services out of sf and ucsf so nationally the youth survey we survey 7 ac and 9 graders on their use of substances and their behaviors you ask about 40 percent plus young people tried marijuana in high school in san francisco we're about 28 percent and middle school 9 percent we don't have national fingers but working to have more on the top of exposure at the same survey captured the number of students that are - 2005 of students in high schools and

in 201523.8 percent a decrease so some areas we work together in education and comprehensive services and sort of support for our students is we have a sort of a disproportionate use of marijuana in our non-traditional schools about 12 percent on gastro campus again, we surveyed the students and the numbers are not great as in number an amount in quantity the numbers of students that report seeing marijuana generally in their lives is 6 point plus and mission high school is 17.4 in high school so folks like to see folks not using this age group and

choosing to roll focus on their health and education with that, our health and education we have the proper support of services to address any needs and their families as well so we support our students opportunity for you know beyond college and beyond high school and also to make sure they are space adequate housing for them to continue their education thank you. >> good evening supervisors my name is bashar i'm representing the neighborhood coercion and past wanting of an association and the chair the the compliance committee we have on our board i volunteered for this task force i felt the committee had a

learning curve we have 3 mcd approved on the same night the committee found there is loopholes in the existing mcd we want to see this addressed i hope to have more information to take back to my district i'll ask the board of supervisors to place importance on the concerns where will that be legal to smoke and are the burgundy checks adequate and how to remove the retailer not in combines or compliance with the cbo school the biggest issues before the neighborhood and the majority of association members and the individual i've spoken are concerned about the clustering in self-defense under a ground for the board of education will be the green zone a lot of people didn't want to advance the green sown 3 years

the supervisor alavlos talked about they have the green zones expand we agree with that but at the time, no supervisor willing to do that it's been suggested by my neighborhood anyone that is as an mcd will keep the taxes earned and that money goes to the police department for their needs and also to require we want to go indirectly to the supervisor of that district so for the civic improvement if any supervisor wants to talk with me about that i'll be happy to meet you in your office thank you. >> hello supervisors i practice business law and talk with the land use about land use and any ideas our retail locations and

rail zoning district and non-retail locates for retail location gray draw a comparison to the medical rules first pointing out this cannabis is made possible by age groups to bring the medical cannabis into 2014 for a retail locations of medical retailer the planning commission recommended 6 hundred feet from schools by comparison for adult use retail we recommend that retail 6 hundred feet from schools and the buffers exist but boss both of those are measured by path of travel we know that san francisco is a dense city and sometimes you walk around the block to get to the door depends on to say the street line will be a measure of distances as a path of travel hearsay evidence location to retail zoning the

zoning process should vary from one zone and not be the same for all zones we recommended the zone process be more rigorous and like a commercial district we can have conditional use authorization and less rigorous like downtown and zoning district have notice finally for non-retail use for the manufacturer the cannabis use the planning code to have the zones for schools because they make sense. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors noimdz a jennifer i'm with the local 648 i'm in the labor seat train and education is something that san francisco values the task force recommend a training component for that workers like an educated apprenticeship

program some residents of san francisco are over locked they don't have a college degree they can have classroom train to retain those good jobs the apprenticeship is a proven track record of success been around a long time human resources apprenticeship was one of the organizations that protected the minority and women in the industry apprenticeship is about working with business all work sites benefit there are certify practices and have a standardized training san francisco workers that have apprenticeship training and education will not only understand the workplace they'll be getting the train and skills

and compensation this san francisco, california do there a cannabis apprenticeship committee approved at the state level working with city college and other educators to implement this program thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm laura thomas with the policy alliance and the seat on the task force we have xhoeven communications with the job train we spoke about ways to create opportunities for enterpriseship and our recommendations address to overcome some of the barriers that are experienced by people trying to get employment but as ownership stake in a legal

cannabis industry we see the negotiation of marijuana as an opportunity to repair some of the damage done in the country and in the city to serve and we recommendations around reducing the barriers and creating priority rights or preferences for those harmed by the war on drugs and trying to aid the economic barriers including the access to capita with loans as a way to increase access to the business using some of the existing small business support models to give people who previously been working in the economy the support they need to become a legal entity under prop 64 and including pathways like amnesty programs for people working in

the illegal industry to move into a new legal industry overall we think this is an opportunity for the board of supervisors and the city and county of san francisco to be creative in a racial and social frame to address the harms and move forward to create an industry that is responsive to the people that have been working in the industry and those who experienced harms related to the war on drugs this is a great opportunity to move forward into something different and hear from the communities thank you. >> thank you, ms. thomas. >> next speaker. >> hello i'm director jocelyn kane sitting often the task force and

asked to come up here to talk about the agency oversight and i wanted to take the opportunity i think that working at the entertainment commission kind of a baby agency of city been around 20003 this is a complicated issue and made a simple slide to show up with on the task forces came up with the board should consider a stand alone agency like a commission like ours that allows you to have trantsdz and a place for people to you know express their needs and certainly to do the outreach that is necessary the board should consider the stand alone agency but no commission and look for policy guidance where or the board can consider using part of an existing agency

to do this work as well i think this obviously within a year there's a lot more discussion but it is something that from the get go certainly i think helps you to locate how we'll work on the issues from seat to address some of the concerns you'll hear from the neighborhoods so are you going to come up and handle the rest of this. >> thank you jocelyn. >> under the regulation and city framework the key issue as jocelyn laid out the more important issue will we get started right away since a one year deadline by the state and if so what or what are the priorities so we can find the political and the private will

to move forward in a regulation you will find that the second year of the task force will be dedicated to developing specific policies around your direction as to how we should precede it is our recommendations that we start with non-retail you should start with the part of this entire industry subscribed by proposition 64 through the licenses types start with those non-retail licenses with the testing and production, transportation let's start with those relatively i think visible population and move forward create a city agency framework for this and begin to feed to that agency regulations how they can create a permit scheme so if you are a testing lab and want to at cannabis to our testing

