Quorum for sanitation and streets commission. Just for your notes, the remote participation has changed and the streets and Sanitation Commission will continue to take remote Public Comment. Commissioners may participate remotely but only under specific circumstances. For members of the public wishing to comment outside of the Commission Chamber, please dial 4156550001, use the meeting access code of 26643200793, pound, pound and then to raise your hand to be recognized please press star 3. Please note that when speaking during Public Comment, you must limit your comments to the topic of the agenda item being discussed, unless youre speaking under general Public Comment. To remind, if you do not stay on topic the chair may interrupt you and ask to limit your comment to the agenda item. We ask the Public Comments be made in a civil and respectful manner and that you refrain from the use of profanity. Please address your remarks to the commission as a whole, not commissioners or staff individually. On behalf of the commission, i like to extend our thanks to the staff of sfgovtv Media Services and building maneningment helping put on the meeting and insure the room is comfortable temperature, especially this morning, so thank you. Mr. Chair. Thank you. Any agenda changes or request for changes to the agenda . Thank you. Good morning everyone. Welcome back. Thank you for your support and everybody for keeping our streets clean and our trees green. Had a chance to attend the Tree Planting on the bayview and it was a lovely event, lots of kids, lots of youth, great strategy. Get the youth and get them young and grow into it. I was allowed the opportunity to speak. Thank you very much carla. indiscernible allowing me to speak because it was all about recruiting the young ones and basically tolds them, everyone, take acephaly selfwith the tree and come back as the trees grow and you grow, they will have a sense of ownership and they come back 20s years from now and say i planted this tree. It was a nice thing to recruit and i think that is about what we do. We do so much good work and cleaning streets, planting trees, planting trees is fun, but cleaning streets isnt, but giving people a sense of partnership and investment also helps them keep the streets clean and maybe have less dirt to pick up off the streets as the community and citizens have a vested interest and feel they are part of the solution and it is their home. It was a nice event. Also had the opportunity to meet with my Counterpart Department of public works chair post and we were talking and as i said from the beginning, this is about getting transparency and people dialed in and communicating to highlight all the work we do and all the parts and pieces are coming because it is a new commission. I asked commission if theresdirector Robert Fuller to help us organize a meeting where i, the chair from dpw and one commissioner from each side so we dont violate any protocols with the brown act or what not, and also to get cbd and invite people from dpw. I think we are all on the same side and same team, lets see where the lines are and how everything works and how we can do this to work more effectively. I heard concerns and remarks from both sides how things are working and figure only way to do it is get everyone to the table and start talking. That is it for me on my side. Thank you. Secretary, Public Comment. Well move to general Public Comment; item 1. Yep. Since we dont need to do it for your announcements. Correct. Yes, sorry, general Public Comment. Item 1 is general Public Comment and members of the public may address the commission on topics that are within the subject matter of the commission and not part of this agenda. Comments specific to an item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. Members may address the commission up to three minutes and general Public Comment may be continued to the end of the agenda if speakers exceed 15 minutes of comment. So, members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment during this general Public Comment may line up against the wall furthest from the door. If present in the chamber. If you are calling in, please dial 4156550001 and then use the meeting number access code of 26643200793, and press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. Looking in the chamber, it does not appear anyone has come forward to speak during general Public Comment, and sfgovtv indicating to me there is no one in the queue waiting to speak on this item, so we have no Public Comment on this. Thank you. Weal go to communications and directors report. Item 2 is communications and the directors report and the communications include the restricted communication report of contracts and other agreements that are currently up for bid but not yet awarded. Also in the communications is the commission advanced calendar and mem o reporting on the Operations Division contracts that have recently or in the near future will be considered by the public works commission, and also there was the addition of the correspondence log that included one Public Comment commissioners can find and it was brought to my attention it wasnt in the packet last week, but available on the website and ill make sure commissioners receive that as soon as possible. But, for the directors report, we are joined interim director charla short to present and this is an informational item. Thank you bob. Good morning, carla short, interim director, San Francisco public works. A lot happened since our last meeting may 15. We had public works week, the board of supervisors has come together on the city budget, there have been five city wide events