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So thank you for coming to the Treasure Island Development Authority roll call. Ford the wednesday, february 10, 2016, San Francisco Treasure Island Development Authority Board Meeting call to order director president fei director Vice President mazzola director richardson director kositsky supervisor kim we we have quorum great so thank you and welcome all for being here today wale have the next item on the agendas the general Public Comment item number 2 general Public Comment to at this time, members of the public may address the commission items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda members of the public may address the commission up to 3 minutes you will hear a single chime with 30 seconds please state your name. Any Public Comment . Please come up. This is. Hello my name is matt to online accept a resident residents of San Francisco im interested in creating an organization that would be housed on Treasure Island in the future and i enlighten it as unit of nations and organization that will bring together like houses or opportunities for countrys from the pacific ream to share the culture, their heritage, their information and help educate k through 12 students and the general Public Comment about their cults and envision this will be a granddaughter for Treasure Island from people from the local community and u. S. And as well as abroad im looking to determine if this is interest from the 28d Development Board in regards to beginning such a project and housing it on Treasure Island well, thank you very much i think that the best way to proceed we first talk with staff and to discuss that with them more fully what youre proposal and well take it up as appropriate. Very good thank you very much. Should had sent information to me ill followup with her and include that that the future communications. Great, thank you any Public Comment . Worrying about to address the board if not next item, please. And report by Treasure Island director. Good evening good afternoon. Members of the board this past month we had an open 0 house with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission on january 23rd at shipshape to provide information on the electrical system on Treasure Island in past outages and had a couple of dozens of tenants and others came out to get information on the electrical system and past outages and the measures that are taken to decrease the probability of future outages the ymca has started a Walking Group for residents on the idle as part of their efforts to increase the fitness and the department of health did an outreach code of math on january 26th they provide flu vaccines and other things for residents and visitor this past month the San Francisco Police Department did conduct some trainings on the island in advance of super bowl 50 and the San Francisco Fire Department for the past several weeks has been providing Training Experience on Yerba Buena Island the site and location has given them a rare opportunity to test theyre operating and training procedures for fighting residential fires on hillside the around super bowl 50 to events on the island that generated more than 80,000 in revenues tida the first was the nfl chairmans event that was held on friday february 4th from the parking lot of building one and on saturday february 6th there was max magazine had a party that was organized by bryan cane at the North Eastern side of the island in addition to those events 3 sell operators located temporary cell phone facilities during the month of february that generated an additional 75 hundreds in revenue the department of public works and puc are working to install toilets in several tida buildings including the chapel and guy. Funded by the puck b puc and installed by the random reply crews for on the Development Front we opened escrow for the first transfer of Development Parcels to tdif with the target of closing friday or next thank you tuesday on the transfer artists transfer of the property tdif will mobilize theyve read the theyre First Construction contract with the reservoirs on the Yerba Buena Island the we were scheduling a department of public works will be scheduling a public hearing on the subdivision map on february 24th and working with the navy they anticipate issuing the next wanted of suitability to transfer covering building 3 site 21 which is the area of the Sailing Center and a water site in clipper grove and later this month with a target of transferring overseeing properties to tida may have this year last month we had a presentation here at the board on the Affordable Housing program on Treasure Island and it was requested i continue to reporter back on the process we have met this past month with the Controllers Office and public finance, Mayors Office of housing mayors budget do you have to review the thajz challenges for the Affordable Housing and alternatives for generating month revenue to close the gap and potentially increase the Affordable Housing participation here on Treasure Island working with the i f d and other agency with John Hall Kaiser and has been running alternatives on the i f d revenue that will be generated under 25 or 26 and thirty and 40 percent Housing Alternatives were working with tihdi to update the performa of projecting the cost of developing the Affordable Housing so with all the efforts simultaneously we should be able to provide a more detailed update at our next meeting and will influence the recommendations for the i f d and cf d recommendation which type of i f d has formed as well changes 2, 3, 4 tax increment changes to the program that concludes my report any condominiums from the board or suggestions. Thank you, madam chair first, id like to personally thank jack and everybody involved in the events that went on for super bowl myself personally that didnt prevent as much as an inconvenience i thought might, in fact, i barley notice it i heard if some people that they didnt have an idea what was going on they felt they werent informed appropriately i know there was kind of a significant traffic jam on friday for the fair for the late of the month flea market so a certain amount of i received a certain amount of Public Feedback not being wellinformed about some issues as well as the tree cutting in around the chapel which i knew about but yet there seems like some residents that feel theyve not received appropriate notification if you drive down california street and then at the 13 street california is closed to local traffic on and once again i heard from you know a few people saying what is up and going on i dont understand so again, i dont know what efforts the staff made to notify the residents thank you. I but clearly i heard i dont believe they were notified well enough about the goingson on so just for future events and again me personally hey, it was great although my verizon; correct connection one way or another was no better over super bowl we understand i want to put that out there thanks again. Thank you yeah, you touched on a number of different projects the tree removal obviously was being done by tida in conjunction with the Jon Stewart Company and the work at the end of california is a navy project but i did not include in any report and should have if you go to the tida website we have a new drop down memo on the main bar on the tida website on construction weve up loaded some basic information on the ti tic d and have more realtime updates on road closures but you highlight that having a central possessy for notices not just for tida work but is something that is needed it is something were exploring in addition to the traditionally efforts to push