Urban tree can pee. Today she is the c. E. O. Of her household and keeping her husband and children safe, clothed and happy. For each of these contributions, i am proud to honor ina deerman. [applause] now, shes brought a good chunk of Ashbury Heights down with her. Among the folks we have here is kelly deerman, her daughter. And colleagues, you may know kelly as executive director of the ihsf public authorities since 2014. Prior to that she was president of the Human Services commission, ran her own small law practice and in 2008 founded sf urban c. H. C. , a nonprofit buying Financial Literacy for low and moderate industry. I think kelly was going to say a few words. President fung supervisor peskin. Thank you, i apologize for popping up. When youve been on this board on and off for 20 years. I remember ms. Deerman when i used to go to the planned marks reservation board before it was a commission. And ms. Deerman had a profound sense of figuring out who was cheating and speculating and who was doing the right thing. Ive never forget what she said, i like your blue eyes, i do not like your protec project and shd no and brought the rest of that with her. Thank you ms. Deerman. [applause] president fung the floor is yours. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you so much for this honor. My mom and i ask the discussion last night and she said did i have to speak and i said no. Ill do it for you. I can honestly say on behalf of my whole family its probably better that i am up here. If you know anything about my mom, her most famous saying is i speak the truth. I would say for all of us who have lived with her and know her and love her we know its the case. We also know with my mom, that one thing might get you down but theres always a reason to get up. Mom proves that everyday by get being up, standing tall, reading the paper, reminding us of all the work we have to do. This honor is very much appreciated on behalf of all of us and i thank all of our family and friends and colleagues that have come out to join us to support her. She would tell me to stop talking and tell you there was much work to do so please, continue doing it. Thank you so very much. [applause] [applause] supervisor yee thank you for bringing this great set of people to honor today. That would conclude our special commodatons. Lets go to items 2124. Clerk items 1224 comprise the special order of 3 00 p. M. For public hearing of persons interested in the decision of public works dated june 6th, 2019. Approval a map for a threelot subdivision project at 2146 through 2150 union street. Item 22 is the motion to approe and item 23 is to disapprove the departments decision and to disapprove the tentative map and item 24 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. Supervisor yee these will be continued to next tuesday, july 16th, 2019, with the understanding these items will be continued. We will now take Public Comment on the continuance. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the proposed continuance of this appeal . All speakers should be allowed two minutes each. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. And i will make a motion to continue the items. Supervisor yee are you making the motion . Were going to take a motion to keep the hearing open and continue these items for july. Motion made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor safai. Without objection we need a roll call. Mandelman is not here. Supervisor yee ok. Roll call, please. On the continuance to july 16th of items 21 to 24 [ roll call ] there are nine ayes. Supervisor yee this area will remain open and items 21 to 24 are continued to july 16th, 2019. Madam clerk, please call the next 3 00 p. M. Special order items 25 and 26. Clerk i have 25 and 26 comprise the board of supervisors sitting as a committee as a whole and this public hearing was scheduled pursuant to a resolution adopted may seventh, 2 2019. Its to consider the subject matter of item 26. Which say resolution to establish renew and expand the property based Business Improvement district known as the union square Business Improvement district ordering the levee and collection of assignments against property located in the district for 10 years commencing with the fiscal year 201920. Subject to conditions as fess tied and tspecified and make the appropriate environmental findings. Supervisor yee were now sitting a as committee of the whole. Colleagues, the purpose of this hearing is to take testimony on the proposed levee of assessments of the property and Business Improvement. Pursuant to the board resolution of intention we adopt it on may seventh, 2019. As described in a management district plan, the proposed district would be approximately 620 identified parcels located on the 27 hole or partial blocks. Details of the cover area are in the file. At the conclusion of the public hearing, the department of elections will tabulate the ballot and report to the board of supervisors. Members of the public may view the ballot tabulation by the department of elections on the basement level of city hall in room 59. The board of supervisors will either levee the assessments or approve the establishment of the district if theres a majority protest. Im sorry, let me say that again. The bother of supervisors will neither levee the sisment. If theres assessment. The publis follows, we will first hear from all speakers in support of the assessment district. Each district will have each speaker will have two minutes. Then we will hear from all speakers in opposition to the assessment district. Each speaker will have two minutes. During the hearing, a property owner, who has not voted yet, or wishes to change their vote may speak with the department of elections staff. They are at the table just outside of the Board Chamber and will provide you with an affidavit and ballot. After the hearing closes, the ballot will be counted. Before we