thank you again. excuse me. thank you again, supervisors. james cansini [speaker not understood], speak strongly in favor of m. alicia duke for this seat. she's a long-time member of our organization. she served on our board. she's a member of my health care action team. we go to outreaches. we testify at city hall. you've probably seen her here before and at sacramento, and as well m. alicia duke has a very analytical mind and we often rely on her for [speaker not understood] grammatical errors. whether or not we like it she'll tell us, there's a misspelling here. she's experienced in the nonprofit and community organizations and i would highly recommend her for this. this is critical for stabilizing the area that's being impacted. low-income seniors, people with disabilities are being put out

-- they're being moved out of soma for economic reasons. and, so, it's very important to have somebody from this community, from this constituency who knows exactly who is on the ground, in communication with everyone there. strongly support m. alicia duke. thank you very much. ~ sam alicia duke. >> thank you. again, good afternoon, supervisors. i'm here for the real reason to support sam duke. now, james only mentioned about her association with senior and disability action. my background with her goes way back -- i mean, way back to the early days of para transit ~. she was very good in para transit, very good advisor in para transit, and still is a great advisor in para transit. when we're forming para transit, speaking on rides, how we should put it together, she continues on that, very knowledgeable, and takes that

same kind of information from where she lives, i also live in the soma area the last three years and i do other community work there. i'm the garden coordinator at drake's park. all the work she's done, she attends a lot of meetings. she is very attentive, has good opinions, helps people work things through. i can't think of a better candidate for this position. thank you. and no jokes. [laughter] >> okay, no jokes. supervisors, any thoughts? >> i'm happy to move m. alicia duke forward with recommendation to the soma community stabilization community stabilization fund community advisory committee. >> okay, this would be for seat 3. >> supervisor, would you like to close public comment? >> any other public comments?

seeing none, it's closed. [gavel] >> there was a motion and a second. with no objection, the motion passes. [gavel] >> item 6. >> item number 6, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 10, 2015, to the graffiti advisory board. there is one seat and one applicant. >> congratulations. good afternoon, supervisors. it is an honor to be here. my name is dan kling. i work for ecology and i'm seeking seat 15 on the graffiti advisory board. i'm with the s.f. business seat. again, i work on the city-wide recycling team for ecology. as a district 5 homeowner and father, my wife and i are committed to seeing our child grow up in the city and we want to -- i would like to see a blood-free city.

another element in my application is i'm a former educator at the secondary level before the ecology career. and i think that provides a different angle on the idea of graffiti having worked with children who sometimes participate in that and gives me a broader perspective. and finally, i've been an active environmental and clean up causes my whole life and i hope that helps. finally, i wouldn't consider myself a cranky old-time san franciscan. i've lived here since 2005. i think i bring a sunny can-do attitude to the committee and would be an honor to serve on it. nothing against old-time san franciscans, of course. hopefully you'll consider my application. thank you very much. >> thank you, dan. supervisors, any thoughts? sorry. any public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> supervisors, supervisor breed? >> yes. thank you for notifying us that you are a property owner

because this seat is for someone who is a property owner and i'm happy to find out the property owner in my district, district 5, happy to move you forward with recommendation for the graffiti advisory board. >> second. >> seeing no objections, motion is passed. [gavel] >> thank you very much for wanting to serve on the graffiti task force. appreciate it. thank you. >> madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, mr. chair. >> is there -- if there's nothing further, the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] >> thank you very much. [adjourned]

>> 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 2012 we saw an increase by 1.5 percent with carpool, point 3 for .3 for biking, transit went up by 5 percent and the vehicle went down by 1 percent. overall the

registrations are growing up, there's 535 currently. and as more outreach is done, it will go up, so other parents can find other parents to pool it. next we're we're planning to keep up the momentum with fsud public elementary schools who are going to expand to the public charter schools and also catholic schools suppose adviser avalos supports us last spring. some are overlap with safe routes and we also picked a number of schools with high driving rates, a high number of families living more than two miles away from schoolsment

school that has been outside and we had a charter that had charter school designation. many of the schools are located where the families speak other than english at home. that was our criteria and distance from school. with that, i'll hand it over to salida. >> before you go, what is the total grant that was received from bokmad for the two years. >> the total amount was around 120,000. >> per year or two years. >> for both years. >> total? or each? >> total, 120.

