>> there are speaker cards in the front of the room and you can fill them out and pass them to me and i will call them in the order that i receive them. with that, i will go on to item number one, which is

roll call. >>[ roll call] >>we have a quorum. we will move one to item number two which is approval of minutes of the september 27, 2016 commission on the environment regular meeting. (explanatory documents: september 27, 2016 draft minutes) (discussion and action.all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> [chorus of ayes] >> so approval of the minutes has been passed.

clerk, please read item number three. >>item number three ispublic comment: members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. seeing no speaker cards we will move on to item number four.. item number four is4. review and approval of resolution file 2016-12-coe commending tom owen, retiring deputy city attorney, for service to the department and commission on the environment. (explanatory document: draft resolution 2016-12-coe) sponsor and speakers: commissioner johanna wald and deborah raphael, director (discussion and action) >>thank you for commissioners and thank you pres. omotalade. as i was

reflecting on tom's tenure here, i was thinking of the important role of the city attorney. san francisco perhaps now more than ever has both the obligation to make sure that we are healing the planet and taking that bold with that becomes the responsibility to be legally indefensible. at the end of the day we could make the most incredibly bold suggestions, resolutions, and they can be bold but they have to be followed through on. tom's role is

vital in this. what tom did was say, let's get to the bottom of what you are trying to do. let me remind you of things like the interstate commerce club and the opportunity that locals have but also the boundaries in that. and his cool head and strategic mind allowed us to do amazing things. and so tom, as you reflect on your career i hope you realize the difference you have made and it is because of you that we on this commission and we in the city have been the environmental leaders that we are. and, i hope you understand that. because, there are many hours of big bruises on tom's forehead

because he triemake sense of all of this for all of us and that he has already stood up that test of time with the threats of lawsuits because of tom's wisdom and strategy and commitment to the environment. so thank you tom. >>[applause] >> commissioner wald. >>thank you. thank you. before i speak about tom may i ask you anthony to please read the resolution.

>>[reading resolution]

>> thank you anthony. debbie spoke about some of tom's contribution to the department so i just want to take a few minutes and talk about tom's contribution to the commission. so the rules that we operate under are very complex and very daunting. i know that in the beginning, i sort of shivered when i sat up here at the thought that i might violate one of them or that somebody else might lower me into violating one or maybe even more of them.but as i got to know tom, i realized what a huge asset he was to our work because there is no

chance-- there was no chance that we would have not violated all of those rules without tom here are with us. it gave us such a sense of security and comfort to know that we could do our work without worrying about transgressing one of those very, very complicated rules. and, i will say that tom was not the only city attorney that i worked with in my tenure here and he is non-problem in my experiences and it is been a huge honor to share the space with you tom and i think you for all that you've done for all of us. does anyone else want to make any remarks? >> i remember a very very late night when we were

trying to choose our next director for the department and i remember walking back with tom and he had been doing this for a very , very long time and i thought how is it possible that you could have been doing this for so long. and the thing about tom is that i just know it that we took comfort in the fact that he crossed his teeth and doubted his eyes and did great work for the city and i think you for your great work. >> i just want to echo the same sentiment that there is a lot of thought, and to

make sure that we all have the best interest of the public and our community and i thank you for that. >>i just want to echo my fellow commissioners and say thank you for these things and thank you for helping us to stay on point and that we were able to set out the fulfillment of the goals that we need to accomplish. >> i am am sorry i did not

get to know you better but i do want to say thank you very very much for all that you helped us to accomplish. >>any other commissioner comments? >> i would just like to say on the resolution on page 2 if we could just change tom to thomas? >> okay do we have a motion to approve the resolution? >>i motion. >>do we have a second? >>we have a motion and a second. all those in favor say, aye. >> [chorus of ayes] >> any opposed? seeing none, the motion passes.

commisssioner would you like to present tom with this award? >>yes, i would. >> thank you for all of the terrific work you have done for us over the years. thank you. >>[applause] >> tom, would you like to say a few words? >> thank you. i just would like to say that is truly been an honor to work with the commission because you are truly on the side of the

angels and i cannot wait to see what you would do in the future. the department has been great to serve and i promise to provide the department with that same level of service. >>thank you. thank you very much. >>[applause] >>anthony, can you please read the next item on the agenda? >>the next item is item number five review and

approval of resolution file 2016-11-coe amending the commission on the environment's bylaws to change the operations committee regular meeting schedule. (explanatory documents: draft resolution 2016-11-coe) the speakers are: anthony valdez, commission affairs manager. this itemis a discussion and action. >> good afternoon, i would like to say that the operations committee meets in january. we would like to see the operations committee meetimgs to be more in line with our regular committee. the operations committee's

meeting times are typical also that the public can know when the committee will meet but it is also to hold that staff accountable for that meeting times by my commission secretary. we also wanted you to know that the operations committee last week recommended approval of this item. >> thank you very much. we will move to making a motion and then discussion and then public comment. commissioners can i have a motion to move our review and approval of the commission on environment's bylaws to change the operations committee to the

regular meeting schedule. do i have a motion? >>i motion. >>do i have a second? >>second. >>i have a motion and a second. all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay>> >> [chorus of ayes] >> any opposed? seeing none the motion passes and anthony can you please read the next item?

>> item number six review of the proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan. sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speakers: donnie oliveira, program manager, outreach (explanatory document: proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan) (discussion). >>director did you want to start? >>yes thank you very much. good afternoon commissioners and pres. omotalade thank you

for having me. i would like to start by saying that we need to look at the "why" that we do with this work and before i had my meeting on this i had all of the department watch a ted talk on the "why" these things were happening. and when we examined that our "why" had stayed the same at but we needed to better understand what the new role was and what our new value added was in this new context. and so, our strategic plan and this will be a metaphor that

you here in the next hour is that we have to create a path. when you think about articulating a path, a path has both direction and boundaries. clearly, this must have both. clearly we must say no to some things and we have to emphasize others. but, to move this metaphor even deeper, the strategic plan has opportunity to create the nature of the plan itself. how does it feel to be on this path? what does the surface of this plan look

like? what does it look like on this plan? what is the difference between plan a and plan b. who is it that it will affect. and so to implement this plan this is the roadmap to what were going to do. it must meet specific criteria. every member of our department has to see themselves in this plan. this plan needs to be reflected and influenced by the influencers of our department. the city department, the mayor, the mayor's office, the commissioners and the community leaders and the community members that work with us. and this plan must reflect the challenging work

that we do. and with all of that this plan has become a labor of love and this has become a very complicated interesting journey and on one level it is a single mission statement. on another level it is a compilation of pictures with seven objectives and goals but when we look underneath that it is pages and pages of goals and our interactions and our strength.

