Community Investment and Infrastructure, Commission - Regular Meeting

And this is a regular meeting of the Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure for Tuesday, April 21, 2026. 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 guests who will also be participating in today's meeting. Madam Secretary, 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. Here. Commissioner Lim. Here. Commissioner Shaddix. Here. Vice Chair Miller.

Here.

And Chair Scott.

Present.

All 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, May 5th at 1 p.m. here at 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 devices. 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 2660-089-3202. followed by the pound or number sign, then the pound and number sign again to enter the call. When prompted, please press star three 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 4, matters of unfinished business. There are no matters of unfinished business. Next order of business is item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and the regular agenda. First is the consent agenda. Item 5A is approval of minutes, regular meeting of April 7, 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 would like to provide comments on the minutes, please call 415-655-0001, enter access code 26600893202, 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. And we'll begin by inviting people who are or who would like to provide comments and who are here in person to 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 the minutes.

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

Motion made by Commissioner Hakimi, seconded by Commissioner Shaddix. Commissioners, please announce your vote when I call your name. Commissioner Hakimi? Aye. Commissioner Lim?

Yes.

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

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

Next is the regular agenda item 5A, excuse me, 5B, authorizing the successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the city and county of San Francisco to issue new money tax allocation bonds in one of more series or sub-series in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $180 million as permitted by section 34177.7 A1C of the California Health and Safety Code to finance replacement affordable housing, approving a form of indenture of trust and a form of bond purchase agreement, and approving other related actions, replacement housing obligations. Discussion and action. Resolution number 9-2026. Director Koslowski.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, and greetings, commissioners, members of the public who are here. This item is an authorization to issue bonds in an amount not to exceed $180 million to fund OCII's affordable replacement housing. This approval is an important financing step that will enable OCII to advance delivering affordable housing, which is core to our mission. These bonds are targeted for projects in Mission Bay, Block 4 East Phase 2, which is a 233 unit affordable housing project, and a portion of the Freedom West project, which is a 247 unit project. THE FREEDOM WEST PROJECT IS STILL BEING UNDER WRITTEN AND NEEDS SEVERAL ADDITIONAL APPROVALS FROM THE COMMISSION AND THE CITY BEFORE ANY FUNDS ARE AUTHORIZED FOR EXPENDITURES. BUT TODAY'S AUTHORIZATION IS ONE STEP IN A MULTI-STAGE APPROVAL PROCESS REQUIRED UNDER DISSOLUTION LAW. AND NICK JONES FROM FINANCE AT OCI WILL PRESENT THIS ITEM. NICK.

Okay. Thank you, Director Keselowski. Good afternoon, Commissioners, Chair Scott. I'm Nick Jones, OCI Debt Manager, and this presentation will cover the issuance of the replacement housing bonds. So the enforceable obligation here is our replacement housing obligation, which consists of 5,842 units that the former redevelopment agency destroyed and did not replace during urban renewal. The enabling authority is enshrined in California Health and Safety Code section 34177.7 . And the key here that distinguishes these bonds from other bonds we've issued in the past is that these can be and these bonds and other replacement housing obligations can be paid solely from property tax revenues available in the redevelopment property tax trust fund to the extent those property tax revenues represent the amount that would have been distributed to the city and county of San Francisco had the obligations not been incurred. And that protects the other taxing entities from having their share of tax increment used for this replacement housing obligation. As Director Kaslovsky mentioned, the purpose of issuing these bonds is to fund two projects. Most of the funds will go towards the pre-development and construction of Mission Bay South's Block 4 East Phase 2 project, which is approximately 233 units of affordable housing. And the other project is Freedom West, which is in the former project area known as Western Addition. And that is for pre-development of a project that will eventually be approximately 247 affordable units. Here you can see the sources and uses of the bonds. We are funding $135 million of replacement housing projects. We fund a debt service reserve fund consistent with our other tax allocation bonds. We pay transaction costs. And in order to do all that, we estimate we will borrow approximately $147 million in bond principal amounts. The action before you today is to approve the bond documents, specifically the indenture of trust and bond purchase agreement, as well as authorizing OCII to proceed with the financing. The indenture of trust is a legal document that lays out all of the provisions of the bonds. The bond purchase agreement will be signed the day the bonds are sold and is an agreement between OCI and the underwriter, which lays out the coupons, yields, principal amount, and underwriter's compensation for the bonds. And as an exhibit to the resolution and attached to the memo, you can see more detail regarding these numbers as prepared by our municipal advisor, KNN. And we have Melissa Schick here representing KNN, if there are any questions. Summarized in the box here, you can see the expected true interest cost of 6.3% for the bonds and the underwriter's discount of half a percent. That's their fee for selling the bonds to investors. After today's action, the next steps in the bond issuance process would be approval by the Oversight Board next Monday of the commission resolution as well as the bond documents. Subject to Oversight Board approval, we would then submit their resolution to the State Department of Finance for review and approval. The State Department of Finance then has 65 days to review and approve. We also are going to seek Board of Supervisors approval in late July for our fiscal year 2026-27 budget. And in that resolution, the Board of Supervisors will be asked to approve the financing amount for these bonds as well. So that's a necessary step by the Board of Supervisors before we can issue. Assuming all those approvals, We will come back to Commission for approval of the preliminary official statement, which is the document we'll issue to investors to offer the bonds for sale. We would then sell the bonds and aim to close the bonds before the end of the calendar year. And that concludes the presentation.

