Your commission and pg e, we have a lot of common interests. Park and rec need to dredge the site to keep it operating as a marina. We have an interest in that theres historical facts from gas plants that operated about a hundred years ago that are underneath the harbor. Weve been trying to figure out a way forward. We have designs for a large dredge project out there. The more our team looked at this, the more i think people just said this does not feel like the right answer. Its a heavyhanded approach. It has a lot of impacts of the actual construction. Some kind of questionable environmental benefits and importantly, very high costs. Were talking tens of millions of dollars here. Our team went back to the drawing boards and said whats the best thing to do for the environment and can we look at this through a different lens . Can we come up with something that might be for attractive to the citizens and to the parties involved . What we came up with, i handed out earlier a onepage sheet. An alternate propor sal that would proposal that involve a gradual modification of the use of the marina to a more open Public Access habitat creating space on the waterfront. Its a very conceptional design but we see a lot of benefits we would like to commission to look at. Reduced impacts around construction. We see much more Public Access and we think thats something that the commission would be interested in rather than access for a small number of boaters. Depending on how this design ultimately worked. We could open that part of the waterfront for much greater access to a larger swath of the public. We think this design could be more Climate Change resilient and it could save tens of millions of dollars for both the city and for pg e. We would like to engage in a dialogue around this. We would like to explore the ideas with you and your safai to see if there might be kind of a win win option out here that ultimately would benefit the citizens and be more environmentally friendly in the long run. Thanks for hearing me out. President buell thank you very much. Secretary is there anyone else who would like to maybe Public Comment . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, we need a motion and a second to vote whether to hold closed session to confer with league counsel. President buell moved and seconded. All in favor. [all ayed. President buell from a procedural standpoint we will take the second item up first because were going of some staff presentation and that will facilitate our being able to deliberate in closed session following that. Go ahead. Secretary i was just going to say we need to ask everyone to please leave. And unless phil has asked you as a staff person to stay, we need to ask secretary okay, weve now reconvened to open session. So, we have two items. Possible report on actions taken in closed session. We need a motion whether to do a report on actions taken in closed session or not. President buell move to not release. Second. President buell moved and second not to. All in favor. [all ayed] secretary and then vote to elect whether or not to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session. President buell move to not release. Second. President buell moved and second t to not reveal discussions. Seconded not the reveal discussions. This eye them is designed to allow commissioners to raise issues they believe that commission should address. There will be no discussion of these items at this time. Commissioners, are there any items . President buell commissioner anderson. Secretary could i get you to speak into the mic. Commissioner anderson i had a question based on ms. Wilds presentation about those two parcels in the 1100block of mission. Is that something we need to follow up on . Its sort of new to me. I apologize. What do we do about that . Secretary we cant have a discussion. President buell maybe staff can respond. Secretary is there any other . President buell see none. Secretary any Public Comment . President buell seeing none. Secretary this item is closed. Item 16 new business agenda setting. Is there any Public Comment . Being none, this item is closed. Communications. Public comment . President buell seeing none. Secretary this item is closed. 18 is aadjournment. President buell moved to adjourn. Secretary thank you commissioners. Ne of you so very much. This is such an honor and it comes with such a surprise to me, because i didnt knee anybody anybody knew who he i was. Mr. President , thank you for your kind words and support. You were the best. We wouldnt have what we have today if it hadnt been for you. [applause] im honored to be here. Im honored to be here with all of you today and im also among friends. So many of you were here at the forefront of the a. I. D. S. Epidemic here in San Francisco. In 1985, and i was in hot springs arkansas, a single mom, hair as big as my dreams of getting in the junior league. One day i was at the hospital visiting a friend when i saw they tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victims vehicle, i would say from 1015 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and theyre gone. Yeah, we get a lot of breakins in the area. We try to i just want to say goodbye. Thank you. Sometimes thats all it takes. I never leave anything in my car. We let them know theres been a lot of vehicle breakins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. This is just warning about vehicle breakins. Take a look at it. If we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps. [gavel sounds] calling this hearing to order. Good afternoon and welcome to the Historic PreservationCommission Hearing