affordable care act that are not assumed in the mayor's financial forecast. we have the continuing changes as part of the aca to take back of realignment and dual eligibles to managed care and the waiver can all have significant impacts on our revenue picture and we are watching those closely. in addition a big thing for us in this coming to your budget cycle is to focus on our information technology needs and that is getting our basic infrastructure up to date, planning for electronic medical records and other things such as idc 10 and others we'll have continuing focus on some of the issues that we've been looking at for the last several budgets which is getting our population health division where it needs to be, planning to open the new

san francisco general hospital next year and continuing to focus on all of those network metrics that are going to be drivers for our financial performance over the coming years. much more to come. we have planned to have hearings on our proposals for the budget at this commission in february. the budget submissions by departments goes to the mayor's office on february 23rd and we'll be continuing reporting those as the budget is introduced and heard by the board in july. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> commissioners? commissioner singer? >> as to the financial performance and planning and thought is terrific. i don't have any questions. i'm looking forward to our next diving into the

real details. thank you. >> i think you are right, i know you are right. there hasn't been in recent memory where we've been asked to return something but as you said this is the time that we need to also invest. so i think that is going to be a very important part of the budget to present and what it is we are going to invest in as part of the future and we have that opportunity to look at that. >> absolutely and that will be our focus and our effort is on not wasting the opportunity to do some longer term planning for the rainy day. >> right. thank you. >> was there any public comment? >> no public comment. >> all right. we can move on

to our next item. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> item 10 is other business, commissioners. >> commissioners, this is an opportunity to present any other business that you would like to present for us at this point. if not we can move to next item. >> item 11, joint conference committee report. >> laguna honda joint commission meeting on the ninth during open session it was a short meeting. we approved the minutes and went to closed session where the committee approved the credential reports in the p i report and the laguna safety plan and the medical q i report. >> thank you, any questions?

if not, we can go to the next item. >> item 12 is community agenda setting. commissioners note the date for the meeting in the mission is may 19th. i will get back to you next week. i'm going to visit the site tomorrow. i just wanted to give you that heads up. >> thank you, we also listed in the calendar, the planning commission that we'll be having. >> yes, sir, if my memory is correct. >> just a reminder. okay. our next item. >> we are at closed session. >> okay. so a motion. first there are no comments from anybody on the closed session. >> no public comment request. >> so we are prepared to vote on whether to have a closed session. a motion? >> so moved. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? . we will go

into closed session and excuse those who are not in the closed session. so a final vote. >> i think you are good to go, commissioners. >> okay. commissioners, a motion whether to disclose or not disclose the discussions in the closed session. >> not to disclose our findings in the closed session. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? we will not disclose the closed session. >> there being no further business, an adjournment is in order. >> motion. >> second. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? >> this meeting is now in

closed session and adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned good afternoon, everyone, my name is ed reiskin, the director of transportation in san francisco. happy to welcome you all to the san francisco transportation management center. i'm very glad to have the mayor and police chief and joined by jerry lee the director of sf mta and here to initiate our transportation center and what we are doing to kick it off. please join me in welcoming our mayor ed lee. mayor edwin m. lee: good morning everyone. last month i told you that the world series will end the

drought. ed, thank you very much. i want to say thank you to the entire san francisco municipal agency and staff that are getting the benefit of this brand new technology to handle traffic congestion in the city. i visualized such a center when i visited seoul, korea that they have a fantastic center like this with panels and obviously they are bigger than we are but with all this data gathering and realtime situation where traffic issues were. just last week

i sat down with chief gregsuhr and when she called me and tells me about the incredible traffic she faced on citizens who constantly knocked on my door or complaints about traffic congestion, this is a city that is a growing city, a city under a lot of construction these days. we are a city where actors and actresses in their vehicles and delivery trucks and seem to think that double parking is helpful to themselves and don't understand the impact or blocking the blocks the intersections thinking they can get across at not

thinking clearly about the congestion it causes. i want to say to everyone that i'm getting the complaints constantly about traffic congestion. i want you to know we are thinking short-term and long-term. in the short-term, the chief, the solos. the motor traffic department and the parking control officers are engaged directly with my effort in the short-term to really deal with things that are causing congestion in this city. there will be no tolerance of blocking the box. those that do are going to face the hefty fines that we already have on our books. thanks to sf mta and their staff and thanks to

