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going forward will be the funding sources, but are not the only funding sources. what and on the slide is the whole compilation of funding pots we are draying from. the large number of funding sources on the page reflects the hard work mta and agency staff have done on the fiscal side to any dollar oo accelerate the 24 and 24 or education enforcement parts in the calendar year 2014 and 15. you have grant programs administered from federal and state government and prop a sales tax, revenue bonds, supervisor add backs that are helpful in getting us some of the hard to fund projects. all these funding sources are in play and as i know through what is funded in 2015 and 16 i'll point out which funding sources apply. what are we committed to doing
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in 2015 and 16? starting with engineering, this is the funded. we are not talking gaps right now. we are again doing a wide range of pudistren, bike and school safety and street [inaudible] the funding sources for engineering are the broadest based of all the e's f. you look on the right hand column of the page, every 1 of the sources in red is contributesed to a engineering project in 2015. this is again where we have been pretty creative and flexible in using capital funds both under our control and the grant funding sources and prop [inaudible] is important as well. [inaudible] led through mta and public works. this is the 24 project, but more than
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the 24 project. we have been challenging ourselves with mta to find ways to do quick inexpensive and effective delivery of projects and not waiting for there concrete or capital project and moving ahead with things we can do and paint. examples of that, since the end of last year we have done 66 new high visibility cross walks. there is a example on [inaudible] and broadway. geary, painting. all these are [inaudible] all those are high crash corridors. 15 new miles of bike upgrades. [inaudible] concrete separation is the most visible there. we are putting [inaudible] which are the simplest things we can do with traffic signal tooz protect pedestrians from drivers who
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fail to yuld the right of way. we have done fev 4 since beginning of 2015. a tool we just started using in mid12 has bun done 30 times around the city. the painted safety [inaudible] this is where we are not waiting for the [inaudible] we get the paint on the ground and try to get the pudustren safety benefit today while we wait for the capital projects. now weal rer see on the right hand column a lot fewer sources omoney can we used for the other e's. we have been talking about the focus on the 5 campaign [inaudible] additional enforcement resources [inaudible] these are largely funded by 2 grant sources, the
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state active transportation and traffic safety and from the police department operating budget. this is stuff that is very hard to get. any other federal money. we can't use prop a, b or k for it. this is a more challenging thing to fund. evaluation program that [inaudible] at the health department have been working on and this is a more limited set of funds. the entire evaluation program is funded by mta operating funds we set aside or by add back funds. it is hard to get a grant for this and use the kinds of money set aside for capital improvements to do this kind of work. on the education fund, we have
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been doing [inaudible] campaign and target enforcement to users in the school system. this is funded by a couple grant fund ing sources as well as a add backs and prop k puny. it isn't a easy initiative to fund fwurkts is really important one for vision zero and when we get in the gap discussion later can dissue will talk about what the education effort can look like in 2016 squhaut it will take financially to get there. that's what we have committed, that is what is funded in 2015 and 16. the next set of slides will cover what is not funded and what some of the funding gaps look in dollar terms and in terms of the actual scope of work that is funded by those dollars. on the education front, or engineer front. we
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talked about how we ued prop a and b to fund the programs that we are doing, but there follow the paving program, there is more we could do with a little more money. we have over 200 million dollars with a mix of prop b and k, 1.9. there are opportunities to fund up to 2.8 million dollars more of follow the paving construction opportunities that would allow us to build in the additional safety and street scope for projects [inaudible] enforcement side is a small [inaudible] but it is a important one. moving-letting [inaudible] transition to hand written to e citation help all the memberoffs vision zero
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family agencies and be able to track and analyze sitration data and get oo handle where the dangerous [inaudible] 600 thousand dollars to cover the software, hardware implementation of a citation system. the evaluation, there is a good chunk of money secure a little over 300 thousand dollar and there is a 90 thousand dollar gap that is hard to fund that a aimed at more capital activities so the 90 thousand dollars allows [inaudible] within the health department and help keep vision zero on the data driven foots it is on since dwen 2014 and
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help evaluate. then we come to education, education is so important because it helps us engage all the stock holders who are not engaged in the planning engineering process or who are not drivers or folks who are receiving enforcement mpt education is about every san franciscan getting the message and understanding what that means. we are talking here about a over 200 million dollar funding gap and will ask can dist sue to come up and talk more about what that education funding need looks like. >> thank you tom, commissioners. i'll go through this and have a couple slides
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that are further into the deck. tom told you a little about why we want to ingest in education. let me work through the numbers here and then i'll go firthser own. the education program that we are thinking about is actually much larger, but what we are presenting here. but as tom said there are some gaps in what we are trying to achieve. we believe there is a opportunity with a program like this to really establish a ground work for what vision zero is all about. in order to do that we need to invest in a program. it is new for most people. not to us because we have been talking about it for some time and talking about pedestrian safety, but vision zero as a concept is only a year old soin order to establish that in peoples minds especially the broader public we need to really tell them about it. and
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so this is a little bit about why we might do that. basically we want people to understand what wree talking about and be aware of it and we want them to think and act differently about it, so we need them to get into their heads that safety is truly a concern on our streets. we need them to think the outcome of what is happening today actually can be different. this can be more than just accidents happen and really about collisions not resulting in death on our streets and we need them to get involved. we ned team the actually commit that they with do something about it. in order to get to that we need to create a program that helps them get there and we think education is one of the best ways tochieve
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that. there is education and communication strategy that will come brf you in may so you will get the bigger picture of it, but we have fwig dollar figures-i can go back, tom? so in order to create the program we need to actually staff it. we need someone who can focus their time and energy to build a program that can work. a program that has a xhineication element to and education element as wem the out reach component that gets people out in the field and in the streets qu w the community group and school district and with the audience so they can engage. we also need to develop the campaign itself. we need the creative professionally developed campaign that gets people attention and that is the next line there. the key is really developing-really
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gaining some ability to break through the market and have paid or donated broadcast print out door advertising. we have some capability to do that and have seen us do it in the past, but we believe there sooopportunity to break through by investing in some of the paid advertising. we want to develop a wonderful piece of creative and make sure it is placed and out there. we the safe routes to seniors i think you heard that mentioned in other meetings, we want to maketia we take advantage of opportunities to get out there and do those grass routes programs. this one is similar to a program that is being handled in new york and think there is a opportunity to do that here as wellment. toggling back to some campaigns that you may have seen before.
