Here. Paul woolford. Here. Fady zoubi. Here. Vice chair is present. Acting chair we have 3 members present and a fourth coming in. Quorum is 3. We have quorum. Thank you. Before calling the next item i have a quick announcement i intend to recess for 15 minutes the middle of the meet to stretch our legs and have a snack and take a quick break. And i plan to ooh journal by 2 p. M. I will do my best to be sure we do adjourn by 2 p. M. Are there requests to amend the order of our agenda today . Secretary fuller call the next item due to on going Covid Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and emergency orders of the governor and mayor concerning social distancing and lifting the restrictions on teleconference, this meeting is held Via Teleconference and streamed by sfgovtv, for those of you watching live stream there is a brief lag with the live meeting and ma can shown on sfgovtv. 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We do have interpreters providing consecutive interpretation during Public Comment only in chinese, spanish and filipino. We will have the interpreters introduce themselves in their languages. Segal [speak chinese] [speak ch] [speak filipino] thank you. Item 2 is thing adoption of minutes from this commissions august 19th meeting. These draft minutes were distributed to the commission in made available for public review. This is an action item and im happy to take questions or corrections. And one correction that has been included is for item 11. The Public Comment adding a d to the word. Rationalized. That has been included in the corrections. Are there further corrections or comments to the minutes. Do i hear a motion to adopt the corrected minute sns so moved. Ill second. We will turn to Public Comment on the minutes from the prior meeting. Members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 2 the adoption of the minutes may lineup against the wall. If you are in the hearing room. If you are calling in from outside the hearing room dial 4156550001 and meet being access code is 2484 851 7758. And to raise your hand please dial star 3. We dont have members of the public in the hearing room. Sfgovtv do we have callers in the queue . We have one hand raised. We have one hand raised. Unmute the caller. You have 3 minuteses to peek and i will give you i 30 second warning before your time expires. [inaudible] im getting set up i will come back on another item. Okay. Thank you for your comment. We look forward to further comments. Chair, that concludes Public Comment on this item is there debate on this motion . Hearing none. Secretary full are call the roll on this motion. On the motion to adopt the corrected minutes from august 19, 2022 meeting answer with yes or no. Newhouse segal. Yes. Commissioner votes, yes. Lauren post. Yes. Paul woolford. Yes. Commissioner woolford votes, yes. Commissioner fady zoubi. Yes. There are 4 votes in the affirmative on this matter. Motion succeeds. Secretary fuller will publish the adopted minutes to the commissions website. Now item 3. Mr. Fuller call the item. Item 3 is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on topics within the subject matter of the commission not part of the agenda. Comments to an item on the agenda may be heard and occurred. Members may address the commission for up to 3 minutes and general comment may be continued to the end of the agenda if speakers exceed 15 minutes of Public Comment at this time. I will start or prepare a 15 minute on. Members of public who wish to make 3 minutes of Public Comment may lineup against the wall from the door in the hearing room. Or if you are calling in dial 4156550001, 2484 851 7758 then press star 3 to raise your hand. It appear we dont have members of the public in the chamber. Sfgovtv, do we have callers in the queue . We have one member. Unmute the caller. Sur 3 machines to speak i will give you a warning at 30 seconds. I want to confirm item 11 there will be an opportunity for Public Comment prior to closed session. Otherwise i have nothing special for general Public Comment today but may comment on another, thanks for listening. Thank you. Caller. In response to that, there is planned Public Comment for item 11. And there are updates of how item will be taken not in closed session but available in open session. It appear we dont have other callers. Chair, we have no further commenter. That concludes general public upon comment. Call the next item. Item 4 the directors report. Public works Deputy Director of Financial Management bruce robertsoninlaw present on behalf of director short. This is an informational item. Good morning. Public works staff and members of the partial im bruce Deputy Director of Financial Management and administration. Im coming in my role as acting director for karla short who is taking days off for a deserved bringful im here to deliver directors report for Public Work Commission. I will go through activities going on in the department to provide you an update. Start with employees allowed work remote we are following city guidelines and changing the 2 days a week to 3 days. Change will be ruled out the week of september 12 and impact a third of the public works employees. Many of the staff those in operations, street cleaners, paving crews have