chief gregsuhr is going to have those conversations already. we want that enforcement along with that education that you can't block the box. that's not acceptable. if you are not into giving gifts to the city and county of san francisco, don't block the box particularly now and through the neck -- next year. we are going to be very vigilant and unless you like to pay the city, don't be in that box. the sex -- second thing is we are going to be looking for the contractors in the city and people who are in economic cal times that people adhere in detail to those permit conditions. the parking control officers,

i would like to thank them because they are working in our behalf and i would like to protect them because they are protecting our city and they are doing their job by enforcing those permits and if you double park in the city, you are going to get another hefty gift in the city because double parking has been a huge reason by observance, by reports, by all the different people that go around the city including myself that they have been constantly complaining that people don't want to pull over to empty spaces or spaces made available to them and the yellow zones, that they are going to have to pay attention to that, and that will be the job of our pco's, these

are part of the short-term operations that we are going to see very strongly in the next coming months beginning today. this is not the total answer. what this center represents today is to really take a look at the very near future and in long-term that all of the data that we want. you know, some people drive around these days and i see it as well. they their smartphones and if they got these traffic apps, you are going to see green and you are going to see red and sometimes you will see yellow. but it's the red routes that i need to pay attention to that are really agonizing everybody to get around this city. whether you are using those apps, whether it's google or a special app or whether you are just trying to get around the city and you don't know what app to use, i'm suggesting that this traffic management center here will be using the latest data

and latest technology to really deal with those red line routes that are causing the congestion to the city and they will be able to from this center take a look at not only the timing of the lights, what maybe causing it, but i have asked in the long run that we get a technical answer that allows the pco's and others to deliver themselves to those particular sites and make sure that congestion is decongestionized to make sure congestion is less and people adhere to the rules we have. there is more people walking and more people bicycling and getting where they need to go and we are managing all of those types of transportation modes and

given the privilege of having such a technologically smart center that we can use this technological center to our advantage and be able to use realtime the ability to help people get through these major arteries of this city. i want to invite you to this. on the long-term we will not only view these corridors as a way to manage traffic a little better, we are also doing it through the lens of vision zero. we want our streets to be safer. we got that vote from the voters this past september. to the tune of $500 million to make sure our streets are safer and i mean to do that. it's a recommitment on my part to not only deal with the congestion but to do all we need to do,

to get all the projects done in vision zero. we are nine out of 14 already and we have a list of 40 that we are going to be completing in the short-term. we heard from the voters that this is the right decision to make and we are making those investments. this is the reflection of those investments to be able to manage better in a smart way. i want to say a hefty thanks to everybody working in sf mta particularly with the parking control officers working in the data tr and -- center and the traffic officers and police officers. better traffic flow, more safe streets in this city. this is what the voters wanted this is what the investment is making and this is where we have given priority and you are going to see this coming out of here very shortly. we won't

have paul out there apologizing for things. we'll have more and more about what we are doing better and better. i want to say thank you to everybody for this center and the details of what can be talked about already shared by chief egress is -- gregsuhr and chief reiskin. >> thank you very much. they will help us better actively manage congestion? >> this city. congestion maybe seen as a result of what's happening in our city, all of this construction and all these new people and jobs coming, congestion makes it more difficult to get around. we want people to be able to get through this city with reasonable ease and more

importantly getting through it together. more as the mayor said we can focus on enforcement and make sure people are adhering to the laws so help us get around. this is something we are doing with the police department. let me ask the chief of police gregsuhr as to how we are working together to start immediately on the congestion. >> thank you, two eds are better than one. sorry i couldn't resist. thank you for having me. the mayor called a meeting last week in his office. we had a horrible last september with many fatalities in 1 month

especially during the holiday season with ending with the huge tragedy of little sophie lou. we wanted to get out in front of it with this holiday season. we continue to focus on the five most common collision factors that injury pedestrians and bicyclist. enforcement this year is up 50 percent. as we discussed last week what can we do better and team better as the holidays are more apt to drive more crowds and we talked about congestion. this center is going a long way for us to be able to in realtime get notices from mta to motorcycles to see if we can find the reason for congestion and if it can be alleviated quickly we will. and even

