Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240702

Aye. The minutes are approves. Call the Consent Agenda items 59. Item 59 the Consent Agenda. Staff is in the planning on to present on these but available for questions. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Moved by melgar and seconded by walton we can take that same house same call without objection the motion passes. Madam clerk, item 10. Item 10 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency fleet electrification update report this is an information item. And we have bonnie gene von crow. Sfmta building Progress Public Affairs manager. Such a title. Good morning. Im bonnie von crow, Public Affairs manager im theme proviedz an update on the paratransit electrification process. Our paratransit fleet is a van and taxi program. For people with disabilities that are unable to take our muni service. Unlike municipal theruns on fixed routes paratransit is a door to door program. We have been provideing for 40 plus years last year served approximately 500,000 trips per year. Im here before you as part of our funding request circumstance and part of that request is to provide continuing updates on the electrification process for our paratransit fleet. And that looks at vehicle procurement and charging infrastructure at our facilities and maintenance and storage of vehicles. And then funding and other risks. Just a bit of background or paratransit electrification is part of our larger Building Progress Program a 2 plus billion dollars program. Capitol program to modernize and electrify the sfmta facility paratransit fit in that program. We have one pillar is modernization so looking at sfmta aging facilities and sequencing them present low and merrying this with the electrification requirement and regulations for 1 huh zero e missions muni fleet which we include paratransit in this. A pai pillar is public out reach. Our facilities in neighborhoodses in some case over 100 years and planning for the next hundred years. To talk more about the over all electrification program. Pair thanz transit is not a stands alone project there are a number as part of this program. And leading with the kirk clt landiard electrification this will be our first retrofit to electrify the yard to support battery electric bus. Prior, in the run up to the kirkland project implementing chargers, pilots at woods and creek yards. We are excited receive fta funds nothing 30 million are if the pilot programs. And upcoming presidio yard project and paratransit electrification as well. Over all, our paratransit fleet goals to provide service, safe, Reliable Service for our seniors and disabled patrons. And we are looking at transitioning the float to a completely electric fleet. But we want it make sure we have facilities to do so. With the prior funding requests if prop circumstance funding we are able to replace 17 gas powder victims in the last fiscal year that allocation also included funding for one electric van. This is where we are excited procuring that in the next fiscal year. And when we been electrifying the paratransit fleet, we look at the California Air Resources Board guidelines for float electrification they have i requirement that the sfmta work to comply with. To electrify our fleet by 2040 and a certain number of paratransit vehicles fit into this guideline. Or large are 68 ford ev40 universals which are larger group vans, those weigh over 14,000 pound and said be regulated by the guide lines. The veterans that take the seniors to senior facilities or adult day care facilities. The heck facilities those are the veterans we use for that under the carbguide lines however we are look at possibility of electrifying our entire paratransit float and how we fit had in our over all fleet procurement planning and facilitys planning. The past year we have been evaluating our various vehicles on the market today. To date we evaluated the turtle top and ford ev. Both vehicles sit too low to the ground for our San Francisco they scrape the pavement going over hills. We are looking forward to testing the lightning in the coming months. To date we have not found a vehicle this is operational on our unique vipir that is the risks associated with paratransit and the other is price per vehicle. Paratransit electric vehicles are more expensive than gas they run 350 to 375,000 per vehicle met low because currently they are built as gas power exclude retrofited be electric. We do look forward, ford has a vehicle developed from the upon ground up in electric paratransit vehicle and look forward to this bringing price down in terms of cost per vehicle. In february. 20 twooshgs the sfmta completed the battery electric bus Facility Master Planning process this baselined our projects and locked at sequencing for charging infrastructure. Identifying Power Requirements. And looking at that schedule so that we are merrying both our electrification of our vehicles into our facility planning process that existed around modernization of yards. Fair transit is woven in this over all Planning Press. We learned a bit regarding Power Requirements. At our facilities and the sequencing of our yards in concert with our vehicle procurement needs. Look at paratransit where it is today we lease facility in brisbane we have a number we lease there and our goal with the float is to house it at a permanent sfmta facility. We also you that would save us costs and also save cost in terms of service, our vehicles in and out of brisbane now if we bring them to the city that is key for us. We are not look at building a new facility or acquiring new land but looking as part of our facility planning process as we upgrade and modernize and electrify them; where can we identify space for our paratransit fleet. We are looking at a number of options presidio yard is one that is being studied. Our woods yard was suggested for our fleet back in 2017 during the framework Planning Press and we also are analyzing that at the potrero yard. So we are currently reviewing the sequencing and timing of over all planning. And how we ask interweave paratransit the electrification of the paratransit fleet is department on having facilities available that can charge that float and space to store and maintain it. You know risk this is we looked at in the past year and as we were to electrify facilities include the Power Requirements at the facility. Green infrastructure needed to charge our electric buss and paratransit vehicles had would be needod and off site. Looking at pg and e in timing and their capacity. And of course, funding challenges. For the over all program. Nunned fungs advocacy is required. As i mentioned we were granted 30 million in fta bus Facility Grant this is past year at to do the pilots at woods. Which will kickoff what would build on the existing chargers that are at the facilities that serve the pilot battery electric bus vehicles today and allow us to panelled that program. And we am continue to apply for federal funding as well as there will be a number of funding requests for the yards before you in the coming months and those are critical to our paratransit electrification process inform terms of Critical Path next steps the next 18 months the sfmta is hiring a consultant to do a study on markets market and cost analysis. And so we will be looking during this time frame at both the paratransit fleet. Doing that evidence of additional vehicles. And also looking at Design Guidelines for paratransit and looking at location and analysis for where we can put this float in our over all facilitys planning process. As we look out 35 years, we do look at finalizing the specifications. Final iegz charging requirements and then identifying the funding gaps in the program. By the end. This time frame we plan be able to charge up to 20 of the sfmta float. If we have 20 of our float that is Battery Powered we will accommodate that within 5 years based on our facility upgrades. And looking long are term 10 to 15 years, that is the time frame for constructing the infrastructure modern iegz facilities to be able it store the electric fleet and looking at fleet procurement with that press in terms of vehicle requirements. So finally, we have completed the Feasibility Analysis to integrate paratransit in our larger Planning Press and then are work to intgrit this with our float procure am program. Now at the stage of identifying specifics in terms of facilities, locations and needs for the fleet. We. Be coming to this body in part of the 5yp p funding requests for a number of facilities in the coming mont this is is the beginning of a conversation around our fleet electric sxifkz facilitys electricification and the number of the projects core sponld to our electrifying facilities notoriety fleet needs. Thank you and im happy to answer questions. I have other member of our team here to answer specifics as well. Thank you for the presentation. Vice chair melgar. Thank you and thank you for that thorough over view i appreciate temperature i was a quick question. Wonder figure any of the facilities you listed potrero, wood, if those are abc 617 community and make them eligible for state funds to do this transition . Yes, somewhere. Which ones. Woods. Yea. Does this make it more attractive to do it there . I have jonathan here what i say in terms of the facility planning process woods is our later facilities to go in the process. In terms of the modernization it does make it an tractive place i dont know if you want to add. I would add jonathan chief strategy officer. I would like to thank this commission for asking the questions i think this request forced us to look at this comprehensively you got in the presentation. As you know im happy to answer questions. We are what we have done at this point what you saw today is we know we have to electrify the paratransit fleet we are looking at various options and go through a process of elimination. Funding capability, ease of construction. As the board of supervisoris know all of you have been focussed on pg and e and infrastructure that is one of the big of the unknown questions we cant answer with regards to schedule. Funding availability, feasibility of construction and power load are key of decisionmaking. Thank you. All right. Lets open this item to public upon comment. If there is anyone who would like to talk to us about item 10. Please, come forward. Lets see if we have remote public ment on item 10. Checking for remote Public Comment. Hello caller. Good morning this is Barry Toranto i did not heart presenter discussion much how we will electrify the [inaudible] taxi fleet. There was manage like Something Like 40 of them and sooner or later they have to go to zero e missions with the vehicles. There is manage like 70 thundz to buy new gas powered and use a lot of fuel and they also require a lot of maintenance. And the drivers dont have a spare vehicle at this point if the vehicle is out of service. Great to find incentives or subsidies to fund the transification to electric float of ramp taxis. And also whether able to use the charging stations at the muni yards as the presenter had shown and described during her presentation. Great if you someone asked the questions i think taxis take a brunt of the pick ups ramp taxis, they give generous incentives some case its is not enough am i appreciate if the presenter could address how they will incorperate taxis in city electrification program. Thank you. Thank you, caller. There is no additional Public Comment. All right. Public ment on item 10 is closed. Madam clerk. Call item 11. Autonomous vehicle update an information item. We received Public Comment posted on the website. All right. Thank you madam clerk. And i guess we will start with break news. If you look at the chronicle, well is the nows reported this cruise driverless testing is suspended by the dmv. So sort of puts new orleans spin on this hearing we are having. I do want to thank of course, our ta staff and mta staff and former chair supervisor peskin and president supervisor peskin for his diligent attention to this over a long time. We had planned to have and continue with information item on the latest developments with the deployment of driver av in San Francisco. We have presentations by staff from the ta the mta, San Francisco Fire Department i want to thank john paul, julia and deputy chief for being here and your woushg and collaboration. Again i want to thank president supervisor peskin i want to thank the Mayors Office. Alex sweet the transportation advior this has been the areas i think for the most part the legislative and executive have been able to work collaboratively and report the needs of san franciscans, together we are working with the av Companies State and federal regulators and the sf community how to implimit this new technology and maintaining city goals. We are join bide phil coopman of electric and Computer Engineering at Carnegie University will offer perspectives on av safety after the presentation we will start with john paul valys. Sthk. Chair this present agdz will provide you the board a summary of our experience. Any ahead. Sfgovtv, please, share slides. Okay. We will provide a sum row of our experience in San Francisco with driverless vehicles. And leading up to todays events i hope we will provide a context for the news the chair shared. Again, this is i collaborative work. Beginning with the agencies here represented ta and sfmta and Fire Department. But again also he sf planning and sfpd, support of Emergency Management. And the City Attorneya and Mayors Office. Yes. The section of the presentation we will provide a background of the more than the context that [inaudible]. Operations here in San Francisco. Lets start with local context and goals for San Francisco. You know we have a very advanced urban environment with competing uses for road space. It is very limited. So as a result, local transportation policy is very intentional about leveraging that limited resource that road space to get people and goods where they need efficiently, safely and equitablely. Avs are not the first innovation to arrive to San Francisco. We have over decade of experience intgritting Mobility Service in our Transportation System. In 2017, both the ta and sfmta adopted a set of 10 principles for service and technologies that provided us city agencies as well as patriot mobility ino have aors coming to San Francisco with a set of guidelines and lenses through which the city evaluate the benefit and the impacts of new service. As you see on the slide we are core values safety. Like transit. Congestion. Access ability and things we are looking into. And include accountable. Relevant data with city agencies and also very important low collaboration with city officials. And the principles being well use local policy and regulations to maximize the benefits of Mobility Service. While mitigating the consequence and negative impactless the serves mibring to the our mobility goals. However. In the case of commercial av or robo taxys it is not that simple. Because just like uber and lyft, San Francisco has no direct permitting authority over commercial a very close Passenger Service. Avs at the federal and state levels. The federal lever the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration establishes monitor and enforces Vehicle Safety standards. No binding regulation as of yet but av safety garthing trash information and safety investigations. In california in 2012, state law required the dmv to develop regulations the first set was adopted in 2014 by the dmv for testing av with a safety driver and then in 2018 additional regulations were adopted for permitting driverless testing without a driver and for full Service Deployment to passengers. The California Commission revving lites commercial Passenger Services at large including tncs develops program for a very close Passenger Service in 2018 and 2020 and the permit mirror the dmv in terms of with or without a driver and a testing phase in full commercial phase. Locally sfmta manages our streets and curbs. The t ameasures strategies to manage congestion and sfmta and the ta collect the prop b tax av services and tnc service must pay for operations impact on the city. The board can pass resolutions like the av resolution you adopt in the december of 2012 dp land use policy may affect av operations but we largely play a flow relation to the San Francisco providing input based on our direct experience on the ground. So. The framework has delivered an active seconder in california there are over 40 Companies Testing with or without drivers across the state and 4 approved for driverless deploy am in the state. 2 of those have deployments here in San Francisco. In the country as ln well as internationally. Completed an estimated 7 million driverless mile in San Francisco streets which is rable to put in context there are 3500 million miles driven by all vehicle in San Francisco. Meaning that last year driverless av amounted to 0. 2 of the miles driven in San Francisco. Both companies around 5 million driverless in San Francisco. We identified to the regular well tory fwps in the framework this perhaps were heard to kong receive 9 years ago when regulations were credited you in this we have the benefit experience they are more evidence. I hand it over to my colleagues julia and deputy chief to present. Thank you. I want to take us back a moment to 2017 which was the year when then mayor ed lee and transportation director first identified the development of avs on our road in San Francisco something important to Pay Attention to. The industry working on their systems since this time since before then and the regular structure under develop export at the table with the industry ever sinceful as stewards of the San Francisco streets our mta highest level sfwoel to make sure that avs meet the same standards of professional defensive driving that we expect of prirt in San Francisco. And to ensure this state and federal regulators have their power are aware of had we are seeing on streets and have this Information Available to them. So. Next slide. The first question, what is the role of avs in improving Street Safety were optimistic we see good and safe driving on streets by avs but we have concerns. Of it is important to notice the cutches are in the all the same we have low companies in San Francisco they are doing different engineering to try to achieve this challenge. And they are all having different results. It is very important to note that those differences in engineering may lead to different results. So engineer suggest a factor in a number of things we have been asking over time. Asking them to Pay Attention to pick up pick up and drop off and obviously safe comp pliance with the vehicle code in general. I think one of things we have learned is this the regulators in the early days really thought that avs would comply system always with all prosecute visions of the vehicle code. We found that. Has in the always been case. When i go through the red light it is my mistake. We use our tools to rim prove our roads but my error. If well is a photo driver of i float of 3 or 5 or a thousand that reflects the good driving that the avs are learn and also potential for errors become repeated throughout the float. The effort to measure the driving safety of acs is complex the doctor will address that and can i will enter to further detames must have to the next slide. We are look at injuries and fatality bunkham we use guess tragic events to guide our resources as we seek to make our roads safer and safer and easier to drive safely on. In a word of avs. We think that is not enough to look at the serious injury and fatal crashes the triangle on the right shows that the unsafe acts at the am bottom in the purple band the near misses and turquoise they are more frequent than the injury and fatal collision ands this new technology is developing, we cant wait for 10 combreers is see whether the serious injury and crash rates come the same we have to look low exert Pay Attention to the things happening that may reflect on safety new safety hazards. Thing this is result in less significant crashes. Things that may not result in crashes but near misses. So, there are some important examples of this that we know this the street is look at these. But think it is essential the regulators be look at these events. Lets move to the next slide. As you know, San Francisco the first dense major city where avs had safety operators taken out. That was first with cruise and the summer of 22 and later with later in the year. One thing we militaried noticed was we got calls to 911 complaining about events on our roads. We have been collecting that information submitted by members of the public. Our City Employee where there is either erratic driving or unplanned stops that create hazzards and impacts on roads intrefr with transit and talk about interfear with Emergency Response than i need to be taken account of. We illustrate this not to say that everyone of the incidents is important and predicting the future. Some of them are important. And as of this time no revving later is collecting information about these incidents not gone in serious incidents. And at the bottom right you will since the vo is moving on the top right you will see this interaction with pedestrians that has raised serious occurrence for us. Obviously there was no injury there. This is i perfect example of something this did in the result in an injury we need to Pay Attention to. Because we have to ask ourselves what does this driving say about effort to have safe routes to school . How do parents and elders feel safe in walk happening around in streets . With this driving does not yield to other road users. These are not captures by federal and state regulators. We are grateful that last week opened the investigation into the cruise av interactions with pedestrians and obviously we heard of further actions by the california dmv this morning. These are other incidents where there has not been a series injury or a crash. But where the incidents are signal important things to Pay Attention to. A collision when the cruise vehicle enter the track way, fortunately, nobody was hurt, fortunately there was no impact but this was obviously a huge red energy. I will say that to our knowledge, we are not aware of ray near miss like this recent. We appreciate that cruise paid attention to interactions with rivehicles and we hope we will not see incidentses like that again. On the bottom left we than has not responded and doing work to a new message for communicating to people on the street when can be expected of them. Unpribltdability is a factor this really affected people as they interact with avs on the streets. Unfortunately there is still w to be done. We are a pioneer city. As you see on the bottom right this was not a rail vehicle we saw 2, 38 gear vehicles lineup in 19 minute delay in transit. As a results of this vehicle stop instead roadway unplanned stops impact our Transportation System and need to be Pay Attention to those. Im going to turn it over. We have been you have read in the papers about the men incidents affecting the Fire Department i will turn it over. Good morning chair mandelman and commissioners. Thank you jowlia. So as a brief background of the Fire