Transcripts For SFGTV Treasure Island Development Authority

Please call the phone line and make sure youre in a quiet location and that you mute any tvs, or radios. Item number one, call to order. role call . And we do have a quorum. Thank you. Well welcome to those who are watching this remotely. I hope you are all well at home. It imany are coping with lost js and keeping your family and children safe. Before we gip begin, i would lio thank the staff under the direction of bob beck who has kept the facility running and we appreciate your dedication and i know that several of you have had to be on site at the island on a regular basis. So bob, thank you in particular for your diligence. And also thank you one Treasure Island who has been coordinating with the San Francisco food bank for the delivery of free groceries for people who need it. Thank you to the staff and thank you to the San Francisco food bank and also, thank you to the School District for continuing to deliver meals to School Children on Treasure Island so they can eat three meals a day, five days a week and they are serving about 180 children. So there are many whom we have to thank and certainly fort mel workers who are on the frontline, those who are leaving their homes everyday to work so we can have food deliveries and caregiving and lets not forget to be thankful for simple acts of kindness by our neighbors to each other. And this is the first Public Meeting since the city asked we shelter at home. Because of this, please be patient with us and with the technology as we have to work out the glitches and get accustomed to having meetings online. And if you have Public Comments, there will be a way for you to do so, but please note that we cannot answer directly to your questions online but they will be noted and staff and Board Members will respond later. And please note that item number 9 on the budget will be continued to the june meeting. Are there any Board Members who would like to make comments at this time . If not, lets go to the next item. Item number 2, general Public Comment. This item is to allow members to address the Treasure Island Development Authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction via the Authority Board and do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comment, pull comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members the public may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. Members the public who wish to address the board on matters that do not appear on todays agenda, please call 888 2733658 and then 3107452. When you are connected, dial 10 to be added to the cue to speak. And so moderator, are there any callers on the line . Operator your question is in question and answer mode. Press 10 to summon each question. Any callers on the line . Operator you have two questions remaining. Caller, your two minutes will begin when you start talking. Caller with the phone numbing ending in 9843. Caller with the phone number in 9843, are you on mute . Ok, well we have no response and well move to the next speaker and if you were unable to address the board and you still wish to, speaker, please dial 10 to rejoin the cue. Operator you have one question remaining. Hello, caller, your two minutes will begin when you start talking. Caller with the number ending in 7453. Caller with the phone number ending 7453, and if youre on mute, please unmute. Ok, it looks like we have no response and well have to move to the next speaker. Operator you have zero questions remaining. Speaker, we were unable to hear you, dial 10 and you can rejoin the cue for the next Public Comment. So hearing no callers, Public Comment is now close. Please call the next item. Item number 3, report by Treasure Island director. Please open the phone line for Public Comment after mr. Beck has given his speech. Directors, as i communicated to you this morning, we had a power outage around 11 15 and power was restored. Following restorations, there was lingering brownout conditions in the residential area but the puc was able to address that and service was restored and stable on the island at this time. We previously had an outage last friday that resulted from a short across two overheadlines. The outage the cause of todays outage is still under todays investigation bu invest. Sfpuc crews are on the island at the time replacing a damaged pole on avenue m but the damage was unrelated to that work. Puc will be on the island doing additional crossarm repairs and cutout repairs tomorrow. The puc also has a contractor in place now to begin installation of the additional reclosers on the island beginning in midjune and additional fault indicaters beginning later if the summer. The electrical switch gear area near the new waste water truant plant is now under surcharge, and the site has been completed and the sfpuc is ordering new equipment. The goal remains to have the new switch gear online by the first of the year. And the inherent vulnerability of the existing electrical system is in its fault tolerance and that is the ability of the system to maintain service through incidents which cause a short or surge in current. The reclosures are a means of attempting to provide some tolerance for to isolate an outage to a portion of the island, but the most significant improvement will come with the replacement of the switch gear early next year. As with the rest of the city, the life of residents and commercial tenants on the island has been greatly impacted by the covid19 Public Health emergency. Treasure island staff and one Treasure Island staff have worked to provide residents with the most current information on services both on the island and throughout the city. One Treasure Island has continued to operate the food pantry and island resident, hope williams, has worked to bring the sfusd Distribution Program to the island. The Affordable Housing providers, catholic cherrys Community Housing partnership, health right 360 and the sourcetoplow shares work to identify and address Additional Needs their residents. One Treasure Island and tida have been having weekly calls with all of the housing reuters providers to make sure we identify issues that arise. One Treasure Island on monday distributed a Needs Assessment survey to all residents and looking for feedback fro feedbas plan Additional Services Going Forward and i wanted to recognise the work of opton nosser and the island cove market who has managed to keep our relatively small markets stocked with a number of critical items throughout this emergency and also to recognise island residents for not creating a run on supplies. Inventories have remained stable on food essentials at the store throughout the emergency. According to the department of Public Healths Data Tracking website, the 94130 zip code which represents Treasure Island has experienced fewer than ten cases and they dont publish data for zip codes with fewer than ten cases but indicate there are less than ten. The other zip codes in the city that have experienced fewer than ten cases include the presidio and three zip codes between the initial district and union square. Housing providers are following the mayors Eviction Moratorium guidance in cases where residents have been unable to pay rent and tida is coordinate be with other city agencies to develop a uniform guidelines for commercial lease. I wanted to recognised Jack Nathanson who was assigned to work frankly april 9th through may 5th on Food Distribution logistics. On the Affordable Housing front, i mentioned in a previous email update that Construction Financing closed for the first 100 affordable building on april 28th, which is a huge milestone for Treasure Island and our Affordable Housing programs. The