Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180218

The etch Treasure Island museum. Good afternoon, madame chairman, members. Were requesting approval of the term sheet for a 66year Lease Agreement with the Treasure Island Museum Association for the operation of the Treasure Island museum where san franciscans can learn about the history of treasure and yerba buena islands. Since 2007, we lease a portion for office space, museum display, storage and cure rating as well as conducting several educational programmes to the general public. The premises consists of approximately 160 square feet of display space located on the ground floor and approximately 1545 square feet of Storage Space located in the basement of the administration building. Tima needs to invest in its facilities and security in knowing it will be able to remain on the premises for an extended period of time in order to attract donors for its operations and improvements needed for its goals. Tima and project staff have negotiated a term sheet with a 66year lease, the proposed term sheet allows tima to develop and manage the Treasure Island museum which, in its new location, can be consistent of 3500 to 4,000 square feet of exhibit space located on the ground floor of the administration building, with an entrance off the lobby and approximately 2,000 to 4,000 square feet of back of the house Storage Space for storage, exhibit preparation and other items and that will be located in the basement of the administration building. Tima proposes to make certain improvements to building one, which will occur in several phases, commencing its first phase within two years, following lease commencement. The proposed lease will be provided to tenant at nobase rent. Upon endorsement of the term sheet, tida and tima will Work Together to negotiate the proposed lease. The lease will be subject to prior approval of the Authority Board as well as city board the citys board of supervisors following any required environmental review. With that, id like to ask the executive director of the Treasure Island Museum Association to come up and say a few words about the project. Thank you, rich. President tsen, directors. I want to thank your board for consideration of this term sheet and for all the support and encouragment that youve given us over the little more than 10years that weve been back in building one. Id also like to thank rich for all the work he did to move this item to your agenda and id like to thank rich jack, bob beck, Peter Sommerville and all your Staff Members for all the help theyve given us the over the last 10 years. I think i should also mention some of our Island Partners that we collaborated with in that time volunteers from south to job shares, some help with our galleries in island creative. And we havent collaborated with mercy yet, but we went over there after our last lecture for lunch and it was fantastic. And youll be hearing from us about a collaboration. [laughter] when i spoke to you in november, i told you who what cohorts we were looking at to serve with the museum. What results we wanted to produce for each of those groups and how we were going to do it. What i didnt talk about was why. And i remembered this morning, better late than never, about a year ago nate levine, our Board Development consultant told us they wont forgive you for what youre doing, but why youre doing it. So, today id like to talk about why. Ive been on the board of the museum for 20 years and we have four Board Members who have been on longer than i have. Now the stories of the island draws to the island. And then we get hooked and it is not just the stories that hook us and keep us involved for decades. There is a deeper meaning on Treasure Island and we knew it in our hearts. But now that we go out to the sfi in the bay area and tell them why they should help make this museum a reality, we have to move the reasons from our hearts to our tongues. Let me give you an example of what we see in the island. And ill do that by inviting you to come to the lecture a week from saturday in our islandbig ideas series. Whoops. Im getting ahead of myself. I always do this. The lecture is called from the magic city to the magic kingdom. And ok. Why does it do that . Lets try this. Ok. The lecture is called from the magic city to the magic kingdom. Mm. Is it on auto or am i doing something wrong . I want to go back and it is automatically scrolling forward every five seconds. Ok. The lecture is about walt disney who visited the Golden Gate International exposition and this is not working. And he was inspired here. Maybe you can figure it out. Ok. Walt disney visited the ggie and he was inspired by the innovations that he saw there. Around if he had not visited the ggie, disneyland might well never have happened. In other words, before there was fantasiland and tomorrowland, there was treasure iland. [laughter] and this is one example of the kind of innovation that we see throughout Treasure Islands history and that is really our themes is innovation. Now San Francisco is known were not a great financial city. Were not the capital of the state or the biggest city even in the bay area. But San Francisco in the bay area is known as a hub of innovation. That is the hallmark. And todays