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SFGTV BOS Govt Audits And Oversight Committee 31016 March 11, 2016

I want to thank sf govtv for Live Streaming this meaning. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please silence all electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Thank you. Please call the first item. City clerk [public works code clarifying graffiti prohibition and establishing administrative penalties] sponsor peskin ordinance amending the public works code to clarify that prohibited graffiti extends to all public property, including all city assets; establish expedited notice and hearing procedures, create administrative penalties for an offending party, and renumber code sections; and affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act. City clerk [public works code clarifying graffiti prohibition and establishing administrative penalties] sponsor peskin ordinance amending the public works code to clarify that prohibited graffiti extends to all public property, including all city assets; establish expedited notice and hearing procedures, create administrative penalties for an offending party, and renumber code sections; and affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental city clerk [public works code clarifying graffiti prohibition and establishing administrative penalties] sponsor peskin ordinance amending the public works code to clarify that prohibited graffiti extends to all public property, including all city assets; establish expedited notice and hearing procedures, create administrative penalties for an offending party, and renumber code sections; and affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act. Thank you. P is 1234 i want to welcome supervisor london breed . The city has seen a string of bad actors and the City Attorney has taken action against this and most recently the Recording Company for justin beeber, universal music group. When it laid paint throughout the city, my colleagues offices got complaints who felt that corporate interest were getting off too easy and that we could combat this blight and injury. The city pays more to remove this type of graffiti and at all public as a tremendous job to prepare these services by preparing sidewalks and street removal and street cleaning. The department of public works needs stronger tools and this will allow banning on all public property and expediting this process by establish administrative penalties of up to 1,000 a day for parties and to include the well funded entries that have made this kind of vandalism a profitable tactic. I would like to ask rachel, director of public works to offer any comments about the legislation. Good morning. Presenter good morning supervisors and thank you for sponsoring this legislation. Supervisor breed last year sponsored another important tool to combat graffiti vandalism. We are very much in favor of this proposed law. We have seen that companies have had a complete disregard of laws to protect the public rightofway. We see the gorilla advertising as blight and sidewalks are not to be used for public billboards. Its another in our arsenal to combat this problem. Supervisor aaron peskin thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor london breed as ms. Gordon mentioned, last year any other office sphere headed what it was a reform of our graffiti policy in the city and county of San Francisco. It gave the office the ability to go after those individuals who had regular offenses civilly so that we could collect damages on public property. We are talking about in excess of over 20 million annually that the city is spending to abate graffiti here in the county and city of San Francisco. The more tools we have to make this clear about our policies. I want to be clear that someone who is a former executive director of an arts organization, graffiti and without permission is vandalism. We have some amazing graffiti artist in the city and county of San Francisco who get the permits, follow the rules and work with Property Owners to do some amazing beautiful artwork all over this city. But vandalism is a whole other issue where you vandalize peoples property. You are vandalizing the sidewalks, you are vandalizing city muni bus and other public property. Thats just something that we have to be a lot tougher on because it is costing not only the city millions of dollars and Property Owners as well. This is a movement in the right direction. I wanted to not only add my name as a cosponsor for this legislation and thank supervisor peskin for working on this issue. Thank you. Supervisor breed is a sponsor of this matter. With that, colleagues can we send this to the board with a recommendation. That item is moved. Next item. City clerk [noe Valley Community benefit district annual reports to the city fy20142015] sponsor wiener resolution receiving and approving annual report for the noe Valley Community benefit district for fy20142015, submitted as required by the property and Business Improvement district law of 1994 california streets and highways code, sections 36600, et seq. , section 36650, and the districts Management Agreement with the city, section 3. 4city clerk sf 21234 supervisor aaron peskin good morning. I want to say that im delighted that you are in front of us today. Mr. Koergs, the floor is yours. Good morning, my name is chris koeshgs with the office of economic and workforce development. Im with the cdb program. One minute. 