>> good morning. and welcome to the monthly meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority, i'm scott weiner, the chair of the authority. and mr. clerk will you please call the roll? >> all right, item one, roll call. >> avalos? >> here. >> breed, present. >> campos chl >> present. >> cohen. >> present e >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim absent. >> mar. absent. >> peskin. >> present. >> tang. >> present. >> weiner. >> present. >> yee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you very much. and before going any further i want to thank sfgov tv, for

broadcasting today's hearing. and item two, please? >> item two, chair's report, this is an information item. >> thank you. colleagues, this has been an exciting month for the transportation authority. last friday i was very happy to join with commissioner kim's office to to the cal tran and the chp, and the federal highway administration, and the metropolitan commission, and this was the first major capitol project delivered by the traness powertation authority. and the new ramps provide safe access, and are the first of many infrastructure projects planned for the treasure island and yerba buena island, i want to con gr congratulate the director, and for competing the 98 million dollar project on time and on budget. and i also would like to congratulate cal trans in the

opening of the bike and the pedestrian an path, connect tg to the island on sunday. and this regional link was much anticipated on by many people. and a lot of people are going to benefit from this improved access. and so this is no longer any dead ends and i want to thank the agencies that were involved in moving this forward. earlier this month, they were also, delighted when the federal department of transportation secretary fox announced the award of a 11 million dollar, innovaive technology and grant for san francisco and the projects funded by the grant will be implemented by the mta and the transportation authority with the support from uc berkeley, and including the development of the high occupancy lanes, and car pools. and many smart traffic signal or the smart traffic signals to reduce congestion and improve the safety and the electronic

toll system and the testing of three shuttles for treasure island, and i am excited to see these demonstration projects beginning to transform, the visions and in the practical solutions and i want to congratulate the mta and the transportation authority and thank, mayor lee and, leader pol for their support for this effort. i would like to thank the ta and the mta staff, michael swartz. and jones, for presenting an up date of the planning study at the board of supervisors land use and transportation committee last week, it was great to see the early thinking by the planners in the public including a lot of feedback on where the major rail and subway investment could make sense. and although, it is early and our plans are am ikz i am convinced as a city and a region, we must be forward looking in setting the transit that we want to pursue and i look forward to the completing

of the study, and when i offered it tapped into a lot of energy, in the committee and the people want more subways and i am glad that we are finally moving towards at least an initial study of where the future subway lines should go and of course, the hard work of planning and obtaining the funds and so with that, ic, conclude my remarks ad here he is. and i want to ask if commissioner mar would like to do a report out for the revolution conference that he attended earlier this month. at the hyatt just in time. he is by his microphone. it was a great conference, 1200 people, 75 speakers and great to hear from ed from the mta and the mtc and i think that for me, the most important parts were looking at transit authority and development and putting the e in to the tod or the equity and for real liveable cities.

and to really build more sustainable but also equitable for the low income people that the communities are protected. i think that amy really had the great perspective and really as usual, the transform staff like ramos and our mta commissioner did a great job integrating the great transit thinking with the housing development and land use policy. and i also wanted to say that a lot of the tours were pretty amazing for the visitors from around the country as well. and a great panel with christie wang from spur on housing and how we merge housing developments that is equitable with the transportation policy as well. and i wanted to last say that was a fun conference, and they, kind of wonky but building in lots of interesting ways to talk about complex and challenging policies. i think that kim, from the tech

crunch to many of the others, talked about the challenges with the innovation capitol of the world. the san francisco sil con, valley, bay area, but many other regions are looking towards us for how we do it right. and i wanted to at last say that i think that conferences like this are great for the networking but for me, it is like the synergism and the intersectionality of the work that a lot of people are doing and hats off to the organizers, especially the low income investment fund and others who really insuring that the vision of equity and social justice is integrated into the transportation planning, thank you. >> and thank you, commissioner mar. okay. i see no other names pish r withishing to speak, is there any public comment on item two? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an information item. item three? >> three. executive director's report. this is an information item. >> miss chang.

>> thank you. and commissioners before you today are three reports from my monththy report as well as two updates on the projects. first off at the federal level, good news on that safety front, the u.s. department of transportation has also announced its commitment to end traffic deaths with a launch of its road to zero plan to reduce and eliminate the traffic fatalities by 20 and in 30 years, and so in about 2046 and later, in october, we also saw support by the league of cities, which adopted a resolution, supporting vision zero initiative and it will require, consistent and unified advocacy from the california cities, including san francisco, la and san diego and, san jose, and so we are really thrilled with the developments at the federal and the state levels to support the local effort and to continue the collaboration that we have begun here locally. and another up date on the federal front is that the nation alien vier mental policy, and the delegation to the cal

transand the risk of expiring and this is back to 2007, when california was the first state to be delegated by the federal government, from the usdot, federal highway administration. but that sunset provision for the expiration date of that authority is january, 2017, and unfortunately, efforts to reup on that to extend that sunset, failed earlier, in this legislative session, however there is two more options. with the special session, that continues to late november. as well as potentially in the bill in december that will allow for the cal transto retain that delegate authority. and so meanwhile, we are supporting the advocacy, by the cal trans, for both of these options and we will work with the partners at the self-help counties to take action quickly and allow for the projects to continue unimpeded and without interruption. >> and so chair, weiner it you so much for coming and speaking again. and at our westbound, i80

celebration and it was a wonderful opportunity to highlight the new capacity and the new partnerships that we have developed as we have implemented this important project. it was very exciting and it was very festive and i would also like to recognize our past director, jose who worked together with lee and also, with eric, back then at that stage as well. and previous, administrations of the mayor's administration and our chair at the time, chair avalos and others before him. and so this has really been a wonderful long term effort and definitely will be the first of many connections to the treasure island, to come. regarding the resolution, conference, thank you mar for representing san francisco and for your deep involvement in so many of those topics as the topics that i think is really that truly is the value of those gathers that i find as well. and i was honored to moderate a panel on building, the brt partnerships and really putting in the brt and the context of

the streets and all of the disciplines that come together around affordability and access and land use, and urban design and safety in particular, and our principle planner, michael also presented on san francisco pioneering policies around the demand management and so it was a wonderful conference and to congratulate the organizers, and i also participated in a few panel and just wanted to let the board know about the its and the institute of transportation program, and it is a four campus collaboration for research and so we have been supporting that as well as the state wide, transportation, transit planning effort as well that is i am naturing for that led by ucla, it is a time in california where many local jurisdictions and the state wide institutions are trying to implement the new climate mandate, and all of our important transportation initiatives. >> locally the chair has mentioned some of the exciting

news about the usdot grant, and that is available for more information on our website. and press release there to describe some of those projects and the subway vision as well. is described further on the website, and we want to thank the public for their over 2600 submission and suggestions for what quarters we should be looking at and so that work will continue through the connect sf effort together with the planning department and sfmta and the regional partners. >> moving to the freeway side, our freeway quarter management study is making progress. we really want to spreesht v appreciate the commission staff, and the executive director, art and his project management lis for coming to our plans and programs committee and presented on their percent with the 580, and the 680 lanes and then we provided an up date on our study as well. and alternative concepts for the 280, 101, corridor should be available by the end of this year and it will be conducting

the out reach to the neighborhoods along the corridor, both local and regional travelers to hear their thoughts and questions about how we might better improve the reliability and efficiency for the transit, the buses and the trans, offer the service in the corridor as well as to the motorists who are trying to access san francisco, from the south bay. and the geary bus rapid transit project and the quarter improvement project where we are working with our federal partners who are roo he viewing the final document. and the last steps before we can release it is to obtain their approval in the next few weeks, following the release, we anticipate, holding a brt citizen's meeting in mid novemeber, where the citizens advisory committee can indicate its support for preferred alternatives and then, the next step would be for that decision to come to this body as well as the sfmta board and so we will continue to support this with an out reach, effort once the

environmental document is released. but we have been presenting along the way, updates on what we have heard what we have done in response to the tremendous, public input that we have received to date. and so, i encourage the folks to check out geary brt.org which is the website on the project. the related news on van ness is that we are entering doo construction, and so congratulations to the sfmta and the partner and the public works and the others on the milestone and over the next couple of weeks. there is going to be a few traffic changes and the public open house on october fifth to help to get the word out about the changes. and the signal timing and left turn removals and among those variable message signs will be used to notify motorists, and make sure that the drivers are aware of the change. and in addition, polk sfreet is expected to also, undergo its ground break and construction as well. and so these two projects should be completed by late, 2018, and

19, respectively. moving on with project delivery, the prop k, antip, program and the neighborhood transportation program is making great progress, and we saw for example, the out reach on lumbard street and we are going to continue that out reach and hold a second meeting in mid novemeber to share some of the findings and then continue to receive public input on the potential solution and on district nine, we presented the interchange study to the finance committee, this month. and we will be following up given how well those have been received, to date. by the community and we will be following up with commissioner campos's office to advance the capitol grant to facilitate implementation in the november december, cycle. >> in district one, we are happy to report that this work is complete, and the striped, bike lanes and so thank you, for commissioner for the leadership in the communities. >> thank you so much. >> your leadership on those and

it is exciting and our first capitol project and i think, that one of the first if not the first to be completed and look forward for the deputy is nodding yes and that is true, and you get to be first, district one. >> and in addition, we have on deck, the hair ball interchange, and planning study, which is the 101, bay shore, interchange study in district ten and so that will be presented to the finance committee where the commissioner cohen sits, and as well on wednesday, october 26th, tomorrow, the mta staff will be leading the first out reach meeting for the district eleven study. that we have been working with in the community. it is at 6:00 in the high skal, in room c. >> okay. and finally, just a quick up date on the mta's vehicles and the delivery of several new exciting subsuites.

