April 25, 2012 Southeast Community Facility Commission
ADOPTED MINUTES
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY FACILITY COMMISSION
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 6:00 PM
1800 Oakdale Avenue, Alex Pitcher Community Room
San Francisco, CA 94124
1.0 CALL TO ORDER AND ANNOUNCEMENT
Commission President Kennedy called the Wednesday, April 25, 2012 meeting to order at 6:07 pm and announced the Sunshine Ordinance.
2.0 ROLL CALL
Lee Ann Prifti, Acting Commission Secretary called roll at 6:09 pm.
Commissioners Present: Willie B. Kennedy/ Karen Chung / Theo Ellington / Brigette R. LeBlanc / Al Norman
Absent: Bobbrie Brown/ Armina Brown
Staff Present: Toye Moses, Executive Director/ Francis Starr, Senior Assistant to the Director/ Lee Ann Prifti Acting Commission Secretary/ Brenda Jones, Community
Development Specialist External Affairs
3.0 CONSENT CALENDAR
Commission President Kennedy read the Consent Calendar.
3.1 PROPOSED ACTION
Commission President Willie B. Kennedy announced the April 12, 2012 Commission meeting minutes were not available.
Lee Ann Prifti, Acting Commission Secretary announced the audio recording of the meeting.
4.0 PUBLIC COMMENT & ANNOUNCEMENT OF TIME ALLOTMENT
Members of the public may address the commission up to three minutes on matters under the jurisdiction of the Commission that is not on today’s agenda.
5.0 COMMUNICATION
Lee Ann Prifti, Acting Commission Secretary announced the following:
Press Release: Mayor Lee & CPMC Announce Agreement to Rebuild Two of City’s Most Seismically Vulnerable Hospitals – St. Luke’s in the Mission and at Cathedral Hill
Press Release: Mayor Lee Celebrates San Francisco’s Composting Achievements
Press Release: San Francisco Receives $2.7 Million In Housing Vouchers For Formerly Homeless Veterans
Press Release: Mayor Lee Challenges San Franciscans to Pledge To Conserve Water
Press Release: Pier 36 Demolition Project Underway Making way For Construction Of New Brannan Street Wharf
Statement: Mayor Lee’s Statement on $1 Million Recapitalization of Small Business Revolving Loan Fund
Press Release: Mayor Lee Appoints Cecilia Chung & Belle Taylor-McGhee to the Health Commission
Press Release: Mayor Lee, SF Giants & Port of San Francisco Unveil Mission Rock Proposal
Press Release: Mayor Lee, Leader Pelosi & United Way of the Bay Area Announce San Francisco Summer Jobs + Initiative To Create 5,000 Summer Jobs for San Francisco Youth
Statement: Mayor Lee’s Statement on California High-Speed Rail
Press Release: Mayor Lee Highlights Emergency Preparedness to Mark 1906 Great Earthquake & Fire Anniversary
Statement: Mayor Lee’s Statement on California Homeowners Bill of Rights to Protect Families Against Foreclosures
Press Release: City Celebrates U.S. – Japan Cherry Blossom Centennial
Press Release: Mayor Lee Celebrates Opening Of DROPBOX Headquarters In South of Market Neighborhood
5.1 CORRESPONDENCE
Letter from the SECF Commission on support of the Black Coalition on AIDS
6.0 ANNOUNCEMENTS
Commission President Kennedy is changing the order of the evening’s Agenda format of topics and speakers to accommodate Dr. Burke’s advanced pregnancy and her ability to stand and speak for a lengthy discussion. Dr. Burke will be the first Presenter.
Commission President Willie B. Kennedy announced that the next meeting of the Southeast Facility Commission will be held on Thursday, May 10, 2012.
