2024.) (gavel) good morning. i'd like to call the meeting to order. county of san francisco government audit and oversight committee meeting this morning at 10:00 am., thursday, may 16, 2024. i'm combhergd joined by supervisor stefani and commissioner chan and we want to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. >> madam clerk, any announcements. >> public comment will be taken when the item 6 interest comes up and please line up to speak on the right and submit comments in the writing e-mail

to the government audit & oversight committee to the clerk at sfgov.org and if my e-mail will be forwarded to the board of supervisors or sent your condominiums to dr. carlton room if you have any documents please submit them before the end of the meeting and silence all devices and finally, items acted on will be on the next agenda unless otherwise stated. >> madam clerk, call items >> madam clerk, call items 1 and approving an annual report for the central market community

benefit district for calendar year (cy) 2022, submitted as required by the property and required by the property and and highways code,sections 36600, et seq.), section 36650, and the district's management agreement with the city, section 3.4. >> thank you. >> and these items are sponsored by supervisor dorsey and starting off will be the director of the oewd and as possibly i have before thank you for your engagement with our office and in advance of this hearing. >> the floor is yours. >> commissioner chan and supervisor stefani i'm the program director at the presentation is the presentation for the 2021-2022 reporting period i want to am and thank supervisor preston and melissa hernandez and back and forth in preps these presentations before

you here with me is stacey and the mid-market hearing from my colleague i'll of it's okay. i'll present on behalf of oewd. >> as you can see they're governed by the california highway code in the property and business improvement district law of 1994 the second at the article 15. oewd is charged with make sure that all are meeting their plans it is providing serves as outlined in the plan in the assessment fund accordingly those finds are in the memo and summarized in today's presentation this thyroid is an overview of the cvd and over one million dollars

in revenue. the civic center c cdb as part of the memo oewd reviewed the final benchmarks the benchmark one comparison the with an year to the other budget benchmark two northern assessment benchmark were met and many moving forward with the specific embedding civic center met all 4 benchmarks with the deliveries has a strong focus on the services and in particular providing kind services in an amount not-to-exceed for the

abatement and safety code and they doubled did permit efforts in preparing with the period. sorry. >> the staff supported key activation like the ones mentioned san francisco roller rink and tree lighting and community outreach and a strategy efforts with safe services and generally have a strong pitching in the corridor in oewd memo cdb was late with their submissions and all cdb tips with oewd with follows up and further tasked related to this were increasing more demanding during the reporting period and oewd assisted with multiple partnerships to help with immediate recovery in wake

of the covid pandemic and clear to oewd the delay in reporting was a result i have those. so looking forward the next reporting period cdb their deadline is not come up with that said, oewd and the cdb have been in communication. the cdb didn't employ take advantage of the cdb had no reported violation with the brown act and oewd opinion that is well positions to carry out their position and go ahead with the mid-market community development board met all four benchmarks and focused across economic

development and in support of small businesses and certified for small businesses and a resources to those interested under securing a storefront in the area. cdb ambassador clean team continued their work doubling their categories in the prior year and the mid-market was late in their reporting and mid market with oewd upon follow-up and as possibly also with the service center center the critical services that was provided during the period impacted 2345ir timing submission for the report and the next reporting period in the mid market operates on the calendar year and anticipated

they're meet that and late in submitting the policy to oewd but they did for a fact submit it as you can see in the packet is included with the current policy for the calendar year 2022 confirmed? available upon request. and further confirmed in policy been included in the upcoming manual report during the period no reported violations in the brown act for the california records act and to continue carrying this ad mission in the clean area and with that, i'm going to turn it over to my colleague. >> thank you welcome tracey executive director for the oewd that is before us today welcome. >> gum good morning,

supervisors. >> i'll take through slides the civic center center for the manual budget is $13 million a majority on the services. and a reminder of our boundaries expanded to the east side of golf and a light blue section in the plazas the federal building didn't pay into our integrity. >> wanted to take the opportunity to commend and thank the amazing individuals were out doing the challenging work and keeping our district streets clean and safe so not all the folks are city with the organization but most are our

services are many. so we have the clean item, ambassador program, we were providing overnight security for the playground and the garage reader the civic center and partner with both the urban community and the downtown streets team in the district. these are three of many, many things we collect and getting better and better at that is a detail of everything we have and your software is pretty amazing. our team in 2022 continued to evaluate with challenges throughout the district and parklet created

more work for the team and high number of break ins we're first on the scene if if happened overnight or in the morning help to clean up. to too hot spots that are today by tenderloin schools and 12th street. those are areas we have to pay attention to. bus shelters are all downtown we have a problem to cross the street in front of the state building to try to make that assessable for transit riders. and un plaza numerous challenges in 2022 most of relishes shown here. the drug

dealing open air drug use in the el segundo and fortunate had had a great pitcher with all the organizations throughout the district primarily and the plazas. this is an work of our data collection system at any given moment can tell where our folks are and they're uploading pictures in the system. and i think in 2022 the most transformative thing be in the un - so had a number of events kept the place fun and throughout the year those continue. we did our lunchtime concerts that of in the zone

and, of course, during the good weather months september and october held an amazing tree lighting entertainment seven hundred toys and then have the music providing free he concerts along venice before and after performances on venice and continue to do as possibly much as possibly better to be safe than sorry we could to make sure they're recognized and promoted on the website and in the social media channels. and we continue to do a lot of work making sure point playgrounds are safe and free of vandalism put out seats when it was good to do so and we continued to pursue or updates

