the archive.org website that takes you, you to the place you can play old video games and other things there is the grateful dead supervisor avalos and others probing go to for the deadhead tapes and the amazing things that digitized home movies and radio programming and 45 and 78 record albums is credible but on to this to say the archive is located on clemente near the park presidio 9 alexander egypt putting this information in the hands of people 24/7 for the digitizes of

books and government people an enormous 0 online library for researchers and humanitarians or anything that has this interest like sherman or mr. peabody the movie text and tv news is all archiveed it is mr. broadcastos they've brought together people in the part of vision the internet archives and receives doomentsz physical materials from all kinds of resources i see here that i'm going to go into the data numbers but they have two to three million adversities a day that goes to

archive.org they scan millions of boxes and employees people on clement street in san francisco and the available selections are all there including way back machine that allows you to look at sites as at the existed a day ago or 10 years ago if they existed 10 years ago and e books nine hundred thousand now broots their archives they're trying to bring the digital inclusion and the supervisor eye building in but they thamd to richmond, california is wireless assess and not just free wireless assess but were super fast

assess he's building that what we call the backbone wireless backbone in places that connect up 9 seniors and disabled and the homeless and kids and families in the fabricated before you governments like richmond, california and their institutions to close the digital divide and he also is a supporter of co-housing and supportive of housing they look at the staff not able to afford homes in the richmond or san francisco but a true visionary that has shown through creation of smart machine but giving back to the neighborhood as well the last thing i'll say that archive.org has all the information but in the late two months and 8 days in office i'll stand here and say thank you for creating a future we're prioritized institutions don't

have the knowledge and alexander in creating the library of the future that exists in the district of richmond colleagues can you give a hand to the folks thank you. >> (clapping.) >> gosh thank you very much it has been a good 20 years and i'm going to use this opportunity to make a couple of suggestions the idea of free wireless access is possible if there were groups that we can go and hook to we supply free high-speed internet inside all the housing projects in combination with the city but want assess to the roof to give it away free for 25 roofs we can't get that done and during the jobs now program we were the

major employer the welfare to work bathroom, we hired one and 46 welfare people and gave them a job and training and from the federal government had said that will last two years we'll have 25 hundred people but time again for that type of thing in san francisco and the thirsted this housing issue we have a problem keeping our employees in san francisco or working in the nonprofit we bought on apartment for nonprofit workers the idea they'll pay a debt free rates that is 1/3rd of market-rate rent silvers they're working in a couple of nonprofit i'll extend 24 further but it is scary out there do anything no housing given not the money but actually all the lawyers to

making it clear we can have housing for nonprofit workers will help the nonprofits stay in san francisco a great honor to be a san franciscan and great honor to work with eric mar thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> congratulations okay supervisor tang. >> thank you so today is my honor to bring forward someone 13 last week celebrated they are 90 birthday bernice. >> wow. >> (clapping.) >> i love her shirt so bernice

is joined by here grandson and the reverend and from the care center and her - bernice maybe you've heard about her sunset family for her and her husband's owner of a ice cream store 67 and for those of you who don't know poly ice cream is located on noriega and 39th avenue i like others that grew up in the sunset we have fond memories of the ice cream place and you'll see so many families together under the ownership of bernice and her husband they're famous for their unusual flavors that help the folks pick dozens of

flavors if you're feeling indecisive it's owned by another family but bernice visits in fact, the 50 anniversary in 2006 and she lives one block away so a little bit more about bernice she came to san francisco in 1939 and was able to visit the world fair to the treasure island and she attended local schools after junior high and the second class that went went through lloyd and bernice has the same foj from 1945 and she was an operator at the last manual office before everything was automatic so after that bernice went to work for a long distance test company budget wanted to come back to the sunset and serve

that community that she did bernice is ready to lend a handicap with any project and also provided incredible support in noriega the branch library to build support and along the way she stumbled on the sunset a huge chris isaac fan and went to many concerts and chris calls bernice ms. poly ann bernice has dedicated her time to 9 care center at 33 and bernice met the director again who is here when she was 54 and pam last was 16 and best friends for decades pamela has run the care center for 33 years and bernice is

proud of the care for the families and worked for pamela for several generation of children and joys working with young people and seeing them grow and looks like some photos on sfgovtv thank you. >> and bernice has 4 children all of which whom attended lincoln high school a great grandmother throughout the years bernice has an incredible impact i see she's wearing her t-shirt over irving street and has helped to build the fabrics as a small business owners and an advocate for important projects and, of course, everyone who i've met and knows bernice has wonderful things to say about her so as she turned a young age

of 90 on october 24th it is important we thank you, thank you bernice and happy birthday and the floor is yours. >> (clapping.) >> this is surreal for me don't believe i'll elaborate here i'll elaborate just i've helped fiona worked beside her and carmen chu and you are the busiest and do more things that keep the sunset together it is not all about the past i lived it is today

and i read our newsletter every month i can't attend all of that i have attended the community festivals this last year and you were kind enough to say he will and fiona was there i feel i'll elaborate part of today and this is today, we have a pastor at grace luther republican church he's the pastor of today younger people of all beliefs we're still there i've been a member nearly 40 years and go to grace center i can't say any more never a stranger in the neighborhood i

end up having long feeling if it is from a meeting thank you all for this privilege to be here and tell who i amy want to see come from my family thank you, katie for doing that for the future i can see it happening.

>> (clapping.) >> happy belated birthday thank you for coming to the chambers and congratulations. >> and with that, i'll now recognize supervisor scott wiener for the final conformation today. >> thank you madam president colleagues today, i'm honored to recognize mr. frank and mr. powell to sfmta employees that herly intervened on someone that went through a knife attack if you can come forward. >> his an engineer with the sfmta for 17 years mr. desusan inspection with the agency for almost a year there are many things that our

city workers do on a day to day business to help to improve the lives but at times your workers go way, way above and beyond the call of duty and this is a case last week as frank and portugal were driving down market street they witnessed a victim being attacked by an assassinate welding a knife unlike other members of the public that are frozen and watching in horror frank and powell took it upon themselves they stopped and pulled the victim into the truck for protection that most likely saved his life the gentleman jumped out of the truck and pinned him down enemy the sfpd arrived this act of

bravery on your parts is the demonstration of the best of the workforce and it was truly an act of her religious freedom on behalf of did board of supervisors i want to thank you for you're her recidivism and not - thank you for making our streets safer and first invite the director of transit to say a few words and then from our two heroes. >> thank you, supervisor it is my honor to introduce or reintroduce those two individuals as you described in 1964 in new york city we were introduced as a result of a horrific crime introduced to a term of app the

bystander effects fortunately for all of us several years later those two individuals don't have that they saved a life as you described they're a heroic and allow them to tell their story. >> come on up thank you. >> (clapping.) >> first of all, i'll elaborate sorry for any accent my honor to be here just you know a little bit that i could do for a country and city that gave me so much and the only thing i could do frank who stopped the truck and get out and helped someone in need you think it is important for us

and that's what makes me very proud of to be a civil servant we're were a civil servant we're not only serving ourselves but this is what i'll elaborate proud to be a member of the team of mta that has great heroic folks like that my colleague please. >> (clapping.) >> and first of all, i'd like to say thank you for the recognition as a city employee we drive around on a daily basis seeing things a happy on a daily basis you see bikes and activities most of time you drive by but asian pacific islander low said something it challenged 9 situations that was a point of action and saving a person's life i don't think anyone that works for mta or in general can

let something bad happy but the citizens of san francisco jumped in i'll elaborate proud to be here you. >> thank you both very much for your work and for being incredible works of what a hero is you may not feel you deserve

that title but safety someone's life means turmoil ours is a hero thank you very much okay with that, we have done where our accommodations today and we will resume with our regularly scheduled items madam clerk let's go to committee report. >> items 28 through 38 were considered on monday the committee forwarded to the board as committee reports for today. >> let's read the items together. >> item 28 an ordinance repeatedly the building code in it's place 2016 building code consisting of the california building code and as amended by san francisco item 29 adding the provisions of 2016 california residential code with chapter of

