Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180111

SFGTV Government Access Programming January 11, 2018

His passing. I was actually travelling in the south of china in the region where his parents had come from. Its also the area where my husband was born. So we were travelling in that area when we heard about his passing. We were so shocked and so grieved because he was a friend of mine for many years. Over three decades. He actually officiated at my daughters wedding and so he is greatly missed. I think that in this era of time when there is so much political grand standing, its really rare to encounter a man who was as humble as we was and dedicated the notion of public service. That was his whole being in his career was to serve the city that he loved, San Francisco. And he never forgot his simple roots from an immigrant family with a single mother who raised her family in subsidized housing and he never forgot where he came from. And i think that he did so much for the site. Some of it will come. The fruit of which will come later on. He was criticized for not doing enough for Affordable House. I know as a developer in the private and nonprivate sectors, he did more than almost any other mayor in terms of Housing Finance in terms of his dedication to people who didnt have house, who didnt have a voice in this society. He did more than any other mayor to increase the role of minorities and women on boards like this one and on commissions. We need to be grateful to him for leading us in that direction. So its in his memory that we start the first meeting of 2018 and may he rest in peace. Id like to open it up to commissioners and members of the public who may want to speak as well. Yes. Thank you. I thank you that. That was very heartfelt. Mayor lee appointed us onto the commission and grateful to giving me and all of us a voice and his encouragement of young minorities to take on civic roles has been very empowering. Him with his background in civil service. He started off as staff and was always a reluctant politician and set a good example for the city to work collaboratively across all sectors. I hope we continue to honor his legacy through our Decision Making and to reflect his passion for creating Quality House and vibrant communities for the work we are embarking on in Treasure Island and he was implemental on moving the Development Forward and it would be great if we opportunities to dedicate a special feature on the island in his memory and id like for us to evaluate that. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners. Mayor lee was a great friend of mine. I can say ive known him for decades. Even when he was the city administrator and before that was a regular guy on the human rights commission. I was there when he died with the city hall director and the director of his Mayors Office and you can imagine hours later when i got the call i thought i had a nightmare and i took it hard and served on Many Organizations and this is on record about nine months ago i was doing a groundbreaking of one of Senior Housing and mayor brown was there and congressman pelosi and dignitaries and the statement in which in which i had spoken with others on several occasions, it is true, more than any other mayor we do respect and most ive had the privilege of serving under them, mayor lee has eclipsed all the mayors in terms of housing. I spoke of that during the groundbreaking. I said, mayor lee, you know, i invite you and were doing the groundbreaking and i see you where ever. How are we going to quantify the house you have speiarheaded andi wanted it make it known to the public because he made a concerted effort to make sure that the seniors have housing. And in all areas of San Francisco and if you go to the bay view and the sun set direct, mayor lee made an effort. I was there and he said lets get it done. I pushed it once. Whats it going to stake for your staff and to compile all the glorious accomplishment you made. I remember saying mayor, i will volunteer. We cannot for get the legacy. The takeaway is the clock is ticking. When we have the privilege and opportunity to do well to do good, we should seize on that and we should do that with integrity and we shoved do that with poise and we should continue to do that. So we had bearing for Treasure Island. All the milestones have been because of mayor lee. I can talk about all the projects downtown that i personally i know mayor lee spearheaded. His legacy will continue but its left to all of us to compile all the records and when we speak, when we deliberate to evoke his memory so people out there and some in the city are critics because they dont know so when youre ignorant and you dont know you say he hasnt done anything but no, its due respect to the mayors in the city, mayor lee stands alone as someone who has taken the ball to ensure the citys passionate and compassionate about people and all i wanted to say to his family may his sole rest in place and mayor lees legacy will never never die. Thank you nor opportunity. Thank you, linda. I want to echo much of what has been said already. Mayor lee will be missed. I first met ed lee he was doing visionary work then we had to push for transgender rights in San Francisco. This is before the word mentioned the word transgender nationally and he a leader in that effort. And in the years weve seen him grow and be a visionary to the production of Affordable Housing in San Francisco and in his honor we