Thank you Mr. Jens for your presentation. Madam Secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to provide a comment, question, or concern?

If there are any members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item, please call 415-655-0001, enter access code 26600893202, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Press star 3 to be placed in the queue. If there are any members of the public who would like to provide their comment here in person, you may come up to the podium at this time. Seeing no members of the public in person, wishing to comment, moving over to our remote callers. And Madam Chair, it does not appear we have any remote callers wishing to comment either.

Hearing no further requests to speak on this item, I will close public comment. And I'll turn now to my fellow commissioners for your comments, questions, or concerns. Okay. Vice Chair Miller.

Thank you, Dr. Scott. Thank you, Nick. A lot of details in this process. It's a long process. Appreciate that. And I think at an earlier meeting, you indicated that it was a good bond market. And it looked like the KNN memo indicated an all-in TIC of 6.4% about that. It still looks good out there in the market.

Yeah, we actually have refined our estimates a bit in consultation with Canon, the underwriters, and we've actually gone through a process with the rating agency as well to determine what the expected rating would be. So we do still think that the estimate and the municipal advisor's analysis is representative of the market. We've been monitoring the market and comparing the interest rates we are able to achieve on our prior bond sales to these bonds. So we still feel confident in this projection.

And you mentioned 6.2, I think, in your presentation?

Yeah, I think in the presentation, 6.3% was the true interest cost shown in the municipal advisor's analysis. And as of, I think, last week when we reviewed the numbers again, we're within 10 basis points of that, so very close to the estimate. That's great. That's encouraging. Thank you.

Thank you. Just kind of a fast question. It might be for you, Director. So with the Freedom West, I didn't hear anything about this project until our last meeting. I'm almost certain we're going to approve this now, the housing bonds. I guess my question is, how involved are we going to be going forward if we approve this? Which I'm sure we will. But how involved will we be in the future of Freedom West with this bond? And then that's 247 units. So I'm just curious what our involvement is going forward.

