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Unless otherwise stated. Please call the first item. To consider the issuance of type 57 special onsale beer, wine and liquor doing business as shack 15 at the Ferry Building will certainly the public convenience for necessity. We heard from the alu last time and i want to see if the applicant has any additional words you can speak or dont have to and we should take Public Comment. So if there are members of the public who would like to speak, line up or i will call some names. Bl lotty ben davis and anyone else. If you have prepared a statement, leave it with the clerk for review in the file. We ask that speakers avoid repetition and come on up. Im the founder and ceo of jar world wide, a california nonprofit bringing quality education to children. Aim in the bay area working to change the world and theres been very few spaces i felt belonging. Shack 15 is one of the first spaces i felt empowered to follow my dreams and change the world. They took me in and gave me a home against a community who has changed my life and provided me with a workspace. This is a space for people from underrepresentatived communities, unparalleled. Im able to bring my friends from all backgrounds, such as musicians, artists and more as guests and we attend the amazing events that shack 15 puts on. I dont even drink and im in support of shack 15 serving alcoholic beverages because i know how impactful this will be for galas to support initiatives to galleries focused on artists from underrepresented backgrounds. Have this license will ensure that all can succeed. Thank you. Next speaker. Im clark supreno, a founder of the Arts Alliance, which is a new nonprofit bringing cuttingedge art to San Francisco. Shack 15 has been one of the earliest supporters and theyve made Space Available for our Speaker Series and fundraisers for our nonprofit. Holding events in the historic and iconic Ferry Building has such a profound impact on all attendees and shack 15 has offered their space for free to keep our production costs low and to build our community and support our mission. Continuing this work with the help of shack 15 will allow the public to learn about organization. Immersive Arts Alliance is in support of alcoholic beverages that will only add to the events only taking place in this Magnificent Space to support art artists and producers like us. Thank you, next speaker. Thank you. Im ben davis, founder and ceo of illuminate, an organization in San Francisco, our flagship project is the bay lights on the side of the bay bridge which live in beautiful juxtaposition to the ford tower view. Ive had a great pleasure of working with the team at shack 15 from early on and have found that the space is incredibly inspiring for us to bring people together and this includes Civic Leaders dreaming big for the regency wanregion imagine and it the location. I know from working closely with the port and others, theres a little interesting tidbit that few folks now. It has more multimodal transit connections than anywhere west of the mississippi. Every muni comes through touching sanfrancisco and the bart system brings through with every line and the f line and e line pass in front every bus route to Market Street comes right by it and the petty cabs and bicycles and Everything Else that rolls in the city. It is an amazing place that has accessible transit to complement bringing people together inside this space and i think theres an extra special measure that whthatshould be given. And that includes the ferry system, as well, of course. Next speaker. Thank you. Im katie vandyke, the Event Programme manager at shack 15. Shack 15 is a coworking space created for entrepreneurs of all kinds and we are working coworking space with a focus on events and programming to engage with the wider San Francisco expect and we look to share the space. The Ferry Building partnerships book buildings and our goal is to support their mission by attracting new consequences and Opening Doors to provide a complementary place in sf to gather and share ideas. We aim to provide a workspace for those in San Francisco to gather around by offering day passes, longer term coworking passes and programming open to the public. Shack 15 intends to be is and intends to be a place to bring people together, where different backgrounds can interact, learn and support each other. We look forward to the opportunity this mission. Any other members who would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and colleagues, i understand that supervisor peskin is in support of this request and if there are no comments or questions, i wil thk we can direct our clerk determining this license will meet public convenience and necessity and i will move that we forward that to the full board with positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call our next item . Number 2 is an ordinance submitting the police code to require the Police Department to obtain gun violence restraining orders in some circumstances. Vice chair stephanie, this is yours. Tell us about it. Thank you, chair. And im really actually very excited that we have this ordinance before us today. I just want to take a moment to explain what gun violence restraining orders are, also known as gvro or red flag laws. They empower families, household members or Law Enforcement officers to petition a court in order to temporarily remove a persons access to firearms before they commit violence. This is under consideration in four others including virginia which took an legislation last month which is notable since this is the home of the nra. We know in many of the Mass Shootings that occurred in this country, Family Members or friends noticed signs that the shooters were dangerous and at risk of hurting themselves or others. Californias law passed. It was passed in response to the shooting on may 23rd, 2014, on a disturbed and angry young man, shot ten people in ila vista, california before turning the gun on himself. The killer displayed behaviour that the parentbased on existins guns or take him into custody. This ordinance, the one before you today creates a gun violence restraining Order Program in San Francisco and it also propertied the San Francisco Police Department which im very thankful for, to create a gvro policy. Law enforcement and the public need to take advantage of every opportunity to disarm those who present a threat to themselves or others. Whether thats homicide or suicide, this ordinance gives Law Enforcement and Family Members the ability to intervene before a crisis occurs. Law enforcement and members of the public are left with too few options to stop these tragedies. While 5150s can prevent gun violence in some cases, Law Enforcement cannot always use a temporary psychiatric hold to take weapons away from an individual. The gvro is another tool, a civil, not a criminal one, to prevent tragedy before it occurs. A uc davis study found in the first three years since the passage, the law may have prevented 21 Mass Shootings. However, today, sanfrancisco has not implemented a robust program. We can only find evidence in two instances. Broward county whether the parkland county o occurred filed 250 petitions and seized 212 guns that same year. Law enforcement has described them as indie indispensable ande need to make that case here. In april of last year, a young man suffering from serious Mental Illness was in possession of five guns, including one next to a window overlooking a school in my district causing much alarm and claimed that voices in his head were telling him to commit a mass shooting. Law enforcement correctly placed him on a psychiatric hold, but we also need to make implementing a gun violence restraining order Standard Operating Procedure when incidents like this occur and this was the incident that galvanized me to draft this legislation and the need for it remains as strong as ever. Because in this case, Family Members knew that this person was a danger to himself and others. And Law Enforcement had been called out to that home several times. Family members, before a psychiatric hold was necessary, could have pursued a gvro with Law Enforcement or petition the court themselves before, like be said, a psychiatric hold was necessary. Also, in october of last year, a 21yearold woman was shot and killed by her boyfriend near a high school after months of increasing violent abuse. The people around this individual knew he was unstable and dangerous but did not have the tools to successfully intervene, even though this law has been on the books since 2014. According to the most recent support from the medical examiners office, there were 51 gunrelated deaths in 2018, 31 homicides and 22 suicides. Every time theres a gunrelated death or injury, theres an opportunity for a gvro. Theres no single way to win the fight against gun violence, this epidemic plaguing our nation but we will not win unless we pass this legislation and swiftly implement the policies on the books. So the final step to insuring this policy has the maximum impact, is to work with all our Community Partners and the public about the availability of gvros and i know that our Police Department will work on that and, again, i thank them for our willingness and everything theyve been doing since weve. Working together. Wee must educate hospitals, our Community Benefit organizations and our departments in the city about the new policy. I look forward to passing this at the full board as soon as possible and i want to thank deputy chief lazarre and the sanfrancisco Police Department who helped draft this, that will be used, actually to implement this ordinance. More importantly, i want to thank chief lazarre for enthusiasm for this program and everyone for championing it within sfpd. I believe we have officer raj viswani and then ill wait and say a few things. Thank you. With me is lieutenant lou, in charge of our cjic, they do illegal firearms, working with federal and State Government and they also are responsible for gun violence restraining