>> the staff, the overall staff in livable streets and traffic engineers are paid for by capital projects. they charge to projects and that is op how their salary is paid. that's not always included in that amount. i know people look specifically at our operationses budget and see staffing. we have to realize a lot of staff time is paid for by capital and project related sources. >> when you say pcos, you mean parking meter? >> yeah. >> i'm not sure i would call that pedestrian safety, but i appreciate that. i think that -- and this will happen through the budget cycle because i know the two-year budget is coming to the board of supervisors this year. i will be very interested in seeing what percentage of the budget goes towards bike and pedestrian safety improvement because, you know, and you've heard it already from members of the public we need to dedicate more dollars, it needs to come closer to the ped research which was 17%, ped mode. so, we'd like to see more equity in that budget. you know, going back to your previous slide i guess on the

go bond and the vehicle license fee, what percentage of that will be dedicated to pedestrian and bike safety? >> so, let me, let me -- good timing. so, just really quickly so people have the background, the mayor head of train pour thaition task earlier this year, there were three recommendations. one of those recommendations was to move with three different funding measures based on the gaps based on part of the task force report. that being the general obligation bond which is essentially two 500 million dollars bonds. increase in vehicle license fee to what they were pre-governor schwarzenegger statewide. the county has the ability to raise it back to that level. the new sales tax. people say i pay transportation sales tax. this would be an additional one in addition to the proposition k tax $197 million a year. i've highlighted the things that are specifically important, but some of the biggest increase percentage-wise is from the base that were identified in

that report, meaning what we spend currently in the resources we have, some of the highest increases, and i believe it's close to 151% were related to pedestrian safety. and specifically things that we just can't catch up with. i know one thing, supervisor avalos has brought up many times and many of you is pedestrian countdown signals, for example. i mean, we know the intersections, they need to go in. he we know how many they are. we know how to get them done and we can get more done as part of any contract, but it's always the amount of resources he we have just to get that done and get all those intersections signalized. the other issue -- and you brought it up, supervisor kim -- is the vls component of these revenue measures, because that generates general fund, that gives us the flexibility to quickly move and make these improvements and go out there and do the paint and not be subject to, you know, a revenue bond or even a geo bond that's restricted to curb and concrete where we have to go through the design process and do a lot of those things that [speaker not

understood] and timothy talked about previously. so, it is a huge component of the bond safety. it is very high of the bond and the vls proposal. they are both very high priorities. we're going through a public process now and just starting the discussions about what those revenue measures would mean, but the task force identified those as very high priorities and funding wise it serves to fill a very important gap that we haven't been able to for a long time with the sources that i've shown you. >> thank you for reminding me about the vls claims and to the general fund. i sense there is the discussion about allocating it is not going to be part of the discussion for the november ballot. >> correct. there is a report in development that people will be getting to see shortly. >> okay, great. i'd love to talk more about this, but i know he we're going to lose quorum really soon. and, so, that was our last speaker. i know there was a closing, but maybe we can do that -- we'll see how time goes. i'd like to move first into public comment so we can

[speaker not understood] get through our community members. i know not everyone is still here, butly still call some of the name. i do have john alex lowell from psac. not sure if he's still here. okay, john. we have kevin also from -- kevin stall, also a member of our pedestrian safety advisory committee. nicole snyder, walk sf, an gentlemen lin ayu, chinatown cdc. bob [speaker not understood], california walk. 2, 3, 4, 5. kimberly jones. gina luna. ernestine waters weiss. she is still here. and chema hernandez gill. and those are all of the cards i have. so, those are 10 speakers. please line up. supervisor mar, how are you doing in terms of your time? >> i know supervisor yee has to chair the rules committee which i have to be at as well. >> okay. i really -- i'm so sorry.

i know there's only a few speakers. i'm going to do one minute per speaker only because we're losing quorum and we just can't keep going without committee members. but we are going to have more hearings on this. and i just want to thank you so much for waiting so patiently to come speak on this item. we also have alex rogers, i'm going to call you up. one minute per speaker, knowing that we will continue this discussion more robustly. ~ at any other time. mr. lowell. thank you, supervisors. my name is john alex lowell. i serve on the pedestrian safety advisory committee on seat number 4 representing seniors and disability organizations. i come to you and hold it in my hand, i can submit to the clerk, article iv of the administrative code creating the pedestrian safety advisory committee was authorized and amended in 2003 amended 2008 by proposal by supervisor ed ju. this calls for expertise in pedestrian safety regarding all

acts of residence and travels in san francisco. [speaker not understood]. i ask for psac to be incorporated in feedback from city agencies. those appointees by the school district have not been informed by the teen behind me action regarding youth. the liaisons from kevin marks. kevin stall and chris cochran from the [speaker not understood] seats have not been contacted regarding those streets within those districts. we are not being used and [speaker not understood] dialogued with on the proposal from supervisor norman yee on the creation of the new advisory group. thank you. >> this is on the pedestrian safety awareness campaign? okay, great. we will let supervisor yee's office know that feedback. thank you, mr. lowell. good afternoon, ken stall, and i represent district 6 on the pedestrian safety advisory committee. and while it's great to spend money on big projects, help

beautify and make san francisco appealing to tourists and big businesses, public safety and pedestrian safety should be the number one priority in which this money should be used. and failure is not an option here. to me lives are at stake and it's time to use our money to [speaker not understood] residents, businesses and workers. if people don't feel safe in san francisco, nobody will want to spend any time here. so, let's make pedestrian safety san francisco's number one priority now and forever. so, thank you. >> thank you, mr. stall. good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for hosting this hearing. my name is nicole snyder. i'm from walk san francisco and we are of course really pleased to see this hearing about vision zero. we're really excited about the prospect of vision zero and the leadership that you all have shown along with mta and the mayor's office and the police department and the da and many, many, many agencies the department of public health,

transportation authority. you know, i think we really have an opportunity to change san francisco's streets for generations to come and we're looking forward to that. in addition to the progress that we've made so far on vision zero, we really want to see more funding dedicated to vision zero to the engineering solutions identified through walk first. and to other things like the da's new attorney, we need funding for these things to actually take place and for -- in order to save lives. we also need better coordination between agencies [speaker not understood] as a model and we want to see that be infused into the culture of the city. and we also want to see the city come together around the plan and make the leadership of the new vision zero committee at the ta. thank you. >> thank you, ms. snyder. i'm bob plant from california walks.

