Community Investment and Infrastructure, Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. It is now 1.02 p.m. I am Dr. Carolyn Ransom Scott, and this is a regular meeting of the Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure for Tuesday, March 17, 2026. Okay.

I'll be quiet today.

I'd like to welcome everyone. that's joining us. Today's meeting is being held in hybrid format. Members of the public can participate and provide comments both in person at City Hall and remotely by phone. Thank you to the staff and our guests who will also be participating in today's meeting. Madam Secretary, will you please call the first item?

Thank you, Madam Chair. The first order of business is item one, roll call. Commission members, please respond when I call your name. Commissioner Hakimi is absent. Commissioner Lim?

Here.

Commissioner Shattuck?

Here.

Vice Chair Miller?

Here.

And Chair Scott?

Present.

Commissioner Hakimi is absent. All other members of the commission are present. Madam Chair, we have a quorum. The next order of business is item two, announcements. A, the next regular meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, April 7th at 1 p.m. here in City Hall, room 416. B, announcement of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices during the meeting. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing electronic device. C, announcement of public comment procedures. Please be advised, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the commission adopts a shorter period on any item. During each public comment period, members of the public attending the meeting in person will first have an opportunity to provide their comments. It is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. Members of the public who are joining remotely will be instructed to dial 415-655-0001. When prompted, enter the access code, which is 2660-140-4231, followed by the pound or number sign, then the pound or number sign again to enter the call. When prompted, press star 3 to submit your request to speak. When you dial star three, you will hear the following message. You have raised your hand to ask a question. Please wait to speak until the host calls on you. When you hear your line has been unmuted, this is your opportunity to provide your public comment. You will have three minutes. Please speak clearly and slowly. You will be placed back on mute once you are done speaking. You can stay on the line and continue to listen to the meeting. You can also choose to hang up. If you are planning to provide a public comment on any items on today's agenda, it is recommended that you call the public comment line ahead of time to allow you to listen to the meeting live and to prevent you from experiencing delays. Today's meeting materials are available on our website at sfocii.org. Under Commission, then the Public Meetings tab. The next order of business is item three, report on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reportable actions. The next order of business is item four, matters of unfinished business. There are no matters of unfinished business. The next order of business is item five, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. First is the consent agenda. Item A is approval of minutes, regular meeting of February 3rd, 2026. Madam Chair.

Madam Secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to provide a comment at this time?

If there are any members of the public who wish to provide public comment on the minutes, please call 415-655-0001, enter access code 26601404231, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. then press star 3 to be placed in the queue. If you're already listening to us by phone, please press star 3 if you would like to provide a public comment. And we'd like to begin by inviting members of the public here in person. If you'd like to provide a comment on the minutes, please come up to the podium at this time. Seeing none in person, moving to remote callers. Madam Chair, it does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment at this time.

Hearing no further request to speak on the item, I will close public comment. Commissioners, can I get a motion to approve the minutes? I move to approve. May I get a second? I'll second. Madam Secretary, please take a roll.

Motion made by Commissioner Lim, seconded by Commissioner Shaddix. Commission members, please announce your vote when I call your name for item 5A. Commissioner Hakimi is absent. Commissioner Lim?

Yes.

Commissioner Shaddix?

Yes.

Vice Chair Miller? Yes. And Chair Scott? Aye. Madam Chair, the vote is four ayes, one absent.

Motion carries. Madam Secretary, please call the next item.

Next is the regular agenda. Item number 5B is a workshop on annual housing production report for fiscal year 2024 to 2025 discussion. Director Slutskin.

Thank you, Madam Secretary. Today we'll be presenting the workshop on the annual housing production report for the fiscal year of July 2024 through June of 2025. Elizabeth Colamello, OCI's housing program manager, will be presenting.

Thank you, Mark. Good afternoon, Chair Scott, Vice Chair Miller, Commissioners. My name is Elizabeth Colamello, Housing Program Manager, and today I'm here to present our annual housing production report. This report covers fiscal year 24-25, so keep in mind the results you're seeing are from the period between July 1st, 2024 and June 30th, 2025. The report is in draft form, and we'd like any suggestions or input you have. After incorporating any revisions, we'll distribute the report to interested parties and post on our website as in years past. As we go through the presentation, I'll touch on the major highlights of the report. First, we'll talk about an overview of our housing program and project areas, fiscal year 24-25 activity, including marketing outcomes, and COP highlights, certificate of preference highlights, though you're going to hear much more of that from Pam and Maria in the next presentation. So I'll keep that later. And SBE and workforce highlights. I'll also give an overview of a typical project schedule. Here's a map just to show you OCI's major development project areas. Starting in the north is Transbay, moving down to Mission Bay north and south, and the shipyard phases one and two and Candlestick Point down at the bottom. This chart reflects OCII's obligations for each project area. The status of housing production and percent complete. It includes both market rate and affordable under OCII's purview. Overall, there will be 27,760 housing units, of which 47% will be affordable, including the newly approved SB 593 replacement housing obligation, which was approved in fiscal year 23-24. Nearly 40% of total units will be in the shipyard phase two and candlestick point. Once units are completed and occupied, the projects are transferred to the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, or MOCD, as housing successor agency under dissolution law. This is a summary of who we serve in our affordable housing. We serve households with very low to moderate incomes that struggle to find affordable housing in San Francisco. The median incomes, or AMIs, we use are based on data from HUD and are calculated by MOCD. The current AMIs for a four-person household range from $77,950 for a family of four at 50% AMI to $155,850 for a family of four at 100% AMI. Rents for a two-bedroom unit are $1,754 per month at that 50% AMI level and $35,006 per month at that 100% AMI level. While 50% AMI is considered very low income, housing at AMI levels below 50% remains sorely needed for our preference populations and really all populations applying for our housing. So we strive to include units with rent serving AMIs lower than 50% in each project. And typically, we are able to set some units at between 30% and 50% AMI. And in fact, nearly 70% of units completed since dissolution are targeting households earning 50% AMI and below. Our homeownership projects target higher AMIs at 80 to 120 percent. Another way we make our units more affordable to the lowest AMIs is to seek local and or federal operating subsidies that further lower the rents and ensure people with the very lowest incomes can be housed. Federal budget cuts and the city's budget deficit means it's likely fewer of these subsidies will be available in upcoming years. However, of 332 OCII-funded affordable units under construction during the fiscal year, 196 are at 50% AMI and below, and 130 have an operating or rental subsidy. Also, we were able to secure 46 rare project-based Section 8 vouchers for our two Shipyard Phase 1 projects that were completed during the fiscal year. Before I go into our 24-25 data, I wanted to provide a brief summary of how we fund our affordable housing in the current funding environment. Most of our projects are funded by a combination of tax-exempt bonds allocated by the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee, or SIDLAC, and low-income housing tax credits allocated by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or TCAC. We also tap into other state sources when possible, some of which are outlined here on the slide. And typically that covers up to 60% of project costs. Then OCII funds the remaining gap that is needed. Since 2020, SIDLAC and TCAC have implemented a competitive allocation system for bonds and the associated tax credits. And as we have discussed in many of my presentations since that time, that change added uncertainty and impacted OCII and MOCD affordable housing, initially shutting them out almost completely for a year. This was in large part due to the scoring, which heavily favored the lowest cost projects. San Francisco along with other higher cost jurisdictions advocated for changes in scoring that also favored the deep affordability that our projects provide and these changes were implemented in the last round of 2022. During this time we also made some adjustments to our financing structure that improved scoring for our projects. Since then, we've had both of our projects in the shipyard that completed this year get awarded funds, and both of our Transbay projects that are currently under construction or were under construction during the fiscal year receive allocations. We believe our success with these projects was due to both the updated scoring and our financing structure. In the last year, there have been changes to federal law governing projects with low-income housing tax credits, which will allow projects to apply for smaller bond allocations. And we also expect that that change and the other ones I outlined will positively impact our ability to secure these critical funding sources. Finally, the market conditions in fiscal year 24-25 affected our projects and we expect they will continue to do so, with construction costs continuing to increase and interest rates remaining high. We've also been experiencing increased operating expenses, particularly insurance and utilities, though recently there has been some signs that those costs are stabilizing. Here you can see a sample project budget based on a recent shipyard project, where the OCII loan covers approximately 47% to 48% of project costs, and low-income housing tax credits cover almost the same percentage. So honing in on fiscal year 24-25, Commission approved pre-development funding to Mission Bay South Block 4 East, which is comprised of two phases that together will include 398 units of affordable family rental housing. Phase 1 is expected to start construction in early 27 and Phase 2 in early 2028. The units in Phase 1 represent the remaining Mission Bay South enforceable obligation, and we anticipate Phase 2 to be some of the first units funded as part of the new replacement housing obligation established by SB 593, enacted in 2023, which authorizes OCII to fund 5,842 units that were destroyed and never replaced by the former San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. Also during the year, we were also spending down our loans for projects that were under construction in both Transbay and the shipyard. And here's a rendering of the Oscar James residences, also known as Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 1, Blocks 52 and 54, which started construction in May 2023 and was completed in May 2025. It has 112 units, including two manager's units. And here's the Doris M. Vincent Apartments, also known as Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 1 Block 56, which started construction in June 2023 and was completed also in May 2025. It has 73 units, including a manager's unit. And here is 400 China Basin, also known as Mission Bay South Block 9A, a 148-unit, 100% affordable homeownership project, which started construction in July 2022 and was completed in October 2024. And here we show the distribution of housing types in our completed affordable units to date. This is cumulative, so not just for 24, 25. 67% are family rental, 17% are home ownership, 4% are senior, and 12% are permanently supportive housing serving formerly unhoused households. There are more senior rental units that completed construction in the current fiscal year that will shift these percentages somewhat next year. However, family rental will remain the largest single category. Here you can see the AMI breakdown of those same completed affordable units I reported on the previous slide. These units are not just OCII funded 100% affordable projects, but include inclusionary or BMR units funded by developers in our project areas. You can see about 70% of completed units are at 50% AMI and below, as I mentioned before. In fiscal year 24-25, we had four housing completions. First, Mission Bay Block 9A that I just described, 100% affordable homeownership, was completed. And we also had one Hunters Point Shipyard market rate homeownership project with inclusionary units, also on Block 52, that completed. There was a total of 77 units there and nine inclusionary units, all serving households at 80% AMI. And, of course, the 200-point shipyard blocks I just mentioned also completed during the fiscal year. In addition to the four construction completions, we had two OCII-funded projects under construction in Transbay. Here you can see those projects, one family and one senior. The senior project completed construction at the end of last year and is leasing up as we speak, and the family project is scheduled to be complete this May. Here's a little more detail on those projects in construction. The family project has a total of 182 affordable units with 40 units set aside for formerly unhoused people with an operating subsidy from the city. And the senior project has a total of 150 affordable units with 30 units set aside for formerly unhoused people, also with an operating subsidy from the city. The senior project also has 60 units that have another operating subsidy also funded by the city to further deepen affordability given the lower AMIs of most seniors living on fixed incomes. Now I'll move on to marketing and COP, which I will keep short, as I said, because you're about to have a larger presentation on this. As you know, OCII contracts with MOCD to oversee marketing of our affordable units. MOCD provides marketing outcomes reports for each of our projects. And we closely coordinate with MOCD through our senior development specialist, Pam Sims, particularly around OCI's occupancy preferences, which are, as I think most of you know, Certificate of Preference, or COP, including descendants of original COP holders. And they are always first, and this preference applies to 100% of units. Then we have the Displaced Tenants Housing Preference, or DTHP, and the Neighborhood Resident Housing Preference, or NRHP. In fiscal year 24-25, no projects completed their lease-up or sales, so we have no outcomes data to report on that front. However, 409 new certificates of preference, up from 319 last year, were issued, and early outreach began for those two Transbay projects, and our shipyard rental and Mission Bay homeownership projects began their leasing and sales. Since they weren't completed during the fiscal year, we'll report those outcomes in next year's report. Now we'll touch on our small business and workforce goals. Developers on our affordable projects work closely with OCII to achieve our overall 50% goals. No construction services contracts were entered into during our fiscal year, so we don't have anything to report there. But in fiscal year 24-25, over 84% of our professional services contracts, worth a total of about $9.5 million, were awarded to SBEs. 78.6% of those contracts were awarded to San Francisco-based SBEs. And as far as local construction participation, we achieved 22.8%, with 9.2% of total work hours performed by Bayview Hunters Point workers. This represents 726 San Francisco residents, including 203 Bayview Hunters Point residents, performing over 130,000 hours of work.