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i think we all remember some of these real game changer break through campaigns oftuate this what this can could look like and believe vision zero has the ability to do what the previous campaigns going back to the 80's and 70's have done. a mind is a terrible thing to waste, united nig row college fund. this campaign is 40 years old, more than 40 years old and received a billion dollars in support over those years in free donated advertising and when this adcame out it wasn't common for affricern americans to go to college. this was a game changer in the way it got people to think about african americans going to college at the time and since that point, it put 350 thousand african american kids through college. another campaign we have
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probably all seen, this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs from partnership for a drug free america is a iconic campaign occurring in the 807's. it unique because it was put together through a coalition of advertising profeshs and took a very madison achb new approach to use research to figure out a way to target audiences and actually chaiv behavior by changing attitudes. these 2 campaigns, not saying we can necessarily get b but this is our aim. this is the bar that is set for us that we can shoot fl in order to get we do need to have the capability to put together the fundamentals so we can go out and argue and ask or be creative in our approach to put together psa campaigns that can be placed for free and or
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corporate social responsibility campaigns where we partner with commercial ent #25ez who may be willing to support vision zero and we think there is capability to do that. next slide, i thought i would take a moment to walk through how a campaign is put together and i know you all know this because you have done them yourselves. but in terms of creating a effective psa campaign it is similar to creating any othercome pain in that you need to start with audience research. we need to know who we are talking to and the behavior we are trying to change and look that creative and produce professional and be more creative than we were 20 and 30 years ago because wree not just talking about broadcast tv and print medium and radio medium we are talking about social and digital
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communication. we have more people on hand held devices than before and more media fragmentation than before so we need to be more creative and clever to break through in the media market that we are dealing with today. in addition to that thinking about how we place that advertising is a critical factor. can we go to the network chans of the worlds and ask them to place a tv and broadcast adlike you saw the partnership for drug free america do? yes, we can probably do that, but also niece to go to a lot more chajs than we would have preechbiously thought to get the advertising out there and need the right tifep of create v to get that out there. finally after all that we want to evaluate it and make sure it is effective. in a campaign that is lasting then 10 years like this the measures of
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evaluation will need to be even broader and more cyclical every 2 year cycle through the strategy. each of these-sorry, let me back up and say, in addition to that and you have -having a campaign manager who can focus and lead it through is critical. the sit a we do far more than in other arenas to engage the stack holder jz do outreach. it is true value in san francisco and we want to make slur we build the components to allow us to be out in the communalties communities on the day to day and make sure people understand what vision zero is about and how they incorporate it into their daily lives. i think you can see in the program there are details here and i think i made my pitch why it is
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important to invest and here to answer any questions if you any, but other than that i'll turn it back over to you tom. >> thank you mrs. sue and mr. mu grire. i think we moved a long way from be nice, look twice as a approach from 20s 14 to strong vision zero with planning and enforcement. i understand the importance orpheducation and changing the culture of speeding and reckless driveringism i did want to say that i would be more interested in the specifics on like how a safe street for seniors program would work as a vision zero coalition is proposing now. for example, how like the near term gearo boulevard. i love striping the streets with the mayor and ed riscon, but i'm
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curious on the specifics on how quickly the near term geary high injury corridor will be made safer like the scope and timeline. i see the importance of education and utilizing free and private sector contributions, but i think it can over shadow the importance of enforcement and engineering and what the vision zero coalition is strongly proposing hopefully at public comment later today >> commissioner u yee >> thanks for the reasonitation so far. there are a few things that i'll mention again i guess. education piece of this, this is the messaging and education so it is 2 different things. they are under one category,
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but there are different approaches, so-and the branding of things, i fully support that and most likely what i have seen even in new york, the massaging branding is targeted towards adults or maybe young adults and older teens and so forth so peeped would get it. because of their life experiences there is a association to that mpt part of messaging works for a certain segment and i don't know if it is all mssaging is age appropriate for younger folks, children and so forth, so then the education piece of it becomes even more important rather than just messaging. vision zero to a 5 year old may
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not mean too much in itself because they haven't that much experience with what you are talking about. with the education piece i'm always looking at things from what is appropriate for that age category and it won't be one size fits all for everyone. a couple things that i have been trying to push maybe more age appropriate fl younger kids and i'm going to continue pushing it and i haven't asked so it isn't in the discussion yet whether or not we should add these things i have been pushing for the last few years into the overall vision zero sort of approach. the 2 things i'm roughering to and mention today my colleagues in different situations would be
