that and what they have been able to do to enforce the speed limit is what they, and what they don't call them speed cameras they call them safety cameras. and they have been able to implement that throughout the country and it is effective in lowering the speeds and therefore, reducing the we have a lot of work to do, but we are far behind and unfortunately the countris in asia and europe but we are doing well in the u.s. but we have a lot more work to do and we are able to learn and share the best practices. if we can go to the public

comment on this item. >> commissioner mar and yee? >> there were a lot of take aways for myself, and i mean, that it was nice and comforting that we had really the largest con tining ent and i felt like we were in san francisco, even though we are in brooklyn and it is one of the boroughs that are larger than san francisco and it was interesting to hear some of the streets and the pedestrians itself and the

message that they are trying to get across is that the human beings make the mistakes and pedestrian ans will make the mistakes and they can be distracted and we should pay attention to that. and one of the things that was interesting, was the opening sort of keynote address, in which the professor there talked about streets in a very different way, and just prior to i guess, in the maybe, in a 1920s or so, and the streets were, quickly changed because of the auto industry. and in which they made and they basically had a campaign, the tree belongs to the car rather than the pedestrians will we get back to that notion? probably not, but it is interesting to know that history, and that the streets

were not made for the cars originally, but we have to keep in that mind, and as we talked to in particular, the drivers who have this, and the streets belong to them. >> and i have noticed to a lot of people, over there from san francisco, and that is what we have already, in san francisco. by the way. and it is a default speed limit. and i would really like the idea of the safety cameras. in swaoed sweden, what they said besides the cameras is that they really didn't have that many, but, what they did not have were movable cameras. and so, they were able to move it from one place to another, and every so often. and so if it felt to drivers like they had a lot of cameras

up. and maybe that is something that if we don't have enough funding if we pursue that avenue, we may want to look at that strategy. i think that one of the things that really, we have like advocates we have walk advocates, and these organizations, and one of the things that struck me is that we didn't have families involved. and in an organized way, and the as commissioner kim was saying, the familis for safe streets, that group was really to me, the power behind the advocacy and i am hoping that people that went to the syposium will talk among themself and see if we can form a similar group.

and the point about the black box and so forth, i will, and i am already pursuing seeing what we can do in staoet for that, and it is just such an inexpensive tool for us. and to, and 250 bucks a crack, and for, and, the approach will be whether we could monitor to see if we could save gas, but it also, the residual of that was that they were able to detect the bad drivers and not doing the right thing. and so, muni supposedly has a black box and others, and so i am trying to find out who else, or what other department haves that and which one don't and we will find a way to hopefully mandate that and we have that in the city cars. and so, those were some of the take aways. and i am glad that i went. and i loved their messaging. and in regards to the education

piece, and pedal safety. and i took a cab, and a few times. and in the back they have the stream, and about 25, 30 percent of what they were showing they kept on saying visions zero, vision zero and so the messaging was really powerful and they had the street signs all over the place. and i understand that clear channel donated a bunch of signs for them to put up or to send these messages. i am hoping that we could, our education piece could be as aggressive as that. and i know that it was just starting with, and i love it to be that way. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner mar? >> yeah, i just wanted to thank commissioners kim and yee, and i wanted to remind the body that there is a budget legislative analyst report on reducing speed limit and

looking at model and other cities and so i will do my best to try to integrate what you have learned and brought back with the budget analyst report, which i think that we will having the hearing later in the new year. and i wanted to also say that just remembering now, in austin, unfortunately they were not able to pass a one billion dollar transportation bond. a spread out city, verses a dense city and, we were able to pass our prop a there is a lot of differences in our electorate supporting transition, i know that a lot of effort went into proposition a and i want to thank tang and others for the support and the mayor as well. and i want to give a plug for chair avalos and i will be in new york city for this gathering of city council and local leaders called local progress. and we will be in city hall, and believe that it is on thursday, of next week. with different panels

participating on a economic justice panel, with city council folks from philadelphia, and dc and other cities as well. but, we will do our best to learn about the transportation issues as we are there with progressive and liberal council members from around the downtownry as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> so we can go into public comment. >> any member? >> seeing none come forward. we will close public comment and move on to the next item. >> five, accept the audit report for the fiscal year, ended june 30, 2014, this is an action item. >> any comments or questions? >> seeing none, we will go out to public comment. >> and public comment will close and roll call vote. >> on item five, avalos? >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell? >> absent. >> commissioner kim?

>> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> aye. >> commissioner yee. >> aye. >> the item passes. >> okay, let's go on to the plans and programs item. item 6... >>allocate $6,795,385 in prop k funds, with conditions, for eleven requests, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules and amend the relevant 5-year prioritization programs. this is an action item. >> okay. colleagues, comments or questions? >> no, we will go on to public comment, any member of the public that would like to comment? and seeing none, come forward we will close public comment and have another roll call vote. >> 6, avalos. >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell. absent. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner.

>> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> aye. >> the item passes. >> item 7, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> colleagues, any new item issues to come before the transportation authority? >> seeing none, we will go on to public comment on this item. >> and seeing no member of the public come forward we will close public comment and go to the next item. >> 8, public comment? >> okay. >> general public comment is now opened. and seeing no member of the public, we will close general public comment. >> and our next item? >> nine, adjournment. >> okay, colleagues we are adjourned and we want to wish, everyone a happy holiday. thank you.

>> good evening everyone with we readies to light a tree. >> yeah. >> that wasn't loud enough. >> are we ready to light a tree. >> good work everyone and welcome to holistic golden gate park i'm filling beginning beggar the manager of our park department and thank you to the performance tonight and others so tonight is our 85th annual holiday tree latin-american truly one of our signature

events in the city's history alongside in the back is our esteemed president mark u he will give me a round of applause (clapping.) tonight behind me is a group of park lovers i'm going to introduce so first i want to introduce the rest of our commission flowering and megan and maggie and eric mcdonald and others (clapping.) and you're going 0 hear from him he's going to help us light the tree are our parks chief mayor ed lee (clapping) also behind me who's been here several years in a row our

spribl e incredible district attorney george moscone our assessor carman chu is here supervisor mark farrell and it's entire family are up here (clapping.) we have john from our moscone and from the mayor's office of disabilities is here you're going to hear from them but we have our incredible sponsor keeping up and iga gay from kaiser and other person is from the other company here let's

talk about the tree this tree behind us 85 years ago you don't think mclaren who was our one of our key fourpd in golden gate park our park superintendent started a tradition of lighting this tree and mile-long of trees that end here in mclaren lodge this is san francisco's official holiday tree and the cypress are over one hundred and thirty years old and despite losing some of its limitations it's standing at all and supporting over 5 hundred and 50 lights let's give a big round of applause for uncle john's tree (clapping.) so this is the night that offers up the time to get together one

of the most important aspects of parks it's sense of place; right? an opportunity to get together to create community and think about our tasks and to see our past, present, and future and people that are going to help us light the trees and brought kids this is something of san francisco's fabric and we remember it's pretty amazing this holiday season offers the opportunity to reflect american people things we are they've for i'm thankful to work with our amazing staff everyday and help to manage our 2 hundred and 20 parks around the city and most porcelain importantly on behalf of the rec and park department we are thankful for caring about our parks and enjoying them and supporting what really is the

best park system in the united states of america. (clapping.) >> so, of course, now and then none of this would be possible without the rec and park department i want to shout out to our superintendent of recreation a gentleman i call p t barn newspaper that's bob (clapping) i also want to congratulate linda and all of bobs managers and our entire recreation staff our treetopers and our story maybe sad maybe not this tree has been around inform a long lesson time and those of you over time know it's lost some of the lower limbs in big storms

throughout the decades well thankfully and even though mayor likes to talk about rain as a sign of prosperity thankfully we have a big storm but we lost one the big tree limb and our tree toppers predict 4 this will be around for decades and decades a shout out to our tree toppers. >> yeah. >> i also want to thank our partners and special maintenance staff and frankly everyone that works other mclaren leveraging looming and the respect respect i will say to you rec and park department it is the hardest group of city employees around give them a shout out all right. i now want to introduce to you