sponsors for that project are Chinatown Community Development Center and the future operator will be sorts to plow shares. The building will be names after a vietnam veteran and former director of housing for sourcetoplow shares and the founding president of the one Treasure Island board. Now this is a Modular Construction project and so, it will be an interesting measure of the possible efficiencies of that form of construction and it will break ground in august and be ready for occupancy in 2022. On todays agenda, we haves a resolution authorizing the execution of a Grant Agreement with the Save Department of housing and Community Development for Affordable Housing and sustainable communitys grant which will help finance our second building that will be developed with mercy housing and Catholic Charities. At our february meeting, which was our last meeting, the board authorized the staff to prepare and file and infill infrastructure Grant Application with the state and that was filed in february and again, the department of housing Community Development has posted preliminary scoring which is subject to appeal, but our score was consistent with our preliminary selfscoring evaluation and gives us reason to believe that our application has a good possibility of being successful. We continue working with the office of Public Finance to prepare for the First Issuance of debt under the community facilitys district and well be preparing a measure to go to the board of supervisors, authorizing the issuance of that debt. Since our last meeting, one Treasure Island graduated a class from its Construction Training Program and they are planning on how to conduct the next course with a reliance on remote training where possible and with appropriate social distancing when inperson training is required. On construction on the island, work on the bristol, the First Residential Development on the island has been continuing. The San Francisco county Transportation Authority is preparing to mobilize their contractor to construct the new south gaisouthgate interchange t providing an eastbound ramp for traffic coming to the city. And the reconstruction of the west side of the causeway is complete and traffic will switch to a new roadway service on the west side in late june with a new shortline access road on Treasure Island to open in early july. Elsewhere on Treasure Island, the vibral compaction continues and should be completed in a few more weeks to the pleasure of director donelop, who dunlop wl this from his residence. On the first subphase area on the western waterfront, the installation of utilities in the new rightsofway continues and the goal of having those roadways and utilities in place to serve the maseomade building when it is ready for occupancy. And the developer also has begun work on an interim sewer force main, connecting the new areas of construction along the southern and eastern shorelines to the existing waste water trivet plant. That force main goes through the Treasure Island Sailing Center area and weve been coordinating with them to relocate vessels and complete that work while their programs are on hiatus. Also, work with ticd is advancing to plan for subphase 3, which includes the southern waterfront in the areas south of the job core center. That work will begin with the abatement and demolition of a number of outbuildings around hangars two and three and planning for the eventual vacation of those structures in late 2021. Ii wanted to provide an update n the lawsuit that was filed january 2 23rd naming the department of Public Health, several former navy employees, the department of toxic substance control and one Treasure Island and others as defendants. The department of justice, one Treasure Island and tida have all filed separate motions to dismiss and those motions are scheduled to be heard in june. Finally, i wanted to mention that prior to the covid19 emergency, we had begun working with one Treasure Island through the civic Bridge Program with ginsler associate architects to plan for the Space Planning of the future health right 360 building and weve been working with them virtually and that program is expected to wrap up july 1st with a final presentation of the works from both ginsler, as well as other the civic programs. Tida staff has been working with two city hall fellows assigned to the department of environment to look at the Stewardship Program on the island and our Nursery Program and to compare them with other regional programs to develop recommendations on how our programs might be improved. We are planning to do a webcast that we would advertise to the public to present their conclusions before the end of their term with the department of development. That concludes my report. Are you on mute . Im sorry. Before we start our Public Comment, i see supervisor matt hainey has joined us. Supervisor, would you like to make any comments. No, thank you. Everyone, good to see you. Ok. Then we can go to Public Comments. I believe sharon would like to speak. Yes, sharon. Go ahead. Thank you, can you hear me ok . Yes, we can hear you. We cant see you, but we can hear you. Great. So bob, i see in your agendaized directoarcyour update,you provid im wondering if you know off the top of your head how many predda households were waiting to reach. As i think we have sort of collectively agreed to reach 100 of the predda households and im wondering in future logs or, perhaps, in your next report that if you can provide the running count for us and then also any kind of timeline on the post dda outreach would be helpful. Thank you. Thank you, director lye. I dont have the precise number off the top of my head. I do know that we were down to fewer than five households, but i can find that and provide an update to Board Members. And i also should have included in my comments that arws has developed an online portal that can be accessed through the web or through an app that would allow individual households to view their specific information for their households. They would have a login number and be able to access the current status of their benefits. And were getting ready to do a beta test and looking forward to meet and do more inperson items. I seitems. Miss richardson, you can speak. Thank you, i just want to echo what the president mentioned earlier executiv and o thank you and your staff, because we know the people are working around the clock to try to support the residents and, also, our Community Development partners. And so i want to thank you for that. I do have a question and this is regarding the outages on the island. I know that this commission, everyone of us, are highly, highly interested to make sure that we need to provide positions and again, we can talk about that. The frequency of the outages and get with the medical crisis that we are in, technical we can all conclude that these are having some consequences on the residents of the island, especially, when people have to have storage of items and things like that. I would like at some point, maybe in the next meeting, to invite the sfpuc in and so we can even have some dialogue. But i know that the city is doing everything it can to try to resolve this and also, its important for us to let the public know that this is just in the interim. The infrastructure for the island right now, we are working on that and, however, the frequency of all of these outages now do create some concerns tha that maybe we can k of something to alleviate all of these to fix the problem permanently. Thats my comments. Thank you. Any other Board Members who would like to speak on the directors report . Yes, i have a question, if i can go. Yes. Two things. One is just from the chat that im seein