good morning. let's start over. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the may 1, 2024 meeting of the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor chan, chair. joined by vice chair mandelman and supervisors melgar and now also board president aaron peskin. our clerk is brent julipa i like to thank calina mendoza from sf

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1 dr. carlton b goodlett place, room 244 san francisco california 94102. finally madam chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of may 7 unless otherwise stated. madam clerk. >> thank you mr. clerk. typically with those items with budget legislative analyst report, we have presentation and then the budget legislative analyst and questions and public comment. with that, mr. clerk, please can you call item 1? >> yes, madam chair. item 1, ordinance amending the administrative code to prohibit the fire department from providing or using personal protective equipment containing pfas by june 30,

2026 and requiring the fire department to conduct regular meeting with elabor representatives and submit regular reports to board of supervisors and fire commission regarding the progress towards meeting the june 30, 2026 dead line. >> this is sponsored by president aaron peskin and like to start with introductory remarks. >> thank you chair chan and thank you to yourself and committee member melgar as well as supervisor safai and engardio for cosponsoring this ordinance, which would make san francisco the first city in the country to ban cancer causing chemicals from our firefighter personal protective gear which we refer to as turn-outs. our firefighters are the shield that came us all safe and the

turn-outs keep them safe as they put their lives on the line and put their bodies in harm's way every day and they expose themselves to any number of harmful chemicals in the course of fire fighting, which is made cancer the leading cause of death among firefighters here and around the country and ironically, one of these forever chemicals is not what they breathe when plastics are on fire, but is actually found right in the innerlayer of firefighter turn-outs. the department and their cancer prevention foundation lead the field in ascertaining what the causes of cancer are and ways to mitigate them, including but not limited to, washing all their protective gear after incidents and a number of

different measures and that has been pioneering work that has lead the way and has ultimately lead to this legislation and i want to thank and acknowledge that pioneering collaboration between the department and the leadership and the rank and file, the union representing the working men and women of the department, local 798 and the cancer prevention foundation and i think this is really a step where san francisco can lead the nation in this very important next step for firefighter safety. the purpose of this ordinance is to create a timeline as well as collaborative process to implement the phase-out of turn-outs with pfas. with the goal of removing all cancer causing chemicals from this protective gear june 30, 2026. it mandates collaborative process between labor and management to work towards this goal and public

accountability through reporting back to the board of supervisors on the progress. the product exists. it is being tested as we speak by rescue 1 and rescue 2, and we will hear more about that, but i think the time has come for us to be very deliberate about implementing this as quickly as we can. i also want to absolute the department and the leadership for being proactive and actually having gone out and obtain grants that reduce the amount of money we need to come up to replace all of this gear, which is approximately-it is it 2 turn-outs per firefighter which is in the magnitude of 3500 units of turn-outs that need to be replaced over the course of the next two years and with that, it is my pleasure to bring up our chief, chief jeanine

nicholson. >> greetings and salutations all. i'm your san francisco fire chief jeanine nicholson. chair chan, mandelman, supervisor melgar, president peskin thank you grour time today. i'm joined today with labor with local 798 president floyd rawlins is in the house as well as one of the directors adam wood. i will have adam wood speak first on his- he works very closely within the san francisco firefighter cancer prevention foundation and can provide some back-story on that. >> thank you. i will abuse my position being the first speaker to take time to thank you for continuing the item last week meeting to this meeting so everyone you see could attend the funeral of our fallen brother steve and my friend rudey gonzalez reported on a moment of

silence you observed at the meeting in memory of steve. i where want to let you know how much that means to us and thank you so much for doing that. >> our condolences to the department. >> thank you board president. back to the item at hand, we have known some time the firefighters have a elevated risk for cancer. as board president peskin mentioned t is had leading cause of occupational death for firefighters. last year the international association for research on cancer firefighter is [indiscernible] we assumed the primary source of exposure to carcinogens is on the fire ground. every time we go in a burning buildings or wild fire, but we learned some of the most toxic chemicals are carried into the fire by us in the gear designed to protect us and these are it the per pfas chemicals known

as forever chemicals that permeate the materials that make up the protective gear and in the course of the wear and tear of a fire migrate from the materials to the body tissue where they take up residents forever and known to be linked to a number of cancers including the liver, pankerous and reproductive organs. this was confirmed in a study that was put forward by the national institute for standardss in technology conformed the presence of the chemicals in the gear and drew correlation between the chemicals in the gear and high level of pfas chemicals in firefighter blood serum and a important follow up to that study just released this past january, this determined even when the chemicals confine to one layer of the three layers that make up a turn-out

garment, within a very short time in the course of normal fire base wear and tear, those chemicals migrate to all three layers of the garment so there is no safe level of pfas chemicals we can have in the turn-outs. we strongly believe the new understanding of the presence of the chemicals in the protective gear helps explain what has been one of the most frustrating aspects of the work trying to prevent cancer in the fire service, which is, even thou we have a entire generation of firefighters that have come into the profession with a full understanding of the risk for cancer and have taken a number of steps to try to change the practice and culture of the fire service to reduce our exposures, we have not been able to move the number on cancer cases. just in the past 6 years, in the san francisco fire department alone, we had 62 active members and 141

retired members diagnosed with cancer. we are missing a piece of the puzzle and convinced the presence of the toxic chemicals in the gear is one of the missing pieces. but we are on the cusp of change. the national fire protection agency which helps set the regulations that determine what protective gear could be approved for use-hf-testing pfas turn-out to make sure they can still perform and do the job to protect firefighters without the toxic chemicals. we are right on the cusp of regulatory and technological change which makes this ordinance you are considering today so timely. the ordinance sets up a reasonable ap mount of time to get a product approved and available at scale so we

can aquip our entire department with two sets of pfas free turn-outs. as the board president mentioned, it sets up a labor management process to monitor the progress of the change and report back to you. but it sets a limit where once we get to the point where it is possible to stop poisoning firefighters then we must stop. that is the key element of the proposal important to us the san francisco firefighter cancer prevention foundation. i just will close by saying as i said before, i think this if you can join and help us move the ball forward it will get us closer to a point where we can go back to doing what we do best, saving other people's lives rather then having to come to you and ask for help to save our own. thank you for your time and consideration to this item and i will return to chief nicholson. >> thank you adam. can we start the overhead projector?

i handed you-hf-we'll get one to supervisor safai and president peskin. thank you. i won't take up too much of your time. adam explained a lot of it. but, in terms of background, we have known this quite a few years and even before i was the chief we were pushing the industry to make these changes and it just has taken a really long time to get these pfas chemicals out of the turn-outs because research, development, testing et cetera. the pfas worked as the moisture barrier. we need a moisture barrier because we don't want water or oil getting through. water gets through and it gets

too hot in a room we get bad steam burns. oil gets through, it is flammable. we need to make sure that these new turn-outs can do that and can withstand the heat and so, ourselves,b the cancer prevention foundation, the union, we all have been pushing the industry for years and as a department, we have a commitment to reduce health risks and we have multiple partnerships to do so. next slide. our number one priority, my number one priority is health safety and wellness of all my members and that can take all sorts of different forms. we have as adam stated changed the culture and changed a lot of our practices. it used to be whether i first came, i'm one of the old people that says, when i came in, 30 years ago we would be a fire and old timer tells you brush up against something burned to get

your coat dirty. that isn't the case anymore. now we have all sorts of policy to get rid of these things off our skin, ourselves and out of our gear and we have a ton of other sort of studies and initiatives qulou can see here. i would say the most significant of late is going to be the overhaul res pir tory protection study. we can take masks off and suck thin chemicals. the fire is out and searching for extension and take all the burned pieces out of the building. we have a policy that we are not supposed to do that, but the [indiscernible] we are working on getting something smaller for our members. we also have done cancer prevention foundation blood test screen frg multiple cancers, so we are doing the

work. the transings to the pfas free turn out are in aware test. 10 members are wearing two different pfas free products one from lion and one from fire decks. after a 90 day period, we will compile the findings and the recommendations of those 10 people, but it is important to understand that there is currently only one vendor available and that's lion, with three month lead time. of course, this also has to go out to bid, et cetera. and we still center the operational requirements that we need in these turn-outs to keep our members safe. so, the proposed ordinance as you have stated is, by no later then june 30, 2026. we will both neither provide nor use the pfas personal protective

equipment, and as a department we are in full support and we are rowing as fast as we can. but i just want to let you know about some of the logistical and fiscal challenges that we have. next slide. as i stated there is one vendor available and the estimated availability for other vendors is late 2024 but no guarantee for that, and so we are already chipping into the timeframe. obviously the supply chain and demand issues. we are not the only fire department doing this across the country. there are quite a few other major metropolitan departments and smaller departments going towards the pfas free turn-outs. there is also unforeseen circumstances regulatory approval. what we don't know, as stated we are doing a wear test right now to

see how they perform and we dont know how durable they will be. our current turn-outs last about 10 years. what we hear is these may last 8 years, so-i just want to caution about buying the first model of any car, right? i don't want to buy just the first model and have something great come out in 6 months and now everybody wants that one, so i think you understand what i'm getting at. next slide. so, even just estimating it at 3 thousand turn-out sets needed for 1500 fire suppression members, our current contract is $3404 for a coat and pants. these new turn-outs will be more expensive. we are not sure much more expenses so we estimated between 10.2 and $11.5 million. in terms of the grant that

