>> good afternoon. it is 1:03 p.m. this is the regular meeting of the commission on community investment and infrastructure. the successor agency commission for the san francisco redevelopment agency for tuesday

may 17th, 201. welcome members of the public. please call the first items. >> the first item of business is item one, roll call. commissioners please respond. descriptioner pimentel is absent. commissioner bustos is absent. missioner singh. >> here. >> vice chair mondejar. >> here. >> chairperson rosales. >> here. >> the next order of business is item two, announcements. a, the next regularly scheduled meeting will be june 7th, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at city hall room 416. b, announcements of prohibition of souped producing electronic devices during the meeting. please be advised the ring and use of cellphones, pagers and similarly sound producing

electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of cellphone, pager or a similarly sound producing electronic device. c, time alotment for public comments. please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make comments on each agenda item unless the commission adopts a shorter period on any item. it's recommend the members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and give to the commission secretary. the next item of business is item three. there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is item four. matters of unfinished business.

there are no matters of unfinished business. the next order of business is item five. items of new business of consent and regular agenda. first the consent agenda. 5a. approval of meeting minutes of april 19th, and 5b, a fourth amendment for the personal service contract for building maintenance company, a sole proprietor ship to extend a term up to 12 months to june 30th, 2017. increase the amount up to $20,540 for an aggregate contract amount not to exceed $39,540 to fulfill property management obligations for shore view park consistent with the successor agency property management under redevelopment disillusion law. former hunters point project

area action resolution number 202016. madam chair. >> thank you, madam secretary. before we entertain the consent agenda can you let me know if we have speaker cards. >> i do not have speaker cards. >> okay the record will reflect comicser pimentel has joined us. any comments or questions on the two items on the consent agenda, commissioners? >> not from me. >> i will move to approve. >> thank you. commissioner mondejar has moved the consent calendar. >> i second. that. >> commissioner singh has second thafpltd. >> call the roll. >> commissioner pimentel. >> yes. commissioner bustos absent. commissioner singh. >> yes. >> vice chair mondejar.

>> yes. >> madam chair rosales. >> yes. >> consent agenda is approved. please call the next item. >> the next order of business is regular agenda item 5c. august rising an option to ground lease agreement with 1300 fourth street other associates, a california limited partnership for construction of 143 units including one managers unit. low income affordable family rental housing development at mission bay south, block six east. and adopting environmental findings pursuant to the california environmental quality act. project area discussion in action, resolution 21, 2016. madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary.

good afternoon to the commission and members of the public thank you for joining us. commissioners you have previously approved the select of tender lion development corporation for the development of this site last year and the schematic design. we move forward to construction there are a few steps to get there. this is a new requirement of the tax credit allocation committee to demonstrate site control. we would come back before you for the final terms of the ground lease if and the remainder of the gap financing in the next several months with. that i would like pamela sims to walk you through the background on the project and the specific terms for this option. >> thank you. i don't think the mic is on.

>> a subdued mood. >> energy conversation. >> i th-pbt think it was that serious of a issue. i didn't realize a room could be this silent. >> miguel casting his vote. >> natashia or claudia maybe you could call it or building management to assist with the lights. >> the recessed lights -- there

we go. >> here we go. thank you. >> pardon me, commission secretary, our screens are a bit small. i don't know if anything can be dub to adjust the powerpoint centerings. >> good afternoon. >> excellent. >> chairperson rosales, commissioners. i'm pamela simms. i'm here to present on item 5c. so the sponsor can demonstrate site control of mission bay south block six east to both of

california debt limitation committee and the tax credit allocation committee. >> keep going -- maybe you can. >> okay. >> a little higher will. >> then if you have questions i will answer them. okay background points for you. on september 17th, 1998, the then san francisco redevelopment agency commission approved the mission bay north and south redevelopment plans and owner participation agreements or opas they allow up to 6350 market rate housing units and 1700 affordable housing units to be developed in the mission bay area. as today 821 affordable units have been constructd in mission bay north and south. 672 in mission bay north and 149

unit at 1184 street at mission bay south. another 200 units at 588 mission bay north or block 7 west is under construction and 244 units are in predevelopment. >> a few words about how we got to this point. in may of 2014oci staff released an rfq for the development of block six east from a team comprised of a non profit housing developmenter, architect, property manager and service provider. in july 2014 the tenderloin development corporation team was selected by a inter disciplinary panel to develop block six east. then in august 20, 15, the commission condition approved the schematic design for the project.

the project summary includes 142 units of affordable rental housing plus one manager unit. 114 or 80 percent of the aoupts rented horented to households a% medium income. 29 or 20 % of units will be available to formally chronic homeless households. there will be core services and after school literacy programming to school age children in a retail space to help in the activation of the fourth street retail frontage and contribute to the service provision for resident departments. the balance of the 9730 square feet of retail space will be leased to commercial provide with the goal of benefiting the surrounding community. the project will be developed using green or sustainable

building strategy. the parking ratio is approximately .25 to 1. in compliance with the mission bay development -- design for development guidelines for 41 off street parking spaces. 34 for residents. 5 for commercial, and two car share spaces. plus there is, there is parking for 136 bicycles. this parking is in line with the city's transit first policy. also the project is one block from the mission rock muni light rail station for the t third. additionally the project received a state of california calf housing development affordable housing and sustainable communities or hcdosic award of approximately $5 million based on the lower parking ratio. also as you can see the project

again block six east is located to various neighborhood amenities including medical care, grocery, grocery shopping, banks, coffee shops and eateries. all easily accessible on foot or by bicycle. so, while a permanent financing request is coming to you this summer it's important to note the project is augmenting the oci funding with low income housing tax credits, affordable funds, tax exempt bonding and other funds. the city will provide local operating sub sid dee funds to support the units set aside for chronically homeless households. marketing, specifically marketing requirements are included in the permanent loan agreement. preference holders, the sponsor

will be required to row vied or work with a city approved access to housing organization to provide landlord tenant relations, tenant counselings and housing right sessions. rental readiness, financial and eviction prevention workshops and assistant application assistance. also the sponsor will provide the commission with a report outlining the compliance with the cops prior to the tenant selection process. now, the reason that we're here today is for your authorization for the executive director to enter into an option to ground lease to demonstrate ground control, a new requirement. the option allows staffs to negotiate the terms of the ground lease including a 75 year

term and one 24-year option. the tenant is responsible for all property taxes and assessments. the ami can go no hao*euer than 50 percent. the rent 15,000 and residual rent. tenants are responsible for maintenance. may secure any necessary loans. the tenant can only sell if sub lease can transfer to a sponsor affiliate. finally the executive director may approve a extension at the end of the term to her discretion. today the date the developer has achieved 54% small business participation for small business, exceeding the goal of 50%. the breakdown is 39 percent sbe, 4.4nbe and 11%wbe.

in march 2014th this was a proposal process and nibby was brothers was picked for the general contractor. they will have 50 percent of the sbe during the construction face. the schedule moving forward later this month the sponsor will apply for tax credits and a bond allocation this summer. we will return to commission for the gap financing requests. enter into a ground lease. late summer, early fall the project will close construction financing and construction begins. we expect construction to be completed in april 2018. that concludes staff's presentation. i would like to introduce katie and claire, the sponsors are here in the audience. we're happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you.

