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Commission hears progress and delays on $350M public health bond, UCSF research building plan
Summary
Project managers updated the commission on the 2016 public health and safety bond: roughly 15% of the $350 million is encumbered to date, several Zuckerberg San Francisco General projects are in construction, UCSF will take a 99-year ground lease for its research building and construction targets mid-2022 completion for the research facility.
Project managers told the San Francisco Health Commission that the multi-department $350 million public health and safety bond is moving into construction on several major projects but that spending has lagged initial baseline schedules.
Mark Primo, who oversees capital project oversight for DPH, said the bond path—started in 2015 and approved by voters in 2016—was modified during development and that the department27s allocation is being spent more slowly than the original baseline: "measuring against the total bond of $350,000,000, we're about 15% spent in encumbered," he said.
Terry Salz, facilities director at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, reported that OSHPD had approved project documents for the public health laboratory and a dialysis relocation, that seismic-retrofit work is underway and that an urgent care clinic recently opened.
Joe Chin of Public Works said 15 of 19 core Building 5 projects are active; the 6H search-space project is about 70% complete and the rehab department relocation is roughly 25% complete. Chin described a procurement for a CMGC general-contractor partner and said four qualified proposals were under review.
On the UCSF research building and site work, presenters said the city is closing escrow to deliver a ground lease to UCSF (a 99-year lease) and outlined a procurement and design team that includes the Bolt company as general contractor and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as architect. Presenters said schedule pressure and procurement delays pushed some interim dates, but the contractor expects to meet a mid-Q2 2022 project endpoint for the research building.
Commissioners pressed staff on parking and staging during construction; UCSF will reserve about 130 spaces at its Mission Bay campus and provide shuttle service, Salz said, and the department has leased an off-site site for 134 vehicles. On financing, Primo said the first bond sale occurred in January; staff expect to sell the remaining roughly $140 million in a sale targeted for September and will consider combined sales to reduce costs.
Primo acknowledged schedule slippage driven by unforeseen conditions and additional OSHPD code issues and described mitigation steps: bundling multiple projects under single contractors, applying learning elevation-by-elevation, and close budget review with the CFO. "We're trying to work within all the other departments and see when we can either pigtail on them and do a combined sale, which would reduce costs," he said.
Next steps: staff will continue selection of CMGC partners, refine cost and schedule reporting, and provide the commission with more detailed budget reviews as projects move into higher spending phases.
