ADOPTED MINUTES

SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY FACILITY COMMISSION

1800 Oakdale Avenue, Alex Pitcher Jr., Community Room

San Francisco, CA  94124

 

 

 

Chairperson Karen Chung called the Wednesday, January 28, 2014 meeting to order at 6:05 p.m. 

 

Commission Secretary Carla Vaughn read the Mission Statement and called the Roll.

 

Commissioners Present: Karen Chung/ LaVaughn King/ Bobbrie Brown/ Janine Greer/ Brigette LeBlanc/ Al Norman/ Eddy Zheng

 

Staff Present: Toye Moses, Executive Director (lv. 6:25 p.m.)/ Carla Vaughn, Commission Secretary/ Mary Holing, Deputy City Attorney

 

 

 

Commission Secretary Carla Vaughn read the Sunshine Ordinance and Audio Recording Policy.

 

 

3.0     ADOPTION OF MINUTES
 

 

 

Commissioner LaVaughn King moved to adopt the commission meeting minutes of Wednesday, January 14, 2014 as submitted.

 

Commissioner Eddy Zheng provided the second for the motion.

 

The minutes of the January 14, 2014 commission meeting were adopted as submitted.

 

Commission Secretary Carla Vaughn read the Public Comment rules. 
 

 

 

Chairperson Karen Chung invited the public to comment.  There was no public comment.

 

 

 

Ms. Carla Vaughn, Commission Secretary announced the communication, correspondence and announcement files:

 

Press Release: Mayor Lee Outlines Shared Prosperity Agenda in 2015 State of the City Address

Statement: Mayor Lee’s Statement on Free Muni for Low Income Seniors & Disabled Riders

Statement: Mayor Lee’s Statement on President Obama’s State Of The Union Address

Statement: Mayor Lee’s Statement on SF Unemployment Rate Dropping to Record Low 3.8 Percent

Press Release: Mayor Lee & Board President Breed Announce San Francisco Exceeds Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goal
 

 

 

Letter of invitation Ms. Aragon & Ms. Buendia, SFPUC representative and CAC members, respectively, to attend an upcoming SECFC meeting and introduce the SFPUC CAC to the Commission.

 

Letter of invitation to the San Francisco Junior 49’rs is on-going.

 

 

 

-The next meeting of the Southeast Community Facility Commission will be Wednesday February 11, 2015.

-UCSF Mission Bay will be opening this weekend and transporting patients from their Parnassus and Mt. Zion hospitals to the new facility on Sunday, February 1st.

 

 

 

Governance-Facility Advisory Committee, (Interim-Chair, Commissioner Brigette LeBlanc, Commission Member, Commissioner Karen Chung, Commissioner LaVaughn King, Community Members, James Autry, Greg Doxey, Dr. Espanola Jackson,  Siri Datta Khalsa,  Alma Robinson,  Robert Woods)

 

Commissioner Brigette LeBlanc, Interim-Chair said the next meeting of the Governance-Facility Advisory Committee would be scheduled soon.

 

Health, Housing and Public Safety Advisory Committee, (Chair, Commissioner LaVaughn King, Commission Member, Commissioner Janine Greer, Alternate, Commissioner Karen Chung, Community Members, Dan Goldman, Michele Davis, Veronica Shepard, Lyslynn LaCoste, Harrison Parker, Onika Shabazz)

 

Commissioner LaVaughn King, Chair of the Health, Housing and Public Safety Advisory Committee announced the 2015 Health Fair would be held on Saturday, October 3rd from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Alex Pitcher, Jr. Community Room.

 

The next meeting of Health, Housing and Public Safety Advisory Committee, which is a planning meeting for the upcoming health fair, will be held on Monday, March 9th from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Bungalow Conference Room at 1800 Oakdale Avenue.

