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Before calling the next item, i would like to amend todays agenda, would i like to move item 4b, the bureau of mapping and Inspections Software contract award from the consent calendar to regular calendar as our first business. I would like to move item 10 new business to our last item under the regular prior to our closed session so that staff and members of the public do not need to wait around until closed session. Are my comments comfortable with the two amendments . Thank you. If there are no other changes to the agenda, we will move on to the next item which is announcement business chair. Is do have several, i would like to announce that commissioner saegle has stepped down, we ask for to provide citizen oversight to public works. We ask commissioner the very best in her pursuits going forward. This leaves us with a vacant seat. Were hoping to fill these vacancies as quickly as possible. Theyre both mayoral appointments. It was a rewarding activities towards award ceremonies and other festivity recognizing the Broad Public Service to the citizens of San Francisco and the 11700 to improve the quality of life for all who live and visit here. I will let director short give a report on several weeks. In the news since our last meeting was a article describing public works out reach and Enforcement Team. Professionals who educate the public about rules governing dumping and collection and enforce those policies and laws. This is a complex difficult job execute beside alien and hard working team. The Public Works Commission thanks the out reach and Enforcement Team for their dedication to keeping our city clean and safe and conducting the business sxz residents to do the same. On a similar topic, the commissioner received a letter from bay view citizen arounding the conditions surrounding an rv. Le director short has sent somebody from the department to see how we can help remedy the situation. Good morning, carla short, yes, we are in regular contact with the the resident who sent you the letter. Weve gone through several walk throughs. It is a difficult spot with especially a lot of industrial areas, you dont have an adjacent owner who is there all the time. So it can be challenging but we have teams who are regularly working to address the conditions. Anyone interesting in being a candidate for this position as chair is appointed to the mayor, may see the application on the Commission Website and kkting the team and ill share the specific document with all commissioners as well flt and i also have the report on the activity of the sanitation and streets commission, they have not met since the last time this commission met. But on next monday, may 20th, they will meet and hear a, performance measure report from the bureau street and Environmental Services as well as a report that was originally had its, had its start in a discussion in this commission and thats about trash can placement and my related dumping that has to do with that as well. So theyll be hearing some of those items at next Weeks Commission and that concludes that report. Thank you, please open this item to Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment inperson on item 11, announcements by the chair, commissioners and secretary may line along the wall and if youre commenting press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. Noib has a approached to speak on this item inperson. And sf gov. Tv is letting know that no call cer interest interested in speak on this item, that concludes that item. Thank you, please call the next item. Item 2 is director charla short is here to present and this is an informational item. Good morning, commissioners i hope you had a nice weekend with the weather warmer at times, today is pretty chilly examine the school year wrapping up, the city is start to go get busy again, with baseball games and Community Festivals and public works is often in the mix with additional cleaning, street inspection sxz permit work. Im feeling optimistic about the citys continued come back and i hope you are too. I have a couple of cop ikz, i want to report on today. We had a wonderful public works week with students attending our houses, where students model cities and tested them on our shake table. And one is operation yard which allow students to participate in all the different trade work that we offer. We also had public giants night at the game and our annual award show and pin ceremony which was well attended and well inspiring. And to recognize our hard working staff. Later this morning, well be joeg the sfmt a at a Ground Breaking ceremony at the street escape project that aims to improve Traffic Safety in important corridor. A central component to the soma plan, planning for the street escape began a year later with open houses, a survey and over 100 meetings and groups. From second to 11th street and will be construct inside three phases, starting at the west end and moving east, construction is expect today wrap up in late 2026 and will include extensive improvement, raised crosswalk, ada loading zones with wheelchair ramps, new lighting and street furniture, decorative crosswalk also upgraded storm water and utilities including landscaping to capture storm water run off. The roadway will be reconfigured to reduce the number of vehicular lanes known as a road diet