a policing issue and working together to solve this problem. >> thank you, i wanted to ask chief loftus if he could come up and i wanted to say thank you so much to officer freedman and also you chief for making this an important issue for the command staff and the police department. >> the police department is dedicated to the program, i think that we have the right people in place and it is doing a great job for us and he is out and going full speed ahead and we feel very good about the program and the partnerships and not only between the police department and sfsafe but also, with the bicycle coalition and there, and this will really have a big win for everybody in the city. >> thank you so much, deputy chief. >> i would like to introduce, right now, you know, morgan saint claire and you know that there is a new director of sf safe and mr. brent swardlof and

he would like him to come up and if you don't mind to say a few words. >> good morning, supervisors, i spoke back in july, and so, my name is morgan saint claire and i have been at safe for two years and i have had my bike stolen myself and i am scared to buy another bike and i know that many others and i know that supervisor breed spoke about that last time. >> i have five meetings a week and i hear of the bikes being stolen from street, home and garage. >> i worked with the park community advisory board, a group of volunteers who meet with the captain each and started talking about this a year ago and just to take whatever angle side, and the police station and program and repeat it in the park but now we realize that we need to do this on a city wide scale. and safety awareness for everyone and our mission is to engage, educate and empower the

san francisco residents and we work with the san francisco department and we are located at the hall of justice and we are the ideal organization to launch the program. and the program will be in education and the registration program. and so we will contribute, the printed materials on how to lock the bicycles properly on the streets, in your garage and in your home. and we will hold the workshops in conjunction with the sfpd and the san francisco police, or bike coalition, excuse me. and we will use social media just like officer matt freedman is doing and to educate and how to report a bike if it is stolen. >> and then the next step, of course is to register the bikes after we educate people and so the program will make it more likely that bikes will be returned to their owners, in the san francisco area, and in the bay area. and it is already that the bikes have been returned already from san jose. and so, we want to give hope

that people can get their bikes back, and there are so many in storage at the police department right now, with no way to return them. and we need evidence, to prove that that is your bike and that facility when you get, when the officers find bikes on the street so i am very excited this is a big passion of mine. and i am so excited to launch this program and i would like to introduce our new executive program, who will be leading the program brent churlof. >> yes, i have so many aliases. >> more morgan has been there for two years and i have been there for two weeks and i am grateful for them, who have been strong allies in this, safe has had a relationship for 45 years for being a neutral resource to as morgan said to educate and to empower and to

engage the communities and what is exciting about this program is that it really reduces the number of victims and the cost of the victimhood that cyclists should feel empowered that fewer than 20 percent of the bike thefts go reported and so having a trusted secure, data base in place with serial numbers, the people will be empowered that they are registered and if something happens they will get a warm, human response, often from the police department and so we are excited to work with you and thank you for your support and allocating resources to it. >> welcome. >> sure. >> as morgan mentioned, safety awareness for everyone is empowering people to not feel like victims but to know, to hope each other, and block by block, but also, on bike thefts to raise our awareness so that we feel more empowered and less victimized when our bikes are stolen but thank you so much. but as officer freedman also mentioned the issue beyond the

law enforcement and so having the community based groups and i think that it is law enforcement but it is also community and sf safe really provides that and it is also a political issue that many of us have to address on a city wide level. but thank you. >> the next speaker is the other prong of this resolution and effort to systematically deal with the bike theft is the mta and we have niel from the sustain able streets department in the mta and thank you for your work over the years as well. >> good morning, i am the project liaison with the leavable streets group. i want to thank all of you for your work to really combat bike theft. and we see the role in combating the bike theft in the bike park and just to throw in a few numbers and let you know about the progress, supervisor mar, you mentioned the 3,000 bike racks and this year we are on track to add implement more

than 500 additional on sidewalks or on the street bicycle racks and next year, we will be implementing another 500 racks and so adding another 1,000 racks, this year or next year to the over all supply, which will help people find a place to park their bikes also we are hearing the completing of the bike report and this will be finished in september this month and this report is funded by the ta. we are doing a thorough analysis of the bike parking solutions and for the longer term reasons, and so people don't need to park a bike for more than an hour or two if they are going to run an errand and they need somewhere that is safe and secure. >> we did a lot of research and talked to a lot of the cities that had developed bike system and a lot of people riding and one of the biggest things that we hear is about bike parking

is that they wish that they would have spent more time and energy thinking about it and doing a analysis of their needs right now they have bikes all over the streets and so we are pleased to have taken the steps to provide a analysis of where we need the bike parking the elocker, and in the controlled lockers there are bicycle lockers currently but we are replacing them to increase the utility of them and currently someone can rent out a locker and have a key to it and have it for months at a time. but it does not offer any turnover and that person may not need them. we are replacing them with a pay per hour and just for a few cents an hour, can pay for a locker for a day or a few hours, and utilize it when we are done and another person can come in and park their bike