begin, supervisor peskin, would you like to make any opening remarks . Thank you, president yee. I want to acknowledge the burgundy blazer. [laughter] more importantly, i would like to acknowledge the work of ms. Flood and the staff at the union square improvement district. This is created in late 1990s amid the remarkable controversy. I had the honor and pleasure of presiding over its first extension which was approved unanimously by the board. More importantly, voted by an overwhelming super majority of the Property Owners that will actually pay for the safety and public realm improvements that continue in the Union Square Area and as that Business Improvement district has expanded, it was continued yet again by my predecessor, supervisor chu. I will not in anyway forecast the outcome of this election. If theres not a majority vote, we cannot vote to have this be extended but i am hopeful, if not confident, that the good work that ms. Flood and her staff have done will lead to that majority vote and after the votes of counted, i will hopefully be able to be in a position to extend the time length to the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you for your work. Supervisor yee do you have a word or two to say. Thank you. Senior program officer. As the resolution stated this is a renewal of the union square Business Improvement district for an additional 10 years. Id like to thank supervisor peskin and his staff who have been nothing but fantastic throughout this renewal. I would like to command karen flood, the executive director, den horn as well as hobby silver on a phenom enam outreach effort they did throughout this renewal and expansion campaign. This would not be possible without the city departments in particular the Clerks Office and the department of elections. In particular, from those offices id like to thank alicia somaro, erika major, john carole, juan clock, regan wang and alice law for the assistance on the renewal campaign. With me today is karen flood who will be showing you all a brief presentation on the upcoming renewal of the bid. Thank you so much, chris for that nice introduction and for all your good work in helping us renew this bid. Good afternoon. Resident norman yee, aaron peskin for sponsoring this legislation and supporting us and also supervisor haney who also also part in his district and all members of the board of supervisors. My name is karen flood and im the executive director of the union square bid and im pleased to have this opportunity to present to you today the case for why to renew the union square bid for another 10 years and present our plan. So the union square bid, were proposing to renew for another 10 years until 2029. We are proposing minimal changes to the current 27 blocks. Just to round out the borders. We are proposing some enhancements to the following services which really are based on over 18 months of solid outreach to the stakeholders in our district. So namely were proposing a 20 increase in the clean and safe staff team wages. We think this is really important to pay a fair wage and keep our staff we are proposing to increase our Members Services to 24 7789 thi7. This is the number if they want a rapid response. Were proposing expanded cleaning and Safety Services and in the afternoon and evening hours and we see more pedestrians moving throughout the district and theres a cleaning and safety during those hours and expansion of our security program. We have 350 cameras on private buildings through out the district. They cover 60 of the district and were hoping to expand that to about 100 of the district and to activate the public realm and our allies, our open spaces and to invite everyone downtown to experience union square and make the area more beautifulment to do all this, were proposing the increase to 65 to take us from 3. 7 million to 6 million. Its a big ask but were really pleased on petition that we received 50 of the properties of the weighted assessments and its incredible and you only have 30 and we believe that the turnout of the votes today will reflect that same very high number so here are our boundaries and to the east is kearney and a jagged line at mayson and taylor. Were proposing two zones in this reiteration of the bid. The pink in the center is really the core of our district and we believe this area and based on feedback from our stakeholders, this area really needs more service. This received calls and incidents throughout the 10 years and this is where theres foot traffic. This is where rent is higher. This needs more services. Were proposing twice the level of the Current Service this is this area. The gray area a 1. 5 level increase to this area. This is the frequency of our cleaning and Safety Services and you have the power front in powt of you. Were increasing the frequency so our properties get two cleanings a day and well propose four cleanings in the core. The pressure watching twice a month and every week in the core and so on. Our assessment methodology is based on a benefits point system and this is similar to the c. B. D. S and they are here to answer questions. Its technical. We believe the harder it is to understand it the fairer it is so believe me and trust me. Its fair but essentially, its based on three factors, sidewalk front age is 70 of the assessment building. 15 lot size and theres four types of land uses and Condominium Properties and theyre all assessed at a slightly different rate or using different points. You may more in zone two because you get more service. A renewal budget brings us to 6 Million Dollars i 6 million ande another 524,000 which would bring us to 6. 