 

Economic Development Advisory Committee, (Chair, Al Norman Commission Member, Commissioner Eddy Zheng, Alternate, Commissioner Karen Chung, Community Members, Dan Goldman, Tempe Priestly, Lyslynn LaCoste, ShamannWalton)

 

Commissioner Al Norman announced plans were moving forward regarding the upcoming job fair scheduled for Wednesday, May 6th.  He invited everyone to take part in the planning to ensure the success of the event.

 

The next meeting of the Economic Development Advisory Committee is scheduled for Tuesday, February 3rd from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Bungalow Conference Room at 1800 Oakdale Avenue.

 

SECFC & SFPUC Southeast Community Facility Ad-Hoc Committee (Commission Members, Commissioner Eddy Zheng, Commissioner LaVaughn King)

 

Commissioner Eddy Zheng provided an update on the Southeast Community Open House Event that is scheduled for Wednesday, February 25th from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and will be held in the Alex Pitcher Jr. Community Room.  This event is being planned in partnership with the SFPUC and Andrea Tacdol, SECF Building Manager is working with Commissioner Zheng and staff.

 

 

 

Chairperson Karen Chung introduced Ms. Lyslynn Lacoste, Esq. BMAGIC Director who provided an update on a pilot Van-Sharing Project that the Bayview Hunters Point community is a part of.  

 

This innovative vehicle sharing program will enhance access to programs and services based in the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods.  The program will operate similar to car sharing and will be used by neighborhood organizations and will allow the organizations to expand their services to clients while more efficiently utilizing funding spent on transportation.

 

The pilot program emerged from a community-based planning process, “The Bayview Hunters Point Mobility Study”, a partnership between community residents, community-based organizations, city department and university representatives.  The goal is to create transportation solutions that can be implemented in the near-term, while still identifying comprehensive solution for the long term.  The study focused on overcoming barriers residents experience accessing everything from groceries, health care appointments, after-school programs and other important services.

 

The study has been led by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority who partnered with the SF Department of Public Health’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Zone initiative, B-MAGIC, a number of community-based organizations, and UCSF’s SF Health Improvement Partnerships.  Caltrans and SF Prop K transportation sales tax provided the funding for the study.

 

The study along with the SF Transportation Authority’s 2010 Bayview Hunters Point Neighborhood Transportation Plan found broad transportation access needs in the community with a gap between fixed route transit and paratransit services, including those at community-based organizations.  Transportation is an essential component of service delivery, however costs are not well understood.  The needs assessment found that program staff regularly provide direct transportation services for youth, seniors and adults, often taking away from having staff available for core programming and services.

 

In the Spring of 2012, UCSF partnered with SFDPH and the HEAL Zone to fund pilot projects with community organizations in the Bayview to test innovative approaches to improve nutrition and increase physical activity for neighborhood residents.

 

In the Summer of 2012 the study convened a Transportation Working Group comprised of local leaders, representatives from community-based organizations and a technical team.  The Working Group held several meetings and came up with the following criteria to guide the work:

 

Safety, Cost and efficiency, Community connectedness/cohesion and inclusion, Cultural relevance, Ease of start-up/ on-going management/ operations, and Pollution reduction.

 

A business plan was completed in March 2013 and was scheduled for adoption by the SF County Transportation Authority Board.  The business plan features the following:

 

Priority trip types for the first phase – Youth, Medical, Senior & Food Access;

Accessibility for people who speak English, Spanish and Chinese;

Pilot Program – Focus on a quick start up with the ability to grow and change the service over time;

Shared vehicle service model – Contracted service provider (driver) overseen by mobility manager and community advisory board with administrative functions performed by fiscal sponsor.

 

Members from the community Transportation Working Group continue to meet in order to form the Community Advisory Board, write grant applications, and perform outreach for increased community participation.

 

Chairperson Karen Chung thanked Ms. Lacoste for her presentation and invited questions from the Commissioners.

