>> good morning supervisor my name is stephenie greenberg, president of a local resident association inclusive of the greater broadway corridor area and i'm speaking on their behalf today. i am here to give a residential perspective and voice my support and request your support for the proposed top of broadway community benefit district. i strongly believe that the proposed cbd will not only prove county of to rivitalizing the historic broadway corridor, but have a positive impact on the life of our residential community. branding efforts are essential to our goal of a prosperous and vibrant corridor. the cbd will drive a number of improvements that will benefit the community, including the promotion of area business and tourism and attraction of new business to the area, which will help to reduce long-term commercial vacancis and perhaps most importantly we foresee a reduction in crime, which has

long plagued the community, by making the corridor more attractive to businesses and less attractive to criminals. by bolstering the community's identity and advocating it's reach history. the collaboration of business owners, property owners and residents is a loud and clear signal that urshared community is ready for change. this february mayor lee announced the results of an impact analysis that valid yets the impact of cbds on their respective communities and i truly believe that top of broadway will be yet another example of the proven successful partnership in driving community improvement. i hope you agree that our effort to compel real and positive change on the broadway corridor is necessary and to support the top of broadway community benefit district. thank you very much. >> thank you very much next

speaker, please. >> supervisor my name is stephano and i am a consultant in north beach. i just want to say when you say "community benefit district" you are also really saying benefits for the community, benefits for broadway. when this started out, and i understand supervisor chiu was kind of skeptic, because he wanted a total collaboration from the community at-large. north beach is very, very political area and it's very, very hard, a lot of people have different perspectives, different visions. but i think through the efforts of joe carubo, becca, bsc management u the voice of broadway, sotele, the residents who live above broadway never gave up and had meeting after meeting after meeting. in the 25 years i have been done there, i have never seen

the collaborative effort that they have. so i would say this; i think it's time and i thank supervisor chiu very much for saying need more support, i need more support, i need more support. because right now it's time. and north beach has a chance, the broadway corridor, to rebrand itself, because some of the problem operators have gone out of business. they can rebrand and they can start to attract the kind of people that they want down there now and this window of opportunity is right now. so i want to thank supervisor chiu and all the collaborative efforts from the community to bring this to fruition. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good morning supervisors, any name is douglas. once again for the record i will have to oppose the

resolution and in my opinion this is not being heard in the correct committee and i think it opens up a future challenge, if someone wishes to, to see whether this item is heard correctly. it says "government audit and oversight," and doesn't say thinking anything about what we are talking about today. once again, in other words, why don't we try the whistle-blower program with the late example of the police department, police chief fong and suhr, and let's talk about other things like why the 49ers left san francisco? the previous speakers said it was a win for san francisco -- excuse me, let's remember the san francisco 49ers are

headquartered in santa clara. they have a mayor. the closest major city, which is bigger than san francisco is in san jose. if i remember correctly, a lot of those super, superjumbo jets fly in and out of san jose and i predict there will be many more flying in and out of san jose than the jets coming into sfo. it's a win for everyone, not just san francisco and let's not forget when we have an audit for this? why did the san francisco giants stay in san francisco? can they get a new stadium with the city's cooperation? i don't think so. why did the warriors leave san francisco? why did the warriors leave san francisco? they had a central location at civic center. why did they leave? please audit. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. and i thank david chiu because

this is district, the current cbd being proposed for his leadership in bringing the stakeholders together to form this cbd. i think that the issues that have arised around broadway in the last couple of years, this will help rebrand and illegal immigration bring back the area and revitalize it and put another entity to deal with the issues as they come up, when they do come up for the community to talk out. so i think safety is very important and the way it helps with public safety, helps with the -- in the management plan, the number of things that are put into it to deal with the area is very important for the community to have a voice and also a place to deal with the issues before they get out of

hand. so this puts another layer without having to go to the police department and other entities to deal with the issues as they arise in the neighborhood. so speaking on behalf of the tenants association coalition of san francisco, we support this cbd in this proposal and we hope that the committee will support this and that the property owners will support the cbd. thank you very much. >> hi. my name is michael can knulte. a lot of times we deal with issues that are very important to us, which has always been