5 million were upping this to 64 but this is again the take holders wanted and theres a real need downtown for additional cleaning and Safety Services. But were also looking forward to providing more public realm, marketing and advocacy to create continue to have a vibrant and residents to come through in union square and management admin rounds out the budget at 14 . This slide goes into detail about the cleaning and the different types of cleaning and the theme cleaning and again upping the frequency and ill let you review that on youren. Here are some of our cleaning embassadors and some of the good work they did in 2018 and they picked up 572,000 pounds of trash and this is a lot of garbage and this is about two large dumpsters that we fill everyday in union square park. Its a lot that gets picked up. We expect it to get picked up even more Going Forward. We pick up a lot of needles. 9,000 needles everyday. And 17,000 graffiti tags and stickers. Here is a snapshot of the safety programs and again we hope toen chance with additional frequency and ill height lie here we have one officer 10 hours a day and it will be a second officer and we do pay deerly for this and 100 out an how and we plan to do that and we have a overnight Security Patrol to cut down on some of the incidents happening at night and the drive throughs in our store windows that were hoping to prevent Going Forward as west beck. Here is our safety team right now. They give out directions all daylong. They address many quality of life issues. From excessive noise to aggressive street behavior. Its up to the sfpd to enforce the laws but we provide eyes and ears for them on the lots and ordinance on the books in San Francisco. Economic impact, union square impacts a union punch. We represent 3. 5 of the land mass in San Francisco yet we are bringing in considerable dollars for the city. In forecast, we bring in 34 of the citys generated sales and consumer goods. 13 i think of all of our goods. 27 of the citys tran see ant and we have workers and daily, monthly rather, we have 4 million visitors. Theres a lot of people moving through union square everyday. So weve gone above and beyond our Management Plan over the last 10 years and im so proud of the work that we have done with launching our union square foundation. It enables us to go above and beyond the clean and safe and provide Workforce Development through our downtown street theme. Theres a representative here today with downtown streets. They hire Homeless Individuals and get paired up with a case worker. We have hired these individuals to our regular crew and were proud of the partnership that we have there and another organization we partner with recently is miracle messages and we have outreach workers in union square that go around and talk to some of the homeless folks to deif they can recorrect them with family members they lost touch with and we have nice stories of where there have been reconnections and such so were proud of that work and we hope to continue more of that Going Forward. Our place making. We have been working closely with supervisor peskins office to see how much more we can activate cam ton, some of these public spaces to invite people downtown and then encourage them to stay downtown. To enjoy foods from the food trucks. These are our paparazzi dogs. Were so proud of our winter walk which started as a mitigation effort for the subway construction which is tough on all of us down there. We created this incredible public popup plaza for five years where we welcomed 2. 2 million visitors. Were going tmore on come on thy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you so very much. Supervisor yee any questions . I dont see anybody on the roster. I guess we will now take a open public testimony. If you are here in support of the assessment district, please come up and go ahead and make your comments. You have two minutes. In support. Good afternoon, members of the board of supervisors. Supervisor peskin, thank you very much for being the real i was on the renewal committee, which as was explained started over 18 months ago. We did extensive outreach to Property Owners, surveys, stakeholders, and held Community Meetings to find out what people wanted in the district. Again, this outlined what the result of that was and got our petition reaffirmed to the Property Owners. Well get what they want and theyre willing to pay for it and if the boa vote comes out as supervisor peskin thinks it will go, i ask you to vote yes to renew the bid. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is raymond. Im the lead project manager for downtown streets teamment im here today to share our support of the renewal of the union square bid. They create an Inclusive Community for all individuals experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing this and we provide Workforce Development experience where our team members chose an area and many of them have chosen union square to beautify the streets picking up debris and needles and we work on members gaining employ and housing. Since union square has had us working with them we picked up over 200,000 pounds of trash and over 5900 needles and weve been able to help employ 27 team members and house 15 team members. A number of those team members have been hired within the union square bid as well. And all those numbers show the metric lies impact on the community, the personal impact created for our members is far greater. The bid has brought our team members to appreciation lunches, they invited them to various events such as tulip day and more. They have empowered our teams to be a neighbor, friend and family. We support the renewal for the bid and look forward to empowering many more individuals and the time to come. Thank you. Supervisor yee next speaker. Good afternoon. Members of the board and board president yee. Im the general manager for golden gate and board member of the union square b. I. D. Given what we do, we often partner with city agencies like d. P. W. , d. P. H. And union square b. I. D. We have constant merchants and corridor walks to identify problems and fix them proactively. With the birds eye view i see, the staff that ive experienced are very c