Amen.

Also during the fiscal year, the housing team was working away on a variety of projects that didn't make it into this report. So I wanted to give you some highlights of that work. You've heard a lot about them over the last few months, so I won't go into great detail, but wanted to note them. These projects include Mission Bay South, Block 4 East, Phases 1 and 2, which I mentioned under funding. But we also made significant progress on the designs for these projects. And since the close of the fiscal year, those designs have been approved by commission, along with additional funding. Also, during the fiscal year, we issued a request for proposals for up to 325 affordable units on Transbay Block 4 West and went through a selection process. And at an upcoming meeting, you'll be considering a pre-development loan and exclusive negotiations agreement with a selected developer. And finally, we continued work on locating and seeking current contact information for COP holders through our contracts with Lynx Insights and Investigations and New Community Leadership Foundation. And finally, I also wanted to touch on what a typical financing and development schedule for an OCII housing project looks like. A project typically takes about three years from the developer solicitation through start of construction if there are no major delays. The initial phase is drafting and issuing a request for proposals and completing the developer selection process. OCII financing is typically approved in two tranches. First, shortly after developer selection, the pre-development loan is approved along with an exclusive negotiations agreement to allow the development team to complete the design, dial in the financing plan, and get the permitting underway. Once the project details are confirmed, the design and permitting have advanced, and the development team is ready to submit state funding applications, staff brings a gap loan for approval. Two factors determine the amount of the OCII gap loan, project costs and the amount of leveraging that can be secured from other sources. Internally at OCII, we need to start planning for that gap loan during the developer solicitation process, particularly if we are funding the project with bond funds, which we usually are, to ensure that we have all the necessary approvals and have completed the bond issuance in time for the gap approval. So commission will see those gap funds in the ROPS budget and any bond issuance approvals before finally approving the loan, usually around nine to 10 months prior to our estimated construction start date. Schematic design approval usually comes about midway through pre-development. Construction typically takes between 18 months and two years. We start the early outreach to COP holders just a month after construction start with a submission of the early outreach plan and depending on the length of construction, shortly thereafter the marketing plan is due. The early outreach wraps up when the marketing outreach starts about six months prior to the anticipated move-in date, first move-in date. Lease-up usually takes several months. Final project closeout happens with the final certification of cost by the state, and after that is complete, OCII transfers the property to MOCD for long-term asset management. So in somewhat short fashion, that is the life of an OCII housing project. Before I wrap up, I just want to say that OCII's housing accomplishments are really a huge joint effort of our developer partners, design teams, property managers, our project area citizens advisory committees, and of course, the commission. And I also want to give a huge thanks to George Bridges and Maria Picot for their contributions on the SBE and workforce data in this report, and also their work on our projects and with our teams to help them achieve these numbers. And all OCII staff contribute to OCII's housing developments. But I do want to call out our small but mighty housing team who have all contributed to this report and, of course, to the projects that we are reporting on. First, a huge thanks to Channing Jackson, and if you're here, stand up, who put the report together and gathered all the information that went into it and made it look beautiful. Thank you. The rest of our team is Kim Obstfeld, Jasmine Kuo, Phillip Wong, Alicia Andrews, Natasha Jones, and Pam Sims. And before I close, I just want to say before what is Pam's last annual COP report presentation, since she will be retiring next month, What a huge contribution she has made to the projects in this report, to OCII, the redevelopment agency before that, and most importantly, to San Francisco residents and COP holders in her 31 years with us. Over those years, she has worked on the development of literally thousands of units serving many populations, including families, seniors, people living with HIV and AIDS and other disabilities, and of course, COP holders. In her time as a COP liaison, she has overseen the biggest expansion of that program and overhauled the way we work to ensure COP holders get access to our housing. And not least of all, she has been a mentor to so many people at the Redevelopment Agency, OCII, and MOCD, including myself, over the years. So I just want to say a huge thank you to Pam, and we will miss her hugely. That concludes staff's presentation.

Thank you, Elizabeth, for this comprehensive report that you just gave for the workshop. And we are moving on to the next public comment. Yes, please.

At this time, we'd like to invite members of the public that if you'd like to provide a public comment on item 5B, please call 415-655-0001. Please enter access code 26601404231, followed by the pound sign and the pound sign again to enter the call. Then press star 3 to be placed in the queue. If we have any members of the public here in person, you can come up to the podium at this time.