to share our shelter guides now give to thirty organizations have copies that i'll drop-off at the offices and it is highly sought offer that's it for civic center center and transitioning to the open market 2022. this is a reminder a map of the mid-market from the west side of 5 down to van ness and along market and mission and the street corridor from market. um, in 2022 we had a budget of $1.5 million you can the breakdown on the slide versus public safety and economic development. our coarse services

are maintenance and public safety and economic development and challenges to our work for the open air drug dealing and use the proliferation of evan kaments and this is a particular bad encampment these are things that our staff, you know, does their best to mitigate but probably mingle cleaning as possibly often as possibly they can and, of course, we call ecology when needed and have the

bulky items this a tremendous amount of litter and debris as a result of encampments nearby. our public safety services are extremely confident we do a lot of directions and, of course, work with the merchants residents and visitors. homelessness camps are ongoing. >> we call entering services when needed a lot of time your ambassadors especially in the photo know who the individuals are and can get them to home serves as needed like i said a large number of vacant

commercial spaces and have a few vacant lots problematic so we do our best to prevent fires being set and break ins an educational campaign. one possible pair one of the ambassadors with an attendee officer for the responder approach. and for economic development in 2022, we saw the opening of the whole foods a small pharmacy and the line hotel on market and the chicken on market. our street cluster of shops conditioned to grow with 7 businesses on the

left and at that time 4 tenants we appreciate they do an excellent job with maintaining the landscape in front of their businesses that is one space we were able to improve for a short time and had a grant part two of the robin williams across the street and unfortunate the mural was destroyed about 6 months in but - this is just a map showing the commercial vacancies we had in the district in 2022. and we tracked that. and just another illustration on the storefront and this is a marketing we have objective been updated since

2022 but we use this to help to attract any businesses in the district. and this is a map that illustrates the number of affordable housing, no. special service locations in our district the fingerprint this too has been updated since 2022 but it is available if you need it. >> and just want to end thanking our mid market crew do incredibly challenging work and those folks are still with us today. >> thank you. >> thank you very much for the presentation and the work and especially appreciate highlighting the folks doing the work in the field everyday and many at least on the civic center side of office are out

there and do the work every single day and doing the - i had a couple of quick questions so looks good in terms of compliance with the benchmarks those were to the manual reports late and want to have a comment on what happened there and also on track to be timing. >> yes. we're on track. for civic center we he a lot of extra work the department of emergency management around the u united plaza but to support city services we service part

time to get to the designers and if the reports are comprehensive together involve the operations team and communication team i prefer - so civic center was the definitely a challenge and mid market the lack of submission of the camera policies to oewd i think was a design oversight 12 page word document and so we'll add, add that going forward but a link to that policy on the website we didn't think anyone couldn't find it we'll make sure we forward that. >> thank you member stefani. >> through the chair. you mentioned i think your report in terms of the civic center three

4 though needles is that annually; right? >> and picked up by whom. >> those are just the ones picked up by our staff additional ones collected by the urban streets team and multiple departments like public health department. >> do you the location of where you're picking up the needles. >> when i do. >> and are they a pro-active approach around people picking up. >> i give you the breakdown of how many came through 311. >> okay. >> thank you. thank you and this time period that is before us coincides with actual closures of tenderloin. >> that was or expands like; right? >> yeah. >> (multiple voices.)

>> half a year. >> right. >> on a fiscal calendar. >> yes. the center closed. >> it was earlier. >> right. >> um, i had additional question around the fulton gift gallery the hillside cdb and in conversations around the closure of um, that the gift gallery and then i think the - the cdb if have communicated not having capacity to manage the market after the department of raeft

were impacted about that and we just learned yesterday from rec and park that the cdb will be hosted a vintage market very soon that is news to our office we've been pretty regular in existence to resume the/59 out there. and if that decision was made will be a vintage market? >> yeah. i think we have found a republican take advantage market wanted to come we don't operator operates the market. >> of being able to operate on fulton so um, it is group out of

oakland and they have the oakland convenient tangle market and no, we don't have a final agreement but hoping they'll start in august when the weather is nice we did - who did we tell? i think we told did farmers' market approached by the gallery. to tell the gift gallery if they're not able to join the farmers' market but join with the small business commission and - but also, if there were any of us could would sit with the vintage market we could connect them not until late summer. >> thank you thank you for the clarity and exciting to hear about the potential vintage market but conversations in the

rec and park and emphasis those are like a half a dozen years we're talking about been following all the rules as part of the community and my understanding that there is discussions of potentially implementing that as part of farmers' market for a period of time and looking at that new market coming to merced but half of the dozen didn't seem to fit with the definition of what, you know, look i want to urge in possible terms weather exemption we need to do to graerth. >> fund it unfair what

happened to the vendors but looking forward to collaborating with you further and i just it is leaving a bad taste something could transition positive for someone the urban certify for that half-dozen in particular singles not accommodated. >> you're welcome to comment on i - i wanted to comment. >> great. >>. thank you very much. >> and if no further questions open up for public members of the public wishing to speak should line up by the windows, and all speakers have two minutes to speak. can the first speaker come forward? comment. >> >> thank you public comment is closed. (gavel) thank you and everyone and thank you, i'd like to move it sends those to the full board with

