llisions and they played an amazing role in albany in getting speed reduction in new york city and i know supervisor yee is going to be working on this as well and i think we should certainly partner with the community on this effort. >> that is what it will take. it really has to be about this broader campaign involving the community victims and public health advocates and i think that speaks to the larger campaign that really needs to take place with regard to vision zero and thank you for those comments and we'll absolutely figure out how to harness those voices including some some of the ones we heard here today. >> hi thank you chair i just wanted to add to the to the excellent presentation the

bright front a a bill coauthored and it's very early. it just came to to light that they are proposing a vision zero act that would create 2 new grant programs one setting aside 5 $5 million a year and the other would grant awards to five communities to share in a 25 $25 million education fund and we appreciate their leadership and i believe commissioner wooin wooin wooin . >> >> thank you. >> thank you miss chang. >> seeing no further comments

we open up for public comment on item number 5. . >> hi. we reduced that and contributed to the reduction working with the department of traffic and parking 43.6 percent and that's significant not to be laughed at. i am going to propose an ordinance directing the department of parking and traffic to continue to install signals and school crossing markings at pedestrian intersection crosswalks and

additionally, foreseen i for, senior community centers and housing complexes and hospitals major parks and youth recreational centers public libraries and the performing arts centers and or adjacent to object to the form of to major intersections including special transit corridor arterial pedestrian crossings such as geary and van ness where the bus systems are proposed where a center alignment light rail is located so i will submit this and give this to eric or yourself and that's what i'm proposing and i'm hoping along with that you will also be able to legislate a policy with

greater visibility with the helmets and reflective ity. >> thank you. public so many public comment on item number 5 is now closed. >> seeing no further comments from commissioners can we please call item number 6. >> curriculum for large vehicle driver training programs an information item. >> thank you and we do have john knox white a transportation planner with the the sfmta to provide us with an update and i want to congratulate you on your work leading the task force effort over the last year with our office and the mayor's office and a number of others and of course with the bicycle coalition and walk sf and i just want to take this moment

to recognize in particular the bike coalition who actually first brought this idea to our office and city hall when one of our cyclists was killed on division by a large vehicle and they wanted to do a vehicle training program with the bike coalition to better educate how to share the roads and also how to be preventative and how a cyclist can be aware of multiple users on the road and over time as we found that all 4 cyclists that have been killed and been killed by large vehicles it was really clear it was an issue that required a larger scale solution and

whether it's city agencies or construction contractors ecology and many others to be in the same room and figure out what we can do to achieve vision zero before the rest of the city hits it in in 10 years so thank you. >> thank you. so i know we're a little short on time so i'll try to be as brief as i can. i wanted to quickly talk about how we got here 2013 20134 large vehicle collisions that resulted in deaths involving bike bicyclists and we convened pedestrian bike advocates and city agencies that have large vehicles 3 meetings in april specifically focussed on the safety of people walking and biking on our city streets out of that process we came up with

short-term, middle term and long-term goals the first of which was creating a driver education program and video that video is currently under production and currently on schedule by having that completed by the end of april and developing that blind spot awareness campaign aimed at folks that are walking and biking and they are a little more aware of some of issues and even when trucks pull up next to them they may end up in places where they they can't be seen by trucks through no fault of their own and lastly perform an ongoing large vehicle working group city and private industry to talk about issues on both sides we are in the midst of setting that up currently. mid-term -- we

looked at planning issues around physical and temporal separation between large vehicles and pedestrians. anywhere we can not have them mixing was definitely felt to be important and signal retiming and scrambles as an example of. long-term working on truck design issues these are issues that the city itself really has little ability to regulate in the private fleet. so the recommendation was to work with the national transportation safety board

board who has made some recommendations requiring all new trucks to have side guards on the side of the trucks so pedestrians and bicyclists are not dragged under the truck and driven over which is a big problem and in in the uk they are requiring all trucks to have that and they have seen a 50 a 50 percent reduction in fatalities between large vehicles and road users. moving forward to the actual item and i want to recognize hank wilson in our agency has actually been leading the creation of this with the work of zack and hank was going to be here and give this but his wife had a baby 3 weeks early so i'm filling in for the rest of this presentation and my apologies if if i rely heavily on notes so starting in september we had a smaller

working group come together to start looking at the creation of training standards and curriculum and they met 4 times and we sent out a survey and got input from people who drive large vehicles and trucks and what we really wanted to do was avoid acting as experts in something -- i don't drive a truck so we wanted to hear as we're developing this curriculum we're actually providing answers to the things they don't need to know and through the discussions we identified that there's lots of confusion about the infrastructure that is changing rapidly on our streets and also a lack of clarity about safe driving and the impact of speed etc. and also common behaviors