Thanks, Commissioner Shaddix. That's a good question. Some of that is still being determined at this stage. This is an affordable component of a much larger project. There are four square blocks that the Freedom West site kind of encompasses. And the city, there's sort of a parallel negotiation going on with the city writ large through the Office of Economic and Workforce Development that's negotiating a development agreement with that organization represented by the McFarland Partners Company. And they're negotiating the overall development. And we are discussing in very early stages potential subsidy of a affordable housing component, which might be one or two buildings. We're not sure yet. We don't have any designs for the project. The Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development approximately two years ago did a notice of funding availability for a senior housing development in Western Addition. And Freedom West was the successful applicant in that competitive process. So an initial housing phase, I think, is being approved this Friday at the city's loan committee, which is an internal city group that underwrites and evaluates financial feasibility and approves projects affordable housing funding so the city is funding already a portion of that through that agreement because there's some remaining affordable housing to be developed they've asked if we can assist with some pre-development money and we don't have an agreement with the city or with freedom west yet and we haven't determined whether or not we would do something directly with them or through the city through the mayor's office of housing and community development. But we know that in about 12 months, we will have more certainty and clarity on that and want to be prepared to potentially fund those pre-development costs. So that's all we know at this time. We want it to be ready. If the project does not progress along the timeline that we've been made aware of in terms of the development agreement, which Q3, Q2 of this year, we would not issue bonds for that part of the project, this portion of the bonds, if it were to be significantly delayed. So we wouldn't make that determination until closer to Q3 of this year. But things are progressing with that team and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, as well as with the Mayor's Office of Housing. And so if there is an agreement that gets consummated with them, we would come back to this commission for a future approval to disperse those funds to that group.

One more question. And so would we be involved in design plans, the developer themselves? I mean, are we involved in any of that, or we're just straight up funding this and moving on?

That's a great question and a potential distinction on this project. The replacement housing project in Mission Bay, we do do design review because we are the land use authority in that redevelopment area, as is Hunter's Point Shipyard, as is Candlestick, as is Transbay. We are not the land use authority in the Western Addition former project area. The planning department is. So as it stands right now, We don't have that land use authority and the city would be reviewing that through the normal process of the planning department. The planning department also incidentally has to sign off on the development agreement. There's a process where the planning department weighs in, but they would 99% be doing the land use review. We'd be primarily interested in the bond issuance, which you're reviewing today, and the financing agreement, whether it's a loan agreement or some sort of funding agreement that we're funding the mayor's office housing to do the loan agreement.

We will need a motion now, commissioners, and a second to approve of the item 5B.

Commissioner Hakimi, so moved.

May I get a second?

I'd like to second that motion.

Madam Secretary, please take roll.

Motion made by Commissioner Hakimi, seconded by Vice Chair Miller. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5B when I call your name. Commissioner Hakimi. Aye. Commissioner Lim? Yes. Commissioner Shaddix? Yes. Vice Chair Miller? Yes. And Chair Scott? Aye. Madam Chair, the vote is five ayes.

Motion carries. Madam Secretary, would you please call the next item?

Agenda item numbers 5C and 5D related to the community facility districts will be presented together but acted on separately. Item 5C is approving the budgets and levies of special taxes for July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 for community facility districts administered by the successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the City and County of San Francisco. Discussion and action. Resolution number 10-2026. Item 5D is establishing the annual appropriations limits for July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 for community facility districts administered by the successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the City and County of San Francisco. Discussion in action. Resolution number 11-2026. Director Koslowski.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, commissioners, members of the public. This item, as you heard, is an establishment of the budget for the annual community facilities district, or CFD, annual budget. It's the final approval. We had a workshop on April 7 on this item. And this approves the budget for fiscal 2026, 2027, which is the 12-month period starting in July. And it represents approximately $57 million in infrastructure, maintenance, and capital repair, administrative, and financing costs across our six CFDs. And to present this item is Mina Yu, the Deputy Director for Finance and Administration. Mina.

Thank you, Director. Good afternoon, Chair Ransom-Scott, Vice Chair Miller, members of the Commission. Again, my name is Mina Yu, and I'm here to present the Community Facilities District, or CFDs, budgets and annual appropriations limits. So as Director Kozlowski mentioned, we presented the workshop on our budget and the annual appropriations limits on April 7. And no changes were requested. So this is the same table and information that was provided at the workshop. Again, our total budget for fiscal year 26-27 is $56.8 million. $21.2 million of that is funded with the annual levy and $35.7 with the fund balance. And the table before you just shows the budget of each of our six active CFDs. And again, each budget is separate and discrete, meaning that funds cannot be moved between the CFDs. Also before you is the action item on the annual appropriations limit. No changes were requested to this information. So this table shows the limits for each CFD for fiscal year 26-27. And then this slide just shows a comparison of the annual budget to the annual appropriations limits, demonstrating that no budget will exceed the limit set for each CFD. So again, the action items before you are to approve the budgets and levies of special taxes for July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 for the community facilities districts administered by the successor agency, along with establishing the annual appropriations limits for fiscal year 26-27 for these CFDs. And that concludes the presentation.

