Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committees 20240713

Chair fewer good morning, ur everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the february 26 meeting of the budget and finance committee. I would like to thank corwin and colina. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item 5. Clerk yes. Item 5 is a resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to accept and expend a gift of 100,000 from San Francisco 722 montgomery. Chair fewer supervisor peskin, do you have anything you would like to add . Supervisor peskin i would like to thank steven sang for accommodating my request for this additional 100,000 on top of the inclusionary fees and interest and the Mayors Office of housing for preparing for the accept and expend and recommend it to you for full recommendation to the board of supervisors. Chair fewer thank you. Is amy chan here from mohcd . Okay. Supervisor peskin, is this something that you want to present on since emmy chan is not in the audience today . Supervisor peskin so yeah, sure, im happy to present. This is a gift to the Affordable Housing fund of the city and county of San Francisco in the amount of 100,000 from the developer of 722 montgomery street. Chair fewer okay. No b. L. A. Report on this. Any questions or comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. [gave [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. We have michelle and luke from the Controllers Office presenting today. Yes. Good morning, members of the committee. Thank you for hearing this item. Just to introduce it briefly, this is a resolution authorizing issuance of general obligation refunding bonds. It was to be heard at the february 12 meeting of this committee, and we asked for it to be continued until today because we had some technical amendments that needed to be made upon the advice of our bond counsel and the City Attorneys Office which weve distributed to you in a red line for your review. Upon review by the City Attorneys Office, theyve deemed them nonsubstantive technical amendments, so were hoping, supervisor, that you off one of your colleagues could approve the resolution that weve given to you and recommended the amended version out of committee today. Chair fewer excuse me. Are these amendments substantive . The City Attorney has determined theyre not. Chair fewer thank you very much. Additionally, upon coordination with the budget and legislative analysts office, we understand that theyre going to be recommending some additional minor technical changes to the language in this resolution. Theyre not incorporated in the red line that we gave to you, but we when they make the recommendation, we are aware of what the recommendations will be, and we have no concerns, so theyre acceptable to us, as well. Chair fewer thank you. So if there are any questions specifically about the amendments that were proposing, i or mark lake, the City Attorney on the transaction, is here to speak to those. If there are not, my colleague, luke, is going to present the proposal that were submitting today. Good morning. Im going to be presenting on items number 1 and 3, which is the funding resolution, and my colleague will be presenting on item 2. This presentation has both of them, so so the item before you is authorizing the refunding bonds from time to time. General Obligation Bonds, the city has numerous bonds outstanding, and they have provisions in them that allow us to refinance them. General them every eight to ten years that theyre outstanding. So currently in the next five years, there are the opportunity to refund 1 appointnottoexceed resolutio. Theres also of the 1. 48 billion which can be refunded, were also looking to approve the first sale with a nottoexceed amount of 255 million. The resolution authorizes and directs o. P. F. To determine which bonds should be determined to be refunded bonds. The refunding bonds must not have a final Maturity Date later than the Maturity Date of the bonds to be refunded, and the cost must not exceed 2 , and underage cost must not exceed 3 . The office of Public Finance must return to the board with each supplemental appropriation with the request to issue funding bonds. This authority to issue refunding bonds under the refundi refunding resolution expires june 30, 2025. So heres a summary of the bonds that we are proposing to refund this coming spring. Theres two series of eser, two from parks 2008, and safety from 2011. Were currently estimating based on markets back in late january that the gross savings to taxpayers would be approximately 31. 64 million based on an estimated Interest Rate of 2. 19 on a net present value based of the case flow save cash flow savings, were looking at about 11 of the funded bonds, which is well above the 3 threshold that this funding resolution requires. We are seeking the approval of the sale of the initial series in addition to the full authorization over the five years not to exceed 255 million. Final maturity is the final maturity of the bonds, which is june 30, 2025. The source and uses here are estimated sources and uses provided to us by our municipal advisor and do not associate directly with the appropriation ordinance which was prepared earlier in january in order to get everything on the same timeline, that is a nottoexceed amount, which we do not anticipate issuing all of. So as far as timeline, weve introduced, back in january, our were expecting the board to hear the approval for the resolution next week and the First Reading of the ordinance next week followed by the final appropriation the next the follow along with the final closing of the refunding bonds in march and april, which allows us to refund the bonds on their very first call date of june 15, 2020. Any questions . Chair fewer any questions or comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we have the b. L. A. Report, please. Good morning, chair fewer and members of the committee. Severin campbell from the budget and legislative analysts office. These changes are largely due to changes in securities and Exchange Commissions requirements, so the language in the debt policy conforms with those requirements. But i do we do actually recommend a change to the resolution itself. This resolution as written would allow changes to the debt policy, not only for minor changes, but for more resolution changes without coming back to the board of supervisors. That would continue to allow the department to make amendments or changes to the debt policy if they are specific to regulatory changes or legal changes, but more discretionary changes just as best practices would need to come back to the board for approval. And then, on the other two items, item 1 and 3, item 1 is a resolution authorizing funding bonds through 2025, and issuing 255 million through those bonding funds. The total amount to be refunded are shown on page 8 of our report. The actual bonds that would be refunded or proposed to be refunded by the 255 million to be sold this spring are shown in exhibit 1 on page 5 of our report. And then, the appropriation of those bonds is shown on page 6, and we can answer any questions you have about that. Again, we do have a couple of recommendations to the resolution approving the issuance of 1. 5 billion in funding bonds. Both of these are more for clarification, and we recommend approval as amended. Chair fewer so the amendment that you are proposing is for item number 1, that is correct, miss severin . We have a proposal for item number 1, the refunding bonds, and for item number 2, the debt policy. Chair fewer so madam clerk, we didnt call item number 2, would you please call item number 2 right now. Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer so colleagues, we are now listening we are now hearing items 1, 2, and 3 together, and is there a separate presentation for item number 2 . There is. There is. Chair fewer okay. So lets hear that all together since we have recommendations from the b. L. A. For items 1 and 2. Okay. Just in brief, this is also continued from item number 2 is continued from the february 12 budget and finance hearing. From time to time, the office of Public Finance needs to update its the citys debt policy due to changes in regulatory or industry policies. So when they update that policy, we bring it back to the board for approval. That was what we were intending to do. We brought this back on january 28, and just before the last hearing, the s. E. C. Issued a new legal guidance which required us to review what we had submitted for introduction, and working with our City Attorneys Office, the changes to the guidance recommended a change to index i which concerns municipal finance disclosure policies and practices, and so ive submitted a copy of the changes as introduction to appendix i. You can see the red line of the changes that were submitting since introduction. The amendment is only to this appendix i, theres no requested change to the legislation itself. However, as ms. Campbell noted, the b. L. A. Has recommendations to the resolution, and we find those recommendations acceptable. More specifically, to speak to the updates since the last board approved version of the board policy, my colleague, ana, is here to speak to what has changed since the last time the board approved the debt. Chair fewer thank you. Thank you. Im director of the Controllers Office of Public Finance. Weve long maintained a formal written debt policy. It establishes our formal objectives such as maintaining moderate debt Service Levels while maintaining our highest practical credit rating. It further requires us to establish internal controls and procedures and demonstrate a commitment to best practices in municipal debt planning issuance and management. So got a few a couple powerpoint slides. As a reminder, we were also here last january for updates to the use of proceeds designation as well as extending the term for general Obligation Bonds for Affordable Housing loans. And the next slide, we go through the updates some of the key updates that were presenting here today that were asking for your approval. Specifically, those are as noted. Were finding the citys disclosure practices, which are detailed in appendix i. Additionally, wanted to note that a board of supervisors disclosure training has been scheduled for april 7, and during that, the City Attorneys Office will review our practices. Another change in the policy would allow for the use of negotiated sales for complex refinancings. Just terminations to sale bonds requires consultation with the controller and the citys municipal advisor or advisors as well as a competitive process for underwriter selection. And with that, i am happy to answer any questions on the citys debt policy. Chair fewer okay. So colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on items 1, 2, or 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer i first would like to make a motion to approve the amendments to items number 1 and 2, is that correct . Yes, and we can take that without objection. Thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer and then id like to approve the amendments presented by the b. L. A. And items 1 and 2, if we can take that without objection . Thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer and no comments on this complex item . Yes, sir. Were also asking for approval of item number 3. Chair fewer yes, but item number 3 has no amendments, correct . We just approved the amendments. Id like to make a motion to approval items 1, 2, and 3 to the full board with a positive recommendation. If we can do that without objection, colleagues. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, if you can call item 4. Item 4, resolution approving San Francisco municipal transportation agent contract for armed and unarmed Security Guard services with universal Protection Service l. P. , in an amount not to exceed 59,028,401 for a threeyear term to commence on the Effective Date following board are professional with three oneyear options to extend at the discretion of the director of transportation. Chair fewer and i believe we have glen mar for a presentation. Thank you, mr. Mar. I believe your request for armed and unArmed Services are for your locations only, is that correct . Yes. Chair fewer okay. Go ahead with your intention. Good morning, supervisors. I am glen mar, chief security officer. So im here to talk about the carr. Our agency approaches security for our employees and for our customers in a multitiered fashion. Ultimately, the Contract Security is the main one were talking about today, but we also approach it through capital improvements, muni transits. We also address it through p. O. P. , training for staff members, and also a partnership with sfpd. So today, were going to talk just about the security contract which deals primarily with the safety and security of our members. I conducted an assessment of 12 facilities, and out of them, nine of those were severely lacking in security. What i mean by severely lacking, there were Security Guards, but only for certain hours of the day. So during the times that Security Guard Security Guards werent there, employees had to deal with other issues, homeless getting into the facility, using rest rooms, stealing items from the lockers, feces and urine issues they had to deal with. Some of our facilities had no Security Officers, so thats why we wanted to up the manpower and hours for most of these facilities. So the next page is a contractual review of what this contract will be. The vendor is allied universal Security Services. It was formerly cypress, but it was taken over in june 2018 by allied. Chair fewer excuse me, mr. Mar. Would you like to put this up on sfgovtv . Im sorry. Chair fewer thank you. So heres the overview of the contract that were proposing to you today. Its not to exceed 28 milli million 59 million for a three year contract. Here, we have the overview i think theres a lot of numbers up there, but i think the one we should concentrate on is the service hours. Based on my assessment and what we talked about earlier about the need for all of these facilities, the nine facilities we did the assessment on, we want to increase it to approximately 233,000 per year, which is roughly a 25 increase. Here we have another chart, and theres a lot of numbers, but please concentrate on the number in the lower right hand corner. Our current cost is 6. 