out information through the Housing Providers or on next door that perhaps our website and other places to incorporate those notices. Thats great i guess many people dont know to go do the tida site right now so a way to let the residents know that would be great. And the more to keep current and useful and new information there keeps people coming back. Thanks so much. Director richardson. I too would like to make a comment what i observed in regards it Treasure Island i think that from my stand point and from folks he actually spoke to in the city that the super bowl was very successful on Treasure Island and again, it conveys the message that Treasure Island is open for business it is a venue that the city can begin to host more activities and events and definitely were happy about that i also wanted to take the opportunity to commend staff for working with the city in particular the department of public works the streets were extremely clean San Francisco the past few years had a has become one of the cleanest citys parks and people leave things here and there but a concerted effort to maintain that level of integrity and that lastly of cleanliness for the United States of america so with that said, getting a report i have two questions one has to do with with the Electrical Outages i know from the past we done all kinds of things working with the puc and trying to do i sense there has been significant improvement so what is causing the outages now where do we need to concentrate the efforts and what do you think needs to be done we need to take note of. The outages are decreased pretty good sightings since the peak in 2012 and we i believe is august or september the last time we had an outage on the island so currently were enjoying a period of stability with with regards to the electrical system on the island about half of our more recent outages over the last 18 months or so have the cause has been indetermined and that really relates to just the resiliency of the switch switch onion the isle and the ability to ride out fluctuations and current caused by minor shorts a branch falling open a line but falling off creates a surge the system puc does a visual survey to make sure there is no downed lines are apparent problems and reset the switch and they monitor the system to make sure that stays up so about half of the outages are related to the resiliency of the switch the other outages do have to do with birds in the line more rarely we had a couple of outages related to vandalism people trying to take the copper wire that was connected to the system and tree branches and other falling on the lines were interfering with the line the puc has does a lot of work to trim back the trees and on Yerba Buena Island in winter with the branches situation the puc has been installing deinvestors on some of the poiv poles that stops the birds from nesting on the poles so there is a number of things the puc is doing to increase the resiliencycy of the system and our next step we plan to engage with the puc to do a fuse study to assess if there are better ways we could isolate particular portions of the system so outages will be more limited and not necessarily be island wide. The other question i have although it is towards not mentioned in our report has to do with with wifi what kind of a reception are we getting as peter was following up with the department of Technology Staff this month to do a check in on utilization and speed performance on the existing system and also discussing some additional areas we may want to add additional capacity to make sure we have good coverage and specifically was discussed increasing the conform around the shipshape and giantism and a long time athletic fields which draw visits to the island that might also benefit from improved coverage but the Grocery Store shipshape and bus stopped we want to make sure we super very good coverage. Thank you, sir. Any comments from the public on this item hearing none. Item 4 communications for and received by tida one from the navy and the Treasure Island welcome ymca and publications among other things. Any comments by the board on any of the communications weve received . Okay. Any comments from the public that is hearing none, next item, please. Item 56 ongoing business by board of directors ongoing busi board of directors sir. Yes. A brief want to bring it up again, i brought it up at the one of the last meetings about looking for a dog park for the people that or currently on the island the future Beautiful Run on top of w b i for the current time theres a lot of dogs on the island so what you can do whatever you can do will be helpful and probably a good place to have people make sure their dogs with vaccinated and have access to the vet care it could serve multiple purposes thanks. On that point we are evaluating some options based on that request from the past including were looking at not just in terms of dog run facilities but the park that is at ends of palm drive the southern end the residential area it seems to me underutilized and things we can do to reactivate that space as well as looking forward to the work on the west side and im bay side falls that property will be turned over to us as you may know a number of structures have been removed well have more open space another location we can have something but definitely something perceive had confuses with the staff well report back as we come up that those issues. Im sorry director kositsky. I thought we had a beginning of a great communication with the Affordable Housing now olsen lee is looking at the challenges and supervisor kim has will be calling a hearing at the Land Use Committee to talk about affordability on Treasure Island i wanted to potentially inquire about the status of creating a subcommittee of this body on Affordable Housing and just hope that issue can be in the agenda for the next meeting or we can talk about it now. I think that would be an appropriated topic to talk about i believe they last meeting we asked it housing or be calendar on each one of the calendar it is an important enough topic certainly this is one of the things of the highest priorities so i agree that having subcommittee would be a good idea from the to board so we can really look at the issues at hand so i think that i believe that we need 3 members for that committee and mr. Beck did you have a suggestion on that. Well need to calendar the next to form a Committee Committee i can certainly have an agendized update on Affordable Housing and follow that with a proposal to form a committee and i know you wont be at the next meeting but well coordinate to make sure that your interests are in terms of staffing that committee are known and reflected when we bring that item. Commissioner kositsky is that acceptable. Sure great. Any Public Comment on this item im sorry. Thank you i want to echo you know commissioner kositsky suggestions to Affordable Housing i think that at the meeting the commission and myself and him attended i think some of us here have been involved with Affordable Housing throughout the city and going to get a lot of ideas to the table and we also know that even the Assembly Level again, i want to echo that Assembly Member chiu just a matter of us reaching out to all the other stakeholders and binge them on board and see how to pursue that trld Treasure Island milestone might be strurnl in guiding the stakeholders on that matter we definitely want to make sure that tihdi it is homeless you know housing is built and we can come up with all kinds of various ideas i want to echo that sentiment and be part of that committee. Okay that i am on this item hearing none, next matter. Item 6 Consent Agen