Community Investment and Infrastructure, Commission - Regular Meeting

It is now 1 p.m. My name is Dr. Carolyn Ransom Scott, and this is a regular meeting of the Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure for Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. I'd like to welcome everyone 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 Lim.

I'm here.

Commissioner Miller.

Here.

Commissioner Shattuck.

Here.

Vice Chair Aquino. Present. 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. Item eight, the next regular meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 at 1 p.m. in City Hall room 416. Item 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. Item 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 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 26609719164, followed by the pound or number sign, then the pound or number sign again to enter the call. When prompted, please 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 item 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. 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 from regular meeting of October 7, 2025. Madam Chair.

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

If there are any members of the public who wish to provide public comment on item 5A, please call 415-655-0001, enter access code 26609719164, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Please press star 3 to be placed in the queue. An automated voice will let you know when it is your turn. If you are already listening to us by phone, please press star 3 if you would like to provide a comment. We'd like to begin by inviting members of the public who are here in person. If you'd like to comment on 5A, which are the minutes, 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.

Hearing no further requests to speak on the item, I will close public comment. Commissioners, can I get a motion to approve the minutes? I'll move to approve the minutes. Can I get a second, please? I'll second that motion. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. Madam Secretary.

Commission members, please announce your vote for item 5A when I call your name. Commissioner Lim.

Yes.

Commissioner Miller.

Yes.

Commissioner Shattuck.

Yes.

Vice Chair Aquino. Yes. And Chair Scott.

Yes.

Madam Chair, the vote is five ayes.

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

next is the regular agenda item 5b workshop on the july 2024-2 june 2025 report on ocii small business enterprise and local hiring goals and practices discussion director koslovsky

Thank you, Madam Secretary, and greetings, members of the public, commissioners. This is the annual report on the economic activity and contracting and hiring that goes on through our projects. It's a report on our small business enterprise policy and the activities through our projects, as well as the hiring that goes on in those projects. This is covering the period of July 2024 through June 2025. So it's looking back during that period. And we'll be presenting this to you with our contract compliance team, as well as folks from the mayor's office. Beginning the presentation will be Julia Hernandez, who will cover the small business portion of it. She'll be followed by George Bridges, who will cover the workforce section. And they'll also be joined by our city partners, who I believe are here in the audience. I think I saw them. The Office of Economic and Workforce Development folks, Ioana Pena, she's the director of workforce development for the city. Mr. Ken Nim, who is the director of city build. And they'll make some remarks under the workforce portion. And with that, I'll turn it over to Julia.

Hello, my name is Julia Hernandez. I am a Compliance Specialist II on the Contracts Compliance Team. Good afternoon, Chair Dr. Scott, Commissioners, Director Kozlowski, General Counsel Morales. I will be providing you an overview of our SBE program for the fiscal year 2024 through 2025. To begin, here's a brief overview of the SBE program. Genuine efforts will be made to give first consideration to project area SBEs located in zip code areas 94124, 94134, and 94107, followed by all other San Francisco-based SBEs. Non-SF-based SBEs should be used to satisfy participation goals only if project area and SF-based SBEs are not available qualified or their bid or fees are significantly higher. OCII staff works closely with each developer and or their lead architects and general contractors to ensure compliance with these good faith efforts. The SBE policy establishes a 50% SBE goal. Staff works closely with developers and general contractors to accomplish these efforts. Examples of this include meeting with developers and contractors to walk through OCII's contracting process and good faith efforts at the onset of a project, reviewing solicitation documents, including requests for proposals and advertisements prior to release, assisting with the release and publications of solicitations. Reviewing of work to maximize unbundling opportunities, recommending specific scopes for unbundling, attending pre-bid and pre-solicitation meetings, and attending interviews as applicable. Reviewing proposal responses and bid summaries to verify SPE eligibility, ensuring first consideration has been given to project area and San Francisco-based businesses. And finally, reviewing and approving teaming arrangements when proposed, and suggesting further solicitation efforts or teaming arrangements when the goals are not met. This chart demonstrates a five-year look back ranging from fiscal year 20 through 21 to 24-25, providing insight to yearly contracting dollars. In fiscal year 24-25, five projects under OCII's jurisdiction were awarded various contracts totaling $36 million. During this fiscal year, staff dedicated a considerable amount of time on Transbay Block 2 to East and to West affordable housing developments, which are currently nearing construction completion. In the current fiscal year, no new construction contracts were an active buyout for OCI-assisted large-scale affordable housing or commercial developments. This is attributed to the market cycles and normal phases of real estate development, which often span multiple years. Despite this, staff anticipates contracting activity for fiscal year 25 through 26 to increase due to the bid schedule for Mission Bay Block 4 East, which is a high-rise affordable housing project. This chart provides annual SBE percentages for fiscal year 20 through 21 through fiscal year 24-25. Overall, projects initiated during this reporting period have increased SBE participation for both professional services and construction contracts when compared to last fiscal year. For professional service contracts, SBE participation reached 86.6% of total awards, exceeding the 50% goal. This increase in professional services is due to Mission Bay Block 4 East, a two-phase affordable housing development entering into the design phase, as well as the maintenance services for Community Facilities District 1 being awarded professional service contracts. Construction SBE participation increased to 49.8%, up from 45.2%, driven by two infrastructure contracts awarded in fiscal year 24-25, these being Mission Bay stormwater pump station number three and the Transbay-Clementina Street infrastructure project. This slide focuses on awards and commitments by minority and gender status. While OCII does not have a minority and women-owned business goal, OCII encourages developers in their efforts to include diverse small business participation. With this in mind, minority and women-owned businesses continue to show a positive and steady percentage of participation in both professional services and construction contracts. In fiscal year 24-25, professional services reached 58.9% of minority and women-owned businesses' participation, while construction contracts reached 32.6. Of approximately $36 million in total contracting dollars, 14.7 or 40.9% went to minority and women-owned businesses, continuing OCII's intentional legacy of equity and inclusion in contracting. This chart demonstrates OCII's SBE performance over the past 12 months. Professional services totaled 11.3 million for the year, with 86.6 going towards SBEs, reflecting strong small business participation. For construction supplies, 24.6 million was spent with 49.8% awarded to SBEs. Notably, all participating SBEs firms were located in San Francisco. In total of about $36 million of contracting, 61.4% were awarded to SBEs with 60% of total spending going to San Francisco-based businesses. OCI continues to prioritize outreach and relationship building with local, small, and diverse firms. Our outreach strategy focuses on increasing visibility, access, and participation opportunities for SBEs and minority and women-owned businesses across all project areas. Some of these strategies include direct notifications sent to small, local, minority, and women businesses to assure they are aware of opportunities. Advertisements made in general, ethnic, and SB focused media. Bids are posted on OCII and the city's partner procurement websites. Pre-bid and pre-proposal meetings are held with developers and contractors. Referrals are made to the city's contract monitoring division for certification and contractor development program. Email outreach via CAC meeting announcements, CAC email list, and city LBE slash SBE lists. to the, sorry, an ongoing dialogue is held between the following groups. The National Association of Minority Contractors, Clark Construction Strategic Partnership Program, Bayview Renaissance Entrepreneur Center, Hunters Point Shipyard Candlestick Point Construction Assistance Program, local SBE community groups, and project area CACs. All is done in a strategic effort to increase and encourage local SBE participation. Thank you for your time. I will now hand it over to George Bridges to review our Workforce and Trainee Program.