>> okay. >> thank you. good afternoon, my name is salida and i work with the subdivision of the fmta and this part of the presentation is really focused around one of the questions that came up, that has been raised several times which is, you know, we know that there are things we can do at streets around schools, that are in neighborhoods and have residential streets and things like speed humps and curve extensions but what about schools that front arterial streets where we have an safety problem and it can be intimidating to its cost and to calm traffic can be one million dollars or more to widen sidewalks or substantially reform out the streets so i

wanted to do a quick run through and give you an idea of the range of treatment and cost and how they match to the problems we see for potential crashes that we see on our trail streets so maybe if we can switch to the presentation. there we go. the over view is what should be in that tool box, are the tools right and how we should prioritize. this picture below is called an ergonomic sidewalk and a person in korea came up with this. they don't walk up exactly to the corner on crowded corners in urban environments so it's a novel idea. a lot of times in traffic engineering and transportation planning, we get stuck thinking there's nothing new under the sun, but there's people coming up with ideas that are interesting and new. so when we think about what should be in the tool box, particularly for arterial

streets and collector streets, those faster more complex streets and high volumes at traffic, we're looking at the effectiveness in cost and feasible so implementation and trade-off in terms of increased congestion or people taking longer to get to their jobs and things like that and support for other things besides engineering, so education enforcement, encouragement. these are critical parts of the tool box and particularly potential safety campaigns we see them from time to time, but they're not often targeted to the specific types of crashes and be they've yore we're seeing -- behavior we're seeing and they're not as sophisticated as a company would do. there's great examples -- this one is from new york, there's one from miami day county and florida.

education that reduce fatalities in crashes. engineering is what we're here to talk about, but other parts of the tool boxes can be -- >> what did you say from miami day county. >> they did a campaign that was focused -- they looked at the crashes and where they were happening and they have an area in miami that they saw a lot of crashes occurring so they created trading cards that had figures from asian history and on the back, the campaign to pass out in the schools that were targets around the kinds of crashes they he were seeing. they were seeing a lot of dart out crashes so kids running out in the street and not a target. so that's what i mean by targeting it to the type of crash and doing something smart other than the campaigns we see which is well intentioned by can be scattered shot. the

first issue we see over and over again in pedestrian crashes is speeding and it's well known and understood that your chances of living after being hit by awe car are significantly decreased. if that car is traveling more than 25 miles an hour, faster than 30 miles an hour is likely to end up in fatality. so our number one thing that we want to do to reduce the severity of crashes is slow people down. the other thing we he have a hard time controlling is pedestrian and behavior. where we see pedestrian, there's health issues or landing issues that may contribute to pedestrian crashes so we can slow drivers down, even if we can't control people's behavior, at least we can give people a chance at surviving

those crashes so speed reduction and this will -- this will carry through the slides that look like this where the device is outlined in green are less than $10,000 to implement. in yellow or tan, cost some where between 10 and $100,000 and red is the highest cost, over $100,000 and sometimes more than that to implement. to give you a flavor what's in the speed reduction for arterial and urban streets we have the 15 mile an hour signs which we'll have a map later on for, those were not a great fit for arterial, but we did them on collectors. the middle are raised crosswalks and in the lower picture, traffic circles and roundabouts. they're very effective at slowing speed and still moving similar number of cars so they're very valuable part of the tool box and raised

crosswalks, they act like speed tables, and there are some streets where we can do them even on arterial and collective street and the far right is a curveless street and these are not appropriate everywhere and we haven't been able to do one successfully in san francisco, but they have slow speeds, speeds up to 15 to 18 miles an hour and they're expensive investments, but they're effective. sometimes they're called curveless streets or naked streets so in some of the -- in the beginning of the netherlands there was removing that false sense of community for drivers that sometimes can occur when a street is over striped and over -- there's a million different color stripes on the ground and got signals and signs, sometimes that cause

people to turn their brain off and if you give them a less sense of assurity, sometimes you'll see an increase in caution. there's no more innovative ideas. the other major problem we see on arterial streets and in particular in the high injury core doors is turning vehicles. over a quarter of our cashes are happening with right and left turning vehicles and left turning vehicles out performing right turning vehicles by three to one in terms of the frequency. so part of that is a vehicle design problem. you can see this is called the a pillar of the car. it blocks the pedestrian and as the car is turning it tracks where the pedestrian would be until it's almost too late to avoid a crash. and then, you know,