six different city areas by the end of the month. i would like to highlight the process that's been done and what the committee has done to keep track of projects and we just came from a planning commission meeting of that adoption. the planning solution was that the planning department would help shape that complete street checklist. i want to thank the city departments for their encouraging work going forward. thank you. >> thank you, ms. schneider. any other public comment. if you would like to speak, please lineup. >> tyler frisby, from the bicycle coalition. i want to thank you for your focus on vision zero and want to flag

supervisor wieners comments and funding on this project. we appreciate the support of the commissioners in working ways to back fill the vlf funding. as mr. reiskin pointed out they were counted on for the budget. this is critical in the new funding environment. thank you to all of you for your work. >> thank you. seeing no other public comment on this item, public comment is now closed. again, thank you to everyone. i also want to reiterate or concur with ms. schneider's comments. the inter agency department working is incredibly pornd and i know director reiskin talked about this as well. we have noticed an incredible effort at that coordination and departments that are working well together and even working more closely. they are on livable streets

and mta have done so much to improve that communication. i see that director cheng wanted to make comments on that. >> thank you for making the presentation today on behalf of the city staff and agencies who are all working on this topic. project delivery has been not only a focus of the last two 2 years but really the last several years we've seen the city step up and start delivering much more consistently and working with one another and working with your office and see what is working and not only the areas that director reiskin mentioned. we are working along the areas around ceqa reforms and changes that are happening at the state level

which really san francisco through our planning department and various agencies led the way with how we can look at ceqa to protect the environment and also align with what we are trying to do with statewide mandates with compliment change and around transportation policy. this is also started to have an impact with the cal trans reform process whereas looking accrue is the nation where the standards and director reiskin was president of the national association of cities and transportation officials. we are really pleased that that trend has started to influence cal trans and those design standards really help our work and it's starting to ring true to our streets and on lombardy and highway 1 and 19th avenue

on the west side. finally on funding, i want to highlight the transportation authority and all the other agencies which we fund the transportation improvements are coordinating better and better. we have a round of prop k five 5-year program which hopefully will reflect that type of coordination to provide that consistent funding at the neighborhood level and every neighborhood can engage at the planning level as well as the capital projects that we bring through prop k involved with the city funds so all the agencies are providing their expertise and funding and through checklist with tools that nicole schneider was mentioning to have better results. >> thank you director cheng. commissioner mar? >> i know the newly elected

mayor of paris had an announcement that the city of paris is looking at reducing speed limits to about 20 miles per hour, 30 kilometers per hour except for the major boulevard, some of the major blvd areas. i know several years ago i met with ritchie patia who was suggesting major changes like that. i know there needs to be a lot of dialogue. i'm wondering if the evaluation and monitoring committee that you are working on are looking at efforts like that. we are looking at fulton along the richmond district where several recent incidents of really really really young children hit and severely injured. i know that fulton is a 35 miles per hour zone with a small exception of 25 miles per hour around senior center. but i'm just wondering if you are looking at some suggestions of reducing the

speed limit in key areas where we have high collision corridors? >> it's a great question. we have another working group called the city vision working group. essentially what will it take to achieve vision 0 oechlt -- zeer oechlt we are looking at an international receive in terms of best practices and looking at the best practices that are still an opportunity for us to implement in san francisco and bringing a reduction to that on the streets. >> i would like to be involved and i will make sure that peter from my staff is in touch with you. it's wonderful to say paris and hidlalgo. that is a specific committee within your broader task force. >> we've had a lot of interest and we would welcome yours as

well. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner mafrment i didn't know that. i'm glad that paris had led the way. i'm seeing no more comment and discussion on this item. i will close item no. 4. madam clerk please call item no. 5. >> tim 5, near term capital projects information only. >> we have seleta reynolds to present on the scope for budget and near end term capital projects. >> thank you commissioners. i'm going to run through this rather quickly. so at the last meeting commissioner mar questioned we bring back an idea of the actual schedules for all of the 40 projects that we have currently that we are aiming to implement by january of 2016. so this is maybe one of the most boring

power points ever, but it does job at getting the information across. this is just to give you an initial glance at the projects and kind of where they are currently lining up in terms of when we would actually see them live on the streets. many of them are in their construction phases. some of them you can see are multi-faced projects, policies, the project from 11-4 and bring it closer in. similarly the portrero avenue street escapes will deliver most improvements and finish the job later on in 2016. i draw your attention to no. 9, the blvd speed reduction. that includes turning ton signal at