7 million for Security Services from allied. And because of our security concerns, and the employees that we want to increase that, 233,000 would increase it to 8. 5 million, up to 10. 2 million due to the increase in wages and also the increase in manpower. So why do we want this contract approved . As ive talked about earlier, its so, so important that we show to our employees that we actually care about their safety first. So for the last eight to nine months that i was with the agency, i received numerous phone calls and numerous emails where they were concerned about their employees safety. I think with this contract, it would be a big step forwardtor tforwardtor forward for the city and for the agency that we show our employees that we care about them, so i ask that you approve this contract. That concludes my presentation, and im happy to answer any questions that you may have. Chair fewer thank you very much. So lets hear from the b. L. A. , please. Yes. The board of supervisors is being asked to approve the resolution to approve this new contract for Security Services at m. T. A. As mr. Mar pointed out, the provider would be allied universal, but if you see on table one, page ten of our report, the existing provider, cypress provide security had the highest private security had the highest score, but offer the conclusion before but after the conclusion before you, they were purchased by allied universal. Mr. Mar reported on the increase in hours in this contract compared to the existing contract. We show the total number of hours on page 11 of our report. But also in our footnote, we note where there would be an increase in hours at existing m. T. A. Facilities. What they needed was a decide for increased hours. The total spending is summarized on page 12, table three in our report. We do request that the total amount of 28 million is for one year, and the 59 million is over six years, and we recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Can we oh, supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you very much. One question. On slide three, when it talks about security, making sure to address homeless encampments, and also address confrontations with individuals with Mental Health needs, how does that work . How do they engage . So how does it work with security . Supervisor walton yeah. When they see an encampment, when they see someone with Mental Health needs, how do they engage . So thats a very good question. Right now, when security sees these individuals starting to set up camp, if theyre around, they would confront the individuals and tell them that theyre not allowed to set up camp here, and they would talk to them and coerce them not to set up camp. The problem is when theres no security there, that they do set up camp, and then, by the time the employees get to work, the employees run in to them, and they have to confront them themselves. The Security Guards are trained in deeffect training prior to going to the sfmta, so theyre very well trained in getting them to not set up on the property. Supervisor walton and if that doesnt work . If they feel their safety is in jeopardy, they immediately call sfpd and have them intervene. Supervisor walton would they also act with hsoc and other agencies . Yes. Hsoc has been helping out at our facilities with very largen campments but security is also large encampments, by security is also there. We stop it from the very beginning with the new Security Services, and i think that takes care of a lot of the problems for the employees. Chair fewer so i have a few questions. One is that so this is security for 12 facilities, is that correct . Its security for all our facilities, but the increase is for nine of our facilities that i made the assessments that needed it the most. Chair fewer okay. So how many facilities, then, would this contract cover . This isnt just for the nine facilities . Correct. This is for everything, including the subway. So the subway i forgot to mention the subway is one of the places thats extremely lacking. One officer currently covers nine platform, which is very inadequate. It covers a subway, and it covers a multitude of facilities throughout the agency. Im not sure of the total number, but i think its at least 22. 22 total facilities . Correct. And this is a 59 Million Contract if extended. No. Its 28 million for three years, and we have three oneyear options to extend it. If we extend it for all of it, its 59 million. Chair fewer do you have other security measures such as cameras . No, i dont. Chair fewer because i think it would help us to see just how big is this issue . I see its for unarmed, the most. The majority of the budget is for unarmed, but you do have a budget for armed. Now who are those people that carrie firearms or allowed to use those firearms . Is it sfpd . Who are these folks that are armed actually . So for the contract for security contract, the only Armed Services that we use is strictly for employees that deal with cash. So revenue collection is all that the armed guards are accompanying employees with. So when they go out and collection, the armed guards that are with them are armed. This was made clear to us in the last contract. It has nothing to do with the public, it has to do with the employees dealing with cash. Chair fewer escort. Thats correct. Chair fewer so this Company Actually supplies the armed guards. Correct. Chair fewer because they have the liability. Correct. Chair fewer all right. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that wish to comment on item 4 . Yes. Come up to the podium. Anyone whos like to speak whod like to speak to Public Comment. Everybody has two minutes. Thank you very much. Good morning, board of supervisors. My name is hajik rice, and i have been working as an armed officer since 2018. My Current Employer is a. U. S. , and they are a signatory to my union contract. We protect life and revenue daily. My coworkers and i face the challenges of deterring suspicious people. Even though we experience this, i take pride in being able to protect and escort cash and revenue agents because my job is critical to ensure the safety of the general public and daily operations of sfmta. I argue to commit to keeping a responsible contractor like a. U. S. So that my coworkers and i can continue to address work related issues and continue to bargain for stronger contracts that ensure good benefits. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you, sir. Good morning, board of supervisors. My names brendall guin, and i represent the Security Officers, armed and unarmed in San Francisco. Ive been working this past year with the subcontracted officers working with a. U. S. Sfmta. Daily they protect the city while working with long hours. Some of these officers, they struggle with housing and health care. Despite this, the officers present today show passion and dedication to protecting the public. I urge you to approve a Union Company like a. U. S. So our members continue to have a voice at work and job protections with paid sick days, holidays, and a grievance procedure. Can we count on your support to keep our responsible contractor like a. U. S. For our Security Officers . Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Roger marenko. We are in support of more security, especially because these are all union jobs. However, in terms of what mr. Mar stated, people coming into the facilities, urinating, defecating, etc. , id like everyone to know that the most prominent property of the sfmta where this occurs at is the buses. So id like the members to think about not only extending this to the actual buildings but to the actual buses, to the trains, whether its, you know, Security Guards at strategic locations on market street, in the tenderloin, on market on Mission Street, right, at certain terminals, but where this is actually occurring on a daily basis, with are wihere w challenges with mentally disabled people because this is where this occurs at the most on a daily basis. I would just like everybody to think about where this occurs on a grand scale of everything. Does it occur at the facilities . Yes, but it occurs more often on the buses themselves. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer okay. So id like to make a motion to approve the amendments that have been brought forth to b. L. A. And can we do that without objection . [gavel]. Chair fewer oh, and id like to welcome supervisor matt haney. Madam clerk, do i need to excuse supervisor walton . Clerk yes, please. Chair fewer okay. Before we take this vote, id like to make a motion to excuse supervisor walton. If i can take that without objection, thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer welcome, supervisor matt haney. So weve had a motion to approve the amendments brought forth by the b. L. A. We can take that without objection, thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer and make a motion to bring this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer weve already heard item 5, so madam clerk, can you please call item 6. Clerk item 6, resolution authorizing Tax Collector to sell at public auction certain parcels of tax defaulted real property. Chair fewer thank you very much. And i believe we have molly cohen here. Good morning, supervisors. Molly cohen from the office of treasurer and Tax Collector. I am here to present for your approval 165 parcels we are seeking to offer for auction in may. Youve all been provided copies of an updated parcel list. If i can request that the new parcel list thats been provided please replace the list provided with the resolution. It replaces 429 parcels of all times with 165 timeshare parcels. Property becomes eligible for auction when an owner fails to play taxes for five years. The parcels i bring before you are a tiny percentage of the 290,000 total parcels. We collect over 3. 3 billion in property tax payments annually, and over 99 of owners pay their property tax bills on time and in full. So before you for consideration today are 165 parcels that are five years or more delinquent on taxes. We are doing a timeshare only auction because timeshares are a unique property. There is no risk of displacement. Commercial operators and homeowners associations are the main buyers. The resolution allows for a reoffering at a lower price if there are no successful bidders during the first round. In 2019, we offered 213 time shares during a reoffer auction, and sold 187, removing them from our defaulted tax roll and returning them to paying status. This auction will likely result in the removal of a significant number of parcels from delinquency. Removes these timeshares from our roll will allow us to dedicate our time to other properties. Once approved, this list will be published in a newspaper and on our website. Thank you for your time, and im here to answer any questions. Chair fewer theres no b. L. A. Report, and no questions from my colleagues. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on this . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I just have one question. This just seems incredible that they would be delinquent on their taxes for five years, this volume of people or purchasers of these time shares. For five years, it just seems somewhat incredible. Whats going on with 1000 pine . So theres 5,000 timeshares total in the city. What ends up happening is a lot of these timeshares come with very expensive maintenance and ownership fees. People will pay their 1,000 timeshare fees, theyll skip a year, and once they stop paying their ownership fees, they lose access to the property, and they stop paying their property taxes. Many people on these lists are retirees. It turns out that many of them have passed away, and their children are uninterested in paying for the property. So despite our best efforts and all of our notices, it comes to this actually. Chair fewer so is there any way we can curtail this . Five years is a long time to be on any list . Im wondering if theres no liability for the Timeshare Company at all . Thats a really interesting question. Much of our process is guided by state law, but im happy to do some thinking about City Attorney and get back to you on that. Chair fewer okay. Thank you. Weve already had Public Comment, so id like to make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. [gavel]. Chair fewer okay. Id like to make a motion to rescind to item 5. We failed to ask for Public Comment, so may i have im making a motion to rescind item number 5. Thank you, colleagues. Madam clerk, can you please item 5. Clerk yes. Item 5 is a resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to accept and expend a gift of 100,000 from San Francisco 722 month famili montgomery funds. Chair fewer thank you. Do we have any Public Comment on this . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, can we call item 7 first. Clerk item 7 is resolution approving modification number one to airport contract 50085 curb Side Management services with fspppm management, llc, to increase the contract amount by 10 million for a new not to exceed amount of 19 million and to exercise the one oneyear option to extend the term from july 1, 2020 through june 20, 2021. Modification number one would exercise the first oneyear option through june 2021 and increase the contract amount by 10. 4 million. This is the result of a 2016 competitive request for proposals process and was approved by the board of supervisors with an initial term of four years with one fouryear option to extend. The increase in the nottoexceed amount includes staffing expansions that were use to approve the airports move of all Transportation Network companies to the fifth floor of our domestic terminal garage. This was done to help us relieve some of the congestion that we were experiencing at the terminal curbs. In addition, there was a new staging lot that was created as t. M. C. S in the waiting lot was backing up into millbrae avenue as well as extensions into our new t. M. C. Lots and the taxi staging area and the airports new hotel. The trip fees that are collected from our Ground Transportation operators are used to fund this contract. The Budget Analysts Office has reviewed the contract and the proposed modification and recommends approval, but if requested, i would be happy to answer any questions if you have them. Chair fewer thank you. Can we hear from the b. L. A. Office, please. Yes, the current contract extends it one year, to 2021, and increases the amount from 19. 5 million to 29. 5 million. The increase of 10 million is to account for increased spending over the remaining two years. The increase goes up from 5. 5 million in 1819 to a projected 6 million in 1920. The reason is for an increase in positions from 74 positions to 96 positions under the contract. We did talk to the airport about it. Did does have to do with the increase in garages and curb Side Management of the t. N. C. And increased t. N. C. Activity at the airport, uber, lyft, and other transport Network Company providers. So the increase in the budget is shown on page 17, and we recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item number 7 . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Miss widener, i actually have some questions about this contract. It is almost a 30 Million Contract, and i think i need more clarification or a deeper understanding of what these people what theyre performing, what their jobs are. It seems like its more than curb side. You mentioned a motel, you mentioned a parking lot, and some of the positions, also. So id like to continue this item until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. We can take that id like a motion to continue that item. I can take that without objection. Thank you very much, miss widener. We should have a conversation. Thank you very much. Absolutely. Chair fewer i appreciate that. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, can you please call item 8 . Clerk yes. Item 8, resolution amoving modification 2 to license and Services Agreement 50037 between the city and county to extend the Services Term of the agreement for use of application based for three years through march 20, 2023, reduce the cap of the Administrative Services fee from 250,000 to an amount not to compete 144,000 annually for the period of march 13, 2020 through march 12, 2023 for an aggregate amount not to exceed 1,682,000 for the total term of march 12, 205 through march 12, 2023. Chair fewer thank you. And we have Kathy Widener from the airport. This system was invented by s. F. O. Staff, and the airport recently received a u. S. Patent, so were pretty proud of that. The Licensing Agreement was originally approved by the board of supervisors in 2015 for an initial twoyear term with three oneyear options to extend through march 12 of this year. The system defines a perimeter around the airport using geographic coordinates and collects t. N. C. Data that helps us in our auditing process to make sure that the right amount of trip fees are collected from various companies. Modification would extend the contract for another three years through march 12, 2023. It caps the amount that s. F. O. Would pay, from 150,000 to 144,000. We collect 55 million in t. N. C. Trip fees we collected 55 million last year based on this system. The system has been very successful in maintaining a geofence and providing airports with audited information to validate our t. N. C. Trip information. The proposed modification does reduce the administrative fees and also allows s. F. O. To continue to collect Service Development fees through ards when they license the technology to other airports. The Budget Analysts Office has reviewed the agreement and the proposed modification and recommends approval, and id be happy to answer questions. Chair fewer thank you, miss widener. Can we hear from the b. L. A. , please. Yes. This approves the second existing agreement between the airport and the nonprofit Airport Research and development foundation. So this action and service and license agreement does three things. It uses the application or Technology Developed by the airport to actually record trip fees by t. N. C. S as they enter the airport. Currently, i think its about 4. 5 per trip, and then, the airport would pay a fee to the foundation under the agreement. So the original agreement was approve ind approved in 2015, and then, the option was approved in 2017, extending it through march of this year, march 2020. So the proposed resolution would extend it for an additional three years actually extend it through 2025 2023, with an additional twoyear extension to 2025. It increases the total amount to be paid by the airport in foundations in fees, the actually annual fee reduces from 150,000 per year to 144,000 per year. The summary of the current terms of the agreement over the next three years are shown on page 20, table one of our report, and we recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item 8 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer colleagues, any comments or questions . Congratulations to s. F. O. On their patent. Id like to make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation, if we can take that without objection. Thank you very much, colleagues. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, can you please call item 9. Clerk item 9 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the Police Department to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 29 the 8,414 from the department of Homeland Security federal Emergency Management agency to purchase an underwater remote operates vehicle for the period of sept 1, 2019 through august 31, 2022. Im from supervisor stefanis office. Shes homesick today. This is a grant for an underwater vehicle to replace the existing remote operated vehicle. This allows us to exist and mitigation underwater threats, create sweeps for the pier system without having to deploy human divers, and provide post incident underwater surveillance of infrastructure. As i said, the one that they would be purchasing to replace is an improvement over the old one, and it would be the only one in the region with the inability to ability to navigate the swift forces in the San Francisco bay. Im joined by Patrick Leong of the San Francisco Police Department and several members from the marine unit to answer any questions you may have. Chair fewer thank you very much. Mr. Leong, do you have anything to add to what was presented . Yes. Within the budget for this grant, the award is for 298,000. There is a 25 match. As far as the budget is concerned, this project included or the grant project includes an optional support grant for 25,000. For future years, that would be at the departments discretion if we choose to continue the support plan, and it is optional. It would be at our discretion. However, the it is not a requirement. Chair fewer okay. So mr. Leong, are you saying this 25,000 support plan is included in 298 or that is an additional . It the total budget for this project is 39 approximately 398,000. Chair fewer so only 400,000 for the total project . Correct. And it includes it includes a oneyear support plan. Chair fewer this includes the 25,000 oneyear support plan. Correct. Chair fewer and it requires a renewal of the oneyear support plan, and the Police Department would absorb those costs . Yes. Chair fewer and why is this retroactive . Its only retroactive because of the grant start date, so it was 9 91 is the state date. 9 start date, 912019, not because weve started any activities. Chair fewer okay. Mr. Leong, that doesnt tell me why its retroactive. We havent gone through the grant start process. The grant start date is 912019. Chair fewer so why didnt you present this before 91 we didnt receive the award until after 91. Chair fewer you didnt receive it until after 91 . I dont recall when we received it, but it was after 912019. For the grant do you mind if i jump in . Sure. Its a grant approved by the department of Homeland Security. I dont know the date that we received an approval, but they gave us an approval period that started 912019. We received approval after that fact, and the expend period ends in 2022. So they have not done any activity on the grant. Its just that the department of Homeland Security gave us an approval beginning on a date before we received the approval. Chair fewer okay. So i guess my question, as you know, when this comes to the full board, any time theres something retroactive as happened yesterday. Chair fewer as happened yes, there is always one board member that will question this. Yes. Chair fewer so my question is, if this was actually accepted in september, why are we hearing about it in 2020 . Mr. Patrick, this is a question that you will need to be prepared to answer and not put off. Sure. It has to do with the length of time it takes to present and expend a grant resolution, to get to our police commission, to calendar it, to the budget and finance committee, and then before it goes to the board of supervisors, that process, for us, it takes a minimum of three months. And so by virtue of that time schedule, it makes this a retroactive approval. It doesnt mean normally, retroactive is it has it refers to the timing difference between when the accept and expend is approved versus when is the grant award start date. And so because we cant chair fewer when is the grant award start date . 912019. Chair fewer so mr. Leong, i just want to be perfectly transparent with you to say that if it was a start date, that you tell me it takes you three months for your department to go through an accept and expend is somewhat unacceptable, and the fact that now its five months since that, i think to bring that to us retroactively, i just want to say i think its a little i dont think your reasoning actually is somewhat valid. I actually do think the departments approve the accept and expend grants all the time. Its because theyre notified later and this is because its retroactive. Okay. So i just want to caution you that before you go before the full board that you may want to have a conversation perhaps with the sponsor and figure that out. I am just telling you for this hearing today, i think this should have been brought before the budget and finance committee before, but im just going to caution you that if this goes before the full board, they will question you. We did intend to try to speed up that process, but some of what delayed the resolution was when we calendared it for our police commission, it was around the same time that we had we were preparing our budget, but also, at the same time, it was during the holidays, and so some of that has to do with the Holiday Schedule and getting the necessary approvals before we reached that step. Chair fewer thank you, mr. Leong. And so the total request for this is almost 400,000, and the grant request is 298. And i am hearing from officers that actually, this is a piece of equipment that is being that is used on a somewhat regular basis and that actually it complements the services of our existing coast guard and other jurisdictions that might have similar equipment, is that correct, mr. Leong . That would be correct. Chair fewer and then im hearing that the equipment that weve had before is aging, and although this takes minimal from the officers from what im heard, it takes minimal maintenance, that the Police Department will absorb the future cost of the maintenance, is that correct . Thats correct. Chair fewer okay. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public that would like to comment on item 9 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Are there any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing no comments or questions from my colleagues, id like to make a motion to seforward thi to the full board with a positive recommendation, and we can do that without objection. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, would you call the next item. Supervisor haney chair fewer, if its possible, can i make a few comments before they present because i have to run. I want to thank in advance everyone whos here and who brought this proposal forward. Ive been in meetings with representatives from the department and am happy to see the support from the neighborhood for this proposed center and also the work that the department has done to take some of the feedback and integrate that into whats before us today. I as you as ive made very clear and very supportive of Navigation Centers in general, and i know that this particular area around 33 gough is an area that has a significant amount of neighborhood homelessness and is in need of additional services. This Old City College building has long been a concern for neighborhood residents and businesses, and it is a very positive thing to see it transformed and used to serve so many people in need. I have a fee amendments that were going to be putting forward that i think are in front of everybody. Theres a couple things that i do want to flag that relate to the amendments and also to some other issues that i want to make sure to put on the record. One of the i do think that we are learning in terms of the importance of doing extensive Neighborhood Outreach and community meetings. I do want to say that if we can do more of that with the neighborhood before its announced, it is always a positive thing. I personally found out about this Navigation Center proposal i think the day before it was announced, and i also just want to say that for the engage the with the Supervisors Office and the surrounding constituents that having more opportunity for a collaborative effort and input and engagement on the front end is a positive thing. I also and i brought this up with the department really do think its important to have a significant commitment to have a zone around the Navigation Center, and i know that there is a commitment to that and were working on that together. I also believe its important that we consider the opportunity to provide a more diverse set of referrals to the Navigation Center. I think when we only have referrals that come from hsoc or Law Enforcement or even hot teams, we may be missing an opportunity to collaborate with neighborhood and Community Organizations who can provide access and who know individuals and work directly with individuals already who can benefit from the services and transitional housing that a Navigation Center can provide. So the proposed set of amendments are on page 3 of the resolution that have been made. One that the departments and district supervisors have agreed to convene regular meetings with the surrounding vicinity including but not limited to the number of people served and outcomes. The Service Provider has agreed to establish a Good Neighbor policy for the Navigation Center, and the neighborhood has created an outreach zone and will offer an outreach and initial priority to the unhoused neighbors in the vicinity. I think there are a number of Navigation Centers in this surrounding area, and im hopeful that we will continue to build these throughout the city, but this is a neighborhood that will benefit from these services and opportunities, and there are a number of people who are unhoused in this area who will be able to access services, shelter, and a transition to housing as a result of us activating a piece of property that has remained vacant for some amount of time, so thank you for your hard work and everything that went into this. I apologize that i have to leave early before this, but id like to be added as a cosponsor. Chair fewer thank you. And so we have gigi whitley. Good morning. Gigi whitley, director of the office of finance and supportive housing. Thank you to the committee for your hearing us through this proposed resolution that would propose that would approve a lease between the city and the property operated at 33 gough street for the proposed upper market safe Navigation Center at an annual lease cost of 1. 259 million. I will give a brief presentation. I also have with me the director of the department of real estate, and we can answer any questions you may have. Youre well aware, from my last presentation, about a week ago or two weeks ago the crisis on our streets. I wont revisit those comments, but i do want to thank the committee for your unanimous support and approval of the t. A. Y. Navigation center that passed the board yesterday. That project and this project at 33 gough will allow us to meet the citys goals and the Mayors Initiative of 1,000 new beds opening by 2020, which will allow us to increase capacity [inaudible] as all of our programs are predominantly run by our nonprofit providers. This will really operate as an outreach Triage Center a little bit differently than our other Navigation Centers. Like all our Navigation Centers, it would offer 247 access to clients, but no referrals, only by referral, no walkins. We always have a Good Neighbor policy, but we are learning through the Navigation Centers weve done recently, the t. A. N. Navigation center and this new site how to really refine our Good Neighbor policy and some of our outreach protocols so that theres a lot of Community Support for this new project. Chair fewer miss whitley, so supervisor mandelman and myself, my office, have been briefed on this item, too. Okay. Chair fewer so i think what we would like to hear also, just briefly, do you have anything that you wanted to add . Nothing at all . Okay. The time schedule for this. The schedule of when this is actually going to come on board. Okay. So just jumping on that, the idea is that once this gets approved by the full board, we could immediately proceed into construction timeline. We our partners at the department of health say we could be completed by fall 2020 and be able to operate for two full years before redevelopment to permanent housing. Chair fewer okay. Thats what we wanted to hear. Can we hear from the b. L. A. , please. Yes. The leasing costs are estimated about 4. 3 million over the threeyear term. We show annual operating costs are about 7. 5 million for actually operating the Navigation Center. There are some tenant improvement costs, and we actually do not know what those will be. Our information is that the plans for developing this site is still in the conceptual phase. But funding for the site and planning costs have been identified in the eraf costs. We recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment oh, supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman you may not have the answer to this question, because ive not provided it in advance. Im increasingly horrified by the cost that it costs the city to build bathrooms. Im just curious how much its going to cost to build these moti modular bathroom facilities. Ill have to get back to you on this. This was actually intended to be more cost efficient. Supervisor mandelman i sensed that. Im just curious even with the more efficient option costs. Maybe you can provide that to me offline. Yeah. As the budget analyst said, we dont have final cost numbers. We think its going to be less than the similar sized Navigation Center at embarcadero because it is an existing structure, but happy to follow up with public works and get that information to you as soon as possible. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public wish to speak on item 10 . Supervisor peskin, mandelman, and preston, theyre speaking out about this in their districts, as well. Why this one is not certainly not more important, but we had our spidey senses go up on, its less than 500 feet from our offices. The key is focusing the Outreach Center near the Navigation Center itself, because that will help build relationsh relationships on the street. We absolutely agree and urge this to move forward. Chair fewer next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors. Moises garcia from the s. F. Gay mens chorus. Were about 100 meters from the proposed site and are in support of this and others. I am bolstered by the amendments proposed by supervisor haney. Just like the other speaker just said, were really interesting in knowing what that zone is of outreach. And were looking forward to those individuals getting housed, both for their quality of life and our quality of life. Chair fewer any other memo Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman i have a question. To what extent do we think that people may start camping in the vicinity of nav centers in the hopes that they get sort of priority to be placed in nav . Is that an issue . Do we think its going to happen . Has it happened . Through the chair, supervisor, let me get back to you on that. Im not the programmatic expert, so let me get that for you. Chair fewer id like to make a motion to approve the amendments. If we can take that without objection. Thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer and then id like to make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation, and we can do that without objection. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, is there any other business before us today . Clerk there is no further business before us today. Chair fewer and we are adjourned. [gavel] shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. It harkens back to supporting local. Polk street doesnt look like anywhere u. S. A. It has its own businesses and personality. We have Clothing Stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. Theres a music studio across the street. Its raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. Again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, its very important that you do so. Hello. Youre watching the show that explores San Franciscos love affair with food. There are at least 18 Farmers Markets in San Francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to yearround. This is a great resource that does not break the bank. To show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the Farmers Market challenge. We find someone who loves to cook, give them 20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the Farmers Market. Who did we find for todays challenge . Today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. You only have 20 to spend. I know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. It is a San Francisco classic. We are celebrating bay area food. We have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. We have some beautiful fresh fish here. It will come together beautifully. Many to cut out all this talk, and lets go shop. Yeah. What makes your dish unique . I like it spicy and smoky. I will take fresh italian tomatoes and the fresh seafood, and will bring them to other with some nice spoked paprika and some nice smoked jalapeno peppers. I am going to stew them up and get a nice savory, smoky, fishy, tomatoy, spicy broth. Bring it on. How are you feeling . I feel good. I spent the 20 and have a few pennies less. I am going to go home and cook. I will text message u. N. Is done. Excellent and really looking forward to it. Today were going to make the San Francisco classic dish invented by italian and portuguese fishermen. Itll be like a nice spaghetti sauce. Then we will put in the fish soup. The last thing is the dungeon as crab, let it all blend together. It will be delicious. When i could, i will try to make healthy meals with fresh ingredients, whatever is in season and local. Those juicy, fresh tomatoes will take about an hour to cook down into a nice sauce. This is a good time to make our fish stock. We will take a step that seems like trash and boil it up in water and make a delicious and they speed up my parents were great clerics, and we had wonderful food. Family dinners are very important. Any chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal atmosphere. One of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. Hello. Anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. Always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. All this double in view is this broth with great flavor. But your heart into it. Make something that you, family, and friends will really enjoy. I am here with a manager at the heart of the city Farmers Market in San Francisco. Thank you for joining us. Tell us a little bit about the organization. Were 30 years old now. We started with 14 farmers, and it has grown out to over 80. What is the mission of the organization . This area has no Grocery Store spiller it is all momand pop stores. We have this because it is needed. We knew it was needed. And the plaza needed somebody. It was empty. Beautiful with city hall in