we have matthew who is very passionate about bike theft. as our numbers increase i can very easily see us dedicating more resources to bicycle theft perhaps standardizing the procedures so when bicycles are stolen we have a standardized approach to how we check the bicycle owners. i think this program we're talking about today receive money that the board of supervisors so generally provided us is going to allow us to get the registration program off the ground. we're hoping this registration program will be a voluntarily

program and will allow folks to register the bicycles and that will cover the ownership once the bike is stolen and he people won't have to remember their serial numbers. so that's the first step towards a citywide effort to keep bikes a lot safer in san francisco >> do you have a sense i think the fact it the chief of police say here do you have a sense before we, expect something like that a bicycle theft to be created and also in the in the meantime, can i have all over the it in the level of attention that's paid at each station. it's concerning to three and four at least there are some

district stations are better than other and i hope across all 10 station this is a priority >> right - well, you have to take into account all the crime we deal with. this is a serious crime because it phone calls effects so m. we see the officer like freeman it is far above and beyond what we expect from our officers but this offices is up to speed on what's being done in the nation on bicycle theft. obviously identifying best practices is our next step we hope to get the dedicated officers to form a working group and determine what we can push out to the stations as a stated

operating procedure for officers coming out with bicycle theft. we're going to decide whether it's a dedicated bicycle unit or a much better operationally standardized response to bicycle theft. a lot of times i know that 8 hundred looks like a lot but we will have to look at closely at dedicating people to a bicycle theft unit and the justification for it. i think we ail understand on a scale of importance and priority. without saying yes to form a bicycle unit we'll look at it by the approach right now is registration, bicycle recovery

and how to teach folks to protect their bicycles and move into a standardized process >> i know that you are the limited resources and i have a final question. how many arrests were made last year for bicycle thefts and whether or not there were, you know, any prosecution's based on those arrests >> i can't tell you the actual number of arrests that were made. we have a very good relationship with the district attorney's office and if the justification is probably the da is investigated about making the

cases. they went to the website and posted the pictures of the bible and did a lot of outreach to try to get folks to identify the bicycle but it would be easier if all the folks were registered that had bikes >> thank you very much. >> i want to add a few more comments. those bicycles this were recovered by the officers if the bicycle were registered no problem in getting them back but the police officers are trying to match the folks with their bicycles and i've actually traced back the owners through

bicycle shops with stickers on the bikes. we're doing everything we possibly can to get the bicycles back to the owners. the easier way if their registered and they can tell us who the owner is. that's why i think this registration program is a win-win. thank you. >> can you - can officers elaborate a little bit more in regards to the theeflz themselves. what happens to - what - where do they dispose of the bibles they've stole is there a

centralized system like cell phone thefts it seems like there's an operation >> i know there could be. i know there's ongoing investigations i know that a lot of those bicycles move out of city very quickly like oakland and san jose. i have personally helped get the bikes back and people call me and say i found my bicycle on combragz list and wants to meet me in fremont. i give the person advise go to the fremont pd and 9 times out of 10 they'll get their bike back if they go with a police

officer. we're working on a lot of those issues and the flea markets are a problem. i've written to the flea market and asked them to stop selling bicycles. it would be a big help if they stopped. their that ended up there a lot and people from la call me and say i think this bicycle is stolen down here i bought it from this defy and somehow they got in touch with the san francisco police department. they take time and investigation and a thank you. the other question may not - i don't know who's going to answer this one. has there been any attempt to

ask retailers i guess at the point of sale whether they would be willing to have the person who purchases the bike register right there and then and a i've personally make up index cards and placed no, the mission district and worked with shop owners and employees so at the point of sale part of the marketing material is this strategy where the card that says don't forget to recommend our bike i was using the national bicycle regulatory or

but don't forget to reasonable our bicycle. so at the point of sale you spent 2 thousand you want to register your bike >> i think that the idea is either to register it on the spot or go directly to the websites and actually fill out the form but definitely i think we're going to be working with bicycle shop owners what's the best possible way to get folks registered. >> 3 would help with the high-end bikes. my guess is that many of the -

what did you call them - rafrlt stores like target sell a lot of bikes and i'm wondering when target come up here i'd like to hear they're their answer. a lot of folks buy their bikes at the low end like target. i'm not picking on target. have we approached those chains to ask for cooperation >> you know i don't like to refer to my bicycle as a low end bicycle but i understand what you're saying but - i understand i have approached places like rb i.

target is new to the city but i've gone to rb i which sells moderately priced bikes. so all those places i know are very interested in working with us and trying to establish best practices and get folks registered so we can slow this problem down >> actually i want to thank the officer but also the long-range term goals as some standardized see operating procedures or something that's going to treat that issue as serious of other issues but i see the examples

how officer friedman goes above and beyond and the passion involved and thank you for your working with sftv and the bicycle coalition. >> the next speaker is from the sfmta neil. good morning >> good morning thank you for your attention to the matter and thank you to the budget analysts office. we're proud of your streets for san francisco to be known as a great city to bike in pow by san francisco has a lot of bike theft. we at mta know that the increase quality and long-term bike

partnering parking it is important. not every bike rack provides the same kind of theft protection. we have a square tube that's a lot harder to cut through. there's two points of kanth where people are locating their bikes correctly. we've got more than 4 though bike racks and we're going to install three to four hundred more. but i'll say we're going through a change how we fund that. we get a pot of grant money and we're going doing to lean toward

a request system we get questions and we try to honor that. we can respond to windows and go at the more active approach to see where our greatest need is and more quickly. in terms of the long-term bike parking. we're very excited in september we're going to release our strategy like train stations it's a more innovative idea. a lot of resident may not be able to bring their bikes into their homes or have a bike room in their buildings. we're trying to secure the bikes for residents in more of a