Good afternoon, commissioners, audience, and persons that's on the line. First of all, I want to commend Pam. And I don't want to see her really go, Pam. Since you are, you're going to enjoy your retirement. She's a jewel. I've worked with Pam for many, many, many years. And she's a bullet that you guys are going to really miss. I don't know who's going to replace her, because I think she's unreplaceable. The other thing I want to say, because George is not really doing the things that they're supposed to do. I like his report. on getting people in the community jobs and contracts, even though we can do better. I like what the agency has done in building these homes and what have you. But we need more people whose born and raised out there in the community, both hyperlocal and other persons in my community, because I'm born and raised out there. We need to make sure. our contractors out there get these jobs so they can employ their lineage the young people in the community and train them we have more qualified peoples in that community and i think in any other community but we are not getting a lot of the contracts some contracts we're getting but a lot of contracts we are not getting we want to make sure we at least have 40 to 50 percent of dollars that's coming that's going in our community staying in our community I commend the commissioners for what you guys are doing. A lot of people say you're not doing a good job, but they don't know about the 50s, the 60s, and what have you. Those persons who sit in your seats didn't really watch out for the community like you guys are watching out for the community. Keep doing your good jobs. And I did put salt on George. But Georgia's doing a good job. You have a good staff with the Redevelopment Agency. I know both from working with them and watching them since I've left. And if they're doing something wrong, I don't mind telling them as a community activist what I see them doing wrong. But up to this point, I have not seen anything that they're doing wrong. So keep up the good work, staff. God bless each and every one of you. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. James.

Is there any other members of the public wishing to speak at this time? Seeing none in person, looking over for, we also do not have any remote callers, Madam Chair.

There's no one else to speak. Madam Secretary, did you say there was no one else?

Oh, there's nobody else. I'm sorry.

Thank you. I'm sorry. Hearing no further requests to speak on the item, I'll close public comment and turn now to my fellow commissioners for their comments, questions, or concerns. Commissioner Miller, Vice Chair.

Thank you, Dr. Scott. And thank you, Manager Polamelo, and all the staff work that went into this report, and more importantly, the work that's being done on the ground out there. It's remarkable to make this kind of progress, and it takes a lot of effort, and particularly in these tough budgetary times to go out and solicit funding. for the desperate need of affordable housing in town. And thank you, Pam, for a lifetime of service to the city of San Francisco and the community. Thank you all very much.

Thank you very much. First off, I wanted to ask a question on the subsidies on the lowest of our AMI spectrum here. You had said that the city and other agencies, you look for subsidies to help the lower income try to at least meet the minimum requirement. Are those subsidies ones that have to be renewed every year? Does one apply for that subsidy? Or is that once you're in the unit, you are subsidized as long as you're in that unit?

Yes, they are attached to the unit, not to the person in it. So they are subsidized. approved every year in the city's budget, but obviously it's a priority to keep funding existing subsidized units. We do anticipate there to be reductions in new subsidies due to the city's budget, but the subsidies, the Project 8 one, the Section 8 project-based vouchers that I mentioned and the city subsidies are associated with the units, not the people in them, but in order to allow for deeper affordability for those people.

OK, great. Because I know on our next presentation, it's going to come up again where I've noticed that there were a lot of COP holders that did come back, in fact, but they still didn't either make enough or, in most cases, looked like they didn't make enough to meet the minimum threshold for the AMI. So I'll ask that same question again in the next presentation.

Yes, and these subsidies very much help people in that situation, because it basically allows them to pay 30% of their income. The subsidy will cover what remains. So it allows people to have much, much lower AMIs and still qualify for those units. OK, good.

Thank you. And then I just wanted to say to Pam, too, that I didn't get a chance to know you that well. But when I was first considering joining this commission from DBI, we went on, I think we were still doing Zoom calls back then. And so you and I had a one-on-one. And you pretty much convinced me I should join this commission. And so I appreciated that call a lot. And closing, as I do most Sundays, I walked around the Mission Bay area, just walking, seeing what the neighborhood looks like on a Sunday, and the Transbay area, and the park areas. And congratulations to all of you out there that are doing this work, because it is really beautiful work. It's amazing. So Pam, I'm sure you had a lot to do with that. So it was great to know you, and best of all to your retirement. I'm done.

And anyone else?

Well, I too would like to, again, thank you, Elizabeth, for the report and your team. And then, Pam, again, I feel like Mr. James. We've grown together through these years. And I came aboard 2018, and you were here then. And what to me was so remarkable is that you're a good listener. as well as a fact finder for what your project demands. And I thank you for all of your presentations. I thank you, most importantly, for being a good listener and open to our suggestions. And it takes a team. It takes a team. And I'm so grateful for where you've carried your team. and how far you've come, the work that you're doing, the work you've done, and what I expect she'll come to be. And we will miss you. As Mr. James said, Lord, I hope whoever replaces her will be open. That's what's important. We can come with a lot of knowledge, learned information. But until you put your hands in the mud, You don't know how it works. And so finding all that is inside of that mud and knowing how to work with it. Pam, thank you. Thank you so much. And so are there any other further comments, questions? If not, Madam Secretary, would you please call the next item?

Next item is item number 5C, workshop on annual certificate of preference marketing and outreach report for fiscal year 2024 to 2025 from the mayor's office of housing and community development discussion. Discussion. Director Slutskin.

Thank you, Madam Secretary. Today we'll be presenting the annual Certificate of Preference Marketing and Outreach Report for the fiscal year of July 2024 through June 2025. Pam Sims, OCI's Senior Development Specialist, and Maria Benjamin, the Deputy Director for the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, will be presenting this item. But before I turn the mic over to Pam. And while she's standing at the podium, I do want to echo Elizabeth's comments. Pam's achievement for all her achievements and contributions. It's not just the thousands of units you've helped create. It's the thousands of households and thousands of lives that are better off because of the safe, decent, affordable housing you've helped create. So you leave San Francisco a better place than it was 31 years ago, and we're all grateful. Thank you.

Thank you. So first of all, I just want to say thank you to all the commissioners and to the Deputy Director, General Counsel Morales, all of you. As you all know, it's not an individual, really. It's a whole team. And you're so right, Chair Scott. We have an amazing team at OCII. We're very small, but we're very mighty. And our passion and our caring for what we do, it drives us. So we're going to continue to do the good work. And by we, I mean they. So I'll be watching with Oscar. So I may have some comments now and then. So, okay, without further ado, good afternoon, commissioners. Again, I'm Pam Sims. I'm a senior development specialist, and I'm here with Maria Benjamin to present the COP Holder Annual Report for fiscal year 24-25. Today, Maria, Benjamin, and I will be providing you with a summary of COP holder activity in OCI and OCD projects, which specifically highlights the past fiscal year. Also, Maria will be providing updates on outreach and application processes an update on the streamlined application process, the area median income or AMI levels of COP holders who applied for affordable housing units, which averages 37% of AMI, which is significantly lower than last year's AMI of 44%. So in response to Elizabeth's presentation where there's a segment of housing set aside for incomes that are 30% and below, it's really good that we continue to build those types of units because they're desperately needed by all populations, but specifically for COP holders. Maria will also talk about how COP holders fared in rental and home ownership opportunities. And finally, a look at the enhancements staff is following up on in the current fiscal year. First, just a real quick refresher on this certificate of preference or COP program. Per state law, the COP program was created to provide all COP holders first priority for consideration when applying for an affordable housing unit. COP holders include low and moderate income households that were displaced due to redevelopment agency action. And as of July 1, 2022, this preference also includes direct descendants. The preference provides all qualified COP holders who are original displacees a lottery priority when renting or purchasing an affordable OCI or MOCD unit. Direct descendants receive priority in OCI developments and on SFRA wait lists only. Also, it's important to note that the certificate of preference never expires. There's been some discussion around in the community that the certificate of preference did expire. That was changed decades ago, and now the certificate of preference never expires. Just to state it one more time. COP holder applicants, like all applicants, must meet income requirements for the project for which they are applying. For fiscal year 24-25, there were 1,256 active COP holders who were receiving information on new rental and ownership opportunities. This total represents an approximate decrease of 25% from the previous fiscal year. And this decrease has to do with removing duplicate names and removing individuals who have been confirmed deceased. This cleanup is due in large part to the contact and outreach efforts currently being completed by Links Insights and Investigations, or LINCS, and New Community Leadership Foundation, or NCLF, and more about them later on. And before Maria. gives her presentation, I wanted to share the table of COP holders housed in both OCI and OCD projects. And as you see, in the past 12 years, a total of 106 COP holders have been housed in OCI-funded developments. And 216 COP holders have been housed in OCD developments for a total of 322 placements. And this data comes from the COP annual reports that had previously been provided to the commission. Additionally, there are a number of COP holders who are housed in redevelopment agency projects from wait lists. And for the last fiscal year, that number totaled 16. And just to let you all know, the placements via the wait lists are now going to be tracked on a regular basis. So you'll see these numbers being increased coming in the next fiscal year. And so now I'll turn it over to Maria Benjamin, who will provide the COP annual report.