I'm George Bridges, Contract Compliance Supervisor. Good afternoon.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

Chair Scott, Vice Chair Aquino, Commissioners, Executive Director, and General Counsel Morales, I'd like to provide you with an overview of our workforce program. Contractors make a good faith effort to hire local residents to perform 50% of the construction workforce hours. Contractors are required to comply with the payment of California prevailing wages. First consideration is given to project area residents, which are located in zip codes 94124, 94134, and 94107. Citibuild staff administers the day-to-day compliance of our workforce program, including the referral of residents of San Francisco. Compliance measures include kickoff workforce meetings between OCII, CityBuild, the various developers, and their general contractors. Ongoing pre-construction meetings for new contractors coming on site to increase local hiring opportunities. Worker request forms must be submitted on a regular basis to ensure hiring of local workers. Weekly certified payroll reporting is required. Staff conducts a monthly compliance meeting with Citibuild, the developers, and their general contractors to address any outstanding hiring concerns or underperforming contractors. This next table shows the workforce outcomes for FY 2021 to FY 24-25. In FY 2021, the height of COVID, we achieved 16.5% local hire. A lot of that was attributed to a lot of the work that was going on in the city at the time and the unavailability of local workers. Over the past four years, we've ranged between 23% to 26% local hire. In FY 24-25, there was a total of 591 Total work for hours, and 136 of those hours were performed by local workers. We understand that there was a reduction in hiring on OCI projects, but this is consistent with projects here in the city. Construction hiring over city projects, according to the Economic and Workforce 2025 Local Hiring Policy Annual Report, there was a decrease in terms of local hires. City Build Academy continues building a local workforce pipeline to meet the industry needs. In cycles 41 and 42, there were 76 graduates. 63 were hired locally. On OCI projects, 92 placements. were made on four affordable housing projects into the two infrastructure projects. The affordable housing was Hunters Point Shipyards Block 52, 54, and 56, and Transbay Block 2 East and West. 32 of those workers were graduates from City Build Academy. OCII has an internship program that matches local students with training opportunities at design and construction firms on OCII projects and works closely with City College and SF State. This collaboration is with the Japanese Community Youth Council, Economic and Workforce Development, and the Mayor's Opportunity for All Initiatives. We completed our 10th cycle in August and placed 10 students in summer internships, seven architectural students, two construction management students, and one engineering student this cycle. Since the inception of the program, 96 student positions have been created across 44 firms. Today we have Kristin and Alana. who will speak to you today. They are our interns, and you met them at the Capstone in April. Christian?

Hello, everyone. Good afternoon. I'm Christian Alizes, and I came to the summer training program by way of City College, graduating in 2024 from their architecture program. And that summer, I applied for the summer trainee program. I got placed at Mithun. And after that, that was an amazing experience. It was quite of a nerve-wracking experience, because it was my first time interning anywhere. But thanks to not only the safe work environment of Mithun, but also the structure of the program, I was able to, be able to grow and learn in this really safe environment, along with a camaraderie of cohort of interns, meeting every week to do workshops and to do site visits, and being able to connect with them every week. So that made a really nice, safe experience as someone interning for the first time. And earlier this year, JCYC reached out to me asking if I wanted to be the fellow for this year. And of course, I was really excited about that opportunity. Not only did I get to intern again at Methuen, which was of course great and amazing as always, but I also got to learn a lot of new things about myself, gaining experience in project management, program coordination, and more experience in leading a team. So all that to say, every experience I've had through this program has been an amazing one. It's impacted my life in a very positive way. And I'll be taking those skills and experiences with me for the rest of my career. So thank you. And passing it over to Alana.

Hello, my name is Alana Lee, and I was one of the interns for this summer. I'm currently a City College of San Francisco student majoring in construction management. And this summer, I interned with Swinnerton with the OCII program. So a little bit about me. I graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from UC Davis, but I was in a situation where I had to put survival over my career. That's why I went back to the community college to kind of start over and try to pursue what I wanted to do. So when I got into the OCII program, it really gave me a new perspective and trying to get my foot into the door to get that fresh start. And I really appreciated the encouraging environment and the additional support that they offered me, because all of the students there, when I was talking to them, they all had a different story. They all had different struggles and different obstacles they had to get through. And being in a cohort like that, It really encouraged me to be my best self and bringing myself forward to get over some of the obstacles that I've gotten through. And I'm very thankful to the team at Swinerton as well for being such an encouraging environment and helping me get through what I needed to do. And some of the things that I really appreciated about the program were some of the workshops that they had. It really demonstrated how I can be an advocate and help diversify the workforce and create some change after I leave the program as well. And all in all, I don't think I would be here here speaking with y'all without the program. And I've been very grateful to be a participant of it. Thank you. That's awesome. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

And I'd like to thank them as well. I think they really have shown that the program is a success. And probably most importantly, we'd like to thank Chair Scott and Commissioner Miller for attending that capstone. And we couldn't do this program without our partner, JCYC. I see is here. And she's been with us since the inception of the program. So she's been really instrumental in working with the students. I'd also like to thank our partners, OEWD, for helping us, especially the last few years in terms of helping support financially the program. And we do have with us today Iowena Pena, Director of City Workforce Development, and Ken Nim with OEWD. And I'd like to have either one of them come up and speak.

