Transcripts For SFGTV Treasure Island Development Authority

SFGTV Treasure Island Development Authority July 12, 2024

Needed systemic change against racism today. Thank you. Thank you. You have zero questions remaining. We can continue, kate. Item number three, report by Treasure Island director. Director, chair tsen, robert beck. Covid19 continues to impact the lives of residents and commercial ten xhants and provide commercial tenants with the most pertinent information. Housing providers are following the Mayors Office and moratorium guidance in cases where residents have been unable to pay rent and title will be sending Additional Guidance to all commercial lease olders this week. The Health Officers shelter in place remains in effect and government is planning for reopening of activities and the department, office, and facility and health and safety plans prior to reopening. The reopening will not look the same as things did in january or february. We are as part of this effort, were exploring what services we can put online. And continued to be deployed to the gratest extent possible and factored into the office planning. We continue to have calls with one Treasure Island and all the Housing Providers to keep open lines of communication. And with the department of fewer than 10 cases on Treasure Island which is the smallest portion that they have. We expect that next months meeting will be online as well. In terms of Meal Services and Food Services on the island, one Treasure Island continues to operate the weekly food pantry and the San Francisco unified School Districts meal Program Continues to operate under the leadership of resident hope williams and are distributing meals on every friday with a full weeks worth of meals each friday and we are working to plan for the relocation to the ymca and make modifications to the space where the program will be hosted. And between june 3 and 5 with masks that were provided through supervisor haneys office. Last saturday united sikhs, a local Nonprofit Community Service Organization distributed approximately 170 hot meals to residents here on the island. Director lai and supervisors haneys office assisted volunteers. And tida provided signage and restrooms for the program. Merci has been distributing 60 to 70 meals wednesday and thursday evening with over 700 meals served to date. And this was through supervisor haneys office and has support from Treasure Island Community Development, one Treasure Island and others. The affordable Housing Providers and Housing Partnership and to address Additional Needs of the residents. In addition, one Treasure Island conducted a survey of residents this past month and receiving 149 responses which if each of the responses represents a unique household and would represent 24 of the island households. A little more than 1 3 reported that they have been unaffected by covid emergency and almost 32 with the reduction in the hours and reported being laid off. And the most common responses for Additional Information were related to face coverings and covid19 testing information, rent support and food. Several respondents sited the liability of the metro system as a concern. One Treasure Island is reviewing the responses and on specific responses and prioritizing more immediate needs and possibly mobile covid testing. And in combination with providing on Additional Services and exist on the island. One Treasure Island is preparing to embark on the next construction Training System and with the reliance upon remote training where possible and with appropriate social distancing when in person training is required. And portable housing, they are continuing to develop an m. O. U. With the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development with the management of Affordable Housing projects through the Development Process and the placement of new residents. Also under the civic bridge program, they have been donating services to study the program and future building to provide badly needed Residential Community to the city. We will provide directors with Additional Information on how to sign up to view the presentations in advance. And the Modular Construction project will begin site work in mid august and planned to be ready for occupancy in 2022. And while the mercy Catholic Charities building will be applying for financing so that construction can begin in the Third Quarter of 2021 and working respect to insure integration of the transition residents. The community Housing Partnership building is planned to go for a predevelopment loan in the Second Quarter of 2021. And on the funding fronts, as you know, we filed for an in fill infrastructure grant and continue to wait grand award notices expected to come out before the end of the month. Based on the preliminary scoring, we have reason to hope that the application may be successful. That would fund the improvement of hillcrest road. And the Community Facilities district is levying special taxes in fiscal year 2020 following the issue inside the Building Permit and working with the office of Public Finance to prepare for the First Issuance of debt under the cfd with an estimated issuance of 15 million. Prior to issuance, it will go to the board and the proceeds will be used to reimburse for eligible project expenses. The Controllers Office and City Attorney and outside bond council have drafted a preliminary statement and the City Council Attorney will be presenting information for Board Members on how to review the disclosure of documents for review and comment. The construction front, Construction Activity has continued throughout the covid emergency and ticd is making substantial progress in the construction of new utility infrastructure. And the county transportation thorred began mobilizing on june 1 for the southgate hillcrest interchange project and moved from concrete podium portion of the construction and begun framing out the levels of the structure. The traffic on the causeway will shift to the reconstructed west side of the causeway that will allow the east side construction to proceed. The temporary roadway along the western shoreline of Treasure Island is expected to open on sunday, july 5. Also on ybi, the tank lock subcontract has begun pouring the bases of the water storage reservoirs. On Treasure Island, Power Engineering remobilized on june 1 after mandatory seasonal shutdown to continue work on the ferry facilities. This work will continue through january and be wrapped up in the summer of 2021. Utility infrastructure in the first subphase area for Treasure Island is proceeding with the karth of supporting the target of supporting the schedule. And construction along the east side of Treasure Island and the work within the Treasure Island Sailing Center area has been completed. This work will be followed by the construction of new temporary gas main connecting the first subphases of development to the main supply from the east bay. Abatement of smaller outbuildings around hangar two and three has begun. They are employing eight graduates of the one Treasure Island construction Training Program, one of whom has been elevated to be the covid19 safety monitor for the project. The concrete has established a batch plant on the island to support upcoming residential and roadway construction concrete needs. And will also supplement their capacity to serve customers off Treasure Island. Tida staff continues to work with ticd to plan logistic, demolition and utility relocations in the stage twothree subphase area. Looking at the timing of the utility caps and scheduling and the schedule