Transcripts For SFGTV SFCTA Treasure Island Development Authority 20240712

Needed systemic change against racism today. Thank you. Thank you. You have zero questions remaining. We can continue, kate. Item number three, report by Treasure Island director. Director, chair tsen, robert beck. Covid19 continues to impact the lives of residents and commercial ten xhants and provide commercial tenants with the most pertinent information. Housing providers are following the Mayors Office and moratorium guidance in cases where residents have been unable to pay rent and title will be sending Additional Guidance to all commercial lease olders this week. The Health Officers shelter in place remains in effect and government is planning for reopening of activities and the department, office, and facility and health and safety plans prior to reopening. The reopening will not look the same as things did in january or february. We are as part of this effort, were exploring what services we can put online. And continued to be deployed to the gratest extent possible and factored into the office planning. We continue to have calls with one Treasure Island and all the Housing Providers to keep open lines of communication. And with the department of fewer than 10 cases on Treasure Island which is the smallest portion that they have. We expect that next months meeting will be online as well. In terms of Meal Services and Food Services on the island, one Treasure Island continues to operate the weekly food pantry and the San Francisco unified School Districts meal Program Continues to operate under the leadership of resident hope williams and are distributing meals on every friday with a full weeks worth of meals each friday and we are working to plan for the relocation to the ymca and make modifications to the space where the program will be hosted. And between june 3 and 5 with masks that were provided through supervisor haneys office. Last saturday united sikhs, a local Nonprofit Community Service Organization distributed approximately 170 hot meals to residents here on the island. Director lai and supervisors haneys office assisted volunteers. And tida provided signage and restrooms for the program. Merci has been distributing 60 to 70 meals wednesday and thursday evening with over 700 meals served to date. And this was through supervisor haneys office and has support from Treasure Island Community Development, one Treasure Island and others. The affordable Housing Providers and Housing Partnership and to address Additional Needs of the residents. In addition, one Treasure Island conducted a survey of residents this past month and receiving 149 responses which if each of the responses represents a unique household and would represent 24 of the island households. A little more than 1 3 reported that they have been unaffected by covid emergency and almost 32 with the reduction in the hours and reported being laid off. And the most common responses for Additional Information were related to face coverings and covid19 testing information, rent support and food. Several respondents sited the liability of the metro system as a concern. One Treasure Island is reviewing the responses and on specific responses and prioritizing more immediate needs and possibly mobile covid testing. And in combination with providing on Additional Services and exist on the island. One Treasure Island is preparing to embark on the next construction Training System and with the reliance upon remote training where possible and with appropriate social distancing when in person training is required. And portable housing, they are continuing to develop an m. O. U. With the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development with the management of Affordable Housing projects through the Development Process and the placement of new residents. Also under the civic bridge program, they have been donating services to study the program and future building to provide badly needed Residential Community to the city. We will provide directors with Additional Information on how to sign up to view the presentations in advance. And the Modular Construction project will begin site work in mid august and planned to be ready for occupancy in 2022. And while the mercy Catholic Charities building will be applying for financing so that construction can begin in the Third Quarter of 2021 and working respect to insure integration of the transition residents. The community Housing Partnership building is planned to go for a predevelopment loan in the Second Quarter of 2021. And on the funding fronts, as you know, we filed for an in fill infrastructure grant and continue to wait grand award notices expected to come out before the end of the month. Based on the preliminary scoring, we have reason to hope that the application may be successful. That would fund the improvement of hillcrest road. And the Community Facilities district is levying special taxes in fiscal year 2020 following the issue inside the Building Permit and working with the office of Public Finance to prepare for the First Issuance of debt under the cfd with an estimated issuance of 15 million. Prior to issuance, it will go to the board and the proceeds will be used to reimburse for eligible project expenses. The Controllers Office and City Attorney and outside bond council have drafted a preliminary statement and the City Council Attorney will be presenting information for Board Members on how to review the disclosure of documents for review and comment. The construction front, Construction Activity has continued throughout the covid emergency and ticd is making substantial progress in the construction of new utility infrastructure. And the county transportation thorred began mobilizing on june 1 for the southgate hillcrest interchange project and moved from concrete podium portion of the construction and begun framing out the levels of the structure. The traffic on the causeway will shift to the reconstructed west side of the causeway that will allow the east side construction to proceed. The temporary roadway along the western shoreline of Treasure Island is expected to open on sunday, july 5. Also on ybi, the tank lock subcontract has begun pouring the bases of the water storage reservoirs. On Treasure Island, Power Engineering remobilized on june 1 after mandatory seasonal shutdown to continue work on the ferry facilities. This work will continue through january and be wrapped up in the summer of 2021. Utility infrastructure in the first subphase area for Treasure Island is proceeding with the karth of supporting the target of supporting the schedule. And construction along the east side of Treasure Island and the work within the Treasure Island Sailing Center area has been completed. This work will be followed by the construction of new temporary gas main connecting the first subphases of development to the main supply from the east bay. Abatement of smaller outbuildings around hangar two and three has begun. They are employing eight graduates of the one Treasure Island construction Training Program, one of whom has been elevated to be the covid19 safety monitor for the project. The concrete has established a batch plant on the island to support upcoming residential and roadway construction concrete needs. And will also supplement their capacity to serve customers off Treasure Island. Tida staff continues to work with ticd to plan logistic, demolition and utility relocations in the stage twothree subphase area. Looking at the timing of the utility caps and scheduling and the schedule for vacating hangars two and three. Also on Treasure Island, the new switch gear area is being prepared and is under geotechnical surcharge and that removal of the surcharge will Begin Next Week including the installation of new switch gear on the pads. And they are to complete their work by september 1 and turn the site over to the spuc who has ordered new switch gear equipment and is scheduled to complete the installation and put the new switch gear into service by january of 2021. In addition to the switch yard improvements, tida has provided funds to p. U. C. To install additional equipment, to improve system resiliency and aid in the identification of faults when they occur. Sfpuc will be installing reclosers on the existing electrical Distribution System later this month. Reclosers are a means of attempting to provide fault tolerance or to possibly localize an outage to just a portion of the island. But the more marked improvement will be provided in system perfo performance will be provided by the switch gear. The p. U. C. Will be installing fault locaters to identify the location of an outage in july and august. We dont anticipate these installations will require temporary Power Outages to complete the work, but we should be able to maintain service while this work is ongoing. In the litigation front regarding the claim that was filed this past january, the court has postponed the proposed hearing on the motion to dismiss filed by the department of justice, one Treasure Island and the city to august 6. Also, the department of environment has had San Francisco fellows working on a project this spring to conduct a comparative analysis of regional native plant nursery operations and tidas volunteer Stewardship Program where were preparing a final report which will assist tida in continuing to plan the efforts around the stewardship and Program Capacity building and development of the nursery. We will provide the final report to the tida board prior to next Board Meeting. For the past several years, tida has also hosted a High School Intern through the citys project program. The program is adapting this summer to provide virtual internships to high school students, and we will be working to provide a student with a virtual internship here on the island. Finally, in closing, i wanted to announce that maryann sias is going to retire in july. I want to recognize her many years of service and leadership with the community and residents here on the island. That concludes my report. Thank you. We want to wish marion a goodbye, so i hope there will be another opportunity for her to for us to be able to give comments about her service, her long service to Treasure Island. Ill be sure to invite her to our july meeting. President thank you. And i would like to open it up to the board, but before we begin, there is a question that i have for you, bob. And that is, the Service Interruptions that there have been on the island are really very difficult when residents are working from home and when children are being educated online. And the changes that you are talking about t switch gear, the switch yard, various improvements that will be made over the next few months, is that going to then solve the problem with all these growing outages that we have had . It should greatly improve the performance of the system and reduce both the number, the area impacted, and the response and restoration time frames for outages when they do occur. So we should have fewer outages going forward. When we do have outage, they shouldnt be they should be in most cases isolated to a portion of the island and we should be able to more rapidly identify the location of the outage and restore Service Based on the improvements that i have described. President have we scheduled the p. U. C. And talked padding or maybe Community