announcements? >>clerk: yes, please shut off any cell phones or any devices. speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items will be appearing on april 4, 2017. would you like to take a vote on excusing supervisor tang for today's meeting. >> yes. do we have an approval to excuse supervisor tang. that is approved. madam clerk, please read item 8 and 10. >> 170214 [purchase and sale agreement - lendlease development, inc. - 30 van ness avenue - $70,000,000] sponsors: mayor; kim ( reading code )... >> supervisor malia cohen: all right. thank you very much, supervisor kim has joined us today who is the sponsor for these two items. i will give her the floor now. >> >>supervisor jane kim: i'm only the sponsor to no. 8. thank you, chair cohen and members of the budget and finance committee. we know this issue very well. this has been before the board of supervisors for some time. this is regarding the sale and acquisition of 30 van ness owned by the city county of san franciscans. in september when 2016 when we first saw the purchase of the acquisition of the site at 15% affordable housing at $80 million purchase price. the proposal we have before us today, while a reduction of $70 million. proposition which passed june 2016 which requires developers to now buildup to 25% inclusionary housing which would include 15% at low income with affordable housing and in addition to 15% at 100% ami. in 2015, i did pass a proposition, a ballot measure proposition k when we said or build on public land that we should be building maximum affordable minimum households on site. what i'm proud of today is that not only has the developer committed to build and also committed that if the city would decide to increase to provide any up zoning that they will be able to commit to 33% of affordable housing with on site in lieu of fees through the market octavia and van ness special use district plan. it has been important to me that we are able to use every resources that are available to us to keep building for san francisco residents here whether they be teachers and nurses or hotel workers and restaurant workers. and even in case where we are also prioritizing the need for revenue to build much needed office space which is equally important, what i am supportive about this feel is this a good balance of making sure that we are maximizing affordability and important need in the housing crisis that we are experiencing here in san francisco today without compromising the revenue that is much needed to build the office buildings for several of our city departments and to provide more efficiency in the delivery of city services. what is also important about this deal is that we are able to achieve the 25% affordability without any city buyback or discounts. the original deal that came before us december 2015, had offered the city to buyback units from the 15% up to 20-25 or 30%, but at a dollar amount that we thought was incredibly high. i'm looking for the number right now. well, i will find the number later in the points as we talk further about it. but anyway, colleagues, i do ask for your support on this item. i know that we have a presentation from department of real estate before us and then our presentation from the budget and legislative analyst report. >> all right. thank you, before we take real estate, we are going to hear from bla, item 7 and 8. sponsored by the mayor and supervisor kim. 170213 [purchase and sale agreement - sf prosperity 2, llc - 1660 street and 1680 mission street - $52,000,000] sponsor: mayo >> good morning, supervisor kim, >> you would like me to go over item 8? >> yes. if you would like we can hear from real estate. >> i'm prepared. madam chair, supervisors, on page 23 of our report, we know that san francisco prosperity as the highest bidder agreed to pay the city $52 million to purchase 1660 and 1680 mission street and pay tax of $55,000. in addition they will pay property taxes in 1634 in first year and transfer taxes and property taxes are deposited into the city's general fund. therefore the city will receive the sales price and transfer taxes of $53,560. and will receive the annual property taxes in the first year of that estimated approximately $600,000. on page 24 of our report while we know the appraised value of $54,800 achieve the purchase prize, the estimated taxes of $1 million should be added to get a total value of approximately $53 million if you consider the transfer tax which is normally paid by the seller which is the city in this case, the buyer is paying for it. we also note that the proceeds of the $52 million from the sale of 1660 mission and 1680 mission street will be allocated to the pending development of the new city owned building at 1500 mission street which has an estimated project cost of $439,265. and the sources of use for that cost is shown in table 2 page 25 of our report. on the bottom of page 25, we note table 3 and table 3 is on page 26 of our report which shows the total annual rent and operating cost to be paid by the city of the first year of the lease back is $47,000. as you know this deal has the lease back provision where departments in the city will remain and 1660 and 1680 over an initial 3-year period and 21-year options. they could be there for 5 years. on that action on page 26, under the proposed lease back. dbi's rent and operating cost for 1660 mission street will increase by $1,281,210. and public works cost for 1680 mission street will increase by $1,102,590 for the first year for the total additional rent and operating cost in the first year of $28,383. as a result, it's going up 107%. we also note on page 27 that chapter 23a of the administrative code prioritizes the use of property for affordable housing because the funds of the sale of 1660 and 1680 mission are not used for affordable housing and this is a matter for the board of supervisors. we state on page 27 to make an amendment to add a finding that the public interest or necessity will not be inconvenienced by the conveyance from 1660 and 1680 mission street as prosperity and include that as amended to be a policy for the board of supervisors. we stand for questions. >> thank you very much. >> did you want me to also go over item 8? >> i would like you to go over item 8. we called them both together. in item 7 you have amendments? >> yes. that's just a technical amendment. >> okay. >> the board has to make that. >> we will take that amendment at the end. we would love to hear your presentation on item 8. >> on item 8. supervisors, i refer you initially to page 34 of our report where we note that in addition to the $70 million purchase price received by the city, the city negotiated for a lease to pay the city's one time transfer tax just as in 1660 and 1680 mission street which i stated is typically paid by the seller in san francisco. that is across $2,100,000. and transfer taxes go to the city's general fund. therefore as shown in table 1 page 34 of our report, the city will actually receive $7,210,000,000 of the proposed value. and will pay property taxes in the first year and again property taxes would accrue to the city's general fund. we know the city maintained and approval from $69 million to $74 million. that is explained on page 35. land lease for van ness for residential and retail uses while paying the city transfer tax and while they pursue primarily residential development on this site. because this is a purchase and sale agreement and not a development agreement. the actual use specifics of the property is not known. we emphasize that, supervisors. what is before you is strictly the purchase of a sale agreement. if you approve you are authorizing the city to sell this property. what happens in the future to this property is not known. has not been finalized, is not known and your action today cannot determine what that will be. that will be sometime in the future. on the bottom of page 35, it's shown in table 2, if the city sells 30 van ness at the proposed $$70 million price, it will result in a $44 million net proceed. that is because there are an existing debt of participation which has to be paid. while you will be authorizing the sale of $70 million. the city would get net proceeds of $42,545,000. we note from the report that $42 million from van ness will be allocated from the potential developer from the building like in 1660 and 1680 mission street and i mentioned the estimated project cost of that new building is $439 million and that is shown in table 3 on page 36 of our report. on the bottom of page 36, shown on pages 34 and 37. the city will pay $139,990.50 of lend-lease to remain in van ness. this deal is the same as 1660 and 1680 mission where there is a 3-year lease back and 21-year options to permit departments to stay in the buildings while the new city office building is being constructed. on page 38 of our report, we note that the proposed resolution would approve the sale of 30 van ness for $70 million with at least 25% affordability which is $17 million or 19.5% less than the originally authorized $87 million amount. as you recall, the city had this property up for sale at $87 million and rejected that offer by the board of supervisors as you know. however, the $80 million and $70 million sale offer were negotiated before each of acquisition in 1993 for it's current use. 75,000 square feet. and acquired. to hsa in 1965 for about $5 million. and was transferred jurisdictionally to public works in 1988 for approximately $105,000. so pretty good deal in terms of our acquisition versus our sale of that property. the timeline on this effort just a quick recap. for 30 van ness, i think it's important to just get a little history on that. it was appraised for $1.5 $1.5 million to determine whether the property made sense for the city as a part of restacking our portfolio in the civic center and as the budget analyst has gone over, the board took their action back in 2015 and really the key points here are what we her from the board of supervisors and put back on the market in after effort to secure a minimum from the buyer. we need a better total value for the city and we needed to record that affordability to go with the title so it runs with the land forever. we have no contingencies regarding affordability and we needed to have a process to resemble the process for clarity to prospective buyers of the property. so looking at what's before you now as noted at the 1660 and 1680 mission savings of this figure. for 30 van ness that is to contemplate for development opportunity combined with the $102 million in gross revenue for the city. that was our yield target when we first put together what we call project chess and put before this budget and finance committee 3 years ago the idea of pursuing a replacement property for these offices that are more resilient and most importantly provided a one stop permitting center opportunity. as mr. rose noted, the transfer tax here which is typically paid for by the seller we have reversed that dynamic paid by the buyer of both and you see the total amount of revenue there in addition to the 102. we have a very favorable commission on this represented by the sale of mission and represented for the sale of van ness. each at.5% or less of the purchase price which is unheard of in the commercial property market. the lease backs are for a 3-year initial term. we anticipate after 36 months our destination site wherever that maybe will be available for move in. in case there is a delay we have negotiated 21-year options to remain on site at nominal increases at your 3% increase per year, a $30-square foot cost at both of these locations. we believe that is an extremely favorable rate at the center and the budget analyst report puts that out at the low 50-square foot. we are at $70 a foot just a few blocks away. to give you an idea, we have a very favorable lease back. it's more of a currently paid and all of the pro forma chess. you can take another look at when we bring forward the ratification for the process. that will be coming later this spring. lastly we have deposits for 1660 and 1680 mission for $32 million and a total of $60 million. due diligence has been completed with respect to van ness. i think that is really an important point here with previous agreements and potential agreements did not have complete due diligence. that means they have made it through looking at the seismic performance of the asset as well as the seismic condition of the land later issues and in addition to the bart tunnel which provides challenges with respect to redevelopment. i will talk about affordable housing. so, as supervisor kim noted we have the prop c requirements of 25% affordability. this restriction is in the psa and also in the deed. it maintains this as a minimum required affordability level and there is no comfort given to the buyer of van ness if the board of supervisors should choose to lower those limits to say whatever 19.2% in the future. this buyer is by deed restriction required to be at 25% affordability. if the board should choose to raise the levels of prop c to 32% at some point in the future before permits are pulled and obligations are made by the buyer, it raises to that level. so it is a floor, a firm floor. this is also consistent. the development that's being proposed by a land lease is consistent with the hub effort that's on going with the planning department. we are joined here by colleagues from planning who can speak to that if you have questions about that conformity. future zoning could also increase that affordable housing as supervisor kim articulated in her presentation. we are pleased that we have a path to 33% here that is on the act of the developer. that is an important dynamic change that has been negotiated between what the board saw in late 2015. lastly there are additional impact fees as a result that this is in two special use districts on top of the fee obligation that the developer is making on the agreement. lastly, a comparison in what you saw in 2015 and today in 2017. so as noted by the budget analyst, we have a difference in the pricing from the 80 to $70 million but most importantly we have a difference in the affordability level from 15-25%. what's that value? we estimate that value to an incremental increase of 10-4% affordability to $12-38 million. that magic number that you were searching for is $641,227 per unit price in california originally put forward as a cost to buy a middle income unit taking it down from market to affordability. we are looking at a much more modest number to drive those numbers. >> thank you, supervisor kim has a question for you. >>supervisor jane kim: i was trying to job my memory on those numbers, do you remember what a.m.i we were considering? >> that's correct, we were looking at 120 minimum. >> what we are looking at today is 100% ami. >> that's right. >> at a 10 million reduction if you want to put that in $250,000 out the door at a lower bmi than the original deal? >> that's correct. >> i think there is office of housing and community development staff would support that as being a fantastic opportunity for the city to yield more affordable housing. and again, as noted transfer tax stays as a buyer obligation. that concludes our presentation for you. happy to answer any questions that you might have. thank you for your time. >> thank you, supervisor yee has some questions and i have some questions as well. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. let me ask about the the terms of the deed, i guess. if the terms include the affordability piece in the deed, then, let's say that the original buyer decides not to just build anything for a while and then 15 years from now the property is worth 200 million. it's easy to just sell it. so the new buyer would be obligated to build the affordable units also? >> that's correct. that is why it is important to have this as a deed restriction and not just a contractual agreement between buyer and seller so it is on the deed, runs with the land forever for whenever this property maybe developed. as the budget analyst noted, we are not talking about a development, we are talking about a contract for real estate. there are certain things we could not do, but this is as far as we believe we can push that envelope to ensure when and if development happens we can guide that development and it's affordability levels. >> is there >> i know this is sort of a crystal ball question, did you get the sense that the buyers would be motivated to actually build in the few years because, the deal sounds great, but if it is not built, for the no deal. the deal is that we've got nothing. it is a great question. it's the factor that we look at those potential buyers, not only the capacity to close the transaction that is important as the city as the seller, but also the likelihood not only the development but a compatible development that this city would be proud to have on this corner. we are pleased that land lease has shown tremendous interest in this property. they have put their best resources on this property who are joining us here today in the chamber, and so we do believe they want to put their best foot forward on this landmark location. i mean, this is an iconic opportunity for land lease to really make a claim here and if they wanted to do business in san francisco, this is their opportunity to do right by the city. we feel comfortable with the developer and the opportunity. >> the other question i have is in regards to up zoning, is that what it's called, up zoning, making the height taller. so you move from 25% to 33% possibly. so, for the difference, that 8% difference, what affordability level are we talking about? would it be all of it being middle income, all of it being affordable to the low income. i'm just curious because right now we have a break down of 15-10. what is the 8% going to do? >> in pure numbers, let's just assume there is 400 units of residential, that's just a number, but it helps if we actually think of how many units are involved. that adds another 8%. so that's another 30 units of affordable housing at 100% of ami. and that's a tremendous opportunity for this city. so that's the raw count of units that this would entail. >> yes, i understand that account. that's not my question. >> okay. >> the question is of the 30 something units. what affordability level are we talking about? is it for low income, middle income? >> that maybe more of an appropriate question, we were talking about the off-site in lieu fees should we provide the off zoning and shift the 33%, is that the question, like where would those dollars, what type of housing would those dollars be dedicated to building? >> i assumed that it was going to be built on-site. >> the commitment here by the developer is to comply with proposition c which requires developers to build 25% affordable housing on site. 50% at an average of 5% of average median income and the remaining 10% at 100% of ami should they build rentals. the ami is slightly higher if they build home ownership condos. the remaining 8% which would allow to achieve 33% is paid through fees. they are already paying market octavia fees and which will be an equivalent of 8% and those dollars will be deposited to the city's affordable housing fund and making sure those fees are deposited closely in the neighborhood into building affordable housing. in that case it could go towards housing for the affordable homeless or affordable housing. that actually hasn't been determined yet. if director lee wants to add anything to that, he's welcome to. >>mayor edwin -- so there is no possibility that the developer would build 33% on site? >> i mean, we can ask our project sponsor. in our discussions what we had agreed to was 25% on-site affordable housing, and in the final 8% coming to the city via an off-site inclusionary fee. that would be based on the citywide return. >> it would be purchased by the mayor's office of housing which grants towards a wide variety of projects anywhere from housing for people at 0 percent of average median income and really up to 100% which is more variable. it's typically between 0-55 ami. >> my question is if we were to push it to be on-site, if they chose it to go on-site, then the question is the same question, if they build 8% on-site, would you be for those that are at 55, for the low or the moderates, what are we looking at? >> that option is not only table to build that on-site. we haven't discussed those ami levels of those units. >> if they can't build it on-site even though they want it, is that what you are saying? >> no, if they want to build on-site we would be thrilled. but what is included today in the $70 recent sale and acquisition agreement is that the developer is committing to building no less than 25% on-site fully complying with proposition c which was passed by the voters on june 2017. so they are committing to 25% on-site which is more than what the commitment that was made in 2015 by related which only committed to 15% on-site. the additional 8% was something we had negotiated, acknowledging that 30 van ness is publicly owned land. under proposition k we had agreed that 33% for public housing on city owned land. the developer agreed that if we were able to up zone the site which i am committed to, that they would be able to provide additional fees to allow the project to contribute 33% of affordable housing and a mix of on-site and off-site units. >> don't get me wrong. i appreciate the 25%. i'm being pushing a little bit. i don't have the numbers in front of me . that's why i'm not an expert of on-site and off-site and whether or not they choose to do on-site of 30% is it cheaper for them to do it if they can actually either sell it for 150% of ami for the fees? >> right. >> that's all i'm asking if they are going to build on-site. >> let me respond a little bit differently to the question, if we were able to push 30% of affordable housing on-site, we would have to likely reduce the value of the building to the city, and normally actually i think in a very different transaction i would have pushed for 33% affordable housing on-site. however, we have a lot of competing interest and priorities that are tied to the sale of 30 van ness. and in this case, you know, 30 van ness purchase price is also being utilized to help us build 1600 mission which is the goodwill site to build the large office building and also help stream line many of the city services to one building. i think given our office market that we have been seeing and the incredible ups and downs and the grimaces that i often make with the board that come up with the high commercial rents that many of the city departments are paying, we had to make kind of a value call at the end of the day in both the purchase price that we are willing to accept and our commitment to building as much affordable housing as possible. because the 30 van ness sale was linked to the construction of our office building, at the end of the day, i felt it was important to bring back a balanced deal where we bring no less than $70 million to the board of supervisors in order to bring towards the construction of mission, but we still achieve proposition c getting 25% on-site affordable housing. if we had pushed for 33% on affordable housing which there are community members that really wanted to do that, it would have reduced the purchase price thereby decreasing our ability to the office. this deal is a delicate balance of two competing city needs which are both very important, one for us to build our own office space that we have control over and that we are not, you know, in many ways victim to the wins of the commercial office market, and second make being sure that we are building as much housing four our residents as possible if that makes sense. so a 33% deal would have likely come with a lower purchase price. >> i'm just raising these issues from a budget committee point of view. i really appreciate the negotiation that went on. i guess what i'm trying to do is whether we take that this into consideration or not. i'm not arguing this point. i'm wondering wait a minute, if i'm sitting this putting the numbers together and i think maybe i will just build it on-site if it's cheaper for me paying the fees. we still gain, but are we gaining at units being at the upper end of the affordability or the lower end. that was just something that i'm curious about and of course i would push for the lower end. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor yee and supervisor kim for making yourself available to answer the questions. supervisor malia cohen: questions about the agreement. it doesn't legally bind the developer to build affordable housing units. the housing will be assured that that's exactly what they will do. >> chair, you are exactly correct. it does not and cannot bind the developer to something that doesn't have ceqa approval. so therefore it's a purchase and sale agreement with the restrictions that we felt comfortable, that we could deploy against the title in the event of future development. the alignment of the hub project for this opportunity for the mixed use vertically integrated mixed use project and the timing of that in that the hub effort and its eirs is about to engage in its wrapping up. >> you answered the question. we can't guarantee it. >> that's correct. >> that's an acceptable answer although it still makes me very uncomfortable. supervisor, would you like to speak to that? >> i would like to bring the project sponsor up to speak. but i also want to note that the developer, that this is not going to be the last project in san francisco. if the developer were to go back on their word although not binding, i think development projects would be very difficult for them in the future of the city and county in san francisco. >> also wanted to note that landly has stolen very talented [ laughter ] leadership. >> we have good taste. and i'm confident in knowing that you know the consequences of double crossing the city and county of san francisco. [ laughter ] all right. i will leave that there. the floor is yours. welcome back. >> in all fairness. >> would you read your name for the record? >> alexa arena from lend-lease. we are really excited about this as our first project in san francisco. we are primarily a residential developer in the u.s. today and that is our intent for the site to look at rehabbing the office space and building residential on top. we are certainly not in the business of rehabbing office buildings. i think as mentioned there is quite a substantive amount of work that would need to happen to the building anyway. your motivation is really to produce a redevelopment out of the project in the long run, but of course it is a psa versus having ceqa clearance. we are just in that art where we had some limitations on the ability to say this is absolutely what we are doing. we have to go through a process and things like study wind but it is absolutely our intent to keep an office space on top of that office space and residential. >> what i'm looking to hear is i guess you are reaffirming your commitment to building affordable units? >> absolutely. and working with the planning department around the hub and get more affordable housing units out of this site overall. >> okay. thank you very much, ms. arena. good to see you. one more question for you mr. up dike. there is a plan comparison to the 2015 and 2017 deals. i'm curious why we used the $641,000 number to value an affordable unit in 2015 and then use $300,000 value for an affordable housing pricing at an affordable housing unit for today. can you just reconcile that discrepancy? >> the agreement was different than this agreement, in that the agreement in 2015 had a buy out clause. if the city had additional funds available to the combined yields of sale with mission and van ness beyond that $122 million target. if we had secured more than that, the agreement which related would allow us to buy additional affordability to reinvest those additional proceeds into direct on-site affordability. but negotiated with the developer was the price point of that affordability at this rather extreme number of $641,000 per unit. that's why this number was in 2015. it was a negotiated number. they did open their books and showed us how and related california does know how to build housing that's for sure. they were very transparent with us and that's the number they came to with the cost of building affordability. today we are using nce numbers, that is a very conservative number because it is based on more traditional in the way of city projects that they are not in high rise annates you -- nature where this is a high rise project. that rises to $38 million of what's the value of the extra 10%. i hope that answers your question. >> yes. >> any other questions? >> one of the biggest criticisms i had of the bigger deal was the buyback of the $141,000 per united and one of those deals was that director negotiated on behalf of the city and folsom of the buyback of the $240,000 range allowing us to reach 40% of middle income ownership on-site in that building. i'm really excited that the deal coming before us today is very close to that deal where we are going to obtain an additional 40 units add basically $250,000 a unit which is far below what it cost to build a unit of housing here in san francisco. so, when i think at the $10 million discount achieving 40 additional middle class units that we did not have in the previous deal but still achieving the minimum price that we need in order to build a new office building for the city department that we will be at the control level and not at the whim of the market before us today. supervisor malia cohen: okay, let's go to public comment. ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to come to talk about item 7 and 8, please come up. you will have 2 minutes. when you hear a soft chime, you have 30 seconds remaining. public speaker: good morning, i'm jim has and i have been involved for 30 years and i'm here to endorse this. you talk about affordable and the city finances. i'm here to talk about a different issue. the intersection of van ness should be the most prominent of the city. it is not. it is a tawdry place. the streets and sidewalks are narrow. the access to transportation is poor, there is very little services. it is very uncomfortable. we have 10,000 employees in that area and thousands of people that attend performances and many residents and many of those people find it very unpleasant if not unsafe. this developer has a major opportunity to help solve that by creating a fantastic ground floor experience that is retail and entertainment pourous to the street and would like to see additional transit on that corner. that is required by the city and the developer. asking the development fees required for that building regarding the transportation and other things, be recycled in an in kind way which is a city term, i believe, to help pay for the additional improvements to the public realm. so, this should be a consideration in approving this project now and in the future and it will be a burden on everyone to get what we should have at this intersection which we don't. supervisor malia cohen: thank you. anyone else who would like to speak to this item, seeing none, public comment is closed. >> last remarks? >> i would like to thank chair cohen for putting these items first on the budget finance subcommittee and thank you for the benefits this will provide the neighborhood. the van ness market corridor is in great need of additional housing and additional development. we look forward to the on going work of the planning department on the market hub to ensure we are able to do that. but we are expecting a lot of up zoning and development in this neighborhood and it's important for the city to keep an eye on making sure we are keeping up with amenities and reference for office workers that we are building office space and workers for it. i do want to acknowledge mr. john up dike and mr. gavt. this is really important for the department and we were trying to balance a number of competing needs. we thank you for this work today. it really maximizes the city's priorities in achieving revenue for office buildings and our goals for the maximum and affordable housing in san francisco. colleagues, i ask for your support on this item. thank you very much, supervisor kim. i think we are going to take some amendments first before we vote on item 8. supervisor yee, do you have, can you make a motion? >>supervisor norman yee: i would like to make a motion on an amendment on item 7 by the proposed resolution to add a finding that the public interest or necessity will not be inconvenienced by the conveyance of 1660 mission street and 1680 mission street from sf san francisco prosperity to llc. supervisor malia cohen: thank you, we'll take that as amended. >> i would like to amend item 8 as a committee report. supervisor malia cohen: thank you. we'll take that without objection. got that, madam clerk, let's call item no. 1. >>clerk: 170150 [lease agreement - sp yde parking joint venture - northern waterfront surface parking lots - $2,955,607 estimated total rent in first year] ( reading code )... supervisor malia cohen: all right, we have mr. j edwards presenting this item. presenter: good morning, chair cohen, board members. i would like to share this item before you in regard to the extensive outreach and process we went through to determine this joint venture of this parking lot opportunity. this was initially we received authorization from the port commission in 2015 to issue a request for proposal for the surface lots and shed lots that you have in your report. currently all the sites are operating on interim lease on a month to month basis. the court commission believe this is in the best interest to a settlement agreement to provide stability and investment to upgrading the parking lots in order to improve the financial performance and visitor experience. due to the location, these lots serve a number of well membered destinations, including the exploratorium and embarkation and restaurants. i have a site map. >> can you put it on the overhead. sf govtv will pick it up. there it is. >> as you can see these lots are very prominently located close to embarcadero and this is serving all of our tennants and the visitors that come to the water front. in an effort to diversity and lot operations, the request for proposal with sound in part operator in partnership with joint with community and local enterprise partner. lbe. in november 2015, the port issued and rfp to 50 prospective parking management companies after an extensive community outreach. the board received four very professional proposals from a combined 8 firms. the port formed a panel that consisted of both port staff and mta. staff who evaluated scores and ranked each proposal and also in a presentation. the joint venture comprised of sb plus and park management received a highest score and they are here today in the chamber. the sb plus is a national parking operator and hyde park an lbe with the city and county of san francisco. as required in the joint venture is structured for both companies that share in the risk and reward under the terms of the lease. the port received authorization from the port commission march 2016. authorizing to negotiate the lease with the joint venture partnership and the jb partnership has executed a lease. the port will actually queue upon approval of the board of supervisors. beyond the partnership which i will describe in a minute, the sb plus will provide membership opportunities for hyde park in key operational aspects in running and managing large parking operations. we hope this will lead to future opportunities between both individually and possibly jointly. so in terms of the financial performance of the lease, the lots, the combined lots that are currentlily generating about $2.25 million to the port in net revenue. this is an important contributor to our on going capital infrastructure needs at the port and these lots provide a steady reliable source of income. out of the lots that you have in front of you, the seawall lot, 321, located right here will be a 5-year lease and 323, 324 is a 3-year lease located right there. and that is in order to -- the other four sites will be on interim leases because these are future expansion sites for other port activities. the seawall lot 322-1 shown right here, the reason that's only interim lot is we have entered into a memorandum of understanding with the mayor's office and housing community development for potential affordable housing site. 324 here under exclusive negotiating agreement with ken wood investments. the overall, the two seawall lots do have a minimum base rent outlined in the budget analyst report and increase to 3.5% annually. the rent will be the minimum percentage rent paid at 66% based on the gross receipts. so, according to our reports and projections, these lots combined should generate roughly $2.9 million in annual revenue to the port in the first full year of operations. that's a substantial increase over the existing amount. in addition, the partnership will invest significant capital to the signage, install new revenue control equipment and energy efficient lighting and the lots. the goal is to operate the overall appearance of the parking lot and improve the visitor experience. this concludes my presentation.. >> thank you, we appreciate your presentation. we are going to pivot and go to bla and hear their report. >> yes, madam chair, supervisor yee, on page 6 of our report we have table 4 that shows that 66% of the gross revenue brings to the projected -- for the five parking lots in the first year with slight revenue and extended for 5 years for all five parking lots based on that 66% of got from revenues. the port is projected to receive $50,691,723 in total revenues. on page 7 of our report. the proposed lease expected to generate $748,037 of additional rental revenues in the first year to the port and approximately $280,277 in additional parking revenue. we recommend you approve this resolution. supervisor malia cohen: thank you very much for the recommendation. we are good with the presentation. we are going to go ahead with public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you, supervisor yee, is there a motion to accept the recommendation from the bla and approve the positive recommendation to the board. >>supervisor norman yee: i >> ladies and gentlemen, as we get back online, i would like to call items 2, 3, 4 together. >>clerk: yes. madam chair. item no. 2. 170174 [2011 lease and use agreement - redding aero enterprises, in ( reading code )... item no. 3. 170173 [2011 lease and use agreement - turk hava yollari anonim ortakligi] ( reading code )... item no. 4. 170172 [2011 lease and use agreement - aer lingus, limited] >> ( reading code ).... supervisor malia cohen: thank you very much, madam clerk. we have with us ms. kathy white from the airport. thank you very much. you are going to be presenting these items? presenter: thank you very much. kathy white ner from the airport in san francisco. the airport is requesting your approval to add three airlines, to the airport's lease and use agreement for approximately 4 years and 4 months remaining on the term. the agreement expires in 2021. the lease and use agreement is the mechanism that allows airlines to allow flight operations and determine space in sfo. the agreement provides a common set of lease provisions such as rent, fees and permitted use of space and also provides the airport framework to add an annual payment to the city. each time a new carrier begins at the airport, they are added to the agreement which includes a modification and requires board approval. over the course of the last probably 7 years we've had about 49 airlines sign onto the agreement and these three are the latest three. the budget analyst office recommends approval and i would be happy to answer any questions. supervisor malia cohen: thank you, let's go ahead and pivot to the bla. >> yes, mad chair, we have a table 3 and that shows the actual landing fee revenue from the airport from july through 2017. totally and showing table 2 which shows the rent to the paid by the three airlines to the airport would be $2,962,513. we recommend you approve these resolutions. >> thank you. anymore comments or questions? great. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor yee? >>supervisor norman yee: i will make a motion to move this with a positive recommendation. >> thank you very much. without objection that motion passes. madam clerk, item 5. >>clerk: 170242 [apply for grant - state of california, department of housing and community development - various parks and community centers - $7,500,000] sponsor: mayor codes code supervisor malia cohen: thank you, we have tony morean. presenter: good morning. today i'm here on behalf of the director of parks department and the mayor's office and the planning commission and here to you to the board of supervisors to apply for the grants program grant for an amount of $7500 million. the parks and recreation ask the officers to administer the grants. the grants is based on a number of low income housing units developed in the city for the years 2015 and 2016, pardon me, it's actually housing units that are permitted, and during that time we permitted quite a few. so, we are eligible for about $2.2 million just based on the number of permits issued. in addition, the projects that we are proposing to fund with the grant are all located in areas of the city that are financially disadvantaged, park deficient and in field areas that allow us to secure additional up to $4.4 million. so the total amount we are eligible for is about $7.5 million. we are, these parks that were selected were selected with the different staff from the mayor's office of housing, planning and the parks department. we considered that the projects that would be funded would be completed by june 30, 2019. this is a very short grant performance period. once we get the award which will be announced july 1st of this year, we will prepare and expand legislation to appropriate the money. this concludes my presentation.. >> i appreciate that presentation. thank you very much. there is no bla report for this item. we are going to public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. supervisor yee, what shall we do? >>supervisor norman yee: what shall be do, asking the state for $7.5 million. i will recommend this is approved. >> without objection. thank you very much. >> madam clerk, would you call item no. 6. >>clerk: 170193 [supplemental authorizations for interdepartmental property transfer mou amendment no. 1 - central shops relocation - increasing transfer price by $8,578,429 to an amount not to exceed $82,278,429; authorizing notice to proceed - oryx development i, llc] ( reading code )... supervisor malia cohen: before us is shelly campbell of the public office commission and you will be followed by samuel chiu. from public works. the floor is yours? >> good morning, i'm the project manager for the facilities improvement program. the major component of the program is a substantial replacement of the city's southeast plant. we have been working closely with gsa and public works to relocate central shops which are currently located adjacent to the plant to a new location. we urge your full support of the relocation. samuel is here to give you a progress on completing that effort. presenter: good morning, madam chair, cohen, supervisor yee. i'm jerry chew from public works. the premise of this project is to replace the central shops to the acquired sites of selby street and 1975 galvez avenue and the lease site at 450. by being close proximity to the current operations rather than the alternatives which were explored 2 years ago including sites for the way in hunters point. in february of last year, the board of supervisors approved legislation to execute a project delivery agreement which memorialized in an mou between sf puc the office of contract administration to be construct by the developer at these sites. the total mou was for $73.7 million. with the approved ordinance also stated that when the architect completes the construction drawings, the developer will provide the city with a guaranteed maximum price. if that guarantee maximum price exceeds $5 million. the city will seek the board of supervisors approval before proceeding with construction works or phase two of this project work delivery agreement. to date, the developer has met all project schedule milestones. the community meetings outreach in december were well received. all applications have been permitted and construction if approved will begin may 1, 2017 to target a completion in june of next year. >> thank you. >> to give you a little bit of context, last month sf puc included a total project of $7.7 million to $8.2 million. this variance of $8.6 million includes an increase to the cost of acquisition sites and tenant relocation a higher construction cost for the new central shop facilities. a contingency held by city for future city request and for unforeseen conditions and cost relocates is for facilities infrastructure as necessitated by construction. we are on-site for april 15th of this year for on-site may 1. on tuesday this week, the full board approved the pg & e utility's easement legislation and yesterday the government and audit committee moved with approval to the full board instead of an agreement with 1955 galvez. the tenant at 555 selby has agreed to vacate by april 13th, we need to finalize the terms of the relocation. more specifically in regards to the increase construction cost. the city staff has worked through the last year with the developer and the team to reduce the increased cost by $1.9 million from $62.1 million estimated at the start of the schematic design phase to $60.2 million upon completion of the 100% documentation phase. this net variance of $5.2 million from $55 million to $50.2 million can be attributed on the following to the poor conditions on-site, $1.4 million is needed for foundation than originally anticipated and $1.2 million is needed for the precap system. there are also high cost from preliminary estimates most notably $900,000 for industrial equipment and $100,000 for electrical needs for the central shop now and moving forward. in addition, there were about $450,000 in that increase for additional hard cost and architectural and engineering cost due to the revised scope. this concludes my presentation. supervisor malia cohen: okay, good. i have a couple of questions. out of the many things that you mr. chiu in particular from public works is presenting what i am most concerned about is the increase from the construction budget from $55 million to $62 million. public works has claimed that the $55 million which is 10% is due to the details of cost variance which you detailed a little bit in your presentation. the unforeseen site conditions resulted in a need for a more robust system increased cost and industrial scope in electrical and the bidding market which we have very little control, i understand that. but, the reason we allow for this contracting, if i'm not mistaken when they came to the board we authorized central to install the shops quickly, while they are staying with the project, the cost is really difficult to swallow as you can imagine. the public works claimed this happens often with construction cost and we have a contingency in the budget anticipating this. well, this is still very uncomfortable to get around. so i do have a couple questions for you. when we approved the sole source contract last year, the board assured it was a decision we had to make-up to keep the project online on time and within budget. now, i understand that oryx didn't anticipate this increase. could you speak to that? >> sure. last year, the original ordinance was approved at $55 million. that cost was based on the preliminary estimate using conceptual designs, using per square footage allowance for example and understanding of nearby sites to understanding what the conditions were. oryx and it's team of contractors were not authorized at that time to perform work. for example, we weren't able to go ahead and do detail to technical investigation to find out what the actual site was like. it turns out at this site, 555 selby, that was located at old river bed with the steepest and north moving shallow towards the south. so that wasn't anticipated. for example, the industrial equipment, what they do was to take or model it after a comparable facility in modesto. so afterwards they came and the architects and engineers, the equipment that was determined needed and appropriate for the current central shops has changed. so, the current estimate of $62.2 million incorporates the final design development through this year of design. >> okay, well, how often do construction projects cost for comparable projects see this level of increase? >> from experience, we typically maintain a 10-15% contingency for projects for items like this, unforeseen conditions or due to necessarily due to market conditions that are always a crystal ball item or even changes to the program that are necessitated once we start the project and design the projects and working with clients. >> okay. so, this cost is something that it's within the realm of possibility? >> correct. this increase is within the range of construction development. >> okay, my final question. i have in front of me a list of the details describing why you need the $5.2 million construction cost increase. i see that $1.7 million is dedicated to foundation cost because the until cost estimate was based on soil and foundation conditions 2 blocks away from the project site. so, for what reason did the contractor test the soil 2 blocks away from the site instead of the actual site itself? >> if i can clarify that. it was actually based on their experience with another project nearby. it wasn't testing done for this project. and there wasn't a testing done for this project. >> okay. >> typically when we have testing of a project for a nearby site is an indication of what your site will be like. >> could we have anticipated the cost of the increase if we tested the actual site? >> that would help to reduce the risk. the more you test on the site, you more information you have, yes. >> thank you, mr. chiu. supervisor yee, do you have questions for the presenters? >>supervisor norman yee: it's pretty similar. as the chair cohen mentioned when it was presented to us before as a sole source contract. we asked a lot of questions about why and the answer was they would do this on time and on budget. and so, at some point we have to trust the professional judgments, but this increase gives me less reasons, fewer reasons to trust the professional judgment because this is way off. we are not talking you know a decade ago estimates. even the moving cost, the relocation cost, it's like what? you are going what is it? 1,000% of whatever it is to $2 million $200,000. when you make an estimate that far off, i have to question what were people thinking coming to chambers saying we are professionals and you should accept it. tell me why i should accept it now and is there a reason why you wouldn't come back next year and tell us, by the way, we are off another $10 million. >> i will start clarifying that by the original ordinance. the developer's task first and foremost was to complete the construction drawings. at that point they would provide a guaranteed price. we are back here because the guaranteed price has exceeded the $5 million. secondly, in terms of what are we doing now to reduce the possibility or even mitigate the possibility of coming back again later on is that we have put the in place a city held contingency for unforeseen conditions or request as part of the mou between puc real estate and oca. we believe this contingency will help to mitigate and in line within the range of what we typically maintain as contingency for construction projects. with respect to the relocation cost, if i may ask director up dike to speak to that. >> thank you, samuel. director of real estate. with respect to relocation cost. frankly, the flywheel desoto tenancy was assumed originally to not be eligible for benefits, but upon legal view of their status that ended up being an eligible cost. it's simply not on the radar, on the radar. an opinion non-eligibility of cost to an opinion eligibility cost. the final settlement of that amount of cost we can solve administratively. as samuel mentioned for the contingency and amount for continue relocation expenses, that is the amount. we do not plan to return to the board on this matter. i'm hopeful that will be. >>mayor -- -- i also want to say we've mitigated these cost between the sublease and which ran longer than we anticipated because we had additional time for the relocation of these two tenancies, that generates over $900,000 in anticipated revenue. that is the bottom line and we were able to replace these occupancies of a season of filming of chance. i know he was delighted with that opportunity to keep that filming. they are filming outside of san francisco. so there was a nice twist to fate where they were able to grant some revenue for the expenses. >> i would reveal this rather specific unrelated to me. this is where you come in and you say this is what we estimate and the cost to be and here you are talking about something that was as simple, not simple, nothing is every that simple, but when you have a legal determination that made it $2 million more. that to me should have been done when you came the first time, not, oh, we just found out. these are to me not very excusable rational. and by the way, when you come in with any contract, i would assume, and i'm talking about the first one, that you already have these contingency plans in there. i think almost every contact i have seen especially if it has anything to do with construction, the contingency point is built in. so what's the difference between this contingency and what we should have had. did we have one in the first contract? if we didn't, that's not being very using good judgment. if you didn't include it, this is in poor judgment. >> there was a very small contingency in the first agreement. so it didn't work in other words. it wasn't adequate to cover the cost of the increase we are looking at currently. >> did you see any possibility that this looks like about 2-3% contingency plan is good enough? >> so, if i may, the city contingency works out to about 3%, you are correct. but within the project development there are contingencies that are within the contract. so the city held contingency of $2 million, that's outside of the contract. within the contract, there is some contingency for both the general contractor for construction use and for the developer for things like project control cost and entering fees should the scope changes. in total we are looking at 9.7% of the total development agreement. >> so within the $80 million there is actually some contingency funds in there? >> correct. with sf puc and real estate we felt it was important for the city to maintain part of that contingency outside of the contract. so that's why there was a split between the contingency within the contract and contingency outside of the contract. >> okay. i know this is an important item for the city. i know it's an important item for district 10, supervisor, but this smells, to me, we shouldn't have come back with an increases this size on the sole source contract. so, but i know it's important. supervisor malia cohen: thank you. i would agree with you. i like you voted last year and we voted to move forward. we were very uncomfortable and kelly was the one that did the presentation initially and john up dike closed a little bit, but, i feel like my back is against the wall. we need this to go forward so that we can continue to move forward with the entire project. i will say this: since our conversation last year for sole source contracting, i think he came back once as we made our desires to see better, stronger rfp process and know particularly to puc and public works. they seem to be the worst offenders in this case in particular. supervisor yee, i'm going to have to ask you to hold your breath.. hold your breath, hold your nose and support this so we can move this forward. i don't know if there is anything else from mr. chiu, if not, i would like to pivot to the bla. >> thank you, madam chair and supervisor yee, on page 17 of our report we have a table 3 which compares the total estimated cost to the central shop relocation project of $73.2 million to $82 million in the original amendment to the mou as included in the resolution this shown an increase of $8,578.49. on page 18 of our report to date, $90 million of wastewater enterprise sole source approved by the board of supervisors for this project. the difference between the $90 million already appropriated by the sf puc and the total $82,027,849. there is an additional $7.7 million of city cost. and i would just like to emphasize on the bottom of page 18 what both madam chair and supervisor yee that you have been stating and questioning. we point out that ordinance no. 816 authorize the existing agreement with oryx development developer and general contractor to design the facilities. the cost to be determined to be the one team capable of designing this project and capable of the budget. at the time the construction agreement was for $75 million and the total project was not to exceed $73 million. we note that while approving and sole selected officer the general contractor likely expedited the process and design phase. the city's requirement for competitive bidding compose a larger policy with an open process to contain the most competitive price for the city. having said that, we agree this resolution should be approved and we are recommending approval. supervisor malia cohen: thank you very much for that statement of clarity. supervisor yee? all right. all right. we are just wanting to see if you have any questions from the bla. all right. we are going to public comment at this time. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. supervisor yee? let's take a motion to move this with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> would you like to make the motion? >> i would like to make a positive recommendation to the full board. without objection. this item passes. do we have any further business for this body? >> we have no more business. >> thank you. we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> this is the meeting of the recreation and park commission. with the secretary please call roll call >> buell here, low here bonilla here and mcdonnell here >> commissioner anderson and harrison have it excused absence. this is the recreation and park commission of march 16. we welcome everyone here but we ask you turn off any sound producing devices. if you have secondary conversations, please, take those outside in order to have the meeting run as efficiently as possible. if you would like to speak on any item to date please, complete a blue card unless otherwise announced by the president each person will have 3 min. 3 min. for public comment on each item. it is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda but does fall under the jurisdiction of this commission, you may speak under general public comment and that is item 4, and then it is continued on item 12. please, adjust your comments to the commission in order to allow equal time for all good neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during public comment. the commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. last, if the fire alarm activates you must evacuate the building in an orderly fashion using any exit. please, note, elevators work immediately return to the first floor and are not available for use. if you do need assistance out of the building, please, make your way to the closest area which is directly across the hall and the men's restroom inside the men's restroom is a speaker box and security will answer it and they will assist you. with that, we are on item 2 commissioners >> thank you i have just one item but it's important one. this is a letter from the department-is there at katie at jesse onie in the audience? this is addressed to katie patricia tony, director of administration of finance san francisco recreation and park department. dear katie, on behalf of the recreation and park commission, i write upon your departure from the san francisco recreation department to express our heartfelt gratitude for all that you have done for the san francisco parks. your appreciation of the importance of public parks and recreational facilities has made you a worthy and noble advocate for the people of the san francisco and their parks. in addition, your accomplishments at the department may clear your passion for not only to citizens of san francisco where the staff at the department. your leadership in, integrity, reputation for being approachable by any member of the staff in your willingness to bring all parties together for the betterment of the department will be greatly among greatly, missed. these, no you're my very best wishes as you transition to the port of san francisco who stole her away from us-i want you to know-to the port of san francisco as you transition to this exciting next chapter of what will be a very rewarding life you will be missed. best, mark buell. [applause] >> >> [photograph] >> my gosh, commissioners thank you so much. i was in an tape actually anticipating this. i cannot tell you how much i have enjoyed working for the recreation and park department. i may san francisco native. i spent an anonymous amount of time in particular in golden gate park when i was growing up and it's always been incredibly important to me to feel like i was doing work that made the lives of the people who live in the city better. so it's been a pleasure. it's really been an honor and i'm excited about my new challenge and excited about learning about some new policy issues but it is incredibly hard to go and so, i think you all, for your engagement and your guidance and, yes, i am truly truly going to miss this place. so thank you so much for the acknowledgment. >> thank you. we look forward to you building that new seawall down-[laughing] >> i will do my best. [laughing] >> all right. moving right along >> anyone would like to make public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are in item 3 general managers report. >> i like to begin a report by announcing katie tracy audience has decided to stay at the recreation and park department. so this is news is a few weeks old. i've expressed to katie privately and to staff publicly and to all of you my feelings for her but since this is a g to recognize katie at the commission and before the public, let me just chime in with my own thanks. katie, you have been instrumental in as i said to you professionalizing this organization. your integrity, your caring your confidence your effectiveness, have all played such a critical contribution to the services that we are able to provide the public. you have left a profound mark on parks in san francisco. you have left-your leading up a profound mark on your colleagues. many of us in the senior staff level of no works together for many many years and you're very much the glue,, and you have been able to kind of sort of merge blues and yellows and reds and greens into a lease of team. for me, personally, as i said in a continue to say, you have been a professional sister. i think we've been able to meet some pretty serious challenges and take on some really exciting opportunities with just such a really healthy what i would call getting and yang. that is help us always arrived at the right place so i'm just super grateful to you and more sort so gracious to come. you've got some big shoes to fill. so thank you. all right, onto other business. very quickly, so summer. summer is just around the corner. just a couple short months away. at 10 am this saturday registration for our more than 80 day camps will open online and in person at 13 registration sites around the city. last summer we filled more than 12,000 camp slots. 94% of everything we had available in our inventory could be provided 475 total weeks of camp and to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to go to camp we provided more than 3600 camp scholarships to the tune of nearly $750,000. this year we are again providing some of the most popular day camps in the city. everything from traditional day camps like pine lake and sober treat with the goal is simply to get dirty, two seaport camp cooking camp, and even a camp that teaches you how to survive in the city on $10 a day. something we all ought to be signing up for. you can log onto sf art.org to sign up and browse our catalog today and this is the first season and thanks to the commission and thanks to this all leads back to katie, this is the first season will be managing our summer camp registration with a new software system that is much more robust. has a lot more capacity to make the experience of registering for camp if not 100% gratifying for 100% of those applying, a lot smoother for most of us. so sign up for camp get your kids in cam. we got early drop-off, late pickup. let them play. 17th and fulsome update. our department is going to hold a final committee meeting for new start at 70 that fulsome on thursday, march 23 from six-8 pm at marshall elementary school. this at 1575 15th st. we are going to discuss some of the park features proposed operating hours and park walls and overview of the community gardens. we will provide some background information on some park names that have been having that have surfaced mostly from some other community groups that have led the effort, the organizing effort around the park and we are going to close the meeting with a looks for an official parking that we will then print activity spivak commission. so if you are interested in what's happening at 17 and fulsome klees, attend a meeting next thursday, march 23. on april 8 with another mclaren park workshop. this public workshop will be to plan trail and asked improvements. saturday, april 8 10 am-12 noon at his valley library. 201 cleveland ave. at this workshop you can learn about some of the eliminate human ideas and offer feedback. this is the second outreach event with the trails and paths focus area and is part of the overall clearing part mission planning process that don and her team are leading so effectively. a week later extravaganza. april 15 to make your taxes will have been filed so bring your family out to sharon meadow in golden gate park where we are holding our annual spring extends a debit debt extravaganza 11 am-2 pm. this is one of four family-friendly events we host for the entire city to come together it will feature a cons, carnival rides, games, live entertainment, food trucks, and our annual rib cookoff that i think commissioner low has judged every year.. our annual rib cookoff with the sf fire department san francisco police department, and other city departments. this is not just pc and not just [inaudible] commissioner mcdonnell you are injured this is some pretty serious competition folks take this event very seriously. >> including the general manager. he takes it very seriously. [laughing] >> it goes under the category of-nevermind. guys who can ashley barbecue you don't expect to barbecue and i'm one of them. all right as always commissioners, you are always invited to be our special judges. if you can make it just let us know. i also want to offer an update on 11th and the toma. which is we hope to be our most our next acquisition. the park is going to provide a significant improvement in district 6 and follows in open space task force a lot of discussion in this evolving neighborhood about our long-term vision to provide open space to a neighborhood that is already underserved and expecting ongoing heavy development. the planning department estimates that about 9000 units will be built in this area. the acquisition filled the gap identified by the space task force to else one of the saltman and major gaps in the trust for public lands parks format where our goal is to be at as high percentage of possible of san francisco residence within who live within a 10 min. walk of a part of the final negotiated price is $9,725,000 and i really want to thank department of real estate for their work here along with your work at 1509 mission and at sure you could leave a great partnership with the department of real estate and they do deserve our thanks. the price of a discount about $275,000 to account for just over half of the remediation needs identified. when you approve this acquisition you did go ask us to go back and look at some phase v environment to work in a price tag came back about 5-550 and we negotiated about 550, and we with real estate help we reached an agreement to with the seller to split the cost of that remediation. the plan here is to apply for grants and think about some strategies to manage construction costs among the property does have some tenants on it so this is a long-term plan by the department to make sure we got some open space in the neighborhood. our hope is to move forward to the board of supervisors with an introduction into this month and hearings in april. okay, so i think that is almost a. in some-a bit of exciting news, as you may of heard commissioners, san francisco parks alliance has selected its next chief executive officer. that is true backer who is with us today get to outstanding obligations group more than 20 years of experience national and regional park clinic advocacy and philanthropy. he most recently with the pennsylvania the cultural society is president and ceo was previously the second objective in your restoration project. in washington dc 11 notable city planning initiatives is the deputy director of the office of planning and the associate director of their common to parks and recreation. giving him support agency experience. in chicago, he served as the chief of staff of the chicago parks district again more agency experience. as a civic and nonprofit leader drew is the first ability to scale organizations fund raise and transform a project for world-class [inaudible] and organizations and we are very pleased to have them here in san francisco. before i bring him up i did want take a moment and extend our deep profound thanks to rachel morten who had-[applause] there's an old bugs bunny cartoon which is one my favorites when bugs bunny plays the marauders and bugs bunny is pitching catching playing first short second left center and right,quickly to over the last nine months. wearing many many hats during the transition period and i think the work that rachel did strengthened the trust and the bonds and the collaboration during the parks alliance and the recreation and parks department is going to be a great gift and legacy, review, june, per your work moving forward because as you start we are in pretty good shape. so again rachel, our profound thanks and i like to bring up through to say a quick welcome. come on up, drew. >> thank you fill, so much for alumni to introduce myself to the commission. it's really-i'm humbled to be here and being starting on this great organization working in this great city and partnering with phil and this great department. i always loved to san francisco and the other cities on what san francisco is doing because san francisco usually leads the country on a lot of initiatives. it's just willie -i'm really proud to be here and i will have to say, also, even though i've been in this business for a very long time, coming to a new city is difficult and i'm so proud 12 rachel on my team as well to show me around it just such as getting to this meeting today. i'm like, where is this meeting? and she lets me know so i too, am very happy which was part of the team and will continue to be very important part of the team moving forward. i am happy to partner with you all the rec and park department and our partners to even make san francisco bigger shining cleaner deacon than it already is good so thank you so much. the thank you and welcome. >> lastly this leads into our video of the month, tomorrow 3:30 pm, it is san francisco d day at delta state in san francisco or san francisco doctors that. 3:30 pm so after you are extended st. patrick's day lunch, please, join us at civic center plaza with our beloved us professional sports team in san francisco, the doctors. the players will be out. the coach will be out be hosting soccer clinics for kids in partnership with america >> great. that serves the tenderloin a lot of other underserved neighborhoods in >> very good. the lease signing autographs, taking photos giving out lag. then there will also be a free public happy hour from 445-7 pm posted by another planet entertainment in america scores at bill graham auditorium. that is all the lead up to opening day of the inaugural season and north american soccer league saturday, march 25, 7 pm, drop by. keys are stating to witness history as the doctors get off their inaugural season. tickets remain available for opening night long with other single match tickets that have tax and season tickets starting as low as $70 per match. can't find that many professional sports teams and so visit sf doctors that come with that little tribute to our tribute to our newest professional sports team. >> >>[video] >> there is you go. there is your doctors keys are stating blog and that includes general managers report >> thank you very much. commissioner low >> just want to ask a couple questions regarding the love and then,. the new purchase price to reflect the entire mental remediation,? >> correct. >> i guess we can do that work until after we acquired up actually the tenants are vacated? >> correct. >> so we approve this back in august and while the contract dates we've passed so what are the new contract dates to acquire the property? >> we are hoping to introduce to the board later this month and then have the board hearing in april. then on the contract has in the purchase will happen shortly thereafter. we do have that your long your longtime winner able to wait to sell us the property. we have-the tenant >> closing date is for an entire year? >> up to >> okay. >> up to. they could close red white >> so are we still in a due diligence period or past that? >> we pass that >> okay. >> they have up to a year to make a final close but it will close a year after it approved by the board. were earlier. then the lease option extend to 2024 so during that time, will be doing feasibility studies and park lanning and getting ready to create a park there. >> do you have any preliminary estimates as to the demolition costs? >> no. >> does this new-because the deal has been new purchase price has not been documented in writing? >> yes. the okay everyone sign? >> yes. while they have signed. the [inaudible] >> the funds for the acquisition coming from >> the open space acquisition fund which has enough funding for this project >> okay. all right. >> thank you chile go to public comment? >> any public comment on this item? come on up, richard. >> good morning everyone. this is kind of like amazing [inaudible] talk what the san francisco d and football coming to san francisco. so i was just want to pick up on it because i kind of got looking at that one time when [inaudible] was here and we were talking about doing the football field and i went to the ideas could have include the name that has soccer to it. so i want to thank the department and the people here on the commission being in agreement with coming up with a football team. that particular team, i kind of was a little hesitant initially that the delta would come into this to northern california. i would hope for something major but i think the area is ready for a major organization like the la galaxy once. that's the kind of football soccer whatever they call it that i like watching. i also would like to bring up a friend of mine who is a garcia.. he's a center for buddy doesn't play for his team and i was just wondering to mention him a little bit that there is football. i told them about it they told me about the new way they have to do tackles get it's only in the front so when you get coached for playing soccer you're going to watch out because usa team i watch them very carefully and they might be doing mark buell, tackle they go to the side and kick butt marks of legs are getting a little old now. [laughing] >> be kind. [laughing] >> anyone else who would like make public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 4, general public comment. up to 15 min. this item will be continued to item 12. at this time members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public better not on the agenda but are under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. so i've one card . and that is jessica evans. >> that was harsh. i was unnecessary. >> i agree. >> my name is jessica evans. i'm here about width trees. the trees that are amazing. that's what they look like it actually they look even better. so this is the proposed one. concrete can dazzle think non-native bamboo, you're cutting down a lot of eucalyptus are going away. but this a park that we could really use. we want to have a park if we would love to have a part. incorporate the trees. the whole ada thing, there's going to be a [inaudible] 20 foot tower for but there's no handicap parking so we can get there anyway. the argument is not really very good if you could just go see the trees avocado trees, two of them they are amazing. just go see them. this is the concrete where i bought a concrete i think i don't understand open space that i sent you on open the parking lot but i like shea. i'm kind of pale. so that something. i did what the morning to birds. it's kind of nice. there's always birds. it's pretty cool and avocado tree and the ashtray, which is amazing and they do not remove any they do not lose any branches during the storms. not one branch fell. the neighborhood loves them. they don't know the very chopped down willy-nilly soon. that's just wrong. that changes everything in the neighborhood. the carbon thing chopping down the carbon from first-rate, who will be great. also, i'm kind of home depot building [inaudible] other homeowners in sinai six i was born in san francisco and i always want to live in the city and it's getting a little harsh, the city like the construction never stops. but without the trees and salesforce building on. five of them stared directly into the windows on 346 percent with no privacy in the air quality will be that. worse than it is now. so give a moment go look at these trees. it's wrong to cut them down. they should be limited trees there's wildlife in them. the birds the avocado trees bear fruit. and the food bank could benefit from that. there was harsh with a set about your legs . >> they look like tree legs. >> there you go. strong and sturdy. things for listening just check out the trees. don't cut them down please, don't cut them down. my cats will be bombing. everybody will be able to see in our windows. thanks >> thank you. >> matthew. >> good morning commissioners. my name is matthew skiing. i want to speak about the same issue of very small postage stamp size puzzle in rink on hill called conway spark. we have entered numerous objections to the plan of rpd for its redesign of that open space at 48 died pl. i did want to provide you add an update on what we're doing is applying for a landmark tree application the supervisor jane kim's office were seeking her is a nominator to send this on to the counsel for evaluation and assessment of these trees. trees that are as mature as mark buell legs and >> theme of the day here. [laughing] >> although a little more mature. it would be-i would like to note the actual bid has failed twice is going out again this summer for a new bidding process and what we're hoping is between now and then when landmark tree obligations--i don't know how long the process will take to evaluate but hopefully in time before this is put back out to bid we can actually have a be design that incorporates as many of these trees as possible into that design. i might note them on the executive board on the south beach district 6 democratic club and we passed a unanimous-we passed a resolution but the small neighborhood issue. this issue is much smaller than natural areas program. much smaller than the palace of fine arts, both issues of which have come before you before. of which i've been involved with. and we just hope that our words today will be given some consideration by commissioners as well as by rpd staff. so thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> michael. >> good morning commissioners. i miss michael now actually a commission with the city of pacifica park speech and recreation commission. your counterpart >> welcome. >> thank you very much i'm here per million as an introduction to come out and do some outreach and meet the commission could also bring the topic to your commission the commission is currently discussing. we have an off leash dog walking subcommittee. we are looking at trying to find locations to have off leash dog walking permitted. in part, this is because of the possible large restrictions in the golden gate national park areas that are going to drastically eliminate quite a few those off leash areas. we have identified certain areas in the city. one of which is the top portion of sure park beach which is maintained by the city of san francisco. so, our director has outreach to some your staff members to at least initiate that discussion. i think the meeting is going to be planned for sometime in march or april pulley start that discussion. i just want to bring it to your attention that we are looking at that as a possible area to at least possibly have that. the only thing i would say is not really try to create something new. if you're familiar with that area, off leash dog walking actually happens frequently. so we are simply looking at making it allowed activity. so to speak. really not try change anything. we should not add any costs or burdens or anything of that sort. in any event, our commission is been discussing it for many months and i wanted to bring it to your commission's attention. just highlight it could >> thank you very much. >> is there otherwise would like to make general public comment? seeing none, this item is closed. we are on item 5 consent calendar. i do have one card, richard. richard fung >> good morning >> watch what you say >> be respectful >> sir including all of you, i'm just looking at this dog stuff, looking at synthetic artificial turf. i want to ring in something fresh now and maybe work out for everyone throughout the city. when i try to look at synthetic turf and look at the dog play areas i see a health issue as was recreational issue. a lot of people who use the playing field proximate to dog play areas have problems with fecal droppings and i've attended many of the required dog beatings and everything else. that's one comment that really stuck with me. another comment that stuck with me always has to do with kids. he said, why dogs. are we not more important? so i hear a lot of different controversies i speak of on different issues. this is one that i'm finally in agreement with myself that i understand can be a professional synthetic turf layer so many nosedived to set it all up. i just want to [inaudible] gravel on top of this compost that was proposed. gravel is something that allows faster drainage. another part if it gets out of shape roads can be placed on top and the whole [inaudible] all brought back up to its condition lessening foot injuries and [inaudible] injuries on the animals. so the dog play area, there is in the allocation. i understand the city [inaudible] including matching [inaudible] so is this commission would do something like bring up funding for such dog play areas brought the city, i'm not sure i think there were about 18 before they put a stop to any further increase in number of dog play areas. i'm just a advocate for animals who need someone to speak up for them. i'm trying to do just that right now and hope i am able to get across to you philip ginsburg and chairman mark buell as well as all the one the wonderful commission. thank you >> thank you >> anyone also like to make public comments on the consent calendar? there being on public comment is closed. commissioners >> is