positive recommendation. >> to forward to the full board. >> supervisor stafani, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> chair preston i have three i sees. >> motion passes. and madam clerk, call item mayor, recreation and park department, office of economic and workforce development, san francisco international airport, office of the and organizations to support san francisco in hosting panda bears from the people's republic of china, notwithstanding the behested payment ordinance. >> thank you, madam clerk >> we have with us today um, shawn chief of staff to the mayor, i see that supervisor safai would

you like to say something before the gentleman comes forward go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chair and i was wondering who was going to be here but, you know, we're considering in front of us today, the behested payment waiver ordinance to allow the mayor with other departments to raise $25 million or more for a panning panda enclosures but with the pressing needs perceiving two weeks ago a multiple of organizations that deal with children, youth, and families received services for $25 million of cuts were happening in particular just to underscore apa conciliate us

know of $70 million in cuts violence presentation and teenager pregnant and health centers programs that were funded for thirty years and so we all know the city faced and significant financial exchange in the next two years and ready to mobilize significant focus on the panda bears pins a few years ago we championed together and the mayor initiative to raise money for summer programs after-school programs and hubz we want to the philanthropic community and for low income families provide low and free cost summer camps and despite

the fact dcyf has the proven capacity to raise funds without waivers for the central programs and fact wearing facing $25 million no cuts it is truly unconscionable to prepare for a facility not 100 percent certain we're to get it and after that as possibly we been reported in the paper there are millions of dollars in disrepair at the zoo for the facilities workers are upset and workers with filed complaints. so i introduced a resolution on tuesday i know many of the colleagues supported that your honor, the mayor to initiative the same level of fundraising for comments for urgency of $25 million in cuts for children and families this

is prioritizing our future and children over panda bears if we can rally a home for panda bears we can rally to raise money foreseeable programs that impact every single person in the city so i have a multiple of questions i'll save those until after the presentation but i think that is important at that moment we're facing dramatic, dramatic impacts all over the city so many programs point to programs in our district that are being impacted. so thank you for that opportunity mr. chair and hold my questions until after the presentation. >> and thank you, melgar and

others. >> we've done that before think that about year ago doing the best for the panda bears waiver and periphery you ponder that supervisor safai but let's get both the issues that are supervisor safai first, the mayor's office will be happy to incorporate dcyf and incorporating raising programs ranch past supervisor safai we can amend many and effect what the positive change and as you can see that currently the legislation that exist you are

prohibited with the behested payment waiver ordinance from raising money i honestly never other side why that is the case you passed is ordinance changing the rules allowing supervisors just like the mayor just like the did that heads to go through this process and behested payment waiver ordinance to you all could join us of we passed that by incorporating the points that supervisor safai raised you'll be prohibited from doing any of that but could change the code obviously not with us but happy to work with you on legislation that allows the 11 of you to participate as well and supervisor safai mentioned the philanthropic for dcyf during covid that did happen before the behested payment

waiver ordinance legislation was imposed we did have the ability to raise and made it easier and frankly why we have to make the cuts this year one notable contribution was generous to $25 million and the teams matched up 25 contribution from plain star 3 contribution has just run out if i amend this supervisor we could seek additional funds from them and few amend the legislation i honestly don't recall you being a partner in raising those monies a few years ago but if we change the ordinance to allow you to raise dollars we'll be happy to support that so you could help us with that, getting back to the panda bears supervisors we want to make sure that not a single there are of general fund goes into this but

to make sure the philanthropic will go in support of panda bears exhibits and all the costs associated with that. >> thank you i have questions less about the merits of this investment or relate priority over them more about what's before us in the resolution i would like to note the behested payment waiver ordinance the waivers are a waiver allowing fundraising not just general fund raising but hundreds from interested parties; right? that's where your oversight rbo role my we have focused whether or not on the hsh request not just when they come before us but in terms of renewables it looking at lying the potential

conflicts and the question i have about this one - first an observation much, much broader than others not being asked like one department quite broad i want to ask you about that by first if i could answer do you know the identity of the person's or organizations or companies or foundations who will potentially be solicited here. >> no, i have a general idea we can certainly go to the sponsors who supported this and certainly go to all the sports of shanghai san francisco committee as possibly you may know celebrated the 45 anniversary but one specific one supervisor gets to your point

about interested party and the draeth to demonstrate this is the first time support has been list in the behested payment waiver ordinance these were approached by others who would like to participate. and they are an interested party we couldn't solicit them they approached united states and we said hold on we can't be a partner until the supervisors. >> thank you. >> and i think and again, this is not going to the ultimate area of whether or not the board should be passing a waiver as possibly supervisor safai you're suggesting and possible amendment but i do want to make sure we're on the same page what has to be in the waivers and

united airlines is a great example my read on waivers is that if you know who you're going to be soliciting you have town of cutler bay listing those folks out in the resolution. along with why they're interested party. and then the board looked at that and makes the decision whether there is an appearance of impropriety or that's why we have the ordinance and pet that conflict we're okay with that one of my concern is that and it is fixable i know but i - interested in our comments i believe the way the board is structured this is like what the bridge one; right? like the money it coming from specific sources those are known

to the committee we can talk about what potential what makes them an interested party and evaluate that and approve or not approve it we're here a long list of folks like united are expressed from what the community lacks i know what some of the relationships are on a few of apec donors one thing i'd like to see in the resolution um, and i didn't think that is fixable is a list of the potential donors why they're interested parties. and then evaluate the comfort level at those level of conversations. >> we can try supervisor but a little bit of a - i'm not inclined could reach out to potential donors and say are you interested without breaking an