there and how many elockers are there in the city. >> and it is a good question and i think that we have 50 and we are replacing a few dozen of them. it is not a huge number but we are chiping away at that area. secondly, we are looking at residential long term bike parking and we hear a lot of stories and people are not able to bring their bike into the building and they don't have room or not able to bring up the stairs and don't have a garage and we are looking at an innovative, and on street, residential parking and it is covered and has a locking key. and it is exciting to be thinking about it and what neighborhoods would be able to utilize this best. and in the next several months you will be hearing more about this and we will love your help on the out reach and think about the places to install those. >> and finally, things like, bike cages, and attended secure bicycle parking where you can give your bike to somebody and get it repaired while you wait

and things like, places like downtown, and other high use transit use portal and we are in a report analyzing what is the best locations for those would be in san francisco. and actually we are applying for a grant the safe house transit grant to develop a business proposal. and we want to really understand the answer to the question is who should be managing this and what is the location, and hopefully we will be getting the grant this fall and develop a businessman on getting more of the bike parking stations in san francisco. >> and could i just ask a question? >> i know that yee and campos are involved in the safe routes to schools and looking at having consistency on the bike racks so that they have better parking. and i wonder if there is any

effort to target it around the schools or universities and colleges as well? >> that is a good question and i don't have the answer and i thcould our team and the unified school district to better understand that and get back to you. >> and i will be happy to share the report for you in september and we are excited to work with us and sf safe and others on the registration program and i think that we will be able to assist with the out reach in our garages or the social media channels and look for toward to get that program rolling. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so, colleagues, if there are no other questions, should we open this up for public comment? >> thank you, supervisors, i did want to ask the officer a question. and and i really appreciate all that is being done here, and of course, welcome to the head of the sf safe and i look forward to working with you. and getting to know you, and it is an amazing organization, that does great, great work,

throughout our neighborhoods. and very excited to have you here. >> and so quick question and maybe it is a dumb question, but as you are and i by the way appreciate your comments about how we need to make sure that we also involve the community, and that the different parties take responsibility for how their actions are and you know, making the situation worse. and including hopefully market and allowing the sale of stolen, bicycles. but i do have a question about a statement that you made in terms of, you have been disseminating, i think the faces or the pictures of people who are known bicycle thefts. >> that is correct. >> and i guess, the question that jumps out for me is if we know that they are you know, bicycle thieves, have we, or are these people that we have

tried to prosecute and have not been successful? and you know what i mean? like, someone is, if we know that someone is committing these crimes. and if we know that they are out there. and and maybe they are. >> and i think that they are being prosecuted. and i think that there is a number of different crimes that you can put to these folks, based on the fact of number one a value of the bike is a grand theft and is a petty theft and how the bike was taken whether it was taken in a burglary, those are all things that we are actively working on. my point in putting out these mug shots, is only for a preventive measure. i want the community to be involved if you see the people

lurking around and standing next to a bike rack with an angle grinder which saws off the locks, call 911 and let the officers come out and detain the person and have a chat with them. because these people need to be stopped and they need to know that the city will not tolerate this any more. and i think in several case its has worked and there was a gentleman that hangs out at 16th and mission and i think active citizens got involved and sent us his picture and he was arrested and for a good reason. i mean that he is a known bike theft and his probation was revoked and he is currently in jail. and i think that is a tactic that might be controversial because it has not been done before and perfectly legal and it works. >> thank you >> and unless there are any other questions, why don't we... >> i did want to ask one. i know that in july after we were having good dialogue about bike thefts, one person on

facebook and in different social media was giving me some suggestion he said that there is an economic problem of bike thieves not having penalties that are the equivalent of the amount of the stolen property. and that the economics are that the bike thieves will target the bicycles because it is really a lucrative type of crime and are there any efforts to increase the penalties or to address that economic issue of bike thieves? >> you know, that is probably a question for the district attorney's office. but i, from my own perspective there should be. and i have gotten very creative, when arresting bike thieves, and if to make sure that it is a felony. and so, whether it is an altered serial number and i have gone out to bike shops and gotten quotes of the value of the bike that i have

confiscated and any of those types of things i will charge the person with a felony and i want to be sure that the charges start to stick and so i think in the future the department can work with the district attorney to make sure that this happens better and that these people stay in jail for the long term would benefit everybody. >> okay, thank you. >> great. thank you. >> why don't we now open it up to public comment. i have one speaker card. mark seller, but anyone who would like to come and speak whether you have a speaker card or not, please come on up. and you each have three minutes, and again, i want to thank the members of the public who are here today for taking time out of your busy schedules to be here in city hall and thank you for your involvement. >> i represent the diverse triangle association and the friends of the park on the park station committee advisory board and i have also been an

enthusiastic 12-year member of the coalition and seeing these organizations work together is really very exciting. because i really do think that the combination of education, and recovery, is going to make a big difference and it is going to encourage more people to ride their bikes. and we have had a field trip to the police storage facility and saw 1,000 bikes there and it is a sight that you don't forget and the idea that we now will be able to perhaps, match up some of the bikes with the owners is very exciting because i lost a bike once. and i should have known better but i didn't have it registered and i didn't have it locked. and the educational process, and that the officer has been good at is to encourage the people to use u locks instead of the chains because chains can be easily cut. and again, i am here to support this, because i think that it is a wonderful thing for the citizens of the city as well as the bike riders of the city. >> thank you very much.