>> do we have any speaker cards. >> mr. james, would you like to speak on this item or just number six? okay. i don't have any speaker cards for this item. >> okay. >> commissioners any questions for staff? on this item? >> i have a question. >> commissioner singh. >> yes. >> it's going to start in the later this year? whether is going to finish it? >> construction is set to start in late august/early september. it's anticipated to be completed april 2018. >> who a side this, the leases and rent we have anything to do with that or the tenderloin does this? >> i'm --

>> who, you know select the candidate for this, who is going to go in. >> into the retail spaces ? >> yes. >> that will be the responsibility of tndc. >> we have nothing to do with that? >> actually the sponsor will let us know who they are negotiating with. ask us to comply with the mission bay policies. >> huh-uh. okay. thank you. >> i think the question might be more on residents. >> yes. >> not -- >> the marketing will be completed per our marketing guidelines. they will adhere to all of the new requirements that we have in our loan agreements. they will do early outreach to the certificate of prefrps holders. they will be doing as -- i said rental readiness. application preparation.

they will do a lot of outreach to the certificate of preference holders in addition to the community, the community in general. >> okay. thank you. >> huh-uh. >> any other questions? >> yes. >> commissioner pimentel. >> slide five it talks about the school program. do you know how they will decide in terms of priority of those living in the units get priority for the after school program and then the surrounding areas? >> thank you, commissioner. the after school program 826 valencia will offer the priority is for the residents. if in fact there is additional space in the programming that will then be offered to the wider community. >> how will you decide which part of the wider community will get a spot in the after school program? >> it will be offered to the mission bay community.

our affordable housing developments and the surrounding area. so, it will be geared towards our families who live in our supportive housing developments. >> what type of programming will the children learn? >> well, it's after school literacy program. so, they're -- it's a great concept. they're encouraged to be very creative. it's a pirate theme and to tap no their inner child and to just write. be very express sieve. everyone is excited about the program. >> and do you happen to know how many families moving no the developments have children? >> actually we anticipate because approximately two-thirds of our units are two and three bedrooms. we expect quite a few of the households to have children.

at least two, two-thirds of the households. >> thank you. >> huh-uh. >> commissioner mondejar? >> okay. first of all, thank you for your presentation. love the site amenities. gives you a picture of what is going on in the neighborhood. i have a couple of questions. where was i? slide five, you said the balance of the retail space will be leased to commercial providers. do you have an idea yet of the commercial providers? >> i can call -- >> the industries. >> i can call the developer up to see if they have ideas for you. >> that would be tkpraoet. great. >> hi, my name is katie lamont. thank you for the opportunity to be here.

so, we have not done a lot of deep thinking yet about the preparing ourselves for the commercial leasing. we designed the space as discussed previous ly one space will accommodate the literacy program and a retail frontage. the other end of the building's retail is to accommodate a restaurant looking out to mission bay boulevard. we believe that will be nice with a opportunity for outdoor seating. then the spaces between. you know we, we lease property throughout tenderloin and these areas of the mission. our peer mercy housing leased their frontage further down fourth street. we will build on our experience in our other developments and mercy's experience in that development. we will work with. i don't remember her name exactly there is a woman we worked with our initial conceptual proposal. to get a good sense what the

market is there and the community needs to fill out the shopping area. i. >> all of the critical amenities that people need and rely on their day to day lives. ideally they would be able to walk to them. that's as far as we have gotten. >> if you have suggestioned we're open to you receiving them or future opportunities when we interact. >> the commercial providers are being considered. >> i'm not sure of a prescribed check point. we check in often. i imagine there is a opportunity. >> through the chair we can keep you updated on the status. fourth street is a small, it's a small scale street. it's really the residential commercial core, the primary use.

certainly mission bay north is built out. really in the core of mission bay south where this is, i think as you can see in the amenities map and walking down there, there are holes that we would seek to fill. we would work with our development partners to make sure it's meeting the community's needs. >> one other question -- thank you. let me go back. aside from the hospitals where there are pharmacies. there are no other pharmacies in the site amenities list unless you go to kaiser aor usf -- >> and or safeway. >> you're right. thank you. i didn't realize there is a farmers market at ucsf. is that every week. >> yes saturdays. >> i will check it out. >> one other question on-site parking spaces. >> yes. >> five is for commercial.

can you explain what that means. >> for the commercial tenants. >> okay. >> this is the spot. >> and this car share -- >> two are car share and 34 for the rents r*es dents. >> this is leased to like zip car or car share -- >> yes. >> okay. i wanted to clarify that. thank you. >> thank you. >> i have a question on construction. we -- can you tell me the developments under construction in this general area. i lose track of the developments. >> this is the next one up. after that it will be block 3 east. that is the development for 50 percent veterans. and then the balance are families. that will be coming on-line, or

anticipated construction i believe in six to nine months. on 2017. >> okay. this one we have heard plenty of i wouldn't say complaints but concerns about traffic congestions. i want to think about besides understanding the traffic and amenities map but the traffic and congestion map. okay, you have more. >> in general there are a number of commercial projects understand construction the next couple of years. the golden state warriors, alexandria and uber and other commercial construction projects. the city is working with us, the department of public works, the mayor's office to convene a a construction coordinating

committee for mission bay. we're in the information gathering phase of figuring out when everyone will start and the phase they will be in to coordinate. it's definitely on our radar this will have a impact on the community and we want to share information as much as possible. >> excellent. that's good news. >> i have raised this before. i will put it on the record. i don't believe anyone from nibby brothers is here. i understand they're a excellent company. i think they're one of the privileged few apparently that keep getting the jobs. i know we're looking at issues of expanding the pool of general contractors. i guess one question i have is how many other contracts or projects is nibby working on in mission bay at the same time? can someone give me a sense of their portfolio?

>> george pwreupbz contract compliance specialist. commissioners, i don't think currently nibby has any projects. they completed 13 west. they will work on 6 east and 3 east. which is the china town project. >> okay. >> that should start w*t within the next nine to twelve months. >> most recent selection. >> yes. other than that just the southeast we have the hunters view, jb with kay hill on alex griffith and that's a joint venture with the baines group. >> okay. commissioner singh, yes.