ethics law a number of donors not inclined to say yes. i think the provisions we have in place to address our concerns are two-fold on for 6 months and have to come back and ask you to reauthor it and two, and every single contribution that is made is pubically disclosed i mean nothing hides the dollars everything we raise i told you generally where i think we'll get the dollars for the buckets of donor and setting a precedent and ask you in a sense permission who we could raise money from. and the payment for hsh the board of supervisors unanimously passed specifically list all of the varies donors could be solicited to this

police department boarding has precedent not accurate i want to be as possibly transparent as possibly potential and in you're landmarking for specific city and i think we're able to get frankly. i do recognize the chicken and egg as possibly you say. but i think with live apec donors or is shanghai donors i'll read it from the ordinance shall summarizes and identify the type of interested parties or the specific interested party what the identity is known to

whom the solicitations will be directed in a statement why the partnerships and interested parties with the work of apec if he had that kind of list and again, i'm looking at that list there are some i'm concerned. i mean united contract gave me with the airplane and asking for the airport commission themselves to reach out and seek the behested payment waiver ordinance and at on the list maybe really minor contract for the a lot of concern but is possible for the board to look at a list that is proposed and you know what this is fine but those two companies or something and the conflict is so great we've got like john conways and chris larson folks with i'm not saying those are necessarily

problematic but raised questions from others don't have the information that's the problem i think what the code requires is they be identified in the resolution i do not on this should be a challenge or problem. >> (multiple voices). >> did that to be required to be a apec resolution. >> i'm not saying and. >> (multiple voices.) >> in front of you of the board of supervisors and voted on "then. >> actual not possible. >> but so an answer an ordinance requires us to approve. >> thank you i'm following precedent from the board of supervisors you're telling me it is different. >> i'm saying what we have before i guess the broad 5 different departments authorized to do workers of $25 million from interested parties that is

let's see a need and required code we exercise as possibly scrutiny but hard to do that we don't have the list of donors and why they're an interested party. but let me go to commissioner walton. >> thank you more i think what is different in the previous quo grant waiver and in supportive housing i supported it, you know, both actually supported that and approved but voted for that and that is including the department of homelessness and supportive housing that also is the departments fault to receive the waiver and a slight

difference that what is different similar to what chair preston mentioned it is necessary to conclude the commissioners airport i commissioners and again, that the scope of quite large and again, the spirit of that the behested payment waiver ordinance and as well as the regulation is to spot this potential opportunity or even the perception of pay to play beyond the city departments and inclusive of our airport commissioners which is kind of and stretch for me and so i'm trying to understand why the airport commissioners are included in this of this waiver i have a little bit of a

question and really about the zoom manager and about i'm happy to go on oh, better findings about the waiver it and the waiver specifically to the airport commissioner. >> yes. >> the president of the airport commission want to make sure a waiver is passed an. >> we included commissioners. >> commissioner you can't know was on the trip with us in china and the was excited to see real live panda bears and this is the first another clearing was on

the trip and want to be a participant and supervisors if you're uncomfortable with that i'm not expediting much from them in terms of fundraising that's fine. >> it's. >> (multiple voices.) >> and totally fine. >> but also i think that my question is self necessarily mean. >> i think understand /* understand and the- >> (multiple voices). >> excuse me - like to strike oewd or airport or you city administrator. >> just to be clear, i think that what i'm not in any way

trying to say whether that is one over the other but i'm trying to understand let me put that clearly that the dealing that the mayor has embarked on and a fo i'm trying to understand beyond my knowledge and how would you bring a panda bears to san francisco? i'm i'm trying to understand what that requires i'm simply asking questions not saying wondering or against it and that goes we learned recently in the report in the chronicle and - have seen in the

united states as possibly seems to have potential problems we can't verify but unfortunately, there are panda bears passed away and deceased in the united states so in case you do the right thing that and all the reason that san francisco needs to be thoughtful for the national - is san francisco zoo i heard an internal investigation is that true an investigation and when it will be complete and the results of investigation to share with the

public. thank you. >> sure a lot there periphery first let me thank you for the points of in itself a point of national pride with the chinese-american community and generously before any trip i didn't appreciate them the panda bears by seeing the pride they sunshine had appreciate was that panes to the san franciscans chinese-american and so at the for bringing that forward. as possibly to the important point about the readiness of the fade i think one of the questions you mentioned helps illustrate why i am confident and the mayor confident about the san francisco zoo you asked how does that work? so let me kind of take a couple of step with the

behested payment waiver ordinance start raising the people and what is happening as possibly we speak? littering had meetings yesterday and one tomorrow and the society people that run this people run the zoo are in the middle of negotiating the technical agreement it a document that, you know, i've been told more than one hundred pages long that details down to the fine point how much a animal curators are soirnd to the panda bears it is technical a document only will be approved not by the neighborhood but by the department of central

certificate of participation fevery of china and the china wildlife association and the china research interest for giant panda bears are the international experts there is no team in the world or united states know important about giant panda bears they're not going to sign off on an agreement not having a iron clad agreement but wait more once that technical agreement is done it will be done by the end of summer or early fail that document needs to be submitted to the wildlife service they are the equity that provides i'm not sure they provide whatever legal authorization to every zoo that

