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Public Works details $350M Public Health & Safety bond; first $176M sale completed
Summary
Public Works presented implementation plans for the $350 million 2016 Public Health & Safety bond—allocations, schedule and initial expenditures—reporting the first bond sale of $176 million and early reimbursements to departments.
Public Works program manager Joe Chin delivered the committee’s first project‑level update on July 12 for the 2016 Public Health & Safety bond, describing allocations, project status and early expenditures tied to the initial bond sale.
Chin said the bond authorization totals $350,000,000. He described the allocation breakdown: Department of Public Health $272,000,000 (Zuckerberg San Francisco General Building 5 projects $222,000,000; Southeast Health Center renovation and expansion $30,000,000; community health centers $20,000,000); Fire Department $58,000,000 (ambulance deployment facility $43,500,000; neighborhood fire station projects $14,500,000); and Homeless Service Sites $20,000,000. "The entire bond authorization amount is $350,000,000," Chin said.
Chin reported that the first bond sale in March 2017 raised $176,000,000. The team completed pre‑bond reimbursements in April 2017 totaling $7,100,000 for the Department of Public Health and $754,740 for the San Francisco Fire Department. For the Zuckerberg Building 5 component, Chin said seven of 19 core projects were green‑lit; several surge‑space projects are in design to allow hospital operations to continue during construction.
Public Works identified a key challenge for community health centers after seismic assessments: Maxine Hall received a seismic hazard rating of 4 (susceptible to partial or total collapse in a major earthquake) and Castro Mission received a 3+ rating; Public Works and DPH added seismic retrofit work to the renovation scope. That decision may defer some Chinatown scope to a future bond package, Chin said.
Committee members asked for clarifications on soft costs, project‑control percentages (Chin said project control budgets vary and may approach industry standards, with some smaller components showing higher percentages), the definition of surge (temporary spaces for relocated clinical staff) and the status of 440 Turk as a potential homeless service site. Public Works said the ambulance deployment facility is in design with a target bid date in April 2018 and construction start in August 2018; Southeast Health renovation is expected to complete construction in July 2017 with move‑in in September 2017.
Public comment focused on transparency of pre‑bond expenditures and whether project sponsors (department commissions) sign off on pre‑bond spending; the public speaker asked for a financial comparison of actual pre‑bond expenditures vs. budgeted pre‑bond amounts. Public Works said it had circulated a proposed pre‑bond reimbursement procedure to the committee for information and follow‑up will occur.