benefit a direct and simple way to political to this body so add cannabis as one of our testing ingredients the same is true for transportation and distribution. >> cultivation we have in place cultivation approval process put together by the did you get and improve and codify in doing so take the non- retail of cannabis industry and set it up four success we know the difficult part of this process is when we get into neighborhood by neighborhood discussion as to where something belongs i love medical cannabis just not next to any school just not next to where i go to work and where i walk by not next to the bus stop or the place i buy coffee at that point we are going to need

to have a robust discussion the last 6 months of this year should be dedicated to public hearings and discussion how we are going to expand medical cannabis and then how will we develop a way to con assume cannabis what is called by the legislation the consumption lab this is retrofication like a box you can only go into that when our 21 and that's your cannabis consumption experience san francisco's has always said we have a san francisco way we would like to create with the help of the board of supervisors and the community consumption lounge experiences socialization is taught you our experiences between community members can be exchanged if you go and you're part of a platform of 5

individuals and the one cannabis yours there are 3 people that like to drink within and one person if drink or smoke you feel comfortable in that consumption area that's the san francisco way consumption we can get through that that the first year we ask you respect the report with the recommendations we feel are important in those policy areas you give us the direction to begin immediately to traffic ticket a regulatory framework that you can take to the committee and begin do work on developing the actual regulations in terms of no cultivation this is how we are doing it based on the experience the last 5 years we need to make those 3 adjustment and present to you an online for regulations on how to do cannabis chief

scotttion thatoes to the public process and gets adapted into regulation that gives assurance it that part of business and will apply to the state we take one by one the various license types until we get to retail and the last 6 months of year to deal with retail we spent a lot of time going out into the neighborhood and found out it is clustering that is the most important i don't think as the growth lie down how most people think they think of it as a path of travel and should we consider that to be able to determine where they're too close to the public use that's itself recommendations we would like to bring forward and ask for your participation in year two. >> thank you very much i have questions. >> we'll go to public comment and go back to you guys for

questions. >> thank you for your presentations very thoughtful and high-level and got the entire one year recommendation and we've got a nice cheat sheet other slides with the presentation that were given? >> okay we will work on doing that in the meantime let's go to public comment anyone will that wants to comment open up for public comment. >> okay. >> let's go come teresa anyone else please line up. >> can i have one more minute. >> sorry. >> two minutes for everyone. >> my name is a teresa with the san francisco call center i'm here on behalf of any neighbors

and friends and family and san francisco community and public center merchant and they maintain the family for the - the asian alliance and san francisco shanghai and community oppose any additional medical cannabis dispensary also asking all of you to create law to stop marijuana use in san francisco as you may know the population of asian people in san francisco is about 40 percent prudent person is about four asian so minority of chp people but many of them are limited in english do understand the mcd procedure not even the marijuana you know the reaction we have many people in our center come for help, help them to voice their concerns the planning commission

departments have less of the community outreach non-english speaking residents we have 34 mcd in san francisco already we think it is enough federal law say this is an illegal drug i agree mcd one thousand feet rereaction should be one thousand plus not just 6 hundred feet the task force is one and 8 is pages how about in chinese language reaction marijuana should not be in the commercial corridor commercial corridor have the residential community i think residential reaction marijuana should be in industrial area with the warehouse they have tough law for recreation marijuana we ask that you up to the time initial 18 months moratorium on all ncd in all mcd

district we are going to have all the fight with the mcd already thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> madam chair and supervisor aim joann interest who is now practicing a native san franciscan been here 5 generations first, i'd like to commend the task force what it is attempting to do to guide the legislature we've seen what others jurisdictions are accomplished in colorado and oregon passed the reaction and medical cannabis trying to fashion in terms of their legislation i feel we as san franciscans that invented medical marijuana need to set the high water marks for the rest of country and look to the

board i thank the rest of the nation is looking at how we develop our bylaws. >> is there any additional public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed so to the task force members you certainly heard from the concerns about just many things consumption and oversight location i think that we have a lot of work to do to educate people the greater community mr. terrance i like your suggests to take of months to educate and teresa talked about the state law is we as san francisco have a fifth amendments you'll have to take to sacramento you'll be the lone voice in sacramento looking to repeal prop 64 you'll have to

take to the voters and a truly uphill battle we need to understand what are people afraid of when it comes to consumption so that we can begin to address the truth or separate the truth 2 f from the lies the myth from the fear so we can move forward and make sure that businesses that are operating they're in compliance with the law supervisor sheehy please. so first, i wanted to thank everyone on the commission did such interpretation work and struck that we shifted to a discussion of the stigma of marijuana use and reminder the documents that came up that

showed richard nixon purposing enforced heavily marijuana laws to the target african-americans and the youth movement at the time in the early 70s that has led to incredible rate of criminalization it is completely unfair and unjust personally i've been involved with medical cannabis since 199 of my friend and with all due respect it is dennis to the experience of the successes boyfriend jonathan saw and dennis is a colleague i don't think harvey milk wouldn't have done this without dennis but dense saw the benefit of cannabis use and jonathan was

dying from aids and then really started the medical cannabis group and there were 12 one was the church of market and this fabulous club 5 stories was is where the law firm is it served and offices at the time, no mitigations i've been a patient since 97 when i was diagnosed and at first there was not tolerance within the first generation drug that was extremely toxic and strange that the least toxic drug was the most prohibited then because the toxics of the drugs i got a disease one of the foe conditions are random in his control showing the controlling the pain that is associated with that disease conducted at the usf by the way,

general hospitals so i think that one part to continue the work of this commission to i think we need to be prepared when proposition 64 comes both effect one of the things after 2030 we didn't have the ground work i think that all of us will be benefited we're not left with the wild west situation with bad actors and none knowing what is going on we have to think about the stigma it reminds me as a gay man and the experience with something living with hiv and not unlikely that cannabis what about equality with the industry

i personally have beened from pain and assistance in being able to take drugs it saved my life i hope as we move forward we can listen to each other i understand the neighborhoods concerns and should be mindful but think that this is an opportunity to do role what is been almost thirty or 40 years cost many, many people their freedom. >> thank you, thank you for the reality check we appreciate it. >> i have a couple of questions briefly i want to hear from peck the youth you go activation is he here still maybe someone what speak to say she highlighted there was a decrease in a in numbers i think that i would sure what that number decrease and didn't

