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.

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the people to stop talking in the audience. okay roll call.

director brinkman. lee present director ram on director ram on the scene director please be advised that director heinicke will be absence during today's meeting. please be advised that the ringing of cell phones and pagers are prohibited. anyone responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the rom so please turn your cell phones off because if you turn them on to vibrate it may cause microphone interference. thank you. the regular meeting. approved? seconded. >> any further discussion. they are approved. thank you. >> item 10.2 e regarding

california street had been removed from the agenda at the request of staff. item 6 introduction of new or un finished business by board members. >> no new business. congratulations to everybody on b and l that was a big day. thank you. >> item 7 directors report. >> good afternoon members of the staff and public. a couple of things to just touch on today i think you just referenced one i was going to reference that as well obviously we had a pretty strong support from the voters on prop a well over 70 percent that will give us 500 $500 million to invest and approve muni and to make our streets safer so pretty significant step you will recall it was a first of a set of recommendations that came from the mayor's transportation task

force so very grateful to the task force and planning department public works transportation authority who worked with us in that process and particularly grateful to the mayor and the entire board of supervisors for their strong and unanimous support for prop a i think it will be a game changer for us and for safety on the streets and prop b which will send more general fund to muni the formula will be also triggered by population growth so we'll use those funds for fleet expansion we can't use bond funds for fleet so general funds will allow us to do fleet expansion as well as further advance bike and pedestrian safety and then also on the ballot the voters pretty strongly rejected prop l which

i think we can see that rejection of prop l as an affirmation by the voters and having all 3 of those line up on the ballot and all go the way they did is i think strong support for the work that we're doing here. it's not to say that there aren't and won't continue to be concerns with how we're trying to improve transportation in san francisco and for all the people who voted against a and b and for l i think we want to reach out to and work with them as well because we need to deliver transportation for the whole city but that said obviously now the ball is in our court to deliver on what the voters authorized us to do and we've been prepared for that and certainly willing to do so and other good news you may recall recentlyth