two outstanding and i think bay view is opening shortly, so again chair chu in terms of overall lessons learned better scoping to the beginning is absolutely essential. we feel having memorandums of understanding between the departments have helped tremendously. making sure we have opted myselfed community engagement. weez have a very engaged community in our city and to optimize it will help i think to keep the bonds on scope, on time and budget and carefully bidding qualifications are necessary to make sure that we get what we voted for. another service that we provide is overseeing the service auditors. we are the auditors of the city service auditors, and what we did this year was

expand benchmark efforts, and this is actually what we recommend being done in the future sort of -- we have a group working with the auditor and expand them by incorporating efficiency measures into the report. we can also make reports better and more easy to understand and this is one way to do it, so that we can see the other times how this is doing. implementing vetting processes for using the data to evaluate the reasonableness of the bonds. to continue working with 311 to make sure the calls are appropriately routed to the whistle blower program so we get the calls to the program so we can keep the whistle blower program working well, and making sure we publicize the availability of the whistle blower program to all of the employees working for the city so that we can again make sure

that we have people who are free from fear who feel they can use the program and they know it exist disps they're educated to what it means to use the whistle blower program. so what do we see in the future of our committee? well, one of the things we will have a report for you that will show the community engagement best practices, the results of that study, and also the design review best practices project, and we hope that will help to develop recommendations to the relevant stakeholders and of course that would include the supervisors when they're looking over the various projects they're considering doing with general obligation bonds and it can be used for things beyond general obligation bonds and continuing developing plans for set aside funds to help the geo

bonds say on scope and budget and i encourage you to come to us if you have ideas how we use the geo bonds to further make things on time, on scope and on budget, the funds that we have there. i am relatively optimistic that we will close out in 2012 the branch library improvement program and laguna honda hospital and i will be excited if we can do that, and we have a new bond that was brought on board by the voters in 2012, a new parks bond so we will have things to be looking forward there to and to make sure that is on scope and on time and budget. >> thank you very much. supervisor campos. >> thank you. i appreciate the very thorough presentation and i know that we will definitely miss you, so when does your term end? >> whenever they nominate a new person and i would like it to

be a small business person if we could to continue that. it's a wonderful education process for those that don't come from geo bond land. >> right. i think all of this is great. i wanted to sort of step back a little bit and have sort of a larger conversation. looking at the various programs that are out there i don't know what the total amount of bond money that that we're talking about is, but i imagine it's hundreds of millions -- >> it's over $2 billion. >> it's over $2 billion, right, so the question i have is you have this nine person body providing oversight for over $2 billion of bond expenditures, and i think all the things that you're doing make a great deal of sense, and i think it's

wonderful for instance to see the focus on community, making sure that benchmarks are being met. i think all of that is great. i am wondering if you guys had a discussion about where your activities -- how they compare to what happens in other jurisdictions? you know other things for instance that other jurisdictions maybe doing that maybe we're not doing, or maybe is it the kind of thing that we're actually doing more than most jurisdictions do? i am just trying to have sort of an understanding of the larger picture sort of in the context of what we're seeing more than $2 billion worth of bond money. >> right. >> what is the proper level of input or oversight by this nine member body? i don't know if you had that discussion. >> how we had that discussion -- i think it's a great discussion

to have. it's more related to say the puc which has an oversight committee and also the school bonds also have an oversight committee and we talked about comparing ourselves to them to see what best practices we could have come out of there. i don't know in the past if anything has been done to look how we work compared to others. perhaps mr. rosen -- >> our controller. >> good morning. i know at the time proposition f was put to the voters by then supervisor amiano and it was a review that this body be created and that's what lead to f. i don't know of a kind of

holistic review that has been done since then. one thing to note g both is a critical piece but not the only one. it's the place with citizens provide in-depth detail of the bond programs but on top of that we have commissions responsible for bonds, so the health commission has regular meetings about the progress on the hospital bonds and others on other bonds and of course the board and the mayor's involvement so there are multiple lefls of oversight and we are one of them. >> i appreciate that. i ask that question because i do think it's something that that kind of body should be asking itself, and i would encourage maybe more discussion around that issue because clearly you're talking

about the body becoming even more pro-active now. you're increasing the number of meetings. you're increasing the numbers things you're doing and maybe you're doing more than anyone else is doing out there, but i think having those discussions are good things, and even though you have individual commissions providing oversight for projects you play a unique role bawgz you're looking at it from the whole city's perspective and you maybe seeing things, whether there are trends that go beyond one individual department. one of the things that i really appreciated was your response to the civil grand jury report on the whistle blower program and i am wondering if you could say a little more about sort of how that response came about, and i

know there is a member of the civil grand jury on the committee as well, and i think the whistle blower program is a very important program of course, and they had a number of recommendations and i was very pleased to see this. >> yeah. so these -- the process for this of course i think is determined by the civil grand jury that you have to respond by a certain amount of time, and actually another one of the recommendations is we get in front of the board of supervisors on a timely basis which is something and i really appreciate i know this is one of the first meetings you having and i appreciate you fitting us in here, so they have a point by point analysis of what they found to be troubling, and in most case its wasn't the citizen's general obligation bond oversight committee to respond. it was the controller's office to respond. there were a few points that we had to respond to and one had to do with the frequency of

