>> san francisco public works commission. today is monday, may 13th, 2024 and it is 90:05 am. please call the roll. >> clerk: good morning, please respond with here or present. lauren post. >> here. >> chair post is present. gerald turner. >> here. >> commissioner turner is present. >> paul wolfer. >> present. >> commissioner wolfer is present. >> fady. >> present. >> fadi is present, with four members present, we do have quorum. public comment is take for all informational and action items on today's agenda to comment in-person.

>> you may also comment from outside of the chamber. using meeting id of 216661158708 and then to raise your hand to speak, press star-3 and the telephone log in information is available on pages 11 and 2 of today's agenda. commenters may speak up to 3 minutes per item and you'll receive a 30-second notice when your time is about to expire. in the event that we have many commenters on an item, the chair may reduce public comment to less than 3 minutes per person. unless you're speaking under general public comment, please

note you must limit the agenda. if commenters do not stay on topic, the chair may ask to you limit your comments to the agenda at hand. we ask that you refrain from the pro manity and hate language will not be admitted. public is always asked to submit public comment by he email or by mail. on behalf of the commission, we extend our thanks to the sf gov. tv and media services staff for helping make this meeting possible. chair post? >> thank you. before calling the next item, i would like to amend today's

agenda, would i like to move item 4b, the bureau of mapping and inspections software contract award from the consent calendar to regular calendar as our first business. i would like to move item 10 new business to our last item under the regular prior to our closed session so that staff and members of the public do not need to wait around until closed session. are my comments comfortable with the two amendments? thank you. if there are no other changes to the agenda, we will move on to the next item which is announcement business chair. is do have several, i would like to announce that commissioner saegle has stepped down, we ask for to provide citizen oversight to public works. we ask commissioner the very best in her pursuits going

forward. this leaves us with a vacant seat. we're hoping to fill these vacancies as quickly as possible. they're both mayoral appointments. it was a rewarding activities towards award ceremonies and other festivity recognizing the broad public service to the citizens of san francisco and the 11700 to improve the quality of life for all who live and visit here. i will let director short give a report on several weeks. in the news since our last meeting was a article describing public works out reach and enforcement team. professionals who educate the public about rules governing dumping and collection and enforce those policies and laws. this is a complex difficult job execute beside alien and hard working team.

the public works commission thanks the out reach and enforcement team for their dedication to keeping our city clean and safe and conducting the business sxz residents to do the same. on a similar topic, the commissioner received a letter from bay view citizen arounding the conditions surrounding an rv. le director short has sent somebody from the department to see how we can help remedy the situation. >> good morning, carla short, yes, we are in regular contact with the the resident who sent you the letter. we've gone through several walk throughs. it is a difficult spot with especially a lot of industrial areas, you don't have an adjacent owner who is there all the time. so it can be challenging but we

have teams who are regularly working to address the conditions.

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a candidate for this position as chair is appointed to the mayor, may see the application on the commission website and kkting the team and i'll share the specific document with all commissioners as well flt and i also have the report on the activity of the sanitation and streets commission, they have not met since the last time this commission met. but on next monday, may 20th, they will meet and hear a, performance measure report from the bureau street and environmental services as well as a report that was originally had its, had its start in a discussion in this commission and that's about trash can placement and my related dumping that has to do with that as well. so they'll be hearing some of those items at next week's commission and that concludes

that report. >> thank you, please open this item to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in-person on item 11, announcements by the chair, commissioners and secretary may line along the wall and if you're commenting press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star 3 on your phone to be recognized. noib has a approached to speak on this item in-person. and sf gov. tv is letting know that no call cer interest interested in speak on this item, that concludes that item. >> thank you, please call the next item. >> item 2 is director charla short is here to present and this is an informational item.

>> good morning, commissioners i hope you had a nice weekend with the weather warmer at times, today is pretty chilly examine the school year wrapping up, the city is start to go get busy again, with baseball games and community festivals and public works is often in the mix with additional cleaning, street inspection sxz permit work. i'm feeling optimistic about the city's continued come back and i hope you are too. i have a couple of cop ikz, i want to report on today. we had a wonderful public works week with students attending our houses, where students model cities and tested them on our shake table. and one is operation yard which allow students to participate in all the different trade work that we offer. we also had public giants night at the game and our annual award show and pin ceremony

which was well attended and well inspiring. and to recognize our hard working staff. later this morning, we'll be joeg the sfmt a at a ground breaking ceremony at the street escape project that aims to improve traffic safety in important corridor. a central component to the soma plan, planning for the street escape began a year later with open houses, a survey and over 100 meetings and groups. from second to 11th street and will be construct inside three phases, starting at the west end and moving east, construction is expect today wrap up in late 2026 and will include extensive improvement,

raised crosswalk, ada loading zones with wheelchair ramps, new lighting and street furniture, decorative crosswalk also upgraded storm water and utilities including landscaping to capture storm water run off. the roadway will be reconfigured to reduce the number of vehicular lanes known as a road diet which they hope will reduce from people who bike or walk as more inviting environment. sfmta lead the design and public works team is providing project management construction management and construction out reach throughout project delivery and carol wong is leading our team. last week for the first time post covid we held our

contractor events at the community center to reconnect with new partners and colleagues. local business staff from various departments came together to take in informative presentations on san francisco's economy and bond programs. learn about the processes and get to know each other. the event was drawn to enterprises which our local businesses that we want to lift up and support. we had table set up where contractors and local businesses can connect with with individual city department including rec and park and puc and mta and others to find out more about their projects and contracting needs. all told, we brought together about ten departments with public works playing organizer and hoefpts. these opportunities are vitally important for us as a department and for the city as