safety concerns and obviously cleanliness inside our buildings, but also out in the you beened community. one of the things that the community benefit district have provided, in particular the citizen of san francisco is an additional layer of the safety and cleanliness in the communities that the districts are formed at. ehr time every time i listen to the current stats from the police, they talk about the problems that they have with the promoters and businesses that have problems in the area. so this is a way to hold accountable what goes on in a certain area as a layer of more

assistance. i think is important. so having another entity there, that could be speaking for the community is helpful, because it brings all the stakeholders as a group to try to deal with the concerns of the community. so we are in support and we would like to see this pushed through recommendation to the full board and look forward to it passing as an actual entity. again, thank you supervisor chiu's office for its outreach and all of that to the community. bye, thank you. >> thank you very much, any other members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor chiu, any closing comments? >> as we all know the story of this portion of broadway, while it's a short stretch has involved a fairly long and windy road and i really want to thank everyone's patience and persistence during that time. we all know it wasn't too long

ago our various community stakeholders couldn't come together to agree on where we are today and the fact of the matter our club owners, our restaurateurs, our business owners and in particular law enforcement, everybody is final loin the on the same page and i want to thank catherine, who has worked tirelessly in recent years to make this happen as well in my late 20z almost every weekend i would go to north beach and broadway and it was too long a time to convince my friends from around the city to come on weekend nights to broadway and it's my hope as we allude to super bowl bid and as we allude to the incoming america's cup, all the events that we will offer, i really

hope we will in very short order we're turning around broadway. we're going to make sure that broadway is a top night-time distance not only for the world, but in particular for san franciscans and thank you for working on this and colleagues i ask you for your support. >> all right. is there a motion? >> so moved. >> seeing there is no objection, there we go. [ gavel ] . this item passes. [ applause ] >> great, thank you. supervisor chiu. madame clerk, could you call item no. 3. >> hearing on the san francisco public utilities commission tap water outreach campaign. >> colleagues a quick update the sponsor of this update supervisor mar has requested that we continue this item. motion made by supervisor tang. >> just a reminder to take public comment before you vote on the motion. >> thank you very much. thank you for that reminder.

is there public comment on item 3? this is the item to continue to the call of the chair. >> i looked back in the room and i rest my case. how many people are here? but i think they were all here for other items, including myself. this item, obviously, obviously has been misplaced here. so i say for the record, it can be challenged later on, because i feel that all three items in today's agenda were put here for political expediency and not for proper placement and as i quote "government audit and oversight committee." i challenge this committee, if you want to be meaningful, why don't you call a public hearing open to all city employees, in writing, advertising through every city department and i

guarantee you, i guaranty you will feel room 250 full of employees that have stories to tell about retaliation, harassment, misuse of funds, et cetera, et cetera. it is an embarrassment for my colleagues to point out these things -- you have a school district that nothing has been done. why is san jose taking the lead on child pornography and yet your city does nothing on child pornography? does that mean that you leaders turn a blind face to something like child pornography? so they kick me in the butt and say get back to city hall and do something. obviously your leaders haven't been listening to what you have to say. so you better put it

on the record, so this way in the future, they cannot say we weren't warned before the crackdown begins in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. city attorney, before we adjourn, could can you briefly tell the members of the public the reasons or -- not the reasons, but the type of items that are heard in this committee? i think there is a little bit of a misunderstanding. >> sure. let me pull out the board's rules of orders on that. the board rule 3.25.2, provides that the government audit and oversight committee handles labor agreements, civil grand jury reports, audits of city departments and agencies, oversees management audits, audit schedules, approval of audit schedules and it's a fiscal committee and the items

on today's agenda were properly referred to this committee by the president. >> thank you. there was a motion by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor campos and seeing there is no objection, that item passes. madame clerk, any other items on the calendar. >> there are no further items. >> fantastic, this meeting is adjourned. thank you everyone. [ gavel ]