there a motion? theme of >> second. >> all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. so moved >>[gavel] >> items six san francisco zoo. >> good morning on stephen haynes vice president for marketing and strategic growth at san francisco zoo. president buell vp hello commissioners general manager ginsburg thank you for having me today. on behalf of the zoo we want to send a warm welcome to drill the parks alliance in mutual former philadelphian as am i and also good luck to katie at the port. so following up on our mission of connect care and conservation, there's a lot of activity happening at the zoo now. just a couple weeks ago we were wet in conjunction with sales team and randall museum since were under renovation and we partnered for the rental exam signs there which was held for several days in the great hall. just a little background this is a great program that's been developed with rec and park 46, seven, and eighth-graders at all public private parochial and homeschool in san francisco. was 4500 students participated at 32 schools and then for three days at the zoo the approximate 150 kids. culminating with the judging and award ceremony on saturday the 25th at the zoo was very proud to award a special award for excellence environmental science. - excuse me - went to eighth-grader jacob cordero for his project entitled, you bring me down cigarettes and ocean pacific. we found this very interesting because during a cleanup at the zoo did a beach cleanup day, last year, the one item that struck all of us more than anything was the collection of cigarette butts that were in the same. so we thought jake really hits home with that project. coming up this week and also is that's the bay area team science conference. this program done in conjunction with cal berkeley. this is free. registration is free still open for saturday. it really offers kids a great opportunity to develop technical skills. those interested in sent science technology engineering math the basic stem and they can talk to undergraduate and graduate students, research and stem industry educational professionals. this is second year this conference is being held at the zoo so we wish people would come on now. following up on our conservation programs, last weekend we hold wolf conservation lecture was a terabyte nearly 100 people. if you remember a year ago we will open the wolf canyon which is a conservation program were doing with in conjunction with u.s. fish and wildlife. to help the mexican gray wolf. as of about 25 years ago there were five mexican gray wolves still living in the wild. nearly extinct. so over the past 25-30 years these programs have developed and this prevents you know is playing a major role in the conservation effort. last year as well, we trim program called stop. which stand and take our pledge and it is to defeat illegal ivory trade of which the city of san francisco is the second worst offender for illegal ivory trade. since that time is been some positive movements even overseas in china with the ivory trade being knocked down. but we are working with local artists and the jackson, on his visual narrative called red ivory. it's a 6 min. video that depicts the illegal ivory trade and the consequences. there's an organization called 96 elephants. the reason for that is every day in africa 96 elephants are slaughtered and so that will be the next to go if we don't stop.. so i think a program like this, a pledge program as well as a narrative such as red ivory will help bring this to focus. you can come out to the zoo beginning march 25 view the video and also take the pledge. right now, spring we hope the sun is out and that the rains have stopped it i'm sure you can imagine the reins as with the park system here in san francisco, the rains have not been favorable with the zoo but now the sun is out and the gardens are popping out could of course we are san francisco zoo and gardens suite lots of events walks are planned in addition around the african savanna we have many african plants. including more than half dozen varieties of pin cushions of ranging from red to yellow as well as prodi is and how those. if you come up to conservation cars you can see a lot of the california native plants as well popping up. we just wanted to shout out to our crew as well coming out of this past winter storms. they did an amazing job with keeping those who clean and open even on some of the worst days. one week ago we held the members of morning on saturday morning. this was one of the highest attended events we've ever had for members warning on saturday. nearly 900 people attended could actually 886 and so they were met by our wonderful volunteers from the arc as long as-along with some owls turtles and to help pack up good nicely to walk in and be met at the zoo. we also have a pair of home cockatoos that age 45 and 36 respectfully. he's the 45-year-old so that such bad for 45. there found in the rain forest in parts of australia and new guinea and surrounding islands. they're just a gorgeous pair of birds. their opposite the chimpanzee exhibit so again, on out and take a look. phil mentioned before summer is please the registration is open for the spring and summer zoo camp programs. every year these develop to maximum capacity, so go on now and sign up for the incredible opportunities at the zoo. finally st. patrick's day celebration this weekend. all things green the greatest place in the bay area this saturday and sunday, march 18-19th there will be wonderful programs guess will have the opportunity to enjoy live irish music as was traditional irish food and beverages and outdoor setting. bands would claim from 12-3 pm each day and you can come celebrate st. patrick's day. green is actually one of the strongest colors in most found colors globally get a lot of expressions can be green around the gills little extra greening puckered green thumb of the conservation garden but in fact, again i like to end with a fun guy, whose this little green guy here? visit to the silk lizard and there found in the land course of central america could they are omnivorous but this member of the one a family can actually run on the surface of water prep 250 feet to run away from creditors and the toes on the back of their feet of extra flaps on the skin that spread out and create some extra service oh yes, these once a connection walk on water to make the of course green with envy. so come on out and we'd love to see you during the celebration. that concludes the report from the san francisco zoo. >> thank you very much. >> any public comments on this item? richard, come on up. >> i just want to make a note of little comment about the schoolyard participation that's on the [inaudible] being sponsored by supervisor mark farrell. that particular location i myself i been there could [inaudible] three nights beginning like little mini size talk those. they even let me have [inaudible] and it was the fire department people that something i hope would move throughout the county where you have the schoolyards on weekends facilitating the needs of children throughout the community and old fellows, myself, and my old legs aren't going to make it much longer. anyway i just want to say to pg&e for being a community partner and i hope more of this comes out [inaudible] >> thank you. commissioner mcdonnell >> is a common and richards comments reminded me, just to commend the zoo in particular the zoo mobile but also a relationship and partnership with the shared siu art project. supervisor farrell is doing an amazing job over the last five years of extending the number of playgrounds cross our city there are now open to residents in the community and part of that has been building partnerships with the zoo city departments and extending all the supports to families in neighborhoods so thank you so much for that partnership. >> okay. this was discussion only. we are now on items seven. acquisition of shoreview park. >> good morning commissioners on stacy bradley deputy director of planning unit. we decided to bring this item before you today could my first meeting with at the park was with supervisor cohen neighbors ocii sarah was there and impressed upon me the benefit neighbors were hoping to receive when rpd would take over the management ownership of this park. as we found with the catawba is challenging to find park space in high need areas. this acquisition and no cost for the land transfer and with funding for capital improvements. provide a great benefit to the neighbors. we we able to provide an accessible vibrant open space for those who live around there. before handing this over to janice going to quickly step you through our [inaudible] that supports this acquisition along with our acquisition policy we have this knowledge of high growth in throughout the city could would look at over 100,000 housing units over 30 years from 2010-2040. most of the housing growth is focused in the downtown core but also in the southeast and the long part way percent. lake merced. this also part of the strategic plan as you know well is objective 1.1 for developing more open spaces to address population growth and high needs areas and emerging neighborhoods. this project is also within the equity zone which is another big push for the departments. so without i'm going to hand it over to janice to give you details of the acquisition. thank you. >> good morning commissioners. janice perez from capital planning division. i am joined today by marie munson senior development specialist from ocii and josh came from the department of real estate. shoreview park is affect their site currently owned by the office of community investment and infrastructure. it is located at 1 lillian court between beatrice and rosie lanes some nearby parks include held up an bigshot closeted after the san francisco peter bauman agency dissolves in february 2012 by order of the california supreme court ocii was formed to serve as the successor. under the redevelopment dissolution oh ocii legally required to dispose of all the development agency's assets and properties. ocii was required to prepare a long-range property management plan that sets forth the disposition and use of all the assets and properties that the former agency had. the ocii's oversight board and the state of california department of finance was approved the management plan back in 2015. the management sets forth this position of seven many parks located in the former hunters point redevelopment project area where the beam shoreview park. the plan requires shoreview park to be transit of the city and county of san francisco for governmental use. the shoreview park acquisition as said is located in the bayview hunters point invert as shown here in the map. it is also located within the identified equity zones. in line with our acquisition policy shoreview park is looking with a short distance of an area that's identified as high needs in the recreation and open space elements of the general land. the neighborhood is within the lowest median income bracket in san francisco above in areas high use an overall population density. also in line with our acquisition policy shoreview park has a unified funding for the developer to park is approved and rec and park ocii will transfer up to 2.1 million of community development block grant funds to the mayor's office of housing and community development. to rec and park for the capital improvement at shoreview park. the requirement to use these funds for shoreview park improvements is approved by the board of supervisors on the 2014-2015 cbd action plan. for almost 2 decades shoreview park has not been a fully functioning public part. the existing design in here who's a concrete children's play area with sand fill a large lawn area several trees with picnic tables and barbecue area. in the early to thousands of public-a playground safety inspector deemed the existing playground of unsafe and subsequently set it off her music did not meet federal ada requirements and are also safety concerns the presence of buried needles in the same. playground cremains then stopped and has remained her last 17 years. in addition the irrigation is below grade and maintenance were unable to find the leak. the result was inefficient watering and the water was turned off at the site around 2009. former leader bauman agency staff try to improve this park for several years. but lack adequate funding to complete the project scope. during the summer of 2006 in integration for the property transfer ocii and the rex had a sidewalk and determine the many dying and dead trees on the property. ocii in consultation with rec and park hired arborists to move on save trees and to conduct vegetation to ensure us a part for the community to enjoy in the interim during the property transfer before planned capital improvements are complete. this aerial boot view shows that park after the trees were removed. our own manager robert watkins has engaged with the community throughout the years and attended many community meetings in the past held by the formerly develop an agency but the potential park upgrade. robert is kept in the loop about the acquisition process was a huge oh pointing to ensuring the tree removals were performed successfully. staff presented this proposed acquisition to prozac in february prozac unanimously supported moving forward with this acquisition. mayor rogers represented from the district can and founder of parks 941246 poster. or it for this acquisition she actually used to live at shoreview and knows the area very well. before you you also the letter of support from her. supervisor melia cohen also supports the project staff has been actively engaged with the project as well. we have been in regular contact with the president of the shoreview apartments tenants council janice powell, who unfortunate cannot be here today due to a sudden death in her family. i provided you with a letter she written prozac and that is in full support of the project and she is been the biggest champion for the park in the community and has been for the last two decades. we've heard so much from the community members about how excited and ready they are to seek to finally have this at shoreview. that concludes my presentation good i'm available for any questions. >> thank you very much that commissioner low >> you want to go to public comment first? >> is there anyone who like to make public comment on this item? richard. come on up. >> let's give him 10 seconds this time. [laughing] >> one of the things there's a surprising [inaudible] hazard on the location. they'll had an awful amount of landscaping at the worst parts of this particular item serpentine rock, i don't know what they department or any the people in the departments and the county of san francisco view a serpentine rock or what you do. myself,-it's not a solution but this is close to water and areas around their hydration, runoff from the other parts of the city and county. so i am proactive. there is a hazard at serpentine rock. the department has begun all of that mission below is part because of serpentine rock. i like the sure sale of that more on the hazards of location. thank you >> thank you. >> is there anyone else would like to make public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner low >> i just had a couple questions on the next steps on the transfer-well actually, so pursuant to the long-range property management plan, that designates the transfer of this property to the city? >> that the approval action from ocii >> okay. then what happens-then there's a quick grade dream that transfers the property to the city. how do we then transfer property from the city to the rec and park department? is that another step? >> when we go to the board of supervisors the department of real estate books at the property under the jurisdiction of rec and park >> so should the quick claim deed to we revise this resolution is going to the city and county of san francisco under the jurisdiction of the rec and park department? i missing that step. >> on behalf of >> real estate division. perspective the actual transfer, in the quit claim deed, we check with counsel if that's mississippi we would expect i think the resolution itself will out something behalf of it sitting county is san francisco double check with counsel. we are looking at the lease about six weeks before be able to go to the board for that action because we have some german items with respect to an appraisal in getting the final survey. we have some time in there and had to give an update to you >> an appraisal? >> we have to get an appraisal due to the advent code a summer accepting property >> is in the dollar zero? >> yes [inaudible] >> i'm just trying to make this efficient so that they shot yet another transfer that we have two approve from the city to rec and park >> the resolution of the board will be-there will not be an interim intermediary acceptance by real estate per site and then a transfer. it'll basically a direct transfer to rec and park upon acceptance of the city will set the property on behalf of the rex >> i think we should get the resolution in our package to mirror what counsel is advising so we don't have that interim step going to real estate and real estate to rec and park >> correct. >> otherwise i think i only other comment is to make the reference in the recitals to the block grant that the board of supervisors approved to go to this part. >> okay. >> on that i would move for approval. >> with an amended resolution? >> right. >> to accommodate the changes in the language. >> you've written that? >> kind of good i don't know how to describe the block grant and am not sure what counsel will advise the department of real estate on the wording to have the transfer go to the city and county of san francisco under the jurisdiction of the rec and park department. i just don't know what the language is whatever the languages, just included in this resolution and i think we can move it forward. >> so that was in the formal motion. any other questions? seeing none, is there is there a second? >> second. >> all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. so moved. thank you commissioner low. >> okay. we are now on item 8 1500 mission shadow on patricia screen and the potential rpd at position at 11th and the toma. >> good morning again commissioners. so the item before you today is the 1500 mission shadow on patricia screen and 11th and the toma. i'm joined today by josh king from the department of real estate and tina chang from the planning department. lanning code section 295 was adopted in 1985. in 1989 the recreation and park commission and planning commission 20 adopted a memorandum which identified quantitative and qualitative criteria for determining of significant shadows and parks under the jurisdiction of the rec and park department. the 1500 mission project is located in the south of market some a neighborhood within the market street project area market and octavia there a plan in downtown area planted the proposed project will be on two lots assessors box 3506, but 002 and 003 mission st. between south van ness and 11th st. the proposed project is gross of two towers. one is a residential building the second is an office building. the future home of multiple total city departments. josh and tina will provide you with more information on the project and its context within the city. >> good morning again commissioners. josh king. so this is pretty much getting to the point of combination of a really long process for the city. it's been directly over three years working in conjunction with our project sponsor was also our development partner. rid california. it's acid part of a bigger mission that the city has been working on for decades. it's basically falls under the premise that the city is going to be here forever. especially some of our city department the essential services department are going to be here forever. the goal is how do we consolidate these apartment and how do we also put them in a transit orientated location and how do we find a site that actually big enough to accommodate these large apartments? many of you know there spread throughout the city at 30 van ness ave. 1660 mission sitting 80 mission, 1650 mission so that the planning department building inspection public works. all the groups integral to the building functions of the city. what we've actually been working for the many opportunities that just never work is how do we find a place and location with them altogether. explored opportunities at 1275 market which is a large website that though we ended up acquiring. you cannot will that transaction off. everyone knows the aaa building 100 van ness ashley opportunity we had also we cannot pull that together. we are seeking and start working with related california on a unique public private partnership in the started about three years ago. what it entails is collectively within the developer site together. so related california is rachel developer. bill built have to site for residential. then the city would actually construct the other portion of the site a 16 story 450,000 square-foot office building that gives us the opportunity to consolidate these apartment and other departments as well smaller ones and to actually create this one-stop permitting center to you can get all the primitive functions for the city in one location. obviously there's great benefit for the city's customers. one thing to actually note, two, workgroup actually capital planning depression at 30 venice that group is icy slated to come to the building as well. rashly working [inaudible] we are excited about this. were planning this keith mentioned were plan to any commission next week. we are excited about this. [inaudible] has strong support unanimous court for the board of supervisors in 2014 and [inaudible] bashfullybasic subject to the environmental review been satisfactory. [inaudible] as we move through this process, [inaudible] is been a great partnership with the project sponsor. any questions happy to answer after tina. >> good morning commissioners. planning department staff.: provide a lot of context soaking my remarks brief but [inaudible] demolition and partial legalization of existing [inaudible] will be repurposed for the office use. [inaudible] on the whole project is found to be consistent with the goals and objectives of the general plan. planning area in the general plan particularly as generous pension project falls in the market onto the air plan and the help which is a subset of the market and octavia plan. is currently under study but it's noted the project is consistent with all the goals and objectives of urban design wise as well as when you slice what's proposed in the harbor area plan. the project also falls within the downtown area plan the project is also consistent with. particularly commode perspective maximizing density your transit and ensuring housing including affordable housing the range of units can accommodate also mentioned that proposition is provided within the plan area. with respect to public hearings and outreach, the rabbinic three public meetings including and hearings-include a presentation regarding the dockyard propose legislative amendment before the planning commission. the project is excited to go before the planning commission again on march 23 next week. for the commissions consideration of the final eir adoption of sql findings and proposed legislative amendments as well as the downtown project authorization. we received a letter of support as well as one is in opposition to the amount proposed parking and this concludes my presentation but am happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> patricia's green is 8.41 acre urban park located in hayes valley neighborhood. the part standard by hay street to the north south street to the south, the park is comprised of picnic seating are located along hays the features the pause with picnic tables the central section contains the plaza with an area for art installations and the southern portion of part contains the children's play area. on the days of maximum shading february 8 and november 1, new shadows we present for proximally 23 min. at 7:36 am and will be gone higher to 8 am. largest new shadow would occur at 7:36 am and cover proximally 7000 ft.2 equal to approximately 40% of the total park area. patricia's green has approximate 66 million square-foot hours of theoretical annual available sunlight were tass existing shadow load is about 2018.21% of the total tass. proposed project without approximate 20,000 square-foot hours or 0.03% to the cast for the total shadow of 18.24%. new shadow from the proposed project would occur in the early evening, early-morning, - excuse me - between 7:30 am and 8:30 am in the winter and fall are less than 23 min. you shadow would fall primarily across the northern half of the park. the area containing a grassy area benches picnic tables and a pedestrian plaza. moving onto 11th and natoma it's a new potential park that we are currently acquiring. 0.45 acres in western some significant population growth is anticipated around the site within the central soma plan area market octavia plan and help initiative. 11th and natoma strike site was selected for acquisition to serve the growing dense population of the emerging park neighbors with the understanding of the anticipated zoning changes and incoming growth residential development. he have to acre site is large enough for some active uses such as children's play area or sport court is most passive green spaces such as landscapes or grassy areas. the days of maximum shading our april 19 and august 23 new shadows on the days the maximum shading we present for proximally two hours between 4:50 pm-650 p.m. the larson shadow worker at 6:52 pm and cover proximally 14,000 ft.2 equal to 33.25% of the total parking area. 11th and natoma is abruptly 73 million square-foot hours of tass these is in general makes approximate 20% at the proposed project would increase the new shadow but approximately 1.7 million square-foot hours or 2.4% of the tass the total shadow of 22.54%. to shadow from the proposed project would be present in the late afternoon and evening of march through october the maximum new shadow coverage tivoli occurring between 5:30 pm and 6 pm good the duration of new shadow with very would you shadow being present for less than 2.5 hours. here is a map showing the full year of shadow impacts. the doctor who signifies frequent shadow while the lighter blue signifies occasional shadow. the shadow study also analyzed new shadows cast by other projects development pipeline and for siebel future. projects are highlighted in purple on this map. so this slide shows the location of the projects i find that are either future or for siebel and their individual shadow impacts on both patricia's green and 11th and natoma. the propose project is shown in yellow. the future active projects are in purple and the potentials logic are in great. the future projects include 455 d mark free 50 octavia, 10, top 10 s. venice city 29 market, 30 oh to start my 15 min. and 949 natoma. the potential projects in great include parcel k, parcel l and 30 van ness. this slide shows chemical shadow impacts from the use of projects. one note was specifically brought up last on the capital committee sought highlighted that as an individual group with 1500 mission. let's go through patricia's green first. 