need to keep pushing forward on Treasure Island to implement his legacy. So thank you. I think its a measure of a persons success in life that so many people worked with ed and for ed consider him also a friend. And my relationship with ed goes back to his days in public works and we had tough assignments around cleaning and greening the city and we have to be able to say he was my friend and i w benefit from knowing him. I think that is what most people would say. Thank you, paul. Bob. Yes, thank you. I had the opportunity to work with ed when he was director of public works as well as assistant to the director. He came to dpw at a time when we need to improve our relationship with the departments we serve. From his role as purchaser coming into public works, he brought an outsiders perspective to the department and both building relationships with the contractors that contract with public works and also with the many agencies the department of public works serves and many people have mentioned the focus on housing. We too met with ed on the many before he passed. We emphasized the commitments hes asked for in the timely review and permitting of projects and the importance of delivery of these Housing Units to the public. Again, i just wanted to express my gratitude in having worked with him and his commitment to this project and to the Affordable Housing in particular that were delivered. Well look for opportunities as we develop Treasure Island to commemorate him. The clerk item two, this item is to all members of the public to address matters in the subject matter jurisdiction that are not on the agenda and Public Comment will be held on each item. Members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. Youll hear a single chime and there are 30 seconds remaining. Prior to mike the making your comments, state your name and the Public Comments you are making to any board director. [off mic] i want to thank you for opening the meeting in mayor lees memory and his honor. Ill share just a brief very poignant experience that i had. So the plan took a long time to get to fruition. The Development Plan for Treasure Island and when it was finally passed with unanimous vote at the board of supervisors in 2011, there was a very Big Press Conference in the Mayors Office to do the public signing of the disposition and Development Agreement and there were numerous copies the mayor was signing and there was in different dignitaries there of course. At one point they said, cherry williams said for the Homeless Initiative he quite sincerely without batting an eye and it wasnt political rhetoric he said was the most important part of the project. It felt extremely sincere and his support for our efforts have proven that it wasnt just any kind of political posturing but it was who he was and the kind of values that he espoused. I just wanted to say that will always be my memory of him saying for an enormous project like this it will help those that have the least thats the most important. I think thats a strong part of his legacy and i want to make that mention. I had one more other thing i wanted to mention in Public Comment and that is we are going to be changing our name to have an inclusive aspirational vision for the island. I think our name will reflect that and well have a launch for that on february 2 at 10 00 a. M. On Treasure Island. Well invite all the residents that live there and the commercial tenants and so form. Wed love to have you there and well be sending an email with more specifics but i want to let you know that and thank you again for opening the meeting for to us have that moment to reflect and remember the amazing work that mayor lee did. Thank you. Good afternoon, directors. Im with Treasure Island Community Development. I do echo all the sentiments expressed. Ed lee was indeed a very great man. We found him on behalf of trid very approachable and steadfast in his vision and support of the project. Up to the day he passed he was still working hard for the project and giving the department his direction to move the project forward. So we will always be very grateful to mr. Lee for giving us direction and helping us move forward and i do endorse the idea of commemorating his memory with a feature on Treasure Island. We look forward to work the board to make Something Like that happen in the near future. Thank you. Thank you. Hearing no other Public Comment, next item please. The clerk item three, report by Treasure Island director. Thank you, directors. The flea market will return after taking the month of december off. Im happy to report after having given several updates, yesterday mercy got its finally permit approves and signoff from the department of Public Health and theyll be Training Staff over the next couple of days with the intention to open next week. So thats the new container restaurant on the island. Also the market in front of building one has closed. Were in the process of relocating it to its new space in the building of building one. As the Geo Technical work starts up theyll be demolishing the market location in front of building one. Thats happening. As soon as theyve stocked their location theyll be opening hopefully next week in the new location. Last thursdays earthquake was felt on the island being in close proximity to berkeley than most of San Francisco and we were able to conduct the Damage Assessment windshield survey to verify there were no damages result from the earthquake. We