explain what or the cause is of the decrease i don't know if you can provide some color. >> ma'am, supervisor i'll have to get back to i wasn't aware the decrease and what the causality was and no problem. >> and then jennifer you in our presentation talked about you came to the rules committee he recommended the local is usc w still taking the lead in the cannabis city. >> they were the first union to cut the cannabis workers in needing before the change the public opinion so the usc wushgs

working with the governor and i know your central wanting has met with him with the apprenticeship committee and on the state level we are in load as is regulation passed and come into the regulated system that all the workers exist have protection they know they're right and have these good jobs no matter what happened there will be workings we want the workers to be protected as they community-based introduce the many changes. >> i was wondering which automobile was stepping up and taking the lead i know the tooerms have been involved i don't know the technology planets i guess. >> that's material product

so, yes there are other units involved. >> who are they. >> i believe the usc w and the tooermz are the main unions and in other states seiu. >> i don't know. i don't of any other questions it's looks like we're done you guys are a lot of work ahead of you, we can roll up our sleeves xhesh if we could make a motion to continue this item we can continue this item. >> madam chair. >> as a matter of housekeeping. >> i'll move to continue the

item. >> without objection as well. >> all right. ladies and gentlemen, mr. clerk further business. >> >> there's no further business. >> thank you very - >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation

authority for the this is the regular meeting for today tuesday, january 24, 2017, i'm the chair of the authority aaron peskin our clerk is mr. steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner kim? present commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy >> commissioner tang commissioner yee. >> we have quorum thank you. can you, please read the next item. >> chair's report an informational item. >> good morning. thank you again for your support in helping to guide this body 0

through it's next big chapter the transportation authority i think you will all of you know and the new members will learn the steering mechanism for san francisco mechanism and growth strategies with our input and guidance we'll make smart investment for the bold plan with our city and region in 2015 we should with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and association of the bay area government to update the plan bay area with the blueprint one plus 3 seven hundred thousand jobs and housing between now and 2020 we will have the neighborhoods serve transportation infrastructure guided by climate and equity goals with the upgrading of your

pending arrive of one hundred and 51 light rail and 42 vehicles to expand the light rail fleet we've booster our system around safety improvements transit pedestrian projects and cycling facilities we continue to lead in the discretion creation by transit development i want to thank the san francisco and mta and at planning department to examine the underutilized bus yards this body has led for the vision zero safety investments in communities and neighborhood where most vulnerable residents are competing with fast moving materials we'll shape measure 3 the mtc plan toll for 2018 and, of course, looking at reasonable ways to make sure our public realm is responsible whether you

bike share or not with a - we've made interpretation progress and in my opening comments to the annual report we'll hear i want to be candid where we are at accomplishing the strethsd and victories keeping focus on the work ahead muni trip times are unreliable we need repaving and are under fund and frankly our vision zero goals have yes, he did. to be realized to address those issues we'll need local revenue i pals our sfcta staff to work with any offices and the mta and public works to insure we hit the goals in our outlined in our annual report we need to grate long-term sustainable revenue

something as radical a income tax or several sources this body and the city and county needs to insure our collective success in the years ahead i'll save the rest of any comments until after the chair election thank you all for your work on this board and in our respective indignity with that, i conclude the chair's report. >> is there any, any comment on item number 2 seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. stamos. >> would you like to call item 3. >> call item 3 and 9 together. >> executive director's report and adapt the 2016 annual report on action item. >> good morning and to

commissioners especially our newer commissioners welcome to the transportation authority we're happy to have you and if i could get the slides this is our 2016 annual report as ours tradition let me where is our slide i hope you have copies at your deck and we'll get this on the screen momentarily here there we go okay. so the transportation authority plans to fund and delivers a range of improvements for san francisco local and regional levels we work in partnership with a number of transportation agencies sfmta, public works and planning department and environment and a whole host of agencies as well as the public we look forward to sitting down with you at the new year to understand your priorities in the district and

citywide levels this is a critical year for transportation as chair spelling of the speakers name for the written record, and please deliver it to the secretary prior to kin mentioned with the regional levels and hopefully, the local levels in year two first, the slide that explains our roles the congestion management role that is the status that allows to look at long-term planning with the coordination of the transportation in this really were a sub regional commission to prioritize a whole host of state aid regional funds and the administrators if that role our financial engineers and strategists to make our local sales tax to go as if a sfta far as and, with the other roles refer to our funding roles for clean air for the prop double a

double fees as we discussed the tricker-treat treasure island mobility management so in all the roles we're here to help you as staff provides the advice in transportation related matters to implement the voter expenditure plan as well as to help to deliver the projects for the city and county a long-term rank planning then chair wiener to envision the subways and major facilities together with sfmta we present this work to locate current transit performance how much input investment we may need in corners on the city on the left this is a result of our online tool to get input from the public and also had in person poupts to get inputs from folks

on the ground none of that is a decision making but the looking for investment projects o projects looking at the subway at fisherman's wharf and the avenues the richard and this is south along 19th avenue and along the give me corridor and the eastern neighborhoods with the high speed rail and caltrans investments so this work with precede with our partners through the connect sf over the coming years and it gets wrapped up in - into the planned bay area we completed this preferred alternative work for last year prior pointing for the priorities and making sure that all the projects we are developing today, we'll be able to proceed at the ripening level next speaking of subways the

first phase of major will be the bus - as well as the preferred alternative and sfmta will continue to with pits approval with the federal government as well to design and many, many years of planning detail design and implementation resulting in hopefully, a service by 2019 we we were also last year able to addressed regional planning together with the regional agencies at san mateo and mtc 24 refers to the idea of putting hov lane high occupancy lane to connect downtown san francisco with san jose to prioritize the high occupancy vehicles to do so

in a way that allows us to also make sure we have reliable services for motorists and with the high-occupancy vehicle so some of the grants will help us to develop the technology as well on the studies side our work does get responds to the needs you identified in particular commissioner tang asked for a child transportation study with the past week that commissioner sheehy regarding an in depth look at the school transportation and the across the city public and private schools with the partnership with the mayor's office and sfmta and others to identify what are the actual traits and the actually motorist rates for transportation and how to improve for the parent particularly elementary school parents with new ways of