Departments interaction with av. They were wise when they brought us in early. Details the technology to us and allowed you to be involved in the development of First Respond are interaction plan we moved forward that this would operate like a human driver and interact with a vehicle after a major accident this. Did not turn out to be the case. As time went on. And the vehicles transition from vehicle assist analysis of a driver and test mote and the commercial autonomous we said our escalation of incidents the initial intakz of reporting out the rare instance through our mta liaison. Rampsum. Our chief noticed the dramatic increase in level interaction went to mine. Having a dialogue the level of policies and technology to resolve the problems and the incidents continue today rise. Looking at the problem, we have parse federal to large are categories ins down to 4 problems we are having intfrns. Inability to leave or return. To change our response times. These get to the problem solving source the second is response interactions where the vehicle failed to yield as a response to emergency were just going dead in the narrow roadways. Again leads to dramatic increase in response time. And so this was unacceptable to the membership of our environment. Another is interference in our emergency scenes. This would be the vehicles lit irrelevant driving in the fire crossing over hoses and near missing with important and the last near miss personal and other context they dont seem to see First Responders or pfeifersor Police Officers better then and there involve yens in some cases we needed to address that. So. With the next slide we did manage to gain engagement with people at this Level Technology or policy who could help us solve the problems. And they asked us when our solutions would be. Woman that 4 categories of problems we tried have 4 solutions. That was a form of avoidance or geo fencing and that also kind of drove conversation around dont not driving in emergency scenes or getting in the way of response. So that was our first, our second was figure out a way to comprehend lights and sirens and yield and acts a human driver that is a work in progress the third ask was better way to community with the remote advisor. Or Customer Service they wantedous interact get the vehicle to move if it did manage to obstruct us. You see my chiefs loning in the window of the car the First Response was, use the phone number or qr code. When responds to a fire most are not holding a phone or have a phone i advise against it they did not have this available to them it required a multistep Radio Communication to get in contact with the right person at the company and long and ineffective process. Current press is windows rolled down and a microphone on the vehicle and First Respondeder whether Police Officer or Traffic Enforcement or firefighter or fire officer has to lean in the car to communicate with them to make our needs known on the scene this. Is a waste of resource takes them away from the job and as you see in this was know active roadway not obtrucked by fire engine its could be dang you dont want to lean in this vehicle. Final ask was if all betsure off is there a way to take overnight vehicles and move them. And so the company got to work on these 4 asks. What happened . We have had a number of productive meetings to characterize the meetings at the firefighter hosting with av companies and mta and department of Emergency Management and with parking and transit. It is mostly culture. Their interpretation of efforts they show video and show us their superstition of what happened and when the fix and we help clir foil it. Tell them when we are looking for and interaction with the vehicles those were useful upon another track has been with emergency mmth. Prosecute to set up asunrisance yours and this is active nay receive a page note xifkz avoid areas of the size defending on the complexity weather people number the street. And this process was moving forward i hope tell continue to move forward with todays ruling. Inform thank you for your time. So, you many of you are aware of the incident this took place during outside lands just in mid august. And there were mull pull vehicles stopped in the roadway in north beach this raised a significant questions for us about what the impact of avs will be the resilience will holdup in a context of emergencies whether than i are routine emergencies like lights out. Or more significant emergencies like an earthquake. We are concern body this because we have had quite a number of incidents this was the learning are once. There are a number that affect many av or multiple and therefore have more interference with our roadways. So we are communicating to revving laters we think the Disaster Preparedness issues need to be looked at especially and move to the next slide. The issues need to be addressed. Before we have on streets vehicles have no human control the left are we are seeing today. The industry is moving into the direction of having vehicles on the streets that are larger than i are different safety issues and prosecute file. And these problems i dont have been seeing and learning from need to be resolved before we have large numbers of vehicles like these hard to move from streets if and when than i have a problem. I want to reenforce what deputy chief said. We have been saying for 5 years that we think the potential for avs to improve safety on roadways will really depenos collaborate rigz with the industry and government and our doors are open. We think tell be e special in problem solving as we face the challenges on the roadways. Thank you very much, back to john paul. Commissioner . I can wait. Thank you. Julia. And deputy chief. Next slide. All of the dints and occurrence in the last section have been documented. In numerous filings to federal and state regulators. Advocacy on the issues dates back to 2018. As only grown intensity as seen here on the right side. Av expand the operations are moving to driverless operation in San Francisco. Filings are core mess knowledge remained consistent. We support, v and routing for them to succeed but we also need for them to a line with av regulations with state of california transportation policy goals; evaluate the performance of av providers considering their impact on the streets. Being on the safety of all road users on the functioning of Transportation System and on the provision of providing service in know inclusive wave. A number 3 the Technology Needs to be deployed in incremental manner allowing providers, regulators and city official its learn from operations in small areas with small fleets. And a times of the day when conflicts minimal before granding expansion its larger and complicated areas of the city and complicated areas. Day. Will be granted only if providers meet performance bench markos safety and impact on the Disability Access and at each level of the expansion steps. And they will need to be demonstrate in the public data filings that are submitted timely. Reliablely. Next slide. In spite of efforts and add roindicating an prop to av expansion that supports San Francisco av policy and mobility goalos august 10, the cpu c, warded to cruise and [inaudible] unrestricted driverless commercial operation in San Francisco that is basically all of San Francisco 24 7 and with no restriction on the size of their floats. In response work width cityy attorney office, our agencies filed a motion to stay within a week of that decision from the cpu c and then we filed an application for rehearing on both approvals. In this first week that followed the approval following the august 10 approval, however, cruise had a series of incidents including the 10 vehicle failure in north beach. And then a few days later a crash with a fire truck while the fire truck in route sirens bailiff to attends an emergency. This lead the dmv to snep and agree with cruise they would have their float operating in San Francisco pending an investigation and then the federal level also looked into had incidents. Since then, we have seen legislators step in and ask questions of regulators Speaker Pelosi and mullen of san mateo, file a joint letter seek more data regarding local indebts like described. We had member burner the chair of the Communication Committee in the assem blow with 5 other Assembly Members sending letters to the dmv and puc trying to understands how this expansions were grant in the San Francisco giving the experience this we had. And we had member phil ting convocabulary a meeting with the california dmv on agencies to discuss the events. Next slide. We are expecting a few rule makes opportunity at federal and state levels we hope we can help the existing frameworks. This were slated begin this fall but no clear schedule public low. We are engaging the legislator. And we are settingum meetings with the dmv to understand their initiatives for next year and scheduling briefings with committees in the assembly and senate to share experiences and exchange perspectives. Going forward advocacy with priorities such as developing an are bust framework to find av capabilities to operate on streets. Permits are granted with the providers. Also. To see the ability to issue the moving violations to avs. Adopted. We want to see recommending applicant for expansion and more trans parent data requirements. For increment and performance based expansion. We want to see clear time lines offering accessible av and a greater local role in development of the sector. Our team usament to study the issues in that us to better inform the rule make opportunity ahead and part of that process we are seek to strengthen with industry, and disability leaders and other city in california and beyond. Etch yes. The treasure i land av shuttle integrate third degree summer different type of vehicle and service from when we have focus here today. It is also an av service and operating the low density area. Engaged local Community Since the beginning. Planning implementation the Pilot Service from 9 a. M. To sick p. M. 7 days a week an attendant aboard and the vehicle is wheel chair accessible the service is popular. Funded by dot, mt krushgs and the transportation thurt. In jowlia was staying reiterate San Francisco is ready for a mature framework. All levels based on our perrise in avery close operations. Thank you very much and we are pleased to hand it over to doctor cooperman. I will be im sharing my screen now. You can hear me . Yes. Are you able to seat whole slide it looks chopped to mine we see it. All right. Great. Im phil cookmachine a professor i have been wing on self driving car safety for 25 years in the years we seen it go from a graduated opportunity experiment to capabilities in public deployments. You have all heard the great promises which made promise but hopeful. Im here to give reality check for policy decisions. It is important to make policy decisions based on the truths where we really are. It is okay to look at the promise you have to look at reality. I the go over the hi lights here. Of first, the question is, are robo taxis safer. Y companies say, yes they are the proof is in we have studies. Thats not where we are. There are studies that show promising results on crashes most low Property Damage crashes in early studyos injury crashes. It is preliminary information the companies are reducing fasaulities nowhere near to know how this will turn out. Why is this. In general San Francisco data looks close. Includes the drunk and careless drivers. Thats a lot of miles. In each company has about 5 million miles we are 95 million it go before you are close to knowing how this turns out. And the point is we dont know how it turns out. The studies have alegalities of assumptions we dont know. If you read the headlines what you have is you are running a marathon a mile in you go my times look guild will give myself the gold medal. That is what is going on. That does in the make sense wont dont know yet fr. A policy point of vow it means is you should noted make policy decision based on the will assumption than i are safer rather not knowing how the safety will turn out. Upon one reason is robo taxys make mistakes. In the early days people say well is in way that this thing will hit an object. Because we have cameras and radars. Yea it did run in a car. How did this happen . Between the censors and the wheels moving and steering happening well is a lot of Computer Software and soft weir is not perfect if you are not following safety standard its is heard ton where the bugs will be this is a bug that result in a collision, fortunately noevens hurt. These things will have defrekts. In fact a let of the pictures other mistakes people make they will fail like humans fail. We figure out how this will turn out. And the related thing we have so many rides that were almost every interaction the fire truck. If have you one fastal talitity 100 Million Dollars. It is the one bad my this matters when you listen to the store sxets experiences from a safety point of view how often the bad days happen not the number of good days. The important perspective to keep in mind. Human drivers are terrible computers will be perfect. They are pull out this number 94 of crashes due to human error. This is a misstatement. It is true humans are imperfect but they are good avoiding the worse crashes. They are good we like them to be better i love the number. But in an objective basis it is hard to be good as a human driver. Computers electric common sense when than i see something they are not expected the technology does not know what to do. It works on training and something is an issue. They are going to make mistakes they have software and they have problems with novel. We have 5 Million Dollars miles of testing. 95 more million to go this includes the drunks we have a language road but big numbers are a start not the end. Another one is we follow third degree. How safety is number one and spent engineering and so on and for some of the company its is clear that is trough some there is a question america the reason i that we dont know how good the and engineering is we seat out come. And i key part of this i have done safety design reviews on aviation and Building Systems and chemical processing and in all of the cities they follow their own Safety Standards. People in the industry who know what is when they follow at this time Car Companies dont do this. There are Safety Standards and the kuchlts are not following them. Theyll in the say they are and it is obvious they are not following them. And so we dont know how this will turn out and they are not following their good practices that sounds like a problem to me. Finally, they will argue that future risk improve am justifies taking chances we had a small crash and will fix it and we are busy saving lives give us select. We dont know how the saving lives per will turn out i hope they do we dont know how long that will take. Meanwhile whaled recommend is policies should not be based on saving live its is okay to have harm now that is the wrong idea. Base a no harm deployment strategy. First do no harm as you deploy the technology and you get the benefit in due course no one knows how long that will take. This regulation one thing you will hear the federal government says they cert foil third Degree Technology and it does not mean what you think. The federal regulations have nothing to do with the safety of the computer driver they have to can air bags and headlights and the steering wheel. That is important and it should happen. But it says nothing about the safety of the of actual autodriving function. The fed dos is wit for crashes or reports of bad things and have investigations and recalls. The fact the feds allowed this technology on the ride is not predictive of safety. Same with the state they will issue drivers licenses based on not had crashes during testing and having insurance butt feds and states are saying the companies dont certify they are doing whatever they think makes sense and on the road and we will see how it turns out. You cannot count on the companies having independent intrigz for safety they diagonal when they doll in the face of all the financial and other incentives than i face inform terms of benefit. It is important to realize the benefits come after the alternate mated v save and trusted we have more work to go on those. To work down the sfreet is incredible low impressive taking 25 years or more well is more to be done it get the safe and reliable going. Trade off they will stop a vehicle they are worry body safety and fair enough i rather have it stop or not. But there for a minute or tense of minutesor hours is a problem that affects Public Safety. They should be able to take them and pull them out to the side of the road and the human driver would have done. If you want to be out on the road in public traffic. If you are going on say we will get benefit we should promote this technology, it is fair to ask, when benefit you get when. Not only improved safety on a time line. Great. We hope that will happen. But when about accessibility and equity. California puc sold on the topics but not i requirement for the companies to deliver. Im aware it is a prototype when will that deploy . Will there be enough vehicle its make i difference . If they typeset seat benefits they have to require them from the businesses to spend resource. Promises are nice but requirement is better. Of also, what about public costs had costs will be now . Im not going in detail we have heard about these but there are things that will happen in the near term costs you have to make sure that the prompts and benefits in day will get you there. My last slide recommendations to the city. Require outcome based met tricks. Important fatality system a center peoples [inaudible]. It should in the help move on and talk about the other thing this is is table steaks. Should be reports of injuries, crashes and i have ligszs, emergency responded and disruptions. Than i have to be begin to the city for the city on perform the function of figure roadways. Now the av kufrms trying to be opaque and a lot are not reported they need to be to understand the impact of the technology. Safety and trust from transparency. Technology will not succeed without public trust and we are not doing well on this now. I think good transparency is vetted go i language way to give the companies the trust they need and helping with the success of the technology. Thank you for considering my comments. Thank you. And this is our presentation. All right. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Thank you, chair mandelman i will start by thanking our staff tilly chang and john paul. As well as the staff from the sfmta julia and our Fire Department and raise it up i level, which is to thank chief nicholson who from the get was willing to articulate Public Safety and the interests of the San Francisco Fire Department. Despite a wall of noise from the industry. And i want to acknowledge all of you, colleagues, in december of left year unanimously passed a resolution and i want it acknowledge the mayor who not only sign third degree but have given the space toy jeff tumlin and the mta and the upon Fire Department to stand up for that is right in the interest of Public Safety of the people city of San Francisco. As this technology is being deplayed. I want to start with upon an obvious question. Which is to director chang. Did we invite cruise and others to the meeting . Yes, we did all 3 operators declined to attend this morning, 2 sent letters way mo and cruise. Zusz mentioned they are not testing driverlessly in San Francisco they are with a safety operator they have no further comment. Okay. So i think look. This is obviously and well continue to be evolving field of public policy. So i wanted to do this at a high level and talk about the experience that San Francisco having relative to the role that we dont seem to play as a function of state and federal preemption. And i want to also thifrng and acknowledge the t. A. And mta for standing up in front of the California Public utilitys commission in august. And asking for a very reason sensible approach john paul laid out. Which was an incremental performance based prop that fell on deaf ears at the puc who instead rejected San Franciscos request and argument in whole. And issued permits for unlimited driverless deployment in San Francisco. May be had is to ta staff . And i net that theical cal puc came in being around the issue of regulation of rail. And in a dart period of california history, that weird low enough is repeating now where an industry that was not safe and was immune from any governmental over site lead to the cpu c and jeff tumlin comments often how ironic it is this we relative to our light riin san pran are held to a much higher more exacting standard than the cpu c holds the technology to and if there is any vindication of San Franciscos position. We got it whole hog from the d. Motor vehicles today. All be it. Sad low rather late. These other arguments that our t. A. Staff med to the california puc that fell on deaf ears. My question is, what we can learn about av regulation from how the cfuc revving lites rail transit. You want to take a crack at that . Sure. Quickly it is a complicated subject from the perspect you have of rail transit we do expect our drivers to be defensive drivers. We hold them to the standard of having to avoid crasheseen though they were not necessary low at fault t. Is meaning somebody elses error does in the excuse the error of a transit operator. So just that high level professional driving is a starting point. Having the high level targets. The next thingil say is those things they mentioned down at the bottom near misses we are required look at every near are miss and go over plans with regulators regularly when we have events or near miss. I will say the dmv events action today we have to assume based on their review of incidents. So these are examples of when we can learn there. And um there are things to learn from local regulation of micromobility. Scooters came in town. We had big safety problems from then strewn all over the sidewalks. Set i standard and said you need a device that enabled them to be look exclude monitor them and the use on the walk. I know had everybody is not equal low satisfied with how this has gone we made clear what expectations are. And we established mechanisms to ensure compliance. Variety of tools like these that we would like to see dmv and it is establishing and we know they are working on that. But as john paul said we look forward to working with the agencies on developing an in tour system. Because the system started being bhlt they were a lot of hope and expectation and now we are seeing the performance. And we need the revving laters to independent to that safety of streets depends on decisions of agents. When we have been trying to do the last 20 years is to rebalance our rightofway to reflect our transit first policy a policy about the efficiency of move am on streets. We are trying to build more housing. We need that people who live in house pregnant what we expect to be expanding population to get out in the most efficient way. Putting more cars is not the answer. But our transit first policy is i safety policy as well as combn an