Maintaining order in the rightofway. Some of the most beautiful streets of the city are to be found in jackson square. We hope to be underway by 2020. So thats the presentation. Its long in coming, about 12 years in the making, and i think youll see substantial support from all the Property Owners who have returned their ballots to improve this Great Community benefit district. Thank you. President yee thank you. Okay. We will now open public testimony. If youre here to in support of the assessment district, please come up. You have two minutes. Hello. My name is frank collins. Im here representing clint mark landmark properties. This has been a long time coming, as marco said, but nothing worth doing comes easy. We urge you to support the formation of this district. This is both an opportunity and responsibility of all the Business Owners in the district, and were very excited to get going. Thank you very much. Supervisor rodney fong with the San Francisco chamber of commerce. I seek your support here. You see this graed crowd before me. Had the pleasure of forming the Fishermans WharfCommunity Benefit district ten years ago, and that was hugely successful. People speak about clean and safe, but the truth is c. B. D. S build community, c. B. D. S build support, and i urge you to support. Thank you. Good afternoon. My names glen good. I live at 4400 hate 19 stre19. Im also representing 1 bush street, which is owned by the tischman spire in this district. Were in support of this. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is shayna eskew. I manage two of the buildings in the district. I just want to urge my support and hope that you will adopt this. Thank you. Thank you. My names christie robela. I represent cbre, and i manage a property, and i just wanted to urge my support, as well. My name is crissy harris, and i am a property manager in the area, and i just wanted to also register my support for the downtown c. B. D. Thank you. Hi. My names marty smith, and im one of the owners of all house real estate, which is a Real Estate Company managing properties in downtown. Several of our buildings are in current improvement districts, and the difference between having one and not having one is dramatic for tenants, for Property Owners, and for the safety of the people walking those streets, so were in full support of the Downtown Improvement districts. Thanks. President yee next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Deedee workman with the San Francisco chamber of commerce. Really delighted that this is coming before you today. I want to thank supervisor peskin and his staff for ushering this after all these years through to you. We know that c. B. D. S are a very successful approach to keeping neighborhoods thriving. The Downtown Core is no different than any other San Francisco neighborhood and needs this additional help to stay clean and to be a thriving, attractive neighborhood that appeals to our businesses, to our residents, to our employees, to our visitors. This particular c. B. D. Will fill the gap in terms of where other c. B. D. S exist and the services there. So were glad this is coming there, and we urge you to support it. Thank you. President yee next speaker. Good afternoon. My names diana rosenblatt. I manage 515 california, 533, and 535, an entire city block. We look forward to the support moving forward. Thank you very much. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hello, supervisors. My name is jay cheng from the chamber of commerce. Im here to register my support for the c. B. D. It is a tenyearplus project that has been given a lot of attention by supervisor peskin and oewd on this issue. C. B. D. S are a great examples of individuals coming together to build community, strengthening neighborhoods, and take responsibility for the city around us, so thank you. President yee next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is lynn fazeroli, i am from the San FranciscoSales Organization. We are the travel and Sales Organization throughout the city. This has been a long time coming. The c. B. D. Will provide services for our visitors and residents alike. It will provide safety and berment of the community. Some of the key services betterment of the community. Some of the key services are graffiti abatement and traffic control. And this will make for a better San Francisco, and for that reason, we support the creation of the downtown Community Benefits district. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is david fewette. On behalf of the sway company, we would like to support this. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. My name is jackie robinson. Im with madison marquette, and i fully support the downtown c. B. D. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is david harrison. Im a long time San Francisco resident, long time San FranciscoBusiness Owner and Property Owner, and ive had the pleasure of serving on the board of directors of three different Community Benefit districts Fishermans Wharf, civic center, and the Community Benefit district. I know these things work, and i wont go on, but i strongly urge that you support it. President yee thank you. Thank you. President yee next speaker. Example here of this section of San Francisco where Property Owners and tenants get together and willing to tax themselves in order to keep their neighborhoods clean. If you used their type of philosophies in the area thats not clean, where you have to go out and pay employees that work for the department of public works 184,000 a year and their name is the poop squad cleanup detail, its a big difference. But yet, were still located in the same jurisdiction as far as the city and county of San Francisco is concerned. The most you want to do is cleanup behind the people that are not wanting to use their own rest room because youre not providing them rest room. Each and every one of these tenants and supporters have their own residents in which they live, and theyre willing to tax themselves cleaner than what their neighborhoods already are. The tenderloin, other areas of the city, areas around city hall are nowhere as near as clean as their area before they even start taxing themselves to cleanup their own god damn area. Its disgusting. Youve got a supervisor thats arguing over plastic bags. You want to charge 25 cents more when you go to the store and get a bag. You spend more time on a god damn plastic bag than providing permanent housing for people that are out on the streets. Youve got people that are recovering from the ethnic cleansing. I dont appreciate you talking like that, brown. Im talking about you. President yee okay. Seei seeing no other persons, are there any other comments in support of the Community Benefit district . Okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [gavel]. President yee okay, colleagues, do we have any other comments on this . Okay. Seeing none, the hearing is now filed. The department of elections will count the ballots cast and will return with the final tabulation later in the meeting and come back to item number 51. Madam clerk, please call items 52 and 53. Clerk items 52 and 53 require the board of supervisors to convene as a special committee of the whole. Item 52 ais a hearing to consider item 53 which is a hearing to review and expand the Community Benefit district known as the civic center Community Benefit district, collecting taxes levied in that district for is a years. President yee colleagues, the purpose of this hearing is to take taxes of the proposed district named the Civic Center CommunityBusiness Improvement district. Pursuant to the board of supervisors resolution of intention we adopted on may 21, 2019. As described in the management district plan, the proposed district would be approximately 771 parcels. Details of the covered area are in the file. At the conclusion of the public hearing, the department of elections will tabulate the ballots 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 neither levy the assessments nor approve the establishment of the district if there is a majority protest. If public testimony the public testimony will be as follows. We will first hear from all speakers in support of the assessment district, then we will hear from all speakers in opposition of the assessment districts. During the hearing, a Property Owner who has not voted yet or who wishes to change their vote may speak with the department of elections staff. They are just outside the Board Chamber and will provide you with affidavit and ballot. After hearing closes, the ballots will be counted. Before we begin, supervisor haney or brown, would you like to make any opening remarks . Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney sure. Thank you, president yee. Just very briefly. Im very strongly in support of this. I want to thank you, chris, for your work as well as the staff at c. B. D. I think theres great things that are happening at civic center and many positive things that you have been helping to lead. I think this plan and you are going to take us in the right direction, and also public activation. I also want to realize that there were some issues that we worked on very closely, and we are working to resolve some of those issues, as well, and i hope that these are improved, and we can continue to Work Together. President yee supervisor brown, do you have any comments . Okay. Then chris from oewd. Thank you, president yee, oewd. I promise this is the last time youll hear of a c. B. D. Election for a few months. This is the renewal and expansion of the civic center Community Benefit district. There will be an amendment to this item after the votes are counted in line of procedure which will remove two buildings or 51 parcels from the northernmost section of the district. Now, tracey everline from the civic center c. B. D. Is here to present on the renewal and expansion of the c. B. D. Good afternoon, supervisors. Tracey everline, executive director for the civic center c. B. D. , and im very honored to be representing our field personnel who helped take care of the district we sit in today day in and day out. Our administrative staff, who have gone above and beyond in their jobs this past year, making civic center a better place for everyone in it, and weve also increased the capacity for our organizations so we can do more for the community. Id like to thank the board members, all members of the community who volunteer their time, and especially our district members who want to be part of solutions and the power of working together. This has reminded everyone what an Important Role that civic center c. B. D. Plays. It should be the example of what a safe and healthy neighborhood looks like. So before you is our proposed district map. The district includes 771 parcels. Notable things are that we are going from two from three zones to two, and have a slightly eastern expansion to include u. N. Plaza which is currently without a c. B. D. We have a 3. 2 million proposed budget, with 1. 6 million to be spent in zone 1, 1. 