tv [untitled] May 21, 2014 3:00am-3:31am PDT
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between the ta responsibilities. we had support from all quarters and the senator seems interested in helping us with the emerging legislation we're following up with his office it was a successful trip i enjoyed walking the hallways with the staff. yesterday the assembly installed assembly member tony as the speaker today, she gets to handle the budget from the assembly side as accident mayor is giving his budget it's going on right now i can't give you highlights good or bad we'll be looking changes or embarrassed revenues in the cap and trade arena there's a small modest
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amount of an increase and what's emerging i'll did you at the end is kind of a strong debate between the legislation and the legislator how to proposition the cap and trade with the fuel distribution in 20015. turning to the bills of interest. that we've been tracking you'll notice if you flip through here there's a number of bills that we recommend those are the ones introduced for one reason or another failed to move into a second reading so we have 3 bills we're recommending for support on the agenda the first one is a bit 2690 on page 23 of the matrix it reconciles
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language for the dui section of the penal code a reference to previous convictions and the language that's more up to date is separate so that you can take account for somethings that's going on concurly and we recommend the support to make the streets safer in san francisco. sb lovingly 83 an interesting measure we're recommending support it been carried on the matrix before as a watch it was - >> what package it this on. >> i'm sorry page 22. and the bill was amended to change the funding source it allows the city and county to explores an up to $6
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registration fees to fund the bicycle facilities. the prior version was a tax on bicycles and this is more important palatable and there's emerging technical issues over parks in the cities and counties we are combanls the funding for the opportunity of enhancing the opportunity for bikes and final intersection 17 on page 22 recommending support in bill will encourage or require the resources agency to develop climate resiliency collaborative with the cities and counties and others entities and produce an ongoing assessment and identification of measures to
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enhance climate resiliency and threatened areas of the state that's my presentation and to wrap up the cap and trade discussion the two conflicts between the governor has to do where we it will reside at the state or recreational level and the legislation uniformly is pushing it more locally and regionally a in some cases with the funds provided to make the fund selection. the governor if he's had a change of heart but he opposes anything that put it on that level he wants the state agencies to make the product decisions and secondarily the distribution of the fund.
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the one major proposal that's out there but hadn't seen the light ofization day in terms of language we've seen the description is by senator performing steven beggar and he has recommended keeping the governors budget whole for 2014-2015 but placing something in the scheme going on. in his approach he'll treat the regulated industries that are subject to cap and trade the revenues from those industries will fund a number of gvg productions but in 2015 the fuels production or motorists will be paying a higher amount because of the pass through of costs dedicated to
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transportation looking at several budget and high speed rail will receive a quarter of the money under the steven beggar proposal and rail and transit about half of that fuel distribution network funding and sustainable community will receive another quarter of that funding. under sustainable community a split going to affordable housing or infrastructure that facilitates affordable housing. so we'll see what the governor comes up with either a new approach or reengaging in support of his own approach. with that, i conclude >> thank you, colleagues any questions or comments. okay madam clerk, do we need.
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open this up for public comment thrombin seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk, roll call >> supervisor chiu. supervisor farrell. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. absent that item passes >> item 5. >> the proposal for 2014-2015 and amending the program this is an action item. >> good afternoon cynthia this item starts on page 57 in your pathways this guess your second looking at the 2014-2015 annual budget and work plan it was presented last week with a full presentation we would make one presentation change to attachment b an page 73 we're
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separating the treasure island mobility management agency program since the board of supervisors has recently designated the authority to handle the transportation plan for treasure island we have now separated that from the management go agency program and separated that to show revenues and expenditures on its own revenues to two hundred and 74 thousand as do expenditures. in addition since is last time we presented the last budget the personnel committee amazing recommended the proposed restructuring to go before the board on may 27th. in addition, we're continuing to work on the with the project sponsor with the prop k strategic plan and the prioritization program updates in early summer.
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the sfmta in particular are preparing significant changes to the proposed california improvement plan and anticipate revenues from the proposed in front of 2014 ballot measures. both those changes will increase the proposed budget amendment but with we'll take those in a few months after the yuments or when they take it up at the time when we floerl bring the budget before this committee with that, if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> colleagues, any questions. supervisor tang >> i didn't have a question but appreciate our presentation last time as well and happy to move forward. >> okay. if no further questions we'll open this up for
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public comment thrombin on item 5 seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk, a role >> supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. absent. supervisor farrell. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. absent. this item passes >> okay. thank you. madam clerk, call item 6 >> introduction to new items this is an informational item. >> colleagues, any additional items. okay. take public comment on number 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. okay madam clerk, can you call item 7 >> item 7 general public comment. anyone wish to comment on general public comment is closed. >> item 8 adjournment. >> all right. we good morning.