today we are going to interact with this at a medium level. it's important for you to know that there are these layers and steps. i want to acknowledge in this labor of love some of the people that have put their hearts into this. clearly donnie oliveira, who is the program manager and anthony valdez

which is back commission affairs manager and we need to look at this document this in a sense is a beginning and a launch to something more. and so with that, i will turn this over to donnie add to start the presentation. >> thank you katie. and think you commissioners for allowing us to walk through this record with you. i will begin with discussing the outlooks that were trying to achieve. we will

begin with the strategic plan which will run from 2016 to 2020. but first, we have to ask ourselves what is our plan and what is our mission? this is our mission statement. i am not going to read this right now but i encourage you to look over this and read this. clearly this is our mission statement and it is something that i am very fond of this mission plan

and it reflects our department and what we are involved in. and then this logo right here does not work very well on a mobile device. but we noticed that these were very similar in the process and we wanted to hear from the public where we need to go and where we may need to improve but we also would like to hear from the commission on where they would like to see us go in this process. we started out with the department as a whole and so we started out with debbie who is our director and we

took a strong hard look at this. so we could work through this as a strategic plan or we could break this down to gether and see how the community it will see this manifested ina strategic plan. we asked our colleagues internally what does that look like to you, and we actually asked everybody to put their thoughts on post-it notes and think about what they think the goal of the department was and what they think they would see in the next coming years and we got everything from doodles to long

thoughts written very intelligently and we went through all of these and first we looked at our global footprint. so we brought in experts in the global market to see how we were doing in our department and what was being done globally. we looked at what we wanted to do and what we needed to do and what was our goals for the department. we put goals down and concepts we could achieve and we wrote these down and we put them in the

order of importance for when the funds were available. and not only did we write these down but these were also something we could use to point a pathway for achieving goals. also i want to point out that we realize that it would be pretty bold of us to make a statement about what would happen in 2020 and 2016 and the best example that i can give you for that would be that in 2013 at our last strategic plan we had a goal of 27% bio use of

renewable. the saw in these plans and also what we looked at new plans that we could be prepared for in this project.wwe said let's set up a plan to be a, bold and b, agile and with that we contacted the meister and i will bring julie up to talk about what the meister's plan was as far as our effort. >> thank you donnie. hi good afternoon thank you. i am delighted to be here today. iwork with , as

danny said, meister consulting group to develop a strategic plan. today i am just going to talk about this plan a little bit. first i will go over who meister consulting group is and hopefully that will help you to see the direction we will be heading with this. first we bring deep

content expertise in urban sustainability, climate planning, and clean energy. second we design tailored processes for strategic planning with facilitated internal engagement. and third, we bring an outside perspective as we bring these things along. w understand this process we have narrowed this down into a three stage developing process. first we have a sourcing stage and then we have a selection stage and then a synthesis stage. first we have the sourcing plan and that will allow for benchmarking and

for engagement in these plans with these ideas and second would be that selection and the feasibility of these and this would include impact and influence and mission and thirdly we have

in concurrence looked at the practices ithin this sustainability practice and we put this in our database to help perform strategic plan as well. beginning with our ideas we had a workshop process. we had a workshop process to celebrate successes and brainstorm new activities. we discussed successes and

challenges and new innovations and second we had set a long-term vision visioning exercise and goals and brainstorming on these. and third we built out a new idea impacting our strategies and our successes that they have already accomplished over he last five years and that allowed them to brainstorm new activities they could do next and also staff was allowing them to have a vision outside of the box of

what else they could do and they took some new ideas and broke them down into goals over the next five years for their program areas and their department and they worked on short-term goals for these actual steps and tried to develop strategies of what this would look like if we took this pathway. so we took all of this information from the workshops and the discovery process and the benchmark and the interviews and we would discover and encode it and we would use our goals and objectives nd what is a direction that the department would want to take. and as you can see up on the screen at that we were dad look at what the goals and these abilities would be and the technical difficulties we may face and what is our mission statement and what things could influence this feasibility and the impact this feasibility will have on this.

so donnie and the team it took these different strategies and put them into place and i will turn this over to donnie now but these are the sick leave five pathways that were cross cutting and i won't read these to you right now because you can see them up on the board but i will turn this back over to donnie. >>thank you. the first pathway that we came to in achieving these pathways through this synthesis would first be promoting healthy communities and ecosystems, secondly would be achieving a carbon free future, ,

strengthening community resilience of eliminating waste and amplifying community action and not just what can the community do but work in the community do for amplifying these goals. as julie just mentioned we did a lot of internal work to get to this point but simultaneously we waited we are sort of pulling back the veil on our work and i

will introduce-- from fm three to discuss what we will be doing for the survey. >>thank you. i always have to turn down these microphones. as donnie mentioned we conducted research methodology and fm3

first we asked the policy leaders in the community words policy leaders ms. frequently connected to the san francisco department of environment would use and we didn't really expect every single word to be a positive one but every single one was a positive one. so we asked the policy leaders that most frequently described sfe as a description and how many times chosen this would apply. and thethree that we heard the most of were innovative, and national

leader, and collaborative and as well as forward thinking. there are a lot of things that emerge from this conversation and also what was distinct in this project were the consistency and also in talking to people throughout the city the perceptions were really well aligned. as far as the strength the interviewers pointed that the strength of the staff was that it was deeply committed and really engaged in really collaborative and trying to help to do the best job they can and this really helped to identify that perception. they also noted that sfe were seen as a very effective outreach in

the community to ensure their communications were culturally competent. and lastly, they also viewed us as a natural leader and at the cutting edge of innovation and technology . in terms of weaknesses sometimes sfe's perceived weaknesses revolved around a sense that they are unfocused and have a bit of an identity crisis. secondly they noted that it wasn't always perceived as

peripheral to the goals and work in the city and they needed to be integrated better with that work. that they would need to be pulled better into that central core. one of the roles that i've read as i was reviewing the interviews this morning that we looked at back and may is that we needed to be more political and peripheral. so goals that were suggested for sfe by the policy leaders were that potential goals for sfe

volunteered by participants included expanding public-private partnerships focusing on becoming more central to the city's work so in conclusion something that really stood out was that the department was seen and should be seen as a driver of change in an innovator and a vanguard. thank you so much. >> thank you. all right, so that was happening in the late spring and early summer and we had a true wealth of

innovation and we had stakeholders across the city that we had a great deal of information so we sat down to produce content and the first place that we started was with our mission statement. i just want to reiterate that this value was seen externally and internally. so that mission statement is the department of environment provides solutions that advance climate protection and enhance quality solutions. i will show you what this

use to be. so first we like to point out that we provide solutions whether they be innovative orimplemented as we are always striving to provide options. the second would be climate protection. this is important because for research throughout the country the term climate change has been lost. this is a political term and researchers are showing us around the country that this is a more accessible way to provide climate protection. this may mean different things for different people.

it might be zero waste or producer responsibility of protecting habitat for urban forest there is many ways you can protect that habitat will at the environmental department. the third thing that we wanted to look at was the quality of life. and everyone that lives in san francisco will have a different idea of what the definition of quality of life means and what we're looking to is what does quality of life mean to us and what are we doing it to implement that definition. and thirdly what can we

do to and include everyone withinthis plan. the first thing i want to point out about the strategic plan as we highlighted five goals and seven key strategies and first we mentioned at the beginning this is dynamic and living and we do not expect this to be comprehensive up front in terms of engagement and moving forward with these. first i like to show you what this would look like if we had done everything. this would be broken down and it would be important data for the department to work off our but it would not have the same

accessibility. these are key performance indicators that we use that we sent to the controller's office and that the community engagement process throughout the next stage of the services. is this one on too? they don't have this on their screen? can you see this on your screen too? all right.