2016 building code and adding k45r79 36 to serve as a directory where the provisions may be found and thirty the electrical code eliminating it and impacting the california electrical code and amended by san francisco and next the san francisco existing building code consisting of the 2016 calendar building code with san francisco amendment item 32 ordinance repealing the green building code and impacting a green code consisting of the 2016 building code standards and amended by san francisco and 33 ordinance for the martin luther king code to repeal that and have another mechanical code as amended by san francisco and item 34 ordinance repealing

the plumbing code and enacting a plumbing code and amend by inform and for those items for january 2017 and adapting the local conditions to the california health and safety code okay. >> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? without objection the ordinances passed unanimously on the first reading. >> next item. >> item 35 an ordinance repeating the current san francisco code in its entirety consisting for the california fire code and portion of the 2017 international fire code with operative dates and adopting the california provisions to the california

health and safety. >> same house, same call? passes unanimously item 36 and 37 on a rules committee kneeing and the committee forwarded as committee reports today item 36 was recommended as amended with a new title for the administrative code to k0d, if any, the balboa park community advisory committee to establish the membership for the terms and term limits for members and extend the sunset date to february 28, 2019. >> same house, same call? without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading next item. >> item 37 for robert term ending and tim term ending 2020 to the public works oversight committee. >> same house, same call? without objection the motion is approved unanimously.

>> madam clerk go to call the roll. >> for introduction. >> supervisor farrell. >> okay. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> i am submitting several items for one as note is a resolution supporting the proposal to bring the luke museum to treasure island and in my district in inform tried to have the support every of my colleagues on the brtd board for this resolution the luke museum is the first of its kind and a designation site that we hope to provide cultural benefits to the city and county of san francisco what i'm most excited about the museum beyond becoming a designation site in san francisco but particularly early on treasure island is the potential to expedite the public transit service with the ferry services so for many of the workers, visitors and resident

as well as providing more youth and family-friendly sites at treasure island it is community neighborhood with many young people families without current resources the museum is expected to attract 8 hundred plus and the art story telling and moll the original work we artists both well known the galleries and education spaces will be designed for lectures and class and after-school programs we're especially pushing seeing we have lost the boys and girls on the island and many of the youth are left without after-school programs on treasure island the luke museum will contributor more than one billion dollars to the city in the separation and infrastructure construction that will accelerate the ferry terminal i've mention the museum doesn't seek public subdivides

and will be pubically - it is on 4 acres on the western side of the island with close prompt it the ferry terminal they were approved for the fund in hotel and park use i'm excited to support we hope a global designation as well as a community site celebrating the arts in san francisco the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor eric mar. >> today i'm introducing a resolution that has a pending economic disaster for filipino and on the workers at the san francisco airport that is after coming weeks before the thanksgiving and holiday season i'd like to thank my co-sponsors supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and supervisor campos and supervisor eric mar and supervisor yee and the jobs for

that justice that have been supporting the airport worker the san francisco supermarket does a good job amongst did companies doing business is the hertz corporation out of the their workforce is airport shutterers that drive the cars from the counters to the parking space and seeks to layoff one and 56 hard working most immigrant that have served for over 20 years at the jobs before the hoiltdz the lay off is november 8th a week from today those workers are amongst the lowest pate and the $13 bus an hour i'm repeat $13.34 an hour work with the shadows of a multi million dollar corporation hertz has targeted the filipino and chinese to subtract out quality union jobs and i want to thank

supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and workers have been told their jobs that will be replaced by a subtract named the service solution that will start ay hiring with no gaez of further employment the workers and unions have been calling for a contract that recognizes the changing nature of the work across the country we're fighting back the terms of subcontracting and contingent work nationally with campaigns to pass legislation to protect the workers from those types of abuses san francisco and the state of california have taken be acts to rein in the spraushgsz temporary and contingent work and inflexible scheduling, in fact, that board has led the nation to pga the

reform law for fourth amendment bill of rights a couple of years ago and know that hertz can go better than this i'm asking you to support our work at the board asking the hertz correspondence to rescind those layoffs and make sure the one and 56 jobs are full-time for the san francisco airport i'm available to answer any questions we're asking for the airport intern director eir vary and the airport commission to doing everything we can to assist the workers in retaining their jobs we urge our support and lastly i'm wearing a black tie for the richmond resident his name was mr. thomas myron hooker he referred to himself as manor and want to say he was a homeless man in the roshlgd district a fixture of the neighborhood and

made countless friend that cared for him, i want to shout out to leah of the books formally in the in the long run clemente area but now on clemente and right by where mr. hooker slept every night i met him 10 years ago he used to reside no more golden gate park i lived there and would greet him his smile and real happy nature was something that so beautiful in his character but most recently he riot on clement street near the greenbelt on the 14 after a founder but started to reside near the elementary school near clemente side he passed its away on october 26th peacefully in hi

sleep with buster flies kissing his check when we pass away on the corner he was the most striking conversationalist with all resident and fondly remembered by the elementary school students and his free spirit and gentle personality was pollutant on clemente in the richmond district over one hundred heartwarming stories from children to small business owners like leah and others that offered him food and money but returned the gesture of kindness with stories from underlying from his living area all to the ocean and back and buttered flies in questioning him to and

from his site those 2 hundred stories that have been blowing and sharing and revealing a neighborhood of empathy and the impact on people that have no homes or shelter over their head and the greater community empathy is a beautiful thing he was a guardian angle and many neighbors shared food and blankets and morgan hill miles. >> and conversations that sustained into friendship over the years we will be celebrating our memorial for mr. hooker at the star of the free church he was an attendee at the church on monday november 7th another 7:00 p.m. we'll be showing the documentary voices and you can have more information about this

documentary.com a film an amazing film about mr. hooker and other people that mentally ill thank you to the la community of public health that features the portraits of 3 individuals and their struggle with severe mentally ill and share the realties of all residents pga of residents with often complex emotions around people with psychotic mental illness and thank you to the neighbors for embracing him and be part of million join as you

at the star of the free church on november 7th and thank you for letting us end this meeting in the honor of the beautiful resident mr. hooker thank you the rest i submit >> thank you supervisor mar supervisor peskin. >> thank you mr. clerk i want to journey in the memory of a vary jake's that passed its away at the 93 he served as a member of the san francisco couldn't democratic party for 3 decades over half of them as the chair of that body he worked for decades in local news and opened his house again and again for if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems for all causes you can imagine my condolences to his daughter son-in-law and peter and here we go at the last

meeting before the election where 3 of the members of the board termed out i want to make a few objections we'll not be meeting on election day i wanted to express to the board the fact that i think as i walked around everyone in the town realize that there are too many items on the ballot i think that we in part have to accept rocketed for that many of the items are clvth with one another as the only member of the body that voted against the budget that was predicated on a tax that has to pass next week that is powell terribly we have to get it right the next time we can't go with 25 propositioned that is in large part the the one and 55

thousand dollars tax is unlikely to patios i want to their so and so objections and take more responsibility next time. >> thank you supervisor peskin. >> commissioner tang okay. >> supervisor wiener. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> i have colleagues a few requests first one is i like to say have a hearing on data sharing amongst the public health departments today, i'm introducing a request for that the board has been very vocal on addressing crime citywide as we

have learned kw0r7d efforts what about cradle 2, 3, 4 preventing and investigating the crime across the city data is critical in how we handle investigations and identified trend in criminal investigations we know that while the sfpd and the district attorney's office working closely together there are challenges when it comes to data sharing forensic criminal imagination all the crime data warehouse are manually entered typed into under our system in order for the district attorney's office to assess sometimes it takes several days or up to a couple of weeks more information to transfer from the sfpd to the district attorney's office due to the old systems we're using this is alarming thankfully a

