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more trash discouraging i believe that we as a society need to put a lot a lot more value in making sure that people are not breaking the rules that is a separate issue most people want to obey the rules i'm in favor of the amendments to open up the trails. >> next speaker good afternoon. my name is dan i'm a non-overview lift - i was walking around the lake to suntdz ago and saw deceased
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monthly plastic and styrofoam people smoke he also saw several dogs off leash and raising up the slopes on the island in the middle of the lake to frequent as i understand painted on the roads with 12 inch sign letters saying no dogs allowed and many bicycle tracks on the audits one set wide and deep enough to suggest a motorcycle if we multiple this we come up with the cycle springs reservoir with the transgressions a couple of thousand times we get an idea of a magnitude of open to unrestricted and you think monitored public use human
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nature being what it is i strongly urge to approach the reservoir are great caution and true respect and discard any proposal to throw it on for exponentially increased unrestricted and unmothered public assess thank you >> next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors my name is mike i'm the chair of the loma chapter of absorbing encompassing san mateo and others communities i will incorporate every word i'm concerned heard but look to say that i was not the chair when the puc wisely adopt the
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preferred viral alternative that's what we have with the do so system. >> but one of the best decisions the dos system puts eyes unpaid eyes but concerned eyes on what is happening in your water shed it is almost a dream come true no staff expense and have people out here and making sure the right things happen they like their job they'll suggest changes they'll agree with the heading for the resolution urging the public works to have existing assessed to the goals of protecting, etc.
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they think the dos system should be capacity as len why a robert mentions that's our goal a problem with the under participation the 3 days a week 7 is great and the hours of the day could be expanded i guess i'll close and say having rrnlt for the california and federal endangered i act and the quality act is not elitist thank you. >> next speaker >> thank you good afternoon supervisors my name is filling a 50 year resident of san francisco and asking you to oppose this to further open san francisco and it's water shed the public strongly supports protection of washt and the 70
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water department 20 years ago they'll response with the water quality should be protected and the quantity not increased the water shed lands are protected and managed by the puc with the primary purpose of collection and storage with the highest serving the customers we have precious resources that needs to be protected with the drought periods we fascinate future the peninsula water shed has the concentration of endangered species and sgt. ian furminger the approximate it not adjacent stlisz a popular 16 million long trail operated by the san mateo parks called the crystal springs trail opened everyday and our
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three hundred thousand people per year enjoy the trail east of the 280 and the crystal watering springs is a judicial function and no positive effect on the contrary dehas an - look at the preservation of resources not another - >> thank you. next speaker. i'm brian and with the water shed group we strongly believe that assets to reinstate is an
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equity issue and we know that southern san francisco in particular is under served by access to open spaces and improves the waived assets helps in the southernmost water shed the water shed is the same distance as the presidio that is why we strongly support of that motion carries proposal for the primary system and we feel the dos system while a good start is sufficient going forward the dos lead tours the bicycle tours begin at the end of the water shed favorite between san francisco on a busy highway it is urban safe for, walking and biking those tours are completely in assessable for
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people not owning cars that is an exclusion going forward with protecting people and includes all people that we were unable to get there because they don't have a car and lastly this resolution is to support the motion carries process they've begun and encourage them to move faster so the things of the viral issue those are things that might be turned up in the environmental process but not reasons to start the virtual process i urge you to vote for the resolution and find a responsible assess thank you.
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>> next speaker hello and good day i want to thank the democracy we're experiencing he thank you i can feel your quantum decide how to make a decision as we your honor, news and us humans make our living looking at computer screens and have a poll you can take a cab or local bus and assess it as we get favorite away from nature we become less valuable as a species we need to let people walk and smell clear air and see now growth and see
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butterflies and everything else in nature and needs to be an open responsibility and i know you're aware of that my name is richard i support any son but support him even if he wasn't my son. >> (clapping.) >> great, thank you next item. >> >> jake speaking for the native plant society our 2 to 3 thousand peninsula water shed is one of the nearbiological area it is remarkable that some of the highest quality water of urn areas in the world a large portion is because human prepares is he kept to a minimum needs for management that's why
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this of the designated a water shed and not a park as a consequence a complex and stable fall eco system this xheblth that is responsible for the ability to produce and store water trouble accompanies humans and fires and other things water shed personnel have kept the weeds to a as far manageable level but today weakening the eco systems so more and more fewer and fewer nature plants this is worldwide this is accelerating with climate
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warming humans ignite 8090 percent of fires and the research finds unbeknownst inspector humans can increase the likelihood of ignition had to 9 minds please vote this down thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker, please. >> supervisors with the essential as jake was saying 95 percent cal fires say 95 percent of fires are human caused we are books written we're the 6 extension where species with disappearing at rain water not
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seen since the millennial and it is us we start the fires we're responsible for species extension we're not doing it continually but people are saying we have systems that are successful it is the crystal springs water shed has the highest level of endangered i species not having people going through one of the favorite stories we have this this was a state park in new york a forest and no assess an, an endangered i turtle they opened the access to the forest next year no turtles left in the forest people took them home as pets
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you can't anticipate what will happen but you can anticipate it will not be good for wildlife and with the 95 percent likelihood we'll have a fire oakland had one it was devastating finally when we have a fire our water shed will be highly impacted i'll leave it at that. >> mr. vice president through the chair if i ask ask you a question i'm under the impression based on a conversation i had with supervisor avalos that you and supervisor avalos have attempted to craft some language to balance the competing recreation and reservoirs needs that are
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before this body and to that end i wanted to know if you're in receipt of what we will consider that question neuron. >> the devised. >> the amendments you're a party to. >> this is moving quibble i'm concerned seen it for an hour now or however long. >> that's good enough i'll workout the rest with any colleagues. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm anastasia and i want to talk about the preliminary goal of water shed providing clean water to 2 housing unit 7 million customers and want to
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talk about the pesticides use that be happening i got the report from puc their users some it is not good for none the people not or discharged species and herbicides - they should have been band according to the pesticides and i was before the commission the marina use no
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perez on the lands for more than 10 years and committed not to use any for another 10 years and the last report from east bay shows that they're already have those pesticides in the drinking water a matter of time when this use of herbicides on water shed will show in the tests of an the water and you know people who are environmentalist they should read more on the herbicides thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm matthew a resident in the area and one of the
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leading organizations in san francisco with members our focus on trail maintenance public education and habitat focus and on bikes i'm here to thank you to the supervisors and to the puc one of the things that makes the bayer unique is the toxics and the water shed have a long history since 19th century and improves the roads we wanted to support this resolution because of connectivity the people mentioned this allows people in san francisco so connect south to the peninsula on a bike it is ironic audible come up with a