for wednesday, january 17, 2018. This is our first hearing so happy new year and welcome back, commissioners. Happy new year. Id like to take roll at this time. [roll call] unfortunately commissioner johns notified us that he is out ill today. I will remind members of the public that the commission does not told rate any disruption or out bursts of any kind and to please sigh elevens your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. First on your agenda is general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. The opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. I have no speaker cards. Yes. Please come forward. Good afternoon, commissioners. David silverman. Thank you for the opportunity to address the commission today. I was here on december 20 representing 420 eureka. The purpose of the hearing was to take the h. P. C. s comment on the draft d. I. R. Most of the discussion that the hearing focused on a mitigation measure that i believe was taken from another project and did not belong in that e. I. R. It had to do with a walking tour and i addressed the commission on that point and raised the issue that a walking tour for a fourunit project was, perhaps, not appropriate. And my takeaway from that hearing was that a better mitigation measure would be assigned in front of the church. And i believe that was the commissions sentiment. After the hearing, i communicated with the staff and their response was, of course theres going to be a walking tour. So, i would like the to ask the commission to ask the staff to report back at a future meeting on that particular mitigation measure or to place this on the future agenda for further hearing. Thank you. Thank you. Any other member of the public wish to comment on a nonagendaized item . If so, please come forward. Seeing and hearing none, well close general Public Comment. Commissioners that places us under department matters. Item one, directors announcements. Theres no directors announcement today. Item two, Planning Commission staff report and announcements. I believe we dont haves that either. [laughter] very good. Moving right along. Commission matters. Item three, president s report and announcement. I have no report announcement today. Item four, consideration of Adoption Draft minutes for for a. R. C. September 20, 2017 hearing and draft minutes for h. P. C. , december 6, 2017 hearing. December 20 took some time because we lost the audio, unfortunately, to that and so it took time for staff to put together oh, ok. Our brains dont go back that far. [laughter] any comments on the draft minutes . No . Does any member of the public wish to comment on our draft minutes for december 6 and december 20 . Seeing and hearing none, well close Public Comment. A motion to adopt the minutes . So moved. Second. Thank you, commissioners. On that motion to adopt the minutes for september 20, a. R. C. And december 6 regular hearing [roll call] so moved, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 50. And places us on item five, commission comments and questions. I think i would like to follow up on the Public Comment that the speaker made so we could get a report on that project on the 150 here we go. I will certainly relay that to staff. Any other comments or questions . No, different topic. Ok. I was hoping mr. Frye was here. I sent an i. F. To jonas to send around an article that was in the chronicle about the historic houses, a number of houses that were illegally torn down and its a very interesting problem because, you know, so often we hear these stories and its so far out of the hands of the architect, the engineers, the planning staff, because it is, you know, an owner, typically a developer who takes it upon themselves to make some decisions in the field. And i know that the finds often are, you know, not commensurate with the problem. I was just wondering if, you know, especially when it is a historic building, you know, if we could have a further conversation, if its something we can schedule a conversation about. How to address this. I dont know if the staff is specifically already looking at thank you. Sorry, this isnt technically on your agenda, but the Planning Commission has raised that exact same issue and were looking at more robust ways to make sure there is, number one, better communication between us and d. By. D. B. I. On these issues and, number two, what we can do to try to address the particular players involved in some of these decisions where this has, frankly, happened repeatedly. Yeah. So, were working with the City Attorneys Office and Planning Commission and happy to work with you as well on future discussions about how to best address this, as this has become an issue that a number of people have asked us to start working on, more robustly. Maybe we can have it as a staff report in a subsequent hearing. Happy to. No know whats going on. And we can ask questions about it. Absolutely. Ok. Yeah. Because the 840 chestnut was an interesting one. That is the willis polk house where they came back and said the house was so deteriorated. That should have come up in a historic report. You know, that it was that it deteriorated and could have been discussed as to whether that was appropriate to them, do more work or less work relative to that. So, thank you. I appreciate that t. S i do have one other thing. Im giving a talk on february 2 to the alliance of montereyarea preservationists in pacific grove. On generally what were doing here in San Francisco for preservation and then more specifically about the Hibernia Bank building. If anyones down in the area, please join us. Its on i can give you more information actually, i can add to that t. Im going to be on a c. P. S. Panel next friday about its about ceqa review and the commissions perspective. Historic preservation commissions perspective on the ceqa and how were involved with it. Next friday at pier one. Very good. Any other comments . We can move on. See nothing other comments, commissioners, we can move on to item six, election of officers. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the San FranciscoHistoric Preservation commission, the president and Vice President of the commission should be elected at the first regular meeting of the Historic PreservationCommission Held after the first day of january each year or at a subsequent meeting, the date of which is fixed by the Historic Preservation commission at the first regular meeting. So, i was going to suggest and commissioner johns is not here, that we wait until the next hearing so we have the opportunity for his input in that. Everybody ok with that . Yes. Public comment. Yes. Any member of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing and hearing none, well close Public Comment. We dont need a motion to we do need a motion. Ok. We have a motion to move to continue this to the next meeting. All right. Second. Thank you, commissioners. On that motion then to continue this matter to february 7. [roll call] so move, commissioners. That motion passes unanimously 50 and places us under your regular calendar for item seven. Case number 2017crv. This is the 2020 Department Budget and Work Programme. That is the informational presentation. Good afternoon, commissioners. For example, john ram, departments staff. Im struck by this phenomenon that the older i get, the quicker time seems to fly by. This is my 10th budget preparation and presentation to you and the Planning Commission so im it is amaying. I thought we were just here a few months ago and here we are again. Ill have Deborah Landis our Deputy Director of add nointion give you the presentation today. But just to tell you that we are, after several years of sometimes doubledigit growth since 2010, the budget we are showing you today is a budget that is essentially a kind of stay the course budget. We are our revenues have essentially leveled off over the last 18 months or so. We were seeing substantial growth, as you know, after the recession and the last two years, or roughly two years, were seeing a leveling off of those revenues. Mind you, leveling off at a high level. Were not dropping, were still seeing a Record Number of projects and application come in. But were not continuing to see the substantial growth that we saw in recent years. That leveling off combined with increased cost in which inevitably happens with our budget every year means that we have to be a little more cautious than we have in years past about take on initial tiffs. The budget and work plan youll see today is a pretty much stay the course budget. The good news is that we dont really have to make any substantial cuts. The bad news is we really cant grow any substantial way and take on major, new initiatives. With that, ill introduce Deborah Landis, the Deputy Director of administration and im joined by tom desanto whos our chief administrative officer, as you know, and jeff jocelyn and tim frye here to answer questions and the work plan. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. Deborah landis. I will try to make this brief and as painless as possible. As john just mentioned, the budget is not going to be changing very much in the upcoming years so i will walk you through the projections for the current year, which is what we based our future years on in great part and then the revenues, the expenditures and then some of the bigger changes that we wanted to point out to you today. One thing i do want to note is that the Budget System itself has only just opened and so when we come back in a few weeks the numbers will be slightly different. The general idea of what were proposing will be exactly the same. But because we have to come up with all of these estimates and projections without the Budget System, there will be differences slightly when we come back. Ok. So, lets see. And we will be back on the 7th for your recommendation to the Planning Commission for approval. So the agenda here, i just ran through very quickly, in addition. We will have some detailed slides and information on Historic Preservation specifically. And then at the end, well go through the overall budget calendar, which has john mentioned, is fairly year round. Two items to that we get instructions from the Mayors Office every year. The set of instruction this is year included a 2. 5 decrease in our general fund support. And as you know, most of our department is funded through revenues that are not general fund revenues, application review, Building Permit review, impact fees. Work order recovery from providing services to other departments. So, the general Fund Reduction was about 95,000 in each year. Weve been able to find that. So, we are able to comply with that instruction. They also asked all departments that are mostly selfsupporting to absorb Cost Increases and weve done that as well. And the Mayors Office asked for no new positions. However, we do propose one rove gnu generating selffunded position related to accessory dwelling units, a. D. U. S, and that addition we expect will pay for itself with the additional a. D. U. Application volume that weve been seeing and the increase we expect to continue into next year. Of course, the context for all of this includes the mayoral directive around streamlining the approval and construct