which they hope will reduce from people who bike or walk as more inviting environment. Sfmta lead the design and Public Works Team is providing project management Construction Management and construction out reach throughout project delivery and carol wong is leading our team. Last week for the first time post covid we held our contractor events at the Community Center to reconnect with new partners and colleagues. Local business staff from various departments came together to take in informative presentations on San Franciscos economy and bond programs. Learn about the processes and get to know each other. The event was drawn to enterprises which our local businesses that we want to lift up and support. We had table set up where contractors and local businesses can connect with with individual City Department including rec and park and puc and mta and others to find out more about their projects and contracting needs. All told, we brought together about ten departments with public works playing organizer and hoefpts. These opportunities are vitally important for us as a department and for the city as a whole to forge connection wz contractors and local businesses to provide services. Also last week, public works joined mayor breed state representatives and housing develop inventories celebrate the top out, that marks building structural frames of a new Affordable Housing community. The development will include 170 the apartments and Early ChildhoodEducation Center and health and Wellness Center and Business Opportunities at the site of the old sunnidale project at the southern edge of San Francisco near mcclairen park construction is expected to be included next year. Housing california and related california are helping lead the transformation with the site with the mayors housing and housing authority. Our role as public works is through our Infrastructure Task force which helps structure such as treasure island, pier 70 and mission rock. While they hired their own engineers, our Team Oversees the infrastructure including the roadways and underground utilities, we also reviews and improved the subdivision maps and issue permits. All right, were about halfway through as asianamerican heritage month. To inform our staff by highlighting the history and ccs of Aapi Community this. Annual initiative is the latest in latest of public works that are growing in participation and popularity. Im looking forward to the final weeks of heritage month and i want to thank our organizers for all of their great work. And i will wrap up todays report to let you know that we had a fun and productive beautification day. It was joe demaggio park. Thanks to our urban teams as well as our Community Volunteers for coming out and cleaning up our streets. And that wraps up my report. Thank you. Thank you, director short. Somebody who lives in the Downtown Neighborhood where tens of thousands of workers have benefited from the Home Improvement i, i really look forward to hearing more as of the next phase, i know the neighborhoods from 11th, i think you said to second will benefit. Its a game changer as you described so thats great news. And thats under way. The contract of connection event is at annual event that we host. We are, we are look at what is the appropriate frequency it used to be held before covid, it was held quarterly. We agree na it needs to be held quarterly because so much more is available online, thats one of the benefits perhaps of the pandemic. So we are looking at problem biannual or annual to hold this event. It sounds like a great event i advocate that we hold it at least annually. I didnt know about it and it sounds like a great event for public works to host and take credit for hosting. Last in the new business agenda, ill be asking for a presentation on the infrastructure, director short mentioned i would like to know more about that. So ill mention that again, thank you director short. Any other comments or questions for director short . Please open to Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment inperson on item 2, the directors report may line up along the wall. If youre commenting from outside of the chamber, please the raise your hand or press star3 tofu called in to make Public Comment. And no one has approached to speak on this item. Nobody has Public Comment, so that concludes the item. I did have some, there were several projects. Im not sure, commissioner short if you have give us an update. This is a big dollar amount. I want to you remiepd us and the public what it is . I know that there are some Deputy Department managers in the audience, if they want to step up. I also wanted to know about the improvement projects, what the timing is. Same thing on the 6th shelter kitchen renovation. And just a little bit more. Im not asking for detailed, just what is it . When rough cost if anybody knows, amorization, s m. P. , sister reand mcclairen, director. Ron alameida, director of building and city architect. I can speak to the potrero modernization. Its a innovative program, a team of our pms lead by tim kim is leading the effort, its going to be a Public Private partnership. Its been in the works for a number of years now. Something we have not done at the city or at least at public works before. So its been, primarily an engagement of figuring out how to improve on the mta bus yard while introducing