7.0 PRESENTERS
Commissioner President Kennedy introduced Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris, Center for Youth Wellness who spoke about the concerns regarding the location for the Center For Youth Wellness at 3450 – 3rd Street, Dr. Burke-Harris stated that this is a new wellness center that is being worked on to bring to the BVHP community, in partnership with two other organizations, The CPMC Bayview Child Health Center and the Children’s Advocacy Center, which is a coalition of City and County services to serve vulnerable children when there is an allegation of child maltreatment. The Center for Youth Wellness focuses on creating a one-stop shop for services which includes the medical services being provided by the clinic at the CPMC Baby Health Center, Mental Health Family Support, Wellness, Holistic Nutrition Education and Legal Advocacy. This is just bringing together lots of resources and support services to address some of the issues that we have seen as being major issues for the community, specifically, the fact that many ofthe kids are being exposed to high rates of household discord, community violence, domestic violence and this is really a singular one-stop health and wellness center to address these issues.
Specifically, as it relates to the building at 3450 – 3rd Street, it is a site that met all of our needs and met our budget. We did an extensive 2 year search and this was the best location we could find. Since then, there has been some community concern, specifically, around the proximity to the Sewage Treatment Plant and concerns that this might pose an environmental risk for the children that we are serving, and so as a result, we have convened an Ad-Hoc Committee. There was also a concern that there was not enough community input in our process as we were looking for buildings. We felt that we tried to reach out to many avenues and we worked with the Redevelopment Agency when it was in existence.
As a result we have convened an Ad-Hoc Committee of folks who are interested in participating in the process and offering a solution. They had a meeting to suggest alternative locations. They recommended the Coleman building where Pat Coleman has established services and they also expressed concern about investigating any environmental concerns. Members of our team went to Pat Coleman’s building and they did take a look with her team and her contractors. Unfortunately, it was found not to be a suitable site, because of the costs that it would take to build out the Coleman Center.
Essentially, we would have to demolish both buildings that are currently there, and build an entirely new building from the ground up. The estimated budget, in chatting with her contractors and doing a rough estimate, would be about $12.5 million dollars. Our budget is about $2-3 million dollars which could not meet our budgetary needs. We all agreed that the Coleman location did not make any sense and even that would be IF she let us use the land for free!
Dr. Tomas Aragon from the Department of Public Health came out to 3450- 3rd Street today and met with our team and we did a site visit. Our plan is to submit a list of questions which we will get in collaboration with the Ad-Hoc Committee and we will get our questions to DPH, and DPH along with the De3parment of the environment will respond to our questions and we can talk to the Ad-Hoc Committee and let them know what the environment evaluation is.
Commissioner Le Blanc inquired if parking would be eliminated on Quint Street, and what are the plans for parking? Katie Albright, Executive Director for the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, who is also partnering with Dr. Burke on this project, said when a train is coming mitigations for safety could be done for red-striping Quint Street. The project is NOT taking parking on Quint Street and it intends to direct patients and clients who come to the center to park in areas that are safe and appropriate in order to get to the Wellness Center.
Commissioner LeBlanc then asked about the zoning. She wanted to know what other businesses were there before and what was the zoning change, if any? Dr. Burke responded that the zoning is PDR 2, it is still zoned PDR 2. Dr. Burke says that it is very important for their Model to be able to re-locate the CMPC Baby/Child Center from its existing location on Evans St. to be part of this comprehensive one-stop wellness center. The plans would also enable the Clinic portion to double its size and increase the number of examining rooms to decrease the waiting time for patients and also to have all of these services in one place.
The uses we had proposed were already allowed under existing zoning and did not require us to re-zone. The reason for that was, if you were considered a social service organization and because there were previous social service organizations located there. They were grandfathered in to be allowed to use the space because it was a pre-existing use. In 2007, the CMPC Baby/Child was established in Evans Street, and in 2008, the zoning in India Basin was changed to disallow any clinic associated with a major medical center. If the CMPC Baby/Child Center had opened two years late, it would not have been allowed to open on that site.