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sign closed this is public property this is ironic before that was public the public can access and we believe the public speaker is directing this and confront to support 24 and though the eco system most people don't know it exist only a no trespassing sign. >> thank you any other speaks that want to speak on this item please coming up at this point please, sir. >> hi, i'm a pet parents in san francisco school board did a lot of green programs and took up a lot of pavement and we took the kids hiking and caging one thing i found that the people that kids in the town have
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little access to this type of space when we took them hike in the grand canyon more than half of the kids if hike outside of the city is he took them hiking less than a quarter have been hiking and the glen canyon no space within site of a house that's an important resource this resource is not being you know is a resource that our killer are not getting i think the dos program is keeping this type of space away from those children i'm concerned hiked there go and grew up there and hiked on the dos program families can't organs tare lives around the program is really just makes it inassessable to most families
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and makes it inassessable to families that need it the most it is upsetting when i go out hiking and folks haven't seen this the sierra club is missing the point when they rezone talking about the value of sole the car president in nature not available to the kids and the dos program is not that so is oh, there's other trades it misses the point and john mayer said oh, we don't hetch hetchy. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i'm mark a 25 resident of san francisco a trail user and endorsed the red lands and
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annual pass hoefrld for the trails that system worked wrappers out there i'm concerned walked the trail in striking distance of the water he the concerned of the water safety donna does that make sense - i can't get to the trails because i don't have a car i urge the supervisors to pass this today. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon michael thank you. i'm here to talk about the access expansion to the water shed i'll make 3 quick points first of all, the bay area crisis people need access to open spaces close to where
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they live and responsible assess will help at least the city and suburbans a true treasure that is close, and, secondly, with our environmental concerns everyone that has spoken has the same feeling about protecting the environment in order to have that respect for future generations you need access to the environment and responsible access is the way to go and thirdly, with respect to the concerns about fires and otherville issues no one is advocating opening assess irrevocable everything will grow the measures and not opening up this i strongly urge you to pass
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this resolution thank you for your time. >> i'm bob seagull and i'm concerned led 70 or 80 hikes i'm familiar - i think 2025 years ago when on the board of supervisors insisting the puc open the trail and they cache said this was a dos program that dos has been successful we know that people use the trail wisely but know that a lot of people want more access to it the trails are far from the reservoirs from the predecessors spoke about working roads used by the patrols of the san francisco public works this is a nice step after the first step
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cautious first step he applaud you in making this similar to the east bay mud those trails are used nicely by those people from the park. >> is there a next speaker. >> i'm nationally move forward to san francisco in 1989 a homeowner in san mateo where i rent and a planning commissioner i'm a essential member for a long term it is difficult from a planning perspective to look at a rational to include the public from those lands as a resident from that perspective we have a lot of open space on the peninsula only assessable during the week because the parking is full only if you have the time
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to drive somewhere with a car especially with a family but one of the reasons we have planning goals being a public official because you get situations where people talk about keeping them out who gets kept out with a permit is there any public comment who system who are the people that are being kept out and that's a question i want you to think hard about it is not middle-aged white guys like me but people are using the parking lots and families like candle stick who want to get a picnic and get away from the urban environment that those lands are in urban open space so we have ceqa and i hope you look at those alcohol and not at the fear who we're keeping out from
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the lands whether young people or people of color the people that should be able to use those lands and public and open space thank you very much.
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>> count in the water sheds a few days after christmas you see things in the water sheds that i don't see in places with a lot of assess we don't just count birthdays but anyone else that happens to come by you see rabbits and deer and unfortunate you'll see not in san francisco flocks of quail some of you have read the article in the chronicle could i some forfeiture read the chronicle and talks about how wonderful to be able to bicycle all the distance and in my mind i can see biologists i can't hasn'ting down the hills like in
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places where bicyclists are not and see them wandering plaza places i'm disturbed of the having this happen in a beautiful place this shouldn't happen thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my i'm katherine and the third-generation of a family on the peninsula and a mother of 4 when the usa year camp trail was new i went there and had a spectacular cash on any 3 speed but you know the last generation of my family who really got to go to the water shed was my
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husbands grandparents my grand mother-in-law worked and went for a picnic i feel like we've heard from people who live places like potrero hill valencia and if you have a car you can go out your door and go to the park if in north san francisco you could reach the trails by the skyline college and ridge from the coast side from ontario from the cemetery you can make in and out
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hikes he feel like in that way how it changed since 1928 they had to borrow a car and today san franciscans had had same thing by bus and san mateo county is implementing a program it get access to those spaces but north county didn't have the same thing. >> any public comment on item 3 at this time okay seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you supervisor peskin you have a few remarks. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you to all of the members of the public who come and addressed this very complicated and long-standing issue which i think we all recognize is an issue of balance where a sensitive resource that has
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gotten more public assess over time and stands to receive yet more and i want to acknowledge supervisor avalos for having the personal and political fortitude to weigh on this matter and i do understand from supervisor avalos who prior to having to go to his preexisting appointment gave all the members of the land use committee some suggested amendments which are before us i told supervisor avalos that i would move those amendments so that we can discuss them i think we've heard him indicate time for the members of the public the recreationistic from san mateo county or folks from the environmental community from san
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francisco county and san mateo to look at it those amendments so i make a motion to adopt the amendment of the whole i have a few extra copies unfortunately only a few but they'll be online and continue this item one week so we can hear from various individuals and participants ♪ we're trying to achieve billion first and foremost for less riefb assess and particularly on that section of the bay trail an amenable for the region in a way that insures that the underscore and water supply and other communities is protected so i'd
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like to make a motion to adopt the amendments and continue this item one week >> real quick thank you that motion ladies and gentlemen, just for your own edification supervisor avalos made 7 amendments some of you have had chance to read t m deputy city attorney we we need to read into the record or accept them. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. you can accept because the document has been circulated to the committee and made available to the public. >> okay at this moment i'd like to give the floor to supervisor wiener. >> first of all, i'm happy to accept the amendments maybe we
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can adopt the amendments and move on the adoption for the continuance. >> i too i'll accept a motion supervisor peskin to accept those amendments we'll take the without objection we'll accept the amendments thank you. >> now supervisor wiener do you want to speak to the issue. >> this has been a long and widening process i think that supervisor avalos and i held a hearing on this issue it was probably a year ago maybe a year and a half ago enormous discussion and introduced this resolution i think early this year it's been quite a while and not brought to committee or
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through the chair today after many, many conversations madam chair rosales has brought forward legislation that frankly soft else's the resolution to talk about the study of the issue, etc. and this language to me it is xhoementsd language dpa mean that everyone loves it it goes as far in one direction not possible in a contention but it take into account some of the concerns expressed by the components of the recreational assess i don't want to suggest the components are thrilled but it moshgz but don't feel a need to keep this in committee in
