DPH – Chinatown Public Health Center Seismic Retrofit

Chinatown Public Health Center is one of DPH’s most seismically vulnerable clinics with a Seismic Hazard Rating of 4. This project addresses seismic issues and makes a number of critical renovations to allow the co-location and integration of primary care medical and mental health services, along with dental, social services, and other ancillary services. In addition, DPH will relocate a specialty mental health program from leased space into this clinic. The project includes infrastructure improvements such as modernization of outdated equipment, upgrades and retrofits of building automation systems, and repairs to HVAC controls. Programming and schematic plans for seismic renovation and modernization of the clinic are complete, and 100% construction documents are expected by Summer 2023.

The project budget is estimated at $77.4 million, with $5 million from the Mental Health Services Act and the rest funded by the 2024 Public Health G.O. Bond, pending voter approval.

DPH – Silver Avenue Family Health Center Renovation

Built in the early 1960s, the current Silver Avenue Family Health Center is not conducive to a state-of-the-art collaborative working environment. This renovation will continue DPH’s efforts to modernize aging neighborhood health centers which began with the 2016 Public Health and Safety Bond, creating space for co-location and integration of primary care medical and mental health services, along with dental, social services, and other ancillary services.

The project budget is estimated at $34.8 million, planned to be funded by the 2024 Public Health G.O. Bond, pending voter approval.

DPH – ZSFG Building 3 Retrofit and Renovation 

Building 3 on the ZSFG Campus is a 6-story building originally constructed in 1964 as a 3-story concrete building. The building was expanded in 1989 with three floors of steel framing. This retrofit and renovation project includes a seismic upgrade to the upper floors, ADA improvements, and new finishes for administrative functions relocating from 101 Grove Street and other seismically vulnerable brick buildings on the ZSFG Campus. This project will complete the relocation of all staff out of 101 Grove Street.

The project budget is estimated at $51.3 million, planned to be funded by the 2024 Public Health G.O. Bond, pending voter approval.

DPH – City Clinic Relocation

City Clinic is currently located at 356 7th Street in a functionally obsolete 2-story industrial building originally built in 1912. Originally utilized as a fire station, it was eventually converted into an outpatient facility for DPH. City Clinic is San Francisco’s only categorical municipal STI clinic, serving approximately 85 patients per day, with more than 18,000 visits annually. The facility includes clinical laboratory facilities and medication storage. The current location is in poor condition, and a relocation would allow the department to modernize and streamline the operations of this vital service.

The project budget is estimated at $28.5 million, planned to be funded by the 2024 Public Health G.O. Bond, pending voter approval.

DPH – Critical Infrastructure Repairs

Both the LHH and ZSFG campuses continue to have several critical repair needs that are too large in scope for the City’s Pay-As-You-Go Program. At ZSFG, several buildings are over 100 years old and campus needs include exterior building repairs, IT infrastructure upgrades, electrical improvements, elevator repairs, clinical equipment upgrades, and security enhancements. At LHH, the new hospital building is beginning to show unanticipated renewal needs. The broader LHH campus requires critical infrastructure enhancements to improve onsite efficiency and ensure safe and appropriate conditions in staff and patient care areas. Needs include fuel line leak repairs, security enhancements, HVAC replacements, IT infrastructure upgrades, elevator repairs, and exterior building repairs.

These repair needs will receive $32.8 million from the 2024 Public Health G.O. Bond, pending voter approval.

Fiscal Year of Issuance

Project

Amount

FY2024

Relocation of HSA Headquarters

70

FY2024

Critical Repairs / Recession Allowance

30

FY2024

Street Resurfacing

30

FY2025

Critical Repairs / Recession Allowance

30

FY2027

HOJ Replacement

167

FY2030

HOJ Replacement

200

Total

527

CAO – Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Electrification of the municipal fleet is a key priority in providing healthier air for the region’s residents, and fulfilling San Francisco’s 2050 net zero emissions commitment. The Controller’s Office found that up to 619 passenger vehicles may be replaced to comply with the City’s Municipal Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Ordinance. As City vehicles are replaced with ZEVs, they will require Level 2 charging infrastructure to sustain daily operations.

DT – Digital City

Investing in smart, sustainable technology to provide internet service delivery to residents, government agencies, and businesses is an important rising opportunity. Such technologies include smart utility poles that embed several technologies such as a modernized outdoor public warning system, wireless connectivity, sensors, safety alarms, and sustainable solar lighting for outdoor public spaces. These modern technologies hold promise in improving efficiency, cost savings, speed, and functionality in a variety of sectors. Most importantly, this project would bring much needed broadband capacity to underserved neighborhoods. 

DT recommends a partnership with private partners to fund a program that would provide a base level of internet access to all residents, a new outdoor public charging of phones and vehicles, host environmental sensors for hazardous levels of smoke, create a means for communicating with emergency services, and provide a way to warn the public about neighborhood issues and emergencies.

Multiple Departments – Solar + Energy Storage

San Francisco faces the challenge of being unable to use its energy resources during an electric grid failure. In response to this risk, the San Francisco Department of the Environment completed a multi-year solar + energy storage feasibility analysis. This project identified potential municipal sites currently designated to serve the community in time of emergency, identified critical electrical loads at the sites, and sized would-be solar energy storage systems accordingly to advance the City’s energy and emergency preparedness goals in the event of the next large-scale grid outage. A financial analysis was completed to understand the cost of deploying these systems. Any solution for San Francisco will need to demonstrate earthquake resilience given the city’s seismic vulnerabilities.