okay i just want to highlight these values and the direct response that we got from the department and what fm3 provided for us and the first would be credibility ,ii innovation, collaboration ,and the [inaudible]

the first would be promoting healthy communities and ecosystems and achieving a carbon free future strengthening community resilience eliminating waste and amplifying community action is what the department wants to be focused on. each goal has a subheading of what we are trying to achieve. for promoting healthy communities and ecosystems our goal is to foster healthy and sustainable communities through science with an emphasis on supporting our most vulnerable populations and connecting with individuals in our community every day. next would be our key

strategies. i pull this up specifically to say this is not with our communities1. adopt a user-centric program design approach that incorporates user input and emphasizes engagement 2. increase public-private partnerships that accelerate local innovation and engagement 3. develop long-term relationships with community leaders and organizations by establishing community councils, innovation pilots, and community engagement initiatives 4. ensure messaging in all content is consistent and relevant to its intended audiences 5. inspire children and young adults to take action at school and in their communities 6. collaborate across program areas and with partner agencies on engagement timing and messaging 7. invest in existing neighborhood actions that amplify community cohesion and climate protection. the three would be the lead certified space in san francisco and the number of people participating in the ipm program. again we have many forms of this within our department but they are certainly within our plan.

so our first goal would be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2025. so we set the city on a path to achieve 80% reductions by 2050. these goals are very long-term. again, we have the key strategies and there are seven of these. these goals in particular focus on the

procurements and the decarbonization of vehicles and getting people out of seven passenger vehicles. again, this particular goal has a strategy that we've decided to dive in deeper with some of our colleagues rub the city to allow some opportunities in these challenging obstacles to meeting these goals. first we need to support economically resilient communities and increase san francisco's resilience to climate change impacts. in this particular goal you will find strategies that range from expertise in

climate facilities to aggressively changing these goals that they can stay within san francisco. we thought it was important to leverage our existing programs to support small businesses. and then again to our signature program perhaps in resulting in surveying of eliminating waste we are promoting responsible consumption by san francisco residences and businesses. here we have a goal of how we will tackle consumption this is always a challenge that we put front and center. we will reduce the consumption of single

use items and also better policies in these products principles. and next is amplifying community action. and these are to build a shared culture of environmental stewardship across san francisco and to provide residence and institutions with resources and opportunities to help protect our city and planet. and again, these goals were created in-house. in this particular strategy we have developed the goal of really meeting people where they're at and strengthening and that partnership leadership and

also introducing people to these plans rather than jamming them down people's throats and also at the invest in existing neighborhood actions that amplify community cohesion and climate protection.there are things that are happening in these communities that will help us to achieve the goal of this plan to help to protect our community and our planet. we have a wealth of

internal operations and strategies in key indicators that we would like to introduce but we would start that conversation by saying how do we do this and we will start this by increasing our internal operations and communications were working with our colleagues to help increase this with efficiency. secondly would be community engagement. when working with the community on strategic planning we can go out with an open canvas and we have a lot of great ideas but the idea is that a lot of these plans were outside of the community's jurisdiction. with the strategic plan we now feel like we can go to the community and have conversations that will be aligned with the funding and opportunities of the

department. and that gets me to a request, if you will, of this commission. i would like to propose an idea that we support community engagement of the commission with the success of the event held by commissionerwan, we ask that you support this and we ask that we could have a much more robust conversation later to make this much more robust and have new ideas implemented. and so, i will leave it at that for right

now. i did want to have it julie , up and talk about this idea to give you a very candid response to let you know where the sits during our benchmarking phase. >>i will just take you through what to expect from our plan over the next five years. the first thing to expect from the planned over the next five years is that it delivers a mix of strategies and programs and new innovations. an example is that the strategic plan continues to do the

departments work and efficiencies in residence but how do we get out of these fossil fuels and the department already leads in this area but how do we plan and how do we implement and how do we meet these goals. it is a dual mission of the department to serve both people and the planet and donnie has worked hard to make sure that we serve both. next, we build upon sf environment collaboration with other city agencies and departments and we bring sf environment among the leading us cities making

equitya priority in their work and lastly it prioritizes citizen participation and involvement and how this measures up. innovation within the plans pathways there are certain departments within this plan but please know that they are a goal within all of these themselves. first, it moves away from natural gas/fossil fuels for heating and transportationin our city's. there are very few cities in the united

states that are thinking about trying to ddeal with this with our heating systems. their stirring do this in europe but not so much here in our country. secondly it focuses on "roots" aand impacting climate change by leading applied research into compost application for carbon sequestration. thirdly it continues international leadership on waste and looks at upstream

producer side interventions. lastly it solidifies the commitment to the cautionary principle to accelerate best practices with this plan and also identifies resilience as a strategic priority and uses a holistic approach to most plans are not taking this approach in the us. i think it is really important for people. and also it reaches people with appropriate messages, tailored outreach, programming, and resources that are very important. so a few implementation considerations. this plan is designed to provide a clear and flexible pathway forward it is meant to be

flexible and it is meant to be a living document and to be implemented as we move forward. secondly as an opportunity to it spanned the plan and iterate with community output and will create stronger implementationby ends

the implementation will result in further collaboration opportunities within the city's department and agencies. consumption continues to be an area for deeper work. finally equity focuses aspirational implementation steps need to be in our pathway and i think you for hearing about our plan today. >> that concludes our content i thank you for your patience we tried to do this as concise as possible. the commission's interest and willingness to participate in 2017 in the roadshow and watching commissioner wan's impact was really phenomenal

and i would like to implement that in other areas in the city both implementation and and innovation-based workshops. >>thank you donnie and thank you julie. thank you both very much. commissioners, do you have any questions? >> donnie, you mentioned the roadshow next week and i would just like to know if you could talk a little more about locationbased and city based? >> yes, you can do this by a

cross cutting locations and do this in different districts and secondly how the city congregates and we thought it would be appropriate to do both. we felt it would be appropriate to have approximately six -eight different workshops. we can break these down into cities or families or millennial tech industries that want to engage. we can take communities like outer sunset or mission and focus on people who like to ride bikes or fly kites. and actually, i am interested in hearing if any particular commissioner would like to dive in and lead. we are very open to how we do that. the idea here is that many people like to dive in and engage and how we do this as

a group is as important as we do this as a commission. >> commissioner wan. >> thank you. is this on? okay, first i would like to say that as a city this needs to be a collaborative opportunity from everybody to bring these strategies together. i would like to encourage everybody to take this as an opportunity plus your work is they professionalto take this on. i was very glad to have been able to work on this there and i was very happy

with the response. >>commissioner >> i think it is amazing and it is clear and it is amazing how clear it is to connect the dots. i like the synchrony of the language. i like that it's cross cutting the community down into silos and i think that it is a great job including the work on consumption. is a huge, new issue for that-- for the

department and for all of us. i very much look forward to see how you all will see these goals met and how the goals will be met going forward. like i said, i have a couple of concerns. like i said, i am mystified by this organization. it starts with a community and then it's noncommunity and then it's community and so,i would be interested in knowing how you decided the order in which you would do this. the second and i think you recognize enjoy does too, what the department is,

and what they do and what other departments do. i think it is common for us to remember that when we think not just of the plan but of the work of the department. and then third this is maybe the most-- at least i think it is, maybe the most meaningful potential uses in the city. when i did strategic plans before i retired, they were used to make research allocations

decisions, they were used to make funding decisions, they were really used even though all of them said they wanted to be flexible, to sort of guide the work that was going on. and, if that was in this document or in the introductory letter, hen i missed it, and, if it is in the introductory letter, i think that is important that is part of that. i think not just the commission but the people you are going to talk to about that. because, they need to have a clear understanding of what your expectations are with this item and how they can make move forward with this.

again, this is a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous peace and this is so focused and i think it can be a fabulous addition to your work. >> may i comment on this? >>sure. >> i will let donnie address this if we make any changes with this but the fact that but say for instance,

pesticide use, we don't really have any ontrol over this, but, these are the challenges that we face as were moving on. and secondly, i would just like to mention you had touched on at the end of your comment that we had never used a plan like this in the past and this is a thoughtful and rigorous-- and thank you i like your word-- strategic plan that we have ever used. and what donnie and julie and myself will be doing is going deep

into what we need to prioritize and what are the funding gaps in how we allocate our limited resources and so, those issues are going to be front and center and the dance is that we need to be concrete with the plan that is meant to be fluid. and so, i think that is the real tension of leadership and management and how you do that fine line of a walk. and i will be eager to find out how we can do this with you and i think these are really, really good points. >>commissioner stephenson.