one of the most important roles of the prop k sales tax is to provide a local match to mta and other operators for the vehicle. and so you will see in your report and the folks can find on-line an up date on where we stand on the lrvs and the articulated clek trollys and also on the hi brid, motor coaches and the mta reports that 95 percent, complete with the design of the new light rail vehicles and the first 24 of those will be coming for fleet expansion and delivery in late, 2017, and so thank you, again, president breed, and commissioner breed and all of you who have supported this procurement. and in addition on the bus side, and the mta has received, 60 out of the 74, articulated electric trollys and so hopefully the people have been seeing those around town. and they are great. and mta is also received, 144 out of the 307, hybrid diesel motor coaches on order. and so, it is great work on the

mta and to mta on that, on that progress. let's see, another item to report, is that we have conducted another joint training with mta and this is an initiative that we began last year year and so it is like the fifth training that we have done together where we have combined the staff from the agencies participating in the project management boot camp. and theyed there is to cover the fundamentals for the project management through construction to develop a common, vocabulary, and facilitate, the relationship building between our agencies and so they have been successful and popular with the staff and i want to appreciate, dr. reskin for his partnership, and eric for leading the end. >> and thank you and congratulations for the development, for fong for another year of clean audits and that is going to be coming to finance next month, along with the 7th straight, audit of the ybi ramp's project, and with

that icon include my remarks. >> thank you. >> thank you. and commissioner, mar do you have a question? or is that from before? >> okay. colleagues, and unless there are any questions, we will move to public comment, is there any public comment on item three? >> seeing none, public comment is closed and this is an information item. item four? >> item four, approve the minutes of the september, 27, 201 #, meeting this is an action item. >> are there any questions, comments or changes to the minutes? seen none, is there any public comment? seeing none, closed. could you call the roll on four? >> avalos. >> aye. >> breed. >> aye >> campos. >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> farrell. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> peskin. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> commissioner weiner. >> aye. >> commissioner, yee in >> aye. >> and then the minutes are

approved. >> okay. and item number five? >> item five, execute a memo of agreement with the treasure island development authority for the yerba buena island, vice ta point, operations services in an amount not-to-exceed, $500,000 through december, 31 gs, and negotiate the agreement terms and this is an action item. >> commissioner peskin? >> thank you chair weiner. and i was, i know that this was present in plans and programs. and quite frankly i cannot remember the answer. but i was just concerned that we were spending a half a million dollars on a temporary item that would be removed in less than two years from when it was built. so. i was cer yus as to why we are doing this. >> all right, miss chang? >> yeah, i might ask eric to elaborate on my response if i don't get it all. right. but commissioner, peskin thank you for the question, the idea here is to insure that we have a

safe and welcoming and receiving area for visitors to the island once the pass has opened and we wanted to be able to have permanent safety feature and there is some of that will be permanent and others of those services like some of the bathrooms and hydrations may be just for a limited period and theyed is to have a safe and a welcoming mra is for visitors and i will have eric add to that. >> yes, definitely. a great question commissioner peskin. and these are, they are temporary in nature, and these are maximum budget amount of 500,000 all the way through the end of 2018. and we are currently right now, working with the state of california, in the area of the toll authority to go ahead and institute some additional improvements in the area that frankly would put us in a position to send a lot less than 500,000, and so we are managing that accordingly with all of the stake holders. >> i might submit to you colleagues, that maybe when we have a smaller not-to-exceed amount, and i mean that i don't

want to say not-to-exceed half a million, when it should be not-to-exceed 200,000 or 300,000. why don't we wait until they narrow that amount down. and appropriate ate what needs to actually be appropriate ated. >> i am sorry, could you -- i don't think that i understand what you are suggesting. >> the operations and maintenance of the vita point include security. as well as just over all maintenance, and garage pick up as well as the shuttle. and so those have been budgeted for a maximum not-to-exceed of $ $500,000. and that is through december of 2018. >> what may occur, and which is very much likely, is that we will start construction in that area, which would put us in a position where we would stop these temporary service frz occurring. and start construction in the area in question. >> so, our thought process was

to make sure that we covered what would be the maximum through december, 2018. and so it could be a situation whereas early as the end of 17, that we will start construction and in the area there, and rebuilding the on and off-ramp structure and rebuilding the areas in question, there with the eastbound off-ramps. >> i appreciate it and in terms of what commissioner peskin was suggesting i was not fully understanding what you were suggesting. >> what i was suggesting is that in so far as this all seems to be in flux and this may be resolved in 17, i am just not sure why we are agreeing to execute an memo of agreement. when everything is still in flux. >> you are saying that it should be shorter. or a smaller amount for a shorter period of time? >> when the staff can tell us, what really is going to happen, then we should enter into the memo with much more fixed time flames and dollar amounts that was my point. >> did you want to add something?

>> certainly. commissioner peskin nour concern and your suggestion there. and perhaps we could limit the period of the mou to the spring and then come back to the board and provide an up date and then potentially extend that. i think what eric is referring to is the potential beginning of our west side, ramps yekt and also the interchange project that is literally before the state right now, in terms of decision about funding and so that will be very easy for us to do is come back in the spring and i would suggest that as a way forward. >> and so the 500,000 has already been budgeted and in our office, budget. >> yeah, it is running the shuttle and some of the security and the maintenance. >> it is budgeted as part of the project now, and the approximately, 2 million dollars has been budgeted for the temporary vista point of which one million comes from the authority and one million from the ybi ramps project. >> and so the suggestion is perhaps, executing the mlu through the end of april or the end of may, instead?

>> yes, we could do that, and come back and report and extend that at that time. >> okay. >> so, okay, great. so perhaps an amendment by the end of may and just to give the flexibility. >> and yes, that will be fine. >> and we will take that up after public comment. >> any other questions or comments? okay. and is there any public comment on item five. please come forward. hi, commissioners my name is jessy and i am the director of the bicycle coalition and we are thrilled about this project and i know that in your attachment and the memo there is a drawing of everything that is going on, and i saw a version of that, that had all of the different time lines with ticd, and cal trans, and mtc and, mta, and i think that i have counted all of the different agencies perhaps there are more. but there are a lot of moving parts, but what is not a moving

part is the fact that starting on sunday, this past sunday at noon, the people biking and walking could finally make it to oakland all the way to san francisco on the district six in the yerba buena island, and it is important that these pieces all move together, and i appreciate the comments and a lot of moving parts and with he have been disappointed by cal transand not waiting to make sure that the landing is properly safe and welcome for the people that actually get on to san francisco and so your concerns are i think, heard from the aed vdvocates and the staff well. and the people are already there and so your attention to this and making sure that both the shuttle and the money is allocated to make sure that the point is welcoming to the public. and it is really important to us, and our membership, and we are just thrilled that this project is moving for ward, thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> is there any additional public comment on item five? seeing none, public comment is

closed. okay. and commissioner peskin, perhaps you could make or offer an amendment and actually maybe we should make it through june 30th to the end of the fiscal year and so that we don't have that -- so we will have that match up? >> sure, so perhaps on in the title we should say through strike december 31, 2018 and turn it to june, 30, 2017. and in the body of the instrument on page 2, in the first whereas, make the same change. and in the resolve, the first resolve, make the same change. >> okay. >> does that sound --. >> that sounds fine. >> okay. >> great. >> okay, so commissioner peskin has made a motion to amend, and seconded by commissioner tang. and colleagues could we take that amendment without objection? it is adopted. and on the underlying item,

could we take item 5, as amended, the same house same call, without objection? that will be the order. item 6. >> allocate $12,713,969 in prop k funds with conditions for two requests, subject to the attached fiscal year, cash flow distribution schedules, this is an action item. >> are there any questions or comments on item six? >> seeing none, is there any public comment on item six? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> and colleagues, could we take item six, same house same call. >> without objection, that will be the order. >> item 7. >> 7, approve the 2017, prop aaa plan policy and screening. this is an action item. any questions or comments in seeing none, any public comment on item number seven? >> seeing none, closed. >> and colleagues, could we take that item same house same call? >> without objection?

that will be the order. >> and item 8. >> approve san francisco input on the plan bay area 2040, draft preferred scenario, this is an action item. >> colleagues, any questions or comments? on item eight? >> okay. >> seeing none, is there any public comment on item eight? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> and colleagues could we take item 8, the same house same call? >> without objection? that will be the order. >> item 9. >> introduction of new items. >> colleagues, are there any introductions? >> seeing none, is there any public comment on item nine introductions? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an information item. >> item ten. >> general public comment. >> please come forward. >> good morning -- (inaudible) mission officers (inaudible)

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>> is there any additional general public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an information item. item number eleven. >> adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

>> good afternoon and welcome to the local agency formation commission my name is jones avalos the chair of commission joined to to my right is by cynthia logical and scomploomz and supervisor mar is usually here but have him excused and today's local agency formation commission is broadcaster by sfgovtv jim smith and defense attorney risk hernandez madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. very good a motion to excuse

supervisor mar motion in schematics and sxoufks. >> approval the lafco minutes special meeting. >> colleagues, any questions or comments about the minutes okay. >> public comment is open on the lafco minutes and seeing no member of the public come forward public comment is closed. and motion to approve from commissioner pollock and commissioner campos and without objection. >> we're going a little bit out of order and so what call item 5 first if we can do. >> work plan for treatment and the general landscaping a cooperated and operated in the city and county of san francisco. >> at the last lafco meeting

an idea how we could look at the city and how the city takes responsibility in maintaining trees we have different jurisdictions the work plan will be ignored to study how to bring the tree maintenance into one jurisdiction our chief executive officer. >> jason fried, executive officer. i know with is where a time crunch with time issues over 2 o'clock in your packet going into how to look at t streetscaping so phase one is 4 to 5 months a lot of interviews and research and questioning of the agencies and reviewing how the jurisdiction deal with the issue of mandatory departments

doing similar work and try to merge the process or san francisco is doing to correctly and no more work to be done once that phase is done depending on the details a month or two to write and report depending on the detail and phase three something we've looked at and resolved and no more work a future local agency formation commission will deal with that. >> thank you and i'm not clear of the 5 points maybe that might be a little bit long for a report and also important that we build on the work by the urban forestry council there is a report they have i think the report extends into the year 2030 how to take

care of our trees but under a different jurisdiction to with that, we have colleagues other questions or concerns to be raised about the plan commissioner pollock thank you mr. fried the scope of work is gathering the information that takes four or five months then a discrimination made if a formal report. >> the question how much like there are a lot of other reports that are out there so to a degree did i find a lot of information that is to be looked at from a different angle maybe longer but something short and sweet not much difference in what which is covered a shorter report one of the reasons up to

5 months we're going into the holidays to we are anticipating a future one of the things d c a at the end of this year or next year an in depth of the future plan and updating that and other aspects of the cpa program i gave middle-income time and maybe focusing on the cac to be realistic with my workload i would anticipate it takes 5 months i could get that done quicker. >> got it so green house yourselves the time not late but also knowing that is not four to five months of full-time. >> part-time work while i'm working on the cca.

>> that make sense. >> did i mention the elephant in the room in the room ask is ruby next year and people are volunteering so i think the report should be ignored something that can be ignored vertebral to the board of supervisors to and people to spend what we can do in gentrificational influence in the city i'll put that out as a hope but no control over that in my mind we want representatives here and this report can help guide them as their movng into the next work plan for this organization. >> correct one of the goals i've talked to outlet folks at the board of supervisors and worked on street trees issues and other aspects i've talked with the offices to get

information all over the place engaged of time them so depending on what occurs on the november elections we'll be able to determine what is going on with future commissioners. >> okay. great so that item anyone wish to comment and seeing none, public comment is closed. and so basically, you want to motion to give you the go ahead to do this report? >> okay. that motion moved by commissioner campos and seconded by commissioner pollock and without objection thank you let's go on to our next item which will be ignored number 4. >> item 4 hearing on how to connect fiber to all resident and businesses. >> jason fried, executive officer. we'll invited department of the environment we have a power

point presentation not utilities that given the timeframe but any questions he'll be able to reference that. >> snooemz a bryan and with the department of technology and like to thank the commission for inviting us here today, i want to talk about an effort we're engaged in we call it for san francisco and seeking advisory services how to move forward the guiding principles are equity that every resident and business has access to fast and affordable services and that will increase the local employment and economic development jajz and insuring we have a network that is future prove that can be expanded over time just context this project

grew out of research efforts one by the budget analyst and the report in march president different options wanting the broadband for the city and ct did cost modeling and worked with the d l a costing some of the options and this initiative has been opportunity two the capital improvement plan and committee on information technology for the advisory services supported by d t but it is going to be implemented by public works we're seeking to hire a project manager which has - the reason for this i think broadband especially from the options we're commissioner vice president moran is project construction and the it and the

heavy lift the construction key doing the digging, the stripg on poles that kind of thing both a an it and construction but the heavy lift with the construction piece the purpose of advisory services seeking technology advisory services and comparing public and private and public option public is the status quo and so the advisory group will recommend and approach gordon's brief decision makers for displacement and forums on this recommendation from the city decided to proceeded with the public option it will gave me in the procurement and emphasis this is a little bit different many