sunset and boulevard and toning down the speed. one of my favorite sayings is that you can't put up a sign to change the design. this is a chance for us to sort of see how it works to lower the speed limit there. the next slide projects 11-20, you can see these are -- the main take away from this presentation is just that we are anticipating that projects are going to be rolling out and being delivered on a constant basis over the next year 1/2. one of the criteria for us choosing the projects to be on this list is projects that are visible that we can go out and talk about and continue the momentum and conversation around vision zero. i think

it will be great that we'll have many opportunities to do that over the coming months and hoping to collaborate with your offices and the communities in which these projects live in order to come together and continue the conversations about vision zero. i would also draw your attention to project no. 40. commissioner kim, you had a question about the 4th and king start. it is scheduled to be completed some time in the summer fall. it's under way. and we'll get back to you with a contact for that project. but really this is the beginning of fine tuning all of the scope schedules and sort of project descriptions. but i wanted to bring back a first cut to give you a sense of the relative duration and the finish lines for each of

the projects on the list. with that i'm happy to take questions. >> commissioner mar? >> i just wanted to thank you for this. it shows how much you are juggling with the schedules and it's great that many of them are going to be completed by the year-end of 2014-2015. thank you. >> the graph was actually really helpful and the visual is really nice and kind of show casing what's been done and what we are expecting to see. my questions are really more for you in terms of some of the questions we had on these projects. on the pedestrian improvements being completed, is this the pilot bulb outs that we've done. is that what we are referring to? >> and then we came back and made all the crosswalk

visibility and helped with some striping through intersection itself. that was putting a bow on it. i know that they have that project team has planned to go out and sort of do the next round of those kinds of improvements along six and also bring back some evaluation about what we've already done and has it worked and not worked and finding planters around those kinds of things. even though occasionally we would like to give ourselves a gold start in terms of it's complete, as has been pointed out that we like to constantly go back and evaluate and fine tune a project even after we call them done. >> no. i appreciate the work. i think something was done with the signalization too, the left turn from signal

handout -- to hourdz. -- howard. i know on 6 and howard the left hand going to six and where people feel intimidated by cars and where they are more likely to get hit. continuing the work on that is great. the golden gate no. 4, is this part of the tenderloin little say gone project or is it a specific project? >> it's a specific project for that corridor. initially we thought we might do some signal retiming, but after being out there on walk to workday, i think we all got excited and interested in the potential to actually do a

road dyed on that project and if we can iron that whole thing out and calm it down would make a big difference. that's that project. so that's why it's sort of a, this is a newer idea and we were committed to delivering it and we want to continue to nail down that schedule as we get the funds and p.m. assigned. it will be a great project. >> we were really excited when director reiskin publically committed to walk to workday and this is from our vision zero budget and it's a really important corridor and certainly feeds into sixth street and the freeway. it's a very important corridor for us to focus on. thank you for that commitment. seeing no other questions or comments from board members, at this time i would open for public comment. thank you so much,

ms. reynolds. >> thank you. >> i'm bob plant hold from walks. i have questions about money and timing. since there is not a vlf on this year's ballot it's going to be two 1/2 years before possible money flows. before this passes. we have this project in your timeline in your powerpoint. i want to ask you to think of asking soon for staff to come up with some estimates on how these projects will be affected. yes, the mayor may come up with some money and you may come up with money. realistically the money projected is not going to be there for two 1/2 years.

consider asking how will these projects be affected. is it stretched out in timeline, put on hold. i think it's relevant for the public, for you policy makers, for staff to have that rather than just guess and hope we'll find some here and there and throw some money in. that's not a good planning process. at this point i'm going to say please ask for an analysis of how the change in funding expectations will affect these 40 projects. thank you. >> thank you mr. plant hold. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. at this time this brings us to item no. 6. introduction of new items. are there any new items? seeing no new items, actually i got a request from commissioner wiener if we can

actually take a motion to rescind the vote for item no. 2, approval of minutes. we can take that vote altogether. actually commissioner mar just stepped out. would that mean his vote wouldn't be? >> right. if you rescind the vote you would have to redo it. i'm not sure actually. well, at this time we'll open up for public comment. is there any general public comment? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed.

we'll take a moment to see if we can take a revote on that. it's okay. okay. all right. seeing no other items. 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 technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so

anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features

of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. >> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to

redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open. ♪

>> i would like to call to order the meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today is june 10, 2014. >> roll call. >> vice-president caen, moran and cute knee torres is excuse d. >> today we have the joint minutes from the joint committee of environment.