president peskin spoke about, we were granted a fema grant of $2.3 million in august. it currently sits at the controller's office waiting for their approval so it is going through the process. obviously there will be ongoing annual funding support for cleaning, which we currently do, and we may need to replace these every 8 years instead of every 10 years until they perfect the technology. so, we would be looking at replacing this all again in another 8 years. we are also looking at gloves and hoods. what we wear into fires to make them pfas free, and pushing the industry for that as well. currently in our budget, we have $900 thousand for all our turn-out purchases and that does not include other

uniform needs and costs. so, there are a number logistical and budgetary challenges that we have and we want to be realistic about while we continue to push the vendors and do everything we can to keep our members more safe and here are just some of our members in their turn-outs and the photo on the left you see the hoods around their necks, but this is what we are talking about replacing. so, happy to take any questions and provide any clarification that you may need. thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning. nick monard, budget legislative analyst office. item 1 is ordinance that would create a policy in the administrative code to prohibit the fire department from using personal protective equipment with concern chemicals. the cost of replacing all the

equipment the deadline is june 2026 is 10 $10.1 million which is detailed on page of the report. the department spends $850 thousand a year on uniform replacement so if you take that base budget spending out and the $2.3 million grant it leaves about $3.1 million a year the department would have to add to its budget next year and the following year to meet this deadline. one thing we know in the report is cancer is assumed to be work related for firefighters in california. over the past 10 years san francisco paid out $12.3 million in cancer claims, so over the long-term as this equipment is replaced with less toxic equipment that liability will reduce and could off-set some of the new spending here.

we do note as the department also noted, there are challenges in meeting this deadline given the availability of the equipment. the research that has come out funded by the federal government indicates there are certain manufacturers that have less concentration of the chemical then others so the city to the extent there isn't equipment available to meet the environment of the legislation, the city could work with other jurisdictions to identify the least toxic equipment and jointly purchase it, but we consider approval of item 1 to be a policy matter for the board. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you chair chan. thank you president peskin for this legislation and chief and fire department for your commitment to making this work and of course to the firefighters themselves who keep our city safe and protect us often

at great prnl risk. i like to be added as a cosponsor. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. >> thank you chair chan. i want to say thank you president peskin for doing this. i believe that it will be transformational for the workers for people in the fire department, but also the country because being at the forefrent and challenging the industry to produce safer equipment i think will be transformational for everyone so thank you so much chief for that work. to local 798 for your rigessness. my sister served in the air force in

iraq and developed cancer which is common among folks exposed to burnpits and that was something that was a period of time in her life. for folks who are exposed weekly and daily sometimes to chemicals it takes its toll not just the individuals but ptheir families. i think in terms of the expenditure in the budget versus the cost of the families and to the individual firefighters it is a no-brainer and fully in support and so thankful we are doing this and doing it quickly in that we are setting the bar for everyone else so thank you. thank you chair chan. >> thank you. president peskin, should i call on supervisor safai first? >> sure.

absolutely. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you chair chan. there isn't many moments in time in elected office i think we do something that is transformational, but i think this is one of those moments, and as someone that worked in the city all most 25 years in public service, i have to say, i was ignorant to the fact that cancer is the number one issue that firefighters think about on a daily basis. i spent the last 6 months talking to retired and active members and every single time that's the first thing they lead with. i had the pleasure of going to the cancer gala awareness gala and i was just shocked to hear those things. when we think of 300 active and retired firefighters that have had cancer over

the last decade currently 62 active have been diagnosed in the last 6 years alone and 141 firefighters, it is something that is somewhat a crisis and when we say people are putting their lives on the line on a daily basis, firefighters are literally putting their lives on the line. we cant control the cancer causing chemicals they expose themselves to when they go into a building but we can control what they put on their bodies. on the numbers alone, and i know bla said it, but i want to underscore again, when you look at what has been spent in terms of claims over the last decade, just shy of $10 million and the claims we had to pay out sadly to those that passed away another $2.3 million, so this legislation will pay for itself. we will start to invest in these turn-outs and then the cause and the amount of claims that come in

will decrease dramatically and so, i am proud to be a lead cosponsor on this and this is one of those moments and i just want to underscore this, it is important to ist listen to those putting their lives on the line every day, working families, working people, because this wasn't our idea. this was your idea. thank you for bringing it to our attention here today. thank you chief for embracing this and wanted to do this as quickly as possible, because i think this is a urgent matter that we need to move aggressively on, so thank you chair for giving me the opportunity to say a few words and thank you all for what you do on a daily basis and coming here and advocating for your members. >> thank you. president peskin. >> thank you chair chan and thank you to every member of this panel for your cosponsorship. thank you for signing on today. supervisor mandelman and to supervisor safai, thank you for being there from the beginning.

i just want to address the budget legislative analyst report. this is a policy matter for the board. it doesn't come with a recommendation as often things that come before this panel are subject to, and i have to say that, if you look at the occupational cancer cost given cancer is a presumpative work born malady and you look at those numbers at $12 million, $3.1 million for two fiscal years is actually a very rational sound investment. i understand why the budget analyst says this is a policy matter for the board, but i think that policy choice is fiscally quite rational for us to take and think something fiscally is beneficial to the city. there will be cost savings over sometime and clearly it is the right thing to do, so i need not

commend to this panel because everybody on the panel is cosponsor but thank you all for doing another san francisco first. i think this will be looked back on as a defining moment in changing the apparatus that firefighters rely on in this country. >> thank you and thank you chief. we appreciate your leadership chief jeanine nicholson. i'm so grateful that you have been fire chief fighting for the firefighters in your department, not just for this turn-out, but really for equipment and stations, making sure that our department has everything that our firefighters need to not only keeping themselves safe but keeping the city safe. for that i'm grateful for your leadership and grateful for 798. thank you for being here and director adam woods. also for your leadership and

for how you have been fighting for the members every single day in every way and together having see you both here in the chamber, fighting for all our firefighters that i'm really grateful and as course of member of the firefighter family, i'm personally grateful to both of you and your service and of course everyone here in the chamber and audience fighting for your colleagues and fellow fire fighters. with that, we are going to public comment on this item. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> we invite members of the public who joined us today who wish to speak item 1, now is their opportunity to line up to speak and approach the lectern and each speaker will be given two minutes. >> greetings chair chan, board prez dependent peskin and the rest of the budget finance committee. my name is floyd rawlins the

president of local 798 and rise to say thank you for your unanimous support of this legislation. this is ground-breaking legislation and the first of its type in the country. i think in order to be leaders, you have to push the envelope, you have to stand in support of something, even when other folks are not, so that's a challenge that we have taken. we have also taken it on the state level and there will be legislation moving forward on the state level as well. i think it speaks volumes to the work that the cancer prevention foundation has done and continues to do to help protect and save the lives of our members. we will continue to forge forward doing this work, but we also know we have to have legislative support in order to move the ball forward in this

realm, so we thank you for your support and look forward to this going to full board and will be there in sport of it as well. thank you very much. >> thank you much floyd rawlins. madam chair, that completes our queue. >> public comment is now closed. colleagues, i think with your support today we will move the item to full board with recommendation. roll call. >> vice chair mandelman, aye. member melgar, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes. thank you. mr. clerk, please call item number 2. >> item 2, resolution approving a emergency declaration of had san francisco public utilities commission pursuant to administrative code to contract resources for tree removal, slope repair and restoration, debris

removal and geo-technical engineering services in pine lake damaged by flooding caused by a failed air valve on the water transmission pipeline with estimated cost of $5 million. >> today we have san francisco public utility commission here. >> good morning chair chan, supervisor mandelman, supervisor melgar. john cantew, project manager for local water project at sfpuc. thank you for hearing this item. the resolution before you would approve the emergency declaration of the sfpuc pursuant to administrative code 6.60 to contract resources for tree removal, slope repair and restoration, debris removal and geo-technical engineering service to restore a section of pine lake park damaged by flooding. on march 8, 2024, sfpuc crews responded to reports of flooding in pine

lake park near wawona street at 28th avenue. the crews determined that 8 inch air valve on the 60 inch diameter sunset supply line failed. the water eroded, a portion of the slope between wuwanna street and pine lake park adjacent to a home and undermined several trees. exposed pipelines and private retaining wall created a hazard to the public and critical sfpuc infrastructure. march 21, 2024, the sfpuc general manager declared a emergency the president of the commission approved to contract resources to address the emergency condition through professional design and construction services for the repair and are restoration of the pine lake park slope. the cost for this work is currently estimated at $5 million and the

controller certified the funds are available for this emergency work. while the sfpuc addressed the initial incident, the emergency remediation work is beyond the capability of city forces and the sfpuc respectfully requests that the committee recommend and the board approve this resolution. i want to thank supervisor engardio for sponsoring the resolution. please let me know if you have any questions. >> thank you. >> item 2 is a resolution that approves emergency declaration related to water main break at pine lake. it would allow the puc to contract with vendors without adherence to administrative code chapter 12a, b, c, 14b and 6 which are the typical procurement requirements related to construction contracts. puc is working with anville

