Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

Through the budget process to do so. I do want to highlight that not only would we be responsible for buying the toilet itself, but we would also need to consider the infrastructure expense at that location and Maintenance Services in addition to make sure that the toilets stay in good working condition. For the advertising kiosk, this program is essentially an exchange, so in exchange for public kiosks, we agree to allow for advertising on the public rightofway. In the newly proposed agreement, we would have 44 traditional kiosks in the new design with you with paper advertising like we do today. 70 of these kiosks would be digital, and one of every eight digital spots is reserved for public purpose. Were also proposing in this agreement to have 15 interactive kiosks, and that programming can be done by the city and promote wayfinding and any other Public Service announcement the city wishes to display. There will also be 20 proposed vending kiosks, and these vending kiosks can be used by local businesses as kind of a less expensive option to a more traditional brickandmortar presence. Decaux has committed that it will develop a policy that will govern the public space as well as policy that would determine leasing for the advertising on the kiosks, and we would return to the board for approval on that policy. Just a brief mention of the financial contributions in this contract. Inkind benefits can include Capital Investments in the toilets and kiosk and maintenance and monitoring, which is worth about 161. 5 million over the course of the contract. Decaux is committed to a onetime fee of 7 million. It would provide a revenue stream kind of similar to what the p. U. C. And other properties have today. A total benefit that weve calculated is 165. 13 million. Just like to talk briefly about the design process. Our goals were to find a design that was timeless, modern, and ambitious, consistent with the policy currently both at Historic Preservation commission and the arts commission, who both reviewed and approved this design. We had a design competition. 12 local firms proposed design. We had a jury panel of design experts determine three finalists. We had an extensive Outreach Campaign that included various media outlets. We displayed at the public library, at u. S. Plaza, we did outreach to Additional Community groups and received more than 200 responses to the various proposed design. When we finally went for review and approval, our design was unanimously approved by civic design, arts commission, and Historic Preservation. These are a couple of the views of the newly proposed design from various perspectives, and we do have a representative here today if youre interested in talking about urban design. As you can see, the approach is very different than the parisian style of our current toilets. Its a much more forward thinking design. Its very modern, very rounded, just a different aesthetic than what weve done before. This gives you a view of what a little vending kiosk might look like out on the street. Its similar to how some of the new stand kiosks are in the current agreement, where they have a little more that opens up, and displays on the little doors. Thats the end of my presentation, and im happy to take any questions. Chair fewer colleagues, questions, comments . Can we have a b. L. A. Report, please . Supervisor peskin i just wanted to thank carolyn at public works for her work on this, along with miss dawson. Chair fewer ditto. Yes. This resolution approves the 21. 5year contract between the city and j. C. Decaux. Under the contract, j. C. Decaux would have the right to operate 114 advertising kiosks in exchange for operating the Public Toilet program which has been described here. We provide estimates on page 8 of our report. Over this 21. 5year term, we estimate the cost to the city would be about 7 million. Chair fewer thank you very mu much. And we recommend approval. Chair fewer i have one question. I see on page 7 , that it says each toilet shall be operational 24 hours a day unless required by the director. Will these toilets be operational 24 hours a day . So many of them are operational 24 hours a day. The only ones that arent are where we have provided attendant services because were concerned with afterhour activity in the area. So many of them are open 24 hours. I think our intention here is to continue the practice that weve presented today, continuing to working with the board on what these hours should be. Many of these will continue to be 24, but we may mutually decide it makes sense for the Public Safety to shut some of them in the nighttime hours to make sure the facilities are safe. Chair fewer so my next question in this is in this agreement, j. C. Decaux is paying for staffing at these. Yes, at 11 locations. Chair fewer my question is, are they just paying for staffing for 24 hours a day or 24 hours a day . Right now, its 10 or 11 hours a day at this point in time. We certainly can adjust them, but their contract gives them an hourly total equipment. So if we decide we can shorten hours some places and lengthen hours in others, thats something we can do. Chair fewer is it based on a certain number of hours a day . Yes. Its based on 11 locations, ten hours a day. Chair fewer and what are the size of the new toilets and kiosks . Theyre a little bigger. Chair fewer the toilets and the kiosk . No, the kiosks are the same size, but the toilets are taller. Chair fewer are they taking up more surface area . They are a little bit wider, so we are mindful that some areas that have a tighter sidewalk location, we might need to adjust it a few feet in either direction just to ensure that everyone is safe. Chair fewer and do we have a photograph of this new toilet . We do have one upstairs, but we didnt bring it this time. Chair fewer thats okay if you dont have it. I just thought the public would like to see it. But i see that we have an agreement here, and colleagues, lets open this up for Public Comment first. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item number two . Good morning, supervisors. Good to see you again. I am the c. E. O. Of urban alchemies. We have been provide the practitioners at all of the Public Toilets. I just really wanted to i think my main purpose is coming today is to provide our support for this contract. Not just of course because we stabbed to stand to benefit as the practitioner staffing this toilet, but really wanted to share my experience in working with j. C. Decaux. As you know, ive been working with the nonprofit field in over 20 years in bayview and the city. Its really rare that we have someone reach out to us and try to partner with us. I know that j. C. Decaux has hired some of our practitioners after theyve moved on. I know that francois has mentored me, and i think its raised the bar, and i think our relationship with j. C. Decaux has been really important in terms of service. Them knowing their staff members, being able to have a relationship to call them to repair the toilets, and so the last thing i just wanted to say, we understand this. Most importantly, this is a crisis of homelessness in San Francisco and really across the country, but particularly on the west coast. And i think the most important thing is weve been able to really put our Heads Together and think critically about what the Services Mean to not only the Homeless Population and the Health Population in friSan Francisco, but the entire population in San Francisco and the quality of life. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. My name is harvey turner, and i started working by attending these public rest rooms in 2016, and now im a supervisor for those same toilets, and i would like to say that j. C. Decaux has been a tremendous help in me some developing relationships with them. Im a longterm offender, so these 11 kiosks that we monitor has created a great opportunity for people like me coming out of incarceration and back into the workforce. Theyre always there if we need repairs, as well as deescalation in those areas that we monitor the rest rooms in. Im in support of them just as much as they have supported me, and i hope that we can continue to grow this relationship, not only in the 11 rest rooms that we attend today, but im hoping we can attend the existing 14 so they wont be as troubled. When we first starts, these rest rooms were populated by Homeless People going in and just taking up residence in there, but since weve been there, theres been a tremendous change in those areas. Im truly grateful for d. J. Decaux. Im tree j. C. Decaux, and im truly grateful for the opportunity to be in the workforce and the opportunities that ive been given. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im sandy garcia. I was one of the system monitors. We have a good relation with decaux. So and also, ive been outside. I see how many people use this toilet, and how they make the city look good. We had tourists that were around. Theyre like man, these toilets are really good. Were the only city that provided those kind of toilets for me, so i i really say thank you for j. C. Decauxs opportunity for give it to me, and thank you for approving it. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. J. C. Decaux have been very instrumental on allowing us to make a connection with the community, for a lot of Homeless Individuals thats out there that have been controlling the environment where the j. C. Decaux locations are out there. It also helps us to support the tourists that come from Different Countries to feel safe when they want to use the rest room because in the locations, a lot of restaurants and Different Companies dont allow tourists to come in and use the rest rooms, so j. C. Decaux has been very supportive of that, and my whole organization is very grateful. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. My name is mike, and im with teamsters local 386. Im part of the team that originally negotiated j. C. Decaux. Just real quickly, agreements do include fully paid Teamster Health and welfare. Weve had a very strong and professional relationship with j. C. Decaux. I do want to thank all parties that were involved in getting the harmony language in there, and their professionalness, and with that, im in support. Chair fewer thank you. Any other Public Comment . Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer i make a motion to accept the proposed amend. Can i do that without objection . Thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer and i would like to make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. Thank you very much. Clerk madam clerk, the amendment is just to the legislation itself, but the full contract can be recommended to the board. Chair fewer thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, can you call item 4. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. I believe we have amanda freed here from the treasurer and tax collectors office. Good morning, chair, supervisor mandelman. Amanda freed with the office of the treasurer and tax collector. Im here this morning to present for your approval a resolution that will extend our service and maintenance contract with manatron. The proposed resolution would extend the Software Service and Maintenance Agreement for five years to a total term of 2024. It also includes an additional four dp fouryear option to extend. Im happy to answer any questions you might have. Chair fewer could i have a b. L. A. Report, please. This resolution approves an extension of an existing software Maintenance Agreement with manatron. It extends it through 2023, which is why its subject info inform to board of supervisors approval. And we recommend approval. Chair fewer thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [gavel]. Chair fewer i make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. [gavel]. Chair fewer madam clerk, please read item five. [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much. And it is lee levinson that we have here . Yes. Chair fewer okay. And is mark daina here . Yes. Chair fewer youre the b. A. R. T. Manager . Yes. Chair fewer okay. You may start. Thank you, supervisor. I am lee levinson. We jointly maintain stations, and this item before you is an important Capital Project related to canopies above escalators in those stations, and those canopies are to keep those escalators safe and reduce the maintenance costs due to weather. The funding source, this is an agreement to share the costs equally with b. A. R. T. The estimated cost is in the neighborhood of 90 million, so this would authorize 45 million to come from general Obligation Bond funding from the 500 million bond issuance that was authorized in 2014, and we look for your support for this and are here to answer any questions. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman madam chair . So i get the importance of these canopies and doing something to protect the escalators from the elements is important, and everyones very frustrated when these escalators are not working, so im hoping in the decades to come, with the canopies, well have these escalators working more often. But as i was looking at this, i was struck by the price tag. 90 million for canopies. I think its a total of 21, so that breaks down to Something Like in the neighborhood of 5 million for a fancy tent, it seems like. Why is it so expensive to build these canopies . Well, i think i will ask mark daina to come forward as being closest to the project construction. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Mark daina, project for b. A. R. T. Im the project supervisor on the escalator contracts. The original estimate that we had was based on the two pilot canopies that we recently completed. We got with the economy of scale and the escalation. Literally, that was the price of something similar. In the meantime, Market Conditions have changed. Its harder to get contractors interested in public works projects right now. Were getting less proposals on our contracts. The cost estimates that our consultants are providing are showing that the price is increasing overall for all materials and for the services that were obtaining. Theyre a specialized canopy. If youve seen the two pilot canopies that weve constructed, the ceiling is kind of like a floating cloud. It was a design that we worked with the city in developing. Theyre a little bit different than the ones in oakland. They are a little bit different materials. They are fiber reinforced plastic ceiling. Its hard to do work in the city streets. The Public Protection safety aspect is very important to us and the city. A lot of things go into this. We the Market Conditions being as they are, we would like to have this in place. We are hoping well get a lower price when we get the bids, but when we get the bids, if they are much higher than what the original estimates were, we would have a hard time being able to fund and award right away. Supervisor mandelman were the original estimates less than this 90 million . The original was 60 million for supervisor mandelman and how much were the two canopies that were already done . They were approximately 2. 3 million each, and that was the Construction Costs, so the construction overall was like 4 a little over 4. 5 million. Supervisor mandelman huh. And just how whats the breakdown of labor versus materials versus design kind of costs in a contract like that . Generally, the labor, depending on the type of material, but usually labor and materials are pretty close. Its been pretty close, depending on sometimes the materials are, you know, 60 of the costs, but, you know, like, for the ceiling that were talking about, lets say. And then, some of the Specialized Labor that goes into, like, for electricians in our systems that need to be in place, that drives our labor costs up. Supervisor mandelman and how much do we think were saving by doing these projects . Well, the project is protected by code. When we install a new escalator, we have to protect them. If we dont, if were not able to get a contract awarded, it would be hard to get our wed have to get a variance to put our escalators in and wait to get the canopies constructed in the future, and im not sure we could get that variance. It really affects a lot of our projects here, so supervisor mandelman thank you. Chair fewer so i understand that the we have to have the canopies that were required to by code. But what exactly is required by code . Because what ive heard from you is theres a certain design element, the materials. What what is this exactly to code or is this going beyond what the code actually requires . The code requires we protect the investment. You can make a roof wider without the walls, so theres a certain angle required for the rainfall, so if your roof was wider, lets say, to protect your escalator, you could do Something Like that. If you made if the roof was smaller side, then your walls have to do more of the protection. The top of these walls are open if youve seen these canopies, the walls are open the top of the walls. Chair fewer so can you provide for us today a photo of the canopy that you are designing to put over these escalators . I dont believe i have one. Chair fewer okay. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [

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