Centers or the ymca so that people can go to a place where they are assured of having some connection even though there is the power outage. That is something that i think you need to look into. We continue to look at permanent standby power at certain facilities both one Treasure Island and tida have secured portable generators so that we can tie one Treasure Island at the shipshape and can put the generator online and ensure that the refrigerators maintain refrigeration and limited lighting and power at the building. The purpose for the second one and the second building that was purchased was to provide a popup charging station so that if there was an extended outage, we could set that up and people would have a location to come charge phones or critical medical equipment or otherwise. We have that but we continue to explore additional localized Power Generators as well. President i think these matters are before us that we have to solve because without that power, even for an hour or two, it affects peoples work and childrens education. But i will open it up to the rest of the board. U see that supervisor haney, please go ahead and comment. Supervisor thank you. I appreciate the comments about what were doing to prevent the Power Outages. I do think that is something that is very urgent. There was some discussion in the p. U. C. s email about cutouts. Are cutouts the same as reclosers equipment . Or what is the distinction there . And if not, what is the status of the cutouts in the email i received from the p. U. C. . [please stand by]surge. But then it automatically recloses so that if the thing that causes the fault is Something Like a Falling Tree Branch that hit the line and then falls away, when the system would reclose, when the recloser would reclose, that fault would have passed and power would not be interrupted. So thats the function of a recloser. Pardon me. The other item that you mentioned was when we had the march 8 out age on the island, that happened near building one, the fault that happened there was near building one, and there was a cutout near the job [indiscernible] which would have served to isolate that area so we could conduct that repair while restoring power to the rest of the island. When we had our initial outage on the 8th, it affected the whole island. They originally brought power back online, and there was an intermittent kind of brownout condition initially until they were able to address the cutout which then isolated it just to building one, and then building one was out for a longer period of time while they effected the repair. Okay. Thank you for that. A couple other quick questions. You mentioned some of the folks on the island who have still been unable to pay their rent. What is the plan in terms of what payment plans might look like and i assume that there wont be any eviction notices for any of these people who cant pay. And so what will be the process for each person who has not been able to pay to be able to pay it over time in light of the fact that they probably wont be able to pay it quickly if for some folks at all . Yeah, so the villages Property Management team under jon stewart have engaged each of the households that has been unable to make payments and is discuss payment plan opportunities. Theres no plan or intention to take any actions towards eviction or other measures based on nonpayment of rent at this time, consistent with the guidance provided by both the Governors Office and the Mayors Office. And there will be some individualized approach to how to deal with people who wont be able to pay, you know, immediately or any time soon . Yeah, they are trying to work with each household on developing a payment plan. There are obviously lots of complexities with the households that we have on Treasure Island where often we have multifamily households where, you know, they are living together for economic reasons and some household members have been affected more dramatically by covid than other household members. So overall theres a challenge in paying the rent, but some households are able to continue to pay rent. And so, yeah, the village is working on those complexities with each household individually. Okay, great. And last question, have we distributed information to residents about how they can be tested for covid, even though there might not be a site on Treasure Island . People are eligible if they have symptoms . Has that been distributed to residents . We posted it on next door and pushed it out to all the residents as well. Thanks. Those are all my questions. Thank you. Ms. Richardson . Yes, thank you very much. Great report. My comments are in regard to item 4. I just wanted to echo what the commissioners have been alluding to, which is that we really need to find a workable alternative, because the infrastructure for Treasure Island will not be completed maybe until a year or something more from now. Its the frequency of the outages definitely are having a tremendous impact because all the residents are going online for everything now, and so if i am a kid on Treasure Island and im having my homework done virtually and the outage is out, im out. And the statistics that we actually have is appalling because all across the country, not just in San Francisco. There is a huge disparity now in this virtual and online distance land learning. Again, we know we are doing everything here, and lets try to find something it is going to happen again. The bird is going to come in or old equipment is going to malfunction. Lets put something in place to avert those things. I know, director beck, you are working around the clock. You have been prompt in all of these incidents. Just wanted to say thank you for that to you and your staff. Okay. Ms. Lai, director lai . Thank you. So i wanted to follow up on the Needs Assessment. And it seems sorry. This is bothering. The Needs Assessment, i think that was a really important set of data for us to say. Unfortunately i think thats the first time ive actually seen some survey data that helps us understand, really, the islands needs. And thank you to, one, Treasure Island and any other partners that helped push this out. Im wondering whether or not we have any plans to do a followup Needs Assessment . Because you know, the situation with the reopening and recovery changes, you know, seemingly week by week or day by day, and also just hoping that any future surveys we may conduct, hopefully we can get an even larger [indiscernible] i understand it was a very concerted effort that wasnt even done by kaida, so i appreciate Treasure Island stepping up to that, but we have 2,000 or so residents on the island, and i think only 140 or so responded to this. So just to make sure that we have the information to continue our work i think is really important as things change all the time. And then a followup on the power situation, you know, i understand that it supports the longterm plans to address the infrastructure, the Core Infrastructure issues over the capital improvement. And i think, bobby, you introduced a lot of things that im not really familiar with that sound like it will really help over the course of the next couple of months, and i just want to ensure that i understand that timeline again. Would you mind going over again when some of these i think its like the some of the strategies, when they are actually coming into effect, and then thinking about whether or not we can speed up some of these strategies to resolve the Power Outages before the Fall School Year starts again, which typically is, like, the end of august. Thanks. So the interim improvements that are under way by the p. U. C. Will be completed by the end of august. So theres the first that i mentioned was the installation of the reclosers, which i described in response to supervisor haneys question, are meant to give us additional resiliency in the event of a transitory fault, like a tree branch or something coming in. Other things weve had in the past are those acetate balloons get wrapped around a power line and cause an interim outage. But Something Like that, a recloser should help the system survive a transitory fault like that, or at least isolate an outage from a fault like that to the branch on which the reclosure is located. That work should be completed by the middle of july. And the fault indicators really are basically visible devices that when the crews come to the island and are surveying the equipment, it will let them know whether or not the fault is on the line where the fault indicator is located, if it lights up to indicate whether the line is in service or not. So they will that will help them zero in on the location of a fault and isolate the fault and restore power to as much of the island as necessary while making a permanent repair to either remove or bypass the fault. Okay, thanks. And then, sorry, and that work will be done by the end of august, before school starts. Okay, great. I know youve mentioned in the past that there are locations where people can, during a power outage, especially during an extended one, can go and power up their devices. Im wondering if there is if tida has any facilities where we can temporarily help store medication or breast milk, Something Like that. Because those are the things that, you know, could be perishable, but they are really, really important to anyone who depends on medication or breast milk. Im just wondering if we have any capacity in the new future ymca or to build some sort of Storage Facilities for that. Thats not something weve set up in the past, but because we plan to have backup power at the ymca and at the ship shape and also at the ymca, its something we can incorporate into our planning. Thats a good idea. Thank you. Right. Is that it, then . No, im here. Hello. Mike, can you hold on just one moment . Ruby is next. Okay, thanks. Yeah, just really quickly to add on, sharon actually asked what i was thinking, but i dont know the difference between a cutout and a reclosure. It was helpful hearing a little more about that, but in general, like, i understand kind of basically what youre talking about, but from a resident im thinking what is the time reduction that were talking about in terms of service deliveries. So with these improvements, do you have any estimate on, you know, what the baseline, which is what folks are dealing with now, and what the relief that this could provide before that permanent solution in 2021 . In most cases the decrease in time will be modest. Over the last year and a half we had significant outages on president s day weekend in 2019 and last november. Last november lasted over, you know, multiple we had multiple outages over the period of a week due to the contractor hitting our main supply from oakland. But outside of those two events, our average restoration time is right about two hours. So for the most part, a typical outage does not last very long. So while the fault indicators can help accelerate the process of identifying a location of an outage, in most cases were probably talking a matter of minutes, quarter of an hour, maybe less, impact on the time to identify and isolate the fault. For the reclosers, hopefully that will in some cases prevent a fault or localize it to just a portion of the island. And with the new switch gear, when the new switch gear is installed, the island will be broken up