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Joining in person should line up to speak at the podium and those on the telephone should dial star three to also be added to the queue. Each speaker may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. You will hear a chime indicating you have 30s remaining and a second chime when your two minutes are up. At this time your microphone will be muted to comply with city rules and maintain hearing decorum. Directors shall refrain from entering into discussions with speakers during Public Comment if members of the public wish to receive a response from titus staff, please email tida at sec. Gov. Org and a titus staff member will follow up. Item number one call to order director sen hill director Dunlop Dunlop absent director richardson. Director brereton brereton absent director howard here. Director azeem here. Director rif present. We do have a quorum. Thank you. Thank you very much and good afternoon, everybody. And thank you for joining us today. I would just like to note that there were five photographers who were selected at the beginning of the year to document the changes on Treasure Island. This year and their photographs through the Arts Commission have been made into posters and they are now at the deco kiosk. The bus kiosk in the financial district and the long market street. So theres a link to where those locations are. And kate, i think we will make sure you get the link and get it out to the board. And also to the general public as well, because these are wonderful images of Treasure Island as it changes some of the images are timeless. It will always be there. The views, for instance, will always be there. But some of it is documenting on Treasure Island this year, as we made so many changes on the island. And so those are well worth looking at. So well go on to the next item, please. Item number two, general Public Comment. This item is to allow members of the public to address the Treasure Island Development Authority board on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and that do not appear on todays agenda in addition to general Public Comment, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Are there any members of the public who would like to address the board and see anybody on the phone being no callers . Okay. Next item, please. Item number three report by Treasure Island director, director and members of the board, bob beck presenting for tida. Id like to begin by inviting gonsalves to with one Treasure Island to come on and give an update on on their activities of the past month. Good afternoon, directors. Thank you, bob. As bob stated, my name is nela gonsalves and im the coexecutive director for one Treasure Island. Id like to share with you a few highlights of our work over the last month. Treasure island programing. We are having our 16th cohort of the Construction Training Program and we have a graduation this friday at 11 a. M. On Treasure Island. And the invitation was included in your packet. And we hope you can join us. Were very excited to have this class graduate almost 50 of the class is already working , so were excited about that. Id like to move on to some Community Engagement and events. Our island Wide Community meeting this month will be partnering with the San Francisco Police Department and we will be hosting a Community Meeting along with the Police Department. It will be in person on the 18th at in building one. So were excited to have the Community Come out, not only hear about all the events that are happening, but also whats going on through the police. We held an island wide orientation as you know. We had about 100 and i think 40 or so new residents that weve identified move on the island through the healthright 360 and swore to plowshares masalmeh housing. And so we held an inperson orientation at the shipshape. We had 33 residents and workers show up. We had 20 actually attend director bob beck and admiral security joined me to give a presentation and it went over very well. I think people were very pleased. I think the one highlight from that was we heard overwhelmingly from the people that were there how much they enjoy living on the island. And thats not always something that we hear. So it was really nice to hear that by so many different people. I told director bob to enjoy it while he heard it. We are starting our emergency prep workshops. We had a bunch called mapping your neighborhood and we had 21 individuals attend three meetings and were excited. We have over 30 individuals that are interested in participating in inert, which is the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team training and were looking to have training scheduled in january. And the idea is to have the residents be responsible for emergency coordination action should an emergency or a Natural Disaster happen when were not on the island. And last but not least, we have a big halloween celebration on the 25th of this month. It will be at the ymca and were working with the Parent Council and local businesses to provide and were very excited because this year we have some of the Construction Companies that are doing business on the island, partnered with partnering with us and last but not least, i would like to invite you all to our annual event, october 19th. Its at the skyline event at 530, and weve ordered the weather. It will be 78 degrees and the sunset will be at 618. So it should be a perfect evening. Thank you all. Thank you, noah. This past month was also a busy month on the island. We had two music events on saturday, the 16th and saturday. The 23rd. Both went off fairly well and were well attended. This past weekend was fleet week with with sizable crowds coming to the island on friday, saturday and sunday. Saturdays crowd had the largest turnout and the best weather. Titus staff did a lot to prepare for the event. And generally speaking, the events went well and traffic flowed relatively smoothly. Titus staff preparations included the placement of barricades, portable restrooms, an encroachment permit closing lane. Five of the bay bridge for to allow better exiting from the island at the end of the air show west park was brought in to provide flaggers to help control traffic. Sfmta also provided Additional Support and sfpd had additional officers on site as well as extra security personnel from from admiral gold bar also opened their whiskey bar in building one on the 22nd. Titus staff have also been coordinated. Ding a pothole sweep, which will Begin Next Week on the island as well as dealing with some graffiti, rubicon and a tree contractor have been removing the root balls of downed trees in the historic officers quarter that came down in the march 21st storm that work is now complete and restoration planting is underway. Leasing or leasing staff has been working on renewing our commercial leases with the majority of our tenants and finance staff have been working with the office of Public Finance and the bond team to prepare the preliminary official statement for an Upcoming Community facilities district bond issuance. On the notice of completion front. The board of supervisors has approved the acceptance of the dog park. Well hear more about plans for the maintenance of the dog park during our regular agenda, as well as update on on completed packages. Moving to the board of supervisors for acceptance related to the by and sip an update on the Starview Court work with t advisors and that completes my report. Okay. Thank you. Um lets see. Are there any questions or comments from the board . Yes. Quick question, please. Let me have mrs. First. Yeah. Yes where are we with the Farmers Market . Thats still on the Treasure Island flea. The. The flea flea market will be returning february three of next year. So the board approved that agreement last month. And the first one will be in february. Miss mrs. I just want to make a comment