>> there is 34 parking. who get those? >> thank you, commissioner. the parking spaces are offered through lottery. so the spaces will go to who ever, much like the units. who ever comes up in the lottery. they will be offered the spaces first. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> can i add to. that they're affordable fees? >> no extra parking fees. >> oh, there is none? >> whatever the unit they have -- that's good to know. >> i do have a suggestion for -- the site amenities. >> is your mic on, commissioner? >> for some reason -- >> hello. thank you.

there are two dog grooming facilities but none for people like a barber for hair. [laughing] >> i was wondering maybe that's something that can be considered. there is a dental spa. maybe -- there is a gym for the ucsf staff. maybe a gym or mens and womens sa lolling sing evewomens salon services. maybe. the community is growing. >> thank you. any other questions. any commissioner like to make a motion? >> i move to approve. >> commissioner mondeyear has moved. commissioner pimentel has second it. call the roll. >> commissioner pimentel.

>> yes. >> commissioner bustos is absent. commissioner singh. >> yes. >> vice chair mondejar. >> yes. >> madam chair roseles. >> yes. >> madam chair, i have four is and one absent. >> thank you, the item has passed. please call the next item. >> the next order of business is agenda item 5d. authorizing the sixth amendment to grant agreement number 07-49-0947 and the fourth amendment to the grant agreement 0947--- 113 from the u.s. department of commerce economic development administration for implementation of an art and technology district in the hunter's point shipyard redevelopment area. hunter's point shipyard project

area discussion and action resolution 22, 2016. madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary. commissioners as you know we have received through the federal economic development administration, the leadership of leader palosi. over the last decade $15 million in federal grants for a arts and technology district at the shipyard. it's been a long time coming since properties have transferred causing delays over the decade plus of having the grants. we have reskoebd to accommodate navy timing and sharpen our pencils to address the community needs. before you is a grant authorization for a rescope. it's being presepped by j. jennifer the shippard can't will stick manager somewhere. >> thank you, good afternoon and thank you for the introduction.

i want toe walk through the basics of kpwrapbt amendment and talk about the reason for the meeting to day. during the course of the presentation i will provide an over view of the eda grant. summarize the purpose, the amount of funds we received. what we have expended. what is remaining and talk about the two aspects of the amendment to the grant. our current approval status and then how we intend to use the grant going forward. so to date since 2003, we have received five grants from the department of commerce totaling 15.5 million approximately. kpwrapbts 1-3 have been used for shipyard related activities. grants four and five are

partially expended but grants remain. the purpose of eda giving us the grant is to promote the shipyard arts and technology district. specifically for planning, desaoeup and construction ideas for either open space or buildings in that district. our request today specifically is to authorize the executive director to accept the extension of the grant. the eda has authorized and repurposing of the grant funds from what is currently building 813 to building 101 on the shipyard. so just to give a context. can i use this mic instead? >> oh -- >> the context you can see pointing out the site. this is the area near the hill top at the base of the hill. the arts and technology depot district. and these are the various

facilities. the second bullet point which points to the new and existing arts studios and plazas building 101 is just below that bullet point dot there and the planned new artist studio replacement building is just above it down here at the bottom is where the new commercial kitchen is under construction. just for reference building here in the blue to the left. within the dda phase two there are obligations related to the arts and technology go district. a, to prevent building 101. b, construct a new artist studio replacement building. c, construct a new commercial kitchen. d, improve land for future art center. the artist enclave on the shipyard is reportedly the largest on the western seaboard.

roughly 300 as of now. the art enclave has been promoted and preserved to the shipyard redevelopment plan. within the shippard arts and technology district, a corelment is the shipyard arts complex at the center. the four billions within the complex are all going to be future assets to the city of san francisco. we will talk more about that in a moment. the key staked homers, our partners is the cac and shipyard trust for the arts. we have folks today here from star. so the grant amendment. in jan we did receive approval from the oversight board to accept the continued use of the grant funds. the department of finance authorized and we received a letter of approval from the eda in april. we're here today to just kind of, for your consideration. we can move forward with the

approval of continuing to accept the funds. this chart provides kind of a summary of funds extended to date. our local match funds involved in the eda grant and remaining funds we would use going forward. there are currently five million one hundred fifty five thousand dollars left from the grant and the local match is five hundred thousand dollars approximately. so initially the remaining funds from eda grant number four and five were going to be used for renovations upgrades to building 813. the transfer of navy parcel d2 was significantly delayed. we got the property in november. in the interim we made the request to transfer the remaining funds from 813 to building 101. which we own and can easily

accommodate the renovations in a reasonable amount of time. we do have a grant deadline issue. the eda did kpwrapbt us reallocating the funds from 813 to 101. a little bit about building 101. we would transfer the funds to use for that renovation. the status of the property has been occupied by artists for many decades. a two-story building built in 1947. lots of improvements need to be made to the building. it's approximately 120th thousan120,000square feet and 1t studios in the building currently. in 2009 we had ventura partners do a property assessment. they identified about $10 million of rehab that needed to be done. we allocated an earlier grant,

grant number two, million two* million dollars for renovation of the building at that time. it was a partial upgrade or renovation. there is about $8 million of work that needs to be done. would would like to take the remaining $5 million to do additional portion that had work. we haven't been in contact with the cac about the plans to use the remaining funds for building 101. we had a meeting in -- presented this concept to the executive committee and it was responded to favorably. we met with the shipyard artist. most recently the 13th of jan to present the concept of funds used and prioritized. in general there is a need for fire alarm and fire system replacement in the building. there is a need to address fire and life safety issues.

so, in addition to the priorities we asked the arts community what was most important to address in the building. the input was we're not focused on an artist lounge but it would be great to have an elevator and address the ventilation system. we have added that to the scope and to under take with the five million dollars. so, the plan with the remaining grant funds has been to work out an agreement with the san francisco public works. realizing the public works does most of the maintenance of city facilities. this will become a city asset. we thought that public works having familiarity with the building is a smart approach. we have been in negotiation with them. member wrapped dumb of agreement and understanding.

