Good morning and welcome to the march 15 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. My name is jane kim and im joined by our vicechairman supervisor aaron peskin and present london reed. I want to of knowledge and think our community clerk erica meijer and also think the folks at sfgov tv Jessica Larson and jim smith for the courting our meetings and making them available to the members of the public. Mdm. Clerk any announcements . Yes these make sure to sounds all the phones and electronic vices. Complete speaker cards and any documents as part of the file should be submitted to the court. Items acted upon today will appear on march 21 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Im clerk please also the matters of the committee are here. If you would call item number one and two yes item number one resolution receiving an acuity and or board for the Noe Valley Community Benefit District for fiscal year 201516s amended as required by the property Business Improvement district lot of 1994. Item number two a resolution of receiving and approving the annual report of the ocean avenue Community Benefit district for fiscal year 201516. Thank you thank you i understand were joined by [inaudible] executive director of noe Valley Committee benefit district. So why dont we start with the noe valley cbd and then move on to the ocean avenue cbd. I still understand dan weaver the executive director of the ocean avenue cbd is here as well. Before we start the presentation colleagues any comments . I just have one overarching comments. Now the were all cut up and backlog has been cleared. Which is i think would be helpful for the committee and the public to see the metrics over time because they come in snapshots of 2015, 16, 201415. Relative to the for performance criteria there may be interesting to actually see without having to do whatever Research Whether they were met in the Previous Years but i think that would be worthwhile just to include in these records Going Forward a matrix so that we can say look at that theres been improvement over time and learn the lessons from the Previous Year and then when we talk about the noe Valley District already some questions. I think fundamentally the original Management Plan was unrealistic and discussed the way to fix it because the reality is when youre doing with such a small amount of money there is no way that you can have it at 10 admin overhead and thats the way was originally envisioned and interestingly enough, im glad these two items were called together because the cbd that mr. Weaver runs is about the same dollar value has been only valley cbd they start out with more realistic predictions and projections are rather going to this thing where every year we we say you did meet this management criteria theres got to be a way to go back and fix that because it becomes a meaningless metric. [inaudible off mic] yes. Im here to help you on that point in a finger. I think at the beginning we all come in i do these budgets all the time and you want to say 10 seems like a reasonable thing and way back when because you know we valley was one of the earliest cbds the first, it seem like symantec i did the original cbd enabling law and which was by the way i felt was going to be for north beach and here we are 15 years later in north beach doesnt have one is the know a valley goes first or that alternate over to the chairman thank you supervisor peskin. Mr. Cordis. Thank you chairman kim supervisor peskin president breed can supervisor peskin your comments are well received and ill include that and view feature cbd reports going back to five as fiscal years for the cbds been around thus far. Today we are here tonight but this meeting noe value valley cbd 1516 and or part the cbds are governed by stu oz is a lot also by the 1994 act can be fine in the highway code 3600, etc. And the local law article 15 of the San Francisco business and tax regulation code. This resolution covers the end report for fiscal year 201516 80 ew ensures all cbd bids are meeting their Management Plans that oewd staff conduct an annual review excuse me i lost my place there. Of annual reports and cpa financial reviews and oewd provides the board with a summary memo on the results of those unnatural review and handle reports reviews. The note noe valley cbd was formed in 2000 as previous you mentioned were the first cbd in San Francisco. It currently has approximately 2050 parcels in that district it is probably based started with an assessment budget of 203,001 38. It set to expire on june 30 2020. The staff is executive director deborah eman, who is here today to speak about programmatic achievements of the cbd in the past fiscal year there served areas of public rightofway, sidewalk operations from district identity and street improvements. In administration and corporate operations. Oewd reviews for benchmarks for related to all cbds first is whether the variance between the budget and the Management Plan and the fiscal year budget was within 10 Percentage Points. Whether 5 of no we valley cbds actual came from sources other than assessment revenue. Whether the variance between the budget amounts for each Service Category was 10 Percentage Points of the actuals and whether cbd is indicating amount of funds carried over from current fiscal year and designating projects to be spent in the upcoming fiscal year. For benchmarks one, noe valley cbd did not meet the requirement was an account review added post cbd establishment