the background. Thank you for speaking with us. Are you on the web . Yes, hocfarmersmarket. Org. Check them out. Thank you. Welcome. The dish is ready. It looks and smells amazing. Thank you. It was not easy to meet the 20 budget. I checked everybody out and found some great produce. Really lovely seafood. I think that you are going to love it. Do not be shy. Cyou know this can run you 35 to 45 for a bowl, so it is great you did this for 20. This will feed four to six people. Not if you invite me over for dinner. I am ready to dig in. I hope youll love it. Mmm. What do you think . I think i am going to need more. Perhaps you can have all you want. I am produce the that you have crushed this Farmers Market challenge by a landslide. The first, were going to have to tally of your Shopping List and see what you actually spend that the Farmers Market. And go for it. Incredible. You have shown us how to make super healthy, refresh chapino from the Farmers Market on the budget, that for the whole family. That is outstanding. Thank you peter i am glad that you like it. I think anybody can do it. If you like the recipe for this dish, you can email us at sfgtv sfgov. Org or reach out to us on facebook or twitter and we the new friday farmer his market is in the u. N. Plaza. It features the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the Farmers Market. Shop from marker local vendors. Engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [ ] we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. One of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. It is super sweet. We sell 600 pounds a week. One of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. I get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. San francisco won my heart. One of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. A lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status. We make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. I am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really Diverse Community of people in San Francisco. They partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. We are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. We will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. You. [ ] we really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. This is my own pakistani recipe. It goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. We have a lots of variety of foods. [ ] we do lots of different curries. We do three different types of wontons. Spring rolls, too. Thats right. It is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. After my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the belowmarket rate program. I got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [ ] the current Lottery Program began in 2016. But there have been lot rows that have happened for Affordable Housing in the city for much longer than that. It was there was no standard practice. For nonprofit organizations that were providing Affordable Housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. Private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city weve been monitoring for some time since 1992. We did it with Something Like this. Where people were given circus tickets. We game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. At the same time, we started electronic applications systems. Called dalia. The lottery is completely free. You can apply two ways. You can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. If you a plo apply online, it wl take five minutes. You can make it easier creating an account. To get to dalia, you log on to housing. Sfgov. Org. I have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. I was born here in the hayes valley. I applied for the San Francisco Affordable Housing lottery three times. Since 2016, weve had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. If you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. For some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. There is a Digital Divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. So we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. Along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and theres also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a firsttime home buyer workshop and a oneonone counseling session with the housing councilor. Sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldnt be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. They still might get a value for an available, Affordable Housing unit. We have a variety of Lottery Programs. The four that you will most often see are what we call c. O. P. , the certificate of Preference Program, the dthp which is the displaced penance Housing Preference program. The neighborhood resident Housing Program and the live worth preference. I moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. The neighborhood Preference Program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in San Francisco. The next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. You have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. All city sponsored Affordable Housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. Every week theres a listing on dalia. Something that people can apply for. Its a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. Lets say the lottery has happened. Several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. And how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. This particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. In my mind, i was like how am i going to win this . I did and when you get that notice that you won, its like at first, its surreal and you dont believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. Some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. They have key less entry now. They have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. Mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. We will Start Construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. We also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. And life happens to people. People move. So we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. Best thing about working for the Affordable Housing program is that we know that were making a difference and we actually see that difference on a daytoday basis. Being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, its a wonderful experience. Its a long process to get through. Well worth it when you get to the other side. I could not be happier. I could not be happier. Welcome. Thank you all for being here. Its just a wonderful, joyous occasion to celebrate such an important accomplishment. And without any further adieu, i would ask you to join me in welcoming to the dais our mayor london breed. [applause] thank you, thank you don. Well, first of all im really excited to be here today. I remember when i was campaigning to be supervisor of this district, one of the things that i made a priority when i got elected was to focus our attention on rehabilitating Public Housing in this city. And weve set out on a journey and ive gotta tell you that it was not easy. Some of you know that i grew up across the street in plaza east before they were what they are now, when they were similar to the pink palace. Which is now called rosa park apartments. The conditions that existed there, we all remember, we never had showers. We had problems with roaches and rodents. We had mold. We had just the kinds of conditions that no one should ever have to live in. And, sadly, you know, i mean, it was a community and i loved my community and i appreciated what my grandmother tried to do and so many of the other people who disciplined me and raised me and helped me through, yes, i love you too, randall. And the fact is the fact is that because this community took care of me and took care of my family, and i knew as supervisor that these conditions still existed in so many of our Public Housing developments that there was nothing that was going to be more important to me than trying to do Something Different to get the work done for the people who live here. [applause] so we set out on a mission. And it was scary. You know, joyce remembers when we went around and we did all of these meetings with people. And heres the thing we talked about r. A. D. And what it would do, and of course, people were very fearful. They were like am i going to bit displaced . Is something going to happen . Whats going to happen . And, sadly, we had a bunch of people who never set foot in any Public Housing development come in and try to invoke a lot of fear amongst the residents. And let me tell you, i appreciate the fact that you all trusted me. And that you were all patient with us as we went through this process. Because it was important that we developed a new Funding Source in order to pay for what we know were so many problems in these developments. The Housing Authority would get about 12 million maybe from the federal government to help with maintenance. And they had over 200 million in deferred maintenance. How were we going to make any change . And so thats why this program, when lee was our mayor, when olson lee was a director of the housing, and i was your supervisor, we aggressively pushed this program forward. And now here we are not only celebrating the completion of i know what was probably a challenging time for all of you, the renovation of over 200 units here at rosa parks, but so far over 3,600 units throughout San Francisco of Public Housing. [applause] it is so amazing and i see a lot of the folks who live here that are here today. Im so happy for you. And im so grateful to you for trusting us, for your patience, because i also know that it was very challenging to go through this renovation process. We know that that can be difficult. But i really want to thank the partners that we have and you will hear from some of them today. Tndc, thank you so much, don, who is here with us and your team at tndc, for your understanding and your sensitivity to the fact that we have people who are seniors, who live here on fixed incomes. We have people who have disabilities. We have people who work here every single day and being considerate towards the folks who occupy this space on a daily basis. And thank you to many of you may know bethel. A partner in providing and working with the community to help with Affordable Housing. Pastor shaw isnt here with us today but we will have someone speak on his behalf. And, again, thank you to this incredible community. The Mayors Office of housing. Dan adams is here as the acting director. So many people worked so hard. And we wouldnt be able to do this without the appropriate financing and so thank you so much to bank of america for continuing to work on all of these incredible r. A. D. Projects. Its like were like the dynamic duo when it comes to getting this work done and we appreciate the partnership that comes from bank of america. So here we are on an amazing day, celebrating an amazing milestone for San Francisco. And i am reminded of, you know, because ed and i worked together closely and im grateful to him for working with me to make Public Housing a priority. He knew how important it was to me but also truly important to him. And one of the things that he said on a regular basis is that its not it cant just be about making new promises. It has to be about fulfilling old promises. This community has been promised so much over the years and now today is a great example of a promise fulfilled. Thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] thank you so much, mayor breed. This truly is a fulfillment of a vision and its hard to understand or recollect eight years ago what was in your mind and mayor lees mind and to see this come to life is really amazing. So please next join me in welcoming sister stephanie. [applause] good morning. Thank you mayor london breed for coming. My name is sister Stephanie Hughes and i wanted to take a minute just to share a little bit about myself and what this build in the Community Means to me. I was born and raised in San Francisco. And i grew up here and i knew this area but the pink palace, but i dared not come over here. I was so afraid of the space. My mom was like, she was killed if we would come over here. It had such a Bad Reputation and so much danger and so many things happening in the community that were just traumatizing if i shared it with you. But i moved to bayview when i was 18 where i raised my five amazing children. Nine years ago i had the opportunity to and back to the western edition. And when i moved into this place i actually got a little scared because it was so quiet. I used to walk down the hallways and literally i was so not used to the quietness, it scared me. And me and my mom we would laugh when we were walking down the hallway. We both going, somebody behind you know, teasing each other about it, because its so different from what we knew growing up in the community. But i love this community. I love my community family. I call them all family. My asian family and my russian family, and my rosa parks family. My neighbors call me sometimes and try to speak to me. And i dont even know the language and its