builders after contacting three construction firms and using ajf inc. that did similar work to a water main break on stern grove a cup ouple years ago. the cost of the work is on page 7 of our report. it is about $5 million funded by water revenue bonds. we recommend approval of item 2. >> thank you. i just have a one technical question i are think this is really for the city attorney to try to help me understand. we just passed the legislation for the emergency declaration yesterday for the first reading. clearly it was unanimous but we have to go through second meeting and mayor for signature. it really won't i think come into law 30 days from passage, so help me understand today as we approve this,

then it goes to the board for approval and then, but it is already a declared as a emergency. how would that play out? will they be in compliance or they will be in compliance for the new legislation or new law? >> deputy city attorney ann pierson. the legislation you referenced passed by the board would require a department after getting approval of the emergency declaration and getting boards approval of the expenditure to come back to the board in the event that the actual costs are not the same as what they estimated. i have to look at the specific language of the ordinance, but i think it would apply here, because it will go into effect as you said in a month and might be after that time that the department learns there is some discrepancy. i do think they would be required to bring to this body a report if there is a difference, but again, i have to confirm the exact laj wjs

language of the legislation passed yesterday. >> thank you, just curious are. thank you y. don't have questions about the emergency nature of this, but the water main break at pine lake and we need to get it all done. in fact, i hope to better understand eventual just our water main maintenance plan. i think it is something for us to discuss as a puc return, help us understand the capital investment and funding allocated to maintain our water main overall, and to make sure that we can minimize these incidents in the future and so, i don't see name on the roster. let's go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak on item 2, you may approach the lectern and address the committee. madam chair, we center no

speakers. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. we will like to move this item to full board with aemd jigz roll call on that motion, please. >> on that motion to forward the resolution to the full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. member melgar, aye. chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> item number 3, resolution retroactively octerizing authorizing the san francisco public defender office to eaccept and expend grant in $150 thousand from crankstart foundation to provide representation and pretrial relete of vulnerable detained people accused of crimes through public defender pretrial legal representation. >> thank you. today we have public defender office here.

>> thank you supervisors, thank you chair chan. chief of staff for public defender office here with colleague [indiscernible] to speak to this accept and expend request. again, it is for $150 thousand from the crankstart foundation specifically requesting the retroactive authorization to accept and expend the grant during the grant period january 1 this year to september 30 of this year. the spending plan for this will consist of billing to existing attorney position that is.5fte and expanding that to 1 fte and for within our pretrial release unit known as pru. here again is atrisha moore, managing attorney and will speak to the work of the pretrial release unit. she is the managing attorney.

thanks. >> good morning supervisors. my name is atrisha moore, i have been a public defender. [indiscernible] my anniversary date. i lead our pretrial release unit for about two years. when a individual is arrested just to give background, if they are low income, traditionally they do not meet with a attorney until the arraignment date within 72 hours of being arrested. now, what the pretrial release unit which we call pru, they can meet with the pru staff member and get referred to job training, educational and substance abuse classes before arraignment and some instances, a program coordinator can meet with the client at arraignment and help the client transition from custody to a appropriate program in the community. pru is also able to contact a individual family, visit the scene of the incident and also start

investigation early. we are active 7 days a week, including holidays. staff members review booking streets thanksgiving christmas and easter and meeting scheduled with clients the next business day. currently we have two attorneys, paralegal, three social workers, two speak spanish, three investigators who rotate on a weekly basis and on average we meet between 50 and 70 individuals a week. one of the attorney positions is currently half-time and we are seeking to make her full-time with this grant. she is committed, compassionate and dedicated and with her being full-time we'll be able to fully compensate her for the work she is doing and allow us to meet with more in custody so thank you for your time and please

let us know if you have any questions. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you madam chair. thanks public defender office and crankstart folks. i like to be added as a cosponsor. >> thank you. i'm grateful. very grateful for the work you are doing and it is just really critical work at this moment. i think both for helping all of us to be more educated about the system and what we can do to continue to improve, but most importantly, to continue a private and public partnership with someone like-with a organization like crankstart foundation and continue the dialogue. it is really what i see the future of as we continue to make crimial justice reform, it is a requirement to

have those partnership. so, i really-but i know it take a lot to maintain those partnership as well and maintain those relationship so that we can just beyond our city government or in just our government structure and then to actually have non profit partners to really come in and to be able to provide some support, it is the work that is very critical. i know it is above what your called to do at the public defender office so for that i'm grateful and we'll go to public comment on this item. >> thank you. >> members of the public who wish to address the committee regarding item 3, now is your opportunity tew to approach the lectern. we have no speakers. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. colleagues, i like move to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. >> on the motion to forward this resolution to full board with

positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman, aye. member melgar, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> item number 4 is a resolution authorizing the recreation and park department to accept and expend an approximately 300 thousand increase to the grant from the bay area young survivors with a total funding of approximately $800 thousand so that bays can deliver the in-kind grant of renovated seating area on conserve tory east for projecktd term upon approval of the resolution until notice of substantial completion and authorize the rpd general manager to enter into amendments or modification of the grant that do not increase the obligation or liability to the city and necessary for the grant or resolution. mad 78 chair. >> thank you. we have recreation and park

department here. >> good morning chair chan and supervisor mandelman. i am abigail mayor with rec and park department. the bay area young survivors department is support and action group for young people in the san francisco bay area diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 45 or younger. in 2015, bays began volunteering under the guidance of the rec park department staff. they inquired opportunities to honor women who passed due to breast cancer. over the years bays and rec park discussed the possibility of landscape improvement process. want inspired by success of the grove in golden gate park as a example of both a public amenity and a dedicated memorial space, the team settled on a small seating area also locate #d in golden gate park.

the proposed seating area will offer the public respite from daily life a place to sit alone or with others, admire nature, connect to community contemplate lives lost and reflect on survivors. bays is offering the fund of design and construction. april 19, 2023, the budget and finance committee recommended the board of supervisors adopt a resolution for up to $500 thousand and on may 3, 2023 the mayor approved the resolution. since that time bays has been working develop detailed construction documents and have been reviewing bids from contractors. the bids were higher then anticipated so bays has a fund raising goal of approximately $300 thousand to bring the total funding project cost up to approximately $800 thousand.

since the 2023 resolution authorized donation up to $500 thousand, rec park needs authorization to accept and expend this additional in-kind funding. thank you for your consideration and approving this accept and expend and happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. just really thank you so much for your work. been a while. good to see you. also really grateful for the bay area young survivors for their support to the park and in partnership with the departments to memorialize those who survived or past from breast cancer so thank you for the work. i don't see name on the roster and we'll go to public comment on this item. thank you. >> members who wish to address the committee regarding item 4, now is your opportunity to approach the lectern. madam chair, we have no speakers.

>> thank you. public comment is now closed. with that, i like to move this item to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. >> on that motion to forward this resolution to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. melgar, aye. chan, aye. we have three ayes. y thank you, the motion passes. mr. clerk please call the next item. >> item 5, resolution approving the first amendment to the grant agreement between compass family services and the department of homelessness and supportive housing (“hsh”) for services and subsidy administration for the family housing ladder program; extending the grant term by 24 months from june 30, 2024, for a total term of october 1, 2022, through june 30, 2026; increasing the agreement amount by $7,038,650 for a total amount not to exceed $13,104,997; and authorizing hsh to enter into any amendments or other modifications to the agreement that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities, or materially decrease the benefits to the city and are necessary or advisable to effectuate

the purposes of the agreement. >> thank you. today we have department of homelessness and supportive housing here. >> good morning chair chan, supervisors. emily cohen, dp department homelessness and supportive housing here with you today to discuss a resolution that authorizes hsh to enter into the first grant agreement with compass family service to continue the administration of a scattered site family housing program called family housing ladder. the housing ladder program is designed for people who are currently in permanent families specifically that in the supportive housing programs but no longer need intensive on-site social service and this allows them to move into private market rate housing with a mobile doctor and continue to remain in the community in more

independent living. this first amendment extend the term by two years and increase the not to exceed amount by approximately $7 million for total not to exceed amount of approximately $13.1 million. this agreement is 100 percent funded by prop c our city our home funds. like other scattered site programs, the majority of this annual budget is direct client services and subsidies and 25 percent is for salaries and benefits for the staff administering the program. i talked about this already but housing ladder which is a exciting opportunity to help families who have been incredibly successful in the supportive housing move to a more independent yet still affordable living environment. this agreement supports compass to serve up to 70 families annually, and

this is a primary family housing ladder program. we also offer this program for adults and we have 286 units of this model for adults as well. this is a really exciting way for members of the public, particularly landlords and property owners to get involved and be a part of the solution to homelessness as this program depends on partnerships of local landlords to rent to people families holding subsidies. did want to invite property owners and encourage members of the board to feel free to advertise this to folks in your districts who might be interested in being part of the solution and happy to take any questions you might have. >> thank you. vice chair--sorry. bla report. >> item 5 is resolution that approves a amendment to a grant between compass and department of homelessness supportive housing to extend the grant

from june 2024 to june 2026 and increase not to exceed to $13.1 million. we discussed the performance of this grant on page 12 of our report, which shows they didn't meet their targets in fiscal year 22-23, the first year of the contract, but they more recent performance data shows they are meeting the performance metrics in that contract. we detailed the budget on page 13 of the report and we know this grant is entirely funded by prop c. we recommend approval of item 5. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you madam chair. i think this is great and would like to be added as cosponsor. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. >> thank you so much chair chan. i just had a couple questions.