Good afternoon, commissioners. Maria Benjamin, Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development. I'm going to refrain from saying anything about PAM because I am in sincere denial that this is imminent. So I'll wait on that for a minute. I'm going to talk about the Certificate of Preference program, how folks get a certificate, and then what they're doing with their certificates, and a little bit about what the group of people look like that we're working with. There were 409 certificate of preferences issued in 24-25. This is in part because of the incredible work of the LINCS and NCLF partnership and the outreach that they're doing in the community to let people know about the certificate and the program and the contacts that they're making with actual people that were displaced. There were 65 new original displaces that they identified from that 409, 65 new people that were actually in the households that were displaced, and a whopping 345 descendants of those people that were originally displaced. We're thrilled to have so many people in the mix and learning about housing in San Francisco and housing opportunities in San Francisco. There were 58 inquiries that came to us about the Certificate of Preference program. You know, back in the day, a lot of agencies were displacing people. And it wasn't just the redevelopment agencies. So when folks hear or learn about the Certificate of Preference program, they often will contact us and ask questions. hey, no, my family was displaced at this address. And unfortunately, they were displaced by another agency. And therefore, they're not eligible for this current certificate of preference program. At the time of the report, we were working with about 250 families who we might have found there. just their ancestors or their displacement documents. And so they're very relieved about that, and they just haven't moved forward to actually get the certificate. Every time there is a new affordable housing listing on DALIA, DALIA is San Francisco's affordable housing portal. It's the city's flower. It also stands for the Database of Affordable Housing Listings, Information, and Applications. And it took somebody a long time to come up with that acronym. Every time there's a listing on Dahlia, and it can be a brand new building that's coming out or a re-rental, an inclusionary unit that is being re-rented or a wait list opening, every time it's on Dahlia, Certificate of preference holders receive at least one physical notification that the opportunity is here and open for them. For OCII projects, we send out several notifications, postcards, and sometimes flyers, and contacting folks to make sure that they're aware that there's an opportunity that they might want to apply for. In that fiscal year, 44 certificate of preference holders were housed in various affordable housing opportunities. 24 of the 44 were placed using vouchers from the San Francisco Housing Authority to help subsidize the rent amounts. About over half of those people were applied for housing, 81 people applied for housing, but turned down the housing later on in the process. They didn't move forward with their application. We are continuously working on that Dahlia project and on the access to a certificate of preference to streamline that process so that it's not so cumbersome. I can remember when I first started, at the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, it was very hard for people to even get a certificate of preference. Even when they had their documents and they knew that their family had been displaced, it was really hard and cumbersome for folks to get the proof that they were actually displaced. And we have really, really done a lot of work to reduce those barriers and to make it easier for folks to get their families' documents, especially with the descendants. What you need to prove that you're a descendant of someone who was displaced is birth certificates or death records that show the lineage of your family. And so in partnership with the assessor's office and the Department of Records, I'm probably saying that wrong. We now have a really streamlined process to get those records easily so people don't have to pay the money and go stand in line there and try to get the records that they might need to help. So we're working really hard to do that and also to streamline the leasing process as well. Market conditions that Elizabeth spoke about earlier have affected the development, building of affordable housing, but they've also affected the leasing of affordable housing and getting folks the process of getting to somebody to get in housing. So we're really working hard to simplify not only the COP application process, but also just the affordable housing application process. While there were no OCII rental listings on Dahlia during this reporting period, there were 46 listings of other affordable rental of total housing, 547 units of affordable housing available. And 67% of the 547 rental units were priced for households above 51% area median income. So for a single person household, most of the units on Dahlia in this reporting period were about $2,400 a month, $2,400 a month in rent. Our average COP households are around 37% of area median income. So for a single household, that's about $31,000 a month. And someone who's earning $31,000 a month can only afford about $900 a month in rent. So without a subsidy, a vast majority of our certificate of preference holders in the housing that was available last year would not have been able to move forward. And so when we see folks dropping off, they're being contacted and they don't respond, or they tell the leasing agent never mind, it's because primarily a lot of it is because of the price and the affordability of the units that are being offered. There are other reasons why a certificate of preference holder would turn down a unit. Heck, just life. And maybe they are applying, and they just decided they weren't ready to move. Or maybe the units were too small. Or maybe the parking was not sufficient for their family needs. There's a lot of reasons why people would turn down renting a unit, but we see a lot of it being the affordability. OCII did close two, as Elizabeth reported, homeownership projects in the reporting period. There were nine homeownership units. And we had no certificate of preference households applying for those units. We had a very large interest in homeownership coming from our certificate of preference holders. We did a survey. And people really are interested in it, especially the descendants. And so we've begun working with folks to get them prepared for homeownership and working on understanding what the process will be like so that in the future I think we'll see, in fact I know we'll see in this coming year, a much larger number of certificate of preference holders in homeownership. So we're really excited about that and that and those opportunities that will afford those families. And now I'll say it. Dr. Scott, I liked your analogy about the mud and getting into the mud, because it really is mud. It takes a long time to figure out all of the complexities of this work that we do. And I've been in that mud, playing in that mud, with my friend here. And I just can't thank her enough. And I don't know how we're going to keep pushing, but we will. But we will. I just want to assure you we will. Thank you, Pam.

Okay, so thank you, Maria. To wrap up this presentation, we will look forward to the current fiscal year and proposed program enhancements. This is really exciting. Staff will be working with lake research partners who were selected through a request for proposals or RFP process last year. to complete an updated survey to better understand the housing needs of new COP holders, which now includes 932 direct descendants. Staff will continue to work with LINCS and NCLF to confirm contact information for COP holders. And as of May 2025, this team contacted and confirmed contact information for 992 individuals located in additional 668 displacies, but they were unresponsive. and they've confirmed that over 3,000 of the original 12,500 displaced Cs are deceased. Currently, the LINCS NCLF team are working on phase four, which includes locating over 900 original displaced Cs, which will include 644 remaining ready-to-work records and further research needed family records which will continue to require the community investigators to develop leads on a record by record basis. It's a little bit more time intensive, but it's an amazing thing when you go page by page in these files, you actually find the information you're looking for. And as happened with the three previous phases, the community investigators will also identify and contact descendants of displaced individuals in the course of this work. Additionally, the NCLF LINCS team, they've hired additional investigators to begin contacting individuals from the Western Edition A1 and Yerba Buena Center project areas. Here, the goal is to locate approximately 800 displaced persons from these project areas. NCLF continues to implement the marketing component, which complements the community investigators' work, and will be expanding this effort to include the WA1 and YBC communities. This marketing campaign continues to raise awareness of this work in the impacted communities through outreach to churches, community organizations, printed flyers, and updated social media content. Finally, staff will work to have the remaining historical SFRA documents from former redevelopment agency project areas relating to relocation, acquisition, and displacement scanned and categorized. This exercise will provide MOCED with additional tools to better assist individuals who inquire about obtaining a certificate of preference. So Deputy Director Benjamin, Sonia Delgado-Schomburg, she is the Director of Rental Programs and Affordable Housing Placement. And I are all available to answer any questions you might have. Thank you.

Let's see. Vice Chair, we'll go to public comment. Can I start public comment?

Yes, open public comment. Thank you.

Members of the public, if you'd like to provide public comment on the item that was just presented, item 5C, please call 415-655-0001, enter access code 26601404231, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Then press star 3 to be placed in the queue. An automated voice will let you know when it is your turn. We'll begin by inviting Mr. James to come up to the podium to provide his comment.