bay area sparkles with innovation. But before half a century before apple, google and sales force and into the future of, you know p from the construction of the island and the bridges, the fare, the pan am clippers, from the art in action exhibition at the ggie to the Treasure Island arts master plan, lets go back. Yeah. I think i know what it is. And then forward to the sustainable redevelopment of the island as a model of sustainable, urban living. Treasure island is a reflection of the bay area as a driver of change. And its continuing legacy of innovation. So, San Francisco and the bay area need the Treasure Island museum. To preserve our heritage of innovation, to inform visitors and island residents, visitors from the area and all around the world, about our stories. And inspire new generations. With our spirit of innovation. And that is what the Treasure Island museum aims to do. Preserve, in fact, and inspire. Thank you for your consideration of the term sheet and for all your support. With that, were here to answer any questions that you may have. Ok. Board members . Yes. This is great. And thank you for the museum. Youve been committed. We see you here all the time and this is an easy one for me and im only one vote here and ill make a notion approve. Any other questions from the board . Yes . Mark . More of a comment. I love history and im a history buff. [inaudible]. At how little i knew about the history of [inaudible]. Two islands and thank you. The importance that they have played in the development of San Francisco. You know, supplying mainland with goats and all sorts of wonderful things. Of course, the flower, the yerba buena itself, it is just fascinating. And i mentioned before i had a great aunt who actually went to the 39 fair and she always brought back all these great tales of San Francisco and i think thats how i somehow ended up here. But its just a wonderful place. Theres so much there. So much history. And so i yeah. 66 years. Thats great. Im sure in 66 year, well be redoing it. Thank you. Yes. Ill second the motion. Yes. Any other questions or comments . Before we act, i would like to open it up to the public. If there is any comments or questions from the public, please come forward now. Ok. Hearing none, let me just say i want to also thank the members of the Treasure Island museum board for all that youve done and its so important for us to preserve that rich history at Treasure Island. And im very glad to see that you are, at this point, coming to us for that lease and we certainly understand that you need that length of lease in order to be able to secure the financing. So, its before the board. All those in favour say aye . Aye. All those opposed . The ayes have it. Next item. Them number eight, resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a Second Amendment to the professional Services Agreement between the Treasure Island Development Authority and one Treasure Island to increase the annual scope of services and not to exceed contract amount for fiscal year 20172018. Good afternoon. Again, we come seeking your approval of the Second Amendment with one fraesh island, former the Treasure Island Homeless Development initiative, not to exceed contract amount for fiscal year 1718. On june 14, 2017, the Authority Board approved the professional Services Agreement with thidi, one Treasure Island to coordinate training and employment opportunities. On september 13, 2017, the Authority Board approved the First Amendment to a professional Services Agreement, which commenced on october 1, 2007 team to increase the endoscope of services to include additional funding for the pilot construction Training Programme. We went from 300,000 to le00,000 for the pupser of expanding the scope, to add a second building to be removed and two, providing hazmat abatement and removal of this these buildings and the buildings were buildings 40 and 107. And lastly, developing a hazmat abatement scope of service for eight additional properties. Those include buildings 215, 216, 257, 261b, 330, 450, 670 and 671. As the authority would like to demolish a majority if not all of these buildings in the future. Either the proposed contract of the Second Amendment that were bringing today, project staff and one Treasure Island, i would like to increase the annual scope of services from 800,000 to 2. 4 million for the purposes of expanding the skoem of work under this pilot construction Training Programme. And here we would like to move forward with remediating the Hazardous Materials within buildings 215, 216, 257, and 330 in preparation for demolition of these buildings. Treasure Island Community development, ticd, will then be responsible for demolition of buildings 215, 216 and 330 and affordable selfstorage will be responsible for demolition of building 257. Again, what this programme is doing is remediating these properties and then the developer is left to remove the some of the structures and we also have a new tenant that is willing to remove building 257. Funding for the expanded scope of service will be taken from authorities existing Facilities Maintenance account and Prior Year Fund balance. Pronltz staff has also negotiated and will present later to you a lease with Affordable Storage, which will commence on