a whole to forge connection wz contractors and local businesses to provide services. also last week, public works joined mayor breed state representatives and housing develop inventories celebrate the top out, that marks building structural frames of a new affordable housing community. the development will include 170 the apartments and early childhood education center and health and wellness center and business opportunities at the site of the old sunnidale project at the southern edge of san francisco near mcclairen park construction is expected to be included next year. housing california and related california are helping lead the transformation with the site with the mayor's housing and housing authority. our role as public works is

through our infrastructure task force which helps structure such as treasure island, pier 70 and mission rock. while they hired their own engineers, our team oversees the infrastructure including the roadways and underground utilities, we also reviews and improved the subdivision maps and issue permits. all right, we're about halfway through as asian-american heritage month. to inform our staff by highlighting the history and ccs of aapi community this. annual initiative is the latest in latest of public works that are growing in participation and popularity.

i'm looking forward to the final weeks of heritage month and i want to thank our organizers for all of their great work. and i will wrap up today's report to let you know that we had a fun and productive beautification day. it was joe demaggio park. thanks to our urban teams as well as our community volunteers for coming out and cleaning up our streets. and that wraps up my report. thank you. >> thank you, director short. somebody who lives in the downtown neighborhood where tens of thousands of workers have benefited from the home improvement i, i really look forward to hearing more as of

the next phase, i know the neighborhoods from 11th, i think you said to second will benefit. it's a game changer as you described so that's great news. and that's under way. the contract of connection event is at annual event that we host. >> we are, we are look at what is the appropriate frequency it used to be held before covid, it was held quarterly. we agree na it needs to be held quarterly because so much more is available online, that's one of the benefits perhaps of the pandemic. so we are looking at problem biannual or annual to hold this event. >> it sounds like a great event i advocate that we hold it at least annually. i didn't know about it and it sounds like a great event for public works to host and take

credit for hosting. last in the new business agenda, i'll be asking for a presentation on the infrastructure, director short mentioned i would like to know more about that. so i'll mention that again, thank you director short. any other comments or questions for director short? please open to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in-person on item 2, the director's report may line up along the wall. if you're commenting from outside of the chamber, please the raise your hand or press star-3 tofu called in to make public comment. and no one has approached to speak on this item.

nobody has public comment, so that concludes the item. >> i did have some, there were several projects. i'm not sure, commissioner short if you have give us an update. this is a big dollar amount. i want to you remiepd us and the public what it is? i know that there are some deputy department managers in the audience, if they want to step up. i also wanted to know about the improvement projects, what the timing is. same thing on the 6th shelter kitchen renovation.

and just a little bit more. i'm not asking for detailed, just what is it? when rough cost if anybody knows, amorization, s m.p., sister reand mcclairen, director. >> ron alameida, director of building and city architect. i can speak to the potrero modernization. it's a innovative program, a team of our pms lead by tim kim is leading the effort, it's going to be a public private partnership. it's been in the works for a number of years now.

something we have not done at the city or at least at public works before. so it's been, primarily an engagement of figuring out how to improve on the mta bus yard while introducing additional housing, and that's where the partnership comes in. it's, gotten be advanced through this board of supervisors quite a bit. and working with mohcd as well. it's a little low a.typical to say here's the budget and here's the schedule. it's really an evolution of a partnership with the private developer. so a lot in terms of commercial terms and what have you. but it is, gaining good momentum and we've learned from

that in terms of, also looking at presidio yard in terms of variation on that development scheme or approach. so, much more to come on that topic, but, hopefully that's informed you enough. >> it does thank you. we look forward to learning more as we go long. so to--it's important to call these capital project becaused it demonstrates the breath of project management design, maintenance, service to the city, right. it's not as we all know, street cleaning. so perhaps again, the puc and homeless shelter and mcclairen just a couple of sentences on

what they are, that would be great. >> sure. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> okay, please call the next item on the agenda. >> item 3 is general public comment, which is for topics under the commission's mandate but not related on a specific item on today's agenda. members of the public who wish to make three-minute comment may line up along the wall. and if you're commenting from outside of the chamber, press star-3 on your phone to be recognized. it appears we do have a member wish to go speak. you'll have three minutes to speak and i ask that you, identify yourself and any organizational affiliation and you'll have a 30-second time when your time is about to

expire. >> speaker: i'm scott finy i'm a mission resident and i'm here, actually in conjunction with the new group that just launched calls gardens not barricades. we're here to talk about basically the problem with planter boxes on the sidewalk being abused to block the sidewalks as a response to encampments and things of that nature. as you all know, dwp had some guidelines from about ten years ago that governed planters on the sidewalk that are being revised with new guidelines under our love our neighborhoods program, and we were hopeful that this give an opportunity to essentially help protect and facilitate projects that are real amenities while doing something about the accessibility and damaging ones.

we're not getting answers from department staff on what is going into the guidelines. that does not seem to be out reach that does not seem to be happening. and we're concerned that, the new guidelines are essentially rather than controlling the abuses of planters going to give a blank check to them and i hope that's not the case. i hope that's not the intend but i'm just concerned that we're not going to be successful in keeping the goodwill, getting rid of the bad. and i want to show you some examples just in case it's obvious of what is going on. i have some visuals. >> sfgovtv, if you can use the projecters. >> as you can see, there is not a lot of space to get through.

this is on vanness these are blocking about half of the sidewalk. this is much more than there were tents there. so basically, what i would like to see is for the you know, the department to one start enforcing like that now, because they do violate the guidelines now and two commit to the guidelines such as--planters can't be fixed in place whether they require material, they cannot be over 36 inches wide and they allow a six-foot through way just to commit to rules like that and enforce them now while the new guidelines are being developed and also talk to us so we can get some guidelines that will keep the good and check the abuses. thank you.

