September 15, 2016, city of San Francisco Government Audit Oversight Committee [ gavel ] good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee. Im the chair of the committee, supervisor aaron peskin joined by supervisor norman yee and Committee Member and board president. Supervisor london breed our clerk is erica major. Are there any announcements . City clerk yes, please silence your cell phones and providing documents should be to the clerk. This is the board of supervisors agenda for september 27, 2016. Supervisor aaron peskin great. Please read items 1 and 2. Clerk [hearing civil grand jury maintenance budgeting and accounting challenges for general Fund Departments maintenance economics versus maintenance politics pay now or pay more later] sf 11234 2. 160614 [board response civil grand jury maintenance budgeting and accounting challenges for general Fund Departments maintenance economics versus maintenance politics pay now sf 21234 supervisor aaron peskin than
Supervisors agenda for september 27, 2016. Supervisor aaron peskin great. Please read items 1 and 2. Clerk [hearing civil grand jury maintenance budgeting and accounting challenges for general Fund Departments maintenance economics versus maintenance politics pay now or pay more later] sf 11234 2. 160614 [board response civil grand jury maintenance budgeting and accounting challenges for general Fund Departments maintenance economics versus maintenance politics pay now sf 21234 supervisor aaron peskin thank you. These items are reports to the civil grand jury. The first item is a hearing civil grand jury maintenance budgeting accounting challenges for general Fund Departments maintenance economics versus maintenance politics. Please come forward. My name is James Cunningham with the civil grand jury. Thank you, mr. Hopkins, good morning. Good morning. That was quite a deep dive. Thank you for acknowledging that. It was fun to prepare. In fact that report has 19 sets of fingerprints all
A concerted effort with cops and go funds and contributing as well to the sales tax increase to the San Francisco street resurfacing and committed to pavement conditions at 70 and we are on the way to hitting that in the next 2 years or so. We have a Capital Improvement for critical enhancement. We end up with the Capital Budget with the emergencies we had to fund, most notely with the landslides on telegraph hill. Its hard to plan for a landslide. So those are the types of things where we have to have Funds Available and we set aside 10 million a year to do that. And the variable allocation go to infrastructure renewels and facility renewels. I should mention there is talk about Critical Development go funds and now they are being paid through a revolving Capital Planning fund. That was actually a suggestion in the spur report years ago where we were not able to fund it until recently. Again, constantly the Capital Planning committee and various folks at looking at ways to keep this p
To the plate it doesnt make sense we want them to rather let the marketplace decide why pdr is going to be we have to encourage it and send them to places where the rents are less and take away unique takes we have that drives passenger door places to brisbane to mass plaza that dont have the taxed but we have unique taxed in San Francisco that drives pdr businesses away we have to look at real causes and not pretend a few other things on the site i went and visited i visited both the site and visited the potrero languish i got to see the site it is underutilized and potrero launch i saw some nested bedrooms their comfortable and large windows that look out to the sun and a wall that can be closed to keep the bedroom dark and private that make sense ill ask the Zoning Administrator to explain if there are any technicalities the eastern neighborhoods plan that effects the nested bedrooms but a lot of them in the Martin Building projects and seem to be a senseable place to have a family
Afforded when the itting is reached in the meeting each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. I have no speaker cards. Does any member of the public wish to come and speak at general Public Comment . You have three minutes, and there will be a warning bell, 30 seconds before your time. Where do we place the card . You can put it on side there. You can come and speak now. Okay. All right. Right. So does any other member have general Public Comment . Seeing and hearing none we will close, general Public Comment. Very good, it will place you under department matters, directors announcement. Good afternoon, commissioners i just wanted to give you a brief report on the Planning Commissions item with respect to the housing Bonus Program. As you know it has been in the kind of the Development Stage for a long time and it has been controversial and the Planning Commission, did take an action last week, what they did, a little out of their normal routine is actual