close to having a deal. both sides understand a five million dollar budget and there is nowhere to go for additional funds. as i said fire protection, life safety is a high priority and changing to a multi purpose functional room. if funds are available for the elevator and ventilation and those items. we expect to have the memorandum of agreement wrapped up during the summer and be back in front of you for consideration of the agreement, the scope and so on. today is really focused on the accepting the grant and understanding there is a local match involved and being able to move forward. give that the eda authorized us in april to be responsive with the 30-day period. that's why we're before to you day. to say the fact that this will

be a city asset and that the public works folks are the entity to under take this work. all consistent with the long range property management plan. a plan diagram with the concept for reinventing the auditorium into a multi purpose room. you have probably seen these drawings before. and to recap like i said this is about reauthorizing the grant and shifting funds from building 813 to 101. the eda has already authorized that. there after once we move forward from today we finalize the agreement with the public works folks. come back to commission with that a tkwroeplt for your consideration. and there after we will prepare designs and get approval for

construction of the renovations we have outlined today. with that i thank you for your time and i will take any questions you may have. >> thank you. we need to first see if there are speaker cards. >> i do have two speakers. >> okay the speaker cards first, yes. >> ms. marti mcgee and karen slater. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm marti mcgee the president of shipyard trust for the arts. i would like to thank executive director tiffany and her staff for the commitment and work they have put into trying to repurpose this grant money i'm sure nobody wants to see go away. we were happy to see it come towards building 101. the life safety and accessibility issues are extremely important. i don't have to tell you.

that what i want you to know is that the shipyard today, we have a number of people with mobility issues, we have an aging population having a harder and harder time with stairs and other accessibility. there is one ramp for a huge long building. the money will be very well spent. not only for the folks there but for the future. the other thing i want to mention is this auditorium. it's about an 80 seat auditorium. it must of been built for presentations. it's on an incline. the seats some are ric rickety. but they're fixed seats. you have a great space with fixed seats on a incline which isn't good for anything unless you have a small bad or something. we don't have the electricity to support that anyways. bringing thisoom to a multi purpose room to be used as not

only the artist studios but more importantly we believe that if this facility is managed correctly and exploits the full community benefit this is a room we can keep active all the time from community members that surround us from particularly bay view hunter's point this. is a great spot to have events, classrooms, workshops what have you. on that note i hope you approve this. thank you, very much. >> thank you. >> >> my name is karen slater i'm on the star board and an artist with a studio in 101. before that i was in building -- the former building 103 which has now been -- partially been destroyed. as an artist in 101 i can tell you how important the improvements will be. as marti said we have accessibility issues.

a lot of artists have large work. there is just one ric rickety r. without a elevator is limits the ability to get work in the building for the sec floor artists especially. people work large, it constrains peoples concepts of what they want to work on. the safety issue such as the sprinklers is important to everyone in the building. as marti mentioned the remodeling of the navy auditorium will allow a lot of functions. classes, performances and meetings. it will be available to the broader community. assume can the buildings are man anged in a way for that to happen. i want to remained everyone that building 101 represents one of the very few low cost art studio

locations in san francisco. keeping this building and improving it allows the city of san francisco to maintain artists to all hide ya contributing to the identity of the city. maintain ago fordable working spaces in san francisco creates the city that attracts residents and tourists. is a goodd investment for san investment for san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. james. >> thank you, my name is oscar james. i'm a native resident. one, i'm in favor of this approximately project and support it a hundred percent. one of the things i would like to happen is building 101, that was a building that was used by

swearing in different peoples who were going to participate in working in the hunters point shipyard. in the cities a gentleman carl kembels office was in that building. i ask this commission to name the building after this man. he was a significant person in my generation's life getting jobs for people in hunters point, south park and making sure we had summer jobs and didn't go downtown and tear up downtown. he was one of the persons, he was a community relations liaison. he made sure the employees of hunters point shipyard both minorities and majority were represented so far as unions and things like that. he is -- they have, i would like to have his bio put there with his picture in building 101.

his history is in -- the san francisco library. i would have to come back and bring you the -- the information where you can go on-line and see the things he has done in hunters point shipyard. also a history of things happening at hunters point comunity since the 50s with doctor kohlman. i don't have that information with me today. but it's history about hunters point and the struggles we put up in. that i want to support this particular project. i want that building named after him. i will make sure it is named after him for people my age and older. to make sure we became the mens and womens we are today. thank you, very much. >> thank you. >> i have no further speaker

cards. >> commissioners, questions? comments? >> yes commissioner. >> on slide five, will any of the new existing, new or existing studios will they have any programming for art education for use? to understand the importance of art, create art and express themselves through arts. i see the talk on the adults. i think we need to focus on the next generation. as a mother and art minor it's important for children to understand the creativity and not live in a box but what is outside of the box. i would like to see a type of programming for children in the community that's affordable for them. as i look through the summer programs for my son it's $600.800 a week. that's out of the price range for most working class families.

>> in response to your question i haven't come across anything to this aspect. >> thank you, commissioner. one of the reasons we mentioned the, you know, obviously we have our own agenda. how the facility is managed particularly community in the facility. the auditorium, gallery, open space that's part of the new arts complex is star believes very much it's part of our mission is to make sure these programs exist. i mean when -- everyone from the surrounding community has been locked out for years because of the gates. we have some programming. we are running a summer camp this year for local kids. what we want to do is use these spaces constantly all the time for arts and education. eventually there is the

component that is art education center. we hope to do fund raising and be able to build. there is that space. during the interim we want to build, star wants to build strong programs for kids and education. it's a number one priority for us. >> i wanted to agree with what marti said. i have been very involved in the con cement you'llization oconce. it's a big part of the mission. the idea is that it is a multimedia kind of arts participation center. not just visual art but music, dance. you know ideally take the music and have lessons for kids and performance space, a recording

studio and a small radio station. have a integrated opportunity for kids and young adults and anyone who wants to be involved. to offer like beginning, entry level opportunities for a lot of people. then if we can grow the arts presenceto what is considered the research and development campus and create a true arts district we can have opportunities and places for people to go on if you want to get more involved in ceramics and something else. class work. you know there are places to go, permanent locations for veerious art activities that won't be chased out of the city from rising rents so often. we look at this being the foothold and growing out to create what san francisco could do, create a incredible art community here in a stable location.

we have all of this that nobody else does. we have the land. with the will we want to do it. we're teaming up with the ymca to do a five session selection program for kids in the drew school over the summer. we're looking for funding. we need transportation for the kids. that's the biggest problem. we can manage the rest. getting kids to and from is a issue. we want to start bringing people out to the shipyard. the auditorium -- this is a good start at a programming location that we hope to grow out into the arts center and into the arts district. >> i would add through the chair in response to commissioner's question with an additional tkpwrapt, you know eda grants, approximately a million dollars. it's installed today. there are nine works of art. art work from walter hood to

heidi harden her sees, stream of consciousness with two other artists for the installation and the process. we ran a broad process used consultants represented a consultant doing processes and consultation with the arts commission. we ran our own process. engaged the san francisco school district with calf lawyers for the arts. the nine works of art out there today there was a documentation process and involvement with bay view school children. even a video is on our website. we can forward that. it documented the process. working with school children. so even through, our primary, we're infrastructure. we're really the built environment to the extent we can partner through operating agreements or leverage other partnerships in the city with boys and girls clubs.

