>> access to the plans spiefkz and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital training. this is and other documents that needs to be submitted. to compete is a technical skill that it takes to win a scheduling for a popular to you can win a professional services job or how to put together a quote it's all those technical pieces. looking at the contracting assistance center is our touch point with we get the people to come and see the planning specks and later than about projects earlier is he get training so you're ready to go arrest hello engineering it has all the tools that a contractor small or large

can come here. i can't say enough about the center it's a blessing. we do business all over the country and world and a place like the contractor center to identify the business in san francisco >> the reality is you need training and that's what the center is here to train and make you better qualified to go work with the city and county and to be successful at the end. >> that will give people the competitive edge e edge at receiving contracts with the city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills

forbidding. >> i mean local businesses participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom .

>> good morning, everyone much better i'm edward reiskin the transportation director in san francisco great to see so many people out here for an important reason thank you, mayor ed lee and supervisor kim on their steadfast and consistent leadership in working with all of us to make our city safer the reason its important we're proud of our city we have a problem here the problem too many people getting seriously injured or killed trying to make their way around the city that shouldn't be for that reason as a city we've adapted the goal of vision zero to eliminate traffic fatalities in san francisco in the next 10 years good news if you call it that we've been working with the police department and the department of public health and many on the county which transportation authority to analyze the information

associated with each one of the tragedies we've told have a good since of where they're happening and why and what interventions we can make to significantly reduce the likelihood of them happening with people getting seriously injured or killed the traffic signal are one intervention and many others all over the city in order to do that we'll need public support and leadership without further ado we have an rations finding lard i'm proud so ask you to join me in welcoming the mayor of the city of san francisco mayor ed lee. >> thank you, ed good morning, everyone. welcome to the post world series of the giants in san francisco i know this community is slbl but ed is right we've got serious business

to construction this particular street on significance and menu to say 24 projects we've identified we're going to get to vision zero this is the night of the 24 projects we're dedicated since april wife identified those vision zero projects they're serious effort here with the translate today to quell the number number of injuries and death navigate this intersection that supervisor jane kim help we've got counsel a number of the injuries in the city those one has 50 accidents here resulting in two fatalities so i'm so glad to see residents here and community-based organizations whether it's united players or the so cam are the residents like ms. jones to

join the city agency and the opportunity transportation authority and mta and the mayor's office our vision zero director and the supervisor staff agencies like walk sf and others we really have to come together literally on everyone every one of the intersection if we don't do something different more accidents will occur if anything we have to slow down traffic and make all people from all sides aware whether in their walkers or bicyclists or industrial folks everybody that is using our street have to be that much more aware and watch out for each other i myself these device when crossing the street i don't cross because i've got the green light i try to make eye contract and look

both ways especially, when you've got families members that are looking at the wonderful sites in our city we've golden got to be careful with our growing population if the city we've got to do more we're absolutely going to do more we're building the basis with our mta and hopefully tomorrow our public will bless us with a strong vote of prop a that will allow us to do that much more (clapping.) $500 million the bulk of which goes to vision zero and pedestrian safety projects just like this one we need more things to slow down traffic we need better signage and education we need enforcement i wanted to thank our police department that's here a good number they're walking the beats and louth for the siefrt issues 4r0ug9 for people that may not be uss the street properly we have to use our streets smarter

n this is why it's important to place that vision zero and there are month activities in our streets we're encouraging walking in the streets when i get through with this job i'm going to walk more and i want to feel safer and join with all the people that want to join me in walking the streets to be safer we won't ghetto there without vision zero by january 2016 all 24 projects that ben is in favor which to cooperate throughout the city have to be done and spend down this $300 million of the $500 million that will not raise property tax in the city and spend that down because we not all of those improvements whether their signal consortiums traffic improvements pedestrian

safety bulb outs or signage sloan traffic making people more aware and big thrust in education because everybody has to be more aware so i will want to say this we have to move together on this and noted pointing out the fingers it's not just infrastructure or education it's not just one or the other all i have those things have to work in concert with each other and we have to talk what the bicyclists and the car drivers and talk with people that are moving supplies in and out for all of those crosswalks projects and talk with people that walk our streets in multiple different languages we have a lot of visitors from all over the world they're not use to the intense use of our streets as we grow as a city we have to center

