started as a intern guided through the process eventually one day a a deputy director or staying with the puc is where i love it [gavel] good afternoon everyone. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 12, 2016 regular meeting of the rules committee. i am supervisor ahsha safai chair of the committee. to my right is

supervisor supervisor fewer and to my left will be norman yee but he's not here yet. our clerk is derek evans. i would like to thank staff at sfgtv for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk do you have any announcements today. >> yes thank you mr. chair. please silence all electronic dwiegs. eating and drinking is not a permitted. any copies and documents should be submitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 18, 2017 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you mr. clerk. please call item number 1. >> item number 1 is a hearing considering 14 members to the park, recreation and open space advisory committee. there are 14 seats and 14 applicants. >> thank you. unless there are any initial comments from the committee let's hear from

supervisor ronin's aid and to serve elisa laird-metke and reanna tong and both district 9 see thes. >> thank you supervisor. i have someone here to speak on behalf of elisa and i will speak on behalf of much rihanna. >> thank you. >> thank you so much supervisors want. i want to speak on behalf of elisa who works in oakland and wasn't able to make today's meeting but excited about the opportunity to serve the city on the prosac committee. she's a 17 year resident of san francisco and her family and herself has been long engaged in the city's park's departments. currently living in the portola she's a stanch advocate for greening and one of the founding members of the port tola urban greening

committee which is a diverse stakeholder meeting that meets monthly to discuss ways that we can build upon green assets in the neighborhood and open spaces and has been a great connector between mc clairein park and other assets in the district 9 and its residents and as such she's really excited to be able to serve the city on a broader scale and is particularly committed to accessibility. she works as a --let specific term of her career is a director at the disability resource center at merit university so she's really well versed in how to bring disabled citizens of san francisco into these public spaces and so that's something she's really excited about, not

only for physically disabled but also those that might not have the economic or other ability to use our public spaces as much as we would hope so i really hope that you guys approve her nomination. she's really excited to serve. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisors so on behalf of the supervisor ronin ms. tong receives the highest recommendation and a native born to chinese immigrants from hong kong and a member of the school system and use are of the parks and part of the portola neighborhood association and bring focus to low income and working class communities of color particularly immigrant communities who are often left out of the decision process so she is passion to making the

area a place for people from multiple generations and different backgrounds can enjoy public open spaces, and facilities. she is also passionate about improving pedestrian safety and bicycle access and street design and will bring that focus and expertise to prosac. she's a great candidate for seat number two and she will be honored to serve. >> thank you. colleagues any questions? seeing none we will go to -- seeing no questions from the committee let's hear from the third applicant natalie dillon. is natalie here? yes, please co forward. this is for seat number 4. >> hello. i'm natalie dillon. i represent district 4. so thank you for having us here today. i think this chamber is almost as beautiful many of our parks in the city but a little bit of background on me. i was born and raise 234-d san francisco in the heart of the mission district where i grew up

in the parks. it was at mission playground and their partnership with arthur ash's non-profit and where i discovered by love for tennis and grew up playing on the courts and it was a place where race, religion and gender was a place that didn't matter but who was able to get the ball across the court and the sense of community that parks brings to cities is something very important to me. so tennis and mesa college where i walked on to the stanford tennis team exceeding my childhood dreams. i majored in urban studies taking a focus in urban -- taking a focus in communities ifed design and capped off my under graduate with a thesis on spatial relationship between

graffiti and crime taking a close look in san francisco where just literature hasn't been dedicated to take without take without take without -- take taking a quantitative look and i will be excited to be on the committee and contribute. >> great. thank you colleagues. any questions for natalie? >> >> seeing none we will go to the next item. thank you ms. dillon. >> thank you. >> let's hear from our fourth applicant mr. nicholas belloni. that's for seat number 5. >> close enough. >> did i say that right? you. >> you are close. hello supervisor. i am nicholas belloni as we just got through.