>> thank you. i would like to say that the organizational geek in me just loves this because i just love organization and i would like to know do you have other strategies that you will be using to implement this? >> first i would just say that we have many strategies that the department will look at. and, we had names refunds and things that were mandated but we could not name all of these. but there are things

that were perfectly valid that we included today but we couldn't include all of them. and, the reason is we wouldn't have time to share all of them today but we wanted to show you what we were doing moving forward and give you a look at what the department does. the objectives are more strategic. and i just want to highlight this. thanks to meister and their organization they provide us with everything from a budget to what our objective strategies need to be built out further and going forward we will look at that with our director debbie and with julie for meister and i do hope that we are able to

do that. and these strategies will be sought after and with the tool and the use of the document, with controllers department and the wwd we are also reporting on the strategic plan.and then we will look at what the reusable was then and what the reusable is now and we can add those. and the department will set near-term goals for everything from ed's, and solar and the consumption based on zero waste and will make them more affordable and will track them ourselves. and again, we would like to come back every year and kind of give

you an update on where we stand, what's been modified, and what we've seen and our strategy changes and also what the department is doing is a hole. >> commissioner bermejo. >> i just want to say thank you for what you have done today and this is really just an amazing and please add me to your support. because this plan will affect the community in ways where it can impact us. so count me in for the roadshow. >>thank you. >>also, count me in for the roadshow as well.

>>commissioner hoyos. >>thank you and i would also like to say as far as the roadshow, you can count me in. and when i look at this leadership strategic plan it is a lot and i think to myself how can me as a commissioner or us as a commission move forward with this, maybe it's a policy committee maybe it is in an operations committee or something like that to have some sort of a spreadsheet.

so green light could mean that we got a yellow light means that we struggle little bit and red light could mean we might need to do away with this. so we could use these different colors just to say what are the things that we could do to push a little harder to meet our desired outcome. and then, in regard to the roadshow i think that will give us an opportunity with the community to do that. and to me it seemed like donnie that you were thing that would be a little harder? >> reduction of single use items. >> to me, if i was doing a roadshow i would think how can we pull together the constituencies to really advance those goals and how can we find the champions

who are really interested and which coffee shops or vendors are interested and what people are leading the way and also which civil society groups will push these to what they are interested in. then i want to talk about a healthier ecosystem and i see the three under key strategies and i note that under the key strategies that we want to reduce these pesticides and to me, do we

know that were reducing these pesticides and this is an issue for the board and i think that we have seen a lot in public comment with participation and with other committees and i would like to see that some more. commissioner wan >> i would just like to know if we have a list of the key challenges as well as the key goals. >>that is a good question.

our challenge is how we will meet our goals with our budget and as we move forward both internally and externally what is appropriate and what are key partners willing to do to help us to make this achievable. so i think that's a good question commissioner wan. and then also we want to look at our achievement strategies and we have a long list of how we want to do that i am like our heating goals for example and that might be of different than the red light /greenlight metaphor but you are absolutely right, this is important. >>i understand this is a five-year plan and this is like a blueprint for the

environment department and i think that it is important to have this type of plan and have it lead up for each year and what were doing and why were doing it and who it is laid out for. >>thank you. i would like to open this up for public comment. >> thank you. i think the process in the strategic plan is very exciting and very focused.pertaining to the roadshow, i would really like to urge that everybody participate in that because given the circumstances that we are in currently more than ever, i think the citizens will greatly, greatly benefit from more engagement with their city and the governor and the commissioners and heads of agencies and the more the

citizens can engage with each other at this time, the better will be for all of us. thank you. >> thank you. >> hi i am-- i came to came to you with the [indecipherable] resolution with the [indecipherable] plan. you can't control

what you use if you can't control what you use you can't control the pesticides in san francisco.as far as the [indecipherable] you can't change what she used then it is useful to us. the next one is [indecipherable ]to the community. this has been thrown down our throats for years.the last was in 2012.[ indecipherable] and then there is is resolved the mayor and the general

manager of san francisco [ indecipherable and in particular [indecipherable] to maintain control and achieve the necessities in this area in the department. for the resolve, [ indecipherable] commission are heated to ensure public safety and i put here these

san francisco residents will be negatively affected by this area. thank you very much. >> thank you. any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. thank you. anthony, please read the next item. >>the next item is item 7;

director's report. updates on department of the environment administrative and programmatic operations relating to budget planning, strategic planning, clean air/transportation, climate, energy, public outreach and education, environmental justice, habitat restoration, green building, zero waste, toxics reduction, and urban forestry. (explanatory document: director's report and department awards and accolades) the speaker is the director deborah raphael, and this is an item for discussion. thank you very much on thursday director tang will be holding [inaudible] and

so commissioner hoyos, in regard to your question hasn't been updated? no, but those are the things we are doing there as well. in regard to the new materials that we will be using here this will be a result of our new blueprint structure so less will be going in the black been. we will have a great application drafted from ecology to come in and

that is when the department of public works will take a look at what re-ecology is proposing to meet our goals. we have a couple university programs coming up. of all of the ones that they have chosen they selected our healthy universe see the program and on the half of our city they will be going out to harvard as well as the collaborative of healthy nail services in the community and you heard when julie did her summary about what was to come in the strategic plan, her last point was the point about

equity and while we have got a strong commitment, we do not necessarily have a lot of detail behind that. and, we have been talking about that as a department. talking about, what does equity mean and what does it mean if you do this as a department behind an equity lens. and what this means is we need to take a good start at herself and look at our own biases our own implicit biases and explicit biases, and we took a good hard look at that and we will have our own biases training that will start at the end of this month. and so, we don't know what all the answers are but we know what equity biases have been, and we try to be as

unbiased and and inclusively competent as possible.and i'm excited to usesee where this is going. >>do we have any public comment? ? seeing none, i will close public comment. do we have any discussion?

commissioner stephenson. >>thank you. we worked with donnie and are just like to say we had a really great response and we had what was almost an ambassadors program where we had some influencers applaud the program and get the message out there in a very broad way and now they are going to expand this even more and focus on different communities and i'm really excited to see the good work they will be doing in 2017 and hear an update on that as well. >>thank you. public comment? seeing none, public comment will now be closed. anthony, please read the

next item please. >>the next item is item 9 announcements. this is a discussion item. >>thank you. do we have any public comment? >>seeing none. public comment is now closed. anthony, please read the next item. >>the next item is president's announcement. this is a discussion item. >>i would really like to see a peer advocate next month and how they are engaging in the process. i will now open this up for public comment. >> [indecipherable] and, it

was mostly just clear plastic and it was mostly just bottles and napkins. and i don't know but i asked if they were deemed for public use and they were there property and you are looking for people and you're putting notices in my neighborhood a long time ago and none of this is supposed to go to garbage. the second was the environmental calendar and you include some things for the citizens can follow to make the city better and i would strongly urge you to just think about the

herbicides that you probably heard of quite a lot and if you go to home depot and you see the plants the trees are pretreated and the seeds are pretreated and when they grow this is supposed to be nurturing these plants but instead it's killing them and i don't know how you would deal with this with the chemical companies but it's happening and it's not good. by the way, i just read a couple days ago that the fda tested the honey and every sample that they

tested had [indecipherable in the honey. and in the european unit it is only allowed to have 50 and here there's no limit at all. thank you very much. >>thank you very much. >> [timer dings] >> okay i'll go ahead and open public comment. seeing none i will close public comment. anthony can you read the next item please. >> next item is item 11 commission affairs manager written report. (explanatory document: commission affairs manager report) speaker: anthony valdez, commission affairs manager. this item is for discussion. >> do we have any

discussion? seeing none, i will go ahead and open public come and and seeing none i will close public comment. anthony, please read the next item. >>the next item is item 12 new business/future agenda items this is a discussion and possible action item. >> one item that i wanted to mention was a nomination for the environmental service award and we invite commissioners to submit recommendations for the environmental service award next year.