did have a power outage Christmas Eve on the island due to a goose flying into the power lines. Despite that outage, last year was we had our fewest number of outages since the puc made the investment in the infrastructure six years ago. Well have new electric vehicle charging stations are going to be installed at 9th and avenue b between now and april 1. These will be replacing the charging facilities that used to be in the parking lot at clipper cove. That parking lot also is going to be closing and demolished shortly. And tida and puc are continuing to placing street lights withled lights by doing work in the residential area and between california and 9th street. Also, the department of Public Health Community Clinic has entered into a Pilot Program with the island cove market to provide educational materials at the Grocery Store on Healthy Eating habits and also recipe cards for healthy recipes. And it reported all the recipe cards provided were used up so they have a new recipe theyll be providing the next quarter coming ahead. Well have an update on the housing during regular agenda but i want to highlight well be having an open house saturday january 20th between 10 00 and 2 00 targeted to the residents of the villages. Those sha that have benefits under the thr rs and will be open to all residents. At the end of november we traveled with ticd to washington, d. C. To meet with the department of labor regarding access to easements to property that improved the communications weve been having with them and resulted in the agreement on the consent calendar today. We continue to work on temporary and permanent easements well need to improve construction of easements adjacent to job corp property. Also discuss the department of labor their longterm planning effort with the improvement of their facilities. The bay bridge project Oversight Committee in december authorized the proposed retention of pier e2 we discussed at prior meetings. As outgrowth of that theres an m. O. U. On our consent calendar today thats an agreement to make an agreement. Its a precursor to demonstrate to the project Oversight Committee that theres support amongst Partner Agencies to negotiate the final agreements and anticipate bringing a more comprehensive agreement that will go through tida and the board of supervisors later this spring. We work to finalize the subdivision map and agreement for ybi and take them to the board of supervisors. And working on and work on the final map for the first subphase of Treasure Island to go to the board of supervisors later this spring. As ill mention in the year ahead, were also working on developing a schedule for the next subphase application coming in this summer. The Public Utilities commission has selected a Design Consultant for the Waste Water Treatment Plant and we are actively working with the commercial tenants within the footprint of the planned waste water site to relocate the tenants by the end of june. Therell be an onisland Construction Community meeting this evening as well as as we gear up for the Geo Technical work to begin, were preparing notices to residents, building one tenants, the marina and others about the traffic changes that will be coming up around building one. Just to highlight again the infrastructure and Committee Meeting will be moving to tuesdays beginning next week. Well be meet at 9 30 a. M. And Going Forward the infrastructure and transportation Committee Meetings will be record and available via webcast as they occur. I also want to acknowledge kay loake who spoke earlier will be take leave of absence next year and alex galavic who has been a lengthy tenure on the project will be stepping into his shoes Going Forward but kay has been a great partner and very focussed in the commercial success for the public and the Public Benefits that come from it and hes been a great partner to work with over the last four years and i certainly will miss him while hes gone. So that concludes my report. Thank you. Commissioners, are there any questions or comments . Yes. Thank you. A couple questions. Thank you for that great report. One, mayor lees last act as you noted on your report, was on the Treasure Island development. I think you were alluding to the milestones. So now we have an obligation for what was discussed in those meetings to have a time line for the remaining milestones. I think last year we knew we wanted the mayor to help further the development and by calling the agencies together. So please, it would be great for us to take what was discussed in the meeting and transform them. Im hoping by april this year we can get all the agencies still lagging behind and get them to commit to working over time to help with the time lines. Thats my first comment. Secondly, could you please can you put it in an email to us so we can note the calendar. Yeah, well send a calendar item. And a flyer. Also at the february Board Meeting i was going have sherry come back and make a more formal presentation on the name change and for both the Board Members and and you guys keep shocking people. I hope you have been a great guy, very knowledgeable and spearheading this bigger project. I hope you will consider its a huge project with decades in the making that youll come back and take over more roles around we will surely miss you but youve been a key part of the fabric for this project and we hope you will find other means to

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