Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Chiseling out each element of it. I think we are going to be more successful an. Thank you. Public comment on this item . Thank you director of the office of small business. I was just observing the conversation. I want to thank the department odepartmentof building inspectir staff. They are amazing. This is not easy. Our office works very closely, particularly with tom. I want to reiterate we have the Disability Access fund, which we are working with small businesses, and we do work with small Property Owners who are financially challenged in achieving access. That is from in helping the Property Owners comply for those that have limited income and working with the businesses as well. I think it is, you know, we are still dealing with many Property Owners who have had properties for a long time, particularly in the commercial corridors that are still adjusting that they have a responsibility to comply, and i feel this ordinance as challenging as it has been, we need to remember that obligation is currently there both for the Property Owner and the accidents that occupies the space so we get the compliance done so legal liability is removed. Just wanted to say that. In terms of i want to caution on that this requirement could be something that helps keep a property vacant. If a Property Owner is not going to be leasing right away or keeping it off, this is the perfect time to make the remediation. I would encourage that message be given. It obviously makes their property a little more attractive. Just in terms of that messaging. I am happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you very much for coming out. No other Public Comment. We need to have a motion on this item. Is there a vote on the item . No, i dont believe so. It was informational. I believe the ordinance has been introduced. You can remember or not you can recommend. It is a mixed decision if they want to memorialize that. It has been heard and considered to move forward. We didnt get any information other than being updated by bill. We are not here to prove or disapprove the extension. I think it is really your choice. We wanted to bring it to your attention so that you could take action on it if you want to support the idea be hired the additional time or you can wait until in january when we will be going through the regular hearing process on this, and then we will bring it back at that time. Thank you. Based on the fact it tells them, you know, out there right now i support the bill to extend the timeframe. If you want a motion that we do support an extension. I would support it. There is a lot of buzz. The department should keep Going Forward and do the outreach and encourage the Property Owners and shopkeepers to submit the checklist so we know what is going on. If somebody would make a motion. I will make a motion and i will support it. Second . Second. I will do a roll call vote. roll call . Thank you. That motion carries manley. Eye carries unanimously. Item 9. Directors report. Update on d. B. I. s finances. Good afternoon department at the director. Before you is the october 2019 financial report. It includes revenues for july through october. On venues we are about equal to same time last year. 24 million, 23. 5 million. Last year was 23. 8. Our revenues are flat or at the same level in the prior year. Expenditures. The trend remains this year at 20 million. Last year at this time 17 million. That is a reflection of the increases in the budget primarily the services by the departments. We have over 30 million to other departments. That increase is due to the billings for those departments. For the projections for the budget. We are projecting to spend the budget and collect the revenues. We usely wait for six months. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you. 9 00 p. M. Update on proposed or recently enacted state or local legislation. I think we have covered all of the key legislative points. I wil will add the board did pas the try triannual code that will go in effect in december. On january one it is a new three year code cycle. I think that covers it. Thank you, mr. Strong. Can i ask one question. Absolutely, sir. Ab69 introduced by assemblyman king. It proposed small Home Building standards for different knowledge standards for small homes, especially a. D. U. S. Do we know if he is trying to make it more stringent or less. I understand that he is expanding the a. D. U. Base to be less stringent. I dont know if our own board of supervisors is fully on board about that. I did hear some questions raised and they were talking to assembly man king about it. I dont know where that is now. In our city we are dense and homes are packed next to each other, not like the suburbs. I understand it could raise immediate questions. Lets keep an eye on that one. Item 9c. Update on major projects. Good afternoon. Department of building inspection. As you can see, the Construction Costs go down 5 . Any questions . Thank you. 9d. Update on code enforcement. Good afternoon, ed sweeney, Deputy Director inspection services. October 2019 update. You will see spikes in the complaints and novs. That is the soft story tear 3xspireing. We were given a lot more. Building inspections 6647. Complaints 863. Complaints within 74 to 72 hours 853. First notice of violation 334. Abated 353. Updated with notice of violation 41. Second notice of violations 16. Housing inspections performed 9361. Complaints received 330. Complaint response within 24 to 72 hours 330. Violation issued 120. Number of cases sent to directors hearing 49. Routine inspections 89. Code enforcement 157 to directors hearing. Abatements 31. Cases under advisement 21. Cases abated 179. Code enforcement reform 290. We didnt have Litigation Committee last month and we referred two occasions to City Attorney. Outreach Program Total people reached out to 16634. Counseling cases 1060. Program cases reinvolved 313. That is it. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on directors report items 9 a through d . Item 10 eview and approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of october 16, 2019. Move to approve. Second. Any Public Comment on the minutes . All in favor. A. Any opposed. The minutes are approved. Adjournment. A motion to adjourn . Move to adjourn. Second. All commissioners in favor. A. We are adjourned. It is 12 30 p. M. Lets get started. Welcome. Yeah. You can be excited. You should be. Welcome to the beautiful new playground, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. My name is phil ginsburg. I am the manager of the recreation and Parks Department. Were so pleased to have everyone here to celebrate what is really a transformation for this playground, a place where childhood memories will be created and opportunities for imaginative play are endless. There are a lot of Community Supporters and folks that made this happen. Were going to introduce and recognize all of them during our short program, but im so honored to introduce someone who has kept her eye on this playground for many years. As District Supervisor and now as mayor, she is our park champion and chief. Our kids do not need an advocate, because theyve got mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you so much, phil. Let me tell you, i cant be more happy than to be here today. I remember a couple years ago when we cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts and there were conversations going on and on and on about the playground and the next to do something better. The parents who bring their kids here on a regular basis reflects what we see here today. As much as i love. I grew up in sands, so im a big fan, but the fact is these kids are going to have a great time. We are so lucky in San Francisco that we have so many people in this community that are so generous and were actively engaged to shape what this playground looks like right now. We have amazing contributors who have invested so much money into supporting and making this happen. Our incredible partner, the Parks Alliance, thank you so much for your continued alliance and this playground. Thank you were jody pritzer for your major contribution to this project. And brian baker who hosted. Thank you so much for your work and for your advocacy. The work that you do to raise the funds and contribute to make this possible makes it happen sooner rather than later. So thank you, because the kids that are here today are going to be able to have a good time and enjoy this amazing playground. I know they dont want to hear a bunch of long speeches. I know they cant wait to get started with playing. Thank you to the nopa community and the ashbury community for your work and advocacy. It is so great to be here today to have this incredible experience. I know you are wondering why is sheriff vicky hennesey here today. Shes not here to take anyone to jail. Her granddaughter is a lover of this playground and we are happy to have her as a supporter, so thank you for your service to San Francisco. Fill, you say that i am the park champion, i tell you no one works harder to bring in the resources and move these projects faster to get these done so that you have these results today. Thank you and your team for the work that you continue to do. [ applause ]. Mayor breed last but not least, i started that and she finished it. Valley brown has been an amazing advocate for this community for decades and she made sure that we got this project done. I will say in absolute record time. We just broke ground on this project last year and in bureaucracy time, this is fast. Ladies and gentlemen, the person who was making it happen and doing the work for this community, your supervisor, valley brown. [ applause ]. Thank you, mayor breed. I remember when this was a twinkle in your eye, phil. I see the ashbury council is here. People have come here because this is an amazing park and the way that it was done with the contributor contributors made it what it is now. Look at everything. I was looking around. I cant believe how cool it is, and im going to take a slide down that slide. I dont know if anybody has done it yet, but i want to go and slide down that slide. It looks so fun. I have to say that the city is like a tanker in ice. Every time we try to do something, it takes that long. This is something that went fast because of community support, because we had private people coming in and saying lets make this work, and we can turn faster than a tanker in ice. Thank you, everyone, thank you, mayor breed, and lets play. Supervisor brown said it perfectly, lets play. The mayor has keys to the city and gives proclamations at the board and we give away park signs to true park champions. Thank you for all of your incredible support. [ cheering and applause ]. The mayor alluded to the fact that this was a Big Community effort. We need partners and friends. Government doesnt do it all alone anymore. We need the support. Im pleased to bring up our closest friend, drew beker. The alliance of Parks Department have worked together since 2013 or 2014 on lets play s. F. Which is our campaign to renovate the 13mo 13mostdeserving playgrounds around the city. It is a 30 million effort that has a significant amount of public money, but that wasnt enough to get it done. We are the Parks Alliance and is the San Francisco recs and Parks Department Work Together on so many things, including our 150th Golden Gate Park celebration. This is part of that. The panhandle itself was practice for building Golden Gate Park. Around the park are 80,000 trees that were planted to figure out what would work best down the road. Im so pleased to bring up a special partner, drew beker. Thanks, phil. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, mayor, thank you, valley, thank you, phil. The Parks Alliance is so happy to be a part of this wonderful event. I would like to give a shout out to the civic committee. Thank you so much. You helped make this possible. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, liz, for everything you do. Also brian baker held an event before this. Thank you for you and your family to support us and the San Francisco Parks Alliance. Thank you so much. And the rec and park commissioners, we couldnt do this without them giving the okay to make all of this happen. We have partners with rec and parks and they dont get shout outs that much. I want phil, lisa, and abigail to know how much we appreciate what you do. It is so amazing to have one of the top rec and Parks Departments here in San Francisco. You have no idea how important it is to push these types of projects forward and make this happen and thats because it comes from the top. Your amazing manager, phil, ginsburg, lets give it up for him. This publicprivate partner that was alluded to, we raised about 11. 3 million for 13 playgrounds across the city. Our goal is to raise 14 million, so we have a little bit more to go in order to make this playground and close out this program and have the most equityfocused Playground Initiative in this country called lets play s. F. Lets make sure you visit lets play s. F. Make sure you are part of this movement to bringing this movement to 20,000 kids across this city. Its about making parts a part of each and every community. Parks are part of the big puzzle, about keeping the parks part of our story. We need to move neighborhoods forward building parks. Thanks for being a part of this movement and lets play. Thank you so much. Thank you, drew. This playground is about play and its about community. So representing our community today, we are so pleased to welcome 45 preschoolers from steppingstones preschool. Your granddaughter is here, but steppingstones has a spot in my own heart. Representing steppingstones and speaking on behalf of the community, im pleased to welcome a few members to share the importance of lets play. Hi. My name is rakoia. Im a director of a local preschool up the street, but more importantly im a mother of a 2 year old who is up there right now. I actually came here from l. A. I went to ucla. When i came to San Francisco and looked at the preschools for work and realized none of the preschools have outdoor spaces or if they did, it was tiny. So steppingstones uses the community for their playground. What a resource to have playgrounds like these. This is an amazing playground just for the preschoolers, but also now that im a mom, for communities like this for playgrounds that inspire community and imagination. We were just here in april for the ground breaking, and now its november and its incredible. Thank you so much, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. Before we do our first slide with our steppingstones preschoolers and supervisor brown, we have some gratitude. I need to do some closing acknowledgements. We have a lot of gratitude for all of our supporters. Without their help and support as i said, this wouldnt be possible. Let me echo my thanks to the pritsker family. For brian and lesley baker, thank you so much for your support. For the folks from kaiser permanente, they have been big supporters. This weekend we lost an advocate for health and equity and diversity and true supporters of playgrounds and someone who understood the very important experience of play. We would ask you to take a quick moment of silence in mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mr. Permit permanentes honor. Thank you. Lets give a round of applause. Were also pleased to be joined today by sheriff hennessey and her granddaughter. Vivian liang, and then dmitri barstani is here with his mom, georgia. Are you here and can you raise your hands . Theyre over there. Thank you, dmitri and georgia for being here today. Were honoured to be here. His memory and gus memory will live on. I would like to thank niko and marie who helped to work on the bench plaque that i believe are here. Tim sieford and michelle welsh. Steve courier from the parks and recs open space advisory. And then to the design and construction teams, you have an inspired design and project. They deserve our thanks. To the landscape project. Jeff cooper from c. P. M. Services. And then to my own amazing team, the project managers for this effort, it takes a village, karen rupert, brett emerey contributed to this project. Thank you, lisa branson, to your team to make this dream come to reality for our kids. Were going to have some honorary preschooler that is are going to join us. Supervisor brown, if you want to join us too. The mayor is going to lead us in a countdown. Mayor breed okay, supervisor brown, youre going to have to put a kid in your lap. Are we ready, kids . Five, four, three, two, one, lets play thank you, everybody. In the words of our mayor, lets play. [ ] president yee okay. Good afternoon and welcome to the november 19, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call]. Clerk mr. President , all members are president. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff sfgov tv, Colina Mendoza and jim smith who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk i have none to report, mr. President. President yee okay. So can we please call madam clerk, can we please call the Consent Agenda . Clerk items 1 through 6 are on consent and considered to be routine. If requested, an item can be removed and heard separately. President yee colleagues, would anyone li