>> we do have one caller, no more in-person. sfgogtv, if you can unmute the caller. and you'll be provided with a 30-second notice when time is about to expire. >> speaker: evan, i--within -- ~>> can you speak up a little bit please. >> speaker: sure, sorry, can you hear me better now. >> yes. >> speaker: i'm andy >> t. mccoy, i live in the mission down and i want to speak to the issue about the planters. and just think that i see our sidewalks it's where ever moves around, it's how we interact

with the city, adults, my friend's kids, all kinds of things going on. and these plant thaerz are popping up in my neighborhood are just they consume, as we just half the sidewalk, it makes it difficult to get around, it makes it difficult to get the parked cars, get to buses interact, to use the swaubz however we need to use them in the city. a sidewalk is more than just a thorough fair, and i would love to see these planters, their expansion minimized basically to the guidelines that the previous speaker mentioned, keeping their maximum width down the 36 inches and making sure that we maintain gaps between them so we can still have easy access to the streets and also these guidelines are enforced by the city to make

sure because, i keep seeing these things expand over the city. so me, they seem like a form of dumping, they're full of rocks and concrete in many cases. it's sort of garish, that's all. thank you. >> thank you, caller. and that is our last caller. so that concludes general public comment. >> thank you. the commission will follow-up with the staff on both of the speakers comments, i think they're very important and well said. please call the next item on the agenda. >> item 4 is the consent calendar, and given the changes, it only contains the

draft minutes of the public works commission meeting. and and item 4b will be heard as a first regular item after this, and i'm happy to take any questions or corrections for the minutes at this time. >> is there a motion to adopt the minutes from the prior meeting? thank you. there is no discussion please open this item to the public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make a public comment in order to approve the minutes in the consent calendar, may line up along the wall furthest from the door. and if you're commenting from the webinar, please prosecutor staff 3 to be recognized.

no members have come forward to speak on this item. but it does appear we do have one caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and we'll be provided with a 30-second notice so sfgovtv, please unmute the caller. >> speaker: hi, i'm taylor i was hoping to comment on the preitem but i was not recognized. >> i apologize that we missed. >> i'm fine with it. if it's permitted.

should with take this after the vote so this gentleman can speak on it? >> good morning, i think the speaker, we have the guidelines for the speaker, may speak on whatever topic speaker would like to address. >> now or should we finish consent calendar and reopen public comment so to speak or does it not matter. >> you can proceed as you wish. >> great thank you. let's take the dispense of the minutes and hear from the caller. >> so caller if you can hang on with a moment and come back to you in just one moment. there were no other callers. >> great, all in favor of

adopting the minutes from the previous meeting, please say aye or yes. >> aye. now before moving to the regular calendar. >> caller you'll have three minutes to speak and you'll be provided with a 30-second notice. >> i'm a glen park resident in district 5, i also want to follow-up about the neighborhood works that has been done and moving forward from a few months ago. dr. short, it was really nice to meet you for the memorial for the tragic crash that killed a family of four at the bus stop such a sad event.

i would like to share that i spent quite a lot of time with visually impaired san francisco resident. i myself am not visually impaired but more full aware of the people that are blind. one of the residents that i spent a lot of time, is completely blind and teacher who teaches visually impaired high school students at sf schools. when and a half --navigating the sidewalks when there are unexpected barricades like this planters on the sidewalk. so i emphasis the previous commenters, it's important that we build protections against

plant thaerz are meant to block the public space including keeping unhoused residents from being in the public space. and also disabling our communities in a abled communities are not quite aware of. so we must retain and enforce the 36 inch with these planters and the 6 foot through way. no appropriate public out reach about this new guidelines coming through the neighborhoods work. and there is more public process be made available by the residents may, may make

their way november gate--navigating with the planters and using the our sidewalks. and we would like to see dwp as guidelines as an excuse to not enforce the current guidelines. thank you. >> thank you, caller. that concludes now general public comment, that will be included in those comments. >> thank you very much. please call the first item on the regular calendar. >> so the first item on the regular calendar is item 4b which had been removed from the consent calendar and project manager bernie c, will be briefly discussing it. it's the clarity permitting and inspection software for the bureau of street use and mapping.

>> good morning, mr. c. just to be on the regular calendar, i had some questions that i will share with my colleagues right now. i had a question is, why it would take three years from pro curing the software. and i was just, i was a little nervous about being a full showser provider that we'll be completely dependent on this system, i understand it's a superior system. i just want to be sure that we're completely comfortable that there is a glitch and they will be responsive and things like that. and the vetting process that

lead to chosen that they provide the same software to other private businesses did we speak to ascertain the performance of their software and of other clients experiences any bugs or problems with it. i just want assurance, this is the only game in town and it's a unique package that we're fully confidence that we response to a face therefore other clients being satisfied. >> good morning, commissioners, i'm bernie c, i'm the personity manager of streets and mapping. the first question you asked why three years? our system is very complex. we identified over 65 processes that includes permits, inspections, mapping actions that we're going to track under this new system.

