literally a year. >> it is kind of nice. >> all of the people that are here. ♪ good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors i'm scott wiener to my right is supervisor kim and we'll be joined shortly by

supervisor chiu. i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting today jonathan and supervisor yee i didn't. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> please silence all electronic devices. and items acted upon today will be on the next before meeting. >> please call item one. >> it's a reliability of the street light plan. >> okay. thank you and i called for this hearing today on the state of san francisco's street lights and strategies going forward. street lights are a critical part of our industries utility and public safety infrastructure. our street light system helps, of course, light up our roads

and sidewalks and plays an important role from our cities quality of life. role in public safety of our neighborhoods because of well lighted street is safer than a dark street. and also allows for more vibrate night life for people out on the street whether it's with their neighbors or in a commercial area. our street lights in san francisco have been challenging. to put it mildlyly. we have too many street lights that are are burnt-out or otherwise see 0 unlikely the infrastructure is old and it at times is taking two along to fix the street lights that burn out

in addition, we our street lights in san francisco are very car and street focused and not pedestrian focused so we see frequently street lights that are very tall and designed to 0 light the roadway for cars but don't light the sidewalks for pedestrian given how their positions and given they can he'll be blocked excuse me. by trees and so forth. and it's really a system i think was designed and put in place during a period of time our country was focused on cars and forget the fact that we have many pedestrians and people who use our sidewalks and need having to have those situations lighted you are about to give about a year and a half ago i

called for a hearing we heard from the public works commission and from pg&e which are the two folks who operate more or less half-and-half the street lights in san francisco. we heard about the time it took to get lights going again once they burn out and in particular pg&e had some challenges around response time and was working on those challenges we talked about that quite a bit at the last hearing. we talked to the puc to talk about strategies to get that agencies on converting our street light system. both agencies updated on their effort to improve their reliability of the system

including pg&e talked about some of the improvements it maikd made in terms of the days it would take to respond to 3wr7b9d out lights. at the conclusion of that hearing both agency made some commitments about improvements they would implement in the coming months and so today wee i reknown this hearing to hear from both agencies to hear what has changed with respect to some if the discussion items. i'm particularly interested in the amount of time or the frequently the amount of time it takes on average to remainder those lights and the progress we've made towards transitioning our street light to a more friendly pedestrian.

i'm looking forward to the discussion following the hearing it's my intent to craft whether a resolution or perhaps an ordinance to set 80 some clearer or consistent standards for our street light system in san francisco. i'll recognize supervisor jane kim >> thank you for calling this hearing. it continues to be a hot topic of something our office hears a lot if from our district residents the brightness of our lights around public safety but to help pedestrians feel safe walking through the neighborhood. when we had portions of the mission neighborhood as well as its a large issue. what's been frustrating once we respond to those calls it is

often taking long periods of time often months to get an answer from public works and pg&e who has ownership over the lighted and getting the lights to go brighter. i realize there are probably a simple issue like budget issues but it's helpful for folks to have a clear pathway to understand who has ownership over our lights and how we can do a better job and who we're lobbying to get better lights throughout the neighborhood. it's an issue we have blocks dark in the south of market and mission as well. we're working to get lights in the tenderloin with the puc we have the least amount of lights

there and most homeowners don't own cars we want 80 a better process to continue that and, of course, the brightness. the alley i have got the new lights and it makes a difference in feeling safer so thank you for working on that. i know this was part of pe w but learning more about that process is helpful >> thank you and i'm glad you brought up the coronation issue we've been tracking that and it appears there has been strides made with puc and pg&e and 311 your right it's a significant frustration when people sometimes there is confusion about who has what street lights we think it's pg&e but itself

that concludes my presentation. with that said we'll go to the presentation we'll hear from puc and pen pg&e and open this up for public comment. first, i want to invite barking from the public utilities commission >> welcome back. >> thank you barbara assistant general manager at the sf puc. i'm happy to present and go through a brief overview of street lights here in san francisco >> talk about our plans for street light improvements given our maintenance and capital funds. and if sfgovtv could help me i've got an overview. thank you. i'm to talk about those 3 things ownership are the goals important performance and

