Its 1467135673, pound and then pound again. Once connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star three to be heard. Speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You can also submit your Public Comment by email. It will be forwarded to the committee and will be included in the files. I will go ahead and call roll. [ roll call ]. Clerk at this time we have a quorum and its 9 38 a. M. Can you call the second item. Clerk opportunity for the public to comment on any matters within the committees jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call the number listed with the access code. If you havent done so, please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will prompt you to begin speaking. Please note that you have three minutes. Give me one second as i go to see if we have any Public Comments. We have one hand raised at this. I am dr. Derek kerr, a whistleblower. Later you will hear about the report related to the d. P. W. Corruption scandal. These reports are limited handouts because they fail to address three key questions. Number one, why did the Whistleblower Program miss this . Number two, why does the f. B. I. So often lead the way in these anticorruption efforts . Third, why do city whistleblowers go to the f. B. I. When we have three city agencies that supposedly investigate misconduct . Last year the Whistleblower Program received 600 tips, and of those 108, or 18 , related to the departments of public works, Public Utilities, building inspections, and the city administrators office, all of which were implicated in the f. B. I. Investigation. How many of these 108 complaints pointed to the very corruption that the f. B. I. Unearthed . I have a suggestion. The Whistleblower Program should audit or review the complaints it received over the past five years to determine how many previously warned about this corrupti corruption. If there were none, it tells you something about the reach and the effectiveness of the whis e Whistleblower Program. If there were some, it tells you something about the programs investigative capabilities. Either way, the results would improve avenues for the Whistleblower Program. Thank you very much. Thank you, dr. Kerr, we appreciate your time. Any other Public Comment . My name is francisko de ko a kosta. The last 15 years, ive been monitoring the Bond Oversight Committee reports. This citizens general obligation Bond Oversight Committee does have a lot of authority but has failed us san franciscans. Again and again we see abject corruption of the highest order, millions of dollars wasted, more so by an entity, an Enterprise Department like the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. We have business being given out using favoritism. Millions of dollars linked to Community Benefits are given to a chosen few, all tied to taxpayers money. We have a Sunshine Task force that is important. We have an Ethics Commission that is dysfunctional. We have a Controllers Office that tenders to the City Attorney and the two of them do what they please, mostly kicking the can down the street. Now, if youre a whistleblower and you want to help our city and the taxpayers link to millions of dollars, do you know how long it takes the Controllers Office to look into the matter because we have no [indiscernible] in the Sunshine Task force or in the Ethics Commission . Years. Why would somebody go to the Controllers Office and give them the Empirical Data and do all the heavy lifting if there is no result . I mean, there is an audit there and the audit shows that the Ethics Commissioner deals with [indiscernible] frivolous cases and not the cases that matter because the City Attorney thinks that if he chooses those cases that dont have a monetary value then hes doing the city a favor and allowing crooks of the highest order to do what they please. So im asking the this Oversight Committee to do something and do it on a strong footing. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you. Thank you, mr. Kosta, we appreciate your time. Clerk i do not see any hands raised anymore, so Public Comment is closed. Item three, election of chair and vice chair. I think we need to deal with the minutes first. Clerk that one is item number four, but i can read that. Im sorry, youre right. Members, once a year i think it is, once a fiscal year, we look at the chair and vice chair. So we have to reelect them. I am termed out. I was appointed by the board of supervisors and i think i am termed out. I will or have reached out to the board of supervisors about replacing me. Like brian, im happy to stay on to ensure the work of the organization continues and we have quorum where needed. Having said that, im probably not the best candidate for chair, given that my term could end at any time. If anyone is interested in taking that on, i have talked to shavan about the role and she is willing. So i would like to nominate her as chair going forward. I would like to make that an official nomination, but we dont want to keep anyone from their interest, but were happy to discuss here the role. We are in october now and we will yet again elect another chair next july, just to give everyone perspective on how those roles last in our environment. Comments . Ill second that motion. Id just like to say thank you for the nomination and looking forward to getting the committee back on track. If theres no comment, should we take a vote . Clerk yes. Let me call the role. [ roll call ]. So you are now is the chair. Would