efficiency and congest yen policy and we have been trying to build the right of way to make it easier and for people to drive safely and harder for people to commit tlars have injured people that is when we see in quick builds all over streets. That the Vision Zero Program wing on. They are a pos we need to look at. At how our road requirement operates as a whole for everybody. Not just users of a single mode. And you had one slide that i think should be very concerning to all of us. I think you shows john paul shoes slides. The day after the cpu c decision. Was the north beach melt down. Which was bizarre cruise stated the next day that the melt down was a function of something helping on the other side of town at outside lands. Why are 10 cars turning to 3700 pound paper weights 6 miles, way. Cruise said it was because of the cars are autonomous until they stop working. A remote assistant has to operate the car done over a good wireless Cell Phone Technology when this Cell Phone Technology is not working. Until this case in part because they were overwhelmed with cell phone use at outside lands. Or in the case of i disaster. There is in way to move cars you bring that up in your slide will make the 80 ins debts the Fire Department documented seem like childs play the next tliem is an elementa earthquake in San Francisco and our an rat us has to get to burning parts of the city or fire. And cruise response to that was to me, and i believe they said this to the mta they were going to build out their own cell phone net w to combat this. Do you have thoughts about this. That is the most person thing. Big are then and there a fire truck you saw that on the slide. Cant get out of the fire station. Can you poke to that. I can say that this concern is one reason that for years now we have been asking for approvals after performanced is good performance is demonstrated. We are happy to move witness we see the performance. We dont have our regulators dont have clear targets for the industry to reach. So there is not a clear managed for america the companies measure for themselves. There are reason for dmrn this. We thank you it is the right solution. As to when tactors can lead to failures. These are black box it is correct had the capacity of the vehicle is exceeded the will companies have methods for humans to assist the vehicles there are break points the industry is planning for you need enough people to be responsive to the number of. Vehicles you have on the street. And those are real challenges. Know your vehicles can ng manage or a section of the city where every traffic light is out. We than there is a process and courtesy and turns to a 4 way stop. We know the rules. That obviously slows down traffic and we need to know that the, v driverers capable of prit negligent environment this is not the normal environment but an environment that is changed by a power outage or wireless outage. We can talk about this all day there is so much here i appreciate it. This is only the second time other than the resolution from sdhm we a public discussion about. I appreciate and before i ask judge fuel e will be rit on the stuff he said. Just as you touchod this for rioperations. One thing this ismenting here is the states failure to require av companies to report what they have data on. They have on board cameras and gpa systems. Which is short of crashes that they are required report. When than i make illegal left turns or driveway in wet concrow or cease operating we have a term of bricking 91 of this is reports, is this correct. You will start with crashes and again let mow be clear the requirements put in place all the requirements before there was a single mile. We have to learn from the experience. But i think this what the department of merit vehicles participated when they adopted their regulations was that by the time avs were commercial than i valid masters the skilled. California regulations require reporting of crashes had an operator is testing. But dont require reporting of crashes when the prirt is in commercial service. This raises concern we see the technology is under develop export in the reached the level we hope to see. That is an example of i gap that come from the fact it is heard to predict the future. People didnt think there will be crashes of concern noyou we are here we see there say need for crash respecting. Fortunately the biden and hair i was administration very early in their administration adopted a requirement that crashes by ac reported to the federal government. There is challenges how it is available to the public. There are gaps the crash reporting is the best. Buffer get to the next part drilling down in your first, answer it is counter intuitive you would think an, v with a human in the car is safer. Than in the av with you a human in the car. When you are saying is that crashes of a driverless vehicle are in the required to be reports. Almost. Crashes of vehicles in commercial service are in the required to be reported. This was might have the thing at the right time. We,000 the dmv appreciates there is a need now for more robust reporting. Then and there in the requirements today they are slow process. Of we are eatingtory work with them to make it more mature. I like your use of the word, in tour and hope that the companies mature. Let me get to the next part of the question, do you know or believe that there are instance where driverless car in commercial services are experiencing crashes that are not reported . I cant i can say that when we look at the public reports there are discrepancies in reports to the state and the federal government it hen difficult to identify the reason for this. Something were eatingtory work with. Regulatoros and in commercial deployment. Filing crash reports is voluntary it is possible that some are make the decision to file reports. Sometime and not file other times. I think what you said is, yes. You have an aware thanes there are crashes report to the federal government that because of the vol theyre nature of the fully mature regulations are not reported to the state california . We seen discrepancies in reporting. Yes. I will drill down. Are you aware of way mow reporting to the feds and not report to the state . I am not aware of this and i must say our investigation of the not like up to today. And second, has not we have not drilled down to every single discrepancy. But it is we have note thered have been crashes involving cruise a very closeys we have not seen reported to the state and im not aware there are crashes by avs not reported to the state. Cruise is reporting some crashes to the state but not other crashes to the state . We have noted that cruise continues to report some crashes we dont know which crash are reported and which are not and why. Without putting word in your mouth this supervisor will say it appears that cruise is selectively reporting crashes that perhaps are favorable to cruise and not reporting crashes that are not favor okay to cruise. I think that is when i gleamed from this. Become to the billions of my question, which it is, relative to reporting of noncrashes the higher standard the california puc holds rail operators to near misses. So at a high level, and i in a Perfect World the legislator and dmv and puc would adhere to what professor coopman said, which is a do no harm theory. In reality this is a game of catch up not the first time that a new technology deployed we had to play catch up with air b b the scooters. And we are somewhat ham strung given that unlike scooters we could totally regulate on the local level. That is not one of the options that is before us because the state and federal preemption. Some of obvious like it it is rather galling to members of the public, the notion that if you make an illegal left hand turn you get a ticket if a driverless car does there is no provision in state law nor can we legislate locally that car gets i ticket buzz the way our vehicle code was designed is cars dont get tickets humans get tickets and by the way this , has been known at this time state legislator since 2014. In 2014. State, as these things are going to be deployed you will have to catch up your codes that preept every city in every count in california but here it it is than ior streets and the state has not done this. That it is a gap. And i think phil ting is aware and his situated legislators are aware of this, toochlt this has mostly been a San Francisco phenomenon. Im confident this when this is deploy in the los angeles and oakland and other cities the state legislator will have to act. Right now one San Francisco and one fire chief but eventual low regulation will catch up. What are the other regular gaps including data gaps that you would suggest . Mr. Ville dez. Joy would begin with the violation issue. In only again. To the fairness than i have to be ticketed as we. And the california vehicle code. In will be a tool for nows electronic their behavior and understand their performance. It plays both ways. And another important gap is the notion that we share and professor coopman ordered us to the fact the Companies Self certify capabiliies no evaluation or driver test they have to comply with. No third per this assesses. They submit a report and move forward and i think we need an upon byebyesed system for that. And cities the local of deploy am we were impact of their operations dont have a say. And also a core issue this we believe needs to be addressed. We need to be at the table the expansions decisions take place. And then data come to minds but i would let my colleague share some of his thoughts on the data issues. Thank you, john paul. Thank you, commissioners. I julia referred to the issues with the dataasm i will briefly e lab rit a bit. Not just this there are gaps in the did thea reporting. That under permits no reporting is required at all. We could step back. There are many different permits now this are avs are issued. There are by the cpu c. The dmv. There are permits for driverless testing. Permits for driver testing. Testing permit, pilot, deployment permits. Than i have different reporting. It is come least low incoherent and difficult not only to been types of events happening that are not crashes but that are significant and impactful and indicators of issues and other measures like how much miles when we talk about safety, we relate that to the vehicle miles driven. And we canteen get basic information how much miles upon driven in San Francisco. We are supposed to believe they are safe when than i will not provide the public and experts the data to actually know this they are safe. So. They are not Building Public trust. They are doing the opposite. Which seems to be a bad for business model. I digress. Mr. Valdez i apologize for misprosecute nounsing your name. Anything you would like to add . Thats all, thank you. Thank you. I very much appreciate the fact that the entire city is on the same page for the right reason. The entire legislative body, mayor and the affected departments and i think that we are asking the scombis insisting on regulations that everybody in the state and everybody in the country need as we happen to be ground zero for the testing and deploy am. What we are doing is important work and profound. It is frustrating but for the record, i think that the work that the t. A. And mta and fire have done, lead to the decision the dmv did not want to make but than i made today based on the fact that the cruise vehicles are in the safe for the public. Thats how this would not happened without your work. Thank you. Thank you chair mandelman for your indulgence. Commissioner dorsey. Thank you, chair mandelman i want to express appreciation to everybody for excellent presentations and my colleagues for and especially commissioner supervisor peskin for excellent questions. I appreciate that we are being thoughtful and deliberate in doing everything we can to avert sdaft frers, v for not getting the safe guards right. I will be honest im equal low concerned about the disaster lop when we get these get of the safe guards right this is the massive work place displace am. This is coming. I noted that in the principles for mobility and tech from upon 2017 labor and Financial Impact are key well. I think well was a couple references i know prosecute feszor coopman mentioned the ride hail and Delivery Driver displacement. Just looking at the statistic i could find 2016 the Obama White House estimated the total upons sense to e eliminate half to 3 quarters of driving jobs in the u. S. Based on numbers i see that is 23 Million Dollars job done. There was a study showing peek sat operation avs will cost 25 thousand dollars jobs per month, 300 per year fopping out 2 of total emplayment. Im curious in the what we are advocating for is there a place for us whether a county Transportation Agency or a board of supervisors what can we do to advocate for a Just Transition understandsing there is a Financial Impact of local and State Government this is are part of the safety net . Can i ask if there is a place where it is. I,000 is an important to have a conversation about safety but in terms of policies we should advocate for it seems should be a per of this conversation. Director chang. Thank you for the comments, observation and statistics this is per of a learning are conversation x. The policy conversation is include labor you note from the 10 principles both adopted early on. Starting with the initial ride hail wave with lift and uber. We brought the loop project to you all your and pred seszors asked to engage commissioner walon said challenged us if you do this pilot on Treasure Island bring in the Labor Community. Understand the impacts and alls the and terrible trans sxigz w force path. So path ways, are something this we had experience in developing the transifications throughout history and men the professor can address this. The issue come up in the path can be handled well or not well we try it handle it well engage with the Labor Community on the lopped project. From the begin and it is in the uniform. There are many vows we will engage with the team sters and twu and others to try to irrelevant get a sense when are the issues and the opportunity to understand what types of jobers coming with the new industries. Av and ev sense. I hesitate to ask this question because i no one here is from the dmv. I would net this the response this has been posted by twitter by cruise is that you know sort of describe the action that the dmv taken motivated by a single incidentful and very much focussed on this. And i dont finish as benchers, of and people looking at the data awe are in the seeing everything it is dmv is lookingament. That is in the when we might be concern body cruise and i dont know if anyonements to address that come out of cruise today. Okay. Good. Can i address that . Sure. They had drintss like the fire truck crash and other things and when you would see in other places like aviation is after have you an even due to something you did not anticipate, you would do a safety stand down. And you would cease what operations might place people in danger until you had a review of the facts and circumstances and made prescriptional changes avoiding place there is are traffic or whatever until you can correct it. I have to think that this reasoning is in the back of dmvs mind for them to make this decision. Why thank you. Bh then american supervisor peskin tried to take down the path of of look at potential discrepancies with what way mow exist in the crash data we are not seeing with cruise than way no i dont know if anyone this being be explainable if has men few are cars on the roads that is not true. We dont will under lying number of events and we dont know the volume of miles traveled and this is why we think this regulators need to be making Information Available to us. That make its possible. There is more cruise stuff going on. We are seeing more complaints from involve cruise. When this means is difficult to understand. Right all right. Thank you. Im not sure who to address this to it was set out in the information and the graph. A third are way mow dp 2 thirds are cruise. One technology is better than the other . That invites peck ligz we dont know the answer and cannot answer that with the Information Available. Lets open to Public Comment. Lets open check on remote comment. I appreciate the discussion. Im calling in support of the responsible prescription in the city we know avs can provide a safe and equal transportation option. And they are subject to requirements discussed today and beyond the federal regulations. Companyings are working with San Francisco. If First Respondeders ensure the vehicles are operating in the city we believe that the avs improve how we move around San Francisco and must activate them it intgrit them to the transportation net w to real iesz the safety and mobility and equity goals look forward to w with to you achieve that and thank you very much. Thank you, caller. Hi. Your 2 minutes begins now. Good morning. Chair mandelman and commissioners. The San Francisco transportation authority. Im with the chamber of commerce. Offers support of the prescription of the, v in san freshman. You in we need [inaudible] revilingize our city to puttous a path to meet our Climate Action plan goal than i bring benefits to the businesses and war and communities. Avs create excitement for visitors encouraging them to explore the city bringing energy to the economy. More we appreciate the collaboration. Thank you. So hard it try it address the challenges around av on the road and thanks again commissioner supervisor peskin for continuing it follow this. And help lead us on it and i think with this, we will and thanks to the dmv for putting safety first. Madam clerk. Call item 12. Introduction of new items an informational item. I dont see anyone in the queue. Item 13. Why general Public Comment. Is there anyone had would like to come forward to talk under item then, please, do. Remote public ment on then . Checking for remote Public Comment. Hi. Call are your 2 minutes begins now. Good morning supervisors and [inaudible] on the av i was not told mii make an r now . Sure. Thank you, chair. Go ahead. Thank you. Thank you i appreciate this. I irrelevant appreciate the presentations. They were rable the level of extraordinary [inaudible] struck mow when you saw the color charter showing the problems. And [inaudible] the thing this struck me you listen to the entire conversation. There was not a single mention of [inaudible]. In the one. That describes remarkable because tesla dropped the prop that cruise and way mow and others [inaudible] a few years ago. And artificial intelligence. The e eliminated, the other people have than i using [inaudible]. I have tried now is essential low the 16 year old [inaudible] the testing 30 seconds. 116 [inaudible]. Thank you. Within felony million miles, trained 200 million miles. I saw the data avp [inaudible] and 39 when they have to say if you consider them. Thank you. Thank you, caller. There is no more Public Comment. Opinion comment on item then is closed. Madam let the record reflect. Item 14 adjourn am. We are adjourned. You are watching San Francisco rising. Hi, you are watching San Francisco rising. Reimagining our city. Hes with us to talk about how our librarys economic recover. Mr. Lambert, welcome to the show. Thank you. Im glad to be here. I know its been difficult to have books going virtual. Have we recovered . Yes, we are on our way. Our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. Since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. Currently we are at 95 of our precovid hours of operation. In the coming weeks we are going to fully restore all of our hours. We have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. They are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to San Francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. Can we talk about programs after covid . Absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. We were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. We doubled our level of programming for personal finance, Small Business help, jobs and careers. We have a dedicated Small Business center here at the library. There is a wide suite of programs that our librarian led. We have a Financial Planning day coming up in october and we have financial coaches that members of the community can come to the main library and take advantage of their expertise. I understand the mission is in the middle of a renovation. How is that going and are there other Construction Projects in the horizon . Yes, we have Major Projects in the pipeline. The Historic Mission branch library, Carnegie Library over 100 years old and we are investing 25 million to restore that facility. We are going to restore the original entrance on 24th street, the staircase from the lower level up to the grand reading room. We are going to push out on the orange alley side of the library and expand space for teens and children, we are going to create a Robust Community room, a multipurpose space. We are also investing 30 million in the chinatown branch, we are going to upgrade the mechanical systems to the highest level of filtration as we increasingly respond as cooling centers and air Respite Centers and open access to the roof. It has some unique views of chinatown to create the inspiring space it is. I believe you have programs for families that have free and low cost entries for museum and zoos, is that correct . Yes. Its a fabulous resource. Go to our website. With your library cart, patrons, our residents can go to the Public Library and get passes to the museums, all of the incredible cultural institutions that we have in San Francisco all for free with your library card. How are these great Free Services paid for . How is the Library System funded . We are so fortunate in San Francisco. We are funded for by the library fund and those that taxed themselves just for library services. We also get a dedicated portion of the general fund. That together allows us to be one of the most well supported libraries in the nation. We have the third most library outlets per square mile of any municipality. All of our Branch Libraries have professionally trained librarians onsite. Service that we are able to provide, the collection, we are a leading library in our country. That lead know ask about your biggest annual event in the city. How does the event work and whats happening this year . We are excited for this years one city one book. This is our signature annual literature event. We have everybody in the Community Reading the same book. This years title is this is your hustle named after the Pulitzer Prize nominated and pod taste. This is about the population. One nice thing about this selection is that they are both local. We are going to have several weeks of programming, kicking off next month. It will culminate here in the auditorium november 3rd. So our Library Patrons will get to meet the authors, hear from them directly, and one other important aspect about this years selection, we have our own jail and Reentry Services department. Recently the Foundation Awarded the San Francisco Public Library 2 million to work with the American Library association to shine a light on our best practices here in San Francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the Service Model that we are doing here in San Francisco. Thats great. Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. Lambert. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, chris. Thats it for this episode, we will be back shortly. You are watching San Francisco rising. Thanks for watching. Please stand by for the San Francisco budget and finance Committee Meeting of october 25, 2023. Please stand by for the San Francisco budget and finance Committee Meeting of october 25, 2023. Good morning. This meeting will come to order. Well come to october 25, 2023 budgets finance commit e. Im supervisor chan and joined by supervisor aaron peskin, our clerk is brent julipa. I like to thank michael from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk recollect do you have announcements . Thank you madam chair. On october 17, 2023 the board of supervisors approved a motion discontinuing remote Public Comment at all board and Committee Meetings. Going forward Public Comment will be taken in person with Remote Access only provided for those who require ada accommodation. Public comment will be taken on each item. When your item comes up and Public Comment is called, please line along the curtain to your right, my left. You may submit Public Comment in writing email to myself, the Budget Finance Committee clerk at brent. Julipa sfgov. Org. If you submit via email it will be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the file. You may also send to city hall, 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place, room 44, San Francisco california 94102. For those in attenance during the meeting please make sure silence cell phones and Electronic Devices and should you have documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to myself the clerk. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisor agenda of october 31, unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Before we call the items and go forward with the agenda we need to excuse supervirez mandelman and want to clarify that board president peskin is joining us for this committee. As a member so we have quorum. On that motion to excuse vice chair mandelmanmember peskin, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Thank you. The motion passes. With that, i would like to just kind of let everyone know in the general public and our Department Staff that for the items we have budget and legislative Analyst Reports, which are items 1, 2, 4 and 611 on todays agenda for these items we will have Department Presentation first and follow by the budget and legislative analyst and then take questions and Public Comment and with that, mr. Clerk, please call item 1 and 2 together . Items 1 and 2, resolutions approving amendments to contract for the following programs and city and county acting by and through department of children youth and families with board approval. Item 1 approves a 4th amendment to contract for the Japanese Community Youth Council opportunities for all Intermediary Program between the Japanese Community Youth Council to increase to 3. 4 million for total not to exseat of 13. 7 million and no change to the grant item. 2, resolution approving the 7th amendment to a contract for the ymca urban service truancy assessment Resource Program to increase grant amount by 606 thousand for total not to exceed of approximately 4. 4 thousand and to grant term for one year from july 1, 2023 for new term of july 1, 2013 through june, 30, 2024. These items were heard last week and have questions and i know Department Children youth and families is here to answer questions, but we also have dr. Davis here, director of Human Rights Commission also available for questions. I think today is that if we could have a little bit more update and information about the data that we have requested for from dcyf. I apologize are, one more time. Hello. There we go. Great. Hello chair chan and supervisor peskin. My name is [indiscernible] the director of Strategic Initiative for dcyf. We are going to provide Additional Information for you. We have a presentation about opportunities for all, item 1. We do not is a presentation for item 2, but available for any additional questions. So, we have a power point we provided and while that is pulled up, i am going to note we have directive davis with us today a partner, the lead of this initiative and are going to have her start us off with our first slide. Then ill come back and do the other. You are supposed to pull it up on your computer. Am i . Yes. No one told me that. Apologies. While hes pulling that up, ill say a few things about opportunity for all. 2018 the Program Initiative launched. The contract was leveraged with dcyf. In the initial launch with the program we accepted less then a thousand young people would par tis ticipate. We had over 1200 young people. Jcyc helped to advance and pay those young peopleism this summer we had over 2700 young people going through opportunities for all, specifically through that grant, and it has grown since 2018 to that number. Each year we have had shortfall. Jcyc has leveraged their own dollars and private dollars that had been received for that. We are trying to make sure to make jcyc whole because they make sure the overage of young people get paid during the summer. One thing we are working on collectively is to better coordinate the data. The Human Rights Commission staff and the partners at jcyc are managing and supporting the activation of opportunities for all, and we just need to do a better coordinated effort how we track the data and share that data out. There are additional dollars that we cover outside of even just this grant that support the peep who organize and oversee that come through oewd dollars. I will be more then happy to come back and give more comprehensive report and explanation of the fullness of the opportunities for all programming, but this is just sharing the work done through dcyf and jcyc contract which is under funded and leveraging outside dollars about they are in the hole and like to make sure they are made hole to cover this program the last 5 years. Thank you. Good morning. Nick monard from budget legislative analyst office. So, these two items were at the last budget finance meeting. They were continued because we did not have complete information about program performance. Particular on the opportunities for all grant, we did get revised data from the department of children youth and families and i appreciate their ongoing engagement and providing that data. The initial data showed 800 children participating in the program in fiscal year 22 and about 1200 in the program in fiscal year 23. That was data from Japanese Community Youth Council to dcyf to us. Then we got new data from the Human Rights Commission that showed over 2200 people in the program each fiscal year, so we hadthere is a substantial revision in the number of participants, and in the correspondence from dcyf, the explanation was hrc has been directing jcyc to pay people in the program the past couple years, but hasnt been reporting the participant data to the grant holder, dcyf and we dont have data on the number of hours people participated in the program in the fast two fiscal years. What is going on here is that, there is 3 million paid that exceeded the annual grant budget for this agreement that is now being added to the contract funded by the work order from oewd. This is a kind of very goldburg like contraption of a Government Program owd is funding a program but employer of record is jcyc under a grant from dcyf. I think the entire structure makes it hard to produce high quality data. I think it reduces accountability for actually managing the program, and im concerned that there isthe numbers have changed so much that i really dowe have a updated recommend here that the Controllers Office under take a financial audit of this program to examine whether the financial controls are sufficient and if they arent, to do transaction testing, because i dont feel like i havei think the program is well intentioned, i dont have high confidence the money going out the door13 million is accurately dispersed. For item 2, the ymca program, we did get updated data from dcyf. It shows they have in fact in the program increased the number of participants between fiscal year 22 to 23. We also got updated participation data for 2223 and it shows that people are participating in the program. I will say the objective what counts as full participation is reduced by 70 percent, so it was 15 hours in fiscal year 22, it is now 5 hours in fiscal year 23, so they are high numbers, but the bar has been lowered in terms of what counts as full participation. I think given the comprehensiveness of the data we got, i do feel comfortable recommending item 2 for approval, just clarifying that this resolution approval is retroactive. We have a recommendation to make that amendment. Before i call on supervisor peskin for further questioning, i want to put in context both referencing last week and also in the past when these contracts came before this body and let me start with the easier one i would say is the contracts about the ymca one that specifically about truancy, Intervention Service and it is with the recognition that what is deemed now as truancy for the San Francisco Unified School District during the pandemic has been challenging. I really want to first recognize that. The truancy by definition has significantly changed for the Unified School District, so i understand how this also has changed when it comes to the performance evaluation. Now, when it comes down to the jcyc contract, when it first came before this body because department of children youth and families recognized that the contract with jcyc with Japanese Community Youth Council was supposed to come to the board for approval both in terms of the dollar amount of the contract and terms, the length of the term and duration of the contract really according to charter 9. 118 should have really come to the board for approval first before you continue on with this contract of the continuation of this contract. It is that recognition this contract first came before this body last year, and with that said, building on that, i think it is a continuing reason why it is difficult for it budget and legislative analyst to say this isthat they can recommend this and that it isnt a policy decision of the board. Clearly it is the policy decision of this body to say that we will accept retroactive nature of this contract all together, and with that supervisor peskin. I realize this Committee Heard this before and thankfully i did actually read the item and it was briefed by the budget legislative analyst, and i apologize if this was asked at your last meeting, buti understand there is this goldburg situation here with a lot of cooks in the kitchen. Can anybody dcyf explain why the first set of numbers of 800 and 1200i understand when they are off by 5 percent or 10 percent, but i dont understand how they could be off by a hundred percent. Well, so i think it is helpful to understand the context of the work order and the reason why we have the projection and the actuals look the way they did when we came before you a couple weeks ago, the work order was supposed to come over for fiscal year 2122 and 2223 and supposed to support placement in staffing for jcyc. Now, those dollars did not make it into this grant during those fiscal years and there was several reasons for that. Some of them are process related within our department. We are extending all our grants agreements for over 400 contracts because we added a year to the funding cycle because of the pandemic that created a large backlog. The timing when the dollars came to us had us push into the subsequent fiscal year. While that was the case, jcyc projected numbers on discussion with jcyc. The projections in the system are based on expecting to receive the funds. They are invoicing on the dollars in the grant and pulling the number of par tis paints based on the dollars. The numbers from jc i rks c because we want today show they are paying more then what they are reporting to us. They report what they are paid to do, which is dollars in the contract. These additional numbers really come about as a result of the fact they are actually working with the total number of youth that they were directed to do by hrc, but only reporting to us based what they had within their contracts. Those delays stretched out two years so wewe are in 2324 now, so thats basically the reason the numbers look so different and i think it is important to note what is our cms system is just for the grant itself. It doesnt represent the totality of the opportunities for all initiative. Even the numbers that the bla received from hrc represent the total number hrc works with and there are other cbo that pay young people under ofa as well. The numbersrupt the numbers they paid. The numbers from hrc are the totality of opportunities for all and the numbers in cms are what is reported relative to the grant dollars in the contract now. Maybe this is a question for mr. Osaki. How did jcyc manage to plote this major amount of money without going upside down . So, i think it is also good to note jcyc has been a partner on these programs decades. They have a large capacity to be able to essentially float dollars against all Employment Contracts because they are cost reimbursement based so they have lines of credit and other Funding Sources they use and as a partner on these initiatives, they have a understanding that contracting issues and other things can delay the money going into those contracts. I think thats part of the reason for willingness to continue to work with this initiative. They run the mayor Youth Employment program and San Francisco youth program. Those came about through mayors. They have experience working in these type of conditions and a commitment essentially to provide these type of services. I think thats a large reason for why they were able to do that and willingness to do that. Do you know, did they have to call on a line of credit in order to float this additional Million Dollars . Thats what i have been told, yes. And the cost of that money we reimburse them for because a line of credit aint free . We reimburse for the amount of dollars paid out to the young people. Our expectation is we reimburse for the wages they pay. Having a line of credit is something they maintain regularly. Mainly because they have to float large amounts of money mainly in the summer time when they employ thousands numbers of young people. There are private dollars we have been trying to leverage that is supposed to help with some of these things that we could potentially on the back end help cover some of the cost absorbed from the cost of doing business with city and county of San Francisco. Thank you. I like to have mr. Devon mccally from the Controller Office to help us understand as how we fulfill the recommendation from the budget and legislative analyst. Good morning. Devon mccally, budget manager. The controller Audit Division will be happy to look into this and follow back up with the committee. Thank you. I think the expectation is also please correct if im wrong, but the issuethe rfp for this has gone out the summer of 2023, the expectation is we will have somethingyou will have results of the new rfp in 2024 and i see director sue wants to answer this question. Thank you for the question chair chan. I do want to speak to how complicated this coordinated system is as with most coordinated systems it is quite complicated. What we wanted to do was to move this effort as fast as possible to insure young people had access to all these job opportunities, and as dr. Cheryl davis was building out the Human Rights Commission to hold and manage this work, we partnered together because dcyf can do grant makeic so that is the partnership. Through this rfp, we are going to transfer the management of this work over to hrc primarily because hrc over the last several years has built out the capacity to manage this work now, and this is what we do in City Government and city departments, because we help each other. And thats what this whole initiative is about. We look forward working with the Controllers Office so as they dig into how this initiative was managed, hopefully they see the partnership between the three city departments, including the office of economic and Workforce Development in making sure that we all have a role in supporting our young people in the city. Thank you. I think i want to also flag, for the audits, i think part of the goal is also to figure out i think vice chair mandelman last week indicated and agree, a structurally it is problematic, which resulted in sort of the disconnect between what the numbers submitted by hrc and jcyc as well as with dcyf. There is disconnect between the system reporting back and so i hope that through the audit it is also to reflect back what we can do better as a city with the new rfp going out and to continue to track participation rates and reimbursement rates. With that, supervisor safai. Thank you director. I think you hit on a couple points i wanted to make. I think that it is good intentions departments coordinate one another, but it seems in this situation there wasnt enough transfer quick enough. When i hear more children are served then what were contracted for, i think that is a good thing. I think it also puts non profits in a very difficult situation because they are essentially asked to bear the burden of a initiative that the mayor has and the city has to employ children, which is a worthy initiative, but with haste comes mistakes and so i think that is the importance of having this audit done because i dont think anyone believes there was anything nefarious done, but it is in your wheel house director sue to help work non and have better accountability, but it sounds the responsibility is shifting over to hrc to do direct work with jcyc. I worked with jcyc for years. One of the best organizations in the city that serves youth and so i just want to say that on the record. Really appreciate the work they have done over the years, but it sounds there were too many cooks in the kitchen so need to remove some of the cooks and hand it over to one group to manage and hopefully reimburse jcyc for the work theyve done as quickly as possible given the fact we are facing half a billion dollar budget deficit. There isnt a lot of money that will be handed out as in past years. It will be a lot less. People will be asked to do more with less, so hopefully we can get them reimbursed and have the money to them as quickly as possible and have this program go forward in an accountable way. Thank you. Thank you. I think as dcyf going through this process, rfp, opening up for the next 5 years and along with supervisor ronan and board just passed legislation offered which is really figure out multiyear contract inclusive of cost of doing business. This is the part i recognize jcyc, we are very fortunate this has been a i would say very community leading and champions like that, tradition all most of the San Francisco community service, and thats like this is someonean organization with the capacity to have line of credit. I dont think any other Community Organization with less of the statue and the ability would be able to sustain a two years without cost of doing business adding to that. I hope that it is a lessen for all of us and just wanted to fight for the upcoming budget year is cost of doing business calculated into all the contracts we are considering. Thank you and open to Public Comment. Disconnected youth. It has also during the pandemic reached out to kids who had to support families through this income and so, a lot of those kids work during the pandemic when a lot of agencies were shut down. They provided one to one service in tutoring to kids disconnected with school through the latino task force. These kids were the supporters of their families. I want to emphasize how very important this program is. There are kids who didnt have proper paperwork to work through osa and they made ways to actually do that. These kids have been amazing. They are leaders. They are the future leaders of San Francisco and jcyc has been providing this service, hrc, dcyf for many years. I myself am a product of Youth Employment and through pic and later became [indiscernible] through jcyc through horizon unlimited. I want emphasize how very important these jobs are and the need to get the money released to jcyc so they can continue to serve kids so the kids can continue to lead our city. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. It is fine yes. Good jcyc. You have to restore trust because there is a [indiscernible] everybody is trying to make the most of any situation because [indiscernible] grab the money. Have good intention, but [indiscernible] at some point it becomes hot air. Sorry for the world. Thats what exactly what is going on and we the city wont get away with it for too long. We have to restore [indiscernible] contracts are fine, sure, but thank you much. Seeing no other speakers, madam chair. Seeing no more Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Because this item that is i think that we will be requesting the controllers to do performance audit, which i also think dcyf accepted to reduce not to exceed by 400 thousand. For item 1, i would like to amend according to the recommendation provided by budget and legislative analyst. With that, roll call, please. On that motion to amend the resolution on item 1, not to exceed amount to 13. 3 million member safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Thank you, motion passes. With that, i want to say again, just it has been clearly as a policy matter for the board. I look forward seeing how the problem will fix and result of the audit. Item 1 will bemaking the motion to move item 1 to full board without recommendation and with that, roll call, please. On the motion to move item 1 to the full board without recommendation, member safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. Two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Thank you. Motion passes. I like to move item 2 to full board with recommendation. Roll call, please. On that motion for item 2 forwarded to full board with positive recommendation, safai aye. Chan, aye. Two ayes. Thank you. The motion passes as well and mr. Clerk, please call item 3. Item 3, resolution accepting a gift of design documents with estimated value at 1. 3 million from friends of harvey milk plaza to assist public works in redesign of harvey milk plaza and affirming the Planning Department determination under the California Environmental quality act. Madam chair. Sorry, thank you. With that, we have i believe San Francisco public works here. Good morning supervisors. My name is [indiscernible] im sorry, if you can speak directly if to the mic. Thank you very much. Ill start again. [indiscernible] project manager with San Francisco public works and managing the harvey milk redesign. We are here to request approval of resolution to accept the design document gift from the friends of harvey milk plaza and the value of the design is 1. 