Dr. Burke is talking about moving the clinic and expanding the square footage to be able to provide more service, but because the zoning had changed, the CMPC Baby/Child Center was unable to increase their space in the existing location or too move to be a part of the Wellness Center as we were hoping they would be. That was the reason why we had to change the Zoning. We asked for, and put through a changing of the Zoning that would allow a medical use even if it was part of major medical center up to an amount of 7.000 square feet. There is not going to anyone building a hospital, because maximum amount of square footage is 7,000 square feet which would simply allow the clinic to move and co-locate with other services.
Commissioner Karen Chung inquired about the goals for the children.
Dr. Burke said that in her work as a pediatrician she has come to understand that exposure to chronic stress, trauma, violence and household dysfunction is not only a major risk factor for child development, well-being, emotional health and mental health, but that it is literally a major risk-factor for their physical health as well and are more likely to have Asthma, and to have adult heart disease, emphysema, cancer.
In a chart review of 700 kids seen in the first two years of the Bayview Child Health Center 18% of kids suffered from Asthma, 67% had at least one adverse childhood experience and 12% had four or more adverse childhood experiences putting them at very high risk for learning and behavior problems at school, developmental problems and chronic health problems. Instead of having families trying travel to multiple locations which can be very difficult, she connected with CMPC and other agencies to come up with a one-stop Center with solutions and the cooperation of Katie Albright and SF Child Abuse Prevention Center to be able to bring City resources to a place where families can have access to prevention, education and to work with the school system so that a child does not have to be left behind and bring all these services under one roof, so families do not face the challenges of navigating the system, but can find everything they need in one location.
Commissioner Theo Ellington acknowledged that this process has been long and hard for Dr. Burke and these services are desperately needed in the Bayview particularly. He thanked her for her work in the BVHP and said that he is in total support of the project.
Dr. Burke said she has heard from hundreds of families who recognize there is a need to provide health services in BVHP. This work represents the families that they have worked with over time.
Espanola Jackson, community activist, spoke regarding the train which runs through twice a day. She said arsenic comes from the sewage plant and that there are 17 blocks more that belong to the Port of San Francisco which are toxic and why would adults and children be put into a toxic area? She feels that the BVHP was not notified about this zoning action until it was mentioned at the Land Use Committee. She will be contacting the Mayor’s Office since she believes a great deal of the area is toxic.
Dr. Burke responded by saying that she understands Ms. Jackson’s concerns and that is why she is connecting with Dr. Aragon and the Department of the Environment to separate what she hears and what the data demonstrates. Dr. Burke noted she is very respectful of Ms. Jackson’s concerns and the history of the community.
Lance Burton asked about the 700 person group study of Asthma and the criteria. Kamala Harris did a study of young homicide victims in San Francisco and 90% were high school dropouts. #1 was learning problems in school, being obese, exposed to abuse, neglect, violence, parent incarcerated, all issues that led to a 30% increase in a child struggling at school and her project has the opportunity to evaluate and intervene early. For her this represents a life-saving opportunity for the kids in BVHP.
California Pacific Medical Center is making the investment to double the size of the Bayview Child Healthcare Center. The Department of Public Health and the Partners of the Children’s Advocacy Center will be donating more than $11 million dollars of in-kind services over the next several years for this partnership and the Center for Youth Wellness is working on leveraging all of those resources to bring to bear over the next 5 years. The resources are worth about $40 million dollars.
Commission President Willie B. Kennedy advised that this issue is on the calendar for discussion and possible action. She asked if the Commission wished to act on it today with a letter from the Commission addressed to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors regarding the approved location for the Center for Youth Wellness at 3450 – 3rd Street. There is a motion by Commissioner Theo Ellington to approve the 3450 – 3rd Street location and send the letter to the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Karen Chung. Commissioner Al Norman opposed and Commissioner Bridget LeBlanc abstained. Commissioners Kennedy, Chung and Ellington voted Aye.
Commission President Willie B. Kennedy introduced the next Presenter Colin Dentel-Post, Transportation Planner, S.F. Transportation Authority who will update the Commission on the Quint Street Bridge Replacement and the Quint-Jerrold Connector Road. Mr. Post referred to the proposed Bayview Oakdale CalTrain Station which has a purpose to:
• Support Bayview Economic Development,
• Provide community transit access to Peninsula job centers
• Create a new community node with enhanced pedestrian access
A 2005 Engineering feasibility Study confirmed that the site can accommodate a station and the project has community support. A completed Ridership Study shows:
• Strong ridership expected: 5,000 trips/day.