you like me to continue running this meeting to give you yes, please. Please dont hesitate to break in at any time. No, thank you. Youve been great. Vice chair, i know that lauren has told me previously that shes willing to stay on. Is there any interest in that . I want to point out one of the weird things about our committee is we all have two, twoyear terms, which is not a long time for us to get up to speed. I would be happy to serve as vice again, but id also be happy in someone else would like to in support of what you just sai said. Either is fine with me. As i recall, christian, youve always been in attendance. But if shavan couldnt attend a meeting, then the vice chair would serve in that role. As well as you and i have worked together on various issues of assigning subjects to various members and various logistics and Planning Issues and setting the agendas for the meeting, we would do that and the work plan. I nominate jane. Im happy to step in and do that and take a shot at it. Im happy to serve in that role if nominated. Ill second that nomination. Anyone else interested . This is my second meeting. Maybe later. If everybody is comfortable, we can call the question. Clerk would you like me to call the role fors vice chair . Yes, please. [ roll call ]. Eight votes. Thank you, jane. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Clerk members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call the number listed and use the access code. Then you push pound and then pound again. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system has unmuted you. I see one caller. Let me unmute this person. Hello, caller. The caller hung up. So we have no Public Comment on this item. Great. Call the next item clerk item four, approval with possible modification of the minutes of the january 27, 2020, meeting. Madam chair, i have a slight amendment thats missing. I was going to put it up but i didnt see my name. Clerk i can make that amendment to the minutes. With that amendment, is there a motion to approve the minutes . Ill make the motion. Ill second. All in favour . Aye. All opposed. Seeing none. I think we need to take Public Comment on that also clerk Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156650001, accewith the acce code and then pound and pound again. There is no Public Comment. Did you want me to read item five . Yes clerk presentation from department of public works about the 2011 road repaving and Street Safety bond program and possible action by the committee in response to such presentation. The presenter is edmund lee. Good morning. Good morning, members of the committee and congratulations to the new chair and vice chair. Im a project manager for the department of public works and i will be presenting a bit on our 2011 repaving Street Safety bond. This should be familiar to most of the committee. The first slide we have is an overview of the original Budget Approved from the 2011 ballot. We have 248 million general Obligation Bond that was distributed amongst six different programs within our department. We have the street repaving and reconstruction, streetscape, bicycle pedestrian safety, material fact signal and street improvements, sidewalk accessibility improvements, curb ramps, and improvements with sidewalk repairs, and also our street structures. On the right we have a couple pictures from some of our more recently completed Streetscape Project projects. Next slide we have an executive summary. One thing to mention is the majority of the scope that was within our bond has already reached substantial completion. We have one project out there thats a Streetscape Project under the highlights and accomplishments. We have 95 of the sewer and water work complete, 95 of the curb ramp work, and 40 of the paving thats complete. We anticipate the substantial completion for this project in march 2021. So the majority were pretty much wrapping up all the scope and implementation of the bond. For the roman numeral iii just to mention the last bond sale was 43. 4 million and that was back in april of 2016. Some of the risks and concerns on the budget scope and schedule, i think its been some time since weve met. Weve been reporting with the bonds that the Financial System posed problems for us in viewing the information from a financial standpoint. Weve kept that up here and definitely made a lot of progress in cleaning up a lot of the data and being able to view good information that we can use for our particular bond towards close out and balancing our budget. The next few slides are going to be each individual program in monitoring all the goals that we had as part of the program. Most of the work has been completed for the changes, but the first is the street repaving and reconstruction. We had 52 projects that were completed and of those projects we yielded 1,346 blocks that were resurfaced. If you look at the bottom right chart, this is a chart thats monitored our p. C. I. Score over the last 10 years. Weve had part of the 10year capital plan, to achieve a p. C. I. Score of 7. 