Mr. President , you have a quorum okay, thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff from San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to you to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We have received communications from supervisors mandelman, peskin, and stefani affording the board of their actions and requesting to be excused from todays meeting. Can i have a motion to excuse the supervisors . Made by supervisor fewer and seconded by supervisor walton. If there is no any objection . The three are excused. Plays call the committee report. Item number one is a motion ordering to the voters that an election will be held on march 3 rd, 2020 and an ordinance amending the tax regulation code an administrative code to have the excise tax on persons keeping ground floor commercial space in certain neighborhood commercia
This is a massive undertaking. One Silver Lining of the lawsuit is that we can get the system turn ceo ready. Turnkey ready. We have to get ready for when the funding is released. This Oversight Committee has a tremendous amount of work do in getting us there and im more than willing to do that work and bring this to the table. If im appointed, i will be listening to everyone of all strifes. We need to ensure a work product that is what San Francisco represents. Thank you for your consideration. Any questions . Im jennifer. I dont have any questions, but i just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for your 25 years of tremendous hard work and advocacy in this field. Youre one of my heroes and youre someone i look to on a regular basis as and i want to thank you because you amaze me everyday. Thank you. The admiration is mutual. Thank you. Next we have Chanelle Williams but she texted me that she is home desperately ill and she was planning to be here and is very much excited and
The most responsive bidder is a team led by the kelseys, supported by mercy housing on the architectural firm. Their proposal is to develop 102 units of affordable inclusively designed rental housing on the site in a building of six stories over basement that would be no heavy vicki akil are parking bikes. Twentyone of those units will be set aside for the disabled which would be a substantial increase of new construction, affordable units tailored specifically to the disabled community. Fiftyone of the units would be priced for occupants at no more than 100 of ami, 30 units at 80, and ten for disabled only at 50 and 11 for disabled only at 13. The unit mix would be 90 studios , five one, five twobedrooms. In addition to the Inclusive Housing for the disabled which is the kelseys founding mission, staff supports this project due to the extreme affordability levels achieved, the integrated garden design and as well as seeing all the energy and sustainability targets which was the focus
Acceptable to your client if presented correctly and if it takes the boxes for them to make that decision, correct . That is true, yes. The fact that i have now been informed the unlawful retainer action is dismissed, it takes pressure off the time pressure from that standpoint. To your point earlier which i would be very cog an cognizant. Would they like to move back into that building when it is done and live like the they havr 40 years, i believe . She understands there might be because we are aware of the big picture here, substantial rehabilitation they wantheywant to have going, extrs in the garage and staircases from the top to the bottom floor so the place that we originally started when we were negotiating is that since the middle floor is already gutted, if they finish that and they dont have to put in granite countertops, but if they finish that the family would move down stairs and have the top and bottom floor unit to put the roof deck in and extra rooms in the basement an
We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of th the can canopy is one street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a factor in tree limb failures. A lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. Why did we plant them in the first place . They provided the city with benefits for decades. They are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight Climate Change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. When we identify trees like this for rem