 

Commissioners LeBlanc, Greer, King and Zheng asked the following questions:

 

Q. Will there be a schedule of activities?

A.  The CBO’s will be responsible for providing their schedules.

 

Q. Will there be an RFP to acquire a transportation specialist?

A.  The process to hire a transportation specialist will be determined in the near future.

 

Q. How will the van sharing work?

A. It will be up to each organization to let the shuttle service know their schedule or planned activities.  There has also been a discussion to allow the Community Ambassadors to ride along on the shuttle.

 

Q. Will the program provide access to other neighborhoods?

A.  Initially the concentration is on the Bayview Hunters Point Neighborhood.

 

Q. What organizations are involved?

A.  Currently there are commitments from the 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic/ Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services, Inc./ City of Dreams/ Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc./ Rafiki Coalition for Health & Wellness

 

Q. Is there a possibility for expansion?

A. After the evaluation of performance has provided the number of customers served across multiple programs and organizations as well as customer service goals have been reached there may be room for expansion.

 

Q. Are the vans new? 

A. Inaudible….

 

 

Roberto Vargas, UCSF Navigator, Community Engagement & Health Policy Program spoke regarding the Community Advisory Board and the HEAL Zone.

 

In closing, Lyslynn Lacoste advised the program was looking for additional funding to ensure youth and seniors received safe passage to the programs, health care and food access they so desperately needed.         

 

                                    

 

Commissioners Brigette LeBlanc and Janine Greer led a discussion regarding the possibility of a SECFC 2015 Retreat and the need to find facilitators that the Commissioners could agree upon.

 

Commissioner Brigette LeBlanc commented regarding the need to review the current Mission Statement and the possibility of updating it.

 

Commissioner Eddy Zheng noted the untapped skills of the Commissioners and felt these skills should be used to enhance the goals of the Commission at large.

 

Commissioner Al Norman said it was important for the Commission to maintain and control the direction of the retreat.

 

Commissioner Brigette LeBlanc requested the consideration of a Closed Session.

 

Commissioner Eddy Zheng led a discussion to determine clear goals for the Commission.

 

Deputy City Attorney Mary Holing offered to conduct a session for the Commissioners to help provide clear guidance for the Commission.

 

The discussion regarding the need for new facilitators continued with comments from Commissioners Brigette LeBlanc and LaVaughn King.
 

Chairperson Karen Chung said she would make a decision regarding the retreat and new facilitators after a discussion with the Executive Director. 

 

 

 

Chairperson Chung provided a report regarding the SFPUC Sewer System Improvement Program January Open House.  Attendees heard about proposed sewer improvements for the Bayview and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.  The proposed site of the new biosolids digesters facilities, the Central Bayside System Improvement Project, and green infrastructure projects being considered in the Southeast neighborhood were among the highlights.

 

Chairperson Chung advised the appointment of Advisory Committee Chairs, Commission Members and Community Members would be on-going to the next Commission meeting.

 

 

 

 

The 7th edition of the Southeast Resource Directory is almost ready to go to the printer.  Thank you to the SECFC staff, student interns and community members who helped with the editing and updating.

 

The SECFC staff in conjunction with the SFPUC/SECF staff has been busy planning the upcoming Southeast Community Facility Open House event scheduled for February 25, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.  Please plan to be on time because the Commission meeting is immediately following the event.

 

The SECFC staff is preparing for the 3rd annual Job Fair scheduled for Wednesday, May 6th as well as the 7th annual Health Fair which is scheduled for Saturday, October 3rd.
 

 

 

Andrea Tacdol, SFPUC/SECF Building Manager, provided a brief update on the building and security services being provided as well as plans for the upcoming Open House.

 

 

 

Commissioner Eddy Zheng requested an endorsement of the STEM Career Fair scheduled for March 6th as well as a discussion to schedule Commission meetings in various neighborhoods throughout District 10.

 

 

 

Vice-Chairperson Commissioner LaVaughn King requested the meeting close with a moment of silence for the youth that have been victims of homicides in this neighborhood and across the City.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 7:31 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

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Carla Vaughn, Commission Executive Secretary II