we have seen influx of newcomer families struggling with housing. compass is a good organization and i do know they have cultural and language capacity which is needed. my question to you is about the housing ladder and the system we have, because in addition to housing newcomer families need all kinds of support with workforce and school and we had a haphazard approach. the school district served as a gateway for a lot of things so i wonder how you are thinking about it in the context of this resolution to have your department think through and lead on how to support not just this population, but the needs fluctuate and change and how does the department respond to

that need for coordination and policy leader ship with other departments? >> thank you supervisor melgar for the question. i think the housing ladder particularly presents a really exciting opportunity. if we-the intention of permanent supportive housing is intended to be long-term and our policy approach has been to prioritize people highly vulnerable for supportive housing. even within the family system. so, the intent is that this could be your forever housing, but we also know housing is incredibly healing and people really are able to change their lives when they have a stable safe home so woo dee see people ready to move on. a lot of these folks are are not able to assume san francisco market rents but ready to move out of the more supportive environment and one of the many benefits of the program it creates more space in the family supportive housing program and these are

the programs that have those more intensive wrap around social services. for more highly vulnerable families, families with more barriers to stability and this just creates more supportive housing for them without having to build another unit that supportive housing, so it is part of creating flow in our system. people are not pushed into housing ladder, it is for folks who want to take that on and move to a more independent type of housing, but it is a really exciting opportunity and it creates more space for people coming in off the street or out of a shelter to go into other types of housing. >> forgive me, my question is more about the leadership of the department and that wrap around of services, because it occurs to me and speaking to some of the staff at compass i did get this idea that we were used to this type of population, so single

folks with substance abuse have very different needs then a newcomer family that just got here and needs all the other supports. not necessarily substance abuse or mental health trauma certainly, but so in the contract that you are thinking through and putting out to the community, how are you thinking about you know, how to address the needs of populations that are rising in homelessness. that is more my question. >> thank you for the clarification. as we talk about newcoming families and we had the hearing last monday on the topic, we have really seen a diversity of need coming-families have a lot of different needs then folks who maybe experience generational poverty and generational homelessness locally.

different levels of disability. different levels of substance use and different levels of need and so what we are really trying to create in the system in the contract is a part of it, is diversity. that also we are also focused on cultural and linguistic capacity so everyone is served in their primary language and so we want to make sure we have that component but also varying levels of subsidy and wrap around service. as we talk about newcomer families, hsh has a role to play. housing is probably one of the biggest things folks are struggling with so we have a role to play but we are not experts navigating the immigration system. compass does an amazing job with case management. i point there because we have colleagues from compass in the room, but they are not immigration lawyers, they are not necessarily expert in refugee settlement so we need to rely on the office of civic

engagement and immigrant affairs to lead the discussion how we as a city respond to increases in migration and changing demographics of our community and hsh has a huge role to play being at the table but i don't want to set up a system where we are pulling people into homelessness because it is so hard to get out of homelessness and so we want to be able to meet people where they are and connect them with long-term services like employment and immigration and not necessarily pull folks into long-term homelessness having the shelter available as needed. thank you. >> thank you. let's go to public comment on this item. >> thank you madam chair. if you have public comment on item 5, please come forward to the luck lectern at this fime. time.

you can line up to speak along the western wall. speaker. >> yes, helen hail from mayor office of housing community development and while i didn't know this is on the thing i want to speak strongly for housing ladder. housing ladders are important for folks moving through a system. they spoke very well about it but our department is very invested creating systems where people can move through as needs change and so when folks move into permanent supportive housing which is super important and folks that need to stay there that is fine, but there are folks that need to be able to move on and being able to move on once you are connected to services in different supports you need, having them available and being able to move on into the private market is perhaps the most important thing and what we hear about regularly from folks ready to move on. i really strongly support this. i think compass is a incredible agency who does great work. our department who is also very involved in housing ladder

work, really would support being able to have these kinds of programs available for families. thank you. >> thank you for sharing comments. any other comments for item number 5? madam chair. no further comments madam chair. >> public comment is now closed. thank you and colleagues i like to move this item to full board with recommendation. with that, a roll call, please. >> on the motion to forward this item to the full board with recommendation to budget and finance committee, vice chair mandelman, aye. melgar, aye. chair chan, aye. madam chair, three ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes. mr. clerk please call the next item. >> item number 6, resolution approving the second amendment to the grant agreement between the compass family services and the department of homelessness and supportive housing

(“hsh”) for supportive services and administration of a flexible housing subsidy pool program for families; extending the grant term by 24 months from june 30, 2024, for a total term of october 1, 2022, through june 30, 2026; increasing the agreement amount by $20,183,620 for a total amount not to exceed $29,151,597; and authorizing hsh to enter into any amendments or other modifications to the agreement that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities, or materially decrease the benefits to the city and are necessary or advisable to effectuate the purposes of the agreement. >> thank you. with that, we will have department of homelessness and supportive housing. >> good morning chair chan and supervisors. emily cohen, department of homelessness and supportive housing and joined today by colleagues from compass family services who are available if you have specific questions. this particular resolution before you

today authorizes hsh to enter into the second amendment to our grant agreement with compass family services for the administration of the family flexible housing subsidy pool program. this amendment was heard and approved by the homelessness oversight commission on april 4. this amendment extends the term of the grant agreement by two years and increases the not to exceed amount by approximately 20 million for not to exceed of approximately $29 million. 100 percent of this grant is also funded by our city our home fund. flexible housing subsidy pool is a form of scattered site permanent supportive housing locally funded. this-when a family is enrolled in flex subsidy pool they are able to rent a

private market apartment and pay 30 percent of their income towards rent and the subsidy pays the remainder up to hundred percent fair market rent. hsh as [indiscernible] of the portfolio of over 2100 units of scattered site supportive housing. compass family services under this contract administers the subsidies and provides case management housing coordination and support services for 165 families annually. again, we welcome landlord participation and really encourage property owners to get involved in locally funded subsidy programs are significant benefits to them including guaranteed payment, on-time rent, reduced vacancy, support services and landlord liaison service provided

through compass and welcome landlords participating and happy to take questions. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. sorry. let's go to bla report and then vice chair mandelman. >> item 6, resolution that approves an amendment to grant agreement between hsh and compass. this is for the flexible housing subsidy pool which provides rental subsidy to people exiting homelessness. had similar issues to the in terms of performance with the prior grant. there were initially slow start up in fiscal year 22-23 but more recent performance data shows the contractor is meeting the performance goals established in the agreement. we detailed the budget on page 18 of our report and we recommend approval of item 6. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you madam chair. i like this one as well and like to be

added as a cosponsor. >> thank you. let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. anyone have public comment on item 6? if so, please come forward to the lectern at this time. delaying for a moment. it appears we have no speakers. >> thank you, public comment is now closed. thank you. i am always ready to move these items forward. just this one is the last one. i think the high dollar values they serve a critical purpose. always ready to in support of i think at the end of the day is to wanting the department to help us think through as policy maker to make sure the dollars go further and be more adaptive to the pool of people that need this type of

subsidies. but with that, i'm going to move this item to full board with recommendation. roll call, please. >> on the motion the to forward to full board, mandelman aye, member melgar, aye. chair chan, aye. madam chair, three ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes. with that, mr. clerk please call the next item. >> item 7, resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development (“mohcd”) to execute the standard agreements with the california department of housing and community development (“hcd” or “department”) under the affordable housing and sustainable communities program for a total award of $41,011,377 including $28,000,000 disbursed by hcd as a loan to the transbay 2 family, l.p. a california limited partnership (“developer”) for a 100% affordable housing project at 200 folsom (commonly known as transbay block 2 east), $7,711,377 to be disbursed as a grant to the developer for regional transit and infrastructure and programmatic funding near transbay block 2 east, and $5,300,000 to be disbursed as a grant to

the city for public transportation improvements near transbay block 2 east, for the period starting on the execution date of the standard agreements through november 30, 2043; and authorizing mohcd to accept and expend the grant of up to $5,300,000 for transportation, streetscape and pedestrian improvements and other transit oriented programming and improvement as approved by hcd. madam chair. >> we have ocii office of community investment infrastructure. >> good morning chair chan, vice chair mandelman and member melgar. i'm senior development specialist with office of community investment and infrastructure ocii. the purpose of the resolution before you is to authorize two

standard agreement with california department of housing community development to accept and expend an award totaling approximately $41 million in loan and grant funding for the planned affordal housing project at transbay block 2 east and nearby improvements from the affordable housing and sustainable communities program. block 2 east is located at folsom and main street and 100 percent affordable housing projects. block 2 east will be developed and operated by mercy housing and 2 west which started construction in march will be developed and operated by chinatown community development center. the board of supervisors has taken several actions to facilitate development of the block 2 east project including authorization of application to the program with the city is and mercy housing as coapplicants in april 2023. the recent approval of multifamily

housing bond issuance and authorization for ocii to enter into long-term ground lease. this is final action needed in preparation for the planned close of financing and start of construction later this month. i recognize the committee is already familiar with the project, i'll provide a quick overview for the public record. block 2 east will provide 184 units of affordable family rental housing with 40 units set aside for families experiencing homelessness. units will be restricted for affordable earning 40 to 80 percent of ami and unit ranging from studios to 3 bedrooms. the project includes space for a child care facility as well as two commercial spaces for public benefit or community serving uses. all financing for the project has been committed. residential sources include the ocii gap loan, low income house tax credit equity and $28 million from the

