Out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committee has allocated a historic amount for the Art Collection and afford us to the opportunity to properly store the citys civic Art Collection and by many artists. This is where the documentation for the civic Art Collection is stored as well as any works that are coming through for conservation and care so i have our senior registrar here alice coming to answer questions and we appreciate youre considering this item. Thank you. Mr. Rose can we go to the report on item 1. Yes mr. Chairman and members of the committee its shown in table one the Arts Commission budget for the relocation of the Veterans Memorial has been increased by 23 and the amount listed and from the original budget listed to the revised budget of one 1. 4 million and page four we note that the use and sources moved to the War Memorial Building are in table two. We recommend that you approve the release of the 50,000 of the reserve. Okay. Thank you. Any questions . We will move to Public Comment . Anyone to comment on item 1 . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues if no other comments i would like a motion to approve the release of funds. So moved. We will take that without identification. Can you call item 1 . Mr. Chair for clarification would you like to file item 1. Yes. Thank you. Item two is a resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department to accept and expend grant in approximately 130,000 from the San FranciscoParks Alliance to support various recreation and Park Department operations for fiscal year 2013, 2014. Okay. I have rec and park to speak on this item. Yes, i am with the recreation and Park Department. This gift from the San FranciscoParks Alliance is one that we bring to the board of supervisors each year. The parks a liensz is the Nonprofit Alliance is the nonprofit partner of the parks and they ask as the fiscal sponsor managing 50 gift funds on the departments behalf and in fiscal year 1314 the Parks Alliance contributed 133,961 from these gift funds to help sustain a wide variety of activities including the commemtive Bench Program and the four annual Community Events and improvements at camp mather and in natural areas and the volunteer program. Thank you. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. Colleagues any questions. No budget Analyst Report so we will move to Public Comment. Anyone to comment . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. I move approval of this item. Okay. Supervisor mar has made a motion and take that without objection. Madam clerk call item 3. Item 3 is for accept and expend grant for California Department of Water Resources for a new recycled water facility at the San FranciscoInternational Airport mel leong industrial Wastewater Treatment plant for a four year term through january, 2015 through december 31, 2018. Welcome. Thank you. I am with the San FranciscoInternational Airport. This item seeks the authorization for the airport accept and expend grant a grant in the amount of 750,000 from the California Department of Water Resources through the association of bay area governments. In order to fund a portion of the upgrade project at the Wastewater Treatment plant last summer the California Department of Water Resources awarded a 20 million grant to abag to fund water projects throughout the region. Sfo received a portion of this grant in the amount of 750,000 to fund a project at the Wastewater Treatment plant to work on recycle water in use of landscaping and toilet flushing throughout the airport terminals this. Is just one piece of a much larger upgrade to the Wastewater Treatment plant. The larger project includes pipes, pumps, Treatment Facilities and water storage tanks as well as new linkage to upgrade airport terminal systems. The contract for the larger upgrade project will come before the board of supervisors for your consideration in the fall but this simply asks for your authorization for the airport to accept and expend grant the grant of 750,000. Thank you. Supervisor tang. Thank you. Can you talk about what the total is costing and the balance comes from . The larger project is part of the capital plan and this is a small portion of the larger project, and it comes from airport i believe its bond revenue that will pay for the entire project. Okay. Thank you. Okay. If no other questions mr. Rose can we go to your report. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee on page 6 of our report is shown in table two a total estimated cost of the upgrade is listed amount and the proposed grant of 750,000 or 12. 4 is funded from the grant funds and the balance of just over 5 million is paid by airport revenue bonds. We recommend haw approve this resolution. Thank you mr. Rose. If no questions we will open it up for Public Comment. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] all right. Through the chair make a motion to send this forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. Okay. We will take that without objection. Madam clerk can you call item 4. Item 4 is accept and expend grant for the Public Health and 200,000 for Public Health to participate in a program called San Francisco bay Clinical Trials unit for the period of december 1, 2014 through november 30, 2015. Okay thanks. We have dph to speak here. I am sharon and i am representing the department of Public Health. This is a supplemental grant awarded through a joint program to allow for collaborations between u. S. And brazilian investigators. This budget is funded a project in brazil to learn more about the size of the transgender population in rio deja dareo and prepare for a project in that city is now recommended globally by the Worlds Health organization. However, there is no coordinated program to deliver this to transwomen in the area and the risk of hiv is high. The grant will fund a portion of [inaudible] dr. Lou and mcgoldrick fallen for one year between the investigators in brazil. Dr. Mc fallen will be training the team to measure the size of the trans population in rio. The other doctors have extensive experience in developing protocols for prep demonstration projects and providing that expertise to the brazilian team. Thank you for considering this request to accept and expend grant. Thank you very much. Colleagues any questions. We will move on to Public Comment. Anyone to comment on item 4 . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] i move we approve this item and send to the full board with a positive recommendation. Okay. Motion by supervisor mar and take without objection. Madam clerk can you call item 5. Item 5 is a resolution retroactive three for the department of Public Health for a agreement with Health Care Services to get reimbursement for children enrolled inlet Healthy Kids Program and expend funds in the amount of up to 400,000 to finance the program for the period of january 1, 2015 through june 30, 2015. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you good morning chairs and supervisors. My name is stella chow, the director of managed care for the San FranciscoHealth Network of the department of Public Health. Im asking for the approval of this resolution to retroactively enter into an agreement with the department of Health Care Services to receive reimbursement for eligible for the kids in the Healthy Kids Program and these funds to finance the program. This is a Insurance Program overseen by the department of Public Health and offers coverage to children 18 and under and at under the Poverty Level as listed that dont qualify for other programs. It also includes vision and dental coverage. Both of which are vital in providing Preventive Health care for children. As june 2015 healthy kids enrollment was under 2,000 members. The federal funds are helpful to support healthy kids by contributing towards continued operation and management of the program and resulting in no cost to the city and county to obtain these funds. As Affordable Health coverage the health care the Healthy Kids Program promotes the health of all san franciscans and the proposed agreement require approval of the resolution by the San Francisco board of supervisors. As a new unit we think the department of Public Health. The managers are organizing and reviewing requirements as stated in multiple managed care agreements it oversees and made aware of the requirements from the department of Health Care Services of approved resolution to accompany its agreement with the city and county. Thus we are requesting your retroactive approval to satisfy the requirements of the agreement and continue with the Healthy Kids Program. I thank you for your consideration and at this point the Healthy Kids Program officer kath lean and myself are happy to address any questions that you have. Thank you very much. Colleagues any questions. Okay mr. Rose can we. To your report on item 5 . Yes mr. Chairman. As shown in table two and page 10 of our report the net reimbursement to the county would be 119,443. We recommend that you approve this resolution. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Seeing no other comments i will move this on to Public Comment. Anyone wish to comment on item 5 . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] thank you. Thank you. Colleagues do we have a motion to send it forward. So moved. Motion by supervisor tang and take without objection. Madam clerk can you call item 6. Item 6 is approval of bookstore lease books inc. And the city and for a fiveyear term with two oneyear options for 575,000 during the first year of the lease. Thank you. Thank you. Cathy wagner with the San FranciscoInternational Airport. Item number 6 seeks the approval for a new lease with books inc. For a book store comprised of the Square Footage listed in the airport and has a term through june 2020 and two one year options to extend and minimum annual guarantee rent of 575,000 or a percentage of gross revenues whichever is greater and the result of a competitive process and books inc. Receiving the highest store and the Budget Analyst Office recommends approval and i am happy to answer questions. Okay. Thank you. Any questions colleagues . Mr. Rose report on item 6 . Yes mr. Chair on page 13 of the report we note under this lease theyre required to pay the airport the greater amount as 575,000 or percentage rent and on page 12 the subject lease will generate guaranteed guarantee revenues payable by books inc. To the airport of at least 2. 8 million over the term and that excludes cpi adjustments and we recommend that you approve the resolution. Thank you mr. Rose. Anyone wish to comment on Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Colleagues can i have a motion to send this forward. So moved. Moved by supervisor mar. We will take this without objection. Madam clerk call item 7. Item 7 is Lease Agreement and lease between the Hudson Group Retail in Square Footage and concession space and minimum annual guarantee of 555,000 for the board. Colleagues we will continue this item and first we will open it up to Public Comment. Anyone wish to comment on item 7 . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. Can i have a motion to move this item . So moved. Madam clerk can you call item 8. Item 8 is lease amendment lease bayport concessions and the city and premises and modified lease term and annual guarantee of approximately 130,000. Okay. Ms. Wagner item 8. Thank you chair farrell members of the committee. I am with the San FranciscoInternational Airport. The next two items are similar to items you have seen recently where the airport is relocating current concessionaires to accommodate Construction Projects happening at the airport. This item, number 8, seeks your approval for the Second Amendment to our existing lease with bay port to relocate two willow creek concessions in terminal one and three. The board approved the First Amendment to this lease in january of this year to replace a location in terminal three scheduled for demolition. Staff has determined that willow creeks location in terminal one needs to be relocated to accommodate that renovation work and determined that the replacement premise approved in january in terminal three is no longer feasible so there is a relocation of that space as well. The Airport Commission approved replacement of these terminals for the willow creek concessions. A new term of the lease and adjusted mag from 127,465 and the space will increase under the proposed amendment and the lease termination date for terminal one, the location in terminal one will be extended by two years and six months. This success treated as an extension of the current lease rather than going through a competitive request for proposal process due to the irregular amount of time that would be involved we would have a hard time getting a new concessionaire to build on such a short lease. The term for the replacement premises for bay port will expire in january 2023 so the Budget Analyst Office does recommend approval with the suggestion that the resolution be amended to take out any reference to the guarantee guarantee simply because thats not necessarily contemplated in the resolution as much as the change of location so its a bit complicated but i am happy to answer any questions that you have. Colleagues any questions . Okay. Mr. Rose how about your report on item 8 please. Yes mr. Chairman and members of the committee on page 17 of the report we report that the airport estimates they will pay a Percentage Rate to the airport of 407,000dollar. We do recommend that you amend the resolution and approve the proposed resolution as amended. Thank you mr. Rose. If no other questions we will move on to Public Comment. Anyone to comment on item 8 . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] motion to send this forward. Through the chair i make a motion to amend the resolution in reference to the budget analyst recommendation to delete the reference of the new mag and send with positive recommendation to the full board. Okay. We have a motion by tang tangs. We will take that without objection. Madam clerk can you call item 9. Item 9 resolution for a lease with gotham enterprise and replacement leases for two years and the adjustments to the minimum annual guarantee of approximately 27,000. Okay. Thank you very much. Ms. Wagner. Thank you last item. The airport is seeking your approval for an amendment with the current lease with gotham enterprise doing business as petes coffee and tea to authorize replacement premises for the current terminal one location and to extend the lease for this replacement facility through september of 2019. The Terminal One Redevelopment Program requires the closure of gotham enterprise peters coffee concessionaire and this terminal location is part of a lease that we have with goth ham that includes three locations. In april of this year the Airport Commission approved the placement in terminal one and extension of the lease term in the new location. This applies only to this one location, not the other two locations that are part of the lease and they will pay the airport minimum annual guarantee of 26,892 and or whichever is greater and the airport treated this as an extension of the current lease rather than a new request for proposal for such a short amount of time and because it doesnt include provisions for the mag the Budget Analyst Office has suggested doing this and if you agree i will get these amended this afternoon. Okay. Thank you ms. Wagner. If no questions we will move on to santa rosa. Your report on item 9. Yes on page 20 of the report we report that the airport estimates that they will pay the amount listed in percentage rent to the airport in 2015. That is 921,000 more than the 2015 minimum annual guarantee of 126800. We recommend that you approve the resolution to delete adjustment to the reference of the minimum annual guarantee of 26,892 and approve the resolution as amended. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions. Lets move on to Public Comment. Anyone to comment on item 9 . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] we have an amendment by the budget analyst. I move that we accept the amendments by the budget analyst and adopt the item with a positive recommendation as amended. Okay. Motion by supervisor mar. We will take it without objection. Call item 10. Item 10 is approving and the ac sigz of one subsurface easement and one construction easement from Kaiser Foundation hospitals district for approximately 54,000 for the project known as the regional groundwater storage and recovery project. Okay. Mr. Updike. Good morning chair farrell members of the committee. So this is authorization to get easements from the Kaiser Foundation hospitals district. These easements will facilitate construction related to the regional groundwater storage and recovery project. That boosts our regional dry water supply through the installation of groundwater walls and well stations. You have seen agreements at this committee before and theres a few more to come as well. This property is located on El Camino Real in San Francisco. Cities requiring a temporary construction easement and permanent telephone and electric easement to support the sfpuc facilities adjacent to the facility. And the cost is listed and pursuant to an appraisal which i approved. The San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission authorized it which is in the board file and adopted august 12, 2014 and thats all i have on this item. Okay. Thank you mr. Updike. No questions mr. Rose. Can we go to the report on item 10. Yes mr. Chairman, members of the committee. In the report we report that its shown in table one which is on page 23 of our report but based on 10,455 square feet and the cost of acquiring the easement is listed and funding was appropriated by the board of supervisors under the sfpuc water system improvement program. We recommend that you approve this resolution. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions . We will move on to Public Comment. Anyone wishing to comment on item 10 . Okay. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Colleagues can i have a motion to move this forward. So moved. Motion by supervisor tang. We can take it without objection. Madam clerk call item 11. Item 11 requisition of the Real Property at 490 south van ness, the Purchase Price of 18,500,000. Okay. We have the Mayors Office of housing here. Hello. The res before you is approve the acquisition of Real Property at 490 south van ness from the south van ness limited partnership benicia lake llc and Maurice Casey collectively referred as the seller for the agreed amount of 18,500,000 and the resolution ask that you adopt ceqa findings and consistent with the general plan under the code. There will be a deduction of transfer tax credited to the city upon closing as noted in the report and the final amount paid as listed and creates 255,000 buildable units for the acquisition of this parcel in the heart of the mission neighborhood. 490 south van ness is currently vacant site zoned urban mix use. Its former use was a gas station and now environmentally remediated and ready for development of the site is titled for a 72 Unit Multifamily Development containing over 90,000 square feet of condition space with ground floor commercial and vehicular parking and ample high school parking. This represents the best efforts of the city and chunt community and recognizeing sites inlet the community and to the mission and if sites are identified and are available they will move with maximum dexterity and urgency to take title of the project as soon as possible to create Affordable Housing in the neighborhood. This opportunity is unique given the fully entitled nature and have them thoughtfully to respond to the development on an expedited time line and serve low to moderate income households and 20 set aside for homeless families and with the citys goals of building out 30,000 units and a third being permanently affordable. The acquisition of this property is in addition to the pipeline in the neighborhood and they expect to close the transaction at the end of august and publish requests for proposals to procure a developer winter of this year. I would like to thank the city departments and the sellers and the community for having this transaction take place and reacting to the dynamics to produce desperately needed opportunities for our city and specifically the mission. This concludes my presentation. I am available for questions. I brought a rendering so you have an idea of what the project looks like now and we hope to build in the new future. Okay. Thank you very much. Supervisor mar. Yes thank you kevin and the Mayors Office of housing and development. This is from a gas station to 72 units of permanent Affordable Housing and its great and i know we need to do more but what a great example how the city can address the housing crisis in creative ways. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Rose can we go to your report. Yes mr. Chairman and members of the committee. On page 27 we report in june 2015 the Real Estate Division conducted an independent appraisal of the 490 south van ness property and determined the fair marshal value as of fair market value is listed and as the department indicated we report on page 28 of the report that the purchase sale certifies that the Purchase Price will be reduced by a credit of 462500 the amount of the real estate transfer tax that would otherwise be due on the transaction and pursuant to the citys business and tax regulations code. That section specifically exempts payment of the transfer tax for the purchase of property property of the city and as a result the general fund will not receive the transfer tax revenues for this transaction so our recommendation on page 29 is we recommend that you amend the proposed resolution to specify the Purchase Price with a credit as listed to reflect the citys exemption of paying the citys Real Estate Property transfer tax and result in adjusted city cost as listed and we recommend that you approve the proposed resolution as amended. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions for mr. Rose or our team . Okay. We will move on to Public Comment. Anyone wish to comment on item 11 . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues do we have the budget Analyst Recommendations in front of us and under line item. Through the chair i make a motion to amend the Purchase Price reflecting what the budget analyst said for the transfer tax that the city is exempt from and move forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. Okay. Motion by supervisor tang and take that without objection. Madam clerk can you call item 12. Item 12 resolution approving and authorizing the sale of easement on the citys property at corner of 23rd street and potrero avenue to the pacific gas and electric for the price of approximately 11,000. Okay. Welcome back mr. Updike. Thank you sir. John up dike director of director of real estate and this is to sale of easement at corner of 23rd street and potrero avenue and i was going to bring in something the size of the property but i decided not to. This is by the hospital and with adjustments serving the infrastructure adjustments that are made and this facilitates location of an electrical distribution pole. Its an area of over hang of wireos the citys property extending 5 feet on either side of the wires so thats the subject of the easement before you. The Purchase Price pursuant to an appraisal which i approved. Because this is a sale of a permanent property right board approval is required and i am happy to answer questions. Thank you mr. Mr. Updike. Any questions . We will move on to Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] i move that we approve this item. Motion by supervisor mar. Take that without objection. Madam clerk can you call item 13. Item 13 is contract contracts with cotton, shires and associates with Arup North America limited and Geostabilization International for the Telegraph Hill rock slope Improvement Project for stabilization and inn constitution of the northwest face of Telegraph Hill and not not to exceed the amount listed. Okay. This is a project stabilized Telegraph Hill. Its an emergency project. There are three contractors involved in this project. Two of the contractors are engineering consultant. Initially we declare emergencies in july 2014 for the project for all three contracts, but it had to go through a negotiation process. For the construction contract we solicited nine contractors to look at the project. Four of them provided a proposal. We negotiated with the contractor that had the lowest cost and also had 2lbe components to their construction contract. One of the Construction ConsultingEngineering Contract as a result of an agreement with block 60 lot five and the property that stipulated we were to retain them for engineering support during construction. We notified the board of supervisors in march of 2015 initially and the reason was for that we had to make sure that the scope of the work because its a Telegraph Hill rock slope Improvement Project a lot of the work was behind vej taifive areas that we are to remove to finalize the scope and then we submitted the documentation in june of 2015 towards the end of the project so i will take any questions. Okay. Colleagues any questions . Okay. Thank you very much. Mr. Rose can we go to your report . Yes mr. Chairman and members of committee. On page 33 of our report we have a table one which shows the three original contracts total listed. However all three contractors submitted change orders which were approved by dpw for the revised amount as listed on the Actual Expenditures that you see in that table are through june 30, 2015. On page 34 of our report we note that the director of public works declared an emergency in 2014 but the resolution approving the emergency determination was want submitted to the board of supervisors until one year later or specifically 346 days after the emergency was declared, and we note on page 35 that although a board of supervisors recently approved ordinances not yet effective its significant to note that the proposed resolution was submitted 286 days in sceses excess of the 60 day limit pending before the board of supervisors. Our recommendation is on page 35 and amend the proposed resolution to delete the incorrect contract amount as listed with cotton, shires and associates and add the correct amount as listed. We recommend that you delete the incorrect amount as listed with Geostabilization International and add the correct amount as listed. We recommend that you amend the proposed resolution to delete the innot to exceed amount as listed with and add the not to exceed amount as listed and we recommend that you approve the proposed resolution as amended. Okay. Thank you mr. Roases. I appreciate that. Colleagues any questions for mr. Rose . Okay we will move on to Public Comment. Anyone wishing to comment . Okay. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. Colleagues we have a number of recommendations from the budget analyst and the underlying item. Can i have a motion to approve the items . I move that we approve the amendments and move it forward with a positive recommendation as amended. Thank you very much supervisor mar. We have a motion and take that without objection. Madam clerk can you call item 14. Item 14 is approximately 4. 2 million from permanent salaries and premium pay in the fridge departments in the Sheriffs Department and Police Department and Public Utilities commission and for the projected increases in overtime. Thank you very much. We have ms. Howard to speak on this item. Good morning chair farrell and members of the committee. This item appropriates 4. 2 dollars to over time and the same amount from premium and Fringe Benefits for the departments for 2014. I believe the clerk has provided to you an amended version of this legislation for 5. 03 million which is based on final fiscal year 1415 costs. I believe that the budget Analyst Report reflects the amended version of this item. The three departments included in the supplemental appropriation and deappropriation need to shift straight time salaries to over time for a variety of reasons and including Law Enforcement presences required at events this year, over time for deputy sheriffs to complete training requirements and vacancies in the Public Utilities commission. The action is required as a result of the citys over time ordinance and requires eight departments including these three come before you to request the supplemental appropriation should over time spending in their departments exceed the budget. There is no general fund impact to this request because departments have sufficient salary premium pay and fringe benefit authorities in the budget. I am happy to answer any questions that you have. Thank you ms. Howard. Colleagues any questions . Mr. Rose if we can go to your report. Yes mr. Chairman and members of the committee. On page 40 we have a chart and shows the funds and the department to be appropriated and use of funds to be reappropriated under the ordinance as listed for the amounts and we recommend that you approve this ordinance. Okay thank you mr. Rose. If no other questions or comments we will go to Public Comment. Anyone wishing to comment on item 14 . Okay. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] so colleagues could i have a motion to accept these amendments and then accept the underlying item as amended . So moved. Motion by supervisor mar. We can take that without objection. [gavel] okay. Thank you everybody. We have gotten to the two final items and the two hearings and madam clerk call item 15 first. Item 15 is hearing between the department of the environments landfill disposal agreement with recology San Francisco for the board resolution no. 17105 and including discussion of the terms of the agreement and support the zero waste goal and time line and request the department of the environment to report. Okay thank you madam clerk so i know i see mr. Rodriquez here and our director of the department of the environment to speak so this hearing. If there are any members of the public that wish to comment please fill out speaker cards. If not we will open it up when the hearing is concluded. Good morning supervisors and we have copies of the powerpoint and the new agreement for your reference. First i would like to thank you supervisor farrell for scheduling this hearing at our request. We wanted to make sure that were clear and up front with the board about the change we are making in our contract language for this landfill agreement. Im going to be speaking at a very high level but i have with me two of my colleagues, so if theres more specific questions if people want to dive in deeper we can certainly do that so i think its important, and i dont know why there is [inaudible] okay. Im sorry. I think its important for you to understand when we as a Department Look at a landfill contract there are three standards that were looking at no matter who were awarding the contract to. Number one the contract needs to be legally defensible and stand up in court and follow the rules and regulations of the city and seconds must be project of the environment and supportive of the zero waste goal. Incredibly important to us as a department and as a city and thirdly the contract has to be Cost Effective. We need to protect the ratepayers to make sure theyre getting the lowest cost and the best service. Looking at the current landfill agreement why are we here today . We are here today because were notifying you of a small contract change but theres a much larger issue going on. In 1987 the city entered into a contract with Waste Management to dispose of our solid waste and at the landfill in alameda county. The contract for was for 15 million tons or 65 years whichever came sooner. We are expected to reach that amount by the end of the calendar year, the beginning of 2016. Its important to note that the cost of a landfill agreement isnt strictly off to the rate payers. We have in San Francisco another process which is the rate process and that landfill amount is build into the overall garbage bill that the residents and businesses in San Francisco pay. The important point is there lots of public interaction and Public Comment and time to weigh in as we look at our zero Waste Programs so just tracking the history of this landfill agreement. It started in neefn 87 and we started the process in 2007. In 2007 we held five public hearings to determine the guidelines for the process would be. In 2008 we did a competitive rfq process to look for qualified respondents. In 2009 we did a public rfp and got two bids and one from recology and one from Waste Management. We looked at other environmental factors which came out fairly evenly but the thing that was very striking was the difference in cost which would translate to over 100 million for ratepayers over the lifetime of this contract. So recology was selected by the panel. Lawsuits were filed. Lawsuits were dismissed and over the course of the next four years the board repeatedly took a look at this contract. You held four hearings, two votes and after the hearings and the votes the board unanimously approve the process and said in fact recology was the qualified bidder for the contract. Supervisor mar. I just wanted to ask you to slow down a minute and on the environmental benefits of the recology contract my recollection is the reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions because of the green rail but with more miles trucking from tunnel road to oakland and then rail all the way to yuba county but thats changed and i know the sierra club raised some concerns about increase increased Greenhouse Gas emissions and the department of the environment said theyre negligible but the contract was based on greener way of transporting the trucking and then the rail, and thats changed significantly and that is an Environmental Impact so i would like to know about the analysis but i know it may come up with the report later, but i wanted to say the price was a key thing with the points on the panel as i recall way back then, and the points because of the much lower pricing for the recology contract put the bid of recology way above Waste Management. Correct. But there were still environmental benefits of the green rail proposal which has changed now though. So in a way when you look back at that original contract they were half the price and they a appeared to have a transportation option that was greener and either way you look at it recology was the best practice. I am saying i dont want to gloss over the environmental benefits of the original contract. Exactly, yes. Because the pricing was critical in the points but proposed as a green rail project that was much superior to the other one. Right. And that was incredibly exciting to us to think about the green rail and the contract was we would love to do that and if something happens we have a backup plan and go to a different landfill so any way you cut it it looked like the most protective of the environment and for ratepayers. The green rail option turned out to be still of interest to us but its a very long protracted process. It does need more Environmental Review and agreed with that and yuba county said we need a deeper look at the rail and as that became longer and longer we fell back to the backup landfill which is hey road. And i want you to know that Melanie Nutter and john avalos and i visited yuba county and livermore as well and the environmental benefits were critical in addition to the pricing you mentioned earlier. Yeah, fair enough. Thank you for bringing that up. This is high level and anything i am glossing over please stop and lets go into detail on, so you bring up the Environmental Review and the department feels like this new landfill going to hey road is not of significant Environmental Impact so that word significant is a legal term and the determination of whether a Environmental Impact is significant takes place with the Planning Department through the ceqa process and transition to my next slide so what happened under the Environmental Review so the agreement with hay road versus althat month and the planning Department Looked at that and transportation and there is a 40mile difference between taking the waste from our city to hay road for recology versus Waste Management so the question that needs to be answered from a legal perspective is that significant . Does that trigger a full eir . Thats the question that the Planning Department struggled with so we asked them to evaluate it and after nine months they came back and did all of the calculations and assumed a 50 truck per day and looked at the 40mile difference and was below the threshold of ceqa and i will come back to that and its important as the environment doesnt that we understand a legal obligation and moral obligation so that determination was appealed. The Planning Department unanimously agreed with their staff im sorry the Planning Commission agreed with the Planning Department that negative declaration, the impact of the 40 miles of insignificant and a full eir didnt have to happen. Now thats not the end of that discussion. That discussion and decision will come back to you in some time i expect in september, to redo and reevaluate so that you can feel comfortable that the city is in fact meeting the legal obligations to project the environment in terms of emissions. Thats not what todays hearing is about, and its not the end of the story so i want to make that point. Supervisor tang. Just a question. I know this is again not the full purpose of the hearing but you or planning staff if you would like to answer this. We did receive some comments from i guess the opposing party there is no ceqa threshold at this time based on the number of vehicle miles traveled and therefore ceqa thresholds are met based on air quality, Greenhouse Gas or noise impacts resulting from vehicles miles traveled so i am wondering if you or the Planning Department can respond to that quickly . I cannot. Erin [inaudible] from the department. Im sorry. I am not prepared to talk about the environmental deration for that. Okay. Perhaps we can follow up when it comes back to the board. Absolutely. We will make note of that and that is important point is that this is coming back before the board to take a look at those issues in more detail so the new agreement, the agreement that was being negotiated was of course the hay road landfill and looking thea a term of 5 milliontons and take about 15 years for us to reach given our efforts of zero waste and given the citys commitment to reducing what allly goes to landfill and our progress. This agreement that is now in your hands is actually reducing the term of the contract down to nine years and 3. 4 million tons but allowing an extention and that permission would be heard by you at the time were approaching the end of the contract so the reason we shortened the term of the contract we want to honor the competitive bid process for all of the years and meetings and process that is legally defensible. It ensures rate stability because the department has the authority to sign the contract and ensure that a contract is in place before the existing contract ends at the end of the calendar year and honors public review and allows public review because the contract is shortened and allows the board to revisit it at the time of renewal and rather than wait 15 years the board can look at it in nine years. The other change to the contract was seeking about the whole ceqa issue and the environmental issue and the discussion that came up from people that had concerns over the 40mile difference and what we put into the contract we capped the number of trucks that recology could send to landfill at 50 per day. The reason we did that was the assumptions in ceqa made a 50 truck assumption but that wasnt set in stone so by doing that were ensuring that the Environmental Impacts remain below the threshold and making a statement about the commitment to zero waste that no matter if the population increases, no matter what we will not send more trucks on the road than that number so the two changes to the contract were the term and the trucks. Those were the two things that were changed so next steps. The department has the authority to sign such an agreement, and once it is signed that triggers an action that then allows another appeal of ceqa which may come before you. We expect when you come back in september, and then if youre comfortable with that analysis and then we will have this contract in place by january, and all of the benefits that are part of that contract will be felt by the people of San Francisco, so in closing i want to say again as i did in the opening that the contract process has been done with the utmost integrity with the weight of the law and the rules every step of the way front and center. It is protective of the environment. It is very much a strong contract to move us towards zero waste and the most Cost Effective one we can offer ratepayers at this time and again i have another colleagues here if you would like more detail so thank you very much again for forking us the opportunity to have this discussion yet again. Okay. Colleagues any further comments or questions . Okay. Could you just real quick i think we have been getting a lot of questions and from different people inquiry about 10 years versus 15 years versus nine years. Right. Could you talk about that more . The original contract had an amount and 5 million tons no how long it took and our calculation said it would take 15 years given the rate of disposal and a 15 year contract. Shortening the contract does two things. It allows the department to sign and get the contract moving so we can make the deadline of end of the year and ensure rate stability because were not hanging out there with not a full contract, and it allows the board to come back and weigh in sooner, so in a 15 year term its gone. The last one was since 1987 so this way we get before you again after eight years to take a look how are we doing . Are we meeting our goals . Are we protective of the environment . And any changes we want to make to the term of the contract so that was the thinking. Okay. Colleagues questions right now . Okay. Why dont we go to Public Comment and then we can go to follow up questions. I have a few speaker cards here if people are filling out other ones. [calling speaker names] mr. Lazarus was on 16. We have two speaker cards. Anyone else wishing to comment please line up against the side of the wall and everyone has two minutes and we can move from here. I am kevin carol and director of the [inaudible] hotel San Francisco and work in an industry that welcomes people to San Francisco and employs 24,000 people the majority that live and work in San Francisco. I am in support of recology for the contract. They have been a longterm partner of our industry and hotels. We work with them daily and part of the Sustainability Committee and a committee of hotels that Work Together to share best practices in partnership with the department of the environment and recology and Many Organizations in the space. That committee is one of the most active committee and recology and their employees are active participants as well. They have hosted us to share best practices and educate our members and their employees on best practices for achieving their zero waste goals. Their employees as i mentioned continue to work with us and our teams as well. Recology is fully committed collaborative and they partner with the hotels virtually everyday to reach our goals and i just wanted to remind you that we fully support their fulfillment of this agreement that is before you today and i appreciate your time as well. Thank you. Thank you. Before the next speaker comes actually i want to recognize we have the president of the Environment Commission here. Youre welcome to come up and say a few words if you like. Thank you chair farrell. Is it morning still . I am speaking as president of the San Francisco commission on the environment and thank you for the opportunity to speak and i wanted to speak in support of the department of the environment, our staff. We had a hearing about this conversation at our last meeting and asked a series of questions and comfortable with the fare and bidding process that resulted in the bids that came in and one being double than the other. What we liked about the contract thats before you and that we support is the ability to lock in a longterm rate that is low, and free us up to do what we want to do which is get to zero waste because thats the solution. We hope this is the last landfill contract we have to sign because getting to zero means nothing, no more hauling waste,ing in except putting it back in the stream and going to the green and the blue and this contract will give us the ability to do that and we fully support the department. Thank you. Next speaker please come up. Good morning mr. Farrell and committee members. My name is John Lynn Smith and outside counsel to Waste Management. Honesty i dont know where to begin. There are a lot of statements made that are contrary to the rfp issued but a couple of points i want to make. One is i sent the committee and the full board of supervisors a letter this monday outlining the process that has been conducted since 2008 with the rfq leading up to the proposal to enter into a contract today with recology. I want to make sure that is part of your record. I hope you have it and if you dont i have a copy and can give it to you. I wanted to bring to your attention a couple of things about the deal. When the rfp was issued it was a 10 year deal or 5 million tons of disposal, whichever comes first. It wasnt a 5 millionton deal. It was going to be from 2015 to 2016 or 2025 or 2026 or 5 million tons and whichever came first. When the resolution was presented to the board of supervisors on june 1, 2015, this year, the resolution was seeking approval for a 10 year contract, not a nine year contract. The effort to make it nine years not for transparency or the ability to come back to talk about this again. Its basically so anybody can avoid a referendum, make it an administrative act and not a legislative act. The other point its not 40 miles difference. Its 2,000 miles difference. 50 trucks times 40. That is what triggers the need for an eir and why the sierra club is fully advocating a full eir is done and by not going to the board for the approval you pushed off the appeal for another couple of months and recology and the department that are engaged in the process can get the contract up and running. Sir, thank you. Your time is up sir. [inaudible] off mic . Okay. Thank you. Next speaker please. Supervisor tang, supervisor farrell and supervisor mar thank you for having me today. I work for the gate gate Golden Gate Association and paused because restaurants produce a large amounts of food waste we have a strong commitment to posting and having affordable ratings makes it possible for all restaurants to do it. We love the fact that farms and wineries use the waste and food comes full circle on the table of the member restaurants. Recology has been supportive of the Restaurant Industry and had a representative for troubleshooting and our needs. This is a strong one to allow restaurants to implement green practices without breaking the bank and different from members in oakland dealing with Waste Management and we support recology. Thank you very much. Next speaker please and if anyone else wishes to speak please line up and two minutes each. Good morning. I am paul pender gas and here to speak on the San FranciscoSmall Business network and 14 business organizations here in San Francisco and chair the golden gate policy for San Francisco and i am here to speak on recology and they have been active partners with Small Business and not just attending events and actually responsive to the needs and the phone calls and emails that Small Business interact with recology on a daily basis. They are a shining example how a business can be responsive to the Small Business community. We only need to look at oakland to see how Small Business cant work with Certain Companies and we are in support of recology and the contract moving forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good morning. David pillpel speaking as an individual and i have been involved with these issues in the city and area including the rate setting process through the department of public works and the residential refuse collection and rate board and i am familiar with the 1932 ordinance and all the things related to that. I have expressed some concerns about the proposed agreement and a little bit about the process to both department of the environment staff and recology. They have been both responsive and addressed a number of my concerns. However i think at this point and i am sorry i missed the presentation earlier i think the department of the environment should provide a copy of the agreement to the board if that hasnt been done and allow the public some time not a long period of time, but maybe a few days to comment on the latest version of the proposed agreement before signing and entering into it so if there are other concerns particularly about going to the nine and six scheme with the 50 truck limit et cetera that they can be reviewed before any decision to approve the agreement by the department of the environment. Any other concerns that i might have i am happy to put in writing again to department of the environment. Doe and copy the board. I understand there will be some kind of hearing on tuesday but then not considering the substance of the appeal at this time. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public wish to comment on this item . Okay. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues this is simply a hearing item at the moment. We can make a motion to file this item. However if there are questions or comments at this time we can entertain them. Okay. Supervisor mar. Just quickly i think i want to say the two elephants in the room are two powerful entities, recology definitely very influential clearly in this hearing today and the proposal that the panel as approved and this board unanimously over time and also a texas based Large Corporation that has at times bullied and intimidated Oakland City Council members and others and ballot measures and lawsuits, so i know this hearing is useful to hear the updates but my hope is we focus on the environmental benefits as joshua mentioned and ms. Raphael proposed and i am hoping that the two elephants in the room dont pull us away from the zero waste goals and the Greenhouse Gas issues and the truck 20 more miles per trip and we shouldnt gloss over that as well but i am appreciative of this and its been many years from supervisors before i got on this board and i think these are big issues but lets focus on the Environmental Impacts and our very aggressive Climate Action goals for our city. Thank you. Okay. Thank you supervisor mar. Okay. With that i know we will continue to be working on this item and throughout this and beyond so with that colleagues i would like to entertain a motion to file item 15. All right. I make a motion to file the hearing. Okay. Motion by supervisor tang. We can take that without objection. Madam clerk can you call item 16 please. Item 16 hearing on the control ors report and for office of economic and Workforce Development and office of Small Business, the controller, the Planning Department, office of building inspection and other city departments involved with the permitting process for. Businesses to report. Thank you. This is sponsored by supervisor tang. So supervisor take it away. Thank you very much colleagues for entertaining this hearing today in response to a report by the Controllers Office and took a deep look how the citys permitting process works especially as it rer tains to restaurants so the purpose is identify ways that we can make sure citys permitting process even more efficient for those looking to start or expand restaurants here in San Francisco and hopefully from the lessons that we learn from the collaborative efforts, through the reports and other efforts by city departments that we can apply these lessons to other industries and for us at least for me its about writing a better experience for our customers by the people looking to start or expand a business here in San Francisco, and i know there have been efforts in the past to tackle this issue and what is different this time around is that i feel that we have approached this in a more comprehensive manner. For one we have a new online Small Business portal in San Francisco and credit the team for bringing that up online and the Controllers Office report and is one of the most comprehensive to date and we made investments in the office of economic and Workforce Development and i have seen first hand how that customized and personalized support that office has been providing to people has changed over the years. Even several years ago when i was looking as a legislative aid and i was the main person trying to facilitate the relationship between the departments so now to have oewd to do that with the merchants is beneficial but of course there is more work to be done. I know there are some Small Businesses here today and many we encountered in our work that shared Horror Stories or impediments they experienced while trying to make the way through the permitting process so we want to identify where the kinks are and in the future we can make this a better process, but before we begin i want to highlight some of the positive things that i think have happened in the past so as i mentioned earlier the Small Business portal. We have completed phase one and the next step through this hearing were going to gather some information that we can hope to move into phase two to bring for example permits that you can fill out online and payments submit online as well. We have in the last budget process thanks to the committee and the Mayors Office and funding new Client Service manager hosted through the office of economic and Workforce Development and that person would be assigned to facilitate the permitting process across the departments for those looking to expand businesses in San Francisco so in the coming years really just looking forward to working with the city departments as we try to move towards a true one stop shop as we colocate various departments in the site inhabited by the goodwill on van ness and i wanted to layout the process today and i will call up todd from the office of economic and Workforce Development. Secondly i would like to bring up jane to talk about the business portal and ryan hunter from the Controllers Office to present their report and the office of Small Business and we have representatives available to answer questions and the Planning Department, dbi, department of Public Health and the tax and Treasurers Office and the Fire Department so with that said lets begin with you. Thank you so much supervisor tang. I appreciate the leadership on this issue and calling this hearing today. From day one the mayor has been this a priority and between the invested neighborhoods program, loans, targeted customized assistance for Small Businesses we have lead the effort with the city with great support from the committee and i want to thank you from that but we heard from Small Businesses from each of you and from the Small Business commission that the process needed to be improved and thats why in 2014 again through with Partnership Within oewd and office of technology and office of Small Business we launched a comprehensive business portal as you mentioned supervisor tang and brought that information into one place and most importantly shared that information from the perspective of a business. What its like for a business to interface with government opposed to how government is structured. As you mentioned jane will be up in a moment to share an update on that but sharing how a process works isnt the same as making a process better and thats where the second half of the initiative is focused and i want to acknowledge the office for the report on business streamlining and ryan hunter will be up here in a moment to do a briefing out of that report. But i think most importantly what comes next . What are those recommendations are going to be ia real impact for the Small Businesses and thanks to the mayor a budget as well as the support of this committee. Were going to be launching a Small Business accelerating team with a Client Services manager as you mentioned supervisor tang and regina will be up to talk about the implementation of that initiative as well as a couple of others focused on making these recommendations real. One final point before i hand it over to jane. This initiative is interagency and requires strong collaboration and i havent seen such collaboration as with this effort and i want to thank and acknowledge the range of departments here today and department of technology and ben the controller, treasurer cisneros, john from planning and dbi and barbara and her team and chief hayes white from the Fire Department. Its a team effort. We know the work isnt done and looking forward to present this to the committee today and next steps and questions and with they will bring up jane. Thank you very much. Good morning supervisors. Thank you so much for having us present to you today. I am going to talk to you about where we were at the state of Small Businesses. The approach we took to building the San FranciscoSmall Business portal and share the outcomes from the last eight months and where were going next and feels like yesterday i was here in front of the budget and finance subcommittee to ask for the funding for the business portal and here we are eight months later so if we could go to the slide please. I like to call this the worse slide ever. The reason is this a representation of what the Small Businesses have to go through. Not only do they have to visit geographically dispersed departments and dig through websites and oftentimes if they find the information theyre looking for and its boroughed a lot of municipal code we dont understand so the intent was to build a single place to get the information and also get rid of some of the arrows in the process itself. Our goal is create the first stop for everything business in San Francisco, inn integrated scalable Business Solution that scales from the inception of a Business Owners idea through the entire life cycle. What we did was sort of take an unprecedented approach. For the first time every government website is not just municipal code, maybe clip art and a couple of photos. We conducted user research. Our users are internal users and the permitting staff as well as the Business Owners so we conducted workshops and brought together nine departments and 20 permitting staff as well as the Small Business owners who were from the inception of the idea and a business was on the way out and we wanted to capture their experience as well. We looked at hundreds of analogous experiences in the private and public sector. From this research we put together a Customer Journey map so i have a bigger version if you want to see it up close but its showing you that both during the consideration and the preparation phase and maintain and go its more of a linear process but the orange section in the middle this is what i call the infin Infinity Loop of death and theyre dealing with the government and theyre reaching out to find information on permits, trying to stay compliant on ada requirements and they get cent around to three departments and only to come back to the first one. Thats the Infinity Loop of death you called it . Actually just made that up on the spot so dont call it so the Infinity Loop is what were trying to solve and this is a common goal with all of the departments that are here. This is what were trying to make better. We came up with some Design Principles and i wont read through everything but they could be applied throughout the entire city to websites and Digital Services that we deliver. One is treat our constituents as customers and increasing the content and increasing the trust in what we deliver so we went into building the business portal. This is a collaboration with 18 different city departments. Again as todd mentioned an unprecedented the effort and pulled information on 400 permits and licenses. We wrote every piece of content in the business portal and made sure that the language was simple easy to understand and translatable in spanish, chinese and seven other languages and designed to be responsive so users can access it from the phone, desk top and tablet and at the same time we engage with the Business Owners and staff to ensure accuracy and [inaudible] prelaunch. We did user testing and it showed that the people described the site as professional, easy, accessible, engaging, beautifully designed and comprehensive. Not the usual words that people use to describe government websites. We conducted stress testing. Made sure that the site could with stand 200,000 simultaneous hits at once to avoid any healthcare. Gov debacles and the soft launch took place in 2014. The full launch happened and we put together a promotional video and postcards and links and seeing referral traffic from the Tax Collectors Office and sent out emails and staff and a lot of the nonprofits that support the businesses and reached out through social media and muni bus ads and i will show you an example. Am seeing these postcards in your office and in the city and now the outcomes. This is what i am excited to share with you. Were seeing 10 times as many users as a daily basis compared to the previous city online permitting site so right now seeing 117 users a day compared to 10 users in the past. Responses in the give back feature along with social media mentions have highlighted the portal for this and its a pleasure to explore, make it easier to do business in San Francisco and even in the words of one Business Owner theyre saying were doing them a solid. City, state federal officials even the white house have reached out to learn about the San Francisco portal and we share this online and now were able to use analytics and feedback to inform our Decision Making as we move forward in expanding and building out further features on the portal. The numbers so these are the numbers that we gathered since launch. We are seeing 14,055,000 14,000 views a month and many come from the phones and hopefully that will drive more content through the phone making it easier to see on a mobile surface. Tablet users are 3 . 39 come from San Francisco with 8 from the surrounding bay area. I am excited to share that in the Third Quarter of the Previous Fiscal Year so january through march of 2015 there were 311 reps were able to resolve many cases just using the business portal and in the age break down and supervisor mar you talk about the Digital Divide quite a bit and it was surprising to me and conventional wisdom that the portal is geared towards a younger audience but the majority are over 35 years old and 61 of total users and that speaks to how we designed a portal that supports and helps every demographic. Awards. Recently we were mentioned in a article for fast company and by the Governors Office and kennedy from recognized it as a bright innovation and we were a web emmy nominee and this includes second phase features so these are in the works. Were looking at using software as a platform for forms that are submittable. Were using individual users and check lists and data storage and delivery and prefill are some of the other capabilities. Portal maintenance is important. We want to make sure its not another government website left alone and unattended and a year from now or two its obsolete so we update the content when legislation changes or important due dates to remind owners about fees that are due. We constantly create new content, new starter kits and adding information about the Business Registration going online and information about gross receipt taxes et cetera and we audit and fix links on the site and security updates and training manual of what we do to update the portal and i have been saying that technology shouldnt be the only thing that drives change. We also need to look at the process itself which is why in the last six months we had a great collaborative effort with the Controllers Office to map out the restaurant permit process and why did we choose restaurants . San francisco has the most in the nation and 30 million in sales tax for the city. It creates 19,000 local jobs and 230 restaurants register each year and they face up to 24 individual permits and deal with many different state and federal and city departments and lets fix the process and add in the technology to make it even more efficient. Next steps. Portal streamlining once we did the mapping will move over into different sectors and implement all processes into a unified plan and recommend streamlining measurements between and within departments. We would also like to plan for the future integration of online and off line processes with the physical Onestop Center as supervisor tang mentioned earlier. With technology were working with the Tax Collector, the Assessors Office, county clerk to create a new functionality and integrate all of the forms with electronic and digital subjects as well as Electronic Payments and make recommendations to integrate city data bases. The portal maintenance continues and we hope to operationalize this maintenance and some of the projects that the team is consulting on is the mayors housing prortal and with other commissions in the city and working with the creation of the public strategy. Our ultimate goal is give san franciscans a single experience across city departments thereby making the government more responsive to citizens and bring government to the people by creating an exemplary service. The possibilitys are endless and as we put up the slide of the supporters i would like to acknowledge the Mayors Office and department of technology and other all the other departments for the collaborative effort. Thank you for the effort. If you dont know jane worked in the office of Small Business and did a great job fusing working with the businesses that came through for help and assistance and bringing that to a wonderful online portal. If you havent taken a look at it i recommend it and its amazing and i couldnt believe it when i saw it and it was produced by government and i dont know if colleagues have any other questions. If not i will move on to the Controllers Office and we made strides and now the report will tell us about some of the challenges when people are receiving services in person. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. My name is ryan hunter from the city performance unit of the Controller Office with our team and we have been working with the business portal team to map the process of opening a restaurant in San Francisco so i will tell you about what we have been doing and what we found, what were recommending. So this slide could we get the powerpoint . Thank you. This slide has the journey map that the business portal team put together. Really what we have been working on is trying to get into that infin itd loop and untangle that. Could we see what is going on in and find ways to make it simpler . So we went through the process of opening a restaurant, find all of the permit processes relevant for a new owner so we mapped 22 restaurant processes across San Francisco departments and three state and federal departments. To supplement the work we interviewed local Business Owners, Different Department staff and talked to the Acceleration Team in new york city. We looked at permitting data from the treasurer and Tax Collector and a survey from Business Owners to ask them about the obstacles in the process. This is a look at the Different Departments that we worked with and mapped and the different areas so for each department we produced a map of that permitting process so this is a sample of one of those here and we really had a specific focus on what does this look like from the customers perspective and what are the steps in the process for the customer and the back end processes that support that . So in this process you see the top row is always the customer and this particular one its a lot of touch points for the customer. When we did that for all 22 of the processes we were able to put them together into an overall permit process map of opening a restaurant and this was able to show us what do you need to do first . What are the permits you need to get before another permit . Whats necessary to open your doors versus what can be done later . So what did we learn from all of our mapping . We made eight recommendations and two large groups. The first is about collaboration between departments so what we found was that often in a single departments internal process was relatively efficient and made sense, but those processes often crossed departments and theres not always good structure or good incentive for those departments to Work Together, and often customer is bounce friday one department to another with. Little communication in between so the first set of recommendations is what can we do to help businesses work Better Together and departments work Better Together and i will highlight a few of these. Turn around time is key and when we asked departments how long does it take to get this permit or that permit it was usually a difficult question to answer and the first step in shortening the time span is having the Information Available and knowing how are we doing now and creating the structures to look at that and look at the turn around time. The second recommendation that we looked at was about how do we combine different permit processes together . We found that there were often groups of permits that shared some characteristics and we could bundle together, so for example often any person who is registering a new business usually also needs to register for business personal Property Assessment with the Assessors Office and often a fictitious name with the office and we looked at bundling those together and i will skip to number 5 which is about one stop shop and colocating permits. We found there were so many different physical locations that one Restaurant Owner would need to visit to open a visit and second and townsend and mission and city hall or fox plaza and a lot of running around and exacerbated if the process is not clear and applicants dont know where to go next and an option was explore colocating the permitting departments moving towards the one stop shop that several people have talked about. The second group of recommendations are about kind of a focus on the applicant so we found that the best departments thought about their role as not only being about enforcing compliance of the process but about helping the applicants as customers, so we identified a number of permits that could be submitted online and sort of prioritized those. In general we found that if a permit was able to be submitted by mail that it could be submitted online and we produced a list of likely candidates for that and we also found that it was often difficult to pay for permits. There were a number of departments that require Something Like a cashiers check or multiple payments for a single permit and when you multiply that across 22 departments its onerous so we recommended that departments look at ways to streamline payments and have fewer payments for a single permit and to accept things like credit cards to make that payment process easier so i will leave it there but we are available for questions. Thank you very much. And next i would like to bring up regina from the office of Small Business. So thank you supervisor tang excuse me, chair farrell, supervisor tang and supervisor mar. So with this information that the Controllers Office has done through analyzing the permits with the business portal team we took a look at that information and thought all right what could we do with it and whats the best way to help our businesses move through that process . So with director rufo convening Different Departments, the office of building inspection and department of Public Health and creating the Small BusinessAccelerator Team was formed and so im going to talk a bit about that as well. In the 201516 budget thank you supervisor tang for your leadership in establishing and creating the team. This will launch in the fall of 2015. We will be creating a Client Service manager that will be a part that would be the core component of the team and the team just to be clear will be comprised of representative simonson liaisons and working with the Different Departments to either resolve or get questions on how to facilitate a particular business need. As presented to you there are roughly 230 restaurants that go through the permitting process each year and the majority of these businesses are going to open one restaurant, maybe two restaurants within their lifetime, and so its not within their interest to become experts in the permitting process. Their core capacity is opening a restaurant, making food, delivering food and providing an excellent Customer Experience for their customers. The Client Service manager will own the business experience working with the Different Departments so starting with evaluating the business needs, taking a look at what will be the zoning requirements. Will they need a conditional use . Will there need to be a change of use . What is the Current Space theyre going into . Will they need to did a complete build out . What is required for engaging with the office of building inspection . So theyre reviewing the past permit applications with the individual Business Owner and working with the particular departments. They will be coordinating the services and helping to schedule inspections. By involving and having a case manager throughout the process the Business Owner will have an experienced partner. What we do find at the office of Small Business that most businesses and our Small Businesses really dont understand or know how to speak the language that we the City Government language, so what does a conditional use process mean . What does a change of use process mean . So and what does the application process mean and why do i need to have you know when i file with the department of Public Health for my permit to operate that it needs to be routed through zoning, so interpreting all of that for the Business Owner is important and of course that will be one of the elements to help streamline the process in addition to taking a look at where we can improve the processes. The Small Business case manager will be colocated at the office of building inspection at 1660 Mission Street and while this is a position that is part of oewd what we do know is that not all businesses either touch point with the office of economic and Workforce Development and the invested neighborhood or with our office, the office of Small Business through the Business Assistance center, but the one key touch point they have to touch is the office of building inspection when they go to open their business so its very important to have this position colocated at the bpd bpd to ensure that office of building inspection and every restaurant that opens is able to engage with the Client Service manager. This will also ensure that we have the Client Service manager will have the opportunity to then have the access to all the key departments that are located at the dbi on the fifth floor which include the Planning Department, the Public Utilities department, dpw, fire, and dpw and the fire, so that way the Client Service manager will be able to engage with those departments if theres questions or needs or things not clear can do that on behalf of the client. This will ensure that applications move swiftly so that the Client Service manager if something is bottlenecked will be able to engage with the department in a much more readily achievable fashion, and thus will save time and money for the business, but it will also we will begin to learn ways in which we can facilitate the process and the permitting which will also save us time and money as well. So we are working with a Case Management model so the permitting departments will designate a staff lead to sit on the Business Accelerator team. We will be including other all the departments that are involved in the permitting process to assist us with this. The Client Service manager is charged with convening the departments and leads and guiding the restaurants through the entire process so the Client Service manager will have some authority to convene the departments and work with them and resolve issues, and they will be providing updates to the senior staff of the departments, the Department Heads, so that we can take this opportunity to learn our best practices and see where we can make improvements. The Client Service manager will also engage with the office of economic and Workforce Development, the office of Small Business, it is job squad and the Small BusinessDevelopment Center. And touch point places that businesses engage with city agencies that are non regulatory city agencies but work closely with the golden gate student a Restaurant Association and we have the different groups working with us and Mission EconomicDevelopment Center and make sure that those entities know that we