into multiple circuits, each independent from one another. So like our last our two outages this month, one was a fault on a line right here by building one. The other was a bird strike near the rugby fields on california. In the future, those neither of those incidents would have caused an outage that would affect the residential neighborhood because we would be, you know, broken up into zones, and only the portion of the island where the event occurred would be affected. So then on the reclosers, when youre talking about it decreases the impacted area, by how much . So like how many households are affected by an outage now versus this would shorten that span to by 20 or something. And i know you wont know for sure, but estimates i think would be great. Yeah, i mean, i think generally if the housing area is affected, all of our housing is likely to be affected just because of geographically where its located and how that electrical system is laid out. But hopefully, you know, two thirds of the island could be isolated from the housing area so that faults that occur in those two thirds of the island in the future would not affect the housing area. Got it. So it sounds like im glad that were doing this and that were moving on some things for sure, but it sounds like this probably isnt going to address the problems that the households are raising now, and so thinking about the correct me if im wrong, but thinking about the ship shape, the backup generators, the work that youre doing there, seems like because if i am a resident on the island, this is not going to prevent outages. It shortens the time, but it sounds like minimally. And so getting again, in the interim, having a place for people to go seems like a higher priority then too. Does that resonate or make sense . I think definitely as we get into the warmer months of the year. You know, in addition to other concerns with Power Outages, you know, it becomes pretty warm. Maybe not by, you know, standards in other portions of the country, but you know, days can become warm and, you know, potentially opening up the ymca which just has a large enclosed space will be naturally cooler than perhaps some peoples homes, and we can maybe look at even having a cooling center or other alternatives in the extended outages. And are there any barriers too to some of these alternatives that we should know about, whether they are fiscal or administrative or whatnot . Weve provided funding to the p. U. C. For the work that they are undertaking this summer. So that work is all lined up. They are they have contractors in place to perform the work. And again, as far as the new switch gear is concerned, the geotechnical surcharge is essentially complete and that soil will be removed. T. I. C. Has their contractor in place to complete the civil improvements, and then the p. U. C. , as i said, has ordered the equipment, has the equipment on order and expects to take delivery of it this fall. I was thinking about the interim. No obstacles. Weve transferred the funding of the p. U. C. They have secured the contractors and the equipment to complete the work. Thank you. Thank you, ruby. Mark, are you on the line . I am. Yes, please go ahead. I have a few questions. Can you hear me well enough . Yes, we can. Oh, great. First thing is just the idea that people are going to be or we are basically going to be helping out with rental problems for those people who have been their income has been harmed by the recent virus. I was just wondering. Are we going door to door . How are we finding this out . Or is it just somebodys sure . Have we done any notice . How do we find out whos hurting . The survey was done, but jon stewart of villages is in direct communication with residents and the residents that have been unable to pay rent. They have engaged in ongoing dialogue about setting up the payment plan, so jon stewart is responding to and engaging the tenants that have told them that they are having difficulties. Oh, great. And also as you know for people that are pred. D. A. And if, you know, they want to leave or if they want to stay, they get a certain amount of money for perhaps housing here or perhaps just, you know, certain amount of money to just leave. And there is a clause that if people are not current in their rent, that they would be they would be no longer qualify for those benefits. Is that something that is looked into . Yeah, for the transitional benefits, tenants are expected to be, you know, whats referred to in the document as tenants in Good Standing current on rent and so forth. But we havent had any communication with tenants that this jeopardizes their standing and, you know, we fully expect that people have the opportunity to work with the villages to come current over time and maintain their benefits without being affected by any temporary problems they may be having. Thank you. Since we dont know how long this might be going on and, wow, it could go on for a long time and could create some severe problems for some tenants. Now theres another issue, and it sort of relates to the virus, but the food delivery. Theres some great programs here that are giving food, but you call any of the delivery places, the ones that arent necessarily discount or for disadvantaged people, but would they redline by all of the Delivery Companies . I have called a company that is really just a stones throw across the bay, and they say, oh, its too far, we cant do it. Yet they will go to the ocean as far as from there to the ocean, which obviously must take a lot more time and difficulty. So you know, has there been any conversation about this redlining of food delivery . Hello . I know that its something that supervisor haneys staff have you know, for instance, they had some conversation with [indiscernible]. Its not something that has looked into or taken on as a project. It seems somewhat discriminatory. They dont want to get here because it might take them a little more effort whereas if they go up to, like, Fairmont Plaza or up in the hills, no problem with that. So i really think its sort of discriminatory. They are just assuming that their i dont know what theyre assuming, to be honest. It doesnt seem fair at all, and this is a time when, you know, for a lot of people who are really working hard because of difficulties with the virus, it would be so nice to come home and order some food instead of being told, no, im sorry, we dont go that far. So something that maybe we could do some sort of work with the supervisor. Thats just one thing. I just feel it really is kind of discriminatory. Actually, i got a notice about getting tested for covid, and they got to the question on hiv. I said yes. They said sorry, we cant help you. I dont know i dont have that information with me, who that was, but im just kind of curious. I think, again, i believe we have a larger portion of seniors who are as a group more susceptible to this virus and theres a better chance of it being fatal. So i was just wondering about that, are we participating in helping out, making sure that the folks who live here are being adequately tested if they should choose . Again, we have been providing information on the city facilities that are two of them are located just off of the freeway as you leave the island and go into the city. Weve provided information on that to residents and locations, hours, how to make an appointment. And as the as they have continued to change their requirements, first they were limited to first responders, but now any resident of the city who has had at least one symptom or had contact with somebody known to have tested positive can make an appointment and be tested. So it should cover a large number of people. Weve been providing information on those programs to residents. Im not familiar with a screening question as it relates to hiv. I havent personally been tested, but some of our Staff Members have, and i can check with them. I dont know what that screening question might be and why that might prevent someone from being tested. That doesnt seem appropriate. No, it did not. Then just one last question, if i could. Youre talking earlier about the Power Company that caused that oneweek loss of power. Can we get to just get some money back from them because it certainly cost us a lot. The City Attorneys office has been seeking recovery for that. Ill need to reach out to them to get an update on where that stands. Okay. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate your time. Thanks. Are there any other comments from the directors . Hearing none, would you now open the line for Public Comment. Members of the public im sorry, was there no Public Comment . Yeah, nobodys on the line at all. Okay. Hearing no callers, Public Comment is now closed. Next item, please. Item no. 4, communications from and received by tida. Does the board have any comments on Communications Received . Thank you so much, commissioner fei, and at the beginning of the [indiscernible] section, you opened it up and really seldom do you, commissioner fei, display emotion. Because in the kind of work we do, we are all professionals, and you know, we do what we have to do. But i was really moved, and im not just the only one, because African Americans cry in silence every day because of the ongoing sorrow, overt and covert discrimination. Its ingrained in american institutions. You see that in the media. You see that just about everywhere, in health disparities, employment and job disparities. You see all of those in there. And so everything now it seems like we [indiscernible] with what weve witnessed in the last few weeks. And you know im someone that is actively involved, not just locally, nationally and internationally. Ive been involved, heavily involved with all these discussions taking place worldwide. And trying to stand and really 400 years of slavery, you know, colonialism, apartheid, and i can go on and on. And basically for you most of us on this commission are immigrants. You, commissioner fei, from the asian, americanchinese descent, and we have our colleagues here. Our Community Leaders have one time in their career and ongoing have addressed injustice. I have known personally you before i even got on this board, commissioner fei. Youve been working in the community. So members, commissioner dunlop, when he was at the redevelopment agency, and our community will go there. When we saw him, and we knew we had someone that cared about the communities. And on this board we need to accentuate basically what weve been doing. The mayor of San Francisco, mayor breed, the onset of her inauguration, established the equity, that is a big deal in San Francisco. And all those efforts actually came from previous mayors, especially the late mayor ed lee, who worked tirelessly, tirelessly in the Africanamerican Community, and i can attest to a lot of the programs that in housing, in opportunities, in making sure that the city workforce reflect people who have not neglected. Thats the good work we are now looking at. I just today received this correspondence from ms ms. Bilokski. She spoke earlier. I was extremely moved by that. Everybody is doing their part. I salute you all as the africanamerican on this commission. There are indicators to systemic discrimination. Its not just reforming police. There are good police. There are a lot of bad police officers, but the indicators of