additional housing, and thats where the Partnership Comes in. Its, gotten be advanced through this board of supervisors quite a bit. And working with mohcd as well. Its a little low a. Typical to say heres the budget and heres the schedule. Its really an evolution of a partnership with the private developer. So a lot in terms of commercial terms and what have you. But it is, gaining good momentum and weve learned from that in terms of, also looking at presidio yard in terms of variation on that Development Scheme or approach. So, much more to come on that topic, but, hopefully thats informed you enough. It does thank you. We look forward to learning more as we go long. So toits important to call these Capital Project becaused it demonstrates the breath of project management design, maintenance, service to the city, right. Its not as we all know, street cleaning. So perhaps again, the puc and homeless shelter and mcclairen just a couple of sentences on what they are, that would be great. Sure. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, please call the next item on the agenda. Item 3 is general Public Comment, which is for topics under the commissions mandate but not related on a specific item on todays agenda. Members of the public who wish to make threeminute comment may line up along the wall. And if youre commenting from outside of the chamber, press star3 on your phone to be recognized. It appears we do have a member wish to go speak. Youll have three minutes to speak and i ask that you, identify yourself and any organizational affiliation and youll have a 30second time when your time is about to expire. Speaker im scott finy im a mission resident and im here, actually in conjunction with the new group that Just Launched calls gardens not barricades. Were here to talk about basically the problem with planter boxes on the sidewalk being abused to block the sidewalks as a response to encampments and things of that nature. As you all know, dwp had some guidelines from about ten years ago that governed planters on the sidewalk that are being revised with new guidelines under our love our neighborhoods program, and we were hopeful that this give an opportunity to essentially help protect and facilitate projects that are real amenities while doing something about the accessibility and damaging ones. Were not getting answers from Department Staff on what is going into the guidelines. That does not seem to be out reach that does not seem to be happening. And were concerned that, the new guidelines are essentially rather than controlling the abuses of planters going to give a blank check to them and i hope thats not the case. I hope thats not the intend but im just concerned that were not going to be successful in keeping the goodwill, getting rid of the bad. And i want to show you some examples just in case its obvious of what is going on. I have some visuals. Sfgovtv, if you can use the projecters. As you can see, there is not a lot of space to get through. This is on vanness these are blocking about half of the sidewalk. This is much more than there were tents there. So basically, what i would like to see is for the you know, the department to one start enforcing like that now, because they do violate the guidelines now and two commit to the guidelines such asplanters cant be fixed in place whether they require material, they cannot be over 36 inches wide and they allow a sixfoot through way just to commit to rules like that and enforce them now while the new guidelines are being developed and also talk to us so we can get some guidelines that will keep the good and check the abuses. Thank you. We do have one caller, no more inperson. Sfgogtv, if you can unmute the caller. And youll be provided with a 30second notice when time is about to expire. Speaker evan, iwithin ~ can you speak up a little bit please. Speaker sure, sorry, can you hear me better now. Yes. Speaker im andy t. Mccoy, i live in the mission down and i want to speak to the issue about the planters. And just think that i see our sidewalks its where ever moves around, its how we interact with the city, adults, my friends kids, all kinds of things going on. And these plant thaerz are popping up in my neighborhood are just they consume, as we just half the sidewalk, it makes it difficult to get around, it makes it difficult to get the parked cars, get to buses interact, to use the swaubz however we need to use them in the city. A sidewalk is more than just a thorough fair, and i would love to see these planters, their expansion minimized basically to the guidelines that the previous speaker mentioned, keeping their maximum width down the 36 inches and making sure that we maintain gaps between them so we can still have easy access to the streets and also these guidelines are enforced by the city to make sure because, i keep seeing these things expand over the city. So me, they seem like a form of dumping, theyre full of rocks and concrete in many cases. Its sort of garish, thats all. Thank you. Thank you, caller. And that is our last caller. So that concludes general Public Comment. Thank you. The commission will followup with the staff on both of the speakers comments, i think theyre very important and well said. Please call the next item on the agenda. Item 4 is the consent calendar, and given the changes, it only contains the draft minutes of the Public Wor