they do opera house. we will with staff explore the partnerships wants we have the facilities built. at every opportunity i want to assure you this commission has consistently guided us to engage with the broader community and the importance of art. it's not just something that is out there in a brand new spanking museum but part of the community. >> yes, commissioner. >> i have a question. so the arts studios there is interaction now with those in the shipyard. >> is there interaction? yes. >> like events, invitations to visit the studios or and so forth. i was looking at the in gaugement of the residents there

with the artists. many of the artists have been there before and been there a long time. do you have any programming around that? >> yes, thank you, commissioner monde skwr-fplt jar. so, the two main ways in which the residents currently are about a hundred occupied units out of the shipyard. about to be more with the grand opening of block 49. the main way those current resident departments are invite to the artist studios sthru the open studios program. fall and spring, an opening of building 101, and the artist stpaoud joes on parcel b. i know that several of the existing residents have gone and enjoyed learning more about the arts community and complex through that program. so that really is the two main events each year which the broader community is invited onto the shipyard. >> one last question. do we have an art consultant that coordinates all of the art, the public art or is that in

coordination with the arts commission? >> we have an arts consultant. his name has eggs caped me. she is consulting on the installation and future maintenance of the nine pieces we commissioned through the previous eda grants and is onboard as a guiding factor for that. we haven't engaged her for kind of the visioning of the future arts complex. a future works program. future artist building is created and future arts complex is conceptualized and designed. so there is more work to be done. >> thank you, that's great to know. >> thank you. >> so i have a couple of questions. on the local match, maybe you mentioned it. i don't see it. who provides local match. >> the local match. we provide local match and it's tax increment.

>> okay. >> that local match was identified on a recognized is identification payment schedule. the department of finance has a loved it the local match and continuation of the local match has been approved by the oversight board and state department of finance. we have the procedure hurdles to implement this and make the important imovements. >> thank you for. that did i understand though that the elevator may not make it in this round of improvements. >> we understand the importance of finding a way to get the elevator done. the fire, life safety and accessibility improvements are prioritized slightly ahead of the elevator. both of cac and the shipyard artists through our presentation made clear that's something we need to find a way to do. to dig into the figures there is

about three million dollars of the budget for hard costs that is thought through assuming all goes reasonably well with the expenditure of the funds we should have enough. >> seems very important as well. and since, i would like the idea of dpw being the departments to implement the improvements. i think i know the answer for this. i may as well ask on the record. our sbc policy is implemented by dpw versus the local policy, right? >> yes. there are federal requirements, minimum that's harmonize with ours. we have done exploration to make sure they are harmonized and we can do that. >> great, thank you. >> commissioner singh, do you have a question. >> yes. how many people are artists that

are going to be involved in this? artists? >> i mean the -- obviously your question is not the construction work, how many artists will be involved. the work done will be the main areas of the building. it shouldn't have a huge impact on the studios directly. we're not intending to do renovation of their spaces specifically. this is really about, you know, common areas and exterior areas to provide fire prevention, protection, life safety and accessibility to the building. it's about investing in an asset that is a city owns asset for a lost years. >> looks like a great -- >> there use to be artist faires there once a year. you still have that?

>> yes, they have twice a year. the open studios. it's kind of a major event. one in the spring and one in the fall. where the artists open studios to the public. it's a pretty major event. via stepped in the past. >> we use to get the invitation from the artists to visit that. we use to enjoy that. we never had that for the last so many years. >> there should be a vip list. perhaps they missed the vip. >> no vip just general public for the commissioners to meet the artists. >> i understand. >> yes, i agree with you. we want to be invited and know. >> i want to see what is happening, you know. >> we will make sure -- >> ya. >> the commission and others are on the list. yes, it's a great event. >> i don't know.

you know maybe. >> okay. yes, we need a motion. yes. >> i second that. >> we have a motion by commissioner mondejar and commissioner singh on 5d. call the roll. >> commission members. >> pimentel. >> yes. >> singh. >> yes. >> mondejar. >> yes. >> rosales.

>> yes. >> i have four is and one accent. >> please call the next item, public comment. >> the next order of business is item six public comment a non agenda item. madam chair. >> do we have a speaker card or speaker cards. >> i have one speaker card from mr. oscar james. >> first i want to say it's a privilege to see your face. i miss it did for the last couple of months. five weeks i was bedridden. i didn't think, for two weeks i didn't think i was going to make it anyways i say god is good. you know laying in the bed and when i did catch my senses i tried to get the ocii on the tv. it don't come on.

you don't come on the government khapl anymore. i wonder what is happening. i know you're doing a good job but it's great to see. i would like to you look into that to make sure the public is able to look at your pretty faces and your strong minds on what you do to better our communities. the other thing i want to bring up. i was visited people in the jail houses. the older people. a lot of those men -- it's the mens part i go to. i'm not fortunate to go to the ladies. the mens who come home want to

get employment. we talked about that. i told them i would bring it up with the ocii. there is a strong participant in helping people get jobs. because to me it's hard for us to get even though we have the things set aside for the young people through mission hiring hall and young community developers and what have you. what you districts and boundaries have now, it's not like when we were coming up. you go work in the mission. you go work on bart. hunters point. anywhere in the city, you wouldn't have to worry about being shot or beat up or anything like. that these young people have to face. that me personally i feel some of these people coming home have the opportunity to get jobs. it would free up some of the young peoples to go on these jobs and have mentors on the job to help them and to try to

change the mentality about this is my community and you can't come here and all this and all that. our group, i belong to a group called hp unit. we grew up in the various communities. we started an organization called hp unit. august the 14th we're having a dinner, free of charge. we're asking all of the communities, the young peoples, brothers against violence and guns to a free din tore sit down and try to discuss this and come up with solutions on how you know we can knock the guns out and people can get these jobs and opportunities that they have that you commissioners set up in other parts of the city to set up to make sure people in san francisco get these jobs. they're not getting them. the reason they're not getting them they're scared to go on jobs. they're scared to go to west point for example. people from western edition. even people from hunter's point won't go to west point who live

on harbor road or oak dale. it's a shame. you talk about feeding your families. it's a shame they have this fear. >> you know they want to feed their families. they can't go to certain places. we need to do something about it. i think if we get these people coming home from jails and the bring sons who thaeupbg their lives they could be a mentor to change other peoples lives. the reason i bring that up older people changed our lives. i grew up in clubs in hunters point. egyptian and vanguard. older people like youthful service and a guy named smitty came to mentor us and carl whoeu mentioned before got us summer jobs. they talked to us it changed us