• Riders include residents accessing Peninsula jobs and commute trips to Bayview.
• Study will be presented to Authority Board for approval in June.
The next steps will be:
• CalTrain System Impact Study to begin later this year.
• Evaluate Connector Road feasibility before selecting a bridge replacement option.
• Need for additional coordination with planned Produce Market project.
• Additional outreach needed.
In response:
• Delayed bridge decision, developed Connector road conceptual design.
• Coordinated design with Produce Market changes.
• Are conducting a second, more robust round of outreach.
There is also the wish to create a community node that provides access to local businesses here in the Bayview and provides access for community residents to have job access down the Peninsula and the job centers down the CalTrain Corridor along with pedestrian enhancements and a new center at that Station.
The bridge over Quint St. is over 100 years old and is in declining condition and needsto be replaced soon. They are looking into options to do that. Because the stationplatforms would need to physically extend across where the tracks cross over Quint Street, they need to look at how to accommodate that Station and at the same timemaintain local access through Quint Street making sure people in the community can get through and to the Station. The 3 options are:
• Option #1: To close Quint Street at the Bridge paired with a connector road
• Option #2: Replace that Bridge with a design like the new Jerrold Bridge which would fit into the available budget of $25 Million. The design of that Bridge would not, however, be able to accommodate platforms because of structural elements on the sides of the bridge that would block platforms
• Option #3: Would be to build a wider bridge that would accommodate Station platforms and allow you to go underneath and keep the existing Quint Street area open. Unfortunately, that would cost $35 Million dollars which is $10 million more than CalTrain is planning to spend.
If we are looking at Option #1, we need to be sure that the Connector Road idea will work to get people around a potential closure before we go forward making a decision which is a critical piece of the puzzle In response to community concerns, we have done a conceptual design for the Connector Road and it would run along the Union-Pacific right-of-way, alongside the existing CalTrain tracks and you would be able to use that to get up to Jerrold Street and cross over. The final design has not been completed.
They have done a second round of outreach at the Bayview Opera House, and worked with LeBlanc & Associates, churches, merchants, 4500 postcard mailing and neighborhood organizations, BVHP CAC and subcommittees, etc. The goal is for CalTrain and the City and Community to select an Option and design a Bridge Option, but also to go ahead on the Connector Road idea making sure that will work. These go hand in hand. Commission President Willie B. Kennedy inquired about the use of truckers and hiring people from the BVHP community be employed on these projects and that is very important to the community. First they design and then they put out a bid and the contract goes to the low bidder. She also advised that there are a lot of truckers in the Bayview and she knows they are going to need truckers to haul away debris from the demolition. There must be a clause on the contract about hiring people from the BVHP community. Mr. Dentel-Post also advised he has spoken to DPW about the Connector Road and they would likely do a contract and that would be subject to the City's local and business hiring policy.
Commission Chung inquired about the bidding date? For the Bridge once a decision is made on which option to replace the bridge, they would immediately go into design which has a 6-9 month timeframe, and then the Bid & Award process is about 6 months beyond that. They would be issuing a Bid in about one year from when the selection is made in June or July.
In conjunction with final design, if CalTrain were to go with the street closure option, the traffic patterns of all the local businesses would be taken into account and all accesses to local businesses would be maintained.
Mr. Dentel-Post advised that Parking will continue to be looked at for the Station, as they continue with planning and exploring other options for people to use to get to the Station, i.e. bicycles, re-routing to Muni service, with upgrades for pedestrian access and a variety of other modes. There will be significant parking demand, and they need to look at how to build structured parking, where they would go and if it could be in partnership with another adjacent land-use that might have parking needs. They will continue to look at parking as they work on the Station planning efforts.