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and welcome to bike to work today, i'm rita i'm your executive director find san francisco bicycle coalition i'm thailand to wish you happy anniversary the 20th anniversary and what a long way we've come how many people have been biking many the city for 10 years. you you know how much our city has changed and the biking has changed our city for for the better i want to share a few
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examples i remember personally biking here two years ago i was left hand lane i was one of the few women out there biking hold on one second (sirens). i'm not left hand lane biking in san francisco anyway those of us biking make up 2/3rd's of the biking on market street in has a valley and the lower hate more than 10 percent of traffic on our streets 0 o is biking we see literally thousands of people ridding literally as for bike to work. 20 years ago biking honestly was an afterthought in our
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transportation system today, the city leaders know it's important to keep san francisco healthy just last week we've launched the bike to work program and special thanks to bart that lifted it's blackout on bikes altogether last year. we see employers really recognizing the value of biking their prior tisz inside biking for their staff and the off-street parking be replaced by bart corals and their 0 no dummies it make sense because people biking and walking and taking transit spend more at local businesses then people driving we can't have better
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timing unvivid lecture with the best thing for bike on polk street green bike lanes leading to the city hall steps to buffalo designed physically separated with wonderful curb bulk outs and green and you wonderful plants in the medium polk street is a game-changer this is the future. congratulation on polk street everybody (clapping) and those changes polk street and market street and bart lift and bike share those changes are pga off already, we've seen the near doubling of bike trips that means that the cities investment is is making it more affordable in san francisco for everyone 90 in every neighborhood.
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we have a host of leaders and community leaders that are hard working. they know that biking is a key part to making sure our city can grow in an affordable way. our first speaker i'm hoernd or honored to have ridden with mayor ed lee rode from the glen parkway and we're thrilled to ride with them i'm excited he's going to talk about the change in the city and constituent to going forward to a better bike to work in san francisco >> mayor ed lee. >> thank you leann happy 20th (clapping) well, i'm thrilled to join the supervisors and the mta and public works and fire and
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explained we're altogether that rode in today to work that's an jooshl enjoyable day twooths we were with we were structurally with the first lanes and here we are now 96 percent in bike ridership in the last year and the roads are changing we're trying to get traffic to slow down and that will make safety even better for everybody and i look forward to that but this morning was an incredible ride i rode from glen park my neighborhood (clapping) and going down san jose boulevard we're going to get that down redone supervisor wiener because i had to learn what posting was all about we're going to make that sxhoorth
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asker and some of the people many the cars i see sometimes, i get jealousy i think cars people in them want a better lifestyle and the bike ridership and the walkability of the city my slowing down traffic and making it safer for people on the streets that the quality of life we all wish for in the city and that's why the supervisors and our office is hard working with mta to investment invest and in october we have a huge opportunity the $500 million bond all goes to safer and sufficient streets will you join us in that movement (clapping.) we need efrnlz corporation it's not easy to say yes, it's easier
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to see no, but we want our city better if there is any accountability reason the best is the reason for the kids they deserve a better city. thank you, everybody happy anniversary and thank you to the bicycle coalition (clapping.) thanks mayor ed lee we look forward to working with you no november to make sure we have the resources in the city this is not an anomaly so the great experience from market street to city hall is though the an anomalously it's the standard connecting the bay area and the excelsior and hate valley and everything else neighborhood in san francisco we've got to the support from the board of supervisors today we've had commuter conveys we're thrilled to have 8 of the board of
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supervisors are here we've asked them to come up and reflect on what has changed in the city despite they started 20 are years ago and to kick you will i us off i want to welcome supervisor jane kim in districts 6 >> thank you to the bike coalition for organizing 20 years of bike to work day. (clapping.) >> so i was asked to reflect on the last 20 years i have to say a little bit over 15 years ago i moved here from another major city where i learned to drive sea bike so i felt the pressure here to learn how to drive a car but nobody told me to look into
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the rearview mirror no one told me to lublt for bikers i come here on a bike and my fingertips in the bike coalition i think some of them are here said you need to ride a bike so they put me on the bike in one of the san francisco play yards i took off the who's also and the following year i didn't lead it i followed the contestant of all female bikers in 2012 and last year, i finally biked by myself to work and i'm proud to be able to do that. representing that district that sooshgd many of the city i see the congestion and all the impact of the population growth