of people walking and biking which i think gets to the idea that there are rules and expectations of how people should behave but sometimes pedestrians pop out of nowhere they might step off the curb between two cars so if there's some interaction that happens it is not fatal but you know focusing all of this on how these help professional drivers drive more safely. so the first step was to develop a set of standards for this curriculum and i'll come back to these near the end but they are available on the website at sfmta.com slash large vehicles and we had a very well attended press event with private

industry the mayor supervisor kim and many of the departments and agencies to announce that we're now requiring at sfmta as i mentioned before all contractors at sfmta must offer a training program that is consistent with these standards. where are we now? we're in the midst of finalizing our script. we have finished our major filming and over the next 6 weeks or so we're going to be editing all of the video we have and adding animations and what not into what will eventually be a 15-minute training video and sfgtv has been a tremendous resource and they are actually producing this and now that the shooting is complete -- sorry

let me go back -- i want to acknowledge that what we decided to do while filming this video at the same time create a video for taxi drivers and additionally a training video for drivers of general passenger vehicles that could be used for city staff and literally while zack and hank and i need to acknowledge the huge amount of organization that hank had to go to to get the volunteers out there we had in every shot a taxi and a car all of which had to shoot the same scene 3 times and ended up with 3 separate videos that are appropriate to the appropriate audience and all 3 should be done by the end of april. we are requiring this -- as i mentioned we're requiring any contractors with sfmta to provide training either

watching this video or they can certify that they have their own training program that meets the standards that helped in the development of this training program and looking anywhere we can to leverage use the leverage that we have in the city and sfmta to require contractor 's permits city employees to take this training. we want to be leading by example and working with the california trucking association etc. to find volunteer companies and organizations that will provide this as well. quite honestly i think our hope is that other cities will follow our lead and will start setting a de facto requirement and for the private training companies that train overwhelmingly the largest amount of truck drivers in the country will add this into

their curriculums and at that point in time we will have normalized the training and i know the mayor's office are looking at some issues as well on how we can socialize this throughout the whole city frankly. we're going to complete the training program in the next couple of months doing outreach and getting commitments and fed ex and ups and ucsf and said we want to make sure our employees are doing that as well the same with the san francisco pride parade e-mailed us how can we make sure all of those drivers get this training so we're confident that there's going to be a large number of people

that are going to opt into this even though not requiring them to do it and lastly working on how we can get the department of motor vehicles to add a licensing question and information to both their drivers manual for truck drivers and the exam they take in order to be will to be licensed in the state. if you have any questions? >> great. any questions? supervisor yee. >> actually i realize the questions that i have around education and budging and so forth goes beyond the scope of this particular presentation and i might just bring it up in item number 7. >> okay we can also make sure that that at the next vision zero subcommittee hearing we put in an item around the larger education efforts around large

vehicles that this program was focussed on. >> yeah actually that would be my request including looking at the bubbling in at the budget in terms of how much money is put into education. . >> absolutely we're trying to schedule in may prior to budget decisions being made and make sure to include that and work with your office to ensure the right questions are being addressed at that hearing. >> at the education subcommittee we're hoping to have our education strategy completed at the end of april so i think that would be perfect and i'd be happy to come to speak to you directly before then to let you know where we're at in advance of that meeting. >> i appreciate your offer and i would take it. >> i just want to thank you for the update i think this is the first official update that this

board and commission has gotten and it's great to hear the video will be completed next month and i think we'd all love to see it when it it is completed and i want to congratulate everyone that worked on this and carla johnson here from from the mayor's office in disability and i know her office played a big role in this as well and obviously keep working on this and expanding this and wanted to put thoughts and ideas out there. i think with current contracts there's not much we can do to require but i'd love to look at how we can gave additional points to contract ors that have demonstrated a good driving record but i think that not only should we be

putting mandates but also rewarding companies that have been putting in good infrastructure on education and demonstrating through the driver's record and how their drivers perform on our streets and the vast majority -- there's much less incidents but when it does happen obviously the injuries tend to be fatal and that's why this is really important to do but i do want to recognize that there's a large amount of drivers that are very responsible and we want to make sure we're increasing the tools and resources we have to be good drivers here in san francisco particularly as our streets get more congested and our office will certainly be following up.