1500 mission and one note will increase just remote by 0.25%. all future projects will grease patricia's green vote by .93%. all future and potential projects when please patricia's green load by 16.46%. note, most of the shadows is coming from parcel k and l both adjacent to the park. this is the maximum additional keynote of shadow that will result from all listed projects. picking the increase of square-foot hours would represent a cuban of annual shading total for proximally 35% at a cumulative increase of abruptly 16% over existing conditions. as for 11th and natoma 5001 oak weeklies shadow by 2.4% and one oak shadow will increase patricia's green 0.004%. all future projects will increase 11th and natoma shadow by 5.21% of all future projects and potential projects will increase 11 natoma's shadow by 5.47% it is the maximum additional keynote of shadow that result from the listed projects. the chemo to increase in square-foot hours represent a key motive and no shading total approximate 25%. an increase for proximally 5% over existing conditions. the 1989 memo to not associate jennifer parks, then 2 acres with 20% or less shadow. both patricia's green and 11 and natoma is smaller than 2 acres. the existing shadow load of patricia's green is 18.21% of existing shadow of 11th and natoma is 20.14%. the propose project will increase the tas by 0.03% at patricia's green and by 2.4% at 11th and natoma. this concludes my presentation. i'm available for questions. thanks >> thank you. >> public comment? we will go to public comment before ask anyone would like to speak i would like to remind everyone the item before the commission today is on the shadow impact not on the project itself. so if you can focus your comments to that. so is there anyone who like to make public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner mcdonnell >> thank you. i'm trying to think but how to represent the questions that is a concern because it feels as if we are inconsistent to think it's important for us to be consistent however we define a. by that i mean, so in one moment when talking about the impact of shadow load on any given park and related project and this of course funny stuff recommendation. at least i recall in the past actions this one has night much of how to interpret that that's one part of the question. the other is we seem to speak to the impact rather, the merits benefit of the project as if we should or should not be concerned about the shadow and as margaret just reference, the question before us is the shadow and not the merits of the project so often when we are in these discussions is difficult for me to appreciate what i'm weighing could either questions with the merits of this project so this is what about this project but also about just this particular part of our responsibility round weighing the impacts of shadow load and so we went all the way through the impacts of shadow load in this case in analysis assessment and there's no recommendation. i'm not sure again how to interpret that. does that mean we think it is significant load, not significant load it will have impact on this particular park and it's kind of regular recurring activities we think it has no significance or whatever it happens to be just on a fireplace of consistency around these kinds of issues. be sure thank you for those questions. doing the shadow review is >> sure. thank you for those questions 1990 min. set forth qualitative and quantitative meadows for us to look at windows is the public benefits or public good on behalf of the project. so i think one thing when the project this commission is seen as a hospital which had a very clear public good. often the items are not so clear. the work we have been doing i think that the commissions quest you back the recommendation and allow it to be a discussion amongst the commission to decide the policy for if it's in impact or not an impact to the park from these projects. so we have we move forward with that. even doing no recommendations for the past couple of years, with just showing providing the qualitative and quantitative analysis that we've done at the staff level and with the help of the planning department and the shadow analysis. >> commissioner that's an excellent question good to have a little more context to stacy's comments, under that scene shadow memo, what we were very i think along euro projects, came to really focus on is actually the recreation and park apartment commission doesn't actually have decision-making role in shadow but the role is actually purely advisory and is not even specified as the commission needs to per se, taken action but that the general manager of the spivak's apartment can advise the planning commission as they make their decision about a property. so upon closer reflection and looking at just how the recreation and park commission frankie was becoming a form on a way to stop projects or not, it was i think very appropriately the were directed to stop making formal recommendations and with respect to shadow that being said, we do want to advise the commission as if the commission would like to make comment and provide advice to the planning commission give them enough information to do so. >> thank you that's really very helpful. i guess a request therefore i would make going forward would be because what i did not see represented here at least we received is a some representation of the activities in the park. again, absent recognition one way or another but just to have eight lens or through which we can determine from our own deliberation and assessment with other significant or not impact. >> absolutely. i think that is a very thoughtful request i think we can begin to characterize ip activities and square footage is dedicated to different types of activities and park features in future reporting >> we have done that in the past. magically i think of gene friend but in one of these cases we don't even know yet whether users are going to be >> yes we have no idea yet >> although it may influence only planetary scope and the shadows are cast on the time it gets built good do you have other questions? >> no. thank you steve >> mr. low >> just to piggyback on commissioner mcdonnell's comments, we do take into account the good of the shadow caster. i think those are the terms under the 1999 men out and deciding whether or not the shadow cast is first correct? >> yes i will let stacy was actually memorize this back and forth and occasionally talk back in [cross-talking / off mic] the way the shadow analysis is constructed is interesting and complicated and has one analysis is significant and in a very different analysis of whether not the shadow and breaking those two components apart. i think as we are determining again whether shadows adverse, we look at whether or not significant and then you can also analyze the extent to which the project might have public benefits, so the public good that windows outweighs those considerations in mozilla, three dimensions we talk about when were thinking about shadow. >> any more questions commissioner? >> i will wait to the end >> commissioner bonilla >> yes that raises the question for me in terms of the-i know the capital committee approved or recommended approval could so my question is, did the capital committee just address the shadow impact and if they did, what were their comments? why they moved it forward to the approval? >> i get some momentum here from the capital committee to have to respond to that. we do take into account the impacts on patricia's green. seeing that the shadow those cast on for tricia's green was in the early morning hours and it was representative that was not a lot of activity at those hours that the activity at patricia's green was more towards police during the weekdays in the late afternoons and early evenings, certainly it might impact some activities on the weekends but it was considered not to have an adverse impact on patricia's green. we also look at 11th and natoma. i think a discussion maybe was more focused on where we were on the status of the purchase of 11th and natoma but i think doing our analysis we have to look at the shadow cast on the property exist today but really what makes this the future since we just don't know what the future will be. >> but you are willing to approve it for recommendation i mean just with the fact [cross-talking / off mic] >> yes we do not wait into the >> 11th and that, >> we did about late 11th and natoma but what is it today and just buildings which we won't be able to really do anything with until 2024. we do not take into account any public benefits by the-i'm so looking for the 1989 memo but the public benefits opposed by the project were the shadow caster so we do not take into consideration. >> it's interesting >> we did recommend this to move forward. >> before, sarah you weigh in on this, i think as i understand it, both the general manager and the commission way in and recommending to the planning commission. we don't do an up or down or yes or no, we do an analysis. that does incorporate with the use of the building is to the degree we know it and it also doesn't necessarily apply to future shadows though impact a part. so i think it is a judgment. there we were headed on this was to try and avoid having a staff recommendation that ms. those judgments and that we were trying to get to a place where we were simply being generally advisory to the planning commission about it and they weigh in on uses and some of the other impacts. so i think that puts it in perspective. sarah, did you want to comment? >> you said it all. thank you. >> commissioner low all give it back to you. >> okay. i have some changes to the resolution that there's a recital which talks about the recreation park commission does not have jurisdiction over 11th and natoma. that is not correct right? we do have jurisdiction over 11th and the thoma? >> not yet were moving forward the acquisition. not until the board takes the action. >> which are having us prove shadow cast on 11 and natoma is not misleading? >> no. the 19 nine memo looks at properties doesn't buy the recreation parks department for acquisition could this that includes the language of the planning code is actually very specific and so at the moment that is not often the property is not technically considered under acquisition for the planning code but we think it may become it officially considered under the planning code all the planning is waiting for the planning is going through permitting action and getting its building permit so we don't have to bring the property to project back to the commission if the building permit triggered the review. so we want to review it just in case the timing all alliance with which is likely to happen by the time they pull the permits which is the trigger for the planning code action is likely to be officially designated for acquisition by that next item apartment per planning code section 295 >> maybe- >> [cross-talking / off mic] >> because this is just a recital right? so when we say the recreation and parks commission has adopted a resolution to proceed with the acquisition of the property and scott all the other definitions to be used for future recreational purposes? >> yes that would work absolutely >> on that revision of like to move--sorry commissioner mcdonnell >> i'm sorry i know were trying to get there. i want to be helpful. that said again i'm just want to find that consistent through line as we wave these. so the recital says that we are recommending approval and that the shadow will not have adverse impact yes? is that correct? >> yes and 11th and that, both. there's actually two separate resolutions. one is that the 1500 mission street will not have the shadow cast by 1500 mission st. will not have a significant adverse impact on patricia's green. then there's a second resolution at the same shadow will not have an adverse impact on 11th and natoma. >> yes exactly right. it's the-on the rec and park commission's advice to the landing commission that it would not have a significant adverse impact in either of those projects he was done with the planning commission does after that is up to the planning commission. >> right. so does that-is that resolution were determination of their being no adverse impact, is that based upon the quality of the project were just the quantification of shadow load >> no. we are just looking at shadow-the percentage increase of the shadow load on each park and property and whether that will have an adverse impact on that part. we don't even look at the merits of the project. not to say there are no merits but we don't look at the merits of the project >> i guess the whole thing crumbles for me again because we say our recommendation is purely on the math, if you will the assessment in it earlier in the conversation we are saying how great to meet you weigh the benefits of the shadow cast during what they're doing to add community benefit >> well, gives math and use of what's going on on the ground. >> right. there are two prongs. actually found the memo. there is a quantitative analysis, which there's math and that's why there's a small percentage increase of the shadow load on patricia. more significant shadow on 11th and natoma but would look at the condition is exist today. so that's a quantitative analysis. qualitative analysis gets to what you're talking about. what are the activities at the park that will be impacted by the shadow and that's where the capital committee we looked at our substitution green primarily actually the whole focus of the capital was on patricia green looking where were the hours of the shadow cast what time of day, time of year, what committees would be impacted and the capital committee we make a determination that was the early morning hours and was not a lot of activity being impacted. but we did not go into the next prong on the qualitative and also which i think you're talking about is the public benefits that's created by the shadow caster and we do not just did not get to that analysis because we thought after looking at the quantitative analysis in the first prong of the qualitative analysis, but the shadow cast was not a significant adverse impact. >> so again surely in the spirit of consistency, what would make sense to me is either were always considering both in our resulting recommendations represents both ,, not quantitatively adverse but benefit great, so on balance, we approve, or, not adverse and so it seems to me that we sometimes way both, sometimes only way-it feels again inconsistent >> to really defend staff on this from the 1989 memo is, no offense to supervisor mark, is really hard to follow good it is a quantitative analysis. as a qualitative analysis. qualitative analysis walks you through value of the sunlight, shadow characteristics, and then what you are referring to is the building characteristics which is the public goods served by the shadow caster. so i think i do think in the future we should maybe walk through each of those steps. just that on this page could project after going to the quantitative analysis the valley of the sunlight and the shadow characteristics the capital committee just determined was not a significant adverse impact. >> one and two precluded three. >> we just never got to three >> if i could add one more -that might be helpful, i just want to emphasize again the commission is actually not making approval action today. they're only making a recommendation to the planning commission and that as such to commissioner low's point, memo is a complicated memo and it does not provide the kind of clarity of criteria that one would hope for that i think we aspire to practice in many of our other decision-making processes. actually, again because of the nature the viceregal of the recreation and park commission and that this is a recommendation only, also allows for incredibly broad discretion about how we make that recommendation with these landing commission has a very specific role that they have to fulfill but that we have a lot of discretion about how we think about adverse impacts of shadow. the shadow falls on a tree that's already there departments already shadow what does that mean to us rightly so we get very quickly into some bizarre metaphysical questions as well as pragmatic concerns about how shadow impacts apart. so this is been a long-standing i think conversation in it 10 years i've been working in the department as commissions try to make sense of how they want to interpret and use these criteria i just want to state again there's a lot of discretion given to the commission and the interpretation of those criteria. i should state criteria is too strong a word, guidelines. >> for the edification of the commission, if the shadow is approved and then one of these projects is not built, does that shadow to that allotment of shadow stokes this on the part work in another project fill it or is that only for the zero tolerance park where you have to raise the budget? >> that question [cross-talking / off mic] >> that's good beyond the scope >> the question about the merits of this particular project and i think to clarify for them [inaudible] >> i think the issue before us on the transbay district plan where there was an used shadow and then they were [inaudible] the question is not put before us and i like to just move this matter forward with the changes in the resolution handed to the secretary. >> is there a second? >> second. >> before i have to call for the boats have to make an observation about the irony that this a public-private partnership, the public side may well be the planning department and were putting him through the torturous approval process to get something built in town. >> and your own capital planning staff were slated to relocate to this facility >> yes without we have a motion in second. all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. quirino is up opposition it is unanimous >>[gavel] >> thank you >> we are on item number nine laguna salado restoration project at sharp park >> just when you break from sharp part. very very briefly, when you have in front of you is a letter from the general manager to the board of supervisors outlining the contours of an agreement made between the department and one group of appellants of the natural resources management plan eir. through conversations that were facilitated by supervisor peskin and former general manager jared blumenthal, we had about a month's worth of conversation with some of the appellants over their concerns around the specifics of the sharp park project in that eir. just prior to the hearing on february 28 we were able to strike a deal with them which led to them withdrawing their appeal of the documents. the deal is outlined in the letter and it is essentially unlike most things that sharp part there a very simple it we are as part of the habitat restoration project proposing to dredge the water bodies at sharp park. we look at three possible disposal locations for what's left over of the dredge the remaining soil. i discussed using the soil at the remediated rifle range at sharp park the organic dump at sharp park or the possibility of using that soil on the fairways particularly 14 and 18 but some other fairways at sharp park. that element of the project description raised significant concerns for the appellants and so again through these month-long conversations came up with the compromise of withdrawing that portion of the project and committing to not using dredge soil or any outside soils on the fairway of the course of this project. which led to the withdrawal of their appeal and for a belt and suspenders type of approach they asked that we bring that letter to the commission and have you formally adopted through resolution. >> is there any public comment? richard, come on up. >> >> good afternoon mr. buell and everyone. good morning. this particular addressing of the area of this particular sharp park and restoring of a habitat for the snakes and restoring the habitat for the frogs. i just wanted to make comments about the ground up, the type of pesticides that mr. buell instructed me to go to the department of environment over and of course i [inaudible] where they found that the pesticide roundup had deleterious effects on the eyes of the amphibians, the red tail frogs, and also would likely in the category of zoology, bother sinks as well. incipient and reptiles. so looking at that particularly, i just want to bring that in as well as if it's just a matter of disposing of such spoils as stated in the letter of phil ginsburg general manager, i just want to bring up a point here that is very important that struck me as very important. any delay in implementing the project will frustrate recovery efforts and contradict the recreation and parks department commitment to the resource agencies to implement habitat recovery. so when it has to have to do with habitat recovery there's usage of pesticides but i don't think you should even think too much about what you're going to do. you have to put it to for some other place like on circuiting they put out in the nevada somewhere. i don't know where you're going to do with the soil but [inaudible] there's a lot of erratic behavior of frogs. they're laying eggs up on the grassy area. i just thought the public would like to know that. so they are not always doing everything the weight of frog is supposed to be hating. thank you >> thank you. >> is there anyone else would like to-richard, come on up. richard and richard. >> commissioners, of richard harris san francisco resident and president of the san francisco public golf alliance. we have seen this february 28 letter from general manager ginsburg to the board. the letter speaks for itself and we approve the-we support the resolution that would approve that letter. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> before we-before i asked for a though work someone a component the staff. i think is a real coup. it's a great win-win parole parties and so once again a job well done. is there a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. so be it. >>[gavel] >> we are now on item 10 let's play sf and this is a discussion on the item, commissioners.the morning commissioners lisa ranson dir. of partnerships that ration parks department and i'm here today to provide informational updates on the let's play sf initiative to renovate the 13 playgrounds that were prioritized for improvement by the playgrounds task force. i don't want to revisit the entire history but as you all know this is a public-private partnership to renovate the grounds that words are meant to be most deserving by a citizen task force and we are really thrilled with the progress to date. a couple of items. the board of supervisors approval of the grant agreement is in process. i submitted the turtles to the mayor's budget office and the controller is now responding to comments on that. then, we are working-we are thrilled to have drew becker here, just starting and we are working with the well with the parks alliance both on the fund raising elements of this and on the parks alliance efforts to contribute in-kind design services to some of these playgrounds. to date, there's nearly $4 million in private funding available for the project in those ongoing discussions with many of the individuals and foundations in san francisco that seem to be most committed to civic projects. as i said, the parks alliance has been working with several netscape architect to secure design services for the second three of the six-the second batch of three of the six pier one playgrounds. they can speak more to that in a minute but i want to give you a project delivery update. i guess i want to start by noting that my partner in crime, caroline wilbert, from the capital division is not here because she is out doing some preliminary visits to the tier 2 playgrounds. we are pushing forward very quickly with all these projects. so this is a map of all of the plea grounds that were designated by the task force. let's see. so we've been working on these first three of the six tier 1 playgrounds and i can give you an update on those. washington square concluded its community meetings and one piece of nice news between my presentation a couple weeks ago and today is that tara went the historical preservation commission yesterday and got unanimous approval for the proposed plan. so washington square had to go to historic preservation because the entire park is a historic site. so that's nice. merced heights has had a three community meetings and they are finalizing the concept plan and will submit environmental evaluation application later this month. sgt. mcauley's planning to have it final community meeting at the end of april to reveal the preferred concept plan to the community and take final comments. then the second three, as i mentioned alice chalmers, mclaren group picnic area and -wait-panhandle the ground are all in process of being preliminary planning work in the parks alliance as a mention is very close to signing on tax for design services on those three grounds. we are also starting some work on west portal which is a pure two playgrounds but that site has community opportunity funds and so has right note among the funding in place outside of let's let's play funding to move forward with that project. here-i talked with the schedule. here is the schedule which you also have in your package that shows where we are with these playgrounds. then, in terms of budget, so you've seen this budget no many times before. this is the initiative budget that we are working with right now but there's a lot of work going on as we finalize conceptual plans the first three playgrounds to refine these numbers and i do think they will change a little bit as we finalize that but we are working closely with the parks alliance to make sure that there is-there will be some private funding in all of these projects - excuse me - many of the tier 1 projects and we are confident that we will be able to fund willy all 13 of the playgrounds. let's see. then back to the schedule, we do expect that we we back to commission frequently this year with concept lands and related agreements for all of these playgrounds. we are expecting concept plans very shortly for washington square and merced heights and sometime in the beginning of the fall for sgt. mcauley. without i'm happy to take any questions. >> would you like to go to public comment commissioner? >> i would >> we are on public comment. >>[calling public comment cards] >> hello. drew becker san francisco parks alliance could we are really excited to be partner in this fantastic program. we look forward to ramping up our fundraising with the next couple of months to meet these goals and actually hopefully exceed the goals that are laid out within this partnership. just as we were sitting here today, we all received an e-mail we got a $15,000 donation from the waterfront playground either the mark they are donating their access to let's play sf so that is a great need and something we will look for to other committee groups doing that. as you know, the playgrounds are used by everyone and their such integral part of communities where people actually meet face-to-face. kids learn a lot on playgrounds and how to interact with one another and it's hugely important to the future of the city sort out to be a part of this. also, we are september 17 is party for the parks which main issue is fundraising for let's play as a and i'm sure you'll all be there while a lot of fun and raise a lot of money to hopefully sealed the deal on phase 1 of let's play sf thanks >> thank you >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. almost after good morning commissioners. drew said it well. i just want to give you a little update as lisa mentioned. we are very close to signing agreements with three landscape architecture firms will be providing design services to panhandle, alice chalmers, and the mclaren group picnic area that will represent really almost at least in the first two panhandle and also missed this can represent about $6000 gift to the initiative which is great. some of that is actually in-kind pro bono services and some of it is a gift the parks alliance we making to the initiative. so we are really excited to get going on design for some of these tier 1 we are working on. it's exciting to see merced heights moving forward, washington square looking forward to just a great initiative the partnership proceeding really really well and we are thrilled with it. so thanks for the opportunity to update you. >> edna. >> i'm edna james and representing merced heights part. even though were moving ahead come i still have some concerns regarding the surveys of agreement in terms of what people think of the design and so at the last meeting, unless i missed one, there were only nine people to vote what and i felt there was not enough people to make a decision about the go-ahead on the