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bargaining in themselves if people want to have the discussions we put 24 out of committee and 8 days until the next board meeting and this has plenty of time i'll be open for sending it out the week after next for two weeks continued discussion and feedback i'll prefer to send 24 out of committee today as amended with a positive recommendation. >> i'll let the - i'm happy to support that supervisor peskin we'll take that without objection. >> before we do that i pose some questions to our staff from the puc mr. ramos who actually i'll look to as the individual who as overseen this and has to do with with the resource i'm talking about now is financial resource
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the fiscal year implementations and when i asked him if he's seen them he's just gotten them i want to hear in public remembered in one week or two weeks to the full board o full board of supervisors it means that we have cut the public out of any future comment to the extent respectfully through the chair to supervisor wiener willing to continue this i don't see the harm other than as elected officials have to sitting sit hear here and hear under the public but don't see the harm i think that is one of the under pooinz of my job but like to hear if the department that has been charged with managing the city's water apply and balance the commercialism
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with recreational assess so if mr. ramos don't that i want to see the puc being part of the confusion and appropriate whatever dollars for additional on the ground rafrjz he has for few additional if the fears about fire safety are true i'd like to hear that from mr. ramos at the professional staff level and if what the fiscal year impacts i'm happy to have the confusion of xhchgs but not seeing any reason to cut out the public comment and a widespread interest in a number of counties we represent. >> if i understand the question about the financial responsible to implement the program or all the programs. >> the first yes question have
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you seen the amendments and offered your position as staff on behalf of the public utilities commission with regards to the resolution as now amended that is before this body. >> the caveat i was ready to hear there are things in there i think more consistent with the direction we currently have and others that are not we have the resources to construct the new trails on the ridge and not wrestled with the language there is language about opening the trail more quickly we're not obligated to do just the city adopted through 2018 we proposed opening the trail at the beginning of 19. >> 19. >> so we need to do that still
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and not done that even with the primary system there are a lot of things that are expensive to implement and overseeing and insuring that people are following the guidelines as part of projects are paramount we have not implemented those i know that it will be more than we currently have whatever the future holes we can't do more with the resources we have now. >> i feel confront saying that has a staff person. >> if it is an issue of fact so thank you for the facts as you you asked about the fire risk in particular of all the things that i think with the water shed and the peninsula is
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at the top of list but i'll say we have a dedicated but small staff doing everything we can and we have the southern ended we're talking about building was the densest we have on the property we need to take those out as part of project those cost money and lots of areas on the trails a lot of the trails that is populated to be built so those things are part of project we've not put a dollar figure. >> mr. ramos remind me this left my mind i'm making up the number 3 how many patrol ranchers or staff. >> we call them other names we have 12 positions at this time
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and includes the supervisors and some of them live on the property with 24/7 coverage. >> so does that mean 3 at any one time. >> we'll like to have 3 more than that and breakdown the water shed into zones they check if with the heights and doing everything we can with the people we have on this day we have three or four. >> so you've got one for every 6 or 7 thousand aches. >> they get around with the transportation but cover other areas that we don't manage the county does a great job with covering that issue things happen we have help to respond and things happen we had a fire
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started on 280 started with a chain on the highway and run up to the school on the eastern ended and helicopters and fire trucks it was a big deal staff responded quibble we have a calfire was handled well those things happen quickly. >> the local responders is san mateo fire as you in this case it is calfire they jump on it anyone that is here jumps on it we have a give you a little bit of background relationship with calfire we get - thank you come up on something quickly and
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nooesh if someone comes up on a fire quickly they'll respond. >> i respectfully say based on what we're heard having you go back with our staff and maybe speaking with general manager kelso at least as we make those discussions relationship to resolution and relative to the amendments we have a ball park number of knowing what we're urging you and ourselves to do as to cost because you've told us this body that it is not in our budget that it will have additional costs costs that we're going to be no out years and move faster not as responsible of us to send this to the full board unless a ball park number of what we're
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talking about. >> i'll do my best to get that has quickly as we can. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam chair it is i suggest that putting this out of committee after years of discussion on this issue with members of the public with the public works i'm concerned personally met with the puc about banning the recreational assess so any suggestion like the puc has been cut out of progress or the puck cut out of the progress no basis to say that what this resolution a anniversary binding resolution and if you look at the language it uses supervisor peskin if you've seen this based on your
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comments this resolution in and of itself this is unlocking the gates and opens up the water shed for recreational assess on its own we're opening up tomorrow and that's not accurate you, you look at the language non-binding policy resolution what it does that urges the puc to do xyz and urges the puc to consider banning assess and urges the puc to evaluate the feasibility of expanding assess it urges the puc to work and collaborative in san mateo county and other agencies it urges the puc to consider possible routes possible routes for public assess so this is no a resolution in and of itself just throws on the
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impasse but to push the puc to continue others process that frankly is already started to consider and elevate ways to expand public assess in a public way the puc is required to do not a super process for the puc and the public will absolutely be involved in helping to flush out the results of that evaluation and that collaboration. >> in terms of money again, this resolution does not for the puc force the puc so spend money and not presuppose who is going to be financially responsible one 19, envision with the san mateo community in terms of bearing the costs in my view
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this should happen not only on the puc funning the san francisco public works itself is not a reservation agency but charged with the water supply and others responsibilities and does a superb job discharging those and the puc understandably expands the recreation assess because the puc core responsibility is managing the water supply we at the board of supervisors has to do to take into account the recreational needs of public so ultimately that is why we're considering this at the board of supervisors so colleagues i think this as begun introduce a significant progress and supervisor avalos in proposing those amendments
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we've adapted bent over backwards those amendments don't add new assess i could see if all of a sudden this dramatically increased why a continuance it appropriate what it does is soft else's not a supplemental and not a substantive amendment is it so scaling back so colleagues i don't see a reason to keep this going. >> so i won't belabor this but on the board of supervisors 10 months and this is the fit it's been before this committee and not discussed by the board. >> there's no question this
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area of policy has come to the board of supervisors every decade or so for the last generation and maybe we can have mexico pay for it and if we send to the full board with the currentcy involving the public and hearing from our puc staff is not extend i will respectfully descents. >> thank you very much the first motion by supervisor peskin and the seconds by supervisor wiener to recommend to full board. >> i will respectfully ask for september 27th for the
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conditional retail if people want more time and i'll receive a lot of amends on bosses for the people unable to attend and provides the feedback. >> the motion. >> the motion to forward as amended sobdz for the september 27th. >> so m /* madam clerk. >> on the motion. >> to continue is one week. >> i for supervisor peskin supervisor wiener no supervisor cowen. >> no. >> the matter. >> to continue to the measure
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for september 27th. >> roll call vote. >> on the motion for the 27. >> supervisor peskin no. >> supervisor wiener supervisor cowen that item passes. >> passes. >> all right. much madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> there's no further business. >> all right. ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your time and we're adjourned .