been coming in 5 days since the pandemic started. Many others including in the building and infrastructure sections you hear more in detail later construction managers, street inspectors have been coming in for 5 days and many on the executive team and directors office. Jot nkdz to 3 days in the office has a dual purpose. We believe the interaction and communication with staff increases collaboration and builds efficiency. Second, the mayor has been adamant about this is bringing more to the mid market neighborhood and Civic Center Area will help activate streets and help Small Businesses get back on feet. The change to the hybrid model was negotiated in the passed labor agreements with unions. Since staff resistant to the idea of adding an extra workday in the office. Important to remember prior to the pandemic most everybody was working 5 days in the office and few staff had alternative work schedule. During the pandemic we implemented an alternative work schedule for straf working a 9 80 shift and staff working remote. Consistent with the city guide lines, we are make exemptions to the 3 day in office policy. Staff and it and dedicated finance teams will be allowed work few are than 3 day in office. And thats in an effort to retain staff and attract new talent. We are work to monitor the situation and open to changes with an eye toward Employee Satisfaction keeping the focus on making sure we deliver projects and services to the residents of San Francisco. Another issue that you may have been reading about giving attention the new street mendzing permit program. That passed by. And the aim was that legislation is to aim in to reign in the ventzing activities that were seen in the public rightofway on the sidewalks and mrazace. Acute around 24th bart station. Un plaza and in china town. Our brewo of street use management developed all permit guidelines and inspectors will conduct enforcement they already started going out to make the public more aware of the situation. Over the past months we have been working with office the economic and Workforce Development and our nonprofits primarily 24 in the mission. To do out reach and education before the implementation of the program in midseptember. We have started receiving applications and will start enforcement in midseptember. Out of 50 applications we received we have found consistent themes we are working on the applicants watch the applicants have not provide complete information. And some of the applicantsment to sell food requiring additional permits from the department of public healing. We train out reach to those individuals. We are working with Community Groups to help permitise navigate the system which can be challenging. The goal is to make permitting accessible the fee is about 430. And we work with ways to have the fee completely waived. If an applicant is from an economically disadvantaged applicant or a Community Minded nonprofit, we will wave the fees. If an applicant received medical or qualifies for the life line path the fees are waived completely. And on the enforcement side people selling goods without a permit face confiskagz of goods and possible fines. We have been asking people to move before we kick in penalties. The permit program is getting in the way but not without controversy. There are some who dont want government regulation on street sales and some of our internal staff the inspectors voice the concerns about safety. To address the latter partnered with the San FranciscoPolice Department who are call in the when situations arc arise. Supervisor ronen and the mayor have been the 2 forces behind the ventzing permit program. I hopeful this will make a difference bringing order to the public rightofway so people can walk down the sidewalk and have access to bart stations. One of the other issue system not just bart stations but the applicants we received wanted to sell good in bus shelters. Thats not something we allow. If you want once the Program Kicks off and we provide a detailed report and status in a Later Commission hearing. Another item in the news lately is news racks. It is getting a bit of attention. This is an activity in street use mapping. We have been working with Clear Channel the company that holds the contract for pedestrian multipurpose news racks. And we authorizes the removal of 2 huh of the racks based on an audit we found most were remember vacant or graffiti or attractive nuisances garage and illegal drugs. And 75 or so are consolidated or reduce in the size. Well are sick 50 of the news racks throughout the city. We did not do this without significant out reach. We sent the publishers used them and invited them to discuss the plan. Did not get response as we hoped. We conditiond that out reach and getting inquiries from murps about the program and when we are doing. We have been updating them in terms of removal and consolidation of the racks. Our teams worked in good faith to improve our street conditions providing the out reach to the necessary publishers of newspapers to ensure we are supporting First Amendment and the path way in rightofway clear. If you want more on this we can provide an update on this at a subsequent meeting. Earlier we received inquiry regarding one of the commissioners, regarding administrative