Good evening again, Commissioners. I'm not going to make you tired of me. As a certificate holder myself, they're doing a tremendous job. the persons, the company that has the obligation to go out and find certificate holders, they're doing a good job. I meet many people that have certificates and don't know they have certificates. These are grandkids who they're getting in contact with. And I also talk to a lot of them. And, you know, the staff is doing a tremendous job, too. But one of my concerns has always been In 1966, I was working for the Veterans Administration. And they were tearing down 49 4th Street, if you guys know that area. And there was a lot of people that was displaced that never received a certificate. And redevelopment tore them down. And now those certificates came into existence in 1967, 68. And they didn't come before that time. And the reason they came, my group at that particular time surrounded the building with Justin Herman and Ali Oto. and demanded that we be given preference to move back into our communities. From that, Western Edition, Fillmore, and Hunters Point started receiving certificates of preference. Started receiving certificates of preference. But my problem has always been the people who was down Yerba Buena, we call it Yerba Buena, and those buildings that was torn down, and all of them were torn down, the restaurants and the whole nine yards, they never received a certificate. And my concern is making sure some kind of way they be recognized and get some kind of certificate where their ancestors or where their kids and grandkids get a certificate where they have a priority to move back into the city. A lot of people was displaced. We have a lot of people that came from Hunters Point and Western Addition, moved to Antioch because they say the toxins was here in Hunters Point. Well, Antioch was a dump site back in the 50s and what have you. It was a dump site. We used to go over that way fishing and what have you as a little kid. So you move from one toxic to another toxic, You know, and those people who's in Antioch, they want to come back home, OK, and they have a certificate. And my other problem is when they came up with these prices for so-called affordable housing and what have you, you guys are dealing with 68, 69, prices for the houses. Now, when I was living up on the hill, I was paying $59, okay? But now, I was making pretty close to $80,000 working for redevelopment. So that would have put me out of the range of getting these houses because you're going on old old prices. What I'm saying is you need to bring that back up. So the people who like driving Muni and different things like that, a lot of them, you're telling them they're not qualified because of the prices. Those prices need to be boosted up. Thank you very much. But think about those people down on 4th Street in Yerba Buena. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. James. If there are no other members of the public here in person who would like to provide a comment, moving over to our remote callers. Madam Chair, I also do not see any members wishing to comment at this time.

Hearing no further requests to speak on the item, I'll close public comment and turn to my fellow commissioners for their comments, questions, or concerns. Commissioner? I can't ask for a question. There it is.

Thank you so much. I just had a couple of questions. I'm not sure who can answer it, but on your presentation, it said that MHCD had 1,250 active COP. Can you just explain what active would that be versus active?

Mm-hmm. Thank you. Sure. An active COP holder means that they have given the OK to MOCD to send them information on upcoming rental opportunities, ownership opportunities, project-based Section 8 opportunities, the housing expo that MOCD conducts. They keep getting information. Housing counseling agencies. So they want information. They want to participate. Exactly.

And then you mentioned on your last page when you were going, you said 12,500 were found deceased.

Am I getting the number correct? Oh, no. The 12,500 plus number is the number of displaced from Western Addition, A2, and Hunter's Point. 3,000 of those individuals have been confirmed deceased.

So when that happens, I'm sorry because I'm new, so I'm going to ask some questions just to, so when that happens, would the city actively try to find their descendants or what happens?

Great question. So that is the contract we have with Lynx and NCLF. And that's how we're confirming the deceased is because their descendants, maybe the Lynx investigator has called a number that was disconnected, or they said call another number. They call the other number. they find out it's the brother of the original person. And it's like, no, he's dead, but here's his children's number. And so then that's how we keep getting the descendants, and the descendants number continues to grow.

That's why it's growing. And so my last question, you mentioned that the drop, a lot of times when they do come forward, the dropout is majority because of the cost. Am I understanding correctly? The cost? The cost because the price of the unit is what they cannot afford.

Well, so what... What we have seen is that, as Maria stated, as I stated, as Elizabeth stated, unfortunately, the level or the average COP holder, it's 37% of AMI. And as we talked about, we have a lot of units at 60% and below. But that 30% and below, it's the sweet spot. If we have a project-based Section 8 to go with it, it's really, really helpful. Unfortunately, people apply, and it's great. People apply, and they all think they're going to get the Section 8 or they're going to get the 30% unit. And unfortunately, all that's left at the end are the 50s or the 60s, and the PBVs are gone.

So would they stay in contact? Is that what happens? They move on to the next opportunity? Do they get on a list of?

Absolutely. Absolutely. And they work with the housing counselor. How can we address this? So there's a team that works with folks.

And I just want to say on a personal note, the other day you gave me some training. So thank you. That was my only experience with you. And I loved it. You were an expert in what you were explaining. And I just want to thank you for that. And on that call, you raised this issue that these never expire. And there has been misinformation, unfortunately. And we had this conversation about how do we make sure these communities that are disfranchised and access is not easy. misinformation in those communities goes a long way. It does. How are we actively trying to overcome that? Because that is a bad information that these expire.

Well, there's a couple ways. What we're doing is, again, the contract with NCLF and LINCS they're putting out correct information. What's interesting is that they hear the incorrect information, and then they let us know that this is what the community thinks. It's like, no, no, no, this is the truth. So then not only do they address it, but then MOCD, through the monthly newsletter, they address the issue there. And additionally, individuals will call the hotline. the COP hotline and get information and say something. And then most of these staff will call back and clarify what is correct and what's incorrect. So there's a lot of avenues that people have. Thank you. Thank you.

Vice Chair Miller?

Thank you for the presentation, Pam and Director Benjamin. Great data, as always. Is there any option for us on the Yerba Buena displaces?

So actually, thank you, Commissioner Miller. In this contract, the phase four contract for LINCS and NCLF, they've hired a South of Market YBC investigator to help with the displaces from the Yerba Buena Center. And so those records have been scanned, and their information has been gathered, and now the investigators are starting to make the calls to find individuals who were displaced from the project area.

We've issued two certificates so far.

Oh, great. Excellent. Okay. Two certificates have been issued to date. Can you repeat that? Oh, two certificates from the YBC displaces have been issued to date.

I also want to say that home ownership affordable housing is a huge thing. It's so difficult to make home ownership affordable, particularly in San Francisco. So I appreciate your efforts on that. Yes.

Commissioner Shaddix. Thank you. And I should be pretty quick. And same question. I'm going to bring it up again. The COP applicants that were 37% AMI, 67% of the 547 rental units were priced above the 51% again. As a back story, I am a BMR homeowner. I've been through the process back when it was a fax machine. You had to send everything, grind it one page at a time. Takes a while. So I made it, though. But during that process, it was, you know, and even though this is a rental that I'm asking about, you know, knowing that these projects would come up from time to time, which back then wasn't that often, and then you kind of run forward thinking, aha, I got it. And then, you know, then you get told after you go through this that, oh... you don't make enough or you make too much. It's just so disheartening. So that's a pretty big jump. And I had asked about the subsidies on my first chapter of the first round. Is there anything we can do here as a commission to try to, I mean, I know we can't change the AMI, that we can't do, and we live in a very expensive city with high income, so we can't change that. But is there anything we can do to get that subsidy so that more of that 37% more people can get in there?

I think that we are really doing our best. with maintaining a relationship with the San Francisco Housing Authority so that when they have opportunities for additional subsidies from the federal government, that we are able to get our folks connected to those subsidies. Unfortunately, right now, the subsidies, as far as the city's budget, are at their maximum. So we don't anticipate any new funding sources for new subsidies. And I think that if you've got a bag of money back there, that would be, yeah. We really do do our best. In fact, this year, Pam and the team really worked very closely with the Housing Authority and were able to get folks in utilizing those place-based vouchers in ways that we hadn't seen in previous years. Knowing where the resources are and then connecting people to that is, I think, the best that we... We can do.

I just say it from a place of feeling the feel. You know, I've been there and thinking that that was my unit. That was, you know, I already dreamed, you know, the hike around the park next door and all of that only to be told, you know, it's such a bummer. And I mean, it literally is a bummer. Luckily, like you said, there was a great, I had a great team of people that stayed with me. That was meta. And they just kept encouraging me, don't give up. Don't give up. Just wait. Just wait. And sure enough, something did come up. And, you know, 15 years later, I'm still in the unit. I'm so glad. So it does work, you know, when you have. So anyway, I know it's not... I just feel bad that everyone's working so hard to find these folks and then we bring them forward and say, oh, go back home. That kind of sucks. Okay, I feel better. Thank you. And I know you're working hard on it. I do know. I'm not blaming you guys.

Thank you, fellow commissioners. And you've asked... stated some of the very items that I've been looking at and asking about and we're always trying to look for other ways and means for this city that is the most wealthiest one of the most wealthiest in the nation yet failing to serve the residents you know it was a system that was too low And the middle income could not work with it. They could not find housing, and they ended up migrating out. And now it's reaching where they can, but now the very low income are left out. And it's just a hard thing, and it hurts. And I'm wondering what policy can we write? Is there a voter thing that we could do? I don't know, but I think we should keep looking at it, asking about it, and pushing that envelope and trying to find a way and a means. One of the things that we did bring up was to the churches keep a history book of their members where they lived. And perhaps our religious institutions, we could approach them with information and let them become a part of this. I wanted and was hoping LINCS would be here. And perhaps we can get them in, because I would want to hear from them exactly what they're doing. And that was my reason for requesting. But I'd like to hear from Lynx and perhaps with some of them and their connections with our religious institutions and the work they do. Tenderloin and on out and around, there are records. And so maybe along with our city and state records, we could touch and talk to our church, the institutions, and see what help that is. And if there are no other questions, comments, or concerns from my fellow commissioners, Madam Secretary, would you please call the next item?