Well, good afternoon, Chair Scott and esteemed commissioners and director. Appreciative of the opportunity to come before you again. I think the last time I saw y'all was in March when I just assumed the role. I am coming up on almost a year, 10 months. But enough to see two cohorts. And just want to also shout out the OCI team. This work that we do in coordination together is really critical. I'm listening to the stories of some of the young folks that participated in the program, and it's clearly impactful. Like when these city systems work across the aisles together, like how we are making real transformational in the moment changes for our youth. A couple of things I just want to highlight for you since I've got the opportunity is we are finishing up our second cohort, our City Build Academy, for this year. This is our youngest class in the history of this 20-year program. As you all know, we celebrated 20 years this year. Forty-five percent of that class identify as transitional age youth, which is a huge impact, but also tells you where we're seeing a shift in what the choices are that folks are making when they're considering what their career options are. So really proud that we're able to be there and support them and support the construction work that's coming up in San Francisco, though it is slowing down. We are seeing that our numbers are strong in terms of placements with this population in this graduating class. I brought flyers and I'll leave some for you all. We have their graduation November 4th. It will be at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. We'll send you all an invitation to that. But over the last 10 years, this partnership that OEWD through its City Build Academy program has held with OCII has garnered over 2,000 placements. in the construction industry. And with that, our partnership directly with you all has placed 92 residents on OCII projects. So going strong, looking forward to continuing to do this work with you all in partnership.

Thank you, Anyana. Thank you.

Yes, thank you.

Good afternoon, commissioners. Just want to come up and say hi and really express my deepest gratitude to OCII, the staff, JCYC, and all the community partners. I see Oscar in the back over there. Without our collaboration and this approach, and of course, our executive director, Thor, here, right? I've been with CitiBuild for almost 20 years now, and throughout the whole time, our work with OCII has been instrumental. The impact that you all have made and the staff have made in holding contractors, making sure they're accountable to hiring graduates from a program, not even graduates, but also residents that are looking for work. And we hear feedback from the workers that's out there getting the jobs. So it's because of this effort. And OCI is one of the original workforce compliance program that started everything. So take pride in that. I just want to come up here and say thank you so much for all the support throughout the years.

Thank you for what you're doing as well.

Thank you.

And that concludes staff's presentation, and we're available for questions. Thank you.

I have a question.

Oh, before the question, can we go to public comment? Public comment, please. At this time, if there are any members of the public wishing to comment on this item, item 5B, please call 415-655-0001. Enter access code 2660971. 9164 followed by the pound sign and 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'll begin by inviting members of the public here in person starting with Mr. James to come up and provide a public comment.

Good afternoon, commissioners, director, and community, and the peoples in the audience. My name is Oscar James. I'm a native resident. If it wasn't for the programs to train peoples about skills and what have you, I don't know where this city and this community would be. I want to give dittos out to City Built for their work in training young peoples in our community. But we do have other programs, such as A. Philip Randolph that trains persons also. When programs first started off, we had the young community developers doing training programs. I don't know what happened to them. But we want to make sure the African-Americans and the peoples who are originally from 94124 are brought into these programs to be trained. Now, with city-built or whoever, I want them to go up on top of that hill and recruit some of those people up in the project areas. We've had some persons working on different contracts that was up on top of the hill and what have you, but they were non-union. We want to make sure our people's getting into unions. I'm a union man, and I really want peoples to be able to retire out of the unions. Without the unions, this city wouldn't be nothing. But my whole thing is making sure the residents And those three areas are the ones being trained. And I want them to have scouts go out to those communities, whether they go to the schools or whatever, and let these people know the opportunities that they have. Because we want to make sure our peoples are working, where they can be able to live in their own communities. We don't need no newcomers coming in, getting these jobs. And we also want to make sure our minority contractors, our hyperlocals, get some of these contracts. I don't agree with... 40, 50%, I believe, persons from these communities, if they get the skills to be contractors in their unions, that they should be given those contracts, whether it's a JV or whatever. And if we don't have our people as working contractors, we will stop the job, OK? I'm not as able as I was before, but I can block an entrance way to a construction job to make sure our people get it. So if it takes violence, then it takes violence. But please recognize we do not want to be violent, but we will be violent if our people don't get these jobs and the opportunity to work. Thank you very much.

MIG-PEN.

Chair Scott, commissioners, director, my name is Mick Penn. I work for Swinerton. We are one of the industry partners in the OCII internship program. I'm here today to sing the praises of JCYC, OEWD, and our previous four cohorts of interns. Lana, if she did not go back to school, she would have been working for us, but I guess she's getting ready to come back next summer. It is a great program. I think the support that the students get in the professional development series, along with the opportunity to intern and and have the day-to-day experience. It's almost like an apprenticeship in its own way, right? On-the-job training with some school learning. So I just wanted to sing the praises of the program. And we look forward to Alana coming back next year and us getting another JCYCO EWD OCII intern.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mick.

Are there any other members of the public in person? who would like to provide a public comment, you may come up to the podium at this time.

Hi, everybody. Good afternoon. My name is Aylid. I am the Associate Director for Special Projects at JCYC. So I get so honored to be up here in front of you all. I've worked with OCII since inception, and it's been an amazing program. Bea, who is there, is my counterpart, and we do a lot of the work with the interns every week. There's a workshop development that we do with them, and we give them the utmost support. I think that this program is special because we don't just place the interns at the site and not have any support. I think that's not going to do the program any justice. So we're always supporting them in any way we can. I think the best thing, too, that we definitely want to highlight is how much of an amazing program this is. We had so many interns come back to us and let us know where they're at during the time. Some of them are definitely doing a lot of the architect and engineering work at the certain sites that they're in, and so that's so good to hear. But we wanted to thank you for all the work and support that you've given this program. I've seen this program since the beginning, and I'm super honored to still be here, and you all are still here with your undivided attention for the program, and I hope that you continue doing that. I also want to say that JCYC as well as OCAI has been longtime partners along with OEWD and a few other folks. And there's not a lot of programs out there that really talk about supporting transitional age youth. I think someone mentioned that earlier as well. And so that's really important. So I hope that we continue to do that. Thank you so much.

EILEEN, YOU SAID YOU ARE WITH JCYC? YES, I AM. THANK YOU.

NO PROBLEM.

SO GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.

DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER MEMBERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK HERE? SEEING NONE IN PERSON, MOVING OVER TO OUR REMOTE CALLERS. IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING TO COMMENT BY PHONE, PRESS STAR 3 ON YOUR MOBILE DEVICES TO VIRTUALLY RAISE YOUR HAND. Madam Chair, it does not appear we have any other speakers at this time.