Thank you, Mina. Madam Secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to provide comment, question, or concern?

At this time, we're inviting members of the public who wish to provide public comment on these items to call 415-655-0001. Again, enter access code 26600893202, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Please press star 3 to be placed in the queue. If you're already listening to us by phone and you would like to provide a public comment, please press star 3. And we'll begin with members of the public in person. If you'd like to provide a comment, you may come up to the podium at this time. Seeing no members in person wishing to comment, moving over to remote callers. Madam Chair, it also does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment at this time.

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

Thank you, Dr. Scott.

Thank you, Dr. Scott. Thank you, Mina. The CFCs seem to be doing a great job maintaining these areas. And I know we're getting great cooperation with Rec and Park and Public Works and the other city departments. So I think this is great. And we're well under the appropriation limits. So I support this.

Thank you. Anyone? Commissioners? If there are no additional questions, comments, or concerns, we'll need a motion and a second for each of these items. Let's start with getting a motion and a second for item 5C.

Commissioner Hakimiso moved.

May I have a second?

I'll second.

Thank you. It's been moved and second. Madam Secretary, please take roll.

For item 5C, it was moved by Commissioner Hakimi, seconded by Commissioner Shaddix. Commission members, please announce your vote when I call your name. Commissioner Hakimi. Thank you. Aye. Commissioner Lim? Yes. Commissioner Shaddix?

Yes.

Vice Chair Miller? Yes. And Chair Scott? Aye. Madam Chair, the vote for item 5C is five ayes.

Motion carries. May I get a motion and second for item 5D? Commissioner Hikimiso moved. Second.

I'll second.

Pardon me. I'll second. Thank you. Madam Secretary, please take roll.

For item 5D, motion by Commissioner Hakimi, seconded by Commissioner Shaddix. Commission members, please announce your vote when I call your name. Commissioner Hakimi? Aye. Commissioner Lim?

Yes.

Commissioner Shaddix? Yes. Vice Chair Miller? Yes. And Chair Scott? Aye. Madam Chair, the vote for item 5D is five ayes.

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

Next is item number 5E, approving a budget for the period July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 and authorizing the executive director to submit the budget and interim budget to the mayor's office and the board of supervisors. Discussion and action resolution number 12-2026. Director Koslowski.

Thank you again, Madam Secretary, on this item, commissioners, members of the public. This, once again, is a hearing on the agency's annual budget. This commission held a workshop on April 7 on this matter. It is for the fiscal year 26-27, which is the period of July 2026 through June 2027. It presents approximately $670 million in projects. And as previously presented, it includes debt service and financings to support essential infrastructure, open space, and affordable housing investments across Transbay, Mission Bay, and the Candlestick projects. Some of these projects, or excuse me, these projects include the Transbay East Cut Sports and Dog Park, reimbursements for Mission Bay infrastructure and parks projects, as well as affordable housing projects at Freedom West, which we just discussed under the bond item, and Mission Bay Block 4 East, as well as funds for candlestick infrastructure that are needed to support the new affordable housing in the early phases of the candlestick project, including near the Alice Griffith Community. So although we've talked about infrastructure beginning later this year, and we hope that begins on time, housing construction will unlikely begin for another two years. But these affordable housing and infrastructure funds can jumpstart early design work and work to tackle the site readiness challenges that are out there and support our long-term redevelopment commitments to that community. These expenditures will strengthen our partnerships across the city. and enable us to implement our various agreements to complete our enforceable obligations in our major project areas. And we'll continue our good work to build vibrant and inclusive communities for all of San Francisco. And to do this presentation is Grace Longardino from Finance at OCII. Grace.

