is interest from many members of the board of supervisors to see if we could make passage for youth free. i know people who are teachers, and when they take young people and field trips, they often go on unique, and fare is an issue. how do you pay for 25 or 30 students to go on when they do not all have the fare with them? a lot of them did not have the ability to pay. i know there is a lot of interest in moving towards a fast the system for young people that is free. i know that that will be an issue that will perhaps make your work easier as, moving forward, we are able to achieve that. >> we are happy to assist in whatever plan is put into place. certainly that is not a decision that i make. we are happy to assist any way

that we can. >> good morning, supervisors. i am the manager of the mtap muni transit program. we worked very closely with the schools. we have even worked with some elementary schools in the half because of some of the problems with the bigger kids bullying little kids. we are currently concentrating at phil and sally burton, martin luther king, and marshall high school. we are also working with mission and some of the schools in the mission. we are working in the west corridor, which covers washington, presidio, and some of the school's out there, which also covers wallenberg and some of the junior high schools

in the area. we also work with galileo marina, covering the northeast part of the city. we also worked at the 1 08, which is the only line that provides transportation to treasure island. treasure island has a community with a number of kids and families that commutes back and forth to school, and also the job corps, which holds 600 or 700 people. currently, i think they are close to 600. and 75 students from all across the country. they are housed there. they come off the island to attend school, and also have trade schools available to them at treasure island sites. we have noticed an increase in problems with regards to electronic devices. we are trying to mount a campaign to work closely with

high schools and junior high schools because we are seeing that a lot of the u.s. are not only becoming victims, but they are suspects in the issues -- a lot of the youth. we are trying to lower that because we do not want to see kids be put in harm's way. we're working with the schools to identify problems before they escalate into major problems. our latest adventure that we have in dealing with -- and it is not really an adventure when you think about it, but it is really a mindboggling -- we have kids @ marissa middle school bring electric tools to school and after-school are getting on the buses and literally taking out the window and doing gang recruitment. these are the kids from chinatown. predominantly around jackson and presidio. we found the kids who were

involved and worked with the school, and we were literally going through the kids back tax because they put them in their backpacks and take them up. little power screw drivers about that big, maybe 80 inches in length. they take it out, and the window comes out really easy with a power screw, and then they are pushing kids up against the window and doing all kinds of crazy things to get them to get involved. we were able to nip that, working with marina middle schools and working with mrt. it has been a real joy working with them. anything that involves someone getting really hurt, we are able to bring them in, along with the officers at the school. basically, we have been writing thet -- the t line.

we have been noticing a lot of things going on there, working with the williams street police station. we have been able to bring closure to some of those issues. kids who get on usually free usually cause a lot of the problems, so we welcome the fare officers to check for that. if we minimize that, i think we will get away from a lot of things like vandalism, harassment, bullying on the buses. these are all things that concern mta, concerns my boss and the commander. we tried to stay focused to work closely with the troubled kids by referring them to programs. there's a number of programs throughout the city that these kids can be referred to. if they do not get it by then, usually we bring in the officers, and they will get a

citation or sent up to juvenile for some counseling. but we try to work closely with schools, and we work with the full diversity of kids in the city, all of them from the mission to the bayview to chinatown and also out in the sunset and richmond. basically, we just try to work with them. we provide education, and we also try to work with them to make sure they understand if they do not follow these rules, then they will get either arrested or cited. i'll answer whatever questions you have. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. ok. >> supervisors, mr. reiskin mentioned earlier our strategic plan and focusing on safety.