i am going for i think it's my last appointment now even though it didn't have a date on it when the seat five get out but i think this is my last appointment for prosac. i have been a member for -- god now a while, and a lot of things i have done. i helped work on the acquisition policy and in that time since i the acquisition policy sub-committee working group, whatever we called it back then we were able to buy parks in different areas of san francisco that needed it badly. i am looking forward to what i was able to accomplish and getting parks to the city and i grew up in the richmond district and born and raised 43 years -- yes, i am 43, in the richmond district and i have had parks around me all my life, golden gate park was my background. i had the luck of play soccer on

the polo fields and took my parents that sat through the games in the fog and rain and take them to see paul mccartney, one of their favorites on the fields. you know those are the things that make parks special. we get to commute, we get to be there, and congregate and sees lots and lots of great cultural stuff, be there with our families, see kids grow up and play and have a great time and that's what it makes it special for me to be on the park board so i hope you guys reappoint me. thank you. have a great day. >> thank you. any questions? seeing none we will proceed to the next applicant, our fifth applicant and the chair of prosac currently and steffen franz. will you please come forward. >> greetings supervisors. thank you for having us today. my name is steffen franz and current one of the

representatives for prosac in our district and currently the chair and have been for the last year. i was originally presented by supervisor alito pier and appointed twice by supervisor farrell and served as the chair and vice chair and sat on a view subcommittees and as well as working group. i own a music distribution and parking company that represents 7700 artists and labels. >> >> 700 artists and labels and the president of the friends of lafayette park board which i have been on for eight years including during that time the extensive renovation of the park. i also am the production manager for saturdays in the mark mc clooren which i have done for the past five years and about 28 shows in district 10.

i very much am a dog advocate as well, and as such my love of parks stems from the amount of time i spend in our open space. i am a passionate about parks and open space and would like to continue my service on prosac for another term. >> thank you. colleagues any questions? seeing none let's hear from the sixth applicant mr. mark scheuer. thank you. please come forward. >> hi. i am definitely what you would call a park freak. i have been in a san francisco park literally almost every day of my life and in sunset district and park side square and when i discovered basketball i graduated to sunset gym. as an adult i have been involved with friends of those park for

17 years and was the president for ten years. i am -- i really believe that parks make a big difference in the quality of life for everybody and the thing i love about san francisco parks that you can go for free and there are so many things to do in parks and recreation centers. while i was on prosac for four, five years i served on the failing playgrounds committee and i also helped shaped strategic plan. i would like to continue on prosac to ensure that san franciscans have a free place to go every day of their life. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues any questions? seeing none let's go to the seventh applicant, mr. robert brust for seat number 8. >> thank you supervisors. >> if you could pull the mic up. there you go. >> yes, sir. so i am a

resident of district 8 since 2008. i am founder of did lores park works, one of the several friends organizations for dolores park since 2009 and currently the chair. i am also a member of the san francisco parks alliance, proud husband and a proud pug dog owner. i am coming up on about three and a half years. i am reappointed to prosac hopefully, and i am very proud of the work i have done, our committee has done over the past three and a half years and i would like to just highlight three. we helped with the writings and promotion of prop b which i am sure you know of. one of our primarily responsibilities on prosac is acquisitions as people have already touched on and our work on the strategic plan, rec and

park department strategic plan. so in prop b i think you're bottom with but let me go over it quickly. i think the most important part of the legislation it recognized the department and our city parks need for a predictable level of funding so they could properly staff and plan as we went forward. also one of the key things and this is something i think new for the department and not the city overall rec and park is required to have an equity component and their strategic plan as they go forward, and we were very, very happy to see that was included in the legislation and now as we're working with the parks department they're doing an

excellent job. it was really easy for us to require them to do this, but the real job i think is now up to the department and us to watch as they implement this legislation. acquisitions -- i'm going just it to touch on two. both were a little hard because we were spending a lot of money. francisco park which used to be the fracisco water reservoir i believe it is going to be one of the grand jewels of the city, and what is going to be very interesting about this it's now it's going to be community funded. the neighbors have gotten together. they have pledged $25 million for constructing the park into a reservoir, the reservoir into a

park and $150,000 every year thereafter. they have also agreed to a cooperative relationship with the parks department where the parks department will agree and the franciscan park conservatory who is set up to manage the money will also agree agree on a funding and a maintenance plan. the other which i think is the 11th street natoma plot which i think you saw yesterday at the full board and hopefully agreed to purchase. another large sum of money, almost $10 million, which we feel because of its location in a high need area and a growing urban core it is really worth the expenditure of money and finally the strategic plan which p ro sac is required

to review and approve. we were able with this plan to oversee the equity components, things that we really care about like the maintenance of the trees and the park rangers which have been severely underfunded for many years, so we thank you for this opportunity. >> thank you. colleagues any questions? seeing none we can hear from the eighth applicant mr. anthony cuadro. for seat number 10. please proceed. >> thank you supervisor. good morning -- afternoon supervisors. supervisor yee. my name is anthony cuadro. i have been on the task -- on the prosac committee for six years and appointed by supervisor