to nella. Congratulations and bob on the great response from the residents. Thats really great to hear and that theres been a lot of activity and i know a lot of people have enjoyed whats been happening. So great work. Thank you. The mercy team has been been great to work with and thank you again. Yes. When Treasure Island is such an invaluable resource for the island. Thank you for all that you do. Are there any other comments from the public. Here okay. And anybody on the phone seeing none. Okay. Thank you. Well go on to the next item, please. Item number four, Community Actions from and received by to any questions or comments from the board, from the public. Seeing no Public Comment. Okay. Hearing none. Next item, please. Item number five, ongoing business by board of directors. Is there any comments or questions from the board . Id mr. Beck. I just have a question and that is to the parks oversight and stewardship ship, which is an item which we always concerned about. And given the fact that we have two items on the agenda today with regards to the acceptance of those public amenities, id like to have a report on whats happening there. How are we going to go forward and how are we going to make some decisions on how that oversight will happen . Yeah, and we are working on an item on that and plan to do that at the Infrastructure Committee next week. Okay. Next week. All right. Thank you. Are there any other comments . No. And seeing no Public Comment. Oh okay. Oh, sorry. Yes ms. Howard, i do want to just yeah, im glad to hear, bob, that i mean, director beck, that next week we will be getting an update on the parks and governance. Yeah, i guess last month we brought it up and the month before and we had asked for a report out on it. And today were having to yeah, as, as a, as a director, beck noted, i mean, we have two items on the agenda which are kind of very specific and not kind of addressing the big picture that weve been really concerned with. So im really happy to hear that. We will get a report out soon. Yep. Okay thank you. Um, any other comments from the audience or the phone . Theres no Public Comment. Next item, please. Item number six, consent. Agenda six a approving the minutes of the september 13th, 2023 meeting. Six b resolution approving and authorizing the execution of a First Amendment to the professional Services Agreement between tida and one Treasure Island to increase the annual scope of services and not to exceed contract amount for fiscal year 2023, 2020 four six. C resolution authorizing the adjustment of fees for Treasure Island Development Authority utility system customers on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. Okay. Are there any items that the directors would like to consider either separately from the Consent Agenda . So moved, so hearing none motion and second, please. So moved. Okay. Its been moved. Is there a second . Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye all those opposed . The ayes have it. Next item, please. For the record, there was no Public Comment on item seven resolution approving the election of officers of the Treasure Island Development Authority and the appointment of officers to the housing infrastructure, transportation and Sustainability Committee as nominated by the Ad Hoc Nominating Committee to serve a 12 month term of office commencing january 1st, 2024, and ending december 31st, 2024. Okay so on that, id like to turn to the nominations committee. Mr. Dunlop is not here, but ms. Richardson and ms. Howard were so well have your report. Thank you so much. Every year, the tida has to select officers for a year and for this particular year, next year we actually met at 1 00 today to select the officers. And i want to start here. All the officers are highly regarded our president for the nomination, commissioner patient wanted you to let you know that you have consistently upheld the leadership, your Extensive Knowledge of Development Overall and expertise, academic background. And again, i know youre very modest. I say that all the time. Actually all over San Francisco, all over this country. You are on the radar. All the work that youve done with Affordable Housing mixed use, housing in addition to public realm, i think you are the go to person. When people talk about public realm, how do we make this space that we are creating and the trends you have , the expertise, sustainability and so have the privilege of serving with you all these years and you have just maintained that. So you are going to continue to be president of tida. The yerba buena and Treasure Island development for people that are watching for the first time, we have actually so certification for a platinum standard. Our our projects are not only on the radar in north america, but everyone is really looking at that. Its a Public Private development and what we bring along is demonstrate to the entire north america they dont have to manage a Public Private partnerships. So with all those and many more, you are going to continue as our president. So thank you for your service and for the rest of the positions we have. The these are the officers Vice President will be yours truly and the richardson for secretary position. Commissioner Jeanette Howard is nominee and for the chief financial officer, commissioner mark dunlop. And so we also have a subcommittee and these are the subcommittees that we create to help us to again, to get the work done, done. And so we have a combined house housing, as you know, housing is integral to what we are trying to do here. We actually building housing here at Treasure Island while the rest of San Francisco is still talking about housing. And so we also have of infrastructure and transportation. As you know, the developed ment is still ongoing and sustainability. We the sustainability will be including how are we adapt ing this project connect projects to the open space and the parks and which we are going to be talking about that and so these are the officers, the members of this committee would be linda richardson, chair, commissioner chen is a member, commissioner Jeanette Howard is a member of the alternate. His commissioner, timothy rice. So those are the officers and members that we are presenting. And of course the way that we are structured and all our members, everyone, its part of the coalition. So thats my present station. Thank you. Thank you so much, jeanette, did you have anything to add to that . No. Well, thank thank you. Lets see this microphone just fell apart. But thank you very much for your confidence in me as a president. And i will continue. But i also want to say that its so important to have a team on this board. And each one of you are unique and have experience and skills that you add to what were doing. And what were doing is really to provide the guidance as we implement the master plan for the development of this incredible island. So thank you all for your service. So we have the recommendation of the nominating committee. Well open it up to the public. Any comments, questions . Okay. Seeing no Public Comment, seeing no Public Comment. This is an action item. So youve made we need an actual motion. Yes, i need a motion. Id like to make a motion to pass the measure. Okay. A second. Okay thank you. Thank you. All in favor. So we have to call the roll call, so we will take the vote and we dont need. Okay so all in favor say aye . Aye. All those opposed the ayes have it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Item number eight, resolution to accept certain improvements on Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island to designate the applicable portion of the improvements for open space use to dedicate the applicable portion of the improvements for public use and to accept the improvements for maintenance and liability purposes. And wei zhang, whos leads our our coordination with public works on the inspection of