our funding. but before we talk about that lets make sure we understand roles and responsibility. as supervisor weiner mentioned the ownership of street light the in san francisco is mixed. clearly a majority of the lights are owned by the city and the majority of those are owned by the divided puc. we own those assets and have them as part of our management program it's about 25 thousand lights we are responsible for and own >> if i'm not mistaken it's about 60 percent by the city and 40 percent by pg&e. >> a that's right and there's street lights owned by caltrans but appear to be streets to us but are considered highways. >> how can a resident you see it

as light it's outdoor out you want to know who owns it sometimes there's a tag but it's small. >> sometimes they're a tag it can be indicative. if it's a wood pole that the light is on its a pg&e light they own the wood poles and under the circumstances they typically own the street lights . after a other than that, it's difficult to tell. we have a slide that shows how it breaks down in terms of ownership where the blue town districts show the majority of lights owned by puc and the green toned are the districts and a neighborhood where their

owned by pg&e. is there any consideration given to having one entity own all the lights? >> yes. the city over the decades has credited that issue and has discussions, you know, whether ownership should be by the city or pg&e. and we've seen some movement within pg&e territory and our representative can talk about the ownership changes. the assets are old. to have them operate well, they need investments. in the past when the city considered ownership it's been considered an expensive new obligation to take on so the city has shied away from that. there maybe methods of funding that make sense instead of funding it out loud u out of the

pg&e revenue we can talk about that. of course, the ownership question as supervisor jane kim mentioned is frustrating to our resident. we have a 311 system in the city that residents you call into or go to their computers and enter the information that's how we receive information from resident about outages and other problems. the 311 system relies the information to my staff and we dispatch crews daily to address outages. the same system communicates with pg&e and pg&e has voluntarily participated in that approach. we've recently added to the reporting methods a new

application that puc folks developed that allows residents to use new app call street light sf so when you're walking down the street and your noticing a problem you can open up the app and it will automatic low position you and allow you to allow the positioning just by drag and drop of the pen and you can acting report to the 311 system and puc. we have, you know, 311 serving as our hub, if you will, of all those outage reports to rely on their data >> (clapping)

all right. thank you erica and thank for the great work. leader pelosi and mayor ed lee thank you for your attention. welcome to yelp. i'm excited to have you here at our new headquarters. as you know yelp has lived within the same radius. we've moved a short distance away and to keep our headquarters in san francisco was a conscious one. san francisco was a key player in the yemz story. we realized that yelp might work in cities around the world with yelp in 23 criteria's we need a little bit more desk space.

yelp has 17 hundred employees 8 hundred in sf. we're committed to growing the local economy and maintaining a strong connection to our san francisco lines. when looking for a new headquarters it was location, location, location. we needed somewhere to provide easy access to lots of local businesses and restaurants and remain convenient for mass transit riders and bike riders a lot of our employees ride bikes. combrem is pack at about local plays and celebrate the distinct

active and unique. we want to have this into a more than workplace. talking of resident at the 130 montgomery is an important milestone. we'll celebrate our tenth anniversary next year. i'm privileged to introduce yelp leader our 2kwishd nancy pelosi (clapping.) and what on a honor to be your representative in congress. thank you jeremy. your leadership and your sense of community and for staying in san francisco. i'm honored to join you and your colleagues especially our mayor who has a relationship with this

part of the whole city, of course, but this was his baby and he's done a remarkable job. when we cut relishes at another that i have i tip my hat to president obama for helping to make business grow in this part of town. it's great to see you again jeremy. he brought some of the enthusiasm to washington for yelpless recently. and erica congratulations on our work here. lisa and matt congratulations on our awards how wonderful. but it's a principle for me to

be here as your representative in congress to the new headquarters but a building of great tradition and that's in our city. this whole faith is built on technology and really save in community because community is what yelp is all about. yelps success is living proof that american business doesn't want just service a small community but this whole community. from the beginning this torrid company acknowledged that this can be a good model of bits. and certainly there's no befrt place to test this model but in