coordinated group that works on this issue the justice that's a great question information system program justice brings together the mayor's office the zoning administrator the the adult operation and district attorney and police, public defender's office and sheriff's and status of women and the court and the technology to integrate all the criminal justice case management systems and to replace the cable c m a application system that's why i'll collin u call for a hearing calling on the departments involved in justice to understand obvious information sharing works with the public safety department and perhaps learning more about the way we share the data across the public safety departments in san

francisco i hope we can maximum our matters to efficiently combat the crime to make sure we're being efficient with the dollars the other resolution that i would be introducing today pertains to the residentscy of our public safety department heads currently we don't have residentscy requirements imposed on the heads of department while visiting san francisco is preferred not required the police commission is finalizing the search for you now police chief i'd like to urge the consideration for whoever it chosen to run san francisco from all my community i've heard concerns how important to say to have a fire chief and police chief reside in san francisco in emergency we wanted our chiefs to be available and not

commute to the scene as we all know 2 has been increasing challenging to have them in san francisco we should do more could recruit police chief we should be supportive in helping them relocation 12 is important our heads of departments live in the city and we will be x porsche in our support of relocation final resolution i'd like to - you know it is about police staffing we have spent considerable monument at the board debate how many police officers to have the charter says we should have one thousand nine hundred and 71

we are approaching that number very quickly probably sometime there or end of next year but we still have to consider how best to grow the department today, i'm introducing a resolution urging the police commission to convene a workforce for the police staffing and deployment i've been in discussion with the police commissioners building that task will fit into their mission earlier this year the analyst produced a report for the conclusions of the police staffing is not on population loan this task force will help to identify and implement a comprehensive multi disciplinary approach to determine the staffing levels bans different factors with the studies on calls for service, crime data,

officer workload and population size i believe that the task force were to have a difference cross section of experts including the san francisco police department command staff and other stakeholders it is challenging to recruit for officers the reality the work is changing and as such we need to be initiative and flexibility about you way we approach public safety in our city at the police commission finalize the search for a new police chief we can have staffing for employment the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor yee and supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk colleagues yes. i have two months and 7 days left in office and i'll be talking about my work in the district

as we get towards the end of my time on the board i do want to highlight some of the work around community development especially bringing about community assets there are two affordable housing projects each one unit each of that are in the pipeline district 11100 percent affordable housing two community gardens and one community farm that are in the works was able to get the san francisco credit union to come to the corner of mission district a huge great asset to bring into the neighborhood they've opened up hundreds of counts for balboa high school students and around the corner are two buildings that unfortunately, i want able to get on the ballot so i'll have a hearing on the status of those buildings and how we are working

on this to activating the sites and those buildings have an tremendous amount of history and be able to preserve that history by landmarking the buildings and one of the buildings was the site of some labor thinking rest people are occupied the building for thirty days to keep the building active as a public health department facility and the other has a mural that was built or painted frisco before the frisco at coit tower so i'll be calling for a hearing to fascist those a lot of the help from john updyke and others to bring those buildings up to code originally they were about $2 million plus we now have an

establishment that is doable to help the key establishments to be working 415 an update on the geneva carbarn not able to get that on the ballot but want to hear with the rec and park department is doing to be able to activate that site this one has taken munltd times coming to the board of supervisors and expenditures we've you approved and worked the rec and park department to identify bonds fund spent to be used for the building every time we get close to having something ready to make that building a reality something else happens but before i leave office i want to make sure we have a hearing on both of those on the jennifer carbarn to get those projects really in the pipeline and moving forward for whoever comes

after me to take my practices on the board of supervisors and want to create a in memoriam for alex he was killed in on officer-involved shooting in march of 2014. >> i actually worked with alex when i was at the children advocates and youth he was a young man and always was around the excelsior by the director the bernal heights contaminate and this was a huge loss for the city but alex was a native son that who's whole life around the mission and bernal heights a tragic and violent death should be marked part of history of bernal and also part of daily

experience of his parents who go everyday to the hill to pray the site where alex was killed and so i have an ordinance that would direct the rec and park department to establish an memorial to mark what happened also to bring part of community together that feels strongly about marking the spot and effort to recognize that what has happened and restore justice to a place that is harmed in part of the healing process and so not a lot of time to run through the board of supervisors i'm hoping that if we need to request that we can waiver the thirty day rule on this i also want to thank my co-sponsors madam chair rosales and supervisor mar and supervisor cowen i think i asked our offices if you want to co-sponsor i'll

appreciate that and those items for introduction thank you. >> thank you supervisor avalos. >> supervisor president london breed. >> submit. >> thank you supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam clerk like to simply add my support for the alex resolution i do want to thank supervisor campos and his office and jeremy and his office for working on this i'm hoping that is one of the things there is a convenience across the board the point of that memorial in having a beverage thnch thats the memory of alex to recognize we have traffic incidents that took place in this spot in this part of bernal heights. >> whatever our thoughts what took place there is no question

that there is a tragedy here and what we hope through his memorial is that there is a little bit of healing that happens a little bit of healing that happens for the family for the residents quite frankly and it is an opportunity for everyone in the community to come together and that's the spirit in which this is introduced and i hope that that is the spirit in which this process go forward i want to say it is not just about city hall in the process but city hall doing this in a way that involves the community and that's the way we are intending to approach that and i think this is yet another example of a tragedy being used in a positive way to bring the city together the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor campos and supervisor cowen.

>> but i'm going to submit today. >> thank you supervisor cowen. >> supervisor mar i asked to be referred. >> colleagues, i mend a couple of events from the richmond district the memorial for thomas myron hooker the star of the church on 8 avenue on monday november 7th and also in a couple of days there's an important community meeting called by the rec and park department but also neighborhoods leaders on the beach chalet soccer fields the birds any congratulations on

november - they're reporting on a bird migrates we're in the process of looking at the bird impacts and thank you to the activists from keep our neighborhoods clean and bob and richard from the prozac the rec and park advisory committee for taking the lead on urging migrations of the left to right felt successor field and from the rec and park department whether give a great presentation he'll show how much playtime for the various soccer they've increased the hours from the soccer field was renovated and the picnic and other areas around the soccer fields have been improved so access to the

great highway also assess from inside the park has been improved for working class all over the place lastly my office has organized on town hall homeless services. >> thank you to jeff for coming to the richmond and along with other members of the staff the death of many thomas myron hooker is an issue that will be addressed in mental illness services and as well as how resident can address homelessness issues that will be on november 21st at the presidio church on across the street from chicano could press store. >> thank you madam president that's the conclusion of the.