1 minute i need to get these slides over. Take your time. If not, maybe we can use the overhead if you are having trouble. There we go. Fantastic. Thank you. So, the noe valley and all Community Districts in San Francisco are governed by two legislations highway code 36600, the 1994 act and the regulation code article 15. This resolution will cover the report for fiscal year 20142015 for the know valley cbd. O ewden insures that all c bds bids are meeting their Management Plans and staff conducts an annual review of annual reports and cpa. Noe valley is found in the corridor and contains 211 parcels. A property base budget. It was established in 2005 and will expire on june 30, 2020. The executive director of the cbd is debra neeman. She will be presenting on the programmatic achievements. It includes the areas of public rightofway and sidewalk operations and district identity and street improvement and administration and corporate operations component. It included noe valley bench marks for oewd. Benchmark confirmation that noe valley received 5 of its budget and confirmed that noe valleys cbd budget and benchmark identified for carried for and projects designated for carried forward. So for benchmark one, noe valley met this requirement as their annual budget was in variance points of all Service Categories in its Management Plan. For their assessment revenue, noe valley cbd met this requirement as 10 of their revenue was from nonassessment sources. For benchmark 3, was in 10 Percentage Points of their budget. Noe valley also met benchmark four as they identified their carry over from fiscal year 20142015. For your record cbds typical carry over the operating budget for not receiving the assessment funds of the first 6 months of the new year. The findings and recommendations for the know valley cbd is that noe valley met all of their expectations and requirements by state code and administration and seeking funding for the longterm streetscape plan and identified the neighborhood and tracking visitors to patronize district merchants and implemented the oewds recommendation from fiscal year 20092015 annual reports. In conclusion, noe valley has performed well in implementing the service plan and continued to produce the events such as the Harvest Festival and Easter Egg Hunt and attended several subcommittees. Are there any questions . If not, debra is here to report on the programmatic achievements. Presenter good morning. This will be quick, but its show and tell time. Noe valley is 10 years old identified with the castro. Andrea will talk to you about it shortly. We want to give a shout out to scott wiener and duffy who helped us obtain this funding. The smallest cbd in San Francisco since the mission is no longer functioning. Right. Unfortunately. We have two street porters who work 7 days a week from 8 00 a. M. Until 5 00 p. M. We do ten steam cleanings a year. The only cbd that does this and along with mgm to remove the gum off the street. We did a long term Strategic Plan where we invited the community and asked to vote on various streetscape options and have been writing this plan for the last 10 years and have been successful for the plans that we have written. Its primarily what cbds do to create really good street improvement. We planted 137 trees. We did four sidewalk gardens. 16 planter boxes. In the initial phase of the program. We got 24 flower baskets and the high visibility crosswalks in the castro which are very busy pedestrian crosswalks. We also funded three bulldogs and planted planter boxes. We didnt like the citys bike racks so we wrote a grant and received a funding to put in our own bike racks. Which came along with the strategic design in terms of design. We have new benches. If there is a merchant that wants a bench in front of their store, we split the cost. We work very well with the merchants association. They are our true partners. We also work with the friends of noe valley, the key of residential group. We now have the town square which is going to be managed by recreation and parks. We do a lot of events. It doesnt look great if you are not go to activate it. We activated with three events in june, Harvest Festival and december we do 24 holidays and we put reindeer in the park woods which the department probably doesnt like, but thats okay. You have to tweak them occasionally. We are 10 years old. Thank you. Happy 10th birthday. Thank you for your incredible work. You are the model cbd. Thanks. Thats what i heard. We are the press conference about that. Thank you very much. Thank you again and thanks to your partners and to all of the 200 plus members who pay into that cbd. Without them you couldnt do all that work. Good Property Owners devote to tax themselves it took 18 months and 15 neighborhoods to do it. Norman knows that. Its a very tough thing to do. We are trying to replicate that on polk street and reviewing those that are promising. Perhaps well repeat that in north San Francisco in the months ahead. You have two strong leaders in polk. You will do there. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, can we have a motion to send this resolution to the full board with recommendation. I move. Moved by supervisor breed. Without objection, that is the order. Madam clerk, please call item no. 3. City clerk [castro upper market Community Benefit district annual reports to the city fy20142015] sponsor wiener resolution receiving and approving annual report for the castro upper market Community Benefit district for fy20142015, submitted as required by the property and Business Improvement district law of 1994 california streets and highways code, sections 36600, et seq. , section 36650, and the districts Management Agreement with the city, section 3. 