The next item is item 5D, approving a joint community facilities agreement between the successor agency, acting in its capacity as community facilities district number eight, and the city and county of San Francisco, acting through its recreation and parks department and the arts commission, For the funding of maintenance of the Hunter's Point Shipyard Phase 1 open space parcels and public art subject to appropriation in the annual CFD budget, Hunter's Point Shipyard Redevelopment Project Area Discussion and Action, Resolution No. 6-2026. Director Slugskit.

Thank you, Madam Secretary. Commissioners, last year the Commission approved a short-term memorandum agreement between OCII and Rec Park for the management of the open space in Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 1. Due to dissolution of the redevelopment agency, we are now, as required by the long-term, long-range property management plan that was approved in 2015, we're in the process of conveying the open space to the City of San Francisco. Today, we are presenting a joint facilities agreement between OCII, Rec Park, and the Arts Commission for long-term funding for the management of the open space and public art within the Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 1. Today presenting will be Eric Anderson, the Director of Operations from the Rec Park Department, and Inder Garhwal, the Development Specialist from OCII. Eric.

Thank you, Mark. Good afternoon, commissioners. It's great to be here. I'm Eric Anderson, director of operations for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. I'm here on behalf of our interim general manager, Sarah Madlyn, to say a few words in support of the joint community facilities agreement and the conveyance agreement for the Hunters Point Shipyard Parks. We have been working on this for quite some time. As Mark mentioned, we have been working under a temporary management agreement in the Hunters Point Shipyard Park since July 1. And we're really excited to have these parks come in to the broader recreation and park system. Over the past few years, we have seen really a historic set of parks come to our recreation and parks portfolio through our partnership with OCII. That included, really, in July 2023, and it's hard to believe it's three years, the Mission Bay parks. And we feel that that transfer and that partnership has been really successful. I hope everybody feels that way. proud of those parks and grateful for the work that OCII has done over the years to design and develop them. And so for us, the Hunters Point Shipyard is another great opportunity to be working with you and your staff. We're committed to caring for these parks and open spaces in a way that ensures equitable access. to high quality services and welcoming, inclusive public spaces that foster connections, support health and well-being, and reflect the identity and history of the neighborhood. As I mentioned, We really feel this is a big expansion of our park system. Perhaps some of the larger acreage in parks since perhaps the middle of the last century. Mission Bay was about 30 acres. We saw in 2021 the transfer of Shoreview Park to Reckon Park and its development. And that's been very successful as well. And today, we are seeking approval for the transfer of what will ultimately be 24 parks consisting of over 26 acres at Hunters Point Shipyard. This has been a really great partnership, as I said before, working with the OCIA staff. Their expertise, the quality of the parks that have been built has been truly amazing. And we take our responsibility equally seriously in the stewardship of these parks. I wanted to say some thank yous to the staff involved, and first and foremost to the OCII staff, to Mark Klutzkin right here, and to project manager Laila Hussain, development specialist Inder Grewal. And from our team, I have our chief financial officer here, Antonio Garrett, director of finance. I have Jack Avery, who has helped organize this whole endeavor, which has taken a lot of organization for us. Jack has been instrumental. We've had our operations team involved, Carol Sienkowski and Brandon Young, our permits team with George Ridgely, and our planning team with Yael Golan and Phoenix Alfaro. We also have appreciated working with Dr. Honeycutt from the Hunters Point CIC in this effort. And really and truly, we're excited and hopeful that you will approve these agreements. Our commission approved the agreements in April 2025 when they took action on the temporary agreements. So we respectfully urge your support today. And we're here for any questions as well after the main presentation. So thank you.

Thank you, Eric. Commissioner, it's great to see you all again. Commissioner Akimi, I'm Inder Garawal. I'm a development specialist at the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point. And I'm here before all of you today to talk about this transfer of phase one parks built at Hunters Point Shipyard phase one to the city, and specifically the long-term maintenance and funding agreement to ensure the long-term stewardship of these parks. Just to orient you all geographically to the area, so phase one of the Hunters Point Shipyard is being built in two sub phases. To the right of the screen, you have the hilltop sub phase, which is mostly complete and open to the public. And then to the left of your screen, you have the hillside sub area, which will be constructed in the future. Collectively, these two sub areas will represent about 1,400 housing units and 26 acres of parks. And to this point, about half of those housing units and half of those parks have been completed and located within the hilltop sub area. Zooming into the open spaces within the Hilltop area, we have eight pocket parks, two large parks, the site office, which is where we hold CAC meetings, and then ecological passive open spaces. So collectively, these 13 acres of parks and open spaces were constructed by the phase one developer, Lennar, and are now ready to be passed on to the Recreation and Parks Department. and the public artwork will be transferred over to the San Francisco Arts Commission. I do want to point out on the screen that you have parks shaded in a lighter green. Those are parks that have been constructed and have been completed. So the city and OCII have gone out, inspected these parks, and worked with the developer to close out any final items. And they have been issued a certificate of completion. And over the last year, Recreation and Parks Department, through our short-term MOA, have been managing and maintaining these parks. You have two parks in a darker shade of green, which are the two big parks, Inniscourt Park and Hillpoint Park, that are constructed open to the public. However, they have not been issued a certificate of completion. Lennar is currently working through a handful of punch list items, and we anticipate that they'll be complete with those items in the coming months. So once those parks are complete, RPD will assume maintenance over those two facilities. And then also on the map you have a purple hatch over mostly Hill Point Park and Innis Point Park. That hatch refers to lands that are former tidal lands and submerged lands that are under the State Lands Commission. or former jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission, and therefore have certain restrictions that we have to consider when executing this agreement. And I'll discuss the impact of those restrictions on the material terms of this agreement in a couple of slides. But I do want to showcase the public artwork that the San Francisco Arts Commission will be responsible for stewarding. These artworks were produced by either local artists, folks who were born and raised in San Francisco or the Bay Area, or have studios based here in the Bay Area. So it includes folks like Walter Hood, Marion Coleman, Mildred Howard, and many more, who contributed to the artwork in this area. And the San Francisco Arts Commission will now be responsible for maintaining this artwork in perpetuity. These elements add character to the parks. They add character to the phase one area. And it memorializes both the ecological history of Hunter's Point, but also the social and cultural history of the neighborhood as well. Just a little bit of background on how we got here. So the Phase 1 DDA requires that Lennar build 26 acres of parks and open space. Within the Hilltop area, they have constructed 13 acres and been issued a certificate of completion for most of them. So once they construct these parks, they will request that OCII and the city inspect these parks, finalize any punch list agreements, and then once we issue a certificate of completion, OCII assumes maintenance responsibilities over these facilities. However, because of dissolution law, we have to transfer these facilities to the city, and back in 2015, the Oversight Board and the Department of Finance authorized a long-term property management plan that identified both RPD and the San Francisco Arts Commission as the long-term holders of these sites. Specifically for this Joint Community Facilities Agreement, RPD, one of the parties, manages over 4,000 acres of parks and open space across the city, including numerous community centers and playgrounds. The San Francisco Arts Commission, on the other hand, manages over 4,000 pieces of public art through their civic art collection. And the eight art pieces shown on the previous slide will be part of the Civic Art Commission in the future. So the material terms. So earlier I mentioned that portions of the land held under the state's public trust present a couple of restrictions on the material terms of this agreement. At the very top, this is a 66-year agreement. And that's because of any lands held under the state trust that are being conveyed or leased to another entity can only be conveyed or leased for a 66-year term. So that's why this long-term maintenance agreement is 66 years. But in 2092, the five of you will be back here renewing a joint facilities agreement for these parks. In terms of the scope of work, RPD will be responsible for maintaining all the parks and open space within the phase one area, along with the Gigantri art piece, which is in Innescourt Park. It's a replica of the Gigantri crane on the shipyard. and the nautical swing, which is a swing that basically provides an overview and an overlook of the San Francisco Bay, the Bay Bridge, and the city skyline over at Hill Point Park. They will also be responsible for making a budget request to OCII every year to be able to maintain these parks. The San Francisco Arts Commission, on the other hand, will be responsible for the eight art pieces that I showed a couple slides earlier, and they, too, will be requesting a budget annually from OCII. OCII's role is the administrator of Community Facilities District Number 8, which is funding these parks, and the OCII Commission ultimately approves CFD allocations on an annual basis to both the Arts Commission and RPD for the maintenance of these public artworks and parks. A little more on CFD number eight. So in about a month from now, OCI will be back here before you all requesting approval of our fiscal year 2026-2027 budget. Part of that will be approval of allocations via CFD 8 to Recs in Part, as well as the San Francisco Arts Commission. So this is a special assessment placed on property owners within the phase one area. This CFD number eight ensures a constant revenue stream that's independent from the city's general fund. So regardless of fluctuations within the city's budget, there will always be a dedicated fund for these parks paid for by the phase one property owners and enjoyed by everyone in Bayview-Hunters Point, along with everyone in San Francisco. Before we got to this point where we're asking you to approve this joint facilities agreement, we did go to various community bodies. So starting with the Hunters Point Shipyard CAC, we went to them twice. First in November of 2024 where we presented this framework and solicited feedback. We then came back to them about four months later, showing them the changes we've made to the framework, how we've incorporated their feedback into the framework, and they allowed us to move forward with drafting this joint facilities agreement to implement the maintenance framework. We also went to the RPD Commission in April of 2025 for their approval of the framework. So we've gone to these respective commissions and committees, and now we're here before you today for approval from this commission. Not included in this approval, but will be going to the Board of Supervisors concurrently with this joint facilities agreement, is a conveyance agreement. And the conveyance agreement essentially transfers the title of these parcels, these open space and public artwork parcels, to the city. So while the joint facilities agreement is a long-term maintenance and funding agreement, the actual title will be transferred via the conveyance agreement. As I mentioned before, OCII, via its oversight board and the Department of Finance back in 2015, authorized the conveyance of these parks to RPD and the San Francisco Arts Commission. The conveyance agreement is essentially an implementation document that... carries forward this conveyance. But essentially what this conveyance does is it makes the city the official owner of the parks. That means that the programming that RPD offers and the apprenticeship programs will now be extended out to these phase one parks and be available for folks in Bayview-Hunters Point and in that phase one area. It also adds the artwork to the Civic Arts Collection and ensures that the San Francisco Arts Commission, which does a great job managing and stewarding the 4,000 art pieces across the city, will continue their great efforts here at the Hunters Point Shipyard within the Phase I area. It also allows OCI to fulfill its obligation of completing improvements and then transferring to the city as we continue our dissolution and solvent into the future. So in terms of next steps for the joint facilities agreement execution, assuming that the commission approves this agreement today, we plan to introduce this agreement to the board on April 7th. There will then be a 30-day period for posting. And then on May 11th, we anticipate going to the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation. Committee, followed by the Budget and Finance Committee, and then finally having a full board hearing on May 19th. The hope is that the mayor executes this agreement by May 29th and that we could begin on June 1st at the time that our short-term agreement expires so that there's no lapse in maintenance or stewardship of these parks between the two agreements. And then at the same time, the conveyance agreement will also be going to the Board of Supervisors. However, there will be a second reading after May 19th because it's an ordinance. And then because it's an ordinance, there's a 31-day appeal period before the mayor can sign off. So we anticipate having the conveyance agreement executed sometime after 4th of July. But it's okay that that lags as long as we have the long-term maintenance and funding agreement in place to ensure that these parks are being maintained. And with that, open it up to public comment and any questions.

