Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

This word, gentrification is a cover up on whats actually happening. Its not gentrification, its called discrimination based on geographical location and by the same response, this socalled gentrification which is discrimination based on geographical location hits people of color, especially black people. You hipped and ethically cleanse millions of my people from the area. And its not only affecting housing and making my population dropdown to 2. 5, 3 in the Western Addition area, and as far as the bayview area is concern, the population of black people used to be 45 . Now its down to 4 or 5 . Youre running a criminally corrupt enterprise from day one. From the day of slavery, from the day of the navy putting that cancer causing radio active material at the Hunters Point shipyard, which was 85 to 90 black. And the balance of samoan people, too. How many of those people are catching cancer causing material from them . You deliberately dropped off that material in that area because it was predominantly black. You didnt go to pier 39 because it was predominantly white. You had numerous testimony from black people testifying how theyre being creme nated in each and every department in the god damned county of discriminated in each and every department in the god damned city and county of San Francisco. You dont want People Like Us in positions of authority to understand whats happening to us. Hi. Im julie robertsphung, and im here to speak on behalf of Dori Caminong. I think she would make an excellent candidate for the committee. Thank you. Supervisor walton next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. Its a pleasure to be here this morning. When i found out that dori was being setup for reappointment, i was actually back east, in baltimore, and i took an early flight home to be here. I met dori 13 years ago when she started Community Work in the tenderloin for glide, cecil williams. And when i met her that morning, i remember, 13 years ago, i remember, i says tenderloin is going to eat you up. And wouldnt you know, she ate up the tenderloin. Im a chair of a board for the city. Were all volunteers, and a lot of people take this opportunity just to get something on their resume. You can either do that or you can do the work. I wound up doing countless hours of volunteer work for the city of San Francisco. Also dori. I go to 20 to 30 volunteer events a week, and i see dori at 15 to 20 of them. Theres two great candidates here this morning, and they both show a lot of pride and effort to volunteer for the city of San Francisco. I wish i could endorse both of them. But this morning, im here to support dori. Shes a wonderful person, and she gives her blood. Dori shows up, and she will continue to show up, so i implore you all to consider dori this morning. Thank you very much. Supervisor walton thank you. Any other Public Comment on item number six . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Again, i definitely just want to take this time to tell you it is very difficult when you do have two good candidates in front of you, working, like daily said, to volunteer. These roles are volunteer roles, but theyre very important roles, so i just want to take the at the satime to t candidates for showing up this morning and being prepared and for having a conversation in why you would be prepared to take this role. Supervisor mar, do you have any comments . Supervisor mar yes. I would like to thank both candidates for your leadership that youre already showing and contributions to our city in your respective areas and still young leaders, yeah, its just great to have you, you know, so actively involved in our city and our communities. I appreciated mr. Williams perspective on how entertainment is important to our communities in improve our quality of life, especially for those facing gentrification and quality of life issues. But i think im inclined to support the reappointment of miss caminong just given her depth of experience on the Entertainment Commission and her experience in these communities. I would like to make a motion that we recommend the reappointment of Dori Caminong to the Entertainment Commission with positive recommendation as a Committee Report. Supervisor walton thank you, supervisor mar. Were on the same page, so well take that motion, move it forward without objection. Clerk this item will be recommended as a Committee Report with the for the appointment of Dori Caminong to seat one. Supervisor walton i do want to take the time to say to mr. Williams, you said you do live in district ten. I liked what you said. One, my door is always open. Love to have a conversation to hear what we can do to improve district ten, even without you being successful in this appointment at this time. You dont have to be on the commission for us to work together, and congratulations miss caminong for your name to move forward. With that, mr. Clerk, we will go back and take item number four. Item numb clerk item number four is a motion rejectingapproving ruby deleon to the Treasure Island board of directors for a term ending february 26, 2022. Supervisor walton thank you very much. Is miss valeria shiffrin here . Okay. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Well move to item number seven and come back to four. Clerk item sev [agenda item read]. Im with the port of San Francisco finance team. Im working on the mission rock and pier 70 project specifically, and im here to talk about the local special tax financing law amendments. It is a local law already existing, and were adding in some amendments related to these projects. So just as a little bit of background, i will start by giving a brief overview of the two projects for pier 70, which is in district ten. Its around 23 and 3 street on the waterfront. This was the historic ironworkers district. Been closed for several decades and welcome to revitalize this space adding a mixeduse neighborhood with housing, commercial space. So the space was entitled in fall 2017. It is 35 acres. Were looking at 1600 to 3,000 units of housing, and 1. 5 to 1. 75 million square feet of housing. Public benefits, 30 of the housing will be affordable onsite . Well be using local labor with prevailing wages. We will be rehabilitating several of the buildings, which is part of the amendments here today . So you can see in a couple of the pictures the Historic Buildings that were warehouses for the ironworkers, well be taking several of them and retrofitting them and raising them up and preparing them for future uses . Well also be building sea level protection into the area to plan for the year 2100 Sea Level Rise in an extreme event. There will be an arts facility onsite and child care, as well. For mission rock, this is currently the San Francisco giants parking lot . So you can see on the top what it looks like right now, and the bottom what it will look like when it is complete. It will be done in four phases and this site wass entitled in 2018. Were looking at 40 acres. There will be eight acres of open space, the current china basin park, which is right along the water alongside the stadium will be significantly expanded. There will also be a Market Square in the middle of the neighborhood. 40 of the housing is affordable, 40 to 45 prz p to. Local hires. It will have on sisite child care. So the reason im here today is for the special tax financing law amendments oh, one more thing. So the financing around this that we need the amendments for . So the initial investments will be made by the developer, end port capital, and these are horizontal improvements like streets, power, sewer, water so we can build buildings on the site . Well fund these officially with capital from the developer and the port which will be paid off using Community Facilities districts and infrastructure financing district taxes . What we do there is we capture the taxes on the site and add a special tax district to fund this work which will pay for the parks, the roads, the sewers. And when thats not available, well use value of the land, so leasing or selling certain parcels to fund the project. And then, eventually, we will use the taxes to issue bonds, and that will payoff the remainder of the project. So what is the special tax financing law, the reason were here today . Its used to create special tax districts, more commonly known as community districts. These are allowed by the melloroos laws, passed in the 1980 1980s. And in San Francisco, it was originally adopted as part of the green finance s. F. Program, and it was recently amended in november 2018 as part of the central soma plan adding in some parks and other uses there. For the pier 70 and mission rock, theres two buckets of amendments. The first is just clarifying the existing law and clarifying any ambiguities . And then, the second is requesting that you authorize certain improvements that are not currently permitted . The three that ive highlighted here, the first is Historic Buildings, so paying to rehabilitate the Historic Buildings for future uses, market housing, and then seismic improvements, so making sure those buildings are seismically safe. And then, the last major one is entitlement costs, so the cost that went into planning the entire site of both projects. Those are the main three things that will be added in, and then, clarifications. So later this year, youll be seeing the members of the port again to continue financing these projects. Theres a twostep process for the Community Facility district which is the special type of tax district were looking to form here. So first, we will declare the intention. This is a Public Notice of the intention . And then, we will form the Community Facilities district by special election. It is done by either the residents, and if there are no residents on the site, then, the landowners on the site. And its done by a vote at the board of supervisors. And then, after that, we will issue the bonds on the taxes there and this will pay for the initial Capital Investments of parks, sewer, roads, all the horizontal infrastructure and then continuing on to pay for the maintenance, as well so that the taxes fully fund the neighborhood and all those benefits that it provides to the community. And eventually, we will leverage the infrastructure financing tax to pay for additional improvements or future bonds. And that is all i have. If there are any questions, thank you, supervisor walton and supervisor mar for your time, and im happy to answer. Supervisor walton do i hyo have any questions, supervisor mar . Supervisor mar well, thank you for this presentation. It all sounds great. Im sorry. Im just trying to get an idea of these complicated financial ideas. Yeah. Its very complex. Supervisor mar whats the difference between the c. F. D. And the i. F. D. Sure. So the infrastructure financing district is a special district. Theres actually one along the entire embarcadero and we create subproject areas. What that does, that captures the tax increment . So the property taxes above and beyond what was initially existing, and that tax increment, the additional, the portion of the city stays onsite so we can issue bonds or pay for future improvements