order and theyre a lee yeah amazo lie officers, and the federal government on that. For gun violence restraining order, we put out a Department Bulletin just recently in december of 2019, informing our officers of the steps to get the three different types of gun violence restraining orders and also being able to educate Family Members and careworkers of the availability of these gun violence restraining orders. Currently, the officers do know that they can get a temporary emergency onsceneorder and they also know they can get the exparte order per an investigation if theyre not at the scene. Our investigators know that and were expanding an Education Program that deric derick lou wo out and advise the officers on how to get the different orders in situations and give them examples. We did give them several different examples of when these orders would be critical to try to get and well expand that outreach. I read 36d and i understand we are in the process. Quickly, sorry, can you give one or two of those examples . So some of the examples that were given to the officers thats actually in the general order is like an elderly father who has dementia and has made threats and a Family Member can remove the firearms. Somebody who legally owns firearms and illegally discharges the firearm in their backyard. The other one is someone who legally possesses firearms and starts showing signs of Mental Illness but does not meet 5150 criteria. And i have reached out to our mental crisis unit that does outreach and they have secured gun violence restraining orders last year and i know lieutenant lous Unit Lieutenant lou, his unit has secured gun violence restraining orders and also, srd has done it and these are all at the ininvestigative level. And we do realize that with a ab12 and 61, well modify our orders and make this a more permanent from Department Notice to a department policy. And i know deputy chief lazarre is working with the City Attorney and Chiefs Office and thats in the final draft phase. And in addition to this, we also educate the officers on some of the domesticviolence type of dpo orders and well make that a part of the training so they understand the different options from removing firearms from homes where someone can use them in a dangerous situation and is there anything that you would like to add . I think in practise, it closely reflected the examples that we put out there on the Department Notice and so some of the ones we secured were threats involving firearms and we had another realworld incident of a negligent discharge in the city that would have endangered folks and that gvr was put into effect. So the ones obtained will match the ones we put out there. Could the previous speaker please identify himself. Your name . Derick lou. Thank you. And then, in talking to the mental crisis outreach unit, some of the examples they gave is the person who walked into mcdonalds in the bayview with a dead raccoon, followup was conducted and we did remove firearms we did seek a gun violence retraining order against him. Another one was a guy who had come here and was shooting in the air recklessly, and i think thats the one you had mentioned. We did do an investigation, get a gun violence retraining order against him and another one was that was experiencing mental crisis and we removed because he had threats to Family Members and neighbors and we did remove guns from his house. Supervisor walton. Supervisor stephanie did mention the case of Mental Health expert and family, saying someone was dangerous and had the opportunity to be harmful to themselves and others and we know as a result, there was a mass shooting. What about incidents like that, where people around or associated with someone says theyre either a harm to themselves or a harm to others . Yes, i think in a situation like that, where there didnt meet the 5150 after the officers responded, they could use the restraining order if the person did have access to firearms and the ability to get firearms. Thank you. Will this be taught in the academy, as well . At this point, what we were talking about is doing outreach at lineups for active officers on patrol and i could definitely relay that, if thats something you think would be beneficial. I do, actually. I think that right out o out ofe gate this is a tool because its so necessary. I want to make sure people know that its not like a Police Officer or Family Member thinks someone is a danger to themselves or others and guns can easily be removed. I mean, this goes through a due process hearing in the courts, in front of a judge and the person has an opportunity to present evidence, and evidence must be presented and proved to the judge that this person is actually a danger to himself or others, and, of course, there are always penalties for preventing false evidence to a judge and this is not a situation where anyone can just falsely claim someone is a danger to themselves or others. Because i hear this all of the time from the gun lobby and a lot of people, this is just a tool to take peoples guns away. It is not. It is due process in front of a judge and, obviously, we know that anyone who pros false evidence to a judge will then face their own penalties. So one question, too, about gvros last year, we know that in 2018, i believe, that there were two issued. Do we know how many were issued in 2019 . I understand it was fewer than ten. I know at that time well be educating our program and the police can then interact with those groups to let them know that this is the tool. Is that on your radar, as well . That definitely is. So when that goes into effect, i think in september of 2020, well make sure that our policy reflects that change. Ok. And do you have any ideas about how we can better educate the police force and Family Members about the availability of this tool . I know you said youll go to lineup switch, which i think is great, and youll take my suggestion that we began training in the academy on this. How else do you think we can get out the information to the department of Public Health . Does the Police Department have any ideas about how they can better work with all of the departments they serve . So we already work with advocate groups within the Domestic Violence arena, elder a lot of the Adult Protective Services is a good avenue to get outreach for people that might have dementia or advance alzheimers, where some of the symptoms of alzheimers is anger, if somebody has guns in that avenue, and also, our unit that actually goes out and does a lot of the mental crisis evacuations, theyre a good tool because they work with gph closely. So i think those are avenues for the Police Department to look at avenues for education and from what i see, the ordinance itself, im sure youre going to be doing outreach through social media and those avenues. Thank you, and i know weve worked together on the Family Violence council, as well, on this. Yes, and also our sros work with the different Public Schools in the city so thats another avenue, because i know the program does allow gvros under that. Right, thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Vice chair, stephanie, do you have any closing thoughts . Thank you, chair. I want to thank, again, the San Francisco Police Department for working on this with my office very diligently and i thank you so much for your work and your service and i want to encourage my colleagues to support this legislation. I think you know how much it means to me and, you know, this is something that is so important, not just to the state of california, t but to our nation. 85 of the American People believe in red flag laws like these and 78 of gun owners do o and its time we take back the country from our gun lobby and this is one tool to could it and i encourage your support. Thank you, vice chair stephanie. I would like to be added as a cosponsor and supervisor walton. And thank you for your ongoing steadfast leadership on these issues. Would you like to make a motion to forward this to the full board with full recommendation . I would, so moved. I think we can neighboring tt without objection. Mr. Clerk, any more items before us today . There is no further business. Then we are adjourned. In this San Francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. And theyre working in roughly 400,000 square feet. We were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100 clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of San Francisco. We were pleased with the package of services they offered and were now encouraging our employees who have residence in San Francisco to sign on as well. We didnt have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. This clean power opportunity reflects that. I would encourage any Large Business in San Francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. Its good for the environment, its good for business and its good for the community. [gavel] good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. This is the february 12th, 2020, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. Im joined by supervisors walton. I would like to thank those from s. F. Gov. Tv for broadcasting this. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all electronic devices. And speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairwoman thank you very much. I apologie apologize for being. Can you call item number one. Clerk item on one to increase the contract amount by 5. 9 million not to exceed an amount of 15. 8 million, with no change to the Contract Term to commence upon board approval. Chairwoman thank you very much. We have Cathy Widener here from the San Francisco airport. Good morning chair fewer, Cathy Widener with the San Francisco international airport. The item before you seeks your approval for a modification to an existing contract with ceta information networking computing u. S. A. , for support services of the airports shareduse passenger processing systems, which includes hardware, technical support, maintenance, system administration, system monitoring and supplies for equipment in our harvey milk terminal one, as well as in the International Terminal. Modification number one would increase the contract not to exceed amount by 5. 