our mayor who recall him mayor but at mclaren lodge he's the park champion he loves foist and loves to play a big hundred to mayor ed lee (clapping.) >> thank you phil happy holidays everyone well, what you deserve is a very short speech so we're going to give you that because those kids want to play i walked by in the snow this is outside play for kids i want to say a hearty thank you to phil beginning berries and the staff that deserves that but mostly i'm thankful for the people of san francisco those times of trying for families but all the others are getting prosperous

and prosperity what we need to do that is share that in the city of san francisco and especially a recognition of many more families that may not be able to receive all the things they need you want to ask you to reach into our hearts and make sure you help others this season of giving tonight our police officers and first year are here to collect toys for families in need help them do so in their dream effort to collect toys for the needy i know you'll join me in not only a welcome way to thank our partners we have great announcements this year when companies like google decided to help us put wifi in our urban parks now you've got

zinc can and kaiser hermosa beach us throughout the year we're going to find more partners to make sure our parks are remaining for all of the people and families to use this is an incredible city a wonderful city it is a 3 times world series champion city that's what we get to represent (clapping.) i'm proud we worked together but mostly proud of people that live lessor day to day great partners when we brag about the city i visit other places i'll talk about the people that are here essence of innovation in our city thank you very much and happy holidays (clapping) thank you, mr. mayor we have a couple of other speakers i want

to first introduce randy through did public affairs if kaiser permanente at the rec and park we share with our tag like we're not - we like to say our mission is really to help families thrive we're grateful for kaiser to port this, please welcome randy up to the podium. >> thank you phil i'll keep to short i wanted to say happy holidays we're thrilled to be here to celebrate the tree lighting and we're fortunate to have the best urban rec and park department in the country there are 2 hundred and 20 neighborhood parks in san francisco that's a lot of opportunities to get out and thrive so we love the rec and park department and happy to be here and courage you all to get out

and get active and healthy and winner you all a happy and healthy holiday season thank you very much (clapping.) thank you randy. >> our other tag like from the rec and park department we like to say get out and play you said it and so our next partner that helps us is ken weber if monk knows play as you sit here now can welcome ken. >> (clapping.) good evening, everyone what an honor to be up here with with mayor ed lee and phillip and you'll i all those people that work hard to make san francisco whether we love playing on a cell phone or tablet that's why we're proud of our partnerin

rec and park department with the san francisco parks alliance on behalf of as you sit here now gases more than one thousand based employees we want to wish a safe and happy and hopefully happily lit holiday season. >> one piece of business left what is that. >> the lighting of the tree. >> we're going to light the tree. >> actually, my wife is boggs me around (laughter) before you before we do one thank you to two other organizations here tonight the ferries is the san francisco parks alliances two folks are here thank you to them (clapping) and also who i saw in the crowd

representing the hard working who take care of our works vince from the local. >> (clapping) we're now going to light the tree our swiss is in the back there so there's a switch that is going to light the tree and the mayor is going to pill the switch and joining him a syosset who is here i asked them to come up i met yvette before the ceremony stated she's with her own parents talking about this is a generational connection

she's been here since 1969 come on up and join the mayor on the sign. >> yeah. i think the switch came from candle stick park we want to make sure it works mr. mayor 3 may not be the best example. >> here's our switch and she's here with her daughter and husband mark all right. and also lilly come on up and i like to ask the kids co-to come up and surround the mayor in pulling the switch kids to the high voltage zone and special shout out to literally will i her joe is an employee he

lights it everyday so let's give a special shout out to joe landlord/tenant so will you all count down from 5 5 example 4, 3, 2, 1. >> yeah. happy holidays everybody may there be lots of love in our holiday season and get out and play and enjoy our paradoxes thank you very muchyour paradox thank you very muchparadoxes thank you very muchaparadoxes thank you very murparadoxes thank you very muchparkparadoxe musparadoxes thank you very muchparksradoxes thank you very mu thank you very muchdoxes thank you very muthank you very much >> hey san francisco nolan with

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