5. There was a significant amount of funding in the first few years of this 10year run. I just wanted to highlight that 2021 is the last of these 10 years. We havent officially hit 75, but all of our projections are pointing that way. It looks like were going to hit it. I just wanted to highlight the contribution that was made for that effort. The next program is the streetscape, pedestrian, and bike safety improvements. To reiterate from the highlights earlier on, that the one project thats currently under construction for the bond, and the majority of the work is completed and substantial completion will has been in march 2021. The next slide we have is the Curb Ramp Program as well as the sidewalks. This is one of the programs the two programs that have been completed for quite some time, a few years, but to review the accomplishments. Its 100 complete. Over 1,000 curb ramps were completed and for the ramps we have 646 blocks that were repaired and square footages of 155,000544 square feet. The last program that we have is our roadway Structure Program, also 100 complete. I believe this was sometimes last year, i believe, but 39 road restructure projects were completed. Within those projects, 41 actual structures were repaired. Sorry, excuse me, Traffic Signals is the last year. We have the Traffic Signals that have also been completed for some time, a couple of years. We have 440 intersections, 10 Traffic Signals at intersections, and then we also have the infrastructure upgrades such as conduits and pull boxes that were upgraded as part of this program here. The last slide that we have is sort of a highlevel overview of just the budget expenditure and balances for each of these programs within the bond. Again, were kind of wrapping up the last Streetscape Project. Some of the other projects in the programs were accomplished in the last year. So the majority of our expenditure is well into the 40 percentile. With a lot of the information thats cleaned up, were able to get a good sense of what our budget expenditure balances are. So were actually in the process of closing out all of the different projects that contributed and utilized the bond funding. To date we probably balanced about 35 to 40 of the bond. Were continuing that effort currently. So we have this breakdown here. If anybody has any questions or would like me to reference a previous slide, i can do that at this time. Thank you, edmund. Any comments from the members . Thanks, president. I want to appreciate all the work the staff has done. I think i met with you back in february or so right before we got locked down and we discussed this lingering issue with the Financial System. So we appreciate the progress thats being made and i think both your side and our side looks forward to these bond programs being closed out and we seem very much in line with the voters. Im proud of the work the city has done, so thank you. Thank you. Its not often that we look through these and we see everything on target. There is not a lot of need to reconfigure how the bond is spent. Not every bond is so fortunate. Ive seen the benefit of many of those streets getting around town and appreciate the hard work there as well. Thank you. Any other comments . Questions . I have a question. In the spirit of the [indiscernible] and coming from a whistleblower perspective, do any of these bond projects or subcontractors or vendors have anything to do with the current investigation of misuse of city funds . Not that im particularly aware of. You know, i havent im maybe not uptodate with all the specifics of all the investigations, but being involved with this particular bond, i have not been approached with any questions regarding any of the specific contractors. None of the big players that i have heard in the news ring a bell of the particular bond, but im not in tune with all the specific investigations. Okay. Thank you. So just so everyone is on the same page with the same knowledge, im not sure who the right person is, but can someone summarize the misuse of city funds related to the d. P. W. In particular or the Current Situation . I know were going to go into it in detail in number nine, but i think its clearly relevant across all the bond programs. I dont think i would do a good job summarizing the situation. [laughter]. I can give an attempt. Honestly, i have not been close to these investigations so im just going to give the most general list and mark de la rosa will be giving his presentation later. There are allegations that bribes were offered to a commissioner. There are allegations that work was done and possibly cash bribes were offered to one or more City Employees in exchange for preferential treatment for participation in these processes. There are allegations that friends of organizations, Nonprofit Organizations, were used to take the funds from private contractors and then to do events and other things for the benefit of city departments. Those are the most broad outlines. Theres been at least one city contractor which has been specifically named in these allegation processes and i think that a procedure has already been enacted on that contractor. I dont know if they are able to [indiscernible] thats all i feel comfortable saying. Those most knowledgeable will be here later. Madam chair, can i ask another question . Yes, please. Maybe mr. De la rosa can answer this. Will he answer if any of the investigations have to do with the bonds . I can go back and take a look at the history of all of our projects and see if azul was a contractor in any of the previous ones. Yeah, i think that thats the spirit of the question is for the bond money that we were overseeing and the projects we were overseeing, was that contractor hired to do any of the work with the bond money thats under our jurisdiction. Im aware that azul hard contract contracts in the park funds. Members of the public can go on the website and do a search for the