9 million. This contract is the result of a 2018 competitive request for proposals process to support and maintain the airports checkin and boarding systems, common use, selfserve kiosk and baggage reconciliation systems, information display systems, and pas passport control systems. The increase is for the additional equipment, coming on line in new gates and arriving and departing passenger processing fas facilities in harvey milk terminal one when this went out in 2018. The cost of this contract and proposed modification is budgeted as part of the airports operating budget. The budget andrew bell has analt recommends approval, and i would be happy to answer any questions. Chairwoman can we hear from the b. L. A. , . Proceeding. Good morning. Ill just sortf reiterate of what ms. Widener had to say. The board is being asked to approve the modification with the airport agreement with ceta to display services in the International Terminal and other domestic terminals. This contract increases close to 6 million, increasing it to 15. 9 million. The increase is actually for the addition of services and equipment in harvey milk terminal one that was added after the r. F. P. Process in the original contract. Table two, on page three of our report, shows the increases under the proposed modification. We actually have reviewed the details of the increases in the contract budget and consider them to be reasonable. And were recommending approval. Chairwoman thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item number one. Seeing none, complic commennone, publiccomment is no. Any comments . Ms. Widener, i do have a question for you. This increase is for terminal one because it was not completed at the time when you did the contract. Is that correct . Yes. The 5. 9 million proposed modification is for the new gates and some of the swing the ability for us to have a arriving passengers come into terminal one. That was all in the planning stages when this was originally put out to bid in 2018. So the airport has how many terminals . Three domestic and one international. So this is a contract for three domestic and one International Terminal. Is that correct . The whole contract . Yes. Yes, the equipment throughout the airport. Yes, thats correct. It just seems disproportionate that it will be 6 million for one of the terminals, but i dont know the answer to that. Ill have to go back and look. My understanding is this is for new equipment. I believe partially what this contract does in the rest of the terminal is just maintain and operate the equipment, but this is to actually install the equipment that we need for our common use processing. Okay. Thank you very much. Chairwoman any comments or questions from our colleagues . Seeing none, i would like to move to the board with a positive recommendations. Madam. Authorizing public works to accept an grant in the amount of 15 million from the United States department of transportation for the fiscal year 2018, better utilizing development transportation, discretionary grant for the better Market Street phase one, for the period of june 2020 to june 2025. Chairwoman okay. Better Market Street. Is this escar quinn toia . Yes. Im a Capital Finance analyst with San Francisco public works. The resolution before you authorizes them to acceptp accet a 15 million grant for the better Market Streets phase one project. We were awarded this competitive grant in december 2018. This project will deliver transformative street scape, and transportation improvements along Market Street, between fifth street and eighth street, and go good repair and investments in our transportation infrastructure. The grant funds will be used for roadway work and traffic and pedestrian signal upgrades. As you might be aware, starting january 29th, Market Street most of Market Street became a carfree zone, and m. T. A. Is currently placementing some of thimplementingsome imprd this will make the permanent and state of good repair investments as well. We are working with s. F. T. A. Staff, and the preparation of the construction mitigation plan, as you might remember back in december, when the t. A. Approved the didie signdesign allocations mog forward. Im joined by our project manager to answer any questions. Chairwoman any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, can we have a b. L. A. Report on this, please. The proposed resolution accepts the 15 million grant from the u. S. Government for the better Market Street program. If you look at exhibit 3 on page nine of our report, the total budget for the program is 176. 7 million at this time. That is improvements to Market Street, between fifth street and eighth street, largely. So the 15 million grant is part of the overall budget. If you look in exhibit 3, of the 176. 7million, there is about a 38 million funding gap that still needs to be identified for this project. However, the 15 million grant does meet the criteria, including the matching funldz, s funds, so we recommend approval. Chairwoman any comments on questions . Supervisor mandelman . Thank you, chair fewer. Chairwoman youre welcome. I cant say im new to this committee anymore, but i have a question about how to think about gaps on Construction Projects like this. And, um, if this is standard and what happens if you cant identify 38 million over the next couple of years . Right now were working with s. F. M. T. A. , and also applying for other grant sources. Yesterday we submitted an application for the Affordable Housing and sustainable communities grant program. Program, and its such a large project, so were looking at state funding, such as the local partnership program, which will call for projects in a couple of months. So it is all about timing and making sure that at the time of award of the contract we have a fully funded project. Were still a few months away. Were working with our partners to figure that out. And you believe youll have that gap closed before you award the contract . Yes. Chairwoman okay. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public want to comment on this item . Supervisors, first and foremost, we have to look at the projects that one of you kind of alluded to but it was not precise. If you look at the central subway, we know what happened to that. It started with 600 million, and now it is 2 billion. If you look at the van ness project, and i just walked certain parts of it, it is pathetic. It is really pathetic. Now, weve been talking about Market Street for a long time. But before we even initiate we already initiated closing it down for the causeway and keeping it open for the bicyclists, we failed to do a Needs Assessment on the surface of Market Street. Especially when it comes to the elderly, or somebody like me, who wears a brace, and there are potholes. We are not paying attention to the rails. We went some of the new guys who come in, they have no clue how all of the improvements that were done to Market Street, and how businesses were impacted. So one of you all alluded to it in a general way. It failed to ask the real questions because, remember, you can get millions of dollars from the federal government, but as i see it, the Planning Department [buzzer] and all of the Committee Meetings that you have, there is no real input from the public. And the San Francisco county Transportation Authority has kind of an advisory committee, but theyre all over the place. We do have experts in San Francisco. [buzzer] chairwoman thank you very much. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Actually, i have a question, if you dont mind. I think the speaker brings up a pretty good point about the public input that weve done so far around this better Market Street project. And our Small Business people at the table. Okay. I can speak to that. Good morning, supervisors, im the better Market Street project manager. To date weve had five rounds of community outreach. These are large meetings held around Market Street to collect input from the community, not just residents, but also business owners, about the project itself and the impacts of construction. Were now starting to develop the construction mitigation plan. I think you might remember as part of the Transportation Authority your role as part of the Transportation Authority board, ill be giving the presentation in march about our construction mitigation plan and support for Small Businesses. So we are clearly aware of the impacts. Our estimate is that construction will take two years. To do the first phase of Market Street, between fifth and eighth streets. And were working closing with our project partners at the s. F. M. T. A. , as well as o. E. W. D. To conduct a survey of the existing businesses and to understand their needs and their expectations during construction. Were also looking at what we can do to reduce the construction duration, or minimize construction duration, possibly building the north side first and impacting the north side businesses for a shorter amount of time. Moving to the south side, and then doing the center track way area, so that the impact to businesses is reduced by which side of the street youre on as well. Chairwoman so then i have one request that when you come before us with the t. A. , you would also include a proposed budget to help mitigate the negative effects on the Small Businesses. We probably wont have that in march, but we will have that as part of the plan. So in march, were just giving you an outline, and then we give quarterly updates. So probably the next quarter will have more details and more of the budget. Chairwoman great. Thank you very much. And then oscar, im wondering, i know that this is a grant from the United States department of transportation. Why did we seek a grant for better Market Street but was b. R. T. Included also in the grant proposal . Personally, im not aware of that. This