park. the comment was, staff comment was that we would move it towards another month and then there's another concern that people may not have computers in terms of being able to vote. i know something is, like myself, we have grandchildren that come and visit us and come and see the park and i know my granddaughter and i revisited nine parks one day and she really had a good time and now she's in virginia. she says there's no parks like that in virginia and she drafted a picture of different design good the other comment i have was regarding sandbox that during those nine-seeing those nine different parks we went to balboa, we went to it was another was a couple out in geneva and they had sandboxes and so i know they're concerned about needles in the sandbox, dog poop and what have you that i can set what's the behavior of these kids. they went to the sandbox to nature and i would like to see it stay there as a historical landmark. i know turf is being talked about. it is a but kids do trip in it. in any event, i hope that i know we talked about schoolyards being part of offering park space but it's not the same as regular part and so i would like you to take that into consideration. think you. >> thank you >> is there any most electric public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner bonilla ps i just want to get some clarification. we are still in the process of getting more input right? on the design >> lake merced heights? >> yes all these others >> the first 3 washington sq., merced heights and sgt. mcauley . washington square is concluded. merced heights has had its through three community meetings and that ashley settled on a general plan i believe but there's some question of exactly which piece of play equipment and my understanding is that the project manager on the project is working with the tenant at the mercedes heights clubhouse to schedule a meeting during the day with the kids who are in that clubhouse to let them look again at the play equipment and make their choice. >> can you tell me what the total amount of input that we got out there in merced heights? >> so >> in terms of the community to make sure that their views are being represented? >> yes i actually went to the first two of the three community meetings and there were probably-i don't know probably 12-15 community members at each meeting. there was a lot of input and there's a lot of opinions taken and then there has been an online survey. i believe it was an online survey posted after each community meeting with the presentation and ability for people to vote on the choices. >> so that's what edna is referring to? >> yes >> that process the fact that some people may not have computers and may not be pretty to-privy to the design and have the opportunity to vote >> that is true >> that's what she is referring to. >> yes >> commissioner mcdonnell >> so there is a memo we received raising the question of the need for a board of supervisors resolution to receive 15 million dollars in in-kind services_. what is the status of that? >> that's whatever doing the beginning of my presentation good bosses as we submit, once the commission recommends the board approve a grant we submit a package to the mayors office and to the controller's office is the package has been submitted and have a few questions and refinements and working on those so that should happen shortly i hope >> thank you >> okay. think you're much those information on. appreciate it >> we are now on i am 11 and report by the controller's office on park maintenance standards and, this, too, is discussion only. >> good morning commissioners. i'm steve rockwell senior administrative >> good afternoon >> >> good afternoon already. the senior administrative analyst and operations did i run the park evaluation program for the department. alice kaczor from the controllers also be joining me in making the presentation today. this annual report reviews park maintenance in fiscal year 15-16 in the second year which to park evaluation standards [inaudible] these new standards were adapted from the original standards and lamenting 10 years prior in 2005 and now provide greater clarity reducing evaluator interpretation, deegan and analytical reporting and deliver more complete information to the public. as you will see today, we are already achieving success in these areas. as anticipated, the tougher new standards adopted resulted in a downward adjustment to lower baseline. this year, the citywide score began rebounding increasing by .4% to 85.6 good with managers and supervisors now able to use real-time reports to affect speedy repairs, with the completion of renovations targeted to low performing facilities, and with staff becoming familiar with the goals set by the new standards incremental improvement in park scores should continue in future years. parks moving to the new higher scoring categories the final column at the right of this chart is growing. much of the impetus for this continues to come from capital improvements targeted to aging and park infrastructure and even ovations dramatically improve the scores at several parks like human playground which we've renovated this epa washington square with the restrooms were renovated, joe dimaggio north beach playground the entire site was redone, and [inaudible] partner pathway improvements occurred. what you can't see in this chart is the lowest scoring part in fiscal year 16 at a score that was 7.2% higher than the lowest scoring part in previous years. this is a success. in our efforts to equalize maintenance delivery across the city. seven points below the 85% good maintenance threshold psa three was the lowest score again in fiscal year 16. golden gate park has the greatest decrease in score. 1.4% with this in mind both pse three and golden gate park avenue and reorganize read more supervisory resources equalize workloads. in fiscal year 17 a new bayview complex has been added to psa three and a new section 7 has been created in golden gate park. so that is the overview. i'm going to hand it over to alice will give you a further breakout the data. >> thank you good afternoon commission. my colleague >> speak into the microphone he was as great an online dashboard that is available to the public regarding park scores. hopefully the projection will work. so what you are about to see is a map of the bottom and top 10 parks in disco years 16. those highlighted green oh correspond to the higher scores of highlighted red correspond to lower scores. four of the high-scoring parks have been renovated by either the 2008 or, 2000 and nine p.m. safe parks budget the low-scoring sites are in process or plan for the future in fact you've heard of to them in presentations today including alice chalmers the ground and john mclaren park. so if you're ever curious you can come to our website here the data.here we have a chart showing the breakdown of scores on average by supervisorial district or districts three and five in fiscal year 16 had the highest scoring average at about 80%. districts 10 and 11 were again at the lowest scoring at 81.4 and 81.3 respectively. however, it's important to note district 11 had a significant improved average as compared to fiscal year 15. this has equalize the outcome across all the districts decreasing the spread by about 3%. this is an additional chart showing the change in spread. you can see again in fiscal year 16 each district and the ranger park scores associated in the district. finally, we will talk about features within parks. 85% is the threshold for what is considered good maintenance of a feature. most of our parks actually surpass this. athletic fields, heart skips and lawns were close but not quite meet. however they have increased from fiscal year extinct despite irrigation due to the drought. further growth in heart skips wars are expected as the apartment undertakes a long deferred asphalt improvements. children's play areas remain as you can see the most challenging feature but hopefully with the let's play sf initiative that we heard about earlier which the department is embarking on should direct funding to these low-scoring play areas. >> as in past years city services auditor offered several repetitions for the department.. i will briefly outline what we are doing in these areas. one, implementing mobile evaluations. as you will see today regarding that the scope it with a fully mobile evaluation program. two, develop more frequent and useful reports could significantly improve reporting has artie been accomplished no show you that today as well. three, identify potential parking improvements as indicated throughout the presentation rpd is actively engaging using evaluation results to focus deployment of staff and renovation funding opportunities for more pointed use apart evaluation data will increase as we further draft reports this year. update site maps. park maps continue to be a high priority and we're committed to continuing rolling out the new generation of mass to more sites. so in the spirit of our continued program improvements to me give you a first look at our mobile evaluation tool. this is what an evaluator notes ease when they open the san francisco park evaluation program mobile app location. evaluate is no longer need to wait for a packet of papers to derive from the box simply on the first day of her evaluation period pick up their phone, download the evaluations and view a list of their park sites. when multiple sites are assigned each evaluator see evaluations and their personal schedule and i'll be of value in a single afternoon were evaluated on separate days. tapping on any sides in the app will open up a screen that lists the features that exist at that site. for instance, at [inaudible] program you see immediately the buildings, two separate children's play areas, fire escape, lawns all need to be evaluated. starting at feature evaluation changes sought by color to yellow as in the second row here. if i tap on that feature, then with school-age children they area i open the list of questions pertinent to the playground. here for example i stop at several standards used to evaluate children's play areas signage an evaluator finds any these issues within the play area they use the app to record them. for example if the sign on the west gate of the playground is faded and could amount to be easily read, the evaluator marks this issue as true. then in the interest enters the comments and takes a photo could so that stuff is all the information they need to go out to replace the socket the evaluator than school through and evaluate automating children's play area attributes graffiti, painting a rubber surfacing and after completing all the features of the site since the final results back to the database. previously park managers do not have to wait 5-10 business days to get information. today the park managers send reports like this one here in real-time as soon as the database receives the completed results. report streamlines the data excluding [inaudible] was pastor standard including only found issues which need resolution. report details the nature of the issue the department responsible for fixing it and the evaluator comments in the photographs are new mobile application allows us to capture information and quickly deliver it. that concludes our presentation. were happy to answer any questions you might have. >> i like the technology. see if there's any- >> any public comment on this item? seeing none,-adam did you want to make public comment? come on up. >> edna james. i just want to just listen to the comment about the [inaudible] and think about merced heights park where we requested the police to come out there because the students of san francisco state have parties on weekends and so when the children come there's a lot of whiskey bottles and everything else at merced heights park in batches one thing. the other one is that we were talking about the maintenance of the park and we think that the trees or overgrown and as i said the plot was called an open field, there's not supposed to be any dogs going around their on the leash were not on the leash but they have that good that is one activity that we are against and i started to say something to a person about that but i'm not a park administrator and i could've gotten shot or something else happened to me but i'm just saying, i have some concerns and also, the last thing, when you mentioned that merced heights park is used by just one group of children, and that's where she's getting her evaluation from. we have children at temple methodist church. we have children at lutheran church of our savior. we have chosen that it buchman that, and use the park and i'm just saying, getting it one group that's running that space, that's not adequate for me. they can. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else that would like to make public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i believe libby would like to make comments? >> good afternoon commissioners did on lidia-operations manager in rec and park i supervise speed and i want to acknowledge how significant this particular program is. it really is cutting-edge week onto a mobile application in i need to thank the general manager at his insistence as well as ben rosenfeld and peggy stephenson. we are among very few, i think i only know one other municipality that's doing anything like this so we been doing this just over 10 years and want to say how significant it is then also kind of the herculean effort both controller staff and our staff have gone through to make this happen in a very short period of time but i want to thank the staff that worked on this steve is retiring in a few months at this the last time you present on this. i just want to acknowledge that. we cannot do this without leadership and help of the controller's office. >> thank you so much. commissioner bonilla >> i just-this relates to your presentation in terms of the technology aspect and the community being able to make comment on the conditions were evaluate the parks and so on. the question i have is, do we have computers that most of these sites that we are speaking of in terms of-do we have computers that say merced heights and alice chalmers and so on? because i know there's been an effort citywide by the community living campaign and community technology network to have computers available for seniors were for youth to be able to utilize. do we-are we working with these programs and do we have these computers in these some of these parks that were improving and just wanted to get an idea of how linkup or how connected we are? the things commissioner any current director of operations. let me respond in two ways good one yet to evaluations on mobile device.separate what i think your question goes to was the level of technology in our facilities and i would say that merced heights, i mean we have a tenant who leases the clubhouse. so i am not exactly sure what level of commitment computer support we have there. might be provided by the tenant at our major rec centers and those type of things we do have everything from fiber-optic support to something less than that. there are various sites. if your question was, does the public have access to those, i would say only in a programmatic sense. if there's something in the [inaudible] that does provide or incorporate computer support i would say probably so but we do not have computers or technology out in our facilities that is just opened to the public. if that was your question? >> or for community purpose that we been speaking about because i think certainly the goal lease from the standpoint of the elderly and use that use these facilities, but our goal and and i can attest to this, put computers out at the rec centers and everywhere have possible so the community has access to these computers. which could then be used for other purposes to our programming. >> i'm not aware of any just open computers. we have for public use for whatever reason they would have to access them. i think all our technology support is strictly programmatic program support for things that they are signed up for and participating in. >> i think i will work at our center we have that capacity so i'm going to explore with these organizations what it is we actually are doing because it's my impression that we would being no working between rec and park to do this. >> commissioner mcdonnell >> it seems to me another piece of the equation that this change was pointing out that how many folks have opportunities to give input and so clearly having these smartphone capacities fantastic and at the same time if the five kind of portals of access to people that ms. james represented, are not touched in some way technologically or otherwise, then our evaluation is only limited-the 10 people we talked to and got input from versus the 30 we could have made up numbers but >> commissioners, 21 a complete word or two separate issues. the committee process for the redesign of for example lake merced, that is completely separate and different from just part evaluation program to our parks are evaluated quarterly by rec and park and annually by the controller's office in the evaluation -evaluations as agreed on by those that. there is no public evaluation >> thank you >> i would add to their significant public input that denny and his staff utilize to make maintenance decisions >> comments the common >> i'm ellie through 311 but also the park service managers >> by requiring individuals to make input by a computer or however through technology in terms of design concepts and so on, i think certainly, we have to know that or feel confident that the tools are there for them to be able to make input if that's how were doing business >> understood and that's in the capital program we can talk about how to incorporate that >> thank you for the presentation. with that we do have an executive session so i think we can move through the rest of the calendar >> okay. we are in item 12, general public comments. is there anyone who did not make public comments on item for the wants to now? okay general public comment is closed. item 13 is closed session. is there anyone who like to make public comment on closed session? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, we need a motion and a second whether to confer with legal counsel >> so moved. >> second. >> all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. >> we are now in closed >> >> call to order. can you please turn off your electronic devices, and can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> vice president mazzucc [kwro-erbgs/] mazzucco i would like to call role. vice president mazzucco? >> present. >> commissioner marshall. >> present. >> commissioner dejesus? >> present. >> commissioner melara? >> present. >> commissioner hing? >> here. >> commissioner mazzucco you have a quorum and also with us tonight is the chief of police, william scott. >> thank you very much, sergeant kilshaw and ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first community meeting for 2017. we as the san francisco police commission this is actually our favorite part of the job, to go out into the community once a month to each district station. we have ten district stations in the san francisco police department and the goal, the last meeting of the month to go to each district station and hear from you, the community about things that are very specific to your district and this being the southern police station and this meeting is the first of the year and actually our first community meeting through a district station with our new chief, william scott, sitting to the left of me and it's also the first district station and community meeting for your captain, daryl fong, this is his very first one. so go easy on him tonight. what we usually do in meetings is a little more different, a little more streamlined, but we take the opportunity for each commissioner to tell you what we do in our day jobs. and then i'm going to deviate from the script a little bit, because we have the honor of having your supervisor here tonight, jane kim. and we'll have supervisor kim say a few words, if you would like to? but we'll start briefly starting to the right of me with commissioner sonia melara. >> any name is sonia melara and run the family program at st. francis memorial hospital up the hill and also on the faculty of san francisco university school of social work and i live in the west portal district. >> doctor joseph marshall and run the program, nonprofit boys club and i have been on the commission since 2004. >> commissioner dejesus. >> my name is petra dejesus and i'm an attorney by day. i have been on the commission for ten years and live in outer mission. i'm happy to be here and happy to hear from all of you tonight. thanks. >> good evening. my name is bill hing, a law professor at the university of san francisco and founder of legal immigrant resource center and i reside in the inner sunset. >> i'm tom mazzucco vice president for the commission. i'm a native san franciscan and i have been on the commission for about almost 8 years. and my day job, i'm also a practicing attorney. prior to that for ten years i was an assistant district attorney here in san francisco and finished my career in the gang violence unit and followed by nine years as assistant united states attorney here in san francisco. i did everything from organized crime cases to white-collared cases and now in private practice here in san francisco. to me, this is the best part of being on the commission, because we get to go right out to the community and hear from you what your local concerns are. so starting with the person most responsible for this district, supervisor jane kim. [ applause ] >> well, thank you, commissioners and i appreciate that you are kicking off your year at the southern station here in the south of market and welcome to our new chief, who has not only joined us from los angeles to san francisco, but he is a mission bay resident. and so i don't -- [ applause ] that alone got you applause. so we're really glad to have a chief in our district as a resident, and also, welcome to our city. and i know that many of our constituent leaders are here today. i didn't realize this was actually captain fong's first hosting of the police commission, but i know he knows our community really well already. i just want to acknowledge and thank you, for jumping into the job. he is doing a great job in our district. and i know has been incredible responsive and followed in the phot steps of captain redman who with still dearly love in the mission and gad he is making sure that southern is getting the resources that they need and know our constituents probably still call you all the time as well. we do have a very active district, and i have always appreciated that, the commission has spent so much time listening to our need as round public safety. because we're also the downtown area and we are the home to so many workers, and also a center for so much of the tourism here in san francisco. we also bear a brunt of the a lot of public safety issues of city as well. the police commission and the command staff has always been great at partnering with our constituents and listening to our needs and how we can make our communities a safer place. i have to give it up to our constituents because making the city a safer place isn't just the job and responsibility of the police department, but on all of us to work together. so whether it's working with the yerba berna cbd and rincon and mission bay neighborhood association. it's really been a great community partnership and i hope we can continue that. thank you so much and welcome to our district. >> thank you, supervisor. also before we start, i really want to give a big thank you to the contemporary jewish museum. this is an incredible venue and centrally located within the district and they don't get paid for this and thank you for those making this happen. without further ado, please call the first line item. >> 1a chief's report, report on recent police department activities including major event, weekly crime trends and announcements. >> good evening chief. >> good evening. thank you, vice president mazzucco, police commissioners, supervisor kim. i want to start out this week's report, since this is a community meeting by introducing the command staff members that are here today as well. many of you know them already. starting with assistant chief hector saenz. [ applause ] chief saenz is our chief of staff. he basically has his hands in everything that happens in the department. deputy chief michael redman. [ applause ] and as stated mike was the former captain of the southern and mike is the deputy chief of operations. so he has oversight over the ten district stations and that is a huge responsibility. huge responsibility. but definitely he is the man up to that task. commander dan perriera. [ applause ] dan is a former captain of the mission district, and recently promoted. and now is a commander over the metro division. you'll hear from captain daryl fong in a second, but i will introduce him now. captain daryl fong [ applause ] . >> it's nice having daryl here because he is my captain as well. so i appreciate the work that he does. no pressure. we'll start with the recent activities the week in review the st. patrick's day parade march 11th and huge turnout and the san francisco police department, as well ass a a number of other city departments were there and participated in the parade. there was no major incidents of note. st. patrick's day is this week, march 17th and we expect many celebrations, but a safe st. patrick's day weekend. we had a couple of robberies in the southern district march 3rd where two suspect wearing ski masks and hoodies robbed a victim at gunpoint at 5th and mission. officers responded and conducted an immediate and exhaustive investigation that resulted in both suspects being arrested. they were taken into custody and later booked into the juvenile justice center and we don't think there with any other folks involved in that. events: upcoming events for the week, we have a traffic safety enforcement plan planned for this week. san francisco is committed to eliminating traffic deaths by 2024 as part of the vision zero program. our city's commitment to prioritize safe events in the streets for everyone. sfpd conducted a traffic safety zone operation march 13th and will conduct additional operations march 16th, 27th and 31st with specify attention directed to the focus on five violations, which are speeding, illegal turns, failure to stop for stop signs and signals and failure to yield to pedestrians and the spirit behind this vision zero, we want to totally eliminate traffic fatalities, but those five violations account for a majority of our traffic collisions, and we believe by focusing on those five, that we can significantly impact and reduce traffic fatalities. so vision zero is an ongoing effort and we'll run these traffic enforcements operations periodically and consistently in an effort to reduce our traffic fatalities. in terms of crime statistics, homicidess are up from this time of last year, most recent was last friday on green street where a young man was killed. we have made tremendous progress in that case and we think we'll be actually bringing to resolution. 