partnership with the community-based organizations for the private sector and night transportation studies this is to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote initiative read by think outside the box supervisor scott wiener before he was chair and the so with the oewd office of economic workforce development to look at late night transportation needs for the entertainment venues and community as well as for the early morning workers and their needs and the capacity studies another example how we can work together with the region to look at this comprehensive short and memory range prairie in the corridor there is tremendous crowding on bart ac transit and meta ferry service we talked about the treasure island i'll not spend a lot of time but wrapping up in terms of planning meant to help to identify and

get the funding role we heard first and foremost the administration and public steward of our sales tax those sales tax approved by voter in 2003 by now is generating about one million dollars a year in my given year we may allocate between $100.50 to $200 million but again, we collect one hundred million dollars a year and leverage those by a large 4 to 7 times we can provide local match and trick others state and regional fund to tricks pedestrian safety as you see bicycle and pedestrian safety resurfacing our streets and signs and the like in traffic calming for vehicles this is a push helping mta to replace a generation of light rail

vehicles and then we have maintenance and other capital facilities such track and infrastructure at the neighborhood level the fund program that is available to you to respond to your priorities at the neighborhood level one of them is the transportation improvement program that allows for supervisors in each district to name in their priorities with the planning perspective so we began this program i believe in 2014 after the adoption of our initiative than supervisor avalos and as you can see those are some of the completed planning projects capital projects worked on to date in district won several bike facilities and pathways paths that were looked and the bike lanes to reduce the capital completion the two the lombard

with commissioner farrell and his staff and commissioner breed our alamany was led by supervisor campos and continues under commissioner ronen in district 10 we have bayshore that benefits into districts 9 and 10 residents led by commissioner cohen here is our next slide we have the new anticipated projects we are seeing up for 2017 and beyond that were approved last year the capital program for vision zero ramps in district 6 and south park at betsey carmichael sidewalks improvements and district 4 with the configuration studies on the west side that commissioner tang commissions as well as a host of safety improvements on district 8 at sufficient fix and geneva the

sued is completed as well prop did you observe aa a vehicle registration fee approved by voters with $5 million every year and currently in a programming stage currently right now $23 million available in the next 5 years and those are the projects the recent city college the beautiful design we saw improvements on delores street and those are small but important capital projects that help to move the projects with street and pedestrian safety for the voter mandate the one bay area grant program this is an mtc regional led federal funding every 4 years we program a whole host of projects to try to improve the project areas parts of neighborhood that

have the growth and as well as transit service we support the higher density to marry the land use and transportation decisions to put in real projects to promote those and support the community that are taking that growth in the last cycle we had $35 million and this will be in the next cycle $40 million examples of the major programs although did development process and in the south quarter is nearing completion the chinatown streetscape and save to school we have second street and mosaic those are examples of major ways we put the prop k and other local funds together with federal funds to deliver the

projects that help land development and community development as well the transportation here i won't get into too many of those to reduce the motorist vehicle emissions on behalf of our district they prioritize the funds and you as the transportation authority have some of the projects student transit paths by the san francisco state university and other vehicle programs served by a number of agencies in terms of project delivery we're proud as the chair mentions to implement the completion of one of the major, major capital improvement plan projects that was led intensify i the transportation authority under the director eric who is the westbound ramps that were opened in october of 2014 that

reason cooperated with the bay area authority and the transportation authority with a whole host of activities with the procurement and this ultimately will help the island by making the one and off-ramp easier rather than the left off-ramp that was there for many years and moving forward the project their smaller but significant project these that west side in phase two that will be delivered with what we call pedestrian contractor camtc general contractor a newer method of delivery for better results and more efficiency better risk management the transit center we have this item on our board i won't go into it you'll see a

presentation prop k we worked together with the transit center allowing for bus and intermodal connection for caltrans all the mode and a host of bus providers this project is about 70 percent complete and eventually will house the caltrain and high speed rail rail we do oversight and provide the partners with technical support the central subway is another prop k and again, our oversight and funding to help with the project delivery one point plus billion dollars and the completion time is expected to be mid 2019 the tunnel contract is complete and disadvantaged business participation rate others caltrain and high speed rail we continue to stay engaged in the mapping of this

$2 million project took the action hopefully secure a full fund from the federal government that is a partnership of all 3 counties and we often have caltrain and san mateo and san francisco the idea to provide train control as well as new electric vehicles and electrified infrastructure for more service and cleaner service in this incredible corridor further on the delivery with the pedestrian and bike work that continues to our vision zero committee on safety the most important venue that we can provide here to allow for public input and your guidance to the various agencies across the city on pedestrian safety and bike safety as you can see some of the road and other types of projects coming through the mta's and other agencies as much as public works and others we're

working on this program i mentioned the muni the expansion here's some details we saw the first prototype vehicles a couple of weeks ago that was we expect delivery the major delivery of the light rail at sfmta and finally important our transparency and accountability we had a clean audit 13 year in a row our credit rating is reaffirmed by double a plus level and continue to be rated by other agencies that potentially moving our debt program into the bond because of the again, all the procurements and vehicle delivery that mta is planning to take over the coming years and the management system will be yuthd the project

management to help to expedite that the transportation authority sf.com to plug in a your address to see what the transportation authority is putting funding on and that the sister agrees are developing look into there and see the planning and funding and all the projects that you have in our neighborhood so check that out our dbe and feedback performances is strong that's important to make sure that all the entities in the organizations smaller firms across the city can participate we do our best to incorporate that learning and partnering with the firms and finally a big thank you for all your leadership and staff the partnership that we rely on

really has been a pleasure and that we be able to show real results to our staff feels regarded in the accomplishment we bring back the grant fund and continue to motivate us to do our best work so thank you very much again looking forward if you have any questions. >> thank you, ms. chang any questions from commissioners for the executive director? seeing none, is there any public comment on these two items seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. clerk can you please read the next item >> we'll take a roll call vote. >> on item 9 the adaptation of 2016 annual report with that nice image of all it concrete on the cover a roll call. >> on item 9.

>> commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy commissioner tang commissioner yee and the report is adopt. >> item 4 please. approval of the minutes of the january 5, 2017, an action item. >> is there that position to approve the january 5, 2017, meeting minutes made by commissioner yee is there a second by commissioner kim is there any public comment on item 4. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and on that item same house, same call? the minutes are adopted next item, please. >> the election of chair and very cordially, of 2017 this an

action item. >> are there any nominations commissioner yee. >> so i rise to nominate the person that likes to rise i am going to nominate chair spelling of the speakers name for the written record, and please deliver it to the secretary prior to peskin to continue to be the chair of the board i think he's done an exemplar job over the last two meetings and that there's a lot of things that will be impacting transportation wise in his own district district 3 including the central subway that will be completed at some point soon and that i also know that vision zero which is a big part of what

we're trying to do at the ta is something that is important to you as impacts a in regards to the number of incidents or collisions that happens in our district i know you'll pay attention to that as many of us are passionate and also appreciate that in our opening statement about a month ago in taking the chair position that you made the mention that you really want to look at not only a win district but how to have the best so i'm a representative of the west side i deeply appreciate that comment so i will nominate you. >> thank you commissioner yee is there a second seconded by commissioner kim

on that item a roll call please. >> take further nominations. >> seeing no other names on the roster, the nominations are closed and second a roll call. >> any public comment. >> oh, this right public comment on the election of the chair seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. stamos. >> on the motion for chair commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner fewer commissioner kim commissioner peskin commissioner ronen commissioner safai commissioner sheehy

commissioner tang commissioner yee the motion is approved. >> thank you for that colleagues is there a motion nomination for vice chair of the ta? commissioner kim >> yes. i would like to nominate commissioner tang for possession of the vice chair of the transportation authority i think that actually, it is a great balance to have someone represent the west side of the city and county and commissioner tang has been a thoughtful advocate not only for her district but other districts that don't get resources around public transit and many of the other district do i think she'll be a great balance as a vice chair i'm honored to nominate her today. >> is there a second for that motion. >> seconded by commissioner breed she beat you commissioner cohen

are there any additional nominations for vice chair? seeing none, nominations are closed is there any public comment on the vice chair position if so seeing none, public comment is closed. and why not take that same house, same call? congratulations vice chair tilly chang and now that you guys have all made the mistake of nominating and electing us let me tell you was on my mind (laughter) >> so what i have the honor of being elected to the intern position after chair wiener went to sacramento in his role and a as the state senator i said a few words about that body and agency that is actually a remarkablely important powerful agency i have to say many of us

whether we're members of the public or members of this body is not as engaged as we could be and i would venue to say as we should be i'd like to try to change that i think we have very important decisions to make and as we are looking at multiple billion dollars projects actually multi multi billion dollars projects we have to get our housing house in order relative to priorities we have caltrans electrification and tip of the iceberg they owes the city and county while we're wearing our 09 hats a quarter of a million dollars and the central subway we've got in ambitious subway plan we need to have city attorney a exemption with the public and our staff about our priorities where that

is van ness brt or not going to be able to have it all it is good to plan four the future but given what we all know is a seat change at the federal level that will profoundly impact high speed rail to you name it so i wanted to i want to put that out there and want to commissioner tang and i have had those conversations suggest that we start considering having some third party vicinity oversight at this body we consider working with our staff to create and put out a request for proposals to have something that is akin to the role that the legislative and budget analyst praise for the board of supervisors i think this agency would actually benefit from that.

>> and then finally as chair i want to collaborate with all of you to do the following things which is as our san francisco transportation authority has become an extremely independent authority as a matter of charter law i hear hear from you sometimes you're not getting what you need and our constituents are demanding in large part not a funding agency i want to use this body and work with you to insure that the mta we give hundreds of million dollars is meeting your needs in your district as well as all of our needs citywide so those are the comments i want to make and also think we have a role which we all see on our agendas as we monitor and support and oppose various pieces of state

legislation we center much more regular much more in depth czechs e checking and let me leave you with that on thought i'm not agnostic about but thought about who we will be better served to meet trice a month as a full body and maybe our committees are not doing we we need to do but spent a couple of hours what has traditionally gone to finance and programs as a full body food for thought let's check in on that formally and informally we can see ahead and thank you very much fewer confidence and support and supervisor president breed the floor is yours. >> thank you. congratulations chair peskin i want to say i appreciate your thoughts and leadership on this body i also

am really existed about the opportunity to have an independent oversight body similar to the you budget analyst for the board of supervisors that could really help us to dissect a lot of the layers of what we're doing in terms of providing funding resources to some of our many transportation projects and i know this body also does strategic planning but i think that taking the opportunity to have a robust decision about strategic planning pea how we look at the bigger picture that is exactly what you're talking about i think could be helpful to make sure that with those many complicated layers we can basically take them and put in in a large picture and start to move towards progress simultaneously for all those

various layers of projects that exist all over the city rather than responsive to independent projects how those projects will impact others and make sense to layer those on top of each other to those can help us to understand what we should or shouldn't as 12 relates to what we'll be damien e dealing with around transbay i'm excited and glad you thoughtless what was on our mind this will help us moving in the right direction and make the transportation in san francisco a lot better for those who are here and travel around the city we want to be a transit first and want to make sure that our infrastructure is in place in order to accommodate it congratulations to you and commissioner tang i think you

guys are working really well together this will be a great committee or commission and i'm excited about that thank you and congratulations. >> thank you for your comments commissioner breed and vice chair tilly chang. >> congratulations chair peskin i want to congratulate you as well and using form supervisor avalos words i hope we don't sleepwalk introduce the transportation authority it is incredibly important and so many money that goes before us so i'm existed to be able to work with chair peskin in that capacity and i think that you know you being transparent with our thoughts i think that was refreshing one thing you mentioned how it is we can also utilities this opportunity with the mta to work with other sfmta agencies and there has been times i have turned to ta staff the wonderful ta staff to help