meeting and where the whistle blower program was on the website and how available it was, and also how do we oversee it? what level of depth do we get and that's when we had discussions having to do with the privacy because if you don't feel you're anonymous you will definitely not come forward as a whistle blower versus the need for us to get more detail we were getting prior to that, so all of that, the civil grand jury member was certainly a part of that discussion, but the decision and the -- i wrote the report, and the decision was made by the entire committee. >> just a final question in terms of the staffing of this nine member body because you you're all volunteers, and we appreciate all the time that you put into it, so is there a person -- a staff person assigned or how does that work? >> yes. we work closely with

mora lane from the controller's office and the controller but that's the staff member assigned. >> that's great and i think it's good buy you're looking at ways to utilize this.1%. >> >> yeah. >> because i think that even if the outcome of what you do is simply confirm that everything is going great i think that's a good thing for the public to know, and so anyway -- >> thank you. >> i think it's important. i think you play an important role and i really appreciate your service and i think this is really exciting and i think that we're talking about a lot of money , and ultimately talking about the trust the voters gave us in city government to make these expenditures and i appreciate what is happening here. >> thank you supervisor. if there are no other questions

let's open this item up for public comment. are there members of the public that wish to speak on item one? seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues this was a hearing. do we have a motion to file the item? yeah. we have a motion to file the item and we can do that without objection. thank you very much. item two please. >> hearing update from the municipal transportation agency and the office of housing, opportunity. partnerships, and engagement on outreach efforts for the large vehicle restriction ordinance. >> thank you very much. colleagues this is an item that was related to an ordinance passed. supervisor cohen was a co-sponsor of the ordinance. as you know this was passed in legislation last year. we requested them to come speak to the board about the outreach efforts. i know we have folks

from the mta as well as bevin dusty and have been working on pieces of outreach and implementation. i know the mta worked on pre-planning efforts how this might be interplentd and study and they can share that information and bevin has insight as we conducted his work and i would first let supervisor cohen say a few words. >> thank you very much. good morning everyone. thank you for your interest in this matter. i would like to thank mta as well as hope. i would spell out the acronym but i don't know what it stands if you buyer the word "hope" stands on its own. i would like to thank for the outreach in this area and this

is really a pervasive program in district 10 and not solely in district 10 but certain pockets across the city. certainly this is an issue that united carmen chu and i together so i am looking forward at evaluating the effects of this pilot program and kid you not this is a true testament. just earlier this morning i received a call, additional complaint about campers in a large vehicle parked on iowa between 23rd and 25th which is ironically one of the pilot program locations. it's causing significant problems for the neighborhood and people looking to invest and continue to working in expanding a park that i certainly have been supportive of, progress park. i want to reemphasize the goal of the program is not to punish or criminalize those living in their vehicles and

why we engaged in this outreach effort, and i also like to suggest to mta based on our conversation with the produce market on gerald street -- they have expressed an interest that the pilot area of tol an between oakdale and evans be limited to tol an street between oakdale and mc kennen so that would allow for early morning activity in the produce market to continue and not impede on their everyday business so without further adieu madam chair take it away. >> thank you very much. we have representatives from the mta and hope and i would like to invite them forward to speak to the mta's efforts so far as well as your efforts moving forward. >> good morning madam chair, supervisor cohen and supervisor campos. i am from the mta. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. before i

start i want to reemphasize and remind you that this program is not a city wide program in the fact it's only effective where signs are posted and authorized by the sf mta board of directors. this will continue to allow over sized vehicles to park on some san francisco streets but it gives us an additional tool to address the issues related to over night parking of large vehicles on a focused location specific basis. these -- some of these locations have resulted in some negative impacts from parking over night vehicles -- over night large sized vehicles and that's what we're attempting to address. i also want to refresh your memory. we did a sampling of the neighborhoods in the city prior to the legislation being

considered and over 450 type of vehicles that far in this classification we found that 42% of them were motor homes but more importantly over 50% of them consist of trucks and buss and trailers so this legislation will also capture those types of vehicles and it's very important because i think a lot of our -- the concerns that we received from the neighborhoods were for those vehicles being warehoused on the city streets, and from our survey we also found those vehicles that are out on the street that we sample 60% of them actually were registered with san francisco addresses, and of those only 20% are within 1/4 mile of where they're registered so that tell us us thes -- the residents are

using the streets to house their vehicles. when this legislation started we committed to work with the mayor's office of opportunity and partnership and engagement for a transparent process. to give you a brief update where we are. since the legislation was passed we have been working on a host of things to prepare. first we went to the mta board and got their approval because ultimately each specific location has to be approved by them. we saw the designs of the signs to convey an unambiguous message. we are providing materials to provide notice and we are working with the police, the public, the