4city clerk sf 31234 good morning. As you know the governing district is governed by state law 1994, and local law article 15. This report will cover the castro cbd market Community Benefit district annual reports to the city. We provide the board of supervisors with a summary memo regarding the cbds accomplishments and benchmark results. The castro cbd is found along the castro corridor and the longest in the city and contains 279 assessed parcels. It is a property based cbd. Its initial assessment budget is 413, 500 and is also set to expire on june 30, 2020. The director of the castro cbd is diane ayalo. Includes public rice and sidewalk operations, district identity and street improvements and administration and corporate operations. It reviews cbd in the city and for the various amounts of each category 10 points from the Management Plan. Benchmark two castro upper market cbd came from other than assessment revenue. Benchmark three for each Service Category 10 from the actuals and amounts carried over from the current fiscal year and designated projects. For benchmark 1, the castro upper market did meet these requirements as they were in ten variance points from their Management Plan budget. For benchmark 2, the castro upper market cbd exceeded this requirement as 31. 6 from revenue from nonassessment sources. From their Management Plan, for their actuals, they did meet this benchmark as all variances were under 10 variance points and for their carry over, the castro upper market did receive this requirement as they indicated any amount and what that money would be spent for in the coming fiscal year. For the finding and recommendations for the castro upper market cbd is the castro upper market cbd did a fantastic job of raising nonrevenue. Currently they have only one staff person and may be able to hire and additional staff and it is also their anniversary. So they will be having a celebration to celebrate the fantastic work they have done over the 10 years of operation. In conclusion. Cbd has continued to successfully market and produce events like live in the castro and harvey milk day. They have increased opportunities to work with Community Stakeholders and municipal agencies and continue to maintain an active and diverse board of directors and diverse robust committees. Any questions . No. Sounds like they did a spectacular job and have a lot of carry over funds. Ms. Ayolos . Good morning. Im glad to be here today. My report is actually on last year, 1415. Not our full 10 years. Although we are having a party on sunday which all of you are invited to celebrate our annual event and that should be a lot of fun. This is our map as chris showed you. We are long and its a real challenge to take care of such of a very, a lot of cbds are square or angular and ours has a lot of nooks and crannies. Its a lot of work. Our communities we have executive committee finance, streetscape committee, Service Committee and land use committee. We really couldnt do half of what we do without partnering without our wonderful neighborhood organizations and also the city organizations. We have a really strong relationship with the castro merchants and the triangle neighborhood association, safe ways and active partners of care programs. I cant say enough about the great work that ecology does to help keep the neighborhood clean and captain is part of the Leadership Team and to be part of the team on castro and on Market Street is a testament to his commitment. Our current grant is not current. Its from last year. Where we had a grant for oewd and Retail Strategies grant and funding through merchants and residents. So, cleaning is a biggest part of our budget. We have people who sweep the sidewalks and guters from 5 30 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Everyday of the year, 365 days a year. They pick up about 250 bags of trash a month. We did an analysis and that comes to 11824 pounds of trash a month over the span of 10 years. So we did this because its our 10Year Anniversary. The amount of trash that has been collected is equal to the weight of three statutes of liberty. If you can imagine that, its pretty incredible the work that we do. As far as the safety piece of our Management Plan, we hire Patrol Special Police to patrol the neighborhoods. This is a collaboration with the nighttime businesses in the neighborhood. They are in the district walking a foot beat or driving around weekdays from 4 00 p. M. To 1 00 a. M. And weekends from 4 00 p. M. To 3 00 a. M. We put in our strategies and landscaping and additional agreeing strategies and district identity falls in there and marketing. So, what we do particularly in the castro is we have as chris said where over the weekend although in the summer we are getting new funding for next year and rolling out soon. We are going to be filling up with the events and Live Entertainment in the plaza. We have ambassadors between may and october and welcome visitors. They welcome about 10,000 visitors a season. And we do landscaping and plaza and management and maintenance in the harvey milk plaza upstairs and the Jane Warner Plaza and Retail Strategies. We finished a Research Report and we are about ready to implement those recommendations in the next month. Some pictures of keeping the district clean. Graffiti abatement. Someone who was mentally ill turned over a planter and we were there. W

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