Good morning.

This meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the May 16, 2024 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm Supervisor Dean Preston, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair Catherine Stephanie and Supervisor Connie Chan.

Committee clerk is Monique Creighton, and we want to thank SFGov TV for staffing this meeting.

Madam Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes.

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Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Please call items one and two together.

Yes, items one and two are resolutions approving annual reports for the central market and civic center community benefit districts for calendar year 2022 submitted as required by the property and business improvement district of like 1994 in the district's management agreement with the city.

Thank you.

Um and these items are uh sponsored by Supervisor Dorsey.

Um starting us off will be Jackie Hazelwood, uh Community Benefits District Program uh Director at OEWD.

Um, and and as I have before, I want to thank you for your engagement uh with our office in advance of this hearing.

Uh the floor is yours.

Um Supervisor Chan and Supervisor Stephanie, like you said, Jackie Hazelwood, community benefit district program director with OEWD.

Um so as today's presentations mark the final CBD presentations for the fiscal year 21-22 um reporting period.

I do just want to acknowledge and thank you, Chair Preston and your staff, particularly Melissa Hernandez for her ongoing communication and back and forth with us in preparing these presentations.

So thank you to you and your staff.

Um so before you here with me today is Tracy Everwine, the executive director of both of the CBDs, the Civic Center CBD and the Mid Market CBD.

So before you hear from Ms.

Everwine, I'm gonna go ahead and if if it's all right with you, um, walk through the OEWD presentation on behalf of both of these CBDs.

So as you know, CBDs are governed by two pieces of legislation.

The first being the California Street and Highways Code, Section 36600, known as the 1994 Act, the second being the San Francisco Business and Tax Regulations Code, Article 15.

OEWD is charged with ensuring that all CBDs are meeting their management plans, specifically that they are providing services as outlined in their plans, and that they are spending assessment funds accordingly.

Those find those findings are detailed in the memo in your packets and summarized in today's presentations.

So this slide here provides an overview of the CBDs we will be reviewing today.

Both are property-based districts with over $1 million in revenue and assessment revenue, particular.

Civic Center CBD more recently renewed in 2019 and is now set to expire in 2034, whereas the mid-market CBD is more nearly approaching its potential renewal date in 2028.

As a part of our memo process, OEWD staff reviewed the following budget-related benchmarks for each CBD.

So benchmark one is comparing the current year budget to the management plan budget.

Benchmark two confirms that non-assessment revenue obligations were met.

Benchmark three compares current year at budget to actuals, and benchmark four indicates whether the CBD identified carry forward and designated projects.

So moving forward with the Civic Center CBD.

Civic Center CBD met all four benchmarks.

So Civic Center CBD, in terms of their service delivery, the CBD has a strong focus on clean, safe, and activation services.

In particular, they provided key services to the district, including but not limited to syringe disposal, graffiti abatement, trash and hazardous waste disposal.

And notably during this period, they doubled social service support efforts in comparison with their prior reporting period.

Sorry.

So staff also supported key activations like the ones mentioned here, but in particular San Francisco Sand the San Francisco roller rink and civic center tree lightings, as they do for many years in the past via community outreach strategy efforts and clean and safe services.

They generally served as a strong partner to public and private organizations in the corridor.

So as you may see in the OEW in OEWD's memo of today, the CBD was late with their submission of annual reporting.

However, the CBD was uh responsive and communicative with OEWD upon request for information and follow-ups.

Um further tasks related to cleaning safety and economic initiatives were increasingly more demanding during this reporting period.

And the SOC Center CBD assisted with multiple partnerships and requests from departments to help with immediate recovery needs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was made clear to OEWD that the delay in reporting for this period was as a result of these priorities.

So looking ahead to the next reporting period, it should be noted that the CBD operates on the calendar year.

And as such, their deadline for the count the calendar year 2023 annual reporting has not yet come up.