working with crossing guards and cpo's to manage the site and blocking the box will create anxiousness and piece will do it hastily. if there is a vacancy. a pedestrian irritated that a crosswalk is blocked or just some frustrated person that actually runs the light to get around. to that end, just as the meeting that started last week, there have been 200 tickets issued for blocking the box and they are expensive. if you can not make it through the intersection, do not enter the intersection at all unless you receive one of these very very costly tickets. it's so important that we adhere to the goal, the lofty goal set by the mayor, we set last

year zero pedestrian fatalities. if we can have no pedestrian fatalities through the holiday season it would be a great start to carry into next year for our first attempt again at achieving no pedestrian fatality. the chief spoken here today. we give no pleasure at giving tickets but if that's what it takes to get people to slowdown we are going to do that. you are going to tell the story today and both technologically and how we configure our streets is important. everybody plays a role in this. as we cherish the memory of a little girl who lost her life last new year.

pedestrians, don't step in too soon and cars, leave your electronic devices at home because people are at harms way. thank you. >> [inaudible] >> so, double parking is what it is, it's not legal. and when we all take our drivers test we all take the test and it says that you are not to enter into an intersection unless you can safely make it through the intersection. >> [inaudible] >> no. >> [inaudible]

>> i'm happy to research this. >> [inaudible] again, i don't know that in every instance we will give the tag, but certainly it has to be, it's not just generally okay to for instance if there is a vehicle accident and then a commercial truck decided to block a lane and thereby close the entire street, they are going to have to figure out another time. if the presence of a vehicle is doing something, even if a car breaks down, we are going to do whatever we can to break the clog even if it's just a conversation versus a

n ticket. >> [inaudible] >> we are a smart thoughtful police department, not a vengeful police department. we are going to do the best we can. >> to follow on what the chief and mayor were saying, there is immediate enforcement and of course it's enforcing the laws including blocking the box. also mentioned what we are looking at are the commercial loading zones as they become available. it's not okay to double park if there is an available parking which we

often see or if you are not actively loading. we are going to look at the number and length and time limits of the commercial loading zones because we need to still facilitate commerce in this city and we are looking at construction regulations and making sure people are adhering to their permit regulations and doing what we can to balance the neat to enable the construction that needs to be done whether it's in a private lot and with the need to get traffic to move and we are getting more historical and realtime traffic data through gps technology, buses have it and there is a lot of realtime and historical to help us understand traffic patterns and help us understand

traffic patterns and police officers and we are looking at a constant resources and using publication whether it's navigation that people have in their cars or through the media to get better realtime information. i think we get six 6 days a week on muni issues so we can let folks know if there is a clog or one of those red arteries to give people alternate routes to take. take together with enforcement through technology in this center will enable us to make ourselves available and at least in

the near term construction is going to continue in this city and we need to ensure that people can get around this city safely. that's all we have for today. now we'll open up to questions. >> [inaudible] >> so the resources limitation that we have in terms of numbers of police officers and pco's is real and the technology and coordination between the two departments we have with limited resources we have as strategically as we can. of course with blocking the box, we are never going to be able to stainably

resource that but by using realtime information about where the problems are, sending people to the red corridors, sending people to the intersection that are blocked. the funding and we are increasing the number of pco's that we have. there will be some increases in resources but it's about using strategically the resources and changing the focus of the work and the parking control officers that we are doing because it is a real safety issue. >> [inaudible] battery ignition, where is the pco? >> the chronic intersection as a result of this we are going

to be deploying parking control officer resources. >> [inaudible] >> so part of what i

mentioned and public works was at this meeting is by reviewing the process by which we develop the plans for construction and increasing doubling the number of folks we have enforcing permit conditions. with the two of those which is what exactly what we are going to be doing. generally the contractors, so the things that we are trying to balance here because it does take a long time to get work done particularly in the right-of-way, the city, we are trying to give the contractors the space so they can get the work done and get out. it's always a balance of how much time to give them and we are going to make sure that we don't give them more space than they need and we hope to

improve construction to repair the water lines and repair our streets so that work can continue. thank you. happy to answer questions afterwards. thank you all for coming. >> >> >>. >> i'd like to call a police join me in the pledge. >> america and to the republic f