program before you today. in addition to the loan to the rez additional project, the award includes approximately 13 million $13 million in grant funding for pedestrian and transportation related improvements and programs. 5.3 million administered by the city and used to fund planned street scape improvalments on howard street and install transit priority signal technology at 29 downtown intersections. the remaining approximately $7.7 million of grant funds will be administered by mercy housing, approximately $6.5 million goes to bart to fund the purchase of two new bart cars and instillation of next generation fare gate councils. the balance of the grant will be used for program funding, including a program to free transit pas frz 3 years for all residential units at block 2 east as well as programs to support bike safety, provide antidisplacement

legal aid and workforce development. that concludes the staff presentation and joined by representatives from mercy housing if you have any questions. thank you. >> thank you. i don't see any name on the roster. for now, let's go it to public comment on this item. >> thank you madam chair. we invite members of the public who wish to address the committee regarding item 7. madam chair, that completes the queue. >> public comment is now closed. thank you for the work on this transbay block 2 east family. look forward to seeing these project moving forward and in completion. with that, colleagues i like to move to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. >> on the motion to forward to full

board with recommendation, mandelman aye. melgar, aye. chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item number 8. >> item number 8, resolution approving and authorizing the mayor and the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development (“mohcd”) to execute agreements with mercy housing california 108, l.p. relating to 1) a loan in an amount not to exceed $41,036,048 for a minimum term of 55 years to provide permanent financing for a 146-unit (including one manager's unit) permanent supportive housing development, plus resident common areas and supportive services space, on real property located at 1633 valencia street (the “project”), and 2) a grant in an amount not to exceed $80,785,406 for a 19 year term to provide local operating subsidy program funds to subsidize operations and debt service for the project; 3) adopting findings that the project and proposed transactions are consistent with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1; and 4) authorizing the director of mohcd and/or the director of property, or their designees, to make certain modifications to the loan and grant documents and take certain actions in furtherance of this resolution, as defined herein

madam chair. >> thank you. today we have mayor office of housing and community development. >> good morning chair chan and supervisors melgar and mandelman. my name is ann romero. i will present on permanent loan and operating contract in support of 1633 valencia before you today for consideration. the requested financing will support the creation of 145 permanent supportive housing units for home ltss seniors on valencia. the requested loan in the amount of up to $41 million in hsh2020 health recovery go bonds and 19 year

loss contract in the amount up to $80.7 million for operation and debt service is the last financing approval needed before mercy can start construction later this month. mercy and sf housing accelerator fund proposed the project as replication of mercy project at 833 bryant which did not city investment until after project completion. hsh agreed to fund the project with this loan after mercy delivers the new housing units for referral for older adults experiencing homelessness. chapter 21b of the admin code allows hsh to wave competitive procurement requirements to expedite homeless housing and services. so, the project goals are bring 145 new permanent supportive housing units online quickly to leverage below market

fillen tropic funds and financing and construction methods to reduce development cost and speed up development. so, the site is a parking lot and the development teen is the same as [indiscernible] the housing will be 145 studios for homeless seniors 55 and older plus one staff unit within 6 stories. pending approval of this request, mercy will acquire the parcel at construction loan closing and start construction in may and in january 26 the building will start lease-up and convert to permanent financing fall of 2026 which is within the loan would be made. the mercy entity will own the land and improvements as required to structure the deal without city investment until completion. mercy will provide the city with a first right of refusal and option agreement to acquire the land in the event of default after the tax credit compliance period. also the city declaration of

restriction is for the life of the project. so, the next slide here summarizes some of the cost and time saving measures of the project. first, they use the same development team which provides a opportunity to build on lessens learn and a [indiscernible] same footprint, similar amenities and outdoor spat. for this project they are using design build instead of modular construction and design build locks in design and pricing early. any cost savings that would result from design build result in reduction of the city loan. this project will have a lower per unit development cost then comparable project. the construction cost is 30 percent less unit and the development cost is 20 percent less. the timeline for completion is

under three years which is faster then similar projects. the time and cost savings are achieved by having the project privately financed through construction. the half investment replaces the competitive portion of the capital stack means this project doesn't need to wait until they get a state funding award and the project requirements are streamlined. so, this slide shows the total development sources and uses and please note the city loan commitment is up to $41 million and includes a bridge financing commitment to cover grant which the sponsor will apply for, which if awarded reduce the city loan to $39 million. the project is also financed by 4 percent tax credit equity and has a bond allocation. the $16 million half loan will be repaid by a traunch of the lost subsidy. so, the proposed lost contract would have traunch a covers the operating cost gap over 19 years in the

amount of nearly $60 million and traunch b covers 18 years of debt service payment to repay the half $16 million perm loan. the total request for 19 year term is $80.8 million. mohcd and hsh support this request. this completes my presentation and we have representatives here from mercy housing if you have questions for them. thank you. >> thank you. >> item 8 is resolution that approve said two different agreements to help fund permanent supportive housing development at 1633 valencia. this is a joint mohcd and hsh project and are relied on chapter 21b of the administrative code which allows hsh to work with contractors that provide homeless services without a

competitive solicitation and that is how the developer was selected here. if you look page 23 and 24 of the report you see the total cost of the development is $84.6 million. the resolution approves a $41 million loan to help fund that development cost. it also funds $80 million local operating subsidy grants which fund operations at the site and also funds the debt service of $16 million housing accelerating fund loan that is funding the development. so, all together the total cost of this development is $579 thousand per unit. the city when you factor in the debt service for the half loan is putting in $372 thousand, which is relatively high city subsidy per unit relative to other mohcd projects and we know as a

policy consideration, despite putting in $121 million in the project the city is not going to retain land ownership of the site so it isn't getting a asset despite this investment. there are affordability protections built in outlined by the department and our understanding the city is avoiding becomes a land owner in order to avoid certain procurement regulation that follow from a city lease to a developer which include the local business enterprise ordinance and public art requirement. because this is a new use of lost funds and it is a-differs from the practice of the city owning land for new affordable housing development we consider approval of item 8 to be a policy matter for the board. >> thank you. does mayor office of housing want to respond to the decision of why

this standard practice? if actually deviate from standard practice? >> yes, it does deviate from standard practice because this is a different model and the city could not acquire the land because then the city would be providing funding for this loan from the very beginning. the city-it is very complicated for the city to acquire ground lease at permanent conversion because we have to separate the land interest with improvement interest which is complex and it wasn't structured that way to mitigate that risk the city typically has, we have the first right of refusal and option agreement and also have indefinite declaration of restrictions, so this is definitely a pilot replicating some of the unique characteristics of 833 bryant

but that is why it was structured like this. >> interesting lot. just looking at it. it is a interesting shape. like a weird l lot. could you just explain a little bit about how does the land or as a project come about? >> how did the land come about? mercy was able or will be able to acquire this parcel in conjunction with another developer so a portion of the site is a parcel split to create their parcel on valencia and the other parcel is on cesar chavez, but the back rear yards are face each other creating more a open space, but there will be-the parcels will be defined. they were able to acquire that together and get a very good acquisition cost. the other development in the

future will from my understanding become affordable senior housing as well so it is somewhat a senior housing corner that space. >> vice chair mandelman. >> thank you madam chair. and thank you for the presentation. it is interesting-it is similar to 833 bryant and also different from 833 bryant in some ways. you said there are lessens learned from 833 bryant. what is mohcd see as the lessens learned from 833 bryant? >> from my understanding the lessens learned from 833 bryant are, how can we create housing less expensively by having a very efficient design and units are quite small.

studio units, but they all stack up very neatly on top of each other and so there's-even though the design is very pleasing from the outside, it is a very simple design with double loaded corridor jz the design was made with trying to reduce construction cost with the goal of reducing the cost. i believe that this project units are slightly larger then 833 bryant and here they are using design build strategy instead of the modular construction, which partner made the cost less expensive for 833 bryant. i am sure there are many other lessens learned that if you wanted mercy could speak more to that center to do with how the design and construction team works together in a coordinated fashion to produce these units. >> i'm curious to hear from

mercy for 833 bryant and construction choice and also curious about the operation of 833 bryant and people and mercy sense how that has gone and sense of lessens learned for this project. >> claire murphy, project developer for mercy housing. one of the things we did at 833 bryant is post occupancy evaluation with staff and residents to hear about how the building 833 bryant was working from a programmatic standpoint so we made adjustment to the design to mitigate for instance, this is very detailed but adding water censors to all of the units to mitigate flood events and what not, which should help with operations and are that came out of lessens learned and we did make adjustments to design on the ground floor as well based on resident service and property management feedback. >> did you have a lot of flood events

at 833 bryant? >> you, know not a ton but yes it is something we experienced in the first year of operations. >> so, i have been talking with hsh about my concern of over-concentration of very poor people with very high needs all in the same building and my perception of 833 bryant and this may be unfounded and unfair it might be a example of a building where we concentrated a lot of very high needs individuals, maybe without the subsidy or the level of care and staffing which i think might be quite expensive when you are concentrating the highest needs individuals in a building like that. so, maybe i'm wrong about 833 bryant. this is an icdotal and people just telling me things. i haven't made a stud y, but

not sure 833 bryant is the model we want to re-create everywhere. this seems quite different in that-potential quite different in that it is folks over the age of 55 and i think 833 bryant was not a senior housing development. >> that is correct. >> on the other hand, people can be pretty sick and have a ton of needs at the age of 55 coming off of the streets through coordinated entry if that is what we think will be happening here, not sure. but i'm curious when i say lessens learned from 833 bryant i think there were lessened to be concerned and little concerned i'm not hearing about lessens-why does mercy think that you can-do you have any concerns about operating another 833 bryant or is this not another 833 bryant?

