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>> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic committee i'm scott wiener and supervisor kim and our clerk is lisa miller and i want to thank sfgovtv for

broadcasting especially stacey and charles. madam clerk any items >> yes. the items that are on the agenda will be announced later. >> item number is a zoning map to create the restrict use district. >> and the author it supervisor cowen and the supervisor asked for an extension of september 30th. so we'll take public comment and i'll be entertaining a motion to fine. my comment on one? seeing none, public comment is closed >> to continue for two weeks.

>> and we'll fact that without observation. >> item 2 is an ordinance to authorize financing by special districts to bring the service buildings into policy. >> this is an effort to move it mr. patrick lane i didn't and a good afternoon supervisors with the city of san francisco. before you say one of any pieces of legislation that are needed to get the green finance committee to be able to issue loans for seismic retrofits. there are differences between the materials retrofitting the

buildings helps extend the lifespan so by preserving those buildings we're expanding the materials from being diverted to waste materials and the department of environment has been a wonderful partner and it's a way to make the policy program more applicable and stinging the structures. i'm variable for any questions and so is my staff >> thank you very much. any questions >> could you go a little bit more into the history so if you can go into the history. >> absolutely so it was established a few years ago but basically, their issuing this

means our not given a bill for the property. and many people of the this an interesting balance it is catered by your property. the loan transfers with the property this is an advantageous way to finance the work. it leaves it open for an example like a large public school they can have this opposite but really addressing the software legislation. with when we started we are that going to start a separate program and as we went through this we realized to join them together to save the city a couple of million dollars. so we're, you know, activating

>> what is the project for the loans. >> it depends upon the bonds are sold and it teptdz to be more advantageous for interest rates. >> how many property owners have participated and a to my knowledge one. >> who was that? i believe it was pro lodges >> hi supervisors department of the environment and we have had one borrow we closed $1.4 million out of pier one to install efficiency projects. >> do we want more participation or is it part of an outreach education effort or

is this legislation vaunlz for property owners. >> we can as part of our program reach a whole new set of property owners that are subjected to the requirements of the ordinance. we're finding it's a imply program and there's a lot of education that all the stakeholders need to understand the proposition of how this financing works in terms of reducing operating expenses but we're seeing a dramatic uptick in the interest so getting the case study out there so other building owners can see how it works >> thank you very much. >> okay seeing no other comments or questions - i'm sorry, sir hold on.

there's also an amendment being proposed. okay, sir >> john detective city attorney so i've distributed proposed amendments we're been working on. increases a process in this legislation for the special district it has a few hearings at the board and the proposed amendment will still have a hearing at the board and newspaper notice 7 days in advance before the hearing occurs and the board adopts the resolution but it tights up the process for making changes to the special district he larger technical changes >> thank you very much. okay. at this point we'll open it up for public comment.

public comment will be for two minutes >> any public comment on item 2, please come forward. >> hello, i'm john. i was foerl perpetrating my papers to you in the board of chambers. i want to make comments on the item 2 which is the special tax financing law. i lived in apartment 547 page street so this is the complex public assess k o g tv. i currently live at a boarding room on 2011 jennings street.

especially earliest one, two and 3. briefly section 120 of this code election dates as specified in charter session on tuesday after the first monday in november and every year thereafter there should be held an election known as the general election. i'm reminding you my name was there on record and i made some statements on that day >> thank you very much. is there any additional comment on item number 2 increase? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues we have before us a proposed amendment to item number 2 could i have a motion

to mansion that amendment >> yes. >> we'll take that without objection could i have a motion to forward it manufacture that madam clerk call item number 3. >> this was the light rail fleet reliability and ease maintenance and problems and overall operational projection. >> colleagues i called for this hearing to shed light on the l r vs and to learn more about the procurement process so the process is fair tranquility and designed to make sure that muni has reliable and light rail

vehicles. this will replace the fleet is a once in a generation opportunity to purchase high quality reliable l r vs for our city. the residents require those and as well as a much growing need that is going to add $150,000 thousands residents that will be relying on public transit. we have a daily passenger load and a critical part of our transportation you system. unfortunately, the state of the l r vs is not a happy one. our first generations the boring were called let me ones fortunately we no longer have

them. our currency ones have several design problems that you are the doors are sometimes breaking easy. and when they break the entire subway can meltdown. we have had thereby with the com that you give us system. their fragile and they impact other systems. they weigh too much and case loud noises. in addition muni doesn't have is sufficient of them because their broken down. muni has only 50 percent of them on week days. not having ordered enough in the 1990s. and in addition muni hadn't rehabilitated it's l r v that

were in need of renovation and fortunately that's changing. those problems with the l r vs including the design challenges have problems it's unreliable and all two freckle melts down, rush hours are ruined and frustration leflgz are high. it's a completely unacceptable situation and an sawedable one. our exchanges are going to get more severe as our city grows along market and south of market, mission bay and a hunters point pier 70 and pier that 32 and park merced all

areas that rely on this service and people arriving on high rail system will need to congressmen. without dramatically more consistent and light rail service we're in for a bad situation in terms of the future of our transit system and we'll struggle economically. fortunately we can start to address this situation. in addition to right back this process we can purchase rails and muni recently issued a request for this and the

procurement process will modus operandi move forward. the contract will need to be approved by the board of supervisors and this will make sure the mta is proposing a contract will will lead to a good process. mta has one shot to get this right. the stakes for our city and munis riders are way too high. i want to invite up john to make a presentation. and mr. hale i didn't welcome >> thank you, mr. a chairman and a committee members. i think in terms of an introduction we are you've state is very well, we're at a

critical junction. for all the issues we're dealing with on a day by day basis we continue to put programs and actions in place to try to improve the service but clearly going forward to meet the demands of the future and to make sure we have the reliability and get the useful life that the public has invested in those light cars it's important to talk about some of those things but first, as i stated no one is views the reliability to be accepted. two points to make primarily on this slide. first of all, is that the relationship with the system any delay in the system has 5 lines.

everything goes through the subway and i'll talk about why a that's important to vehicles later but clearly that's one of the take waterways. the other one say we track as a cause of delays some 70 percent are mechanical repelled. that means if our in the subway someone has to go in and diagnoses the process and the compleblth of the oscars made it difficult. in looking breaking down the delays first, the doors and step. the doors and steps are mechanically complex with over 2 hundred moving parts that are fragile and they cause a number of issues in the subway. for those of you who run the

service we carry the crowds all kinds of door issues people hold the door to let their friends or another passenger come in. the door can be what's called time out the operator has to find the door and reset it. so the complexity of the declining design impacts the services but it adds to our maintenance costs but to do a simple repair process. the time and mechanic office hours far exceeds what it should of. so we try to in the procurement process to build in a maintain ability factor.

the other pro pulls if you go through our delays one of the things that causes a problem is something called an intact valve it's a filter that regulates all the fifth and in our particular case by locating it under the car it serves as a vacuum so when a lc r v goes down the street it picks up water. we change the filters every other day but it causes the system to fail and we have to stop the cars. most l r vs have an intact for

compulsion. that's one of the highlights we've tried to learn from. the other thing it's not possible to have a standard l r v car. we have a shorter and the turning radius is shortlyer we have a manual operation and some very tight curves if you think about delores park and 9th those are not the turning radius is very tight. we've done in some cases, you see the brake train control there's a series of cables that freckle come louis loose and they shut down the train. it leads to long delays and it's hard to fix and