code chapter 12 acts. And thats a provision admit code that bans travel or doing business with those states that are based in states that have discriminatory laws about lbgtq communities. Restriction against abortion rights or Voter Suppression efforts the prospect suspicion and administrative code resulted in 28 states the banned list. That had impact in terms of project deliver and he ability to do things as inexpensive in terms of supplies and materials. Public work system not the only department that is impacted by this. We work with the controllers office. City add Administrators Office to see what changes may be warranted and do analysis on the impact of the legislation. I will move on to the better Market Street project. A big project and hit a mile stone on the street project. A couple weeks ago the notice to proceed on phase one of better Market Street. Which will bring infrastructure upgrades in mid market from fifth to eighth. The first phase of the project. The full blown construction will begin in january of 23. And last approximately 600 days. The improvements include traffic signal upgrades. New curb ramps. Wide are sidewalks at intersections to make the distance across Market Street shorter. And implementing new curb lanes at intersections. Replacing dying trees and putting in new benches and bike racks. Until construction begins we work with contractor in terms of setting up a partnering plan and expectations resolving disputes to ensure the process runs smooth. Well ramp up out reach to neighboring businesses, shops, restaurants, hotels, to let them know the project is coming. We had numerous conversations with them we will let them know now that the project is coming up we the meet with them and ensure we do everything we can to keep them aware and minimize disruptions to their businesses. We will be performing potholing a term in the construction worlds where you do a miniexcavation to see what is below the surface. There are a lot of utilities and water mains and sewer maintenance under the streets that is an investigative work we do for big projects. You will hear more in the better Market Street project. Plan of the project octavia this is the first phase. We work closely with partner agents mta and puc and county Transportation Agency in terms of the phasing and the scope of the next phases. This project you will hear more about. When we have grounds breaking we will community to the secretary mr. Full and let you know you are invited and welcomed to join this event. And speak of construction mile stone event we have a big prshth we completed and will hold a Ribbon Cutting on tuesday september 15th at 12 noon. We will work with mr. Fulltory make sure you are invited. This is for the Castro Mission health center. Part of an on going series of projects partnering with d. Public health and upgrading Neighborhood Health centers. We completed the maxine hall center in the western edition and southeast family in the bay view. This project our Construction Management, architecture and project management teammates the lead in partnering with us to develop an amazing project. Again, we will let you know about that date on thursday, september 15th at noon if you want to join for the Ribbon Cutting ceremony. And with that, that is the directors report. Im happy and honored do it. And look forward to presenting more of these and happy to take questions you may have. Thank you very much. Bruce. Does the commission have questions on the directors report. As a note, with each item i will ask if we have questions then take Public Comment and then we will all have a chance to comment. So this is just if you have questions or claireifications on this report before we go to Public Comment. Any questions for bruce . Mr. Fuller open Public Comment on this item. Members of public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 4 the directors report, if you are here in the room may lineup against the wall from the door. If you are calling in the number is 4156550001, 2484 851 7758 then press star 3 to raise your hand. Taking a second it does not appear with have in person commenters. Sfgovtv, do we have commenter over the phone . One raised hand. Unmute the call and you have 3 minutes to speak. Great. So. A few comments good comprehensive report. What many commissions do for the directors report is indicate on the agenda under directors report, the intended item in bullet form after the agenda goes to print so it might have better Market Update news rack update. And various other bullets. I think that is something that can be evolved. I think it would be helpful to either post the bullet points that were discussed in the minutes or as a stand alone posting after the meeting so that public can get a more full sense of what was discussed in the directors report. I think it is important for the Public Record and for you know the permanent record of what things were announced and how much detail was provided. Anyway. There is all that about the directors report. General low, and on news racks, concern i expressed in the last company meetings, i did look on the website and public works does have a page about the news rack program. That is a bit out of date. That does not have information that was just related about remov