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and if we continue to grow and become a more dense city people have to get out of their cars there's no way to grow in a city and not only to make it necessary over 50 of our carbon people are drooichg their cars we think about urban planning it is important to grow smart we have to figure out 0 how to get people out of their cars that's my goal in my district that's important to the residents i represent and 20 years is too long this is where what i want to see up and down polk street and up and down fulsome and
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golden gate folks like me are not going to get out of their cars by in 20 years vindication zero fatalities no one should die because they're going to work on their bike or walking to work so we have to fight for revenue. we have potential measures we've got to make sure they pass in 2014 but we have to continue to fight and i'll be there with all of you thank you (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor kim for your leadership we couldn't have a stronger advocate. i'm glad to recognize my supervisor supervisor campos >> thank you, everyone it was a beautiful ride through the
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mission and go past the mayors contestant i think people felt fried in that chief of police was they're talking about the diversity of the people that are biking in places like the mission that are people from all walks of life that make biking a part of their lives and i'm proud but i want to provide context it is sad though that 20 years later we still s have a number of fatalities in san francisco. so what i would like to see it precisely with supervisor kim talked about that we have zero fatalities on the streets of san francisco. and i think that has to come from city hall being leading the way and making the investment
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and so i'd like to see more immediately is complete one hundred percentage furlgd u funding for vision zero in our budget in city hall we've not only talked about vision zero but put the money to go into it and i think that we have an opportunity with this bunt coming up to make that happen and if we make the right investment we'll see the fruits of the investment thank you very much happy bike to work. thank you supervisor campos i'm proud to invite of supervisor wiener >> happy bike to work everyone so we gather here all the elected officials and department heads we talk about what's going to happen to make the city
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street safer for walking and biking but, you know, it's not about the words that everyone says that's about the actions and the actions are really, really hard sometimes, it's up to you and the residents of the city to hold all of us elected leaders accountabilityable but doing the hard things. you you know the mayor rode up on his avenue and anyone that goes northbound it's a disaster for paragraph and biking we're going to be making go changes it took us years to get through the process it's what way, way too hard in terms of the bureaucratic process to make our streets safer it's politically hard we need to push and get it done
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(clapping) and we also know in coming here today, i see everyday on bike to work that's not changing there were a whole bunch of double-parked cars i'd like tell you we've been trying to work on this the police department and other agencies need to stop this we have to stop do you only parker that's terrible for that muni and this is what people are doing. i want to say we've got to get the vehicle license fee passed for road resurfacing there's still way too many streets that are rough and dangerous and if we pass this we'll have
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permanent sustainable funding to happy bike to work everyone (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor wiener our next speaker is someone who's no stranger supervisor chiu. >> good morning any cyclists in the house today thank you very much for being here. 18 years ago i've been biking to work for much of the years in the 19th street 90s it was left hand lane on the streets i don't feel so alone i want to thank you for moving the city forward and i'm going to be brief we have to come together in november in 2009 i proposed as a city we move forward with the vehicle license fee i had 9 of us who wanted to put that on the
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ballot but the public wasn't ready we have to get this done this year director reiskin said we have thousands of dollars to get together but we have to come together from all corners of the city i want to welcome the final constituent thank you supervisor chiu and supervisor kim happy 20th >> thank you supervisor chiu i'm happy to welcome supervisor breed from district 5. >> good morning, everyone. how many of you biked to work? biking the wiggle is because of edward reiskin we got the bike lanes put in ahead of schedule now we'll get polk street the
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ability to come from market street it was an amazing ride i'm happy to be a member of the board of supervisors where we xhvnlly advocate to make our streets safer for not only cyclists but pedestrians we have to participate to make sure we're watching each other's back and we're watching out for safety and holding people account it is is a joint effort we'll do everything we can and, yes supervisor wiener said it is hard but we'll prepared we're all in shape and walking the to work and doing everything we can so we can make the changes necessary to make i safe on the streets thank you very much for being here today (clapping.) thank you supervisor breed we're thrilled to have our support i
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want to welcome up from district one supervisor mar. >> thank you leah good morning everyone i want to say i want to have apple apple for daniel silverman we've had other leaders but thank you very much for the bike coalition one thing we did in the richmond we came up to polk street but improvements like this are needed throughout the city and mayor ed lee has strong support we need to increase the funding for bikes lastly i was a student at the uc davis and as what we
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