what we do on a daily basis, on Treasure Island, we Treasure Island construction training that take atrisk youth, people that are neglected, and transform them. We are implementing equity when we help the ymca and we attend to the residents we are implementing equity. I had an opportunity a couple of months ago, i walked into [indiscernible] it was one of the meetings i had with him. When i entered, i saw an africanamerican intern there sitting at the desk as you enter the office. And then i know he has africanamerican staff. To me, i was extremely moved. I observed a lot. Those indicators at that level shows consciousness. I it shows that in every level of the decisionmaking we are looking at all the human beings, recognizing their humanitariy. Im encouraged by all of your commission because you are a part of that whole, and i know individually your contributions and what you are doing and what you will continue to do and collectively, collectively know that everyone now is set to be on the same page, that we do not relent, and we speak up and your own part, your little part you are doing, people dont know about them or may know or see you, its very significant because cumulatively, collectively, we all are making this planet a better place for all of us. So i just wanted to say thank you all, and i have to state this for the record. Thank you. I appreciate. Thank you so much, linda, for your comments. This item is still communications from and received by tida. I just wanted to underscore the article about the closing of the Construction Zone which will be through a Affordable Housing project on Treasure Island, and its such a victory that finally that has closed. It was delayed because of the unjustified claims against tida, but that was worked out through the help of the supervisors and the mayor, and in fact its closed, which is a great victory for us because its the first Affordable Housing project that would be built. Its 104 units for formerly homeless and for veterans, and we are looking forward to its being constructed and opened. So i just wanted to underscore that that article is in your packet. Are there any other comments . Do we open the line for Public Comment on this item . Yes. Are there any callers on the line . There is nobody on the line. Okay. Then we can go to the next item, please. Item no. 5, ongoing business by board of directors. Are there any items, directors, that you would like to put on to ongoing business . This item . Just to keep up on the covid19 issue and how it impacts the people you know, our residents that live here. I think weve got to really keep on that on a daily basis almost. Thank you. And, bob, as far as ongoing business, youve heard the comments of the board on the issues of the Power Outages and whether theres some solutions that we can come up with for that. Theres been some good suggestions that have been made. We would like to hear from staff and see if theres some Creative Solutions that can be done. At our next meeting, i would like to have a report on that. Okay. Do we open this up for phone comments . I believe sharon has a comment. Sorry, i dont always see you, and i dont have every one of you on my computer. I cant see everybody, so yes, sharon, please. Thank you. So i was wondering whether or not tida has established a racial and social equity policy. If we have not, then i guess ill save comments for new business, but if we do, id like to spend a minute to talk about it. We do not. No . Okay. Then ill save it for new business later in the agenda. All right. Thank you. So lets go to the next item, please. Item no. 6, Consent Agenda. All matters here listed are considered routine by the Authority Board and be acted upon by a single vote of the Authority Board. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a board member requests. Members of the public who wish to address the board on item 6, please call 8882733658, access code 3107452 and finally 1, 0 to be added to the queue. 6 a , proapproving the minutes the previous meeting. 6 c , resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a professional Services Agreement between the Treasury Island Development Authority and cool works to provide Janitorial Services for a monthtomonth term commencing july 1, 2020 and ending june 30, 2021 in an amount not to exceed 300,000. A and ymca to annual contract amount. Resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a professional Services Agreement between the Treasure Island Development Authority and one Treasure Island for fiscal year 2020 through 2021. Resolution authorizing the judgment of deeds for utility users. So i would ask the board, are there any items on this Consent Agenda that you would like to pull out so that we can discuss them . Okay, so ms. Lai, which item would you like to discuss . Yes, thank you. I would like to pull 6 e and 6 f as separate discussion items. And ms. Shifrin, did you have an item that you would like to pull from the Consent Agenda for further discussion . Yeah, it was also e and f, and on b, i dont i have a couple questions about it. I dont know if we necessarily need to pull it, but. No, we will go ahead and pull it so that we can discuss that item. So 6b, e and f will be considered separately. And so we can i approve on the ones that are not selected. That would be a kate, you can do that. I can make a motion if you can read the item number that are not selected so we get that off. So that would be 6a, c, d. I make a motion to approve. All right. So we have a motion to approve 6a, c and d. Do we have a second . Second. So its been theres a motion to approve and a second. All those in favor of approving well do a roll call vote. Im sorry, did we have Public Comment open on those . Oh, im sorry, yes, youre right. Was there any Public Comment on the line . We have nobody on the line. Thank you. Then i will call there will be a roll call for the vote. [roll call]. The ayes have it. Now we will consider item 6a. Ms. Shifrin, you have a question about 6a . Im sorry, 6b. The rubicon item, right . So on that one, just a clarifying question. So its 1. 3 million and in the thing it said it employed 8 people. One question is that total employment for Services Rendered on the island or is that just the folks from the island . And then what percent of the contract is going to wages for the economically disadvantaged . It talks about the monthly contract is either 94,000. Im wondering how much is going to the employment piece, and also if they are planning to grow. So are we retaining the same eight people, is it different people, do they want to hire more . Is it going to be less . Ill speak briefly to the relationship with Rubicon Enterprises generally, and then ask rich roveti to speak to the questions about their Current Operations and staffing levels. Rubicon enterprises is a one Treasure Island Member Agency and is a drop Training Program for formerly Homeless Individuals specific to landscaping programs. And under the jobs and equal Employment Opportunity program that we have as part of the disposition and Development Agreement for the development of Treasure Island, Rubicon Enterprises has a first right of offer for the provision of Landscape Services on the island and in the future parks and open spaces. So thats kind of baked into the future. So theres potentially significant future expansion of their programs as we start to complete and bring new parks online, but rich, if you could speak to the questions about their current staffing level and whether those are fulltime positions or so forth, that would be helpful. Yeah, currently can you guys hear me . Yes, we can. Currently theres i believe eight fulltime Staff Members working on Treasure Island. And sometimes it fluctuates between 8 and 12 members, and their budget is 1. 1 million this year, and thats to take care of landscape operations on Treasure Island. Additionally, we also put in 30,000 in the budget that rubicon helps us with regard to the Treasure Island community garden, and that is also another responsibility that we have under the contract. So how much of that 1. 1 million is going in salaries and wages to folks on the island . Of those eight ftes, or what is the average salary that you guys are paying . The average salary, roughly the average salary is i want to say 25 an hour, i believe, and thats with benefits. As far as how many island residents work for rubicon, im not sure that there are island residents working for rubicon currently. Lets see. On this item, actually ms. Richardson, yes. Yes, please. The way that im looking at this, im excited that this is in. The collaboration with one Treasure Island which is a job training, that partnership, if Treasure Island were against this contract, i would be against it. So i think the other value is having the landscape, a program that are trained by atrisk population and again the partnership with one Treasure Island is a club, and so what its saying is that we have a robust training and opportunities that we are providing on Treasure Island, and so that and on that i would definitely support this item. Okay, i also wanted to note that Sherri Williams is online and has a 25year history with rubicon, if you wanted if she had anything to add. I would suggest, bob, that when we have our next onisland meeting maybe thats a good time for rubicon to come. They do provide employment, so this is training for people who are economically disadvantaged, and so it would be good to hear at least once a year from them directly given that they have a big contract with Treasure Island Development Authority. So let me suggest that. Historically rubicon has come to these to the Board Meetings upon presentation of their item. Its just this year with regard to the online meetings, its a little bit difficult. But yes, i agree with you. We understand, and so lets give them an opportunity to come before the board at the next meeting when we are all together in person. [indiscernible]. So we have a motion to approve 6b. Do we have a second . Second. Okay. So its been moved and seconded, all those in favor say oh, its a roll call. So kate, would you kate, youre muted right now. Thank you. Was there any Public Comment on the line for this item . There is nobody online. Okay. Well take roll call vote. [roll call] there are six ayes. Okay, the ayes have it. We will now go to item 6e. Okay, lets see, who wanted to comment or ask questions on item 6e, which is with regard to the Services Agreement between tida and one Treasure Island for fiscal year 2020. Ms. Lai . Im wondering if sherri or director beck wants to make any comments first. My questions are just to better understand what the fees go towards. Maybe they have general comments to help us understand. Okay. We could ask ms. Williams to come on, Sherri Williams, to come on. But before we do that, i actually ms. Shifrin, do you have a question or did you want to wait until after sherris on . I can wait, yeah. So sherri, we would like to hear from you. Well wait for a minute for the phone connection to be established. Okay, can you hear me now . Yes, hi, sherri. So do you want a breakdown of the budget . Is that what youd like to know . I mean, in terms of the fees, theres a number of things in the budget. One is our administrative fee of i believe its i dont unfortunately have it right in front of me, but its about 190 for our administrative