features of this project will be ignored new no other by city the size of san francisco has engaged in this ambitious project those cities have many of them a little bit smaller us have a unit for electrical utilities as well just a quick question what is the body that is doing the - you mentioned d t and public works but is there an advisory body you mentioned the services so for the project who is making decisions about- >> we're reporting to capital planning and will be ignored that's sort of the advisory group cumber. >> so the capital planing committee. >> yeah. >> in terms of 6 you know we talk about private that is one

thing obviously public means another public-private could be kind of lots of forums. >> exactly. >> so do you have a sense of belonging what those forums can be ignored at this point? >> right there is two primary types those are new one is an approach that has been tried in a couple of cities alabama and maryland the city owns the fiber in the streets call it dark fiber and engages with the isp in west minister google fiber have thought in the electronics

and do the customer service and provide the connection to the internet the approach the city deals with the infrastructure and the private partners deals with the shorter term investments in a number of equipment and so forth and the customer service center. >> they lease the use of the private and the leases are structured they pay for on a per pga each home or best that the company passes have to pay a certain amount per month the formula is different in the jurisdictions but that's the model so the i f p pays for the opportunity to serve a customer and in the case of west minority they pay an - a firm will

design and build and the city will maintain the ownership and that hadn't been tested in the united states yet there is a discussion of it in utah on assess called utopia has gone through a few considerations and they're looking to model to arrive that effort to get more capital for it but enough of the member cities have agreed to go forward with that model yet so those are the two models we've look at it and the pricing exercise on the public-private side. >> i guess i'm not clear can you explain the defense between the two if we have the city providing dark fiber and the i f

p provides the electronics i don't know the difference between the approach where the city owns it but it is designed built and operateed and it is in the financing of dark fiber piece in the first model the we're not there yet minority hunts model the city will eventually pay for the - takes the reflex for installing the infrastructure the fiber infrastructure on the concessioner approach the city will be making a payment guaranteed payment through a private developer that would finance that more in the financing you can- your right a hybrid two approaches that is just the example if we focus the

modeling in the cost effort the d o a focuses the report that is underlined we have an opportunity to take the best from both. >> any examples in the country there is a totally public version. >> we do chattanooga is an example and lafayette and louisiana many - month of them municipal electrical utilities it gotten in there are a few not the case sandy oregon has a stand-alone i f p. >> so you'll be able to provide like different ways to do those different oppositions

how much appetite for the rest of them this is was it phase one will be ignored flushing out - >> a question from commissioner pollock. >> thank you for coming to speak with us i have two quick questions one how does the sfpuc play into this with cleanpowersf or is that something that you'll flush out with the option. >> i think it is something we'll flush out. >> great, great i wanted to make sure that was on the radar and the second i'm not familiar with the capital planing committee we have a number of advocates that come to bosco that expressed an interest in the broadband i wonder in the

made up of capital committee has this retention i'm not sure of the make up. >> it is city departments that participate. >> okay so for example, on lafco i'm the public person and none not part of city departments. >> i'll need to check or the board is represented in the mayor's office but i'll need to check. >> it is pretty much 9 department heads that deal with the investment last week puc and airport and then the president of the board serves think the capital improvement committee and generally the president of the board staff if there's other you know offices like the board of supervisors participate that and lafco is not part of that it is neat to commissioner tang the dynamics but the composition by

the charter. >> that make sense i just wasn't familiar with it so i think this making sure that we tie them and put it on their radar they're watching this meeting thank you. >> so the scope for this project is going to be 3 phases one is with the developing not saying it should happen in the first 4 months that's defining one of the options we've talked about and the second is assistance for repairing and viewing and a request based on the analysis we decided to for the record with a public-private option the same advisory group will help us with the procurement and the third to be assistant and

negotiations with by vendors in that case the second phase vendors to help with the systems wallow go with the public or public-private approach so the rfp were still reviewing the responses so that the rfp for 9 advisory services. >> i'm sorry for the advisory services and. >> and we continued to select a vendor in december and went over the first two phases and phase one is dependent phase one and that was my presentation i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> i know that jason asked. >> we have to be brief so perhaps mr. recorded individual

follow-up we'll ask month presentation and if commissioner pollock wants to do that she can double up with me in my office to be able to have. >> i'll be happy to. >> that will be ignored a meeting wouldn't it so we'll have to stage that. >> you could do two not 3 that's a meeting. >> got you. >> okay. >> okay. >> i'll defer to you. >> thank you on the composition of the meeting but my contact information is on the first page. >> thank you, mr. robert so open up for public comment anyone wish to comment and seeing none, public comment is closed. and this is just information item so we can go on to the next item. >> aggregation status update on the cleanpowersf and program launch and status on the

procedures even if california public utilities commission given our timeframe for today what i have i have an e-mail from the director the cca program i'll for the record forward that are incorporated inform save time not read into the record but a copy to the clerk part of official file if it is acceptable to everybody. >> any public comment? the executive officer's report report seeing none, none. >> this is item the cca report. >> on item number 3 none coming forward for opinion public comment is closed. and on to the next item. >> item 6 chovts. >> jason fried, executive officer. the only thing given the timeframe the next meeting december 9th that is the last of this calendar year unless it

means special meetings added to the agenda we've share supervisor campos will be ignored their last meeting we look forward to seeing you and we'll be able to have a full meeting have a long discussion of lafco. >> okay. thank you. >> okay public comment on the executive officer's report is now open and seeing none, public comment is closed. and good evening to the next item. >> item 7 public comment. >> general public comment is now open and so no one is coming forward for public comment public comment is closed. go on to did next item and item 8 future agenda. >> colleagues we've talked about the fortune future and lack of future for some of us we'll close public comment and our last item.

>> item 9 adjournment. >> we're adjourned thank you, madam clerk >> if you frequently travel before i van ness i might be surprised van ness will goodwill go the first transit corridor to have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the

country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a

change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a set of pedestrians will cross from the sidewalk to the middle of the street a. >> to move the reliable along the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day in that portion the corridor up to 22 thousand and we'll have those beautiful new one like this one. >> with the dedication of the signal and lighter saying that between stops we were able to estimate a .32 improvement in travel time and a 50 percent reliability improvement as a result. >> we're pitting u putting in

a up to date modern system of new thirty foot high light fixtures and pedestrian lights on the same pole again inviting a comfortable environment for pedestrians. >> it has become a 3 dimensional street project. >> the water that is my understanding under the ground and the emergency firefighting water system month will be replaced and new street lights and traffic lights and the paving and stripping the trees both in the medium and on the side. >> the main core of the project goes from market it lombard that's where we'll be replying the sidewalks. >> there are a number of trees that need to be replaced >> please take roll call >> brinkman and, present.

borden will be with us shortly as well director heinicke nolan, present. ramos, present. please be advised roger rubke will be absent from today's meeting but you do have a quorum to proceed with business at hand. item 3 announcement of probation sound producing devices during the meeting. item 4, approval of the minutes of the october 18 regular meeting >> any public comment boomer? >> know mister chairman >> moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye so ordered. >> item 5 communications. german nolan directors none. item 6 introduction of new or

unfinished business by board members >> 52 things to bring up with from the headlines. the first is if we could perhaps get clarification or update on the service animal policy. i know that was a new story that was kind of waiting around and i think that it's one of those things there's a lot of misinformation out there. you hear a lot of things dogs are okay if they paid up there. service animals always okay maybe we could clarify that not just for our benefit for the public's benefit. also for the police will actually have to enforce it if it's ever enforce. then the second one is this is something that we been hearing a lot of correspondence on. the diy street changes being done by an organization in san francisco and i know there is such a public appetite for street safety and while we are diligently working through all of these things i think that

the d i y st. changes are removed from sf mta gets a bit confusing for people so maybe we could get a memo on that and answer specifically some of the e-mail questions that come to us. i just feel that we sort of open to the public to explain how street changes go through and why we would like to see them go faster, what is our policy in terms of the need to go through the process in order to make sure were not only kidding everybody safe with our not leaving ourselves exposed to lawsuits and making the right changes in the right place on our schedule. >> members consent will ask director reiskin to come back and report on those items. ms. boomer >> item 7 directors report. >> good afternoon members of the chair and numbers of the board members of the staff here at.. i want to give you a vision zero update. largely

this month focusing on bike lanes. some good news to report on a number of fronts. first, 4 valencia st. and this is a relatively small section down south of cesar chavez between duncan and save up cesar chavez we will soon be installing the second raised bicycle lane good we have one as you know, a short talk on market street between 12 and golf that we did as a pilot with a different geometries. we will be installing our second one down on valencia south of chavez as part of a larger project. i think we may have presented to you at some point that mission valencia green project which is led by the puc was doing some storm water treatments as well as a new plaza. some greenery and other things and this is on the stretch of lancia largely from shop is down to mission.

but this second bike lane relatively new here get used in other parts of the world so everyone knows it raises the bike a couple of inches above the pavement so it's kind of a partly step between the pavement and the curb to provide more spatial protection and more visible protection for cyclists. really, for everybody it's much easier to see if you're driving or walking as well. so we should have this project done later this month. until then the bike lane is available for folks to read but the design will change once the construction is done. we do want folks to use extra care during construction but exciting to see this going in as part of this larger project which will make that area a lot nicer and be a whole lot safer which is great. next on turk street in the tenderloin

this is going from mason to poke we will soon be putting in a parking separated bike lanes could this is just months after the first bike lane in the tenderloin when in numbers on golden gate. this project went through a public hearing last month largely with favorable comments and this will essentially be bike lane that is along the curb. we painted it green should you be separated from the moving traffic by a parking lane. though very much protective biplane and the work will start this winter. we are considering this to be near terminal implements because there's a longer term turk street safety project we will continue to work with the community to fully design and finalize and bring a recommendation to you but this interim step will be important easy win for us to make cycling in the structure of the tenderloin much safer in golden gate is one way east. this is one white waistcoat so complete a couplet as well. just for reference, we do have

a few parking protected bike lanes in the city though not that many get we are obviously the one folks know about in golden gate park on jfk drive as well section the 13th and 13th st. and not too far from here. pastry in the marina and this last block of cold streak at this one on turk will add to the repertoire. overall, 27 miles of protective buffer bike lanes have been built in the city over the past six years. this one will add to that. just a little bit south of there, this isn't right per se but it helps for the bicycles and everyone on the street. our signal shop did great work on seventh and eighth streets to put a larger signal heads in at 12 locations along seventh and eight in the last three months and this was in part to follow

the mayor's more recent executive directive on bike and pedestrian safety which directed us to get near-term improvements in the ground on seventh and eighth get larger signal heads make it less likely people will run red lights. obviously red light running is one of the leading causes of serious and fatal collisions in the city so anything we can do to make that less likely to happen is important. this again is just kind of a step forward on larger work that were planning for seventh and eighth streets and this is pretty much the lights for seventh and eighth and so the market will be bringing larger proposals later this year early next year for seventh and eighth street. the great work on our shops to get all of those signal heads i enlarge. the last vision zero item back to golden gate park, the executive directive that i referenced earlier, also, specifically called out golden gate park and jfk drive in