Thank you, Director Kozlowski. Good afternoon, Chair Dr. Scott, Vice Chair Miller, commissioners. I'm Grace Longardino. I'm the accountant for the OCII Finance Department. I'll be going over our budget for the 26-27 fiscal year. This is an overview of our budgeting process. Our recognized obligation payment schedule, or ROPS, which serves effectively as our state budget, shapes our local budget, which is before you today. We presented a workshop on our ROPS to the oversight board on January 12th. and the Oversight Board approved our ROPS on January 26th. We submitted it to the Department of Finance by February 1st, and the Department of Finance approved our ROPS on April 15th. The budget before you today reflects the approved ROPS, and upon your approval, we will submit our budget to the Mayor's Office by the end of May. Our budget will then be submitted to the Board of Supervisors by June 1st. Our 26-27 budget is $676.4 million. This table provides a summary by sources in the leftmost column and project area and uses across the top row. The majority of our authority request comes from bonds due to the planned new bond issuances for Mission Bay, Transbay, affordable housing, and replacement housing. Our largest use is in Mission Bay, including affordable housing and replacement housing projects. OCII plans to issue four bonds in the upcoming fiscal year for an estimated total principal of $398 million and an estimated annual debt service of $42.5 million. This includes the 2026 Trans Bay Bond for $75.4 million, the 2027 Housing Bond for $86 million, the 2026 Mission Bay South Bond for $48 million, and the 2027 Replacement Housing Bond for $189 million. This table provides a year-over-year look at our budget by source. We have an increase of $54.2 million. This increase in sources is primarily due to an increase in bonds planned for issuance in the fiscal year 26-27 to fund infrastructure and replacement housing projects and an increase in fund balance for affordable housing loans. The total increase is offset by a decrease in prior period authority due to continued spending down on affordable housing loans in Hunters Point Shipyard, Candlestick Point, and Transbay, Mission Bay infrastructure reimbursements, and a delay in Transbay Park's schedule. This table shows our uses year over year. Our budget is increasing by $54.2 million. Changes to current year uses compared to prior year are primarily due to an increase in new replacement housing loans and a planned increase in debt service on our bonds issued for those loans, as well as our associated staff costs. The increase is offset by our continued spending down on our existing affordable housing loans. This table shows our year-over-year change in operating costs. We are increasing our operating costs by $1.2 million. Our year-over-year expenditure change reflects an increase in our staffing costs due to cost of living adjustments as determined per the union agreements, as well as rising health care and pension costs, which are driven by an actuarial liability schedule. This total increase is offset by a decrease in our non-labor costs, which are the costs to run the agency outside of staffing. In summary, our 26-27 budget is $676.4 million. The table shows a summary by sources in the left and project area and uses across the top. The majority of our authority request comes from bonds due to the new planned bond issuances for Mission Bay, Transbay, affordable housing, and replacement housing. And our largest use is in Mission Bay, including affordable housing and replacement housing projects. OCII is seeking approval of our budget for the period of July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. The interim budget allows us to incur expenditures in the new financial year until the new budget is passed on August 1. The interim budget is month one of the new budget. This concludes our presentation of our budget for the 26-27 fiscal year. And we're here for any questions that you may have.

Thank you so much, Grace. Madam Secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to provide comment, question, or concern?

If there are any members of the public who wishes to provide public comment on this item, please call 415-655-0001, enter access code 089-3202, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Please press star 3 to be placed in the queue. And we'll begin by inviting members of the public in person. If you'd like to provide public comment on this item, you may come up to the podium at this time. Seeing no in-person speakers, moving over to our remote callers. Madam Chair, it also does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment.

Hearing no further requests to speak on the item, I'll close public comment. I'll now turn to my fellow commissioners for any questions, comments, or concerns. Vice Chair Miller.

Thank you, Dr. Scott. And thank you, Grace. Great presentation. It's a large budget, but it's a large mission we have of building quality infrastructure and affordable housing. So I'll support this budget.

Thank you.

Commissioner Shaddix. Thank you. Sorry, I'm having trouble with my buttons. Thank you, Grace, for the presentation and all the work leading up to this because it's very easy for me to read, and I appreciate that a lot. So I also am going to definitely support this as well. So thank you for your presentation.

And seeing no further discussion, If there are no additional questions, comments, or concerns, may I get a motion and a second on item 5E?