application was in july 2018, so ill have to check on how do you remember . I know the decision was made as a city, which project to propose. It was thought at the time that it would be very unlikely we would receive any federal funding through the build program, just giving the current administration. So i think the city, as a whole, led by the Transportation Authority, i think, determined that we would summit the bill grant for better Market Street, and i believe that was the only grant that the city submitted for this cycle of build. But build is part of the u. S. Department of transportation, transportation funding, so there will be future cycles for other projects to apply. Chairwoman so is there a plan to apply for these funds for the garry b. R. T. . I dont know. That would be a question for the Transportation Authority or for m. T. A. There are several cycles of build. It replaced tiger, and you may have heard of the tiger grant previously. In the past, i think the city has only received one tiger grant. So, therefore, it is for larger infrastructure projects. Chairwoman thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, i would like to make a recommendation to move this to the board. A motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. And i can take that without objection. Thank you very much. Can you please call iams number three and four. [item called] chairwoman thank you very much. Is this mr. Calvin healey . Yes. Chairwoman great. Youre from the San Francisco p. O. C. . Yes. Good morning. Im from the s. F. P. U. C. Im here to request authoritauthorization to execute services for dams and reservoirs, and in particular for agreement 138aa, and agreement pro0138. The s. F. P. U. C. Manages a very complex water system, stretching all the way to the city and county of San Francisco. We manage dams, reservoirs, pipelines, tunnels, and treatment systems. In 2017, the oroville dam incident occurred. From 2017to 2018, the California Division of safety of dams, the s. O. D. , issued updated orders for dam reservoir owners. S. F. P. U. C. Has a total of 18 dams and reservoirs under the jurisdiction. They have complied with the new s. O. D. Requirements, performing condition assessments. They are proactively analyzing our damsp dams and reservoirs and has developed a Capital Improvement program. They are proactively seeking contracts for professional energy firms for planning, design, and Energy Support of our improvements through the various reservoir facilities. The Specialized Energy and dam and Reservoir Services include hydrology and structural engineering. And to address this, the s. F. P. U. C. Issued a request for proposals in 2019. And three agreements are to be awarded to the three highestranked proposals. Each agreement will be for 11years, for an amount of 1 million. 11 million. They deemed the three highest scoring proposals. January 14, the San Francisco Public Utilities Committee Approved them. And the s. F. P. U. C. Approved the p. E. I. Contract. We will be coming back to the board for authorization to execute that agreement. Pro01388, and agreement pro138c. These agreements are 11 million apiece for the dureritioduration of 11 years. A quick question do these agreements include Community Benefits . Yes. Thank you. Chairwoman can we hair frohear from the b. L. A. , please . Good morning, supervisors. The legislation it is two resolutions, each approving a contract between p. U. C. , one for energy, and the other for technical services. This was explained by the representative from p. U. C. Each contract is for 11 million over 11years. The contracts were selected through a competitive process. We show on page 15 of our report, we show the actual sort of dams and reservoirs that each contract would cover under these contracts. H. D. R. Would be for market and oshaughnessy. And also as explained, there will be a third contract coming forward at a future date for the same program. We recommend approval. Chairwoman any Public Comment on items three and four . Ive been following this for 40 years. And the way ill state this is, some of the guys come in and give you the presentation have no idea, and have not read the regular act. They have no concept about a glacier, that is our main resource, which we wont have access to. While discussing about the dams and the pipes, nobody wants to address the leakages, millions of gallons of clean Drinking Water that seeps into the watershed. So this is not to say that the same old guys who make a lot of money and you supervisors dont have an audit on those things. We dont need the same engineers milking the cow. And that is what is happening here. At the same time, we need to have a Needs Assessment done on all of our dams in a timely manner. Not when we have to spend millions and millions of gallons of water. I can divert a little bit on the mountain tunnel. Somebody did a firsttime assessment and it took a lot of money, and they found cracks in the tunnel, close to the hedgy reservoir. [buzzer] and they chose to repair it, spending mumbling omillions of dollars. Nobody is asking the relevant questions because most of you are not engineers, most of you are not even aware in the year 2020 we flush our toilets with clean Drinking Water, which is a shame. It is all connected, but i dont want to go into detail. Thank you very much. Chairwoman thank you very much. Public comments . Seeing none, Public Comments are now closed. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, i would like to move these two items to the board with a positive recommendation without objection. Madam clerk, please call number five. Resolution approving and authorizing the director of property on behalf of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, property located at 888 post street for an initial term of 20 years, anticipated to commence on october 1st, 2020, as a base rent of 1. 5 million a year, increasing a 3 a year, one option to extend the lease for a period of 10 years, and authorizing the citys contribution towards landlord work. Chairwoman thank you very much. Supervisor peskin . Thank you, chair fewer, and supervisions for supervisorr hearing this matter, which has been a long time in the making. I think it was in july of 2019 that the board unanimously passed a resolution that sent us in this direction. I want to start by thanking the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, mr. Ca casinski and ms. Schneider, and for negotiating with tidewater these many months. I want to acknowledge Goodwill Industries, as set forth, would be the citys sublessee at the ground floor. Most importantly, i really want to thank the community in the Northeast Corner of San Francisco, the polk street folks, the lower polk cbc, the lower polk neighbors. And mr. Jacobson and mr. Shulman are here, but folks from all walks of life who have come to a number of Community Meetings and have, on the most part, been very supportive, very helpful, made very good suggestions about this Navigation Center that the city is contemplating a 75bed facility. So i am really delighted. It has been a long time in the making, and a Long Time Coming, and i really want to express my appreciation. I associate myself with the recommendations of the budget and legislative analyst office, and youll hear from ms. Campbell in a little bit, and there are many members of the community here to testify on this item. And with that, madam chair, ill turn it back over to you. Chairwoman thank you very much. I think we have a presentation. Thanks. Please identify yourself. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Im t. G. Rippley, im with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. Im pleased to be here this morning to ask for your support of the proposed resolution for a lease between the city and the Property Owner at 888 post street, and 888 poster street llc. And that will house the first Navigation Center, lowbarrier center, for young people. As supervisor peskin mentioned, it has been a long time priority for the department, for youth advocates, as well as a stated priority for the board. Going back to may 2018. And were really delighted that we have finally found a site and appreciate all the hard work and leadership of the supervisors office. Supervisor peskin and his staff, and all of the Community Partners who have gotten us to this staph. And i would like to thank the budget and Analysts Office for their work on this report. Were pleased to accept your recommendations and any amendments the city has on this resolution. As everyone on the committee knows, and on the board, San Francisco is still in the midst of a Housing Affordability crisis. And we saw that in our 2019 point in time count, in stark contrast, where our unsheltered population increased by about 19 . More over, there were about 1,000 traditional youth, ages 18 through 24, experiencing homelessness on that day in january. 