fees, and that is the operation of the ship shape and the different, you know, programs we operate out of there and so forth. And then theres the Affordable Housing consulting and Technical Expertise that we provide to tida that comes out of there. A big portion of the funding is for the preapprenticeship program, and that doesnt just pay for the actual operation of the program. It primarily pays, actually, for the Environmental Remediation of the nuisance buildings on the island that our training partner echo bay does with our trainees and our graduates from our preapprenticeship program. And then the other funding that comes through tida is through, actually, the developer, which was part of the jobs and equal Opportunity Program agreement that tida has with the developer and the dda, and that is to support the program to ready people for construction trades, help place economically disadvantaged folks in jobs on the island, whether they be construction or permanent or temporary jobs. And then theres a small line item to provide event site management, opening and closing facilities that are used by tida. And then theres a small line item for some children and youth initiatives because we did that fiveyear Services Plan for youth activities on the island, and so there was a few things that we were looking to hope to implement in that plan. Thank you, sherri. Were open to specific questions by the director . Yes, ms. Lai . So for the consulting services, is that only for consulting tida or is it the direct consulting to the residents who may be trying to figure out relocation or the supporting the collaborative work with the relocation consultant that we have . Because i know theres Financial Planning classes that qualifying dmr residents may have to take before they get placed in a unit. Is that related to that at all . And then my second question is im struggling to understand the communities Facilities Planning line item that i think is, like, 200,000, just wanting a little bit more detail as to what thats really for and what that scope of work is. Thanks. Oh, yeah, sure. So on the Affordable Housing line item, it is really about the housing development, the Affordable Housing development and all of the coordination between mo and the technical side of things. In terms of existing residents and their Affordable Housing and then, like, information on their transition rights and so forth, that is not handled at all by this. Thats a. R. W. S. I believe is they are the ones. So this is specifically about, you know, developing the bricks and mortar, if you will, of the development of the housing and the creation of that Affordable Housing plan. So thats that part. Does that make sense . Differentiation . Yes, and i would just add on the Affordable Housing side, you know, thats helping us pursue grant funding, develop funding strategies, collaborate with mohcd, you know, developing mapping studies. In the past we have looked at each of our 20 parcels and tried to project what would be the most economic construction type to utilize on each site to optimize our Overall Development approach, and one Treasure Island has assisted us with all of that. All right. Ms. Richardson . Yes, thank you. Thank you, sherri. Thank you, commissioners, for did you want me to im sorry to interrupt you. Did you want me to address the commanding planning line items . I would defer and then i would come in after. It depends on the commissioner. Yes, sherri, did you have additional comments to make . Yeah. Well, on the Community Planning side of things, i have to say that this is really exciting work that unfortunately we were about to make a presentation to the infrastructure and Transportation Committee in march, and unfortunately we were unable to do that. But you know, theres another plan thats in the dda, and its the Community Facilities plan, and thats the part that hasnt really gotten that much attention yet, and so, you know, the last time it was updated and looked at was in 2011. And so now were looking at, you know, building units and having residents, and so what does the Community Facilities plan look like, and we need to update it. Its almost 10 years old now. So that line item is about updating the Needs Assessment on the communities facilities plan and then coming up with an Implementation Plan for that communities facilities plan. It also includes looking at best practices in terms of how do we build an equitable and thriving mixed income community, and were going to be working with this National Organization from case western in ohio that works with its called triple aim. Were really anxious, actually, to present it to you, to the board, this work, because i think that you would find it super important and also very interesting. Thats what that line item is to address. And the funding there is for the case western team and other outside consultants, not a portion of it would also fund one Treasure Island Staff Support of this, but the bulk of that will be for outside services. Am i to understand that one Treasure Islands role here is basically sort of as an outside project manager to help bridge tida and the other i guess Affordable Housing developers to work on the Affordable Housing consulting side and then on the Facilities Planning side sort of the expert consultant acting on our behalf with outside contracts . Its a little bit more than that. They are an important participant at the table in this discussion. You know, some of the things that we want to make sure happen as we move forward with the development and the Retail Program is that, you know, we provide Retail Services that serve the entire island, not just market rate residents, but we dont have Retail Services that serve our affordable residents. And the Community Facilities plan describes a lot of areas of need and programs to address them, but it doesnt specifically indicate where those programs are going to be located. And so thats really the effort we want to undertake right now is making sure that we are providing space in the appropriate locations for those Community Facilities as we move forward, and you know, one Treasure Island in their name, you know, when they renamed themselves one Treasure Island, they were articulating a vision for this community, and these these Community Facilities and making sure that they serve all of our residents is kind of central to one Treasure Islands mission. So they are as we engage with them on discussions of retail plan and retail leasing strategies, one Treasure Island is a critical partner in that, and what we, tida hopes to gain is additional input from some of these other partners, like the triple aim team, so that when we put out leasing proposals, master leasee proposals, or building one or hangar two, we incorporate the appropriate provisions to ensure that the retail strategy that master leasee develops delivers the full range of services that we want the company we want to be provided to island residents. So for the Community Facilities planning in particular, from my perspective, you know, one Treasure Island, they have it right there in their name, that they are trying to help achieve the vision that were pursuing. Yeah, i see very much that one Treasure Island is a partner with us the same way the other is the private sector partner with tida in doing the Development One Treasure Island is our partner, our nonprofit partner to look at the whole community. But linda, you have a question or comment. Yes, please. I have some statement. This item is actually at the core of the Community Servicing programs that weve been talking about. Its tied to equity. Its tied to support and implementation. If we really look, personally when i look at the budget and the amount that is located, and i know we have all these physical challenges or whatever, it seems to me that as we move forward im going to be advocating that we will look at as many ways that we can increase the kind of amount. If you look at the work plan, even in training alone, taking someone that is homeless, they are in prison and transforming them, the kind of resources that are tied to getting that person so we can put them in mainstream and they can take care of themselves and their families and we can offload them from the government assistance and make them a valuable person in their community is stunning. I look at the budget. I dont even know how one Treasure Island is doing all this. They need resources that other people are putting in to enable the training. I can mention all of these other people. So for us, this everything we are doing here, and i have spoken about this a number of times. We have you look at the commissioners sitting at this table, we have more than to build Treasure Island to address all the things that we are creating, thats what this item is tied to, and so i, 25 years, cheryl, with this and all the wonderful staff are working in collaboration and that in our d. D. A. We are obligated and mandated to support this item and all these services. So i am very pleased with that, and with that im going to make a motion that we approve this item. So for 6e we have a motion. Do we have a second . Second. And we will open up for phone comment on this item. Any phone comments . Nobody on Public Comment. Thank you. So we will take a roll call on the vote. [roll call]. There are six ayes. So the ayes have it. Thank you very much for that suggestion. We will now go on to 6f, which is the resolution authorizing the adjustment of fees for utility users on Treasure Island and yerba buena island. So lets see, i believe that supervisor haney has asked for this consideration and also director lai. Supervisor haney, would you like to go ahead . Okay, hearing none, director lai, would you like to yes, so i think i would like a little bit more information about our past fee increases, particularly since 2014 to now, and then i think, you know, i do have questions, but my overall concern is just doing any sort of utility fee increases during these trying times, and you know, keeping the compassion and the understanding and sensitivity towards the island residents struggles. But also wanting to understand the service that we have been providing on the island, on the utility side, hasnt been its certainly brought in some challenges. Im hoping that maybe staff has some data points to help us understand how reliable our service have been and then comparing with the fees or, you know, i understand from staff that we may have been actually subsidizing a lot of the utility costs over the years, and understanding what that subsidy has been. So maybe ill just leave it there and see if bob can chime in first. Thanks. Yes, bob . Im unmuting myself. So to address an initial concern that was expressed, tida residents do not pay for utilities. Utilities are included in their rent, so the unit utility fee that is described in this report is paid by the Housing Provider, not by the residents. In terms of increases since 2014, on the water rates, most of the adjustments that weve done since 2014, we made adjustments, in 2015, 2017, and our last adjustment was made in january of 2018, some two and a half years ago now. For each of those adjustments, the primary adjustment has been the water rate, and that has primarily reflected the increasing commodity cost mirroring the increases that San Francisco residents have been seeing