Hearing no further speakers with this item, I will close public comment. And I will turn to my fellow commissioners for their comments, questions, or concerns.

Commissioner Miller. thank you dr scott i i want to thank the staff george maria and julia and the entire staff that have worked with these programs it's just not good faith effort the data speaks for itself and see the results of the hard work and our contractors that are supporting these programs it's just great to see this kind of performance and i want to thank the programs with jc yc and city build and oewd The youth that are coming out of these programs are very impressive. Dr. Scott and I got to see the capstone projects, so impressive. And frankly, Alana and Kristen, you're the generation that's going to solve our problems for us here. And we have lots of challenges, and we look forward to your helping us with succeeding in the solutions. Thank you for all your work.

Commissioner Lim.

OK, I have a question. But first of all, I want to thank you for all the people that are involved on the hiring side. The contracting is why I have a big problem, OK? And with all these numbers shown here, I don't think that's enough, OK? And I don't believe these numbers, OK? So you guys got to work a little harder, all right? That's all I have.

Commissioner Kano?

Yes. Thank you, Chair. George and the team, thank you so much for the presentation. I was trying to write out what I wanted to say, because I did last night look into the memorandum. And as I was looking at everything, I'm like, just me reading, it's easy to read. But just the work that goes on. I applaud everyone on the team involved, and just really excited to see the results. I think I'm forgetting both of your extraordinary folks here. You mentioned the word. I think that's very important to motivate our youth and to really believe in what and encourage them in what they wanting to do. So I just want to acknowledge that and I'm sorry I was not able to make the capstone event, but I know I'll be able to make it in the future. And of course, I'll be there for the November 4th. Okay, I wrote it down. I saw my calendar. It's open. Well, I'm off at 9 a.m., but yes, I'll be there. But also, yeah, I just want to point out of the details here how under the workforce-compliant measures, it's very thorough. You know, you really... put a lot of time into this. And I know these little short sentences doesn't do what you guys do physically and go out there and do the work. So I just want to acknowledge that. And I applaud everyone involved. Thank you.

And Commissioner Shaddix. Right.

I'm supposed to yell in the mic, right? My mic is a little soft apparently. So I just want to say thank you to all and I'm sort of the rookie in this group here. So although I know so many of you and just hearing and reading these reports and seeing the actual people that this is impacting and seeing buildings getting built around me, then showing up at these ribbon cuttings and building namings and stuff and seeing everybody it's it's really impressive and I just want to make sure you all know that I see you and I Can't thank you enough for your incredible work in the community.

So, thank you Well, I just want to thank you again for the report and for what you're doing and as we look at everything There's a saying good Better best, never let it rest until your good gets better and your better becomes the best. And then never let that rest. So I would just echo. This is wonderful to hear because when I first came aboard 2018, we had a long ways to go. And we've come from a long ways in reaching our people. and reaching everyone across the board. And so I would just like to say if you could maybe connect with Mr. Oscar James and others and find out where these other places are where we may be missing our people. and our youth that desperately need work. That'll make our good become better and better become the best. And again, Just making sure, as you're doing collaborating and cohorts, all of this is amazing. And so don't be disheartened at all. I think we're all here trying to do the good, the better, and the best. So thank you for what you're doing and how it's being done, and that you're open for hearing more and doing greater things.

I want to speak one more time. So I'll piggyback on Mr. James' statement. And he says, from my own point of view, there's a lot of black contractors in the Bayview, they are not getting the fair share of their contracts. And I want to say that. I don't want to have Oscar James leading a pack to shut the job down. And Director Thorpe, I understood there's a letter coming from one of the black contractor in bayview wrote it to the mayor and ccu on that here that he's complaining about the same thing the black contractor in the bayview is not getting their fair share of work so that's why i was a little angry but i'm asking you have your staff to work much harder on this that's why i have thank you commissioner

Madam Chair? Madam Chair?

Yes, sir.

May I?

Yes, sir.

OK. Thank you, Commissioner Lim. Thank you, Mr. James, of course. Always highlighting the need for contracting and attention and focus and outreach to be focused on the folks in Bayview-Hunters Point. They have my entire career. CONTRACTORS. I'VE RECEIVED SEVERAL LETTERS I'VE RECEIVED SEVERAL LETTERS FROM DIFFERENT CONTRACTORS. FROM DIFFERENT CONTRACTORS. MANY ARE NOT ADDRESSED TO US. MANY ARE NOT ADDRESSED TO US. THEY ARE ADDRESSED TO THE CITY ON THEY ARE ADDRESSED TO THE CITY ON CITY PROJECTS. CITY PROJECTS. WE MONITOR THOSE COMMUNICATIONS WE MONITOR THOSE COMMUNICATIONS AND AS THERE IS ANYTHING WE ARE AND AS THERE IS ANYTHING WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WE RESPOND TO. RESPONSIBLE FOR WE RESPOND TO. I'LL TRY TO REACH OUT DIRECTLY I'LL TRY TO REACH OUT DIRECTLY IF THAT IS NECESSARY. IF THAT IS NECESSARY. WE MAINTAIN AW So thank you for that. And Madam Chair, if I may, I'd like to just bring back, I'd like to come and talk a little bit about the work of JCYC back to the trainee program. I just wanted her to be able to explain the service that they provide in the trainee program. Again, and I want to thank our partners at OEWD. There's sort of a mixed support financially of this program, and the city helps support it. So thank you.

Thank you. Hi again. So JCYC is employer of records for the program, which means we take care of the payroll. We also walk them, the students or the interns, we walk them through being certified to work at the site. So which means we sit down with them and already off the bat, they're already learning how to fill out the W-4 forms. their I-9 forms, all of the workforce development skills that we're trying to do with them. So we do that portion. We do the payroll portion of it. And then we also do the workshop that happens every week. That workshop is the one that they were talking about earlier, where we meet with them every week. sort of themes that happened during the workshops and you know I wanted to give a special shout out to Bea one of my folks that helps along with the workshops as well and so in that they are gathered in a cohort which you all heard earlier and we sit around and talk about you know how to do in-person interviews, how to revamp their resumes, all of the amazing things that they're going to need so that way when they're out there and or when they're applying, they'll have a better chance. So really we work closely with City College and other programs at JCYC. We are a workforce development program There's over seven, eight programs that I manage there. And so it's really important for us. Yeah, I mean, someone mentioned it. It's a holistic approach. It's not enough to just place them at a site. We want to make sure we support them along the way. And with that, it means sitting down with them weekly, checking in, and making sure everything's OK. There's a lot of times that our interns need much more support than just filling out the applications or filling out all of the work documents that they're going to need. Does that answer your question?