Mr. Chris Watling, BVHP, resident inquired if the Connector Road would improve current access conditions from all directions. Can everybody do exactly what they can do today? Mr. Dentel-Post advised that in terms of turning movements, no. There would not be the left-turn on to Jerrold Street that some northbound drivers currently make.
Mr. Dentel-Post said the connector road is intended to work with a Bridge Option that would facilitate a future Station which is something CalTrain has heard that the Community wants. Mr. Watling stated that the proposed Station that doesn’t have ridership of 5,000 until the year 2030,and is that more important than the community’s access as it is today? Mr. Dentel-Post said that he is not making that judgment. He advised he is present at the Commission meeting today as part of community outreach to see how the community wants to sees these issues. If the community values preserving Quint Street exactly as it goes now, so that one can do every single turning movement and the 25% of northbound drivers can still make the left turn and even if it means building a Bridge that would add $35 Million dollars to a future station cost and make it harder to build a future station, that is something that they can hear, but what they have heard in the past and that they can confirm in their outreach is that people are excited about the idear of a Station, in general; as it is now, it has been a long planning effort, and they are trying to work for a solution that will facilitate a Station even if it is a future project. Mr. Watling said he lives within the half-mile radius and he did not receive any mailer regarding Quint Street and if it would be possible to put up some signage for other users of the underpass to alert those users and others who may not look at mailers?
Mr. Dentel-Post advised that their strategy has been to distribute information through a variety of outreach such as churches, merchants, neighborhood groups, mailing lists, even to people who might not get the half-mile mailer.
He said that they collect and distribute and oversee the Proposition K Sales Tax which is one potential source of funding, and they want to see what are all of their options They would make sure that the funding and feasibility of the Connector Road is absolutely possible and a “go ‘, before the Bridge comes down. The actual construction of the Connector Road and the construction of the Bridge timelines might happen at the same time, but that they are giving CalTrain the go-ahead to work on their design, and the bidding for the Bridge option, but that is under the assumption that they hold and the community holds BERM option would come with the Connector Road. They would not want that Bridge to come down unless they were absolutely certain that the Connector Road is workable in all respects.
Mr. Watling asked if the Transportation Authority isn’t making the Board of Supervisors decide in June or in two months? Mr. Dentel-Post advised that they are giving CalTrain the go-ahead from a policy perspective that the community and the city are choosing Option#1, in this case that would go with the BERM, so that decision would be made, at the end of the day. In June a decision will be made regarding a policy action to give CalTrain a direction which design option with which to go forward, which is not the same as a Board of Supervisors approval to close Quint Street. If the Connector Road does not work, then they might have to switch direction, but they do not anticipate this.
Commission President Kennedy notes that there are four more meetings for people to get their questions in before it goes to the full Transportation Authority Board. There is alot of time to get questions in and let them know exactly how residents feel.
Director Toye Moses inquired about sharing parking spaces from the SECF and the Transportation Authority is looking to building additional parking and if the SECF is interested in sharing future parking it would have nothing to do with the current 35 parking spaces at the SECF.
Commission President Willie B. Kennedy suggested that a notice of these Options could be put in PG&E bills which would reach many more people. The reason there would be no left turn onto Jerrold St. has to do with the Produce Market and visibility concerns.
8.0 PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Commission President Kenney described that the Memorandum of Understanding is still being worked up and that there is a committee meeting regularly to formulate that MOU. There are three different Draft Documents that they are sending to Deputy City Attorney, John Roddy, to look at, and to advise if they are within their legal rights. When this action is responded to, it will be sent to the SECF office to be given to each SECF Commission member as well as to the Ad-Hoc Committee members to make recommendations and ask questions.
A meeting with the Mayor’s Office staff emphasized the subject of JOBS as being of prime importance. Anything that comes before the commission and before the community must provide jobs. This means the SECF Commission must focus on thinking of jobs every time someone comes before the Commission to talk about doing anything in the BVHP community. The Hunters Point CAC had a meeting and since there is no long a PAC they decided to collaborate with each other and be the groups who will be working together to bring jobs to the Bayview. President Kennedy described this collaboration as the Hunters Point CAC will stay in their field which is the Shipyard and the SECFC will oversee and move to keep people advised and aware of issues that affect this community, the two Committees will share information with each other. This could make a stronger SECF Commission which is also the wish of the Mayor’s Office.
