Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

Item number 2, opportunity for the public to comment on any matter within the committees jurisdiction that is not on the agenda. Seeing none, were going to move on to item number 3, approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the august 26th, 2019, meeting. Minutes, any objections . I dont have objections, but i did note a lot of typos in there. I marked several of them up, and i can give them to you. I can go ahead and take them. Reporter they missed a bunch. Maybe you want to take a look in addition to what i wrote down. Okay. But its nothing too major. There are a couple that may have confused the meaning a little bit of the sentence. For the most part, you can figure what it is and theyre bad for the agreement, and some of the tenses werent right. This doesnt preclude us from approving minutes, does it . Other than that, sure. With the correction of the typos, but no material changes. Yes. Public comment . Seeing none, well move on oh, sorry. Ill move to approve the minutes with the corrections that brian has recommended. Second. Any other objections . Any objection . Seeing none. Moving on to item number 4, presentation from various departments regarding the 2000, 2008, and 2012 park bonds and actions by the committee in response to such presentation. Good morning committee members. My name is im the director of Capital Planning for recreation and Parks Department. I have a short presentation for you today. The first slide, if you can turn that on. Thank you. The first slide we have is such a short slide on our status of the 2000 bond. The 2000 bond is officially closed. Final reconciliation is complete. Were elated. There were a lot of projects that came out of that program. The biggest is the picture on the wall, and just of the center. There was approximately 87 projects that came out of the bond program. So, this will be the last time you be hearing about it. On the next slide is a slide on our 2008 bond, which is substantially complete except theres a minor project, which is the burner trails, which were leveraging some other funds from the 2008 bond and 2012 to complete that work. That work is slated to be complete in early 2020. This is our current schedule of our Neighborhood Park project. 50 of funding allocated for the Neighborhood Park program has been either spent or encumber with the plan opening of the project, which is coming up earlier next year. Many of the projects will be open to the public. Were excited to hear that. There are many projects in construction right now. They include the garfield pool, margaret hayward, all slated to be completed by the spring of 2020. We aim to finish all of these projects by 2020. This is the highlights of our city wide program buckets. Under the project, its complete now, which is a square open to the public a couple months ago. Five projects from that program is actually in construction. Youre going to see a series of projects, ribbon cutting, openings in the next couple of months. Were excited about that. This is a Publicprivate Partnership between recreation and Parks Department and San Francisco parks alliance, where were leveraging about 15 million from the Bonds Program with a 15 million thats been raised. Its a successful program. Were excited. Highlights of mclaren park and the group picnic project is under way. We have work thats ongoing, that will be ongoing. The concept plan was just approved at the commission a couple weeks ago. Were excited about that. On our Committee Opportunity fund project, the phase one of the project is actually under way. Also, its slated to be complete in december of this year. A larger project, exciting project, the Tennis Center is under construction, which were leveraging some Community Fund dollars with private philanthropy that broke ground this summer, slated to be complete in time for the 150th anniversary of golden gate. And our order conservation, which is in construction right now, slated to be completed this month. This is just some highlights and pictures of our recent, some of our recent work. The Water Conservation is one. Its under construction, slated to be completed in december on an average, when the Water Conservation project is complete, we expect to save over 2 million gallons of water from this effort. Were deeply excited about that. Another picture is that one of the panhandle with the ground breaking, with the mayor and our general manager and also the rec center, under the Neighborhood Park project that they opened up last month. Were excited about that. So whats next . So after nearly three years of work, we have an Asset Management assistant called life cycle. It allows us to perform planned preventative maintenance to prioritize repairs and organize and replace our capital renewal. We assessed over 56 million square foot of vertical and linear assets in the last year alone. In addition, it will form the basis for our planning for the next one in 2020. Although a lot of work has been done through the last two bonds, there is still a lot that needs to be done. Were planning for growth that is going to happen in the city in the next 10 years and we just sort of convened a Bond Working Group that will help move some of these bond Planning Efforts forward. Some of their goals will be to develop indepth knowledge of needs and issues of city wide parks and facilities, assist in the r. P. D. Data analysis and goal prioritization, providing an overview of our 10 years of the parks and facilities. As part of that effort, for the Asset Management and the assessment of our facilities, we identified over 950 million worth of different maintenance needs. We intend to sort of use that Asset Management database to prioritize our work in the next decade. The next slide in front of you is sort