to help us get out achievement of vision zero everything has a responsibility anytime you step off a sidewalk go go that in but you automobile or walk that your traveling and aware of our surrounding so we will continue to doing the right thing to make the city save we need everything to do their part so we don't have to start press conferences in the future with press conferences like this we're doing a lot with the leadership from city hall the board of supervisors adopted vision zero policy and mayor ed lee has directed all the departments and exclusive branch of government to accelerate do everything we can to make our streets safer please welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee. >> thank you, ed

(clapping.) let me add that as we take a moment ponder the circumstances of which those fatalities happen we are working very hard to make sure that there is less of this and today, we're in district one with commissioner eric mar who also joined strongly the effort to put their concrete work into vision zero to make that happen today, we wanted to demonstrate as part find an education and awareness campaign those strooirpz we called them san bernardino are a striping on the swauktsz that have in the past obey retired around schools and mid street kroger's are now going to be more dominant in our intersections beginning on geary

street those are important one there are and do in fact slow down traffic and make people more aware but also what ed reiskin and others have been saying in our street safety advocates we've got to make people more aware if we can make sure that ice are the first and not other distractions that the eyes see the crosswalks and people in the crosswalk using that it will penetrate people in vehicles to slow down and respect the people that are using the sidewalks and streets and the warns turns into a higher level of safety on the streets this is exactly what we're trying to side here you'll see the departments working i'm going to take physical action and laying down the stripes myself but more of this is going

to happen because we as a city agreed we're going to put serious resources into these our vision zero so that it is not just a a pronouncement we make those things happen on as many street corners as possible this is a relatively easier treatment to do but a higher awareness comes boo about it as we work on the compacted streets and intersections that require xylophones and a lot of other agencies to be involved in safety of those intersections and streets reich like we have probably a half block away on a very, very business intersects at the same time in in addition to the so-called descend are a striping we'll be taking a look at with our police department and our mta and public defender's office and others on

the streets what streets in our city that we have direct jurisdiction where we can slow down traffic on an official basis even a 5 mile reduction in the speed allows nor awareness and more care to occur on those streets and so we have named some of the streets that will slow down the speed on and we've already done so on sunset and some of the streets we to name more streets that has your signage and office those as well as our officers we want to insure the public we're working to redesign other streets completed streets and make sure that we present safety to be the preit is not necessary policy to be rkd in those streets but also you'll see me and the

supervisors and ed reiskin as well as others making periodic announcements to keep visibility on this serious topic of that he had public safety bicycle safety and driving safety to make sure that awareness is at its highest level and to make sure that violators it will be consequences and our officers are out here today sometimes, we might feel we cannot solve every if at any point we can keep a vigilant and dedicated effort to continue to educate and making those changes so this leads to a higher level of safety not about being help also but more action in lives lost that were going to take an opportunity to come even more concerted effort we need to

make to prevent those things from happening we have busy streets it in san francisco that's a indication of our economy but make sure that is complimented with a higher level of awareness for safety for everybody thank you for being here commissioner eric mar. >> (clapping.) thank you complair and director reiskin on the yes, ma'am of the responding district i'm going to put my notes aside i'm anger and inside mr. alfred 87-year-old mr. alfred yee on gary and 26th avenue outside of a senior center in 2011 a woman an geary we campground a 3 and 4-year-old open fulsome modify who was

killed on 25 letting avenue in fulsome we've known about this for years how long will it take to take rapid action on vision zero so as director reiskin they're not accidents they're killing basically we have to work on education engineering and enforcement i'm proud our r0r7bd station is here they are the one station that took a hard look at vision zero i want to thank the hard working men and women at the richmond station i'm raifr from the robert district i learned about that or this so my comments are from my heart three or four supervisors from the time after sophies death in the new year's time