>> at this time the members of the public may address as a whole and not to matter. speakers using translation services get up to twice the time. pursuant to the boards room please direct your comments to the directors and and if you need to put up a document on the overhead advise sfgovtv, and take it down when you are finished. >> thank you first speaker please. up on the tv and this is the pesz transparence library this was in tthe library - this is

jewish bible and yesterday the christian remember what embody did through martin luther i mentioned to the visiting pastor that he mentioned the name of martin low-hanging fruit and charles nun i gave a lecture to you 50 years in the church of rome he was a very, very powerful book and the reason i've read all the packages 6 times plus and there is coming a day of resurrection a day god will he said this world as we know it is it judgment day

in this particular prophesy - it says that rejoice daughter of zoning shout oh, drought of jerusalem budget committee hold they king come and he is lowly when this took place crossings to 9 processing prophesy of daniel we're in the year now and it is my son tension he'll rays the dead that does not end open rosh hashanah and ended last year which means 7 thousand plus will be december 1st. >> thank you, sir next speaker, please. >> supervisors there used to be

a time when we came over here and had 3 minutes for meaningful public comment. that has been reduced to what mark farrell 2 minutes i've been listening to the hearings on the millennium tower and want to know how interested you all are in the skyscrapers i say that because i introduced you to the chaplain that spoke to you and advised you, you what you should be doing. >> this greedy city and some of you all have your hearts in the right place i've named who you are and there are the others who are the devils who are ruining the name of this great city named after st. francis

and in the southeast sector the world knows that deplayed uranium was tested in the 50s we and you supervisors are allowing a lower developer in the proximity 5 point, llc to build thousand of units on naked land who will have the decency the conscious equip those who have no heart why do you allow, allow anyone that live on contaminated land that are black sell outs i've mentioned in any blog it is time that the federal

bureau of investigation take over. >> thank you thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you thank you sir. >> next speaker, please. >> next speaker, please. >> your time is up. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you political leader that knows of true expansion of self-nature be productive adding great success should be elected to office with the virtues in helping people for the rescue for the formal understanding the true principle

of standard guidelines with the seller for the coloration for families recreation and wondering wellness mighty talent should protest of the loyalty and in spirit to match any other talent for coming for profitable for a whole for people political leaders must have determination for protective pro plo policies and legal measures for the benefit of all people without prejudice and bias and political leaders have establish great foundations for justice and king was with a holy heart to enjoy

the destiny of the missionary for truelove and true mercy for our benefit god bless. >> i'll be using the display and sfgovtv. >> excuse me - >> sfgovtv please. so i'm peter executive director of library users association on some pending business we certainly support the libraries and think the books and the people that who have stayed away from the library are exactly the ones we should have encouraged through a no fine permanent system at library is ene e mental illness wealthy with a

reserve over $20 million and half a million dollars in feinstein fees we don't encourage a rip off system but a non-cash way to pay i want to talk about a real disaster 2 that is coming to the library thanks to the sfmta the mta plans to cut all 3 bus stops closest to the library on the 19 northbound bus this will cut the only stop on the northbound line that is right on the library in just a few steps from the front entrance will force the library users to walk more than 2 half blackstone's blocks and across two big streets that is a huge impact on safety as well as convenience this is library is the only public library with a lib for the deaf there are one and a half million velocities

per year at the library and that's what the mta is planning minimal publicity and mingle planning i've asked them to consider what the increased dangerous from the public crossing hundreds of time a year and instead of stopping in front of of the library and the asian museum they've not considered did alternatives or dangers please look at into this thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> ladies and gentlemen, of the audience and supervisors good afternoon for the record i'm emilio i've

spoken before this board. >> in the past and through any things in the city i'm here today to give you a reality check i left hand to our mimics of helping airport workers and the caregiver they're making $15 an hour we pay the airport 34 or 4 add and $70,000 a year in fees you don't talk about that master card 55 percent of our income on income and fees you don't talk about that i'm not here to talk about that buffer one supervisor we had a supervisor that came back from the dead after destroying the taxi drivers by putting the sfmta that is one joke they've harvested and raping us for 5 years now i'm here to talk about one

supervisor who is running for another office because he's been on the public dome for over 20 years helping the bad cops at the city and county of san francisco and now wants another job he has not worked a day in his life not knowing about the laws of supply and demand get into the real world where cab drivers work if you don't believe contact the law firm they'll give a list of lawsuits and uber and lyft and taxi drivers getting into battles or uber directives getting into battles with taxi drivers on november 8th one person you don't want to vote for . >> sir, sir. >> mr. lawrence mr. lawrence you may not

advocate for or against. >> next time mr. lawrence i will cut off your 7, 8, 9 sooner. >> next speaker, please. >> dear board of supervisors my name is boo and october 22nd and 23 about 6 thousand local and international practitioners garter in san francisco and held a series of large-scale events that aim to send a message to the public to stop the ongoing prosecution of problems in china last tuesday a couple of sole practitioners garter at civic plaza to express their wish

nancy pelosi sent a support letter as well as congresswoman jackie spier the group in particular tried to address the board of supervisors as well as the mayor about the mistreatment and injustice that they receive in san francisco here's a video clip of the event with one banner message addressing to this board and mayor ed lee in case you missed that. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> any action - (inaudible)

can make a difference. >> however, during this such beautiful and solemn event something unprecedented happened and one of the sole practitioners who experience herself will tell her story thank you. >> i'll be translating

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> greeting board of supervisors my name is neugen and attendee of last we understand event i'm here to report something that is urban pleasant that happened at the event there were 200 people in my group we rent 4 buses from san francisco travel agency and paid 19 thousands to them for taxing united states from place to place and thing were smooth in the beginning, however, as 4:00 p.m. saturday october 22nd we were supposed to go from chinatown for chinese council we found we were taken to our hotel when we asked the bus driveway

said does not take us to the chinese counsel . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the night and day the travel agencies represent us tells you the chinese council applied pressure to them her boss devised to cancel the bus service for the remaining 3 days it was cancelled we had to work with one replacement bus in a hurry that was a mess and lost a

total of one thousand 200 hours just in - >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we are still engaging with that travel agency about this matter so we're not revealing their names pubically but if you require in private we'll share it with you thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon madam president 5 and the supervisors we have been telling you in the past month the chinese council has been controlling chinatown and imposing the agenda on the communities here what we told you is a real experience that

happened right here in the city last sunday the san francisco-based american travel agencies refused to move 200 of their clients that paid for the services why? because the designation is chinese council let it is two scary please note the travel agent was not asking them to join the protesting 234r067b9 of the chinese council let but to move people there the protests really has nothing to do with with the travel agent deal that is scary enough we learned that the travel agency telephone was loaded from calls by the chinese council let we know that was - ladies and

gentlemen, we all know we have cherished the fourth amendment in the u.s, however, do you know the chinese people who sit in front of you not supported such right they're so front yard of the - is our city still a american city or facing by the bay thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is jane please think it over this is what makes san francisco upcoming american and makes the chinese-american businesses they're not making businesses r businesses this is not only the chinese council lnciliate - pe

like rose pack are undermining the freedom and constitution of this nation 3 weeks ago this board of supervisors passed its without discussion or vote a resolution to remedy the naming of our chinatown subway station the people all saw they remember and will remember in the future the naming recommends what kind of message are you sending to 9 people and the businesses to already in atmosphere those are the people you are supposed to serve and protect the chinese conciliate and the mayor join hands to honor her to the extent

of being ridiculous you've done it out of your personal reasons to may have done to without knowing everything that rose pack is by the chinese conciliate they honor the packs to the - they're growing in the industry follow rose packs and you'll get process and be honored thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> dear san franciscans supervisors i'm here to discuss about the issue of american citizens bullied and scared and superfluous but the chinese regime this is as an elected government by the people and for the people to protect us and speak up for us are urge you to look at this matter and address

this matter and to stop the city from being b.a. beginning by the bay this happened in the past and brought to your attention the marching band submitting an application ordinary by the chinese schedule to happen on september 11th, however, let me share the history of this matter which we'll have many witnesses and present one witness her name is loretta thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is laparolet and i try to speak in english. >> i'm a former dan performance for the parade in 2004 in the san francisco

chinatown parade that's the first year we get into the new year parade i'm explaining unfortunately, when our team arrived at the main stage we are stopped and also from the microphone on the main stage rose pack speak loudly in chains and addressed his name i think that is cantonese name and has a new baby and rose talked about her congratulations to person in a formal parade i think that is very improper because we see the team marching spot main stage they announced the information and introduced them to all and all the people

celebrated the new year parade at that moment but rose pack is killing the time until our whole team passed its through the main stage without anyone troos introduce us we feel very hurt this is the essence of distinctions on our group from the rest of the other operational group in 2004 i'd like to urge whoever the city government the chinese member do this on - we're a group of people. >> ma'am, thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> greeting board of supervisors my name is casey i'll show you