of building upon the successes of the 2008 bond and the 2012 bond. We will continue to use the criteria that we use then. The criteria used then was our condition assessment, which was more robust now, which our Life Cycle Program will continue to sort of keep in mind growth in the city and our equity areas also, sort of policy priorities for us. Our multiuse side is another criteria that we will intend to use for our future bond planning and life cycle on our much more complicated complex bigger projects, were adopting some strategies around project readiness and engaging with the community some moving forward with some design efforts to understand the complexity of the work. In the past, as with the past two bonds, we anticipate that there will be two parts of funds, which will be the Neighborhood Park projects, named park projects and these programs have been highly successful. I mentioned the playgrounds, our community Opportunity Fund program, which is essentially a Grant Program which neighborhood groups come together, raise funds, and we match those funds. Our Water Conservation park is also highly successful. Urban forestry trails and sustainability. The next slide sort of shows our outreach for the next bond. We intend to use some online efforts. We intend to take advantage of our existing advisory group, direct park commission, and to go back into the community for extensive outreach, which in turn helps us develop the bond program and will be coming back to the rec park program in 2020 to show our findings. The last slide is an overview of the schedule before as we prepare for the 2020 bond. As i indicated earlier, we have convened a Bond Working Group that will be working to prioritize our projects based on the criteria that i outlined earlier, so next we anticipate 20 to 30 meetings in the next couple of months. Then the findings will be in early 2020 and turns over to the Capital Planning and the board of supervisors so they can get on the ballot in june 2020 for election on november 6, 2020. So that sort of ends my portion, the rec park portion of the presentation. I can take it. Antonio, capital fitness minister for the recreation and Parks Department. I understand theyre very short staffed at the moment, so i can go over what theyre currently doing in the 2008 and 2012 bond. So in construction using those funding is crane co park. All the other projects are complete. In 2012, the crews terminal plaza has been completed in design and environmental review, and agua vista park and pier 27 public art and most notably, the fifth issuance was completed. So for the ports final 3 million of the 2012 bond, final issuance was completed so those funds are available for the port projects along the coast or the eastern part of the city and to summarize the 2008 bond program coming to an end, 2012 is well on its way, at least for rec park ending in 2020 and i think both departments are looking forward to next year for the 2020 bond schedule. Thank you. Ill be happy to answer any questions you have. Before we get into that, we have a liaison report. Sure. So my name is bart, i met with antonio. Basically, it seems that looking at the list and the completed projects, 87 completed project from the 2000 bond is a great record. One thing i did like about what theyre doing is looking to stretch the money and getting private funding for some of the areas that are more an influential for these parks. I went to visit a few parks and i seen the work thats been done. One thing thats a great point made is that our parks is one of our last democratic areas, you know. We can walk into a park and its free for us. The thing is too, i noticed how many water fountains there are and the question of whether or not to have restrooms. San francisco has some great parks and i appreciate what theyre doing and i think theyre moving in a good direction. Thats basically my report. I do have some questions. If you can help me out with a clarification on the prosac, what is that an acronym for . Its our parks and recreation open space advisory. Cpc is the planning group, which is comprised of all City Departments. That sort of looks at all of the Capital Investments for the next 10 years, for the entire city, not just for rec park, transportation, health, and all the other sectors. And the b. O. S. Board of supervisors. Im not hot on all these acronyms, but i will be by the time this is over. One of the things i like to do through our committee is get a point of contact for the port of commission at some point. So aside from that, that would be great. Point of contact for the port commission. Thank you. Yes. One question on the 2000 bond. This is just for edification. This is a bond im the liaison for. It says on page 3, under program management, second bullet point, staff reappropriated 5. 6 billion in remainders of completed projects into a master project for subsequent allocation. Do you have to go to the board of supervisors . Antonio . Yes, we did. The 2000 bond was held at the project level. So for the specific projects, it was whats known as the deappropriation, reappropriation at the board of supervisors through a supplemental ordinance. So yes, it went to the board of supervisors. The reason i asked that is because im a liaison for one of the muni bonds. In shifting money between a couple of categories on a temporary basis, they had to go to the board of supervisors. This is the kind of thing i would expect that too. The 2008 bond, i had a few real in the weeds kind of questions and im going to skip that one. I think i know what thats about. On the Raymond Kimbell playground, it looks like its delayed about 2. 