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Southeast
Community Facility Commission
M I N U T E S
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2001
6:00 P.M.
1800 Oakdale Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94124
I. Call to Order:
Commission President Millard Larkin called the Thursday, July 12, 2001 meeting to order at 6:41 p.m. in the Alex L. Pitcher Community Room at 1800 Oakdale Ave.
III. Roll Call:
Present: Commissioner Bobbrie Brown
Commissioner Heidi Hardin
Commissioner Millard Larkin II
Commissioner Malik Looper
Not Present Commissioner Enola Maxwell
Commissioner Kim Nguyen
Commissioner Atiliai Tofaeono
Staff Present: Robert Bryan, Dep. City Attorney; Toye Moses, and Exec. Dir.,
SECF; Kathy Basconcillo, SECF Commission Secretary; Jenny Yoo,
Clerical Asst.
IV. Approval of Minutes:
Commissioner Looper moved and Commissioner Hardin seconded to accept the minutes of Thursday, June 14, 2001 with minor corrections. Motion passed.
V. Public Comment: No public comment was offered at this meeting.
VI. Communications:
a) Overview of the Laws Governing the Conduct of Public Officials (5/25/01 Ed.)
b) Change in MUNI service to SOMA brochure;
c) Millennium Occupational Medicine (MOM thru St. Lukes @ Bayview) Grand Opening Celebration Announcement, and newsletter;
d) DPT/Traffic Engineering Dept.: "Traffic Calming" brochure.
Commissioner Looper requested a summary of the changes to the ‘Overview' from the City Attorney's office if/when available.
VII. Director's Report:
a) The HVAC Energy Conservation and Upgrade Project is basically complete;
b) The ADA handicap access to the parking area project is still incomplete; met with DPW/BBR and WPC Engineering re: replacement of parking lot sidewalk.
c) Budget requests have progressed to Board of Supervisor Finance Committee with General Fund (E.P. Mills) budget increased by $100K;
d) Staff is still working on getting crime statistics (from the Bayview Police Station) in the areas of the neighborhood where we have tenant programs;
e) Commission website update project is progressing; 2000 and 2001 agendas and minutes will appear on website after staff goes for training;
f) YO!SF suggested accessing job descriptions from their website: www.picsf.org;
g) George Smith, Director of the Mayor's Office on Homelessness confirms receipt of the Southeast Community Facility Commission's letter requesting statistics on the homeless in San Francisco; no response has yet been received.
h) Executive Director will be on vacation/out of office between Mon. July 16 thru Fri. July 20 returning to the office on Mon. July 23.
Commissioner Looper asked for there to be tighter security around the perimeter of the ADA upgrade project especially the unpaved areas. He also inquired about the possibility of projected completion dates on projects at the Facility.
Commissioner Hardin moved and Commissioner Brown seconded to accept the Director's Report. Motion passed.
VIII. Presentation: Commissioner Larkin welcomed and introduced Mr. Don Capobres of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Mr. Don Capobres stated that about seven (7) months ago he took over Mr. Byron Rhett's responsibility as Project Manager of the Shipyard when Mr. Rhett left to become Planning Director at the Port of San Francisco.
There have been many developments over the last couple of months since the publication of the Preliminary Concept Plan for the Redevelopment of the Hunter's Point Shipyard. The main focus has been the Navy's clean-up of toxins at the
Shipyard in a schedule designated in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed in Nov. 2000 by the Navy and the City. It was anticipated that by parcel and within the time outlined each areas would be cleaned-up and ready for conveyance (to the City): Parcel A (mainly housing and never designated part of the SuperFund site) around Feb./March 2001; Parcel B during the summer (July/Aug.) 2001; Parcels C & D by the summer (July/Aug.) of 2003, and Parcels E & F (land underwater) some time after (TBD). The MOA also specified that the Navy would put out a fixed contract in the amount of $120M (about 1/3 of the total federal expenditure for clean-up sites) to clean-up parcels of C&D.
However several issues have arisen contributing to the non-conformity to the MOA:
Regarding Parcel B, compounds from Navy operations found in the ground and ground water have expanded further that a first thought. Several Supervisors are now taking a closer look at different aspects of ecological reports.
Then in March of this year 13K gallons of Potassium Magnate (cleaning solution) spilled into the Bay; followed by a series of articles in the San Francisco Weekly on the radiological history of the Shipyard raised levels of discussion in the Community leading to City legislation (Prop. P) calling for unrestricted clean-up and use of the Shipyard.
Next, on June 4th, the Navy discovered elevated levels of radiological sand grit on Parcel B. This information was not disclosed to the public, nor the clean-up workers on the site.
All of this has lead to the current City policy (Mayor's office and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency) is not to accept any land segments (no parcels will be conveyed) until all these questions of what's out there is answered and signed off by everyone/all parties concerned.
Last October the contract with Lennar/BVHP as primary developers was extended to include 1) Conceptual Framework and Terms sheet by June 1, 2001 and 2) develop the position of Technical Advisor to come aboard by August of 2001.
The Executive Director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency left to run for City Attorney and has been replace by the Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing, Marcia Rosen.
After a few more questions and answers from the Commission, Mr. Capobres stated that he would like to return to update the Commission in the next few months.
X. Old and On-going Business - Commissioner Larkin announced that he would begin appointment of the Southeast Community Facility Commissioners to the Commission Committees at the next regularly scheduled Commission meeting when all SECF Commissioners are present.
XI. Introduction of New Business - Invitation of Mr. Myles Stevens, President of San Francisco Black Chamber of Commerce - continuation of Urban Economic Development Corp. (UEDC) services.
XII. Adjournment:
Commissioner Hardin moved and Commissioner Looper seconded to adjourn the SECFCommission meeting at 7:36 p.m.
Respectfully submitted: _________________________
(Commission Secretary)
