Its, i mean, poor al roker. Every year, hey look, its garfield. Oh, the teletubbies. When i was a kid, my dad would wake us up. Every thanksgiving, hed come into our rooms. The only time i ever remember him coming into my room, hed come in and say, the parade is on and wed be like, who cares . I hate parades. Always have. To me, its just traffic with balloons. But every year, my father would force us out of bed at like 6 30 in the morning to watch it. And so what did i do on thursday . I got the kids, i said hey the parade is on youve gotta watch it they watched for about four minutes. They saw chase from paw patrol and said, put on paw patrol so i watched it alone. Macys did the parade a little bit differently this year. Because of covid, they couldnt have the usual amount of people under the floats. You know, people hold the ropes to the floats, but they couldnt assemble a group of people, so they had to find one guy to do this. This troop of picachu, dancing to the classic pokemon s
Heard your presentation, i want to comment on it. The first thing is, i completely support revocation hearings. I dont think that the fact that we can speed up everything and get it out the door and it reminds me for when i used to work for kodak and people would run in and say, i have to develop this right now. And then you see its christmas pictures. Why did it take you that long to develop this but you need it now . Those are the jokes we used to have. One of the questions we used to ask at h. P. How do we know where we want to go when we dont know where were really at. And after hearing the presentation, that really hits me. And the reason is not because any of this is bad, but i think when i looked at the page here under process improvements, product entitlements. I started to say, a, is what we want to do, b, how we want to do. And c, how we want to do. D, what we want to do and its a mish mash of thoughts, all good thoughts. Theres an organization of 300 people. Some people do t
Theres been a strong desire to see improvements in the area. Sponsor has indicated that they will be responsible for maintenance and liability of the proposed improvements. Proposed improvements would consist of public works standard materials and maintenance covenant outlined as part of the encroachment permit and specific work will be established. The city is exploring a Community Facilities district to provide maintenance operations. The exact terms are being developed. If a cfd is established, funding could be generated by an annual tax agreed upon by all properties. The sponsor has committed to participating in a cfd to provide additional funding for maintenance and improvements in oak plaza the planning department, department of public works, department 7 real of real estate and City Attorneys Office has reviewed it and weve provided rounds of feedback. Placement of trees on the north sidewalk, improving loading and passenger dropoff has been improved. The plaza has been reviewed
You come down to 60 of the hours were direct work and 40 werent. So if you think you have 2,080 hours per person, its not. Its roughly half of that. Is your staffing correct . If they still cant do it in a humanly possible way, its still not going to get done. So staffing and workload are important. That has tos figured out once you pare this back. What is somebody capable of doing the right way . And then ability in education. There are people that may not have the ability to do the functions we want them to do or they need more training. One of the things about training is, just because you give it, doesnt mean they get it. I was involved in organizations and studies where we train 10 people. Give them a test and 8 people understood it, 1 thought it was different and the other was different, and the error rates was the 1 and the 1. You have to understand that it sunk in. The environmental. Blah, blah, blah. The whole process and understand what the organizational structure is. One of
Approvements also and were happy to be part of that. Thank you and we look forward to more discussion. Commissioners, that will place us at 17. 2009159, ika, oak plaza. Impact fee waiver for 1554 Market Street. Good afternoon, commissioners. The case before you today is a proposal by build inc. , sponsor of the residential project, to enter into an inkind agreement to provide a public plaza in exchange for a fee waiver in the amount of 2,180,093. The project was heard and approved by the commission on june 15, 2017. The decision before you today is the approval of the fee waiver. Further Detailed Design refinement and maintenance and programming obligations will be done with public works. In essence, the in improvements would create a plaza at oak and venice. The proposed plaza would improve an improved oak street, designed to be shared bill cars, pedestrians and bicycles. Improvements to the north side of oak street. Six new landscaped planters or trees. Four new streetlights. Four ne