elsbernd and reappointed by supervisor yee and i grew up in san francisco and district 7 in forest hill and pretty much played in the parks my entire life and grew up by jp murphy playground and in the summer and played in little league baseball by park and rec and basketball at sunset rec center all throughout my child and have been an advocate for parks ever since. i have enjoyed my five place years on the committee and going for the final appointment before i term out. to highlight i have worked on the failing playgrounds task force with my colleague mark. we worked with several groups from within the city, from the boys and girls club, to other stakeholders to design that program and really use bond fonds to -- funds to refurbish play structures not

up to suitability for children and we're very proud of the work with that. we used equity metrics that were used for the first time that we designed with within that group and applied to other projects and i am looking forward to continuing our work on that so thank you. >> thank you. any questions? seeing none thank you. we'll go on to the next applicant, our ninth applicant, ms. maya rodgers for seat number 12. thank you ms. rogers. please come forward. >> hi everybody. thank you for having me. my name is maya rodgers. i'm a native of bay view hunters point in district 10, co-founder of parks 92104 and social worker at heart. being a member of prosac and now second vice chair has been

rewarding in many scbais positioned me to translate the often misunderstood governmental language for the people of district 10. i appreciate the opportunity. i am excited to continue this work if appointed. thank you. >> thank you. any questions colleagues? seeing none we will hear from our tenth applicant, ms. wendy aragon for seat number 13. please proceed. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is wendy aragon and i am applying for seat 13 for district 1. i am really happy to be nominated by supervisor sandra lee fewer as well as an environmental justice organization that advocates for immigrant families and low income families. i grew up low income and grew up in apartments and townhouses and no open spaces and we had green

pristine lawns that were not child friendly and every day we would walk a mile to our local park and without that we haven't have a place to be and be active and go to the "y" and play soft ball and essential for us growing up and i want all to have access to parks like that. to me equity is a huge issue. i am the chair for the public utilities commission citizens advisory committee where i have been working with the southeast community facilities commission and partners to ensure we build a new center for the southeast community that will have open space and be family friendly. i have been committed to environmental justice. i went to san francisco state where i was an urban studies major and focused on open space and land use. so i am really excited to be part of this committee and i

hope i can make a big difference and hope to work with my colleagues in neighborhoods where they have concerns about their parks. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues any questions? seeing none we will proceed to hear from our 11th applicant mr. richard rothman for seat 14. please proceed. >> good afternoon supervisor. my name is richard rothman and i am asking to be reappointed to represent district 1 on prosac i am a richmond district resident and grew up in the district across the street from cabrillo playground and half a block from golden gate park and i moved back into my childhood house about ten years ago. i feel my role on prosac is to act as a liaison between the supervisor's office, rec and park and the

residents. i want to help improve the dog parks and maybe have more dog parks to the richmond district area, and i am also concerned about people getting access to the park, and i think rec and park and mta should set up a safe routes to park program. it's not only being safe in the park but it's also walking safely to the park, and i currently serve as first five's chair helping set the agenda and i think our highlights of our input in prop b in working on the metrics to ensure that all areas of the city are equally treated, and input into the strategic plan. i really enjoy working because i

feel that the rec and park staff while always not agreeing with us at least listens to our suggestions and the other thing that's important to me being on prosac and while most people think of rec and park as open space they also have a lot of cultural resources such as bridges and buildings and i am especially interested in the murals in coit tower and beach chalet and the one i have been working on, the building closed since 2000 is the building at the zoo and working with rec park and zoo and the art commission we're moving ahead and the only way you can see what the murals are i have a photo show just starting on display in supervisor fewer and

supervisor tang's office and one can see what the beautiful murals are and why this building needs to be opened again to the public, so i ask for your -- to be reappointed to prosac. thank you. >> thank you mr. rothman. colleagues any questions? seeing none let's go to our 12th applicant, mr. jorell corpus for seat number 16. mr. corpus please proceed. >> my name is jor rel and i would like to thank -- the district supervisors especially supervisor peskin for his nomination for me -- >> can you put the mic closer to your mouth because we're having a hard time hearing. >> i would like to thank