>>thank you. public comment? >> thank you. this gives me a chance to yield the floor. i just want to note that the policy committee was not asked to speak at this meeting. i would just like to say that usually we get to speak on this as well but ijust wondered do you take turns with that? >> the commission when they had their pass resolution asked for an update on responses from the public

policy meetings and they will be receiving a report on this report-- >>that is not the point i was trying to make. normally you have a policy committee report as well as this and i'm wondering do you alternate these? >>i believe there was one back in october. >>i'm sorry commissioner i misunderstood your question but no, there was no policy committee meeting in november . >>the last was in october.

>>thank you. >>i just want to point out that last month we had a joint policy meeting with the puc and i think that was a great idea. i think we should look into doing something like a joint parks and recreation committing meeting. if we are looking at something like the rates on this it would be good to bring this forward in the commission. commissioner hoyos and anyone else that would like to speak because my screen is not working right now so i can see who would like to speak. >>i just want to mention just a very small point that this is just a random circumstance and was the time we will have two policy committee meetings in a

commission meeting. >>any other comments? any comments from the public? seeing none public comment is closed. where do and and anthony can you read the next item please. >>13. public comment on all matters pertaining to the subsequent closed session on public employee performance plan and appraisal report. >>is there any public comment on the public employee performance and appraisal report? seeing none, public comment is closed and anthony can you read the next item please. >>item 14vote on whether to

hold closed session to evaluate the performance of the executive director, deborah raphael. >>commissioners, can i please have a motion to go into closed sessionto evaluate the performance of deborah rafael. >>i motion. >>second. >>all those in favor say, aye. >> >> [chorus of ayes] >> thank you. anthony, pleaseread

good afternoon recruits! i'm going to be very short, because i am -- [laughter ] >> okay, i should start off with a joke -- you have to laugh. anyway, first off, it's my pleasure to be with the chief and with our department of public health director to welcome you into the finest police department in the country and i know that because that is what you have chosen to do and i'm very gratified i could be here in front of you as you ago through this invaluable academy and training. really two points i want to raise. one is to thank you for making that choice. you can join any other department in the whole bay area, but you have chosen our city and i'm grateful for that. second is that today i especially appear before you to make sure that you

understand what we are trying to do as an entire city with our police department. we're undergoing one of the biggest reform efforts in the history of this department, and our chief is leading that, and one of the reasons today is that you will undoubtedly be involved in many of our confrontations that other police officers do probably on a daily basis. and the trend has been that there are more people that are victims of alcohol and drug abuse, and will exhibit in many occasions a danger to themselves or others and you will definitely be called upon to intervene in those situations. one of the principles of our police reform that is going on today, one that i greatly

value is the principle of the sanctity of life. you probably already have been receiving training on that. but you also will be trained in the practice called "receiving time and distance." that is when you are called upon, i think we'll ask you to do your best to create that time and distance for the purpose of preserving life. in that, i want you to know that the rest of the city is not simply asking you to carry the entire burden of that. ; that we're going to be partners with you the best that we can and one of those strong partnerships that i am and this administration is funding with the full cooperation of the police commission, your chief , all the management staff is to say that when you are asked to intervene and if you can create that time and

distance with everybody's safety in mind, we'll then have mental health and public health experts to be at your side. so that they can do the specialty crisis intervention that you create the time and distance in order to have. we have got to work as a team. if we're going save more lives out there, we have to make sure that we have the ability to get some professionals to work alongside with you, so we can intervene in the sometimes very tragic circumstances and if we can get the mental health expertise with the people standing behind me, the crisis intervention specialists, they are referred to as our entire team train by our public health department to work in these crisis situations, we're going save more lives and ultimate ly that is what

you seek to do in your profession and we want everybody's lives to be here. you will get crisis intervention training. you will be introduced to the sanctity of life principle, but in the real-street situations that we have, it's your ability to implement that in an effective way with the chief and all of the managers crisis and all of the trainers that are here. that we want to do it with your safety in mind and with the immediate people's safety in mind so we can gain that valuable, sometimes minutes to be able to introduce a professional. so that we can go on and perhaps save a person's life even more times than we have in the past. quite frankly, it has worked in no less than probably five situations in the past several months. and i was with the chief on one of those occasions,

almost three to four hours in those negotiations and we saved everybody's life and everybody walked away. we need more of those opportunities, because there is drugs, there is drug abuse, there is a tremendous amount of mental illness and you can't do it all. we don't want to tell you to do it all, but you have an invaluable part of that process. so those are two messages. again, thank you for choosing the city and county of san francisco to work in and we'll be there to create more classes as more of our officers decide they want to have an even better life and retire and at the same time, we need to get enough officers to meet the challenges of population, and the needs of every one of our neighborhoods. thanks for being officers in the city and county of san francisco. chief .

>> first of all real fast i'm with the mayor every wednesday and the joke you heard i have to hear those every wednesday when i meet with him [laughter ]so the sympathy should be flowing my way. the incident that the mayor was talking about wasing at market and jones and it was a support armed with a firearm and the officer showed incredible restraint and saves that mans a life. i have since met with the mother and father of the man's life that was saved and they are incredibly grateful to the san francisco police department. they spent about two hours praising our efforts, and giving us kudos for making sure that resolved the way it did. that is what we're trying to push forward and we all understand it's not always going to work out in our favor and things that happen that are well beyond the control of anybody wearing that uniform and we need to make sure we're crystal clear on that, but at same time, to approach every situations a life-saving situation. the department is moving in a

different direction and we're trying to be at the front of this and not the back of the line. i just sat in an awards ceremony, voting process for department members to get silver medals and awards and most of the recipients came up in situations that they tracked about what they did and talked about using time and distancing in deescalation. one an officer was stabbed in throat on the freeway on-ramp and went for his firearm which he reholstered to baton because he recognized that the situation changed and the individual no longer had the knife and he had presence of mind to think about it as it unfolded. another situation a gentleman was sharpening a knife and had residents holed because they were too afraid and they formulated the plan of creating time and distance and they subdued him and took him into custody without shooting him.

arguably a year-and-a-half, two years ago the officer-involved shooting scenarios pure and simple. that is what we're trying to preach and push today and the group standing behind me are meant to give you additional tools in the tool belt when you have those situation and the san francisco police department is proud to partner again with the department of public health on mental health services to the community and the san francisco police have worked with department of public health for years including mobile crisis teams providing assistance to child crisis services which helps youth in crisis. this new team of clinicians standing behind me isa valuable to san francisco police officers to support negotiators in the field and conduct crisis assessments and debrief persons involved and affected by incidents, and consult with victims and provide crisis services. they are going to also assist with our ongoing crisis intervention training program to help our officers improve their ability to recognize

people with behavioral health problems. this program is part of an ongoing reform system that the department has undertaken over the past year and again, i'm talking about the san francisco police department being the lead, not following, not picking things up from everybody else. we were using a model that is still effective, but there is say better model. and our people are now researching that model to bring it to san francisco with dealing with people in crisis. that is part of us taking the lead. we're under a collaborative reform initiative review by the department of justice right now that we invited in. because again, all of these changes are meant to make us better. so i want us all to make sure we embrace it and look behind me at these white jackets with another tool for the san francisco police department to use to enforce the sanctity of life on the streets and save people, because that is our primary mission to preserve life. i want to introduce director.