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>> (clapping.) >> in 2013 san francisco legislators newsom agreed to allow the reciprocate of our soft story buildings those building house one and 20 thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have the first earthquake retrofit a huge success we're repeating this model what we've done it put together venues that are time professionals and contractor are financing institutions a other services that help people comply with the
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retrofit and as you can see the thousands of members of the public their assessing over one hundred vendors to comply with the ordinance or make improvements on their property i came to get specification information and puck h picking up information if you don't know what twaur doing i take it overwhelming. >> we're pleased a critical mass of people are keying into knowing their relents and understanding what had are the next steps to take and they're figuring out who to talk to not only the contractor by the mustards and the architect and the structural engineers and getting the full picture of what options are necessary and being pro-acti pro-active. >> so i'm very pleased to see the soft story buildings 99.9
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percent complies the highest of the program of this scale of the history a citywide effort high blood pressure in every stretch of san francisco to understand real risks associated with earthquake and those are universally agreed on. >> at some point you need to gather information i'll be talking to another engineer to come out and take a look at it and basically get a second opinion i'm for second and third opinions it is inspiring to see all the property owners that want to do the right thing and for proactively figuring out what the solutions to get them that. >> what is amazing to me here we are over two years of first retrofit fair and at the time we are rh2 out to contractors to help us and reaching it out to
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design professionals that soft story buildings is in any and people understanding how to comply now it is different an industry that springs up as a result of the - their professed and gotten the costs down with lower financing options and these are defined and now the gene progression and have the buildings are buildings and the compliance we understand the 2020 one and 20 thousand san francisco's 15 messenger of our population will live in a retrofit building those people buildings or lives in buildings with 5 or more residential building is soft story and wood frame and built before 1978 that house that one and 20 thousand san franciscans. >> san francisco is being the leader in getting in done and as
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you may know los angeles passed their retrofit law two months ago at the sort of taken san francisco's lead on the one and tenth anniversary as the residents san francisco this is a road map to the city and going to give us us plan are these to keep folks here on a disaster and steps to build a resident waterfront by 2020. >> this involves more than one and 80 individuals and over 60 nonprofits and other companies this is a huge plan and what are the challenges we realize that people are concerned about climatic change, sea level rise and not only the affiliated hazards but things hike you're our amp infrastructure and consumed by social and other things we see this in society everyday and how we try to
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mitigate those are ultimately a direct result how resident we are after earthquake other issue out of the strategy of the concept after a major earthquake of keeping 95 percent of population here in san francisco that's the single best thing to help a equitable recovery to keep people here keep people back to work and kids in school and a residents of normal after a disaster. >> alliance energy in our partner undertook comprehensive bid process we interviewed a half-dozen of folks who wanted to have a part of our soft story buildings are ordinance so alliance energy project programming is a clean assess energy a special financing that is done using the taxed
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authority of local multiples and one of the interesting features the loan is tied to the property not the vital if an individual didn't have good credit but it is another option for people not able to comply to find another avenue the assessment is actually places on the property and the builds for in that come literally a line item on the tax bill that's how you pay off the segment and tax. >> 20 or thirty years is all paid up front there are advantages your property tax well it is important to give people on option and many private banks that provide loans over a are shorter term we wanted to create a longer pay back term. >> i think the next step for
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property owners after at the create themselves to take the plunge and quit the working downey done and have works of work done right of the right rest of the property owners can understand this process across the city. >> we need to do it. >> it is safety you know that's the bottom line safety. >> earthquake safety a everybody's responsibility that is providing the resources that people need to get done if you want to know more of the resources as a san franciscan please visit the the meeting w
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order. this is vision zero committee for thursday, september 15, 2016. i apologize in the delay for the start time. just finished a gao committee meeting. i'm supervisor normal yee and joined by david campos and supervisor kim is unable to join ust us today. the committee clerk is steve stamos and the committee like to acknowledge sfg tv who record each meeting and are jim smith and mark [inaudible] before we begin , motion to
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excuse jane kim from the committee meeting? okay. any objection? motion passed. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> there are no announce ments. >> so, why don't we start with item number 2? >> alright. item 2, approve the minutes of the june 30, 2016 meeting. this is actioniteal. item >> could i have a motion, please? no objection the motion passes. >> take a roll call vote on this. public comment >> public comment on the minutes for june 30th? no public comment. public comment is closed. and- >> roll call vote.
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commissioner campos, aye. commissioner yee, aye. the minutes are approved. >> okay. item 3, please >> item 3, recommend approval of the resolution urging the legal of california cities to adopt and implement vision zero to eliminate strafic deaths and priorities safety throughout california. this is action item. >> okay. so, there will be a meeting of the league of california cities, right? >> i'll give background. league meets every year. they are meeting this year in long beach it is october 5, 6 and 7. >> your name? >> sorry, kate breen, director from sfmta. the meeting has only this ruzlution which is interesting and sponsored by the city of san jose with the formal support of san francisco t freemont, west hollywood,
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santa monica, sacramento and san diego. i think having the support from the transportation authority would be important and hoping but not assuming that something that seems-it should be so easily supported it isn't always a slam dunk when you take it to other arenas so ask for your support. >> okay. i certainly will be supporting this, of course and it is important that we have additional supporters to let the cities know that we have teeth behind this. so, at this point any questions? no questions. then is there public comment on this particular item? come on up.
