Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Rules Committee 71416 20160

The chair of the Committee Aaron peskin joined by supervisor london breed . We need a motion to excuse supervisor yee. We will take supervisor yees motion without objection. I want to thank the folks at sfgtv for streaming our meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices. Copies should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on august 2nd, board of supervisors agenda. Thank you. Please read the first item. 160551 [reward for information about underpayment of property tax Charles Scoble 1,848. 17] thank you. I think that item is pretty self explanatory. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item no. 1 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor breed, if there is no objection why dont we send this to the full board with a full recommendation. Seeing none. Lets skip over the next item because supervisor campos is not here yet. Why dont we go to item no. 3. Clerk 160514 [accept and expend grant state Transportation Development act, article 3 pedestrian and bicycle projects 995,524] supervisor aaron peskin thank you madam clerk. I am in receipt of mail from last month that it has only 783,900. I would like to make a motion to reflect that smaller malt of 973,909. Moved by supervisor breed. Well take that without objection. Please come forward. Good morning. Im rachel lonzo from public works. To spend the total of in grant funds from the metropolitan transportation fiscal year 1517. Earmarked 100 quarter of the total tax sales of bicycle facility and pedestrian street and Road Development projects. Funds annually in accordance with the sales tax collected in each county. As we have in the past, public works and mta are submitting a joint wide application. It plans to expend funds for the maintenance and engineering bicycle projects. Public works propose to use 242,487 to prepare sidewalks. The remaining 243,477 will be used for planning and design of curb ramps throughout San Francisco. It will be developed by public works and the office on disability. Well be happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you, any questions . Seeing none. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Why dont we send this to the full board with a recommendation as a Committee Report to be heard july 26th. So move. Moved by supervisor breed. Madam clerk, please read item no. 4. Clerk 160793 [resolution of intention Central Market Community Benefit district modify the Management Plan and engineers report] sponsor mayo known as the Central Market Community Benefit district. Good morning. My name is chris, project manager with the program. Today im presenting the resolution sponsored by mayor lee for the Market Community benefit district. Oewd would like to offer an amendment to clarify the legislation. I am in receipt of those. Do we have a deputy City Attorney . No. We dont have a deputy City Attorney. The question i would ask the deputy City Attorney, im in receipt of the suggested amendments. Is the removal of the district wide cap on the annual assessment revenue not substantial . It seems substantial. The amendment to the previous language introduced on the 12 of last week, is a syntax change, sir. I can send him a text message. What supervisor breed and i are seeing in red are the corrected changes, right . Thats correct. Removal of a wide cap is not a syntax change. In accordance with the ballot language change to make it clear to the Property Owners to when they receive their ballots. Okay, why dont you walk us through what we are doing here. Okay, in 2013 when the cbd renewed, there is a 3 limit of cpi increases that a cbd can take annually and also a limitation which it can collect in a given fiscal year. According to government code 53750 subsection h b 3, it allows for any parcel change due to density, intensity or nature of land use to be put into the assessment formula in the Management Plan and not go against the cbds. If you have an empty lot that goes into a skyscraper. It would be charged to the assessment with the rest of the district. With the highway code is the way we need to go with that, however for a cap, if a cdbd has a change in the market since they did in 2015, they may go above the assessment level which is allowable in the highway code but not allowable due to the Management Plan. Understood. Any questions on that . Supervisor breed. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Please come forward. Public speaker good morning, supervisors, my name is david harrison. A Property Owner in the district and member of the board of directors. Im here to offer my support. It allows us to equitably assess all the properties in the district. It does not change the assessment for any existing Property Owners who dont change their properties. So, its fair. I believe its consistent with the original intent of the district. So im in support of it. Thank you. Have we heard any objections from these folks of the Land Use Change in the intervening years . No, sir, i have not heard any objections on this. Okay, thank you. All right. We will close Public Comment. Madam president , if you would like to offer these amendments, we can take them. So moved. Moved by president breed. Why dont we take those amendments. Then send the item as amended to the full board with a recommendation as a Committee