Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Public comment will be held on each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. You while hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. Please state your name and organization youre representing, if any, for the record. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today and for your many years of service to our community. My name is jim hancock, im the president of the San Francisco Sailing Science Center, a project to create a museum framed around sailing. Im very pleased to announce today that in the month of may the San Francisco Sailing Science Center received confirmation of its 501c3 tax exempt status from the federal government. This launches us into a new phase of our project and were already planning Exciting Events and initiatives for the coming months. For the past year weve held office at the Treasure Island Administration Building down stairs from the tida offices and have been developing relationships with people in Treasure Island, the Treasure Island yacht club, the Sailing Center, Treasure Island news and elsewhere. With our new status, youll begin to see much more activity from our team as we endeavor to build community and be good members of the community on Treasure Island. Thank you. President tsen thank you, jim. Next, please. Hi, my name is park allrick. Id would like to defer my time to my partner. Hi, chair. So my name is meeusen. I am the owner partner of mer say resident. Im this is what i consider myself a citizen of Treasure Island. Thank you to my partner, best friend, for yielding his time to me. I usually panic and then i talk too fast and dont get my point across. Id like to thank you, board president tsen and supervisor haney, and the board of directors and director beck for the opportunity to speak. My partner park and i are here not to discuss issues about the tolls or the many other issues on the agenda. Im here because often times fear of the unknown is what drives anger and hostility and when we speak and come from a place of fear, it often manifests itself in ugly ways. Do the tolls scare us . Yes. We dont know how it will affect our businesses when it implemented. It will effect our vendors, employees and guests. For now, we are grateful for the enormous opportunity, the honor and opportunity to be part of the seminole moment of the development of the island. Were honored to serve and contribute to the citizens of the island, how ever long that may last. We cannot effect progress, we can only be asked to be given a voice and hope we can come to reasonable resolutions on any negative issues that might impact us. As a new restaurant owner, my partner is an expert. Ive learned important and humbling lessons. We received negative reviews on yelp and it has opened my eyes to the needs that people have. Guests believe there are injustices because their french fries are too cold, they dont like the pricing. They voice their anger through a public medium like yelp and often times blaming and attacking me personally. What is offset, their negative reviews, are the guests who love their experience and actually speak up on behalf of the employees. So, supervisor, haney, were incredibly grateful youve reached out to our community and shown us that we matter to you. But im also here to speak positively of the great work of the tida board and their staff. And bob beck and his team. Director beck and his team have supported us through the many challenges of building on the island. Theyve championed us with the Police Department when car breakins were more frequent than wed like. When the sewage system backed up, it was bob beck standing out in the streets working with puc to try to continue to resolve a bad situation. And im aware of many other occurrences in which they have helped other businesses. They supported the hot dogs, so whatever location is needed to succeed in the construction phases, that supporting tammy with the waffles and bicycle business. Weve employed as many residents on the island as possible, helping to source and hire residents like former veteran with the program utilizing toolworks for the janitorial service. Being one of the restaurants on the island, we opened our doors and invitation to the residents. When there was a circus, we ensured there were free shows for the residents. When someone wanted to do a movie, the residents had free movies. Even now we have a major Health Company holding an event and they want to make sure the residents on the island get free flu shots. We supported the coast guard during the Government Shutdown and many other examples of things weve made possible. While the benefits on the surface appear to be separate, theyre all strengths for the residents that was made possible because of the support of the board and bob and his team. And his staff. President tsen thank you. Weve observed the board and represented the island and we believe we face Development Challenges ahead that were grateful and thankful and stand behind the board and bob beck. And we just thats my positive yelp review. Thank you. President tsen thank you for that. I just want to also say that lucy has been such a great addition to the Treasure Island community and, meeusen, and you, park, have been such Great Community members, Building Community on Treasure Island. You are the type of entrepreneurs we want to support on the island. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. President tsen, directors of the Treasure Island Development Authority, im the executive director of the Treasure Island sailing centre. I want to thank you again for continued support of our programs. Were in full swing right now and have about 900 kids registered for our program for the summer. I was handed a copy of the proposed revisions to clipper cove rules and regulations late last week. Which is on the Consent Agenda today. At first glance i noticed nothing unusual, but upon closer look at the language i realize that the ability to restrict the shoreline of yerba buena has been eliminated. The leaning of the revision does not give definition for times that would necessitate restrictions. While there may be times that access to the cove and shorelines need to be restricted, its my opinion that some outlying definition should be adopted without some appropriate language to define the need for restriction, the decision to restrict would be unchecked and Public Access could be taken away without a appropriate cause. There appears to be no length of time defined or remedy to oppose a restriction. It also describes no communication plan to advise of any restriction. The current language gives absolute authority to whoever tida appoints. Depending on the timing, any restriction could inhibit the delivery of programs and access to resource for the bay area youth. Were only a small portion of the population who uses the beach. As many boaters from around the bay take advantage of this little oasis in the middle of the bay. I would ask you to define the nature, scope, communication, and remedy whenever any Public Access is being limited. We have little precious area to recreate and limiting access for any reason should be a decision that is not taken lightly, nor by any one group or person. Thank you very much for your time. I submit this letter for the record. Take that under consideration. Thank you very much. Nobody else . Then lets go to the next item. Item number 3, report by Treasure Island director. Thank you, chair tsen, supervisor haney, members of the board. Id like to invite Sherry Williams to give an update on Treasure Island programs. Good afternoon, with one Treasure Island. With the vertical Development Starting on ybi and anticipated the first affordable project happening in calendar year, 2020, were going to be ramping up our construction Training Program. And hopefully well be getting a lot of people, lowincome san franciscans into the trades and union work in developing these new housing units. So were pretty excited about that for this coming up calendar year starting july 1. And then also we have our Drivers Education Program which we are working with oewd as part of their driverbuild program to increase the number of drivers that is woefully needed in San Francisco. We are assisting them getting their class b licenses and one of our efforts is going to be to try to partner with the operating engineers so we can get folks into that union. So aside from that, were also updating the Family Resource guide that we hope to have out to the community by the end of this week, early next week, that will indicate all of the various opportunities for families and children for the summer. And then well update that next year. So aside from that, im not sure there is too much else to say, but were busy and we thank you for your support. Thank you, sherry. Just an update on island events. The Northern California junior Lacrosse Association had tournaments on the island on the weekends of may 4 and 5. And may 18 and 19. The may treasurefest was incidentfree and well attended. Also on may 25, last weekend in may, Treasure Island museum held their talk from geology to horticulture on Treasure Island. And their next lecture will be on june 29, the last saturday in june. The ecology hosted their three item for district 6 on the island on may 25 as well. Dont have statistics yet on the amount of material that was collected, but was well attended. One Treasure Island, speaking of sherry, had their grand Opening Event for the gather garden on thursday, may 30. Although it was a cool day, there was free shaved ice for attendees and other refreshments. We have our project poll intern who started with us yesterday and well have a Second Coming on next week. On the housing front, we have good news in that the staff from the Strategic Growth Council has recommended that the mercy Catholic Charities project be awarded an h. S. C. Grant based on our application. Its not officially an award yet, but all signs are very positive. Yesterday, ybi, the team had an event to recognize the design team for the ybi residential work and to celebrate the start of construction activities. On may 29, we had in conjunction with arws, we had open house for predda households. We had 67 individuals from 42 households turn up, including four households that had not responded to prior outreach efforts. Of the 23 households that we had not been able to engage as of our last meeting, arws was able to have interviews with six of them this past month. We have also confirmed that two of those households no longer have a predda tenant, so theyre post dda households. So we have 15 households that we are still seeking to engage, although two of those we have arws has made contact and theyve declined to undertake an interview at this time. Since may 1, weve had when we opened the window, weve had eight households make contact to request information. And three have filed in lieu payment applications. On the construction front, geotechnical improvements are complete north of california and Treasure