in pictures taken during the group in the chinese new year parade rose pack claimed that the parade has an chinese government tune and was unsafe for the chinese new year parade here are photos of how our group looked in the parade the message present was a celebrating one and completely in line with the theme the reason as an asian cultivation was part of chinese cultural in 2005 the group was again denied participation, however, sole practitioners and wished to - of neither told the

group to line up at the end of entire parade once our group came to the main stabilize they were stopped and until all the vp and all the lights were settled in a group that was allowed to stop that while none was around that was a hum humiliation thus was the same in 2007. >> i will continue in 2006 after denying the application following the proothsz and assigned to the area along the parade route and here is a clip of a news report at this time.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> i think they're representing the country very well and small business. >> people shouldn't be discriminated because of their beliefs. >> i don't think they they should have been rejected. >> they should end up that in parade. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the reason they're not ♪ political bus the chinese

chamber of commerce and the chinese government don't want them in more people stopped to see them than the parade >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> dear supervisors my name is les can sing then never any acceptance of our application and have to live with the humiliation for 10 years until today this year we have applied for the participation of the chinese new year we feel that san francisco is an american city that can't be deceived and not ignore the injustice the chinese chamber of commerce after receiving our application will face the same test that the travel agency faced they'll not let us in the conciliate will

california them there's be no side cast if from our san francisco city government supervisors look both that matter please help us to show that our community can stand together against the pressure of the foreign regime and help america to stay american and there is challenge what an old chinese modular evil can't prevail over good we wish this is true in the land of san francisco thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you supervisor president london breed and your

co-dependents my name is christopher i live on 6 and howard 10 blocks and less than 40 years from sea level this morning james director of the fbi along with laparolet attorney general of the united states and pamela harris attorney general of the california and inspector general of the u.s. department of transportation noosed multiple indemnities announce against the supervisors from the san francisco and the city attorney multiple officers of technically companies to various political campaigns of the main subjects charged with conspire to evade state law and state and federal constraints on the use of

federal fund the law is the prohibition on the bus stops by private vehicles and for the google bus program and april fools wrong tricker-treat. >> before the next speaker my other speaks to speak now is your opportunity please step up. >> tom gilberty a long time ago a gal was here in a wheelchair and she spoke about trying to get a waiver for a condo fee that she was denied to vote always remember she had to

hold this microphone with a hand that looked like this in a claw and i'm able to hand 2 with fingers there is only an inch difference in our injury lines every time i come to this microphone i think of that woman young woman and so here i am and excuse a knowledge to and st. francis haven't heard you, you remember that gal depretty you helped people from pg&e to stop - and then when you heard of

this gal here and the waiver denied you dropped the rope app took off and haven't been the same sense and mercury stopped me from jumping off and san francisco should get a public thanks i understand that two got to go oh, talk to you later it is interesting what we do here and we need to do better on all the accounts thank you. >> thank you madam director to provide public comment at this time seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. back to item no. 7 supervisor avalos. >> thank you madam president

colleagues, i have an amendment to make to is this ordinances and like to send it back to committee for a very, very brief meeting and sh9 with the land use and supervisor cowen schedule on the 14 so essentially we're adding language that will affirm the planning department determination of the california california environmental quality act and finding to that as well so i'd like to amendment in that language a motion to amend this language in and to refer to land use the november 14th land use meeting. >> okay supervisor avalos has made a motion to amend the current item no. 7 to know the

appropriate language and seconded by supervisor mar colleagues without objection, without objection the motion passes and made a motion to forward 24 to the land use committee madam clerk is the date of 14 correct november 4, 2016. >> that's correct madam president. >> seconded by supervisor mar and colleagues without objection that will be sent to the land use committee to be scheduled let's go to the items for adoption without reference to committee items 40 through 43 were introduced without committee with a anonymous vote any supervisor maybe severed and considered separately. >> supervisor farrell 41 and anyone else. >> okay. colleagues on the

remaining items same house, same call? without objection those items are adopted unanimously and other than item number 41 is there a motion to excuse supervisor farrell motion by supervisor tang seconded by commissioner peskin. >> no, no i'd like to discuss it. >> okay madam clerk call item number 41. >> item 41 a resolution to commend the new york assembly member for covering and passing the new york city assembly bill a-8 relating to the pro bono the advisement for the apartment new york city and commending the governor for signing it into law. >> before the decision a motion to excuse supervisor farrell and motions by

supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor eric mar colleagues, can we take that to excuse supervisor farrell without objection. >> no. >> supervisor peskin. >> thank you madam president so i understand that supervisor farrell has recused himself in short-term rentals i want to pose the question through the chair that the interest the supervisor farrell company had in a comment with bus with airbnb to my knowledge been sold and supervisor farrell company no longer has a business interest in the company that does business with airbnb. >> supervisor farrell has asked to be excused from 24 item and as out of respect for his wishes whether there is a company involved or not i don't see any reason we'll not allow

him to be excused from voting on the item. >> we don't excuse people without a reason i mean - >> mr. gibner can you explain. >> what a supervisor asked to be recused. >> oh, before we get to supervisor farrell deputy city attorney disabling in her and the reason i bring up this point i understand the point that supervisor peskin is making around the asking for excused for a particular item i know as a former commission items an appearance whether or not i've wanted to be excused or not sometimes you will take the high road and ask to be excused is just to avoid the appearance defibrillating e mr. gibner in a person of board of supervisors requests and opportunity to be

excuses excused from a particular vote their, their prerogative. >> supervisors must vote on all items unless protected by a legal conflict or the board votes to excuse them from voting on that item. in this case i believe that in the short-term rentals related ordinances supervisor farrell has requested to be excused not because he has a legal issue but to avoid any legal issues >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you supervisor president breed my ongoing request to be recused a separate investment in an unrelated area of airbnb they're involved in the short-term rental and avoid do appearance of conflict no technical one i don't have to

very any reason to have any potential conflict or potential there have so i want to recuse myself. >> supervisor peskin would you like us to do a voerment. >> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? supervisor farrell is excused madam clerk on the items can you please call the roll. >> supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang. >> sorry that is the vote on item 45. >> oh, no. >> supervisor tang no. >> supervisor wiener no supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen no there are 7 i's and 3 notices with supervisor wiener and

supervisor cowen in december sent madam clerk please read the in memoriams. >> today's - huh? >> madam president. >> item 45 received a 7 to 3 vote because a resolution on first appearance it requires a anonymous vote. >> okay so then the for clarity the resolution will not be adopted that's correct madam president okay. the resolution will not be adapted supervisor kim i was going to make a motion to rescind. >> supervisor kim makes a recess accept and expend of vote colleagues without objection the motion to rescind passes supervisor kim. >> i'd like to make a motion to refer. >> you want to send it to

committee. >> to continue; right? >> motion to refer. >> you can send it to committee. >> refer to committee. >> okay. this item will be sent to committee madam clerk please read the in memoriams. >> today's meeting will be adjoined in the two following beloved yield for the late mr. thomas hooker and on behalf of the supervisor peskin for the last form chair the democratic party mr. a debar jake by colleagues this is the end of the agenda madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> that concludes our business for today. >> great we are adjourned thank you, everyone for being