us whether or not initiating the studies that work you, you know push other agencies i want to thank you for that and hopefully, we'll continue building on this incredible work together congratulations. >> thank you commissioner tang if no other comments from members mr. stamos call the next item. >> allocate the $6 million plus in prop k fund with conditions for the downtown rail extension subject to the task force distribution schedule an action item. >> ms. lombardi. >> congratulations chair and vice chair welcome to the new commissioners this is the nice allocation to start off with given several months have lapsed this my idea why this is coming to you today and turn to michael

to give a brief synopsis this is related to the electrification program with the boulevard study and the high speed rail not to mention a significant caltrain effort that is going on in the area this is a request for that $6 million in prop k sales tax from a line item in the voter expenditure plan specifically for new transbay terminal and the downtown expansion project that item came before this body in september commissioner peskin doesn't have a level of comfortable by i'll not go into two of them are related to the special conditions to allocate as we often do one of them is

that a condition of receipt the fund if this body proves with an oversight protocol it is a written oversight models that staff - and is electrification it is in place we like to codify that when we get the funds the second condition the planning department rail yard boulevard study has a number of components one is alignment of downtown and who one we prefer or leaning towards the second condition states if that body enforces one of the alternate alignments that grant can be put on pause to renegotiate the scope or work on that with that, i think i'll hand this off unless there are

questions. >> before i turn it over to transbay joint powers authority we have one of our members who sits on the oversight body that transbay transbay joint powers authority board which is commissioner kim here so i want to point out that out for those of you who don't know for the new members but wanted to put that in a little bit of context as to why in september and until now including now that i have been nervous and reticent it is very simple when this project started out it was a large and expensive project i'm talking about not the extension i'm talking about the building of transbay at the $800 million that was what it was supposed to cost when i was a member of this

body a decade ago we're north of $2 billion not all of that was local money all taxpayer money but that also includes a short term actually not that she remember several years likely commercial paper loan from the the city and county of san francisco to the tjpa the tjpa is actually a kraefrn of state law all be that the city and county has 3 members on the governing board part of what makes me nervous was we're in the process of making a decision for san francisco that is a decision for the next 50 or one hundred years relative to rail alignments relative to bringing this kind of infrastructure into our downtown core that those of you who might be on this board in a decade or in government or politics in a exactly know we go

in with our eyes wide open by the way, this extension is what a $4 billion project didn't become a $12 billion project those are the kinds of things we as elected people need to be extremely concerned about given the fact that the transbay costs a bloody future with that, sir. >> good morning, commissioners congratulations on the election chair peskin and congratulations commissioner tang for being the vice chair i'm mark the disorderly conduct with the transbay joint powers authority i want to start by taking a minute to give a department on pier one will reach the completion on this year and current work together the bus

operators to operate shortly after we hope to get them into the transit center within a timeframe if 9 contractors can't accommodate we'll on the transit center for operations we're trying to get a manager to get the contract next month and the contract manager will lease out the retail we have one hundred thousand square feet of retail that's part of their duties and in charge of - we have one hundred screens we hope to generate revenues and work with the community and activating the sponsoring at the park and also seeking - we're hoping to

maximize the revenue for any gas for the operations of the transit center i'll start with the items. >> sir my understanding i think our understanding is that it is still going to require an operational subsidies even if you sectucceeded. >> there will obtain operation gap and we'll work with the transit to cover that gap right now we are trying to close that gap as long as by generating revenues at the same time achieving the goals that the board asked us to do and the community by bringing robust and activating the part with the community. >> and has staff at the transbay joint powers authority indicated they're willing to subsidies that operational

funding gap. >> they're good listeners we continue to discuss that currently mtc is providing $5 million to help us with updating the temporary terminal and thoefl to increase that amount. >> what do you project the gap to be. >> i wish i can share that but, but each of the seat managers have numbers and once we have someone under contract i'll be happy to share that information with you. >> please proceed. >> the downtown extension dtx will extended underground with the high speed rail with $1.3 million from the caltrain into a transit center the construction limits $2 million the extension is 1 point miles.

>> today's allocation with the use of the thirty percent drawings and the design with the requirements we will use to money to estimate to today's conditions and also the ridership study to have an active amount charges to light rail in order to fund the extension the money will perform risk assessments for the construction and program such that when a budget is adopted by the mtc board that budget are reflect the conditions and not have a difficulty so and we're also working with

our funding partners in order to secure the funding from local and regional levels later in the presentation i have a slide i'll show you how we intend to do that overall the next steps we have outlined we'll come up with a 2 to thirty percent engineering accruing a program budget that 89 regional can stand behind and move forward the scope of the dtx extended the box to accommodate high speed rail and this accommodates caltrain and high speed rail to use two screens and the links is longer than than the train box we have to extend the train box since we're extending the train box we are using the reality for greenhouse and amtrak buses that

includes providing a connector between the center and the bart station we'll have direct assess from the transit center to include bart and this includes the train box itself that was built as part of phase one and build the tunnel between the train box and the station on 4 and king it will be a combieng of open excavation we have a - at the end of the alignment that will allow us to further ground the tunnels into 22 street and in the future to continue the undergrounding. >> ever since it started in development we've been working closely with r e b t this shows

the relationship we discussed by the team and the dtx is in green this is a basic alternative with the avenue alignment in orange is is an estimation while the dtx is under operation and moved the alignment to the third street alignment which is a third alignment under consumer price index and continue to work with the team and as mentioned we can land what how best to advance dtx and bring trains to the transit center that is a draft schedule we put together for the dtx it shows we can bring trains to the transit center in funding is available and the ridership position - currently our ridership schedule is started the process in the middle of 2018 that is predicted

on securing the funding from r o-3 if it passed also predicted on the r and b study to determine what the best alignment for the dtx. >> and that slide is the funding slide we developed our draft estimates are approximately $4 billion with the city's allocation we'll be able to up that estimate and be sure that that estimate is the right estimate moving forward we currently have identified the potential funding the amount blow theblast imply box between 6 hundred and 8 hundred plus million dollars at the include 20075 to plus million dollars for the between 200 and $4 million in tax increments the blue box is the amounts for the