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>> good afternoon. cathy delukea the policy and program manager with walk san francisco and here to urge you to pass this resolution, urging the league of california cities to adoptsition zero. we think it will go along way to support the local efforts here and think it is really important for san francisco to have a strong presence at the meeting so we can talk about our vision zero work and answer questions, so i know you are already going this way but urge you to support it. thank you. >> and for the audience that don't know this san francisco is a vision zero city. where we have passed this policy a few years back and the city has taken this very seriously and hoping that we can center the rest of california share this type of vision that is
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important to our pedestrians. um, okay--so, any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion on this? >> yes, if i may chair yee, i do think it is a great idea to get the league of cities to do this and i think i'm hoping that it won't be too heavy a lift and make as great deal of sense so make a motion to move this item with positive rementdation >> no objection the motion passes. item 4. >> item 4, vision zero communication outreach updailt. this is information item. >> okay. >> good afternoon. john nox, acting manager for sfmta. we wanted to come and give a quick
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overview of the communications work and education work we have been doing on behalf of vision zero. presentation. mument media will stop along the way to play a couple things as well. knowing we are a little-- our communications campaign is really about culture change. it isn't just behavior change it is changing culture. san franciscos culture to one that embraces and demands safety. this takes a shift in public perception. seeing things in a broader perspective than just one belaveier to change but understanding that cultural change takes time and we need to understand a lot more about
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what it will take. at the end of the day, our current goals are to insure people understand traffic safety is a problem on our streets but it doesn't have to be this way and a result of changes we make personally and also demanding policy and change in the communities. we know what are the root problems that are data driven and look at and identify what is happening on the streets and know a lot of the solutions so there is a way forward. it isn't a hopeless traffic is a problem. helping encourage people to get to the point where death in the streets not only saves lives but see it a more livable place for them sevl squz place they like to be. just came from the prowalk, probike conference and there was a discussion about the happy city. place where people want to be and feel good being in there. is and we need to work together as a broad community to achieve
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this. i wanted to-sorry. there we go. just quick-it stops here, safe streets sf. we were awarded the an award by the tucademy of interactive and visual arts in the social responsibility category. partner ship with department of public helthd, police department and city of san francisco and many others. i want to take a minute to recognize the work and celebrate the work we have done. this slide represents a lot of work currently hitting the streets now. you may have seen some of it. i provided the new outreach cards that came in today. some of the first people to receive them. we'll drop those by your officers so you can use them as well. um, let's see here--3
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months ago [inaudible] talked about the safe speeds campaign and we have created on the streets and want to take a couple seconds to ply the thirt second video. it is running in english, chinese and spanish. i will play the english here today. it is about 30 seconds long. >> my car will take all most twice as long to stop so once you cros the treat and didn't have time to stop. i tried. but i was going too fast. i caused this funeral. now i have to live with that. speeding is a leading cause of traffic deaths of san francisco streets. the speed limit is 25 for a resin. stick to the minute. learn more atsition zero sf.org. >> this was the result of a focus group that really we thousand dollar people were very surprised to find out speed was a impact in san
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francisco streets. everybody like the children of lake [inaudible] is above average driver so they can drive faster and control their car s and there a lack of understanding speed as a impact on the ability to stop in a physics sense. this campaign is really rolling out with the idea of trying to help people understand that even 5 miles a hour over the 25 mile hour speed limit doubles the chance you kill somebody if you hit them. this is a difference between 30 and 25. it is is accompnied by visual banner ads playing in san francisco. people who have been identified as likely drivers and people who are physically in the city of san francisco on cell phones, tablets and computers clicking on that will take you to vision zeeree sf page. supporting a lot of the radio and playing as we start the enforcement that will roll out
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next-go back. >> commissioner campos. >> quick question. very powerful. is it the same concept translated into spanish and chinese? >> it is on this one, yes. >> where is it playing? sort of like how many stations? >> it is playing on english during the drive time so times when people are driving not just in san francisco but into san francisco. the total traffic network is the english network, i cannot list all the stations, kqd is one of them but spanish is the same and -i'll have to send the specific stations. >> let me know the specific stations that will be great. >> happy to coo do that. >> good for you to give that information oo all our
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colleagues. >> absolutely, happy to do that. this campaign is also paired with high visibility enforcement. we will have starting in october police officers doing 132 hours of speed enforcement on high injury netdworks throughout the city. there will be one high visible enforcement every week on one corridor so it is moving throughout the city all parts the city will see this. it will likely be sergeant and up to 8 police officers any given time enforcing people driving through communities at high-speed. i want to-we will also have signage out there that is telling people what is happening so when they see people pulled over people are aware why. one thing we heard in the focus groups is people don't think speeding is a problem in because no gets a speeding ticket in san francisco. which brings to a
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slight side but important one which is equity. wroo t i know issues around enforcement and equity and social justice have come up a number of times. we are doing community outreach to make sure that they are aware what we are doing and make sure as we have high visibility enforcement in the larger enforcement operations going into communities there is a awareness what we are doing and worked with the community so make sure it is done in a way that is received positively because we want to make all communities receive the benefit the enforcement and don't want to do it there but very sensitive there are issues. part of our communications research was to fund a white paper on equity and vision zero through the vision zero net work. the draft is in comment circulation but center that in the next week or 2 and circument. two
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items is insureing we are aware of the impact of safety enforcement done tin communities especially athround national conversation and local conversation relate today enforcement and also the impact of the citations and fines and fees that are charged when people get tickets and are work wg sfpd as a mart part of the program to make sure diversion programs and others are readily available and that people are aaware there are ways if don't want to pay the citation but have trouble paying the citation to pay off the citation and not have it-we never want a speed citation to be a trade off between feeding jour family and paying because you were driving too fast. on a higher level this is the first of our outdoor media, the kill with kindness, not with collisions. part of the broader vision veero plesage and it does rnt have to be this way message. this again focus
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groups were very positive on this image. they really liked the fact it seemed to talk about the vulnerability of pedestrians without blaming anybody for that. they also liked the idea of it being asperational. we have founds in all the focus groups people are very proud of san francisco and really-not a surprise, but we are a place that people want to be great and so the more we can not chide but call on san franciscans to stand up and take pride and make safer streets people react very well with that. >> are these the bus stops? >> yes. is this just in english? >> this is currently in english only. we will have a chinese and spanish campaign as well. i'll explain why we had the that in a second because it is very important to this.