>> i think we did a lot of work on reviewing the first year of operations for couple years of operations at 833 bryant and building off the experiences there, so i think we are confident we addressed some of what came up there, both in terms of the aquity you mentioned on a high concentration of high aquity referrals as well as other invasions such as stabilization reserve which we hope to pilot here, which again gives an additional flexible use of funds to operations in the first couple years to allow for us to make changes as needed to insure we are able to operate the property successfully. >> okay. this isn't a mercy question, this is city question. or bla question. bla says the source for local operating

subsidy program is general fund not prop c? >> that's correct. >> is that correct? this is not getting prop c money? how come? >> good morning. department of homelessness and supportive housing. our local operating subsidy program for decades has been a general fund subsidy. the prop c funds for this population, these are older adults, 55 and older, the capacity within prop c does not have ample room due to fluctuation in revenue so could not fit this project in prop c. >> this part of 50 percent no? or subcategory? >> 50 percent of the fund is for housing but there is a

subcategory for that is not transitional age youth and dedicated to families available to older adults and there isn't capacity left there. >> so this is not-the isis a new use of-this will be additional general fund subsidy, not-- >> additional- >> [indiscernible] >> correct. >> good. alright. okay. thank you. >> supervisor melgar. >> thank you so much. i think that this building would be pretty transformative at that corner, because it is kind of bleak there right now. it is just a parking lot, and sort of funky post saint luke's being rebuilt, so i am-i think that is great. while it doesn't meet the

current norm of how mohcd does things, we have done similar things before where a non profit provider owns the land. we used to do it a lot more in the old days, so don't think it is completely out. i think there's maybe more of a comparison to bryant street project that supervisor mandelman was talking about in terms of the construction and the sort of model to try to keep costs down in construction, and we did learn a lot of lessens in using modular, which this is not modular, but there is a lot of prefab and think the lessens learned, if you have 2 inch variance on there skin it might not fit exactly the way you want it once you stack up the units so i think this is really good. i actually wish that we did more invasion.

we did more outside the box. we did more this isn't the way we have done it before, because homelessness in housing is our number one issue in the city, and i wish we had embedded in mohcd and office of invasion of financial whatever, because i think this city is full of people who are creative and so is your office i think people are-should be allowed to do things a little differently, with a goal of keep ing costs down and making it faster and more accessible so all for this. thank you so much for what you are doing and please do more. >> thank you. i always have a concern that share with vice chair mandelman talked about. i think that it is great to be innovative, but at the same

time is the current model we have, whatever it is that we have, like a example of 833 bryant is it working and managing well? it is always good to have innovative idea but how it translates into realty and how it is implemented i think sometimes there is a gap between the idea and what it is actually on the ground, but let's start off with building it first and getting it and i think that we can always tweak the programming itself or the service itself once we have individuals in the building. with that said, and i also just also want to acknowledge the hearing recently that held by colleagues at public safety committee, in discussion again about when we have these type of projects, how is it really manage on site and i think this one particularly was in mission bay location, so

i share those concern and i want to acknowledge those concerned and so with that, let's go to public comment on this item. >> yes, members of the public who joined us today who wish to speak number 8 now is your opportunity to approach the lectern. we have no speakers. >> public comment is closed and i like to with that i think that with that robust discussion, i think i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation. i think that it is a need we must meet and then we could really continue to identify ways, be state funding support or local support and however we want to eventual fashion or refashion the service model, at least then we will

have housing available. and so with that, i like to move the item to full board with aemdition recommendation and roll call, please. >> vice chair mandelman, aye. member melgar, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three aye. >> the motion passes. please call item s 9-12 together. >> items 9-12 are resolutions approving the following fiscal year 2024-2025 programs. authorizing the mayor on behalf of the city county to accept and expend the city fiscal year 24-25 program entitlement from the united states department of housing urban development. item 9 is community development block grant program up to approximately $19.8 million and expend program income of $5.8 million for total of $25.6 million for period beginning july 1,

2024 through the date all funds are expended. item 10, for the housing opportunity for persons with aids program in the amount of approximately $8 million and expend funds in $5.2 million for combined total of approximately $13.3 million for the period of july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2027. item 11, for the home investment partnership program in the amount of $5.8 million and expend program income in the amount of $2 million for combined total of $7.8 million for july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2029. item 12 is for the emergency solutions grant program in the amount of approximately $1.8 million for unspecified period starting july 1, 2024. madam chair. >> thank you. i must say that these are some of my favorite type of legislation.

meaning, that--not our money, but also expanding the city's ability to both capacity of providing services, but also like vice chair mandelman said, not our money. federal grants so really this for me is some of my favorites and are really grateful for you to be here today and so we have mayor office of housing and community development. >> thank you. brian, director of community development at mohcd. good morning chair chan and members mandelman and melgar. every year we come with the entitlement allocation for the 4 funding sources and i'll go through 4 funds and answer questions at the end. for the community development block grant fund the largest source, we are asking for approval to accept and expend approximately $25 million as reminder, the cdbg funds are administered between our

department and office of economic workforce development, so a small portion of the funds go to support economic development in the fields of primarily commercial corridor support and micro enterprise support and then a small portion of the funds go to workforce development for a variety of programs. about half the allocation comes to our department and goes to the housing pool for rehab for existing project. the other portion of the funds goes to a variety of projects we selected the projects that are most able to manage the relatively high reporting requirements of the federal funds, so it goes to housing services some affordable housing area. home ownership counseling. tenant counseling and skills building projects. all of our funding as well as the oewd funding are moving into what is

probably the final year of a multiyear procurement, so because we are fortunate enough to have basically the same amount of cdbg coming to us, we simply renewed the grant amounts for 23-24. we renewed those same amounts for 24-25, so all the grantees will not see any decrease in funds, which is fortunate for us in light of the overall tight city budget. on the program is administered completely by mohcd. we are asking for $13 million. the funds fund really three different areas. one is, our direct administration of long-term rental subsidies prus case management associated with thereat through a non profit. we also fund a number of transitional residential programs, such as

[indiscernible] the cohen residents, larkin street and leeland house and peter clairfb house. the largest one time award given this year is $3 million to leeland house. we are using saved up dollars over the years for a significant capital renovation to that building because it really moved into a state where for health and safety of the individuals they needed that piece. the next piece, the home program, specifically provides funding for new construction, so the cdbg fund is rehab of existing buildings, the home dollars is hundred percent for new development, so that's what we are requesting to be used for $7.7 million with home and the final piece is the emergency solutions grant program.

that is administered through the partnership with the homelessness supportive housing division. again, those grants also are rolled over from last year's procurement and they fund a variety of shelter services including compass which you heard about today. homeless children network and larkin street so we are fortunate all four allocations remain ed relatively stable so we were able to maintain funding commitments to all our grantees for 24-25. happy to answer any questions if you have any. >> thank you. i don't see any name on the roster. we'll go to public comments on these items. thank you. >> members of the public who joined us and wish to speak on these items 9-12 now is your opportunity to approach the lectern and address the committee. madam chair, we have no speakers. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed.

with that, i like to move items 9-12 to full board with recommendation and roll call, please. >> on the motion to forward the resolutions 9-12 to full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. melgar, aye. chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> the motion passes. thank you. mr. clerk, please call item 13. >> item 13, resolution approving a fifth amendment to contract no. 1000020198 for the justice-involved housing and supporting services program between tenderloin housing clinic, inc. and the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through its adult probation department, to increase the grant amount by $1,214,651 for a total not to exceed amount of $11,143,960 with board of supervisors' approval under charter, section 9.118, and with no change to the grant term. madam chair. >> thank you.

we have adult probation here. >> thank you supervisor. good afternoon. deputy director of finance administration for adult probation department and in this resolution we are requesting an extension, actually increase in the contract to exceed the $10 million threshold. the contract is for tenderloin housing clinic. the extension would allow us to complete the contract term, which actually ends june 30, 2024, so it ends at the end of this fiscal year. the tenderloin housing clinic or thc, we entered into the agreement

march 2020. it was about $2.87 million annual grant to provide transitional housing at the stabilization housing and also rental subsidies. there was a amendment three months later that did true-ups to get the contract down to based on the first three months of spending. there was also a second amendment in december of 2021 and that extended the contract term through june 30, 2022 and also removed theerantal subsidy program. amendment three dated july 1, 2022 extended the contract through it current term, however only funded it through fiscal year 22-23. the fourth amendment that was just updated in july of 2023 added funding just for the first 6 months of this fiscal year because after those