particular.. as you know we do of the parking protected bike lane on the eastern part of jfk but on the western part we do have folks that are driving quite a bit above the speed limit. our safety get it shows 7-9 mi./h above the 25 mile feet limit during the day and even faster during the 19 people are using our part as a thruway and high-speed one at that. despite last week's rough weather, our staff and public works crews start to lay asphalt for nine new forums and one raised crosswalk on jfk. so this is all in the western half. he look like the weather is clearing so we should be able to continue working this week. as with the other two, this is an interim step so this is relatively modest number of speed humps to calm traffic on that stretch of jfk while we work with park and rec and all

the stake holders of golden gate park on a much broader look at the park and how to make it safer for all four parkgoers, for anyone who is driving, biking and walking their. as you know there are roads in jfk that are very much used as thruway's commute routes which is not of course with the park was built to do. so anyone who is interested in participating in the conversation, we do have a community open house coming on saturday, december 3 at the county fair building from 10-noon. we encourage folks to come and participate and help us work with park and rec to make the park safer. last thing i want to mention good news on the transit side. the reports that we've got on the cold valley shuttle from the known is that the way shuttle, until we realize nobody knows where the way is come up purported

and very very positive and i think i mentioned this at the last board meeting we reduce assets for overcrowded trains by around 60%. really a very market difference from the folks in coal valley and the divorce triangle the lower haight try to make their way in the mornings. so based on that success we will be be introducing another shuttle service and this will serve the main line of the subway. so folks particularly at west portal forest hill and castro and turk that often get past up in the morning have relief coming starting next week. the relaunch of the shuttle will be running both in the morning commute hours and in the afternoon hours and we are able to do this because we have been increasing our focus on maintenance of the vehicles for long time we although we had the demand for the service we have not had the vehicle availability or the operator

availability to be able to do this. because we have been focusing on increasing the reliability of vehicles so we have more of them in service on any given day, and because we continue to work on training new operators as rail operators, we are now able to have this new service on the rush hours. we have not really run this kind of shuttle service in a couple of years except for special events. but anyone who passes through that area in the morning and i'm often one of those folks, often can't get on the train were seized j castro and church get on the train. it's great news that this will be ramping up just as we are getting ready to see our first new light rail vehicle come into the city could hopefully at the end of this year and this work just really complements all the things that we are trying to do given the constraints we have two approve improve the service for the hundred thousand people

were more work are riding on the rail system each day. so that's what i have. happy to take any questions be was thinking. questions, comments? anybody else speak with members of the public width i haven't received a speaker card and i see no one headed this way or looking interested in addressing it >> i'm sorry. director tried heinicke has something >> follow up on a question. just a follow-up on an issue we talked about would increase service and the shuttle service which i know you been announced both the doorway with a cold but also there's been some discussion that the castro shuttle and a senior morris west portal shuttle. could i just get some clarification on what the new shuttle service to the twin peaks tunnel approaching the twin peaks tunnel is? the second question i have is whichever it is,

where at the car is a car turning? >> yes. we were initially looking at a castro shuttle but looking at the ridership were some of the past ups are, the shuttle is going to go out the aligned to tara about and the second is where it's going to turn around. i'm not sure what we are going to call it yet but oh pickup not just west portal forest hill but it'll pick up the inner part of the l line from 22nd st. 22nd ave. in >> that will be a two-car shuttle isom? >> it will have 21 car shuttles >> okay but not regard to one car shuttle in there's a switch back at 22nd. it across 19th switch and in return bequest >> correct >> very good. >> item 8 citizen advisory commits oh report the chairman is not here today so there's no reported item 9 public comment. opportunity for the members to address the board. >>[calling public comment cards]

>> good afternoon. thank you very much for the opportunity speak here today and i want to share some of my thoughts about naming the new chinatown subway station. my name is chris-i live in tiburon. ivanoff is up at for several years in chinatown at the corner of pine and grant streets. i consider chinatown to be one of the real gems of san francisco. the reason i feel that way is because the culture, the people,. everyone was there it's a real community. i treasure it. i am also a following gong practitioner, doing the meditation for nine years. because of this practice i personally got to know fall people were persecuted in china or family members who are persecuted in china including people's family members were killed in china as a result of

the illegal persecution in china. many residents in addition to that, many residents of chinatown who are not following gong petitioners have also fled communism and what's going on in china. there's a lot of people in chinatown who even if they're not following gone practitioners are very thankful to be safe in the united states. i will add this. the entire community of chinatown come up very excited about the new subway station. it's really exciting. but they're not excited when they hear about the potential for naming the subway station after rose pak. they consider her to be the equivalent of like the commonest party bully. if you do a google search for images online you will see pictures of her with a pack smoking a cigar like a gangster and many of these people in chinatown feel like this is the kind of person they left behind in china. so

that's the same image that her wrists they come to san francisco they see someone saying that it is a who is this. they will go look up on google and that's what they are going to see. so for these reasons that's why i think we should name the subway station after chinatown not after any particular person. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> >>[calling public comment cards] >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon supervised. my name is [inaudible] i'm here to talk about my own spirit is a practicing following gong in my opinion of naming the subway station after rose pak. all my family is practiced following gong and we were benefit greatly from it we become very healthy and positive. my husband has 2° and phd. he was it [inaudible] with lecture and university in china because he shares his own expense of

practicing following gong to his students he was forced to abandon his belief of following gong. he did not give up but he [ina felt a lot of pressure a harassment. he had to resign his job and look abroad we start his life. my mother-in-law also practice common ground and was also locked up due to her beliefs. for three times. she was brutally treated and spiritually tortured even though she still [inaudible] so the persecution of following gong practitioners called cause use disaster and hurt from chinese and my family experience is only one. one example among the millions of practitioners in china. this persecution has already excited a boycott. however, those that supported the brutal and antihuman persecution in china and the

try to explore this prosecution to the us. so here in san francisco name of station after rows back i do not think that will be an honor in will be a shame. it will start a very bad example for the public. so please do not name the station after rose pat. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> r >>[calling public comment cards] >> good afternoon baking for this opportunity to speak minus michael mccarthy about event resident and history teacher at local state academy of the arts. i'm also up on gong practitioner for eight years. i'm here to speak with you in regards the naming of the central station in chinatown from sun. weight chinatown station to send. white rose pak station as you may know the persecution of following gong a peaceful meditation practice based on the principles of truth on this compassion and forbearance is going on in

china for 17 years. however the persecution has not been limited to china alone in his seas seeped into american society along. rose that was involved in facilitating this persecution and talk to the quest of the chinese consulate. the community of american citizens and following gong practitioners and seriously hurt and betrayed on her is was okay furthermore most actively well but the atrocities that were taking place in china where people have been killed for their organs and sold on the black market. knowing this, she traveled to china for extended medical state where she received a kidney transplant .. she came back claiming that she fully recovered and one wonders why she chose to leave the bay area which has the finest medical technology in the world to china for such an organ transplant. could you got me working from some other was killed for? i believe it's there for people to ask such a question. i sincerely urge you

be please do not name the subway station after rose pak. there so many great people that could represent our city in this country. the fed has been a beacon of tolerance and equally. the essays is been a place of refuge for those who been persecuted for their beliefs and believe in, on protecting such rights as freedom of speech rights and husband by naming the subway station after you be bringing a black mark to the city that would cause such great shame and not looked upon favorably by history or the people of the future. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> >>[calling public comment cards] >>[inaudible] operate at church and market. additional

violations include operations on church street a residential street, double parking adjacent to a discontinued white zone and impeding muni and traffic. genentech and sfo airport dilated a plaque agreement. sfo airport violation history includes obtaining factors 06-002 for display on a vehicle displaying texas license plate k05-4303. it operated in muni bus owns it on 3 ton restricted neighborhood streets. sfo airport are operated for your registered vehicles for 77 and 479 during december 2015 without california license plates or a muni packard and operated in muni bus zones. the integrity of the corporate community bus program is question. the deal at church and market has been going on but i first noticed on october 12 continue to guide reported

it and it continues to this day. i observed it yesterday. still in violation. i just came from the library reporting it. so evidently, i'm getting everybody's getting blown off. there's no integrity in the program. this no discipline in the program. in i suspect that since they were there at a discontinued stop that's been going on since april when you went to the major minor arterial routing. so as a consequence, how come i find all these things in one half square mile. what's going on in the rest of the city? as far as violations with these vehicles? thank you and i submit my comments >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> >>[calling public comment cards] >> good afternoon, sir >> good afternoon could board members. my name is general, business owner. i would also

like to address the issue of naming the central subway station after rose pak and express my strong opposition for this proposal. in 2001 i was involved in proposing the city and county resolution to condemn the persecution of following gong in china. there's a resolution riley came to a vote at the board of supervisors meeting and several of us were there. this is the first time i came across rose pak. during the deliberations before and actually during the voting, she directly lobbied the supervisors are very aggressive and overt manner. something that was quite surprising to me. she would stand up and walk over to the supervisors during the meeting as if someone just would walk over right now and start talking to you. she would stand up and talk to them for extensive periods of time. directing them to just here

waiting towards others and seemingly angry and syria. sadly, the majority of the supervisors succumbed to her demands and resolution failed at the time. we had a resolution that passed in 2006 but this is the first time it failed. that was a sad day for many of us. mainly because i knew the result does not reflect san francisco or even the board of supervisors. but the pressure and influence of a foreign lobbyist basically a proxy of the chinese communist party. the language and methods she used against following gong were exactly the same used by the chinese regime at the time. i know myself and many other i know would be greatly offended and enraged at the same time if we were to walk by the central subway station were it to be named after rose pak. i urge you not to call the station after such an

individual. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >>[calling public comment cards] >> her but wonder. what is the difference between sharks and mta? sharks go after human beings and mc goes after parking stops and bus stops. now, i'm really disturbed about the viral termination of bus stops all over the city. the latest victim is good the rt on kerry street. where individuals if i pointed out before are going to have a physical hardship walking that quarter of a mile. and believe me, paratransit is not being the has been it simply an argument of the board to blowup the concern. there's been no medical findings. on the hardship the seniors and the disabled and it's going to create misery. now maybe the

solution is about the bus is going faster is simply to more buses. also to address the internal operations of mta. which is the focus on late buses, missing buses, and those are the things that are i think really important. so in my opinion, it's better to fight on my pb up then be under the wheels of mta. certainly, i will vote no on j and k and yes on scuttle because this board is clearly out of control and has to be brought to heel. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >>[calling public comment cards] >> good afternoon, commissioners or directors. i'm just going to be brief here. i reviewed the march third 2016 minutes from the ct dc

california traffic control devices committee meeting and the minutes from september 1 and a couple of questions for you. when share greenwood required as to whether the installation of the red guillen has expanded beyond an area approved by the committee mister white representing this body, we plied the installation had been specifically in the 24-7 lines rather than part-time lanes. i'm not quite to what that means. perhaps you can enlighten us. he went on to say >> sorry this is for item within the jurisdiction of the sfmta could >> this is the part of the situation is about the red lanes and how they're representing this situation. he went on to say they only place where the lanes have been expanded beyond us those shown on the map with market street from fifth to third for

consistency. why did he fail to mention the red transit only lanes on mission street south of 16th st.? according to the map and balboa street i've seen this portion of mission street is not included in the experiment so areas. perhaps there's another map that i am missing? i also read in the minutes of for the last meeting held on september 1 that the members of the committee have received letters from the public regarding red lane experiments and the committee is requesting that the sf mta work with the public to address these concerns. as you know the mission street red lanes have been problematic for some time and we are wondering when the sf mta intends to start working with the public to solve the problems into of less than a month to prepare for that december 6 meeting. i will submit this but [inaudible] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >>[calling public comment cards] those of the last two people turning in speaker cards >> good afternoon. thank you