just funny. But somehow some kind of way we still communicate. We still communicate because theres so much love. You know, amongst us. And the staff here have been very supportive, we do an array of programs here. I do field trips, barbecues, and art therapy with the families here. And they the staff has just been amazing and the Tennis Association has been amazing and very, very supportive. And trying to provide things to bring us together as one family and loving and nurturing one another. Since the renovation, i love my space. So im now in a two bedroom. When i moved here i was in a one bedroom. And me and my son, and my dog, keeva, cant leave her out. So now were in a bigger space. And im just enjoying it. I am right there so i can see the courtyard, on the second floor and i can yell out of my window, hey, what are you doing today. Hey, come here. You know, i can holler out your name and, you know, i love it. I love being able to see what is going on over here at the center and the parking lot. You know, i dont have to come outside and i can get sunshine ancoming into my apartment. And then i can walk my dogs. Its easier for me because i can go down the stairwell and im right by the stairwell, a couple doors from it, and i love it. But im a little nervous, you guys, i dont know why. But i am. So let me finish. For one thing that i do like the about the renovated spaces though is that i like the way they did our cabinets. I like that the curtains are gone. Because that was costly to have to take your curtains to the washroom for me. But its nice and its neat. The shades that we have now, its nice and neat and all you have to do is just dust them off a bit. But what this space means to me is more than about cabinets and courtyards and my dog. Its about safety. My safety, the safety of my community, and the safety of my sons who come to visit me. My children of color who visit their mom. Its not easy finding a space where you can feel safe with your young men of color in the city. But here in this particular community, my children can come visit me and i am very happy that they feel safe and i feel safe allowing them to be able to come to see me. And for that i am very grateful. So thank you all on behalf of the residents and the Tenants Association of rosa parks and thank you for making this all possible. [applause] thank you, sister stephanie. Reverend shaw was unable to be here this morning because he was called out of town. And he is the pastor of Bethel Church. So here to speak on behalf of reverend shaw and the church, please welcome mr. Bobby sisk. [applause] i was given a 24hour notice, so i wont be long with you. Madam mayor, thank you for being here and to our partners, thank you. And to each of you and certainly to the residents. The Bethel Church has a 167year history in this city. 47 years ago they sponsored and built freedom west. Nearly 400 units that are situated around the church. Once that became 97 occupancy, the church moved out and the board of directors took over. But bethel didnt stop there. It went on to buy several other Affordable Housing properties in this city. When this whole notion came with the San Francisco Housing Authority selling off its inventory, our church became very concerned as to what would happen to persons, particularly in this community. We needed to find someone who would listen to us and have an appreciation that were a faithbased organization. Were interested in people. Were interested in people having safe and Affordable Housing. Although we own several buildings our mission is clear, that we want safe Affordable Housing. So speaking the others at the Neighborhood Development community, i always get that wrong but, anyway we decided that we would forge a relationship and we would do two properties together. So kennedy and the rosa park. We are delighted to have that relationship, that friendship, that allows us to have a say as to what is happening in this community with respect to Affordable Housing. Reverend shaw is about two years new to the San Francisco bay area. Prior to him being assigned, we had a pastor by the name of reverend jay egabor who was here for 22 years and was very instrumental in our housing portfolio. I believe that if reverend shaw was here today he would be overwhelmed by seeing a sea of individuals that are here, seeing this beautiful building, knowing that millions and millions of dollars were spent to get it to this level. And all of you that are here today. I want to thank you for letting us to be partners in this venture and say to you that anything that we can do, we are just situated there on the corner of golden gate, and we are here to serve, we are here to do all that we can to see that particularly division Affordable Housing is a priority in this city. Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity. [applause] thank you so much, mr. Sisk. Bank of america has been a partner not only here at rosa parks apartments and throughout much of the Public Housing reenvisioning that mayor breed referenced that has been a longtime partner in many different projects. Please welcome joy mccarthy. [applause] thank you, everyone. Thank you for having me today and its such a privilege and an honor to be here. The mayor and i have done some of these grand openings together and i will tell you that her passion runs deep. She doesnt miss a grand opening and thats a true commitment to the work that we started, but that she continues to carry out on a daily basis. So, again, bank of america, you have heard that has financed a lot of these projects and its called s. F. Ready. And i rad. And i want to make you understand that 2. 2 billion is the number that bank of america committed to and its only out of 4 billion nationally. So San Francisco is a very important part of what bank of america stands for. And they started in 1904 and financed projects like the golden gate bridge, the bay bridge, the Ferry Building and our commitment to San Francisco has never been stronger. So this is our purpose. Our purpose is to help, where help is needed, and whether asked by our city to step up, we make sure that we find the resources to do it. I see smiles on faces today and we know that no matter what we do to build a building, it doesnt matter except if it matters to the people who are in it. And im so happy that so many of you are here today. What it means is the relocation happened for a good reason. Like, you were able to come back. I know that theres gardens and i know that theres extra spaces and i think that i saw an elliptical machine over there. This is a place that you can call home. Its safe. Its for you. And we are so happy that it happened. Pretty much on schedule. I think that it was mostly on schedule. But, again, it is a wonderful project and there are 29 of them in the city and were so happy to keep doing this time and time again to make sure that folks have the resources they need, but, more importantly, to have a community they can depend upon. I heard your words when you say said that its safe to come home and maybe its not quiet but that its peaceful and you and your dog can have a great time here and meeting other people in the community. Its meaningful to us. Bank of america really tries so hard to make sure that we are part of everyday life in community of San Francisco, helping those who need it most but we want to continue to reach out and to continue to work hard on the projects that are yet to come. We know that we can provide financing but we know what we cant do and we have Amazing Community partners. So when we reached out to don and emily, we reached out to so many people to help us with things that we maybe are not thinking about when the financing came to be and we were so lucky to make sure that our Community Partners worked with us in lock step to make sure that this happened. So thank you again. Were so happy to be here today. I cant wait to keep touring the buildings and i look forward to our next project. Thank you again. [applause] its hard to convey the complexity, and the difficulty and the number of problems involved in undertaking a project this vast. And in these kinds of projects, one person is at the center of all of it and that is the project manager. I hope that people will give a warm welcome to emily van loom. [applause] thank you all for being here to celebrate the rededication of rosa parks. Ive had the pleasure of seeing this building through construction from 2016 to today. You know that theres a long list of folks who contributed to the success of this project and we couldnt have done it without you. Theres a couple of organizations that id like to call out for their invaluable efforts here. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development, as well as the San Francisco Housing Authority. Hud as well as bachtio bank of. And our partners at bethel a and e. Our contractor kay hill. Los angeles as our architect, leevy Design Partners and the residents here at rosa parks. These folks were here every step of the way and they were great teammates. I also cant pass up the opportunity to thank my colleagues at tndz, past and present, for their hard work here. Thanks for your support. Your advice. And for trusting me to get this job done. Id like to focus on a couple of the big successes that weve experienced here at rosa parks. All of which you should check out today. First is the webster street Peoples Garden which was added to the plans during construction and paid for out of savings. It produces 100pounds of food every two weeks and it is home to the only greenhouse which provides plant starts to all of our nine gardens and farms. [applause] yeah. Rosa parks also has a Fitness Center that was upgraded during construction with help from residents and we chose Fitness Equipment that works for seniors here, including a treadmill that operates at lower speeds and the seated arm cycle that is perfect for folks in wheelchairs. And there were also a few traces of rosa parks past that were softened during construction. We have redesigned the entry lobby and reception desk, removing floor to ceiling security glass and creating a warmer space to welcome our residents home. And as don mentioned, an occupied rehab can be really be difficult on residents. We have an active construction site here for 24 months with 50 units under construction at any given time. This was a really big project. And theres a certain amount of noise, dust and stress that cant be avoided during a project like this. But despite this, the team here at rosa parks worked really hard to minimize the impacts on our tenants. My favorite example of this was when kay hill installed doorbells at each end of the long hallway under construction so that our residents could signal when they needed to pass through to get to and from their homes. It was creative and it kept everyone safe. And it also provided some laughs when residents ding dong ditched our contractors from time to time. [laughter] it was it was a great pleasure to work with the residents here at rosa parks. Thank you. [applause] thank you, emily. I want to take the opportunity to share just a few closing remarks. And i want to start by asking all of those who live here at rosa parks, the tenants heres, please raise your hands if you live at rosa parks. Would you raise your hands. Yeah. [applause] so we entered your homes. And i want to thank you for being so gracious and so helpful and for suffering the way that people suffer when youre undergoing a renovation. You are truly our partners and we could not have done this without you. I wanted to do another raise of hands as well. If you participated in the development in any way, if you touched rosa parks between 2016 and now, will you raise your hand for people. Can i ask all of the people who worked on the project to raise your hands . Right on. So thank you. [applause] so its just really important for me to recognize explicitly that it plays a role and we are only one of many. These developments do not happen but for an entire community of people who are working together to achieve a vision. And in many ways these events that we do to celebrate are events of gratitude. So i want to thank you all who worked on bringing this to fruition for your efforts. And then i guess that i want to also reflect that dndz in many ways were not only guests here in your homes but we are guests here in the western edition in rosa parks all together. And im just so grateful for the way not only that bethel and the entire community here has welcomed tndz to be a part of bringing our competencies and our resources in order to make something good happen. And for me that is what i see as part of the role. We are a part of a much larger important ecology to make the city and county of San Francisco better for the people who live here and im just so grateful for the opportunity to play that role. Finally, i want to invite you not to miss the opportunity that there are units open on the second floor and the 10th floor. And you can see the not only the garden but the urban farm outside. And enjoy the food afterwards. Thank you for coming. [applause] 3, 2, 1, yay [applause] my name is kamal lane, and ive lived in San Francisco for 30 lets say 31 years. I lived there a year february 29, 2017, my grandmas birthday. The thing thats cured my home is the Mayors Office. When my number was called, i was excited because my number was number three. To rent a home in San Francisco means that im able to be with my family to support me, me to support them. Then, the opportunity for my daughter to get a good paying job. My favorite thing of my new home in hunters view is the view of the bay bridge, oakland, and a piece of the golden gate. Its peaceful and quiet, and they have a lot of activities for families. They have art class, where you can paint, they have trips, where they take the children. We went to a black art museum, we went to a jazz festival, we went ice skating. Theres a lot they have a lot of activities up here, and thats one thing that i really love about it, i love my bedroom. Its peaceful, its quiet, where i can think, play, and just have my quiet time. I love my bedroom. This is my home because this is where i live. Me and my children, we love in here, we just being with my grand kids and loving somewhere and having somewhere is home. We love being together, and your heart wherever your heart is, that makes it home for you. Hi. Welcome to San Francisco. Stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. Lets look at common earthquake myths. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. We have 3 guest today. We have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. I want to talk about urban myths. What do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance . Hes sleeping during those earthquakes . Have you noticed him take any special . No. He sleeps right through them. There is no truth that im aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. You hear the myth all the time. Suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something i hear they are aware of small vibrations. But yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. Today is a spectacular day in San Francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. Is this earthquake weather . No. Not that i have heard of. No such thing. There is no such thing. We are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. There is no relationship. I have heard its hot or cold weather or rain. Im not sure which is the myth. How about time of day . Yes. It happens when its least convenient. When it happens people say we were lucky and when they dont. Its terrible timing. Its never a good time for an earthquake. But we are going to have one. How about the ground swallowing people into the ground . Like the earth that collapsed . Its not like the tv shows. The earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but its not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. Its not going anywhere. We are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. Southern california is moving north. Its coming up from the south to the north. You would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. Maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. For better or worse. Yes. This is a tough question. Those other ones werent tough. This is a really easy challenge. Are the smaller ones less stress . Yes. The amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. I think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4. 7. So small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future . Not anyway that you can count on. I have heard that buildings in San Francisco are on rollers and isolated . Its not true. Its a conventional Foundation Like almost all the circumstances buildings in San Francisco. The transamerica was built way before. Its a pretty conventional foundation design. I have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. Is there anything of value to that . Yes, if you are in your room. You should drop, cover and hold onto something. If you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. If you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, its not a bad place to be. The reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. You are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. You are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. You want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. Where can i buy a Richter Scale . Mr. Richter is selling it. We are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. They are not available. Its a rather complex. In fact we dont even use the Richter Scale anymore. We use a moment magnitude. The Richter Scale was early technology. Probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. Is that true . Loma prieta was different. The ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. So anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. We are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to San Francisco and a fault totally independent. Much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. So people who were here in 89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isnt really the threshold of damage. When you triple it you cross that line. Its much more damage in earthquake. I want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for streets. speaking foreign language. i wanted to wish you a best wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50s a good portion of chicanoamerican chineseamerican lived in north beach a nob hill community. As part the immigrant family is some of the Recreation Centers are making people have the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the Avenue Community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese Family Living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. Were united. And growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up. speaking foreign language. allergies welcome to the Community Fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and lets keep everybody safe and celebrate the biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. I grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i africanamerican cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the Chinese Community being a chineseamerican is important going to American School during the day but went to Chinese School that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. It is a mask evening. Id like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. One time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didnt understand it became no standard Chinese Marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. And what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. speaking foreign language. relative to the Current Administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants fireworks later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the United States chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meani meaning. Good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessorrecorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. speaking foreign language. speaking foreign language. im proud to be a native san franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north Beach Community Port Commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give chair fewer the meet willing come to order. This is the february 21, 2020 of the local Agency Formation commission. Im sandra lee fewer. I likmadam clerk, do you have ay announcement . Please make sure you silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Chair fewer thank you very much. Please call the item number two. Approval of the lafco minutes from the january 17, 2020 regular meeting. Chair fewer any comments or questions. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members wishing to comment, Public Comment is closed. Like to make a motion to approve the lafco minutes. Could i have a second commissioner mar, we can take that without objection. Item number three, Community Choice aggregation activities report. Chair fewer we have Michael Hyams for a short presentation. Yes, good morning commissioners. Happy friday. Michael hyams, director of the cleanpowersf program for the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. I do have a few slides for you today. Our last presentation was to focus on the Renewable Energy report. I got sort of more of standard update for you. I will cover our enrollment statistics, cleanpowersf enrollment statistic. Ill provide update on key activities from the past few months that we havent discussed in previous meetings recently. Update on items that are coming up, some work that were focused on now. First of all, our service to clean power customers continues successfully. The program opt out rate has ticked up a small amount since our last update where we presented these statistics. Its now at 3. 7 of all enrolled accounts. Thats still more than 96 . Our super green enrollment has increased. Were now serving 2 of our active accounts with 100 california r. P. S. Eligible renewable power. Thats. 2 percentage point higher than the last update. From an energy standpoint, the usage represents more than 4. 5 of annual sales. Thats a 20 increase. The program is showing continued steady progress in this respect were doing a bunch of work to figure out how to bring the numbers up. What has been happening . I wanted to tell you about some Renewable Energy contracting work. Pursuant to our resolution number 18028 and board of supervisors ordinance 0818. The p. U. C. Executed new Renewable Energy contracts. Expanding our commitment to new solar and wind power in california. First in december of the general manager executed an expansion of the voyager 4 wind project. That was initially executed in 2018 for 47 mega watts of wind, power capacity. Increasing the total commitment from clean power up to that project now 110 mega watts. What that means the project will be taking down old turbines that are more than 25 years old and installing new efficient turbines that have environmental benefits to affect Indian Wildlife and theyll be more efficient. That project is going to come online in phases starting in december of this year. Should be fully operational by the middle of 2021. The p. U. C. Executed a new contract for energy from 100 mega watts of new solar from the maverick 6 solar project. That project is expected to start operations in december of 2021. All in all, as this slide shows, thats four longterm contracts of 15 to 22 years in duration to buy Renewable Energy from to be constructed plants in california for our cleanpowersf customer base. That totals 372 mega watts generating million mega watts hours of energy. Thats about one third of our cleanpowersf annual energy needs base the on current enrollment. Were laying the foundation for getting to that 100 Renewable Energy goal by 2030. Just a question on fees reduction about one third of our Current Energy usage. Thats right whats the total just for adding that on to the existing Renewable Energy . These projects are going to be coming oline in a different times over the next several years. We balance those longterm commitments in the market from operating power plants. In the calendar year 2018, we completed for renewable cob tent, we were 48 r. P. S. General renewable for green product. Thats another 15 on top of these contracts. Were procuring more than what these alone represent. Think of it its a portfolio. Each contract is sort of a layer that we add into it. The longterm contracts are really the vehicle that we use to build new projects. Its required for financing. Around these longterm contracts well have shortterm purchases from existing plants. Well be layering in more longterm contracts overtime. This is what weve done to date. We have solicitation that we just brought through the board. Were looking at regional projects right now. With these four new renewable sources, how close does that get to us 100 renewable goal . In terms of capacity delivering in 2030 theres a time element to this. Were at 50 for 2020 in terms of r. P. S. Eligible renewables. That gets up to 90 . Most of those products are acquired under shorter term transactions. The contract expire well before 2030. Thats why were in the market of procuring. These contracts represent about one third of the cleanpowersf obligation for 2030. Ill get to the integrated Resource Plan here in a minute. We can talk more about that. I wanwe reported to about this t fall. Our staff has been working on a cleanpowersf equity project. Actually the lafco executive officer, bryan goebel serves as a member of our steering committee. I want are refresh your memory with the work were doing. Were hoping to wrap it up this fiscal year. The purpose of the project is to develop policy framework that embeds an equity lens across cleanpowersf policies programs and business practices. The idea here is that systematically applying equity lens will help us ensure factors, race, income, gender, language employment status, for example, do not determine access to the quality of clean energy Services Within our community. We have a working group at the p. U. C. Thats been developing a draft policy framework. They are also planning outreach, an engagement with stakeholders to get feedback on the proposed framework once it is ready for circulation. After incorporating stakeholder feedback, we end to bring