Director Toye Moses spoke about the community benefit, capital benefit, of the SFPUC and that they need to help guide them through it by working together with the SFPUC Commission. An invitation will be made to bring the SFPUC to a future SECF meeting for information and direction. Commissioner LeBlanc brought up the subject for scholarships and that they need to look at ways to create scholarship opportunities for residents of BVHP or 94124. President Kennedy advised that the MOU will address jobs and scholarships for people.
8.1 SPECIAL REPORT ON THE 9910 STATIONARY ENGINEER INTERN PROGRAM
No Report.
9.0 ADVISORY COMMITTEES REPORTS & UPDATES
Governance Ad-Hoc Committee (Chair, Willie B. Kennedy, Co-Chair, Brigette R. LeBlanc, Community Members: Alma Robinson, Kitty Morgan, Alternates: Dr. Harrison Parker, Greg Doxey)
No Report.
Joint PUC/SECFC Ad-Hoc Committee, (Chair, Theo Ellington, Co-Chair, Bobbrie Brown, PUC Representative, and Alternate: Commissioner Willie B. Kennedy)
No Report.
Health, Housing and Public Safety Advisory Committee, (Chair, Bobbrie Brown, Co-Chair, Theo Ellington, Community Members <see Commission Secretary for List> Alternate: Commissioner Willie B. Kennedy)
No Report.
Economic Development Advisory Committee (Chair, Karen Chung, Co-Chair, Al Norman, and Alternate: Commissioner Willie B. Kennedy)
No Report.
Facility Advisory Committee, (Chair, Willie B. Kennedy, Co-Chair, Brigette R. LeBlanc, and Member: Commissioner Al Norman, Alternate: Commissioner Armina Brown)
No Report.
10.0 STAFF/DIRECTOR REPORT
Director Toye Moses would like the SFPUC be invited to report on how they plan to provide funding for the CBO’s providing job services. Do they have to apply for job funding somewhere, or is the SFPUC providing the funding? Director Moses also reported on Security Issues with two car break-ins on April 24, 2012 and two car break-ins on April 25, 2012. The SFPUC will be addressing this issue also.
Dr. Moses advised that he has spoken to Phil Ginsberg, General Manager of the Recreation & Park Department to address the Commission and to advise of any jobs with Rec & Park.
11.0 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION STAFF REPORT & UPDATES
B.J. Jones, External Affairs, SFPUC, reported that there is a meeting April 26, 2012, with Dr. Toye Moses and the Asian Neighborhood Design regarding a plan to house emergency preparedness supplies in this facility.
12.0 NEW BUSINESS REQUESTS
Update of future presenters:
May 10, 2012, Alberto Vasquez, Senior Construction Manager, San Francisco Unified School District Bond Program, and Steve Kolm, Principal of K2A Architecture Interiors, Topic: Update on the new Willie L. Brown, Jr. Middle School
May 23, 2012, Judy Nemzoff, Community Art & Education Program Director, San Francisco Arts Commission
Topic: Bayview Opera House Renovation
June 27, 2012, Doris Padilla, MTA Community Liaison, San Francisco
Department of Emergency Management
Topic: Emergency Preparedness for the Southeast Community, Presentation and Panel Discussion
13.0 PUBLIC COMMENT
Al Yates, Vice President, of Southeast Campus Student Association. He requested a copy of the SFPUC Floor Plan Presentation from the joint Commission Meeting. B.J. Jones, External Affairs, SFPUC, will request a copy for Mr. Yates.
14.0 ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
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Lee Ann Prifti
Southeast Community Facility
Acting Commission Secretary
(Full audio recording available through sfgov.org/southeast community facility commission/agenda & minutes)