supervisor peskin for his appointment to be part of the prosac community. i was born and raised in chinatown north beach. i have previous experience restoring estuaries and the presidio, specifically kritionz chrissy field and part of the million man march and basically youth engagement with the neighborhood kids teaching basic seeds in propagation. excuse me. but pretty much -- yeah, i look forward to this appointment bridging the gap between our community and visitors of our park. i work across the street from washington square and yeah thank you. >> thank you mr. corpus. colleagues any questions? seeing none let's move to the next applicant ms. jame weil for

seat number 18. >> thank you supervisors. my name is jame weil and i have represented district 6 on prosac since 2014. it's been exciting to work with other open space advocates from all over the city and i am honored that supervisor kim has renominated me so we can continue working together for the existing green space and create some more whenever we can. i live in mid-market which is the densest and open space deprived part of the city and working closely with park and rec staff and supervisor kim to identify potential acquisition sites so we can create some green space before it's all gone. it's been a long and arduous process but you will hear from us hopefully next week about our first acquisition on 11th street and hopefully one

shortly thereafter. i represent several constituencies in the city and a homeowner and spanish speaker and kids that have used park and rec especially camp mather and working with park and rec staff i am impressed with the hard work and dedication and striving for program excellence. senior staff closely collaborates with the citizen representatives of prosac seeking and heeding our advice on policy and program and i am proud of our contributions to the programs my other colleagues have mentioned, the strategic plan especially the equity metric, the failing playground renovation fund, the new deltas soccer team in kieser stadium which is fabulous if you haven't been there already and fun working with people all over the

city and visiting parks that exist in other districts that i didn't know existed and we try to visit each other's parks and understand what is going on in the districts and my district has identified as the highest priority for acquisition and maintain the poor little pathetic parks that we have and my colleagues have been extremely supportive. i have lived all over the country and committed to spending the rest of my time in the city and the best it could be but one sentiment. housing without open space is not healthy and we cannot build the high rise towers in mid-market with creating thousands of new units for families of all income without providing open space for them. it's really foley to let the developers create our open space as po, po, -- privately

owned public space because they will put it where they want, on the roof, a dark corner and internal courtyards and it's not really open to the public. we need our park and rec staff to decide where the parks and the commitment and unfortunately it's expensive to acquire the open space in mid-market but we need the supervisors to back them and prosac and thank you for your time. >> thank you. any questions? seeing none we'll go to the last and final applicant, 14th applicant, ms. theresa factora for seat number 22. >> hi. good afternoon. my name is theresa factora. i'm a 20 year resident of district 11 where my husband and i have raised our two children. my children have benefited greatly

from the parks and not just the open space parks but the programs as well that park and recreation provided for our kids. i live near john mclaren park and crocker and in the middle of both parks as well as my kids benefit from the parks i see the challenges on a daily basis of the parks and i just love the opportunity to serve the families in our community so those kids can have the same benefits that my kids have enjoyed for the past 15 years. thank you. >> thank you. any questions? seeing none we can move to public comment if there's any members of the public that would like to testify on item number 1 please come forward. speakers have two minutes and say your name and speak directly into the microphone. you may leave a copy of the documents with the clerk for the official file but line up to the right over there

and if there's two people we can proceed. >> hi. i am program director for urban habitat. i oversee the boards and commissions' leadership institute which is a program designed to support and train people of color and low income folks to serve on regional and local commissions and boards, and wendy aragon is a fellow in our current cohort and so i am here to expression our enthusiastic bid for her. one thing about wendy i watched her enter into deep policy conversations and hold different opinions and perspectives togethers and also be move the group forward. she's empathetic. she's isn't afraid to identify commonalities and work using those as a foundation for moving forward. i am really

excited about her bid and i believe that her commitment and service on the san francisco puc, cac has tratdemons her dedication to the city, her dedication to equity, to being accountable and a coalition builder. thank you. >> thank you. ms. ferry -- mr. fernandez. >> good afternoon. i am a people oh nicer and demanding economic rights and san francisco premier organization and we advocate for communities of color in san francisco. representation of different decision making processes. as chair of the sfpuc ms. argon has been a fundamental part of our campaign and increase affordable

housing at the balboa reservoir and we're confident her commitment to making advisory spaces accessible, receptive, representative and equitable spaces will transfer right over to prosac so we fully support her nomination and ask that you move forward with her appointment with a recommendation of supervisor fewer. thank you very much. >> great thank you. are there any members of the public wishing to testify on this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] any additional comments colleagues or since there wasn't any comments any comments? >> no. >> i would like to -- oh go go ahead supervisor yee. >> i want to thank each of you for serving on this committee. my involvement with this committee was in the peripheral many decades -- several decades ago connected with the

