Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Absolutely shocked at that. We have had a change in leadership. Our former assistant general manager for operations retired, and tamar allan who is an engineer and shes been with bart for over 30 years has come into this role as being our assistant general manager for operations and engineering. We now participate with the International Systems supply association, issa, which is an International Maintenance and cleaning association that im sure city hall belongs to, the empire state belongs to. So now we have two Certification Programs that we have for our custodians and they love it. Our new employees, our continuing employees, love the fact that we have he will elevated the art of cleaning and maintenance and how important it is because it does set the tone for our riders. I think we are remiss in that it would have been good for our assistant general manager tamara allan to come and latifa simon and janet lee, we work closely with her. I think in the additional years maintenance should be minimal. We have not seen major problems at the two canopies that we have. We have a Public Safety problem with a lot of narcotics dealing around the 7th and market. I was connecting carl fabry with our police chief. And i think the issues around employment have been communicated. So chief scott has been asked to engage our department to engage employment. While im at it let me say we have hired 33 Additional Police officers just this year and we really are working hard to fill our vacancies. So i want you to know that i think that there is True Religion at bart about the importance of cleanliness. Were working through a lot of modifications on our fare gates to create a system that has more integrity to it. I can tell you in the time latifa and i have been there, the youth fare had been from ages 6 to 12. It made no sense to come in there when 18yearolds are the most likely to ride the system and go to middle school or high school or camp or wherever they are going to. I think there is very much a changing culture as we grapple with the societal issues that have really affected us. Now, to be candid, loss of ridership in transit is something that the mta is facing. Its a huge issue in los angeles. We have not lost our ridership on weekdays, but on evenings and weekends we are losing ridership with uber and lyft and unless you see an active safety presence, there are people less comfortable when the system is not crowded. I know we havent given you specific numbers, but we will work with the staff that is here and operations and give you the numbers that will be funded by muni and supporting and maintaining these stations. Chair fewer i think what were concerned about is joint relationship, that were making sure that these structures will be maintained, but i think its good to hear that you had a change in leadership perhaps. That might be a little bit more diligent about this. This is just such a huge investment, and we want to make sure that our investment holds up well in the conditions in San Francisco. Yeah. And as you know, we are hopefully completing a search for our new general manager. We have a closed session tomorrow at our Board Meeting and we may hopefully have an announcement. Thats important. I think its really the reason i ran for the bart board is because i do know the city so well from running the Complaint Department of neighborhood services, to being a supervisor. So i really do endeavor to have partnerships and i think you see what were doing working with urban alchemy, a admonishprofit organization that has a lot of credibility in their work with the city and weve embraced with them and working with the hot team here. Weve extended through supervisor ronens leadership, the initial work at pal and civic and weve added 16th and 24th street because we have to rely on the city and county of San Francisco partnering with us to help people enter treatment, housing, shelter, all of those things. So that really is thats my mission as a bart director is to bring us closer. And i think that both latifa simon and janet lee bring their enormous experience and toolbox to make sure we are connecting and cooperating and maintaining our programs and doing a good job with the facilities that you help us fund chair fewer thank you. Thank you so much. Chair fewer and then one last question. We have so currently if people would like to see what this structure would look like, they can go to the pal street station and that will be replicated similarly as other stations. Is that correct . That is correct. Chair fewer that is the design that mta and bart has chosen . Well, its mta, the Mayors Office yes, and planning. Chair fewer okay. Got it. Yeah. Chair fewer okay. Colleagues, any other questions . Comments . Seeing none, lets open this up to Public Comment. Any members of the public like to speak on item number 1 . While admittedly this is a waste of saliva im sure, but i believe you have a definite problem with calls which very likely relates to bureaucratic redundancy and too many middle men. What are the estimated material costs per square foot . Who is the manufacturer . Who is the fabricator . This project sounds like something that will be custom manufactured offsite and installed as a kit. So how is it that a simple canopy is supposed to cost as much as a custom, luxury, threelevel home . It doesnt make any sense . Chair fewer thank you very much. Any other public speakers . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. So we heard from the bla. They actually approve of this item. So lets move this to the board with a positive recommendation, and i can take that without objection. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 2. Clerk resolution authorizing the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to accept and expend a grant in an amount not to exceed 3,759,822 from the california state Water Resources control board for planning, design, and construction of the Sewer System Improvement Program baker beach green street early implementation project for the period of november 4, 2017, through march 21, 2022. Resolution authorizing the chair fewer thank you very much. So i believe we have sarah bloom here. Hello, supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity to present today. I work in the wastewater enterprise of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission, and here today i am here to speak to you about the baker beach green Street Projects and the grant we received from the control board. So the baker beach green street is one of our eight early implementation projects that we are delivering as part of phase one of our Sewer System Improvement Program. We selected one project in each of our eight urban watersheds, and the baker beach green Street Project was selected for our richmond watershed. The project has two major project locations, one is from alcameno del mar and the second location is in the seacliff neighborhood along seacliff avenue and 25th avenue north. In the baker Beach Terrace area we will have rain garden at the corners of 25th and 26th avenues, along with merm i cant believe paving strip. And then at the 25th avenue north in the culdesac at the entrance to baker beach we will have a rain garden on the property that helps to improve the entrance at baker beach. Along El Camino Dell Mar we have four nodes of Green Infrastructure and those are located at existing pedestrian crossing. They are going to include rain garden belts and provide traffic calming benefits and pedestrian safety. The overall performance of the project, its going to manage 17 acres of area within the richmond watershed and its going to remove over 3 million gallons of stormwater. And in addition to the removal of stormwater its going to remove activations of rainfalls on baker beach and china beach. The total project budget is just over 12 million and weve been awarded 3. 8 by the state water control board. Were going to spend that on bid and award and direct construction costs. And the remaining funding will be through our Sewer System Improvement Program. The Stormwater Grant Program is administered by our state Water Resources control board. Its funded by a combination of proposition 1 and proposition funding and some of the major grant requirements are that the Program Requires a minimum 50 match, quarterly reports and reimbursement invoicing and records of retention for 36 years after the project. We were awarded the grant back in december of 2016 and our Commission Approved it in march of 2019 and if the board of supervisors approves our request to accept and spend, we anticipate well be executing the agreement in august of 2019. That is it. Chair fewer thank you very much. Lets hear from the bla, please. Good morning, chair fewer, supervisor stefani, supervisor mar. The board is being asked to approve acceptance of a grant from the Water Resources board for 3. 8 million. This is for the project being described, the baker beach green Street Project. This is part of the city sewer improvement program. The grant of 3. 8 million, the citys matching funds are 8. 3 million for a total project cost of 12 million. You will see the project budget on page 7 of our report. The citys matching fund is from the wastewater enterprise and we recommend approval chair fewer thank you very much. Seeing no questions or comments from my colleagues, lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item number 2 . Seeing none, item number 2 is closed. I will recommend to move this to the board without objection. Madam clerk, can you call item number 3. Clerk item number 3, resolution authorizing acceptance and expenditure of California State Senate bill 1 local Partnership Program formulaic funding in the amount of 2,340,000 for San Francisco public works sunset and parkside streets pavement renovation project. Chair fewer thank you very much. And i believe today we have oscar oh, no, hi. Who do we have here . Elizabeth ramos with San Francisco public works. Chair fewer please start. Good morning. The resolution before you will authorize San Francisco public works to spend the Partnership Funds in the amount of 2. 3 million. These state transportation funds are part of the local partnership formulaic funding otherwise thon as sb1 and this is the third project to receive these funds. On october 17 of 2018, the California Transportation Commission programmed 2. 3 million in these funds to our project and the project will actually repay 2. 5 million in residential streets 2. 