Transcripts For SFGTV Treasure Island Development Authority

SFGTV Treasure Island Development Authority July 12, 2024

Agenda item up to two minutes and be in a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly and mute computers or radio. Item 1, call to order roll call. Director tsen. Here. Director dunlop . Perhaps you have unmute. Sounds like hes having an issue with his tablet. If hes in the meeting he can see it. Go to the upper left hand corner of the screen theres a circle with an i that says event information and at the bottom theres an attendee i. D. If you dial in and enter that attendee i. D. When prompted you should be able to access the meeting by audio and hopefully it will merge with your panelist i. D. As well. Can staff people perhaps phone him or text him. If he cannot join by video can he join by phone . Yes, theres instructions i just gave where he can use audio to dial into the meeting as a panelist but in order to do that he has to be in the meeting to access the unique attendee i. D. Otherwise hell call in but hell end up as an attendee and appear as a callin user like the public. Those are the options he had because he used a tablet not allowing him to function with the meeting. If i call him on my cell phone and keep him on audio. You condo that. The aud can do that too. The Audio Quality may not be good but thats another option if you wish. Whatever works for you. It depends on how long you think it will be, everybody can stand by and as long as everyone in the public understands were trying to resolve a Technology Difficulty and be patient with us. Thank you for your understanding. We need him for a quorum of the meeting. It is essential he join us otherwise we cannot conduct the meeting because we wont have a quorum. [please stand by]. Commissioner knows joini joining those joining us from the public please be patient. Were working out some technical difficulties. Clerk hes on by phone so eel start roll call again. Item 1, roll call. Director tsen. Here. Director dunlop. Here. Director lai. Present. Director kwon. Director shifrin. Supervisor haney. We do have a quorum. Excellent. Well, welcome to the Treasure Island Development Authority meeting today. I hope everyone has been keeping safe. I know this is a new set up that we have here so i hope that we will all be patient as we work out all the kinks in it. But lets see, we can go on to the next item. Item 2 general Public Comment for all members to address the Treasure Island Development Authority within the subject matter jurisdiction on the board and not appear on the agenda. Public health will be held for each item on the agenda. Members of the public may address the members of the board up to two minutes and those would wish to call 4184911488 and when you are connected dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. Moderator, are there callers on the line . There are no callers. Before we go to the next item, i would like to give a welcome marian on the line with us today. We wanted to thank you for your thank you for your years to the Treasure Island Development Authority. You have a years of history i under the you want to retire and want to wish you well into requirement and hope for the best for you. I think others would like to speak as well. Miriam. Well be losing outstanding staff. Theyve been with Treasure Island Development Authority for decade. Its also sweet shes leaving on a high road and after some time we all need to move on to our next endeavors. Miriam, i know we are all sheltering in place but when the time permits we would like to give you a great farewell so residents and city staff and people youve had a chance to work with all these decades can acknowledge your hard work and bid you farewell. Its been an honor working with you and wish you well in your future endeavours. Thank you for your Great Service to the city of San Francisco. I wanted to highlight when miriam came to Treasure Island 14 years ago in the early years of the program when the city took over the base there was a perception the island was going to begin redevelopment very quickly so very little was done on the island other than the residential leaving program. So we had a large number of residents on the island and little else, commercial tenants. The program was also and from the time she arrived to a few years ago miriam was responsible for all on island programs and operations. She did a great deal to develop the community that we have today. As i said when she first arrived there was very little in the way of a commercial Leasing Program and little in the way of revenues. One of our first steps was to generate commercial interest in the island, salvage the buildings still usable in the early years a number of properties were neglected and beyond use at the time she arrived. And as revenues increased to leverage those and increase the services, public works and Capital Improvements that were undertaken here on the island some things instituted were the Summer Camp Program with the boys and girls club and camp mendocino and Resident Leadership Program and also bringing events and recreations to the island, the music festival, the Treasure Island flea market and most significantly for the residents, attracting retail opportunities with the Grocery Store and restaurants we have here on the island. If not for those improvements it would have been a long two decade for residents on the island. And she also took two interim