Segal. Present. Paul woolford. Present. Lauren post. Here. And commissioner and vice chair fady zoubi has an excused absence. With low members present we are quorum for public works commission. Due to the on going covid19 Health Emergency and given the Health Recommendations issued by the department of public health, the emergency orders of the govern and the mayor concerning social distancing and lifting restrictions on teleconference this meeting is held Via Teleconference and strolled by sfgovtv. For those watching the live stream there is a brief time lag with the live meeting and what is shown on line. I would like to extend thanks to sfgovtv Media Services will, Building Management staff for their assistance putting on this meeting. And for members of public wishing to make comment on an item from how does the hearing room. Your instructions are to dial 4156550001. Access code 2494 209 1629 if you dont stay on the topic the chair may interrupt you and ask you to limit your comment to the item. Ask this Public Comment made in a respectful manner and you refingerprint from the use of profanity. Address remarks to the commission as a whole not to individual commissioners or staff. Thank you. Before calling the next item i would like to amend the agenda to move agenda item 7 the director hiring update, an informational item, to be considered right after item 5 the consent of routine matters. At the request of staff for scheduling conflict. Does that need anything. I was going to endorse it. Any requests to further amend the agenda . Okay. Thank you very much. We will move on to item number 2. Mr. Full are call that item. Item 2 is the announcement by the commission chair. Of which i have none. Move on to item 3, please secretary fuller. Item 3 is general Public Comment. 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Deputy director for Financial Management and administration Bruce Robertson is here to present the report on behalf of director short. This is an informational item. Mr. Robertson. Good morning, commissioners. Im Bruce RobertsonDepartment Director of Financial Management for public works im here on behalf director short on a deserved vacation. I would like to update you on a couple of projects and staff programs we have going on. I want to take the first opportunity to update on the Southeast Community center. You mirecall that project was under construction a few months ago. Im happy to announce that project we worked with our partner the Public Utility Commission is complete. Mayor breed and several members of the public and the community will hold a ribbon ceremony tomorrow at 11 a. M. To 2 p. M. Of ron almeida our city architect will represent public works. The new center at 1550 evans street is amazing and we are fortunate to have been a part of it. Our Engineering Team and Architecture Team and Landscape Team and Construction Managers all played a role in delivering this project and it it is on a new facility and Community Center on 2 acres of land with public art and indoor and out door cafes. Childcare centerful out door child activities. Rec your and theatre and other new amenities we are proud to have been played a part in it. Moving on to an item we updated on many am times and i know director short did last time of ventzing permit enforce am. Director short talked about how well and positive the program is going. Im happy to report the good news continues. We see noticeable improvements 24th and mission bart station the top priority during the roll out. There are people selling goodz there without a permit but near the numbers when we started the program. And so we are able to now keep a path way and the republic sidewalks and rightofway open so people walk up and down the sidewalk and access to the bart station. We are working closely i object to acknowledge the san front Police Department who are helping us in the Enforcement Efforts. When vendors see our team coming, they scatter when than i see us. Before we can take action. On october 6 we did impound goods and services that a peddler was selling when than i could in the provide prove they purchased the what they were selling. And when they were selling were items on a drug store sold. Shampoo, lotion. In the past few weeks we had more where we took goodz and materials from the person selling on the sidewalk. What well do is catalog the items we have taken and the individual selling the products has 3 months to come with proof of payment. If noted we donate it. We have expanded the project. We seen improve ams in all areas but expands to 15th and mission and on Mission Street between 8 and ninth. And we had big success improving un plaza, china town and 24th and bart but immediately at 15th and mission and mission between 8 and ninth. I want to take a moment i will do this throughout my report and acknowledge staff. The w they have been doing is amazing. Mike lennon. Greg. Jessica, and john del brats have been at the forefront of this Enforcement Effort and deserve the credit i want to acknowledge them public low. I want to let them know because well is funding in the budget for this program and in the process of hiring new staff theyll be happy. The Enforcement Efforts are more throughout the city. Moving on another item we talked about several times with you before exit spoke last time was the impact of the 12x legislation to the city administrative code. The 12x legislation was pass in the upon 2016, and this is the legislation and the admin code provision this restrict the city from traveling to or doing business with states that have voting restrictions reproductive or abortion restrictions or antilgbt q legislation that totals 30 states in the country that is significant. A few things have happened. One, tuesdays board of supervisor hearing, five members of the board lead by supervisor mandelman, introduced a memo and asked the City Administrators Office to look at the impacts of the 12x legislation and possible low come back with recommendations to amend it or remove it all together. I think this was done because San Francisco is the only jurisdiction that has such man datd restrictive language on the book. It restricts what the city and countryy can do. The state of california bans travel for states that have some of the restrictive piece of legislation but still allows the state to do business. In addition, the boards budget and legislative analyst completed analysis. There was discussion about what is impact of that. Have we quantified that. The boards budget and analyst did that. They determined the impact was 10 to 20 increase for the cost doing service the bidding press is in the complete we made available to the potential suppliers whether construction, tomorrows and supplies or professional services. That for public works and the city equals millions. I think with that legislation done bid boards budget and analyst, combined with the efforts that will help by the Administrators Office we will see move am and changes potential low of policy in that area. The board has asked the city administrator to report back by spring. As the analysis goes forward we will keep you in the loop and, wear of that situation. I will focus on staff. Im very excited the staff here in the room and listen to announce we hired karen hill as our new Human Resource director. So karen over see Human Resource for public works and sanitation and streets department. We are very excited have her. Show hen on board for a month and made significant improve ams and hiring times and improving our processes. Karen is with us 25 years of experience and literally all areas of Human Resources from acquisition, labor relations, payroll, workers compensation. Workforce development. She served at the director of staffing for the d. Public healing. And previously worked for the public