public works supported and two city neighborhood beautification days. Public works week is a special time for all of us, especially now we are able to gather in person and celebrate all the hard work and progress me made as a department over the past year. This year we kicked off by heading to oracle park watching the giants take on the marlins on a beautiful and warm surprisingly sunday afternoon. The rest of the week was full of events throughout the city, including project tours at the Southeast Community center, material testing lab, upcoming street tree nursery and open house at the operations yard and employees were able to bring kids to work that day, we also had School Groups and that was a wonderful events i think we all enjoyed restarting that event. We capped off the weeng with a mixer at sparks social, which is a food truck park and event space in mission bay. And had our first in person Employee RecognitionAward Ceremony since 2019. The turnout and energy level in the room was amazing and felt great to see all of us celebrating our accomplishments together and mayor breed joined us to recognize the good work of our department and expressed her appreciation. She also gave out a 40 year pin to one of our construction inspectors and it was a great evept. I are want to thank commissioner harrison was there, so thank you for joining us. We honored a number of individual staff. Ill quickly review. Core value awards to caly albers, joseph wong and indiscernible stewardship of public spaces award john sway from buff. The mayor awarded al berto herrera his pin for 40 years of service and indiscernible was employee of the year. We also give out team awards and we gave a Unsung Hero Award to our radio room staff. Our safety award went to our store room at operations yard team. The best place to work went to the bscs dispatch team, and driving invasion and Exceptional Service award went to our joint Field Operations zone b team with bscs. So, a lot of great recognition for the operations team, sanitation and streets commission oversees as part of our Employee Recognition awards. Moving to the budget, as you probably know, we started our new fiscal year july 1 and our great budget team has once again done a incredible job last month and moving forward to continue to move our budget over the finish line. Our Team Presented high level overview of the budget before the Budget Appropriation Committee midjune and we were really pretty well received by supervisors on the committee. As i mentioned, the city faced with closing projected two year budget deficit of 780 million, however our budget submission does not anticipate any layoffs. Fiscal year 2224 proposed budget is 452. 3 million and 407. 5 million for fiscal year 2425. The decrease in the fiscal year 2425 budget is predominantly due to reduction in capital expenditures. In addition, our to our budget we received an additional 16. 7 million in supplemental appropriation for the next two years. It was originally approved as a 25 million supplemental, but with the budget deficit that needed to be closed we ended up with 16. 7 million. This is still a really good result for us. It really minimized or offset the cuts we had to make and that 16. 7 million will cover expanded steam cleaning, additional funding for our optin graffiti program, particularly to allow our contractors to supplement the work of our crews to get there more quickly, and then additional block street cleaners in every district, and we are actually able to buy critical pieces of equipment, additional packer trucks. The goal behind that is to allow our crews to transfer their loads in the field rather then having to drive all the to recology so it should help us gain efficiency and given the equipment budget was cut completely this is boom for us to buy these pieces of equipment so really thrilled. We also received addbacks from the supervisors. 350 thousand in fiscal year 24 and 300 in fiscal year 25 for a bernl heights neighborhood ada compliant portable pitstops and if funding allows greening in that same area. We received hundred thousand dollars in each year, 24 and 25 for portola green and beautifulication and 223. 574 in fiscal year 24 and 368. 252 in fiscal year 25 for the love our neighborhoods permit. The goal behind this permit is to better support Community Driven projects in the public right of way and streamline our permit process and that funding is associated with staffing so the cost for the permit can be kept very low. That is also a great new program we are enthusiastic about. All these add backs are ongoing so not just considered one time. I dont know if you know what addbacks. Basically after the budget is presented by the departments and cuts are made, the supervisors then have those funds to allocate to departments for their priorities. That is how we received the budget add backs. They can be at the district level or city wide. I did want to give a shout out to our budget team because they did a incredible job and they spend so much of the year working quitely behind the scenes, but all of that hard work put us in a good place with our budget, despite the very very serious budget deficit the city is facing. We had quite a few events recently. The city is well known for celebrating and in the summer months have large scale events that keep us busy and public works keeps the right of way clear safe and clean. Typically before the events the inspectors insure the safety of the parade or celebration area. Pothole crews look for any potholes along the route to make sure it is smooth and successful event. In the last two months since the last meeting we had beta breakers, a