chinatown park and rec committee there and i know the role that you can play for our communities especially the community of color because many of those areas the opportunity for open space is just not there, so again i want to appreciate each one of you and the public that came out to support you. >> thank you. >> i will go ahead and make a motion. >> do you want to make the motion? >> i just wanted to make one short comment. i wanted to say quickly i really appreciate all the people coming out today. oftentimes people don't take seriously advisory committees but it's great to see this level of commitment. i know you all play an important role as being the eyes and ears out on the ground for rec and park commission, rec and park staff working effectively as you said on acquisitions and identifying

opportunities to expand. i would like to say the issue of equity is really important, not only for underserved communities but communities that have the highest concentration of children in the city. i think this is an important role that prosac plays in making san francisco family friendly and selfishly i would like to see my appointment of ms. fact torah and ms. rogers and have the highest concentration of children and under the age of 18 and all the work and i appreciate you coming out today. colleagues can i explain a motion? >> yes, i would also like to say -- -- >> yes, please. >> thank you for coming out today and volunteering for being on this committee, and i will just say from my two appointments wendy aragon and richard rothman i am looking for a lot of collaboration with our

district because i've got a lot of big ideas for golden gate park so roll up your sleeves and let's get to work and also you nick since you live in the neighborhood and it's great. sometimes on the committees we never meet personally so it's nice that you're here today and to meet all of you and see old friends again. great. so i think supervisor yee you wanted to make a motion. >> i will go ahead and make a motion to recommend or -- >> yeah, recommend. >> recommend that all 14 applicants to their appropriate seats with a positive recommendation to the board. >> second that. >> and just a friendly would be to the supervisorial nominations to the park, recreation and open space advisory committee with the

full board positive recommendation. >> yes. >> great. seeing no objections the item is moved. [gavel] congratulations everyone. thank you for your service. [applause] >> thank you. >> mr. clerk please call item number 2. >> item number 2 is a hearing consider appointing four members on the commission on the aging advisory council. there are four seats and four applicants. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. unless there are initial comments from the committee let's hear from the first applicant ms. juliet rothman. is juliet here. great thank you. >> hi. thank you for having me here today. my name is juliet rothman and i live in district 3. i have lived there for 19 years. prior to that i lived in new york and maryland and the dc area and worked in those areas as well. i have worked as a social worker in the

field of aging for 50 years, and i've had two different phases to my work. i worked in district practice direct practice and longs term care and counseling and consulting and multi-disciplinary planning and intergenerational work as well. >> >> i served on ethics committees and advisory councils, worked for the melt pull sclerosis society and had experience with hospice and their ethical issues. because of the ethical issues i encountered in long-term care and decision making and i went back to school as a mature student at 50 and got a ph.d in philosophy especiallying in ethical issues and life support decision making and after which i began teaching and taught at catholic university in the national school of social

service for eight years before moving here and my areas of particular interest have been practice, cultural competence, aging, disability and death and bereavement. i moved here thinking i would retire but ended up teaching in cal for 15 years and the school of social west and public health again similar courses. we also -- i was very involved in initiating a course in multi-disciplinary coordination of services among various professional schools. i recently published a book on grandparenting and i am writing my second addition of a disability textbook now so now i am retired from teaching at cal and i am doing a lot of writing and painting and enjoying the city that i waited so many

years to come to live in. i am very involved with aquatic park senior center. i serve on team lead which is their advisory council and i initiated their art gallery which has been very successful. i chair that also. i belong to san francisco village and co-chair a neighborhood circle there and mentor city arts and technology high school students as well. in thinking about the needs of san francisco's aging i just wanted to recognize that 19% of the people that live in san francisco are seniors, and that number is expected to rise, particularly the oldest seniors are expected to assume a larger portion of the population. because that will be a large increase it is most likely that they will have more special needs. they will have chronic

illness, dementia, mobility, and self care el limitations and 33% also on have disabilities and a lot have multiple disabilities and happens often in older age and 6.4% of the population of san francisco are non seniors disabled people as well which makes the work of the council extra important. in thinking about the work that i hope to be doing on the council i think that as an elder now myself i am very aware that elders and people with disabilities face many problems. one of them tends to be invisibility. along with that is discrimination and bias. we are a very youth oriented society and older people are often on the side