over a years ago we're looking at new york city and other cities with the bicycle coalition and walk sf and our community coalition we've been advocating for this i'm glad it tom maguire with our sustainable streets is here my hope was we painted stripes that are important csa as we think about high injury corridors like geary and others we're looking at other practices and putting our money where and mouth is the culture of feeding in san francisco our community coalition office says the culture meeting meeting in san francisco not only pedestrians but bicyclists and other drivers at risk there are too many tragedies not only mr. alfred lee and others in the richmond district throughout the city the two children i mentioned the

told her a two combrrldz hit in the outdoor richmond on fulsome we move to lower the speed limit i hope that our city like portland and seattle have safe routes to schools i'm hoping san francisco iowa's what put our money where our mouth is and making the streets safe is a responsibility as the mayor said for all of us but the walk sf and the pedestrian advocates have been working on this for many decades we have to listen the coalitions the traffic lights like the new ones planned for 22nd and geary and 26th and geary like the ones near the

senior centers i hope to implement that around other vulnerable areas i as geary rapid transit moves forwarded how to implement the vision zero longer than geary boulevard i as a superintendant for the richmond i urge the mayor and director reiskin to move as quickly as possible to prevent the death in the corridors reducing the slightly and thirty mile-per-hour in many ways is not that much of a reduction but as asz our distributing that slowing down saves lives we'll see that on fulsome we need more help i want to say that the vision zero committee the board of supervisors are meeting i'm

going to do my best to look at it becomes by the sfmta to move as rapidly not only in the richmond but citywide i know that safety should be first as the mar said i'm here to say for the richmond district after the two tragedy deaths i'll do everything i can to prevent death for the future thank you very much for being here. >> thank you supervisor mar mar i'll say did supervisor has been one of the be strornth advocates longer than fulsome and geary but we are i will assure you working with the partners in the city to make sure that the transit improvements only geary boulevard is fully incorporating you'll see best practices in terms of the public safety at the transit liability and itself

public safety at the same time, we're looking at ways such as the crosswalks or anything we can do while we're designing the 0 project we're not waiting for the big projects we're putting in krouksz open geary i want to thank the mayor for his leadership in pulling the agencies together and engaging with the community and the advocates with the victims of the families to make sure that we're getting this work down as quickly as possible. >> we're going to i'm going to ask the mayor and the supervisor to help us lay the paint on the final crosswalk dozens along geary i want to recognize the director of sustainable streets and the liveable streets director who does the design and george who hearsay a field operation with the 0ur9 city to

put the paint strips on the ground thank you, everyone for coming out i'm going to ask the mayor to help initiative that painting of the crosswalks.

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>> can everybody hear me thank you for hosting us all i'm john the councilmember gloria vice

president and along with my much nor talented colleagues and megan our program managers i offer see the responsibility of zen detect when we they moved no inviting one of the things we've heard loud and clear was the importance of the hiring locally and many technology growing companies we're distancing in search of specific talents those are hard to find in the bay area in the neighborhood of san francisco but as you sit here now detection has a great relationship with the office of economic workforce development and currently sits on the investment board this is where

we learned ambassador tech sf graduation and the local jobs training program to provide relevant skills several conversations led us to the realized the faster way to create zen dick technology to train the san franciscans on our product that will fast track them to an important job in as you sit here now deck some of the tens of thousands of people that use as you sit here now deck if not employed while having still have a foundation in customer support and experience as well as the state of the art i'm to introduce mayor ed lee that as you sit

here now deck has a terrific relationship the mayor ed lee has impressed on the importance of job creation like the opening up pathways in the tech industry so welcome mayor ed lee (clapping) john thank you for that introduction and i'm glad to be here and this is great to see this is the third cohort of our folks coming through tech sf he want to go through the boat came but jonas passionate as i am i've not had to work that hard as you sit here now deck and it is a lot of passion for the building

of strong neighborhoods thank you to the leadership give my best to the entire staff there because as strons as passionate in the job training for the 21st century jobs we need partners that are more experienced as you that kind of citizens of volunteerism is takes the hours and weekends and the attitude to folks that are in the community looking to see if they can gain skill sets with the new jobs and what they're doing in the clooks with tech sf starbucks a good training for people to see i have the confidence i don't have to be at the best engineering schools to get a job and we've often said the tonnage industry