commissioners. directors. mark gruber speaking for myself. there is a proposal about the sale of taxi medallions that a belief is supposed to come to this board at your next meeting on november 15. basically what it would do is open up medallions sales to any and everybody who might want to purchase one and i just want to do a little reality check on this. because the fixed price of $250,000 is a price i don't think anybody in their right mind is going to want to pay. by way of comparison, in chicago where a few years ago medallions were going for upwards of $350,000 the latest

sales have been for around 60,000. in boston, where the value was over 600,000 not long ago, they're going for about 70,000 and in new york city where the value of medallions was over $1 million the most recent attempt at a sale i saw was an offer for 400 thousand dollars that was turned down by the seller as to little but to put that in context, new york city regulates the dnc's in the same manner that they regulates all other ground transportation. in other words, these vehicles up to meet the same standards as other ground transportation vehicles. as a result of which trips were taxi trips in newark are only down 9% last year. we have seen i

don't even know what the fall off here. i know drivers say they lost half their income in san francisco. so i'll have more to say about this at your next meeting but think about it >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >>[calling public comment cards] last person to turn in a speaker card mister chairman >> tom-merry christmas good luck on all your long wage total plans. good luck finishing transbay center and the hookups. good luck with the high-speed rail. the closer to reality. taxidrivers need some restitution. let's be fair about this. this was a disaster debris saw it coming nobody saw it happening. they need restitution. let's be fair let's be helpful. 27 years ago there were no wheelchair ramp taxes. we got 70, i believe up to 69 uber and left, none, zero, zilch. rushed to save

2-34 min. on our buses. by changing stops and whatnot. without a real wheelchair lock up the driver sends 2-3 min. locking me up and unlocking me up. let's get somebody locks on all these transit. some people don't have to use them. some people its much better to have them. the tariff bill line changes. why not go with an alternative bus line. a a and b to each one stops at half the stops. together they stop at all the stops. we save time. elder people can get there stop. they can wait. for a price that's closer to home for them. cal osha on the noise. i

keep remind myself to call cal osha and say there's noise on the 65, 67, 72 bus lines is ridiculous that i keep forgetting. but someday i will. i'm in town, for most of san francisco's begins chinatown is running why don't we name it chinatown? that's what most of the visitors know it as. the google buses come i would still like to see them everybody boarding on a muni bus stop. they should've a monthly pass. traffic lights, dedicated arrow turns. you guys should be working on that immensely get there are stops that take 10 min., fifth and harrison i believe it is to get through. steam clean r-l later lose. >> thank you, sir. >> mister jim and i was the last one to turn in a speaker card he was there's a gentleman approaching- >> i'm not prepared or just corrected afternoon my name is double and i have over the past year experienced a troubling

occurrence that happens over and over and over again with thyself and muni operators not allow me to board with my people whose a service animal. she is registered. she is legal. i've had her come i have all the papers. i have the proof. she is as you can see a very sweet dog. i keep on unwittingly on saturday there's a video taken by a passerby total stranger regarding this incident of muni operators kicking me off trains, buses, just because of my service animal. they say she is not muzzled. this is gone

over like i said over a year of complaints numerous times but it's been about 20 times officially. some of the really egregious times that this is happened i filed complaints with the mayor's office on disability. starting back in 2015 on 28 december 2015, this -the operator would not let me on even after i showed him the, her paperwork. after i treated with him the cop shows up. he also sides with him. that in that instance actually muni supervisor came supervisor fisher and said they were wrong and i was correct. to go really fast forward the reason i am here is i saw the piece that paul the muni spokesman said about my situation and he said

i'm not disabled. i-m. width thank you, stupid actually this issue was raised by vice chair brinkman. your time is up for speaking but >> yes, thank you for coming down and talking to us. i did ask asked to give a clarification on the policy but i know important being able to take your service animal on nami is and i think this as i'm sure director reiskin will ask that to direct this overly of a question of clearing up the policy that already exist. so we will look forward to that again i thank you for coming down and i'm sorry that you are >>[inaudible] [off mic] your 2 min. is up again he have to be fair to everyone. thank you much >> service animals generally we've not just dogs but other service animals we can let them know what the broader policy is. he was i think that was the question anyone else here for the public seeing none, >> moving on to the consent

calendar. all items are considered routine could mister chairman not received a request for members of the public eye that any item be severed >> emotion? >> motion to approve >> all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] ms. boomer >> moving on to item 11 under rail counter presentation discussion regarding harvest of the muni service equity strategy. >> good afternoon. i apologize

we don't have a powerpoint presentation and julie kirschbaum deputy director of operations support. i'm here today to talk about the muni service equity strategy. we reached a major milestone, six months ago, when you adopted our first two-year equity strategy good i am here today to give you an update on progress that we've made over the last six months and implementing that important work. as you may recall, the

ajmer called the equity strategy built on but doesn't replace our title vi program which will be receiving a presentation on later today. this is a more local deep dive into the routes that go through some of our poorest neighbors as well as routes heavily used by seniors and people with disabilities give it is a shared adventure that we are on. were getting a lot of support from our working group of transit equity and affordable housing advocates. they have been with us throughout the process and we are continuing to meet about quarterly at key milestones for this work. the equity strategy is one piece in a much larger agencywide commitment to making muni service affordable and accessible to all of our customers. as the title vi analysis confirmed, all san

francisco residents are within a quarter-mile of transit service which is about a 5 min. walk. we are making systemwide improvements like the investments in our fleet better hope helping customers including low income customers across the city. we now have over 100,000 people on our free and discounted passes which is i think a tremendous milestone. so the muni equity strategy builds on this sort of strong agency commitment. the principles of this strategy are to create transparency, to really help people understand year-over-year, the services performing. in our focus

neighborhoods. we will be bringing you the 2016 evaluation around the generate-february timeframe. so we saw a significant improvement between the school year 14 and 15 in hoping to continue that trend. but it's intended to make sure the investments are making are working. that we are being transparent about how we monitor those. we are evaluating services at all times of day. it's very likely that somebody for example has a lower wage job might not be on a typical 9-5 schedule. were looking at not only how services perform at our peak periods but how it's performing at 10 pm and even overnight. we are distilling a tremendous amount of data but out of it we are trying to identify what are 2-3 key needs. really keep the plan actionable. to that same extent, the plan is approved in april focus primarily on things that we can deliver within a one-three-year timeframe so the week is immediate improvements in these neighborhoods. focused

on seven key neighborhoods as well as using our data to identify routes heavily used by seniors and people with disabilities. what was exciting to me including this presentation together is even in the last six months since you adopted the plan we've got a lot of stuff on the ground. that's really responding to the key needs. for example in chinatown the key issue is always crowding and we have already gotten new buses out and will continue to get more. we increased peak service on the one california which again was extremely crowded. we implemented one of our source proposition a products which not only improved reliability but also reduce turns and save time for people traveling on earth 10 and 12 routes. the implement it a pretty

significant portion of the inter-intermission of lien for crosby we have some current work including bus and curb extensions going in in 2017 get we are already realizing a foreign safety and reliability benefits there. this board approved dedicated transit lanes as was pedestrian investments on 16th st. which was identified not only as a improvement for the mission but also for folks on the western edition who are trying to get to sf general. which was found to have significant longer transit travel times than auto travel times. this is a photo of our samson project in ice.

you can see the first photo we had one way traffic which means the bus was jogging over the battery which was full of inconvenience and crowd. we now have buses and commercial vehicles traveling the full length of the corridor. this is our mission street project which i know you're very familiar with and we are continuing to both draw i think positive results as well as a lot of lessons learned from the project that we will apply to how we roll out and design future projects. we also have a tremendous amount of work underway. the one of the these things that we have been challenged by both at risk and

john hilley to do is to try to significantly reduce travel time on third street. a key need identified were the bayview was the reliability of the key line for digitally heading towards sunnydale which we've already traveled the entire line of the k. we are looking at innovative ways to reduce the amount of time were spending at signals and we are also looking at enhancements to fourth and king which is a real bottleneck for that route. we are also looking at safety features including a more visible train arriving sign which we hope will reduce the amount of left turns the left turn violations we have. another kind of more nuts and bolts project. we this winter will be adding more service to the 29 but tickly in the a.m. that's a route i think we are seeing because of the free free youth pastor were seeing a lot more students using the 29th to get to school were seating crowding you want to make sure we address. we are also seen similar crowding on the

[inaudible] despite the fact we have over the last two years increased service on the order of 20+ percent. then we are starting the design process in the public outreach process to do a muni ford style project on the 27 brian. looking at ways we can improve reliability and travel time on a great route to one that doesn't run as frequently as a route like the 14th mission but one that is critical for people traveling to the tenderloin south of market area and getting tremendous amount of traffic as folks are heading towards the bridge. then also kind of key to travel time in the western addition and the tenderloin, is the gary bus robert transit project which will be coming to in this december and real milestone of the environmental certification. this is just an example of some of the signal, the bus train coming signals we are testing on third street.

other work that is underway. we are continuing to roll out our transit signal priority program the next corridor will be 16th st., fulton and mcallister was all go through david's inner equity strategy. we are also under construction on several segments of the nine san bruno which will help with both reliability and travel time. we are going to begin our reach on geneva to try to again bring some of the muni for treatments to that important outer corridor. then, lastly, we have partnered with the dept. of public works who for some other trickier curb ramps identified they are actually going to go into the street because of things like sidewalk basement. whenever we are near a transit route particularly one that has reliability palms at the 27th or 21 from to make it possible

so we save time without having the bus pulled in and out of traffic and also will allow more room for customer amenities like shelters. looking forward already to the next update of the strategy, we are looking to take our data analysis to these communities. really hear first-hand what our the keys needs. rather than command with a plan and saying this is what we've got underway, we are going to say how does it feel? where are you fast? where are you slow speakers were kind of trips for transit working for you? were kind of trips up in transit are not working for you? we will then convert that data with our technical data to see where there's overlaps. where the community identifies needs we may not have identified we will address identify strategies that respond to those needs. we are very

fortunate to have a caltrans planning grant for this work. it's going to allow us to do some acting pretty out-of-the-box techniques. one of the things were going to be doing is going to be doing some focus groups with muni operators who either grew up or lived in some of the neighborhoods that we are focusing on. i think it's kind of an interesting way to extend policy development to our front-line staff but also their unique perspective because of those operating the service and also in many cases customers. we are also partnering with community-based organizations so that we can reach directly into communities three trusted source. and do things like some surveys and focus groups to try to reach people, for example, how will customers try to get to work the which is not a typical group that we have strong showing at a

neighborhood meeting, but is an important voice in trying to shape this work. this is our overall schedule. as you can see there is an ongoing commitment to implement the strategies that we already have while also informing the next generation strategies throughout reach an additional technical analysis. thank you. >> thank you ms. kirschbaum. members of the board, questions or comments? regiment brinkman brinkman >> i continue to be impressed and thankful for the work you're doing. we were discussing of policy and governance the numbers and some fact some of the new residents of san francisco are choosing not to get around by car but taking the bus and walking or biking. i said we are so lucky to have that. i call myself and i corrected myself and said that's not love. this is all because of the planning that you are doing that staff is