sikh day parade, carn val. A couple different juneteenth events and very very large pride events and parades on Market Street. These events hosted hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors. Little note on pride, we had great event as mentioned. The theme this year was looking back and moving forward. We had a pride flag raising at the operations yard and after work mixer and special addition of our snapshot pod cast. This is our pod cast series that highlights the individuals behind the work. If you havent listened to it i strongly encourage you to do so. It is really a incredible way to get to know some of our employees and learn a little more about them then just the work they do day in and day out. I do want to thank our lgbtq ia committee for spearheading all the internal celebrations. And then as i noted, the festivities culminated in the pride celebration including the pride down Market Street and had a public works contingent so the last part of the parade itself, and then our crews right behind us and it was really great fun. We got a lot of positive feedback from the attendees along the parade route who were cheering for public works and telling how we do great work so very satisfying. Deputy director durden and i were in that contingent along with a number of staff. Thanks to everyone who helped make the pride event in the whole month of june a great event. Just a notes about the juneteenth celebrations. We had seen them take off since mayor breed made an official city holiday and became a federal holiday in 2021. San franciscans have been celebrating the holiday for years especially in the fillmore with a annual festival. This year San Francisco hosted the first juneteenth parade down Market Street which public works provided clean up services for. Our black History MonthCommittee Also contributed by sending a beautiful and detailed message to the staff a few days before the holiday. You all received in the email. It was a lovely history of the celebration of juneteenth and how juneteenth came to be a holiday. With very cool historic photos that i really enjoyed. Moving on to some other important projects we have been working on. You may have heard the mayor announced 77. 3 million in state and federal grants to support street resurfacing. We will anticipate to resurface 500 blocks in this fiscal year. As you know maintaining and improving streets is constant undertaking and you will hear from our building and street repair bureau and they will be involved in this. We expect about 200 of those blocks will be paved by our internal crews. I dont know if you aware, San Francisco has the highest Pavement Condition index score, the pci score of any large city in the bay area at 74. Our goal is to get to 75 and to stay there, and so what we try to do is use the right treatment for each street to try to maintain the streets in Good Condition for as long as possible and bring the streets that are in Poor Condition up to that Good Condition. As i said, our bureau of building and street repair will be contributing to the effort by paving about 200 blocks. They are also heavily involved with our ocean beach sand relocation. This is one of the most unique projects and one we take on year after year. We actually relocate sand swept to the great highway by our strong winds and return it to the beach. Before we can start this effort, we have to insure there have been no snowy siteings for at least two weeks. The Pacific Coast population of the snowy clover is protected specious and protected by the endangered specious act. Once we got the all clear last month our bureau of building and street repair crews brought out the back hoe to ocean beach to remove sand from the roadway and sidewalks. They moved 43 thousand cubic yards of sand out sof the road and on to the beach where we hope it will stay for at least a little while. Before we do it again. I do want to thank our team. This is indiscernible because we soon as we finish we know there will be sand blown back on the street and sidewalk. The crews are out there all year long trying to keep the great highway clear. As part of our summer, we have internship programs, and we have interns throughout the organization, and within operations interns at the bureau of urban forestry learning about landscaping and working along the landscape crews. It is part of the summer youth program, so this is a Early Workforce Development program for young people to get them some summer job opportunities, but also experience with landscape work and we actually had individuals who started as a summer youth participant who have gone on to become gardeners and gardener supervisors, so it is a great program. You were speaking getting to them young. That is a strategy we want to employ. Following on that as mentioned chair, the neighborhood beautification day, we had the june event in the bayview. This was a special event. It was a partnership with black Forest Initiative. The black Forest Initiative plants in honor of black lives during the covid19 pandemic and the goal is plant trees for more then 100 thousand lives lost nationally. They also aim to increase stewardship for and awareness about the benefits of trees to black communities, and this mission lines up very much with our goal to serve all the residents of San Francisco and bring clear air and green spaces to our communities. We were joined at the event by indiscernible cambridge massachusetts mit assistant professor the founder of black forest and was a special day. I unfortunately was not there, havingi was flying back, but it was really a wonderful event and i heard wonderful things and chair chair mogannam for a