have a Client Service manager for those engaging in the restaurant and food industry. There will be the single point of contact that will help provide increased accountability. The Client Service manager will start tracking the time that it takes the actual time it takes for a business to open in the different scenarios so from a full service high end restaurant to a very small take out service as an example. And i think the one important thing that will the timing of this that is taking place with the team coming on board in preparation for the one stop shop that is being developed at mission and south van ness we will have real live experience how the permit process in real time is routed and what we can do to improve the Customer Experience and one stop permitting experience prior to opening what we call the project [inaudible] or the one stop location at mission and south van ness. I do want to thank all the departments that have been involved. As supervisor tang as talked about it. Also the director that its really with the departments engaged with the permitting process, working with the Controllers Office and working with jane kong and recognizing that this is a good means of helping our restaurants get open, so i too want to thank the Department Heads and especially todd r ruffo and the other members who were really instrumental in forming the concept of the Business Accelerator team and determining the need that we need to have a case manager, so thank you. Thank you very much to everyone for their presentations. And im actually going to do things differently because i know we have folks in the audience that would like to speak so before i launch into questions or comments i would like to see through the chair if we can open Public Comment. I know we have many businesses couldnt be here and theyre busy running their shops and we have someone in the audience that runs a business in the neighborhood so i would like to therefore open up Public Comment first so i have a few speaker cards and come up if you like. [calling speaker names] any microphone is fine. Hi. My name is lauren crab. I own andy coffee town roasters in the sunset and katies office asked me to talk about the experience with the Planning Department. We got the lease on our location in november of 2013 and it took us until oh no november 2012 and took us until march of 2014 to open. That is a year and a half of our lives building it out. A large portion of that was spent in the Infinity Loop of death i think it was called, and it was extremely frustrating and specifically going between the Different Departments, kind we felt bombarded by one of the inspections after we had a preliminary inspection and then another guy came out and made us rebuild a bunch of stuff and it was a frustrating time and its very good to hear that you guys are working to make it a little bit easier for people like myself, and yeah the online portal looks awesome. Im kind of jealous that wasnt around when i was building out and i think that having the person at the Planning Department to help you help guide Small Business owners through the process is going to really help so i hope you continue to prioritize the projects and work on some some more. Thank you. Thank you very much for coming out. Next speaker please. Hi. Samantha higgins, golden gate Restaurant Association. I want to thank the team and the Controllers Office and supervisor tang for the leadership and everyone else that worked on it. I want to address the difficultly in the permitting process for restaurants as its one of the most complicated processes to map out and understand and especially for Small Business owners as so many restaurants are. I wanted to mention the number of calls and questions we get on a daily basis from restaurants or people trying to open restaurants and particularly owners from other jurisdictions that are confused about the San Francisco process and emphasize how important it is and streamlining the process would be for an industry as a whole. Just looking through the report i want to suggest beginning with some of the easier things to tackle especially switching more applications to be done online and combining locations and i know were working towards. Linking critical permits to other permits would make a difference and referring applicants to the Planning Department in the beginning of the process and i want to talk about the inspections and it could be difficult for businesses. One of the challenges which was brought up there is typically not one inspector assigned so restaurants or businesses will get different inspectors that tell them Different Things and can be confusing and lead to delays so if we could do that i think that would be helpful for restaurants is thank you everybody for the work on this and i look forward to continuing. Thank you. Next speaker please. Supervisors jim lazarus San Francisco chamber of commerce. Thank you supervisor tang for your leadership on the issue and the departments involved. Long over due. Even looking at the portal and go online and look at the portal you wonder whether you take the next step to try to open a restaurant. Its a daunting list of permits, applications and approvals that you have to go through depending on what your Business Model is and where its located. As i said this is long over due. If i look at los angeles, they have a restaurant and hospitality portal. They call it an express program in the city of los angeles. Its a multiagency Management Network that does exactly what were talking about doing here, and i think portals are great. The internet is great but having a real person through the Small BusinessCommission Staff and other departments working with dbi having oneonone meetings and really helping assist the applicant through this very difficult process and it will never get that smooth and easy. In this city you wont get down to one internet page where youre able to click on buttons and send in the credit card check and get the permits. Its not going to happen that way and having real people help real applicants is ultimately the way it will succeed and we appreciate the efforts and we will work with you to make it a success. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. Supervisor tang thank you for doing this work. Its greatly appreciated. [inaudible] and merchantace association in the Mission District and invest in neighborhoods. We have been working with the merchants for the last 17 years on the corridor. Some of the biggest issues we heard from the merchants is affordability of the permits and affordability of space and the permit process to open up a business and the process afterwards of maintaining the business around the permits so we do appreciate this work. We seen a lot of proves over the years the. Improvements over the years. I think what is key is definitely having an individual that is able to guide the process with a lot of these folks. One of the things that we dealt with is the language barrier which is huge and also the hightech and low tech. I think we need to have that balance of both so i think this person will be able to do that. I think you know, the portal its awesome and the team is well balanced and i think we need to move in that direction making sure that we cover a lot of different communities and abilities around tech. I think its important. The one stop shop i think its very good also. Its been a task for folks to get around for the different permits. Also creating a to do list by restaurant type because there are different types of restaurant and fast food, self service, bars and full restaurants and identify the type of restaurant you want to open and then a list of tasks that you have to do in order to be get them all done because a lot of people dont realize there are so many different types and not aware of one thing they missed and penalizeed in the future so creating that list would be great, and also what we have seen in the past with some they combine the permits on to one statement. If youre allowed to have an option of opting in or opting out and some people would rather pay across the years and others at one time so looking at also. We appreciate the work that youre doing and look forward to the conversation. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any other members of the public who wish to comment on this hearing . Okay. Seeing none through the chair if we could close Public Comment. Public is closed. [gavel] thank you very much to everyone that came out and like i mentioned we heard stories throughout the work as well, so one of the things that the controllary office made a recommendation through the report is improve turn around time. Departments must measure time and targets to drive change and monitor performance so i dont know if there is something to be answered by the Controllers Office or the other departments here but i want to know which departments how many of the city departments are having this as a measurement . Because i think its important to gauge from a Customer Experience standpoint how much time it takes for people to go through the process . In the report it says on average someone i think went through a process and took four months but we see cases someone went through and waited two years to do a full build out. Yeah, we didnt find that i recall and my team can speak to this maybe any departments that could readily produce that information. There were some places where you could discern part of it by digging deep through the data but it wasnt a top line item for any of the departments that we spoke with. Okay. And second question is based on one of the recommendations as well is to link the low awareness permits and have them packaged together with the critical to open permits so applicants can apply for them simultaneously. There was an example pointed out about the Treasures Office the new Business Registration with the assessors new Business Registration as well as the clerk if i fictitious registration and i am wondering if departments are open to how we might collaborate and package the permits together . I am from the office of the treasurer and we are looking in great interest how we can package all of the items into the Business Registration. One of the challenges with working with the Assessors Office the businesses have to do a form called a 571l which is catchy and for ensecured property taxes and that form is state mandated and were not allowed to change it so were working with the way that we share data with them so they can get notified of businesses that open that will need to fill out this form and transfer the relevant information over to them so its a bit easier and then were doing some advocacy with the state to see if we can carve out our own 571l or at least add the business account number to make it easier for businesses. Great. Thank you for informing us of some of the efforts and in particular about the weights and measures and including that as part of the Health Inspection process. I dont know if anyone is here that can answer that. Good afternoon. Richard lee acting director of environmental health. Weights and measures is part of our unit but i want to point one thing out is that the registration is not required before a restaurant opens, so just like also for the certified food manager training that is not required so those things can actually happen after a restaurant is open and its not going to be needed before its opened. In terms of the inspections in terms of the food inspectors doing the weight and measures inspections thats not going to be actually allowed because there is a requirement that you have to be certified to do those weights and measure inspections so we have weights and weights inspectors certified to do that. Our food inspectors are not certified to do that but again it will not delay the approval of permits. Okay. Is there any way potentially they could i understand one doesnt have to be done before opening a shop i guess a store most likely but the other one, the actual Health Inspection you need before opening and is there a way to package the inspection even if theyre two different people and have them occur at the same time or create additional efficiencies in that way. We will have to look into it. We would have linkage between the weight and measures and others to make sure its done but we have to look into that. Okay thank you. One other recommendations had to do with referring customers to the Planning Department at the beginning of the process so i wanted to find out i dont know if its through the Planning Department or someone else that encounters customers first. Currently what is going on, maybe why arent people referred to planning first . How is that happening . I know in some cases customers know to go to planning first but i wanted a better understanding of that. I could make a brief comment about that and if any other department wants to chime in. What is behind this recommendation is that there are plenty of places that the process can be slowed down or become expensive the planning in particular if youre trying to start a business in an area not properly zoned there is not much often that you can do about it and sometimes Business Owners experience that obstacle down the road when opening a business when they sunk time and money into that and probably despite the best efforts of departments people will come into the process from a lot of angles and are the ways to route people toward the Planning Department early on no matter where they come in the process . Okay. And then i dont know if planning wants to chime in. Sure. Im the assistant director of planning. As ryan mentioned were not always in control of when people reach out to us but when they do reach out to us we have dedicated staff that staff the public counter as well as other planners that cycle through and all of the planners when we encounter folks thinking of opening a business and we tell them dont put money down on a lease or things of that nature until were confident it can be permitted and try to walk them through the variables and oftentimes we get folks interested in opening a restaurant in a neighborhood but not have addresses in mind and in a neighborhood there could be different Zoning Districts and that could affect that. We try to work with them to articulate that message and every property has different rules in San Francisco and once we zone in on a address we can steer them to locations where there is an easier path to open the business. We have a preliminary zoning form that i know other agencies use. We will have folks come in with the form filled out and a way to start the conversation and ask the right key questions to give them right information, and we do have one of our Small Business liaisons is at the public counter and a really good point person working with the new Acceleration Team quite a bit. A couple of other points. Efforts that the Planning Department has launched i would say in the last six months to a year to help particularly expedite Small Businesses, not 100 restaurants, but Small Businesses in general as well as small permits. We have restructured our staff who are working on what we call theyre the inner Agency Referrals and from the Health Department and the Entertainment Commission and the alcohol Beverage ControlPolice Department, those types of referrals. We restructured that so there is a little more oversight and coordination and we have Performance Measures in place for the turn around time on the zoning referrals. Our objective is usually turn them around within 30 days. I ran a query of the last six months and were beating that measure and turning it around in 15 days and volume of 830 referrals in the past six months so we focused on that. The other we created a Small Projects team last december to help deal with the influx of Small Projects, residential and commercial and we have one dedicated person on the team and processing the commercial permits so anything that doesnt need a public hearing and just needs the notification we are expediting it through that team and we have seen some significant improvements through that. Thank you. Thank you for highlighting the changes that were made and i like working with planning on the issues and something that we hear from the Small Business community and sure you can make it through a department quickly and maybe planning went quickly and go to another department and there is another backlog that is separate there, so for example i know we have Fire Department here, dbi, so i would like to bring them up as well if theyre here in the audience today, but again we have first hand experience where we got them quickly through other departments so i think that the new person, the Client Service manager that will be hired soon i hope will help with that facilitation of the process through the multiple departments but from the Fire Departments perspective if you could talk about your backlog. How is it that you treat the businesses that you have available . So for example i know that Planning Department youre making the effort to really move through the cue of businesses that dont have to go through a public hearing or smaller nature but does fire have a similar structure or how does that work . Good morning supervisors. Ron thomas assistant director at the office of building inspection. Our colleagues from the Fire Department have just arrived. [inaudible]rnoon. I have talked with all my inspectors how we can try to speed up the process of permitting the Restaurant Business and for the Fire Department when we look at a restaurant we look at two different occupancies, a b occupancy for less than 49 people and a2 for more than 49 people. Thats 50 and above. One of the biggest problem that we find out with Business Owner is they go and sign a lease. They put in a lot of money invest in the business and find out that the business they want to run in the building its not approved for lets a a2 so that means they cant run a business of 50 or more people and have to go through a change of use and that process is pretty long because it has to go through planning and Building Department if i understand and part of being a2 there are life safety requirements depending how much people are in there. If you have more than 99 people you need sprinklers and more than 199 you need two exists and more than 299 you need a fire alarm system and one of the permits that takes a long time to approve is the people who signed up to rent these spaces are not aware of all the changes they have to do upgrade the business to be code compliant so at the front desk when someone says i want to start a business in San Francisco and we ask them the address and we help them with the research and if we cant find anything supporting them we then ask them to check Building Department records and i agree with planning up here and before a business starts anything, dumps money into anything and do investment they should find out if the activities they want will be approved in that space. I think that would shorten it a lot and most of the turn around time lets say theyre established and just a change in ownership of the moment hey say im the new owner and were out there next week and if nothing needs to be maintained or approved we send them straight to the tax corrector and thats the first hurdle the Fire Department faces and the second one is we send the paperwork to the Tax Collector and its bounced back and says the location is not registered and then we have to call up the Business Owner and try to explain explain to them and although you have a business certificate to operate in San Francisco you didnt find a place when you applied because they dont have the location attached to the certificate so now they have to update that and i have to wait for that before i send the paperwork again and please issue a license so the staff have looked into those two problem exercise if we can get. Those problems resolved working with the department i think with the Fire Department the process will be much faster. Thank you for sharing the challenge with us and its not a linear process along the departments and that makes it more difficult. In terms of the issues that you brought up from plannings perspective when people are for example coming to you first potentially or actually any other juncture is there some collaboration between the Fire Department for example to let them know that you should check and you could meet their requirements even before beginning . There is typically not a lot of coordination and our code is complicated enough to stay on top and were not well versed on the other codes and 49 is a trigger for them and not United States since the code simplifications efforts happened and we suggest anytime theyre opening a business and a first time person doing this we recommend they go to the office of building inspection and ask answer questions and even if we dont know what the trigger point is we refer them in advance of finishing out their day at 1660. Okay. I am glad youre all in the same room and talk with each other and hopefully help with the process moving forward and dbi i know folks have spoken about multiple inspections and it might not be just dbi and fire and other things so your perspectives. Are there ways that your department can make that process a little easier for people especially if they have to rebuild things or what not . Starting a new business that is specifically a restaurant we can see already through the controls analysis and presentation its complicated and daunting task for anyone that wants to take on that endeavor. A small part of it, even though its a very important part is the actual Construction Side of it, but as a prelude to that is the permit process itself. We have begun discussion on the executive team and how we can plan forward and we have looked at issues how we can deal with immediately within the environment that we control including our website, creating a faq specific to restaurants and full chart of the permit process itself. Currently i am the point person for this effort. Also for for project chess which is the new building with the new permit center. Oftentimes now is termed as the one stop shop. This discussion needs to be more extensive on how we accomplish this goal. Its a very broad goal in one sense to execute it and have staffing from various agencies is something that needs to continue discussion. We do have a core now at the City Permit Center at 1660 Mission Street primarily at the first floor but finishing up on the fifth floor and in a way a one stop service if you have your other ancillary permits and outside of construction type permits in hand and under your own control. We can help definitely with referrals to other departments such as San Francisco department of Public Health and we do make that effort and we try to educate our staff to do that in in the point to point contact on the fifth floor. However when we get to that point its the Design Professional were faced with and not necessarily the owner of the project so we maybe able to fix and address the nuts and bolts issue and provide information about informations in the future once the permit has been approved, but the owner not being present and not necessarily wanting to get into the technical issues of getting a permit maybe engaged in the future and have more hands on approach with this effort that were putting together with a number of city agencies, so talking about the multiple inspections thats really coming down to the ability of the contractor, the subcontractor, maybe the project manager if they have one, and other people engaged and involved in the inspection side of it. That one takes on a very Different Number of individuals who need to be engaged that werent necessarily engaged on the front end getting the permit itself so we can separate the two tasks, big tasks, one to get the permit up front, have the permit issued to actually starts the Construction Side of it. Hand off but continue coordination with the staff thats professionals are engaged in constructing the site. I will through our efforts of coordination in our department we have looked at and discussed how we can specific to restaurants but also Small Businesses in general see how we could have a better interdivisional communication to see that we dont have at the end of a project when it really becomes acutely sensitive to time to the beginning of the payment of rent, things of that nature, and people are trying to at least get the temporary certificate of occupancy and things fall through the crack and prevented from having that opportunity to start in a timely manner or around the time they need to start their business. Were familiar with the fact there is a training period for any restaurant that takes anywhere from one week to upwards to two, three weeks. We have been witness to that process as well, so we know that even before you have your first customer walk through the door theres a lot of work to be done and more than just getting your certificate of occupancy or temporary one to operate so within our department a more holistic look at the process discussion between the interdivisional agencies, towards inspection and any subsequent revisions during the course of construction that are needed to be approved in a timely manner we will continue to look at that and engage our own staff and we started that recently and bring in staff and expand it with more staff and both in the inspection and the plan approval side so we can focus on this and make it better more efficient, and usable customer friendly process. All right. Thank you. I think thats a great segue to something that im going to make a request of from some of the departments here. I realize we cant solve all of the problems in this hearing and there is much more work to be done, so one of the things i would like to ask of all of the departments and planning dbi, fire, tax