83 of those young people are unsheltered. Meaning theyre living, you know, in doorways, parks, vehicles, wherever they can find shelter on the streets. With that, we are proposing this Navigation Center for a lowbarrier shelter for about 75 beds, with a nonprofit provider who is really familiar with young people and their particular needs. And were very pleased to be working with Goodwill Industries on sub tenant lease for the ground floor, which would include their dropin, dropoff services, as well as opportunities for Workforce Development and partnership with our youth. So thank you for goodwill, and i believe we have a representative here in the audience today. I wanted to speak a little about the Community Engagement process. Again, we really formed a Strong Partner with the supervisors office, starting with two neighborhood stakeholder meetings that we held earlier this year. Of course we always do a written notification to neighborhood businesses and residents, so theyre aware of any upcoming h. S. H. Sites, but we also held two Large Community input forums, one on january 9th and another on january 23, and it had representatives from the supervisors office, the Police Department, the department of public works, goodwill, and our Community Partners at lower polk c. B. D. , as well as music city San Francisco. With that, we got a lot of feedback, and i think we have some really good recommendations from the community. And weve made considerable commitments going forward. So this is really a successful project, not only for our clients, but something that the neighborhood is really proud of and comfortable with in their community. So we created a Community Working group that will meet regularly, leading up to the opening of the site, to provide additional input and facilitate information sharing back to the larger community. H. S. H. Will also work to develop our street outreach workers and outreach zone, in collaboration with the Community Working group, in which we prioritize Outreach Services to bring those young people into the neighborhood quickly into the Navigation Center. We also know it is not just young people ages 18 through 24 living on the streets in that community. So well also be working as part of our outreach work to make sure that adults that we encounter that were engaging with those homeless adults on the street, and placing them in our Navigation Centers. Were also aware that the community has concerns about other h. S. H. Sites in the neighborhood, particularly our shelter at gary and polk, and we are working closely with our Service Providers to address Community Concerns about, unfortunately, unhealthy street behavior around that site. And we continue our Strong Partnerships with a asoc city agencies, to ensure a response around encampments. Especially addressing the lower polk alleyways. I want to briefly show you a few photos of these site to orient you. This is a view of the corner of post and hyde. The green arrow would be the proposed area where the goodwill vehicular entrance would be for those dropping off donations. The next slide is the hyde street view of this street, that shows the separate entrance for our Navigation Center clients, leading up to the third floor, which would be based where the Navigation Center would be the based. Im happy to answer more specific questions on the budget, but i wanted to turn it over at this point to the director of the department of real estate, enrico penic. Good morning, chair fewer, supervisors, enrico penic, director of real estate. Ms. Witley has done a tremendous job, and i dont want to take up much of your time, but for the benefit of the public, i wanted to go through some of the highlights of the lease itself. It is a straightforward lease for 33,980 feet over three stories. It is a 20year term with a 10year option to extend. The rent rate is 44. 16 per square foot, with a 3 escalater. The city will be investing, and it will be capped at 5 million, in order to get the building ready for the intended use. We anticipate that the landlord will also have to put in an additional 5 million in order to make the site suitable for this use. Of interesting note is the Purchase Option. We have a Purchase Option on this property for 29 million. That is exercisable at any time between the execution of the lease in august of 2022. We think this is an excellent provision, and that it allows us to, one, take advantage of the lease now and have the landlord put in that 5 million plus of Capital Improvements, while at the same time giving us a little runway in order to budget for this purchase should the supervisors so choose. I would like to thank the mayor and supervisor peskin for their leadership and support for this project. Id alt also like to thank the b. L. A. For their hard work, and we concur in their recommendations. H. S. H. And theyre staff are available to answer any questions you may have. Chairwoman thank you very much. Can we have the b. L. A. Report, please. The proposed resolution approves the lease between the city for 888 post street. It would be used, as talked about by ms. Witley, as a 75bed facility. The rent starts at 1. 5 million and escalates by 3 over the initial 20year term. You can see the term on table two, page 21. Because the rent per square foot is less than 45, it did not require a separate appraisal, but the Real Estate Department did do comps on the rents for this. The other financial issue here is that the city would be contributing up to 5 million towards tenant improvements on the site, that are part of the lease agreement. So, again, in following up, we do make two recommendations. There is an option to purchase this property through the the option is in affect through august of 2022. Because the option to purchase at 29million is actually pretty reasonable rate, given the 40 million that the city would spend on rent, we recommend amending the proposed resolution to have the Department Come back and submit a proposal on purchasing this property no later than august of 2021. The other recommendation is for the lease structure itself. And the extension option would not come back to the board. We recommend amending the resolution so if there is an veep event where the city would be exercising the rent extension, that it come back to the board. Other than that, we recommend approval. Chairwoman thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to speak on this item . Yes. Two minutes. Good morning. My name is debra balk. I am goodwills marketing and communications. Our mission is to create Second Chances through training and the dignity of work. We do that through a highly unique Workforce Development approach of customized career services, industry training, and paid employment with benefits for individuals with barriers to employment. We look forward to bringing our proven model to the 888 post street Navigation Center in partnership with the city. Thank you. Chairwoman thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, chris liberty. I own a bar at 1176 rec street. At our bar, i think we really need this in our neighborhood. The problems there, and not putting beds there would be stupid. I throw my support with this. Thank you. Chairwoman thank you very much. Next speaker. Supervisors, my name is chris shulman. And im the executive director of the lower polk Community Benefit district. The board has not taken a formal position on the project just because were still working on some of the Community Benefits. However, the board and myself want to speak strongly in support of the process that has taken place. The outreach has been exceptional. Supervisor peskin first kim tcame to a lower polks meeting a year ago, broaching the subject about this property. Weve had stakeholder meetings, and weve had larger Community Meetings. At the last meeting on the 23rd was really heartening. The crowd was literally cheering each time members of the public would come up and share stories and speak in favour of this location. Were working closely with h. S. H. For the Community Benefits, along with the supervisor and Mayors Office. Were very pleased with the direction that it is going in. Were happy there will be a more formal group that will work on outreach zones and outreach plans. I would like to thank supervisor peskin, the various departments that have been involved, the Mayors Office and others. It has been a really good process. Thank you so much. Chairwoman thank you. Hi, my name is peter jake conson, and ive been involved in this project for a little under a year now. I speak as the general manager of music city s. F. It is encouraging to see so many of the problems we brought forth being addressed in the presentation by the city. There are a number of things we would like to see included in this project that have been reacted to very diligently by the departments involved. This represents an optimal location. This building has sat vacant for as long as ive worked there, and we have the opportunity to transform it into a beacon of hope for the young people of this city who face homelessness. The partnership with goodwill could not be better for a project like this. One of the areas best employment resources. It is perfect. And having a general knowledge of the value of crossexaminatioconstruction ang in that neighborhood, this represents an outstanding value for what the city would be getting. There is a perfect amount of space for a project like this. The public support within our neighborhood has been overwhelming for this project. We were prepared for a battle, and what we found is that generally everyone in the neighborhood, with some exceptions, of course, has supported this project from start to finish. Thank you so much. [buzzer] chairwoman thank you. Thank you, peter. Good morning, shari lynne adams. Im speaking in favour of the project. 