>> today, sorry my name is kim and i will be chairing today's meeting and i am joined by the board of education commissioners, norton and

commissioner mendoza and norman yee. and i want to recognize the staff at sfgtv, greg burk and tron ross. madam clerk are there any announcements? >> no, supervisor, none. >> seeing none, if there is no objection, could we call item number three ahead on the agenda. >> it is file number 1 30206 and it is the municipal transportation agency traffic calming programming sponsored by you supervisor. >> thank you. this is actually a continuation of an item that we heard back in march. and so, it is really just an update on mta's traffic calming program, particularly looking at school criteria for funding and updated lists of schools that are receiving funding through the program and looking at potential criteria and the solutions for schools that operate near heavy traffic ar tillals by lowering the school

limit where creating a school zone is not an option. excuse me. so, we do have elen robinson and reynolds as well as ana from the department of health here. >> and i have copies of the presentation that i like to hand out if that is okay. >> good afternoon, board members and supervisors, my name is ana and i work at the department of public health and i actually want to acknowledge singa from the department of the environment is also here and we want to talk to the safe routes to school program and going to have just a few minutes to talk about the school pool and elen will talk about the capitol improvements around the schools and just to give you the overview of the safe routes to the schools. and just to establish the

program need for the program, see our kids today are walking and biking to school, back in my day, there were almost, or over 40-plus walking. and now, we have less than 15 percent, these are national statistics. and these are resulting in unattended consequences we have an increase in traffic injuries and increase in obesity and decrease in the air quality and that means more traffic congestion around schools and there can be some episodes of violence in crime because there are no eyes on the street and so the safe routes to school program are part of that solution, the whole goal of the safe route to school is to increase safe and active walking and biking to and from school. >> the health department is leading a multidisciplinary team with the agencies such as the mta and the sf environment and the police department and some community-based

organizations such as the bike coalition and walk sf and the city wide program. we are currently working in 15 elementaries schools and we have one in each supervisoral district for geographic equity and the only one that we don't have is district two. and we structure the program on the international model of the five es. education, encouragement, enforcement, engineering and evaluation. this is a map of the school that we are currently working in right now. we are actually just finishing up, the school ends next week. and you can see the spread around the schools, except for district two. right now, for the past two years, we have been doing educational classes in the classroom. we have been doing kindergarten, and first grade classrooms on the benefits of getting to and from school by walking and biking. and for each year, we have

reached approximately 50 classrooms and about 1,000 students. the same for the second grade, it is a field trip about walking around the block and practicing crossing the street and addressing pedestrian safety, again also close to 50 classrooms and 1,000 students and the fourth grade classrooms we are partnered go to give a bicycle rodeo and teaches them how to wear the helmet safely and does not, a skill based rodeo and you can see the picture here on the yards of the school and teaches them how to ride a bike safely, 1,000 students. >> encouragement that is sort of the fun elements of the safe routes to school and so we do walk and roll to school day and that is the first wednesday in october. last year we had the last one yet, 8500 students and their families participated. we just finished bike to school

week. we had also our best one yet, 53 schools, participated and we actually postponed it this year to not conflict with star testing. it was wildly successful because that have and it was also warmer weather and we want to set up what we called the walking school buses and bike trains and this is to establish regular chaproned groups to and from school. we want to do it on a weekly basis, but sometimes we end up doing it on a monthly basis depending on the capacity of the school. >> we need to reach the parent and the care givers when we started the program we were doing mostly out reach to the students and we realized that they are not the ones who are making the decision about how they make it to and from school, so we are structuring our program to be more and more about the parents and the care givers, we do do evaluation of

the program and student travel talleys and ask the kids how they got to and from school and do parent surveys, analyzing what their attitudes are, in the beginning when we started, the first or the top five concerns were safety of intersections and the speed of traffic and also distance and violence. when we first started violence was the number one concern and at the end of the program it has dropped to number five. actually the top three are all traffic-related. >> and we or our performance over all since we started in 2009 we have seen a one percent increase in walking, a half percent in increase in biking and one percent decrease in single family vehicle over the 15 schools and that may not sound like a lot but that is the first time that we have seen the mode shift in our schools and this is sort of a long term project and changing a lot of attitudes and behaviors and we are hoping to do even more when we have more