june 1, 2018 for approximately 185,000 square feet of space, created by demolishing building 257 and the rent for that land will be 35,000 per month. With that, id like to ask Sherry Williams from one Treasure Island to come up and talk a little bit about the programme. And i believe we have some folks from eco bay as well here as well. Thank you, rich. Good afternoon again. This project, the first one t pilot that you all approved was tremendously successful and it is really, truly embodies this vision of the community t private partners and the public working together for the public good. Were getting rid of these eyesore buildings that represent truly a nuisance to the community. We are providing jobs and job training for people with barriers to employment and creating spaces that will eventually be reused for a better and much healthier purpose and so im going to invite the one Treasure Island director of programmes who is going to share some of the results of the first pilot that you all approved. Commissioner richardson attended the graduation as did director beck. But he can share some of that. And then echobay, which has been an extraordinary private partner who is really going above and beyond in terms of the training component and the hiring component is also here to talk about their role and we also have a graduate from one of the First Programme that will also be speaking. Good afternoon. Im with one Treasure Island. Id like the share with you some of the results from our first training cycle. The first training cycle, we had 35 folks who have expressed an interest and we were able to enroll 15 of them. Of the 15 of them, 75 of them graduated from the programme, which is 11. Of the 11, 75 also got employed by echobay. And so that is about eight of them that got employed by echobay. The other three didnt get employed because they didnt pass the drug tests. However, we continuously work with them and work with in collaboration with city bill and refer them to other jobs so they did get other placement and other construction jobs. Of the eight that were hired by echobay, 90 , which is seven of them, is still currently employed with echobay after 90 days. So, those are some of the datas with regards to the first training cycles. Also ill speak about why the programme has been so successful. Sherry had mentioned earlier this is a fantastic community, Publicprivate Partnership. They have a social mission to their business and that is they wanted to make sure that they provide opportunities for the disadvantaged folks to be able to turn their life around and to be able to build Financial Security for themselves and their families. Because of that mission, they were actively engaged in the training of the programme and the first training of the programme and they were also actively engaged with the development of the programme. The other reason why the programme has been so successful is because echobay made a commitment to hire the graduates upon successful training when they successfully complete the training along with passing the training test. So, there is a lot of Training Programmes out there. But you dont necessarily hear that there is employers that have made a commitment to actually hire directly from the programme and people who successfully completed the Training Programme. We had learned our Training Programme, we dont want it to be solely about training. We want it to be about working with the families and the individuals to help them build longterm Financial Security. Because of that, we have integrated our Training Programme with the financial xloep of it. We needed to communicate that message from the very gitgo so we change our or yen orientation to make sure we communicate that message up front to the clients and understanding that theyre not just participating in a Training Programme. And because of that, this past month, our orientations, weve been hosting it every wednesday. We have seen greater takeup of our financial coaching services. Along with the job Readiness Training workshops. Prior to the next cycle starting in march. The other lesson we learned is that in working with echobay, we needed to do a better screening and assessment of the clients. We had then instituted a physical assessment along with a paper screening assessment and the third piece of assessment that we newly instituted was a tape assessment to account for the clients language, reading and math level. Because they needed to at least have 8th grade reading and math level in order to function in the Training Programme. And then the other lesson that we had learned that during the first cycle, we had some clients, some trainees who had disputed whether or not they came on time and so forth. So we instituted an attendance policy along with a Good Standing participation policy to mitigate future disputes around those issues. And lastly, we modified our math training curriculum to be more reflexive of what the Construction Industry math looks like. So, those were some of the lessons that we learned. So im going to turn it over to echobay, our partner. Whos going to say a few words from echobay about the partnership. Good afternoon. Im dalen rice from ecobay services. First of all id like to express out grateful we are to have the oppor