the conversation with all our partners and kids and look out for each other in addition to louth four users so vision zero is our goal and fraying will help get us there we're not going to wait we're beginning the projects we'll be you announcing them as time goes on as and a we get the projects done and need everybody's help the biggest advocate not only in the neighborhood is our supervisor jane kim she's brown on this (clapping) walking and talking and making sure that we incite the fund for this to happen and i time to say again, thank you supervisor for your leadership and thank you to you all the different allocations public works and the police departments to all of the infrastructure groups and to the advocates you know we don't want to be

crying over the next accident but slshlt we saved for lives so each one of the traffic signal are these is important to the community thank you for being here (clapping). >> thank you, mr. mayor this is the kind of leadership we need to make our streets safer i want to thank the mayor for van prop a $500 million in education bonds for $300 million will be invested in advancing vision zero making our streets safer and it's not not only coming from the executive branch but the elective supervisor kim and all the 11 members of the board of supervisors unanimously supported prop a on the ballot and with that kind of unanimous support if city hall that we'll need in order to get even though 2/3rd's vote for the high

threshold for the unif i had city hall and community to the chamber of commerce this is an investment that san franciscans will understand and being willing to make but it's not just with the bond as supervisor kim experienced her leadership which winner running for office she made pedestrian safety one of the top issues and this is a top issue her district is the most challenging foyer pedestrian safety and that's why laugh of the folks are here please welcome supervisor kim (clapping.) >> good morning many of us in the community that have been working on this for many, many years this morning is so existing this signal an sixth street is something the community has been

fighting for about i was in office and to be here today on a community driven process to see our residents that fought for this is rewarding i want to recognize the south of market action network (clapping) who represents many of our families in the neighborhood the united players and city crossroads that rounding u run our youth programs across the street and walk sf has been a strong partner in making sure we advocate for this and, of course, any entire office is here ivy and sunny it took a lot of folks to make this a realty 4 years ago our residents actually organized a walk on significantly street that included edward reiskin and is ta and dpw and we started on significantly and market and walked to ross

and to fulsome to talk about the needs that the community needs to make sixth street a safer place for the youth and seniors and mother jones and the collaborative to talk how the intersection was unsafe and we even crossed the crosswalks at significantly to see whether cars would stop for crossing when we walked across the street from that experience the following year the mayor's office actually worked with our office to fund a pilot we knew it would take a look at to get the prong we the first bulb out on significantly and howard number one and 3 on the top collision intersection in the city to shorten the walking

distance for our pedestrians before you to remind drivers that those curb outs are an important place of safety for our walkers and finally opened the signal an ross for many families that walk across the street to go to betsy carmichael and now we're here today to open this signal (clapping) is it so exciting that improvements that we've been able to make on the last 4 years to make this neighborhood a safer place for you'll have us and remind the people 3 walk and commute through the districts that seniors and kids live here on isle on fulsome and howard and significantly again, this wouldn't have been possible without our residents that took the leadership to make it a realty want to thank our city

agencies for working hard to put this on the ground as quickly as possible tilly chang the prop a dollars that helped to fund this today and, of course, edward reiskin but also with an night the engineer that put this on n place an significantly street the sf pd side commander is here oh, my god oar commander ali and commander and i will i is the traffic commander to make sure you're increasing the enforcement in the tenderloin and the south of market and the city to make sure we're telling the chiropractors and pedestrians what how we can share the road altogether so a big congratulations and thank you to everyone that was involved in making this a realty

(clapping) >> thank you supervisor green again, that's the kind of leadership we need to make 24 happen and finally you've heard a lot from the supervisor and the neighborhoods this was built from the grassroots up and the strong support from the folks but it is new to make those things happen sometimes we don't have the level of support but the stronger support the easy to get this into the ground and no one epitomize misses this and relay people in the neighborhood to make things happen please join me in welcoming mother jones. >> (clapping) >> well, you guys its opinion 8 years i've been working on this project i'm ms. jones a head of organizers working with the city

collaborative that is a great day for the community traffic is real bad down be significantly street this is a day i learned a new word collision so embodying i want to thank mta oh, united players those are the soldiers that keep our babies safe thank you devices so much and the communities it is our community and what we do with the community to help our kids in the future but god it is just amazing i never thought i'd see this day we recent the highest rate of collisions in significantly street and it is really hard especially, when you're a senior we need to widen the streets we need to fix those trees for wleerz can go by without getting stuck we need work on

significantly and howard and work on howard and kidnap i'm so glad it is finally will happening i can see my dream obviously the kids in the community marching down the streets it is amazing thank you guys so, so much you have absolutely no idea what this means to me and my united players all right. now (clapping) thank you, thank you the mayor. >> thank you jane kim and the staff i want to thank each and every one of you i might want to hug everybody thank you (laughter) (clapping). >> thank you mother jones every community fluids a leaders e leader like this before we through the switch i want to acknowledge our executive

director nicole schneider and advocate for making the streets safer and one of my bosses a member of the board of directors from the san francisco mta raul ramos one of the biggest champions for delivery of those projects and a lot of mta staff i want to acknowledge tom maguire (clapping) and our manager of liveable streets probable for making streets safer for bikes and pedestrians and people in cars mr. smith one of the engineers and the folks at p, and folk see that made it happen at this point, we're ready to through the switch our engineer should be on standby and ask the mayor to lead us in a count down to activate the signal. >>