I'll move.

Go ahead. Mr. Hayek, may I second?

Yeah. I'll move Resolution 1226, approving the 2627 budget.

Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. Madam Secretary, will you please take roll?

Motion moved by Vice Chair Miller, seconded by Commissioner Hakimi. Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5E when I call your name. Commissioner Hakimi? Aye. Commissioner Lim?

Yes.

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

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

The next order of business is item 6, public comment on non-agenda items. If there are any members of the public who wish to provide public comment on non-agenda items, please call 415-655-0001. Enter access code 26600893202, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Again, please press star 3 to be placed in the queue if you would like to comment. And we'll begin by inviting members of the public in person to come up to the podium if you'd like to provide a comment on non-agenda items. Seeing no members of the public in person, wishing to comment. And we also do not have any members of the public remotely. Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Shall I call the next item?

Would you please call the next item, Madam Secretary?

The next order of business is item seven, report of the chair. Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Secretary. I have sad news that we lost one of our leaders in the city. It was Reverend Roland Garden of the Ingleside Presbyterian Church that did great works around economic workforce, education, as well as carrying the community for almost 50 years. and was well-known. Nancy Pelosi did much with him, along with our President Bill Clinton. And he did much for our young people, mentoring our young boys that were either fatherless or did not have role models, just raising standards, role modeling. helping them to see and believe there was a better way of life for them, as well as keeping account of the history for the city and many of our city leaders across the nation, allowing the community to know that there were great people here in this city, as well as the state and nation, that were doing wonderful things. But he kept the actions What we do and how we say what we do is always remembered above what we just only say, our actions of how we move with our custom and manners. It was important. And the greatest thing that he carried with this city in the faith community is that all we need was love. And so I'm going to ask for a moment of silence if it's OK. And in honor of Reverend Roland Garden, his services are going to be next week. And our state and local leaders will be sending proclamations and resolutions in honor of this man. So may we have just a moment of silence. Thank you. The other part that I'd like to share, I went to a health awareness meeting where Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness was introducing their revival, just reviving the health coalition for the city. And food program, the biggest thing that we heard over and over, even leaders stating they couldn't afford to stay in the city. And they were happy to hear about our COP program that I was given a moment to share about because they were not fully aware. And I'm so grateful to Pam and her committee for sharing all of the information and in the manner that it was shared. And so they are asking to hear more about that and to see more of it. I'm grateful for links. They were aboard and there and gave a report. the wonderful panel discussions. But housing is important, and we're doing a great job. So I cannot thank your staff enough for how you're doing what you're doing, as well as how we're moving forward to meet the needs of getting even those that do the work to build the city, getting them involved. And we still have a ways to go, but we're on that journey. We're on the road. And things are happening. So I want to thank you, OCII, for what you're doing. And your name is just out there. And there was gratitude for Thor and his help in helping them get the building they're in. They're moving forward with it. It's a wonderful facility, Thor. And it gives so much pride and dignity to the Bayview southeast side of San Francisco, a well-attended event. And that is it with my report.

The next order of business is item eight, report of the executive director, Director Kozlowski.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, members of the public, commissioners. I have some good news to report. The federal government has awarded the Navy an additional $5 million for building demolition on the Hunters Point shipyard. As you recall, I did a March visit with the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor's office to Washington, DC, and met with Senators Padilla and Schiff and Speaker Amaretta Pelosi's office, seeking additional funding for the Hunters Point Shipyard. And I want to thank, also, Senator John Boozman, who's the chair of the Subcommittee on Military Construction Veteran Affairs, for approving that through that committee. But that's great. The building demolition on the Hunters Point shipyard includes about 100 some odd buildings on the Hunters Point shipyard. And within the next two weeks, about six buildings are going to begin their demolition on what's called Parcel G, which is sort of at the middle of the shipyard. They've begun already the lead and asbestos containing material removal process and hopefully will start the demolition shortly thereafter. The Hunters Point Shipyard artists community also holds their open studios twice a year. those open studios are this weekend so if you're out there and you're able to take a look over to the middle of the shipyard you'll see those buildings in the middle of the shipyard either having been stripped away of all their lead paint at that point or that is underway But visit the artists out there at the shipyard. And I wanted to let you know about that $5 million award that came through the federal government. And thank you again, Senators Padilla and Schiff and Speaker Emerita Pelosi and Senator John Boozman for that. Thank you. That's the end of my report. Thank you.