7 million to be spent in zone two, and as you can see, 77 of the budget is spent towards cleaning services of safety, cleaning, and activation. As snapshot of our services, cleaning, safety, maintenance, Public Health and safety, with a lot of issues that remain on our sidewalks, and they are the responsibility of the Property Owners. We are removing a lot of graffiti every day on notsoeasy to clean surfaces. We are still struggling with discarded syringes and human and animal feces in our rightofway, but our Pilot Project is very successful, so we will be adding more of these in the years to come. Couple of more current statistics. Were currently only able to appreciate wash 46,000 square feet of sidewalk. If successfully renewed, we will go over to 300,000 square feet. We are still collecting 100,000 needles a year, and we hope that will go down. We are providing playground monitors for safety in the civic center plaza, and we make sure that all the rental income from that facility is reinvested in civic center plaza. The people are feeling much better about coming to civic center. [please stand by] we stand to benefit the most from this partnership. I fully support this item and i hope that you do, as well. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is miles gordon. I am here to voice support for this measure. I represent the ownership of 1355 Market Street and support the civic centre c. B. D. Our building houses approximately 2,500 employees in addition to 300 visitors per day we greatly benefit from the cleaning and safety Ambassador Services provided by the c. B. D. We want the services to continue and appreciate the value of the c. B. D. To the neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am with emerald fund. We are the developer and Property Owners are and property manager and owner of three different buildings. It comprises 1,000 apartments which totals close to 2,000 residents. We are huge supporters of the c. B. D. The positive changes that the c. B. D. Has brought over the last nine years have been great. We cant imagine operating without the c. B. D. And we would like to express our huge support for it. Thank you. Next speaker. I work for i work with properties that are in the civic centre c. B. D. I have been involved with that c. B. D. Since its inception and i feel that we have learned a lot and we are really looking forward to renewing it. Therefore i support the renewal. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, my name is ruth. Im a staff member at San Francisco opera. I walk every day from the castro neighborhood into the civic centre neighborhood. I have been in San Francisco for over 11 years and i am just amazed by the transformation that i have seen in civic centre we do have more to do and we would appreciate your support in helping us do that. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Patrick mills here representing the bayreuth family of businesses including the by right cafe kiosk on Civic Centre Plaza to enthusiastically support the renewal of the c. B. D. At Civic Centre Plaza and to attest to the astute management of our facilities, your support and opening our business, the safety and cleanliness of the plaza and most importantly, the building of Community Within the Community Benefit district. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I live at 100 van nuys. I worked with him on ways to improve civic centre and in 2006 , he authorized the creation of a civic centre c. B. D. It took four years to get it to the point of being authorized by the board of supervisors because it was tricky. We had all these public parcels and it had to be shaped up and we didnt really know what the area needed exactly. So eight years from the inception and now we are back before you saying we better understand it. We need more money and we are also going to be taking the responsibility for you and pablo , which has been virtually neglected for the last eight or ten years, and so i think we are at a really good place. I would also like to suggest that, which has not been mentioned, that civic centre is the most significant civic centre of any in the united states. It is the largest collection of monumental municipal buildings of any city. It is a National Treasure and we need a Strong Organization to help tell that story and get people to come because for the last 50 or 70 years, the area has been misunderstood, it has been neglected, and it has been ignored. The c. B. D. Is one of the biggest steps along with a number of others in the last ten years to try to overcome that but more needs to be done. If case in case you havent seen it, i have written it all up in a book that i have put out recently and i hope that you all have gotten a copy and read it closely because the last chapter underscores a lot of the things that happened to mess things up. So i will leave some of my flyers here to encourage you to get the book. [laughter]. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is susan and i represent the San Francisco conservatory of music. We are enthusiastic supporters of the c. B. D. We have 400 and more students coming and going at the building on 50 oh, every day. On saturdays we have as many as 350 children between the ages of four and 18 coming with their parents to learn about music, and they come through that area, too, as well as the fact that we have about 600 concerts a year free to the public. So we have people coming and going all the time and we couldnt imagine doing it without the services of the c. B. D.