which increased expenses. Additionally the cbd board elected to allocate more money on activating the street. The combination of these two items cause variances to surpass permitted levels. For benchmarks you, noe valley cbd economic this benchmark. It was a significant decrease in the percentage of nonassessment revenue. This was due to a few events which are revenuegenerating for noe valley cbd not occurring. As was the cbd not receiving city grant money in fiscal year 20152016. For benchmarks three, noe valley cbd did meet this requirement could they maintain the variances within their budgeted categories. And for benchmark for, noe valley cbd did indicate their carryover funds from fiscal year 1516 did meet this requirement. Oewds findings are recognitions inclusion is in completing the review of noe valley cbd annual reports they implement it all the recommendations from fiscal year 20142015 the cbd will sunset in 2020 10 ew references cbd because preparation for a new campaign this current fiscal year. Benchmark one and benchmark two discrepancies need to be corrected and supply quality per conversation on that. Oewd has been working on with noe valley cbd on this in fiscal year 6070 that carly on track to meet those benchmarks for the next fiscal year. If theres no questions for oewd, debra nieman is here to address it achievements of the cbd. Thank you if we can have ms. Nieman. I agree with you, arun in terms of changing that you cant do it into you renew. At least thats my anderson. Quickly, we are starting our 12 year. We are smallest cbd. Were only eight city blocks per like to think of us as the mightiest because of all the improvements weve made to the street. Eva Green Committee weave an event committee. If two guys on the street. Sam and said a work 7 am3 pm every day clearing off junk and sweeping the gutters. We do tend steam cleaning spurrier which is more than any cbd in the city. We know when people come from palo alto to say you can eat off your starbucks they will rather than opt you know youre doing a good job. Mcspadden we do longterm Strategic Plan in 2006, which enabled us to apply for a lot of Capital Improvements from the city and other resources. We plan 144 new trees on eight city blocks which is a lot. We have eight sidewalk gardens, 22 planter boxes, to park was, but the flower baskets and people always love. The first thing people ask for the longterm Strategic Plan was high visibility for crosswalk that our First Priority and last year we completed that almost every intersection except the Church Street which is tricky because of muni. We created three new bus bulb outs to reduce pedestrian traffic on cultural castrol 24th because he are the land of baby strollers and dogs. We put in 44 bike racks. We did notnevermind and its three new benches installed in the district. And we are about to enter we traded a logo for ourselves from our director who those in the neighborhood could we partner heavily and enthusiastically without the know eval emergency friends of noe valley we have this New Town Square which we are trying to activate and create more of a Living Community space. We do summerfest. We do 24 holidays on 24 street that we have reindeer in the park with and were entering our 13th year of cleaning cleaning and printing public space to a questions . Supervisor peskin vote up to the earlier stuff i spoke to, i think of we saw a matrix over time benchmark number two would actually show that in other years, you exceeded the 5 absolutely. That would be awful because when you look at this. Shut its like okay and benchmark chart number one was unrealistic in 2005. Benchmark number two lead me to say well ms. Nieman, what were you doing in the answers, know weve actually gotten grants and previous fiscal years that took us above the 5 . So this is really more of a comment to staff which is, if god and country could see that we would say, they did great in 2014 and 2015 and theyre still writing that out if you will. It carryover if you will. Absolutely. We had over 1 million in grants and Police Capital improves weekend to honor him. No. I totally get its really common for oewd to how these metrics should be displayed for the committee and for the public to realize you are actually over a larger snapshot in time over performing the right peppers Management Plan is a joke. In many ways. It didnt work but when you first go out with any policy or any piece of legislation its never perfect to we were the first ones and you are behind that so away we go. Thank you. So can we now have and weaver dan weaver. Actually, im sorry mr. Cordis juergen present. Yes ill be presenting on the Financial Data and those for benchmarks all go through this as quickly as possible to get mr. Weaver of two discussed the programmatic achievements of the cbd. Ocean avenue cbd is a propertybased district was formed in 2010. Expires in on june 30, 2025. Its initial assessment budget was 239,000, 570. The staff is executive director dan weaver along with a few part time assistants. Dan is here to speak about those programmatic achievements of the cbd. They provide safety and Community Service ambassadors to the district of data cleaning program beautification program, and they activate the public spaces of zone number to which dan can speak out more. Before benchmarks once again are the 10 percentage point variance is from the Management Plan budget to the actual budget for the fiscal year. Whether the ocean avenue cbd met 1 of sources other than assessment revenue. Whether the variance between the budget amount for each Service Category was within 10 Percentage Points from the actual and whether the cbd is indicating the amount of funds carried over from the current fiscal year and designated projects to be spent in the upcoming fiscal year. For benchmark number one, ocean avenue cbd met this requirement. Everything was within the variance percentages. Benchmark number two, ocean avenue cbd achieve this benchmark your bed 18. 