Report for full recommendation for july 26th. So moved. Without objection, that will be the order. Supervisor campos is not with us yet. So mr. Krugs dont go away. Item 5. Clerk 160556 [yerba buena Community Benefit district annual report to the city fy20142015] sponsor kim the floor is yours. Thank you, supervisor. You have your beautiful powerpoint right here. Thank you very much. Ms. Moiven is running late. All right, why dont you call item no. 6. Clerk 160753 [civic center Community Benefit district annual report to the city fy20142015] sponsors kim; breed weve got your beautiful powerpoint for this one too. All right. Civic center cbd is located in downtown San Francisco. It assesses 289 parcels. Its a property based district that has an initial assessment budget of 691,964. It will expire june 30, 2021. The Program Areas for the civic center are safety programs, and Community Service ambassadors which you can see outside at the Civic Center Plaza, at the garage as well as the evening. A cleaning program which is allocated for street cleaning and on call graffiti. Beautification which is a street clean up program. And we have don with the programmatic achievements. Oebd follows the bench review marks for the Service Categories within 10 points from the Management Plan. Whether 1 percent of cbds came from sources other than assessing the revenue and the budget amount for each category 10 Percentage Points from actuals and the amount of funds carried over from the current fiscal year and the projects spent for the upcoming fiscal year. For the first benchmark cbd met that goal, this requirement. For the second benchmark came from their revenue and the cbd met this requirement as well. The third requirement compared their budget versus the actuals with the 10 of the Management Plan and the cdb met those requirements. On this one, the cdb did not meet this requirement because it did not include it in the report. However in 2013 and 2014 annual report. Currently based off our review, the cbd is ahead of their spend down timeline from last year. Findings, the cdb met all the requirements except to the Management Agreement with the city and state code. They should include their spend down plan in the future annual reports. Well work with them to ensure that is made more clear. They have made significant progress in the carry over from last year. In conclusion, they performed well in their service plan and included public activation events and stakeholders with the new implementation of the project in 1415. You will start to see the fruition outside with the summer Concert Series and made active the board of directors and subcommittees. If you have no questions on the benchmark, don will present the programmatic on the cdb. Good morning, chair peskin and president breed. Im here to go over the fy 16, its hard to go back in my mine, but we will go over it. Lets see. Its my part. There we go. Sorry. I seem to be at the end of his presentation. Its all good. The committees that we have included are our executive committee, finance committee, services committee, Capital Improvements and Planning Committee external affairs and this is important for the arts groups in the area. We have worked with the Service Provider and working with the task force, oewd, programs th have started m the this neighborhood. We developed a close relationship with the department of recreation and parks, the arts, and travel. The grant referred to was the neighborhood grant we got for the epicenter web portal that is feeding information on all the areas which is the tenderloin and the Central Market. We have transitioned into a program that Central Market is now managing. The neighborhood is obviously in transition. We expect in the next 5 years to have several new thousands of residents. The playground at the Civil Center Plaza is being redone with a grant from ptl. The school announced they are putting a ballot for the bond measure to help with the arts. The transit is any day now as i have been told. And the Civic Center Plan which is a plan for van ness and market. We decided with our plan that we had extra money to attend the program that we have a permanent program. Last summer, we e did as an experiment to the elevator in the plaza which is the entrance to the parking garage to be very scary at night for patrons and people. We put a uniformed ambassador and found that to be extremely popular. We did that for 2 months last summer and now included it a part of our work plan and now the recreation and Parks Department is seeing a benefit to their patrons as well. This is what i find quite interesting. In the last year, we helped get medical attention for 190 people, assisted 80 people with disorderly complaints, removed 728 needles and garbage to whole mattresses and gave out directions to visitors 1600 times. Here is an example of graffiti where they are trying to figure out where that is which is actually the opera house. We also clean anything in the public realm which includes bus stations. The partnership to establish has been very beneficial us. We have the art groups coming together which they said its something that couldnt be done to bring them altogether. But when we talked about important projects, that was important. The Patron Experience with the parking garage. They are working on the street. Also includes Traffic Congestion and safety where on a thursday