talk about the funding and the money, so as you heard in the tv segment that norman yee got a lot of money, cost a ton of money, but how much does it cost, you know, when norman presented to me he loaded some money i loaded -- he sent some money over the school district which we loaded into an account and figured out how to do this and that was my part of it. we -- our initial thought was to go with existing staff, like who are these people, the difference between our crossing guards and mta is the sfmta crossing guards are employees of the city of san francisco, our crossing guards are [inaudible] or noontime monitors who are being extended hours after school, so they're getting that extended hourly rate. and generally we're

estimating that annual rate for ten months of operation of a school year is about 14 thousand dollars per school, that's an estimate of what we've spent. you notice that the l.a. street smarts program we did pay for them to come up here from l.a. and to set it up at lakeshore and to do that. norman's proposal was to have one built ourselves. we're going to build one up here, it costs 12 thousand dollars to move it up here and to drive it into the city i wanted to say that also has been an expense, but other than that, those are the money behind some of the expenditures and i just wanted to end on that part of it. it has been kind of ambiguous because we've been starting at one school and we added lakeshore and the staff participate ining the program, they may have one adult after

school two adults after school, four adults after school after we work the kinks out we'll come up with the parameters, we had noontime people that were not getting paid very much, and we you started with the money and we fixed these problems along the way, that concludes our presentation. i really want to extend my thank you to sal and to the sac for their leadership in stepping up and also to principal greg john and sfpd for being great partners chief sir, the moment i called him at the beginning and norman reached out to them, they're 100% behind the program, it was a great partnership and we have a couple of student comments that we're going to speak as part of public comment. >> hello my name is [inaudible] quan, i'm a student at galileo high school, i want to talk about

the importance of education of elementary students motor vehicle accident iss a very real and present danger, we can't change the way people drive we have to make sure youth practice as much caution when crossing the streets, parents do not always educate their kids about traffic safety, they carry it to middle school, high school, even daily life -- base ki *fically i can still remember when i was being taught by my teachers and parents of traffic safety, this is an important thing that everybody should learn and practice caution as much as possible l.a. street smarts, everything we can do to educate these elementary school student we're trying to create a culture of safety for our students, to cross the streets, to make it as safe as possible in a very dangerous environment.

thank you. >> hi, again my name is jessica eng and i'm a student at lowell high school, during this past school year, i witnessed the implementation of the crossing guard program at lakeshore elementary school. this is because my school is primarily close to lowell high school, that was a really cool part of that this year to see that being implemented and as an elementary school student at alamo elementary school, we had a similar program to this crossing guard safety program and i want to share some of the insight i learned with this program. as -- i was being mentored by other students on the safety protocols of crossing the street i was impacted greatly with my own safety. these mentors taught me how to be vigilant at every crosswalk and look out for myself when

crossing at a major intersection some of if rules were like look left, look right, look left again and then cross some other ones was never use your phone when you're crossing the street, never look down when you're crossing, these are very pornts even now today. these lessons have been instilled within me for a while now and as a result, i have gained a good pedestrian habit, after going through this program and then having the chance to mentor other students at my school in this program i have -- i highly support the intentions behind the sac's program for the crossing guards safety. thank you. >> thank you, jessica. >> good afternoon, my name's liam and i'm from submission high school. >> what school are you from? >> mission high school. >> i want to make sure people

heard. go for it. >> thank you. so, as a youth leader in the curriculum committee we order equipment set up appointments facilitate programs and check out school sites for the crossing guard program, and pedestrian safety is extremely important to me and my peers because learning pedestrian safety benefits the entire community, especially because a lot of students walk and take muni to school, learning pedestrian safety benefits students by teaching them team work, leadership and safety awareness, our schools benefit because it gives them the opportunity to promote character building traffic safety awareness and, yeah. so, these skills are like sarah said, these schools will carry on throughout their school year x the rest of their lives and pedestrian safety is a crucial lesson to

teaches at a young age because it benefits everyone to have a safe environment thank you for taking the time to listen to me. >> so, are we done? thank you. commissioner fewer? >> thank you, supervisor yee, supervisor yee, i just want to say thank you for giving this gift to our schools and for our students and for our whole community. i think i had an opportunity to come out and watch it in action at lakeshore and i was completely impressed and not only do i think it's a leadership program for our students but actually the way the students even tell parents, have a good day after they take their child from the car and escort them to the yard is such a pleasant thing i think a way to start your day. having had three children in had this sdrigt the pick up