Yeah.

That's great. And I want to thank you for that. And we have other workforce partners here in the audience, young community developers and others in the city. These sort of on-ramp kinds of services that get people, whether they're transitioning from one career to another or they don't have a lot of experience in the workforce and they want to understand how to dress, the resume, all those things that kind of keep people out, these barriers that we wonder why somebody can't get a job These kinds of things are very important. So I think they're critical for the work and the pipeline of workers in the city in general, whether they be contracting or white collar kinds of jobs, green collar, blue collar, whatever you want to call it. So anyway, I just want to thank you for that. And that concludes this item.

Thank you so much.

thank Thank You director and it is to me something we don't need to apologize for we need to go that extra mile we're in a different generational a different era a different time of life and we have to shift gears and think out of the box and how do we help keep families stabilize mentally emotionally and physically, and economically. So all of this together, it's on our shoulders to do and to think about and discuss. So thank you so much for the holistic wraparound services. And I can commend Mercy, I can commend YCD, and so many others for the wraparound services. And I thank you for all that you're doing. Madam Secretary, if there are no more comments, questions, or concerns from the commissioners, 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 should call 415-655-0001, enter access code 26609719164, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Please press star, then 3 to be placed in the queue. If you're already listening to us by phone and would like to provide public comment, please press star 3 on your mobile devices. And we'll begin by inviting members of the public in person to come up to the podium to provide the public comment, starting with Mr. James.

Oscar James again. I just want to, I get emotional when I talk about young people getting some jobs, so blocking a job site is really no problem for me.

Mr. James, can we get you into the...

I just want to commend you commissioners for your hard work and your dedication. I know sometimes people may come up here and bad talk you. And I see this. I try to see it as often as I possibly can, the work that you do and your commitment to make our communities better. And when I say I'm working for my community, I mean all of my community. I don't care what race. color or none of that. It's as long as our people are working. If you don't want young people to tear up shit, excuse me, they need to be working. And I know from experience, you do wrong when you can't get no money in your pocket legally. And we want all our young people to be able to get the opportunities legally. Those who don't want to go to college and what have you, they need to have them a trade so they can stay in their communities and make their communities better. OK, and that's for everyone throughout the city, really. So that's my spiel. And again, especially Thor, I commend each and every one of you guys. And I love each and every one of you for the work that you're doing. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you.

Are there any other members of the public wishing to provide a comment on non-agenda items? Seeing none in person, shifting over to remote callers, It does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment on this item, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hearing no further questions, comments, Madam Secretary, would you please call the next item?

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

I would just like to say again from my last report, attending again another ribbon cutting, housing opening up, for the people, our communities, our people, our families, the young, the elderly. It's just a joy. And it's exciting that we're able to bring this joy into the city and let it explode, especially at a time like this with our nation. There's not a lot of good news, great news to be jumping up and down about. But this is wonderful in spite of all that's going on. We're still building. We're still standing. We're still moving forward. So I am just excited for everyone that's a part of this movement. and creating the opportunities that are springing forth the new things. That was just wonderful. And I'll save the second one for towards the end, the upcoming announcement with Mr. Oscar James. And so is there anything else? If not, Madam Secretary, please call the next item.

The next order of business is Item 8, Report of the Executive Director. Item 8A is recommending the team led by Mercy Housing California to develop, own, and operate mixed-use affordable rental housing units on Transbay Block 4 West and to develop and construct adjacent off-site public improvements and transfer them to the City and County of San Francisco Transbay Redevelopment Project Area. Discussion? Director Kozlowski.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, members of the public, commissioners. This is an item to update you on the advancement of planning for the development of a Transbay block we call Block 4. It's at the corner of Howard and Beale. We have long tried to develop this project and are now proceeding to advance an affordable housing component of it. We released an RFP, request for proposals, in May of this year to ask for experienced affordable housing developers to submit proposals to develop affordable housing, 100% affordable housing on this site. And through that RFP process, we looked at various factors in the many submittals that we received from developers and found that the team of Mercy California and Young Community Developers, YCD, presented the best overall proposal and seemingly were the most qualified, and we wanted to engage with them further. But we wanted to report to you on this milestone because we will be negotiating with this team but coming back to the Commission for a pre-development loan and an exclusive negotiations agreement early next year. I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE FORMER DIRECTOR OF OCII AND PRESIDENT OF MERCY HOUSING, TIFFANY BOHE, AS WELL AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF YOUNG COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS. THEY ARE THE CO-DEVELOPERS OF THIS PROJECT. AND TO PRESENT THIS ITEM WILL BE JASMINE WHO IS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST HERE AT OCII.

Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. I'm Jasmine Kuo, a development specialist at OCII, and I'm here to present on the developer recommendation for the affordable housing development opportunity at Transbay Block 4 West. So just as a reminder, Block 4 West is outlined in red on this map, and it's located in the Transbay Redevelopment Project area on the western portion of Block 4, which is bounded by Howard Street. Beale Street, the planned segment of East Tahoma Street, which is outlined in blue, and Main Street.

I'm going to ask that you speak into the mic and just slow down just a little. I know sometimes it can be just nerve wracking. You got an audience, but they're the same as you. So take your time.