night at the corner of grove and franklin, you can see how bad it can get with the traffic. We are trying to work to maybe get signal lights and crosswalks that are safer and try to make the pedestrian experience more safe because you have the Vision Zero Initiative as well. One thing that weve been very successful for because the seed to start in this program was in supervisor breeds district. We worked with them to get involved as the living alley for the department of planning. We have a Community Challenge grant again for them for 200,000 for district lighting and district improvements for that alley. We continue to give out awards for people that helped us. Its the day connect program. And holidays we had 6 in this 2015, and we expanded it to 2016 to have 19 concerts over the holidays. We have summer concerts just out of this fiscal year we just started in july in the Civic Center Plaza and started again this month. We do have some challenges still. The bill graham civic continues to be a problem. This is what was finished before. We also have a problem with the drought impacts and cleaning and regular schedule of that. The challenge is perception of safety when you are walking through the plaza at night on the way home from the ballet that you feel overwhelmed, thats what we are working on. The beautification project we are having a challenge. We cant do anything on van ness because of whatsen it and working on the rest of the plaza and those streets. We are waiting to see how that plan shakes out and Market Street plan is also evolving. We are kind of in odd little window of time which is why we planned for the project on ivy street. Which is available to us. The opportunity is coming with the public realm to help get public input into that process. I want to thank you for your time. Thank you, don. I appreciate your work. It seems like things are going quite well through your first 10year period. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Core gus, any final words on this item . No, sir. Okay, why dont we send this resolution to the full board with recommendation. That will be the order. And supervisor campos has joined us for item no. 2. Mr. Korg us. If you can stay for that item. Clerk 160422 [fire, housing, building codes fire safety requirements for existing buildings supervisor campos, good morning. Supervisor david campos good morning, mr. Chair and president breed. I understand that i will be subbing part of the meeting for supervisor yee. Welcome to the committee. That means the president has given you a vote . Yes. Okay. Supervisor david campos thank you, again, colleagues. I want to begin by thanking my incredible staff, carolyn gussen who has been relentless in doing the work on the issue of fires. We have seen too many fires in this city and too many fires in the mission community. Over the past few years, hundreds of Mission Residents have been displaced because of fires. Sadly three people have tragically died in those fires. In 2015, alone, 130 people were displaced by fires in the mission. In 2016, we have seen dozens more displaced by fires including 50 people who were displaced last week because of the fire that happened on 29th street. When low income residents are displaced the result is that they are not only displaced from their home and neighborhood, but sadly from San Francisco altogether because they can not afford to live in the city. The latest fire on 29th street is only the latest in a string of fires that have led to a temporary and often permanent displacement of our tennants. The legislation before you comes from actually months more than a year of work. In response to the number of fires that we had seen, more than a year ago, we created legislation that put together a task force that was basically asked how do we address the number of fires that are taking place in this neighborhood . Please examine all of the options that are available to this city to prevent these fires. With the task force that consisted of the three departments that are responsible for fire safety in San Francisco, the San Francisco Fire Department, the department of building inspection, the health departments. It actually included San Francisco agencies like the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to have a robust discussion. The legislation you see are the first set of recommendations from that task force, the things they prioritized where they felt they needed action from us as soon as possible. Before i get into the specification of the legislation, i want to talk about the issue of sprinklers because thats another issue we put before this task force. In fact we had a hearing about the task force and about what they thought about that issue. If you look at the task force report, they say it sounds like a great idea, but we need more information. With that in mind, this coming tuesday i will be formally requested that the budget and legislative analyst and i see the amazing staff, ms. Campbell here from that office, that they conduct and do a report that outlines the issue of sprinklers for the city that addresses the questions that were raised by the task force. This is a complex issue with potential for unintended consequences. So we want to know a lot more data. We will ask the budget and legislative analyst to layout all the facts to offer options for the city to look at best practices in other parts o