Thank you, and for your presentation, and Mr. Anderson as well. Thank you. Can we open this up to the public?

Members of the public who wish to provide public comment, please call 415-655-0001, enter access code 2660-140-4231, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call, then press star 3 to be placed in the queue. We'll begin with Mr. James, who is here in person, to come up to the podium.

Good afternoon again, Oscar James. I support this particular project. Park and Rec, they do a tremendous job in maintaining the parks in Bayview Hunters Point. I'm a regular park looker. I know Phil is gone, Ginsberg is gone, but the new director, I forgot her name. But anyway, they're doing a tremendous job. The one they did, the Indian Basin Shoreline Park, I know you guys have seen that, and how they keep that up. So I support it. But one of my concerns is making sure that the artwork reflects Bayview Hunters Point, the shipyard, the things that happened in the shipyard. We need to have more history of the artwork of the people who worked in the shipyard. So I hope when they bring designs that they would go before the CAC, who are our eyes and ears in the community. Me personally, I support them 100% because they watch out for the community. A lot of people may say what they want to say about it. But I'm born and raised out there. And all these newcomers come in with their ideas. I check it off. You talk to the people who's been out there and the people who want to tell the history of that community how diverse the community was from the beginning in the 40s and what have you, I want that to reflect that history, even though we had the so-called white flight. But we still have a lot of history of all the peoples out there that made that community what it is today. And I just want to make sure that you guys pass it. I'm a long-winded talking person. But I want to make sure Park and Rec get this. And I'm going to be watching Park and Rec. I know they do a good job, but I will be watching. If you do something wrong, I'm going to let you know. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. James.

There are no other members of the public in person. Moving over to our remote callers. Madam Chair, it does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment at this time.

Vice Chair?

Oh, there's no other members of the public question to speak. Commissioners can comment.

Thank you, Senator. I appreciate Parks and Rec being here. Director Anderson, San Francisco has world-class parks. And to see them come to this area that's been perhaps not seen as much park and rec activity over the years as some of the other parts of the city, it's really gratifying to see that. And I love working with the Arts Commission, bringing appropriate art, as Mr. James said, bringing appropriate art to this area. And we've had a great history of working cooperatively with Reckon Park. And you can see it by the parks that have been built out there, as Director Anderson mentioned. I support this and look forward to continued good relations with Reckon. The wrecking park and the Arts Commission to continue improving the community.

Thank you Commissioner Shattucks

Thank you very much. And same here. I support this. But I wanted to ask a couple questions. Regarding Hilltop Park, I go out to the shipyard probably every couple weeks or so. And I walked around a lot. And so I guess the OCI comedy here is that Hilltop Park is not built. Is that correct? Because I sure was looking for it.

So Hilltop refers to the whole sub area. So when you're going down Innis, it's all of those new homes at the end of Innis. Hillpoint Park is at the very end of Innis Court. So that's the bigger park overlooking the shipyard. It has been constructed. It's open to the public. However, there are still just a handful of items that Lennar is responsible for completing. A lot of it relating to infrastructure that was built beneath the park. So once they complete all of that infrastructure, the park will be deemed complete and will transfer over to RPD.

Okay. I guess I got to go back there and look again because I was looking for something specific and I wasn't finding it. So my second question kind of along the lines of the Mr. James there is I'm currently working with the Art Commission on a sculpture not at the shipyard but somewhere else on the maintenance and I just want to make sure when does the shot clock start on if the maintenance of the art, the sculptures get turned over to the Arts Commission, is it the day we vote? Or is it already the eight years, nine years that some of those sculptures have been there? Does it start then? Because I think they have a cycle calendar of 10 years. We have an Arts Commission here. 10 years. I had some of this question answered earlier before, but I just want to make sure that those sculptures that we already have, we're not waiting 10 years from now today to go back. I haven't seen physically any issues, major issues, with the current condition, but with the windy hillside and next to the ocean, I'm sure there's going to be some. So that's Second to the last question, and then the last question is, with all this open space still available, it seems to me like there'd be a lot more opportunity for more art, and especially art from local residents of the Hunters Point shipyard area that have been there a long time. Is that taken into consideration if we pass this along to you guys? Or if we pass this along to the Arts Commission, is that also considered? Because I do think there's... a lot of room for more art, more activity spaces. So that's it. That was a lot of questions. Sorry.

Yeah. For the first question, as we discussed, the Arts Commission, the shot clock starts as soon as the Board of Supes approves the transfer and it becomes part of the arts collection. Then the Arts Commission will do their refurbishment. So their plan and the budget that's coming to you guys next month includes money to refurbish all eight pieces. So that's the plan. We've been working on them ourselves and upkeeping them throughout the years. But the Arts Commission opinion is it could use a refresh. It's time. So that'll happen this year for this upcoming fiscal year once it transfers. So nothing will wait longer than that.

Sorry, but is there money in that budget to commission more art?

No, so there is not money in the budget to commission more art. So right now it's distinguished how much art can be built, and in CFD 8 it's for the maintenance and operations, not for the renewal of art. So the budget just is to cover the maintenance and operation of the parks and the art pieces, not for creating new art. So at this time, there is nothing planned other than what's already was called out in the infrastructure plan for the art that is out there now.

May I? Commissioner Hakimi here. As you all know, I was a former art commissioner. So I had the privilege of actually working and being part of the partnerships with the Park and Rec and the Art Commission. And the work is fantastic. Proud to have been part of that. And I think this collaboration, definitely I'm in support of it personally. I do want to ask a couple of questions on the Art Commission part of it, because I noticed that in the timeline that you presented on meetings and committee discussions, I didn't see the Art Commission or any meeting or any commission voting on this partnership, because I'm understanding it's a three-way contract, right? I'm being a lawyer now, so I'm going to ask them. So I was just wondering, is the Art Commission having it? Because it doesn't look like it is.

