it's going to be a process that year after year i saw here the police chief talking about the language access but at the same time that should go along with the work of education how do you convince the new immigrants that are traumatized -- and again you know we like to thank you and then you know and we like to continue supporting counting on your support so that this becomes -- [inaudible] thank you again. >> just a second. well i was going to say if there are any other members of the public who

wish to speak -- i want to thank you for your work and staff i don't know if you have any final comments based on what you have heard i want to take a moment and thank all the members of the public who have been working and fighting for more language access in our city. this was one of the very first ordinances that i worked on in my first months in office and also with ocea and our city departments i think we've come a long way but i think it's fair to say we have a long way to go and we still have a lot of conversations to improvements in the ordinance and enforcement there are many ways in which departments are trying to comply and as a city

we're investing in language capabilities i think is something that's very important and i also want to say as a city we've been a beacon to the rest of the world and i think the way we really become a national model of diversity in large part rests in how we as a city government interact with our residents in their full diversity and i do think and hope that we can get there but i know there is a lot of work to be done so i look forward to the partnerships that all of us and the board and with that supervisor tang has some comments but i would like to table this item this is a yearly update and i know i look forward to working with folks supervisor tang and others. >> okay a motion to table this

item so without objection. >> without objection. oh i apologize. president chiu, before we take any further action, you will need to rescind the vote to excuse me from the meeting. >> happy to make that motion. >> okay without objection that motion passes. >> oh yes. >> i just wanted to make a few comments. growing up with immigrant parents i served as their interpreter so this issue is very near and dear to me as well and we try to make sure we incorporate dual language capabilities so for example we work to translate our newsletters and notices to community members in chinese as well and i would say the

professional work they do to help us better reach our community so i know that there have been a number of recommendations that have been made those are all things that our office is very interested in continuing to work on with supervisor chiu and put in a request for budget analyst report and improvements that we can make so i'll be calling another hearing at another time to further discuss that and again in partnership with supervisor chiu and i would say translation is different from interpretation we have to understand the cultural differences why some communities don't participate in community meetings may be a cultural issue there and maybe reach them in other ways. i

look forward to working to provide a centralized resource and at the same time recognizing some of the city departments sfpd and others actually do need to embed as well culturally competent staff within their own departments so looking forward to some sort of a hybrid model there. thank you very much for participating today. >> thank you so there's a motion to table this item. without objection this item is tabled. >> madam clerk is there any other items before us today. >> that concludes our items for today. >> okay this meeting is adjourned thank you.

dpw. >> good morning. or good afternoon rather sorry. thank you very much for coming today, we're her to honor our first responders from the mission bay 511 bay fire last month they're standing behind me i wanted to introduce starting with mayor ed lee thank you for being here (clapping) chief suhr, chief joanne haynes-white (clapping) edward reiskin head of mta and mohammed head of dpw and rebecca kate's rebate can animal care and control

(clapping) so san francisco prepares for and cooperated and plans for disastrous everyday we're good at it we do it to practice our life saving skills so we know how to communities with one other but most of all to protect our public and residents of san francisco and to protect our first responders. today is also the one hundred and 8 anniversary of the 1906 san francisco earthquake. we went to lotta's fountain this morning to remember those people who came before us who were brave and worship reliant that made san francisco come alive but it made us remember the great fire over after the earthquake and the biggest it threat today is the fire that's

going to happen afterward so in 1906 we're better prepared today with better plans and we are prepared with better infrastructure. we a that's why with the mission bay fire last year because of the all of the the work we did with the infrastructure and planning with our response that's why we were able to respond so successfully it was that investment we made over the years to insure that san francisco is present for the next big earthquake and fire. it's a huge honor for me to be surrounded by our first responders that are the heros of san francisco. you'll met them but first mayor ed lee who i feel like the luckiest be able manager in the country because mayor ed lee

understands what we do and he's a huge advocate so mayor ed lee thank you >> thank you very much (clapping) and thank you for your leadership we were there at the lurngz practicing for a potential earthquake with a sue anonymous and that's how valuable it is to have a department of emergency management that trains trains trains and anticipates thinks out of the box pee has all of us as emergency people from the city practicing how we do it better and better and we learn something every time we come together. we learn from other disasters and international disasters prosecute other countries we we bring that back home and think about more. i'm proud to be in front of the of so many people who decade all