to make sure we cared about other people. you know in the 60s there was a lot of love in this city. everyone had respect for each other since that time the crack came in and what have you, we don't have that no more. we need our generation to mentor the younger generation. they have no identity what they r what we have done in this community as a city. i'm talking about. i started a club in the mission called the marques in the 60s also. we mentored people. we weren't like today running around killing and trying to harm someone. we got in fights. the next days we were friends. we need to bring that back to these young people. you know we are our brother's keeper. what we should do is make sure everyone benefits, all races in this city. we are all as one. with that i thank you. i may of been rambling a lot, what have you you put what i'm

saying in the right perspective. thank you. >>thank you. >> can you please call the next item. >> the next order of business is item 7 report of the chair. >> i don't have a report. >> the next item of business item 8. report of the executive director. >> i don't have a report this meeting. commissioner, we are looking to potentially canceling the june 7th meeting. the number of items for your consideration will likely be pushed. we certainly will follow-up with you, the commission secretary in the event we need to have a meeting to make certain deadlines that we have a quorum. we will follow-up shortly, thank you. >> the next order of business item 9. commissioner's questions and matters. madam chair? >> any questions or matters from

the commission? can we -- can we have input on the comment of sf gov. do we know we're live or not live? >> we certainly will look into it -- we should be on replay on sfgov. we're not live unless the mta -- sf gov doesn't have the capacity to broadcast three government entities at the same time. given the order of events. the board of supervisors then sf mta. since we're the newest commission we're third in line for broadcasting at the same time on tuesdays. we will follow-up. we will work and follow-up with sf gov and follow-up with mr. james as well. >> okay. >> next item, please.

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2016, meeting of san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority commission ms. bloomer director borden's director heinecke is anticipated director nolan director rahaim's director ramos and director rubke presents mr. chair vice chair director brinkman will not be here you have a quorum

please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. thank you approval of the minutes from the mayor 3 regular meeting is there such a motion. >> >> i. >> opposed? the i's have it. thank you next item, please. >> ms. bloomer. >> communications directors please be advised founded drortsdz not a disclose of the local t y local 200 at the policy and governance meeting on friday that's all for now and introduction of new business. >> director borden we've golden gotten e-mails of market street you know about the upper

market and that there say is anything we'll be hearing it again. >> can to the call of the chair we'll talk about the governance and policy board. >> thank you anything else okay ms. bloomer item 7 director's report. >> good afternoon director reiskin great report. >> i'm not leaving. >> good afternoon mr. chair and members of the public and staff thank you for the opportunity to come down and personally give an accomodation to one of the valued employees that is leaving austin terrace our correct of capital improvement and construction to come join me a bittersweet

and with a lot of jaeflz our great employees is moving on to to retirement for the few weeks heading up the construction division he oversees a hundred engineers and contract administration and construction managers in delivering the big muni capital projects the rail replacement projects, the technical projects like the radio, the emergency communications system and the automatic train upgrade unusual the capital core of the agency this is vinces second tour in this job in the early 2009s same position was instrumental like

the t third late rail line the phase two the central subway and if a that point brought a lot of great experience and knowledge to the agency and 210 east he severed as the executive director the san ucla continent of government a combination of the mtc and the county transportation authority for stanislaus county and we had a transportation planning and funding background as well as his engineering backward he served as the executive director of the alameda county transportation authority he managed a billion dollars transportation improvement program and before many in the private sector worked in various place across the country and came to the mta with a whole lot of great experience i don't know if i told vince

this i didn't know vince from his first time i left the government before i jibbed the government his resume i called up michael burns the general manager of the muni and the mta would you vince is politically will be hire him he said i tried to hire him and couldn't get him to come to san jose that's one of the strongest endorsements and vince is about tremendous in the time i had the pleasure to work with him not just the expressive background and resume and criminals credentials but his manner the way the professional very even tempered with all the crazyness sometimes around the agency a steady solid

presence with the project control system implemented within his division modernizing and keeping the big projected o projects moving forward and serving the demanding manager like john haley and the rest of the board is just such a strong presen not only in his executive team he'll tell you he's a kid from west oakland but a mentor and role model to a lot of folks we didn't blame him not wanting to commute 17 hours a day but certainly wish him the best and give him in special heavy duty

mta you've earned that plaque. >> (clapping.) >> mr. harris on behalf of the board of directors and the all the people of san francisco i totally agree with director reiskin with grace and style and like our support wish you all the best in retirement. >> mr. chair thank you very much and mr. chairman and members good afternoon and ms. harris this is my last time before i depart this is privilege. >> thank you for the recognition it is truly appreciated my career director reiskin indicated like the others quite frankly is a true journey the sfmta is a very important part of that to me i want to thank dwrelg and my colleagues on the executive team and my great

division staff and some of them are here for hire tireless work an enormous feat i thank them for the efforts and certainly this board for the opportunity to come back and work if this great city as a reminder our division is, in fact, responsible for major capital improvement and those projects unfortunately, all of them have some problems but the true test eve character is how we resolve those problems and our division we tide to solve them together and oftentimes possibility e together means working with you and its communities, the supervisors and other agency divisions working with the hope will be a solution that is fair and equitable and, of course, solves the problem my experience with the director indicated is unique i left the

agency and had angle opportunity to become a director of another agency and sprooels was invite back glad to come back any return quite frankly given me a broader perspective for the kind of work we do and quite frankly for this great city so i just want to once again say thank you for the accommodate and honestly for me a privilege and honor to serve. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> director reiskin. >> thank you vince a few other things last thursday - oh, okay. he on intersections

we'll pause my report. >> you should be in the picture shouldn't you. >> no, no for the picture for the supervisors (laughter). >> hi there. >> good afternoon welcome thank you so much mta board of directors and director reiskin are for making time for me, i want to come and express my strong support for the glth biennial on our calendar. >> thank you mta for prioritizing the corridor one of the eastern corridors our office identified with the bike coalition and san francisco small business commission as a priority as you may know that is would the the thought high injury corridors every 38 days someone is injured between polk street and market street and the one of the ways to calm the

traffic loan along the heavily utilized corridors and we also building that additional cyclists on the corridor make the corridor safer that activates the corridors and supports the seniors and families on golden gate is really xrefrngs a lot of transformation to the historic y and down to one of the problematic liquor store big boy that is experienced so valencia and it is really great to see one the liquor store a riding program for the neighborhood and this is happening on golden gate complimented and protected by public safety really help to rae activate this street so thank you very much fewer support and sfmta not only for working us to prioritize had.

