmental documentation process. We went ahead and got the approved environmental eis eir within three years by the summer of 2011 timeframe. We completed the design and the right weight certification efforts to years later. And basically awarded the contract to golden state bridge daybreak hotel, thank you so much, for your continued and hardworking pursuit of this project. And problemsolving as dan indicated. Its a credit to your company and the way you do business. Thank you very much in that regard. We started work and actually will start working separate 2014 so its about 2. 5 years a little bit over 2. 5 years and we are now ready to open the ramps. But it would done a good job in that regard of meeting the schedule in the overall schedule we have in front of us. I want to make sure that everybody understands that when you manage projects like this, it really in my opinion is really the players involved its a sense of ownership. Its a sense of, we got to get the job done and theres nobody in this room was done that more among more than mike scott. From wsb arson sprinkler. Mike has been living and breathing this job since day one actively managing the contract, actively looking ahead to see where there are things that need to be done and frankly, managing change. All these projects have changed. And the issue, the success factor is really how you manage that change. Congratulations to mike, too, because hes been out the Bay Area Toll Authority in one of their contracts on the richmond braves did you got a winner there, steve. I appreciate your tireless efforts, mike. You know, about a year or go or so scott and you came to visit the job and we show you how it looked in one of the things you have said and actually commissioner kim also said was we have not heard any complaints. We really have not heard anything. Our whole mode of operation has been letters get it done. So when we hear things like that thats music to our it could meet were doing our job the weight supposed to be done. Im going to get into some geeky and tonight i expected there important to note because this is a massive project in that regard. Julie five bridge structures interconnected that form the on and off ramp system. We built many retaining wall systems, every rose to ensure access to and from the coast guard operate their Homeland Security interest. We actually located a legal base corner 10 building 267 as they are called. We relocated them right across the cove there. That building right there is now going to be in future use by the Treasure Island developer. Its actually really a cool feature of the project. 12,500 yd. 3 of structural concrete and we would go later this month from julie berry, is the company that basically provided and pumped all the concrete. 1400 truckloads of paul soil transports and we, i think one thing thats important to note here, too, we met our disadvantaged Business Enterprise goals. That is a task that doesnt always happen on projects and we are very proud of that fact and want to thank in particular, golden state bridge for their commitment to meeting that disadvantaged Business Enterprise goals and also to Penn Pendergast and pendergast consulting for working with the dbe Contracting Community to get the word out and make sure that you went ahead and helped us meet that goal make sure the dbe community knew about all the different trades and work to be done here i appreciate your efforts, paul paul in that regard. 5,000,000 pounds of reinforcing steel, 37,000 feet of steel pilings and steel pilings driven into the ground. Thats 7 miles of private Brother Foundation systems. 185 tons of structural steel. Happy to report we are compliant with the federal buy america provisions. This is a federally funded project and we received clean audits on all fronts good. Out of that fact. I cant say enough about the team and im going to very quickly mention other players involved here. Dave and particular paul luke whitsitt was daves project manager he is not here today is up and ready building another great. Please say thank you to paul for me and ryan hagan was hopefully hearing none, is to be comanaging the project is outer doing his work. We mention mike scott j jones, matt olander and mike berger. Thank you all for your efforts. Theyre part of the Construction Management inspection team. Moffitt nick oh are the engineer and design of record. I see cory lincoln im glad you made it. I see sam juliesam julie is a gentleman was worked on this project since the very beginning. His commitment i appreciate your commitment, sam. Thank you restaurant joseout eli, their Structural Engineer some of the topnotch social engineers in the country working on us with part of the team. Also from caltrans, every wednesday morning we have meetings to talk about construction what are we doing . Was going on . How do we coordinate the schedule . Baran from caltrans buildout tiempo seconds the whistle thank you all for your efforts in that regard. In particular, around, thank you so much and is on there, too. Thank you. Fhwa greg coley and peter anglin thank you for your support and working with us and all the funding and oversight from a structural standpoint. Cant say enough about greg vasile glycol the mayor of ybi. Just because greg is been quite great to work with. Hes basically making sure we all dont forget that the coast guard is here. This is our home also. So thank you very much and then bob back from tida which were that he Liz Hirschhorn and wade zhang. Thanks to all the staff. Im not sure that a lot of people know but i was a consultant for about 30 years and have my own company for 15. I was registered as a disadvantaged Business Enterprise. I know go important it is to go ahead and reach out to the community and meet those goals. Im actually honored to work at the Transportation Authority because they understand the value and merit as relates to getting small but vocal and disadvantaged Business Enterprise firms on the project. The federal dbe programs is meant to put men and women minorities and disadvantaged firms to work to create jobs, build community, and build our companies. Im happy to say we done that as part of this project that means a lot to me personally. When the Transportation Authority can team with caltrans and fhwa on other projects in particular doyle drive, we came across our marketable woman when the name of julie berry was the owner of calc and pumping. Nice piece of equipment, julie. Right there to our