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>> 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 could 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] >> >> >> . >> (clapping.) >> in 2013 san francisco legislators newsom agreed to allow the reciprocate of our soft story buildings those

building house one and 20 thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have the first earthquake retrofit a huge success we're repeating this model what we've done it put together venues that are time professionals and contractor are financing institutions a other services that help people comply with the retrofit and as you can see the thousands of members of the public their assessing over one hundred vendors to comply with the ordinance or make improvements on their property i came to get specification

information and puck h picking up information if you don't know what twaur doing i take it overwhelming. >> we're pleased a critical mass of people are keying into knowing their relents and understanding what had are the next steps to take and they're figuring out who to talk to not only the contractor by the mustards and the architect and the structural engineers and getting the full picture of what options are necessary and being pro-acti pro-active. >> so i'm very pleased to see the soft story buildings 99.9 percent complies the highest of the program of this scale of the history a citywide effort high blood pressure in every stretch of san francisco to understand real risks associated with earthquake and those are

universally agreed on. >> at some point you need to gather information i'll be talking to another engineer to come out and take a look at it and basically get a second opinion i'm for second and third opinions it is inspiring to see all the property owners that want to do the right thing and for proactively figuring out what the solutions to get them that. >> what is amazing to me here we are over two years of first retrofit fair and at the time we are rh2 out to contractors to help us and reaching it out to design professionals that soft story buildings is in any and people understanding how to comply now it is different an industry that springs up as a result of the - their professed and gotten the costs down with lower financing options and

these are defined and now the gene progression and have the buildings are buildings and the compliance we understand the 2020 one and 20 thousand san francisco's 15 messenger of our population will live in a retrofit building those people buildings or lives in buildings with 5 or more residential building is soft story and wood frame and built before 1978 that house that one and 20 thousand san franciscans. >> san francisco is being the leader in getting in done and as you may know los angeles passed their retrofit law two months ago at the sort of taken san francisco's lead on the one and tenth anniversary as the residents san francisco this is a road map to the city and going

to give us us plan are these to keep folks here on a disaster and steps to build a resident waterfront by 2020. >> this involves more than one and 80 individuals and over 60 nonprofits and other companies this is a huge plan and what are the challenges we realize that people are concerned about climatic change, sea level rise and not only the affiliated hazards but things hike you're our amp infrastructure and consumed by social and other things we see this in society everyday and how we try to mitigate those are ultimately a direct result how resident we are after earthquake other issue out of the strategy of the concept after a major earthquake of keeping 95 percent of population here in san francisco that's the

single best thing to help a equitable recovery to keep people here keep people back to work and kids in school and a residents of normal after a disaster. >> alliance energy in our partner undertook comprehensive bid process we interviewed a half-dozen of folks who wanted to have a part of our soft story buildings are ordinance so alliance energy project programming is a clean assess energy a special financing that is done using the taxed authority of local multiples and one of the interesting features the loan is tied to the property not the vital if an individual didn't have good credit but it is another option for people not

able to comply to find another avenue the assessment is actually places on the property and the builds for in that come literally a line item on the tax bill that's how you pay off the segment and tax. >> 20 or thirty years is all paid up front there are advantages your property tax well it is important to give people on option and many private banks that provide loans over a are shorter term we wanted to create a longer pay back term. >> i think the next step for property owners after at the create themselves to take the plunge and quit the working downey done and have works of work done right of the right rest of the property owners can understand this process across the city.

>> we need to do it. >> it is safety you know that's the bottom line safety. >> earthquake safety a everybody's responsibility that is providing the resources that people need to get done if you want to know more of the resources as a san franciscan please visit the >>[gavel] >> i will note commissioner pating is here joyce singer and sanchez. yes there are four.

commissioner pating just walk in. item 2 is the approval of the minutes of the health commission meeting of october 18, 2016. commissioners i apologize. is a common missing from item 2 on the minutes between the four and 26 injured i apologize for that. any >> is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> moved and seconded. >> any comments or questions? no? >> second >> all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] >> thank you. item 3 is the directors report >> i will left the directors report in front of you get a visit any questions for the directors report all try to insert the staff is also available for any answering. i just want to note we do have all of our news items media

items attached to the directors report. so if there's any questions about any items, please try to answer them. >> any questions, commissioners? no. i just had one and just curious about it a little more color on the easy to update >> yes our health officer [inaudible]. >> from my perspective, the report is actually very up to date up to now we've had 25 cases identified in san francisco. they have all been travelers could all the cases in california there's been 353 cases good all of them have been travelers. the only area

there's been transmission in the us has been in miami. the only other thing that is news is that there has been longer ongoing transmission in southeast asia. that is been known about but they the cdc has added health advisories to people traveling there. the last thing i want to mention is just something that can out recently that sort of interesting from a scientific perspective and that is that it looks like they micro [inaudible] seems to be more associated with a secret cases in brazil and we had seen less typepad defect in latin america. so it's perplexing as to why that is. the scientist or try to figure out what's going on in brazil that's causing the virus there to to cause the [inaudible] in newborns >> you may not be ready to comment on it but on that point, there have been several

news stories about what might be the reason for that that had to do less with the etiology of the disease and more with standard public health practices >> yes. i just learned about this last week did i don't know the details yet cured that's really it. >> thank you. >> no further questions? next agenda item >> item 4 is general public comment. i don't request any request for general public on we can move on to item 5 urges report from the financing planning committee commissioner singer >> okay. let me get the agenda here. we did a number of things probably the most relevant here are the month it was a very thin agenda but the month contacts report we got and we got a request for approval of the new contact and both those items i like to go through in some detail with the commissioners. so and mark, jumping if i do this wrong, but there were two contracts. one

with university of pacific school of dentistry and the other with health right 360 which included no additional money from the general fund. it was either additional funds or reallocation of funds and i'd like to recommend-sorry-the finance committee recommended that we refer to the commission for approval of those two items. >> then also the new contracts. >> can i do that all at once? usds he was there is a new contact, which i like to describe an point out why this is sounds mundane but is actually important. it is a contract with guttural healthcare laundry and linen services for pounds of laundry i learned today that5.4 we generate at the zuckerberg san francisco general hospital in

laguna honda hospital in a year. it should take care that in the finance committee also recommended to the full commission that we approve this. the thing that is interesting about this and very encouraging, is an example of a consolidation of vendors could be of vendors for each of the hospitals separate contracts and through doing is there's a number of ways which it looks like we will be able to reduce what would have been the projected cost of laundry. so congratulations to the staff on that and hopefully it's the first of many contract consolidations that will come before us. so do we move approval for these? first asked if there's any questions >> offers as if there's any questions from the committee >> any public comment any questions from the committee >> >> to that change the rules on how we do [inaudible] >> it's an example of how they took through the normal process

and decided to use one vendor instead of two. but it went through the normal procedural hoops that contract has to go through. >> thank you. >> a good question. >> question through the chair. i just was looking at this this afternoon and just wondered these are significant dollars that as you said, evidently there's been integration consolidation which is about a three-year grant. i guess the question i have because i can't understand how, in fact, this operates because number one, before laguna honda and general both have their own laundry facilities. this quote was not effective, quote unquote to costly quote unquote etc. etc.

then the con department contracted out and some of the hotel industries got the contractor so they were literally getting the laundry from general and tracking them down to monterey, monterey peninsula and getting it done and when they came back they really had problems with the quality of the work. then there were other things being done. at the same time there were a number of small laundries in the city there were trying to consolidate especially minority communities that small laundry succumbing forbids and so one effort would always be why can we build hospitals which run higher local contractors and local workers etc. etc. do you know, then it seems like as i read through this, this is a large collaboration based in wayne pennsylvania and it's part of an international worldwide contract. wow. have we gone from our small neighborhood communities to try

and encourage job opportunities and small businesses, etc. in order to provide jobs and keep families here for, what is this. it's what are my? number of contacts [inaudible] the went to saudi arabia and china so forth and so on. i guess my question is, if in fact you look at the board of directors and it can go up to 30. i don't are these people all pleased here or are they based out of the home port in wayne pennsylvania? or are they part of the international corp. in who really is the international corp.? that's what i want to know and i assume our staff has reviewed it. >> we can certainly give you understand i understand your point of view we can surly give you more information about this particular project or you can also recognize that we also do have [inaudible] required to