parent care giver out reach, last year was the first year that we reached out to the parents and the care givers. >> and some additional accomplishments. we have partnered with ucsf to do district-wide commute study and it shows that for the school district we have about 25 percent of our children walking or biking to school and this is actually higher than the national average and so we are doing well and that is consistent over the three years. but we have about 40-plus percent students and their families living within a mile which is sort of the buffer of walking and biking to school, of what a child is cap able of and so we feel like we can capture more family to do that. and using this data, we partnered with mta to create a priority system to use the walk mode and saved data and to look at what schools should we be doing capitol improvements around? and using the schools that have

really high walk mode share, and high head injuries, those should be ranked highest, for capitol improvements and that spread sheet is included in your packet. so the lessons learned to improve the safe route to school, again the parent care giver out reach is critical and so we are moving forward and reaching out to all of the parents and the care givers attending all of the events, the organizations and the funding events and the weekend festivals to try to talk to all of the parents and care givers and that we want to establish walking, regular walking school buses and this is an identified best practice and it is up to the parents and care givers, and we cannot ask the school district staff due to liability concerns to go off of the school grouds and lead these >> we actually just put forward a grant proposal to extend it to august of 2017, so these are the new elements that are going to be in that proposal. we are currently working 15 and

we are going to expand to 40 schools, 45 elementary and three middle and two high schools. we are going to hire an out reach team that is going to be bi lingual in english, and spanish and either mandarin or cantonese and the parents participating in the staff monthly task forces and focus on the under served communities sort of the southeastern section of the city. we want to shift our education deliverables to be less in classroom lesson and more assemblies. we are taking up precious time in the classroom and the school climate is stressed that we should really be moving out that have and reaching more parents. so to educate the kids, we are actually going to do more assemblies. and do bike rodeos such as the weekend festivals and they will be with the family friends and so we can educate the entire

family and also get a curriculum established in alamena county and purchase that and bring it to the school so if they do so choose to teach the curriculum they can do it, the teachers can do it themselves and it meets the california core standards and so they can meet those deliverables and we are going to set up bike clubs at middle schools and bike shops at high schools to teach them >> we're going to celebrate their accomplishment and have some fund promotional event and we're going to be doing tailored information to schools, creating

transportation, for example, we're going to create a tool kit saying, here are your bike rods and here are the new stops around the area, and here's your crossing guards and signal so everyone understands what are all the transportation options available to each of their school. and then we'll continue to do our evaluation. so that is our proposal. this is a map just so you can see, this corresponds to the spread sheet in your packet but this shows what school has a high percentage of kids walking to school, so the circles in green are over 40 and you can see mostly on the east side of the city. this actually is in table form and the spread sheet that you have in your packet and i think i'm going to turn it over to chris who is going to talk about school. >> before you go, i know that we -- i really appreciate these

graphs. they're helpful. is someone else going to go over the other graph. >> helen will be doing that. >> thank you. >> i want to talk about school pool. and basically school pool is an online resource where families can log in and find other families at their school to walk bikes, transit and carpool with. it's a support service, and a support for the programs and help the school to encourage pooling to school, not driving alone or in a family vehicle to school. and the goal relate to our outreach is to have a program that schools can use and continue to use in their transportation tool box and promote it to their parents. the service is part of the mtc

51 sweet of services and it functions very much the same way as the commuter website for finding carpool and van pool matches. s environment received a grant from the air district and the transportation to do outreach and education on this tool. and really to support safe routes and encourage parenting to form walking school buses or bike trains. so our grant cover two years and we just are finishing up our second year. outreach was provided to an a total of 44 schools. and between the first -- for the first year for the 22 schools, we he saw increases in commuting, so from fall 2011 to spring