(laughte (laughter). >> jane. >> mother jones. >> come on up here. >> let's do a 3, 2, 1 must show ready 3 example 2 example 1 go (clapping.) thank you, everybody don't forget to vote (clapping)

>> well, good morning, everyone and well, to the sf food bank (clapping) it's a great day to be here and kickoff the beginning of sf incubates 20th anniversary and love local sf (clapping) you know i can't think of a better place to celebrated the community of san francisco than right restore at the sf food bank people come here to lend a hand and volunteer to feed

others from that forntd we get 47 thousand pounds of food to feed people if that's not a cross 0 roads of xhublt in san francisco i don't know what is i'd like to stereo san francisco's mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping.) well, good afternoon everyone. >> good morning arrest we're loving san francisco all right. (clapping) well, that morning coming out and being hit by that the sun my first question was when is the first time pitch paul mccartney i want to congratulate you 23 years i know somebody else who has been working their love 32 thank you for the food bank and helping the needy in san francisco it's my delight so

join the chronicle and sf to push this wonderful and depriving love of our city everything local it's a wonderful 0 movement they've started and we want to be a part of as well i also want to say thank you to everyone here that been volunteering with our food bank and sharing their love i know the success the food bank and so many other things to help each other is do not on volunteers for the hours you've spent thank you very much for sharing this time this is a great time for the city not only because of the things we did tomorrow with our elections we can do better and more we can make our city successful for each other for years and decades to come and while it begins with things like food it can go to jobs and

children and education and business to all kinds of things we're doing to make the city greater you i've had a chance to work and meet with jeff and with christine the head of chronicle and we're excited about building the movement of love local we're excited about the city having the paper starting the focus or making more focus on the locals manufacturing and the job creation and the kids and spirit all the entertainment that is the vitality part of our business is right here kcmo kookiness and love go together with that, may i present to jeff and christine as mayors do declare today to be local love sf day here in san francisco

(clapping) okay. i'll be looking forward to joining the lines and helping out. >> thank you, mayor ed lee and thank you all as we kickoff our love annual day love local is all about celebrating san francisco as the mayor said celebrating the differences and diversity of our neighborhood the great food scene and the great shopping and manufacturing but what else can represent love local better than helping our neighborhood we start whereat food bank a strong connection with the neighborhood our sharing fund has given owning over a million dollars to the food bank so we appreciate

(clapping) thank you. we appreciate everything they do for folks in need that's what love is all about this is the start of the celebration we're excited excited to built upon this let's go ahead and have love local thank you (clapping). >> basically this is how we box chairs and sf food bank i want to get a box we're going to fill up it all the way to the top of boxes and like those folks are doing we fill this you will u up because we want to make sure the pat let didn't collapse that's one of our big deals to make sure the box is nice and fuel as folks are boxing the indicators most of these are good not in

our supermarkets they do not have those folks those are the kinds of indicators it don't make it most of the carrots are good if it's militia i didn't or mold i didn't that's a bad scooter so urge you to put a box on the side our main goal is to box all the good indicators once your box is fuel fold the box here's our finished a pallet folks not that mr. mayor is snolts strong enough to carry a box with you sometimes, we have 4 years we're we tell he folks if you can't carry a box ask for help so what we do is carry the box to the college we put it 4 layers high and bring it to the

door and it is out in the cooler and then is to the pantry and it goes on the truck in san francisco so basically folks that's the whole process mr. mayor all i need to you do. >> when a how much do we get to eat (laughter). >> there's a quality control those carrots are washed anyone else want to jump in we can use your help folks. >> thank you george let's start working. >> okay mr. mayor november 6,

to random members of the public that the that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind please silence all electronic devices. and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll at this point commissioner president wu commissioner fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson is here commissioner moore and commissioner richards that present as well commissioners first on our agenda is consideration for items promoted for continuance there are several so bear with me item one the 2013 nexus study proposed