two points i'm going to make. both our agency and myself personally are in support of vision zero. so much so that weeks and weeks and weeks ago i invited various city agencies to come together and have staff develop a presentation at our mid may statewide conference. we are proud of what san francisco is doing. so far, silence, not [speaker not understood], silence from everybody who has been invited. this is in mid may at a time when the may budget revise is coming out, when city staff can talk to staff from office of traffic safety, from dmv, from caltrans, from even public health, all of which have money. silence is not a response that's helpful to san francisco. secondly, there's pending legislation that would make easier camera enforcement. that legislation is on life support. it's good to hear san francisco is going to be behind this. next year california walk, the safecolytion, various agencies [speaker not understood].

we need your help. >> thank you, mr. plant hold. i know nicole snyder is organizing one of the panels for the conference for california walks in sacramento. i've already let her know i can't make it because i'm going to be at a conference in los angeles, but we are working with supervisor yee and avalos' office to see if they can make it. if not, certainly someone from my office will be in sack acfor that conference and we appreciate your work on that. ms. weiss? ~ sacramento thank you. ernestine [speaker not understood] weiss. i can't say enough about lighting. lighting is a downtown priority. this is where all the congestion is and where all the accidents happen and has a three fold benefit. crime reduction, pedestrian safety, and it baits the economy because people come out at nigh. ~ night. the bay bridge improvement [speaker not understood] waterfront restaurant and [speaker not understood] hotel. light it up and they will come. traffic cops need it and bikes

-- traffic cops are needed at first, second, third and now on sixth street. bikes on the sidewalks are a pedestrian nightmare. taxis race against muni. they cut in and out. so, all these things have to be addressed. but please make downtown a priority. market street is dark. van ness is dark. and the embarcadaro is dark. thank you. >> thank you, ms. weiss. i agree, we need more street lighting. [speaker not understood] hernandez gill with the san francisco bicycle coalition. both personally and on behalf of our members i want to commend you, supervisors, for your concerted work in turning vision zero from an idea into a policy. we're tentatively encouraged by the commitments and progress made by the s.f.p.d. and the district attorney, but we are nonetheless concerned by the progress made on the third piece of this three-point plan engineering.

we encourage the city to identify and commence work on the 24th priority projects by the end of this month. the current 26 theme delivery timeline is really just not [speaker not understood]. while hearings like this are very appreciated, the city must take action by empowering key city staff and committing unconstrained and sufficient funding to achieve the goals and visions here. thank you so much. >> thank you. hi, an gentlemen lin a [speaker not understood]. i'm an organizer. i work with a lot of transit dependent folks who live, walk, and breathe the streets, all experiencing very high traffic collisions, pedestrians -- pedestrian safety, something that is super important. i think having heard the three fold strategy of the three es, it's refreshing. i think the city has a really robust tool kit, but going forward with this road ma'am, what needs to be party is that

timeliness for the city to be about working together. if i city family is going to do all these projects, they need to be talking to each other, have some sort of communication system for those that are able to streamline things because we need pedestrian safety improvements do save lives. the other major piece missing from the proposal is the sufficient resources. i think the walk first plan has a lot of data. it shows where the high needs are, what's missing to make this a reality is those resources. that is the funding that needs to come from san francisco. thanks. >> thank you, ms. yu. good afternoon. i'm alice rogers from district 6 and first i want to thank you very much for your perseverance through the morning. it's been a very long time for you. i'm just here to encourage and support and applaud your vision zero program. and also as a resident and walker in district 6, to encourage a special focus on

district 6 demonstrably statistically the ground zero, as it were, of traffic fatalities and accidents. there's a good reason for those members. so, please give us a good look and a good portion of those funds. >> thank you, ms. rogers. and thank you for working with district 6 pedestrian safety work group as well. good afternoon, kimberly jones. thank you for this meeting. in the four years since i was hit, i've been watching out to see a change in the incidence of pedestrians getting hit by cars. slowly i see some measure of hope, but i still see on the whole a dispassionate voice from our leadership and we need you who have the focal point of our community to wake up reckless drivers. i see police officers not [speaker not understood] to countless people driving through intersections and reckless walking. so, please bring the passion.

we've heard some here today. please match that. thank you. >> thank you, ms. jones. are there any other members that would like to speak at public comment? seeing none, we will close this item. i really want to thank all of our members of the public and our staff who waited through a two-hour hearing to speak at this one. it's really unfortunate that we couldn't have a more robust discussion around some of the engineering pieces and how we can better realign some of those processes, a deeper dive into the funding and, of course, into both the enforcement and prosecution piece. but i do want to thank everyone for being here today to do that. you know, some of our morningseses were spent here, but there is a rules committee meeting that's going to be starting soon and both supervisor yee who is chairing that and supervisor mar will have more committee hearings to go through this afternoon. i want to thank [speaker not understood] for your resilience today. just closing comments that i will just make.