utilities, Child Support services and the Municipal Transportation Agency see has a wide variety of understanding and experience. Brings a commitment to addressing inequalities. Advancing equity initiatives and creating a culture of transparency, which is something public works and sanitation streets need. We welcome karen the most important time think you know we are creating our own H R Department for the first time. And i want to im in a thankful mood thank the City Administrators Office for the Tremendous Service they provide over the year in Human Resource. Speaking of staff highlight you and make you aware of the transition in the Administrators Office with prop b team. Rachael alonzo, Elizabeth Ramos and douglas leg instrumental in the effort in setting up this commission. So theyll be transitioning out of full time roles nought commissions on board and both are in the solid state. And they are on the back end providing technical guidance. Support on as needed basis. So i want to thank them on behalf of the d. Director short and the executive team and irrelevant thank them for their incredible w than i have done the past yearch to say that they handled the complexity and the details and the over all challenges creating 2 new commissions their work was phenomenonal. 2 items quick is last week or earlier this month we had our annual employee healing fair this is manage we do annually effort with public work staff and the sanitation and streets department. We hold the fair on 2323 Caesar Chavez and run a shelths back and fourth from 49 south van ness so staff can go. We had kaiser staff join us and gave 130 flu shots for staff and had 17 vendoros board from Health Services to employee assistant programs to deferred compensation to help staff with their health. Mental health. It was a big success we also organized workshops and had staff lead events taichi. Self defense and cardio. An afternoon to think about your health. Get medical screens. Learn the opportunity and tools at the for employees. Over all we had 200 uponpates. And i really again want to thank the Health Service system and have a core group the connect team there are a dozen staff they take the lead in organizing the events. Bringing in the vend and i way to improve moral and help our employees remain Health Competence productive. Finally i wanted to highlight one more that we have done with employees. That was irrelevant to celebrate the latin x heritage month. A group of employees with Natalie Vargas and erika ruiz and patti solice. They had an among series of events to talk about art. Music. Dance, food, language to celebrate the latin x heritage month with one of the most amazing pot luck events i have been to the food was amazing and the turn out was phenomenonal. Staff from operations and from 49th south van ness came. And iment to say im highlighting the event its is important that i think we do i want to let the commissioners know. We take pride in having the types of events black history or asian america ve american, Pacific Islander events lgbtq events to learn about diversity and build and foster a community and improve collaboration in the department. Thank you for the opportunity to talk on director shorts behalf. Im here for questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. I would like to go on the record and express the commissions also our excitement and appreciation to mr. Almeida and his team for delivering Southeast Community center. Some of us did tour it it was an impress of building. It was stunning. I cant imagine the community will not embrace it and use it heavy low temperature is a love low facility. Thank you very much to all of you for that city asset. I like to thank the dpw team for continuing the vendor permitting program. And i know it is in the easy guheartning to hear we have staff this are out successful low. Further, im pleaseed see our commission was on cutting edge of the 12x effort and hard to see other diameters and city leadership is ticking a look at that legislation and will look forward to hearing what the results are in spring. That was great. Thank you very much the i feel this ask responsive to when we asked for. And like the commission to be on the record as well karen hill head of hr at dpw and look forward to meeting her and wish her the best and pleased show is here. Again, we said it before but will say again the cao office teams that lead the transification that you mentioned, we have been benefited directly from their work for months. And you have the inside vow we had a bit but it was very impressive i cant imagine how much work went in i saw the results. Months of work for and see it for a day but thank you to that cao staff. Sorry to see them go. I like working with them. Im sure they will be back. Those are my comment and does the commission have comments or questions on his report. Okay. Secretary fuller will you open Public Comment on this item . Members of the public had wish to make 3 minutes of ment on item 4, the directors report, may lineup against the wall. If you are cull nothing use the call in number of 4156550001 then access code 2494 209 1629. Press star 3 to raise your hand. Looking in the chamber does in the appear we have public who are interested in speaking on the directors report. Sfgovtv, do we have members of the public when expressed interest in speaking on this item . We have no members of public interested in speaking on this. There are no further Public Comments on this item. If there are no questions or comments we move on to the next item secretary full are call this item. Per the change to the agenda order we will now hear the directors the director hiring report or director hiring update. Which was item 7 and now heard as item 5. The director hiring update is presented by kate howard, Deputy Director of Human Resource. This is an informational item. Can good morning, commissioners. Kate howard, Deputy Director from Human Resource. Happy to be here with you fwaen and mr. Vied a brief update to you on the process that you are about to emb on to recrew a new director of public workings. When we met last time you asked hr to reach out to prequalified recruitment firms to identify firms that may be interested in working with the commission. We have done this. We did extend the sponse period in order to try to solicit additional firms to convey interests. We will close that opportunity to respond on monday. And we will be back in front of you i believe on the fourth. Your next meeting with at least one and hopeful low more than one firms for to you consider. Who might best support nut recruitment. I mentioned our goal now is to retin that executive recruiter for you. And i think you know this, but the there are 2 scenario that are were managing now. First is if prop b passes and we are cubing you are conduct one recruitment for a public works director responsible for both the public works responsibilities as well as sas responsibilities. And in that case, the recruiter would work with you and my recommendation would be they out reach to the sas commission. And get their input about critical kwults that they think are needed. And they would work with you to post that announcement. Should prop b fail, recruitment for director and the sas commission would conduct for the sas director. We do have a recruiter that is on holds for that recruitment. And so we are continuing the update until we know happy to answer questions. May have and look forward to providing a more actionable update at your next meeting thank you temperature does in the surprise me that this will have to wait until after the election so we know. Thank you for that update. Questions or comments from commissioners on this item . Secretary fuller, open Public Comment on this item. Members of the public had wish to make 3 minutes of com