san francisco. consider where we are today 140 new montgomery street stand for innovation. the first sky skrarpt to be in san francisco. it was then the pacific telephone company. i've been using caving stone as means of communication but that was the innovation of the day. that was here in 1929 that, sir winston churchill made a telephone call for his 21st wedding anniversary he said why say the age of migraines it past it's just the beginning to

today, we mark a new beginning it's called the monument for talk it's called yelp. today, we have the opportunity to celebrate the now global company community community community how many communities jeremy. while millions of companies understand how yelp can help to change minds fewer know how dedicated this is to helping nonprofits doing the same they're committed to helping leader to find czar grant award and a having champions within the company to open the doors of opportunities pr i congratulate you it's a small amount of money

to help incurs who are striving to build better community. 826 val say thank you for helping children to learn more skills. and that's what communication is all about. and the initiative to expand their business. it's all connected to communication and empowerment. i take it something is going to happen with bell, pack bell jeremy said they have their yellow pages and we have yelp.

we affirm our deaths for the economic engine it drives the american dream so thank you yelp for your leadership this tliefrz on the power of community. thank you for your imperial spirit and a your commitment to the community. thank you congratulations to yelp (clapping.) don't use it as a model but (laughter) you really this is such a passion for the mayor. and i know what this means to many this building yelp coming here for him everyday strives to make san francisco the engine of

economic growth of community respect of giving opportunity to so many people. i know this is a special program and he wanted to decade yelp to the san francisco community >> thank you (clapping.) well, that's kind of neat to have it yielded by the leader. i am, of course, very glad to be here at yelp this is my second invest to this site. i know that erica having something in common being from berkley. it's great to see people coming together after law but it's good to see maybe there's life for me. but i'm happy to be here and

join nancy pelosi and congratulating he yemen they're new home. yelp is special they're starting here and staying here that i i love coming here it is now 8 hundred the numbers changed. i visited a few weeks we looked at the building restroom for a thousand. i want to join leader pelosi it is a happy day. i love to see companies succeed and the collaborating and sharing ideas this is what yelp has done. and then to do something special in the what happened in san francisco because companies that are here and start here they

follow in the tradition like the charles swabbings and the fisher's and the hell man's they discover the resources and want others to grow with them. that's why to recognize 3 outstanding nonprofits you've columbian but even if company like yelp now, it's yelp and yelp foundation. i love that because i got it, it's sales force and sales force foundation the technology companies are taking up that social responsibility like no others and i love seeing that because that's been the values of san franciscans. we've shared in our success and as we present more companies

whether their along market street or monday night grorm we have 1 thousand companies in san francisco plus. think about how many foundations this represents >> we all know the understanding is becoming clear innovation is not about the temple it's about a way of thinking. it suggests that community collaboration, building of that community, sharing of ideas is really a spirit. i've been very happy to collaborator collaborate with yelp and looufrt has been with us a couple of times we have a relationship that's not just in the city. i'm happy to bring yelp with me

and present them to other mayors. we get to not only brag but to announce we're solving things that we're not in the drudgery of retention reform and run away accounts but we can solve them in partnership with the private sector. we took this one example data that no one looks altered from restaurants and we discovered there's no eyes on that so we matched that up with the real eyes that are at yelp and made that connection so when you go to let yelp website i can see the relationship in government

and we announced that and other cities asked how we have more people using that process. that's one of dozens of example whether it's in transportation finding parking spaces and ride sharing to function more efficient. this partnership goes beyond it and you have made it exist. i'm interested in seeing the other donation you're making to consumer free speech and thank you yelp for being here i want to call up jeremy and a nancy pelosi it's about time that on the occasion of establishing you're wonderful headquarters

and i'll watch the demonstrate you're wonderful services this is today yelp day colleagues, that places you on the next item >> does that mean he can park whatever he wants. >> that's the green bike thing. >> it's earlier in the day sometimes, it happens at dinner 7, 8, 9 but now you're telling me. >> thank you for your leadership. >>