doing all because of these improvements are you making did i see it on the line i write all the time you had an articulated bus to the route and they fill up. you make the buses move faster and they continue to fill all. so again i just congratulate you all of us in the city are so lucky to have this work going on. we may get some pushback on projects here and there but overall the work that we are doing is really helping to keep people choosing to take muni and choosing to walk advice when they can get i have no substantive input. i just want to say thanks for all the work and i see it's doing a good job and i really appreciate it. he was thank you good director borden >> this is important work were doing good a couple questions i know the plan bay area has some equity announces they've done and that feeds into that large land bay area around equity and communities were trying to make sure access? >> i think that's an important connection to make. one of the things that has come up recently is the mtc identifies

communities of concern so we are feeding back the information that we have done to identify the neighborhoods that we are working on to then feed back into their analysis. >> then also i like to know more about some of the groups are working with it like maybe you cod talk a little bit about i know you mentioned mission street and what groups we can engage with that. if there's a way to get a feedback loop from the people who are using the routes and how they are feeling about it? i know that was an issue round data that had come up before but it would be great item of the city plans to do that? >> so one of the big next apps is to procure consultants support as well as to identify community based organizations that can partner on this work. whenever we are in a neighborhood we try to work as closely as possible with community leaders. we have also for this work recently expanded to include sf rising on the

equity working group, which is a coalition of different neighborhood organizations including [inaudible] and various other groups working on housing as well as transportation issues. >> that's great. also mention the amazing path [inaudible] do we know how many more people are not accessing the passes that we think could be accessing them? >> that is not something i know. >> just from looking into it sounds like it's a really great user base which is maybe mighty interesting did i've heard people say there's a lot of users that don't know they have access. some of it is a linguistic issue >> we can get that gig i was asked that same question recently maybe it was by you. i

think we did look just at census data that we have to try to estimate what proportion of the eligible populations are participating to i don't have that number with me but we can certainly get that >> i've also heard specifically in african-american community that people don't seem to have the same knowledge base about the youth pastor at whatever we can do to find a community groups to reach out to those populations would be great. also i love a truck that the off-peak focus. i wondered if you were talking to any other transit agencies around off-peak. you might be familiar with the pilot that's going on with ac transit and bart for late-night service between 1 am-5 am and i don't know for looking at other comes strategies like that that could be another great way because it's not just in city travel but it's kind of spell trouble that matters >> we are participating in a regional late-night task force in one of the things we're looking at, for example, if sand trends were to consider providing some overnight service where would muni make the connection with sand trends

and also making sure the connections we arty make with ac transit are working. so that is something that we are actively participating in. >> craig. i think this important work like the intersection always were taught about living for projects talk about how those projects intersect with her equity especially a lens we look at is review project we can go be very helpful for ourselves and the public as well. >> anyone else? director ramos >> thank you mister chairman and thank you ms. kirschbaum for this great work. and for your team. it's exciting for me . this is one of the values that drives my work and my service here. one of the things that i am i think that would like to remind people of that have not heard about it is this concept that policy link which

is an advocacy organization that does this great policy, i believe, angela glover blackwell has stated that equity is the superior growth strategy because what it does it facilitates not just great social outcomes but also in the long run ends up being superior in achieving economic goals as well as environmental sustainability goals. so to that effect, i am really excited about this. i would encourage you to somehow get this policy located so that more organizations know about the word this strategy i should say i don't know if you can share in the policy link conference they be once every three years or the transportation association conferences, but i think this is really a fantastic model that you folks have have

created here. and a great strategy that i think were transportation agencies and frankly, governmental institutions should be looking to. not the least of which mtc and the decisions made there. building on that, just a couple of questions or observations. i really love the idea of talking to operators and getting their perspective especially some of the once grown up here and how you-i would encourage you to broaden that to include were somehow find a way to reach out to staff,, your general staff. this number of your staffers that also love and grew up on the system and work in the system that have wonderful insight that i've come across that go beyond your operators. so you might want to think about making a call because there are some really brilliant folks out there that wonderful insight that are not in a position to exercise those ideas. the thing i think would

be really exciting to think about in the future as you proceed with this work is thinking about benchmarks and indicators that can really demonstrate how effective we are serving these populations that we are targeting. it's going to be tough. i have not figured it out yet. but i think that it's something that is worthwhile pursuit could be do want to make sure as we are changing things up and accommodating peoples needs that there are speaking out about that we are responding appropriately and i see that you've got according to your slides, you got some outreach going out later this in the summer. the grants you're working on expires in 2018. would love to think of how do we continue this work so that we can build in a sort of how well did we do and where are we on the right track. really good

performance indicators are ones that i think we can that are easily measurable for everyone. like including the people we are trying to serve. so i would encourage you to be thoughtful about that try to be creative to get something that is coined to be well received by groups of people that traditionally are not too keen on writing things down or spun into surveys or what have you. but there might be a good way of getting input with its focus groups or whatever you folks are already doing which has been great. i think that probably the one other thing i think would have been more informative for us and i think this gets to your director borden's point is seen a list. i will get to this in the title vi presentation but a list of the community groups. he referred to it in the staff

report work here, in this presentation that you are working with partnerships and community-based organizations that i think the testimony of how robust of job you are doing when the public can actually see see a list of the groups you folks are reaching out to. it's not always clear that all of our bases are covered and i trust that you are but i think that it should be elevated to demonstrate again to other organizations and/or governmental bodies what really good authentic engagement and outreach and partnership to use your term, has been exercised in this prospect i think also it's also a nod and a acknowledgment to the committee-based organizations and i would also encourage you to reach out to service providers as well in addition to i do mean just advocates. they serve an important role in the city, but three service providers also serve a lot of folks and a special needs that i think merit our attention.

but to install them, someplace where it is accessible for everyone i know that a lot of these groups are under resourced as it is. for them to be able to demonstrate and document that they are working with you with the agency, it makes the case for them to get resources that they need to do more work like this that i think is valued by all parties. so i think that is all i have. but again, i deeply appreciate all this great work you have done and excited to see the-one last little piece. the treasure island community. i've heard i keep hearing it's one of the more inclusive communities and really reflects more and more of a diversity of income and folks that might might traditionally be dismissed or not thought of. i think it is

-it would be worthy of looking into just to make sure that we got our bases covered in providing services to that community. i know that in the title vi stuff as we will see was identified as one of these communities that it is worthy of attention and we are talking about these think it so i encourage you to keep that in mind. >> thank you. anyone else? boomer members of the public >> we've got i think three people who expressed it. >>[calling public comment cards] >> you don't want to speak. two members of the public don't want to speak. >> good afternoon. bob allen. i want to start by thanking staff and the senior leadership providing the resources to do this work at a lot of the folks are not here because were obviously we got from the election. a lot of the groups including the one i came from this morning and a note pops up to raise funds for the system

and i think that's why you don't see some of them here today. i do agree with some of the comments. we should talk to julie and the stuff about getting to the trp conference. some of the other conferences and talk about. i do think it's a model in the work that's been done with director ramos in the last any good i appreciate it. amazing good start. i do think it goes a long way to similar conversation with director peskin we had with it guttural if people see more equitable outcomes in the system i think it gets them were excited about voting could see about that next week. a lot of inserting with the this years election but hopefully will see that manifested in the vote in support for transit in the city. i know there are folks here today not happy about some of the particular projects but the mission street project which is very complicated project. i my own concerns about its. i think were trying to work through it and i think we can learn a lot from over

doing with that is doing working with community groups. but outreach efforts. that we can correct some of the things that happened but also to say think we have to judge of the system and i certainly am critical and i think things are not been handled right but in terms of the totality of the free program the equity strategy and her feelings about particular project and i hope we can can take a little more holistic view what the agency is doing and we can disagree when we disagree broken out a little bit more of a complete view and i think this effort not just the start of it but the full implementation of it would go a long way and will try to do a better job getting more folks to the table to and i think one of the reasons are not as many folks at the table is honestly the scale of the housing crisis is sucked a lot of the organization out of the room. ida is one recent of these many folks present and hopefully the crisis gets addressed transportation [inaudible] >> thank you. >> >>[calling public comment cards] >> herbert weiner. when you referred to act would he, and

people walking a quarter of a mile from the bus stop that means that everyone gets an equal chance. so in other words, if the seniors and disabled can't cover that distance, well, live and let die. it is not a situation of equity. seniors and the disabled are not equal to those who are physically fit. i think this really has to be addressed. now i can understand a concern over the areas underserved. you've highlighted those areas. that is fine but what about people who live outside of the areas. people who also are seniors and disabled equity mean servings inserting everybody. this plan does not seem to do it. now, the other thing that i am concerned about is talking dialoguing with community

groups. should it be within individuals? leaders don't represent individuals. they can speak for themselves they do not give accurate representation to individuals concerns. this is a quick and dirty way of doing it but it's not realistic. there are people that are not going to be represented and voices not going to be heard. this is not democracy. so i think there's a lot of rethinking that has to be done with this. you should really live the word equity and not give it a cursory implementation that you have proposed good >> anyone else wish to address the board on this one? if not director reiskin >> just to speak to some of the commons made by the board and alerted of the public comment. first of all i think in terms of getting the word out about this, absolutely believe this is very much

leading edge kind of work. i give great credit to julie and her team. and the team being not just the city, the mta staff, but the group of folks from the advocacy community really pushed us and helped shape this. i think she actually has done some presented at conferences. i think director hilly presented this at a conference as well. we will take that and continue that work. i think this is groundbreaking for the transit industry. it is actually groundbreaking for the city to some extent as will be i recently met with the new director of human rights commission with julie and share this information of what we were doing and i think she's even look at this as a model of the city agencies in terms of service provision just want to clarify that. in terms of indicators and resources, i think the framework of the

strategy is actually built on indicators but it's very much measuring service among a number of different dimensions in these seven words comparing them to the system wide average. so we have very direct ways of measuring before and after. once we've added that bus gone to 60 foot buses or change the signal priority we will be will to see for moving the needle on the exact things we were that the interventions were meant to address. then in terms of resourcing the evaluation, resourcing the outreach from resourcing the implementation of the recommendations that come, you didn't fully fund that in this current two-year budget we are seeking some grants to augment on the outreach side. i will point out for informational purposes only, that the charter amendment laced on the ballot by the board of supervisors that's currently prop j the first expenditure category

within the transfer to portion is to advance and sustain the equity and affordability work. >> thank you. thank you ms. kirschbaum. ms. boomer spews item 12 approve the sfmta a title 16 title six program update and the results of their required systemwide monitoring of service standards and policies >> good aftergood revelatory of force energy for sfmta eight here to talk to about with all my colleagues about the 2016 title six program update. title vi of the civil rights act of 1964 provides no person in the us shall [inaudible] be excluded from participation in the night the benefits of war be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. the federal transit administration which provided a portion of our funding is the one who monitors us for title

vi compliance. our title vi program is hard to be committed every three years with your approval will we will be 70 this title vi program on december 1, 2016. the program covers both general program requirements as was transit specific and all give you a couple of the highlights of the general program required that julie kirschbaum will go into detail on that transit provider specific ones but all attachments are in your board package. you may have seen this notice in our facilities or on our vehicles good this is important requirements. it provides for customers their rights under title vi. it states that sfmta ages not discriminate on the base of race color national were gendered interactions where they can go for more information and to file a complaint. it's in 10 languages. languages spoken by the highest concentrations of

ltd. english proficient individuals in the city and county of san francisco. all you can see it on there, on the bottom this will be a tagline or budget is the icon of a phone. it's 311. directs and 10 language is where customers can go for free language assistance which is a vital requirement of title vi. the list there are some the other place you might see that i may have not mentioned. in addition to our notice we also complaint procedures posted. we have on her website complaint procedures and title vi complaint forms and 10 languages. we also track and monitor title vi complaint with separate compliance process that's within my group. the public participation plan language assistance but be covered in more detail by candace hurt the languages is the grant touches on how do we provide meaningful access to those in our service area that we might encounter programs and services may be limited english proficient and how do we make sure we are using the right programs and services and assistance tools to make sure they can navigate our system. the lane which assistance program informs the public

participation plan which is really what houses are outreach and public engagement strategy. the fda gives us wide latitude work does patient plan includes but requires that we go out to the community that we talk to them again candace will get into mortgage on this but we are seeking the viewpoints of low income minority and lapd populations that are important transit decision-making processes that we are including them in continuously infrequently and again were going to decide when you want to meet. what works for you? how can we get to a meeting? do care what topics will get you coming in, first at the last highlight i will talk about and headed over to julie, is the fta also was to make sure that for nonelected committees and councils transit advisory bodies, that we are paying attention to making sure they are diverse. we talked about they want to know the diversity of these advisory groups and they want to make sure we got the right recruitment tools in place to make sure were keeping on on the diversity on. how can doctor julia.