1100 young people are homeless on any given night in San Francisco, and most sleep outside. So this Navigation Center in this district with the leadership of supervisor peskin, with the leadership of all of you, who have done so much for young people in our city, and the departments support of getting a Navigation Center, and it is a welcome, joyous, and wonderful happening for us. And it has been ive been at one of the Community Meetings, or a couple of the Community Meetings, and theyve had staff and young people at other Community Meetings, and it has been really lovely and heartwarming and inspiring to hear the communitys support for this project. Were estatic and excited and look forward to working with all of the providers to provide support for this Navigation Center. Thank you. Chairwoman thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. My name is katie risen, im the director of health and safety at huckberry youth programs. We have too many young people out on the street, and we look forward to being part of the community to make this center something we all can be proud of. Chairwoman thank you. Supervisors, we all know that this city has empathy and compassion. What i see here is that the city is ready to expand 6 million, and if the land owner spends a matching 5 million, we get that right. Have we done a Needs Assessment on how many of our youth crash all over this city . I heard the Health Department say and speak in generalities, but i would like to remind the Health Department, as one who has been monitoring this, this particular type of issues for the last 35 years, that again and again, the San Francisco Health Department, with a 2 billion budget, has failed us when it comes to Wraparound Services. So one of you supervisors who is on this committee is very works with hummingbird and those type of models, we have to make sure in these type of Navigation Centers we provide Wraparound Services because a lot of the young people have mental issues. I know that because i deal with them. [buzzer] so it is very good to give them a place to lay their head. Wraparound services, nutrition services, Health Services this is what you supervisors should be asking the questions. Follow the money, thats true. We have a lot of money, but we waste a lot of money. I would wish that we would spend a billion dollars on this. It is worthwhile fou for our youth. Those are my comments, and i want the Health Department to do a better job. Thank you very much. Chairwoman thank you very much. Good morning supervisors, im sarah short. Were a Supportive Housing provider. We operate a Navigation Center, a civic center, and we have a building for,for to house youth. We caw important it is to have our first youth Navigation Center in San Francisco. This would be monumental. We see far too many young people on the streets, who are deprived of the services that they need so very much. I just want to support this purchase of the lease and say, you know, from the bottom of my heart that these young folks deserve a home. They deserve to not be, you know, wandering in the streets, at risk of all sorts of danger to their body and their mind. And that, you know, San Francisco will be making a real leadership move by having this very specific opportunity just for our youth who are living on the streets. So thank you very much. Chairwoman next speaker. Hello, supervisors. My name is austin trang, and im with the Youth Commission. Im here speaking on behalf of our Youth Commissioners who cannot make it today. The teen Navigation Center is a Long Time Coming and were super excited to see this coming true. We truly believe that with this Navigation Center, that this provides Wraparound Services. And we hope this Navigation Center works with the office of transit initiatives, to make sure there is an lgbtq dorm in this facility, because currently Homeless Youth are lgbtq, as well as people of color. So when considering this, please make it sustainable. And think about permanent Supportive Housing. And we look forward to your vote. Chairwoman next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. Im also part of the Youth Commission. Im staff lead for the housing committee, and im here to speak on behalf of the Youth Commission and our young people. They have supported this teen Navigation Center for many years. Theyre also in support with the grant challenge. And i think if you all support this today, we will work towards ending Youth Homelessness for lgbtq young people and young people in general. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors, im the director of the San Francisco Youth Commission. I just want to echo what my colleagues say, as well as speaking on behalf of our 17 Youth Commissioners. Ive been on staff for three and a half, almost four years, and weve been working on this for that same amount of time and even prior to that. This has been a Long Time Coming. Were in favor and support this. On behalf of our Youth Commissioners, any chance they get, they vote in support of the teen Navigation Center, especially for our young people who are homeless and houseless. We look forward to this vote. We hope that you will continue to support this issue. Thank you. Chairwoman thank you very much. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Yes, supervisor mandelman . I actually just want to get ask a few more questions about sort of timeline and rollout. It sounds like there is a fair amount of physical work that needs to happen on the building. So you can hear this from staff, but if everything goes according to schedule, it is about an eightmonth buildout, and it should be open by the end of this calendar year. Great. And there is a 5 million to 7million contribution to that buildout, and beyond that it is on the owner . Yes, supervisor peskin is correct, we hope to open by the end of the calendar year. The citys contribution so far is the commitment of 5 million, up to 7 million if needed, but the balance of the expenses would be borne by the Property Owner. And do we have a sense of how much that is . The department of real estates staff is saying up to five. All right. Chairwoman supervisor walton . Just a quick problematic question. I dont know if you can answer it now or later sure. What is going to be the outreach to systems involved, to youth . I didnt quite hear the question. What is going to be the outreach plan to make sure that systems involved to teen youth know about the opportunity and the nav center. I dont want to misspeak, so i went to bet back to you on the comprehensive plan. I can say that a Navigation Center is only a piece of what we do for our youth. We have active youth qord coordinated access programs, and arriving initiative, so all of that is going to be leveraged not only through this emergency shelter, but it is part of a broader system of care. Let me get back to you on the outreach plan throughout the system, not just in this zone, if im hearing you correctly. Okay. Chairwoman any other questions or comments . Seeing none supervisor mandelman . Just a comment. I this the Youth Commission has suggested it has been a while, but i want to congratulate the homeless housing, and supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin has been advocating for a number of years to get appropriate Homeless Services into his district. And i know he has worked really hard to make this happen. And i know a lot of people citywide have been trying to get appropriate services for youth. So this is a pretty important step. It is great to see the support in the community. And i want to congratulate everyone and thank them. Chairwoman thank you. And i also want to congratulate supervisor peskin as he has been talking about the house of fans for a very long time. I think i bought a fan there in the 1980s. And i think there is a geographic equity around the investment, and these type of services to every district, as i have none in my district. With that, i would like to make a motion to set the amendments, to approve the amendments of the b. L. A. And they can take that without objection. And i would like to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. We can take that without objection. Thank you, colleagues. Thank you. Madam clerk, can you please call item number six. Authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 1134,000 from the department of health, National Institutes of health, for participation in a program entitled leadership and operation center, for the period of december 1, 2019, through november 3, 2020. Yes. My name is dillia maloy, and im the Department Director of bridge h. I. V. , and this is a branch within the Population Health division of the department of Public Health. I am here representing dr. Albes actually attending a micr microbicite meeting, and he was unable to attend in person. So this grant provides resources for dr. Lu to continue this work providing leadership as the chair of one of the protocols that has recently been completed, successfully completed, and now dr. Lu is engaged in working with the Protocol Team to analyze the data and prepare manuscripts. And also to prepare abstracts for upcoming scientific meetings. So this grant partially reimburses the department of Public Health for 4. 40 f. T. E. Of dr. Lus salary. Im here to respectfully request the approval to accept and expand these funds retroactive to december 1, 2019. The department received the letter of funding allocation on november 28, 2019. Just a few days before the project period of start date, december 1, 2019. There were additional delays processing and submitting the legislative package due to the holidays. And im here to answer any questions. This project funded by california doesnt of Public Health allows us to really initiate Overdose Prevention programming in several facilities in line with a successful programme initiated in vancouver called tenant Overdose Response organizations. It is retroactive to february 1st. Thank you. And the reason that its retroactive is probably because it was given to you late by the state. Correct . Correct. There was no vla report on this, any Public Comment on number 7, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I would like to move this for a positive recommendation to the board and we can take that without objection. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to say that we were joined today by former supervisor gonzalez and i forgot to recognise him before he left the room. But if he should be listening, i just wanted to say to him, thank you for joining us today and, of course, for his years of public service. Item number 8, resolution authorizing the office of the District Attorney to accept and expand the amount of 201,000 from the California Department of insurance for the automobile insurance programme, for the period of july 1st, 2019 through june 30, 2020. Item number 9, resolution authorizing the office of District Attorney to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 850,000 from the California Department of insurance for the workers, competence insurance programme, Programme Period of july 1st, 2019 through june 30, 2020. Thank you very much. I believe the staff from supervisor safyes office, would you like to speak first . Thank you. Im here on behalf of supervisor safyaye. Its to expand grants and one is the automobile insurance grant and the other is the Workers Compensation Insurance Fraud grant. Im joined by the grants and contract manager for the d. A. s office and, of course, with misg attorney and program director. So shes here to answer questions on your behalf. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good morning. I am the managing attorney of the Economic Crimes unit at the San Francisco District Attorneys office and both of these grants are for authorization for our office to excepaccept grant funds in ordeo more effectively investigate and prosecute Insurance Fraud cases. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comments on items 8 or 9 . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Any questions or comments . Seeing none, i would like to make a motion to this to the board with a positive recommendation, 8 and 9 and if we can take that out objection. Tout madanumber 10 . The housing and community developmendevelopment agreement and the Affordable Housing and sustainable communitys programme for a total of 20 million, including 13. 7 million dispersed by hcd, for purpose of Affordable Housing at 500 turk street and 300 million as a grant to the city, Public Transportation improvements for the period starting on the execution date of the standard agreements through june 30, 2029. Good morning. Im joyce len, the manager presenting item number 10 and this authorizes to accept and expend the grant of 6. 3 million for transportation improvements and related amenities approved by the California Department of housing and community development, hcd and authorizes to execute the standard agreement with hcd under the Affordable Housing and sustainable communitys programme, for a total award of 20 million. 13. 7 millions of which will be dispersed by hcd has a loan to turk 500 for the Affordable Housing project and 6. 3 million grant to be dispersed as a grant to the city for Public Transportation improvements near 500 turk street in collaboration with ssmta and the tenderloin neighborhood. The asic programme allocates grants and loans to projects to achieve greenhouse grants reduction. This is developing the 100 affordable new construction Housing Project at 500 turk street, a 108unit, plus one managers unit building at the corner of turk and larkin. The 13. 7 million asic loan is critical to permanent financing to the project and the 6. 3 million transit improvements and related amenities will support number one, mtas market and the segment of the garry rapid project, the fifth street Improvement Project and sixth street Pedestrian Safety project. Number two, barts civic senterr and residents for three years. Construction for the 500 turk Affordable Housing project began as of this week, which is very exciting. And Jacob Goldstein is here if you have any projectrelated questions. Thank you. Lets open this up for Public Comment. No daily report and any members of the public to comment on item number 10 and seeing number, its closed. And i would like to make a motion to move this to the board for the positive recommendation and if we could take that without objection, thank you very much. Can you please call item 11. Resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Departments to accept inkind grants from the San Francisco grants and improvements from recreation to bayview, playground valued up to 180,000. Thank you. This is tony moran, the capital divisions manager for rec and park. Good morning. The item before you is the request to authorize the authore recreation and Park Department to an inkind grant up to 180,000 for the playground excuse me, Bayview Playground for playground equipment. In 2012, the Kaiser Permanente was working to establish bayview, healthy eating, Healthy Living zone and this hill zone supports active programming in the bayview neighborhood, as well as provided some inkind grants to fund the programming, but also to help fund playground equipment and equipments at bayview. In 2016, the inkind grant received by the hill Zone Organization was set to expire so the San Francisco Public Health foundation moved forward with securing two equipment credits valued at 180,000 for playground equipment with ross recreation. And in 2019, october of 2019, the recreation and Park Commission recommended that we present this inkind gift to the board of supervisors for acceptance and since that time, throughout this whole period, the rec and Park Department has been working closely with the community on the Playground Design and the playground equipment selection. And currently, project is expected to be advertised this spring with construction starting in summer or fall of this year and project completion to be in spring or summer of 2021. Are there any questions . Thank you very much. Any questions or comments for miss morane. Would anybody like to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I would like to move this to the board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. Madam clerk, can you call item number 12. Resolution retroactively authorizing the park and rec for 400,000 from California Department of recs for july 1, 2019 to june 30, 2022. Thank you, miss morane . Yes, this item is the direction the recreation and parks is requesting thundershowerauthorize agrant fd in the amended amount of 388,000. The local assistant grant for the west port yeathe west portad by the parks department. It was 400,000. However, on december 19th, the Park Department was notified by the California State Parks department that the award would be reduced to 388,000 to allow the California State Parks department to recover Grant Administration costs. I have provided revised copies of the legislation to reflect this amendment. So im happy to provide that to you at some point. So the funding will support the West Portal Playground renovation project thats a part of the lets play Sf Initiative to renovate 13 playgrounds in the city. Here is the modified version and then thats the clean copy. Thank you. So this is a part of the lets play Sf Initiative and basically, this funding was used to close a funding gap in the construction project. The project is currently in construction and thats why were requesting the funds to be received retroactively and it is expected to be sorry, i misplaced my notes here. We expect the project to be completed yes, were expected to be completed this summer. Thank you very much. Theres no report and i see an amendment to change it from 400,000 to 388, and is that substantive . Deputy city anne pearson. I havent seen the amendment but increase amount of money being accepted . Decreasing. Oh, decreasing. That will not require a continuance. Thats great. Thank you. No Public Comment and i would move this to the full board with a positive regulation as amended. Can you please call items 13 and 14 together. 13, resolution authorizing the issuance from time to time in one or more series of not to exceed 1. 4 billion agre aggregae privilege among not to exceed 225 million to be designated as the city and county of San Francisco and series of 2020r1. Item number 14, approving the Controllers Office of Public Finance policy in accordance with Government Code Section 855 and determining other matters in connection. Thank you. And i think this is anna vandegna. Yes. And i ab understand youre requesting a continuance . I would have a couple of words i would like to share to anna and Public Finance would like to request we continue items 13 and 14 to february 26th budget and finance committee meets. For item 13, the general obligation funding, our office has recently received comment from our external bond council will result in nonsubstantive changes to the resolution and we would like to give the bla time to review and provide comments. Ok. For item number 14, the debt policy resolution, the recent sec legal bulletin, february 7, 2020, has provided clarifying guidance to municipal debt issuers which should be rested reflected in the debt policy. While there may not be changes to the debt resolution, we would like to consult with the council to give them time to review the changes and provide comments, if necessary. So for item number 14, if there should be changes that are substantive, is there a typ time constraint on this . We are now anticipating any changes that are substantive, and theres no time constraint on it. Ok, thank you very much. And lets open this up for Public Comment . Any members would like to comment . Seeing none, pull comment is closed. So i think well hear, then, this total item with the blasm report alareport of february 26. Could i would liki would like to february 26th, 2020. Thank you very much and take that without objection. Can you call items 15 and 16 . Reretroaction for a Group Purchasing agreement for the purchase of pharmaceutical for a total amount nonto exceed 381 million for a tem of five years, february 1, 2020 through january 21, 2024. And item with biologic lcc for pharmaceutical project for a total amount not to exceed 295 million for a term of five years from february 1st, 2020, to january 21, 2024. Mr. David was the chief pharmacy officer . Yes, good morning. Good morning. Theres two resolutions to approve to agreements between department of Public Health and mckessan corporation and plasma and biologics which is a subsidiary of the corporation a few things, mckessan districts the drugs to the health pharmacy. They do not negotiate drug price for the dph. They purchase drugs and biologics for manufacturers and the Health Department pays them for the drugs. And in alignment with Health Industry standards, the dph has utilized wholesale distributers for the procurement of a vast majority of the needed pharmaceuticals for many years and a distributers enables the Health Department to streamline the procurement process by allowing the department to have a reliable source of drugs rather than requiring the dph to maintain relationships with hundreds of drug manufacturers directly. Currently, we do business with more than 575 drug manufacturers. Using a distributer enables the dph to have reliable delivery, typically next day, save staff time and reduce administrator burdens