board of supervisors' staff and others to solicit other locations of concern, and of course to develop guidelines for conducting the before and after study, so the locations have pretty much expanded from the handouts that we provided previously. the locations basically have doubled in size, and here's a map of where they're located graphically. >> and i would note if you take a look at the sunset it looks like there is a lot being added. it's just the way they're name tg because we're trying to capture sunset boulevard for the streets so it's capturing that and the streets and it's really just that part. >> right. we expect the project to be phased in because of the extent of the concerns that

were expressed throughout. the first roll out we would expect to select two general areas that are fairly large in size, so we can learn from, and also where the streets are somewhat contiguous to facilitate the logistics and the evaluation and the notification which is very important. we will be working closely with hope to notify these areas through fliers of the proposed changes and also information on service alternatives for those who are living in their vehicles. each block phase to be signed must be ultimately approved by the mta board of directors so to go through the process we conduct two public meetings for input. the first is the mta's public

hearing usually conductod friday mornings in city hall. the second one is the actual board of directors meeting so the public will have several opportunities to provide input. we will do the first roll out, the initial evaluation after about three months or so to gasht information and learn from some of -- i am sure some missteps here and there with such a program of a big magnitude and use that as a tool to phase in the other areas in the roll out. i will be glad to answer any questions that you may have. >> so a couple of things that i think are important to note. one when we had the conversation in committee last year one of the things we wanted to make sure to do is collect the data for evaluation because we want to see what happens when this is implemented in any particular area and i know in the timeline

it does capture it and the mta has been thinking how they would measure that impact so that is through the work you have done behind the scenes and the idea in early march been there is implementation what is the ground level experience now and how will that change? so that is embedded in your timeline which i am very glad to see. i think you really reached out to the board member's staff and police officers and heard from residents about areas and i hope as you go -- this program was never intended to be a city wide blanket restriction so i hope there is some level at the mta board as you make recommendations about places to implement this where you do see chronic problems occur that there is that thought and not everybody wants it, everybody gets it, but how do we manage parking. >> that's correct. >> i think that is important to

emphasize and finally from what i see here even though the legislation went into effect a while ago approximate in terms of the implementation date. >> >> it was march and looks like you're pushing that back to may and that would allow the mta to do direct more outreach with supervisor's offices i would imagine and go to the communities and do the fliers and the outreach that you need to do, and sounds that would create like any mta application and hear from the board and get feedback from the public and the supervisor's offices and decide on implementation, correct? >> we want to be very thorough and transparent. >> okay. okay don't we have bevin come on up. one other

thing i know you have been doing outreach and what he does the noticing there is information on the fliers that talk about not only what the rules are, but where they might be done and hot or other resources that might be available. when you folks are doing the work you will work with bevin to make sure that the language is consistent -- >> i apologize for not mentioning that. we are working very closely together. . when we do the notification the officers will help with the fliers and we will make sure they notice the fliers that bevin and his group have put together for us. >> thank you. >> hello everyone in attendance. i am bevin dufty director of

hope and engagement for mayor ed lee and i overwhelming there are construction vehicles and boats and other things that are impacting neighbors and the community, but unquestionably because of homelessness in san francisco there are people that reside in their vehicles and have the opportunity to work with families living in their vehicles and others and i know the coalition and individuals that are impacted are here and i am interested in hearing their perspective going forward. some information i want to share our city's homeless count was done and we had 500 individuals dispersed in the city that were involved and identify vehicles that people were living on. imon of them were knocked on. nobody flashed a flashlight but to identify those vehicles. that data is verified by a third

party so it's carefully reviewed so we will not have that until the 20 of march -- >> excuse me. i have a question. who is verifying the data? >> it's a third party contractor and megan owens from the board is responsible it and they have a haven'tor working with them and these numbers are important and they have an impact on the resources that we get and it's actually a federal requirement to do the homeless count once every two years and that is the funding stream that provides for homeless services and they look at the data and the documentation and making sure it's accurate so i can get you more information. >> no. sounds like this is how they make their livelihood, this is their business. >> yeah. and so we will want to compare this with numbers and i believe last time two years ago i think it was in the range of

160 or 180 vehicles identified but again in anticipation of the legislation there was a special focus to make sure that areas where it was identified and then that helped the following week the homeless outreach team engagement specialist team went out and fliered vehicles with information that the rules were changing and to please reach out to sf hot through the 24 hour line but if you recognize that

providence because of the transportation issues generally at about 80% occupancy but generally the other shelters in the city are running between 95 and 99% full, and the city has 234 stabilization beds and these are beds where the department department of public health don't have to jump through the system and that's for individuals have been outside for a long time and don't want services or need treatment or services so those stabilization rooms are an effective tool. they have been used in many circumstances and even around city hall to have an impact. the mayor's office and myself and others are in the

process right now to look at expansion of stabilization beds in anticipation of the next month that fifth and king which is an area of numbers of people have been living will be fenzed by caltrans and looking at the fact we hope with these changes there maybe individuals willing to come forward. an important element of this it's difficult to ask people to make a decision between their vehicle and accepting a housing resource they're not sure is going to work with them and i think for many people that has been a non starter and very difficult for our outreach team, so from the beginning we have been looking for alternatives and i want to thank marian who did outreach for us so right now a program agreement is in the final stages between a storage facility on treasure island and the department of public health which would enable jason and his