Thank you, Director Keselowski. Thank you for that report. Commissioners, do you have any questions or comments on the director's report? Vice Chair Miller.

Well, I had a chance to attend a ferry system presentation on their new electric ferries that are coming in. And I understand that OCI funded about $400,000 through the Warriors, a requirement for public transit support. And they were very grateful to receive that money. And in public transportation, it's not a huge amount of money, but every bit helps. And it's appropriate during the Earth Day celebration that we help fund some of the clean air ferries for the Bay Area Transit.

If I may, Madam Chair, on that?

Yes, sir.

Thank you. Thank you, Vice Chair Miller, for attending that event and for remarking about it today. About three years ago, maybe two years ago, the San Francisco Bay ferry system, through the warriors, was trying to consummate an acquisition of the world's first ever hydrogen electric ferry. And the money that was provided to the ferry was through our authorization, but was not our funds. They were mitigation for the Warriors project, so the environmental impact report for that project related to it. required a clean energy transportation investment. And so they sought to put those approximately $400,000 towards this project. We said that we would recognize that as an adequate mitigation. And the money then went to the ferry system, and they deployed that hydrogen ferry. So the event you, I think it was last week or two weeks ago that you attended was sort of their first annual or second annual sort of report on an expansion of their ferry service and an electrification of their ferry service so they can have clean energy being used on the water. So thank you for mentioning that, Vice Chair Miller.

Yes.

And on that note, I did my usual walk this weekend. It's Mission Bay Park, or is it Bay Point Park? I always get the name wrong. Right in front of the Chase Arena. Bayfront Park. Bayfront Park. OK. I was passing by there on Sunday. And for the first time, I noticed a water taxi stand. I don't know why I've passed by there so many times. Never noticed it. So wishful thinking, just kind of along the lines of the ferry there. Any plans towards Candlestick or shipyard of having a water taxi stop? Didn't look very complicated. It looked like a floating pier. Didn't look anything too complicated. So wishful thinking. Just thought I'd throw it out there since we're talking water transportation.

Thank you. Commissioners?

If I may, Commissioner Shattucks, at the risk of saying too much, the Hunters Point Shipyard does have envisioned as part of their transportation system a water taxi location. But as we know, the Hunters Point Shipyard needs to complete its remediation before something like that would occur. But that is planned. And when it's ready, hopefully that will be a very robust system for us to plug into.

Thank you, Director Kaselowski. Commissioners, any other questions, comments, or concerns that you'd like to discuss? Madam Secretary, please call the next item.

The next order of business is item nine, commissioners' questions and matters. Madam Chair.

Commissioners, are there any questions, matters of concern, comments?

Madam Chair, if I can make a minor technical recommendation that the comments that weren't necessarily related to the executive director's reports from Vice Chair Miller and Commissioner Shaddix be moved over to the questions and matters section. They were, I think, more in that vein than commenting on the report of the director.

I'd like to ask if it would be appropriate for our commission to send a condolence to Reverend Gordon's family for the service. Could that happen, Chair?

Madam Chair, I can work with you on a letter, if you'd like, that we can transmit to, I guess, the family. Yes. I can work with you on that.

Thank you, sir. Thank you. If there are no other comments. Commissioner. Yes, thank you so much.

I just want to thank, I had an opportunity to do the walkthrough for last week at the Mission Bay. I want to thank you so much for coordinating that, the staff and Thor and Mark. Thank you so much because it really helps me understand what we're doing. And I look forward to the other parts that I'm getting walkthroughs. Thank you again.

Thank you. Madam Secretary, please call the next item.

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

Fellow Commissioners, I'll need a motion and a second to adjourn our meeting.

Commissioner Hakimi, so moved.

Second?

Second.

It's been moved and seconded. The meeting is being adjourned at 1.51 PM. Meeting adjourned.