the policy to our commission for approval. We talked about this in the past. This duck tails with some of the things weve been talking about here at lafco that are on the lafco work plan related to clean power equity. I want to remind you, we have this going on. This is something our team is working on. This is sort of first of its kind. Were hoping that it will be a model that can be replicated across the p. U. C. Business lines. Also serve as model for other communities. Were excited about this. Whats coming up here . When we presented to you last november, we indicated that we anticipated a cleanpowersf rate action to address impending pg e rate changes. Pg e changes its rates frequently. They typically do it at the beginning of the year but increasingly over the last years its been delayed. We now have more clarity regarding pg es 2020 rate changes impacting is cleanpowersf customers. As a reminder here, we have sought to deliver value to our cleanpowersf rate payers by managing our Electricity Generation rates that are at or below pg es generation rates. After accounting for are the exit fees that pg e charges customers and cleanpowersf customers. That fee is called the power charge indifference adjustment or p. C. I. A. Were now expecting for 2020, 4 decrease in pg es rate. With no cleanpowersf Rate Adjustments we estimate that our customers will be paying 4 to 6 more for their generation cost than we would with pg e. To help our customers manage these changes, we have been preparing a rate action which well be bringing to our Commission Next week on the 25th of february. The action will be consistent with others that we taken around cleanpowersf rate and of course, if approved by the commission, it will go to the board for the customary rate making process. This action will ensure both Cost Recovery for cleanpowersf but also ensure competitiveness in affordability for our rate payers. This is sort of last area i wanted to discuss. Weve been talking about this for quite a few months. Just as a reminder has been working on cleanpowersf Resource Plan. I. R. P. Evaluates demand and supplies over a 20year time frame. To identify supplies that will deliver reliable low cost energy while meeting the citys policy objectives. Cleanpowersf is required under state law to prepare an i. R. P. Every two years. The plan must be approved by our commission and submitted to the california p. U. C. For certification. Weve had some schedule changes since the last meeting where we shared our timeline with you. I wanted to bring to your attention. First the california p. U. C. Extended the due date for the i. R. P. Submission requirement from cleanpowersf from may 1st to july 1st. That will give retail additional times to incorporate final guidelines coming from the California Public over th p. Over the next couple of months. There are guidelines we need to follow in our plan. They provided couple of extra months to account for them and file follofollow the plan. The slide here summarizes key action items over the next several months. The p. U. C. Adopted our budget including cleanpowersf First Capital plan at its last meeting. That was informed by the local Renewable Energy planning work that we presented to you the last lafco meeting. That will next be submitted to the Mayors Office soon for consideration in the development of her Budget Proposal that will ultimately go to the board of supervisors for approval around june. We will be delivering a draft of the written Renewable Energy report to the Commission Later this month. We did share an initial draft with the lafco executive officer prior to last meeting and have been doing some additional cleanup based on internal feedback and editing and thats almost complete. The california p. U. C. Is expected to issue its final guidelines in late march. We will then make any changes necessary to our plan based on those guidelines and are planning stakeholder engagements starting next month through may. We shared some of the plans at the last meeting. The timeline for that, we added another month there to make it as comprehensive as we can. The i. R. P. Will be adopted by the sf p. U. C. In late may, june time frame. We will submit the i. R. P. To the california p. U. C. By the required due date. Which is july 1st. That concludes my update. Im happy to take any questions you might have. Chair fewer any questions . Lets open the Public Comment. Are there my members of the public that like to comment on item number three . Thank you chair fewer and commissioners. I guess in addition to just kind of being the representative here decry the fact that our fees going up another 20 . It will be great to see a slide of the pcia charge maybe since cleanpowersf launched. I know that some years weve had over 100 increase, you add in 20 increase to a few years in the past, that might have been 50 or 100 increases, thats a big 20 . I think it would be great to see i know they have these figures and they sometimes report them to the commission how much money is getting shipped out of San Francisco into pg es coiffures just from this fee. Its enough to make your blood boil. Related to that, theres been drama with c. C. A. Programs currently. Because of the p. C. I. A. Charge, were kind of already paying for Diablo Canyon open. Theres an issue of can pg e give us some of that energy that were already paying for so that they can get some of the nuclear off their power content label and give it to c. C. A. S. I know east Bay Clean Energy and others in the region are considering that. Ive yet to determine whether sf p. U. C. Is interested in that. Advocates do not want Nuclear Energy because of the scam of the pcia, were already paying for it. Last thing, were very interested to see the local Renewable Energy plan and i. R. P. But continue to think that theres a continued need for comprehensive plan. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Doesnt require an action today and so madam clerk, please call item 4. Approval of resolution authorizing the First Amendment to the agreement with bryan goebel. Chair fewer we have an attorney here. Thank you. Good morning chair and members of the commission. Today im here to present to you a resolution that would authorize your chair to sign an amendment to bryan goebels contract with lafco. His original contract was entered in may of 2018 and allows him to get paid 75 an hour with not to exceed amount of 312,000. There was no Expiration Date in that original agreement but at this point, were running out of the not to exceed fun. Were asking you to extend his agreement to september 20, 2020 and increase not to exceed amount 65,000 which would be total of 377,000 for the total two years nine months hes been under contract. That reflects basicallial 40 hour workweek. Im here if you have any questions. Chair fewer iany questions for questions . Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members like to comment on item 4. Public comment is now closed. I wanted to refresh the memory of my colleagues that mr. Goebel is on contract with us as a consultant. Were extending this contract to september 30th to ensure theres some lead time were putting in a proposal a Budget Proposal that was heard at the Budget Committee to actually make this position now Civil Servant position. Thatch. I thin thank you very much, ie this a oh, i said that. Public comment. Any members like to comment on item 4. Public comment is now closed. I like to make a motion to approve this resolution and second commissioner mar. Thank you very much. Please read item 5. Approval of the resolution to accept an extended grant from the Ford Foundation in the amount of 150,000 for lafco survey on demand workers chair fewer mr. Goebel . Thank you, good morning commissioners. This item would authorize the lafco to accept and extend grant 150,000 from the Ford Foundation. This will fund the data gathering. The survey itself which is under way and Communications Plan surrounding the release of the final report in june. We did work hard to secure this grant. Im grateful for everyone who made it happen. I said this at the last meeting, it was a team effort. I like to thank the Ford Foundation for airline their help and support. I would recommend your approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Any discussion . Lets open up to Public Comment. Seeing no Public Comment. Public comment is closed. I want to say, thank you to everyone who worked on this. This is no small feat. This is going to help our labor study. Thank you mr. Goebel for your hard work. Like to make a motion to approve the resolution. I can have a second with commissioner haney. We can take that without objection. Item number 6. Update on the request for qualifications for Renewable Energy expert. I like to provide a brief update on your r. F. Q. For Renewable Energy expert. Were close to announcing prequalified list in narrowing scope of work if a consultant or consultants. We did receive total of seven responses but got only one response for the service area that will provide general advice to the lafco and Renewable Energy issues. We. Wanted to give all seven firms a Second Opportunity to apply to that service area since it seem like most of the firms were qualified to do it. We reopened that process and encouraged all the firms to apply to that service area. The deadline was yesterday and we now have a total of four responses for that service area. The next step would be to issue a prequalified list of firms for each service area. Again, those Service Areas are providing general advice to the lafco on Renewable Energy issues. Developing programs for communities of concern, the disconnections and equity issues that were working on and studying potential Renewable Energy projects at affordable and Senior Housing sites. Which we discussed. At that meeting, you did approve the scope of work. Im in the process of putting together a more comprehensive scope of work for each service area, i have a meeting next week with cleanpowersf to talk about that. I do expect the process will move quicker. We can hopefully get the consultants in place the next few months. I will be coming back to you with contract proposals. Chair fewer any comments or questions . Lets open up for Public Comment. My members like to comment, Public Comment is closed. List make a motion to no action needed. Great, please call item 7. Executive officers report. Partnership with the university of San Francisco and also budget update. Chair fewer thank you very much. Commissioners for the second year in row, lafco is partnering with the urban and Public Affairs program at the university of San Francisco. A Research Methods class is going to conduct research and provide recommendations again on our study of on demand workers. This class will be led by professor killy mcbride. There are 16 students in the class. They will study the labor, environmental and transportation impacts of on the demand delivery sector. This is going to be very helpful for our survey team as they consider the recommendations to make in their final report. Theyre looking very closely at a report that was issued by the World Economic forum titlely future the last mile ecosystem. Its part of their research. The class will begin in march and theyll report their finds at our meeting here on may 15th. Very excited to be partnering with u. S. F. The second item which is in your packet, is an expenditure update. Nothing out of the ordinary to report there. I wanted you to see how the spending is going chair fewer any members of the public like to comment. Seeing none. Public comment is closed. I dont think we need an action on this. Please call item 8. Public comment. Chair fewer are there any members of the public like to comment . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Please call item 9. Future agenda items. Chair fewer lets take Public Comment. Any members like to comment on item number 9 . Thank you. I would just suggest, i was just mentioning its mr. Hyams, i think in addition to just kind of receiving what sf p. U. C. Would like to present to you. I think it will be good in the commission and as the program has kind of been out of policymakers, theyve been just getting it up to scale for you to submit questions to them for them to kind of answer to help guide kind of what youre most interested in. Couple of things that were interested in particularly our kind of pcia, shipping money out of town that i mentioned. Also you know, were surrounded by other Community Choice programs. They dont have access to a general fund if the political will decided that some money was called. I feel like im a little unclear how they manage to ramp up their programs much faster than yours and some cases the rates are cheaper than ours and some cases they have incentive programs. Chair fewer thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Madam clerk. Do we have any more business. That conclude the business for today. Chair fewer thanks, were adjourned. Ethics commission is back in open session. I would like to make a motion not to disclose the closed session deliberations regarding the pending litigation. Second. All in favor. Aye. Motion was carried unanimously. Number 10, additional Public Comment. Theres no pc