all while providing essential medications to patients. In its distributer capacity, the two apply price discounts for dphs bulk purchasing and theres biologics through the two distributer distributers fon 60 million annually combined. We are updating the departments practise to protect the city. The proposed two contracts before you contain language that has been cus customized to the distribution function to minimize potential risks to the city. Additionally, the proposed contract language that explicitly clarifies the purchasing authority when utilizing the distributers by clarifying that the department has access to all of the different buckets that the distributers utilize to obtain the cheapest price medications for our patients. The prior language was ambiguous, so the department included this clarity in the update to the administrative code and the new contract language. Just a brief explanation to the retroactivity of this contract. The new clarifying contract language included in these contracts is linked to the passage of an amendment to administrative code 21a2 passed by the board of supervisors yesterday. Since the approval of the contract is linked to the amended ordinance, the department tried to time the start date of the contract to the approval date of the proposed amendment to the administrative code. Working collaboratively with the City Attorneys office, amendment language took longer than completed to complete that thank you. Thank you. Could we have the baley report, please . The proposed resolutions are approves two agreements with mckessan for pharmaceuticals, specialty drugs, gene therapist. The file 200012 is for 4 million and file 200013 approves an agreement again for five years and in the amount of 295. 9 million and you actually see the spending plan on table one, on page 35 and table 2 on page 36. There are increases built in to account for the increasing prices for drugs over the term and contingencies based on sort of drugs that may be needed that are unique or one time or limited use. These agreements were purchased through the department of Public Health in a Group Purchasing organization, so theres two comments here and we did actually recommend approval based on the department providing a report to the Health Commission and this is actually a required report when the board of supervisors of amended the c, they required a report every five years on sort of the financial outcomes, and because largely participation is not a competitive process, that theres not a competitive process to select a gpoch we were provided after a report was issued a memo to the commission that, we believe, complies with the minimum code requirements. My understanding is because of the timing of the boards approval of the legislation to amend the code to further sort of facilitate the departments participation of Group Participation organizations, that may have timing on the impact of this contract implementation. So i may have miss pearson speak to that. Deputy city anne pearson. The aboard approved a to the amendment code which is the chapter authorizing dph should be a member of a Group Purchasing ordinance and as was referenced in the presentation, certain amendments were made to chapter 21 to allow the department to become a member of multiple gpos, but also to allow the department to purchase products from suppliers that were selected who were not sought out competitively but sell items at a competitive rate. My understanding is that these contracts were procured consistent wit the procedures as theyre reflected in the newly amended ordinance and that ordinance having passed yesterday will not become effective now for 40 days. So it might be appropriate then to not refer this matter to the full board until that ordinance has become effective, which, i think, it means it could be referred for consideration at the march 25th full Board Meeting because the ordinance, assuming its signed by the mayor, would be effective at that time. Miss pearson, so we have the opportunity to continue this item, to bring this back to our committee in time for the march 25th meeting. We also have that option, is that correct . Thats correct. Thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Yes, supervisor walton. Thank you, chair. This is an exclusive distribution agreement, correct . Yes. What are controls in place to keep mckessen from price gouging . So again, mckessen does not determine drug prices. The prices are determined through this and other means and so, what we have is basically a discount based on a Volume Purchase and that is what mckessen gets. Do they get to change or determine what they charge us for their service at any given time . No, they dont. So, basically, mr. Woods, then, this is a procedure that is out of convenience, would you say . We dont know about the Cost Effectiveness because we are purchasing this through mckessen who wills it all together and then we use mckessen to buy these pharmaceuticals but mckessen does not negotiate prices with the manufacturer. Is that correct . So our drug prices are determined through a different mechanism, not through mckessen . And i can explain that, if youre interested. I think what we would like to know here on this mea committeew are we guaranteed, then, that we are actually purchasing them at the most Cost Effective price . So the buckets that we purchase drugs from are through the contracts which was eluded to here, the gpo. The other main bucket is through a federal drug pricing firearm, called the 340b program, a federal program and with that program, because we are a safety net institution, then we are actually able to access federal pricing, which is some of the lowest pricing in the nation across the board. And the third bucket is called wholesale acquisition which is not determined by mckessen so we choose the lowest of the prices and purchase based on eligible location and the lowest price. And are we purchasing generic drugs, then . Over 80 office ou of our dre generic. Any comments or questions for my colleagues. Would you like mr. Woods to follow up with you individually about this, because we have time, quite frankly . This is, actually, a fairly large contract, 281 million, i would say. So if theres other questions or comments, we could continue this item until march and have it in time for the march 25t 25th meeting of the board. Any negative consequence . Well continue our current process and theres no negative consequence other than ill be on vacation in march. Ok, i see no comments and questions and no motion to continue, so lets first approve the amendments that were suggested by our bla and so we can take that without objection. Thank you very much. Oh, yes . We actually didnt have a formal amendment. We were basically requesting an amendment for a memo and they did that after the report went out. So we believe they have met the condition. Its not a formal amendment to this, thank you very much. So, then, i think we can move this to the full board for the meeting of march 25th and we can take that without objection. Thank you. Madam chair, i believe march 24th, tuesday, is a Board Meeting to award it to. Ok, march 24th, Board Meeting, thank you, madam clerk. We can take that out objection . Thank you very much. Madam clerk, any other business . Thank you very much. This meeting is adjourned. A way of life in San Francisco. When the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. Tell me a little about the soft Story Program. What is it . Its a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. Did you the soft Story Program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame . It only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. Its aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. But the openings at the garage level and the street level arent supported in many buildings. And without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. Many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so its to everybodys advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. Notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially atrisk properties but fewer than onethird have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. Lets talk worst case scenario. What happens in a collapse . Buildings have the tendency of rolling over. The first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. In an earthquake the building is a total loss. Can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit . One of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. In an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. You have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. Where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. So, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. Can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs Property Owners might expect . Its a very simple process. We deliberately tried to keep it that way. So, whats involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. This adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake youll get movement but not collapse. And that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. So, potentially the wood and the steel it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30 . Thats exactly right. Thats why were hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. Great. Lets take a look. So, lets talk steel frames. Tell me what we have going on here. Well, we have a steel frame here. There are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. It can be done in about two weeks time. Voila, youre done. Easy. For more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,y,y,y,y,y,y,y,y,y,y,y,y,y, good afternoon. Today is thursday, february 13, 2020. This is a special meeting of the building inspection commission. I would like to remind everyone to please turnoff all electronic devices. The first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. Our next item is item 2, discussion and possible action on the department of building inspection for