>> thank you, supervisor kim. >> director reiskin. >> so that is the item on the consent calendar but fits nicely last thursday was dwarf day and supervisor kim and many other supervisors participated vice chair director brinkman was there as well hopefully many more i know some of you ride to work most days and this was reference to some of the projects we're doing like the golden gate so it is a great time that is coming a couple of things we unveiled last thursday were two new viable automatic at that time bike berry roommates between 16th street and 17th street and westbound on market street between 9 and 10 compliementsz the eastbound direction also unveiled and a a bic system

to roll out more 12 hundred signs citywide over the next two years i'm not sure it will be much clearer like lanes between 50 and 20 percent ridership on bike to work day a whole bunch of people on market street for example, between 8:30 and 9:30 the peek however, the ridership was up 13 plus compared to last year and so that's great during the a.m. peak the bikes radio 86 percent of private vehicle on market street so pretty expressive there and what we talked about at the event was that in 2016 will be starting construction on 22 millions miles of bike lanes a

lot of the work in the planning and design by the folks in liveable streets is really come into fruition in terms of the construction that's great and just to remind you from the last bike counts report we present at the the policy and governance last month we completed 23 projects with improving safety and people an increase from enforcement from through 2015 and since 2006 saw one hundred and 80 percent growth in chrysler it remains the faster part of transportation it is great we have a number of projects coming this year including the mosaic and polk and second street interpreting construction this year and currently a bike network that spans a lot of miles it great to

see that on bike to work day moving uber to van ness as you may know the van ness bus rapid transit is a program it is moving forward we're actually going to have an item at the next meeting to approve the construction project we're getting ready to broub and when you approved the program we'll start putting into place next san francisco month so we'll be doing business bus stop coalition with the work ahead of time to get the patterns in place and 0 coordinate with the construction we are doing some of the consolidation now to the operators and the public can be familiar with the changes before the construction starts which is

this summer helps with traffic circulation and other issues during construction and the stops we maintain the ones near where the future center of boarding island will be what we'll have i'm not going to read where all the bus stops will be we've done a ton of outreach with regards to the van ness program but doing specifically with regards to the bus stops we will have ambassadors out there and buses and text message and press releases and blogs making sure that no one is precipitated and prepared as has the information kind of the physical step of this project this is been perhaps 20 years in the making we're excited to see that coming in terms of the trains i on

intersections i may have mentioned allotment we've done a soft launch of double stopping in the system and we have kind of left it in place now as as ongoing service in bound to the montgomery for those who for those of you who don't know it allows for a train pulls into the station and already a train there the people on the second train can get off and not be frustrated until the first car clears it is rider amenity we on intersections that would be great and ambassadors to make sure the people understood what is happening but generally the system determines when it hemispheres and it only happens during the commute hours we have a lot of trains and congestion by the way, it is helpful for folks coming to those stations we'll be leaving that in place available on the

out bound side so that's we'll not use it b there but good to see it is a long history to get into being - upgrades one rail on the motorbike loop last december the california court of appeals listed the construction of the mission bay loop and tomorrow resuming construction on the loop that goes 19th street and illinois and back to third street the construction on those 3 streets met with the stakeholders in the dog patch neighborhoods over the last couple of months to get everyone prepared after the initial evacuation new rails and sidewalks and signals at the intersection of 18th street and

i will and the new overhead lines and we repave everything and what this will allow is us to do is to on the busiest portion this is something we wanted to get done in advance the central subway came in r coming in we'll move to 2 car trains with the t line but you excited to be able to get this project back moving is will be an important part of t service and help in the meantime wanted to update you last as i understand as data breakers a significant event from the transportation stand point there was a lot of good planning lessons if previous years and a lot of activates management that made the day go fairly well, we

had our very well operations centers staffed for the day that brought different departments of organizations and different parts of transit as well as our street enforcement our communications, everybody in the loop together to actively coordinate with the city's emergency operation center and the plans that were adjusted reverberations of previous years plans worked very well and adjustments made on the fly but there were a lot of things we were able to do to get poem transforming p to and from the event were you mother impacted we had a day without collisions great not two ocher on a day with unusual activity was great person with our cameras and other field reporting able to

get much better information what was happening on the streets and will be able to use use that information to better refine the service and streamline it and make that more efficient we had a lot of coordination in the events post event work between public works and the police department to get the streets reopened we reopened the streets anothers 9:30 in the morning and muni was restored earlier than previous years i want to commend the numerous folks on a sunday to make sure the event went well from communications to other divisions to make that work last thing wanted to do was follow-up on an item we heard about a month ago with regards to the commuter shuttles going

through part of mission want to ask tom maguire our sustainable streets advisor to give you an update. >> good afternoon directors and chairman and directors you, you remember that last time we talked about the proposals for the mature stops on delores street with the network with the program that went into finally effect on april 1st the requirement we rove the commuter shuttle stops in april we brought the first batch to you but part of the delores to investigate whether there were technical raenlz for the existing large vehicle wait restrictions on guerrero street our team investigated the issue and did an analysis and found no

technical impediments on guerrero two lanes in each direction both streets are less is steep and castro has a classification of aerial street on the caltrain map that was a question we were asked to investigate. >> are the - this may change the situation in terms of the where the stops are of delores can you ask you to come back with a recommendation. >> okay. >> thank you. >> director reiskin. >> that concluded my report. >> thank you. >> ms. bloomer. >> mr. chairman none wants to address you under the director's report so moving on we'll take item 8 with the advisory council i don't see mr. weaver to be at

item 9 general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when - hold on i'm having a moment with the machine starting with john and (calling names) good afternoon. >> good afternoon my name is john alex the member of the public safety advisory committee i come to you with the presentation of vision zero resolution i speak to you on two points my response to the unfortunate fatality that occurred january this year of abraham what was in a collision in june of last year while he served as on the cable car line i respond to his family and

promoted me to create the bay area walk a group for pedestrian pier to pier support group to affirm and provide grief counseling in any research in that unfortunate collision and fatality i learned a thirty day rule i have the document i can provide and e-mail to roberta and have it on paper if you want a copy a memo by is vision zero traffic fatality drop out they defined the protocol and where they determined what is a traffic fatality ray is not considered a traffic fatality co-authored to sfpd and the vision zero traffic fatality group a point that she mentioned in

her memorandum i can share with you there is a possibility this group will create an annual report on who died over thirty days from the collision it is not a defiant active a consideration by commander and devon and james i encourage you to - >> should you we will. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> (calling names). >> good afternoon eileen parks residents doing portions of a letter from the merchants known as pops opposing this was sent to the board of supervisors and read to the

