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OCII approves three-year landscape maintenance contract for South Beach plaza areas
Summary
The Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure authorized a personal services contract with Kerokin Associates to provide landscape maintenance for Community Facilities District No. 1 (South Beach) for an initial three-year term and an option to extend for an additional three years, with the extension subject to Commission approval.
The Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure on Feb. 4 authorized the executive director to execute a personal services contract with Kerokin Associates to provide landscape maintenance and related services for Community Facilities District No. 1 (South Beach).
OCI staff described the contract as a three-year agreement with an option for an additional three-year extension and a total aggregate contract cap stated in the agenda materials as not to exceed $1,823,152. Deputy Director Mark Slutskin summarized the scope as recurring landscape maintenance, furniture and lighting maintenance, trash removal, paving reset, and capital repairs and said CFD 1 "was established back in 1982." Slutskin said staff reissued the RFP in March 2024 after revising the scope and received five proposals, and recommended Kerokin Associates as the highest-scoring proposer.
The Commission heard public comments supporting prompt award so maintenance and graffiti removal can resume. Lasonya Mansfield, owner of Mansfield and Mansfield Construction Cleanup Company, said she was "a native, born and raised in San Francisco" and thanked OCII for the contracting opportunity. Another caller, Alice Rogers, asked the commission to authorize the contract so maintenance near the Embarcadero Navigation Center could resume, citing graffiti, trash and reports of drug use in adjacent areas.
Commissioners questioned staff about historical maintenance performance and oversight. Commissioner Brackett said neighbors have emailed the commission with concerns about long-standing lighting and blight issues and asked what would change under the new contract. Slutskin and Director Kozlowski said OCI receives reports from residents and other city departments and immediately notifies contractors to address them; Kozlowski added that street trees and sidewalk repairs caused by street trees are the Department of Public Works' responsibility.
Commissioner Brackett asked that, if the executive director exercises the contract extension at the three-year mark, the extension come back to the Commission for review and that staff include current photos documenting site conditions in the annual report. OCII legal counsel confirmed the resolution could be amended so any extension would be "subject to Commission approval." The Commission adopted the amended resolution by roll call vote (Commissioner Brackett moved; Commissioner Lim seconded) with four ayes recorded.
The adopted motion and amendment make the executive director's option to extend subject to subsequent Commission approval and require reporting back so commissioners and the public can track contractor performance and site conditions.
The contract award follows OCI's outreach to 24 Small Business Enterprise firms and notices in community papers; staff said the contract includes contingency and reserve line items intended to cover routine and capital repairs discovered during the initial term. OCI staff and representatives of the selected vendor and a subcontracted janitorial firm were present at the meeting.
The Commission moved on to other agenda items after the vote.