6 months we will go above the threshold so this request is to continue from january 1, 1.2 million $1.2 million to fund the drake hotel and also to fund the sharon. on program performance, there were a variety of amendments to the contract. most of them were just to add money and time because adult probation had been doing annual contracts, but also changes over the past 4 years. this contract started actually in the middle of covid, so there were changes to the program to make sure we can increase capacity and happy to report that actually now in this last year of the contract, the program is pretty much at capacity. i think now as of maybe monday there are only two vacancies at the drake and maybe one at the heart hotel. so, that is good news and the purpose of the grant is keep the place

stable and have the housing units available to the people actually already there. on the program monitoring side, apd staff normally works with our grantees one on one through check-ins, through phone calls, through meetings, those sort of things. there are also usually have an annual formal performance monitoring, and the last time that was done for this contract was august 22, but that was the last time it was done for all of our grant agreements, simply because in 2023, our reentry staff is down to one person so were not able to do that. now that we hired up, we will be going forward with actually resuming those formal program performance and monitoring site visits in actually 2024.

normally they would start some time in the summer and go through the fall. and i'm happy to answer any questions after that point. >> item 13 is resolution that approves a amendment to grant agreement between adult probation and tenderloin. the purpose of the grant is fund residential programs and housing sites for probation clients or justice involved clients, the program eligibility expanded. this amendment adds $1.2 million to the not to exceed of the agreement and really to fund cost that begin to be incurred january this year through june of this year. we know in our report that the vendor did not consistently meet its program or property management objectives. there were high vacancies in some of

the buildings. we don't have data for other buildings funded by the grant and we also know there are low placement into permanent housing. so, i think there are issues on the department side in terms of consistently measuring performance and looks like also issues on the provider side as well in terms of getting people into housing. i think the level of under performance is such the board should consider not funding this request. that is one option i recommend. i think another option is for adult probation to come back during the budget process with a plan to first of all, diagnose what went wrong with these programs, and then come back with a budget proposal that basically solves that either with new staffing adult

probation, richer services at tenderloin housing clinic to improve outcomes for people exiting those sites, but approval is a policy matter for the board. >> thank you. supervisor melgar before i call on you if i can quickly understand. has this contract-i just want to put in context. the context is that, this is the 4th amendment of this original contract that was place march 1, 2020. so about four years ago, and this is while it is a fourth amendment, it really wasn't done on a annual basis in terms of amendment or so to speak. i want to recognize that the third amendment was in 2022 and that was supposed to cover through june 30, 2024

with roughly about $2.3 million and today at that time for the third amendment, within that all most two years period of time is supposed--yeah, two years period of time with 2.3 million dollar is supposed to cover through june 30, 2024. now you are coming back in may of 2024 to cover-to ask for a $1.2 million, which really only cover january 2024 through june 30, 2024. clearly there is a change also to the terms and conditions of the contract itself, which you mention added drake and sharon hotels. this seems like that is probably what is added to the cost of the contract. i do want to understand with the

fact that as indicated by the budget legislative analyst, which is rare all most to say, let's not approve the additional $1.2 million that is supposed to cover us from january of this year through june 30, 2024. now, i am inclined-depending on your answer now, i'm inclined to say, let's end this in june 30, 2024 of this not just about the contract particularly, but let's try to understand whether we are accomplishing our goals serving the population or not and then what are our alternatives, because clearly this is not meeting the goals and demands and i understand you are resuming performance audit, which frankly is all most two fiscal years behind. some other departments like department

of public health for understandable like early on in covid you couldn't perform inperson site visit and performance audit and everybody went to virtual and desk audit, but in the last 2 fiscal years all most everyone is catching up with in person site visit and performance audit, so what is adult probation which is a very critical function helping us serving the population in terms of what you are doing right now with this program and the contract? what is adult probation vision and plan if the contract is not meeting your original contract goals, what is your alternative and what is the plan for alternative? >> may i start with your first question about what is going on for the increase? when you look at the increase in the amendment 3 that had the increase is

actually the about $2.3 million, so the time was actually increased, but the actual money not increased in that amendment, because basically when we started off, the original 2 year contract was $5.7 million so $2.8 million each fiscal year. that contract-that means over the course of the time that is $14 million. this contract is going to come in at $11 million once you add this. if you-the amount in amendment 3 only increased the change the amount was $2.3 million. that was not enough for two fiscal years which is why we all to come back with amendment 4. adult probations has been amending annually and it is very labor intensive and we'll try not to do that, but in the instance of the third amendment, the time was increased but the money was only increased for one of

the fiscal years. so, that's on that part. on the i think the second item was basically on the monitoring. so, yes, while there were not formal monitoring, we were working with the organization, which is why we knew they were not meeting their goals because they have to turn in information to us and we are talking to them and they were not meeting their goal jz why we started adjusting programs and asking to do thingz differently. going forward, we will be looking at all of our metrics, we will be looking at particularly as i said before, when it comes to capacity and actually having clients in the beds, i think this program and most of the other programs we are there, but the goal isn't to just have people in beds, the goal is have them to go to permanent stable housing and that's where

we are seeing that we are not meeting the goals and so, there are things we have in place and need to make sure are being enforced. for instance, there are monthly housing application meetings with clients at all our of sites to help them tell what help is available and help them fill out applications. clients are supposed to save money since they are not paying rent. they save the money to have something when they are ready to move and have something to store there. ologist, we have to also see and work with the provider to find out and what other things is it that people need more intensive services while they are there? more a case manager. they pr providing things that need to be discussed going forward to make sure that we are meet ing the second part is probably one of the most important parts to make sure we get people out and get them into stable

housing. >> i'm trying to understand, what you are saying is the intent is with the probation intent is that, after june 30, 2024, you are going to continue with this existing contractor and with this contract or are going to rf? >> exactly. we put out a rfp in 2023 and this isn't the only contract that is expiringismt we have a variety of housing contracts expiring, however we have not completed that process. >> i see. understood. you have a rfp issue in 2023, you are going to complete and have new contract awarded by- >> july 1, hopefully. yes. >> thank you. that is a great answer for me for the questions i asked. supervisor melgar. >> thank you so much chair chan. you and i were thinking along the same

lines. mrs. madison, thank you so much for meeting with me earlier and going through and answering my questions. after our conversation, i thought about more about what you said so i wanted to raise the issues again in this context. one was, as chair chan asked about, was the inspections. so, i'm working on legislation, i have been working with legislation about habitability in our subsidized housing and gotten a lot of anxiety from the folks who provide housing, paid for by the city for very hard to house populations, which this is one. one things folks brought up, we have to do inspections on habitability and programs from all our [indiscernible] hsh, from all the feds and the--but so, it is-i understand that, but

there was no quarterly inspection for this. i understand you said you were helping monitor them support them, the staff was supporting them to success, but the inspections are sort of a record of somebody having been there, looked at things, checked off a box and make sure, so i'm wondering how we do this better going forward and i know we went through a pandemic and are things were not as normal, but i do think that it's something i think we need to be disciplined about if we have these relationships, and then something thatia said to me was, like i understood this and i agree that not everyone is in the same place. [indiscernible] start people where they are at. not everyone can hang with a

very structured program like west side like we'll see next on the agenda. very high rates of placements. but then i also think, are we also short-changing participants putting them in a setting that we know doesn't have as much success as others? you guys are the experts [indiscernible] maybe you want to direct as a policy issue, because you know, i think everyone does god's work wanting to help people, but in the contracting process, you can put things in there that then you monitor and say, we met these outcomes or didn't. after i thought about it, i'm like, actually we should put people where the rates of success are higher where we know even if it is a little

more challenging to follow the rules, we know that by doing so, at the other end they are more successful. it just makes me a little uneasy to be like, all good, because the poor performance whether it was because of covid and trying to adjust--i get it. we want to work with folks and they do provide a very valuable service to a population very hard to house but there is something that doesn't feel good in terms of what we are trying to do. >> understood, and maybe i need to clarify. the response in the conversations before were where we are now and explaining the difference that may be a difference between one organization and another organization.

that does not mean that we believe no matter where you are you shouldn't still being able to move to stable housing and so that's what our team that reentry is working on, so they are working on those things so when they go back when we do new contracts we will look contracts across the board with everyone for those who need new contracts, also as i said, they go back to doing in-person visits starting this summer and so those in-person visits will be a opportunity to monitor older programs and get a good start with the newer contracts that are going there and looking at a way across the board to make sure that all of our clients all justice involved individuals have access to being able to a place to get to stable housing. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> with that, we'll go to public comment. >> if we have members of the public who joined us today who wish to

address the committee regarding, number 13, now is your opportunity. madam chair, we have no speakers. >> thank you, seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. i think for me seeing the fact that it is ending on june 30, 2024 and i think for me that you know, seeing that also the department is going-has already issue a new rfp in 2023 and your goal is to have a new grant contract in place by july 1, and i do look forward to seeing having this policy discussion around contract performance evaluation and deliverable's in the way that we spend our budget, and i look forward to having that conversation during our budget process and seeing that i will be in supportive of moving this contract amendment forward, but

i really do hope--i think with this-a warning to all of us not just to the department and i have said to colleagues and it is also holding ourselves accountable as policy maker understanding our responsibility we have may hard conversation and choices we have to make this budget to process to think and evaluate some of the contracts extensions or agreements and dollars that we want to spend. in that we may want to set aside a process to set aside the dollars in a way that before we continue to roll out these money to disperse these money, that we actually have conversation with accountability and result and performance whether we-however way we decide to move forward or not, at least a transparent conversation about these type of contracts. i dont mean just for the