minority owned businesses as part are confident this just happens to not be one but is really born for us in terms of bulk costs and how do we-and we had very sizable purchasing power going on throughout the department in fact that does not give his i think the end result of what we need to do is really try to use our purchasing power to build lower our cost. this is one of the ways we can try to do that. but i do understand a position but we are still required to follow lb fuels which we do for many of our services have minority owned contractors or providers. but this in particular one is one in which i really support to ensure we try to reduce our cost overall by using our purchasing power for large processes like we have to have. as you know, we've gone in out, in out in terms of the services. so this is also a nationwide for all public hospitals in

which we are trying to purchase together and trying to reduce our overall cost. then, >> i understand >> i understand your position. >> it's a different protocol as we don't look at your diligence and i mean it's the [inaudible] when we look at the building of the hospital were always so proud are hiring rate was above 20% even 28-29, 30% and look at the contractors should i mean laguna honda the same. something the department of public health was so proud of and whatever they could take a look at we are doing some great things but i guess as i said, normally long before we used everything on ethnic eight bracco and don't sometimes the directors came in from germany to tell us why they're bidding here when it's a german based company. we have special interviews on that. so i just wondered >> [inaudible] can also address this >> doctor sanchez thank you

for asking that question in terms of our local business enterprises, one of the things as we are beginning to utilize these group purchasing contracts that director garcia mentioned as a component where we can actually have our local business enterprises become members of that gpl. as we are bringing on these new larger were guys asians we are also working with her obe to give it got him on the same list we get the same pricing for those service. we are doing both at the same time. >> that's very helpful. thank you for clearing that. >> thank you. >> so opening up. okay. >> good >> thank you. we can move on to item 6 which is the consent calendar which you all can vote on. to approve good >> should we vote on the consent calendar? all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] any objections? did i do that right?

>> yes, thanks next agenda item >> item 7 is the healthcare accountability vinton this item was introduced at the last meeting and today you will be voting on this. >> good afternoon to visit my name is patrick jane and secretary [inaudible] said we presented on this on alaska missions on happy to take any comments or questions you may have about its. >> mister chang, can you review the changes made so even though the commissioners of the package not necessarily everyone but maybe scuttled >> i apologize. thank you. >> whether any changes since the last meeting? >> there were no changes. no substantive changes. since the last meeting the draft resolution is just expanded to include include all 16 resolutions. the previous one had only the 14 number subject to change given that the full consensus of the workgroup. so this draft resolution includes

all 16. as a rule is a resolution would >> thank you. there are several public comment request for this item. so our questions as commissioner, after those >> yes, sir. >> albright. the first person is greg brown. thank you for taking the time to come talk to us. >> everyone is making public on. i've 3 min. on the egg timer. when the buzzer buzzes that means your time is up the was thank you for letting me come talk today about this. it's my first time serving on this group and it was probably of all the things i've ever done before the most interesting. it was a lot of different viewpoints and we went through every single point. i've never seen a more thorough review of anything before in my life. all viewpoints were discussed and we turned around and came to recommendations based on the needs of the business community as well as i represent labor could labor community, and

nonprofit do we all just kind of sit here are our needs and we can up with our own proposal based on those needs. the proposal basically we do not go to a basic sewer plan in order discovering that a lot of of our members are going through their own doctors for healthcare preventative but not for when they get sick. because that costs money. so they did not go. that defeats the purpose of having healthcare. now we are paying premiums in employer are paying premiums for deductibles and it's not being getting their money's worth out of it because people were not going to the doctor. we discovered this through our own workers. i've my own people tell me that. so yet, we can up with a solution of raising the deductible to $2000, raising the : insurance 270-30 and raising the top eight-top out-of-pocket 268-53 at having the hra hsa

cover the first 2000 basically deductible. that weight should solve most of our members concerns, lower to keep the cost down for the employer and was kind of a win-win for everybody. we all discussed it and we all happy we came up with something bounced everything up. met all of our needs could so actually was a very good consensus. we were able to find a win-win women all the way around for everybody and that was our recommendation based on meeting everybody's needs. i represent a group of women predominately women group several hundred members at the airport that are predominately-85% female. predominately minority. even though we are in a more progressive liberal city in the state most of the work still falls on the women, the wife, the mother and these women are working there as a full-time job . -i got an education that have by working with them and helping with her problems in

i'm just amazed with these women can do. the working full-time and they go home and they take care of their kids make sure they go to school they take have some other in-laws with him there taken on their almost superwoman and they don't give up. just every day do what they have to do. and they carry one massive work load to that quite a few single moms carrying the load all by themselves. they're paying rent $2600 month for a one-bedroom apartment that is green but not in the best neighborhood. so this helps them tremendously. thank you for pathos and keeps double they can stay healthy and ask for your support on this one. i think needs a lot of people's needs will help a lawful lot of people. >> thank you. and the gerald. the microphone is all yours. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is emma gerald and i'm with seiu 1021 we represent city workers but

we also represented by the thousand nonprofit workers in the city. i spoke here last week regarding our priorities around reducing the burden of the deductible and how that affects our members. it really is a barrier to health care and that's why we work so hard to have the hra or the hsa cover that amount because we feel like that will have our members utilize the healthcare. i would like to read a statement from the labor council. all right. this is a statement from the executive director from the san francisco labor council. i want to be in rate fellow committee members recommendations to accept and implement the workgroups plan in updates the workgroups spend much time

three multihour meetings in allies in data plans prices and trends in this ever-changing world of healthcare plans and premiums. we feel with consensus that we came up with changes that reflects the intent of this historic legislation to provide the best healthcare for employees of vendors and contractors do business with the city and county of san francisco. in the era of obama care we need to be thoughtful about the values of our city and not just make decisions that appear to be simple bureaucratic fixes. that is what this workgroup accomplish. it should be noted that whoever is elected president next week is pledged to address healthcare in one way or another and we expect that our group under the guidance and facilitation of the great team that are dph will be meeting again with the adjustments that might be needed. on behalf of the 150 units 100,000 workers representing in san francisco i highly urge your adoption of the recommendations. >> thank you. karl cramer.

>> karl cramer is san francisco living wage coalition. the san francisco health department did a study this year that found that deductibles were one of the chief concerns of employees. also the metlife 14th annual us employees benefits trends study 2016 found that 55% of the employees reported that there were worse financial fears and worries included not having enough money to cover out-of-pocket medical costs that were not covered by their health insurance. the health department's study found that recent surveys indicate that nearly a quarter of adults with insurance are still unable to cover their deductible. the

commonwealth fund provides a useful measure for underinsurance is having a planned the dockable that is higher than the 5% of income. insured persons would plan deductibles greater than 5% of income are considered underinsured. which may lead to forgoing needed care. the current minimum wage under the minimum compensation ordinance which is a ordinance that we organize workers back in the late 90s to pass as well as a companion measure the healthcare accountability ordinance, under the minimum compensation ordinance which covers many of the same workers at the airport and on city service contracts, is currently $13.34 per hour. many of the workers at the airport are at that wage. the $1500 deductible that is currently in the minimum standards is 5.4% of

their annual income. so according to the health determine study 40% of adults with these kinds of deductibles that amount to 5% or more of income reported that because of their deductible they had not gone to the doctor when sick but did not get preventative care test, skipped a recommended follow-up test or did not get heated special scare. we heard reports that the meetings of workers on city funded service contracts not opting for insurance. instead using indigent care at the general. we know first our organization knows firsthand of workers who have health-who have health insurance instead of going to the emergency room at general and saying that they are unemployed. this shifts the cost burden of healthcare to the city while the city is also providing tax dollars to pay for the insurance company

premiums. the aca requires that city departments confirm in writing that they included in their budget cost for nonprofits to comply with the aca. so we reach this compromise and i think that this is one that does address high deductible plans. thank you. >> thank you. debbie lerman. >> good afternoon commissioners and debbie lerman from the san francisco human services network in i did also speak last time. i'm here just to reaffirm that the proposal before you does balance the needs of both lawyers and employees for affordable care