>> thank you for your involvement. >> next speaker? >> good morning, supervisors. my name is paulo swartz and i am the business and community manager with the san francisco bike coalition and i too am two weeks into a new position, but with the support and this effort on besafe of our 11,000 plus members working with sf safe and the san francisco police department, and continuing the efforts, in public education, and improving bike parking and recovery, and we have been working on it for several years and continuing the legacy of mark kaswel my predecessor and i just want to come here this morning to support this wholeheartedly and this fits in line with our vision for the city for cyclists and those who are thinking of riding but as you noted are not victims of bike

safety and attorneys. and connecting the city with the bike wave and bike parking, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> welcome aboard and you have big shoes to fill but we look forward to working with you. >> any other speaker or member of the public will like to speak on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. so i will turn it over again to the sponsor of the hearing, supervisor mar. >> yeah, i just wanted to ask miss saint claire from safety and everyone if you could talk about the voluntary registry that we are putting into place as well for the voluntary bike registry program. >> and so safe will host the program like i spoke about before, and it will be on-line, and so everyone will be able to distribute the materials for the program, and so it will be a form on the safe, and on the safe bikes program, and it will have all of what to fill in

about your bike and the contact info and the information will go into the secured data base and it will not be shared with anyone else and so if an officer then recovers a bike on the streets they will have a process where it will be they will call safe and say that i found this bike and here is the number and we will provide two stickers to every user and registered user to put on the bicycle. and we will have the recommendations on where to put them and like i spoke about before it is going to be a huge education effort with the brochures on how to lock the bike properly and where to store your bike and how to report if your bike is stolen. >> great. thank you. >> and i want to take and thank sfsafe, the bicycle coalition. and officer matt freedman and deputy chief for their work and i think that we are close to making significant progress, and i think that what makes

this process so unique, and that the project that started with the ideas from the community, and people that have been victims, of bike theft, and really it is involved the key, partners from the mta to the police as well and the city. and we have been looking at studies of davis and other entities and around the world as well and so we are drawing from some of the best practices too, and it is a real credit that we have great leadership in this department as well. and really innovative and resourceful like officer freedman and also the allies in the mta to really address the key and safe and secure, bike parking areas and did not increase the number of places that people can secure with the u locks, hopefully to good bike racks in all neighborhoods and merchant areas as well. i think that the recommendations that we took in july and in an ongoing way to helping the park station and

community residents helping each other is really a great effort and it really encourages the block by block and police station by police station and support and too. and so i was glad that the police department is looking at how to create more of from the lessons of from the some stations that have drawn from the other stations and helping and having a city wide approach as well. i think that we have moved a long way but there is still much work to be done. >> and lastly, the day before, halloween, we will be reviewing a new report that is drafted by the budget and legislative analysts on how we can better fund and put our money where our mouth is and our city bike strategy and also improve the safety of the bicycling in the city and i know that other supervisors, from norman yee to kim and others have really been key in that safety of bicycling

in the city as well and so we are looking forward to that. and lastly, i wanted to just, again, say that in moving forward, with the bicycle coalition, something for everyone's safe and the other people's groups will keep hopefully this issue alive and the resolution, calls for annual hearings on the progress of bike theft. and it also acknowledges the work that has been done in the past few months on this city wide program and so thank you everyone and thank you so much and i urge support for the resolution. >> great, thank you, thank you very much. supervisor mar for introduces this resolution and again, your leadership on this issue and i certainly am very prod to be supportive and a co-sponsor of this and i also want to acknowledge that all of this work is being done in a way that the truly reaches every san franciscan and including, a

lot of folks that speak different languages, and very culturally competent way in which this is being done and i think that it is really, it is really important and greatly appreciated because, the fact is that you know the more people know about this, the more people are involved, the safer all of us are. and so that is very important and i don't know if my colleagues have any other comments and so, i will now, entertain a motion on this resolution and so we will have a motion by supervisor yee. and if we can take that motion to move this item forward with the possible recommendation without objection. >> again, thank you to everyone who came to the meeting today. and mr. clerk, do we have any other business before this committee? >> that concludes today's agenda. >> great. >> thank you very much. >> the meeting is adjourned.

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david

constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes.

>> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the

ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the

million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future?

>> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and

you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early