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additionally, we have the second campaign which is more of a problem in making the human connection. i want to be clear this is stock footage, not san francisco and not a real person t is a model but we are working with a number of families. possible up to 3 to actually take photo's at intersections where they lost loved ones and developed these images and agreed to let them [inaudible] this is a very emotional and personal issue and so can't share where we are at but hoping in the next couple weeks to have that and we'll start to put those in the neighborhoods and around the areas where these collisions are happening. so, another campaign is the year of speed. the department of public health was successful getting a safety grant for antispeeding campaign. part of that program was some posters up and mta garages, reminding people that are out on the streets and had
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a good time, they are dribeing out of that neighborhood and returning to where they are and remember that there are other people just like them in the community wanting to have a good time. we are not just doing advertising, we are also in the community talking to people. this is one of our other-we are doing outreach in chinese, spanish and english. one thing we are doing is collecting video stories from people talking about safe streets to share through the social media outlets. this takes a couple second said s to load up. >> [speaking spanish]
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>> as our outreaches team erize out we talked to over 1500 people one on one how they feel on the street right now to envision streets where they feel safe and trying to envision if they are not feeling safe in the higher injury network streets what would that street feel like if it felt safe. trying to help people in vision not only there is a problem but there is a direction to go and they can think of places where safe streets exist and see it is possible. when you look at behavior change theory people have to really believe in their soul it is possible before they are willing to take the steps whether it is advocacy or slowing down. before they are willing to take the steps to make the changes. we are working oen partnership. we have a pilot running through this year and looking for small business partners who are going to be displaying vision zero
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and safe streets at their business squz hopefully also offering freebees. small tokens of gratitude while people meet the outreach team. everybody is getting a reflective vision zero sf things and so if you go to to the copy shops partnering maybe you get 25 cents off a cup of coffee. we are working hard that it isn't just about free stuff. we are scg the business partners to make some sort of statement whether it is putting our materials at the front counter so people are really starting to see, it is not just the government or the advocates it is everybody at every leevl. level. >> quick question. we have dozens and dozens of community based organizations we work with and it is not just transportation but all of the city agencies that fund many of
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these groups and work with them, is there a idea of actually having every 1 of the community based organizations that has a relationship with the city putting out information about vision zero? >> absolutely. i think we are two slides away from that. i also want to point out in the bottom slides, this is safe streets for seniors program, which kicked off this year engaging seniors in really becomes actively involved and advocating for safe streets in the communitiesfelt we are funding safe routes to school, bike education classes for adults and children, walk to work week, we do promotion around that as well. we are trying to engage in partnerships with private organizations. we talked to
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1500 residents and the goal is talk to 2 thousand by theened the year and doing that in multiple languages and throughout the city. >> when you do talk to the 2 thousand people, is it to get information or to educate them? >> i would say the primary is educate them and engage in thinking about safe streets but also are collected feed back about what they are hearing which is sent to the communications team and if issued are raised we pass them along whether enforcement or engineering folks. >> is there a subhch sub-set of people you talk to that are young people like high school kids? >> i will say the answer is yes . we are not picking and choosing who we are speaking to in a given space. we are not
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going out specifically and speaking directly to youth groups. we are engaging them through some of the speakers training that we are doing. i think the youth commission had a number of people who went through that so looking to do that and work with public health and the school district. the school district sits on the education subcommittee and very involved. we have coordinating meeting once a month with mta and public health to get the vision zero language out to parents and students. alright. just a example of some of the social media we are doing. we are tweeting and putting things on facebook daily. we are trying
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to engage both in the there is a problem and are solution jz also celebrate successs the city has and increasing our partnerships throughout the city to tell the stories of the various agencies that are supporting vision zero work. the speakers bruro training. we have a goal by the end of the year to have trained 250 community based organization leaders in how to talk about vision zero to engage in vision zero and to go back totheir group jz talk to their groups about vision zero. the idea is not bring people and tell them what vision zero is and hope they talk to people, but looking for people coming in spirfckly because they want to talk to their groups. we held i think 8 speaker bureaus training so far to date, we have one in chinese and spanish
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held in october and will continue a monthly training as we move forward to insure we not just get as many people in as possible but as new people come to the table we bring those people in. we are also using the training as a way to build communications networks so as we have calls to action or good information we can actually-we have a network to reach out to not only to share the news with but who have networks of their own they can then share that news as well. in addition, 19 agencies and departments in the city have gone through the trainings as well. over 60 city staffer were trained in order to talk to coworkers and also community groups on this. um, so lastly, we have our research and talked about berkeley media studies and used written media as a proxy for community conversations to determine how people are talking about
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traffic safety for the first time ever we have actually worked with them for their first time ever. they are doing a chinese media analysis. we just received our first nlsh report last friday, which will help us develop cultural comp tent creative for the vision zero chinese language campaign. it is very important not just to try to translate the english language, campaigns based on english language focus groups, we are findsing cultural differences in the way people talk about traffic safety. they did try to do analysis of spanish written media and think to everybodys surprise couldn't find articles about local traffic problems in the spanish media in san francisco. we are looking to fund hopefully research into radio and television to see where that is happening, the
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few storeies they found were much of a state and regional level and dealt with issues coming up in san hosay or the region as well. the subcommittee on education we talked about thampt there are cultural reasons for that, but we are planning to do more research to make sure we develop campaign materials and messages that are speak toog the people that they are hearing and not assume because we talk to 24 people who are english speakers that those who spend much of their lives speaking spanish that is where they are engaging and coming from the same place. and that --quick wrap up. we have the chinese and spanish language campaigns developed through this fall and hopefully launch as we go into the new year. we are updating awareness campaign so the its stop here campaign is continued to put out and continue to be put out and
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looking to developing new images around that. the education strategy has the pedestrian yield safe speeds and hopefully turning at intersections campaign will lead for years to come so we are really continuing to make sure people are aware of these issues and starting to take them in. we are starting new educational programs and materials. there is a new call for projects done for safe streets for seniors. families for safer streets. we are doing grassroots funding, mini grant contracts to fund groups to talk in their community about speed and effect of speed. and also we were successful receiving a new ots grant for motorcycle safety campaign which is the first time we have done education around motorcycle safety which is a very large prbl. more people die on motorcycles ever
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year than on bicycles every year in san francisco. we kill kick that off this fall. with that, any questions? >> i have a-just curious, the education written material outreach, are you-i don't know if this is a problem or not or-but with these what do you call the-they are like taxi. >> tnc >> it seems like sthra lot of the drivers and seem like [inaudible] would it make any sense to do outreach with these companies to ask them to also be part of the solution? like give the information to any new drivers they recruit? >> absolutely. we started
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those conversations. we have been in conversation with lift and uber about driver training programs . lift hopefully will roll out this fall agreed to offer all their drivers driving safely around people who bike and walk. the bike coalition helped develop the content and think it is good. uber is in the midst of developing that content and working i believe with bike coalition, walk san francisco and sfmta to at least get comments and also i know that they had a meeting with director riscon. i can't there so won't try to comment. it is on our radar and looking for ways to partner with them. >> another group might be tougher, but to maybe have discussion with the car rental companies also?