so, we're also talking about inter greating this system with our current pay systems as well as 311 and other gis system. so it's actually a very complicated system. when we first approached the vendor, they gave us a 18-month timeline, consensus between people who implemented systems before including dtis was that would be optimistic given the complexity of the system. the vendors said we can do it, we can do it and we said okay, we want to remind you it's a contract whether it takes 18 months or 2 years or 3 years, we guarantee the price of the contract and they acknowledge that and we're at, one of the

goals for our project, we want a system that works well for us and our sister agencies and the public. so we're not trying to rush a product in just so that we can say, we did it, we did it on time and then be debugging while we're trying to actually use it so. that's why it's taking as long as it is. your second question was about our vetting process. vetting process for the new permit system started in 2019. we commissioned a study through the tech marketplace, to see what software was vaubl and other agencies we're using. and then as well as our own needs assessment. and that, revealed that there were at least ten different products available on the market at the time. we interviewed 6 or different cities including the city of

los angeles, who else did we interview? to see what we were using as their permitting tools. a lost those communities and cities were using their own proprietary software which is what we have but we wanted to find something more available in general. one of the issues is developer is no longer employed by the department and so every time we make a change, there is no support or our i.t. does support it but they struggle to support and the software is no longer on staff. so, once you had that report done we had that as a basis for rfp and in 2021, we went to rfp

and embed five proposals that were submitted. we did a proposal review and of those 5, we selected 3 and gave them a demo script and they demoed. >> thank you very much, that's very helpful and reassuring as i said, my only other question would be with clarity, did we talk to any of their existing clients to make sure that the clients are satisfied? >> yes, we talked to a number of their references and checked or references and they got good reviews from everything as well as far as quality and their support. >> great, that's very reassuring, thank you very much for that explanation and i can

appreciate why it would take three years given the come flexity involved. commissioner zoubi. >> i read, and what i understand is the original contract and go directly to the software i'm looking at the we have a contract with dm venter inside technology and around, can we approve that at our level of commission level and how did that, rfp work. >> so the rfp that we issued was through marketplace. so that's it had not come to you before. there is a limitation within

the tech marketplace that the contractor duration is two years plus two years, i believe where the contract can no longer be modified but we can expend the funds. it's the way that their contracting is set up. what we're trying to do here is lock in with the vendor, the fee the licensing fee for the next 8 years with a two-why year possible extension. and we locked them into a price that has a 3 percent increase every year. so they can increase their fee, but we have their fee laid out therefore, we can assured what the price will be and they will come back to us after three or four years and say, our new pricing strategy now requires, you know, 25 percent increase in fees.

so we're trying to lock in a long term rate with the vendor. the way the tech marketplace works, is the vendors are pretty vetted. so inside is a pretty vetted vendor, with the city and county expedite the purchasing process but we do pay them a fee on top of the fee that was charged by clarity because they were passed through vendor at that point. so we thought it would be best to go with clarity and make that contract with them directly. >> we're canceling with vm technology. >> the inside contract will expire once the system is up and runing, they're just implementation contract. so they'll help us set up the software. but once the system is up and running, that contract expires.

>> so, so again, what i get is my simple way, so clarity is a software. >> correct. >> we have a contract to have a subscription and it's just an iment mrimentation vendor that is going to help us until 2025 and after that, they're out of the picture and we work directly with clarity? >> thank you. >> thank you. i'll move to award the contract for the permitting licensing agreement, is there a second? thank you. please open the motion to public comment. >> given the motion to approve

the pardon me, given the motion to approve the, the permitting and inspection license software license, will now take public comment, members of the public comment who wish to make this for 4b if you're here in person please approach along the wall furthest from the wall and you're commenting from outside of the chamber please press star-3 from your phone to be recognized. and no one has approached to speak on this item in-person. and sfgovtv is indicating we have no callers. that concludes the callers.

>> commissioner zoubi? >> yes, one more question. i did not know that we could waive participation. >> good morning, the sole source, there is an ability to sole source items purchased under certain conditions. so in this case, because nobody else other than clarity can provide their software, we provide the fee because there is no other company that qualifies. >> would the company questions that. >> i think it's the best that makes that request? >> sure. sure. the department can request the sole source waiver as it's

noted in the name, if there is only one company that can provide that service whether it's, the licensing for their own software clearly nobody can offer us licensing for nobody else's software. another example we have to get approvals from the state fire marshal, we cannot source that out, it staz to be the fire marshal. so the cases where there is one provider for the service rather than going through a competitive bid that will not result in any competitors we can request the sole source waiver but there are limited and we have to go through the checklist to know that they're in fact the sole source. i don't know if director robinson wanted to add. >> the only thing i want to add

is they're an extra chat. so that's the checks and balance that is in there. just wanted add that. even if departments want to do that, there are rules and policies that make sure that they're in deed followed. >> commissioner woolford. >> i was going to say this is standard practice when there are no other competitors. it's a streamline process. >> thank you, if there are no other discussions or questions, all in favor of the motion say aye or yes. >> aye. >> and the contract award is made and the resolution will be posted to our website. thank you for speaking to us on such short notice. secretary please call the next item. >> item 5 is capital project on the minnesota street escape

improvement and trent tiger will present this item and this is an informational item. >> hi, good morning, commissioners. i'm trent tiger project manager in the public works infrastructure group here to give you an update on the minnesota street project. so a little background on the contract, the contract is roughly about 22 million, and we're working with contractor ronen construction. this contract was funded through about five different sources, asec and through sfta prop k.

