Comment for items that arent on the agenda. We ask that you fill out a speaker card and hand them to me and i hand them to the president and the president will call folks in order that we receive them and you have a right to speak anonymously. Well call folks if they like to speak anonymously. With that, well move to item one call to order and roll call. [roll call] theres a quorum. Next item is two 2. This item is for discussion. Good evening and thank you everyone who made it to meeting tonight on commission on the environment. You want to begin by welcoming our newest commissioner, tiffany chu. Commissioner chu is a design and planner and cofounder of the company remix. I was excited. They created a fantastic technology and process for helping cities to figure how how to manage transportation issues. Its wonderful to have her here on the team with us. Did you want to say a couple of words . Commissioner chu im just so pleased to be here. This is my first ever commission that i ever
Comment for items that arent on the agenda. We ask that you fill out a speaker card and hand them to me and i hand them to the president and the president will call folks in order that we receive them and you have a right to speak anonymously. Well call folks if they like to speak anonymously. With that, well move to item one call to order and roll call. [roll call] theres a quorum. Next item is two 2. This item is for discussion. Good evening and thank you everyone who made it to meeting tonight on commission on the environment. You want to begin by welcoming our newest commissioner, tiffany chu. Commissioner chu is a design and planner and cofounder of the company remix. I was excited. They created a fantastic technology and process for helping cities to figure how how to manage transportation issues. Its wonderful to have her here on the team with us. Did you want to say a couple of words . Commissioner chu im just so pleased to be here. This is my first ever commission that i ever
Reasonably said you are cutting out groups that may be forprofit and have a lot of capacity in the area. We sort of weighed that and from most of the outreach we did we landed on the side that the nonprofit requirement was on balance, a good thing to have in there. We had a good conversation with the park as license folks a few days ago and i hope they dont mind me saying that they are willing to explore with us an opportunity for the Parks Alliance to extend its nonprofit status to smaller groups that would have trouble getting the wherewithal to get the 501 c 3 . So we think there are groups that are already 501 c 3 and set up to do this to extend their umbrella around the steward groups and make us more comfortable that was the way to go with that. In response to your answer that would not prevent any company from forming 501 c 3 . We have hurdles a private Company Simply forms a 501 c 3 and putsn the board of directors their ceo, their treasurer and their something else, that is no
Yes. Right now the program would allow them to have clear liability agreements with the city, because right now if they wanted to take a major encroachment of the space, they would have to take 100 liability and these agreats specifically we have worked with the city risk manager to make the barriers for liability for the spaces appropriate to the group and appropriate to the time that they are going to take it on, lowering barriers and liability. So the city would put out and rfp and others would respond . Its that open permit process that mirrors an rpm, that is correct. And whatever agreement, said the cbd that gets that selected correct. There are a hot of things that could be in there . Yes. That agreement and very much like the city currently makes agreements for each major encroachment permit, that is the agreement form that would be there. The plaza encroachment form and it would be negotiated plaza by plaza and allow for adaptation. Thank you. Maybe some of them rec and park w
Certainly the lady plaza is the first entry and its frightening to go down there a lot of the timess and it should be different. So i think that is good and i certainly would be supportive of the same sort of thing for mint plaza, United Nations plaza, maybe civic center, im not sure where these all figure out, who oppose them . Also the embarcadero, or ferry plaza, im not sure what that area is . As you get down to the very end of market street, where the bocce ball courts are, that could certainly be cleaned up a bit more. So you think its really a great step in the right direction. The three things that you said about the steward that i think was really framed their role excellently, caretaker, clean and maintain and discourage antisocial behavior. Those are the three things and i hope we have a way of monitoring the nonprofit to get the rities. If they are doing this and not doing a very good job, i think there might have to be have mechanism to change them and put somebody else in