medium place. we have the demand where should we put in - where are some of the transit stations that are eligible for a secure bike station. so at the end of september we'll share the report with you. and what are some of the locations we should be rolling out. lately i want to show you the literature around bike parking. we used to have a 60 or 70 page information guide but i've flagged in this guide how to

lock our bike safely. we've purchased 5 thousand of those and the bicycle coalition have 2krib9d almost half of them. and we have the sf guide how to reduce theft. so with that i'll see if you have any other questions >> i was going to say that i know supervisor campos with the m t c and i bag this evening have this long, long meeting going on but with the strategy and the area grants if he were to secure that more money for better bike parking how soon would they be able to implement this. you say 4 to 5 hundred bike a rack but if there were more

funding how soon >> that's - we're going to determine the best places by i'm not what the answer is to your question but i can get back to you if we had a certainty increase of funding. >> thank you for wearing your hat and a thank you for having this guide in multiple languages. mr. chair can we open this up for public comment >> i have a number of cards and mark is here with the bicycle coalition and we have another gentleman who i want to come forward. i'll read the rest of the cards >> hi mark with the san francisco bicycle coalition.

thank you for beginning this dialog. we have heard that regularly this is one of the top concerns concerns for our folks. a secure place to lock our bike is an important issue. we have been working on this report for six months to a year. i want to take a second and acknowledge the startling number over 4 hundred thousand bike thefts and it's greater than the number of cell phones. they said that 3 bikes are stolen for every one. that's not the top priority in

the media so we have to make it a top priority. bike theft is not only a problem for people who have bikes by it's a deinterpret - folks came in and looked at it around in a shop and didn't purchase a bike because they're afraid of the bike thefts. so get people out of a car and reduce the congestion around san francisco is a major concern. how can we railways bike theft. one of the opportunities that we as san francisco coalition >> please continue.

>> there's really 3 e's we discuss and that is enforcement engineering and education. and those 3 priorities are a great way to tackle the problem. we've heard a lot about this. things are good so long as their targeted in a good locates to utilize the limit resources. we need to see the bike you racks in the locations that are high theft areas. one key i want to bring up it needs to be equitable catching the random bike theft every so often is not going to reduce bike theft.

we know that when someone steals bikes it travels to flee markets. gps would disrupt the system and catching the offenders p who were exploiting and people buying them for 20 or $30 and take them to flea marketed and they sell them for two or $300 and just to be clear they had a location they were out at golden gate park so the bike didn't get stole but they had gps out this year and it could be implemented

within a week there's a local provider in san francisco. but as i mentioned beyond enforcement we talked about engineering you heard the gentleman discuss some of the opportunity to try to improve bike parking but the third is education. that as we duces this is a great step for individuals after their bikes are stole. but we like to to educate people ahead of them of time. we've had hundreded of folks showing up. it's not clear if i wobble outside today and my bike is missing it's not clear what to do so i could potentially report it but it's important how we can

take up that education process. post theft and educating people how to deal with this in the long-term. it's not enough to just report this but educate folks. and working with the sf bike coalition who could reach loose and lots of folks. i'm happy to tackle any questions >> thank you and the next speaker is morgan st. claire and i'll read some of the other cards

(calling names). >> hi it up for doing this today supervisor mar and campos and breed. i've been with the san francisco station for two years. when i first move forward to san francisco my bike was stolen. i've been working with the part community advisory for the past year now. it started as a discussion with the community advisory board made up of different boards and that's in supervisor breeds district. we learned a lot in this past year that people don't have ownership of their bicycle and people don't know how to report

their bikes stolen. so we've brought in the community advisory board because they have a rental database and they have 1 hundred and 22 users where people have called from all over the city. so save is proposing to host this database and the education components it is so important to tell folks that they inside their serial number. also, we learned that people don't know how to lock their bikes properly. i've learned a lot in the past year of how to lock envy bicycle. save is an appropriate organization to lead those efforts because we have a close

relationship with the sfpd. it's important we establish this database and continue to the workshops that officer friedman has been doing. it thank you for all our support >> thank you for our dedicated support and all the oeshthsdz you work with and the 3 seven years of expertise as well as. >> i have a pile of letters from the bike shops and their respond is it's about time this is so needed from bike shop owners and managers i've spoken to. they're ready for it because they get people on a regular basis complaining about bike theft it's quite needs >> i see no questions and thank you, ms. st. claire and other

folks. i called a number of speakers you can come forward it doesn't have to be in the order >> i'm mark you represent the triangle association. one of the things that was stated the lower turn rate is primarily due to 0 sfpd to reconnect bicycles with their owners because the bicycle owners don't have the serial number or as in a lot cases the owners don't attempt to recover their bicycles. the part of the program i want to talk about is the free and

rental. i picture a procedure at the time you buy your bike it can be a clipboard with the person's name and serial naming number and description. i could easily see every police station having the registration and each time a bike it recovered they simply go to 0 database it doesn't matter if they have access there would be a greater chance to match the bible with the owner. we can see this happen by the end of the year with our support. it's a simple thing to implement. we at park states c had been

collect information and enter it whatever it necessary. i also strongly falsify sf save they're good with dealing with the public this is a very good and ease thing for them to do >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm mark i'm a teacher and resident in south of marketing. i want to say thank you to the supervisors the sftv and everyone n involved in crafting a violation for a san francisco this is a save for continued cycle >> thank you for your great work in education. >> i represent the association at c park station. we're lucky enough to have