one of the things we have task the commander and security folks and safety faults with about goals -- one is to reduce crime on muni by 5%. redos graffiti incidents on muni by 5%, and also obtain a fare evasion rate of 5% on the system. the only area we are having problems with right now, which the commander has truly changed the deployment plan, is the fare evasion rate. we are seeing that steadily increase. what has really helped us to increase our enforcement on the system with fare inspectors -- we move them from our metro east facility to our south van ness location, so they are centralized now and can travel throughout the city as opposed to writing the t line to a

specific location. we move them downtown, and they can go wherever they need to go. we have seen a reduction in crime. we have seen a significant reduction in graffiti incidents, and we are working very hard to reach that 5% goal that we have set. this has never happened before. some accountability within the division, within safety and security, and now, we have established that, and they have to meet those goals. we are now moving -- we are doing better. we are going where we need to go. supervisor avalos: i think that is great to hear. it is an important change for a lot of people in the bayview- hunters point area, who felt that there t line was really concentrated heavily by the fare inspection program, felt that they were being targeted, and i think that that alleviates some concern. i am glad to hear that change

was made. supervisor olague: along the lines of what supervisor avalos just said, it seems to me that there is a concerted effort to avoid the profiling of youth, and i am heartened by that because that has always been a concern of mine. i am glad to hear that you are committed to it. >> absolutely, supervisor. like i said, it is important for us to be everywhere in our system and no single demographic should ever be targeted or have the perception that they are being targeted. a lot of times, perception is 9/10. it seems to be working well, and like mr. mason said, moving them really stops the sort of piling on of the t line.

in order to go anywhere in the course of their workday, they had to get on the t line, and they get on en masse. it created the perception that we were targeting that line when they were simply getting from point a to point b. we put us on the line when it is part of our operational mode only, and second, it is the effect of morel. they are happy to be centrally located and going all throughout our system easily. i thank you for your comments. >> also, the work you're doing with the captain in with the station also seems to be effective. as you mentioned, there has been a decrease, so hopefully, you just keep on that. >> part of that, too, was we have seen a bit of an uptick in the electronic device larceny and death of those devices -- staffed -- theft of those

devices. we're working with schools on a campaign. within a couple of weeks of introducing a major campaign at mta, which is designed to educate all members of the public's to be aware of your surroundings when you're using electronic devices. we are in this mode -- i was on a bus the other day, and almost every seat had someone looking down and texting with had bones in their ears. clearly, they are not paying attention to what is going on around them. the importance is to educate the public fully about when they use their devices, just to be aware. we are moving in that direction and look to have that campaign out in the next couple of weeks. i am excited for that to hit our transit system. supervisor olague: given that this program seems to be moving in a very successful direction

-- there are a lot of successes you could point to -- the collaboration between the sfpd and the mta, to the extent that a successful, it alleviates some of the burden from the operators. that has been something i have always been concerned about, just as a rider. so much falls on their shoulders. so glad to see this is moving in a positive direction. supervisor avalos: thank you for your presentation. we will go on to public comment, and we might have other questions that, after that. thank you very much. very informative. this item is up for public comment period and a member of the public who would like to comment, please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors. i have lived in san francisco

for 59 years. i would like to thank supervisors cohen -- supervisor cohen for having this hearing. it was a little strange that i noticed it was assigned to public safety back in july but it did not come up for hearing until today. i am wondering why it took six months before today's hearing. i just wanted to bring that up for discussion. second, i would like to question why there was only one item on today's agenda, given the state of san francisco. we think that we should have at least five items. then, in order to be proactive, i would like to make a suggestion for the public safety committee has a possible hearing. i would like to bring up the subject of why a gay man and

city employee died at san francisco general under mysterious circumstances that in 1999. to this day, i still have not found one person inside city hall willing to even discuss the situation. in my opinion -- supervisor avalos: this is not general public comment. it is, on the hearing we have before us. >> i am trying to relate to that. i feel this is a public safety matter because in addition to muni's long history of crime, i see that there are other crimes in san francisco that deserve the attention of the public safety committee, and i feel that muni is long overdue for the beneficial programs it has now. i think we ought to start in some other areas. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. any other members of the public who would like to comment? seeing no one come forward, we will close public comment. want to thank supervisors cohen

-- supervisor cohen for bringing the item forward pierre just a question of whether we want to get an uptick in the future or continue it to the call of the chair. >> [inaudible] supervisor avalos: ok, that is what we will do. we will continue this item to the call of the chair. also want to thank again commander aye. -- commander myra tello and mr. mason. thank you very much. and the other items before us? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor avalos: we are adjourned. thank you.