and drop off is hobble, san francisco residency has grown by 10 thousand new residents every year that we're seeing an increase in traffic too, so this increase in traffic awareness of pedestrian safety i think is really important. another thing that i noticed at around the school sites is the increased visibility ability students walking to and from schools because of the vest in front of the cones and everything set up that i think drivers also are much more aware that students are crossing and even though we have done things such as the yellow crosswalks, but it gives much more visibility to drivers because there are students standing there with their vests and then i had one question is i think what i also want to say, as a parent, i know how it is when there's a drop and a pick up and

very narrow streets and parents drop off their kids on the opposite side of the street and run across, as a pta president i went out there a couple of times and asked parent and is they were very hostile and threatening so i feel like school staff when i spoke to them, they said parents can be very threatening and hostile and mad so i think it's great that sfpd was there because as having had a husband who retired as a mote cyclist, the power that we press hard is a good deterrent for them to be listening actually because it's hard for school sites on their own to regulate this sort of traffic flow because sometimes people get very irate and then i'm asking, is there a collaboration between

other city departments in evaluating how safe some of our intersections are to and from school, with this increased traffic and increased residency in san francisco, while they're doing this assessment, is there a way to look at certain intersections which maybe have not been noticed or earmarked for being much more higher traffic or having much more -- i mean, during these drop off and pick-up times that it requires maybe a stoplight instead of just a stop sign or, you know, a regular arterial, so i'm wondering, is there a coordination with that, is there some way to track sort of with sfpd too so in intersections when we mentioned in soma, we have a lot of increased traffic there and more kids and walking to school on intersections there, are we coordinating at all with the folks that actually

do the evaluations about what type of arterial should be at our intersections? >> i will try to answer as best i can, it's usually departments, in this case, sfmta that might be answering this question we didn't necessarily ask them to come to this particular hearing, but as a supervisor and supervisor kim, both of us are very involved with vision vao*er row and both of us are involved with our own districts in terms of working with the community and identifying these type of -- these arterials or these streets, intersection and so forth to see what we can work on and prioritize it. the -- sometimes the city will have their plan, a bigger plan, especially under vision zero that will hit certain

streets that basically have the highest incidents of accidents 6% of our streets harbor 60% of the accidents occur, but it doesn't mean we should ignore the smaller street and is that's where the community can really give a lot of input. by the way, i know that maybe no one has been killed here yet but look what's happening every day at some point that's going to happen, so we do ask for these things. it's a little slow, but i think it's improved quite a bit. i, for instance in district 7, we have 12 projects that probably wouldn't have happened and they're not completed yet but they're starting because of the participatory budget process i'm using to allow for the community to identify these

issues so i don't know if supervisor kim would have any other comments about that, but that's where we're at. >> thank you, supervisor yee, i am particularly thinking in the area of supervisor kim's district, even though she have a lot of schools but the areas where we typically didn't have a lot of traffic before but now we have so much development going on that there is an increased traffic, i know when i had spoken to mta they said if so many people get killed or hit at the intersection but we're trying to be preventive versus reactive, right, so i just thought if we're doing an analysis, i mean, we're doing this looking at traffic safety around schools, that maybe we can be more proactive in giving some recommendation saying wait a minute, a stop sign is not doing it here any longer i think we're going to need a stop light so i think supervisor kim, in your area, you've seen an increase in development, is anything going on around those school sites

to increase the safety at those really busy intersections now? >> yes. if i can answer the question we're doing a study with sfmta that is already largely funded although we're looking for augmented funding for a traffic study around bessie car mike l and [inaudible] elementary school, so we're looking at what types of interventions and protections we can do in that area because the speeds are very high there, given that it is an onramp and off ramp for the 101 and 80 freeway and they come racing down 7th street and of course down harrison street as well, we're looking at some pedestrian safety improvements on sherman alley, for example, but we're also looking to see what we can do on folsom and 7th, a couple of suggestions we're exploring, we've seen that in other cities they've painted the crosswalks with colorful drawings and so even thinking

about painting families and kids to remind drivers that they're in a residential neighborhood, also shortly in a couple of months, we'll be launching a pedestrian safety banner just throughout the south of market that will have signs showing pictures of our youth and our seniors saying that we live here, to please slow down and we're hoping that will also create greater awareness amongst driver that is are coming through the city that may not realize that these are mixed use residential neighborhoods, we're trying to figure out how to create visual queues around bessie i don't think drivers realize that is a public elementary school, we know tenderloin alumni school is trying to slow down the traffic on van ness, we have not moved as far along in that area. it is challenge improving pedestrian safety and neighborhoods that aren't more residential and that's something we've been working