All right. So prior to issuance, the commission heard an information item on this RFP at the May 6th meeting. And then OCII issued this RFP to the public shortly after. seeking a qualified team to design, build, and operate affordable housing on Block 4 West and to design and build a planned segment of East Tahoma Street adjacent to Block 4 for city acceptance. We conducted extensive outreach for this RFP, providing the RFP notification to numerous stakeholders through various means. including email lists from our project area CACs and SBE email lists. The RFP was also posted on the OCII website and the city's website and advertised in local newspapers such as the Examiner, San Francisco Bayview, Mission Local, Sing Tao Daily, and other publications. Proposals were due in July and interviews were held in August. In the RFP, we asked respondents to base their proposal on a development program that focuses on certificate of preference holders and includes approximately 300 to 325 affordable housing units for low-income families and seniors, with 20% of the units designated for households experiencing homelessness. In addition to the housing, the project will also include one ground floor space for community serving or public benefit commercial use. This slide shows the scoring criteria that was outlined in the RFP. Submittals were scored based on the experience and capacity of the applicant teams and on the proposed development concept, encompassing the categories you see here. We received two complete submittals by the July 31st deadline. These two applicant teams were interviewed on August 27th by an eight-person interdisciplinary evaluation panel that included a Transbay CAC member, MOCD and HSH staff, and OCII staff. Each member of the evaluation panel scored these submittals, and based on that scoring, the top ranking team and the team that OCII is recommending is a team led by Mercy Housing as lead developer and Young Community Developers as co-developer. The full makeup of the recommended team includes a joint venture of Kennerly Architecture and Planning and SCB as the architect, Mercy Housing and Episcopal Community Services as the service providers, and Mercy Housing as the property manager. The Mercy YCD team stood out for several key strengths that align closely with OCII's goals for Block 4 West. Their proposal envisions a vibrant intergenerational community with 312 affordable homes for families and seniors. The design emphasizes resident well-being with shared spaces and amenities that foster connection across all ages. Mercy brings extensive experience delivering high-quality, affordable housing in San Francisco, including high-rise and supportive housing. YCD complements this with a strong foundation in racial equity, community engagement, and workforce development. The team demonstrated a strong understanding of the certificate of preference program and a commitment to inclusive outreach and lease-up strategies that prioritize preference holders. Their workforce and contracting action plan includes early coordination with contractors, targeted outreach to District 10 firms, and training pipelines through YCD's workforce programs, ensuring local hiring and inclusive contracting. Kennerly Architecture and Planning has a proven track record with OCII and MOCD projects, including the high-rise Transbay Block 2 East project that's currently under construction. And they're well-positioned to deliver a design that is both context-sensitive and financially feasible. And for resident services, the proposal includes robust trauma-informed services delivered by Mercy and Episcopal Community Services tailored to meet the needs of both families and seniors. So overall, the Mercy and YCD proposal reflects a thoughtful, community-centered approach with the experience and capacity to deliver on the vision for Block 4 West. So as you can see here, we presented this recommendation to the Transbay CAC on October 9. After today's presentation, we expect to return before you early next year for the pre-development loan and exclusive negotiations agreement, and then again in the summer with the schematic design. That concludes my presentation. At this point, I'd like to introduce members of the Mercy and YCD team. From Mercy, we have Tiffany Bohe. And from YCD, we have DJ Brookter. I'd like to invite them up here to give a brief statement, and then we can take any questions you may have.

Good afternoon, Chair, Dr. Scott, Vice Chair Aquino. Oopsies.

I've done that.

All right. Pardon me. I'm going to keep it moving here. Vice Chair Aquino, Commissioners, Director Kozlowski, and General Counsel Morales, Tiffany Bohe, President of Mercy Housing California. On behalf of Mercy and our co-developer, Young Community Developers, DJ and his entire incredible team. We really wanted to express our deep gratitude to OCII for selecting our team to lead this very important and transformative block in Transbay. We are deeply honored by the opportunity and really energized to deliver on the promise and the goals and values you've set forth for this site. This project reflects not only a rare and incredible opportunity to build high density, deeply affordable, family-serving, and senior-serving housing in San Francisco, but it will also exemplify our shared commitment to equity, local investment, and economic inclusion. Our team fully embraces OCII's small business enterprise program goals, including the architecture and engineering training program. local hiring goals. We are very committed to aligning every aspect of this project with those values. Although we haven't selected our general contractor yet, we will ensure that whoever that builder is that is brought on board, that will include technical assistance, early bid packaging strategies, as well as outreach events. At this time, I'd like to invite our co-developer and partner up to complete our statement to the commission, DJ. DJ Bruckter, thank you.

Thank you, Tiffany.

Thank you again, Tiffany. And it's an absolute pleasure and delight to be on this side of the dais. I can share that much. But I want to say thank you to the entire commission for the tireless work that you all put into coming down to City Hall and having these conversations and dialogues. I also want to make sure I say thank you to Mr. Oscar James for his words. to continuing to come down from community and make sure that community has a voice when we're going through these processes. But Chair Scott, Vice Chair Aquino, Director Kozlowski, and the rest of the Planning Commission, as we have this conversation, we want to underscore our deep commitment to workforce development and small business inclusion. We're going to make sure that we focus on ensuring that Black-owned businesses and contractors from historically underserved communities, including Bayview-Hunters Point, have meaningful opportunities to participate in and on this project. We also reaffirm our commitment to OCII's certificate of preference holders and the broader community stakeholders. This project approach is centered on listening, outreach, and responsiveness. We're going to make sure that we work diligently to ensure that our certificate of preference families have priority access to new homes, those supportive services we mentioned, and a welcoming intergenerational environment at Block 4 West. This is not just a promise that we have on paper. Generally, I don't even read from paper, but it's not just on paper. We are already laying the groundwork. If you look at our architect team in Kennerly Architecture and Planning, it's a certified SBE. And we will explore opportunities to bring an additional micro-local SBE architectural firm to help shape the project. We want to say thank you again to the OCII staff and the commissioners for your trust and partnership. We are committed to delivering a project that lives up to the goals of the Transbay Redevelopment Plan and the values of the communities that it aims to serve. And we would be reprised and remissed if we didn't do that with our teams. So I would love if the team from Mercy could stand up and just kind of wave.

Well, thank you.

And also the team from Young Community Developers as well, too. Whoa. All right. And our friends from Kinnerly as well. And Episcopal communities as well, too. And so this is the entire team and the makeup of what it is that we're doing. And Tiffany's got a few more that I might have missed.

And SCB architects.

I didn't see you there. And I got a phone call at the same time. I appreciate you. But even looking at the team and its level of diversity is what we are going to continue to make sure that we bring to the project. I want to say thank you all for your time.

Thank you. Thank you. Madame Secretary?

That concludes the presentation on this, and it also concludes my report as well.

Public? Thank you. Madame Secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to provide a comment?

At this time, we'd like to invite members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item. You may call 415-655-0001, enter access code 26609719164, followed by the pound sign, then the pound sign again to enter the call. Please press star, then three to be placed in the queue. If you're already listening to us by phone and would like to provide public comment, please press star 3 to be placed in our remote queue. And we'll begin by inviting members of the public in person, starting with Mr. James.