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the crossing guard program that we created a pilot program, 3 schools have a implemented in san francisco and this is really successful. i went out and spoke about it to elementary school teachers. this is targeting mostly 5th graders to be part of the student crossing guard programs. it is isn't just the children that is [inaudible] there are other students that see if and the discussion happens and not only that the parents, for instance [inaudible] when they had their program first put out the parents and other drivers that were dropping off and picking up, were not obeying laws and once we started to program the police officers were out there. all they did is give 2 tickets and they probably could have
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given a lot more, but after 2 tickets everyone in the community heard about it and their diving behavior changed. i spoke to elementary school principles and now there are 24 other schools that want to do this throughout the city. they are spread throughout [inaudible] actually i think 12 of them are coming from district 1. i would like to see not only myself [inaudible] we need more money for this, but it should be part of vision zero. associateative of that, several people saw this. i brought up a movie set thing from la and it is called richies neighborhood and the research has shone it is really effective for kindergarten and 1 and 2 grade. when they go
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through street set in conjunction with this game, it is a video game, the learning curve-the younger you are you have to do stuff, you can't just have a branding thing, they need to experience-the car all most hit me! they have these fake cars coming out from a drive way and they duck them and so forth. i have been trying to gets support around that. i think it is effective. maybe if there haven't been enough exposure in terms of the value in that education piece with vision zero coalition we need to have that discussion. i would love to be supportive of that program. i'm sure other people have been doing other things about education and we need tobring into discussion. that is about 250 thousand just to build it. the
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last thing i want to--is it okay? one more thing. page 26, the progress roret for mayors and supervisors on projects. i noticed you didn't have any of the 9 projects that i had got funding for for district 7. i don't know why it isn't in there. is there a reason? it was a adback and did it for par ticipatory budgeting. last years fiscal year we approved 9 projucts and they are on their
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way. >> that actually is a topic we'll ask in the presentation >> okay, before we get there i have commissioner wiener and mar back on the roster. commissioner wiener. >> thank you madam chair. i have a general question, but it relates to a specific project that i don't know if you recall a part of vision zero, but it is a on going project , the diamond and becauseworth project. i want to thank you for breaking out prop b funding for those that fought hard to get prop b passed it is nice for the public to see through the tangible result of a vote that they cast and i appreciate that you guys have-at the agency acted so quickly and identified the use for prop b. the next step beyond
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identifying how the funds are spent is make sure the project is delivered and the funds are effect chbly spent andancy is properly communicating with the community. those are the 3 goals and unfortunately in the diamond and baus worth project the agency failed in all 3 in my opinion. in 2003 the late concongressman tom rantoes who i think passed away all most a decade ago, at the begin ogthf term my predecessor [inaudible] a tained a 3 million [inaudible] for diamond and bos worth intersection which is a mess formany reasons and needs a lot of help, that money basically sat there for 8 or 9 years. we were concerned that we were going lose the ear mark
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and the fact it was a ear mark also dates in terms of how long ago we got the money. in 2012 when we adopted the glen park plan and insisted the agency move forward and fish it intersection. we then move today the project that is [inaudible] takes the cake. the fact that from-the begin thofg planning process to now in the middle of construction it is taking lodger than cast rostreet ren ovation which is a larger and complicated project. the communication with the community is awful by the agency. i know i expressed this to you. i have spoken to mr. ristcon 2 or 3 times in the
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last couple years t. is hard for my office to get information letd alone the community. it is a 3 million dollar ear mark which is a lot of money and there was supposed to be money left over at the end so we can signalize ajaistant intersections. we are told there is no money for those intersections and we found out the other day-there is never unanimous agreement on any project, but the one asspect of the project where there was 100 percent agreement is there are less tern signals and we just learned that is not in the project. you can probably tell i am enormously frustrated as are many of my constituents. it undermines confidence of the public when things like this happen and the
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entire process. when we talk about having important projects that save lives and wanted to get thevl them delivered effectively and being in communication with the public and delivering in the most cost effective way, this project really undermines my confidence and i just really as we are talking about this it isn't theoretical. it is a real thing happening in my district and the neighborhood i represent with people that deal with this every day and feel theancy isn't meeting the needs sthf community. i want to put that out there for you. i'm very frustrated right now and i would like to know what the agency is going to do to make this better. >> i think first of all let me just say i know that is a really frustrating project for you and staff and we