>> good morning. welcome to the budget and finance committee. i am supervisor chu. i am joined by supervisor avalos and supervisor kim. we have bill and nona from sfgtv. and our clerk is victor young. do we have announcements?

>> please turn off cell phones. if you wish to speak during public comment, fill out a speaker card and turn the money and if you have documents, provide -- provide a copy to the court. items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on january 24, 2012 unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. would you call one through seven? >> item number one, appropriating $192 million of 2012a earthquake, safety, a general obligation bond proceeds to the department of public works in fiscal year 2011-2012 for necessary paris and seismic improvement in order to better prepare for san francisco for a major earthquake or natural disasters. number two, authorizing the sale of not to exceed $192 million of general obligation bonds, earthquake safety and emergency response bonds, 2010. item three, appropriating

$75,009,139 of 2008 clean and safe park bond sale proceeds for the apartment and restrictions -- construction at various recreation and park facilities. $61,185,271 in the recreation and park department. and $10,394,975 in the port commission fiscal year 2011- 2012. item four, resolution authorizing and directing the sale of not to exceed $75,009,139 aggregate principal amount of city and county of san francisco general obligation bonds, clean and safe neighborhood park bonds, to doubt it. number 5, appropriating $76,500,000 of 2012c series road repaving and street safety generable -- general obligation bond proceeds including $71,587,375 to the department of public works and $4,912,625 to

the municipal transportation agency for street resurfacing, sidewalk, ramp, structure permits, and the redesigned streetscapes to include pedestrian bustos 50 improvements. number 6, resolution providing for the issuance of not to exceed $248,000,000 aggregate principal amount of city and county of san francisco general obligation bonds, repaving industry said the bonds, 2011. number seven, not to exceed $76,500,000 aggregate principal amount of city and county of sentences with general obligation bonds for repaving industry safety bonds, 2011. supervisor chu: thank you very much. as this committee met last week, these are items that we did continue from that meeting because of a few amendments that were made. they are relating to the issuance of bonds from three different challenges, from earthquake safety and emergency response bonds, the clean and safe neighborhood parks bonds, and the road repaving industry safety general bonds.

we have a bright and strong from the cpc for presentation on the project. if we could, let's go one bond buying one bond, and then we will stop and see if the committee has any questions. and we will see the budget analyst as any additional comments to make on each of those bonds. >> good morning, members of the committee. brian strong, director of the capital planning program. thank you for having us here. we appreciate the opportunity to present on these three bond sales. it is actually somewhat historic to us because, well we have had general-obligation bonds combined together, i do not think we have had a situation where we have three that we are combining to make one sale at one time. it sort of speaks to the fact that we have actually been very fortunate. i think san francisco, the voters, the citizens, have

recognized the importance of capital improvements and have supported four general obligation bonds since 2008. they total about $1.7 billion. a lot of that is the san francisco general hospital rebuild, which is not coming before you today, but it also includes the other three bonds, the clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, or we're asking for sale of about $73 million, the earthquake safety and emergency response on, $183 million there, their second issuance, and the first issuance of the roadway safety, wrote resurfacing in streets of the bond measure, which is for $74 million, just passed in november. >> do you want to put the presentation on the overhead? it should be coming through. there it is. thank you. you have got the numbers there. i mean, the other important

aspect about this is that the city has a lot of capital needs. we are an older city. we are aware of that. we have seismic concerns. the $331 million in total really moves us forward. you'll see as we go through it, are you if you have read the report, you'll see that we're doing significant and important work. it also has a local economic stimulus effect, which we know is especially important in these economic times. i mean, using some of the estimates that were put together by the office of economic adviser to the controller, it is about 2100 jobs expected just from these issuances. this would be san francisco and jobs, and those would be direct construction and indirect jobs created by those construction jobs. then i would again highlight that we are putting three bonds together.

