Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Govt Audits And Oversight Committe

Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Govt Audits And Oversight Committee 20240712

Thank you. Chair peskin supervisor preston . Supervisor preston yeah. I just want to thank you and supervisor safai for your work on this legislation. I think its incredibly important. I was a sponsor back on the original legislation, and i think its timely on the latest version. Id love to be added as a cosponsor, and i think that youve summed up the ordinance. I will say as to the sentiment of some callers who would prefer that we not regulate the private sector, i think that you know, i dont think that we can rely on what makes sense to the owners of commercial buildings and hotels to decide what kind of protections theyre going to extend to their staff and what kind of protections theyre going to extend to the general public and to their patrons. So they have a role to this, but our role is to make sure that we put safety precautions in this. I think its important that we move forward to protect workers and patrons, and as you said, to fulfill the confidence in visitors to the city, so id like to thank you and be added to it. Chair peskin thank you. And id like to thank my staff, sunny angulo, who has been trying to bring all of the various voices together, so thank you, miss angulo, for that. Vice chair safai . Supervisor safai let me talk for a moment. So were making this versus temporary, this is permanent . Thank you talk about does this outlast the pandemic and how that interplays, and just for clarity, i understand, but i want you to talk about that on the record. Chair peskin thank you, vice chair safai. So nothing is permanent. All of these pieces of legislation are creations of governmental bodies that can amend them, rescind them, extend them from time to time. The difference is we did this as an emergency ordinance. This would be an ordinance that would stay on the books until rescinded or further amendmeed and i suspect, as the pandemic rolls on, as regulations are relaxed, as tourism returns, we will have opportunities in the future to amend this. And as the medical field learns more and i do want to say to the speakers that invoked the the medical profession, all of us have been taking our queues from our chief Health Officer, and everything in this ordinance is consistent with the most recent guidance that was released by the chief Health Officer today, this very day, september 14 of 2020. Supervisor safai thank you. Thats really what i was looking for you to say, and i think its an important point that should not be lost, chair, and colleague preston. At the end of the day, we dont make these decisions in a vacuum. Theres been constant conversation with our county Health Officer, constand conversations as to public health, guidelines that have come down from the state, guidelines that have come down from the c. D. C. , and we have designed this in a way that ensures the safety of the our guests and workers that are employed in these buildings. My other point is the other thing that you said, we are no longer making this an emergency ordinance but will be a standard for the industry, so we can come back and look at that. Chair peskin and thank you, vice chair safai and supervisor preston for your cosponsorship. With that, i would like to move the amendments on that aforementioned ordinance. Roll call, please. Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin okay. Next item, please. Clerk on the remaining balance . Chair peskin oh, im sorry. On the remaining items as amended. Clerk to continue next week or to the call of the chair . Chair peskin no. These amendments are nonsubstanti nonsubstantive, madam deputy City Attorney ann pearson, am i correct . You are correct. Chair peskin on the motion, roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin thank you. Sorry about that, madam clerk. Item 3, please. Clerk id 3 is an ordinance amending the planning code to allow certain limited restaurants in the north beach special use district to convert to restaurants that may apply for liquor licenses. Each speaker will be allowed Public Comments which to speak by calling 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1469631010. Again, thats 1469631010. Press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will be in listening mode and muted. If you have not done so already, press star, three to be entered into the queue to speak. Chair peskin thank you. Are there any speakers wishing to speak on this item today . First speaker, please. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. James from d. T. Is checking to see if we have any callers in queue. And you may unmute the first caller here. Operator thank you. Clerk thank you. You may begin. Youre unmuted. Yeah, you know, just be careful with this ceqa, because david chair peskin sir, this has nothing to do with seekceqa. Im sorry. Were speaking about the conversion of limited restaurants to full restaurants. Then why does it say it . Chair peskin because it has been determined to be exempt from ceqa. Sorry. Please proceed, sir. Operator i believe he has taken his hand down. Chair peskin next speaker, please. Operator there are no other speakers. Chair peskin seeing no other speakers on this item that has been heard and amended, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, i would like to make a motion to send this to the full board as a Committee Report for hearing tomorrow, september 15. On that item, madam clerk, a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin next item, please. Clerk item number 4 is an ordinance ordering the vacation of streets in the india basin project site located generally at innes avenue between griffith street and earl street along the india basin shoreline, reserving temporary public utility and access rights in favor of the city and temporary easement rights for existing pg e. Each speaker will be allowed Public Comments which to speak by calling 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1469631010. Again, thats 1469631010. Press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will be in listening mode and muted. If you have not done so, press star, three to be entered into the lineup. You only need to press star, three one to be entered into the queue. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk. I cannot remember if supervisor preston was on the board when we worked on this agreement. Weve got jonathan cherry. Mr. Cherry, if you would like to make a brief presentation. Thank you, chair peskin, members of the community. Im a worker from oewd. So i can, lets see, figure out how to share my screen. Chair peskin this is pretty straightforward, so you can compress it. So we this is an implementing legislation, streetfication legislation to remain certain easements in the street study, and this coincides with certain conveying of streets to the project sponsor, and this would happen in parallel to an exchange of properties where the city would actually receive more land than it conveys. We did talk about this previously in committee, and the legislation is being now identical to the legislation thats going back to the full board with a couple minor amendments at the previous meeting. So im happy to take questions. Chair peskin so basically, the city would quitclaim its interest in the right of way thats earl hudson and Aurelius Walker, and then authorize the city to transfer about an acre within Aurelius Walker drive and hudson and earl and galvez to the state for a public trust exchange. Is that does that sum it up . That about sums it up, sir, yes. And i have a presentation within [inaudible]. Chair peskin all right. Lets run through it. All right. I wasnt able to share my screen previously, but now, i can. Okay. You will be able to see this now. Chair peskin we see your icon but not your okay. There we go. Okay. The board approved the project on october 23, 2018. There are two components to this project, both of which are to be delivered by the developer, build. First, theres a mixeduse Development Including almost 1600 newhousing units, in which 394 of those so 25 , would be affordable units, with publicly accessible open space, including the privately owned india basin open space and an expanded portion of open space on the southeast Waterfront Network of parks. So just to to recap, the Development Agreement includes a number of other Public Benefits. I can briefly run through these chair peskin yeah, im totally familiar supervisor preston, were you on the board at that time . Do you need this . Because i know that supervisor safai and i are very familiar with the Public Benefits set out in the d. A. Supervisor preston no. Ive read through the materials, so i dont need chair peskin okay. Keep going, mr. Cherry. Happy to move forward. Thank you. So the ordinance, as i mentioned, implements aspects of the Development Agreement previously approved. The Development Agreement contemplated this streetification and authorized the advance of some of the rightofway to the developer. Part of it would be retained by the city as part of the india basin open space. It authorizes certain privately owned parcels to be granted to the city and approves a Public Land Trust Exchange Agreement between the state and the developer in order to clarify the existence of the public trust status on the park area near the bay and remove the public trust status from the private parcels on the upper part of the site. Chair peskin mr. Cherry, the state Lands Commission has approved that, is that correct . No, sir. The state Lands Commission is scheduled to hear this item hopefully in late october, so weve been working with state lands staff, but they will see the agreement that this board has already seen hopefully in october, and the idea would be when that trust exchange occurs, this has already occurred. Chair peskin okay. Thats why theres some hurry to this matter. Yes. Chair peskin okay. Proceed. In slide 5, you see the existing site, also referred to 700 innes. You can see innes along the bottom of the slide, and the site extended from there to the bay, between griffith street on the left of the slide to earl street on the right of the slide chesk thats whe slide. Chair peskin thats where shawn is. Thats where shawn the sheep is. Thats right. Here on slide 6, this is the existing ownership. In red are all of the portions of the slide that are currently privately owned. The solid green portions near the shoreline of a rec park india basin open space. In blue are the areas that would be vacated by the ordinance, and that consists of rightofway under the jurisdiction of parks and chair peskin and mr. Cherry, these are all paper streets, with the exception of Aurelius Walker. Yes. The rest are mostly grass and dirt. [inaudible] at all times, even before the permanent access is built. Chair peskin so that would be a nonexclusive easement. It would be i would ask deputy City Attorney day if she could weighin on that. She might good afternoon. Yes, thats my understanding. Chair peskin hi. Hi. How are you, supervisor. Good afternoon. Yes, that is my understanding. Chair peskin perfect. Excellent. And on the next slide, this is just here for your reference. This illustrates the 7. 3 acres of privately owned land will become public as part of the public trust exchange, and the citys acceptance of new streets, so these are not part of the streetification ordinance, so that everyone can see the full picture. This consists of 2. 3 acres in the lighter shade of green that will be added to the public trust, along with 2. 6 acres in turquoise that will be public park but outside the trust boundaries, and finally, 5. 