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>> that is on our list. we have so many things going we had to prioritize. we haven't-every time we look into issues where we think out of town dreeurfbs are a big cause, i mean people not coming from the county bay area, we haven't found a huge amount. we surprise ourselves when the cable cars who are stopped must be out of town because they don't know and it turns out the citations are given for people in san francisco. we have efforts with the rental car companies but prioritization and staff resources it is on the things to do but haven't started. >> one last thing, in regards to posters, are there any plans to-every driver-all most every driver unless they are electric will go to gas stations. will
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there be postings at gas stations? >> we have been looking to use the digital networks mptd it is a little more complicated than we initially thought but hoping next spring to be doing some messaging around that in those areas. definitely. a lot of the gas pumps have the screens that show commercials on it so we are looking to produce content possibly for that. >> or even having those signs put in their wall or whatever. >> absolutely. that is something i think we will-i'll go back after the meeting and make sure the outreach team is look toog do that. people who drive in san francisco, the digitalcome pains done one way that they can determine whether somebody drives is whether they are buying gas on their credit card. one of the creepier parts the technology companies out there but we are table to
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target our ads to people we know are drivering. we don't know. i have no idea who sees the ador what they are doing, i want to be clear about that. but, that is who will directly receive our anti speeding campaigns is people we have a high belief are driving in san francisco because they are here. >> okay. thank you. any public comments on this matter? or did-no. seeing no public comments, public comment is closed. thank you for the presentation and information. call item number 5. >> iletm 5, vision zeer a projects and initiatives. this is information item. >> mr. maguire. >> good afternoon. tom maguire. sustainable streets dreblther ota director at
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sfmta. vision zero.org where we put up a map portal showing all the high priority vision zero project frz the two year period. when we came in june we talked about prioritizing 57 projects that will reach mile stone squz completed in the next 2 years and will give a update especially things that got done and things on the horizon for completion this fall. talk about the next vision zero 2 year action strategy and maybe ask kate bren to give a update on the law enforcement. >> last june we have a on line portal mapping all the
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projects. per the request we got from you, we also put in a downloaded table so people that don't want to click through the map can download the procts and get the latest and greatest information about where the projects are. highlights that took place this summer. we began construction on the masonic avenue streetscape project. [inaudible] tame traffic on a north/south street and aprive muni connectivity and aortbig thing we completed this summer, we installedal and turned out 4 radar speed back signs in your district supervisor yee, [inaudible] finally we cuck pleated construction of a new road and east bound bike lane on golden gate avenue. golden
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gate avenue, while we fulfilled the mile stone we said we would meet we know from the first few months it probably will need more attention. we had violation of cars driving in the vike bike lane and continue to monitor that and look to make that more robust this fall. a few other projects in the interest of transaerns to talk about things we hoped we will get done this summer but in the fall instead. a few of the projects are slipping just most by a month or two, but will be done within this two year timeframe. broadway streetscape project we will break down next week. we hoped to get that started last month but will happen in september. the sutter street and webster street projects both are linked
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to much bigger utility and repaving projects as often the case in san francisco quh you try to fix utilities we pave the road and introduce traffic calming safety measures and sometimes find things under er the road you don't expect. we believe we will be a nunth or two behind butd will get them done this winter. this fall we have things on the list we are excited to get done. [inaudible] bicycle and pedestrian network will be putting in the bike lanes and pedestrian treatment and [inaudible] we will get that done early fall ahead of scheduleism we have safe routes to school in the tenderloin. church street between larkin and hide, two high crash locations and make the streets
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much safer and break glound on the polk street streetscape projects. as you said last time our list of projects is not just infrastructure. we have communications work john knox led us through. the most exciting thing happened in august is for the first time sfpd was able to meet the focus the 5 goals. in august 50 percent were issued for the 5 violations. that cause the most injurys and fatalities. it is great to see sfpd upping their game. we hope they will be able to continue that. couple other updates here. i won't go through all in detail, we have a few things coming up this fall including a
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motorcycle education campaign. motorcycle safety is a important part of vision zero. disproportionly motorcycle riders fatalities and injurys considered how small a portion of traffic they make up in san francisco. backbone data and analysis to update high injury network and get the injury surveillance system up and running so we see the all those injurys coming through and understand the full scope of the safety issue. skip this slide and ask kate to come up in a moment. this is updating action strategy. hard to believe two years ago we came here to tell you about the first two year action strategy that kicked off in the spring of 2015. stwing of 2017 is coming up so need to refresh
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the stratany. we will meet to refresh the list in the fall and have a new list to bring in early 2017 and make sure we have engagement with folks outside the city family. it is important it doesn't knb come a echo chamber among the agencies so will discuss at the vision zero task force meetings where we meet with the city agency squz hold a public meeting october 11 at city hall and that is a opportunity for anybody to get involved in san francisco. can you show up, share views where the city should put their injury and what ish oo ish issues to take on and have a opportunity for people to participate on line. next week we have our task force meetding where we meet with non city stakeholder jz get the publics view on how things are going with vision zero. october 11 is taskforce
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meeting and another meet ging [inaudible] >> thank you for your report and also want to thank sfmta for doing projects that are not on the list that are completed i guess with these interactive speed radars in district 7. people are really happy about those. >> glad to hear it. >> okay, thank you. >> can i have my colleagues talk about the [inaudible] >> you may. >> good afternoon, kate breen, sfmta. we talked about the topic at veryious time squz think it is a good time to reflect at the end of the two year session that changing state law takes time and it is really only with sort of constant leadership and
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unwavering support on this particular issue from both the transportation authority, the board of supervisor jz the mayor collectively we are able to continue to make progress. so, i thank you for that. really the work that we are doing on this and i'll just take this afternoon to share we are at, it is a campaign. we are guided working with the transportation authority staff and our own organization along with the advocates we meet on a biweekly basis to stay on track with the campaign we developed thmpt campaign itself is framed at with a solid understanding where historically the opposition on the use of cameras for enforcement lies and having those conver sations now. having those conversations obviously we started this last year, but we were not able to get a author in the past session. the session is over and looking towards a new two
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year legislative session and despite the fact august was a busy time for members of the legislature there were organizations we chose to sit with early enough so we can hear their concerns and issues and do we have a place to reach an agreement and despite that busyness they expressed gratitude we were starting this early. when i say this early i feel i have been doing this a long time but resetting the clock toward the next session. i note as a side the transportation authority staff shared with us their tracking of vision zero interest and note there is complete alignment with the san francisco municipal transpor tation authority and over the past session that fall into the category of vision zero. looking forward we know the legislature has a macro interest in better road safety and safety for road users, it is trying to fit our efforts on
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vision zero and particularly on automated speed enforcement into that framework rather than having it seen as a out lier proposing. the action that you took earlier today relative to support for the league on vision zero is a example of the kind of state wide effort we will need to establish a foundation of support with organizations that are either neutral or already in our camp so when legislation does come forward that is vision zero supportive, we have the ground work laid to go back to the the organizations and get them to weigh in. i'm happy to share more on the campaign. >> on that note, a number of us san francisco has seats on regional transportation agencies that also have their own legislative agendas, mtc,
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golden gate bridge and others are we talking to them to make sure they are making the issues priorities as they push in sacramento and dc? >> we are doing . we asked for including support for vision zero related legislation in their legislative program and will do the same again this year. i like your suggestion about golden gate bridge. they run the bridge so have highway interests as well. i will make a specific point to reach out to that organization as wem. thank you. >> thank you. >> there are 4 that sit on the board. >> on golden gate bridge. ? great. thank you. >> your out reach to discuss the speed- >> automated speed enforcement?