275 million. This would help us continue to advance the design to construction documents for the project. Im going to take us through milestones in the project. This is redesign of the harvey milk plaza and memorial to harvey milk and this would improve safety and security and also Landscape Elements to the plaza. Im not going through the key elements. The milestones, back in november last year, we got the Historic Preservation Commission Approved the relocation on the project categorical exemption for ceqa, and the 16th of november, we got approval of the certificate of appropriateness for the relocation of the [indiscernible] for the project. March 21, 2023 the state grant for 1. 5 million was executed and june 2023 we requested a 12 month extension from the state. August 2023 the state confirmed no objections to the time extension. So, as of now, which is june 2023, we public works assembled a team of asneeded consultant to continue to advance the project and the first phase with the Program Validation phase based on the design from the previous design from the friends of harvey milk plaza, august 2023 a Program Validation report issued. October 2023, the asneeded consultants were authorized to proceed advancing design. And this is projected timeline when we will move forward and how we move forward with design. Between march 2024 and june 2024 we would have 90 percent of the construction documents and june 2024 to september 2024 would have pricing and the permit package for the project. That ends the presentation. Ill be here if you have any questions. Thank you. With that, lets go to Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Members of the public who wish to speak on this item number 3, line up now along those windows and all speakers have 2 minutes to speak. First speaker, please. Good morning. My name is brian springfield, executive director of friends of harvey milk plaza. On behalf of the boards, the members of honry and Advisory Committee and all the friends supporting the work it is my pleasure to endorse the resolution to make a gift of conceptual design to the city. We began the process Holding Meetings to learn how the community wanted to see harvey milk honored. We listen along with Design Partners responded so this gift comes with endorsement of the major groups. Thats a lot of consensus from these Community Organizations that is all most unprecedent. Also proud have endorsement from Community Leaders like cleave [indiscernible] and harvey nephew and milk family spokesman, stuart milk. I believe this is reflection of all the good built into design being gifted so we maximize investment at the site. One thing we heard from people who use the transit station is did not want transit functioned compromised and this achieves that and improves the transit functions. In addition, it creates opportunities for visibility and representation at the historic intervention for historically under represented groups including. Providing gathering space for onglowing engagement around social justice and drive foot traffic to Main Business corridor. On top of all this and most important it celebrates harvey milk and movement he lead. Harvey milk acts a a world wide ambassador for the best our city has to offer. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im amy [indiscernible] policy and education at the San Francisco Parks Alliance in support of the gift from the city friends of harvey milk plaza. We partner with community and agencies to [indiscernible] welcome and belong to everyone. Therefore we are excited about the [indiscernible] redesign of harvey milk plaza. Incorporating newly accessible pathways, pedestrian seating and new pedestal to overlook market and castro street. This design embodies Community Focused legacy. This project also celebrated and reflects long impactful history of lgbtq plus community in the castro through [indiscernible] worked tirelessly since 2016 Incorporated Community input and efforts to redesign this important historical plaza. It is our pleasure to support them in this exciting new phase for this important public space providing locals and businesses with innovative accessible space in a San Francisco neighborhood. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. When are you reading a script . The script doesnt come from you. I can tell. You cant . So, [indiscernible] what happened . [indiscernible] create a situation . I dont know. Basically, declare conflict of interest. Then it it becomes transparent. We know what we are doing and we are doing it better. Thats the goal, do things better. Thank you for addressing the committee. Seeing no further speakers, madam chair. Public comment is now closed. I just want to express my gratitude for seeing this design for the harvey milk plaza. The last time i remember is having this board really dedicating our airport terminal to be the harvey milk terminal and that was very significant in groundbreaking for this city, even as progressive as we are, and just to seeing finally it is time to memorialize the space in honor of former supervisor harvey milk. I like to be added as a cosponsor of the resolution and accepting this gift and just express again my gratitude. With that, i like to send item to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. On that motion to forward resolution to full board with positive recommendation, member safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Thank you, motion passes. With that, please call item number 4. Item 4 is resolution approving Emergency Declaration of the San Francisco Public Utility Commission pursuant to administrative code to Contract Resources to perform sewer main water main on fillmore between green street and union street which were damaged by a water main failure with total estimated cost not to exceed 5 million. Madam chair. Thank you. Today we have mr. Steve ritchie assistant general manager for water from sfpuc for our San Francisco Public Utility Commission. Thank you and tell us all about this one. Steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water here speaking on the fillmore and green 16 inch water main break which in 14 years is probably within the top 3 in terms of community disruption, so this was a very big deal. Just background on the San Francisco water system. We actually have 24 pressure zones throughout the city. This map shows those pressure zones and where all the water mains are. There are about 1250 miles of water mains serving all most a million residents and workers in San Francisco during the day, so a very long complex system we have. The main break occurred on the evening of september 10 and 11. There was a break on 16 inch water transmission main. The transmission is supplying water and keeping pressure up. Distribution goes straight to houses. The break was on the 16 inch main and also disrupted the 8 inch disbution main. The release of water undermine the fillmore and green intersection. The red hatched area there is the area that was physically disrupted in the streets and the blue where it runs down hill effected a number of properties which are work ing with the sit City Attorney office on claims they have. We basically have been working 7 days a week to replace and restore the utilities as well as the pavement there. You can see it started with fixing the 16 inch water main that night. The sewer main on fillmore from green to union, we avoiding work in the union intersection which would have dragged out the work longer over time. Sewer laterals needed to be reconnected to properties from the sewer main. Pg e had a 2 inch gas line in the area that didnt need replacement but as long as the street was open they can get in quick and do that. Sewer catch basins and culverts and 8 inch water main needed to be replaced as well as restoring the paves and sidewalks and looking for completion of all the work midnovember. The diagram on the left shows completed for many things for number of the activities, it does not show that the water Main Replacement is complete. It was completed last night, so that water main is in place. About a week earlier then projected, so that is a good sign. We have been working hard with all the parties involved to make sure this works and working hard to make the Community Feels supported throughout. Some of the photos, when you have a big water main break you have a lot of disruption, so the left hand photo shows the initial damage there that concrete thing in the middle is the riser from the sewer from below, so it was still stable there, but you see all the soil is washed around that so the very first thing we had to do starting oon the 11 is bring in a bunch of sand to help provide support for all the work that would go on. Progressively the slides show the trenching and sewer work going on and pg e gas line replacement and ultimately the last bit of work we had here underground, the water main work that we just completed last night. The estimated cost to replace all these, the 8 inch water main lateral, the sewer main lateral, catch basin and culvert, curb ramp and pave. Work the estimate is 3. 5 million and we seem to be on budget for that, which is a very good thing. People have been working very hard to make that happen. Pg e gas main is not part of our work, but there may be a claim from pg e to the City Attorney office for replacement of that, so thats where we have been working and as i said, been working really hard with the neighbors and all the people involved. I like to call out the work of puc staff, dpw staff, mta staff because parking has been a mess in that area as well, and the City Attorneys office, pg e throughout all this and in close contact with supervisor stefani and one individual i like to appreciate here is allison of my staff who has been coordinating all this with daily Conference Calls and it is the definition of herding cats about the cats are coop itive and got through it and close to done. Happy to answer questions. Thank you. Always good to hear a week early, bla report. Item 4 is resolution approving the Public Utility Commission Emergency Declaration related to a water main break in the marina that resulted in flooding in that neighborhood. The resolution includes a 5 million not to exceed amount which we detailed the project work on page 14 of our report. It is about 3 and 3 and a half million of work, the bulk has been contracted out to three firms, and the contracting in this case because it is a Emergency Declaration is exempt from chapter 6, 12a, 12b, 12c and 14b of the administrative code. The cost of the work is funded by water revenue bonds, and there is about 1. 4 million in contingency built into not to exceed amount to account for project delay s, which we call out as a policy consideration. We also note that this water main that broke was considered a low priority and puc priority plan for replacing and maintaining water pipes, which is a function of how old they are and whether there is water breaks nearby, and earthquake data,b and so i think that it was low priority but still caused a disaster. I think there is a couple ways to move forward. One is that, the board could request puc to revisit the way it prioritizes maintaining pipes. I also think this could be addressed in the budget in may. Puc will come back for the capital and operating budget. 50 million this year allocated to water pipe maintenance according to information we received from the department during the reporting process. I think what we could do in may is identify how much in the capital plan is allocated to this kind of maintenance and make adjustments to their budget to put more funding in. We do recommend approval of item 4. Thank you. Will that be a consideration when you do come before this body in may to be ready to discuss your maintenance upkeep funding and be able to have an analysis that whether your current budget is sufficient . Yes are, absolutely. We will speak to that in the budget process. Great. Love to put a note to that. It is one of those like, yellow tag or tag it and when you come back in may we look forward having that discussion. Thank you and with that, lets go to Public Comment. Members who wish to speak should line up now. You have 2 minutes to speak. I dont know how much money you put in the project. The water is important. I thinki knroe the goal is to replace the pipes that exist. Replace the material that it is made of from whatever it was made of to [indiscernible] thank you for addressing the committee. With no further speakers, madam chair. Thank you. With that, seeing no more Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Like to move to full board with recommendation. Member safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Motion passes. Item 5 please. Hearing to consider the Labor Agreement executed the annual report for fiscal year 20202021 through 20222023 highlight the efforts accomplishments and challenges encountered and preliminary high level methodology developed to evaluate whether the pla promoted the efficient economical timely completion of pla covered project, the cost covered project and impact on local Business Enterprise and local workforce. Madam chair. Thank you. I will lead for supervisor safai for his remark. Thank you madam chair. Well ask for this to be continued until the i believe november 15. Yeah. All parties involved that wanted to participate and let departments know we would ask for the 15 if thats okay i make a motion to continue to the 15th. Sounds good. Well open for Public Comment on the motion to continue. Yes, members who wish to speak on the continuance of the hearing line up to speak now. Continue. Thats it. Thank you much. If we have no more speakers, madam chair. Public comment is now closed. With that, like to roll call the motion proposed by supervisor safai to continue the item to november 15. Yes. On that motion offered by member safai the hearing continue to november 15 meeting, member safai aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Thank you. The motion passes. With that, mr. Clerk, can you call item 6 and 7 together . Yes madam chair. Item 6, resolution supplementing the resolution number 19620 authorizing issuance and sale of special tax bonds for the city and county special tax district number 20201 for mission rock facility and service in the principle not to exceed approximately 58. 3 million to be repaid from Development Special tax office of special tax and shoreline special taxes in tax zone 1 of special tax district. Approving related documents including statement of supplement to special tax related agreement. [indiscernible] bond Purchase Agreement and continuing disclosure certificate interpreting the rate and method of special tax determining other matters. Item 7 is resolution approving documents and actions related to a pledge agreement by the city and county infrastructure financing district number 2 or port of San Francisco and Development Special tax bonds for city county of San Francisco special tax district number 20201 mission rock facility and services and determining other matters in connection. Madam chair. Thank you mr. Clerk. We have Wyatt Donnelly here from San Francisco port. Thank you chair chan. Good morning supervisor safai and president peskin here to present on mission rock cfd bonds. This is fourth series of bonds and ill touch oen the first 3 previously approved. There are 2 resolutions, the first authorize the issuance of the bonds up to not to exceed of 58. 3 million and second approves the pledge from the infrastructure financing district to the cfd bonds and ill talk about the [indiscernible] just to walk through what ill talk about. Ill talk about the project itself and phase 1. Give a update on where we are with construction then the project financial structure as background, talk about special tax district. You may hear me use the Term Community facility district, special tax district and [indiscernible] then talk about the sknraunds next steps on selling the bonds. First, mission rock itself, the plan for phase 1 was 4 buildings and 5 acre park. Two buildings totaling 537 units and 199 Affordable Housing units. There were two Office Buildings totaling 550 thousand square feet. 65 thousand square feet of retail and 5 acre Waterfront Park in china basin park. This was several years ago we started talking about phase 1. Today we made significant progress. To give a update on that, parcel a known as the canyon is complete and there are residents moved in. The first moved in june 2023, 283 units including 102 affordable, includes a District Energy system and currently undergoing leasing for market rate and affordable with both residents having signed leases and moved in. Parcel b is [indiscernible] there is 254 apartments including 97 affordable. The target is for it to receive a temporary certificate of occupancy summer 2024 with residents moving in during that time. Parcel g is the future visa global headquarters. China basin park, 4. 4 acres will be complete. There is a water portion completed at a later phase and that is estimated to open early to mid2024. Now to move to the financial structure of the project. There are three main sources that go into funding the horizontal project, which is all the Infrastructure Associated with it. Streets, roads, parks, sidewalks, sewer water, all those elements are funding. The first is developer and port equity mostly developer equity. They put in the money fronting it to build all this infrastructure and then receive 18 percent return for their investment to build that. The port puts in land value to offset the cost. The final source is the Community Facility district special tax district and isd which captures increased property tax value, so those are the final sources to repay the project. Going back to what the developer and port for investment. We want to limit the developer return and capital on this and maximize the [indiscernible] which is why we issuing the bond. We expedited the issuance for this. Taxes came on the roll this year and want to get through as fast as possible because it is one of the best things we can do to make sure the project succeed financially. The special tax district has 4 special taxes, Development Special tax,er office, shoreline special tax and contingent service mpts the first 3 fund infrastructure, the last is operation of of the sites. The bonds are based on the first 3. Previously we issued 3 series of special tax bonds on Development Special tax. That is backed by the tax increment. The other two just started this year, which is why we can issue a new bond series. The office and shoreline tax just started [indiscernible] there are two major considerations we need to look at for this bond issuance. The first is the appraised or assessed value. There is a value to lien ratio the city has a policy of achieving, 3 to 1. Meaning the value of the site must be 3 times the debt oen the site. Far excess of that. Have all most 700 million in appraised value so that isnt the limiting factor. It was previously. The limiting factor is the tax revenue. We will fully leverage all the taxes within phase 1, the 4 vertical parcels are paying [indiscernible] that is what allows us to issue up to 58. 3 million in bonds. I will jump into is a series of additional slides. For time ill jump through these quickly and make a few references. The first thing just want to highlight on the slide is all the proceeds will reimburse the horizontal expenses and return associated with those. We are expecting around total bonds of 47 million after different fees and cost of issuance. We will have about 39. 5 million expected to go into the project. You will see the number is lower then 58. 3. That is in case Interest Rates go down, we can issue more bonds so dont want to come back and say we can issue more then that and have to requestwe want flexibility to deal with rate changes. This table also shows the good faith estimate for the bonds as of september 5, 2023. This slide highlights different risk factors for these bonds. They are land secured which is special type bond. [indiscernible] the security for these bonds is backing them is the site. They are payable from the mission rock cfd and tax increment generate bide the ifd, they are not liability of the general fund or port harbor fund. This goes over the preliminary official statement, which is a document that describes the bonds and we will post to [indiscernible] provide information. There are various terms and different requirements about the disclosure. Just this is our timeline just one thing ypt to highlight, we are targeting late november early december to actually close on the bonds. I am available for questions. Particularly if you have questions about the reference slides and joined by colleagues, bridget cats with office of Public Finance and josh cane from Port Development and Development Partners with mission rock. We have representatives here. I thank the bla for the work on this report. This is a very complicated financial structure and they jumped in and understood it excellently. We are here for questions. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate the complication. Thank you. Item 6 and 7 are two resolutions related to special tax bonds related to the Mission Rock Development area that authorize 58. 2 58. 2 million of special tax bonds and also changes to the pledge agreement which allows the Port Infrastructure financing district revenue to be used to pay for the bonds. The bonds are not obligations of general fund, they are repaid like i just said from incremental property tax revenue generated within mission rock as well as special taxes within the mission rock area. We know and the bonds will be used to repay developer costs for horizontal equity in phase 1 of the Mission Rock Development area. This is the 4th such issuance of these kind of bonds, but there is still after this issuance 48 million of developer equity used to pay for horizontal infrastructure that remain even after these bonds are issued, so, those cost there is no phase 1 Funding Sources left to pay for those costs. They have to be paid for by phase 2 Funding Sources, but there is no start date to phase 2 because it is delayed due to the Interest Rate environment and commercial real estate environment, so that is contributing to overall increase in project cost originally anticipated, but again the project cost are born entirely by mission rock revenues. We recommend approval of item 6 and 7. Thank you. I just want tobased on that, seeing that there is 48 million waiting and for phase 2 to begin so we can actually cover those funds, but also i think during your presentation the mention about the true Interest Rate at according to the presentation 5. 86 percent, but also in the presentation or verbal presentation you mentioned sounds like you do anticipate that that percentage may change and maybe lower. It sounds to me that is with what we you are indicating. Can you walk us through that . Sure. We hope Interest Rates will be lower. So do i. Realistic we are seeing increasing trends since then so might be lower. I think that is a big challenge is the Interest Rates with wildly change the proceeds available to the project and one of the contributors is the funding gap i mentioned, so we are monitoring it and i [indiscernible] please. Hi, bridget cats, Deputy Director for the office of Public Finance. The 5. 