Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Of four requirements. They have performed well in implementing the service plan and market and produce the events, increase the Community Stakeholders activities and maintain an active board of directors and subcommittees. I would like to invite her up to present accomplishments of the district. Thank you. Good morning i am the director of the yerba Community Benefit district. I have a few slides. First i want to highlight the district. It is basically between second and fifth streets on the south side of market down to perry, a half block south of harrison. The colors show you the different type of uses that we have in the neighborhood. We are fortunate to be a mixed use area and as a result of this we have a board of directors of 28 people who have to represent this diversity as well and very active board. We are thrilled and i know that cassandra has left we are thrilled this is done. It has had a significant economic benefit. We appreciate them adding public art to the neighborhood which has a lot of art components. What do we do . Our focus is to improve quality of life in the neighborhood. We define this in five ways. I am sorry the formatting the funky. We do cleaning, safety, marketing and Community Benefit fund grants to organizations also working to improve the neighborhood. To give you a sample we responded to 60,000 requests for cleaning in the fiscal year 2018. We moving 161tons of trash from the neighborhood. I know you can read so i am not reading this to you. This is supplemental to what public works actually does across the city and specifically in our neighborhood. For safety we have community guides, goodwill ambassadors a social Service Specialist working with the street population for services and partner for a bike patrol officer. He responded to 5,000 requests for services dealing with specific issues. We d do a count how many people are on the streets. We averaged 53 people each night in our neighborhood. Our approach is service first. We are trying to connect people to services. Our specialist will get to know the people, find out their issues and connect them to services, make appointments and escort them and walk them through the process to make it to give us the best chance of success. We do streetscape improvements. One of the things we under spent were projects delayed. We installed nine big belly waste reseptacles. We added 13 additional so we have 22 total. We added two new art installations. We added more bike racks and worked with the city on the Second Street improvement project. That is the picture on the right. The individual is sitting on a custom bench in the neighborhood. We market the neighborhood to bring people in to support the businesses there. Last year we launched walking tours. I want to show you the twist and i am not going to encourage you to participate. We have the annual event that was saturday night. Greatroud. And then we do regular mailings to our Property Owners and redesigned our website. The one thing that is different for our district is that we have a Community Benefit fund. The Property Owners decided they wanted us to support other organizations that were working to improve the neighborhood. In 2010 we created the Community Benefit fund. We gave away 165,000 in grants to organizations. These are samples of the things we supported. Since 2010 we have given 1. 4 million to organizations in the neighborhood. A map of the actuals. This is all in the report for fiscal year 20172018 we did come up shy on cleaning and streetscape it was not because of cleaning services or streetscape improvement. We learned that things take longer than we anticipate they are going to take. We try to fine tune the budget. I can tell you in advance we hit the mark for the fiscal year just completed. An example of the just completed fiscal year budget. Last but not least in the 20172018 we created the excellence awards to support and to award individuals in the neighborhood doing great things. This is a photo of the first recipients of this award. They have done things from people that keep the streets clean to public art, activations in the neighborhoods. Supervisor kim is here for championing the neighborhood. That is it for me. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you for the presentation and all of your good work. Colleagues any questions . Thank you. I move we send this item to the full board with positive remember. Can we take that without objection . We do need Public Comment. Any members of the public that wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I move we send this to the full board with positive recommendations. Can we take that without objection . Great. Please call item 7. Again a the civic center comy district for the fiscal year 20172018. This is the civic center Community Benefit district annual report. It is a propertybased Community Benefit district. The initial budget was 691,000. It is a assessment budget was p. M. 828,000. It was established in 2011. This was going to expire on 2021. As you know it was renewed this summer. The executive director is tracey who is here today. The Service Areas are Safety Community be service ambassadors, activation of public placings. They review four benchmarks for the district. Checking the variance whether one percent actuals came from sources other than assessment revenue. If the variance between the fiscal year and actuals was within 10 variance Percentage Points and if they are indicating the funds carried over to the upcoming fiscal year. For benchmark one they did meet this benchmark requirement. For benchmark two, the civic center raised 46. 22 of the budget through non assessment revenue and met that benchmark as well. Benchmark three. It was well with in the 10 variance for fiscal years 20172018 and did meet this as well. They did indicate the Carry Forward as required by state law. Findings and conclusions they have performed well and the civic center has performed well in implements the service plan and met the requirements set forthwith the city and state code. They worked with oewd and the Tax Collector to collect several outstanding debts. This was distributed in fiscal year 2018 higher 2019. They partnered with city agencies on successful implementation of public space in Civic Center Plaza and the mall. They maintained an active board of directors on the operations. If there are no questions i would like to invite her up to present on their accomplishmen accomplishments. Good morning. Executive director of the cbd. A few slides to augustment the staff presentation. This was the district in fiscal year 20172018. Roughly 100acre on the north of Church Street near tenderloin school and Market Street to the south. A little over 700 parcels in the new district. As chris said. Our services focused on cleaning, maintenance and Public Safety. Key services for us are the garage greeter at the Civic Center Garage and playground safety monitors. Last year and the year before we held a safety summit inn vitting the entire community be to Market Street. A few stats here. We have many, many more on the website. We are pressure watching 46,000 linear feet per year removing 60,000tons of trash per year. Our needle numbers are back up to 1,000 each month. They dipped for a while. They are on the rise again. We had seven Free Community events in 2018. We begun construction of the cafe and Civic Center Plaza celebrating the oneyear anniversary this month. We held the Civic Center Plaza Tree Lighting on december 5th. This year it will be wednesday, december 4th, same time, 5 00 to 7 00 p. M. And we are really busy with the launch of the Renewal Campaign for the district which we successfully completed in july of this year. Thank you. Thank you. Thankings for the presentation and the good work. We can go to Public Comment. They members of the public to testify opthis item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, can we send this to the full board with positive recommendation without objection . Thank you. Mr. Clerk please call item 8. Agenda item 8 resolution receiving and approving the annual report for the Central Market Community Benefit district for the calendar year 2017. Thithis is the report. This is a propertybased district. It was renewed in 2013 with an initial assessment budget 1. 