as the sfpuc has undertaken its Capital Program to improve the hech hechy Collection System. So the increase in the Sewer Service fee is a 40 increase. This is the first increase since 2014 in the Sewer Service fee. And meanwhile, our costs have gone up considerably as we have put more and more money into the repair and upkeep of the many pump stations. We have 43 pump stations on the island in addition to the Treatment Plant and the Collection System itself. And additional operating costs that we incur just related to the operation of the plant itself. Similarly, the proposed increase in the electrical rate is the first increase in the electrical rate since 2014, and its a 5 increase. Over the rate that was established in 2014. We discussed earlier today the reclosers and the fault indicators. We have provided the p. U. C. With 388,000 in funding for that work. That work is not work that were building into the rates. Thats work that tida is funding directly. So that gives you a sense of the changes that have occurred since 2014. Again, the adjustments that were made in 15, 17, 18 were all incremental increases in the water rate and the current adjustment is also in the water rate as well as the sewer rate. For water, power and gas, primarily were reimbursing for the cost of the commodities, the cost of the volume of water being delivered to the island, the volume of gas and the amount of electricity delivered to the island with some amount of maintenance money to maintain the lines and Gas Infrastructure and water infrastructure. On the waste water side, our costs are almost entirely labor and contract related. Theres some water consumed at the plant, but thats primarily a cost of labor. What were recovering at this rate is primarily the cost of labor and the transport of sludge from our plant to the oceanside Treatment Plant for final processing. We are, in addition, spending about 750,000 a year in repair and rehabilitation projects on the island. That money is not built in here. So thats a summary of kind of our costs of operating the system versus the rates that we are attempting to recover from various users on the island. Thank you. So i guess i am still a little confused about the cost to the island residents, because you said utilities are effectively included in the rent. Does this mean that the costs will not be passed on to the residents because there is some other mechanism to prevent rent increases on the island . I didnt think so. Its not passed on to residents. The villages rents are increased each year. Although we are not rent controlled, per se, they only increase their rents by the allowable percentage issued each year by the San Francisco rent so under our contract, their increases to existing tenants are limited to that amount. Thank you. Does that satisfy your questions . Do you have any others, ms. Lai . No. All right. Linda . I just want to say that were not there are so many questions regarding this item so that we kind of table that for other discussions. We can then really have all the information. Okay, ms. Schiff, ruby . Do you have anything . Yes, so i really want to understand this utility increase and whos paying. When you say its in the rent, it just means that youre still paying. Its bundled, just like parking. Like when you bundle parking with the costs of something versus unbundling it and saying whether or not you need it. So wondering really who is because in the document it said the increase for metered users is different than unmetered. Residents do not have individual meters. The cost is 400. If it increased to 440. So whos paying that 40 . Is it us . Is it when you say Housing Providers, kind of who are we talking about . I think any impact on residents given the survey that one Treasure Island did, even though it was less residents, 50 respondents said that they lost a job or had decrease in hours. Im sure thats representative of the island, if not more. Furthermore, if its impacting commercial tenants too, i would like to know what that impact is and what the increase on rent is given that they are also severely impacted from covid right now. And so it just feels irresponsible to raise utilities prices in this time and needs some further consideration before i can comfortably kind of support this. I would like to address the question on housing. Residents do not pay for utilities. They pay their rent. Their rent is controlled. So this would be an operating cost to the Housing Provider. Our Housing Providers are the villages, Catholic Charities, community Housing Partnerships, like maintenance and other activities, this would be an operating cost to the Housing Provider. It would not be passed on in any way to residents. Our metered customers include job core and department of labor. Some of our commercial tenants, this cost would be passed on to those tenants. I think that this go ahead. Just one last thing. When you say it gets passed on to operating costs, it would be good for us to understand what that net increase is. It still impacts if youre getting that increase as a Housing Provider plus potential lack of rents because people cant pay their rent, right, and get deferrals, what kind of pressure are we putting on Housing Providers and commercial tenants, or like you said, all those other things at this moment, and it just didnt feel clear to me. Could i suggest, because i see a note from supervisor haney who had to leave early that he was intending to motion to continue this item to give further time for consideration and for these questions. Mr. Beck, does it create any timing problems for tida should we continue this to the next Board Meeting . We were proposing to make these rates effective july 1 with the new fiscal year and proposing to provide notice to tenants of that effect, but that would be the effect of we would enter next fiscal year under recovering well, then in that case, lets finish the questions from our members who are on right now. Are there any other questions . And then we will move to vote on this item. Again, i think that, mr. Beck, we can postpone that adjustment is not going to alter the budget. So we can make that adjustment [indiscernible] questions were not going to be able to settle this matter. So lets just move i have questions too that im not going to ask so that we can really verify or you can help us and given the budget time constraints, does this have so much adverse effect on a budget which i looked at and should not be, we can make those adjustments. We can go with our approximation for the current budget. I mean, its not the core of our revenue. Its just weve not done this, but given the time constraints, were not going to be able to answer or push this matter forward. So lets table that, and then whatever adjustment we have and then, you know, our budget is going to be approved anyway, and we still have the latitude for this. I will come back to the board as to whether they would like to vote on this matter today or whether they would like to continue it. But there is a Public Comment in the queue, and so well open it now to Public Comment. You have one question remaining. Hi, my name is hope williams. I apologize that its taken me a little time to get online, but im concerned about the increase in the utility in that it will affect both residents in the long run, whether its being said now or at any time with the impact of covid, were really having a hard time. We continue to have blackouts, and so without a better understanding of how this increase or how the funds currently are being used to address, like, the sewage backups that we have, weve had i think over 12 blackouts, even with covid weve had i think one or two. So as a resident thats supporting the islanders, i dont see how this will really be a wise decision in moving forward in that as it was brought up, we have so many people who are hungry. They are trying to pay their bills, and the housing costs, they are paying for the the providers are paying for it. In the long run, we do pay for it through rent increases. We end up paying for it in the long run, and now is not the time to even consider that seeing that we need to come up with a longterm solution for covid. Okay. Thank you for your comment, ms. Williams. I do think that mr. Beck has said a couple of times that in fact this does not affect the rent for the tenants, only for the providers. But there seems to be a lot more questions. What is the pleasure of the board . We can continue this item. If you wish to do that, let me have a motion and a second to continue the item. So moved. Second. So its been moved and seconded to continue item 6f. And we will have a roll call for the vote. Continuing means pushing it out, right . I just want to make sure i understand. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Okay, well take roll. [roll call] there are six ayes to continue the item. So the ayes have it. And that brings us to the end of a very lengthy Consent Agenda. Lets go next item, please. Item no. 7, resolution approving the Treasure Island Development Authority fiscal year 2020 through 21 budget, including work orders for services with other city departments and professional Services Contracts and agreements with service providers. Members of the public who wish to address the board on item 7, please call 8882733658, access code 3107452 and final 1, 0 to be added to the queue. Mr. Beck, are you presenting this item . Yeah, im trying to share my screen now. Just a moment. You can also get this budget presentation online. Here we go. Okay, i have my presentation up. So again, every conversation begins with a conversation of covid19. In our current fiscal year we are going to end the fiscal year with an outstanding rents receivable balance primarily for commercial rents that have tenants have been unable to pay due to the emergency, and well be working with those tenants to develop payment plans to become current by the end of next fiscal year. The citys budget process has also been impacted by the covid emergency, as you no doubtedly know, theres been a tremendous impact on general Fund Revenues to the city and has changed the schedule for adoption of the fiscal year 2021 budget. The mayor has put forward a threemonth interim budget [indiscernible]. Im sorry, can people mute their phones . Maybe everybody could unmute their phones, theres some interference coming through. The tida budget is independent of the citys general fund revenue status. Our agreements with the navy and Treasure Island Community Development restrict leasing revenues from the island being used for maintaining island facilities and for supporting development activities, and the disposition and Development Agreement with Treasure Island Community Development first obligates us to provide services adequate to support anticipated development schedules and activities and obligates Treasure Island Community Development to supplement the revenues that we received from our Leasing Program to offset those expenses. So in the current fiscal year, as ive mentioned, we were on track for our projected [indiscernible] at the end of the quarter. Residential leases were tracking slightly below [indiscernible] all our expenditures are expected to be within the authorization for the year, and as was projected in our budget, we expect our total expenses to exceed revenues, and this year for the first time we will be requesting tidc to make a payment to the city to cover our fiscal year imbalances, and were working with General Services administration, the finance section, to provide an invoice to tidc for the anticipated amount by july 31. At this point, were expecting them to make two payments to us. One specific to the arts program which will be preliminarily on the order of half a million dollars. And the second specific to our overall operating budget, which will be depending on the final balancing, on the order of 5 million. Our highlights of the proposed budget for next year, we have a total budget of 25 just over 25 million, an increase of almost 8 million from the current budget for fiscal year 1920. And that increase is primarily for developmentrelated activities, including city Agency Expenses and consultant services. Theres obviously a lot of uncertainty as we enter this year. We expect, assuming we are able to maintain our current commercial tenant population and that they are able to come current on the rents by the end of next year, that we would generate a similar amount of commercial revenue. We are adjusting the residential leasing revenues downwards to actually reflect the actual performance, not only of this year but of last couple of years as well. In this budget we expect a payment from Treasure Island Community Development of up to 10. 