5 miles in residential streets in the sunside and parkside neighborhoods. This construction work in conjunction with our Asset Management strategy decrease the lifetime maintenance and repair costs, while also providing safer and reliable roadways for multimodal transportation. Im joined today by our project manager and wed be happy to answer any questions chair fewer thank you very much. Any questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on this item . I didnt call on the bla. Lets have the bla report first. Im so sorry. This accepts the senate bill 1 grant for the sunniside and parkside streets. These are street pavement programs. The grant amount is for 2. 3 million. The city is matching 2. 6 million. The total project cost is 5 million. We show it on page 10 of our report and we recommend approval chair fewer thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment now. Any members of the public like to comment on item number 3. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor mar, would you supervisor mar actually, i had a few questions. Chair fewer sorry. Supervisor mar i had a few questions, more a background question. How much does the city receive in the lppformulaic funds for these types of projects . Weve applied three times for formulaic funds. Supervisor mar so we dont receive a regular Funding Amount . We dont. We apply in joint partnership with the Transportation Authority. Theyre eligible to receive these funds since bayes do collect a tax here in San Francisco. So weve overall have received lets see here im going to ask my colleague to help out. Supervisor mar so the formulaic funds are received by the Transportation Authority, its about 2 million per year. The first three years were programmed for San Francisco public works resurfacing projects. We havent decided or the Transportation Authority hasnt decided how theyre going to spend future years of formulaic funds. Thank you. I did have a question about the sunset parkside pavement renovation program. Im really happy to see this being the priority for the funds this year. It looks like the bla report says that this was chosen because of the poor state of the streets in the sunset and parkside generally. Theres a pci score of in the mid40s. But then it says upon completion of the project, public works expects the pci score to rise to 100, which sounds great, but is that real what does 100 mean and is that realistic . Does that mean that were going to have perfect streets in the sunset and parkside with no potholes . Is it moratorium grade also . Yes, good morning, supervisor. Paul ratis, public works project manager for this project. Theres about 30 blocks in the project. We score streets between 0 and 100, 100 being the best and 0 being fully potholed and a really bad street. Once you pave the streets, the street goes up to 100. Those streets will go up to 100 and then every year slowly scale back down. Supervisor mar one final question i would be interested or my office would be interested in seeing the more detailed streets and blocks that would be repaved through this and i guess maybe just a comment. It seems like it would be good to sort of get input, at least from the district supervisors office, about priority streets and blocks. So i dont know if theres still an opportunity for us to still have some dialog about that. This project is nearing the 100 design, but we do have our information about our program on our website and we can also provide you the information about the project directly to your office too. Supervisor mar that sounds great. Thank you. Chair fewer i think actually you bring up a good question. What are the streets that are going to be resurfaced . Sure. We have two streets on 16th avenue, two blocks on 18th avenue, a stretch of blocks on ortega, about ten, about six blocks on pocheko and another ten blocks on uloa. Chair fewer okay. Wow, lucky you. So i understand that these moneys were actually we applied specifically for the sunset and parkside streets paving. So its not like we have these moneys and we put it in district 4. I think we applied for these moneys specifically for this project; is that correct . Thats correct. Chair fewer thank you very much. So weve had Public Comments. Would you like to make a motion, supervisor mar . Supervisor mar id like to move that we recommend this move this forward to the full board with a prorecommendation. Chair fewer thank you very much. I think we can take that without objection. Madam clerk, can you call item number 4. Clerk item number 4 resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of San Francisco city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness; authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development director to submit an application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee cdlac to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 50,000,000 for 401 avenue of the palms parcel c3. 2 chair fewer okay. Thank you very much. I believe we have amy chan. Good morning, chair and supervisors. Item number 4 before you is a resolution related to the taxexempt bond financing for the maceo may apartments. This resolution would require the city to conduct a bond financing application which is not to exceed 50 million. The proposed bond issuing will be conduit financing and not require the city to prejudice any of its funds for repayment of the bonds. About the project, it will be a 105new unit supportive construction to be located at 401 avenue of palms and treasure island. Its being developed by China Town Development corporation. 42 apartments in the building will serve as replacement housing for