imports panda bears i'm sorry one level above to the previous agencies i tell you at an panda bears from ensdarsdz to one step above to care for panda bears they don't side request without the american logic association provides credentials and on top we have we didn't talk about this but we have a joint with the rec and park and our local san franciscans are going to have an opportunity to weigh in at the joint zoo community and number of safeguards to make

sure those giant panda bears will be cared for the panda bearss arrive in san francisco. >> is there a a current internal investigation. >> i read in the chronicle that is not being done by the city of san francisco or rec and park but i read the earlier they said it is done i'm assuming done by them i don't believe that has nothing to do with with animal care but staff and staff leadership i assume based on what i read in the chronicle. >> baseline when i read in the chronicle yes. i think that is the working safety save working environment for the workers and for the sake of the workers and the animals based on what i

gathered from the chronicle. >> the all american logic like society. >> safety. >> yeah. >> (multiple voices.) >> and in that isn't we're seeing by the fda? >> i'm sure a bureaucracy organ oversees the zoo but that document is pubically available and published in the regulatory and have a public comment where public comment gets to summit comments before the wildlife. >> i'm i think i'm definitely concerned, you know. thank you very much for the working walk you through the process i appreciate that is critical part of education to understand what

it takes and what is head of us i think for me again, you know, based on the real the reporting from the chronicle lies about some of the concerns i have about the additional zoo frankly i've not visited the zoo personally since the pandemic and so much more interested in many other spaces. but at the same time it is concerning about the condition and given the fact there is construction going on by floats and skyway and like merced and i'm trying to understand how that physically be able to accommodate and see the work is concerns about their current working conditions in the future and more. thank you very much. and thank you,

colleagues. >> thank you are supervisor chan. >> supervisor stefani. >> thank you chair preston i want to add a few remarks in terms of what and experienced in chinatown and i've been to the communities and talked to others people outside of san francisco how excited we are about that and that has given me, you know, a lot of reason to really look at how we make that happen and not only an incredible panda bears exhibit but good people want to get to san francisco and a myriad of positive ways to make our city incredible and people want to come here i think that panda bearss can do that and hoping and funding our zoo so it is world class zoo to look at as well and i hear different

comments about this resolution and other people's take on this, you know, i have to say nothing it black and white candidate maybe the panda bearss themselves and it is not impossible to have dollars for panda bearss supported by the dcyf and our children if we get into the mutually exclusive wars we can not this and that this is positive for san francisco and i think rather than play politics here i think we really need to society aside our differences and make that work for san francisco this resolution does that i think we, you know, should doing everything we can to really come together and figure out how we can not only

make that happen but looking at the policy and investing in the zoo a way to bring more people to san francisco and create a space where families can thrive and thoufrt can come and yet another thing in san francisco so much 40 to be approved in san francisco and another thing will make our city from. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor stefani and supervisor safai. >> thank you to the staff for saying you're in the mayor is willing to prioritize raising money for children that's my on point i'm opposed 100 percent going after panda bearss but a concept we literally have 6 or seven hundred people piers and

stress i don't talking about programs that were fund for thirty years not a one versus the other but i think we're talking about prioritization right now i think that is has to be conversation unfortunately, and it is not about politics but about saying we can do both glad to hear you say that is it is better to keep it separate i'm not trying to water down this but i would say and good point on the merits i - i don't think setting a presenter of commissioners to fund-raise is a good thing and commissioners are the ones that approve the majority of contracts and hard to separate the basis of corruption in the last number of

years i'm sure the departments and commissioners have seen that not a good thing it is fine for was city administrator but good to hear you all have learned on that (coughing) i very specific questions though. so when what is the anticipated time for the panda bearss to come can we i want to put that out there and mayor said multiple times months? i'd like to hear - i know in the resolution for 2025 the second thing the true costs $25 million but good to know if you don't have the questioning answer that's fine. >> i have to be careful but to go through the process of

negotiating and at the told us they expect that astonish the done in the summer. >> and sitting on the budget committee and from anywhere from 9 months to a year and a half what the cost of construction is and goes out to bid i'm sure you'll be coming back to ask us for a wafer waiver and it won't be rec and park the zoo does that that me to the next request where did the $25 million plus go. >> it is in the resolution and with the zoo sovereignty. >> can you point that to me.

>> supervisor we can't seem to find that i apologize we should make clear the zoo society apologize. >> so the zoo society is nonprofit in partnerships with rec and park is that right. >> they're the contractor did entity of the zoo and so. >> they and their board oversight on the funding and because of the work happening on city land and joint committee of rec and park you're saying not contracting will be merely their process public works and zoo society manages this facility.