Yes, actually, they last May met and approved everything back then. It was on consent, so it was a quick and easy thing. The staff all approved it. We've been working with the staff, and they've been on our weekly calls. A lot of our calls are more about the operations of the park. They seem to know. They're just like, give us the art. We've got it under control. So not as much discussions. But yeah, the Arts Commission.

Because it wasn't on this timeline. That's why I was wondering.

Yeah, it already happened to you guys. We should have mentioned that.

I'm delighted to hear that's going to be on their permanent collection, because that completely elevates the art, taking care of the art, because they do a great job at it. I had the privilege of getting a tour when I was an art commissioner of this particular area. The artwork is breathtaking. I do agree that it does not represent the history necessarily, but the art is breathtaking, and I hope that we hear the public comment about if there's any future to include the history in there too, but that's a different conversation for the Art Commission. But the last thing I'm going to ask is that the reality of what's happening in the city right now is that a lot of commissions are being restructured. The Art Commission is one of them. and it's going to come up for, you know, I believe what I'm following, it's going to come up by end of this year. Would that impact any of this planning that you're doing as a partner that might not be actually structured the way it is currently legally? Just a... Has that been discussed? Sorry, I know this is a very hot topic right now, but I've got to do my job and ask that question and just understand if that's something that has been internally discussed or is that going to stop anything or change anything?

I can certainly speculate. If there is reorganization or restructuring, there will have to be an entity that will assume the responsibility of the Arts Commission if for some reason it's changed. So that entity will assume these responsibilities and be the party that we fund through the CFD.

I hope that doesn't happen personally because I love the Art Commission, but that's a different conversation. But I just want to make sure that is part of the conversation. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Commissioner. And I think we're Filling the same thing I support it fully and I as Mr. James and others have said would like to believe that there's more effort or a way or door or something that would give the opportunity we have to not just local, but community professional artists that do amazing work. And they now travel the world. And there's one with a small studio that does sculpturing with the metal as well as artwork. And I don't see the name of the person. So I was just wondering, how did they get missed? And if there is any opportunity, and it sounds like all doors are closed except with the Arts Commission, perhaps. Is that what I'm hearing?

I think the developer has met their commitments to provide the art that was required of them. So we can't require any more of them.

Oh, the contract with the developer is met. Yes. Okay.

Just as a matter of information and background, the artwork here was actually funded through a federal grant, which has long ago expired. So the redevelopment agency never really had the artwork in its original budget, but received a grant from the Economic Development Administration at the time and funded these pieces of art. So it was a one-time activity, if you will. And there's no ongoing funding through the CFD for the artwork that I know of. And I don't know if phase two has any additional artwork. But I'm sure that's a different project for the remainder of the shipyard.

Jim, thank you so much. So if the artwork was funded outside of the developer agreement, wouldn't there still be a developer agreement to fund more artwork? I don't know. I'm just asking.

Well, we'd have to go and look at the particular development agreement for phase two. And this is phase one, assuming that the larger portion of the shipyard may have some art requirements. I don't know off the top of my head. With regard to phase one, I don't believe there is any additional.

Yeah, definitely for phase one, there aren't any other obligations. But phase two, there is an obligation to construct public art. So as Candlestick and the Hunters Point Shipyard phase two come online in the future, there will be more opportunities to add to the artwork.

Thank you.

I'm sorry. No. I apologize.

So then in commissioner comments later on the agenda, then we can maybe discuss having that as agenda item. to talk about what that looks like, what the budget could be. Because I do know, I agree with Dr. Scott, that we have a lot of local artists in the Baby Hunters Point that we should be talking to them now, I think. But we'll do that for the next thing.

Thank you. You're stating, I think we're all on the same page. And we're so grateful for your presence and what you're doing and what you have. We just want to make sure it fully, you know, it's, It's like having a menu and maybe a piece, the dessert is left off or something, or the protein is not there. But we're pleased with your report. That's the bottom line. And so if there are no further questions, comments, or concerns, Commissioner, can I get a motion and a second to approve of the item?

Commissioner Hakimi?

Commissioner Hakimi? May I get a second?

Yes, I second that motion.

Madam Secretary, will you take a vote?

Motion made by Commissioner Hakimi, seconded by Vice Chair Miller. Commission members, please announce your vote when I call your name. Commissioner Hakimi? Yes. Commissioner Lim?

Yes.

Commissioner Shaddix? Yes. Vice Chair Miller? Yes. And Chair Scott? Aye. Madam Chair, the vote is five ayes.

Motion carries. Thank you, gentlemen. Madam Secretary, please call the next item.

The next order of business is item six, public comment on non-agenda items. Members of the public who wish to provide public comment on non-agenda items, please call 415-655-0001. Enter access code 26601404231, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Then press star 3 to be placed in the queue. If you're already listening to us by phone, please press star 3 to provide a public comment. And we'd like to begin by inviting members of the public in person. If you'd like to provide a comment, please come up to the podium at this time. Seeing none in person, moving over to our remote callers. Madam Chair, it does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment on this item.

I will close public comment. Madam Secretary, please call the next item.

The next order of business is Item 7, Report of the Chair. Madam Chair?

No report.

The next order of business is item 8, report of the executive director. Director Slutskin.

Thank you, Madam Secretary. I just want to report out one thing, give an update on what's going on in Candlestick Point. It's been a little over a year. OCII has been working with Five Points and the city departments to finalize the infrastructure design and subdivision mapping. Before we can start construction, Five Points needs to go to the Board of Soutes for approvals for the phase two final map. And also, we need to get infrastructure permits from the city. The next three months are going to be busy getting approvals. The first one beginning with street naming legislation that will be introduced by Supervisor Walton on April 14th. And that proposal extends 13 existing streets and creates 12 new streets, including three streets that will be named after Bayview 100 Point community leaders, Christine Neal, Elder Samuel Pryor Smith Sr., and Zerline Dixon. Later in April, there'll be a Department of Public Works director's hearing. They'll review the infrastructure permits. And then Board of Supt's will be having their hearing in early May for the street naming. And then in early June, they'll be acting on the final map. So if everything goes as planned, they'll start surcharging this summer and construction in the fourth quarter of this year. So we're excited that things are moving forward on that. So that is the director's report for today. Thank you.

Thank you, Deputy Director Slutkin. Commissioners, do you have any questions or comments on the director's report? Well, I'd just like to say I'm just pleased that we're moving forward on the naming of our streets. They were named and approved of and we had an amazing presentation about it here at City Hall and many of the I would say, recipients of having their names put on the streets were here, and it was such an honor. Going back, as Mr. James and I do, we're the historians and some of your elders here, and been here 80 years this year, and to see all the changes And especially when I think of the civil rights movement in time and to know that some of those heroes that did sports and other innovative things for us are having streets named behind them, it's an honor. It's an honor. There are younger folk that want to know, well, what did this one do, Jerry Rice, or this one do for the city? We don't know about them in Hunters Point. But what they don't know is the morale that was kept up. They don't know the tears that were turned to smiles as we were being beaten and marching. And they don't know and have a clue about the burnings and the lynchings, and in spite of it, all the beatings they took and the mockery as they played and could not be with the teammates, you know, separated. So there was a lot they did for us in enduring and paving a way so that the many people are able to serve today can serve. with dignity, respect, and honor, and we still move towards a brighter light in the area of dignity, honor, marching together, sitting together, working together with great respect and reverence. So thank you for that report, Deputy Director. Madam Secretary, would you please call the next item?

The next order of business is Item 9, Commissioners' Questions and Matters. Madam Chair?

Commissioners, do you have any questions or matters that you would like to discuss?

Just a quickie, if I may. And that arts commission or arts component, maybe down whenever it's appropriate. I'd love to hear more about phase two. And I know that phase two development will have an agreement in there for X amount of dollars for art. And I don't know at what point, but it'd be nice to get a whole presentation on exactly what that dollar amount might look like, how many pieces of art are we thinking, and how would the outreach be for local artists. And that could be a pretty big agenda item. So I'll defer that to the bosses here whenever that's most appropriate, because I would like to hear about that. And thank you.

I would also agree with that. It would be great to hear what that is and the opportunities, the ways and means of seeking the artist. Make sure that we start in the community first, if possible. Yes. Commissioners, any other questions, comments, or concerns? Madam Secretary, would you please call the next item?

The next order of business is item 10, closed session. There are no closed session items. The next order of business is item 11, adjournment. Madam Chair?

May I get a motion to adjourn? Oh, thank you. I'll make the motion. It's my honor.

May I get a second? Seconded.

Meeting has been adjourned. Thank you, Gersh.