current area plan under consideration approximately 2 med $2 billion one billion dollars is for the sfmta parts program and $3 million for the funding $350 million for the san francisco county tax and $575 million from high speed rail that equals the business plan and one more parcel to be sold that parcel is currently the location of the temporary terminal once we on the transit terminal that parking becomes available that value is approximately 200 and $45 million we also have district between $865 million plus with discharges they'll be leveled for passengers that terminate their travel at the transit

center currently caltrans riders stop at fourth and king to reach tare district they'll get on muni or other means so with charging equal to what they're paying between two or $3 million and charging caltrans between 8 and 11 explores that and $26 we generate between 8 hundred plus million dollars that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, sir are there any questions from commissioners. >> are there any members of the public wyoming like to testify on this item? >> please come forward. >> we're in receipt of our

communications. >> there they are quite a few of the issues i have them attached to the legal mandate on the legal mandate you have two the first one is the funds that basically means that must include the ability of the transbay and the east bay no two ways about it. the second legal mandate is properties 334 you need to have a non-stop train to translate in thirty minutes if you don't, you basically don't have access to any of the prop a bonds because if you look at this $557 million that is dtx but you see you can't achieve

that figure and jeopardizes that you talk about - small business at some point has to ask the question how come we can build the central subway one .7 miles and then somebody said well, we'll get one .3 miles for $4 billion is goes down the construction you have a lot of construction with the costs and the impacts so in closing my recommendation to you to limit the appropriations to one million dollars for the sole purpose of basically wrapping up what needs to be done some point in time

you will understand the issues thank you very much. >> and with regard to your letter your contention it is that those 3 sweeping terms will end up which the trains will have to slow down at 25 mile-per-hour will there beyond thirty minutes. >> yes. just going from town to the translation about - >> so what you're saying the alignment is wrong. >> yes. the alignment is wrong and actually, the there is another alignment that is missing that can't achieve that is not discussed right now. >> thank you, sir. >> mr. has. >> commissioner i'm jimmy have been before you several times to appoint the dtx plan will go off

the west side of mission bay and jeopardize the campus you and the city and you the board of supervisors and this commission needs to take control over this project and coordinate it as you may know the planning department has the study which i'm on the citizens workshop i our report will be available in march no square feet confirm the inadequacy of current plan and indicate the only vicariously way to get the train downtown is on the west side of potrero hill either parallel to 7th street or third street now what needs to be done is not to fund this project as you were asked for but to fund the work

around the terminal and second street and the study to develop the final tunnel plan to bring the train downtown that's the only viable way to get the train downtown so this work needs to be coordinated and right now and by the way, when you put the new tunnel together with the existing tunnel we're talking about $6 million budget thank you. >> thank you, mr. has any public comment? that wants to testify on this item seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sheehy the floor is yours. >> so obviously the chair has spent more time on this to continue this public comments we need to think we should be much

more involved before the money i've worked down there i know the configuration and don't know as the gentleman noted when you look at the high speed right a karate's configuration we have i know we had the warriors going in we knew we would increase the capacity beyond what we had so i don't know what options are available but certainly completing the r e b study that the way in which they're planning on going both this is crazy to me. >> is a commissioner sheehy part of the reason the previous delayed this was an interest in seeing the results of arab study and part of the reason he needed

to put it on this particular agenda was because we now have four new members of this body relative to the motion their 3 we vote it up and give them their 6 point plus million dollars option two vote it down and option 3 we can continue there is actually a fourth option that the gentleman suggested within the purview of this body we can give them less money in order to allow them pronouncing to finish their supplemental document those are the of your choice you as a new commissioner, i think have ever right to spend time not an easy decision and maybe we should look to some of the other new members as to what there will is

and perhaps if you need more time to look at it with all due respect to the tjpa executive director he may differ given that high speed rail is not going to get there until if everybody is luke w8 /* /- lucky. >> i'd like to do that to understand this before i vote on this this is is a multi billion dollars the configuration doesn't make sense we have people analyzing this. >> you know you have more experience you continued is one i'll respect the judgment of the

chair. >> it was in committee and came to the full commission and got continued this is the first time it is heard why not hear from commissioner ronen and then commissioner fewer and then visit with staff unless anyone else wants to weigh in commissioner ronen. >> commissioner ronen if you turn that microphone on. >> that would be helpful. >> i'm feeling the same way i have a question for you what would be the impact if we continued this a month or 2 down the road. >> we have the distributions with the tilly chang in last year and brought it to the commission commissioner peskin had a lot of questions at a time and responded to all the questions if we take another

month almost a 9 month delay given we're almost done with phase one i'm eager to move forward with phase two all the allocations is the design for the 40 percent completion and we're not - we're going to wait to finish but not including anything else happening as part of the r e b study for the baby steps for the project if you look at the r e d you have the alignments of the dtx then the avenue and the third street alignment you work along second street the work on the box and the pedestrian connector for bart if the r e b study stays essays this is the alignment it

shown in orange those are extension active and could happen while the dtx is under construction if the 85 percent of the work along second street and the box and the green box as well as the pedestrian connector that work will think e be preserved for the fourth street alignment 0 i urge you to move forward to continue on the project and come back with the r e b study will be completed next month and adjust as needed. >> one thought before we hear from commissioner fewer perhaps a will to continue this to our next meeting that at that meeting we actually get susan

who is in charge of the r a b study to present at the same time to see all of that before we make a decision with regards to this allocation commissioner fewer. >> thank you chair peskin i also would like to see p continued i have a question about the capital actually, the money part of it i actually have more questions about the design i would feel more comfortable postponing this vote until we get the adequate research thank you. >> thank you commissioner fewer commissioner kim. >> i just want to say i'm glad we have new commissioners on board and think that is important for the four new members to said understand this