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>> yeah, what are the concerns you are hearing. >> you know, it is interesting, palot of the concerns are ones that sort of follow this iges issue. they center to do with privacy and data collection. those issues seem to be not as the forfront now and the at mosphere has changed around priferbacy. the fundamental issue tooz responds to is this a tool that proven that is about changing behavior and not about raising revenue or generating revenue for the general fund or for any other purpose other than covering the cost of the program and the to the extentd above and beyond put it [to safety investment. i would say that is number one. it is dependent what organization you are talking about, but traditionally motorist organizations have not
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been supportive, but if you sit down and talk about where those concerns lie, you start to peal back the presumptions and preexisting positions that are not necessarily founded in fact. it st. the work to be done is the education that we have to do that is i think starting to make a difference. >> appreciate your effort and ever time we drive across the bridge and use fast track or whatever there is the same information that is collected anyway. >> thaurng. thank you. >> did i ask for public comment on this? come on up. >> good afternoon again commissioners. cathy delukea from walk san francisco. um, we are excited to see all the projecktds that are breaking ground and all the amazing
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communications work that being done around vision zero. i didn't speak about that but we are excited to see the vision zero message getting across the city and raise aing awareness and hopefully change thg culture this is in our control. on the flip side, disappointed to see projects are delayed still. we have no time to waste, we are not getting closer to goal. disappointed we haven't got ase passed and worked on this with the city and still working hard but we really need this tool. we are look frgward to the two year action strategy. hopefully it will give a chance to change course and adjust what we are doing to pick things that are really having a impact so look forward-the department of public health is evaluating vision zero so looking what we are doing and what is working and not and hopefully we can use that data it be effective because we got to move. i
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would say anything you can do to help us move in your districts or as a city, we really need your leadership. >> thaurng. any other pub luck comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item number 6. >> item 6, mayors executive directive on achieving vision zero. this is information item. >> good afternoon. luis, montoya the liverable streets director with sfmta. i want to talk about the mayors executive director. 19 people lost their lives on san francisco streets so far this year. june 22, we experienced two particularly horrific deaths of two woman bicycleing. one in golden gate park and one south of market area. in response to these
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ongoing the persistent traffic deaths we see, the mayor issued the executive directive to refocus our efforts to give us specific goals to focus on in the near term and also make sure that we are focusing on the areas where the two women were killed. there are 13 areas and range from safety infrastructure on the streetss to also the education work you heard about today as well as making our city vehicles safer and making sure we educate our city workers. i want to talk about the various infrastructure measures in the executive directive. starting out the mayors has really set the bar high for us. saying we should be installing the highest achievable safety measures on the high injury networks. the high injury
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netdworks are the areas of san francisco where we know we have collision problems and we really need to make sure we are investing in the insfru infrastructure. the mayor asked to increase the annual goal of mileage of saelft infrastructure on the streets from 13 miles to 18 miles. this is specific goal in the executive directive around protected bikeways to implement 3 projects in the near term for producted bikewaysism we are shooting for a number of more projects . this shows 13 miles of existing protective bikewaysism we have projects in the pipeline in soma, on the boarder with the mission, and these are really the-air eyes where we see a lot of craushs and growing bicycle in volume and want to take quick action to get the protective bikeways
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on the streets. here are updates on projicts we hope to take to the board this fall. they are under interdepartmental review. we are haveic a public meeting for 7th and 8th street promect later this month and work with neighbors on the rest the projects in the next coming mupths. >> can i ask a quick question? how do we get-i'm interested getting more protective bikeways in district 9, how do we do that and encourage you to make sense to so many people the mission and district 9 and bruno height saz priority, how do we make that happen? >> we is a plan here and don't have a slide on it for investment in bicycle infrastructure throughout san francisco especially in the mission where there is a lot of bicycleing and collisions mptd our approach is to pick the
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corridors where we know want people to bicycle and go corridor by corridor and work with neighbors to figure the most appropriate solution for those streets. i would say we will come to your office with our plans for investment in your district and have the conversation how to work with neighbors to figure how to get protective bikeways on the streets. >> great, we look forward to doing that, just let us know when i reedy to go. >> great. thank you. aums the silet also site of a tradagy june 22 is golden gate park. golden gate park is a tresh frr san francisco. a place for people bring their families from all around the region and the world. but the streets there are designed to allow speeding in many cases. they are overly wide or where there is not parking on the week days
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or evenings we see folks speeding through. we want to work with park stakeholders and neighbors around the park and rec and park department on a hol istic plan to reduce speeding throughout the park and also reduce it as a attractive cut through for folks who are maybe cutting between the richmond and sunset or going east and west. as a near term measure as we kick off the larger conversation for safety in the park we will move forward immediately with a plan for speed humps on the western segment of jfk. where mrs. mills was killed. this is where we know there is speeding and we can do something because speed humps are very effective and proven to reduce speeding. we are doing what we can and hope to have the speed humps installed in november.
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>> how many? >> ten. >> where would it be again? >> we are focus the first 10 speed humps between transverse and the great high way. and then like and said, through the communeky community process we will diss discuss if speed humps are appropriate for other parts of the park and other measures we can do throughout the park as well. also, as part the executive directive we are directed to do special analysis about the vulnerable street users youth, seniors and people with disabilities. where do the folks get hit and what can we do to help them? this will dove tail with programs we are doing with outreach. safe streets for seniors program which is ongoing and has funding thanks
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to add backs from the board of supervisor jz safe routes to school partnership which works with the school community educate children and families and school stakeholders. this analysis will-along with outreach from those programs will advise the capital projects. where to do the safety invest ment, how to direct the safety programs to address the specific need of these vulnerable users. and lastly for today, just that the mayor calls to make sure we are transparent and that we are irk work wg communities on all these initiatives, so we will give regular project updates through this committee, but also on our website, through our board, making sure we give regular update ons the near term initiatives we are directed to achieve but also to
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give folk as chance to weigh in and share how we can do this better. thank you. >> okay. commissioners campos? >> quick question. i know i have >> to run quickly, but i thank you to the mayor for the directive-executive directive. and that covers all city and countyagys and employees but doesn't cover all the government agencies, so wondering whether or not we have approached superintendent of schools, 115 schools. they have transportation and a number of things as well and also city college, the chancellor of whether we have asked them to issue a similar directive? >> yeah, that is a great idea. we have been work wg other like
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the port and other related groups but you are absolutely right, working with those groups is great. >> thank you. any public comment on the item? come on up, jans. >> commissioners thank you so much for putting this on the agenda for today. obviously the event of june 22 were very difficult for everyone who lived in san francisco and there was a out cry of anger and frustration and lot of feelings that came out that i was copied on and you should have seen my inbox, about 1500 e-mails including 200 hand written letters to the mayor and so after a month long of conversations with the mayors aufs along with sfmt a and orelt others we are thrilled the mayor has taken a step but we know the hard work only begins now and incumbent on all
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to make sure the commitments are seen through and very pleased at what luis presented to hurry up the projects. i think that is what we hear most is there a real need for the city to be more nimble and more responsive so we are glood glad to hear there is very data driven effort to make sure there is a comprehensive and strong way to make sure our streets are changing for the better and not just small changes but thinking about next generation of what our street design infrastructure can look like. so, i think here is the trying to figure out where the ta and commissions or board of supervisors can move the pieces forward and insureing [inaudible] are taken care of whether through legislation [inaudible] we appreciate your xhilt and the discussion he