>> thank you. >> julie kirschbaum with operation support. the title vi program update also has extensive transit requirements. it requires us to provide our service standards and policies which we also as an agency bring to you and published in our short-range transit plan periodically. we are significant as shaped by the transit effectiveness project as well as some of our city charter goals including on-time performance. he also prepared demographic maps and charts to understand the demographics of our ridership. we have a enclosed documentation of our public engagement process for title vi transit policy. which we stopped in 2013 with both extensive board review as well as stakeholder review. it also

asks us to catalog any fair or service equity analyses that we are done in the three-year period. so every time we bring a major service change to this board or eight there changed to this board, we evaluate it to make sure that it doesn't create a disparate impact or disproportionate burden to the stakeholders. then what ongoing to focus on today is also includes service monitoring to make sure that our services performing in an equitable way. the key part of the service monitoring fta does not cause what our standards should be. they realize that in some communities having a bus every 60 min. is a reasonable minimum headway. in san francisco you've chosen a different path. for example on our rapid routes we have a policy weight of every 10 min. a connector routes like the 37 corbett for

example a minimum policy of every 30 min. good in many cases we provide more frequent service based on demand. so the fta does not tell us what our policy should be but we ask they monitor to make sure our policies are not being more effectively administered in higher income were less minority neighborhoods than in low income more minority neighborhoods. our service standards are tailored to the type of routes or the type of vehicle. so for example we honestly can carry more people on our 60 foot buses that are 40 foot buses. we strive to be at about 85% of what we consider full from a planning perspective. just by way of comparison, something that like crush load, like the end of

outside lands is probably about 125% of our planning capacity so we try to allow room for variability. for on-time performance from their frequent routes, we are focusing on gaps and bunching. because typically you're not looking at a schedule when you go to buy the 38 geary on routes that come less frequently we are looking at scheduling adherence and what percentage of our routes within 85 percent on target from policy headways come i think i recover those from service coverage, we have a citywide policy that all residential neighborhoods will be within a quarter-mile of muni service. the fta also requires that we design two areas of service policies could i think the difference between standards and policy and policies tend to be less quantitative. the first is for vehicle assignment. we have a policy it mta that our vehicles are signed in a way that doesn't discriminate but also responds to the technical limitations of the route. for

example 60 foot route would not go on a tight hilltop neighborhood. right now as part of this policy is concentrated our newest vehicles at bus divisions like woods which have the highest percentage of low income and minority routes. then excitingly, as we you're the kind of completion of our fleet replacement we will have a really young fleet throughout the system and that something we are seeing every day is newer and more reliable vehicles out on the streets. sf mta defines minority and low income and two-way street when were doing a spatial analysis like looking at shelters, we use the census data. any census

tract that is more minority or more low income that are citywide averages we would consider him a nordic census tract. based on the 2014 american census data the city is 51 percent minority in about 28% low income. any census tract that is a higher democrat but then that would be considerable income by margot minority suspect the routes were very fortunate that we have very rich data set where is actually interviewed our customers so we know route by route what percentage of our customers are minority or low income. systemwide, about 50% of our customers self identify as a minority. about 51% of our customers are from households that make less than 20% of the federal poverty level. per household 04 that's about $65,000 a year. this is a map

based on the census analysis anywhere in blue is showing a census tract that is higher residence who self identify as binaries on the citywide average. then this is the similar map but looking at folks living in low income households. i'm very pleased to report that throughout this analysis did not identify any categories of disparate impacts for minority customers were disproportionate burdens for low income residents. this is when we compared routes across all categories. i am also pleased to report that we had to findings from last train three years ago we were able to address. in 2013 we identified that there was-it was more

likely much more likely they would find a shelter in a not minority neighborhood but in a minority neighborhood. we have closed that gap within our 8% threshold and we have increased the number of shelters in minority census block groups from 58% to 62% we are continuing to push that out. we are prioritizing new shelters in minority and low income neighborhoods were ever positive shelters are a little tricky because that's [inaudible] not the decision-maker. it's decided to wait dpw hearing but we are incorporating them into his many new projects as we can and also working closely local businesses and residents to put in shelters particularly where were getting community request. he also had a finding that our policies are headway minimum headway policies did not align with our conditions and that

was in part because we are in a transition period. we are updating our policies to match the guidelines from the effect of this project. though so through this updated analysis we now found that 90+ percent of our routes are meeting our policy headways that there wasn't any more or less likely to not be meeting them for minority and low income routes. those were the two findings we addressed it then our last piece of our presentation, we want to focus on the public participation plan as well as our limited english proficiency burden, and handed over to candace sulu will walk you through that with you. >> thank you julie. chairman nolan directors good afternoon candace is to medications director for sf mta. it's really a good walk you through the public participation plan and also talk a livid about the language assistance plan. so

following what kathleen talked about which was one of the requirements that the fta guidance that we will maintain a public participation planted the purpose of this plan is to provide a framework strategies and tools that help us ensure we are effectively communicating with the public with information that they want to know in the way they want to engage on issues of service changes, fair changes, as well as decisions that were making in the transportation space. i think it is really interesting to look at the approach that we've taken this year in 2016. last report was done in 2012. but in this case, the agency took a robust approach to conducting this work and really try to engage all the best practices that we want to see happening on everything that we do here in researching the

public participation plan. this effort i want to acknowledge was led by kathleen [inaudible] as well as the communications division and in conjunction with the comptroller's office who did a lot of the reason. so this works. and karina garbo from the comptroller's office is here to help us to answer specific questions later. so this slide was to through some of the methodology oof the plan. again really robust set of work. there were over 4700 people participated in an online survey. so the core keys is quantitative survey and qualitative research 4700 people who were part of the survey taking process but to get to that 4700 people and

beyond, it took out reach to over 200 community-based organizations did we reach out to their members and continued continue to push the survey out. in addition to the quantitative work that was qualitative research done as well. with 13 executive interviews with members of these community based organizations representatives i should say. as well as nine sessions with a focus group. that just hope contextualize all the information electing to really ensure there was a rich public participation plan. a number of diverse opinions were heard. they're all contained in the report actually quite larger more walk-through some of them but we could spend a day going through all the information that we found which was i think really hard into a good i do want to appreciate this board and patented to because i know

this was presented over the last two years to you all and you provided a lot of crates which input which we were able to include in the research. so some of the commonalities are listed on this particular slide. even though we did take some preferences depend on the demographic group we were looking at were talking to at the time, some things really rose to the top across all the [inaudible] the key one is the sf mta website is a critical source of information for customers. i think sometimes it's easy to forget that because it's a page that is there and that's available as a site to research but actually got a lot of live information on a. consulate being updated and that people use as a resource for information. as

you might guess service changes and fair changes are great interest to our customers and they continue to tell us that they want us to prioritize that information. we also learned again rising to the top that when we have beatings we want people to participate in that we need to make it convenient for them both in time of day and in proximity to where we are asking people to go to a meeting. we will talk more about that later. just a couple of highlighted charts that came out of this research. again you're seeing here service changes of interest just under 70% the people across all demographics being interested in that information. there are changes was kind of the next highest area of interest and then construction projects a little bit lower. it was interesting to note that for english proficient respondents

they are more interested in service changes but 72% of them are interested in service changes and those with less english proficiency are more motivated by [inaudible] change. we also noted that higher income respondents are more interested in construction projects that are low income respondents. in addition, how people are actually able to provide comments act to us is something our survey work delves into a bit. most respondents were about 60+ percent prefer to submit their comments after a meeting via e-mail on a website or iphone. even during a meeting but more of them after meeting and in particular, younger participants have that preference. younger

participants also lower awareness of our meetings. those things may be somehow correlated whereas older respondents tend to birth her for providing feedback by speaking publicly we see some of that we've had public meetings that there is a generational difference in preferences when people engage with us in that type of setting. again just some highlights. again more in the report. so some other insights that we had are listed here. you are pleased to see in many cases that the information that came out of this research was actually thinks we're at it we start to experiment with some of these techniques based on other research that we have done in past years. this helped us see it was alignment with what we some of the techniques we have been trying out of late. for instant always a number of multimedia communication tools and strategies to reach broader audiences were currently doing that that something replays

through this research could we've also been looking for opportunities to reduce barriers to information by making sure that we provide a number of translations and that we are working harder to reach low income and minority populations by working with community-based organizations. some of the things we could do more of however the casino this is a work in progress we have a ways to go, is that we need to work harder to customize the information to groups of people. people are telling us our regular basted the stakeholders are telling us they value when the outreach that we are providing to them is customized to their neighborhood with to their group. they want to attend meetings that are personally relevant to them personally is held in locations convenient to them and times that work for them. again very specifically annotated in the research. they

also indicated stakeholders have indicated update would like to see you all sf mta board in particular as well as staff attend meetings in the neighborhood. this was seen as more than just logistical convenience and i do want to make this point that was more about symbolism. at about tone and demeanor of how we are working with the communities that we hope will be engaged with our work. and that we need to be engaged with our work in order to make changes that are really truly for them. so there was this sense of ensuring that we are respecting authentically respecting, the needs of the community and we are there in the community with them. so this element is very symbolic. there was also this one comes from interviews with community-based organization leaders that they would like to see sf mta prioritize the

interest of the public and to work harder to communicate information using various channels including e-mail some to we currently do, working with schools as a means to reach audiences particularly hard to reach limited english proficient audiences, and their neighborhood meetings. with regard to the point about prioritizing public interest, this is something i think that we need to work harder to make that point. and to connect between how we view our approach to our work in the community views our approach to our work. finally, sf mta stakeholders place a high priority on technology and the feedback that they have given good we make sure that feedback loop is actually in place. when we are working with them on plans, service changes and fair changes. so now i'm what you

move to the language assistance plan. this again is another part of the title vi requirements that kathleen i think is executed this is about customers who of limited ability to read, write them a speak or understand english very well. again another large body of research to help us understand how to communicate with these groups of people. this research was actually severed from the public participation plan of research so included again working with community-based organizations to do interviews to conduct focus groups and many which were in language either through translation or conducted in language in the language of the group presented to. and in addition to these groups it also included quantitative research with customers and quantitative research with staff. so well-rounded body of

work. the approach follows a four factor model which is outlined in guidance from fta to include the number or proportion of limited image proficient eligible to be served on counter by sf mta program. the frequency of which an lapd individual my contact in sf mta program the importance of that program to people's lives and the resources available for outreach to lep individuals. this is what we found. approximately one in five people in san francisco are limited english proficient. a substantial number at about 22% of san francisco's population. most of the language spoken our chinese and spanish followed by

[inaudible] vietnamese and russian. an arabic was recently added. in other words that released thousand people who now speak arabic - excuse me - who are arabic speakers who speak english [inaudible] a technical way to say. lep individuals rarely commute to work in public transit and depend on unity for daily activities could impact 91% or 9/10 ride muni at least once a week. many of our staff are encountering lep individuals on a daily basis about one in three. and typically again those languages are chinese, spanish and filipino. so our staff, are often in a position especially on the front line of engage with people who are limited english proficient and need to resources to help them.