with sfmta on but the bessie community is very involved, the community based organizations as well as the principal. >> thank you. >> commissioner mendoza? >> thank you. i just wanted to thank everyone also for all of this great work, supervisor yee, when you first brought this to our attention and we launched it at lakeshore, it was just really cool to see richie's neighborhood and the work that goes into developing this whole program. i just had -- i also just wanted to recognize the youth leaders. i think the idea that you guys are thinking about this and finding ways to help us implement really matters and i hope you stick to this even once you graduate. i wanted to know how other schools can participate. i know as you're kind of growing the program and finding additional resources,

i had mentioned it to a parent today and they said, oh my god we would love this at pobody how do i find out, i wonder how other schools can find out and how they can participate and i'm curious how you're working with vision zero and folks with mta and that's another opportunity to raise some dollars for this, thank you. >> i'll give a quick answer to the first question and then maybe sal can expand on it. but i went to the elementary school principal's meetings a few months ago and it was one way where i outreached because all the elementary school principals were there in three sections so i went to all three sections to just mention the program and fortunately in each section, we had already three schools ta were participating each section had one of the principals so

they spoke up about it and from that discussion, 24 schools were interested and sal's been following up with the schools and that's where we're sort of rolling it out but i think there's probably other mechanisms, i talked to -- whi meet pt folk, sometimes the motivation can come from them than the principal, you have to have all the ingredients to have some participation. sal do you have any -- >> thank you, supervisor. the easiest way to get enrolled in the program is to call me directly or e-mail me directly, that would be the easiest way. i welcome any opportunity obviously there's a fiscal issue to be concerned, i can't overenroll schools if i can't officially fund the staff and order the equipment and whatever needs to be done.

as the supervisor mentioned, we had an opportunity to meet with the principals meeting and we introduced the program there a lot of principals showed interest given the budget that we are working with, we estimated about 12 schools should be sufficiently safe to endorse and enroll, so if a school does drop out we would have another slot open and it's on a first come first serve basis at the time being, but if this pilot program expands, we'll be able to fund most of the schools and at least that's the goal for the supervisorial school representatives because safety is key. >> excellent, thank you. >> so, the other questions that you had. >> can i make this other comment before you answer that one real quick because i thought about something else. so, the other thing you might consider is with the mayor's office is working with supervisor farrell on the shared school yards project

and we now have 25 schools across the school district and we're going to be expanding on that soon, but there's opportunities. there were the schools can tap into $2,500 to host an event on the weekend on their schoolyard, so as you're starting to develop the curriculum for this or any other kind of workshop or safety mechanism that can get displayed on a schoolyard that you can take advantage of those resources and so the school that is are participating, they should be remined they have access to those dollars, that can help to promote this initiative. and then on the vision zero? >> yes, i was just going to say that, first of all, safe routes to school is another mechanism where safety is talked about and is part of the vision zero efforts, and

since it's under the same department, there should be communication. they were a little surprised when we first rolled out this program and that's the people that were connecting them said what is this, and i said it's under the school district and maybe there should be some discussion internally, but vision sower row, we have our education component in which several times i have urged and made sure that they knew -- the whole committee would know about the effort that we're making that's connected to education and back and forth so there's discussions around this. it's not necessarily include as one of their highlighted strategies but it's certainly in the discussion. >> yeah. and the district just adopted

a support mechanism for vision sao*er rho, so i hope sal, you and ben have connected and are having discussions around that because this feeds into your intentions. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you. i want to thank everybody, but and particularly my colliding because i wanted to follow up on two of the things that particularly commissioner fewer talked about so my kids actually went to lakeshore and i was [inaudible] two of the things you brought up the habit of having people park on the other side of the street, it's just really obvious there and then having their kids run across the street, we've had kids hit by cars there years ago even when my kids were there and on middle field and lake merced boulevard which is the entrance and exit into that neighborhood from the

big traffic boulevard, there used to be a stop sign. when my kids first went there where now there's a light there wasn't anything there not even a stop sign. at that time when we tried to get a light there they said, well, we can't put a light anywhere unpleasing somebody gets killed, so i said we're going to wait for an elementary kid get killed and then we'll get a light, there were some accidents at that intersection and i wants to remind all of us i think it was at our last meeting or recently, we discussed the municipal railway services and how we had finally after decades been able to get the muni to change their afternoon schedules so that there were more frequent buses for kids going home and not -- and in fact that had always been a point of contention with older people particularly riding