the location of the project is in district 10 in the dog match with work on minnesota street between 23 and 25th and on 23th from minnesota to tennessee. so a little bit more detail in a moment, but give a quick overview. with improvementds including new ada, and corner and street lighting, and new seating and associated works. so it's kind of the full package what we sometimes call complete streets. at this point, we have not extended the contract just showing where we're at. as i mentioned before, 100 calendar days so. jumping into the meat of this, i'm showing

here, the corner of 25th and minnesota street, at the northeast corner. this is a pretty representative example of the project. as you can see on the before slide, ends right at the property line, ramping down directly on to asphalt. you can see that there is no curb ramps, if you're visually impaired, you're left to fend for yourself. and then on the left side and the before picture, you can see a fair amount of planter boxes and a little bit of wall. public works had worked with the green benefit district to demo out that space to install that planted area. and i'll show a couple more photos that show that area. sxl work to go conduct a new

fold out. create shorter distances for pedestrians and slow vehicle speeds as you can imagine, the vehicles must slow down a little bit further. along we'll be installing with new curb ramps and this section will be repaved. so i'll show you the next couple of slides are the same corner but kind of progress as this is being constructed. you can see here on the left side, the entire corner asphalt has been completely demoed out, you can see the kind of quite bended framework which you use to pour out your concrete. so when, and then the photo on the right is also looking from the adjacent view point. you can see more form work where the asphalt used to be.

these two photos show the same corner, with the curb and gutter installed. you build the urban gutter and then you pour back, you'll see where you pour into the sidewalk itself. you can see also that the curb ramps are separated from that, there is additional that are in place and you will see that from the next slide. you can see that as a different concrete. one of the ada requirement is that they use visually concrete colors, so typically our sidewalks are lighter gray color, you'll see in other places specifically dark down, they use the sparkle where you have the sidewalk is dark and

the curb ramps are different color. so this is the new location, closer to 23rd traoet, the first photo is looking from the southeast corner of minnesota examine 13th. we worked with mt a to reconfigure some of the parking. as you can see imagine, as you can imagine, there were parking right up the against the building phase, still working with mta, we swapped not just this location but in advance to switch around the parallel parking to save as much parker as we could and create some space. you can see that there is some new soft, designating where the sidewalk should shift. and then in the photo on the right which is a just a progress photo. this location has not been complete thed yet or the progress is not really further

along but a new sidewalk will be installed wrapping around on to 23rd street down to tennessee street. along with the new sidewalk, we're installing new planters and new street trees. and then as 23rd corner we're installing a new corner fold out. you can see roughly in the both photos the street itself is in poor condition. overall the space, it's a very dog patch, pretty hard use so in a lot of cases, you have asphalt whenever there is any failure, rather than rehabilitating it from the ground up. this is another photo from the same location, prior to the sidewalk installed we're installing some new drainage, which will be up against the

curb line, it will go and then funnel into the sewer which is how you can see the trench going towards the middle of the street. the photo on the right is showing kind of an example of what i was just talking about, where there is some extra thick existing aus fault. you can see with that tape measure that it's over 18 mfpz thick. this area is pretty unredictable for this. every space has a nice unique depth to their asphalt. over 6 to 10 inches of concrete, concrete is a harder surface that creates a good spot for the aus fault and overall extends the life of the streets. but these streets are definitely not standard, where it's likely asphalt was just placed, at this point, you have

18 inches and our contractors have to allow to put new soil in and concrete base, so it's a little extra work that we could not foresee prior to getting into construction and really digging it up. this last location was 23rd straoerkts the photos are looking from the corner of minnesota look laog towards tennessee street, you can see on the left, that there is an existing sidewalk, but you can see where the car tire is, that there is no vertical curve, that does not meet our ada guidelines, you can imagine that if you're visually impaired, and so what we were doing is demo that out and replace thating with a new ada

sidewalk pouring out the concrete in that specific location. along with this, as i mentioned on the minnesota side, we're also planting new street trees. and then what makes this project a little bit more unique is the minnesota grove, the minnesota grove you can see as a representative example and i'll have a couple more photos, this is the street intersection, the photos are looking eastward. this is basically a community lead garden insleighsing --installation, the community seeing what was just debris and dirt piled up on the road they decide today make it into a garden, something unique and special. the original grove extends from 24th street to about two-thirds of the way towards 25th street.

in this project, i don't have construction, we phased that it was going to be the tail end where we're going to do a lot of infrastructure improvement. as part of this, we also worked with mta. one of the problem with the minnesota grove, it's a little overgrown, there is a retaining wall behind all of these plants. unfortunately, this retaining wall gets hit by cars and things and things like that so part of the project is constructional improvements so there is no failure. we also worked with mta, you can see that there is no parking and it used to be a two-way street to get into construction we did legislation to convert this into a one-way, just to make it safer. the grove, itself, jumps into the middle of the street.

this is another angle kind of closer to 25th street. there are the whole thing which you can see is kind of that metal sheeted building on the picture. so we're standing in the driveway, the original minnesota grove, is the picture on the left and then the picture on the right was the minnesota grove extension, in advance of the project just to demo out to install additional seeding. as you can see also in the two photos, there is no additional sidewalk. you can see what the path is made of decomposed granite looks like a dirt path, it works fairly well. photo is not ada compliant, you

would notice that somebody pushing a stroll error if there is any kind of rain or adverse weather, it would make it more difficult. we're going to replace with new ada compliant sidewalk that matches the theme of the grove. through that, we also work with the benefits of the design, through the whole phase, they're a pretty conduit to the community, as well as we met with the dna, made sure that we had eyes on the project prior to construction. these two photos are inside the original minnesota grove, you can see extremely lush with a variety of plants. you can see that decomposed around the edge. it's a beautiful unique space.