>> okay.. okay. so i guess i'll say it will be will be helpful alternating supervisor i believe the contract has to be approved by the rec and park commission. >> (multiple voices). >> i defer to the city attorney's office i'm not sure but have the zoo society and commissioner ma goal is active. >> through the chair. can we have the city attorney weigh in on that? >> deputy city attorney ann i'm not familiar with rec and park policies respect to approve the contracts most commissions do approve them or large funds i'll mention approved by the commission but i'll have to look at their documents. >> okay. >> so it seems as though going

back to the behested payment waiver ordinance had an amount and put to money on reserve not enough money. >> (multiple voices.) >> and requests for city funds. >> no. >> so no requests for city fund and is there a join plan - upcoming for the remainder of conditions at the zoo? i mean. >> (multiple voices.) >> and broader discussions. >> supervisors we're challenges by the zoo society and the zoo has i'm not sure the exact day but in the last 90s one approval that set up this architecture with the zoological society and with the terms of that deal is probably the

zoological society they guarantee $4 million flat number every year and the dollar above that to operate the zoo the zoo has to fund that and didn't match $4 million in- >> (multiple voices). >> and no cpi in it is $4 million a year. >> so. >> that's a big deal for the city the zoological society is up for the fundraiser. >> i guess i'm asking an additional $10 million worth of deferred maintenance on top of the panda bears a conversation to expand and raise additional people or just going to be focused on panda bearss that- >> (multiple voices). >> a hard pill to shallow for people on the on the ground overall $4 million. >> if you follow the panda

bearss of the zoos not too many and supervisor safai this tifrnz the neighborhood to a major place. >> and that brings more revenue to the zoo. >> of course. >> and other elements of zoo. >> if you don't want to have the park situation and people show up and all another zoo were shut down the let me exhibit is not please vote. like you could go on and on and not a lot of it makes sense if you're fully diving in and gig to the process of getting why not add that? that would make sense to a smart amendment and on on the other hand, we wanted too narrow and wondering if i want to

expand this beyond the panda bears go for that. >> well, let's hear from smooven that represents the work of the zoo will be helpful and we can do that get information from the head of zoo and zoological society to get that that $10 million is easy to say address additional - so the zoo is - but anyway, i'm to stop and i'm going to turn it over to the committee members i'll say we or going to misunderstood with the resolution and with the mayor we love for you to come to the competent on the - raising money for children and families. >> i love that and love to entertain a discussion how we

can partner with that we need to change the legislation that allows the supervisors. >> let's do that. >> and happy. >> (multiple voices.) >> and you know, i don't thank you, supervisor stefani before public comment just additional questions i want to follow up in terms of timing of the mou in our packet is talks about sending a pair of panda bearss to san francisco in 2025. >> uh-huh. >> but is that we're talking about timing is the aspirational. >> given the scope of work the fundraiser work has to happen i'm trying to get a sense of 2 this. >> add admittedly that

technical agreement been done in the summer or early fall and that passes but i think i heard the clerk say that goes to the board approved by the mayor and i believe we can start fundraising in the summer while the technical agreement is worked out and over the course of the summer that technical agreement gets done sea submitted to the department of fish and wildlife it is 6 month that process and a minimum 90 days technical has to be published to the public and to the u.s. fish and wildlife and then that goes to all of that happens smaep and presentations made by the - they would to provide did panda bearss by spring or early summer of 2025

you know this is beyond our control that could impact that. way beyond our control and in the world of affairs section in the newspaper but that's the aspirational goal. >> got it. >> you talked about the costs are - my understanding ongoing license fee or charge annually. >> that is actually- >> (multiple voices). >> limit litter /* literally there are staff and food costs. >> (multiple voices.) >> what's the ongoing. >> (multiple voices.) >> is this strictly per capita. >> that continues to pay for

it ongoing. but. >> what's the lease cost annually. >> supervisor i don't know as possibly soon as possibly i get that i'll share that what that is done that's where we're say supervisor that costs x all the pines and capital to bring the panda bearss we have - and is that a waiting is that available to the capital investments or waiting for that technical to be able. >> i'm going of i'm sorry, i'm sorry we don't know the details told ball park but that's i should be careful why not to

minimize we spoke to washington, d.c. and we president & ceo to the atlanta and the other zoos hosted panda bearss and threats the number. >> got it. thank you. >> and to the issue that xhvrnld raised and objective we'll have to correct that in the resolution but can you tell me what - why are we fundraising into this nonprofit equity and in the to the city or created the best model where we create dedicated fund within the city that objective has a layer of control and reason that structure where all the funds good directly to that nonprofit? >> question believed that was

a constitutional place to go to the zoological society for all animal care and the oversight the zoo committee all the dollars have to be unare to go and supervisor more than happy if you got some sort of how to further document those department of human resources there's nothing to hide want to be an transparent and open with the dollars coming and going we left off. >> in terms of identifying the solicited and i think suggestions were departure if past resolutions we want to add

like the way the law is structured you generally don't know we don't know this is a what happened for the first hsh they were not planning to go the mayor's office for this and that donor by a feeling so many urgency need for he entering shelters the way the law sew structured allows that if you combrod and having meetings and more specific target like we have no idea; right? that is presented and then a vote what is different here; right? i don't know 100 percent on the other one i think that is apples and oranges were you know the target folks they're folks are expressing some are interested party we i don't know why this

is the layout and that's why it is important i don't think that is a big departure and a mid gone are supervisor you'll saying united airlines is a great example supervisor stefani said can be one heck of a good tourism contribution and this is the trade if we say apec owners and say shanghai city donors that is sufficient or do you actually want a - >> i envision attach and listed for exhibit a here's all the folks with other column that are what makes them interested party this is an example of conversation around the airport; right? i hear with supervisor

safai is saying about the commissioners, i appreciate your vote and sometimes with fundraising it is based on on a personal relationship and maybe and member of airport commission can get access if potential donors but again my level of discomfortable is from the airport /* airport commission negotiating with united airlines- >> (multiple voices). >> wouldn't expect them to but once we say here's the list of the folks and here's why they're interested parties; right? the airport commission is authorized to participate by not with respect by 5 interested party they're interested party because of their contracts with the