their professional lives being a great team of first responders to the city i'm proud of what you do not only on the hours you spend many the office at auditor sites and stations but i think as emergency people you're also thinking ahead and planning for the unaccepted the mission bay fire was totally unspeeded as we're creating all the new housing that a fire would occur there we're ready and thank you from the top of the city's management from our chiefs to the department head and thank you to each and every one of you how you responded and take care of things and the way you handled the people's calls and every agency including our animal care and control we other

than duo don't think about that. we prevented injuries it could have happened in the worse occasions and we dealt with the traffic and all aspects of it. that's another highlight of our city working with the people that value their profession. many of the individuals i've worked with for 23 years i'm proud to be the mayor. we're going to keep on doing that and take opportunity to learn about every event not only in our city with this particular fire but with what about oakland and jose all of the thinking expected things naegsz to disasters we've got to be prepared this is what i know

people who want to live in our city the companies that want to come here they depends on us and anticipate what could happen. that's what he do with the opportunities we 0 get with the public. i ask the public to please support of the emergency bond program in june we're trying to look around the corner and see that our police departments and fire department's are seismicly safe and we'll have the crime lab and all the other professionals. we have those bonds are representations of things to our public if you support those things we'll take care of you and anticipating the things we don't know what's going to happen. in order to do the bonds and do them right and keep the property

tax low we have experts from the public works and can we make sure that we do this in phases and not cause behalf on behalf of cost and honor them and finish those projects on time and within budget so the public confidence of how we used money can be repeated over and over to take care of things. the emergency response needs money and investment and need our communication with the public. so i an opportunity to say thank you to all the people who worked on the fire to save lives and hopefully we won't have the accidents. we go on to the other things we need to do. i think you're going to see

through the summer it's going to be hot we need the infrastructure supported and see us demonstrating what we, do with more use of our high pressured water system. i'm going to be on the west side of the city walker and educating people how we use our other infrastructures we have to pay attention to so later on when we ask for support of the water systems they can help. same thing i've worked with the chief to have additional classes and all the investor have a good result and a good discussion that that ann thank you and keep on educating us and training together and to all the

departments thank you for your reaction to the event and thanks for being there for other events you'll be there for you. appreciate it (clapping.) thank you very much mr. mayor it's now my pleasure to ask the very best fire chief in our country chief joanne haynes-white to say a few words >> thank you and good afternoon, everyone thank you for coming out it's fitting that we're alm what happened one hundred and 8 years ago and that was the 1906 san francisco earthquake and the fires that raged for 3 days after that. as was mentioned earlier we were commemorating and celebrating and putting up the reminder with the community members to be prepared. the dp m before i said many times before has done a great

job they're the glue that holds the entities together and i applaud the dpw. i applaud mayor ed lee it's a privilege to work with him he's the challenge and having been a head of the public works he gets it. he expects teamwork not only with the fire department but across all departments and behind me we wouldn't have been as successful he without the great teams across all agencies starting with the dpavpz that worked with with us to get our crews to the scene and dpw and puc and animal care and control our police officers and so many people working together to chief the goal of containing the fires. obviously my hat is off to the

men and women of the fire department after this event we're going to do a democrats we were very challenged only thing march 11 and used many of the tools in our toolboxes this put us to the test and it was a perfectly executed example we had windy conditions and no fire protection systems in that building weaponry able to contain just that building threatening neighborhoods and so i was very grifd to see the response and capacities of all the departments we all rose up you shoulder to shoulder to get the job done. we're appreciative of the community for the investment they've continued to make 90 in our infrastructure. some of the systems are aging

they need investment we're glad for the easter bonds the earthquake bonds it has put valuable bonds back into our infrastructure and city to so question, get to the scene. it's important to acknowledge all the people the men and women behind me for the work they did only in mission bay but everyday we're appreciative of our public being so supportive of public safety. the mayor said we'll be there it takes about 3 to 5 minutes but like the day in october 1, '99 we're going to need the public's help it's not going to be the 3 to 5 minute response the more everyone is prepared we'll be