83% of the people we surveyed who are lep individuals report being satisfied with muni's current service. although they knowledge is an opportunity to do more. and they have told us to the survey that when they are not choosing to use muni services is typically not because of a language barrier. again another test or threshold for fta. finally, we spent approximately $150,000 a year for document translation and $125,000 for the materials we produce for these and i would say that's actually a conservative figure. some other things we learn. l ep customers

are quite satisfied with our services but still we have some work to do. some of these things include making sure that we are continuing to promote the additional agenda language assistance tools are better available to customers. although the frequency of use of these tools is increasing it still points to a need to promote the language bug 311 when which assistance available to customers and to continue to provide information in languages that are preferred. in addition to prioritize the information about service and route changes to make sure that when people speak english less than very well that they are able to get information that's directly affecting their ability to get around the city. we also learned that we need to continue partnerships with community-based organizations

on an ongoing seemed to kathleen and through julie's talk to make sure that we are using these audiences, these groups of people to reach the audiences who may have more challenges in understanding our communication and then finally, there's an opportunity and a need to train our staff to ensure that they can on the ground and the front line help lep individuals understand our system. a couple of charts just showing the reasons that limited english proficient individuals might use muni are very similar to what i think any individual might use muni might be using it for your shopping, doctors visits, visiting family and friends, are high on the list. there is some age discrepancies here with older those above the age

of 60 but using it more for shopping and doctor visits and those who are younger using muni for going to work and going to school in terms of those who are lep individuals. again this theme of the website rising to the top of the list is evident in this chart could i thought was interesting that it was a notation that spanish speakers are more likely than any other language group to use the sf mta website as a resource. we saw those types of dispersions in the data but generally there's no supplies herewith the website fires and materials being summoned the top language assistance tools that are available to people. transit operators who speak my language are also quite important resource particularly relied on by mandarin speakers. those who need translation services being able to go to 311 for those services. what's

next? so one of the reasons that i am presenting this information to you is because the communications division is responsible for implementing a lot of the public participation plan and the language assistance plan. so the mechanism for doing that is our public outreach and engagement team strategy which we eventually called [inaudible] and how it is a way for us to articulate the standards of our reach and provide guidance for our projects and programs that are out in the community and to outline a process for tailoring a communications plan to meet the needs of various communities. so it is our intent to ensure that what we learned out of these two clans

the public participation plan and the language assistance plan, are built into public so that it's institutionalized throughout the organization. it is a way to help staff make sure they have the information and resources they need that are documented in the france us and that's a key next up. in addition, there are some things we need to do to work on to really fully instituted throughout the organization including building and feedback loops that are natural and logical. for projects. all nine community input sessions pointed to the need to loop back when we hear information and feedback from communities that we need to be able to convey the we've heard that feedback and how we have incremented or considered implementing the information we received. then finally, the website happens to be that we are in the process of upgrading our website. so this is something that is very live and

happening right now. as a next step. one of the things that we will be part of the new iteration of the website will be better richer language translation. that allow us to use machine learning to translate for the most part the entire site to allow those who are lep individuals to get the information in the language they prefer. so that concludes our presentation and i will turn to-your presentations from any of us and so will open it up for questions for julie kathleen and perhaps even [inaudible] from the comptroller's office. if you have specific questions be was thank you good members of the board, questions were commons? commons? very interesting all the way through. director borden he was either much of the ship airport i think a lot of great findings came out of it and look forward to doing a

better job lots of people don't feel like they have the ability to influence things happen. i think the groundhog can effectively have our reach and input processes and feedback loops is critical. i do have a question but a title vi that all the different languages but i do not see braille. we have rail? braille? >> title vi visit without limits public national origin raise colored national working and was based on the supreme court case that if you denied access based on ability to read and understand english well, that could be determined to be national origin discrimination in braille would fall under i think ada would not necessarily fall under title vi. >> right. i think we would have things in braille as well. i've asked that people reach out to me who are blind about the transportation network in general [inaudible]

>> i can certainly take that back >> thanks >> one comment i make about this they suggest a move our meetings around. in my stance has been remarkably unsuccessful both here and elsewhere it's a good idea if you like the idea but nobody comes. so i respectfully disagree with that recommendation. >> i would say were experienced in planning if you had a big project or something of coming then it worked out very effectively. wasn't necessarily most productive meeting we ever have in terms of people showing up i think that maybe for some of the bigger projects like maybe with geary or prt might make to do a meeting in the communities we hear the voices of the community. >> it definitely requires something like that that's really immediate to the folks because we've done regular meetings elsewhere and nobody

comes. >> thank you. i just want to say we talked about this policy and governance as well. i appreciate the thoroughness of the outreach and the desire and the success we've had in bringing people in it they speak other languages, making sure people have access to it. we touch weekly on the cost of doing that but again we spoke about this that the benefit to society of making sure that everybody can write our transit system and everybody can have access to the information is just impossible to calculate that i think the idea that we are expanding that access in making sure that everyone who needs it can get the information they need to write our system, i love it when the operators help out in the native lingo to help somebody out. i think that is just it's a lovely part of being in san francisco to have somebody approach the operator and ask in their home language and be answered in their home language

it's just great work on this report and look for to us continuing to do everything we can to reach out and make a transit system much more inclusive. is this the form of the report that will be going to the federal government words it sort of a pacific specific presentation to them you need to do? are they going to get primus the information we got here? he was go get what's in the board packet the title vi packet is a word document will be a pdf there's numerous appendices and attachment we uploaded through their grant system that we upload documents and gets trapped by them. it'll be uploaded as a pdf. >> it looks as i've no other question it stew is director ramos spews work just a complement this great work. your team is just >> you've certainly raise the bar from my observations and i had the privilege of serving on title vi committees and seeing the way that you are doing work is just raises the bar. i

applaud you for your efforts and all the work that went into even just this staff report and the presentation, the way that you folks organize the date of the critical points jump out you it's just really really great work and i hope you're celebrating in some way shape or form. width don't worry. it took six months of my life >>[laughing] >> we be remiss director garcia was here absolutely amazed. reports comes in everything is together it is been hours of sleeplessness which it should be. this is very critical because a lot of stuff we also work with the office of civic engagement and immigrants of their. there were critical in giving us feedback and reaching out with the directors were amazing incoming giving us feedback we immediately incorporated the included it as an organization response to your earlier comment bla p and the fda has

60 days to look at it see if they work it back if there's any additional information they need once it's done to live on a website and at the back i think it's probably appendix a and each plan are the detailed list work in organizations we listed out the geographic map week were going. >> wonderful. thank you >> director hsu >> i really appreciate the thoroughness of the report immunity job going into individual lines. that's really fantastic i did have one question is about how the 2013 survey was done. specifically, they come on board and are handed paper. with one question being, how do you question of low income was framed? >> it's relevant because we are actually in the process right now of updating that survey. so both in 2013, 2013 and right now we are doing it's an onboard survey. it's upwards

of 25 bus house and people are survey. it's a trilingual survey. the current version is in tablet form. it's more in the form of an interview. we are partnering with mtc on it and they found when they did it in other places like bart they got very high, as high as 60-70% response rate. that's why we have shifted to that model. but the survey itself is- >> how does somebody get asked the question of are you low income? >> what we do is we asked people what is their household size and what we asked them what is her household income and then we cross tabulate that to determine. so were not asking somebody are you low income or not. were using the

information they provide in analyzing it. >> ms. boomer number so the public >> is one person turned in a speaker card. herbert weiner. >> herbert weiner. i will be brief. i notice that it's one quarter of a mile to the bus stop in all neighborhoods and this means all neighborhoods have common misery and this is mta democracy inaction. now you really should ask in the surveys help people like walking a quarter of a mile to the bus stop. i don't think that's been directly asked. i don't think you'll get a good

result. now as a result of the community outreach i saw that in action at the mission cultural center a few months ago. it was quite explosive. fortunately, no one struck a match. now this is an example of community outreach gone wrong. significant people connected with mta and mta even left the meeting. you have a lot of work to do with community outreach. hopefully, there will be more less groupthink on this board. people on this board voted unanimously on this decision. i heard very little dissent. maybe there's some dissent in the back room before the meeting, but i see very little democracy here among the board and we really need some checks and balances. >> thanks. and every us wish to address the board on the subject? >> very quickly all like the

idea feedback. i like the idea feedback in this room. i like. feedback to public comments. thank you. >> thanks. motion on the? >> motion to approve >> before we vote him and go back to a director borden's point about britain made it may not be for this document be interesting to know what the agencies providing encrypted surely this opposition party have a large population with the growing population of people with sight difficulties. members consent we have to director to come back with something on that? okays with the motion and second. behaviors because opposed? thank you much. ms. boomer >> that includes all the business before you today >> we are adjourned. thank you very much everybody. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >>

>> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a

long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the

experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further

incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the

street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only three lines would remain.

the three lines that exist today. in 1964 the cable car's future as part of california's transit system was sealed when it was proclaimed a national historic landmark. in february, 1980, muni metro were officially inaugurated. in that same year, muni received its first fleet of buses equipped with wheelchair lifts. in 1982 when the cable car had a shut-down, they added an alternative attraction to the cars. the festival was a huge hit and would continue for the next four summers in a permanent f-line

that would extend all the way to fisherman's wharf, by 2000 the f-line was in place. and in 2007 muni extended the third line to the southeast corner and returning to third street. for the first time in 60 years. in the course of last 100 years, muni's diverse workforce forged by men and women of innovation have reflected the many cultures that flock to the city. muni's ground-breaking antidiscrimination has guaranteed equal opportunity for all. the city's policy mandates the course for the future, as they work diligently to increase options and increase

multialternatives, and deduce -- reduce the carbon footprint. it continues to improve the systems. during this sen -- centennial year we reflect on the transit system. driven not

>> good afternoon i'd like to call roll at this time. meeting of the puc to order madam secretary call roll marry commissioner moran commissioner courtney commissioner caen and commissioner vietor are excused we have quorum thank you, commissioners you have the minutes from the october 11th any additions, deletions, or changes. >> i'll move the minutes. >> second. >> a motion any comment any any public comment? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the minutes are adopted public school item 4 this is a chance for people to talk about items on the jurisdiction and the first one is mr. da costa. >>