am a affordable plans, and a wide choice of available plans and good access to healthcare for our workers and for all the workers on city contracts. from the employer perspective, over 50% of the plans that we studied on the small business market would be compliance under these new proposed standards. under the old standards it was dipping below 30% which pushes everybody into the highest cost plants. as you know, nonprofits cannot raise our prices to pay for those plans but we would have to be knocking on the city's door to help us increase our cost to pay for them and even that would not completely cover the cost because we have many employees who also don't work on the contract. so it would put us in a real bind in force service cuts. so this proposal does represent the consensus of a very knowledgeable group of stakeholders from many different areas and most of us have been on this stakeholders group mobile times. so we have become experts at this and we do urge you to accept this

current proposal. we will see what happens next with the affordable care act and 80 back before you next time around with some proposed changes. hopefully, that would make it even better. in the meantime, it is-i do want to say it's late in the year. this process usually happens a bit earlier. so we are pushing up against the boundaries of employers needing to do their shopping for next year and hope you will move forward and approve this today and thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. any questions for-it's doctor chang,? it is now. >>[laughing] any questions bequest >> figure doctor chang >> >>[laughing] just calmly patrick >> was nice to see physical

collective impact of labor and management working together as we try to find what affordable in the city. i think i mentioned last time you told me the reasons why couldn't we did not do this but i hope that affordable care act gets more because of more stable product in an american economy that we will be able to meet even streamline this analysis hospital am really glad [inaudible]. my wish would be-i support this. at the end of this is that we actually might send the findings of this to cover california. i think the issues of affordability and city like san francisco both including our nonprofit partners and our public partners would be important for the state to hear. i just don't know if they're getting this information to us, the regional report you produce an affordability related to the -what was the other thing that

scares security ordinance. i think is a really important information to share with the states. so just good work on this and thank you very much for pulling this together. >> thank you, commissioner. >> mission or sanchez >> commissioner sanchez >> i just had to comment phenomena e commissioner pating's comments to justin bradford working group on taking disparate points of view that are often at odds on these very important issues good all from their own biological important perspective and coming to a working compromise. i think-i hope that in the future that as we look at these things we will also begin to think about how actually to do things to lower the cost, not just make sure that everyone is comfortable with how we share the cost of healthcare. i don't think we're that have a solution in san francisco were the countries can make much progress in less everyone is willing to kind of examined

people's behavior from going to the emergency room to diet and exercise good we are not to make much progress on that. this could take everyone working together like you guys have shown you can do. so in this second point is that i hope in the future when this comes up that as we talked about it that we have a better understanding of the code works and we talked about this last time the medical ward of san franciscans that this impact. which businesses does this impact? which employees? how many? i think that'll help us in context of this and many other policy decisions that we make as a group. so that something that would be helpful. that was it. under figures and more public comment so >> is there a motion to approve was bequest >> motion to approve >> all those in favor say, aye >>[chorus of ayes] opposed?

congratulations. >> thank you, commissioner. >> open enrollment. >> commissioners item 8 is the san francisco health network update. mister pickens the was >> good afternoon again. >> hello. >> commissioners in you are in front of you there is an updated couple of sheets that start pickens will review. your paper copies. >>sorry, commissioners.

>> i will be back. it person. he was maybe he was maybe expand your preamble. >>[laughing] >> first celebrity- >> mister pickens, hold on one second >> i've to these good one was in my packet that i got last

week and the other one was presented today. which is the most recent document? if i want to fall you i want to fall you. >> sure. the two pager you got today represents updated slides for the last two slides in the presentation. the packet you got last week is accurate up until the last two slides. >> okay. thank you very much. >> it is on the way but i suggest we move forward. [inaudible] >> so good afternoon commissioners. i'm roland pickens director of the san francisco health network and it's my pleasure to provide you with an update on the status of the health network today. today's presentation will be at the network level. that you see highlighted on the left side of the organizational chart for

the department. in today's presentation we will review three things. first, where we are with our strategic plan and our progress utilizing lean methodology in the implementation of that land. second, we will review the status of the nine strategic initiatives of the city to plan using the lien 8-3 team charter format. finally, we review the status of our true north metrics with our first report out at the network level on the status of those true north metrics. so on september 30 of this year to bring you up to date, the network and dph leaders can together for a one-day meeting your follow-up strategic planning retreat to our session back in march. your member back in march we stuck to very first tricky dick plan for the network using the methodology. at the session a few weeks ago

in september, we received some foundational being education from our roanoke consultants about the value of visual management and monitoring the status of lien improvement processes. in addition, at that september one-day session, we also spent time of we finding and bringing closer to completion of the unfinished a-three team charters for a five phase 1 strategic initiatives. the slide here shows a depiction of that lien visual management. what you see here is called a visibility room. this is a are a visibility room for the network which is located here in room 220 at 101 grove and some lien organizations this visibility room is referred to as the war room. this is where we have our

regularly scheduled network leadership meetings went completely functioning this visibility while uca this is just our first initial stab at it. it will have our strategic plan, the 83 team charters for nine initiatives and the true north metrics that only for the network but for the phd division and also for the dph. so this would be the one centralized place for all the improvement work across the departments comes together. you will recall when we est. the nine strategic initiatives we determined that five would have a focus in phase 1 which is this current fiscal year and the next. the other four we would focus on phase 2 in the following two fiscal years, 18, 19, and 19-20 when i reported to back in august of this year none of those five a-three team charters were complete. today i

can report do that to of the five denoted by the green colors you see here under phase 1 write-in information anytime anywhere and stabilize finances are now complete and there in the implementation monitoring phase good the other three denoted by the yellow color moving towards being completed. as i mentioned before, moving forward were being very intentional about how we are prioritizing our work using the lien framework and we are aligning and coordinating our efforts across the network given the varying degrees of lien support and resources and adoption across the various divisions of the network. as you can imagine, the work of these nine strategic initiatives is occurring along with and is complementary to many of the major initiatives of the

department and the network including the implementation of a new electronic health record them to take a break.[pause]

>> mister pickens, if for some reason this is more than a minute about we go back to what we were doing. because it looks like- >> thank you. so picking up where i left off, as you can imagine, the work of these nine strategic initiatives is occurring along with many of the

priorities of both the network and the departments. those priorities include the implementation of the new electronic health record that we will talk more about. the limitation of the state medi-cal 1115 waiver in its five individual programs being the prime program the global payment program, the whole first year program, the drug medi-cal program. this is also going along with our work on the various workforce of element initiatives within the department cultural humility, collective impact in trauma informed systems. the of also got other initiatives like the replacement of the city's financial system also going on as we are doing our initiatives. for phase 1, we are committed to continuing to develop all five of the 8-3 team charters. with the understanding that completing that competing priorities are allowing us to really focus on the top to utilizing full lean methodology. we just don't have

the support system and the resources to do a full lean implementation for all five but it doesn't mean the work will go on for those other three. it will just be a more traditional performance improvement process. this slide shows our update on strategic initiative number one which is our number one priority. this was formerly known as implement and enterprise dhr. it's now titled, right information every time anywhere. the a-three team charter has been completed this initiative is now in the implementation and monitoring phase. some of the major highlights include that the work has been completed with ucsf medical center to inform a go-no go decision on epic with ucsf medical center. we expect that decision to be reached and communicated within

the next week or two at the latest. the other highlights are given that go-no go decisions are critical path risks have been identified and mitigation activities are underway depending upon that decision. but we are also establishing and dhr governance structure that will need irrespective of whatever system we go to and we are also standing up in project management office to help manage the project. this, our second strategic initiative, number two, underwent a major revision in the alignment changing its original focus from implement the medi-cal 1115 waiver to its new focus on aligning care finances and clin o