RED - Civic Center Office Space

The Real Estate Division has recently examined occupancy and space allocations within the Civic Center office space portfolio to seek opportunities for greater efficiencies and cost savings. Without a policy change to in-person work expectations, significant savings via footprint reduction are unlikely even in a hybrid work environment. Other important objectives in this portfolio remain, including exiting the most seismically vulnerable buildings, ensuring that offices meet operational needs, and providing safe, healthy, and well-maintained offices for City workers. With the office real estate market currently in flux, the best long-term solution may take the form of a purchase or a lease. The Real Estate Division will also work with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development to explore joint development opportunities.

RED – Strategic Building Electrification

To meet San Francisco’s commitment to greenhouse gas emissions reduction, natural gas-based thermal systems would need to be replaced with electric powered systems. To achieve this transition in a cost-effective way, an inventory and opportunities assessment should be conducted. Pilot projects for small-scale water heater replacements as part of planned renewals are recommended, as are electric replacements of upcoming HVAC systems wherever feasible.

PW – Operation Yard

This project would redevelop and reorganize the Public Works Operations and Maintenance main yard at 2323 Cesar Chavez. The proposal includes building new offices and trade shops, as well as a new multi-story parking garage for the Operations and Maintenance fleet. It would also provide community space for Workforce Development and neighborhood public meetings.

RED – City Hall Dome and Roof Revitalization and Seismic Strengthening

Water leaks at City Hall have damaged the structure and interior of the building. Revitalization of the Dome, Drum, Lantern and Roof Levels of City Hall are needed to address active water leaks through masonry, skylights, and Dome waterproofing membranes. Deteriorating structural stone and steel also require repair. Seismic strengthening work is needed as well. Complete scaffolding around the Dome is required for implementation of all components of this project, which makes it desirable to address all issues at once.

The estimated project cost for these repairs and improvements is at least $22 million. In October 2021, the Board of Supervisors authorized the sale of Transfer Development Rights (TDR) which could generate between $40 million to $50 million dollars to fund historic preservation work including the City Hall Dome and Roof Revitalization projects.

DT – Fiber for Public and Affordable Housing

This project will build a fiber broadband network to support free internet access to tenants in public and affordable housing sites, navigation centers, and homeless shelters and sponsored by the City. City investment to deliver fiber-based internet service to affordable housing is an important equity initiative, since the project seeks to provide very low-income residents and those struggling with homelessness with internet access that will open educational, health care and work resources. In partnership with MOHCD’s Digital Equity Program, DT could connect, manage and support an additional 300 affordable housing sites over the next four years.

This project is expected to cost $42 million over four years. To date, $12.5 million has been funded through the General Fund and FY2023 Certificates of Participation.

DT – Fiber Backbone

This project aims to expand infrastructure that supports high-speed data communications for City fiber back haul and wireless networks. The benefits of pervasive connectivity include improved access to digital information and services, as well as expanding coverage to City departments and neighborhood institutions, serving underserved communities, and improving network performance for City services and infrastructure.

The Fiber Optic Backbone provides additional capacity and greater redundancy on the City's fiber network by installing additional fiber optic cables on key routes that serve critical public safety facilities and multiple City buildings. As demand for fiber optic connections to City facilities has grown, capacity on the City's key fiber optic routes has become exhausted. Fiber optic capacity has also been further constrained as the City migrates away from the legacy phone system to digital Voice Over IP (VoIP) technology.

This project has received $2.5 million from FY2022 Certificates of Participation. The estimated cost for remaining work is $21.5 million.

MOD – ADA Barrier Removals

MOD will continue its oversight and prioritization of ongoing barrier removal efforts at public facilities throughout the City. 

It is expected that $800,000 of the Recreation and Parks Department’s set-aside and approximately $1 million of General Fund will be devoted to barrier removal projects annually. General Fund allocations would depend on the shovel-readiness of needs identified and funds available. These funds are in addition to code compliance components of debt-funded projects, which appear in the relevant Service Area chapters for those programs.

RED – Wholesale Produce 

Currently located in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market, or “SF Market”, has been a critical piece of San Francisco’s food infrastructure for well over 130 years, offering fresh produce to local and regional grocers, specialty retailers, restaurants, hotels, caterers, and convention facilities. In 2012, the Board of Supervisors approved a new 60-year master lease for the City-owned land on which the market operates, an agreement that supports an expansion of the market to include Jerrold Avenue, between Rankin and Toland Streets, and 901 Rankin Street. The full buildout envisions a multi-phase, $350 million expansion and renovation designed to replace the Market’s 1963 buildings, improve resiliency by ensuring critical delivery of food through any crisis, and improve surrounding public roadways to increase pedestrian and worker safety. The first building—a new 82,000 square foot warehouse at 901 Rankin Street—was completed in 2015. The entire expansion increases the footprint of the market by about 25%.

The project will be implemented over a 20 to 30-year development horizon, supported by the underlying long-term lease. While not a primarily publicly-funded project, the expansion plan will rely on revenue from the Market’s subleases to its produce merchants, conventional bank loans, grants, and New Market Tax Credits. A new warehouse at 901 Rankin Street, Phase I of the project, was completed at a cost of $21.4 million and funded with Market equity and a New Markets Tax allocation.  

Expected project costs for the phases expected to be implemented during the timeframe of the FY2024-33 Capital Plan total $140 million. This includes two new warehouse buildings, an improved marshalling yard, and associated site improvements. Per the terms of its lease with the City, the Market deposits net revenues into a development account, in lieu of paying rent to the City. In turn, these funds are directed back into the development of the project, which helps offset the cost of individual phases.