2016 we had 7. so we're 4 above this time last year. non-fatal shootings is actually down from last year by 3 shootings. we had 35 this time last year. we have 32 this year. gun violence non-fatal shootings and homicides, we had 39 last year and so small change. firearm seizes, 266 firearms were seized year-to-date to this year, which is a significant number. our officers, when we put officers out on patrol, particularly in the areas hard hit by violence, we ask our officers to focus on the individuals committing violence. and many of those folks involved in gang activitis and narcotics activities and they have done a phenomenal job. to give you context, last year 2016 we seized 1216 firearms. in 2015 we seized 1085 firearms. so our philosophy is if we can get the firearms off the streets that is one less person able to use a firearm to commit a violent crime and that effort is ongoing. but we're off to a good start there. again, i discussed the homicide on green street already and we have made significant progress on that. we also had a shooting in terville last week where a group of men were involved in narcoticks at 47th and vicentee and a shooting at that location. we actually made an arrest and that location we believe is an isolated incident. so we made an arrest in the location and we were and to contact all of the parties involved in that. and that concludes the crimes portion of this report. at this time, i would like to turn this over to captain daryl fong for his presentation. >> dr. marshall. >> chief, i just want to say driving home last -- i can't remember the day, but a long hostage situation in the mission and i want to say congratulations for handling that without incident and that is what we set in plan. every time i hear something like that i have to say thank you and congratulations thank you, commissioner marshall and i have to thank our folks, deputy chief redman and commander maddox at the scene, but again the whole deescalation, it takes time, and time and distance, you know? we believe we'll save lives and that was time and distance, and deescalation and practice. thank you for that observation and the recognition for the work. >> captain fong. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, commissioners, chief scott, command staff members, supervisor kim, members of the southern district community: my name is daryl fong and i'm the captain of the southern police station and i'm honored tonight to present you on behalf of the southern district and i would like to thank the commissioners for choosing southern district for hosting this evening's event. this evening i will be providing an overview of the district, including events in the district, staffing currently at the station, as well as crime within the district, and our district priorities moving forward. but before i begin my presentation, i first would like to thank also the contemporary jewish museum, specifically rachel smith, the events coordinator, as well as mark furtado the security director here. thank you again. [ applause ] i would also like to take the opportunity to acknowledge some great supporters and community partners that we have here in attendance today. members of my community police advisory board please stand up and be acknowledged. [ applause ] . >> yerba buena, rincon hill and market please stand up and be acknowledge as well, please. [ applause ] we also have representatives from the securities directors association, here in attendance, as well as the mayor's fixit director sandra zeneca and from our community-based organization united playaz and also supervisor jane kim from district 6. thank you all for your support and attendance here today. [ applause ] i would now like to begin with a little background on the southern police district: the southern district is one of ten police districts in san francisco. it encompasses 3.3 square miles including treasure island and yerba buena island and the district boundaries extend north to mission street, south to mariposa, east to the water's edge, at the embarcadero, and west to vermont and division street. we also in the district we have seven car sectors within the district, five in the city, and the other two sectors, which cover treasure island and yerba buena island. there are a number of diverse and vibrant neighborhoods within the district. we have areas beginning at the northeast end of the district, the embarcadero, south beach, south park neighborhoods, proceeding west into the yerba buena south of market area, further west into the hub area and in the southeast corner of the district we have the rincon hill china basin and further west showplace square area and south into the mission bay area. within these neighborhoods are several notable locations. in the south of market area we have the moscone center, yerba buena garden, san francisco museum of modern art, the contemporary jewish museum, and further west we have our primary middle school in the district, betsy car michael school and also the design center, as well as several notable tech companies like zinga, google, adobe, airbnb and we have the at&t park, the home of the san francisco giants. we also have within the mission bay neighborhood, the usc sf benihoff's children's hospital and current construction of the chase arena, which will be the future home of the golden state warriors. in the southern district our district demographics show a population of about 42,000 residents in the city. however, anyone who has driven through the city or walked through the city in the course of the day, realizes that that actually swells to over five times up to almost 200,000 people in the area. this area of residents, the ethnic break down consists of 46% white, followed by 35% of asians, hispanic 14%, and african americans at 7%. within the southern district, we are very fortunate to have three very distinguished supervisors in our district. representing district 6, supervisor jane kim, which over sees most of the southern district, most soma, as well as treasure island and yerba buena and supervisor sheehy the mission district and supervisor malia cohen oversees the southwest end as of the district covering the showplace area. we're very fortunate to have three incredible district supervisors in the southern district. we often collaborate with them on district concerns, and work towards resolutions to community issues. within the southern district, there are a number of year-round events that are held throughout the year. which require police oversight, as well as event management. the first is in january is the martin luther king freedom march, which brings over 5,000 people in attendance. it is a freedom march beginning at caltrain station at 4th and king and provides on the route into yerba buena gardens for a day of celebration for that day. we also have in may the how weird festival, which is an art expression faire and we see often over 50,000 individuals who attend this particular event. that is in the lower south of market area in the area of 1st and new montgomery and mission. also in may, we also host the beginning of the bay to breakers event, a large race, over 75,000 in attendance for that, for participants which begin over in the area of main and howard street. that race proceeds west on howard street, north on to 9th street and proceeds into adjacent districts, eventually ending in golden gate park. in july, we have the 4th of july festivities, where we see thousands of celebrants come flock our waterfronts to view the festivitis and fireworks not only on the waterfront but on treasure island as well. also in july, we have the up your alley event, an adult-themed event. we often see over 50,000 individuals in attendance for this one-day event primarily in the south of market area. and we also have the pistahan parade and celebration, which is a filipino cultural event beginning in civic center plaza in the northern district that begins with a parade and proceeds into the yerba buena garden area, where there is a two-day festival and celebration that takes place in the district as well. in september, we play host to the folsom street fair, another adult-themed event, which attracts over a quarter of a million people. it is a one-day event, also held within the south of market area as well. we also play host to the oracle convention at the moscone center, which brings the annual conference for oracle employees. we often see up to 30,000 of these visitors, who come to this convention on an annual basis. and in october, we also have fleet week in which we see thousands of visitors come to celebrate fleet week. we play host to a number of military personnel, u.s. sailor, as well as marines,, as well as visitors to our area, and that is a week in the district along the waterfront, managed by also our partners at central station. and then we have the dream force event, which is a sales force annual conference that is also held at the moscone center. where we see, again, over 50,000 in attendance, over a one-week period for the event. as noted earlier, there are a number of renowned locations within the district that host year-round events. the yerba buena gardens host the martin luther king celebrations, the pistahan festival, but also various activations, festival and smaller corporate events year-round. at the moscone center, this is a host of a number of our conventions, annual conventions throughout the year. most notably was the sales force, as well as the oracle convention. but it has year-round smaller conventions as well. and then also in the china basin neighborhood, at&t park, which is the host of the san francisco giants during the baseball season, which runs from april and hopefully into october. and it's also a venue which plays host to a number of concerts, music festivals and other corporate events and actvations surrounding the neighborhood as well. lastly we have there a rendering of the future chase arena that is undergoing construction currently in the mission bay neighborhood and it will be the home of the golden gate warriors at 16th and 3rd street. and now i would like to discuss a little bit about staffing currently at southern station: the good news is this, staffing is up at the station. when i first was assigned the southern station in march of 2016, we had 118 officer as signed to the southern station and we currently have 133. this is in large part due to the leadership of the mayor's office, the board of supervisors, the police commission, the chief, in terms of 6-year hiring plan of hiring 150 officers from 2012 through 2018. we're in the midst of that hiring plan and we're seeing the fruits of that hiring take place now, but it also has made us a much younger department as well. of the 133 sworn officers at southern station, there are 107 officers currently serve patrol capacity. we have 20 that are sergeants and five lieutenants one captain in the district. we have been able to reestablish some things that the community has been asking for over the course of the last year. i'm happy to report that we were able to establish a new street crimes unit, which is a plainclothes enforcement unit of one sergeant and six officers to address violent and property crime within the district from narcotic -- illegal narcotic activity, burglaries, robberies in the district, as well as burglaris in the district. these were all concerns that were brought to my attention when i first came to southern from the community and this, i'm happy to report, we now have this unit that has made a tremendous impact, which i will allude to when i go over some of our crime statistics. we have already been able to reestablish a foot beat program here in the southern district. there was one other thing that rivaled concerns was having foot beat officers to serve as liaisons in our district and we started with four officers specifically in the south of market on the 6th street corridor and we have just last week been able to expand that program to we now have currently 8 officers walking a foot beat to provide visibility, and enforcement, and engagement with the merchants and the residents within those corridors. [ applause ] thank you. we have also recently assigned a new school resource officer as well. we have assigned that officer to be the primary liaison to our primary middle school -- i'm sorry, elementary and middle school in the district, betsy carmichael school and this officer served as a mentor and resource to youth and students within that school, and also has been a great liaison to also the community-based organize like united playaz within our district in terms building positive relationships with our youth in the community. we continue to have four officers assigned to homeless unit and addressing quality of life issues in the district and surrounding encampments that are working with other city agencies in an attempt to address. we also have a team, an investigation team of one lieutenant and five sergeants, which is tasked with following up, coordinating, partnering with our neighborhood district attorney and following up on victim crimes to ensure that we are responding in a timely manner. we also are in the process of training 15 new recruits at the station as well. due to the diversity within the district we're very fortunate to have the ability to offer training to these officers with more seasoned officers in the district. of the 133 officers that i mentioned currently assigned to southern station, currently 118 are male officers, 15 are female officers and we have a very diverse workforce of 66 caucasian officer and 18 hispanic officers and 14 filipino officers and 10 african american officers. as mentioned earlier regarding our district demographics i'm very proud to say that our diverse workforce is representative of the community that we serve. we also have had, because of the new influx of officers, over the course of the last several years, we have 52 officers with less than five years' of service. so we do have a very young workforce. 30 officers with -- between 5-10 years' of experience, and 25 officers with more than 10 years' of experience. all accounted for we have 60% of our current officers have less than ten years' of experience. currently at southern station. our officers assigned to the southern station possess a number of specialized training: currently we have 23 field training officers assigned to southern station, which are spread throughout our watches. during the day, swing watch and midnight watch and also have ten field training officer sergeants. this is critical because of the young workforce to have supervisor ial oversight of these officers. i'm very proud to say as well we have 61 current officers that are trained in crisis intervention training. this is extremely important, as these officers are available to respond to calls for service to individuals in crisis, and utilize their specialized training to deescalate situations and diffuse situations before they escalate into potential use of force encounters. of the station has seven officers trained in hostage negotiations skills and also 23 bilingual officers assigned to this station. of these, 8 secondary languages, the primary language that is spoken is spanish. so we have 11 officers that are certified in spanish. we have five officers certified in cantonese, two in mandarin, one in german, one in portuguese, one in hindi and one in surin ame and one in tagalog and that we're providing language access services to those -- to everyone within the community. over the course of the last year, officers used the language assistance service to assist people, with limited english proficiency over 500 times over the course of the year. of these contacts, there were over 280 documented incidents. we're working tirelessly to ensure that we're track the information to ensure that we are providing language access and services to all members of the community. and now i would like to just discuss a little bit about crime within the district. southern station continues to be a very vibrant and very busy district. southern station officers responded to over 145,000 calls for service in the last year. that averages out to almost 400 calls for service on a daily basis. we are the fourth highest station responding to calls for service of the ten district stations. of those calls for service, emergency calls for service are what we call a priority calls accounted for almost 43% of our calls for service. and the second highest request for service was for quality of life-related type of complaints, which remains to be a challenge for us in the district. within the district crime categories, southern station saw a marked reduction in overall crime, following a citywide trend. specifically in the categories of robberies and auto burglaries we saw 40% and 27% reduction, respectively. this was achieved by taking really a collaborative approach in partnership with the community. utilizing statistical analysis for deployment of resources for our officers, identifying locations of occurrence, timely response, sharing data analysis with our officers, and also, timely follow-up by our investigative teams along with focused enforcement with our plainclothes officers helping in these reductions. also partnering and educating our communities on safety awareness, and also, identifying potential environmental factors, which may be impacting crime within the district has been a tremendous assist in reduction of our crime stats. in addition, we have had the benefit of some of our department specialized units of assisting us in targeting serial auto burglaries and helping to reduce the auto burglaries within the district and they have been a tremendous asset for us. as far as homicides, we did see a slight increase in homicides, with five homicides occurring last year up from four. what we determined, although it's very concerning, when a homicide occurs, we determine four out of five homicides involved either narcotics or gang type of activity. they were independent of itself and due to the assistance of the community, and the work of our homicide unit, in all five cases, there were five arrests made in those incidents. also, in regards to sexual assaults in the district we saw an increase in that area and continue to work with our special victims unit and district attorney's office and our da office's and hotel security directors in terms of educating the community. what we found out in a number of these incidents, the victim or the suspect was known to the victim or an associate of the suspect was known to the victim. and now i would like to just go over some areas and priorities of focus as we move into 2017. the four areas that we'll continue to focus on are reduction in violent and property crimes, the quality of life issues within the district, traffic safety within the district, and community engagement. in regards to continuing reduction of violent and property crimes continuing to work in partnership with the community with education and crime prevention strategis to address street-level crime with auto burglaries, robberies and other crime that impacts the community. in regards to the quality of life issues within the district, our homeless outreach team will continue to work with the various city agencies in partnership with them to address the issues surrounding quality of life issue and work with the department of homelessness and also in partnership with the department of public works, our department of public health and all the other community stakeholders who are concerned about this issue. traffic safety. traffic safety continues to be a huge priority in the southern district. we are using currently statistical analyses to determine high-incident collision corridors, which you see up there in red. as you can see in the south of market, we have a number of collision corridors that are concerning. we are utilizing our enforcement efforts in commitment to the vision zero program of reducing traffic fatalities to zero by the year 2024. to achieve this end, southern station will continue to work with sfmta, walk sf, the bike coalition, to try to enhance safety within the district. southern station will also utilize our focus on the five strategy of enforcing the top-five traffic violations identified as causing the highest number of collisions within the district. these are speeding, red light, failing to yield to pedestrians and unsafe terms, as well as stop signs within the district. in 2016, our statistics reflected our emphasis and our priority of trying to enhance traffic safety within the district. we saw a marked improvement within those top-five violation categories. ranging from 50% to over 1300% from red lights to improper turns within the district. although we were, in fact, one of the citations written within the district and we'll continue to focus on these particular violations again to curb behavior and change behavior of all of the individuals who use the roadway, bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists within the district and it remains a priority and we'll continue to emphasize traffic safety. lastly, but most importantly, you i would like to talk about community policing in the district. at the core is community engagement and i feel very fortunate to have the stakeholders and partners that i do with my community police advisory board and the community groups and all the other stakeholders all committed to building stronger relationships and partnerships and to enhance public safety within the district. these stakeholders as i mentioned have been a huge, tremendous support for me in terms of our coordinated efforts to not only educate the community, but educate us to ensure we're aware of what is important to the community. over the last year, we have worked with the community on promoting more positive and engaging relationships between law enforcement and the community. over the course of the year, southern station officers participated in the san francisco challengers league, which is a san francisco giants sponsored baseball league with youth who are developmently disabled and physically challenged and it runs from march to june throughout the year. where kids interact with officers to build positive relationships and interact. in fact, this past saturday was the beginning of the league. our own chief scott was the honorary member and threw out the first pitch for the league at china basin park. thank you, chief. >> how was the pitch? >> i don't outstanding, hit it on the mark, sir. [laughter ]officers also participated in the betsy carmichael event to build more positive relationships with our schools in the district. the officers participated in a bbq, festival, games, a lot of food and sugar for the kids. it was a wonderful time. just again an opportunity for the officers to build positive relationships, not only with the children, but break down some of those barriers between the parents and the police as well within the community. we also in partnership with the united playaz youth prevention-based career development organization, we facilitated a summer program called "our sand lot program." the reading program was developed between cops and kids and cooking classes held throe the summer and art programs were held, kick ball classes. there was a trip to great america in which the officers escorted the children to great america. i'm not sure who had more fun? the officers or the kids? and there was also a holiday ice skating event sponsored by boston property, where kids from the united playaz organization were brought for a day of fun ice skating at justin herman plaza. moving forward we're in the process of partnering with united playaz to comprise a youth captain's police advisory board. i think it's critical as we move forward not only do we get input from representatives from our neighborhoods within the community, but also that we hear the concerns of the youth in our district as well. and in an effort to build that relationship and collaboration, we're in the process of identifying those that are committed to enhancing relationships between police and youth within our communities. in an effort to promote safety, also, and identify concerns within the community, southern station also partnered with the united playaz or two gun buyback events this year. during those two events, there were over 200 firearms seized, including assault rifles, shotguns and other firearms taken off the streetss and it was all a collaborative effort between the united playaz, the police department and other community stakeholders to try to reduce youth violence within our communities. we also under the direction and also the leadership of our mayor's fit-it director zenga, to identify district concerns and identify issues of concern to the community. it was a very enlightening walk and there is a lot of interaction between the community, as well as the mayor's office, along with the director, and the police. it was a great opportunity for us to become aware of the concerns of the community within that neighborhood. also during the holiday season, my captain's police advisory board comprised a holiday safety flier that focused on some of the three areas that i highlighted early: traffic safety, robbery prevention, as well as auto burglary prevention. during this holiday season, these fliers were made and distributed to a number of visitors, shoppers within the shopping corridors of soma in an effort, again, to educate the community to reduce some of the issues of crime within the neighborhood. moving forward, southern station will continue to engage our community in an effort to build stronger relationships through social outreach, our community newsletter, direct neighborhood meetings. in an effort to do that, we are also implementing a coffee with the captain on a monthly basis, which is an opportunity for the community to come forward and have a one-on-one with the captain to express their specific concerns or issues within the district. this is a spinoff off our coffee with a cop, in which the community has an opportunity to meet some of our officers and get to know them better. in closing, southern station will continue to engage the community in an attempt to build stronger partnerships. to ensure we're all working together to meet the expectations of the communities that we serve. i believe we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build on our current relationships, and also, to establish legitimacy in the eyes of all of the community that we serve. and for that, i look forward to the partnerships and for the opportunity. thank you. [ applause ] i'll be happy to take any questions, if anyone has any. thank you. >> thank you very much, captain fong. that was very thorough presentation and i think you all know a lot about southern station now, their operations and it makes southern station very unique. it's that it used to be headquarters as most of you know at the police headquarters building at hall of justice and very different demographic in terms of a district. since the last ten years, it has a ballpark, a neighborhood and has facilitis that have never been there before. there is literally one of the rare districts where the population goes up five times during the course of the business day and so it's very diverse with a lot of new neighborhoods. when i first became a prosecutor, there was no southern station covering yerba buena island and treasure island, which i know is no easy task and i thank you, you and your officers for that. i thank you for your presentations. commissioners what we usually do we generally ask the captain questions, but given it's a community meeting i would rather turn it over to the community with your permission to tell us about their concerns and any questions that they have for captain fong or chief scott? without further ado we're going to have public comment now, and given the size of the crowd, public comment is limited to 2 minutes. >> item 3, public comment, the public is now welcome it address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but that are within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa person until. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police or dpa person until, nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public, but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and dpa personnel should refrain however from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. please limit your comments two minutes. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening, i'm a resident in north beach place and i had incidents happen monday and i had a woman called my house and i called the police to go downstairs to my neighbor's house, who lives at 567 bay street, apartment 1025. and after the officers left, the young alady came up to my door and started to bang on it very violently. so the cameras on the building caught her coming up the stairs twice and doing a little dance and stuff on the stairs. and a second set of officers is over may at matia and the way this officer questions me and i told him i have nothing to hide. i'm not involved in the crime that goes on and i have been victimized the last three year issues have been there and been to community meetings. i also told them my neighbor is bipolar and if has full blown aids and i had eye disorders and the management wouldn't do anything about it. there is always crime from this man's house and demographic i made from that drug haven downstairs. this man does not need this house and cannot take care of hims and he is incontinent and from window-splashing and people getting robbed and the murder of the pokemon person getting killed. like i said, it's right there, all in this drug haven. so this is one house that i wish you all would take out. then there will be five others i will report-back to you on. thank you. >> thank you very much. sergeant yamaguchi to the left there, ma'am? ma'am? bring it over to sergeant yamaguchi and i know you have been to a couple of meetings and met with us before, but please talk to sergeantam about the pokemon thing. [speaker not understood] i have been to community meetings with captain fong to discuss several issues, but i just wanted to give you a rundown of the western soma experience living at 75 doerr. within the last six months i have made approximately 30 calls to the non-emergency number to report honduran drug gang crack sales on howard street between doerr and 9th street and the 9th street corridor is a hotbed of honduran crack-dealing. i have also had a burglary of my bicycle out of a locked garage with cameras, with two kryptonite locks. i have had an assault by a woman -- an asian woman who threw construction material at me. i have been held hostage on the 14 bus by an intoxicated african american man who threatened to harm me and my dog. i have had hot coffee thrown at me by one of the honduran crack dealer buddiess and been verbally assaulted by crack addict because when i see honduran crack dealers, i stop and call the non-emergency number, wait until i get an operator and give a complete description of the people that are selling the drugs. i had made probably half a dozen calls about a homeless encampment and doerr and folsom and got no response from the police or 311, until i ended up going and spending two hours at the [ inaudible ] >> if you would like, sergeant mcdonald is here if you could talk to him about the issues with reference to the honduran crack dealers in your neighborhood. thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. good evening. peter alexander. cops are the chosen people. that is what officer hobbs said, aka denzel washington in the spiritual police fallen the righteous are bold as a lion, proverbs 21. i have seen that on than one epitaph of a fallen officer. law enforcement is becoming more difficult and intricate and it's always hard to hear of an officer down and even sew nationwide more than 300 officers were taken out by their own for whistle blowing. fallen and proverbs touched upon spiritual reality and deceptions still in place after hundreds of thousands of years, still exist to undermine our freedoms. and surely as your next breath is connected to our next heartbeat, so is the slaughterhouse murder industry of 14 million sentens connected to the violence on the streets to the wars. it's the core of our physical and spiritual disease. there is an agenda to federalize law enforcement in oakland and san francisco. i strongly oppose anything along those lines. it is to further annihilate the u.s. constitution in favor of martial law and the lion laying down with the lamb language, is something had a we all can do. it's all within our power. we're in california, the most beautiful place for vegetables and fruits to simply cease participating in the murder of supposedly lesser beings, although that is quite questionable. whatever you do to the least of me was always a reference the to the animals, you see? >> thank you, next speaker. next speaker. next speaker, please. thank you. next speaker. two minutes each. next speaker. next speaker, please. thank you. good evening. >> good evening. thank you to the commission and to the officers present for hosting this meeting. my name is brad feldman and i lived in the dogpatch area the last years and it's gotten significantly safer and cleaner and quieter over the last years. thank you for all your hard work and i appreciate what you have done. i'm here primarily tonight to understand better how my city interacts with its immigrant communities? i have been reading up some on your current policies. but me and some of my friends have been concerned about recent changes at the federal-level, and i was interested in hearing your thoughts, and how the commission and the police in the city relates to immigrations and customs enforcement? and if you foresee that changing in the near-future. thank you. >> unfortunately we can't have a dialogue back and forth with you, but suffice it to say you are looking at a police department and commission that believes san francisco is a sanctuary city. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening, my name is cathy moppet, executive director of yerba buena and thank you for coming to southern. we appreciate that very much. there is a lot going on and i'm glad you are able to come and listen to our captain and learn more about what is happening. i want to speak from the cpac and we appreciate the partnership. we also appreciate the partnership because we bring so many tourists to this neighborhood, and tourism is such a big industry in san francisco. that we want to ensure -- do what we can to ensure that they have a good experience and they'll come back and continue to support our institutions. so i specifically want to acknowledge captain fong for his support of our efforts. i want to acknowledge sergeant mcdonald and he was somewhere around here a minute ago. department chief redman and supervisor kim for all of their support. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you very much. may my comments please the commission, the first car i had as a young man, had all 32 horsepower. i grew up in new york and i can assure you i was always in the fast lane on the freeways. but i wanted to tell from you that perspective, i have a little or no sympathy with the individuals that i see speeding on our streets. but i don't rejoice in the fact that people have to pay fines and increase insurance rates by getting tickets. but at some point i wonder how our quality of life is affected by the way people operate these behemoth and most people drive in varying states of fear and they are afraid of being hit from behind. i see it time and time again the way people drive and i think more tailgating tickets should be given, even though they are probably harder to prove in traffic court. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening. chief scott, and commissioners, my name is katy ladell and i have lived over in the rincon hill area since 1995. so before the ballpark, since before anything. it was dead over there when i first moved in. i'm an original cpab member starting with captain mcdena and i just want to say mike redman and daryl fong are the two best captains we have ever had. [ applause ] our neighborhood is the most dynamic in the city and keep growing and growing and i have to find out what has been built a block from me and more and more people are moving in. more and more employees, more and more traffic. so this is a huge challenge for these people. so we particularly appreciate what they have to deal with, and the fact that they have such great personal skills. redman and fong, wonderful personal skill and they actually listen to us and they help us out. so i just want to give them a huge kudos. they have a big job. thank you. >> thank you very much. hi, how are you? >> hello, good. thanks for doing these. my name is judy, and i work on mission and 6th, and live in the mission district. followingum up on what you said earlier about sanctuary cities and i wanted to take the opportunity to make you aware of the aclu's freedom city project and i don't know if you are aware of it. so i will follow-up with you and say there are nine what they call models, local state and law enforcement policies that if enacted will significantly curb or counter the current administration's anti-immigrant agenda. and what the aclu is calling possible local activists across the nation to do is get in touch with their local law enforcement and ask if they'll say yes to these nine policies? and then we'll report-back to the aclu. so we're hoping to make a real difference on the ground and help the aclu find ways to legally have you been in non-compliance with i.c.e. -- i just wanted to make you aware that is probably coming, and we'll probably be calling about that. thank you. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> good evening, ms. brown. >> hello. excuse me. i wanted to comment on the earlier comment about the murders being up here in san francisco. and and them being up, i wanted to bring up -- they said that most of them were the suspects were arrested. i say, yes they were arrested, but were they convicted of the crimes or were they let go? of course they were arrested and i'm saying even when my son was murdered the perpetrators were arrested, but let go. so even though you are catching the perpetrators were they let go? the other thing i hear and it's mostly on people of color, that they are either drug-dealers or gangs. not all of our children are drug-dealers and not all of our children are in gangs. so you know, those words really hurt me, because my son was an african american boy, and those -- that stigma affect ours kids a lot and i refuse to let it haunt mine. i think something else should be done about that and also the unsolved homes. there are so many unsolved homes in and it's ridiculous and these familis are still hurting, are still suffering, are still crying. this is just the general -- not the general public comment, but in that, i'm still going to bring up about my son. i am in another district, yes i am. but it doesn't matter what district you are in. it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter where your children are. these are our children and they don't deserve to be killed or murdered. by anyone. >> thank you ms. brown. [ applause ] >> if anyone has information regarding the murder of ms. brown's son there is is an anonymous tipline area code 415-575-4444 and for members of the audience here, ms. brown comes to every one of our meetings to talk about her son's murder. there was an arrest in the case, but there was not a prosecution u because the system needs witnesss and corroboration and if anyone has anything to offer about this murder, a great young man who was ready to graduate from high school and his mom walked across the stage to get his degree. if you know anything about it, it's so important. because murders don't just get solved by the police, but need the input and communication from the community. i was a [tr-urts/] at time her son was killed and know facts with the case and it would be a great case for us to solve for ms. brown and the entire community. thank you, ms. brown for coming every week and speaking. we appreciate it. next speaker. >> good evening, police chief and members of the community, my name is thomas and i'm not speaking on behalf of, but i am a member of the board of directors for the yerba buena gardens festival that happens across the street. san francisco, i believe, is a cultural mecca and i greatly appreciate what law enforcement community does to keep the members who come to see the events there free and safe. i run a festival. we present a festival there each year. there are over 100 free events there for youth, as well as adults. it's a fantastic festival that showcases the best in terms of arts of what the city has to offer, as well as bringing national and international artists here. thank you very much for helping using keep it safe and a fun place to be. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. [ applause ] anybody else? any of cpab group or community organizers? okay hearing none, public comment is now closed and it's an opportunity for the commissioners to comment or have questions for captain fong. >> i know these are community meetings and they are focused on a particular district, but i just urge you to keep an ear and eye on the department as a whole. i just wanted to say, we have made, what i would say is significant strides in the last years, very different department. obviously we have a different chief from los angeles and in terms of the make-up of the department, it's getting younger. we have a lot of retirements and a lot of new people, and we notice, because we do it every week. but we have recruitment class we're trying to get numbers and looking at -- the board of supervisors are looking at the numbers that we have. but specifically, we have had, again, just to say three major ways that the department runs, three significant general orders and most is the use of force and use of force governs the entire city and not just a district. some very significant general orders. we passed a body camera general order and at some point, all of the officers will have body cameras on. and a lot of these are aligned with national recommendations by best policing. then we passed the cit general order which actually significantly impacts -- when you hear these incidents that are resolved without loss of life, a lot of this is due to the training that we put in place for our officers around crisis intervention and most recently, we are putting an mou together with the department of public health. it's a very different department in the last year-and-a-half and keep your eye on that and sort -- i can talk to special individually, but i just wanted to share that the department is moving important and under doj with the recommendations, 272 that we're working on. so i want everyone to understand that the department is undergoing a significant change that is all for the better and so keep an eye on us. >> commissioner hing? >> first of all, i want to compliment captain fong on the platitudes he has received tonight. i am particularly happy, although this sounds too self-interested, that you are here and you have done such a good job, because my son and daughter-in-law and 14-month-old granddaughter live in your district. so i'm happy they are in good hands. seriously, given the warriors stadium on the horizon, and the high-rises that are coming up all the time, with the corresponding population growth, what do you -- what are you looking for in terms of needs and other resources, or other strategies that you are going to need in the next few years to come? i'm wondering if you have any response to that? >> thank you, commissioner. i think moving forward, you know, we're going to continue our statistical analysis of priorities within the district and we understand there are challenges within the district, in various neighborhoods. we'll be relying on some of that analyses to make sure that we're efficient internals in terms of our operations and addressing concerns in the various neighborhoods, but that is where the partnerships, i believe, are so critical. partnerships with the community, to ensure that we are in communication uncoordinating our efforts to ensure that we're meeting the expectation of the community. so i think moving forward that is something that we'll continue to prioritize, and we will adjust, because we know with the new arena coming, there will be additional challenges. especially related to traffic and other issues and we look forward to working in partnership with them in addressing the community's concerns as well. >> thank you. >> commissioner melara. >> yes, i just wanted to follow-up on the comment related to the relationships to the immigrant communities. i was in sacramento this week, and monday -- what day is it today? wednesday -- i forgot -- [laughter ] >> monday i had the opportunity to see that there was a bill sb 54 that passed the appropriations committee on monday. and it specifically related to the fact that would mandate no local resources be used to help immigration services in the state of california. so that in addition, to the fact that we are a sanctuary city, that is being worked on at the state-level. so just wanted to share that with you. >> commissioners? i have one quick question for the captain. you made mention of an issue that overwhelming major of your officer have less than five years' of experience and for us this doing for a while, whether attorneys or prosecutors or law professors that officers aren't fully ready to be on the street like any profession until they have been five years on the job is what we have been told. are you finding there is any issue having so many young officers? is there a need to have more older officers on the streets? there is even some mention of bringing back some of the officers who are retired to work part-time, who are really good officers? do you think that is something we should do? are we on top of this issue of having some very young officers? >> i think we're very fortunate in having these young officers. it's energized the workforce in a lot of ways. we have a very diverse mix as i mentioned during my presentation on our workforce of experience and more seasoned officers. i think it's critical that we have mentoring with the more experienced officers with the younger officers coming into the department that are on the job. there are more challenges that the officers are seeing, obviously greater expectations both from the community as within the department as well. i think the officers are up for those challenges, as well. i think it's important that we support them through that process. so i think it's imperative or it's critical that as the officers learn the job, that they do have the support not only within the department, but from the other more experienced officers within the station as well. so i feel very fortunate, least at southern station with the 23 ftos that i mentioned and 10 fto sergeants as well, it provides a great opportunity for the more experienced officers to share their insight, and experiences with the younger officers. >> chief? >> thank you. i'll just add to what captain fong said, supervision plays a key role, particularly when you have a young patrol force. so we know we have some shortages right now in our sergeants ranks and we have a test that just happened and hopefully by mid-summer or so, we'll be adopting a new promotional list to shore up our supervision. but that is key. supervision and leadership. the nice thing about having a young patrol force, you have really good energy. you have eager officers wanting to learn the job and that is a good thing. but when you couple that with good supervision and mentorship, i think we'll be fine. thank you. >> i also want to thank the chief. there was -- chief, there is usually a newsletter from the chief and instead of a newsletter this week, the chief did a video that each and every officer has to watch as part of their job to sign in and click in. it was an extremely thorough video explaining about events that have happened, expectations for the officers, thanking the officers for everything from providing gifts to homeless women on valentine's day, to officers who won medals of valor for heroic actions. just a great video and in my opinion, for the officers, the younger officers at the station to watch this and hear what the chief had to say and serve the public and their own well-being and taking care of themselves. but reminding them that they do serve the public. i thought it was a great video and thank you for that. >> thank you, vice president. >> commissioner dejesus. >> thank you for hosting us it's. it's a beautiful venue and the food was nice, too. i remember south of market had issues years ago with entertainment and clubs and have you had anything with entertainment with clubs in your neighborhood? >> we have had a couple incidents, independent incidents. but the one thing, again, that has been fantastic is just the relationships that we have both with the entertainment commission, as well as with the entertainment clubs within our district. any time there has been an issue that has been brought forward by the community, you know, we have held meetings with the nightclub locations to discuss what the concerns are? and to relook at potential resolutions to those issues? how we're looking at security plans? we're looking at surrounding areas to see what we can do in partnership together to address those. so it's, again, it's an ongoing process. but again, i feel very fortunate that we do have those relationships so when there is an issue that arises, we can go to those areas and have a productive discussion. >> thank you. well, commissioners, thank you very much. so at this point, i think of we have concluded our program and there will be a motion for adjournment, but i want to thank you all for coming here today. we mentioned about the training of our young officers and the next-generation. so i throw it back to you, audience and the citizens who they serve and please don't be afraid to talk our officers and have a conversation with them and tell them what you are thinking. assess them, they are young and new and you will be shocked not just how diverse our officers are, but the different backgrounds. as a lawyer i can tell you that we had class presidents recently graduating from stanford law school and last academy class graduating from berkeley, who won three awards during the graduation, which is unheard of. so we have some very really competent people that care about the community. you need to engage them, too. so that is part of the community policing. so i appreciate if you would do that and thank you for coming tonight. captain fong, excellent job. thank you for having us here. >> thank you, supervisor. >> thank you again to the contemporary jewish museum. >> [ applause ] . >> item 4, ajohnson & johnson. >> i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> all there favor? >> aye. >> thank you very much everybody. the maus coney cen project is transformation of the convention center and it is not only addition and increased space but also a transformation of the urban neighbor around it in a positive way. >> 25th largest convention center in the country but the conventions are getting bigger so with this extension it is 13 largest >> we have been under construction a year and a half and set to complete the construction in 2018. it generated over $9 billion in san francisco >> 35 percent of viz #2rs coming to san francisco are coming to maus coney. >> 2500 jobs will be created. >> if we didn't do the expansion we would luce $200 million in taxes a year. the conventions they are talking about going other cities with ample [inaudible] and exhibit space and not come to san francisco. >> there is a lot of [inaudible] we are at a point now where our [inaudible] two halve oz the mos connie and think what we desire is one space. >> we are adding space about 200,000 space. we are connecting the two existing north and south exhibition halls that excavate under howard street to increase the largest exhibition space to 1 contig ws space over 500,000 square feet. >> the spot i'm standing in will be inside the lobby. the building will be pushed out to howard street and connected north and south above and under ground. >> when you go on the north our south side you enter into a hall that is divided into major ways >> this is public private partnership. the hotel industry [inaudible] splitting it up of the building. >> since we have a north and south howard street it [inaudible] to make [inaudible] >> improving the bridges to make them more accessible so go over howard street >> [inaudible] developed to look at several different proposals for a light [inaudible] to work with that bridge and the selection of the [inaudible] he is on what i think is a beautiful piece that is very animated. you will be able to see it as [inaudible] cross the bridge and can see it as a resident of san francisco looking up. there is a second bridge and this bridge replacing an existing bridge over howard street that links yerba buena gardens to a childrens playground. make a much larger public space as well as aplaza space that brings you up to that in a visible way. >> we worked on the playground to make it safe and invited and added more open space >> the area will be connected with the neighborhood. [inaudible] much better space for everyone. >> why is such a fundamental part [inaudible] could be thought of as columns and beams [inaudible] the areas that you walk to check in prior to [inaudible] all those activities [inaudible] opposed to [inaudible] we thought of ways to bring light into these occupied spaces including skylights and [inaudible] highest level of [inaudible] recycled steel. the concrete is [inaudible] >> we will be harvesting all the rain water and storm water and reusing it. >> in [inaudible] they extend down into the aquifer level of the water level which means water is being pumped out to remove the pressure and there are over 15 million gallons of water per year that maus coney center pumps out so the water is wasted. our idea is disconnect the ground water system from the [inaudible] and reuse the water and save and preserve and use it for [inaudible] and use it for other irrigation uses. we have excess water to fill up [inaudible] >> there will be limited traffic impact during construction >> there is a 8 month period where we have to take a lane of traffic out from howard street so we can expand the tunnel. >> we anticipate the construction to be minimal. >> [inaudible] >> make the center statef the art and much more competitive. [inaudible] >> having the space. [inaudible] underneath howard. having [inaudible] >> this is a [inaudible] worked with the residential, the merchants in the neighborhood, the non profits to make sure this is a vibrant area. >> even if you don't come to the convention and enjoy the public space, it is something that helps revitalize the neighborhood (clapping.) the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine we're at san francisco inspirational airport to discover the award-winning concession that conspiracies us around the world. sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry there's many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe that's right even the airport is a diane designation. so tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special >> well, we have a we have food and beverage program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring 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come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. >> we definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. >> how long has this been operating in san francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. >> our broadened is we're going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. >> so you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. >> this is its own the city the airline crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and we've established relationships it feels good. >> when i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like i'm not city. i was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true >> we have a lot of regulars we didn't think we'd find that here at the airport. >> people come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. >> the food is great in san francisco it's a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. >> i'm impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. >> this is a little bit of things for everybody there's plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. >> tell me about the future food. >> we're hoping to bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what our passengers want. >> i look forward to see what your cooking up (laughter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> today we've shown you the only restaurant in san francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you don't have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating.comtest. >> 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