on that site. And then, the second is the Community Facilities district, which that is an additional tax that is leveed. Sometimes it can be offset, but that is used to traditionally develop under utilized areas, and thats what were doing here, so thats done by voter initiative. Anything else i can clarify there . Supervisor mar so this the Community Facilities district, when you say by voters, you mean the the in the case of in the case of both of these, i believe it will be the Property Owners since there are no voters there, but i believe its usually done by voters, and if theres less than 12 voters, then, its done by Property Owners. Supervisor walton also, none of the resources will be dedicated for transportation improvements or infrastructure . So there is funding there for the roads and streets. I believe as part of the development agreement, there was a transportation plan, but i can get back to you on that if you want to know more about the specific transportation . Supervisor walton i know its in the d. A. But i want to so ill get back to you to know exactly whats in the transportation plan. Supervisor walton thank you. With that, we will hear Public Comment on item number seven. Mr. Wright . Im going to take the consideration of Affordable Housing out of the Mayors Office of Affordable Housings hands. It needs to be in the hands of a federal judge. You violate the law, due prosper taining to equal application of the law pertaining to the Homeless People out on the due process, pertaining to equal application of the law pertaining to Homeless People out on the street. You can price gouge and price fix and let that 30 of affordable let it be for people in high income brackets. 40 at 45 to 50 of a. M. I. You do not use the [s thbrackets on the a. M. I. Back on me, camera man. Jane kim price fixed and price gouged. 40 of that apartment complex is supposed to be Affordable Housing, and only 2 is accepted to apply at an income of about 45,0 45,000 to 50,00. Youve got inclusionary law where people in the lowincome is supposed to be drunkinclude the housing opportunity, but yet, when you do the documentation, you do not include them. Supervisor walton thank you, mr. Wright. Is there any other Public Comment on item number seven . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor mar, did you have any questions or statements . Thank you. With that said, i will make a motion to refer to the board of supervisors with positive recommendation. Well take that without objection. At this time, we would like to id like to make a motion to recess until 11 15. Going to give our nominee for item number four an opportunity to get here by 11 15. Supervisor walton back in session. Thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, would you please call item number four. Clerk item number four is the motion approvingrejecting the mayors nomination for ruby bolariashifrin for a term ending february 26, 2022. Supervisor walton thank you so much. Miss bolariashifrin, you have the floor. You know, when you cant get rid of your maiden name. So my name is ruby bolariashifrin. Im honored and humbled that the mayor has nominated me to be on the board. San francisco has been my home for most of my adult life. I started my career in the Environmental Movement in earth justice and after working with the Obama Campaign in 08 i bam an Event Organizer working with water and food rights. I wanted to learn more and went to ucla to earn my masters in urban and regional planning. After graduating, i worked in Real Estate Development in San Francisco both in the Office Market and as a regional manager for fi5point. My current role allows me to blend my Mission Driven roots and experience with my more technical housing knowledge. Besides visiting island for my birthday, i went to Treasure Island to learn about its rich history including the emergence of San Francisco as a force, including the navy was fascinating. I learned about the climate impaction plan. I am familiar with the island, its conditions, and history. Should i be appointed, my goals would include helping ensure Treasure Island development delivers on its promises so both current and future residents can enjoy the community. Im committed to learning the desires of the current residents and make sure theyre heard. We must think about the communities impacted with the development. It is my goal to promote transparency so that the outcomes are well understood. Throughout my career, i have sought to promote equity and believe the built environment, housing in particular, are key to building Thriving Communities where everyone has access to opportunity. I believe my experience working with impacted communities, development, and supporting policy change would be put to good use to supporting the public in this role. Treasure island will become a destination for bayarea residents and tourists around the world. I would work with the board to building Treasure Island into a better place for our city. I thank you for your support. I also have some letters inform are your support letters for your support. Supervisor walton do you have any questions, supervisor mar . Ye supervisor mar i did have some questions well, just to say youre youre youre a really impressive candidate, and you bring a lot of of great per spspectives and to t great work happening around the development. I was just wondering if you could elaborate a little bit more maybe on how you would approach working with the current residents to ensure their concerns and their voices are included, you know, as this import

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