position to lead other departments while they were in the process of searching for new executive directors. For six months in 2014 and 2015 she was the executive director for animal care and control and in 2008 for seven months was the interim executive director nor Housing Authority where amongst other things was the decades old civil suit against the Housing Authority and brought that to a successful resolution. I wanted to highlight for people not recognizing the work in the background thats been done her achievements and benefits shes brought to the island and residents. I believe mark wanted to say something. Can you hear snus hear us . And sharon. Go ahead, mark. [indiscernible]. Yes, we can. [indiscernible] she was truly part of this island. I cant wait to be with her on the opening day of the whole island. Take care. Sharon. You wanted to make a comment . Just a quick one, thank you. Just wanted to say thank you to miriam for all your dedication. It cant be easy for such a large redevelopment effort. Thank you for all your years of service and best of luck. Miriam, do you want to make parting comments . You need to be unmuted. Thank you. Just a couple words. Thank you, bob for [indiscernible] and theres so many people to thank. To my colleagues i want to point out we were able to build a core team and bring advisors sloong the way and there was a great understanding of the residents. [indiscernible] being an important partner. [indiscernible] and peter in charge of Public Safety issues with his background in the arts it was beneficial for the island. What made our Team Effective was we built consensus slooalong thy and we had challenges and issues every day we had to resolve it also provided opportunity to do creative things. We had so much fun along the way. We collaborated and tried and built and kept going. And the City Attorneys Office also supported and understood and help us along the way. Ive had a supportive board focussed on policy and its impact and allowed the team to be flexible and sharing their time and knowing the team was there to deliver for residents. Good luck. The future is here. Thank you, youve made a difference on the island and youll be missed. Good luck to you. Hearing no Public Comment, lets go [indiscernible]. First Public Commenter. This is Vice President of the Treasure Island museum and its with great affection and sadness the museum congratulates you on your environment, youve energized the work of tida and have been effective advocate for the historic heritage which you were honored with the Art Deco Society of california preservation board, their highest honor. In the last few years as part of the outreach and part of the Metropolitan Club and Millennium Tower you had an inspiring presentation of the sustainable plan and vision nor islands future. Its been an honor and inspiration to work with you over so many years. Well miss you deeply and wish you the best in your next endeavor. Caller whos number begins 924407. This is karen eddelman. I wanted to mention how much we appreciate the guidance miriam has provided trying to navigate the thrrs rules andiment and implementation and helping with the layers of decisions and how it will change the course of events on the island. And i appreciate her kindness and thoughtfulness of the people on the island and how every decision means something to them. We thank you for your guidance and for getting us to this point and celebrate with you as you go on to retirement and im sure many new adventures. Thank you for every moment youve given. Are there any other Public Comments . No more callers. Public comment is closed. Item 3. Clerk report by Treasure Island director. Id like to begin during last month we reported a survey of Treasure Island residents and received feedback and id like to give a report on the steps they have taken based on the feedback received and other programs at one Treasure Island. Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to share you will the great work during the covid19 pandemic. We created a Questionnaire Survey and it was put out to the residents of Treasure Island and i know you all heard about this and we got results. Based on those results were planning and weve been communicating regularly with our Island Partners to coordinate and collaborate island Wide Services and we continue services and are providing all services virtually and providing tax services and Construction Training Program which will graduate next week. A third of the class being island residents that were excited to put to work shortly after they complete their training. Weve updated our website to include financial and deployment resources in addition to food and other resources and have seen an increase in families and households best s and we i know about support to the Salvation Army with the food box distribution and the program started by supervisor hannys office and have been able to distribute masks also distribute supervisor haneys office as well as hand sanitizer. Were happy to support the Kids Meal Program. Its been pivotal in bringing the program to Treasure Island and continuing to operate it weekly. Shes been running the program and will do so until the end of the july. Thats what weve been doing. Going back to the questionnaire, weve formulated a plan based on the fodeback we got and feedback we got. Im going briefly describe some of the actions were taking and you all should have a copy of the Treasure Island