>> thank you you and thank you all of you and i saw you standing at attention to so long and you are so fortunate to be part of a city and part of a police force that are going to be at the head of many police forces in this country in terms of really understanding the impact of substance-abuse and mental health on many of the individuals that you may meet. behind me is a team that we have been over the last decade working very closely with the police, and coming to any incidents of violence and providing assessments and support to family members. we're going to be expanding this team with three clinical psychologists and social workers to work deeper with all of you and give you training how to engage and meet the needs of many of these individuals. and also, i have been on the calls and some of these interventions that the police chief talked about, and we believe we can really give you really important information about the background of an individual, who you may be negotiating with. and so we're very proud.

i'm very proud of the team that is behind you in the white coats and i'm very proud of the team in the blue. and together we're going to be really providing you, i believe, some essential training and also support. and we believe that doing this together, we can reduce -- improve the health of many of the individuals who you are going to come in contact and reduce the incidents that we have at times when we have to be more forceful with individuals. so we look forward to this. we're going to be quickly hiring these individuals, and the police will be involved with this in hiring. so we have the right type of individual who will work with us closely and by the new year, we'll be really working closely and responding. in between now and then, this team behind me will be taking that place until our new staff is expanded. we're 24/7, and we're located in the bay view, but we travel throughout the city in order to provide these services. so i want to thank you for your attention today

and we look forward to working with you, and proud to see all of you today becoming new police officers. [ applause ] >> we're going to conclude this and any questions that the press may have we'll be outside in the hallway for you. >> good morning and welcome to

tuesday november 15, 2016 meeting of finance committee of san francisco county transportation authority. >> item 1, commissioner campos, present. cohen, present. kim, present. mar, here. yee, absent. we have quorum. >> thank you kb & i like to especially give props to sf gv tchb staff leo and mark bunch for televising this today >> item 2, 3 comprise consent calendar and considered routine. staff is not presented toprint on the item. if a member objects items may

be removed and considered separately. >> i see so motion to sever items. anyone that would like to speak on the consent calendar? seeing no public comment on consent calendar, close public comment. motion? do we need a roll call? >> commissioner campos, aye. cohen, aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. yee is absent. the consent calendar is approved. >> thank you. now on to item number 4. >> item 4, recommended acceptancy of audit report. >> we have sintia fong.

>> deputy director. excited to bring the item today. today we are look at transportation thoretd annual financial #125i789 audit includes fram audit which has emphasis on yerba buena ramp improvement today ewoo have vavrinek trin and day to present the results of the audit. >> good morning. my name is [inaudible] i am in charge of the audit for the authority. this is the annual financial report for the authority sfcta, the audit is insure the financial statements are fairly stated under the scope of the audit requires issue a opinion on whether the financial statements are fairly stated. what you have is financial results ended june 30, 2016.

we audit the numbers and confirm the balance jz sales tax you received and perform all kinds of procedures including confirming cash, so the opinion on the financial statement is a [inaudible] meaning the financial statements are fairly stated. as part of the audit also, we issue opinions on the authorities compliance with federal requirements the authority receives for the grants. we also take a look at the expenses related to federal compliance, much is construction related. we take a look at the manner you process dispersement and the manner the authority processes its contract procurement procedure jz this is part the internal control we take a look at and pleased to let you know we noted no defifancies with respect to the federal control or compliance. with that more than happy to take any

questions. >> colleagues, are there any questions? >> i will ask one that deputy director fong brought up to mystaff when we were prepping. on page 13 of attachment 2, there is the chart of the revenue and i know we projected for proposed budget $27 million in sales tax revenue which was about--and the actual numbers are about $5 million less than the projected and wonder if you can talk about how we do projections and if we are going to change anything in the future projections on sales tax revenue? >> as of june 30, 2016 we projected 4 percent inclees crease in sales tax revenue. what came in is approximately 1.9 percent increase. what we did smaeted the sales tax

revenue we work with a economist beacon economics who look at projections going forward and also work wg controllers office very closely insureing our estimateerize accurate. right now at this point as of the most recent quarterly internal accounting report we are continuing to see that sales tax revenues are not coming at a 4 percent projection. we will monitor this heavily, closely and wait till the holiday season crosses to see how sales tax revenue land and from that point on a annual basis we come back in february or march to bring before the committee the budget amendment. at that time we can discuss more where sales tax revenues are and keep the number where it should be or perhaps decrease but give a outlook where sales tax rev mew is going forward. >> thank you. i want to congratulate on a slnt

excellent audit and thank you for the great work. >> i like to extend to the staff. without my staff-i had cal and lily here for more than 5 years hemming to move this forward plus their great staff, henry, crista and leana, without them we wouldn't have a successful and clean ought audt and thank you to vavrinek trine and day. it is great working with them the last few years. >> great. >> thank you. >> thank you. so, i see no other questions open up for public comment. anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is a action item where we need a motion to recommend acceptance. >> same house same call? >> approve this with a positive recommendation same house same call? without objection. >> thank you. mr. stamose, the item that some have been

waiting for on the hairball, please call item 5. >> item 5, base shore bullvert cheeseer sauvs street and potrero avenue intersection improvement update. this is action item. >> good morning commissions. [inaudible] i like to introduce stalia lang who will be giving a presentation. this is district 10 neighborhood transportation improvement program. one the capital projects that supervisor cohen supported the advanssment of and so this is a report out as the project is entering its draft final report stage squz report to the committee on the findings and recommendations. >> talia, i am a planner at livable and sustainable streelts at mta and here to talk about our work so far on

this project. the hairball. to let you knewhat we have done and next steps. to give background before i run through the presentation, in 2012 the department of planning produces the cesar chavez community design plans which had safety recommendation for the hairball and map to separate the hairball in areas to sedge recommendations for improvement by segment. last year mta and public works were-received funding through district 10 and sfcta to study key segments and produce preliminary design jz do land surveys and also produce overall planning level lighting plan and cost estimate for the entire hairball area.