through this, as many of you know, our city standard is for a sidewalk to be six-feet wide. part of the project is there is some pinch points in there. we're going to have to expand and work with the community to expand into areas of plants that they were less concerned with or, at the 24th street end of the minnesota grove, at this corner, there is a nice little seating area, we're going to improve this space that meets ada compliants. you can see that it's from the minnesota grove path, there is two steps down, if you're in a wheelchair, that's not navigatable. so we'll be ramping that down with true slopes. as well inside of the seating area, you can see that it's lose gravel. the pavers have gaps in between

them so it's not navigatable, is to we're going to make it flush with the sidewalk as well as filling it in with pavers. that is the rest of the slides. we're open for questions on the project. thank you. >> thank you very much. i had had the pleasure of touring this project with you, it's an amazing little pocket in the area, i encourage everybody to go check out the minnesota grove and dog patch it's a beautiful community project. i was blown away actually. so thank you for that. it's going to be a huge improvement. you mentioned during the tour that there were some residents being taken away. how did you deal with the people, it was over whelmingly

support. most of our improvement are positive, these things are pretty universally loved items. the really own issue as i mentioned earlier when we were working with mta, this is both a commercial and residential area, it's heavily used lots of people coming in and out, and also the minnesota street project, art exhibit so they have a lot of influx of people. so they're pretty positive of everything we're going to do. the only aspect was overall parking changes. the issue was when you're constructing a bold out, there is less sidewalks to park on. other issues like that. we heard from mta and we tried to minimize what parking was going to be. as you know, they were passing

for daylighting, so the design of this was prior to that, which was just city policy at the time. so there were a couple of space that's were being lost and there was a couple of locations that we could not figure some of the design, the parallel versus perpendicular parking. it fits more cars per space but takes up more raid. and we were able to reconfigure that. that was only hiccup that we have, and we resulted pretty smoothly. >> yes, mr. peter, thanks for the presentation. for any of us that live and work in san francisco, san francisco is always evolving place. so the dog patch neighborhood which was largely industrial with residential has in the last 20 years had an extraordinary shift. you referred to the minister

street project as an art center also an incredible addition, work with the neighbors, design something that is sensitive and universal access and uplifting is an important gesture and the responsibility of public works, so i just wanted to commit public works and your team for doing a wonderful job. >> thank you. >> if there are no other questions or comments, we'll open up to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment in-person on item 5, capital project in the minnesota street escape, may line up along the wall from the door and if you're commenting outside of the chamber, please press the raise your hand in the webinar or star 3 to be recognized.

and no one has approached to speak in this item in-person. and as fgovtv is indicating we have nobody wishing to comment, so we will close public comment. >> one more question, the grove an amazing asset for dog patch and any of us who visit dog patch. how can this happen in other communities? other i realize that it's community driven. it seems such a great way to get more green spaces into the city so that people don't have to travel to a park that may not be near where they live. do you see anyway that public works can help advance these projects in the city? >> i speak to the best of my ability, i'm in the street

games group, the more standard, the streets as we can, to beautify and a lot of spaces, we work with puc to attention planters which you see at page street. and the more typical situation, some of my unique projects besides the minnesota street projects is potrero gateway, underneath the caltrans 101 which is a pretty blighted space, it's broken chain link fence and slope. it's near construction completion and with that, we addeded the community and pushed in and we're planting it with the community that were really want to prioritize was using locate at native plants that will help the environment, and much more helpful than a

typical mediterranean style. so those are a unique ones where we work the community but at the same time, caltrans permits, it's still, a public works kind of typical project in the scheme of things, outside of the rec and park situation. the minnesota grove, i don't have a good answer for you beinger it's such a unique space. where, they come in overnight and don't really tell anybody and eventually you don't get community support that you kind you cannot get much push back. i would have to differ to my colleagues in other ways that is something so extraordinary. and i think that you see if they're nice, but, the minnesota grove, i would not be

able to weigh in on too much. >> well thank you, and i appreciate the public works working to maintain as much as possible as well as make iting ada compliant and making the streets safer and more managable. thank you very much for your presentation today. >> thank you very much. director short? >> thank you. i would just take a opportunity to mention that we do engage with community groups all the time to improve other areas that are sort of similar that are sometimes unaccepted streets so they're unaccepted by the city for maintenance because they're steep or they were never built out as a street. i'll use the example of this weekend, there is been a community group that's been very active in adding native plants. to the chestnut step and one of

the way that's we engage with, we have community engagement team one of the way that we get to know neighbors is through neighborhood beautification day. they came out and got engaged and they said we want to improve with you. we're very open to improve open spaces in their neighborhoods and it does not have to be through a green benefit district although that is an added value, of course. so if anyone is interested who may be listening, you know, they can contact us in our community engagement team would be very happy to try to work with them. >> thank you. all right, please call the next item, on the agenda. >> item 6 is the castro station elevator renovation and jaim chan will present this item and it's an informational item.