establishments 4 or 5 jobs in their applications or establishing all the technology kinds of industries we're also seeing happen in middle school middle market and throughout the city it is one of the many what did you say and he know that as you sit here now deck is not only focused on job training a huge amount of philanthropic work for the lowest incomes and the institutions allowing for the use of community space as a reflection of they're very strong volunteerism within the community agreement and their work is great because along with my again friend benny hoff set

the standard for what we want to happy in the city and we need it technology for many years and i think people in the room remember those are room we talked about the digital divide how we'll be able to catch with tomcast or those internet essentials they're providing or 12 companies they're going so fast he didn't think the jobs were going to be driver's license we need this link if you will, so those jobs i emphasis your programmers you can be folks helping with customer service center to be of great support and those days more and more as companies

establish their companies they need the mechanism and this is why the third and i hope tenth cohorts of trainers that come out with the skill sets to repeating really join in a comfortable way the movement towards the digital jobs that are present here in the city and that we also will signal to the companies that i look forward to their literally going through tech sf and hiring the folks that are out the basic training i'm all for a what he can excitingly see those weeks of boat camping is allotting a truly a boat camp you're going right into job opportunity there and our tech companies don't

have to be looking across the water but right here in san francisco and be part the promise that the prosperity in the city can be shared with those basic things we're doing honoring training and having an open door policy and having a good neighbor policy and go benefits as forefront as the success of a company as getting their points out and designed and engineered and sold i can't thank supervisor kim enough she's a strong advocate we start this confidence about mid-market and seeking strong, strong indications coming to fruition not everything is there it takes time we have a lot of folks on line their k59 their support i love the fact we're beginning to focus on the staff

black women and other different groups that we know have gaps in their ability to connect up with our technology industry and with other jobs more and more we're seeing the technology into the health care industry the hospitality address the local manufacturers you can't see a line of manufacturers without the ipad overlay and censoring autopsying all the aspects of merchandising so this is a great year to embrace those kinds of programs and thankful to the bay area coalition as well as tech sf for joining us as a city and partnering up with as you sit here now deck so provide support and congratulations

(clapping.) >> thank you mayor ed lee for being here today. >> thank you to your staff and as you sit here now deck and especially to all the students who are graduating today from the zen deck train and i'm the executive director it is a pleasure to see you when we partnered with czechoslovakia deck with the employer driven training it makes sense because not only because we're the coordinator for the city of san francisco but because they've actually been providing employer driven technically e tech and media industry for more than 15 years i was chatting with the folks and we trained folks from places like mother jones and all kinds of tech and media companies other than the city and we've been doing this for many years in many, many ways

and another thing offering networking event like gloun this is something we came up with to provide opportunity for contract workers or who are newly trained to meet people that are hiring and zen deck is generous for two of the flounz so for so so thank you to zen deck i want to mention little initiative through the sf tech program for the contractor workers and helping folk up their skills and help them with their taxes and with the full union in new york we have more than 5 hundred members are eligible to get health care and other kinds of

insurance next year it the amazing program i feel like our mission of hoping folks to tell their stories has been happening for 39 years it is important to be a technology organization that's been around for that long the reason we've been around that along bus of the as you sit here now deck train so thank you, again, for zen deck go with that i'm going to turn it over to the trainer from zen deck to start the graduation (clapping) and thanks i'm joe i work as zen deck about 3 years i'm going to present the certificates to the graduates

first up patrick (clapping). rose marie (clapping) gary (clapping) there's gary michael >> winston (clapping) sorry winston. (clapping.) >> now (clapping) kit (clapping)

emmanuel (clapping) marseille (clapping) thank you, everyone all right. >> (clapping) photo op. >> ready everyone here congratulations

>> good afternoon and welcome to the thursday march 12th special meeting of the san francisco transportation authority board. i believe we will be joined shortly by other members of the committee as well. i want to recognize s fchlt gchltfgtv and also want to recognize our clerk steve st amo s. mr. clerk can you please call