Oscar James again. I know you get tired of me. Never, never. Before, because I am a senior and I do forget, I want to piggyback on something that Ms. Doris Vinson's heart was set on, is making sure that kids who are aging out of... Japantown? Yeah, foster care. We need to have some housing for them also. But one of the things I'm proud of 50 years plus dealing with redevelopment, is knowing the people who have come through this agency and their hearts and their commitment. And Ms. Bull, she is one. Tiffany. I could say her name, Tiffany, because I might have pronounced her last name wrong. But Tiffany and DJ Ben from Young Community Developers, one of the programs I helped start back in the 70s out of Model Cities. Their commitment for the community surpasses whatever people think they are for the community, regardless of the color, nationality, what have you. And I support people like that, because they want to make sure that this city and the community benefits. And you can't do everything right all the time. And I'm a good product of that. But you do your best to make sure that our peoples get the opportunities that I had coming up. Because if it wasn't for Oliver Lester, whose daughter started Dr. Lester CityBuild, she broke that proposal. If it wasn't for peoples like her father and other persons in our community, different races, what have you, to teach the young kids that was coming up, 13, 14 years old, how to get out and do something honest, I wouldn't be standing here. And I want to make sure the other young kids had that same opportunity. Thank you very much. That's awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. James.

Are there any other members of the public wishing to comment in person? You may come up to the podium at this time. Seeing none, moving over to our remote callers. Again, if you are calling by phone, press star 3 if you'd like to provide a public comment. Madam Chair, it does not appear we have any other members of the public wishing to comment.

I will move to my fellow commissioners. Are there any questions, comments, or concerns? Commissioner Aquino.

Yes. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Jasmine, for the presentation. Well, I mean, there's so much to say as well. First of all, I have a couple of questions. But thank you for the map on the memorandum here. And it just goes to show the amount of work that's been going on. Some of you may have seen it or not. But just to see this work here is pretty amazing, to see the transformation that's going on and that it's opening up for all walks of life. I'm excited to be part of this. this commission for the work that we're doing. And just it's exciting times. I'm still feeling the energy. Maybe I'm an optimist all the time, even though our chair said we are. And it is true. Our world around is other. with an asterisk, but here in San Francisco, it's just really makes me just my heart is filled with pride to see that we're continuing forward with housing for all and I just want to echo and thank you Oscar James for what you brought up about those in transitional youth or coming of age from foster care and group homes as a person of that group myself i think it's so important to provide housing because we all need a hand to get um to succeed in this life and so i'm very for that i do have a quick question about the micro local if you can elaborate a little bit on that i help me maybe i'm forgetting what And I was kind of looking at it through the memorandum, and I couldn't see it. So if someone can explain to me what microlocal means.

I have someone here.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much.

Hi. My name is Sean Wills. Hi, Sean. I'm from the real estate development team at Mercy Housing. Thanks for having us here. So I believe what DJ was referring to in the statement was we have a joint venture architectural team, the Kennerly Architecture and Planning and SCB team. And with that, We were hoping to bring in a third joint venture partner into that partnership, a hyper-local, someone who's a really small firm so they can get boots on the ground and get designing this building as well. So I think it was an adjustment to the partnership to bring in a smaller architectural firm that maybe hasn't gotten exposed to a building of this scale and size before. So that was the plan.

Okay, thank you for explaining that. Thank you.

Yeah, of course.

Other than that, that is all I have, but just applaud everybody, and thank you so much.

Commissioner Shaddocks.

Thank you.

I have to yell in the mic, right? Let's get this thing close to me. Before I, I have a couple questions, but the gentleman all the way in the back wall, is that Zach? I can't see that. That is Zach. Okay. Hi, Zach. I kept looking to see, is that Zach? All right, we've confirmed that's Zach. OKAY. I KNOW HIM FROM MANY CORRIDOR WALKS AROUND THE BAY VIEW. THAT KIND OF SEGUES INTO WHAT I WANTED TO SAY WAS CONGRATULATIONS TO MERCY AND YCD. I'VE SEEN YCD'S WORK PERSONALLY UP FRONT. THEY'RE IN THE COMMUNITY. THEY'RE ALWAYS IN COMMUNITIES. SO WHAT A GREAT PARTNER TO BRING TO THIS AREA. I think, and I direct this question to Director Kozlowski, I think we're going to review plans as they materialize, you know, the design and stuff like that. And the one comment I have is I've had an opportunity to tour this development zone a couple months ago with Director Kozlowski and Commissioner Miller. I like to walk corridors. I like to see what the businesses feel like. I like to see what the playgrounds feel like. I just like to see the general vibe of the neighborhood. Monday through Friday is a much different vibe than Saturday and Sunday in these areas. And when I walked around on Saturday and Sunday, I was looking at some of these sites that are to become homes for many people. You know, I think the ultimate playground is Salesforce Tower for a five-year-old. You know, I can only imagine riding the elevators and the escalators and, you know, what a blast that would be. And I'm not kidding. It would be really fun to hang out there. But I was feeling a general lack of a vibe for children, for families. It just felt very financial district-y. And, yes, it is in the financial district. But I'm hoping as you all start developing this, you know, take a look at – other quarter if you need me to show you around i know all the corridors um you know we want to just make sure that if if we're attracting families to these developments that the development looks like a family um development or a family residence and you know playgrounds are cool um but i think our kids today are looking for other things other than the swing um so that's really the only comment i had on this um congratulations to you all and i look forward to seeing the as they go forward. Thank you.

Director?

