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Committee recommends annual reports for tourism and community benefit districts to full board
Summary
OEWD presented FY2017-18 annual reports for several community benefit districts, highlighting budget compliance, benchmarks met and Moscone expansion outcomes; the committee recommended each report be sent to the full Board of Supervisors with positive recommendation.
San Francisco ' The Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Oct. 17 received presentations from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and district representatives on annual reports for several community benefit districts and moved to send those reports to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation.
OEWD's Chris Korges summarized the Tourism Improvement District (TID) and Moscone Expansion District (MED) FY2017-18 reviews, noting the districts met OEWD's benchmark tests on management-plan compliance, budget-versus-actuals and carry-forward reporting. Korges said the TID's assessment budget was approximately $23.6 million for FY2017-18 and that the MED had budgeted in the tens of millions for the Moscone expansion.
San Francisco Travel representative Cassandra Costello (presenting for the TID and MED) highlighted convention activity, international visitor spending and Moscone expansion milestones; she credited the expansion with on-time, on'budget completion of a roughly $500 million project and said the Moscone projects supported visitor services and marketing efforts.
Other CBDs: OEWD presented the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District FY2017-18 report; the district met three of four OEWD benchmarks and explained a variance in streetscape improvements due to project delays. Kathy Maupin, Yerba Buena CBD director, reviewed accomplishments including cleaning and streetscape work (the district reported responding to many thousands of cleaning requests and removing significant amounts of trash), safety outreach and a community benefit grant program that distributed roughly $165,000 in fiscal-year grants.
Tracy Everwine, executive director for Civic Center and Central/Mid Market CBDs, presented program metrics, noting Civic Center removed about 60,000 pounds of trash annually and reported needle collection counts and renewal activity; Central Market (Mid Market) described cleaning, public safety outreach and economic development efforts in an area with substantial redevelopment activity.
Committee action: In each case the committee moved to recommend the respective annual reports and related resolutions to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation, taken without objection.
Numbers and sources: Presenters attributed budget and metric figures to the districts' FY2017-18 annual reports and OEWD review memos. Chris Korges cited the state Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 as the governing statute for annual reporting; presenters noted expiration/renewal dates for several assessments (for example, the TID cited an expiration in the early 2020s and the MED an expiration in 2045 in the presentation materials).