by combining them for one large sale, everyone saves money in the sense that we're reducing it issuance costs, and that is a good thing for us to be able to do. real quickly, this map here provides an overview of where some of the projects are going to be taking place. these are going to be receiving funding from this measure. there are some additional projects that are not showing up on here that have already received funding. they will be completing construction. but i think this map gives you a sense of some of the proposed streets that we're talking about. again, they're not final, but they are proposed streets, and you can get a sense of the distribution. this will be affecting almost all the neighborhoods across the city. finally, i will talk about the first bond. i have them in a slightly different order. these are in the order of when

there were passed by voters. in february 2008, we had to clean and safe neighborhood parks bond. to date, one park was recently completed, but we have several that are in construction and design and planning. in the next two years, we're going to be seeing quite a bit of new park work going on. and that includes -- will mention some of the more detailed parks in the next slide. restoration program has also been moving forward. trails and forests, 3 trails completed, 59 design and planning. then you have the waterfront and we have representatives -- representatives from rec and park in the port here. we're going to be moving toward implementation of these other parks including mission bay. those are under way.

pier 43 trail link is also in construction. the next slide shows with this issuance for rec park is going to be funding, approximately $73 million, and $63 million going to parks and about 10 million or so going to port property. here are the parts that will be either reconstructed or enhanced, including chinese recreation center, mission playground, delores, sunset -- you can see the photographs on the right that shows the current state for one of the parks and in the diagram of what we expect the accepted designed to be and what it will look like in the future. 20 restaurants will be restored. we're talking but repairing 15 trails. some of the forest and the golden gate park, the growth. we're also restored -- restoring

several play fields. and maybe some improvements that the waterfront mansion, the pier 43 trail link. that is the clean and safe parks' bond. i do not know if you wanted to entertain questions now on that measure before we go forward? supervisor chu: that would be great. supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you. are there going to be any further sales for the clean and safe parks' bond? is this the last one that is part of the bond? >> no, there are actually going to be -- to the recreation park opponents, this will be their last issuance. that is the intent. this is the last issuance for recreation and park bonds. the board has $9 million or $10 million that they will be seeking another issuance for. this is the third issuance. the port will look for one more,

but rec park should be done. supervisor avalos: ok, is there a breakdown of the play fields for $8.5 million, as i have seen on the budget analyst report in the appendix? $8.5 million for playing fields around the city. is that item broken-down further into which played fields and how much per plate field? >> i would refer to a member of rec park to answer the question. >> sorry, supervisor. i cannot hear the entire question. supervisor avalos: the question is about the section in the bond, $8.5 million being appropriated or could be appropriated for play fields. is there a plate -- is there a breakdown for that item, how that will be spent, allocated, what parts will be covered? >> no, not at this time. the recreation and park commission has not made a final

determination of which projects will be fully funded through the plate field program. we have expended around $600,000 around environmental review costs associated with two fields. outside of that, no other additional decisions have been made. >supervisor avalos: that $8.5 million-, you said, $700,000 -- >> roughly around there. supervisor avalos: is that allocation going for building gate -- for golden gate and this other one? >> we do not know that completely, it is pending completion appeared before we could appropriate funds for the construction of those projects, we need to complete the ceqa analysis associated with those specific projects. that is kind of a separate process in decision making from the 2008 bond, which sets aside

the $8.5 million for the play fields program. we received a categorical exemption 19,007 for that program. in the bond report, it specifies, i believe, around 15 potential sites which could be funded with the playing fields money. this mirrors the same structure we set up for the restrooms program and the trails program, in particular. supervisor avalos: so it does not necessarily apply to golden gate park? >> it is not. it applies to the plate field portion of the bond. that is why we can issue a bond dollars for the playing fields program before having fully completed the ceqa for those two parks. supervisor avalos: what do you see -- do you expect this $8.5 million will go to those two parks or reduce see it going to