7 million to balance revenues with expenses, and that is in addition to the 500,000 that they paid to support the job Broker Program with one Treasure Island, an estimate of more than 2 million to support the arts program next year. Obviously that will depend very much on whether we are able to enter into agreements with additional artists to Commission Works for the island, as well as a small amount of money to maintain the hilltop park which is expected to be commissioned at the end of next fiscal year. The increases in the budget, i mentioned the arts program is tentatively budgeted at 2. 2 million, be offset by the arts fee payments from ticd. Increases in public works for construction oversight and other services as the scope of Infrastructure Construction expands. Support the cta and tima for the hill crest project as well as the congestion management. Increases in funds to other city agencies and professional services to support development, repair and rehabilitation of the utility systems. We have two new tida personnel proposed in this budget, as well as the Community Facilities planning under one Treasure Island budget that we discussed earlier. [please stand by] i would be happy to take questions from Board Members. Do we have any questions on the budget presentation . Thank you very much. Again, i spent considerable amount of adjusting the budget. I want the message for me one of the things i found is the Community Servicing of programs. This is relating to equity, and i am very pleased the items listed, for instance, services on Treasure Island, ymca is significant providing and making sure we have after Summer Services for the kids on the island and the commissioners have spoken about making sure we have reliable utilities. That is loud and clear. It is a very, very tiny budget really with the fiscal constraints everywhere. It is time for the public to understand that Treasure Island Development Authority is an enterprise agency, that we are part of the Public Utilities and the port of San Francisco and sfo. We generate funds. At the end of the day, island residents are san franciscans. I will make sure that when the city is making bond measures and the other stuff we are going to fight to make sure that Treasure Island is appropriately reflected in transportation because we are limited in our funds. We can tell from our budget that we are meeting those obligations. The residents of the island have a broader need because they are San Francisco residents. I am sure supervisor haney is loud and clear and moving in that direction. The other resources to supplement the budget and resources we provide. We cannot provide everything that the obligations on those that we also. I like this budget, and i would like to approve it. This has been has been a muh effort. Were there any other questions by Board Members . Hearing none, we do have Public Comment. We will open the line to Public Comment now. You have two questions remaining. Go ahead. State your name and go ahead. Hopefully i am in. I have a question about the 8 million increase available for consulting fees. My question is how will tida use the funds in detail to support the current residents on the island seeing that, for example, the ymca has very limited space and we have approximately 270 students that will not have programming or access to any services during the summer. Also, we have residents requested to cancel rent. They are looking for jobs. Also, the Child Care Center and boys and girls club will not be able to accommodate the number of students. Out of that 8 million increase, would it be possible to get a detailed action plan for covid and the response to tida how they use these funds to support current residents . Lets have the next comment, please. Then we will respond. Hello, commissioners, i am francisco dekosta. I have spoken to you all before. What i want to request is that Treasure Island, which is a man made island, you have to focus on the contamination and cleanup. That hasnt been done. Dont be in denial, okay . The one commissioner there paints rosy picture. I am the director of Environmental Justice advocacy and i have spoken to you all before. Please do not put our children on contaminated land. Please do not do that. If you do that, you are acting less than the pandemic. We are putting people in harms way. You have Critical Data the cleanup hasnt been done. It provides people on Treasure Island today with whatever they need. The caller before me was talking about being helped. I dont know what you are doing on that commission. I was there when it was formed a long time ago, do not put innocent people in harms way. Otherwise that blood is on your hands. Thank you very much. The Public Comment is over. Mr. Beck, would you like to have any comment to the people who have called . So the increase in the budget this year as i itemized the items that it has been programmed for and those are primarily expenses that we anticipate undertaking this year to facilitate the progress of development. We dont have any specific initiatives in this budget as it relates to covid19. We have managed within the existing year budget to try to undertake a number of things as we did relative to the electrical system to make improvements there. We dont have anything currently programmed in the budget as it relates to covid19. Linda. Yes, commissioner. I have a motion to approve this item. Any other comments . I think me and sharon are in the queue. Lifting up a comment from the caller in terms every response to covid, you know, i do think it makes sense to think about and i dont think it would take a tremendous amount of resources to think about a response. This is not just the Immediate Response but ripple effects that it will have on island residents. Further displace meant is not what we want. We are all in alignment on that. Looking at the Community Serving Program Support and some of the things canceled and the changes you are making in 2 million annually, is it possible to think about and work with maybe even the caller but what response efforts could be made on the island, what that would cost and if we could make that work. We continue to look at opportunities to as we have throughout the crisis to address things for the residents. We continue to adapt. The mand camp was cancelled. Boys and girls club is looking at alternative programs, and we plan to work with them to try to make some of those virtual programs available to residents. The ymca is also looking at what programs they may be able to provide this summer incorporating appropriate social distancing, focusing on field activities versus facilities in the gym. We continue to work with our partners on and off the island to find new ways of delivering services to island residents in the current circumstances. Actually, some of this is my own assumption. I believe, bob, there are several places in the budget where i think some of the increases would be expected revenue decreases are part of tidas thought around what would happen in future year with covid. You talked about expected reduction in housing revenue, which is about 20 some percent that is consistent with the citywide unemployment rate. The increase under the maintenance budget of the common areas. I assumed that was in the response to increased needs to cleaning and Janitorial Services also in the agreement we just approved today and also the ymca agreement we also approved. All of those are related to the covid activities and building up the facilities to make sure we are accommodating the island residents needs. Maybe you can remind us all a little bit how all of those have gone into the budget. If you are not comprehensively listing out a an exact plan it s part and parcel of the budget. Thank you. Thank you, director. There are a number of things in the budget, new initiatives. We mentioned the Community Facilities planning under the one Treasure Island be agreement. We are also incorporating into the ymca budget next year modifications to the ymca to serve as a permanent host to the school meals program. We are reflecting a decrease in the housing revenue projections. That is not specifically a covidrelated item but reflection of the expenditures we have seen in recent years to maintain and upkeep the facilities within the residential neighborhood that ends up impacting our net revenues from the housing portfolio. There are some things within the budget and in the past in the current year without specifically budgeting for something, when we come up with specifically identified need programs, we find a way to defer or cancel activities to take advantage of those opportunities and address those needs when they arise even though we havent specifically budgeted for them. Ms. Richard son. I am on the Covid Task Force for the Africanamerican Community citywide. Basically what we are talking about with tida is outreach. The city has a plan with the San Francisco department of Public Health and u. C. S. F. That is in place that we can override. However we can help them in the outreach and any communitybased organization, wherever they are in San Francisco are in partnership with the city that the appropriate information gets out. In fact, every city and county resident, everyone is encouraged to have this text every day. Sometimes three or five times updating from that. All of San Francisco are opening testing centers. I think the supervisor is talking about the mayor of Treasure Island. We have the department of Public Health providing local on the island. We can lobby and have them have those mobile units like they have done in many parts of San Francisco. In bayview we have had in the last 10 days mobile testing clinics by the department of Public Health and u. C. S. F. These are things that the island residents are entitled to and we just need to help them provide. The response for us we will continue to work with the dhs and get the information out. All city agencies are now conducting covid id and helping to disseminate information to constituents. That