buses in the afternoon that the buses just became flooded with students coming home from school so i think my point is that a lot -- clearly from everything we heard today, this is a really important thing to do pedestrian safety becomes more important to us as the city is more congested and also frankly, remember that we have drawn down our school bus system so much this tha* we have a lot more kids walking and taking the public transportation system and we need to worry about their safety on the streets much more so it seems to me that what we need, what we need, kind of the policy makers is to have an overview or coordinated look at all the things in this case that are looking at pedestrian safety near schools. i noticed that -- and then the second thing is that the discussion about the schools in district 6 and the schools that are in highly congested urbanized areas are not on

this list and those are the hardest places to do these things so for me the question that comes up is well, what are the actual mta crossing guards, what other things are going on there and how could a program like this or other things that we could do to enhance pedestrian safety around our elementary schools in particular, but all of our schools come to mind. we all should remember that recently we had -- when we heard about the student who was an aptha student that was killed by a bus recently and i went there too, i said, my god it was on ocean avenue because everybody thought, that's a death trap, somebody's going to get killed there and always there were school district administrators and teachers and lots of staff people going down there all the time because it's really a hard place for kids to get on and off of the streetcar line

there, and that isn't true it was in that neighborhood, i appreciate that, and i know that the staff spends a lot of time trying to manage that particular place but i'm using this just as an example because around galileo and mission, these places are on major, not only transportation corridors but where there are high levels of traffic, so i realized through this discussion which i truly appreciate this program and i appreciate sao*upt john's referral to the big high traffic streets that surround his campus but have these little streets at the back that are used for access because i just realize that we -- i would like to see more of a kind of coordinated somebody's report looking at -- and i mean multiagency

with the mta and the municipal railway and us everybody looking at all the things we do to try to ensure pedestrian traffic and by the way, also safe routes to the school was mentioned and we'd like to get more kids to bike to school, so the need for paying attention to or investing in human resources and other resource tos address safety around our schools becomes much more important than it used to be and in fact i'll just end by saying again, i'm certainly aware that in part this problem is a bigger problem because we're not sending kids on yellow buses so much anymore. i would like to -- somebody the staff or others to come back to us with some idea about how we can have a coordinated look at all the thing that is are going on around safety around schools and around the street safety, pedestrian and egress and access to those places because it's a big issue and i appreciate that we're doing

these things about it but i know there's a lot more we can do. thank you. >> supervisor kim? >> i realize there's still a member of the public that wanted to speak so i'll go after. >> so there's somebody here, gero. >> hi, good eve anyones members of the board and commissioners, i'm genaro [inaudible] coordinator, through walk san francisco and the safe house to san francisco partnership i work to make our street ins san francisco safer and more walkable. i think it's great that this program is engaging students that it's a fostering mentor ship and team work, i also think it's great that there's research where and when the program can be feasible it was mentioned, soma, i know there's also very limited funbacker funding when it comes to schools. i think it's really important we are maybe work witching the safe house to school partners

to discuss these issue it would be greats if we align our programs with the crossing guard program, we want to make sure the perimeter of the school is safe. i think if we're putting kids out there i think we need to make sure that that immediate environment is actually safe. another thing that as a san francisco safe house to school partnership, we're a coalition of agencies city departments including sfusd the mta who work on reducing single family vehicle trip tos school and promoting walk, bicycling and because of the transportation assignment policy, car pooling and transportation, oncebacker one thing we noticed from the safety drop off zones tla was the areas where it was really dangerous when a safety drop off zone is established it seems to promote driving so i think that's kind of the discussion that would be great to have if you who are

members of the partnership. thank you. >> thank you, any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment has closed. supervisor kim? >> thank you *. first of all, supervisor yee, i want to thank you for calling this item. it was really interesting to hear and not just from the school district but also sfpd, our students and our principal in terms of how -- what the ill pact of this program has been. i think it's so important to educate our students on pedestrian safety, that it is a big part of us achieving vision zero, 0 traffic faye tat ts and not only for our young people to understand how to make our streets safer both as a pedestrian and as a driver but these students are our future adult resident they are our future drivers so instilling that culture early on i think is incredibly important and i just want to note also, you know, in many ways, kids help pus