as you can see in this birds eye view aerial-i want to mention really quick i handed out handouts of the presentation because i change thd order of the slides from the previous packet to be more cohesive so the new printouts in front reflect what while isle show today. this is a birds eye view of the area and where they come together with highway 101 interchange t. is a complex arrange of bridge and ramps and has high potential to provide connect evty between the three modes but there are conflict points which is what our improvements aim as assisting with. this is the segment map produced by the sf

planning effort and cesar chavez community design plan and the segments that we studied in this effort were f and g on the western entrance and m, n and o on the southeastern entrance. so, this was a coordinated erftd between public work squz mta. public works did land surveys for the segment jz took lead on f and g. mta took leads on m, n and o. i will woke through f and g and probably familiar with it but good to get a picture of what the issues are. there is a plan view on the left side that shows segments f and g where cesar chavez meets the 101 onramp and pictures on the right hand side basically move east as you move towards the highway overpass. that first picture on the top right

is where the bike pass comes off cesar chavez and on the sidewalk and bike ped path moves towards under the highway. the second picture is a further down the path and third picture is where the path moves under the overpass and see the clearance issue. so, key issues and constraints for f and g, the western entrance driveway is narrow and in bad condition. the clearance is not sufficient at the overpass. the lighting isn't sufficient and needs repair and there are drainage issues with the entire set of segments. this is a plan view of those existing conditions. again, you see cesar chavez as it runs eastbound and you see the bike ped path as it comes off cesar chavez and moves under the highway overpass. this is a our proposed project for segments f and g. i'll point

out some of the improvements. i dont know-you probably have it on your screens, but a is pointing towards the widened entry so widen the driveway and resurface the entry way to make it easier to turn on the path. b is showing the path is widened from 6 to 10 feet. there is new green buffer, item c, that is placed between the pathway and the roadway. there will be new retaining walls, item d. item e, regraded path and that helps to start the slope earlier and help fix the drainage and clearance issues mpt >> question. mr. chair, may i? >> yes >> thank you. the retaining walls, these walls do not currently exists or reinforcing

existing structures? >> replacing and reinforcing existing. >> replacing and what? >> doing a combination of both. replacing and reinforcing some of the existing walls. there are existing retaining walls there. when you have to redo the grading to assist with the clearance to start the slope down earlier you have to redo some of the retaining walls. this is segment m, n and o. you see a plan view on the left. bayshore 94thbound at gerold and marin and starts to move under the highway 101 overpass. that picture on the top right and looking north right at marin and bayshore and at the sidewalk entry to had hairball and the second picture is actually looking south at the intersection of marin and

bayshore at the current conditions which includes a sidewalk that is currently used for pedestrians and also for southbound bicyclist and then you see the northbound bike lane on the roadway ajais tonight the sidewalk. you can also see it has lot of ubinstructions with light poles and street lamps. sorry, street lamps and utility poles. the last picture is looking south from gerold and bayshore at that intersection and medium island and crossing there. some of our issues and constraints with segments m, n and o is shared use of the sidewalk. it is a very narrow sidewalk for pedestrians and bikes to share and lot of ubinstructions. there are a lot of users with the shopping carts and large items. there is no way finding. the ramps at the north corner at bayshore

and huh rin are poorly placed. a lot of truck traffic and nearby recyclingsenters and industrial use and the lighting needs repair. >> question about the lighting. do you know if that is a puc asset or a pg & e asset? >> puc. so, i will say that as part of this effort as we moved into detail design and construction we tried to replace and upgrade lighting in the segments as we look at them but overall that requires coordination with public works and puc. this is plan view on m and o. you see bayshore running north interseblthing with gerold and marin. on gerold there is a free right turn lane, not signalized and

there is one signalized right turn lane and traffic going the other way. the near term improvements-we would be leaving the southbound bayshore sidewalk as is and have it continued to use by southbound bicyclist and pedestrians but then we would be widening the northbound bike lane to allow for more flexible use. let me back up for a second. so, we are actually proposing improvements in two phases for segments mn and o. one is appellant only upgrades we think we can implement soon and second set are longer term improvements that require hardscape change jz would take

a longer to implement and have more stalshz changes so the plan view here are near term improvements so they are just paint only, which is why we are not widening that sidewalk and let tg continue to be use frd southbound bicyclist and pedestrians but trying to do paint improvement troothe northbound bike lane oto capture what is needed which is shared flexible space for users. other improvements include new bike lanes on gerold, continental cros walks on gerold and marin and bayshore and [inaudible] further south. intersection improvements such as paint and tracking marks and green bake shareoes to guide likealist. that is it so i'll move to the longer term proposed projects

which required more substantial changes. here we really are looking at widening the sidewalk to create a shared two way bike path sidewalk on north bound bayshore and redesigning the medium into a bulb- out at gerold and bayshore and signalize the right turn which is a big improvement for pedestrians trying to make the crossing. relocate utility pole squz streelt lamp tooz the outer edges making more room for everybody's using that space and we'll install intersection markings and green back shareoes as needed to guide cyclist and pedestrians. in addition to this as part of the effort but separate project weez are doing spot impruchb provements and want to talk about those. one includes some changes that already went on on the western driveway entrance.

there use today be a one inch lift a lot of cyclist would catch tires. we resurfaced it . we will add stripejug posts to delineate that entrance and that will happen towards the end the year. and then the other set of improvementerize way findings. we already generated the signs are working on installment and installed the end of the year beginning of next year. where do we go from here? in the report and in front of you you see project cost for the two segments. segments f and g including design and construction have been estimated at $454, 019 and

mno and $694, 192. those project cost include design and construction and for mn and o include near term and long term proposed changes. we do have smp funding identified in mta's cip that are earmarked towards mn and o. >> how did you determine that particular allocation for funding would go to segment mn and o opposed to f and g? >> that is in mta plan and because it is close to thumount needed for mn and o and ready to start moving on those segments we started the process move frgward with those segment squz looking for funding for segments f and g. >> my question is, i understand

it is probably easier to go with mn and o because the funding matches the amount orphmoney from mta, but i'm unable to determine which is high priority. which of the two segments is higher priority than the other? >> they have relatively equal prioritys. mn and o that funding is coming out of mta, cit budget and it is road work so it makes sense to use that funding for improvements that we are able to manage. segments f and g are strithly for the bike and pedestrian path and less on the roadway so we are working with dpw to really look for funding for those segments. at this point segments mn and o are mta led project so use said mta funds-

>> supervisor campos. >> thank you, commissioner cohen. what is the completion date for both segments? >> i will flip to the next slide. segment frz mn and o because we have the funding in place we have started that process. we are going to be finishing up preliminary engineering by spring of 2017 and hope to have the near term improvements, the paint only improvements in place by summer next year and detail design will happen same time and home to go into construction on mn and o in twnt 18. f and g we like to put together a schedule and move forward and based on funding needs and requests. >> i think it is good that you are moving for ward with

segments mno, but dont think that is accept able on the other segment. i represent that district and think they are both important why are not not both moving at the same time? >> it is a matter of funding. i can go back to mta with that request- >> is there funding the ta is gibbing to this project because i think we should withhold the funding from had mta. it just isn't acceptable you have to make it happen at the same time and don't know if-i think this is important for supervisor cohen and that segment should go forward as quickly as possible but important for us too, so maybe can we call mr. reiskin and see if he can respond to that and cta? i think we need to have both segments move forward at the

same time. >> i agree which is why my-it is like having two kids and having to make a selection which will get what and how to prioritize it. very uncomfortable situation so i wanted a better understanding how that was determined. but just way of background, item 5 is a update on just the hairball project and its entirety and about a year ago i directed approximately $100 thousand of the available $600 thousand in tip funds to go to capital improvements towards the hairball so this presentation is refreshing and just curious to know where it is going. the hairball has been a problem for very long time. >> we agree. >> a very long time and wub one

of the things the presentation didn't touch on but will make assumptions is with improvements it will help relax the homeless crisis that you see that exists in the hairball which is also a incredibly dangerous element that the presentation didn't necessarily reflect. people as you are probably aware-it is cleaned up now but there was a period orphtime and supervisor campos can attest there were people living under the freeway right where cesar chavez-where everything merges. i know it is cesar chavez and bayshore heading to the mission. there was what raised my attention over a year ago is there was a homicide and a body was found right under that freeway overpass. i also get letters from constituents from potrero hill travel toog the bayview or

going the dogpatch neighborhood and the bayview folks coming to northeast mission that ride the bike trail. also bike to work day, i have driven that route at least three times and it is truly-there is a reason they call it a hairball. it is scary and dangerous and have a lot of activity and trucks and cars and pedestrians and you have close to a park, the skate park and also have cyclist all traveling along this particular thoroughfair. a lot of work needs to be done so want to compliment the work you have done and acknowledge that we have come a long way, but i want to also recognize we have a long way to go. i'm curious-i saw there are other segments-we didn't talk about-we talked about m, n and o and i think a and g?