Assessors Office and work with jane kong and the staff and further the Small Business portal so in the next phase we can take Applications Online and take payments and we need the coordination of all of you to bring the portal to a better place of people. Secondly i would like to request that the following departments conduct an internal assessment. As the last gentleman there needs to be an internal look how you do your work and some of the challenges you face so i would like to make a formal request so in six months that all of of the departments conduct a internal assessment of your own processes and keeping in mind with the interactions with other departments that you may interface with and receive a report to the board of supervisors by january 31 and then from there take that information and see what next steps need to be taken given the internal review so some of the things that i hope you think about is eliminating burdens for internal staff and make the processes more efficient. How do you eliminate hurdles for the applicants, the customers were working with . And identify the needs that your department may need to actually achieve these improved efficiencies . So potentially its funding, other resources. Please think about that as well and lastly if you can in your internal review think about the eight recommendations that were made through this Controllers Office report. I think theyre very broad yet easy to tackle so i would like to you take the recommendations and see how your department can respond to that so with that colleagues i want to thank you for your time and everyone for being here and the ongoing work and helping the Small Businesses in San Francisco. As we know theyre incredibly important to the fabric of our city and neighborhoods so i also want to thank the Small Businesses that are in San Francisco who have dared to open up shop here and hopefully in the future it will be easier if you want to expand or grow your businesses so with that colleagues i dont know if you have questions or comments but i want to thank you for your time and with that look forward to the upcoming information that you will provide to us so with they will make a motion to file the hearing. Okay. Thank you supervisor tang has made a motion and i want to thank you for this hearing and all of the Department Heads and staff that came hear. Ms. Kong its good to see you again. I remember working on the portal with you and the first month while on the board of supervisors and thanks for the leadership and everyone that makes that happen and means a ton to us but the broader San Francisco community so the work is not unnoticed and thank you for your work and for every department here so with that we have a motion by supervisor tang and take that without objection. Madam clerk do we have any other business in front of us . There is no further business. Okay. We are adjourned. [gavel]. Today is tuesday, july 28, 2015 time is 508 first item is roll call. Commissioner arce commissioner stephenson is commissioner wald is excused commissioner wan we have a quorum. Thank you friday and please everyone please thank friday for kyle volunteering for serving as our secretary thank you clapping. okay. You called item 2 on the approval of the minutes. Thats what im doing item the approval of the minutes of the may 26, 2015 on the environment regular meeting is there an objection . So any comments discussion from the commission on the minutes if there is none can we get a motion to approval of the minutes. To approval of the minutes commissioner stephenson Public Comment on the minutes. Oh, sorry thats not you. Go. Okay david pilpal good evening just to note on the header on each page it has the previous march 24th date i dont think i have any substantive changes ill let friday know also the address for the meeting is just listed city hall 413 so one carl so on it on the address is clear on the minutes and the agendas Going Forward thanks. Further comment on the minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So can we perhaps ask commissioner to withdraw the motion to make the amendment that david pilpal so kindly pointed out ill withdraw my motion to the approval of the minutes. So can we get a motion to clarify on pages 2 through 10 that the date is may 26, 2015 and not may 12th 2015 and add the address Carlton Place to page one under city hall. Ill move to approval of the minutes as amended by the chair. Second from stephenson all right. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Say no thank you, everyone and thank you, mr. Pill pal arrest item 3 thank you to the person for helping with the agenda wherever they may be on vacation item 3 friday. Item 3. May be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. So we have one speaker card so can i please call that emily from y g fund good evening, commissioners and members of the public im emily i work are for the energy fund the leading finance come we have the clean energy but specifically we provide measures and financing for arrange and commercial properties we also over the charging for this as well ear excited and applaud San Francisco for the existing success of their program and expansion of including the private firms in april and looking to enter that marketplace ive been working with the department to help explain and answer questions and go over the muni features goal that we see there is a clear demand for pass in the marketplace and it is suited to meet that in collaboration with the green finance sf and again the newer private partners that were brought on particularly with the strength in the multi family we have 50 percent of Housing Market in family and number one in the country for multi family pass we believe that service can benefit an unmet market another particular strength being able to work with the jurisdictions where we enter particularly here in San Francisco we feel like we can work with the sgoer and collaborate on that to maximize results and with the soft Story Building compliance wed like to help with and some of the fortune initiatives with the readies policies that are in progress we believe are uniquely suited to scale those results and finally our robust Contractor Network really brings us as a leader to the pace market ore 25 hundred contractors in the u. S. And 8 hundred and 50 in california specifically percentage focuses on the small to midsize customer seethe and the multi family that will be a benefit to the San Francisco region we work through entering local contractors a fairly robust but extensive and easy Training Program for the new contractors and always recruit locally by the think that helps that the workforce and the Apprenticeship Training use of the property 23 excuse me. We feel there is a lot of existing efforts that makes San Francisco a leader in this space we want to compliment and scale the result for pace i hope we can come back and thanks for hearing me out this evening any questions let me know. Thank you, emily he may be we can followup. Furthermore, members of the public wish to comment during Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed can we hear item 4. Item 4 Community Outreach presentation. Achieving zero waste through the establishments how sf e helps the foods establishments to maximum their participation in the recycling program placer is presenter is here and the presentation will be 5 minutes. Welcome welcome welcome to the Community Outreach presentation club. laughter . Hello thanks for that welcome good evening, commissioners im vernon what the San Francisco apartment of the environment with the Environment Team tonight ill do a roleplay of a typical integration to help them achieve zero waste if you have questions hold them to the end thank you. Hi, good evening. Im vernon with the San Francisco department of department of the environment i was wondering if under is an owner to speak with this evening hi susan im vernon the reason i want to see if you can help your Food Environment to help what environmental waste i have a package and thank you to all the brief i think so and have them signed with some of the stickers we provide we notice what works best to go with customized material i object to help you with those. The customized signs gives the customers easy for the sorting for the customers and staff while we while im talking about the materials in the packet ive provided a vendor list that list is a list of the vendor for the recycle items the reason why that is important we want to recommend you single all the combustible or recycle items it makes it easier to eliminate contamination youll find cutlery and cups and even bags now weve scared away the front of the house well look at your kitchen wow. Your kitchen looks at great all 3 binds and color coded in the location next to our dish washer the only recollection o recommendation for the back of the house to use some the signs in the page to give our staff a quick view of what going where in case you have any employees speaking of new employees we offer free staffer training in many lacks languages what would you like to schedule one the trainings before a before we pick a date is there any language spanish and russian i have a spanish and russian speaking coworker we can breakdown them into 3 groups or over the course of a couple of days whatever works best for the business i also noticed susan you have a one station for your cooks washing their hands and we have paper tolls paper shouldnt go into the landfill please put a sign there and we have information about the ecology id like to bring back one of those now i know weve gone overlook susan i appreciate our time before i leave one items it cant go into binds like paint and light bubbles well accept all those items call this number and theyll set you up with an appointment thank you for your time id like to recap some of the best services we recommend through the establishment to help you achieve your make sure the binds are together and color coded and customized signs and we recommend regular staff training well come back out and train for free in any language and in case you need a refresher or new employees wed like come back and strive for a single stream system like i said the vendor list has items that are custom unbelievable or otherwise feel free to call on the department of the environment for any issues and a quick we are about idols go to sf investment back slash. Org thank you clapping. all right. Good job vernon that was great. We also have a packet some of the packet we give but to the businesses this is another Outreach Campaign we worked on. Thank you. Questions from colleagues thanks friday. Director raphael. Yeah. Vernon thank you very much you the a good job im susan and im very i have one question for you so you told me about the services i know i have my monthly recycling bill and trash bill but that Hazardous Waste stuff do i have to pay extra whats the story. Actually call the number and it is a free appointment you can take down our materials every other wednesday you have to call ecology member and theyll explain the process theyll tell you which ones will be accepting the materials you can take them down. All right. Commissioner stephenson. How many inaudible oh sorry that was great it up how many businesses do we hit given a week or month normally with this presentation. I believe we visited one thousand businesses that was about and before that we visited a couple hundred businesses to test out our poach. Do at the go as smoothly has your conversation with susan. We the a role plays with an sgaks some goes smooth than others and some dont but we get a positive feedback from the businesses were able to make recommends as well as some changes. Thank you all right. Thank you very much another a round of applause for mr. Hastening thank you mr. Hastening. clapping. Public Comment on item 4 our Community Outreach presentation today seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we hear item 5 directors report friday item 5 directors report updates on department of the environment administrative and pragmatic operations for budget and strategy and clean air and climate and energy and Public Outreach and education and Habitat Restoration and Green Building zero waste and toxic production and urban forest as director raphael. Thank you, commissioners thank you friday so the first picture im going to highlight some of the things that are in the directors report i want to call out more specific to them it is a very busy couple of months there was an image i was hoping to have up lowest there we go so the image before you is a pilot we the of a coffee pop up the idea here is we were offering free coffee if you brought your own mug if you didnt you could earner a mug ill visit you all to earn a mug this is mason jars with things that is a zero wasting hash tag the thing to do to get a mug visit the station and engage in facebook or instagram or twitter youre feeling about the zero waste we had hundreds of of visitors and gave auto 6 hundred mugs we documented the kind of information this was a pilot in herman plaza for 3 days will be doing it 3 more times well let you know i dont have the dates or location i want to invite you bring your own mug but if you like those engage in social media and have fun that was a great pilot built from boxes that had cups wisp making a statement about bring your own mug thank you friday youve heard from vernon about the Environment Campaign i want to read you a specifically was accurate they visited this program this Participation Campaign one thousand hundred 75 businesses with multi level training to 3 thousand plus employees i want to thank everyone who is here and not here and kera for their leadership on the effort as you can see the kind of hearts they came with on a very different note the department is engaging in a very difficult conversation right now on the use of a particular herbicide it is an active ingredient in round up throughout the United States the city as decreased its round up used by 90 percent we use it sparingly, however, a tool in the toolbox a debate about the use of this because the cyber agency on cancer classified it recently as a probably human carrageenan there is a lot of concern yet it has a place in the tool kit in the bio diversity and particular locations to hand pulling or wed whauk is more dangerous than straying it we reduced it to 10 percent of our use and now looking at the last 10 percent and ask the question is if necessary are under safer alternatives we hosted that discussion with agencies from across the bay area who are struggling with the same things 40 people in the department talking about the science and the alternatives chris did a fantastic job on overseeing it and jen jackson stepped in with a wonderful job thank you chris on the legislative front finally good news the healthy air and clean transportation was adapted by the board of supervisors the amended ordinance from our that, of course, that did two very important things one thing it transferred responsibilities in the department over to the Zoning Administrator that became for the staffing in the last budget year was moved from the will department to the Zoning Administrator so we didnt have the staffing it moved the responsibility went with that also important instead of being a strict reduction in revoke ordinance it was a reduction in green house ordinance you want cars that dont emit it might be fine to have more electric cars than gasguzzlers you want to reduce the green house not just the number of vegetables it was stronger because of that we have two ordinances that are were working on you heard from one of the y green already theres two were working on youll hear more about one the electrical vehicle rideness and solar those p are ordinances youll hear more about one of those the other thing that happened in the two months and recently was that i signed finally the agreement with ecology for the landfill you received by email on july 22nd a memo explaining what happened with the contract the contract two significant changes to the contract that i signed one was the term was shortened to 9 years with the potential of a 6 year extension the original contract was not minded only an amount of 5 year funds that would take 15 years shortened to 9 years with an extension of 6 and reduced the amounts per piece 3. 4 mill tons and 6 for the extension we put lack in the contract that capped the number of trucks that ecology could send to the landfill to insure that the Environmental Review that was done by planning is not exceeded were two things that changes to the contract we signed it last week were not done the next thing that has to happen the final ceqa hearing the Planning Department approved what we call a negative declaration when they the the analysis that determination was appealed to the Planning Department the Planning Department reviewed it and unanimously upheld it the appellants can appeal to the board of supervisors which they will do september 29th as scheduled it is thirty days after the action and the action is signing of the contract september 29th a hearing before the full board to look at the Environmental Review if all goes as planned well implement the contract at the end of our expected contract with Waste Management at the end of this calendar year things are moving well the other thing that happened many of you know, we hosted the 83 conference of marries that was a fantastic opportunity for our department to engage with the Mayors Office and engage with the larger Mayoral Community from across the country we hosted the mayors action dialog and reception many of you came as a wonderful huge success we had more than 18 marries participating from other than the country and white house staff and prosecute the private and public world and participation from the local businesses to all come together and think about zero 51 go hundred roots and action at the city level we had fun we culminated our ugliest yard know if there is a photograph but that was a competition that we actually had a selfnomination people could nominate themselves to the ugliest yard 79 people nominated every city was represented and multi thousands of people vote on the ugliest yard we had a win and wilson gets a total yard make over a Wonderful Community event thank you luke and herman can you raise your hand there you are and peter also for their incredible work pulling that together they were phenomenal on a very moving note the mayor last week im sure youre aware of spent quite an interesting couple of days in the vatican with the pope he and roger kim were there to talk about 9 zero 51 hundred and also think about the intersection between climatic change and Human Trafficking for the mayor drawing that parallel and that connection speaks to the environmental and social justice im told by roger kim that was a phenomenally moving experience to be in the room with the pope and hearing the pope calling on all cities across the world to embattle the suffering of the planet and humanity it was very, very powerful so finally i want to acknowledge we have a summer it is summer when it is summer we have interns we have a wonderful host of sdrirn so first, i want to point a bryan can you stand up bryan is fairly new working with the climate team and he is phenomenally wellrounded human being with many, many talents and one is being getting at the inventories and interesting in working in cambodia with youth if youre interested in learning more about are bryans talents hell be available too thank you, brian welcome clapping. keith are you keith great so keith is a familiar face yet has a new role so he started with environment and went over to toxics and now has a position with the zero Waste Program in the zero waste team hes been he knows the program and know how to deal with all sorts of audience and comfortable talking to anyone he was compelling and passionate keating were thrilled youre going to be with us longer clapping. i want to point out one more person herman yee i called you out before i want you to stand up herman as a volunteer is extraordinary his dedication with the you go lit yard to getting the permits and overseeing the agencies to actually getting in the big bin and handing outcome probation officer posts no job too small or big thank you very much herman clapping thank you. So with will all the interims come up to the mike and say where you are in school or life and tells you what youre working on now hi, im becca in the outreach intern for the Energy Program as with the mayor several months looking at the communitybased marketing. Are you done with school. I am done with school for now for new. Great welcome. Hi, im michael im going into any 4 year in Santa Barbara and im working on the renewals thanks. Hi, im joanne i graduated from uc Santa Barbara im joann and graduated fromic Santa Barbara in environmental studies working on this program. Hello, im dean he will with the berkley street light majoring in Environmental Design and sf environment a sophomore. Hi, im graduating in 2013 working on the do so policy illicits im taking all the calls and calls for visitors so gathering their data thank you. Thank you. Hi, im herman yee i really enjoyed any sdrirm with the program im currently looking at options for the next prong of bio Diversity Program and interested in the green cleaning so im just keeping in touch with thats why im here thanks. Hello im notre dame natalie the last year at pomona ma college and work with the production. Im working with the waste team and with the Waste Management team. Hi, im currently a junior in high school at Balboa Park High School and work with the sunshine outreach thank you. Hi, im jerry im going to uc i and with john. Hi, im a student at colbert university with the environmental geography and internship with the Production Team and work on the Healthy Nail Salon ProgramHealthy School program and flame retardant and just wanted to work on the waste. Hi there im danny i remember 3 sdrirpz we see herbicides at herman gulf of mexico and creating a new website with a hundred new policies and also working in toxics reduction and nailsalines we have a great group of people from levels of education some looking for jobs jobs and looking at school and some not in college yet so thank you very much and let us welcome you all clapping. and thats my report. Thank you director raphael it was a great report as usual and great new members of the team welcome abroad youll really enjoy it i want to say before others might have comments is that it was really great in talking about keith going if environment to zero waste it is kind of like for me when i got on the commission three years ago was the dream to be seen a lot more because you you know we know the stories of a lot of folks that come into the environment now and you know have really build this great capacity to build the environment through the jobs and the program staples stops i know that donny is trying to get ways to continue it for another year and try to find places it is the dream it graduates of the environment now, when it gets to that point of the question mark it leads into the department knowing that is just great to hear so thank you and its been great to get to know you keith keep up the good work thank you questions or comments colleagues mr. Pill pal. Nobody left cards. David pilpal again so 3 things first on the landfill agreements what the director explicit mention there is already a lawsuit filed last week against what the city anybody under the sun, etc. Etc. So it was not against the commission the commission took no action but perhaps in the director is a according keep you update that leads to the second comment when i said at the last meeting two months ago is true u true this commission should set contracting limits exceeding a certain dollar amount or length of time should come before you for your approval to so the director is not approving things on her own but most commissions have 9 contract Approval Authority that department didnt do that of contracting activity but set limits so the next thing that happens youre making the decision good or bad and the third point on the discussion you had i dont know if feels was a Public Meeting there was . Yeah. Okay anyway normally theres a Public Outreach meeting in january an on the reduced pesticides list that comes before the commission for approval and innovative i go to those january meetings if something more recent if not there should be and appropriate for chris to come in with another presentation with the city departments that would be helpful to the public not just the summary but Everything Else everyone has said good things about keith any other members of the public one idea kind of linked from the directors report i wonder if there is a possibility within either Service Center for graduates seeking employment i dont know if this is you know the right policy but if there is someway to continue to encourage theres a real technical term ma circulation for the graduates in the Fulltime Position some kind of bonus would be something to explore to continue the Success Stories and the story i have keith and you know open that up for other graduates if were allowed to do that commissioner stephenson. Along those links im not sure our doing this in some fashion but i think there is a how long opportunities for networking and so many green businesses in this area if there was an opportunity to have a list or some sort of group an Electronic Group or meet ups that would be amazing to connect businesses with the environment. Director raphael. If the commission would like we can have carr are a come another time and talk about how we move the environment now staff to the next level with the kind of help do that in Operations Meeting yes. Theres a tremendous amount of work that carr are a does helping the staff getting ready for Department