>> good morning, everybody. good morning, everybody. hi carla. commissioners, chair post, nice to see you again. my name is jane chan, i'm a project architect with bureau of architecture. and i'm here to present the

capital project. the project is under way, we're at 30 5-day after ndp and we're about 35 percent at this point. and most completed items, you cannot see if you go to the at this point. because everything has been below grade. but i'm happy to announce that we're going go above grade, concrete is going to be poured in about three to four weeks and we're in the process of, application for the over structure. okay. i want to go over a couple of things about the project, so the project was awarded in the january 2023, nt p took a few

months and we didn't start the project under early fall. and part of the reason is that we were in coordination with the community as you know, castro, the neighborhood, very busy neighborhood. so there were a few planned activities that summer and we were asked by the community to delay, start of construction by a little bit, and hoping to catch up later. so we didn't really start mobilizing and setting up the site until early fall. which you know, unfortunately, kind of pushes the some of the construction activity especially the below grade activities until the winter. and this past winter has been pretty wet. we had about 42 calendar days

arraigned delayed for this project. and with that said, some of the activities were pushed back even further. at this point, we're looking at, you know, a delay about 90 days, the reason i have 120 days there, you know, we're thinking that there may be some additional delays in the near future. so, let's see, i could, i'll give you guys a little bit more details on what the other delays that causing the duration extension. so going back to a little bit about the project, the project is located at the castro station. it is on the, is southside of market street between castro

and callingwood and the cross street is 14 street. so the project is on the southside of the station with the station being under growth below market street. and the scope of work overview is as i mentioned we're adding a new elevator, the new elevator is actually, part of a system wide mta improvement at all the sub stations. mta has been improving their elevators, escalator, way finding signage all over their subway station. so at castro, we're adding a four-stop elevator and the elevator stop at the market

street level which is the, the image to the left. and also, it stops at castro street level which is, the middle portion of the pathway. so if you're walking between the entry, the stairway entry point to the station and also the planters, there is a pathway in between and that's the castro street level. and then we have two other levels down below one that is become worse and one in bound level. so these are the two slides at the on right hand side. so the project overview, includes not just adding an elevator but also site improvements. so the, the area around the elevators has an existing

walkway that was put in around the same time when the elevator, when the station was actually constructed, station was designed when it was finally opened in 1980, most of the site improvements were in place, at that point. so nothing had changed since that time. and some of the existing design features are either out dating or they do not meet current accessibility guidelines. so part of the reasons that we're repaving the pathways that leads to the elevator is to correct the cross loads. and i know chair post, you had asked me a question, about cross slopes. and the slopes that is

perpendicular to the cross slopes. so you can imagine that, it makes people with challenges very difficult and wheelchair very difficult. so we're correcting that to all under 2 percent at all the locations at sites. and we're also replacing, some of the street lights as the castro street level, so there is four street lights along the guardrail at the plaza and those would be replaced with high output led lighting. and a couple of other site improvement, we're widening and aligning a portion along market street and we're also adding a

new sidewalk, and--i'm sorry, we're also going to be adding a new crosswalk and also, the crossroad ramps at the crosswalks. one of the things that i want today mention, in addition, there is also another project that has been on going for probably about 4 to 5 years now. that's the redesign and that plaza, the plaza have been under way and our office have been in coordination with the design from the get go, as well as with the community group that is behind the plaza redesign. and we actually had a meeting on a regular basis, i have been

the main contact with the design team so. whenever they have question, i'm usually the one getting the questions. so we've been in coordination, we've gone with some of their coordination meetings. we also share the model so they can use that as their background and the agreements for this project for the coordination between the project is to use our project design as what we would call existing conditions, so they will have to design around the existing conditions of the elevator project. if you know the elevator projects will be completed by next year and the harvey milk plaza. if all goes well it's going to be a few years out. so as i mentioned, we have had

some schedule delays and at this point, we're looking at 90 days, but it could be a little bit longer. the original completion target, was going to be february of next year. but right now, we're looking at probably a early summer completion so we're looking at 3 to 4 months out. and part of that as i mentioned before, have been, now know, just scheduled push back in terms of when we started the project. and also we had some challenges in terms of rain days and some unforeseen site conditions. so one of the unforeseen site conditions was that once we started doing, rough grading and excavation, we found high

beams that were part of the ensuring system with the construction of the elevators. these i beams were buried 10 their 14 feet below grade. which was something that we did not account for. at the discovery of these high beams, we reevaluated our design. luckily, they were mostly out of the way of the elevator footprint. so we have to make some minor adjustments and also we did not change the footprint location of the elevator. but it's really more with working at some of the challenges of the conditions that are pushing our schedules further back. i will tell you, to about early

2024, it does not look like we've done a lot. this is as i mentioned, a lot of construction worker happened below grade. and one thing i forgot to mention earlier, at the station, actually built by bart back in the 1970s, 80s and then, ashley the ownership of the station is bart. so we coordinate, we've been coordinating with them from the get go of the project and we have gotten their permit to build at the station. and we also have to have bart come over at every mild stone of the project. so they didn't, in a sense our, i don't want to say site inspect or --inspector, to inspect the project.

we had also done, you know, a lot of, degrading. as you can see on the slide to the left hand side, you can see the excavater has come all the way down from the elevator foundation level. so you know, and the site, the, the area around the site there is not a lot of space to move around. sol it took everything, it makes, it makes construction coordination and makes overall, impact of construction a lot slower. this was expected and the contractor did build that into their overall schedule. but one thing that we did not expect is how slow the micro

power installation took. so for this project, we have a total of 43 micro in a small footprint. the footprint tower itself is about 13 by 14 and the tunnel is about 10-foot wide by 20 but of all that area, we have a total of 43, and when we started installing the micro house, given the site complaint, and also overhead clearance, we were basically at a average of one pile per day. so it, again, elongated the overall installation process. but they're all, as you can see, okay. and from early 2024 to now, we had encountered a lot of rain.