>> f and g. >> as you saw in the earlier slide that there is a, c and e-there is a and d. there are several different nodes that all encompasses the hairball. from the big picture, what is the timeline or if there-what is the projected schedule to begin to dissect the hairball in its entirety? >> at this point the focus was to-tasked to look at these certain areas and the idea behind that being that start improvements is a catalyst for change. >> i understand you have to start somewhere and love the areas you started. >> those areas came out of that

planning process from 2012 and why we started with those areas. >> you already started doing due diligence so building off previous- >> yes. there were 4 to begin and extended m, n and o because o is right there and makes sense to include and does not-also some improvements extend along gerold which is also out of the scope but very important in terms of bringing people in. and letting people come out safely. the priority-the reason those segments were looked at was because of the previous planning process and moving forward there is absolutely the recognition that the hairball needs to look at-we do also recognize it is a much larger planning process. right now our strategy is move forward

with these key segments and coming years seek additional funding for a larger planning process where we need to go back out to the community and reprioritize the remaining segment jz what to do next and what to address. >> thank you. >> that is in our mindset. >> director campos. >> i think it is good that it is move frgward with mno and think that should move forward as quickly as possible, but everything else you said isn't acceptable and won't fly so happy to call for a hearing at the board of supervisors. i think it is great you are move frgward with the other phase but you need to-it isn't enough to come and say it is priority in the next few years and make it happen. i need to get a specific plan for how you will fund it and start as close to

what you are doing with the other phases as possible. >> sure. she didn't necessarily initiate the process. i directed-i asked for this particular study, so perhaps what i can do is work with supervisor elect roanen to really begin to direct if there is new in-tip money. i don't know how that works. >> i dont think it should wait. i'm sure supervise r roanen elect is happy to work with you and will work with you, but i want to see something specific about this before. >> you mean like next month? >> yeah. i'm happy to call a hearing. i'll introduce a hearing request today at the board of supervisors but this has been a issue for a long

time and i don't think i would be doing my job as the supervisor for district 9 if this project moves forward but only one part of it is funded. i think we need to make sure that there is funding for all of it. it is issue of equity. >> i'm happy to bring this back. we just wrapped up this phase so haven't moved on with the next phases so i'm happy to go back to my supervisor and maybe come back at the next appropriate meeting and have someone present or myself present on a path forward closing some of the loops with the funding gaps. >> we'll introduce a hearing request today at the board of supervisors so we can scr a hearing equest. >> thank you for your presentation. >> thank you. director cohen. >> thank. >> open up for public comment. thank you talia for the great

presentation. anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> i'm for the next item. >> i was hoping you might be able to bring auditing up to a adequate level. >> sir, could you state your name? >> kenneth. hoping you may bring auditing up to a adequate level 6789 under the impression auditing declined by a full 1/3 in recent year jz may explain the >> are you talk ugabout item 5? >> just auditing, we were talking about auditing in general. >> we adopted the audit. >> alright. no problem. thank

you. >> seeing no other public comment let's close public comment. i wondering colleagues how you want to move this item forward. >> information item? >> just file. >> great. thank you. mr. stamose, next item. >> item 6, state and federal legislative update. this is information item >> amber grab with transportation authority. we don't have a matrix because stailt session wrapped up but have a lot to talk about after the election. first at the federal level right now it is somewhat of avicium of information. there is big discussion of infrastructure package and investment which we'll be work wg our state delegation and mtc and other stakeholders trying to advance san francisco priorities at the federal level once we have a

better understanding of what the projects and programs will be. at the regional level or the state level, we had somewhat good news at the projected failure of prop 53 which would have required state approval of infrastructure projects oferk 2 billion letting la vote on a project moving forward in san francisco. at the regional level we had more good news. the bart measure passed as did sales tax increase in santa clara county. unfortunately our revenue measure and the one in contra costa didn't move forward but there a few bright spots. other measures that were similar to ours but on a city level, not a conte level, the general tax plus policy statement for local streets and roads and affordable housing

did pass and also pesage of measures that institute policies related to housing affordable to things like rent control so that was a positive aspect. osat the regional level this impacts the information we provided to the inmetropolitan transportation commission regarding adaupgds of plan bay area. i think it is this thursday, so it was a last minute-the measure did want pass, so what did we do? you take the revenue out of the plan and luckily we thought ahead to this unfortunate day and were able to remove the funding from plan bay area by reducing programs not having to strike any projects from plan bay area. we will be fine moving forward. with respect to j and k i think we are all thinking forward as far as learning lesson and what can

happen. i just wanted to give you a quick few thoughts on its impact to the transportation authority and transportation in the the city in general. it means there are specific projects we will need to find new funds for and specific programs priority like state of good repair for roads and transit, muni forward and walk first. the specific projects will impact is cal train electrification, bart car, expansion projeblth, manage lanes so these are core component of the transit study and then cut to the funding we needed for preliminary engineering and planning for the next phase of the major rail capacity invest ement in the bay area. i think all of these deficits and especially

the planning deficits putss at a disadvantage of attracting regional, state and federal dollars so places like la, contra costa-sorry, vta in the south bay are in a better position because they have money to get projects in the pipeline and line up to be more competitive so have to figure a different way to do that. looking forward, we-the mayor has triggered the policy option to cancel prop j, which did show a significant interest in transportation across the city. i think we are all looking forward given that interest to 2018 and beyond. we are also looking forward to mtc putting regional measure 3 potentially on the ballot in 2018, which would increase i believe talking about a $2 increase on

the bridge tols over several years. with that, happy to answer any questions you have. start the matrix next month. >> thank you for krauss the positive in the been gg and challenge in the end. open up for public comment. anyone who would like to speak from the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you so much, mrs. crab. that was a informational item. thank you. mr. stams item 7. >> introduction of new items. >> i see no colleagues jump toog the mic. anyone from the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed on item 7. thank you mr. stams next. >> item 8, general public comment. >> thank you. good morning. andrew yip. in a progressive development of [inaudible] we are having new chapter of [inaudible] recording of a new

stage in history. we must continue to take on mighty [inaudible] advancement and expansion of all realistic aspect of [inaudible] towards a great success for our people. one is having [inaudible] to practice a [inaudible] protection with love and [inaudible] personal, family and social values. with exceptional capacity of courage, wisdom, kindness and [inaudible] wisdom and

[inaudible] we must protect traditional values of loyalty, parental love, integrity, justice, kindness, love, and peace along side with our mission [inaudible] having benefit to one self and others. thank you. >> thank you. seeing no other comments let's close public comment. mr. stamose, is there any other business before us? >> item number 9, adjournment. >> thank you everyone, . >> (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 th

everyone. >> welcome and