8 acres of city streets that will be improved by build and accepted by the city afterwards shown in dark green. Heres just a final ownership area of the site. The areas in light green and turquoise will be owned by the city. The areas in dark green will be owned by the city in public streets, and the areas in light green will be owned by build. Chair peskin and mr. Cherry, while it is not material to the items that were discussing today, relative to Sea Level Rise protections, can you speak to this . Yes. So the project includes a well, there are a couple components. So there is a raising of the elevations of the site, a significant rise of elevation of both the developed the area that will be the next use development as well as portions of the park. There are also, i would say passes, mitigation efforts that are going to be constructed wetlands, improved sort of shore protection along the northside here. Y here, to sort of reinforce the dune areas, both seasonal and tidal. Its increasing the elevation of the site. Chair peskin and thats 900 innes, to my left . Yes. To the left is the [inaudible] thats right. Right here is the corner of what is currently griffith and in the future will be new hudson is the shipwrights cottage, and india basin and 900 innes and the park here are screened here, so all of this would be integrated with that. Chair peskin got. It anythi got it. Anything else to add, mr. Cherry . Not really. This is where we are, and we hope that this would take us to an effective earliest streetification in early november as discussed. Chair peskin thank you. Any questions . On behalf of the project sponsor, anything to add or subtract . Im here. I was muted. Sorry. Chair peskin, how are you . Chair peskin having of time of my life. My, too. Supervisor safai and supervisor preston, nice to see you. No, we would like to move this as quickly as move. Six years into it now, were probably going to be eight years into it before we actually get going, but we would like to get this to fruition for the neighborhood and the city and, you know, for build. So thats thats about all ive got. Chair peskin i like it. Nice and piffy. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. Operations chair peskin do we have any speakers . Clerk go ahead. Operator im sorry. Ill go ahead and unmute. I have one caller. Hi, supervisors. Thank you. My name is kristin houck. Im a bayview resident and business owner, and id like to speak on behalf of this project. Id like to see it moving forward for the community. I have previous experience working with build, and theyre great in a partnership. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Are there any other speakers for this item . Operator that was the only raised hand. Chair peskin okay. Public comment is closed, and colleagues, if theres knno objection, i would like to move this item to the full board with recommendation. On that motion, madam clerk, a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin all right. The motion is passed. Next item, please. Clerk item number 5 is an ordinance accepting certain Public Infrastructure improvements to for purposes of city maintenance and liability, including the streets and stormwater pump station in the mission bay. Each speaker will be allowed Public Comments which to speak by calling 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1469631010. Again, thats 1469631010. Press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will be in listening mode and muted. To enter the queue, press star, three. The system will indicate you have been muted, and please wait until you have been unmuted to provide Public Comment. Chair peskin from public works, we have [inaudible]. Thank you. Mark hennesey is going to start this off. Chair peskin all right. Who knew . Thank you [inaudible] my name is [inaudible] and im with the San Francisco public works committee. Im happy to say we are now at the back end of the Mission Bay Development, so i do have a presentation here, which i hope to share with everyone. I will be brief and quick. Everyone can see my slides . Chair peskin yep. Okay. So just to orientate everyone as to the Mission Bay Development, top of the page is third street on the northside. What you see highlighted is in the various areas is approximately nine blocks that we are requesting for it to be accepted into the city infrastructure. [please stand by] in response, as part of the the discussions with Mission Bay Development and there have been some funding from Tax Increment Funding put aside in the possibility of that occurrence should happen. And there was a possibility that within your package of approximately 20 million that is set aside for the p. U. C. , along with up to 300,000 for public works and potential. And it is a potential and thats why its put as a set aside. I defer to mark who may have a little bit more history on the agreements that have been discussed with Mission Bay Development. Chair peskin do you want to discuss that and who has the out year liability and why you think that 20 million is enough and how the finance mechanisms work . Okay. The outlying liability is the city. The pipes and sewer line that have been identified to date have had some little dips in them but theres no major sinking in the mud. Theyre all functional. All hooked up to all of the vertical development. So, i mean, there is concerns Going Forward. The financial thing is that theres tax increments that are until 2028 that the developer has the rights to use and can authorize that use to go towards some of these pipes that have been identified that arent in perfect shape. Chair peskin the right or the obligation . And if the developer didnt use it to o on that, what did the developer use it on . What is it being taken away from . If the developer doesnt use it and its going to the general fund. But as of right now there hasnt been any deterioration where we had to open up streets and replace any of the water lines on the streets. We have had issues with sidewalk sinking, which is are the responsibility of the adjacent property owners, but all of the underlying infrastructure, like i said, theres concerns that there mi

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