tenderloin housing clinic, but across in general for all contracts so i want to put it out there today. but, so with that said, i would like to move this forward without recommendation today. given the fact that it has consistently not been able to meet the performance goals and contract goals, and i really concur with supervisor melgar's sentiments that, let's figure out a environment that really help and insure the success of these individuals, because that is i really find that is what is critical and right now at this moment that broken part of the criminal justice reform and sustainable way, which we all bear responsibility, myself included and i look forward to those conversation. policy conversation. with that, i like to move this item without recommendation to full board, but at the full board i will be

urging colleagues to support this, but just again, i have done this in the past with other item as reminder to colleagues about the tough budget conversation to come. with that, a roll call please mptd >> on the motion the resolution refer to full board without recommendation, vice chair mandelman, absent. member melgar, aye. chair chan, aye. we have two ayes with vice chair mandelman absent. >> thank you, the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call 14 and 15 together. >> 14 and 15 are amendments to contracts between west side community mental health and city county acting through adult probation with board of supervisors approval. item 14 is second amendment for the minna program to increase the grants amount by $10.8 million for not to exceed $18.3 million and extend period for two years and 10 months

for period of may 2022 through april 30, 2027. 15 approve a third amendment to a contract for the treatment recovery prevention program to increase the grant amount by approximately $7.8 million for not to exceed of approximately $17.3 million and extend performance period for two years and one month from june 30, 2024 for performance period of august 1, 2021 through july 31, 2026. madam chair. >> thank you and again we have adult probation here. >> yes. good afternoon. first contract is the minna contract with west side. we entered into this grant agreement in may of 22. minna is a dual diagnosis transitional housing program meaning treats people with mental health and

substance abuse disorders. 72 bed program with wrap around services. the annual budget is over $3.3 million a year. we had a first amendment and basically just extended the grant to june 30, 2024 putting funds extending the term. request for this amendment is to actually be able to extend it out into the full 5 years through april 27 and of course because this is expensive program over $3 million a year, we have quickly exceed after this coming fiscal year the $10 million threshold so that is why we are here. the second program is also a program west side, the trp program. we entered that grant agreement in 2021 for 65 bed sober bed living facility t. is therapeutic community completing 5 stage program and annual budget is also

over $3.3 million. we had a prior amendment that basically just added funding and i mentioned earlier in the thc, apd was doing annual contracts so amend and add the term and time and funding. we are now requesting the third amendment to once again to help us go to the enof the 5 year period for this grant through july 31, 2026 and requesting $8.135 million to do that and happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> item 14, resolution that approves a amendment to grant agreement between adult probation and the west side community services. this is for the minna project which is a 72 bed residential program that serves dual diagnosis clients. as we do for any grants we

looked at performance of the contractor and we found that they were delivering the program results were consistent with the requirements in the grant. we did note however that the department didn't consistently inspect the property here. we detailed the budget due to short staffing according to the department. we detailed the budget for the program on page 41 of our report. this contract which will be $18 million if approved is funded entirely by prop c. we recommend approval of item 14 and recommend the department do comprehensive monitoring going forward. item 15 is resolution that approves a amendment to a adult probation grant also with west side. this for the trp program on geary

street. 65 bed program that also serves dual diagnosis clients. this program also performed well relative to the requirements in the contract, but again, as noted by the department, because of their short staffing they did not always consistently inspect the programs they fund through non profits. this contract is funded by there general fund. this amendment extend the agreement through july 2026 for total not to exceed of $17.3 million. recommend approval of item 15. >> thank you. i just want to have a one clarification point. want to understand, when i think both--i think the item 14 was a delay because the building wasn't fully occupied until october. even though the program was launched in may. then, i think for item 15, in

mentioned about including delays because of the staff hiring and is staff hiring on the non profit partners line, the contractors side or staff hiring delays on the adult probation side? >> the non profit on the non profit side. and that was basically in the beginning of-both of these are very brand new programs and so the question was why haven't you budgeted as much and it is basically start up for two new programs. >> i look forward seeing how this works out. i mean, again, i think this is very important and i think minna is probably a better location and let's see how this is going to work through and will you accept the recommendation by the bla to conduct a comp hence chb monitoring and regular site visit starting 2024, would that be

possible? >> yes, we plan to resume in 2024. >> we appreciate that and look forward seeing the monitoring results and the site visit results and help us better understand the outcome of the contract before it has to return back to the board and for budget decisions and conversations. so, with that, let's go to public comment on these two items. >> yes. if we have any members of the public who wish to address 14 and 15, now is your opportunity to approach the lectern. madam chair, we have no speakers. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. i would like to move these two items to full board with recommendation just looking forward to seeing what actually will be like when you conduct the site visits, but also now it is fully staff and fully occupied, hopefully we see

service results and look forward seeing that. with that, moving these two item with recommendation to full board. roll call, please. >> on that motion to forward both items 14 and 15 to full board, mandelman absent. melgar, aye. chan aye mpts we have two ayes with vice chair mandelman absent. >> thank you the motion passes. mr. clerk- >> thank you. >> thank you. do we have other items before us today? >> madam chair, that completes the business. >> we will have the budget appropriation committee starting at 1:30 today and with that, this meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

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>> i am supervisor melgar. i am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to san francisco. my family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. this place gave us security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, i'm grateful for everything the city has to offer for people like me and families. i have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non

profit worker and i care about the community. i care about people around me, and i want to make sure that as the world changes around us, other people have the opportunity that my family did. >> we are back in san francisco post pandemic. so important to be out supporting our businesses, supporting our neighbors. >> i'm the first woman to represent the district, believe it or not. i'm the first latina elected to the board of supervisors without an appointment first ever, so i do think that (indiscernible) i want immigrants to be represented, women, moms, people that have different experiences because that brings richment to our decision making and i think it makes for betting decisions so that inspired me to run. district 7 is one of the most diverse districts in san francisco both

in economics and ethnicity. it spans north from golden gate park. it includes all the institutions in the park, the wheel. the music concourse, mew seem to the south to the daly city boarder and west to the organization. includes the zoo (indiscernible) all those fun things and to 280 oen the east. includes city college, san francisco state. i had ucsf parnassus so very large geographically. it is mostly single family homes, so it is the place where for generations family (indiscernible) nice parks, lake merced, mount davidson. >> this is like a village within the city, so we are very close nit community. we tend to band together and try to support one another and it is a friendly place and

families and people to have a cup of coffee and check out the park. >> ocean avenue, which is the southern end of our district is vibrant commercial corridor that mostly cater tuesday the local neighborhoods and the students. as you go further west you have the mall which has some of the best pan asian food offerings in the city. if you haven't been there, it is really fun. as you go up a little bit further, there is west portal avenue, which is a very old school commercial district where you can still find antique shops and cobbler shops and as well as like more modern restaurants. it is definitely hopping and full of families on any weekday. >> i'm matt roger, the coowner or (indiscernible) >> carl, other coowner in west portal. >> we are a neighborhood hardware store. been

a community institution since it was founded in 1936. we had a little bit of everything. (indiscernible) to gardening or gift buying. >> my entire experience in san francisco is this community. it is a very small town feel for a big city. the community is caring and connected. >> what makes me excited doing business in district 7 is i know it sell well. i grew up here. i knew a lot of customers, parents of friends. it is very comfortable place and feels like home. >> if you go up north, you have the innerpz sunset commercial corridor which has a awesome farmers market on weekdays and plethora of restaurants. there is everything you need. >> friendly and safe and

(indiscernible) i love they bring their kids with them. they teach them how to use their money, and it is something you dont see in too many markets in other communities. i love to see the kids come and talking to you. it is something different then i see from (indiscernible) >> the ev access to transit in inner sunset and ability to do a lot of shopping on foot, and now the improved biking with jfk closed to cars, because we have a 4 and a half year old who rides her bike. we now have a safe place to go and ride bike jz don't have to to worry about traffic. >> graffiti continues to be one of these things that during the pandemic just got out of control everywhere in the city and i do think that it is hampering our recovery of commercial corridors, so some of the volunteers on west portal avenue, some of the merchants got together

with interns at our office to do some hands on abatement and we have been doing it regularly. we are doing it once a week and we have a wonderful neighbor, carrie organizing and storing the paint and supplies in her office on west portal, but this needs more then just a volunteer efforts. >> i'm grateful for the collaboration. we passed legislation at the board and put $4 million in the budget over the next 24 months to help the department of public works hire laborers and labor apprentices to abate the graffiti on private property on commercial corridors. i think that for a couple years this recovery strategy so we can get back up as normal after this awful pandemic. participatory budgeting is a pot of money that is available every year for district 7

neighbors to propose projects that improve the neighborhood and the district. anyone, any organization in the district can propose a project and then it's a vote. it is popular vote. we have 14 projects just approved and they span from you know, a vegetable garden at aptos middle school to pedestrian safety projects on (indiscernible) it runs the gamut, but it is wonderful because it allows people to be engaged in a real way, and then to see the outcome of their energy and work, because the things get improved in front of them. >> i like it is really close to the parecollect parks and bunch of businesses as well as a calm feel. it is a very peaceful feel even though it is close to a lot of things.

(indiscernible) also not boring. there is stuff to do too. >> so, there is lots to see and experience in district 7. [music]

>> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for today, tuesday april 30, 2024. madam clerk, would you please call the roll? >> thank you mr. president. supervisor chan, present. supervisor dorsey, present. supervisor engardio, present. supervisor mandelman, present. supervisor melgar, present. supervisor peskin,