for vacating hangars two and three. Also on Treasure Island, the new switch gear area is being prepared and is under geotechnical surcharge and that removal of the surcharge will Begin Next Week including the installation of new switch gear on the pads. And they are to complete their work by september 1 and turn the site over to the spuc who has ordered new switch gear equipment and is scheduled to complete the installation and put the new switch gear into service by january of 2021. In addition to the switch yard improvements, tida has provided funds to p. U. C. To install additional equipment, to improve system resiliency and aid in the identification of faults when they occur. Sfpuc will be installing reclosers on the existing electrical Distribution System later this month. Reclosers are a means of attempting to provide fault tolerance or to possibly localize an outage to just a portion of the island. But the more marked improvement will be provided in system perfo performance will be provided by the switch gear. The p. U. C. Will be installing fault locaters to identify the location of an outage in july and august. We dont anticipate these installations will require temporary Power Outages to complete the work, but we should be able to maintain service while this work is ongoing. In the litigation front regarding the claim that was filed this past january, the court has postponed the proposed hearing on the motion to dismiss filed by the department of justice, one Treasure Island and the city to august 6. Also, the department of environment has had San Francisco fellows working on a project this spring to conduct a comparative analysis of regional native plant nursery operations and tidas volunteer Stewardship Program where were preparing a final report which will assist tida in continuing to plan the efforts around the stewardship and Program Capacity building and development of the nursery. We will provide the final report to the tida board prior to next Board Meeting. For the past several years, tida has also hosted a High School Intern through the citys project program. The program is adapting this summer to provide virtual internships to high school students, and we will be working to provide a student with a virtual internship here on the island. Finally, in closing, i wanted to announce that maryann sias is going to retire in july. I want to recognize her many years of service and leadership with the community and residents here on the island. That concludes my report. Thank you. We want to wish marion a goodbye, so i hope there will be another opportunity for her to for us to be able to give comments about her service, her long service to Treasure Island. Ill be sure to invite her to our july meeting. President thank you. And i would like to open it up to the board, but before we begin, there is a question that i have for you, bob. And that is, the Service Interruptions that there have been on the island are really very difficult when residents are working from home and when children are being educated online. And the changes that you are talking about t switch gear, the switch yard, various improvements that will be made over the next few months, is that going to then solve the problem with all these growing outages that we have had . It should greatly improve the performance of the system and reduce both the number, the area impacted, and the response and restoration time frames for outages when they do occur. So we should have fewer outages going forward. When we do have outage, they shouldnt be they should be in most cases isolated to a portion of the island and we should be able to more rapidly identify the location of the outage and restore Service Based on the improvements that i have described. President have we scheduled the p. U. C. And talked padding or maybe Community Centers or the ymca so that people can go to a place where they are assured of having some connection even though there is the power outage. That is something that i think you need to look into. We continue to look at permanent standby power at certain facilities both one Treasure Island and tida have secured portable generators so that we can tie one Treasure Island at the shipshape and can put the generator online and ensure that the refrigerators maintain refrigeration and limited lighting and power at the building. The purpose for the second one and the second building that was purchased was to provide a popup charging station so that if there was an extended outage, we could set that up and people would have a location to come charge phones or critical medical equipment or otherwise. We have that but we continue to explore additional localized Power Generators as well. President i think these matters are before us that we have to solve because without that power, even for an hour or two, it affects peoples work and childrens education. But i will open it up to the rest of the board. U see that supervisor haney, please go ahead and comment. Supervisor thank you. I appreciate the comments about what were doing to prevent the Power Outages. I do think that is something that is very urgent. There was some discussion in the p. U. C. s email about cutouts. Are cutouts the same as reclosers equipment . Or what is the distinction there . And if not, what is the status of the cutouts in the email i received from the p. U. C. . [please stand by]surge. But then it automatically recloses so that if the thing that causes the fault is Something Like a Falling Tree Branch that hit the line and then falls away, when the system would reclose, when the recloser would reclose, that fault would have passed and power would not be interrupted. So thats the function of a recloser. Pardon me. The other item that you mentioned was when we had the march 8 out age on the island, that happened near building one, the fault that happened there was near building one, and there was a cutout near the job [indiscernible] which would have served to isolate that area so we could conduct that repair while restoring power to the rest of the island. When we had our initial outage on the 8th, it affected the whole island. They originally brought power back online, and there was an intermittent kind of brownout condition initially until they were able to address the cutout which then isolated it just to building one, and then building one was out for a longer period of time while they effected the repair. Okay. Thank you for that. A couple other quick questions. You mentioned some of the folks on the island who have still been unable to pay their rent. What is the plan in terms of what payment plans might look like and i assume that there wont be any eviction notices for any of these people who cant pay. And so what will be the process for each person who has not been able to pay to be able to pay it over time in light of the fact that they probably wont be able to pay it quickly if for some folks at all . Yeah, so the villages Property Management team under jon stewart have engaged each of the households that has been unable to make payments and is discuss payment plan opportunities. Theres no plan or intention to take any actions towards eviction or other measures based on nonpayment of rent at this time, consistent with the guidance provided by both the Governors Office and the Mayors Office. And there will be some individualized approach to how to deal with people who wont be able to pay, you know, immediately or any time soon . Yeah, they are trying to work with each household on developing a payment plan. There are obviously l

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