i would love to see this get required for all of our city drivers and i think that it's really important for us as a city to hit vision zero first and we can roll model that i saw that you said that those with some city permits for example the shuttle drivers and possibly tour buses will be included what other types of city permits exist? >> i will have to get back to you i think that was a hedge in terms of we know there's some that we're talking about requiring. i'm sorry i don't have a slide put together. >> i know we didn't require shuttles that do not leave the city boundaries to be part of the pilots and i'd love to

figure out how to capture these other shuttle bus drivers as well. i think it's really important for them to be able to participate in the meantime until we have a larger program. and i'm glad to see that that there's also long-term goals of seeing how to add this to the licensing manual for state commercial driver's licenses and i think that's a good next step for us to look at. >> supervisor yee. >> i just realized the next meeting will be may and maybe a little bit late in terms of the budget process for us and i'm a little concerned since we're developing the budget for the next fiscal year for vision zero and i want to make sure that we have a significant amount of resources that can address our education piece

because it seems like every year we go through this oh yeah we don't have any funding so i don't know what the thinking is right now in terms of the current thinking for the budget development for next fiscal year -- have you that you thought about it much? >> absolutely. >> can you share that thought? >> so there is a conversation that's happening about developing a vision zero budget i'm not overseeing that i'll be a little careful but in terms of the education side we're currently looking at a second grant for a million dollars as part of our communications plan still underway we've identified both a maintenance budget plus a -- what is in the 3 to 5 5 million dollars $5 million 1 year budget to start to get some some of the culture change that's going to be required that i heard talked about by by the commissioners

earlier in order to start this engineering and enforcement and we definitely are moving quickly on developing that so that we will -- we're working with the mayor's office and again i'm happy to come to talk to you about that specifically. >> yeah. when you say communication plan or i guess the plan -- are we talking about strategies and a common messaging effort? >> yeah so we have a communications plan specifically about messaging about vision zero and what it is and starting to build an awareness giving people something to have a name on that we can start to rally around so i think one of the things that looks like -- one of the speakers from ccdc mentioned earlier the safe street sf program and we have

the i pledge safe streets that people are continuing to take and asking people to take a pledge for safe streets and support vision zero and starting to get some buy in and that we need to start changing the way the way we're behaving on our streets so as we're running campaigns saying don't speed or as the police department is out there for jay walking or what not -- they are never going to see tickets as a positive thing but less of a revenue raising thing but more of what it's meant to be by creating a safer environment for everybody on the streets. >> i'd love to hear more of what the thoughts are but i just feel like you know, that we're focusing on this training

piece is moving forward but i see that the rest of the education has not gotten too few. >> absolutely. you know and i think we've talked at past meetings before the education piece started from zero. enforcement is something ongoing but the idea of creating a citywide education campaign and program is a new thing and i thinwe've been modelling through our one off programs the collaboration that we need and we work with the department of public health and police department and all working together on that. we are doing -- doing we're working with 8 different departments and my hope is -- i agree with you -- it's the one that's not fully flushed out as to how we do that and our hope

is in a month and and a half to explain that. >> john has been doing excellent work also and we have a funding working group that we've been working with figuring out how to fund -- these one off grants although the -- it needs a multiyear effort it needs the city and the ta prop k sales tax. what are the options from a local side and also is there an opportunity to join forces with all of our stakeholders including the business community to actually fund a multiyear campaign as kate breen mentioned the

physical education piece that john is working on there's getting the leadership behind this at all levels and the media side of it and the media side is expensive and there's very few grants to get that media buy and they will have a much better sense of what that looks like midto end april. >> appreciate all your efforts i know it's not easy. i'm just so curious because one of the take aways from the new york new york summit was somehow the city was able to partner with some some of the large -- maybe not large but the advertisement agencies and they sort of know how to do these types of things and i don't think san francisco has a lack

of them i'm just curious if you have any thoughts about bringing them in earlier on to figure out -- you know what this campaign might look like and how they can contribute their pro bono services because the larger ones -- this campaign, if we were to do -- maybe good for them but it's not that big of an ask for the size of -- i just don't know. >> yeah i mean we have had a history of having these in in the past but the issue is to sustain this and this is culture change and going to take 2, 3, 5, 6 years of repeated repeated messaging and we may get a lot of support in the first year which would be fantastic but we have to figure

out how to make this more sustainable and i'm sure the interest is there and part of the strategy and our director of communications is looking at the partnerships with the media as well so we have that relationship already. >> thank you. >> thank you. just to get a sense -- when is sfmta going to be first presenting a a draft of its budget to the board of directors? >> do you mean the communications budget or -- >> the entire budget. >> i'm sorry, i i don't know when that will be. >> okay my guess is probably in april and so what i will try to do is make sure that we actually -- the next vision zero subcommittee technically should meet in june it's a quarterly meeting but we asked

to move it up to may so we can have a discussion on the budget after the presentation to the board of directors and members of the public will have an an opportunity to engage in april but we'll work with the department to schedule in a timely manner so our feedback won't be given too late and because this is such a large increase, there there will be a supplemental that will be moving through the the board of supervisors and so we'll try to schedule in early may and make sure it's at a time where the feedback is not too late. >> great. >> great. thank you. so at this time -- oh supervisor mar oh commissioner mar i apologize. >> could any of the budging be shared with us? i know there's parts of the budget and some other places