installation and handed to mta i quote the terryville merchant continue to have serious conditioners regarding the terryville rapid project those concerns are the loss of muni stops and transit only lanes and replacing the stop signs with traffic signal and relocation of parking onto resident streets the changes in the project it's the merchant continue to have serious issues regarding the outreach process both the scope of the puck etch and the member of the general community - not sufficient time for people to understand the impacts of those changes therefore the terryville merchants are strongly urging the board of supervisors to address the unresolved sfmta

issues beginning with holding a meeting on the muni matter we believe those have an urgency to void the unpleasant exhibitionists enconcerned by the merchant written by president pops. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> . >> (clapping.) >> good afternoon. >> gilbert district 8 resident and san francisco long time supporter of the central subway and i just wanted to direct the - i make my yearly appearance here i want to thank the board and holy in the budget coming up that you're going to approve for the free for seniors and disabled i don't know long that

program will run i'm a big supporter of it i use it so i hope it continues and i have been following the meetings watching it on my mobile device and i haven't heard - i've heard bits and pieces of expanding the central subway to fisherman's wharf and north beach i know there was something in the budget for either a study or an analysis going forward for fisherman's wharf and north beach and i'm not exactly sure what that is, i wondered how you can involve the community and the state legislator and the governor and the people like nancy pelosi and dianne feinstein to get money for expanding the system and i want to be involved with that

as strong supporter for the central subway and it's expansion to fisherman's wharf and north beach i live on the evelyn and i'm not a tourist i'm a resident that use the f line and a lot of people going to fisherman's wharf and north beach it is crowded during the tourist season so expanding the central subway is a logical and extension into the future for san franciscans. >> thank you, sir appreciate it next item, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon good afternoon directors and director nolan and director reiskin i'm the policy manager with walk sf i'm here to talk about the walk sf we teamed up with mercy housing to look at

pedestrian safety at the direction of herman laguna and market let's see if that comes up laguna and herman and market mercy housing is going to be opening a senior housing department as 55 laguna and 95 laguna up the block and open house opening a senior center hundreds of more seniors easing the direction we are considered considered that the treats we want to make sure they go far enough to protect the seniors that will be using this intersection we had the great opportunity to work with a group of seniors and do the training with the seniors and assess the conditions of this intersection 4 of the seniors are here to talk about that and share their expressions of that intersection and could make them feel safer i

applaud the seniors they come to 3 different emotions to be part of project so i ask you to listen to them and their senior voices we don't hear enough and not be able to come back when this item is on your agenda take to heart what they say and mercy housing is here to talk to i can't help but tell you what walk sf are concerned about the crossing at laguna here and so we can talk you and hear about that our priority for this intersection but you'll hear more from mercy housing and the seniors thank you for your >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> shannon (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> i'm sharon with the messenger in california i'm here to support kathy and the seniors

on the- it was a great project to participate in as kathy said we'll soon open 55 laguna and then in the spring of 2018 the open house on 95 laguna with 200 seniors to the z we have reviewed the upper market with the staff they've been great with cooperating with the plans we you are interested in also the laguna street crosswalk and if interest is a possibility for right senior crossing signs that will help to attract the drivers attention to the fact that there are a lot of vulnerable pedestrians in the area and if at all possible lights i've noticed in the loose two years going up to the intersection because folks are coming north if guerrero street they don't see their focused on crossing

the large intersection if you make eye contact their respectful i support the planned upper market improvements i'm a neighborhood another van ness and market and walk up to church street amend and the improvements on the south side of the street should help with pedestrian safety your time. >> next speaker, please. >> . (calling names) >> good afternoon hi good afternoon. i'm jeanine i'm a san francisco resident i'm 64 and a half i have support my life partner that is disability in 1989 after she was rear evident and open house will open their center and they several hundred of seniors on a weekly basis they have huge numbers of

people they will serve and we want the seniors to be safe at the corners of lang and market huge numbers of pedestrians go through the intersection i do walk sf and here we have the jeep in the middle of a crack with the tires on the strips with the invasion of seniors we need the bulb outs that helps to keep the pedestrians safe. >> the last speaker was right there is numerous numbers of cars north from guerrero up to market street and a lot of get stuck on a yellow light and drivers are monk see monk do so

checkout those mediums and please as a matter of law a large concrete medium that will slow down cars going north promote pedestrian safety and are prevent cars from going to laguna thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon she's living in mercy house. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and past she is attend the trinity for the walk sf >> (speaking foreign language.) >> she was wait a second through laguna herman and market street

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> i observes that some areas of safety but some areas not that safety. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> especially for the senior person. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> in the herman street. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and in the herman street the transportation departments should be putting traffic signals on the left side and right side. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> now i don't see any traffic signals on the herman street. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> for the senior person is very dangerous. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> when the time the left side or right side the senior person not seeing the cars coming or not. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i suggest transportation

department put a traffic signal on the herman street. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> to protect the senior for the safety. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you very much. >> thank you next item, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> bring the microphone down a little bit. >> my name is sue. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i am 87 years old. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm living in the mercy housing. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i was training for walk sf.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> i worked for herman street market street and the laguna street i observed the market street. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i observed the market street have traffic lights but - >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the light is absent changing the corner she is is a senior walk very slow. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> in the streets there's a lot of seniors person walking around in this area. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the senior persons walk slow they don't feel safety.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> oh, some people drive don't look at there and the. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> because their senior walked slow when he when they see the traffic so fast they are science scared. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> sometimes maybe car accidents. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the seniors does not have a car accident but very scary. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> give them a lot of room. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> okay she said she hopes transportation can put the light

and give them people warning with the seniors on the walk on the streets. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and then for the yellow signal on the traffic lights they will be - the driver and people can be accelerated and drive a little bit slow and the senior people feel more safety. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> she said please protect our seniors. >> thank you thank you next item, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> she speak have got english (laughter). >> san francisco.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> she was attend the training class in san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i was are the herman and math and the laguna street. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> laguna street does not have any traffic light. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i went through left-hand side or right side they don't feel safety for the senior person. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> okay. because for the safety so she insists the transportation department put a right-hand side or a left-hand side so the senior can look at. >> thank you.

>> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> ms. bloomer. >> francisco da costa followed by herbert wiener and then larry kaplan the last period of time to turn in a speaker card. >> i on intersections - go ahead mr. da costa. >> huh? >> ged and give our testimony. >> my name is francisco da costa and some perspective to what is happening in our city sometime ago sent a letter i norman don't do this the light is right a letter giving me the authority from the first people of this area the muwekma ohlone i have a very good relationship with director reiskin i've said this before and i hope

you understand what i'm saying because i work as as farther our what i'm saying today that is we're not addressing the common footprint and lick fax and flooding nine hundred tons of meth gas into the atmosphere pursue in the year 2016 we can have real the data on this things now we're talking about transportation and it factorsn