and this is during the towards the end of the micro power installation. we also have to do some under pinning work at the two large columns that is right adjacent. under pinning, and also starting showinger installation, all of that took place in the rain at least the first two months of the year. so it, it slowed things down, but we vent actually we got it done. and you can see here in the two slides, the showinger was installed. and once showinger was installed, we started to move a lot master and we started to put in the mud slap. water proofing is coming in last week and this week and starting in a couple of weeks, we're going to keep pouring.

another couple of slides is the completion. going back a little bit, just chair post, you had questioned or wanted me to address the questions about the design. so the design of the elevator is a four-stop elevator. it goes from market street to castro street. so you can see the entry point as market street entry and about 8 feet down is castro. so it's a half stop between market and castro. the elevator cap itself, has two doors on opposite side. so you're able to access two sides. and then it goes down to the lower plaza concourse level and

another stop down to the platform level. so the exposed portion is about 40-feet tall and another 15 feet that you don't see down below. the, the elevator itself is, the cap itself has glass on three sides. and the elevator tower has glass on four sides. and the reason is, we had a lot of expressions from the public as well as from mta, the requests had always been can we make the elevators safer? part of that is when elevators door closed, you don't know what is going on inside. in this case, the elevator is transparent, so everybody will be able to actually city inside. and in terms of the treatment to the glass, we have a self

cleaning nano coating on the service of the elevator tower. and we have additional anti gra ffiti on the coating. that's it any questions? >> thank you very very much. very informative update on this project which we saw when you first brought it to us. just a couple of things, i was happy to swear that the harvey milk, this will be an existing decision.

if you've seen them already, being disfigured, it's a disaster. so and is the glass that you described for the elevator, is it stronger that would not lend itself to be vandalized. >> that's a good question, and i've seen the vandalized services at some of the bart station. our glass has the same nano coating as the bart station glass. when we were designing this project, we reached out to the bart designers and asked them what they're going to be planned--what they planned to use for their projects? so in this case, you know, i

feel like we have a, slightly different situation. we're also adding an additional coat of anti gra tee --graffiti and it has anti acid attack property to it. however, i understand a lot of the bart station glass has been attacked not only with magic markers but acid. the product that we are using have some protection property to it. however, it does require somebody to clean it upright away, because when acid sits on any kind of surface, no matter how thick the coating, it's going to destroy the surface.

so mta is aware of this and they are committed to have folks coming out to clean, you know, any kind of acid attack to the surface and hopefully we can take care of it before it damages further. >> thank you. i mean, you can only do what you can do. i would hate to see your beautiful elevator defaced but we hope for the best. >> thanks for the presentation jane. i've been the development of this elevator for nearly 8 years on my second commission. and i understand the reason for the extension but we're all looking forward to its opening and it's going to be a handsome addition. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> commissioner turner.

, i have to echo your sentiment. i was the complexity of that what they were doing at laguna honda. and it does take time, things do happen but the complexity in a multiple of partners even partners who can expect themselves don't have to be scheduled or others, i'm thankful and remindings folks that this is one of our other gate ways in the city seen by so many people every single day, let alone by parade and others. i'm grateful for the complexity and really the ability to navigate some of the most complex project really in the project. >> thank you. here, here. if there are no other further comments or questions.

we'll open to public comment. >> if anyone wants to make a three-minute comment, may line up against the wall from the door, and if you're commenting from outside of the chamber, please press the raise your hand button or star-3 on your phone to be recognized. and we do not have any in-person commenters and as sfgovte is saying that we don't have in phone callers, so that concludes this item. >> thank you. i think it's great that we can hear about how these projects are doing a year or so after we've approved the contracts. please call the next item on the agenda. >> the next agenda on the item is agenda is new business, and this was originally going to be item 10 but being heard as item

7 and new business is an opportunity to suggest business for a future agenda and there is an informational item. >> thank you. as i mentioned earlier, i'll work with secretary fuller, if none of my colleagues have an object jebsing --objection, if we can have a presentation. are there any other request for new business before we open this up to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make three minutes of business on new business initialed bay commissioners may line up along the wow. and if you're commenting from outside of the chamber, please press star-3 on raise your hand on your webinar or phone. and nobody has asked to speak

on this item and we do have not any person on the phone. so this concludes. >> the commission next meet will be on a friday, may 31. but those who want to check out since we'll closed session, we don't anticipate any public business after that change. please call the next item. >> item 7 is the conference with legal council regarding existing litigation and deputy city attorney's christopher tom and deputy city attorney kevin murphy will meet in closed session with the commission for this item. the commission will need a motion and vote to enter closed session. we ask that all public aside

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i will be missing that meeting and the first meeting in june, i leave you in the capable hands of vice chair zaubi. >> may i bring my gavel. >> we are now adjourned. ...by.

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>> alright. good morning. my name is ann, ceo for nor cal affordable at related and i'm joined here at the podium by doug, the president of mercy housing california and it is our honor to welcome you all here to the topping out ceremony for sunnydale 3a and 3b. thank you all for coming. [applause] we are so happy to have everyone here to celebrate. it is a big crowd, very exciting and we are also honored to have such distinguished speakers with us today. we will soon be joined by mayor breed, we have senator scott wiener, supervisor walton, dr. tonia,