Island Community Development is mobilizing to install wick drains behind building one as the first step moving the work south of california. Demolition of structures to make way for the new Waste Water Treatment Plant is complete. Processor is processing the debris and well move conflicting utilities. Construction of new ferry improvements are also expected to begin. On ybi, the demolition of the 1 million gallon water tank is complete and the realignment of the road is advancing. On may 13, phase three of the permit infrastructure permit to public works. So our goal from here is to get to final approved plans, permits, and final subdivision maps by march of 2020. The first final transfer map is being planned for submission to the board of supervisors for consideration at the july 9 meeting of the board. On the environmental front, the navy has issued land use draft land use controls and draft for site 24, the former dry cleaning facility. Assuming timely review and finalizing of those documents with the regulators, site 24 is anticipated to transfer this summer. The miss dig in site 12, the various locations, chemical radiation is ongoing. The navy has demolished two vacant buildings and that should wrap up by end of july. That concludes my report for this month. President tsen thank you very much. Let me yes, supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, director beck. I had a couple of questions. I was contacted a few times over the last month as it related to Power Outages and i wonder if you could talk a bit about, you know, what your involvement is in the response . I believe there were two. And what is being done to prevent further outages and mitigate the impact on residents and businesses on the island . We did have two outages this past month. I believe in both cases, the p. U. C. Was unable to identify the source of the outage. Typically that means that something probably came in contact with transmission lines and caused a surge, causing the switch gear to trip out. So its a matter of resetting the system. So in both cases, the power was restored within two hours. P. U. C. Is lead agency in response when we have a power outage on the island. And with the exception of this past president s day weekend where we had extended outage, the average duration of an outage has been two hours over the last year and a half. In terms of the biggest improvement to the island is going to come with the installation of new switch gear, serving the entire island. The new switch gear is to be installed same site where the Waste Water Treatment Plant is developed. The debris is being removed from that location now and the expectation is that is delivered by june of 2020, with completion of geotechnical improvements so that by the end of 2020, well be on new switch gear for the island. And that is the most significant thing to be done to improve the reliability. Because its the fault tolerance of the primary switch gear that is the primary source of outages on the island. Supervisor haney thank you. In terms of mitigation, often residents will respond and say, you know, is there some sort of temporary thing, is there a generat generator . What about people who have health needs . Are there particular things were doing around supporting people who may have emergencies . Obviously, the twohour one is one thing, but there was one, i guess, a couple of months ago that was much more extended . Yes. For the island as a whole, we do have generators that are capable of keeping both Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island up, however, those generators operate through the existing switch gear. So if there is a fault on the Distribution System on the island, those generators arent able to power the system. Theyre primarily there if there is a problem with the supply from oakland to the island. We are exploring the possibility of adding an emergency generator to the ymca as a facility that we could stand up in the event of an extended outage to provide power for people who might have devices that require power, if we have an extended onisland outage. Supervisor haney it hasnt got to the point for that last extended outage, where those generators were activated . Or you werent able to do that . Because the problem was within the Distribution System on the island, those generators rely upon that Distribution System. So supervisor haney they cant run independently . Yeah, they can only bring the island up theyre only there as a resort if the supply from oakland is cut off. Or, for example, if pg e were to create a regional shutdown as they do for the current firestorm season, we would still be able to keep the island up on those generators, but if the fault is within the Distribution System on the island, then those generators arent able to supply the power to residents. Supervisor haney got it. And just one more quick question. So i appreciate, i know that you provide the 311 request during your monthly reports. Do you keep track of or have regular access to be able to report dbi related requests . If we, dbi notices of violation . Supervisor haney yeah, like inspection stuff, if someone has, now e, in terms of you know, in terms of habitability types things, or anything like that . Weve occasionally had a notice of violation on a property if a commercial tenant has made a change without a permit. And we work to get those corrected. But im not aware of complaints that are made to dbi by commercial or residential tenants. I can look into that. I want to make a note here. I was goi