Jobs other than work with at staff it find jobs a great discussion and we would probably get great ideas. Comments colleagues seeing none can we see or hear item 6 please friday. Item 6 presentation on San Franciscos zero waste textile textile collection highlights. Colleagues on this item we talked about presenting to the commission the idea of tabling presentation for this month in order to bring it to our september Commission Meeting and if thats in the line of something that the commission would be in favor can we get a motion to table this until our september meeting so moved by commissioner wan a second . Commissioner Public Comments is required ; right . City attorney yes Public Comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed all in favor, say i. I. Of tabling. Opposed . Say no is have it thank you, thank you. Item 7 presentation on the goals and strategies and early concepts of the power down program a joint Marketing Campaign within pg e and the cities of San Francisco and santa fe the sponsor is director debbie reaping and Principle Program manager at pg e. Thank you friday. So commissioner im sure youre aware of our zero key way to reach a goal in terms of the hundred goals to reduce the loads on the system to reduce our need for energy up front to the world of Energy Efficient im sure youre aware of when youre looking at the empower sufficiency a huge need in the building critically strong codes and stronger code in San Francisco with our Green Building code our lead requirements it is the challenge of those existing buildings how do we get those building managers and the tenants to do what they need to do to reduce their load an important partner with us on the challenge is pg e and youre going to hear today about an Exciting Program that was announced in the u. S. Conference of marries by mayor ed lee and mayor liccardo and pg e and youll hear from rubbing benefit sxhuts hes moved to pg e to run the program and w work with San Francisco and santa fe to engage in this project so im going to ask rue e rubbing benefit to speak sea luke from our staff to talk about i know hes not on the agenda to give a few minutes of the idea of our Partnership Looks Like thank you take it away. Im really thrilled to be here thank you for inviting us commissioners director raphael and director debbie ive given you here in the presentation which i have no idea to switch from here to here a lot more information than the plan on speaking for your reference for later on and questions you might have if i fly to these by design it give you a chance to focus on what you want to see how do i just talk and go. Step up and power down. You want to switch . Go ahead. Hello okay. Great. Thank you. Step up and power down is about russ energy waste and it is a partnership between the cities of San Francisco and santa fe and pg e it is a new way for all of us to Work Together thats one the exciting things about it for all of us and energy waste can be found in the buildings infrastructure itself and also in the way all of us use and occupy buildings how to make smart decisions we have a two tier goals for enrolling 6 Hunters Point participated businesses in San Francisco additional achieving 20 million hours of savings and the kilowatt hours of savings are the combination of behavior based things were in the process of figuring out how to mower when somebody explicit turn on a light were trying as well as the upgrade programs for the Energy Watch Program pg e offers in order to reduce the waste it is a collaboration ill talk about that in a slide or two races awareness of what is happening in companies that might not think about energy there are a lot and a whole lot more companies that think that it once in a while but we want to help them make smarter decisions with lasting habits not fun for a week or two but stick we want to focus on the upgrades that energy watch is providing and pg e is providing to make sure that technology and behavior are married and critically we want to recognize the staff it is a Community Effort one of the reasons we have the two goals you saw in the last slide about the number of businesses and energy is because if youre going for k w h the Top Companies that would be done and save a lot of energy this is about a Community Effort we want everybody thinking and participating and being recognized and award for what they do heres the collaboration with the Department Around the design the Campaign Marketing and particularly the outreach weve seen two examples and im sure every two months example of how the department succeeds with the Small Business community were relying on those skills for our success were looking at multi lingual where the city as tremendous resources that benefit the program and Political Support obviously both marries are on board and were excited about that that is one of the reasons were excited to be here today we are targeting originally the yellow areas you see are the 2030 district thats our original focus we wanted to create a Community Feeling to have a Critical Mass a buzz people have to matter to each other and proximity in relationship weve expanded that various folks within the city were interested in bring in a more Diverse Community than the downtown area were focusing on the areas in black as you can see chinatown and the western edition and the mission and loops around mission bay so this is the area were focusing on well not turn anyone away obviously but thats where we are concentrating our efforts im going to skip this because i think the audience all knows why it is important to save energy ill let you read that at youre less sure i want to talk about behavior and behavior change how important and in the same breath how easy it is and difficult at the same time think about seat belts and very few of us think about getting in a car and in the instinctly building inspection up i remember this takes a long process of creating a social normal around that there are laws that are important but things that accompany those laws as the department knows the bag ordinances this accomplished ordinances it is thing to do those things happen around smoking and litter not happening overnight but an important start we see we can achieve 6 percent with this kind of an effort. The effort obviously multiples with doing something small like turning off a light it o is that better i must have grown turning off the computer at night those kinds of things multiple we talk about people on the floor and multiple by the number of floors and look at San Francisco the number of building that has floors it can add up initiative is intent to support the citys and departments goals im going to go into detail were trying to lion the 2030 district we view ourselves as the first year and a half step to 2030 and as you might have heard the goals are linked to a prize at the end of the initiative which will go through the ends of 2016 both the 76 santa fe and San Francisco upon meeting those goals San Francisco well meet those goals will receive one Million Dollars of pg e stakeholders money that is not your money but stakeholder money to be used for green house reduction or climate related prongs what that will be used for is not decided not decided who is going to decide but that is the intent both cities meet the goal 500000 to divide between the cities very quickly a run down of the components of the initiative here we ask people to join by signing a pledge that is based on on behavorial science we ask them to sign a pledge he commit to doing something to save energy and work with the businesses and various tools to help them do that some of the tools involve measurement and organization and creation of green teams, various trainings that we offer ill get into each of those a little bit there are a number of quick tips relying on our own experience and this experience of the energy watch team to see what are the quick tips particularly for the Small Businesses theyll not dive in with the same resources as the larger businesses we want to make sure there quick tips that feel meaningful and recognized for behavior campaigns ill touch on in a minute rewards and recognition and obviously getting people to upgrade their facilities were viewing this as a way to kick start and accelerate turk both charge any projects lets help the city win the prize so im going to go with one slides on each of those items just to walk us through the quick tips the different ways to look at the Energy Assessment from the engineering standpoint and behavorial standpoint the different traibz we offer the behavorial campaigns the Energy Saving campaigns the way we track and martin pr an important part is public recognition for people so quickly the wins were all familiar with this the point they exist and people will be rewarded for this i dont want to dwell on things that people are familiar with. Different because of assessing here is important we are offering something weve been calling that a behavorial audit i find that term to be questions term a workshop Energy Program assessment thank you basically, it is about looking what people do in their work places and when an engineer going in and does a technical audit and quantify what they see we dont do that for how poem occupy a building dont walk around and count the number of converts left on or Conference Room lights left on not Rocket Science by needs to be measured by measuring that it comes back to companies and say look whats happening here guess was it actually is so what are youre next steps thats were excited as a powerful new tool to get people motivated and were also urges an energy Check Software that measures meter uses and people can go in and make a plan theres a Certain Energy component for those of you familiar with the Energy Pursuit that can guide people towards the beneficial actions beneficial for anyone that makes a pledge at no cost a way that people that are not teaching the customers tenants in a highrise building they dont pay the bill they can take advantage of that two interesting training components part of this one is sustainability circles where a group of 10 Companies Get together for a training not a fly by night a period of 5 months full day sessions once a month for 5 months and with a sustainability plan well offer 5 circles in San Francisco and offering an enhanced hardcore jrg training for technical staff those are the behavior campaigns or the engagement campaigns leveraging social science to make it both compelling and fun for people to start getting used to getting the mules memory for minutes adapt a light lots of light dont belong to anybody for example theyre in a Conference Room a hallway or hearing room who is going to turn off the lights when were done hopefully someone adapt a light and is okay. Ill have an adoption certificate and make that my light ill give it a cute name whatever i want and get a vote if i dont take care of my light there is a little bit of green enter play a treat at the end of the night for turning off a computer so play ball with us a tag is another kind of thing a sort of stick instead of the carrot you left our stuff on at the desk people can leave cute maybe not cute depending on our meadow it is attractive thing well be the important thing is that we have them for offices and hotel and restaurants and retail as well we cant suggest all the market retail ive talked about the Energy Software and the softwares more the manager is a robust tool for managers to track the assessments and discs again, were focusing heavily on upgrades here one of the ways that any business can participate and step up in power down but doing energy watch projects you are participating in and step up and power down and recognition this is another area where luke eye are really working in close concert with because there are a cycle with the recognition we not only want to recognize the businesses that are doing crave things that is great publicity for the next wave of prarntsd to see whats going on here so maybe should participate Everyone Wants in if the department. Do you have any. Do i look like i need some say some of the other consultants hey how about a coffee shop well bring our resources together but collectively we recognize businesses hey free coffee for joes dry cleaner that stepped up and powder do you think thats how that will work and lots of communitybased activities well be planning that are both over the entire area of the project and also be specific to certain neighborhoods or business sectors it is something were looking for the 3d for various places around the city if we can get the permits in time. Whoops so im almost done, in fact i am one the things ill close a lot of this is about a collaborative outreach in marketing approach and so there will be an overall events that will be happening energy watch b will be out there luke and his Team Dedicated to step up and power down will be out there, working with Community Merchants associations and chamber of commerce, everybody will be out there spreading the word our intent youll not see a lot of flashy flashy billboards but a lot of voices that are making the same case and a lot of social media as well and a lot of awards and recognition and public thanks things that happen so ill stop there i will ill be happy to answer any questions as the agenda allows and flip back if you want thank you for your time. Thank you clapping. great program. Would you like to hear luke quick and ask questions of the two or ask questions now. Maybe if we could hear from luke about the program rubin. So im luke with sf Outreach Team won the things i wanted to talk about is how sf clean will be engaging whats our role how well participate and the voice to the table to echo rubins comment about the community and Community Engagement it is something our department is extremely wellversed and phenomenal in engaging our community in San Francisco we want to leverage the experience to bring step up power down to the Business Community thats our role within step up and power down well be engaging small sized businesses in collaboration with pg e to develop a marketing plan for the middle sized businesses to engaging them on one or more conversations possible our environment now team and also recognizing the businesses that stepped up and powerfully down this initiative has the capacity to be a mouthpieces for for or against relationship wit the Small Business community to build on to other programs and help the by these businesses to understand how they can save energy and money and their actions regardless of small turning out the light switch do you help San Francisco take one step closer to our green house reduction goals and, of course through step up power down we will support the work by identifying businesses that have Energy Saving opportunities in the infrastructure beyond the behavorial components and help further out to the energy watch partners i would also like to propose a resolution for your consideration whereas the city and county of San Francisco whereas the city and county of San Francisco is proud to partner with the pg e by prarpts in a step up and power down initiative to help the San Francisco businesses and bottom line by making simple changes to everyday acts that reduce the energy waste and showcase their Companies Commitment to the environment and whereas the reduction in Green House Gas emissions support the compliment action of the city and state whereas if San Francisco meets the targets of the perplex of the campaign pg e will attribute one million to the goals and sustainability budgets now therefore, be it resolved that the San Francisco commission on the environment on this 2 eight day of july 2015 supports pg e and the city and county of San Francisco partnering on step up and power down to help local businesses save energy. Thanks luke colleagues before we think about questions or things to discuss i know weve been given a proposed resolution to look at id like to ask deputy City Attorney owen to give the members of the public that may not be seeing this the chance to kind of look and think about comments you might want to make during Public Comment maybe while we deliberate on this item and consider a possible action on this resolution would that be adequate. So thoughts on the program please colleagues. Commissioner. It sounds like a very not only Interesting Program to engage not just businesses but workers take that home so it is a great way to mentally but people go home they still remember all the things i have a question whats the length of the campaign does it have a beginning and ends so were seeing a template well, i need to start now and not tomorrow thank you. Thats a reels good question we want to feel a sense of urgency we launched and conference of marries last month and it will go to the end of 2016 so about a year and a half. Thank you. Commissioner stephenson i think this is fantastic and i say this is a lot of personal experience in the ream i work in Startup Community and a number of Companies Community and its the Small Businesses that feel like theyre not big enough to implement some of the practices and do some of those things you dont i cant will you it is mad egging the lights have left on everywhere in the offices im so excited to have all those im taking them around to people when i go in the office im interested in a couple of things im wondering if we can i love the idea of the recognition the recognition is a really big deal im wondering if there is a way to make it more contest i didnt there is a competitive spirit amongst the businesses that are trying to make their businesses grow and i think that if i look at my own life when i get my Energy Statement the first thing i look at how i measure up towards the houses like mine in the neighborhood if it didnt look as good thats one of the first incentives to look at the loub i wonder if there as contest piece to put in there and love to hear because i see members of the public that are watching that is there one thing we might not be a part of this and not have small Property Owner what is the one thing to bring back to others clearly doing a lot of the retrofits and into the offices is best can we personally do something to do you want the lights power down the computers whats the one thing to take back to our offices. Two questions the contest part i referenced our monthly bill this is a perfect example of the social how that will motivate people to get sort of to not so good did you observe here to tolerable were not framing it as a contest right now but every business that signs up has a chance to side various amounts of the things were described in the slide they will get badges for that weve set threshold for one 2 for column b that kind of thing once you meet the threshold your recognized so it is not like your recognized more than someone else but theres a bar that is to be met great if everybody plays but not like my sons Softball Team so thats component of it we expect there will be competition and weve heard of the a lot competition part of the trickle back to your first comment on the Small Businesses that cant really you know cant expedite on the same Playing Field with the organizations we could do something going back to kids sports like the Legacy League and this league it gets complicated were trying to make it significant and substantive without that opinions were not framing it as a competition every time people speak were going to take San Francisco every single time so loosen up and the other piece was about the most impactful thing if youre not using it turn it off thats over and over and over and over twice as many nonworking hours in the week as nonworking hours thats number one and simple things to be turned off your computer or monitored or the lights in the Conference Room that is also things that stay on 24 7 like water carols and coffee machines things like that those things are put on timers for the overnight hours so those things can help a lot you know the one person it can burn the midnight alisa miller how much oil needs to be burned if youre not using it turn it off. Thank you commissioner wan. Thank you for your presentation i have a twopart question in your presentation you mentioned the cultural competent if i have examples of the strategies that will touch on population that usually we have a hard time reaching out to the population and the second part is a lot of Business OwnersSmall Businesses theyre not tech savvy Technical Assistance for how to check their storage usage or check the competition or be engaged. That is frankly one of the areas where were relying heavily on the department for their expertise and help im sure youre aware of pg e has things translate in hundred and eight hundred 5 languages those are narrow services that are provided Emergency Services not the nuance kind of thing were doing here and an important are well welcome you up here if you want to join were reaching out to local merchant associations and community and weve shared resources with both cities that have allowed them to enhance in house language capacities in santa fe it the vietnamese and spanish and San Francisco it is i dont know if the departments is going for cantonese or minor or both but in language all the website material is to the translated yet but will be in those four languages and the colateral but the face to face person to person interaction is key thats where were really relying because most of that most of those people in that communities are Small Business community as opposed to the Larger Companies thats where the department is basically leading the development of the entire Small Businesses plan for step up and power down pg e is taking more of an active role if the large overall up brel but the outreach strategy luke is the point person for that. Is there anything that rubin commented on you want to talk about. I want to say word to word transmission didnt help to engage a community but have the Community Engaged in the hope when we do the outreach to help. Absolutely. Thank you one thing one of the as those pices pies are translated by the various Translation Services that are used to doing that weve set a requirement they have to be reviewed by a nature speaker who is familiar with what were doing not just the genetic Translation Service and a learning curve from that as well. Director raphael. Yeah. I think commissioner wan your point is welltaken about the importance of the cultural competent in the development and engaging the community in how they want to be worked with this is something we understand and luke and the person who will be hired a work with him is excited to dive both that because it is a pretty diverse boundary and not a onesizefitsall clearly my personal hope we put chinatown in that district we have a lot of work going on with the sustainable chinatown how to make those not confusing to the community. All right. Other comments before we deliberate on the resolution can we open up for Public Comment anyone wants to comment on the item and the erases before us. We can still talk after we hear just to give the public a chance to weigh in maybe as we deliberate mr. Pill pal. Comments for us. David pilpal again nice to see rubin welcome back once again, people dont leave the dpw department i feel gerard in the room the presentation was not in the packet im hoping that rubin can upload it and slides that are not good contrast a lot of good information im hoping it will see a wider audience i want to clarify that program didnt replace energy watch they both live side by side with integration the short answer is yes energy watch is successful and this is a thing for a period of time but energy watch about continue and hopefully, well win the competition arent we better than santa fe arent we better. Careful it is recorded. And is there a legal agreement or document that clarifies the roles of the pg e and the city in this program has that been drawn up or is this happening ad hoc. Thats a question i can answer director i dont want to take up your time. The last point i have was at the Public Utilities they their engaged in did the resolution as youre aware of the intersection agreement the city as a difficult relationship with pg e whats the word of the day partner and agree on things as much as this program to reduce program. Mr. Pill pal any other members of the public maybe were able to speak to mr. Pill pals question debbie if you know the answer or ask luke. Were currently in the process of doing an outline of the responsibility we pitted forward a proposal and have feedback from pg e but were ironing that out as we speak. Thank you luke colleagues thoughts on the resolution i think this is a great resolution the resolution looks at good if we have comments i want to make clear from the deputy City Attorney weve gone through the rights openness of discussion and public we could take action if this is the will of the commission tonight; is that right thank you. Any thoughts . Commissioner wan a quick question we want to clarify if we meet our goal we get one Million Dollars or split that with santa fe. Youre completely independent San Francisco meets the San Francisco goals then the city gets the full one Million Dollars. Great, thank you. Orders if there is no other comments on the resolution can we get a motion to approve it . I move we approve the resolution as written. Commissioner wan. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it thanks everyone thank you luke hear item 8 please friday. Item 8 update on the fiscal year 20152016 budget sponsor is director raphael speaker is joe project manager minutes and administration. Thank you friday commissioners im sure youre aware of youve been hearing about this budget for that a look at tomorrow actually, the mayor will be signing the budget at a ceremony in city hall and joe about give you a highlevel summary of what ended up in the budget and talk about the ad backs and have more discussion about that so joe. Excellent. Thank you good evening, commissioners ash your thirds visit now. Im an old pro im joe the fiscal administrator manager for the department of the environment so director raphael im here to give a brief overview of the board of supervisors budget process and the subsequent reluctance of that process the first slide shows budget that was presented to the commission and to the board of supervisors this shows our initial proposing proposal to the board as you can see the amount it 17 ill get my glasses plus which is an 8. 2 percent increase over the 20142015 fiscal year and just so everybody calls the main increase is due to staff copay increases and grants that were approved during the aap process so the process this year was more challenging than in previous years and in fact for the first time in over a decade we were forced to disagree with the fords initial recommendations and go back for a second hearing sorry is this too loud sorry. Im going to purchase the next slide by letting everybody know the initial represents from the boards involved 3 hundred and 34 thousands of direct cuts to the budget this next mislead is where we actually ended up so the administration supplies budget was reduced by 11,075 when is 11 point plus decrease the administrative budget was reduced by less than 10 percent and the Green Building impounded was reduced by 50 decrease those are the direct cuts and actually ended up adding up to 23,000 735 a tremendous decrease from the original direct cuts of 324,000 we got a decrease to the expenditures through an additional to and i transition they put in the second round not part of the first round our total cuts including the direct and attrition is hundred and 32,000 plus the boards recommend that we put the increase of our carbon fund budget on reserve essentially keeping the levels the funding levels the same as 20142015 so overall it is an excellent in terms of budget cutting we also director raphael alluded to the we ended up getting 3 add backs to the current fiscal year those add backs are zero waste Pilot Program that received one hundred thousand dollars the Community Garden support district then which is 20,000 and the green finance sf outreach of funding of a hundred thousand dollars for the fiscal year so ultimately we actually ended up interesting the budget by 87,000 plus so our total increase for 20152016 is 8. 7 percent thats actually all i had if you have any questions i object to answer them. Commissioner stephenson has a question. Sure. I have two i know we talked about the general fund money. We made a request in all 4 of the requests were denied okay. I have many questions ill wait and then i know weve talked about the fact the department is hit with Unfunded Mandate requirement and sort of managed programs that dont have fund did we make any headway on the transitioning part of that were there any left over were in charge. Part of the general Fund Requests were around the Unfunded Mandate and the personal labor costs that are to recuperate and now that the request have been rejected ill planning to do a to engage with kate and the Mayors Office in terms of determining an ultimate path for resolving this issue it is a structural issue not going away whether they want to you know have an issue with general fund or not it is still there and somehow we have to fourth a way to deal with that ill engage with the Mayors Office in terms of understanding a path to insure that those are take care of. Would that be like work orders from other departments what would it look like. Thats a very good question im sure how it molesters if the last fiscal year it was a work order from services that very well maybe the path to got rid of if there are still resistance to the general fund support i think at this point it is kind of the purpose of flushing out how we can do this we said where the problems are but we dont have a clear answer the pathway to resolving that which one was not successful were going to try to look at our other options until we find one that does work. Thank you, joe. Comments director raphael. I have one comment on the table your columns can you explain what those headers are in the district i assume nong sf and the significance. Sure on the ad backs the district is the district that the supervisor that proposed or added those fund back youll notice district 3 and 10 in the city so district 3 and district 10 objective comes from the city im frankly not sure where i dont know if so it a general fund like true general fund not having a significant district to attach itself to the interesting thing about the zero waste pilot it is Nongeneral Fund money that general fund isism pound money coming back to us taken from us in the attrition essential they rate the attrition by 8,000 and reduce our expenditures and increased our budget by a hundred thousands for the civic work. And does it mean the Community Garden and the policy it says g f are those general funds. Yes in fact, coming from general fund. I want to add to joes presentation what those mean lets start from the become the green finance selfdefense that was supervisor farrell i dont know why it says the city some reason basically, thats to support by the work of rich to get youve heard about pace financing and companies that offer those financing mechanisms we need to get people to take them up on it how do we get residents to look at the options to do either Energy Retrofits or soft story for earthquake those go under the pace the Community Garden sport were trying to fourth what supervisor cowen had in mind were not sure a small amount were not insure if that is a pass through or work and the zero waste pilot is something that commissioner wan and the commissioner going know about were talked about how to engage with the communities in a way to do some of the culturally competent outreach efforts and how to engage the communities to help us do a better job of Hermosa Beach them do a better job at recycling well thought about the Community Counseling ideas this is a way to pilot and try it out and see what it looks like and strengthens our capacity to do the outreach weve not finalized the look or feel of that clearly it is a lot smaller amount of money weve hoped for initially in the small toe in the water to see how this looks at Going Forward. Thanks director raphael any questions all right. Thank you joe and members of the public. Mr. Pill pal arrest david pilpal on the first slide to joe the program line it is labeled it could be changed to zero waste i suspect it probably is in the Controllers Office but whatever it takes to fix that it should be calling that what it is on the second slides the carbon fund the reserved the department will have to go back to on the one hand do get the reserve funds maybe the next time on the urban fund that could detail with the carbon fund and finally i appreciate the decision on the ad backs i how the thought that zero waste pilot would include the council may or may not an idea to create a counselor and maybe go to more meetings and talk about more zero waste so well see how that plays out Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed i think that ill be curious to see if commissioner wan might want to know about the next steps on the zero waste pilot the Environmental Council notation with the pilot around zero waste in z3 when we might talk about a public announcement maybe how far away we might be since weve talked about it on this item director raphael. Yeah. I see that donny stepped out donny is going to be working with the zero waste team to fourth what we can do with the money so hopefully at the next Commission Meeting to talk about what those steps are and to determine if we want to have an initial discussion but currently with the finance commission which will be with the help of the community. Yes. Well discuss later in the agenda one thing that comes to mind if we want to think about a year ahead of time or 9 months ahead of time to get back into general fund again having proof of concept around the environmental expect and the score waste in district 3 and chinatown exultant is something if we make that part of ask around general fund support demonstrating the success and giving us enough time to make sure wear moving to have a Success Story is part of the equation. Commissioner wan. To clarify the 100 in district 3. My understanding is that the focus would be on district 3 and that because it came from that supervisor that she has a great interest in thinking about how we use her community as a testing her district. Chinatown and all polk street. Correct. Correct. We may decide not to do the inspire district because the cultural implications of that district are so exists diverse maybe get together offline to discuss. We would like to have your wisdom on that commissioner wan and. And the rumor is the origin for that idea as its genisis when two commissioners were having tea in chinatown maybe it is coming full circle. All right. So any other discussions . Thank you, joe and can we hear item 9 please, friday item 9 update on better roof for sf solar requirement sponsor is commissioner arce and speaker is berry private sector Green Building. Director raphael if i can say thanks for being here berry im excited it is on the agenda because that was close to two years ago supervisor we were at First Community meeting in Hunters Point this was part of the policy well be joining who other cities adjoining the solar on the lead of lancaster and california and appropriate because there was a lot of Community Capacity to move the solar agenda in Hunters Point solar is for every one of or tenants and tlrt that solar is for you we pass the resolution if if spirit and berry and terry are a and the whole team put together this task force to give light to the policy and change the state code and bring the stakeholders and community and labor and the businesses and department and other departments and i tend to think well learner tonight were getting very close to an actual ordinance and based on all greatest work in the department in bringing together the stakeholders that makes that a success to all the difference city agencies and everyone that has a stack this could rumor has it very well be the strongest ordinances of its kind in the land not to put pressure on you berry hes been working hard everyone please welcome berry hover to the commission. And thank you, commissioners and director raphael so im with the green specialist with the department and im just here to bring brief remarks yes were confirming were working on an ordinance with the feedback of a variety of stakeholders including the task force that meet last year the pneumonia kinds of input if the rebuttal go task force a lot of work from terry are a weeks ago that is completing two years of service in 2022 and we do have some and we presented to the commission a policy count i committee on june 8th were continuing we presented taped we have policy idea in development and we do expect to make them available for consideration by the elected officials when they return from recess in september emphasis of that policy idea is drawn a partly from the feedback from the commission recognizing that the San Francisco the need a lead on new energy across the construction a straight opportunity for improvement and also their was a 2013 task force with participation broadly from members of the community as well as sfpuc water enterprise and the Planning Department that was convenes by spur sew looking at the variety of rooftops so the combination of those ideas lead to recognize their multiple valid reasons to make sure that rooftops get used for the benefit of citizens and the environment so the ideas that there was suggested a better roofs policy recognizing that space is an underutilized resource can contributed to open space and the rebuttal energy proximate and valuable things for the stakeholders in the community thats what were collaborating with other agencies is to make sure that their is were able to contribute toe meeting the green house mitigation but recognizing the buildings are not purely built for their environmental building but for a number of uses and need to support those uses as well we do have a costs effectiveness analysis for green roofs participant by the green roof engineers to compliment the cost effecting analyze it is pro tem the department completed last year looking at the solar energy those are maturing and policy ideas will be viable for consideration by the board. Great thank you questions from any have a quick question what yard line 10 or 5 yard line. Yeah. 3 yard line. Great question were 60 yard line. 60 yard like that what a first down. Certainly we need to not underestimate some of the challenges were also are actively working on a lot of the environmental we go from environmental come from density and the social density as well so the density frequently means height it means a implication for other buildings those are critical we strict a good balance in good options for consideration by the board and commission. All right. Well sound like were close all right. Any other comments thank you berry lets see if there is anybody from the public wants to weigh in seeing none, Public Comment is closed thank you, again. And we look forward to getting interest if we can before we go to the next item friday i meant to say what the slides go up and holding slides and friday is working with the good folks at sfgovtv we dont thank enough so thank the good folks other sfgov to get us through the meeting i try to do it at the top the meeting and dont often thanks to let us know theyre helping us get to the meeting director raphael i want to reemphasis won the points that ordinance was not done in a vacuum it ultimate will land on the implementation responsibilities of other departments not just ours it is very for those other departments be with us all the way the planning and department of building inspection and Vice President s that have interest the puc with their storm issues and the water conservatism and the Fire Department because they care deeply what goes on on the roof those are the City Interests and the solar and the apartment owners and beaumont i wanted to recognize the work that terry are a has done to call the parties together those meetings are not always quote their if his thank you meeting people because it is bold and the first in the nation a lot of fears there are concerns some are liability not so much so berry and terry are a and cal needs to weigh through the issues to find solutions when we can so when berry says we cant underestimate the challenges hes right and challenges to get to the goal line im confident well have a strong ordinance of not every question is answered well start the process when the board returns in an exciting and meaningful way. Thank you director raphael if we can move on to item 10. Item 10 approval of corrected guidelines for the use of impound funds accent speaker and sponsor director raphael. Thank you friday that is something coming back to you im going to let geremo rodriguez walk us through. For the record commissioners that is brought back for action i mean at youre also commissioner meeting it went back and forth and keep it clarified in that discussion staff recognizes that the memo that was presented to you for action then had mistakes in the memo so were bringing back to you this version correcting those mistakes and the memo that is before you for action here to make it simply for you i struck out the language that were proposing be removed from the memo and double undermine those words that were including here the item before i is again removes the bio diversity we mentioned that in our Public Comments to you but it was still in the documents so we removed that as well as the language in each of the Program Categories that was in conflict that the overview action wear asking you to approve this evening is a corrected version so we can have on file and ill be happy to answer any questions ultimately the purpose content of the memo that you all debated has not changed that is only correcting the mistakes we indicated were present when we brought toy a vetted document ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you geremo. Its pretty straightforward challenging changes any discussion well go right to Public Comment i know this is something that mr. Pill pal has zero interest in. Zero waste, of course, i do. You can make a motion first. We can go either way but because there might be a little bit more review thank you though. Just one minor correction or suggestion in the middle of page 3 at the end of zero waste paragraph i would either i understand that with zero waste period or the x y o a the way the struck out appears yeah. Also on page one the paragraph about the total fiscal year 20142015 if youre updating can you insert the correct 20152016 allocations for total budget and how much is the impound account and it is just a mechanic inheritance and most interesting on the top of page 3 the maximum percentage i get that it would be helpful if another column that talked about the actual monies 20152016 that comes out of the impound account but this would be a sort of a snapshot in time and i think i was lead to building this memo will be updated from from time to time and this shows the Rachel Norton so i think the numbers will bear that out as well otherwise i have no objections with our support. Thank you, mr. Pill pal is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak seeing none, Public Comment is closed thoughts on the ideas of mr. Pill pal. Certainly on page 3 the zero waste again anothers error so, yes, i would suggest it be sentence and it ends with a period. We can certainly now we do know what our Department Budget is reflect on page one i dont have that change but with those two items we can certainly move forward. Okay thank you geremo arrest deputy City Attorney owen would we be okay to entertain a motion and approve a motion not only to take the first change that seems straightforward but to add place to insert the 20152016 values once theyre determined when geremo and the team gets them considering we dont have the numbers do we have to be specific to say we know the numbers in the document. As long as you can direct the department to use numbers that are fixed at some point in the particular document that would be the Department Budget you can presume that way. Those are numbers that are fixed right now just not in front of us okay. Maybe colleagues, can we get a motion to approve the guidelines with the change hates been described on page 3 and the insertion of the 20152016 figures as they stand today an page one. So moved. Commissioner makes a motion second all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . No all right. Thank you thank you geremo and thanks to the team. Item 11 Operations Committee chairs report. Review the agenda of august 12, 2015, meeting to be held in city hall room 1241 at 12 00 p. M. We actually dont have an agenda im waiting i was waiting to see if we have any but well have that at the next meeting. Okay. Thank you comments colleagues members of the public seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we hear item 12. Policy committee report. Highlights from the june 8, 2015, meeting and the review of the agenda of the august 10 2015 to be held at city hall in room 421. Our policy carry chair is not here maybe commissioner from the june 8th meeting. Again. That was a meeting which i apologized for being late i was coming from sacramento so it was a terrible experience but no, i dont of anything to report from that. Okay. And then to staff do we have any ideas on the august 10th agenda . No i do know that i had tangle talked with the staff and chair about type of update meeting on the mta commuter shuttle policy program we had Committee Meeting about i dont know if it was a year ago maybe it was sometime ago we look at that pilot proposal that mta was proposing around the regulation of counterpart shuttles we had certain things we had wanted to talk about and see in the program and wished it well on meeting the environmental benefits but wanted to see the regular updates to know what is the impact if everything was projected was actually occurring and now it is closing out as the pilot we had for those of us sustainability including the sustainability jobs for the men and women on the environmental initiatives wanting to see good wages and benefits and a Robust Program that supported workers that were going to be driving the shuttles that is a policy codified by supervisor wiener so i requested angle update from mta from the status and the metrics that are coming out on the different fronts and i know that that was indicated that that would be a possibility in october id like to do that in september if that is a possibility to talk but with staff personnel availability questions but maybe a month and a half of for anybody that was interested a lively conversation the last time the policy committee an important one this time too all right. Public comment on item 12. David pilpal i think mta was going to make an interim report to the Advisory Committee in october or november on the commuter shuttle Pilot Programs you maid may want to cooperate i think one of the folks went Opening Statement may we eternity so cooperate to make sure your concerns are heard as theirs are you keep hearing from people in innovating about too big buses moving you know 10 buses, 20 buses an hour ridiculous numbers of large buses not necessarily moving a lot of people but throughnoah valley but in any event, i want to conform the policy is intended to meet on august 10th and operations on august 12th thanks. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Pill pal is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak sooind announcements. Yes. Announcements all right. Colleagues director raphael announcements director raphael yes. I have one announcement that we have launched a video competition a zero 50 hundred short competition the mayor annuity this as the library new teen tech system we met with the directors of the green Film Festival their pledged to showcase some of the Winning Industries so this announcement is to anybody listening to this who has a teen or young person whos interested in making short film we welcome you to think about zero 5051 to be fun and engage our piers caught the department of the environment and shawn is your person so if any of you have colleagues or friends who think might be interested it will be fun. Thank you director raphael. Any other announcements commissioners Public Comment on announcements seeing none, Public Comment is closed 14 friday. President naumentsdz. One thing ill say that the that tomorrow or thursday we had heard from Assembly Member david chiu he has an event trading districts with counterpart in Southern California in los angeles Assembly Member gomez similarly to go david chiu their trading 3 days in the middle of that week david chiu is in senator gomez and comboemz is up with us hes doing a tour with the dmv department of the environment and you might want to share. Actually im going to ask geremo he is the one doing the planning it sounds like a lot of fun. Geremo rodriguez for the record hes were providing him a zero waste tour with the recycle facilities and a great opportunity to showcase San Francisco not only talking about the success that we have with the cycle recycling but all the different policies that the Department Working with the then david chiu now assemblyman david chiu we will with get to the zero waste policy. That sounds like great very good. All right. So that was it i just any Public Comment on item 14 seeing none, Public Comment is closed number 15 please friday and item 15 new business of future agenda. Any new business future agenda items colleagues no commissioner stephenson im always a little bit not confused but i feel like sometimes were hampered by the fact that water in San Francisco is handled by the puc which is exactly right theyre managing our water use if hetch hetchy but el nino is coming i feel like we hope there is all this conversation i feel like we have an opportunity as the department of the environment to talk about the water that is coming both our backyard not coming from hetch hetchy but falling from the sky i know there are programs that are starting helping to incentivize people to put rain barrels out a conversation around San Francisco and water as part of the environment that isnt under the pucs jurisdiction id like to have the conversation. That might be something that to maybe agendize 10 east at the full commissioner policy committee. I think that would be an outstanding opportunity to invite puc to tell us what theyre doing and have you engage in a conversation oath gap analysis we see moving forward do we have a in our zero 51 routine an opportunity to add a water goal perhaps puc would like to join us. Outstanding tuesday night for the full commission. All right. Public comment on item 15 mr. Pill pal. The last times tonight excellent idea i would definitely invite paula or other than the urban water shed group from wastewater thaifr theyve worked the issues both incentives the stormwater design and the gray Water Systems all kinds of thing is really the time for all of that i awe agree and hope whoever replaces monique well have a written secretaries report i track the listing of correspondence that you received including like the memo that wasnt here so hopefully, when that happens again well capture and finally on the commissioner rosters this needs to be updated the commissioner wan is the Vice President that is like joe biden but less of an enrelocate. Mr. Pill pal middle name is details general manager very good any others members of the public seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we hear our last item please friday and again everyone give friday, a rourpz for making it through. Were not dimensional item 16 a members of the public form or forms listed below. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the Consent Agenda any Public Comment seeing none Public Comment is closed. Before you call the last item thank you sfgov for everything i do for us thank you. Okay. So item 17 is adjournment. Okay thank you. Do i have a say the time and commission adjourned at 712. Going with apple time 712 hello, i am with the recreation and parks department. We are featuring the romantic park location in your backyard. This is your chance to find your heart in santa and cisco with someone special. San francisco with someone special. Our first look out is here at Buena Vista Park a favorite with couples and dog walkers. Both have a significant force. A refreshing retreat from urban life. The romantic past that meander up and down the park under pines and eucalyptus. Hang out in this environment and you might see butterflies it, fennel, and then the lines. Dandelions. Is ada accessible. Public transit is plentiful. 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I want to equilibrium everyone here it is an amazing today to be here here in the presidio in building 211 if so the center of press over the last few years here the doyle drive presidio Parkway Project that is such an amazing project that is decades and decades in the making. There is a Service Safety reasons. It happening so much visualizing over the past decades in San Francisco and to think that now we have the Presidio Parkway in place it is the gateway to San Francisco and will be for generations to come an amazing piece of art and transportation infrastructure hub for our bay area but simply more than anything or anything an amazing asset for our bay area region when you go out to the Presidio Parkway which you look 30s 30s thorough this is you can vision to the parks over to the freeway onto the beaches simply a vision that is crafted over decades and im so proud were here like supervisor wiener i want to take a mom to thank you, supervisor wiener certainly as charged i have Transportation Authority for to project in particular make no mistake supervisor wiener was critical in his role with the executive director and thank you, supervisor wiener i want to thank our home team the Transportation Authority thank you tilly and jose and someone that retired a few weeks ago has sense moved to austin, texas lee thank you for youre under arrest hardy want to give a round of applause clapping. lee promises hell continue to have sf giants in the back of his pickup truck well hold that you i want to thank hearing officer and others for working on this clapping. and to caltrain to gotten link and the golden Transportation Authority and thank you to everyone from of the government prospective there are a few people individuals i want to thank first and foremost the person when is the driving force behind had vision thats michael i dont know where michael painer is michael clapping. for those who dont know this is michaels design this is michaels vision and we had a chance of run into each other with the tour to meet i there in the middle of construction thank you for your hard work make no mistake this is your project to the many members as supervisor wiener mentioned a circulation of the fables to our citizens Advisory Committee and all the people that tricked to it i live on on behalf of the many district 2 residents that picking up put up with the late night beeping and the hoptsz a few years ago were finally here this is the construction not ended yet a lee low to clean up and a time to celebrate and finally i want to thank the mayors in particular mayor newsom and mayor ed lee who is sick but on behalf of the board of supervisors to the sfmta and the Police Department aid the Fire Department and members of laborer and the other mr. Mulligan and to the Highway Patrol and state mash and thank you for your support the final sign is ouch thank you. laughter . Ill end with this ill say about two years ago i had the future of waking up in the morning joining jose and tilly and my parents i grew up here in the marina we took a muni bus starting owe Golden Gate Bridge we were the 1 people to drive across the one part of the presidio we plan to do with molly first a big round of applause for molly back there clapping rightfully gets the loudest round of mrous applause weighing well do it this morning but low and behold thanks for the hard work the reside opened earlier i came with my daughter and jose and tilly and parsons and others to take a tour to be the 1 people to drive on the Presidio Parkway it is an incredible experience for those who who didnt come i hope you leave here do create a traffic jam it is unbelievable makes it amazing a different experience and something that we will all be proud of to all involved on behalf of the a grateful city this is a product for generations thank you all for your support clapping thank you supervisor farrell and supervisor wiener for those wonderful remarks that captured the moment mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell mentioned was unfortunately unable to come he felt ill he called our office and he sends his congratulations to all of us and we are pleased and effort to have the mayors partnerships of the office of Economic Workforce Development will be telling us a little bit more about the roll in partnering to create jobs and Economic Development as a result of this project ed mulling begin the new director mr. Michael carr joining us to say a few words clapping . Actually pat is still the director of the city of city build system changes in the last few weeks the mayor is sick and sends his regrets San Francisco is a city of innovation im sure youre aware of and it is a place where inspired people turn great ideas into realty as you look to the leaflet they say an infrastructure is not sexy but it beautiful and it is vital to our city this project is special to the oewd it a great collaboration between caltrain and the plazas sector in the city of San Francisco we participated introduce the city build group and put a hundred percent of our folks to work this project created jobs for the local San Francisco bay area residents a partnership between oewd and ta one last things id like to congratulate the Many Community members and planners and engineers and construction workers that worked hard and long to cooperate this project all the partners here especially g lc for hiring the workers thank you very much on behalf of the mayor and the city of San FranciscoJob Well Done thank you very much clapping. thank you michael im sorry i didnt mean to get that wrong id like to mention our fell highway theyre providing critical funding and coveted a long time federal financing were fortunate to have the california administrator inconvenience vince to represent the administration and represent mr. Kim that that a family issue please help me in joining my guest on his thoughts of thank you. I appreciate thank you for the opportunity to come today greg immediate our acting administrator is prepping for his nomination hearing later this week i get to play and saw mr. Kim he apologized for his family emergency hes a native xalg living californian first congratulations to everybody i wouldnt point out, too many groups here but some struck me when we walked in the door they would can you see the project and someone looked at this and said no, thats the point you cant see the project you cant see the project from here thats why this project is where it is at a beautiful and expressive view as you come through youre not seeing the construction im from the east coast i have a brother that will be flying out here in a couple of weeks im going to bring him by bring him into this room if you can leave a couple of sandwiches hes a big guy other thing we had 12 Funding Sources we have recovery act money 83 million in recovery act and 46 money that medians if theres 12 there are 12 eyes look at this i want to thank the eyes Janice Williams and poppa john can you raise your hands they were part of the team clapping. and i know ive heard malcolm say thank you to the people that live around here for your patience to allow us to do this type of work but . The type of innovation we at federal highway one of our job is look dont be front yard of taco an aon a project it takes a village but it strikes me in california the leadership in the bay area this great coordination a lot of people focusing to get the work done so on behalf of the acting administrator greg immediate and secretary antonio fox thank you and keep up the great work thank you. clapping . Thank you so much benson and thank you to mr. Foxs leadership next to the next transportation were fortunate to have representatives in the California Transportation Commission the cpc one minute bob one minute let me say a few nice words i want to sorry the cpc prioritized funding for the transportation cross our state and a few folks thank you for being with us the funding and the oversight doyle drive is the First Partnership on the Highway Network and focuses on taxpayers investment and insuring this investment benefits our local community im pleased to recognize the hard men and women of the building trade from local 261 to the 4ru7 and local 377 and local engineers on local 3 and 6 theyre the ones building this project from the ground up and deserve our premeditation please join me in welcoming all businesses and labor mr. Bob. clapping . Thank you and you know it theres a lot of thanks going around i want to take a moment and give a special thanks to the men and women of the Building Trades theres michael came up with this beautiful idea and vision to replace doyle drive but it takes the men and women someone to implement that vision and dreams with two of those one of those and a whole love of this that is a pleasure to be here to celebrate the opening of doyle drive California First c3 Publicprivate Partnership to be approved by the California Transportation Commission i wanted to be here to celebrate as a key gate to the heart of San Francisco this project is a significance it will have a positive input on the commuters and the visitor that use the bridge the commission has a longstanding interest in seeing the state and local and federal partners to deliver the partnerships those partnerships are important and we must continue to Work Together to make the projects a reality on behalf of the California Transportation Commission i want to thank caltrain and the Transportation Authority golden link and all the other partners for in their dedicated efforts and contributions and congratulations and thank you for letting me me be a part of this and on behalf of the men and women in the Building Trades thanks for making the last couple of christmases pretty good to go clapping. thank you very much vice chair alvarado now continuing with the rule we turn to caltrain the owned and operated of doyle drive San Francisco has been fortunate to work with the caltrain in the region led by our project manager and others we have a great team dan and others calling names im sure im missing many, many folks at district 4 i hope you feel proud as headquarters we have our partners led by malcolm and tom and also cit teen from the headquarters thank you for your hard work and partnership earlier this year the department was recognized by the green roads Sustainability Certificate Program for the orchestras think the doyle job this recognized the green methods and materials sweethearts the Sustainable Design of the project as well as the exclusive communitybased process that came up with that decision to id like to thank build f this alternative our joined team have the discover of the plan youll recall this plant was considered extinct it was excited to find it a preserve it for our management felt program in envelope governor jerry brown pointed out the director of caltrain and since then lead a push towards Sustainable Design at the Department Today in secretary kellys leadership the team as led critical support to the aspects of our project i want to acknowledge the former secretary of housing who at the time served in governor schwarzenegger and was instrumental in securing the funding for the p3 that led to the final close of the project thank you all for your strong aspirin now malcolm to share his thoughts on this happy day clapping. thank you tilly im glad to be here i want to express my prediction for all of you this is a good today, the good news tilly thanked everyone ill probably repeat because some folks deserve to be expressed by my appreciation for their work youll agree there are few locations like the Presidio Parkway it is second to number in california and the bay area and likely in the entire country therefore it calls for a project that is a unique project and one of a kind project that is what were delivering here today we confused shefk safety in phase one and now phase two weve achieved the mobility but still not done and weve got a long ways to go and escape work will land a dramatic improvement not only on mobility but a positive for the connection of the Presidio Park and thus, the presidio to the waterfront ive mind recently you can do a transportation project but if that transportation project is a negative to the community or negative to the businesses or negative to the sourndz then tonsillitis thats not the right project it is the right project for mobility as well as the context of being here great location of studio presidio we celebrate this significant e significant milestone thank you to everyone and after another extended closer that was completed of the 79 hours that recommends me of the 55 hour closer we have traffic on to ultimate reside and it is a drastic change if youve not a had a children. To drive on it i want to thank iron and hewitt on the concessioner for the work ive been talking to peter they went into the weekend with 8 hours and i want to thank flatiron and keeping you informed witness and all the men and women who worked with that organizations for theyre successful work for the past weekend if you could give them a round of applause clapping. several of my team members have been highlighted and i certainly want to thank b june and his entire staff but i always want to put a point on the team in our organizational of public and private partnerships christina and express my appreciation for the former secretary without those champions we couldnt have done it without you as a publicprivate partnering partner when caltrain and the San FranciscoTransbay Joint Powers Authority were tasked with replacing the drive we wanted to have a design for Safety Standards but rehabilitate the communities needs and reduce impacts to the local environment and if all all possible many improvements that was accomplished and ta that challenge met weve improved the Traffic Safety but it made a contribution to the beautiful Presidio Park we were initiative in delivering this project its our first publicprivate partner and not create challenges because of the complexity of the challenge of the work it happens to the ingenuity in every speaker talked about the partners and the partnerships are from both sides public and private and there are financing advantages to the deliver but access to streets and incongruity of all the folks ultimately Traffic Safety is our goal but improving the surrounding area happened it was talked about this project having 12 different Funding Sources i want to reiterate the number of partners it is not easy managing a project are that many financing mechanisms and contributions afrofrom funding but not that easy to navigate through all the partsd involved it this group came together and certainly the San Francisco tangle, the federal how administration and the prurd trust California Transportation Commission department of Veterans Affairs and this department of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Municipal Transportation Agency and the city of San Francisco and local community i cant get a project done without Successful Partnerships well continue to reconstruct streets and replace skaipz but as we drive in the new tunnels id like to remembered us all public and private perspires got us here thblgs you make meaningful investments in transportation and infrastructure and i want to congratulate you for a Successful Partnership and thank you for those who had the patience during the construction that was referred to not only in the counties to the north but San Francisco congratulation to you all and thank you for coming from congresswoman nancy pelosi please welcome alex lazzaro to say a few words clapping thank you tilly Ambassador Congress is in session and she says this is a great moment for San Francisco as we complete the transformation of doyle drive and open the new Presidio Parkway that parkway insures safety in a earthquake and eliminates the proximate causes for the offer 1 thousand vehicles this represents the best of our city our initiative thinking and imperial spirit the respect for the Natural Resources and beneficial partners between the public and private sector i was proud for this fight in congress to carry one hundred and thirty in the act and others and an initiative hundred and 50 million for this alone for the publicprivate partnering as we enjoy traveling along the new Presidio Parkway construction continues with extensive landscaping and restoration that will integrate the roadway into our magnificent presidio connecting the post with the field and establishing 13 acres of new Presidio Parklands as the Congress Races towards the Transit Trust Fund on july 31st this remind us how our infrastructure creates jobs and improves of quality of life for all the harding families that commute over our roadways we must make long Time Investments locally and nationally to achieve better paychecks and better infrastructure for oil hard work america families thank you to all who made this project a reality clapping. thank you alex thank you for leader pelosi leadership on the grow america act i hope in their successful in delivering a dedicated long Time Transportation doyle drive was to there the access for nancy pelosi another project it was a treasurer plays if the start we partnered with the Presidio Trust to expand assess while preserving its Natural Resources now is where he a direct offramp from Presidio Parkway and the tunnel tops that provide more opportunity to expend the biking between the presidio and marina thank you to superintendent of the Parks Services and your staff and id like to acknowledge Greg Middleton who recently retire today, were honored to have the Presidio Trust planning programs michael to say a few words on this historic occasion. clapping . Thank you tilly welcome to the presidio everyone its a Beautiful Day youre right the sun does always shine here i have the great pleasure of talking about the future of the presidio in particular the Important Role this project plays in troovrment this army base into one of the greatest parks in america think back to the moment the presidio transition from presidio to a National Park a Hundred Acres of hard packed dirt and asphalt and it went from an army office it was about 15 or 17 years ago and look out the window how this has pan transformed it is a vibrant park full of thousands of people you come to here on sunday and off the grid and enjoy a beautiful picnic with our families and the rich history but regardless of those improvements doyle drive is a barrier between the two park experience so this project by transforming the intermediately zone creates the opportunity for us to create and urban park ensemble on the waterfront it is unlike any in america were grateful to all of the organizations that got involved in this were grateful to caltrain and the Transportation Authority and were grateful to everybody who worked to build this road the g lc and others but mostly grateful to the community the community worked for decades tirelessly to make sure that was not a freeway but parkway it honored the rich history and ecology and came up with a vision i think will set a new standard for design in National Park settings and any settings frankly it is won into that features that go beyond the tops we say see were to the other set of tunnel tops and the christie field that allows us to expand this to meet the bay this is a project that has myriad benefits to the presidio i want to know or think this will be the cherry on top that makes the presidio the would have park my hats off to everyone in the room that played a role thank you very much for our ongoing roll in the presidio thank you very much. Thank you very much michael thank you, michael were looking forward to see what happens your final speaker the ceo of the consortium peter is the private entity that build and will operate and maintain the project just as cultivates before them g lc keeps the traffic moving while constructing their portion of the road our trpt said this is like doing surgery on a tense player while shes playing intelligence folks worked around the clock and congratulations to the entire team please join me in welcoming peter on this wonderful accomplishment clapping. thank you very much tilly this is a very special moment for all of us on behalf of the gotten lincoln in their and our contractors trans field id like to thank the agencies that support us during the 71 hour closer specifically caltrain sfmta, Golden Gate Bridge, and not c h b they were there ever minute of the day and the tdr trust and all other agencies i forgot to mention when the golden link began in project a little bit over three years ago there was only one very duct and one tunnel we installed 3 additional tunnels between 8 hundred and 50 and one thousand foot long and a second 50 feet high and 12 hundred feet long viaduct you know structure and an improved highway 101 to the scombaj and roads to the beautiful Presidio Park we get a lot of questions why did you need to close the are road for 74 hours this was necessary from richmond and the marina and Golden Gate Bridge obtaining and the tunnel and the other tunnel a massive undertaking as youve seen on tv and photos we worked krunl that tie together i know weve recognized them before i want to recognize flatiron that orchid 10 thousand manhours in 70 without a single injury and thats worth a round of applause clapping. now for all reasons theyre not not room their sleeping and getting deserved rest not only the 71 hour closer but the weeks and months leading up to the closer then the 3 hundred and 50 construction workers their managers and others again without a single incident they excavated millions of dirt and placed 28 tons of asphalt and removed almost that much and put down concrete and placed 7 thousand feet of cable and striping all in 71 hours not to for the Software Engineers and not to forget the state fire marshall that working or worked around the clock to get state of the art systems working commissions and made safe and worked the way they were supposed to work thanks again for that and finally id like to recognize molly graham for responding to all the media responding to the public your outreach efforts is second to none anyone else ive missed thank you for your support were proud to be part of this one of a kind setting and one the californias project the tlc will continue to be part of this beautiful project for the next thirty years while we operate and maintains thank you for the achievement of that major milestone clapping. okay thank you passport now i hope you and your team can rested and sleep for the next 71 hours this project that the result of several of individual many large and Small Businesses i want to recognize our expert advisors of the joint speaker hearing officer and others thank you for your principle support and advise to our project team and local Small Businesses and women and minority owned firms did amazing work julie from cal pumping they provided the pumping services and rooftop of both tunnels and from solutions im not sure if dot is here they provided the monitoring to help us carefully around Historic Buildings only a couple of examples of small and minority owned firms that helped i want to thank our hard work spokeswoman molly again for leading the communication molly youre amazing and were grateful to you to our hard work and finally id like to thank our aids staff and the ta led by many and my final thanks to our Transportation Authority led by jose who dedicated himself to this project and led the organization through many stages from planning and approvals and designs lee saga our fearless project manager carried the project introduce and the task force so many members jackie and others and we also had support from spur i saw jim and others thought that process our staff and as planning deputy work hard and Deputy Director who is here and anna and cheri and bob from our staff thank you very much well with that, on behalf of caltrain at Transportation Authority thank you for joining us for our celebration now time for the Ribbon Cutting practical stay for that ceremony and enjoy our newly Presidio Parkway Presidio Parkway our newly Presidio Parkway Presidio Parkway good afternoon. It is 105 p. M. This is the regular meeting of the commission on Community Investment and infrature. The Successor Agency to the San FranciscoRedevelopment Agency for tuesday july 7, 2015. Welcome to members of the public. Please call the first item thank you madam chair, the first order of business is item 1, roll call. Commission members responds whenia call your name. Chair row zaul rosales, here. Commissioner bustos, here. Commissioner maunds har here. Commissioner singh, here a the yecs regularly scheduled meeting of july 21, 2015 is held at 1 p. M