right. Julie and urging pumped leads about the concrete on a project and low and behold, or whole days is Treasure Island is where she operates out of. So when the ybi project came along we were thrilled to see that golden state bridge had chosen calc on pumping to go ahead and provide the concrete year for the project and help us meet our goals. So i just want to right now actually ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming julie berry to the podium. [applause] thank you, eric for that gracious introduction. He does make me especially proud to not only work on the ybi ramps project but the located right here on Treasure Island. Our contrasting locator avenue m in our ministration building is in the building where we had the refreshments. Whereupon the fourth floor 91 steps to the top, by the way. No gym membership required we just go up and down the steps forfive times a day. As many of you know is quite expensive for Small Businesses to be located on San Francisco and even more so when you have a fleet of concrete pumping trucks. This truck you see over here on the right was one of the pumps used for the project. Although 39 m schwing pump. It is a vertical reach of about 135 feet. It can pump 180 yd. 3 per hour. If you think about one dump truck and carried nine qb got your puppet of the concrete pretty fast. For us, as our business has developed and have incredible honor to work on such projects as the doyle drive replacement project mother transbay transit ctr. , bainbridge, the high st. , bridge in oakland and several bart projects and many more. One of the challenges we have faced is finding a space not only large enough for our fleet of pumps, but affordable. I want to take this opportunity to thank bob back and bridge with betty and i think which were that is in the in the audience here today but from tida a scene assistance making Treasure Island our home. Many times our crews arrive before sunrise and after sunset but when our wheels hit Yerba Buena Island we know we are home and safe off the road. For those of you whove never expense standing in front of one avenue of the pump which is where we just were with the refreshments at 6 30 am in the morning with the harvest moon setting older over the Golden Gate Bridge the city skyline shimmering to the left and the sun is just about to come up behind you, we simply have to put that in your bucket list. Dan maclaine he i want to thank you, caltrans and fhwa for providing such opportunities for cal con pumping underparts. It is greatly appreciated. As eric mentioned, we are forging tab selected by golden state bridge to be on their winning team for this project. When the very start, this has been a dream job. The golden state bridge team working with mike scott and his team at pb and of course working for the sf cta has been literally fantastic. From Construction Management perspective their schedules were solid. Their onsite management was impeccable and their attention to safety and compliance was absolutely remarkable. The days with gsp that starts at the top, man. We really appreciate your support. To the sf cta i want to share with you one of the challenges that many small and disadvantaged firms that face. Its a lonely time between performing the work, invoicing for the work, then waiting to be paid. Weve had the honor to work with the large number of projects with public works agencies. I can say without a doubt we were paid the fastest on this project in any other projects weve worked on. That is a tribute to dave and his team for turning around the funds to Small Business. Working at the sf seagate db team was exceptional. We had when we had an issue is addressed we always think of your contributions really mattered. That we were really a part of something important. To the design team, who in addition to these gorgeous elegant new ramps, as someone who runs a fleet of very long legs we love you. Im sure the citizens love it, too. No waiver option when on an off ramp we you getting on and off the island and inventor of you havent caught on the bainbridge because the rate has gotten caught up in the off ramp you know exactly what i mean. These new ramps are going to really make an impact on the daily lives of People Living and doing business on Treasure Island. So to the sf cta and golden state bridge, thank you for the opportunity. Two tida my thank you for allowing us to call Treasure Island our home. One of the most exciting times in the history of the island. To all of you, thank you for supporting small local firms that are hiring from our communities and building the types of projects we can all be extremely proud of. Then also a shout out to paul pendergast. Seriously, you are one of the best people that is just an advocate for Small Business and helps us and we really appreciate it. Thank you. [applause] sorry for the confusion. I was thinking julie for being an amazing business leader. Not just at the db community but his business venture. We need more sellers like you, julie. Thanks. Mr. Pat condon for local union 34 representing the folks that got the job done. Represent all units fit with local 261, labor union, with the operating engineers the carpenters, have to talk about that. Thank you so much, pat. [applause] good afternoon joe when i think david golden state bridge and the authority for allowing me to speak. I heard a lot of talk. Eight years in planning and 2. 5 years to get the work done. So you know, all the trades are involved in this project and dave told me to and 1000 work hours out here and one twisted ankle which is a testament to his company for safety and keeping folks out of trouble. As somebody whos had to help folks with their lives back together when somebody has been hurt or killed on a job i really appreciate it. Overall project and be doing with the bay bridges since it first started glad to see its finishing up now. Im really happy and happy for trades and old job you think about it. Desmond one real serious accident out there and no fatalities could we really appreciate that. Us guys in the trades. Thank you, all. [applause] okay. So with that, thank all our speakers and all of you again for your attendance today, your support. For the celebration that you will help us continue at we move forward into the lunch burger but first let me thank again the folks who organize the chief communications about officer eric young is that including brigitte smith. Paul pendergast put on this amazing event. There you go