86 percent true interest costs was part of the good faith estimate based on the market as of early september, and we estimate that based off current rates that rates are approximately 75 basis points higher then when we ran those numbers in september, but we do allow for flexibility in the not to exceed amount in the event that rates kind of do go down in the opposite direction, but yeah, we have seen rates come up since those estimates were run. Thank you, and with that, i dont see anymore questions. No name on the roster therefore, lets go to Public Comment. Yes madam chair. Members of the public who wish to speak on items 6 and 7, please line up now. Thank you. It is money, but money doesnt matter. It is the accomplishment that matters. There is a rushanother project, 48 million, fine. There is a rushwhen do you understand that you must first fix the problem that of San Francisco here . When do you first understand you need to fix the problem of homelessness . Who is going to want to live in San Francisco if you dont fix that first . This is very tiring. Thank you much for your comments. Seeing no more speakers, madam chair. Thank you. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. I like to move the two items with full board with recommendation and roll call. On that motion for items 6 and 7 to be forwarded to full board with positive recommendation, member safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Thank you. Motion passes. Please call item 811 together. Items 811, item 8 and 10 are resolutions determining declaring the Public Interest and necessity and cost necessary convenient for purposes to finance through bond not to exceed 300 million authorizing landlords to pass 50 percent of the resulting property tax increase to residential tenants undrp the code providing for levy and collection of taxes to pay principle and interest on bonds affirming the determination under the California Environmental quality act and finding that the proposed bonds are consistent with the general plan and 8 policies of the planning code. Items 9 and 11 are associated ordinances calling and providing for a special election to be held in the city and county on tuesday march 5, 2024 for the purpose of submitting to the voters the propositions. Item 8, Public Interest necessity demand construction, reconstruction, Development Acquisition improvement rehabilitation, preservation and repair of rental Affordable Housing projects and expansion of Home Ownership opportunities for the down payment assistance loan program. 10, determine and declare Public Interest necessity demand construction, development, acquisition and or rehabilitation of rental Affordable Housing project in not to exceed of 300 million financed subject to independent citizen oversight and regular audit. Madam chair. Thank you mr. Clerk. We will start with president peskin who is the sponsor of two of the four items. Thank you chair chan and supervisor safai. By way of background and no news to you, San Francisco has a mandate, state mandate to build 46 thousand new Affordable Housing units over the next 8 years, but that has not been accompanied by any state or for that matter, federal and the ongoing source of funds for the development of Affordable Housing have been local funds. As you all know, the consistent source of funds over time have been funds that have come both from general Obligation Bonds issues approved by voters as well as funds from our inclusionary housing laws in the city and county of San Francisco. The board of supervisors after long conversations and deliberations ultimately passed a reduction, temporary reduction in the amount of inclusionary rates and fees and as parts of that discussion, the mayor and Capital Planning committee and this board of supervisors, rejigered our bond schedule to bring forward an Affordable Housing bonds originally scheduled for november 2024 to the march 2024 ballot that before us today. There are two versions of that before us. They are very very similar and in discussions with the Mayors Office as we were evolving both very similar pieces of legislation, which both by the way do not increase any property taxes by virtue of passage or issue, the latter 2 set forth as items 10 and 11 i believe the Mayors Office and my office are in agreement on, and so i would like to propose some amendments to items 10 and 11. The resolution and ordinance that are before you today and speak to what that 300 million bond does. We will hear more from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and more from the budget and legislative analyst, but top lines is that this is a 300 million general Obligation Bond for the development of new Affordable Housing, and construction of new Affordable Housing in San Francisco as well as for the preservation rehabil itation of existing housing and includes funding for extremely low to moderate income households to address Workforce Housing needs and expand housing opportunities for middle class households set forth in the ordinance. The amendments that im proposing today are the result of convursations and input that we have received from the tenants community as it relates to the passthrough and one would assume that if property taxes are not increasing that passthroughs would not increase, and so there are some amendments here that reflect that and you will see that the words, if any are accompanied, it says tax increase, if any, but this will also be accompanied by trailing legislation to chapter 37 of the administrative code that actually deals with the passthrough formulas to correct a historic deficiency and thank you to mitchell and [indiscernible] and ben roseenfield bringing to our attention and how to solve it. The balance of the changes that you will see in the resolution at pages 4, 5, 6 and 7 are recitals that address the high importance of job quality and training opportunities and Skilled Labor that address the citys commitment to the Climate Action plan as set forth in the environment code and also state the importance of building housing for our senior population as well as for our women population and those findings are set forth in items 10 and 11. That is high level view of the item that is before us, and is part of our ongoing effort to provide what the state and federal government is not providing, which is a source of funds to meet our 46 thousand unit mandate, and with that madam chair, i will hand it back over to you, but eric shaw, the head of mayor office of housing and Community Development is here and i want to thank the board for their unanimous adoption of the revised capital plan and thank and acknowledge the mayor and her staff for working collaboratively to bring this forward. Thank you. Before i call on director eric shaw i want to first recognize the hard work put into the amendments that are before us today, and that the ability to make sure that we recognize our seniors, but also particularly women and who are homeless and including those experiencing violence on the streets in need of shelter and housing and i think that is really what the public dollars should go to support our most vulnerable on our streets that in need of housing and shelter at this moment, and because we know the market rate can continue to build for market rate housing, but for those that really need housing rely on public dollars and city leadership to provide the housing. With that, i will be adding myself as a cosponsor to this and madam chair, while we are acknowledging folks i want to acknowledge my chief of staff, sonny who labored long and hard on this and the amendments that are before us and also just want to point what set forth in the budget legislative Analyst Report well hear from later, but this would help build 1500 units of Affordable Housing in San Francisco, new rental preservation victim and survivor rental for the Women Community for total of about 1500 units of additional Affordable Housing. Thank you. Just want to clarify for mr. Clerk that only indicating cosponsorship for items 10 and 11. With that, director shaw, the floor is yours. Thank you very much members of committee. My name is eric shaw, director of San Francisco mayor office for housing and Community Development. I want to thank my team, sheila on Government Affairs, brian strong from Capital Planning committee and a lot of our staff [indiscernible] and their hard work providing the analysis to get us to this crucial point. My presentation today is actually mirroring what was shared with the Capital Planning committee in august and previously in september i mean in july. Would love to make sure we have the appropriate context here and thank you for your support and continuing to make the investment in Affordable Housing. Since 2015, san franciscans supported more then 1. 2 billion in Bonds Investment for Affordable Housing. This is produced and protected more then 4 thousand units of Affordable Housing rchlt 300 million bond proposal produce more then 1500 units of new Affordable Housing. Preserve 60 and provide 120beds for survivors domestic and street violence and Human Trafficking proposed by president peskin. Few projects will utilize multiple bonds sources. This project utilizing both 2015 and 2019 bond funding on potrero sunnydale hope sf [indiscernible] hope sf utilized 2019 bonds may utilize 2024 bond proceeds and 2022 projects will [indiscernible] in 2015, we issued our first go housing bonds and you see most of the projects funded were cons centrated in the eastern and southern parts of San Francisco, Home Ownership programs which we invest provide 87 loan were scattered across the city. Seen evolution in this and advancing geographic diversity with the oat bonds that have come through. In 2019 the 600 million fund thun units and all funds dedicated to pipeline project. The third issuance of the dollars is expected next year. Support production and preserve vacation alt range of income with funded allocated to seniors and educators. The snapshot of the 2015 bond, 310 million funded more then 1500 units and these funds are expended next year. As you can see, dollars support production and preservation at a range of income levels. 2019 bond funds are distributed throughout San Francisco supporting the Housing Element goals to provide Affordable Housing opportunities in diversity of neighborhoods. The lessen learned from our 2015 and 2019 bonds are informing the proposed 2024 bonds. Project schedules are less certain today then they used to be and important bond funding remain flexible and nimble to responsive to the opportunities as they arise. As construction operating cost increase our local dollars are supporting fewer projects. Rising Interest Rates and cost risk require flexibility. Sb35 and legislation has simplified the entitlement process, removing what use d to be barrier to production of Affordable Housing so outside the entitle project financing is the most significant challenge. Middle Income Housing struggled to leverage state funds because they danot meet state policy goals while it may be goals for the city. 2024 we made sure to incorporate Racial Equity goals. Before you, we have suggested that we provide housing opportunities in high resource areas, continue to stabilize communities within priority geographies. Continue to have and produce and preserve a range of unit size and location to meet diverse Housing Needs of the population and as mentioned by president peskin and by my fellow colleagues from the planning office, we want complete alignment with our Housing Element goals, especially in the area of production. So, as we shared before, the go bonds are the most reliable Funding Sources for Affordable Housing in San Francisco. Most other local Funding Sources are generated by private development and thereforeflect flect wait with the market. Federal and state funding is less predictable but stillless predictable provide a bulk of the funding leveraging cityp funds a at a rate of 1 to 2. Funding falls short of what is needed billionsfunding is falling short by what is needed by billions annual. We understand the need for 19 billion to address but continue to work to leverage both state and federal funds and incorporate other resources leveraged with go bond funding and also right now High Development cost particularly hard cost are undermining several housing goals. Local funding is a crucial source of dollars for Affordable Housing. As you can see, bond funding is more then a third of the budget. Inclusionary fees had been the second largest source of fundsing but since the pandemic the fees are shrinking. We invested over 1 billion of Affordable Housing and need to maintain the numbers rchlth the numbers last year were 550 million in deals we invested in. Also our local dollars are one piece of the funding picture. Every local housing dollar leverage all most 2 state and or federal housing dollars, so from 2018 to 2022 San Francisco spent a billion dollars on Affordable Housing and leverage 2 billion in other funding and local dollars allow to pursue and win other state funding. The local funding trends are challenging so local fundsing is volatile and we are working hard to support and educate our communities and sponsors around the nature of this money, how we deliver on this and how we are working to make sure one time allocations are meeting those needs. As we noted, we have seen drop in inclusionary fees and once we have right now is the funding available is programmed to deliver Pipeline Projects so we have with the addition of the nofa, about 11 thousand units of housing. And we have spike in local spending last year receiving infusion of state funding for projects that stalled but the projects received predevelopment funding and other funding from the local government to get them ready. Construction ready, build ready for receiving the state financing from the state accelerator fund. So, we want to acknowledge the 2024 bond proposal include funding 3 categories. 3 categories. The initial240 million for production of low Income Housing. 30 million for preservation. The initial file said down payment assistance loan and understand as amended by president peskin, 30 million for survivors of domestic abuse. 240 million for new construction supPort Development projects in the pipeline that received city funds for predevelopment or newly acquired parcels. To meet goals in the coming 6 years we need 900 million and so this local bond is a important step. New construction will focus on delivering products in the predevelopment or newly acquired sites. Projects totaling more then 1400 units will be1500, would be distributed around the city. Available to houses earning between 15 and 80 percent ami. May include public housing, low income, preservation and Senior Housing and most products include 20 percent set aside for homeless households. 30 million in preservation funding support the acquisition of 60 units at risk of losing affordability and stabilizing vulnerable tenants. Acquired with goal of geographic diversefy and funding go towards acquisition of buildsings with 6 or more units. These products support a range of house incomes from 30 to 120 percent ami and product houses across the widest range of incomes. Also invest in critical repairs to our existing houses stock. As shared by president peskin and the amended legislation, 30 million used for develop housing for victims and survivors of domestic, street violence, abuse or human traffic and likely transitional housing coupled with programmatic subsidies. Trying to understand impact of these products financed through tax credits because of fair housing and lease requirements, but will be coordinate with the City Attorney and staff and hsh on this and we understand the placement would occur likely occur through coordinated entry and also we are working with h is rks h on understanding how that would work. Once again, for the spending timeline, we believe the 250 million in new construction close 120 million in the loans 2425 and additional 120 million in loans in fiscal year 2526. Some of the funds are providing Gap Financing so contingent upon availability of state funds but we have been working hard because of our Racial Equity and geographic diversity initiatives within our procurement to get state funding. We believe we can expand the 30 million in preservation funds by 2526 and for survivor housing as we work out the policies and this program would be new, we anticipate fully expend those funds by q1 of 2728. We also acknowledge the same time working closely with bofa to understand there is another important bond measure in 2024 and this possible bond measure may be on the 24 ballot and provide up to 10 billion for regional assistance for Affordable Housing and 1. 2 billion for San Francisco. If both are passed by voters that we will be using both resources to make sure we are accelerating the pipeline within our housing and meeting our housing goals. With that, i want to thank you all once again for your leadership, excited to the opportunities to bring to the voters Additional Resources to meet the housing goals and with that, i am joined by sheila, [indiscernible] and by brian strong, the head of Capital Planning committee. Thank you very much. Thank you. Items 811 are two sets of legislation that essentially provide for 300 million general Obligation Bond to be put on the march 2024 ballot for voters approval. We detailed the different proposals on page 29 of our report, which shows the differencesthere are four programs funded new rental housing, preservation of existing housing, down payment assistance and victim and survivor housing and the difference between the two proposals and mayor proposal, 12 million for down payment assistance and president peskin proposal that is removed and allocation for new affordable rental housing is reduced to then create a bucket of 30 million for affordable rental housing for victims and survivors of violence, broadly defined. Thenia see later on that page the number of units these allocatedfunding would produce across the different programs. You see there is a range for the victim and survivor bucket because it depends on the amount of other sources that can be applied to those Development Costs and because if you are limiting it to that specific population, you may not have the full menu of finances sources to apply to the projects so we provide a range based on other recent acquisitions the city made over the past several years. We also note the fiscal impact of these bonds. 300 million bond in either case. They are expected to carry 6 and a half Interest Rate resulting in 244 million of interest cost over the life of the bonds. In the 2019 Affordable Housing bond was for 600 million. 425 million issued, still 155 million that has not been spent, and there is another 175 million authorized but unissued according to the department that will be issued in 2024. Because these are competing proposals and only one was approved by Capital Planning committee, we consider approval to be a policy matter for the board. Thank you. I just wanted to call on director shaw to just respond to the 165 million in 175 million waiting to be issued. Can you speak on those two buckets of dollars . Y so, i have to refer to the Controllers Office on that. I know right now that we have beeni know for the 2019 bond there were some allocations for certain populations, i think educator was one that we are able now and with the cop and the Funding Availability now we have projects for that population now, so those could be incorporated in there. But i believe and not speaking for the controller, we want to time the issuing of debt when we have projects ready to receive that funding so there isnt the carrying cost, so as you said right now, in particular with the state housing accelerator fund, we are able to unlock a couple of projects. Able now to have projects ready to receive that Gap Financing this year. In that instance, state bonds financing, state financing became competitive about 2 or 3 years ago, which meant we have a series of projects because of cost or other issues are not receiving funding from the state, so the accelerator will allow that to happen. I think i do understand. Of course you wait until you have a project to issue the bond to cover the cost. I guess the question that i should have been more specific, do we now have a list of projects . Yes. With all these two buckets165 and 175 separately . Thats correct. Right now we have 1577 units that are currently within the pipeline and then we havejust issued i believe 15 predevelopment loans for the nofa projects through the cop and other projects. What you are saying that those dollars all together are well over 300 million. Are all spoken for and allocated . Yes, through previous procurements. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Thank you. Where are the list of the projects . I think we are now providing a regular report to you as requested. Is isnt included in this report. I can have those sent to you, sir. Yeah, we had asked for that yesterday to your team and got back this report but didnt have any specificity. I guess the reason i bring it up director and i appreciate your team and all their hard work, so i want to say im happy about that. I understand we have these newer stricter guidelines about high resourced areas and i think that is what will get the vast majority of the support in this bond, but i think in past bonds i worked on, there is always the ability to have flexibility in case additional projects come up. Right. I know we have a few in my district in the Outer Mission and excelsior and just outside the high resourced area but not necessarily meeting the eastern neighborhood definition so fall into nomans land and feel it is unfortunate because we will miss out on opportunities to do Affordable Housing there. I understand this is only 300 million and know we had more in the past so im excitesed about the fact that we have the opportunity to leverage these dollars, hopefully Interest Rates will come down and we utilize all the different tools in the tool kit but it does feel certain neighborhoodss in the sitsy are being left out and if there are opportunities and opportunities do arise that we can anticipate, we dont necessarily have the flexibility in the bond to do that. Right. I think for that question supervisor, we are going it to be using these resources to accelerate construction of existing pipeline and so i know that we continuewe heard your concerns around this to work with the state to understand sort of the rightsizing or the appropriate policy investment for priority equity areas to high resource areas, but those conversations are ongoing at the state level, and any new products will be added to the queue or thend of the queue. In this instance right now, many project may have been procured up to 2 or 3 years ago so received predevelopment financing, the resources will be available to provide the Gap Financing if the state financing is available, but this will help accelrate the Gap Financing needing for existing procured projects that will have had had predevelopment money invested already. Mow much is left over from the previous bond . Left over in terms of not issued . Yes, not spent. Good morning. [indiscernible] i believe the amount were 165 unspent from the bonds issued to date. There was a issuance earlier this year, series 2023c bonds issued in spring and approximately 170 million so i believe the bulk would be from the unspent proceeds from the recently issued bonds and from the 600 million authorization approximately 175 million remains to be unissued and sounds like the plan is to issue next year. What is the plan for those . What projects have been identified fortwo buckets 165 and 175, right . For the 2023 bonds recently issued the was a plan [indiscernible] i can send a list of the project. I dont have a list of the 2024 project. Presumably the mayor office of housing has that. We can follow up. That has not been determined yet . So 165 . It will not be for new projects. Now the way this works is we had procurement for the projects. Not all received predevelopment financing and we provide those resource frz the Gap Financing when they received the state and federal resources, so we dont advance that money until we understand what the gap is going to be, so there wont be 165 million for new projects, if is providing the Gap Financing for products that receive predevelopment funding through past procurement and receive state or federal money to develop their projects. Do you have that list . We can get that for you, sir. Okay. You get us a list of the 165 and then also going to get a list of what is in the pipeline for the 300 million . Correct, sir. Can i ask a question because this came up yesterday in our question time with the mayor. There is a project in hayes valley sitting for many years, the mayor said she hadnt been briefed and didnt know anything about it even though she was the supervisor for that district 7 years and made no sense. Is that one of the projects that is in the pipeline being considered that would be put out for rfp . Just so we can clarify the record. The project within the pipeline are projects that have had an rfp issued. For that one hayes valley the request for qualification isnt issued for parcel k. Is there a plan to do that . Ii know we according with oewd to understand the timing of the lease for proxy and we understand the interest now there is a call for Additional Community planning in that space so we are continuing to coordinate as a city to understand the timing for an rfq based off Additional Community engagement and the status of the proxy lease. Proxy is the lease for the site . Yes. The master lease. Okay. It would be good to get us the list of the 165 unspent that is Gap Financing and then the projects you have identified for this upcoming bond and again, thank you for your teams hard work. We are excited about this. Much needed in these difficult housing economic times. Thank you. Thank you. I see no name on the roster. Lets go to Public Comment. Thank you madam chair. Members of the public,s who wish to speak on these 4 items should line up now along those curtains to your right, my left. Thank you. [indiscernible] you are not very good with numbers. For very reason, i know that youcan you define what affordable means first . Compared to unaffordable . So, you have to define affordable. Means you have specific, because otherwise it is a absolute joke. So, [indiscernible] yeah, come on. I know you dont care, but you should because it will come at you. Wlth. So, define affordable because it has to be compared what is unaffordable. There is unAffordable Housing in San Francisco. Define numbers since you are supposed to be good at numbers. Where in the budget and Financing Committee it seems thank you. Next speaker. I just want to say on behalf of mercy housing california how much we appreciate the hard work from supervisor peskin and rest of the supervisors to advance forward. Appreciate supervisor chans cosponsorship. Deeply bipartisan if thats the right word effort here and thank the mayor office and eric and his team for fine work on this. I think obviously we are in a challenging moment the 300 million will be exceptionally pornts important and look forward working with you to make it all happen. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you for your time today. Im juan castro, National Partnership director. M today bond proposal take a critical step moving communities like the Mission Towards greater Stability Health and opportunities for the families by allocating new funds for production and preservation of Affordable Housing. Take a moment to cite a face statistics we believe are important for strong support. In a recent meta health and equity study, 42 percent of latino respondents reported living 3 or more persons in a room that create direct Health Effects in the mission and essential worker across the city. The workers we relied on in the crisis and still do. Over what is another 7 more years. Affordable Housing Units are ready to be built with mayor office of housing there nearly billion dollars of affordable units in the pipeline waiting to move forward and lastly, since inception of the Small Sites Program in 2013 over 720 units have been preserved in the existing Housing Stock of San Francisco. The bonds further help sustain the Preservation Program providing stability to keep long time City Residents staying in place. Moving forward this local bonds along with regional and state housing bonds make a significant progress towards the larger goals we have set with the state for meeting the needs for our workforce, seniors and most vulnerable residents. Thank you. Thank you much. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im elena ingle with 350 San Francisco and the San Francisco Climate Emergency coalition. Over the last 5 days, 80 letters, including from the sierra club with 6,000 members have been sent to the bond sponsors, mayor breed and board president peskin requesting that they make an amendment to the 30 million preservation portion of the bond requiring that these existing units or buildings funded under this provision be made all electric. This would be a very small start to removing methane gas from our existing buildings. Just to review, the San Francisco Coalition Emergency coalition and our advocating for a bond measure to [indiscernible] after last winter, the supervisors unanimously recommended to Capital Planning that they include a bond measure in the schedule. This Spring Budget and Appropriation Committee proclaimed all bonds should be climate bonds. Last summer, additional money, 150 million looks like hundred Million Dollar now was added to the Affordable Housing bond and we advocated a portion of the new money be dedicated to electrifying listing low Income Housing. To date, there is no climate bond proposed for the ballot in the next 10 years on the bond schedule, there is no portion of this bond that requires the electrification of existing buildings. This past summer has been the hottest in recorded history. How much time do you think we have . Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Madam chair if i may, as i referenced earlier, the amendments that i am offering today speak to the citys Climate Action and adherence thereto. Thank you. Lets continue with Public Comment. Good morning. John avalos from Committee Housing organization. I want to thank the board of supervisors and in particular president peskin for your many months of work working through the technical Advisory Committee that recommended lowering inclusionary housing fee and also recommending superior amount of funding that could be moved forward to replace the loss of our Affordable Housing funds through inclusionary. Very grateful for that work. San francisco is in the dill drums economically. We are still trying to come out of the recovery and Government Investment is key with that recovery, so Affordable Housing as economic recovery should be a major theme what we are try toog do here. We also inest have in the workforce and housing our workers is the best way to insure we have workers to build the jobs that need to make our economy work and make sure Public Services are working as well. It is very thoughtful we include that. Senior housing is critical as we see funds for seniors dry up. Im very grateful to be allied with womens Housing Coalition to propose housing frl survivors of Domestic Violence and wem whoon are trying to emerge for selfindependence from domestic violent situations. Supervisor peskin mentioned there is a lack of large [indiscernible] from the state and federal government. We have to do more here. It is important we consider how we can lift our own selfimposed debt ceiling to have larger bonds to address frublt needs in the future it is good to look how we can prime the pump for larger bonds. We have a bond coming up potentially for the region, 10 billion that would bring 1. 2 billion to San Francisco. This work for this bond is in preparation for that. Show the government can work to get it right so the board approve the work you do. Thank you so much. Thank you much for your comments. Want to acknowledge that is our former supervisor john avalos. Thank you so much for joining us today. Good morning, Rebecca Jackson with [indiscernible] homeless involved women with children and cochair of the San Francisco womens Housing Coalition with broader effort advocate for need of women in the city who make up 30 percent of our documented unhoused folks. It is [indiscernible] some were on the steps last night as we rallied to bring attention to this matter. It is a historic moment for women. As the language in the bond makes it clear San Francisco is putting unhoused women and survivors in a place where we can be seen by including 30 million in this bond. There is a 2019 Community Needs assessment for survivors of violence that showed nearly 2700 women identified survivors were turned away from services, safety and housing. For every won 1 women served 3 turned away. I was turned away. After spend two nights in the park, choosing safety for my children meant i choose to be separated from them, which to thisdy caused trauma and harm and negative impacts that we can still feel. It is my daughters 29 birthday toed and when i asked if she thought about having children her answer was no. Listen to us when we tell you women need sanctuary and San Francisco hads the means to provide safety and hope deciding how to allocate the bond by stepping up and committing needs for infrastructure for women the bond gives women hope and opportunity for them to be safe and transition to housing and keep their families together. A colleague said, if you want to see how a city values its people look at its investments. This proposed 30 million allocation for victim and survival service is a important step to recognize the vital population. Thank you. We are ready. Apologies if i have to cut anybody off but we are timing every speaker at two minutes. Good morning. My name is [indiscernible] and i have spent the last 2 decades working in the homelessness sector for Workforce Development to permanent housing. Housing is the solution but the type of Housing Needs to be adequate for all populations and unique vulnerability. Data has show women exiting homelessness are [indiscernible] right now women subss are lacking only 5 percent of our transitional respite shelter beds are for women, despite 34 percent of the population in San Francisco identify as women. Inclusion of victim based transitional housing e language offers a broader base. Need the bond to have language and respond to needs of women. Women need a safe place to transition back to housing and women center can offer hope and serve as model for the united states. We have a historic opportunity to be in the National Spotlight for really good reason. Giving women hope and safety. Structurally we have not created enough room for women in all most every sector of society. Good morning thank you for opportunity to speak. My name is erica the [indiscernible] receive shelter transitional housing dropin in addition toand housing. Yes. Working at the women shelter i have seen first hand women experiencing severe Mental Illness. When i say severe Mental Illness i mean psychosis, depression, [indiscernible] most of the women look like me. In fact, 80 percent of unhoused women selfreport severe trauma and abuse as a cause of the homelessness. Again, the women of color like my self. When service exist they are hidden away. At the drop in center we serve 3 thousand women each year but under a freeway and extremely dangerous to get to. One thing i like to share is that, we have a guest that was running from a situation and the only way she feels safe, i was the only person and another staff member insuring she was safe to get to the door. This is a type of safety that we need to provide for these women. When we Work Together during the pandemic we answered the call and open shelter in place for women. 50 percent of the women were served moved to permanent housing. What was important about that was they had a chance to stabilize, heal and the women resistant to placement accepted the hotel because they trusted us and had a sense of community. [indiscernible] is not working for women. Especially women experiencing human traffic and [indiscernible] women center is the and can be a safe place. Thank you. Im the chief Development Officer for San Francisco safe house. I have been in the position in the sector for a little over 2 months now so long time listener, first time caller but shocked by the lack of services that are specific to women and survivors in our community, especially in a city like San Francisco. The bond is investment not just in women but to revitalize and reengage the Community Members and offer women for a safe independent future through services we do not have capacity to provide. This is ability to showa opportunity to show our ability to partner with get the work done. We have diverse set of stakeholders interest said in the success what the bonds can fund. Non profit from the Housing Coalition and communities residents, we have the rare opportunity to activate diverse population and engage our City Residents toward a similar goal of empowering women experiencing homelessness. No matter where the Service Location nds up i speak for all non profits in the coalition we are committed to working in close collaboration with each other and members of the community to insure women receive services they deserve and ask ing for for years. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is [indiscernible] represent San Francisco safe house and women Housing Coalition and here to support Affordable Housing bond. In the last 10 years 7 gender specific organizations and programs either shut down or gone coed and not because there wasnt demand Interest Service bullet there wasnt investment in suvs. Over 30 percent of the Homeless Population being women and [indiscernible] no wonder we are seeing increase in women homelessness in San Francisco. Reason [indiscernible] not safe. This population are survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and sex traffic and coed spaces are traumatic and trigger. There is unprecedented attack on women with [indiscernible] non binary on National Level chblt the city has to opportunity to lead and show the community they share. [indiscernible] families pr backbone of our community and time for the city to have a backbone and show the community they really care. That starts with this bond. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you supervisors for this opportunity to speak about women as well as children. My name is rashida blake, director at the drop in center and been there 3 months and what i have seen with women that are dropping in and sometimes often times staying longer then the drop in is elderly women, trans, women, specifically of color and women sometimes with children. I like to changewhat i want to see with the bonds and hope the bond will create is change in that what we see. We see also women that are chronically mentally ill and chronically homeless. We are experiencing right now women especially women that are elderly and dont have families and housing, i like to be able to see that change and i believe this bond can do that. I want to talk briefly about a elderly woman we have there that is experiencing a little of dementia. She has been there now about a month and she is in her late 70. She couldnt remember where she came from. Ontime crosses the street that is very dangerous. Under the unpass, there is traffic. People heading to the highway. It breaks my heart to see an elderly person that has dementia, often times cant remember what day it is or where she is. It would be so wonderful and beneficial to see elderly people like her get sustainable Affordable Housing. Thank you. Thank you much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Samey rainer cochair of women Housing Coalition as well as the chief impact officer at Community Forward San Francisco. Ill pick up the quote that my colleague rebecca left off on, which is from one of our mentors kimberley ellis. A city budget is reflection of its values. Right now with less then 5 percent of our city housing going to women, we dont value women. Yet, this is the group, this is the board that is going to help us change that. If we can put dollars on the budget that show we as a city value women, we can change this narrative and we can transform our city. I really appreciate theit was a big effort over the last several years to bring women issues into the light and i really appreciate the leadership of aaron peskin adding this 30 million carveout for women and i hope we will keep that in the bond going forward. Our coalition as you heard a lot of us today, you heard us many times, we are organized, we show up and we have a strategy. We have a pipeline we are developing over years that make real change for women so we hope you will vote yes on this bond and know we are going to be behind this working hard getting the message out to the public to help our city see and value women and not give up on our sisters our mothers and our grand mothers. Thank you. Thank you much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is [indiscernible] here on behalf of [indiscernible] veteran right organization to show support for the proposed Affordable Housing bond measure. San franciscans are living with great housing insecurity with many feeling impact of high rent displacement pressures and homelessness. The city needs to step up and invest heavily in deeply Affordable Housing and low and extremely low income residents. Veterans along with california overall population are rapidly aging. Vietnam veterans average 68 years old and individuals over 50 are at risk of homelessness in california due to lack of Affordable Housing. Operate 500 units of permanent Supportive Housing in San Francisco. Most in partnership with Community Based Affordable Housing developers. Together we opened 2 new Affordable Housing sites in San Francisco. The [indiscernible] in mission bay for veterans and family and [indiscernible] Treasure Island for veterans with disabilities. We know from our experience as a Housing Provider that some veterans continue to live in our psh units simply because they cannot afford to move out. Veterans low income but do not need intensive Onsite Service deserve independent and Affordable Housing options. The bond can remedy this [indiscernible] across the city to address our affordability crisis. Building housing is critical and so stabilizing service to keep individuals housed in Capital Funding for repairs and renovations. Ill conclude my daying veterans are seniors, women retirees and trade works and all deserve Affordable Housing choice. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good afternoon. Julian ball and im representing [indiscernible] housing program. We are a Member Organization of the council of Community Housing organizations. We at bishop work with clients to help them access the Affordable Housing that is out there, so we work with them from the time they come in to find how the system works to help apply, all the way through the leaseup process, so we in my role i see clients who are homeless or doubled up. We have many families with 3, 4 people renting a room in a Single Family home or apartment from [indiscernible] many families have 1 or 2 full time income earners and still cant afford housing in srf San Francisco and we help them through the process. They have to apply for a lotteries every time there is a housing opportunity, and we teach them not to give up hope. They can apply for as many opportunities as they can and not give up and we sometimes work with clients for years at a time until they finally get selected. For every Success Story we have another family who gives up hope and stops apply who thinks the system doesnt work. This Affordable Housing bond is just a first step to changing that. There have been other first steps, other bonds and this is still just a drop in the bucket of what is needed but we have to start somewhere so this is one place to start. Especially at a time where the city is mandated to build 46 thousand units of Affordable Housing by 2031 and a time when Market Rate Developers cant make a profit in this economy, we need to invest in Affordable Housing. Thank you. Thank you for addressing this committee. Next speaker, please. I have a process question as i have a statement from [indiscernible] and another organization asking to make a statement and they were not able to attend. Can i also take the Public Comment time i will give 2 minutes to provide Public Comment. If you have something to submit ill take it. Sound good. Council of Community Housing organization. Our city can meet the moment to build more Affordable Housing. As a coalition, [indiscernible] represents Service Providers tenant advocates and non Profit Housing developers who have grown out of their communities doing decades of work on creating improving programs for the working class, bipoc, immigrants, youth seniors vulnerable groups includesing unhoused and women who are survivors of violence and trauma. Our coalition is making a full throated call for Public Investment that will create and preserve homes and strengthen the fabric of these communities. I want to speak to the need on the ground for the preservation work where non profits can acquire rental buildings, maintain them and protect tenants from the market. It is crucial to sustain our Small Sites Program and keep San Francisco residents in the housing and prevent a slew of other problems that become much more expensive later. Earlier in the year, our Member Organizations submitted projects deemed eligible by the city criteria and by our estimate totaling 124 million in needed funding and yet it is hard without Adequate Funding to keep this Housing Preservation work going. The capacity of the organizations and keep residents who face displacement in their homes especially in the equity geography. The 30 million in the proposed housing bond is crucial to maintain the preservation work and our challenges are many, so thank you for calling that to our attention board president peskin and also director eric shaw and the good challenge in front of us is how to meet the rhna goals. 46. 598 units of Affordable Housing. Together we climb up the ladder step by step. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. My name is [indiscernible] with selfhelp for the elderly, also a member of chew chew. Here to thank you for your support to bring this measure to 2024. On behalf of our community, which is mostly senior in the asian population, i would like to urge you to understand the need for this to go forward because most seniors cannot afford the housing cost in San Francisco. Most of them have 80 percent of what the income now. One seniorone of my job is going to different communities to talk about Affordable Housing. Some seniors approach me and told me they served the community the last 30 years. [indiscernible] they serve a community, pay taxes, but now they are not able to afford the house they live. One senior say, will i be able to afford to have a comfortable retirement before she goes. That is sad to hear this statement. That is the reason i come before you to urge you to put this 2024 measure to [indiscernible] in the system to allow them to access those inventory. Thank you. Thank you for addressing the committee. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you for your time. Mitch [indiscernible] speaking on bemalf of San Francisco Housing Development corporation a cbo in the bayview and fillmore district and express strong support for the housing bond and great thanks to supervisor peskin. We see the needs in the streets every day, we see when the percentage of black san franciscans declined to below 6 percent. Hear from families who need more Affordable Housing options to avoid displaced from San Francisco. Especially important the bond includes preservation funding. Preservation is a tool that allows to keep san franciscans in their homes and turn market rate housing into permanent affordability. As we talk about the bond it should be clear, the size isnt sufficient to address full scale of the housing crisis. The mayor office of housing pipeline is 900 million and this is only 300 million so i dont want anyone to think the bond will solve the crisis by itself. It is important to emphasize that. But, this does provide a critical chunk of funding and does so without requiring property tax increases. As part of [indiscernible] also very important to the board, potentially punch above the weight and alieu to leverage Affordable Housing to build the housing San Francisco needs. Affordable housing is economic recovery. We need to be clear over the next few months, as Media Attention moves elsewhere the Affordable Housing crisis is most of the struggle s in San Francisco and this bond is part of the solution. Thank you. Thank you. Madam chair and [indiscernible] from china town Community Development center. Wanted to express our full support for the proposal before you. Thank you also for leadership of president peskin and mayor office. But, concretely for our organization like cdcd, we presently have 5 projects in the pipeline, 2 do not have the funding necessary to proceed without this bond. Roughly 340 units, both family units and Senior Housing and without this bond the prospect of those projects are in jeopardy. What we see on the ground and i work in the housing counseling program, majority of the tenants presently are waiting to find housing. They look on the program and basically cannot afford the units that are online. Majority of the seniors earn incomes under 1200 a month. I looked at dahlia this morning and there isnt a unit to get into the lottery mentioned before. There is urgent need for the housing and we strongly support this measure. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Charley [indiscernible] Council Community housing organization. We represent 22 Member Organizations that are rooted in bipoc neighborhoods throughout San Francisco. In january of this year, this board adopted a housing plan that recognized that our path forward is to produce 2 units Affordable Housing for every 1 market rate housing. That calls for construction of 46 thousand units by the end of 2031. Affordable. Now is the time to set the table for conversation to augment Revenue Streams for Affordable Housing and create new ones. The item before you today should think about as our Housing Element bond. General Obligation Bonds have been the most consistent and significant local Revenue Source for the production and preservation of Affordable Housing in the city. Together with the regional and state Affordable Housing bond planned for november demonstrates all level of government can show up around housing affordable in 2024. This bond enable to get to the hard work of growing the city stock of Affordable Housing units to stabilize neighborhoods, house the most vulnerable among us, support elders, support women with housing insecurity and keep the next generation in the city. We urge your support to win the bond in march and Regional State bonds in november to create the Affordable Housing needed to build economy inclusive for all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Mitchell with Affordable Housing alliance. As a rental Advocacy Organization we long seen our role as fighting for renters right and also for Affordable Housing. The need for Affordable Housing is never been more acute. This bond appears to be the most significant if not the only serious effort on the horizon to address that issue. The emphasis on housing for seniors, women and Workforce Housing seems spot on. In addition the citys capital plan for 18 years offered city bonds at a no property tax increase basis where the bonds are issued as the old ones are retired so there is no resulting property tax and we are happy to see that language reflected in the legislation before you today. It also makes supporting this bond not only the clear choice, but also an easy choice, so thank you for all your work on the housing bond. Thank you much. And seeing no speaker, madam chair. Public comment is now closed. With that, before i make the motioni should say, my assumption is that board president peskin, do you have concluding remark or like to make a concluding remark . I do not other then, thanking all of the members of the public for their support and for their help along the way and we still have a long way to go between now and march including putting this on the ballot, but think we are off to a aushpicious beginning. Thank you to mr. Shaw and mayor office of housing and Community Development and want to acknowledge the City Attorney office and number City Attorneys who helped in reiterate my thanks to my chief of staff sonny and to the entire board of supervisors as i mentioned earlier for rejigering the bond issue and bringing this forward. I would like to and in accordance with discussions with the mayor office make a motion to amend items 10 and 11, the resolution and ordinance with the language that is before you and incorporate those amendments, which would sit here for another week and then the budget and finance committee could take action next week to send to the full board for its first appearance in november, and then i would like to also in the same motion table items 8 and 9. Thank you. Before i move those motions, just wanted to quickly acknowledge director shaw and just especially before making the motion to table 8 and 9 that i like to want to make sure that you can articulate what mayor breed would like to be added as a sponsor to items 10 and 11. Ill coordinate with our policy team and Government Affairs team on that. They will respond to you shortly on that. I believer that will happen in the intervening week and spoke to the mayor staff about that this morning so plenty time for that. Understood. With that, supervisor safai. Thank you. Thank everyone that came out today to comment particularly from voices we have not heard in the past. Want to appreciate president peskin and the work to include voices from women in particular that have experienced Domestic Violence along with other traumas in prioritizing them and making them calling them out specifically for this bond. I think it is important step for the city and really appreciate the work that was done here today. Along with seniors. I want to also thank seniors and insure we are prioritizing them because there is never enough housing for them in the city and thank you to all advocates that came out on behalf of the working families. I like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. Thank you both. Thank you. With that, ill move the motion as mentioned by president peskin to amend item 10 and 11 andsummarizing just about 5 amendments that including those findings that5 categories of amendments that are labor findings, climate findings, victim and survivor housing findings, 50 percent passthrough resolutions indicating that we will also following legislation to stop the passthrough to tenants and then also the senior population findings and with that, roll call, please. On that motion to amend items 10 and 11 as just stated by the chair, member safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused rchlt the motion passes. I like to make a motion to table items 8 and 9 and roll call, please. On the motion to table items 8 and 9, member safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused rchlt thank you. I like to continue the item 10 and 11 to the next Board Meeting and with that a roll call, please. On the motion to continue the resolution on item 10 and ordinance on item 11 to november 1 meeting as amended, member safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. We have two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Thank you motion passes and mr. Clerk, do we have other items before us . Apologies madam chair, a little housekeepish. In item 2, the bla did have recommendation we amend to be retroactive. I dont think we took that amendment, so if item 10 . Number 2. Do we need to rescind the vote . Yeah, if you can make a motion to rescind the vote without objection and then lets amend the item number 2 and send to full board with recommendation. As recommended by the bla. Yes. Roll call. The last vote was amended and we are now amending the resolution on item 2 to add retroactive language and forward to full board as amended with positive recommendation. Vice chair safaimember safai, aye. Chair chan, aye. Two ayes with vice chair mandelman excused. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. And the meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned] who doesnt love cable cars . Charging emissions and were free which were proud of you know, its not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. You got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. This was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. Cable car museum is free, come on in. Take a day. Come down. Rediscover the city. You can spend as time you want and you dont have to make reservations and its important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. People love cable cars and theres none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, youve got to come to San Francisco. That what makes the city. Without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. Wow thats something. Cant do that with other historical museums. Rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didnt come in and didnt feel better from knowing something about the city. Its a true experience youll remember. I hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in San Francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. Its the heartbeat of San Francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in San Francisco. We would lose part of its heart and soul. It wouldnt be San Francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. The only people who dont like it are the people who get the tickets. This is a street sweeping sign. Dont let it get you. Pay attention. [ ] in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. We call that our business run. We sweep all the main arteries of the city. After 8 00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. The idea with the Street Sweeping Program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. We for not only appearance and cleanliness but safety as well. We will get anywhere from 2 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. The street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is an error sweeper. They have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side and carried by air into the hopper. What will mess this up is new large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. Anything that is more than 12 inches. The tube on the tracks is only 12inch diameter. People asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. There are people that letter. Leaves are one thing. Any of the garbage you see is from people being careless. [ ] one cars parked in the way, we cant sweep under the congress. To deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m. T. A. And they go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way. Once the sweepers sweep past in San Francisco, you may park behind the street sweeper. We all know parking is a big issue. North beach hasnt been swept since the eighties because of opposition. But we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. Basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. We stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. There are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars. And navigates this 22,000pound truck through the city. We involve the public here to adhere to traffic laws. These routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. Things have changed since then so we have to adapt. Luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. This is literally cut and paste cut and paste. We will have a Computer Program soon that will be able to alter the maps and be updated instantly. We will have tablets in the checks for all of the maps. We will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. What is needed about these tablets as they will have a g. P. S. On it so we know where theyre at. You do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. Recall that to the be made a triangle. Thanks for writing along with us today. I enjoyed showing you what we do and i urge you to Pay Attention to the signs and move your car and dont litter. With all hi, friends. Im pria here at the palace of fine arts in San Francisco. Here with skylar who is the new managing director of the San Francisco examiner. Skylar, would you start by telling us about the examiner . Absolutely. The San Francisco examiner is San Franciscos oldest locally owned newspaper. It is the newspaper of William Randolph hurst and mark twain, so incredible history in San Francisco and we cover all it the evenlts events in San Francisco and particularly focused now on everything happening to bring San Francisco back. Which is a big part of the story right now where San Francisco has been and where it is going. You brought us here to the palace of fine arts because it is one of your favorite places. Why are we here . Tell us why it matters the palace of fine arts was built in 1915. It was part of the exhibition meant to show case San Francisco after recovering from the 1906 earthquake. Since then it has become a symbol of ingenuity and rezil silience. On a personal level i used to come here as a little girl and the exploratorium amazing Scientific Museum was based here and as i have gone through life, i come back here and see there is lots of Community Members out, people like to picnic here and i have a two month old i get to bring him down here and go for walks and a beautiful place to reflect, so really a special part of San Francisco and i wanted to share it. If people come here to check out the palace of fine arts, what else is there to do in the neighborhood . Tell them about this incredible area. There is so much to do. My perfect saturday would be taking a walk to the Golden Gate Bridge and you can touch hoppers hands at the bridge. Come back through here, circle through the palace of fine arts and gaze up and wonder. You can go into the presidio and walk around a Beautiful National park and when you are done, if you are tired or hungry, you can walk to chestnut street. Tons of restaurants and wonderful places to get a famous San Francisco craft cocktail. That sounds perfect. A lot of our videos seem to end on cocktails. [laughter] welcome to San Francisco. Thanks skylar. Long it was in fashion, oshaughnessy water system has been sustainable. In addition to providing water for the bay area, it also generates clean hydroelectric power to run city buildings and services. And more recently, some San Francisco homes and businesses. Satellite electricity is Greenhouse Gas free, so we see a tremendous benefit from that. We really are proud of the fact that, weve put our water to work. Even with the system as well coon received as hetch hetchy, Climate Change has made the supply of water from the sierra vulnerable. And requires new thinking about where and how we use water. We have five hundred million gallons a day of wastewater being dumped out into San Francisco bay and the ocean from the bay area alone. And that water could be recycled and should be recycled for reuse through out the bay area. Were looking at taking wastewater and reading it to drink watering standards. Were also looking at our generation and looking at onsite water reuse looking at the technology and strategies we have available to us today. The very First Recycling plant in the state of california for landscape irrigation was built in San Francisco. Weve just developed a new recycled water plant in the ocean side wastewater facility for irrigation purposes in golden gate park, lincoln park and the panhandle. A century ago, San Francisco built a dam to create bunched znswer of fresh water to ensure the future and ensure the taps will flow for future generations, it will take as much vision when it reflects a fundamental change about how we think about water. I think we recognize theres going to be change in the future. So were going to have to have the flexibility and the creativity to deal with that future as its presented to us, its a matter of how to see it and say, okay, lets make wise use of everything we have. This oshaughnessy centennial moment is made possib it is one of the first steps families and step to secure their future and provide a sense of stability for them and their loved ones. Your home, it is something that could be passed down to your children and grandchildren. A asset that offers a pathway to build wealth from one generation to the next. And you need to complete estate plan to protect the asisets. Your home, Small Business, air looms and more. You and so many communities, black, indigenous, latino and asian worked so hard to make yours but estate plans could be costly and conversations complex proud to partner to bring free and low cost estate plans to san franciscans. By providing estate plans we are able to keep the assets whole for our families, prevent displacement, address disparities and Home Ownership and strengthen the cultural integrity of the city. Working with local non profit organizations and neighborhood groups bringing the serveess to you and community, to workshops focused on Estate Planning and why its important. Im 86 years old and you do need a trustee. You need a will and put who ever you want in charge of it. Thats why i wanted to be here today. That is why one of the first steps i took when become assessor recorder is make sure we have a partnership to get foundational funding to provide these resources to community. But even more important is our connection to you and your homes and making sure we know how to help you and how to protect them. If you dont have a living trust you have to go through probate and that cost money and depending on the cost of the home is associated the cost you have to pay. That could be 40 thousand for a home at that level. I dont know about you, but i dont 40 thousand to give up. indiscernible important workshop to the community so we can stop the loss of generational wealth and equity and maintain a indiscernible why are estate plans important . We were just talking before we started the program, 70 percent of black americans do not scr a will in place. As mentioning being in community we had a conversation with a woman who paid 2700, 2700 just for revocable trust. What we are talking about today are free or low cost estate plans that are value between 3,000 to 3500. Free or low cost meaning free, or 400 if you make above 104 thousand a year, and capped larger then that amount. Because we want to focus on black and brown households, because thats whether the need is, not only in San Francisco, not only the bay area but the region as well. And, i was excitesed to see the turn out from the Western Addition and bayview and want to make sure we cover all the different steps from buying a home to making sure homes stay within the family. Work with staff attorneys to receive these free and low cost complete estate plans that include a living trust, will, financial power of attorney, and health directive. Thats why it is so important to make these resources and this information accessible. So we can make sure we are serving you and your families and your generations and your dreams. We insure the Financial Stability of San Francisco, not just for government, but for our communities. On behalf of the office of assessor recorder, im thankful for all the support and Legal Assistance they have given that makes the Estate Planning program a realty for you in San Francisco and are thank all the Community Partners like San Francisco Housing Development corporation, Booker T Washington center and neighborhood leaders and organizations that help families and individuals realize their dreams of Building Wealth in San Francisco from one generation to the next. To learn more about this program email inquiries at har hi. Im prihere at the gorgeous San Francisco precylinderiel tunnel p. Im here with ceo and president of chamber of commerce rodney fong. Tell us about the chamber and when make its and in San Francisco. I great diversity of San Francisco businesses from cars to mall businesses and hospitality and instructs. So the chamber of commerce hen here for 173 years and represents them as 1 ecosystem. Tell us about the tunnel top this is is i beautiful new space create in the the left year it is beautiful and this was an army base convert today a park. But i chose this location for you because to mow it is a coninfluence of nature readaptation and men a ship will in to port with goods and trades. And important it remember this san finish sitos the edge of the west coast a great per city and important piece to the Economic Vitality of the pacific rim. We have an initiative here, too, to green our city as much as possible. It is an exciting time. Come out and check out San Francisco and the presidio tunnel top when you are in our per of the world. Rodney thank you for being here and thank you for showing us. Thank you. This moteingly will come to order. Good morning and welcome at this time machine october 23, 2023 meeting of rules of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Im supervisor dorsey chair and im joined by vice chair walton and Committee Number safai. Together we like to express gratitude to our clerk victor young and thanks to sfgovtv for broadcast todays meeting and today our producer mr. Jason