lines. there is a real need for meaningful and productive activity and social engagement and respect and creativity among the older population in san francisco. elders need to feel they're a part of the world around them and that they are fully engaged in the city and all of its activities. i think this is kind of a two way street, elders feel a need to contribute but they also have a lot to offer. elders have something that younger people don't have much of and that is time. they have time to do all kinds of projects and work with all kinds of people. they have wisdom. they have knowledge. they have experience and they have patience. all things that are a lot of value to the broader community. they can be great role models and they can be wonderful mentors as well,

so i think it's kind of a two way win-win situation. elders need to take a more active role in the city and the city has much to gain from the added participation of elders so i would like to help integrate elders more completely into the life of our city. i'm also of course interested in developing and exploring services for this population. i have three immediate goals if i am appointed to the council. first of all i would like to learn more thoroughly about the needs and services of the eldarely and disabled population in district 3. secondly i am particularly interested in working with senior centers throughout the city and visiting the sites and helping them to coordinate services and develop programs to meet the needs of all seniors and people with disabilities all over the city, and thirdly i am particularly interested in looking exploring disability

accommodations and services. i travel a lot and everywhere they go i look at urban planning and disability and how the city plans for accommodations for people with disabilities and would very much like to be involved with that with san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you ms. rothman. it's wonderful. it's great to have someone with such tremendous experience to the table. colleagues any questions? supervisor yee. >> just curious. you can answer it or somebody else, but in regards to the [inaudible] advisory committee that will go through a planning process is the cac involved in that at all? >> i'm sorry. i didn't understand.

. >> daas has received funding for the dignity fund and they're going through a planning process so are the cac members involved with that? >> i have attended meetings but i haven't served on the committee as well so far so i'm not aware of any involvement. i believe daas has its own advisory committee but i am certainly hoping there is a lot of coordination between the two. >> thank you. and i hope so too because it seems like -- at least that you and ms. rousseau who i know could offer many things to the group. >> thank you very much. >> >> thank you colleagues. any other questions for ms. rothman? >> i just have a comment and i want to say thank you. in my district the senior population is large and a growing

population and actually some of the most lowest income group in my district and so i am also looking to organize the senior population in my neighborhood with our senior centers and senior services to come up with a couple of major projects that would benefit the whole senior community in the richmond district. >> wonderful. that's absolutely -- >> yeah, i think just a brief statistic that is 25% of the seniors in my district live 200% below the federal poverty guidelines so i think and with you know number 45 coming in and threatening to cut some of the senior services i am very concerned so i hope we can work together. thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor fewer. colleagues any other questions? seeing none let's proceed to our next applicant, second applicant, ms. catherine rose

russo. >> good morning, good afternoon i say this. i am cathy ru sso. i live in district -- sunset, district 7. i have i am a senior, definitely a senior for some years. i started out life in california. i'm a native californian in monterey county area on a farm and artichoke center of the world and watsonville and you knew everyone around the area and what was going on in their home. i was an elementary teacher for years and then bake a social worker and i did. >> >> i did work in san francisco

with the program giving -- helping people having workers in their home, an aid to help them with things, and a nurse and i were in an office and again it was in sunset where i live, and we would evaluate the requests. send an aid in and supervise and i learned one thing when you first meet you're talking to people it sounds like they're really telling you what the situation is, but boy you better wait and find out. when you really get into it there can be some major changes in something like that. i also worked as a social worker in a acute care hospital in alameda county with people of all ages but that meant no matter the age we had

psyche, surgery, everything. we were the hospital for the area, and when you worked to find homes -- place to live, place to get care you're looking at their total situation and the family situation. when i got ready to kind of retire i was getting near 70's i wanted to keep working but not a 40 hour week and seemed to me i was interested working with seniors and it's the senior programs that hire people who don't work a full 40 hour week. you can kind of adjust into it. they're more flexible than many other programs so i came back to the university here. got my masters in greon tolg feeling that would get me a job. now, i worked with foster -- program first -- a federal program and helping seniors who wanted to

return to work who had been home for many years so we had to help them define what they want, look for a job, maybe get more training, make connections. wow, it was a real experience with the different services for seniors, how people look at them, and how they themselves handle themselves. then i worked at foster grandparent senior companions and worked with low income seniors from the city, foster grandparents. we put them with schools where they would work with a teacher with a class or senior companions. we worked with senior centers where they would go in and help with the teacher, so that was of course working with them and the community resources was interesting, and you always learn more, but i also working