able to get into our recovery phase. the dp m has is sf 72 website we're proud of our response team it's 18 hours of free training we ask everyone to check that utility it's in english and spanish and cantonese. we're proud to partner with all the agencies behind me. we're glad that was notice loss of life are major injuries it would have been different had we not made the efforts in training and equipment. we have members here from the san francisco fire department so show you a demonstration of one of the options we used the low pressure and the domestic water

supply and the emergency water system and also put into operation in front of me and behind you our portal water system. because of the drought condition none of the water is going wasted it's coming from the bay over here so please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, mayor it is a great example and illusion of the investment that a has been made in our infrastructure and the investment that continues to be made. so this is good in the event of a disaster, however, the water system people think that the emergency water system is only used in large-scale emergencies that was a focused emergency in mission bay we used the higher pressure system in any occasions with that, i'll turn this over

to my colleague and thank you, mr. mayor. and mta your huge you're the unsong heros we get a lot of acknowledge but a lot of corporation that day. even for me to see the parking control officers to guide me in make a difference because every minute helps in an emergency. thank you (clapping.) thank you chief joanne haynes-white. we're going to take a second i need my two people just honoring the unsong heros as the chief said working everyday to keep us safe the fire department they extinguished the mission bay fire (calling names)

holly and others from engine company b representing all their colleagues (clapping) as you've heard many other city agencies respond as with most responses it begins with a call to 9-1-1 a dispatch called for the units on march 11 and the dispatches play a huge role they're the lifeline for the responder we have safe dispatch responders (calling names) thank you very much for the work you do (clapping) access to high pressure water systems is also critical that's the public utilities commission p they were the gatekeepers that

day thank you (calling names.) (clapping.) we talked about no loss of life there was no loss of pet lives thank you animal control. today, we s have officer and the other law enforcement official. thank you very much. of course, coping our residents safe is what the police department doesn't everyday the mission bay fire the san francisco police departments had control around the area we have officers and captain here from the bay area station representing all their colleagues. thank you (clapping)

lots of people from mta helped us. the fire shut down the muni metro line and left people scrambling. our team officers (calling names) are here representing their colleagues. thank you (clapping) so let's have other round of applause and i'd like to invite the irons to stay for a picture

with mayor ed lee and i hope you'll stay for the demonstration with chief joanne haynes-white the demonstration of the water system. thank you all so much for >> good morning today is tuesday, june 24, 2014, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. my name is supervisor john avalos the chair the transportation authority and the clerk is ms. erica changing sfmta is charles and jonathan

call roll and supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen absent. supervisor farrell. absent. supervisor kim. absent. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum. >> great we have quorum. >> minutes approval for the may meeting. >> seeing none, we'll go on to public comment it's open on the item concerning our minutes as i understand. item 2. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu.

supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell absent. supervisor kim absent. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor yee. that item passes. >> okay. next item. >> this fiscal year has been a busy month it's been a busy month at the time transportation authority first our staff and the staff from the sfmta committed committee meeting in our 11 district to discuss the revenue measures for this fall and next year those include a $500 million obligation bond for transmission that all 11 supervisors want placed on the ballot in november and as well as 2015- 2016 the restoration of the vehicle license fee they'll

build on the prop k tax and they'll level with the region funds to improve pedestrian safety and bicycle safety and smooth our roads and help with the offer burdened transportation system our staff worked closely with the agencies on the update of the prop k transportation programs we'll review at the board next week month neighbors in several districts gave their input and prioritizing the transportation consistently across the city the vision zero committee and the programs committee the sfmta and other agencies presented on the many ways that the city departments are working to boost transportation.

as an example the road landscaping and bike but for lane on san jose and other streets that was brought but the supervisors representing represents the improvements those programs can fund with agencies. transit will also figure what the muni transit lines citywide and improvements on our city systems bart and caltrain congratulation to the as a matter of fact, for completing the tunneling portion of the central subway. on time and on budget and to thank vice chair weiner and chiu at the event with mayor ed lee we're proud to support the probating revenue project i was pleased to host a delegation

with supervisor wiener i was interested to learn of spain's high speed rail program and both sides talked about the sustainable transportation times programs and speaking of sustainable transmission we came together to have a pro transit budget on the cap and trade we've received a lion's share at the $630 million for high speed rail intercity and sustainable projects and affordable housing we'll track and support in package and hope the mayors signature are good news for san francisco and our state that concludes my