airport i'm suggesting we can do that but want a list of folks and what the nature of the contractural relationship with an interested party and see if there is any jaufrment we feed to make of the wait and happy to gave me further with you on that and supervisor chan. >> that is a question. i believe that for all the behested payment waiver ordinance typically is 6 months at a time and for the specific but that's really the rule isn't it. >> deputy city attorney that's right. >> so wanted to talk about the time of legislation and they is where only 6 months so- >> the resolution will not

have to wait thirty days before executive. >> got it. >> roughly 6 months so extension for waiver and then have to come back. >> absolutely last month, we approached and six months extension i fully expect to come back 6 months from now. >> that is for other conversation but you can come back and gives us a sense and report back on the donors. and yeah. and don't forget you'll have plenty of opportunities to review all the donations it has to be properly disclosed and all the mayor disclosed all the payments and interim if you want to set up a formal process for

this committee you'll have not have to bother with that we we're happy to do that two. >> thank you for the ethics commission for about publishing have the payment laws and all approved by the board timeframe a very good resource and impressed how that is up-to-date and before we go to public comment. and deputy city attorney, i just wanted you to weigh if on this question. sort of pulling requests around more specificity am and correct the resolution seeking a waiver to the extent it the respective

donors are known who will be solicited? >> that the interested party should be list listed as well as why they're interested parties here in resolution? >> is the section of the code are authorized the board we're proscribed the type of information that proves it and indicates the types of donors asked for donations or of the identity if they're known. >> yeah. >> i mean that is accurate. >> that's accurate. >> in the parties are interested they should be listed as possibly to why did i get it

right. >> (multiple voices). >> supervisor chan and this is interesting acknowledge because again really a very international endeavor and with the interested party is there any prohibition from the list of the city departments and including our airport commissioners prohibition for us to be informed. >> from foreign guest. >> i'm sorry not that i'm aware of a prosecution but i'll look at that and get back to you and you want to comment on venture to comment. >> that's not the first conversation but admittedly i never asked to it city attorney's office and the board and mayor's office are asking me

to research this. >> fair enough. >> i think that is i have to have a look you thank you supervisor chan and members of the public wishing to speak should line up by the windows, and all speakers have two minutes to speak. can the first speaker come forward? >> hello supervisor corey. i'm here to bring up the concerns of the workers of san francisco have with our current executive director tonya petersen and taken a vote of no confidence 10 years ago dealing with the death of a guerilla and not received or dealt with but the concerns are now around working conditions and deliberating under staffing and also for the

animals again is zoological society needs to meet with us we met with them last week and they hired someone we're hopeful changes that will be impacted but the works had concerns around the leadership of the current executive director tonya petersen and concerns that investing additional money will not address the concerns of zoo will not be addressed. >> thank you. >> thank you >> any additional public comment? >> more that concluded public comment. >> public comment is closed. (gavel) and colleagues i'm going to suggest that we continue this to

through the chair but hopefully we can work on and we can't do it quickly one i raised to did extent folks who are perspective donors here who we know or list those out along with the reason they're an interested party and that should be concluded in the resolution. second, is consider narrowing the number of departments i think you indicated - i'm reluctant to do that across the board because i want to make sure you have an opportunity for the relationships and particular folks may well a healthy department waiver makes sense

here i want to flag the concerns if there are um, mayor, we did have people fundraising who are not in leadership roles for the interested parties and seeking permit from that department i think we want to be more nuance on that once we see the list third we're in agreement to clarify where it goes in the amendment as well and then i heard and suggestion think i think i can gave me if did you have occasion offline but. >> citation about potentially broovlg i appreciate your effort too narrow and start out broadening by to the extent you have donors and some donors only care about panda bearss but donors are friends of zoo and

shame to feel like you're constrained to only talk about capital needs of fascinating panda bearss as opposed to to something broader those are the thing that happy to be in communication with you and also hear in colleagues eventually in committee we can't discuss offline but with supervisor safai and, yes first of all, thing the teamsters for coming out and lettuce know we know about the issues bringing panda bearss to san francisco i think obviously are addressing issues we feed to address that and i want to make sure, you know, in quest to continue this matter it is not a dwla tactics in terms of - i want us to come together

on this i think we need to do this and i was going to ask you shawn whether or not i had any ideas about the continuous and where you had in the thoughts potentially to start fundraising immediately. >> thank you, supervisor. thank you for that this is not going to be at the board unless tuesday june 4th that is we'll come back with hanging he's the one getting stuck with the list of all the donors and interested party we'll pride you with that well in advance we know where the people will go and the amendment you can probably make right now happy to have the conversation about evil capital needs either in public right now or later and limiting we can do

later or between june 1st, the request can you send this forward without a recommendation and let's work together between now and june figure out if you're not satisfied then what i'm concerned about the committee meets twice a month i don't want to get caught we need to start raising money right now and we can skewer all the questions in advance. >> thank you so i think those - i'm not for that those are amendments that need to be made not just getting external commitments but will be made shouldn't take that long so but depending on the nature once we have the list of folks and nuanceed - i don't think that is