2 million. The 2017 was 1. 4 million set to expire june 30, 2028. Executive director is tracey. Service Public Safety, cleaning, management and economic development. We reviewed four benchmarks for the district. The difference between it is related to benchmark two. The requirement is 3. 68 . The other four benchmarks are the same as the previous property based cbds. For the first benchmark they did meet this. It was within the 10 variance. For the assessment revenue and other income benchmark two they were above requirement at 21. 53 . They did meet this benchmark. Benchmark three the fiscal year budget they were below 10 variance on each Service Category and did meet the benchmark. For four they indicated the carryover and met it. The organization did a commend commendsable job to support the district. They hosted the seventh annual art event feature feature featue artists. They fulfill the Management Plan and maintain an active board of directors and subcommittees. If there are no questions for staff i would like to invite ms. Hello again. Executive director for the Central Market Community Benefit district. Last year we changed the name we are mid market. We are talking about 2017 today so this is back to that year. This is a map of our district. 806 parcels with an annual budget 1. 4 million. You will see highlighted in yellow the significant number of sites under development in this district. Close to 2 million square feet. Core services cleaning maintenance Public Safety and maintenance 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Each day. A few stats with human and animal waste. Graffiti takings and Pressure Washing 30,000 linear feet quarterly. Next to the tenderloin this is the most intense for a cbd to manage. Public Safety Services we are reaching out to pedestrians, merchants, local residents to do a significant amount of social Service Outreach and partnership with the District Social Service agencies. Also for Public Safety we continue to expand our Security Camera program. We have very successful safety teams we launch when we can afford to or get grants. We pair a Community Ambassador with a San Francisco 10b officer and that wonderful. It is well received in the community. Then we do the annual safety summit. In 2017 we got over 200 people to the strand theater. We did on stage active shooter training, presentation to stop the bleed campaign from sf general and the lobby is filled with the City Safety Service agencies and their information. In terms of economic developments a number of new businesses open for our highlighted here but to very large coworking facilities which have brought jobs and services and employees to our district. We appreciate that. Then because of the high number of under development in our district we work closely with developers to try to make sure Development Sites are as safe and goodlooking as possible. These are examples of two art projects we did in our district. Just a snapshot of the last art walk that we did. The art walk was created a decade ago to bring exposure to the businesses on the sixth street corridor that continues to this day. We fill almost every storefront on sixth with an artist for this event. We get 2000 people on the sixth street corridor. We look forward to that event in 2020. Thank you very much. Any members of the public to comment on this item. If i could get a word to express a few personal sentiments regarding the present state of energy as it impacts property taxed through cbd designation. It may be true by deferring maintenance they may appear rotten through the bone. It will be preferable if the state were to prevent predatory lenders from exploiting the crisis by blocking the consumption of the company. I would rather see the state declare Eminent Domain to the sudden loss of power and Consumer Confidence in carrying out the transactions. The broad impact on educational and athletic activities, the millions lost with corresponding decrease in revenue. Bond holders may be guided to undermine the company and to bleed it of the remaining strength. That may behalf of the reason the lenders propose 4 billion settlement, some for fire victims, less stock is worth on the books, the stronger the bonds for corporate assets. If lenders take over, the shareholders will lose equity andlerders will attempt to take over expenditures by racing utility rates on consumers. Public would be compelled to take it over. They can be made to serve a purpose. The moment should be viewed as a bellwether for the state. Governor can prevent it by declaring Eminent Domain. Thank you. Any other members of the public to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thanks for all of the informative presentations. Can we send this item to the full board with positive recommendation without objection . Great. Mr. Clerk please call items 9 through 15 foreclosed session. Agenda items 9 through 15 are ordinances authorizing settlements of lawsuits and attorneys fee claims against the city and county of San Francisco. Any members of the public to testify on the items to be heard in closed session . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion to convene in closed session . So moved. So we are now in during the closed session deliberations, the Committee Recommended to put all of the agenda items to the board with the caveat that the item 15 would be sent to the board. Thank you, mr. Clerk, i would make a motion not to disclose. So moved. Any further business . There is no further business. We are adjourned. Thank you. [ ] about two years ago now i had my first child. And i thought when i come back, you know, im going to get back in the swing of things and ill find a spot. And it wasnt really that way when i got back to work. Thats what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. When it comes to innovative ideas and policies, San Francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. And this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. Being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. I was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. She was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i dont know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. Not all returning mothers have the same access, even though theres existing state laws on the issues. These moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they dont feel wellsupported at work. We started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. But this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. With the newcome accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. What are legislation . We wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. Do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. I would love to. Lets go. This is such an inviting space. What makes this a lactation room . As legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesnt have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. And we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. The things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. And the sink is in the room. Our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but its all right in here. You can wash your pump and put your milk away and you dont have to put it in a fridge that you share with coworkers. The new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in San Francisco. But are they achievable for the smaller employe