Community Needs questionnaire response in your packet as well. So first and foremost, free food on Treasure Island. Again the food pant try and we pleased to report were entering our second week of the Treasure Island supper club for Treasure Island residents. Its an eightweek pilot providing one supplemental hot meal a week for Treasure Island residents and beginning last week we had 167 requests for meals from about 50 or so households. And theres no fee for the meal but people can pay what they can as far as donation and meals can be reserve the day before and were making arrangement to have meals delivered. Tomorrow well have our second week and i checked today and we already had 124 meal requests. That seems to be a much needed resource on the island. Were also listing city wide free food resources as well as paid delivery resources on Treasure Island. We also have a listing for senior and disabled services through the department of disability and aging and then a Meal Delivery program specifically for seniors were in the process of continuing to deliver household supplies and masks. Were partnering with island cove market who right now has a very nice stock of supplies and will once a month through the food pantry, one thursday a month well be adding extra cleaning supplies to the food that goes along. The first is on july 14th and well be distributing disposable masks, bleach with directions how to make your own clorox bleach wipes and your own disinfectant spray and hand sanitizers. The Housing Provider is also providing residents with supplies as well. Were very excited to announce were working with the department of Public Health to bridge covid19 testing to the island with the goal of bringing it to the island the last week of july. We also have financial and employment links on our website as well and are adding a jobs resource page. For those that may not qualify for our services but also live on Treasure Island theres a resource to get free links to get resume cover letters and link for job leads and job resources. Then we also have fact the internet and a big section on children and summer activities. Im not going to talk too much about that because i know the y will be giving an update and weve been partnering with the y to make sure were one, able to provide students with back to School Support resources and looking looking at what that may lock like and hoping to distribute some of that next month. And then the boys and girls club has camp mendocino but they are taking campers and last but not least they are providing limited services and they will be building up to as much as capacity as they can get. Theyre looking to hire more teachers to open more classrooms. Then we have rental support information on our website for rental assistance and lastly information about electricity and the puc is discussing some improvements. As you can see weve done a lot of work here. I want to shout out supervisor haneys office and tida and staff has been wonderful. Ill stop and see if anybody has any questions. Thank you very much for that report. We want to say how important one Treasure Island is and for the services you provide for residents. Thank you. I also wanted to invite the ymca to give an update on their programs during the summer. Theres things we wanted to do and ill break down the sides and weve been trying to figure out how to support family and residents and advocating for Treasure Island because thats where our home base is. When we first start and went into shutdown we offered essential workers for the ymca. Based on the covid guidelines we were able to serve 12 kids in a cohort with two staff and one main area and one bathroom so the space had to be adequate and so to june we worked with families to provide hot spots and it was for third grade and on and we tried to do something to make sure families had one hot spot or one smart device in the house for the Technology Start up. Families not essential workers who didnt get to go to the pop up locations we had google classrooms where they were able to get online and work with a teacher or whatever it may be. On the flip side we were offering other supports for the families. We created packets that focussed on social Emotional Learning and aligned with the district so if the google classroom and were rushing through the work and didnt have access to print and upload we would do the services for the family. We offered it at the same time as the Kids Meal Program and if the families needed additional printing theyd come to our site after picking up the food in order to make sure they were fully serviced around and getting what they need and that included additional markers or whatever was needed for the students to get their work. And we even uploaded the work to the google classroom for the families who didnt have access at home. We also had staff who would support the Kids Meals Program that happened every tuesday and friday were fortunate at the Treasure Island location to not have to furlough any of our staff because there were things we could continue to do to be active and in ymca and if theyre going to work or listed some restrictions we were able to extend our services to families. So it help lay out facilities where we have three fully functional rooms where we started with one. That alus us to have up to allows us to have 36 kids in the cohort in the building at one time with the s

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