- and, of course, it is complicated is involves several agencies caltrain and caltrans and high speed rail and the connected for the original terminal project will be the new transportation thank you, everybody, u hub for light rail and the downtown extension and now through many years of delays and a complete divestment for the transportation for light rail we're seeing phase two continuing despite the fact that a box is constructed in phase one with the terminal ready for the train to come into 9 downtown area i want to see all this happen and the high speed rail in san francisco and in many ways the terminal will help

us get there and many want to see this in san jose we have a lot of deinvestigating with the points an alignment that was approved back before i was on the board of supervisors and now there is a question about whether this alignment for the new light rail and caltrain downtown extension i want to currently the new members to understand this project and a lot of questions i think at some point we need to move forward with the funding on the skwien i'd like to see that happen but acknowledge that i mean this is a complex project and going back in time there were many decisions i would have made about those those two phases would have occurred and recognize the executive director for leading the helm there are there's a lot of moving parts and a lot of actors and players

thank you commissioner kim. >> commissioner safai. >> hi yes. i'd like to echo what my colleagues have said new commissioners i think that is important that we're briefed on this i'm sure a lot of requests for funding given the level and magnitude of that project it would be nice to have a better understanding of how that will be looked like and effects the decisions and have an opportunity we don't need a lot of time but you suggested next meeting give staff the opportunity to come and talk with you individually and then move forward thank you. >> commissioner safai and commissioner tang i wanted to announce the planning department staff reached out to all our offices to offer a r a b tour their take place at 2:30 one of my aids

will be going and if any of our legislative aides their meeting at the northwest corner of b street will take an hour and bring walking shoes and end i believe fourth and king the rail yard station if you need another details but that same from the planning department and i did ask myself to ask the staff to point out this is in the middle of our board meeting most of our staff are otherwise disposed but thank you for appoint and i do acknowledge that is a process that staff wants us for familiar recalled of how we vote on sxheshz for a

continues we'll clarify in a second many any role as chair will work with our staff to bring the r a b study head here for our next regularly scheduled full commission meeting for a presentation at least any desire that everyone is engaged is proving true we're off to a good start maybe the gentleman doesn't feel that way but commissioner sheehy would you like to propose this be continued to the next regularly scheduled full commission meeting. >> yes. i have a a motion by commissioner sheehy and seconded by commissioner ronen colleagues would like a roll call vote on it i'm seeing - >> all right. we are going to take that same

house, same call? the matter is continued until februa february 28, 2017, >> allocate prop k funds to the bay area rapid transit for the park station additional scope project subject to the task schedule this is an action item. >> ms. lombardi 0. >> ms. tilly chang who will make the presentation. >> we went through the programs. >> indeed in any comments from commissions any any public comment? seeing none, same house, same call? the allocation of $653,000 of prop k plus is approved next item, please. >> item 8 approve a resolution from assembly bill to occur the self-driving cars an action

item. >> colleagues, i brought this item up and introduced it for a hearing in support of assembly mesh ting one of our assembly members representing san francisco to support his assembly bill 87 san francisco curve and otherwise regulate and propose enforcement relative to illegal self-driving cars i'm sure you read it in your passage any questions or comments from commissioners seeing none, is there any public comment on this item number 8 seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? the resolution is adopted we have done item number 9 mr. stamos could you please read the next item. >> 10 introduction of new items. >> are there any in any items

commissioners seeing none, any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. and general public comment are there any members of the public who would like to make general public comment, sir >> thank you, again supervisors so as you may know we have a new executive chief washington and the same advocates on the private sector involvement and i'd like to talk about that in context of a new translator there is the way it works in the private sector you have the ridership and we have ripped we've got a two capacity so if you go to the private sector if you build another translator that is a good chance they're going to be taking the new one

and even there will be extensive shut downs and that is the private sector will step in your job as supervisors is so work on the book end to make sure that on the san francisco side you're able to make the translator on embarcadero and the private sector will take over you have to work with them and my advice in oakland to look around the whole plaza it is where you need to go to satisfy the sector that brings us to the dtx because now there is no way to look at those numbers they don't add up okay. but the reason for that we have so many people but if you have traffic in the east bay a lot of traffic will not

stop they'll carry on with the dtx, etc. now you may be able to have a meaningful conversation about the dtx with the private sector thank you very much. >> thank you, sir are there any other members of the public for general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. and we are

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.

>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know,

from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. >> this park is open. ♪

>> hi everybody, we down here at the /ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in san francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we

have working around here. we we're going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about san francisco. how are you doing kelly? >> very well, thank you for having us here. >> in front of us, we have a typical soft story building. when i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. a lot of people don't know these are problematic buildings. why don't you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings? >> soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. when we talk about the soft story, what we're talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other /pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. so we're looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential

buildings that are soft stories in san francisco look like. and the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. they have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea it's significantly less country /srabl in those stories. now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. that very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. that wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. when the

earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and there's very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually /paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. so we know they're vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing >> is this only a problem we see in sentence france? san francisco? >> no, this is certainly a national problem. more acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. this kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. >> when you're involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. we had a community group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. tell us about * how that

conversation went. why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings? >> there were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are vulnerable. and that effort brought in a lot of people from different aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the housing stock and the possible ramifications of losing this /houbgs in the case of an earthquake. the financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make san francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. >> it's such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this /seurb but we actually did something about it. now we have an order unanimouses put in place to

protect 100,000 residents in san francisco and retrospective in 2020. so on behalf of residents and employees in san francisco, we want to say thank you for the work you've done in pushing this forward and making people more aware of these issues. >> and it was a fantastic community effort. >> so in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings? >> what happens when an earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. it's mostly the horizontal that we're worried about. it starts moving the building back and forth and pushing on it. when you see i'm pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. >> luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came

from so it's a lot easier. now kelly, obviously these aren't real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff? >> the easiest and most cost-effective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall that's already there where you don't need to have an opening is where you maybe have a garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. but some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength that's required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant

and less vulnerable. ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above. >> if i'm a property owner, what is the first thing i should do? >> the first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. and third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. >> well kelly, i can't thank you enough for being here today. thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in san francisco. and you the viewer, if you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website

>> good afternoon everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to january 26, 2017 regular meeting the rules committee. i'm asha safai our clerk and derek evans and like to thank gym smith and jesa larsson at sfgtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have announcements? >> thank you, mr. chair. silence electronic devices, eating and drinking is not permitted. complete speaker cards and copies of