is going on. We have a robust communication in partnership with one Treasure Island and ymca. We need to be on the same message here. Again, i will make a motion to approve this budget. One more question. Thank you, bob, for talking about the flexibility. I appreciate that to respond to the need. One of the things bringing up the Commissioners Point from earlier. The survey done with the sample size was small was useful and eye opening in terms of the things residents talked about coordinated cost could trips that are straightforward but not thought of. Would it be possible to do Something Like that to generate a survey to understand what the needs are which are mostly around Food Insecurity on the island so it can better inform your work as you are adaptable and flexible in this time . Is this value and do you think we could do that . Are there challenges we could support . I am happy to think through doing Something Like that more. As i mentioned in my report, our intention working with one Treasure Island and supervisor haneys office is to parse the results from the survey to see where we can leverage that information to take specific initiatives and where we might benefit from some further detailed interactions with residents or surveys of residents. That is definitely something that we have the capability to do and we will be trying to make that part of your overall work with one Treasure Island. We someone Public Comment. We are going to take that and then we will vote. Go ahead. You have one question remaining. Again, you know, you have an opportunity to stay away from harming people. You keep talking about the pandemic. In San Francisco some of the advocates had to fight to get the testing. Excuse me. We have over 300,000 population with a population of 850,000 in San Francisco who are a symptomatic. We have been slowing testing even though we need the testing. It is slow. This is a problem. We had this idea of populating Treasure Island. We never dreamed about a pandemic. There are many other things that Treasure Island needs. One of the most important things that Treasure Island needs is a health center. You do not have a good treatment plan. You do not have stable electricity. When you dont have these things in place, we cannot address quality of life issues. That is what i do as director of Environmental Advocacy i address quality of life issues. I dont like people lying and painting rosy picture. I know so and so in San Francisco. We are suffering, but on Treasure Island and robert knows me very well. On Treasure Island we have to be sincere. Our heart is in the right place. When you have your heart in the right place, you can take other people to a better place. Thank you very much. We have another Public Comment. This is hope williams. Wanted to make a correction in what was stated in regards to the school program. I am running the school program. The funding in which tida was referring to as supporting. Sfufd is supplying equipment and staffing and they are assisting with reimbursement. That is not part of the budget. It doesnt address the point i made. We have a number of families and support that are needed on the island. Such things as right now the Child Care Center is not used. All of those things. Ir have been in discussions with the boys and girls club, the ymca. I am active leader on the island. The comments made about the people and the services, those are all direct conversations. In those conversations the ymca will not have the ability to support our students. The boys and girls club will provide virtual services, not bus our students. I reached out to par park and r. What i am putting out there, there needs a portion of the budget to support residents like myself and others trying to find alternatives to support families and communities and provide that relief because it is not in part of the tida budget. Support for us as residents. I have lived there 10 years. I am not getting support and the benefits of what comes out of this budget. As you are looking at this budget and talking about moving forward, i am asking you to consider the needs of the residents as we try to deal with covid and struggle with what life will look like. Fourth, a budget that will really take into account our lives moving forward in this pandemic. Next comment. You have zero questions remaining. Sharon, did you have an additional question . Yes, i think my question is directed back here. If i understood correctly although the current budget does not reflect any sort of extra decreases in rent revenue for the housing component related to covid, ti you have tools to adds that situation if we need housing revenue shortfalls. Second question. Can you go over some, i guess, the rules and responsibilities of what tida is to the Community Around the covid situation versus the Citywide Department services. Director richardson stated there are a lot of concerted efforts in the city in the Emergency Centers through the Mayors Office and other departments addressing the current ongoing pandemic issues and also social services that goes to supplement all of these consequences because of the pandemic. Maybe just to help the public understand how they can access those services. What i would like to highlight again, yes, although Treasure Island is an island. We are a separate neighborhood and part of the San Francisco family and all of the Department Services available to mainlands San Francisco residents should equally be accessible to Treasure Island residents. Thank you, director lai. On the subject of the residential lease revenues. The revenue figure included in the budget is our estimation of the revenues that we will realize from the Current Population that we have in the market rate housing under villages management. It assumes that existing residents will be able to come current on their release obligations next fiscal year. That is the underlying assumption. If there is a shortfall in that revenue, that will be part of our balancing at the end of next fiscal year where we are looking at what our total actual expenses were versus our net actual revenues and prepare our statement where we will then ask ticd to cover the gap between revenue and expenses. In terms of residential relief or residential subsidy programs, that transitions to your next point which is we are part of the city of San Francisco and state of california, and there are a number of programs being developed both in d. C. And implemented through the state and San Francisco to subsidize Unemployment Benefits and the direct payments that went from the federal government to individuals. Tida is not at this time proposing any specific residential relief measures that are not part of a broader citywide or federal program. As you said, there are a number of City Services that all City Services out there reside residents can participate in over the years we brought this to the island to run a twice a week clinic here. That has seen limited utilization from existing residents. We continue to look at what other opportunities we have to bridge the gap between residents and services that are available on the island. One thing that Treasure Island is an advocate for for many years and we continue to talk about with the Transportation Authority is the possibility of off island shuttle to connect residents to key Service Locations within the city. We dont have a specific proposal for that at this time. Those are the types of initiatives that we continue to evaluate to see if we could materialize to further benefit that. Specifically as it relates to ymca, money in the budget is to make physical improvements to the ymca to support the meals program. The cost of operating the program are supported. I would suggest that if ms. Williams if you have any suggestions we would be glad to hear them. Put them in writing and submit to the staff. That would be a better way for us to more deeply understand the issue. Thank you. We need to bring this to a close. This item is an action item. I believe i have a motion to approve the budget. Do i have a second . Second. It is moved and seconded. We will have a roll call. Director tsen. Yes. Dunlop. Yes. Director giusti. Yes. Director lai. Yes. Director richardson. Yes. Director kwon. Yes. Director sf i. F. R. In. Six ayes. The ayes have it. Thank you very much for that. It is several months of coming, but it is a good discussion. We will have the next item. Item 8 discussion of future agenda items by directors. Ms. Richardson do you have a suggestion . Yes, please. I would like to suggest. There are so many discussions, especially on the covid id and support for the island. If we can have an agenda item to discuss and share information. There is a lot of information. I would like to put that on the agenda. Secondly, i would like to take this opportunity here to thank her for her retirement and make a recommendation here when it is appropriate that this commission should invite her back and we will be able to have appropriate goodbye to thank her for her excellence service. I would like to suggest that the future agenda items. We have had many, many meetings and presentations about the remediation on the island and multiyear plans we have and the work that has been accomplished and the millions of dollars put into remediation. We need to bring back up on a regular basis so that uninformed people can be informed by all of the actions we have taken. Certainly it is not our intent to put people in harmings way on contaminated land. That is certainly not the case. I am in fact a little offended by those that say that is there. I do think that it is good to bring it up again so that people remember what has been done, what is continuing to be done. I would suggest that be on the agenda at the future Board Meeting. Hearing no other items. So i just want to maybe echo again the need for repeat updates, monthly updates on the utilities and Power Outages. Second thing which is new business. I want to acknowledge that Treasure Island has one of the highest proportion of black population on the island. I think our black communities like 20 to 25 of island population where the rest of San Francisco is only 5 to 6 . I think in the context of everything happening and thank you for making that comment in the Opening Statement for the meeting. I think that we need to have a position as tida around policies for racial and policy equity not just internal but proactively trying to advance equity for any of our external business as well. I am not exactly sure the form for that. I look forward to staff coming back with some suggestions about how to go about this. That is a great idea. Can we adjourn . Yes, please. Can i ask we adjourn on behalf of george floyd, please. Thank you all for a very productive meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, directors. [roll call] great. I believe that commissioner bernal might have something to say. Yes, mark. Thank you. Before we begin, id like to address some thing, members of the public who are watching. We are made aware after the last Health Commission meeting on may 19 that there were issues accessing the Public Comment line. We apologize for those issues. We asked a representative from sfgov tv to join us today to moderate the Public Comment call line to alleviate any issues. And we will have this resolved today and moving forward. Mark, would you li