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for your comments, Commissioner Shaddix. Yeah, just to put the timeline in perspective, I mentioned earlier that in the first or second quarter of 2026, you'll see a pre-development loan and an exclusive negotiations agreement. At that point, we won't have had designs yet. We have been thinking through what this will look like, but designs will probably come anywhere from six months to a year after that point. And to put something else in context, in between this site and the site a block away, which is referred to as Block 2, which is on, I believe, Folsom Street in Beale, which is nearly complete. I think occupancy is going to be by the end of this year on the first phase. And then in Q3 next year, occupancy on the second phase. One of the sites is being developed by Mercy along with CCDC, the Chinatown Development Corporation, In between the two is a park that's planned. Right now, there's an interim activation, as you know, the East Cut CBD, the Crossing, as they call it. And then about a block away is also another two-acre park, the East Cut Sports and Dog Park, I think they're referring to it. And our planning document is called the Under Ramp Park. So there's a significant amount of open space that will be developed over time. Your points about the design of the building itself and it being approachable not of the scale of Salesforce tower, although that's beautiful You know making sure that people know that this is family housing and that everyone is welcome That is part of our design principles for the area in general certainly our design principles for the park planning And we'll pay attention to that in the planning of this building. Thank you

pressing everything. So just to follow up on that, and I'm referring also to the retail component. What does the ground floor look like? So when a kid's walking around in these neighborhoods, I pretended like I was a kid walking around, what am I looking at? Coffee shops? Am I looking at, what's that thing called? Pickleball or the paddle thing, what drives everybody nuts. I'm looking at that. I'm looking at that. And I keep thinking to myself, what does a kid want to do? When you walk the merchant, because basically with these new developments, you're creating merchant corridors. Whether they be one block, two blocks, three blocks, you're creating a corridor. So what does that corridor look like? And if you live in the neighborhood and mom's sending you across the street to get SpaghettiOs or something, you know, what are you looking at along the way?

I grew up with SpaghettiOs So, you know, so that I guess I'm just trying to get the big picture to all of this, you know, so Yeah, that's a great additional point Commissioner, thank you for that and in planning for the ground floor areas Well, we'll take that into consideration. I think that's an excellent point. I Again, referencing the block across the street, or the development across the street, there's a similar process that Mercy, which I was quite impressed with their commercial business outreach and community serving use, sort of thinking around how those spaces get occupied, what kind of businesses go there, and the survey approaches they undertook. And when they come back, they could probably talk about some of that work later. Not now, but later when they get to that stage. But thank you for those points.

Commissioner Miller.

Yes, thank you. I would like to second that, Commissioner Saddux. The youth of the community are so important. And the more things we can have for them to stay out of trouble and give them positive things to do is great. But I also wanted to mention that Visa just partnered with the city for a city soccer court in the crossings. And I've seen the kids playing in that. It's just wonderful to see young people doing something healthy, outdoors, and positive. But along with a skateboard shop for you, I think anything we can do for the retail sector would be great as well.

If we can throw a bicycle, too. I like to cycle all around.

Plenty of room. Commissioners?

Drugstore and candy store.

Candy store and a drug store. Well, I'd like to thank you for the presentation. And I would go along with also considering the children. But I do remember the soccer court, the field that's there with quite a bit of space and room, along with the pickleball and so many other things that they're putting in that area for our children. And so we can consider what's already there. and Commissioner Lim's candy store. But I want to thank you, and again, with Mr. James mentioning what Doris Vincent, her thoughts about our foster children. San Francisco has the highest stats for foster care, the highest in the region. And so that is something to consider, aging out young adults. Where do they go? And what do we do to help them go and grow and be nurtured? That is something we don't want to lose sight of. I think about Sophie Maxwell's building, the young women that are just having babies. They have five families of homeless young women. that will have a home. They do have a home. They're going to be placed in that Sophie Maxwell apartment building. And that's a wonderful thing, thinking outside of the box. Those that have no voice and nothing to offer but themselves and their family. And someone spoke up for them, Miss Martha. And they are housed. And so I'm hoping that continues to grow, and they're looking for more buildings as well. But thank you for your presentation and the quality of it and the thoughtfulness. I am hoping that, yes, there continues to be the outreach connecting like a magnet to our small business owners, construction owners, and everything. My one concern, and I'm glad I didn't forget it, the only one concern, the managers. If there could be an oversight for, I believe it's related, Is that right? For managing this?

Director? Madam Chair, if I may?

Yes, sir.

The property manager that has been proposed for this project is Mercy. Mercy does their own property management. So it's not related.

Okay. I don't know why I thought I saw related.

Related was one of the other firms that proposed on this project. They've not been recommended to negotiate with.

Thank you so much. That answers it. That's the answer. So it looks like a wonderful package. And so Madam's. I think I could say one more thing. Go ahead, Commissioner.

THANK YOU, CHAIR. I'M SORRY. I JUST HAVE TO SAY ONE MORE THING ON THIS PROJECT AND ALL THE PROJECTS IN THE AREA. YOU KNOW, SOCCER FIELDS ARE GREAT. PICKLE BALLS ARE GREAT, ALL THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK I WANT TO GET INSIDE THE PLANNERS AND THE ARCHITECTS' HEADS RIGHT NOW. CHRISTMAS IS COMING UP. HOLIDAYS ARE COMING UP. I WAS THINKING MORE LIKE COMMUNITY THEATER. um sound studios recording studios something on a small scale that would attract you know different you know different styles different likes you know i think soccer fields again they're great outdoor space is phenomenal but i was looking more towards you know something that could be very attractive something different something new and maybe carve out small pieces of the buildings to do things like that so that i promise was the last thing i'm going to say until november 4th or or something like that.

Thank you.

Chair Scott.

Thank you, Commissioner. There is a wonderful, at the main library down, right down here, where they have the sound room for creating music and everything. Take a look at that. And the different things they offer the teenagers. They have special floor. Third floor? I think our second floor. But a lot of different sections for youth and children and young adults. Yeah. So... Fellow commissioners, anything else? Director? Okay. Madam Secretary, please call the next item.

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

Are there any questions? Concerns? No? Okay. Then Madam Secretary, please call the next.

I think you were going to have an announcement.

Oh, yes. Yeah, I think this is the time. Thank you for remembering that. Okay.

Let's give them a minute to exit. Okay. Quietly, please. Thank you.

I just want to repeat an announcement. Oscar James will be having a apartment building, affordable, named after him November 7th. November 7th. And it's quite an honor for it to happen while he's still breathing on this side of the ground and here to see it himself as Sophie Maxwell. And so we do want to honor that and consider if it works with our schedule being there. And it's at, I believe, Mr. James, that's 121 Freedwell. Freedale. Freedale. Yeah, D-E-L-L. Freedale in District 94124, Hunters Point Shipyard. Yes. And so we invite you, commissioners and all, that is San Francisco, California. Freedale one two one free.

It's actually three five one. Oh Jasmine.

Just thank you What three five one? Oh my paper had 121, but thank you Okay, three five one. I Don't want to send you to the wrong place Freedale November 7th, we'll check it 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 will need a motion and second to adjourn. May I get a second?

I'll second.

It's been moved and seconded. Let the meeting be adjourned. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you.

I might see you guys next year.