5 years in actual completion. You were looking to complete it in november of 2012, and it didnt get completed until the 15th of june. Was there a delay claim in particular . Yeah, to answer your question, actually there was an Additional Community engagement that occurred on the project and we had to really understand the scope of the project before implementing it. That Community Effort took a couple more months, and then putting it out to bid and then implementing it. I understand. Okay, on page 16, under project status summary, the budgets and actuals were dollar for dollar exact. How did that come about . Yes, antonio again. Thats just the accounting reconciliation at the end of the day, we need to get to 0 in the bond. I figured it was Something Like that, but i didnt know. On page 23, under the pier 43 bay link trail, second paragraph, during the entitlement process. I didnt know what the entitlement process was. What page . 23. Right here. Thats the waterfront, right . Yeah. I think i will defer to the port in dealing with them. The entitlement, oh sure. That is actually the process by which the project seeks sort of the Environmental Action approval through city planning. Okay, i figured it was Something Like that and im glad i asked. While i figured that, i can know that. Finally, the only one you still have in construction, you went from a completion date, planned completion date of february 15th to september of 2020. Construction didnt happen until much later. Was that it that major of an effort. On this particular one, were going to defer to the port that is not here today. Ill hold it for them when they show up next. Its for edification. Whats done is done. Yeah, i think i know whats happening, but i rather have them speak to that. Ill be here next time. Thats all. Thank you. I have a question falling off of some of Community Member larkins comments. Im one of the people that been to these parks. I love seeing these investments and improvements, but the timelines between estimated and actual completion is wildly different. There are a few probabilijects completed early, but most are delivered late. What efforts are you taking as you think of the 2020 bond, to try to get that to line up better so when peoples expectations will line up better with what were seeing. Thats a good question. I think we continue to learn through the process. One of the things were doing now is actually having a much more robust timeline for each phase of work. So, maybe sometimes we believe Community Engagement should take six months. What were finding out is that it takes closer to a year plus. On much more complicated projects, what were doing is actually leveraging existing funds to understand the scope of our work better, so that the issues around scoping, around costing can be realized early so we can implement the projects better. You know, also the other part of this is i believe were better staffed now. Absolutely. Were better staffed as a capital team, so were sort of positioned to deliver it to 2020. So the other part of this is also entitlement through city planning takes time. Anyone thats donnie done any small to medium sized projects knows what it takes. Storied properties take longer because we have to do additional analysis, more questions, and so forth. Were actually getting ahead of that and doing that work ahead of time now. Were trying to mitigate those times. Thank you. Thank you. I have a couple of questions and comments. Regarding the port in particular, do we audit the ports aspects of this bond . Im from the Controllers Office. Yes we do. We have the same authority on the ports project as anything else. I am looking at the schedule for audits to see when this may come up. February 2021, this group of park 2012 park bond will be in our audit sample. So, its not planned for our construction audit until then. Okay. The authority is the same. Okay. So, im telling you guys because youre here that im disappointed that the port didnt show up for this, especially as were heading towards the sea wall bond. I would like to calendar the port specifically for our next meeting and ask them to come in and actually present in more detail about what they have said here. There are no numbers on here. Again, you guys are not responsible for them, but they need to understand that if theyre going to be part of these bonds, by something you said earlier, around the 2020 bond, i assume theyre going to have projects on that one too . Actually, the port is not going to have any project in that particular bond, according to the 10 year capital plan. Its helpful for us if they dont because its hard to have two separate groups hold responsible. Thats the port. Regarding the 2020 bond, thank you for your thoughtful prework on that bond. We have seen that the bonds are much more thoughtful and well written when that type of work is done ahead of time. Thank you. And it sounds like youre being thorough in trying to address that. You mentioned the deferred maintenance of 950 million. Is that teasing the idea that youre going to put a bunch of deferred maintenance on that bond . Its hard to do that. The data actually just came in. In addition, its just to understand for our maintenance and Operations Team how to prioritize their work. You know, in the past were great at repairing the lot. Were not great at being proactive. Its actually understanding the life cycle of all our assets. So with this effort, with this Asset Management system, it will allow our Operations Team to prioritize the work. Through that effort, it elongates the life cycle itself, and part of the work well be doing as the next bond also, and some of the future work i anticipate will happen. Okay. Because 950 million is a lot. Sorry . 950 million is a lot for a bond. Yes. That 950 million that you see is sort of a snapshot in time of what the deferred maintenance sort of needs will be in the next 5 to 10 years. Yeah, thats a very il

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