a ready to move forward to the full board but just to resure you and supervisor stefani calendar that as early as possibly possible i don't think have any intention to slow down this. >> (multiple voices). >> when is our next meeting. >> first week of june. >> so i'm going to. >> (multiple voices.) >> and continue the item to the call of chair. >> if we continue it when will that be heard at the board. >> if we have the option at the next meeting of there is some kind of urgency we can calendar that and i don't know what the amendments will be and substantive join the city

attorney is ready to write amendments on the fly here in the committee on those he especially for the all the information we need. so but, yeah can either forwarded if there is a urgecy and so won't be heard until june 11th or june 18th at the full board. >> june 11th. >> are you committed to sending it to the full board. >> to the call of chair and get the information so we can for the record it. >> i want to see a commitment to get it daughter-in-law it is submitted can we - >> what i'm saying i think there's not lawful argument we need to get information and then discuss what the appropriate if

there are appropriate limits on what the waiver extends to. >> i think you're right not a lot of differences hashed them out pretty well and without positive recommendation forward will allow us to do that but and yes, but if i want a continuous theirs nothing i can do to stop it that's why i'm - >> thank you, sir. final word. >> yes a question i want to make sure i understand what the motion is through the chair and and continue to you're next meeting and i say continue to the call of chair didn't preclude hearing that at the next meeting but continue to the call of chair and use the

material we discussed and work together on an amendment. >> madam clerk on the motion to continue this to the call of chair and supervisor stefani, no. >> excuse me - >> supervisor chan, aye. >> chair preston, aye. >> and have two i and with an notice. >> thank you that motion passes. >> madam clerk, call items 4 though 10 for closed session. >> manning and richard manning v. city and county of san francisco; the lawsuit involves an alleged personal injury on a city sidewalk. (city filed on november 15, 2023, the claims involve a refund of gross

receipts and commercial rents taxes. (city attorney) >> and let's open up for public comment for the closed session i want public commenter to note my intention not to make a motion but to approve those without the feed for a closed session. that is my members of the public wishing to speak should line up by the windows, and all speakers have two minutes to speak. can the first speaker come forward? chair, appears no public comment. >> thank you, public comment is closed. (gavel) >> do we know who is joining us, we have a group of students looks like who is here? >> wonderful. >> welcome, everyone and your capturing the tail end of hearing but welcome to the city hall and government audit &

oversight committee would any of you like to move to continue closed session or procedure eloquently that? >> seeing needs i'd like to go ahead and move to forward items 4 through 10 to the full board with recommendation. >> on the motion to forward 4 to tone. >> supervisor stefani, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> chair preston, aye. >> i have three i's. >> motion passes. more any further business and no, that completes the agenda. >> thank you we're adjourned

>> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness,

seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission.

it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. [music] since the opening on third and mission in 2010 the grove is a epicenter. tis is part of the community. we bring tourist, we bring convention ears and have a huge group of locers who live here. we are their living room and love to see them on a regular basis and seek newcomers to the city of san francisco and serve them a good dose of san francisco hospitality. we make everything in house from scratch every dape we vahand carved [indiscernible]

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and dinner. community. >> hello, i'm iowa join the series for the city and county of san francisco for thirty years ago all san franciscans can watch their government in action to reliable service and program tuesday's sfgovtv for all you do and [music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3

settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans.

we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel

here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an

african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad

district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s

and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our

communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa

theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we

stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the

richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that

really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old.

the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]

[music] digital literacy is something severely lacking in our world today and it takes a lot to understand that. food water and shelter have basic necessities so long we forget about wifi and connection to the interenet and when you go into communities and realize peep ople are not able to load homework and talk to teachers and out of touch with the world. by providing the network and system we are able to allow them to keep up in the modern age. >> folks still were not served by internet throughout the city and tended to be low income people, people in affordable housing. people of

color and limited english and seniors, all those are high concentrations in affordable housing, so we thought given that we had a fiber network that stretched throughout the city reaching deep into neighborhoods that would be a perfect opportunity to address it in san francisco. >> the infrastructure the city and star help us run are dejtle programs. it played a critical role from the time we opened during covid till now so we were able to collaborate with online services that offer tutoring and school support. it also helped us be able to log the kids on for online school during covid, in addition to like, now that everybody has switched most of their curriculum online we can log kids on to the online homework, check grades in addition to helping parent learn how to use the

school system portm >> the office of digital equity our goal fiber to housing is insure we have all three legs of the 3 legged stool. the first leg is high quality internet connection. we liken the high quality internet connection to the highway. the second leg is high quality devices. this is the car. you want to make sure the specks on the car is up to speed and lastly, it is important to get kind of that driver's education to learn how to navigate the road, to know the signs to watch out for in terms of making sure you are school while you are surfing the internet it is private so that is the digital literacy piece. >> my daily life i need the internet just to do pretty much everything. the internet has taken so much control over people's daily lives

including myself that i just need it to get certain jobs done, i need it for my life. i need it. >> the program really seeks to where ever possible provide a service that's equivalent or higher speed and quality as the best commercial service . >> we serve all of san francisco, but we definitely have to be equitable in our distribution of services. that means everybody gets what they need to be successful. >> actually one of the most gratifying part of my work here at department of technology, it is really bringing city resources to address problems faced with our communities with the highest need. >> i think it is important because i grew up in a low income community without internet access and it is hard. i think it is important for everyone to have internet access no matter their income and maybe one day their kid

will have internet access for us and help the school and with their skills. >> good morning the meeting will come to order welcome to the may 15, 2024