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Public Works outlines progress, risks and funding plan for ESER bond programs
Summary
Public Works and partner agencies told the City Services Auditor Committee that ESER 2010 and 2014 projects are nearly complete, ESER 2020 has completed an $80.5 million sale with a second sale imminent, and that pandemic‑era protocols and general construction cost escalation remain the principal schedule and budget risks.
San Francisco Department of Public Works project managers briefed the City Services Auditor Committee on the status of the city's Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response (ESER) bond programs — the 2010, 2014 and 2020 authorizations — reporting high completion on earlier bonds and early implementation work under the 2020 program.
Charles Higuera, acting director for project management and ESER bond program manager, told the committee that ESER 2010 is effectively closed out at about 97 percent and that the 2014 program is nearing completion. "For ESER 2020, we have issued one bond sale for $80,500,000 and a second sale is emerging as we speak," Higuera said. He described the 2020 program as focused on first‑responder facilities and support projects, including a new fire training campus and replacement or renovation of neighborhood fire stations.
Project managers gave component updates. Magdalena Arayo, project manager for fire‑station projects, said Fire Station 5 and Fire…
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