21 of their budget come from nonassessment sources. For benchmark number three, ocean avenue cbd met this requirement that all variances were that within the prescribed point system and for benchmark number four, ocean avenue cbd did meet this requirement as well. In conclusion, ocean avenue cbd has performed well and implemented in service plan in the district. They implemented all of the oewds recommendations from the fiscal year 1415 annual report. A market and produce Liberty Events including they streets, increase their opportunities in partnering with Community Stakeholders and riskiness will agencies and a meeting and active board of directors and several subcommittees. Are there any questions for staff . Here is dan weaver. Good morning supervisors. Dan weaver executive director of the ocean avenue cbd. I am here to say a few words about our program accomplishments. First, i have to correct chris in one matter. We have engaged with livable city to have sunday streets but you have to wait in line for a few years for that good since we have a streetcar line that never rests , at least during Daylight Hours we are going to have to figure out a simple version of that taking one lane of traffic for bicycles and pedestrians but we are working towards having some type of sent sunday streets in the future. As with noe valley were working primarily on beautifying and then skipping the district and as well as activating. In the past year we have new plaza which connects the streetcars and buses on ocean avenue to the City College Campus and its also immediately adjacent to the new bus terminal and a new Affordable Housing complex. So we are busily trying to identify how to activate backspace. In the past year we have also seen the completion of a series of on and off ocean avenue landscaping from the Public Works Department from a city bond issue which also contributes. It seems that assessment payers and general merchants and people in the neighborhood once they are used to having their graffiti cleaned and their streets clean, and gutters clean, then they want it more beautiful. So that is basically the focus of our improvements to the district that we are working on. Let me go through this. This is a map of the cbd. You will notice it also includes the City College Campus as well as the balboa reservoir side which is where future Housing Project is coming in. All of that is in theory part of the cbd. I think when the reservoir gets developed it gets developed we will actually be doing work there as well but that would require a change in assessment because right now, what we clean in this area of the reservoir and the City College Campus is right along ocean avenue, the landscaping right along the sidewalk. The district runs basically from the City College Campus in the freeway of two the el rey theater. We are looking forward to seeing its improved, rehabilitated. First come i should say landmark, improved rehabilitated and being made again part of the community. Which is an excellent model for how to get things going on the rest of the neighborhood. That is the old part of the neighborhood because the new part of the neighborhood right around City College Campus and the freeway is something that is really working well. The other day for example i was walking with a friend, ocean avenue and shei said, the all these New Buildings . These were parking lots an old bus turnarounds and she said, so did you not fuel buildings down and i was happy to say, no, they are over there. We have not knocked him down. We hope not to knock down during many of them but at the same time weve had the opportunity to create a new part of our Retail District in the last eight years. I may get through the slides here. Besides the board of directors we have a Street Life Committee that focuses on the activation of the neighborhood or the ocean avenue Retail District. Two public Arts Entertainment and design improvements. It is this committee which focuses on individual Business Opportunities particularly in terms of Small Businesses. We are partner with this year with the western neighborhoods project to focus on history of the neighborhood the angle side neighborhood, and the bubble city to get activating programs including sometime in the future, a sunday streets effort. Friends of the urban forest for landscaping and neighborhood organizations in terms of working with the residential neighbors as well as the merchants and Property Owners in the commercial district. These are some of the Government Agencies that we work with. In the most recent fiscal year ocean ave. , association was able to bring in 224,000 in nonassessment funding to augment our 302,000 of assessment funding. The basic were the primary expenditure category for our budget is cleaning maintenance and safety and we have a Company Named clean skates that those daily street maintenance. Has two people out on the street six days a week. Arborists now is also involved with maintaining trees in the district and substantial