with them learned a lot about the retirement homes and places in the city, and how they vary in what they do for people. i worked -- let's see. when i retired i got involved in of course activities, but this advisory council is an important one for me because i care about what goes on in my area but when you're working with a group of peoplure our seniors, who gives them the services? who is evaluating what is there? how are we judging and getting to them? these are the people working directly with the seniors and how do they do it? and we keep aware of what is available, what is on, what is going on, and we look at the rules coming down and how to do

it, and what should we be involved in? now, i am the advisory own's rep on coalition of agencies serving the elderly in this case. case is made up of persons in charge of programs for seniors. they run the senior centers and other programs for seniors, and to hear what they're concerned about, what they see is happening and their feeling is important, and i can take something back to case with it. i go to their meeting. i'm not a voting member but i go to all their meetings and interact and they're an excellent, excellent program but it's so important to know what they're doing and another program i work with is coalition of agency serving, you know, -- i work with the --

>> ms. rousseau can you wrap up in one minute so we give everyone equal time. if you have a couple more minutes i am happy to hear it. >> they always wait seniors to be faster than we are but you're right. >> i don't want to be rude. >> you're not being rude. you are just keeping the thing going. i really enjoy what we're doing. it's challenging at times as we try to figure out what is happening and to make our recommendations to the different programs but we work at it and i'm the representative to tac and tac is the one -- we meet in -- you know as all of the reps from all of the associations in california and we meet quarterly. we are meeting in may, our next quarter. and we talk about what is going on. our last meeting

we were hearing that they were concerned about cuts to funding for seniors but they weren't certain yet exactly where they were going to be and what they were going to be and you really can't find it and do something about it until you identify it so i am really interested going back next month and finding out what they decided is the area for this. it's a two day meeting every quarter. we stay at a motel there and i drive up to sacramento. the meetings are in sacramento so you got -- and a lot of the people have to fly in to go there, and it's interesting to see how the different groups are. sometimes it's two or three counties get together and sometimes it's just you know like us. now, san francisco is unique. we are the

only city and county so we are admired. l.a. is also unique. this county of los angeles has elder group but so does the city. the city has their own, not the county one. i have 20 seconds. >> yes. >> so i'm really enthused to be on this. i really find it interesting. keeps me going and i hope i will be reappointed for representing my county -- i mean my area of sunset. we are pretty neat there. >> thank you. thank you. >> and see i had a second left over. >> all right. any questions colleagues? >> actually her seat is for district 7 which is bigger than the ensunset and i am happy to support her nomination and i

would love for -- i know that we have talked about it in the past expanding services in into district and i don't know if you're aware but when we only had one service in district 7 located by the ymca and since i have been on the board we expanded to west portal playground and park merced has a program or has to be put in and we have the costs -- champs restaurant on 19th avenue so if you have time please go visit it. >> okay. >> thank you supervisor yee. any other questions or comments? seeing none thank you. we will go to our next applicant, our third applicant, patricia spaniak. >> thank you for listening to me. >> yes thank you.

>> good afternoon supervisors. my name is patricia spaniak. i'm from district 11 and currento on the department of aging board and the legislateiff council. currently i am working in an aging and place mold ed which is a grass places effort called kay iewga community connectors. because there are so many seniors without services in san francisco it's a pop up senior center. we rent a space and they meet to exercise and socialityize and receive education. i worked with third street senior center bringing the program to our neighborhood. our seniors wouldn't have an opportunity to have those programs without the connector program. we have quarterly pot lucks and we have healthy brain. doctors come in from ucsf and they're interested meeting seniors and bringing some of

the new science they learned about the brain. we do everything from pot lucks but the most important thing is exercise, socialize and nutrition. without this community connector program our seniors would never hear from the department of adult protective services for example. we recently did the c tab program so the seniors are getting free telephone. this is a grass-roots effort with the connectors and isolation leads to depression and depression leads to illness. we want to keep the seniors in their home as long as possible and that's what i am doing. i am from a large family from the east coast and grew up in a multigenerational household. i believe i understand the needs of seniors and respect what they have to offer our community. i actually come from a business background. my profession was mostly in the business world so this aging in place model gives

me an opportunity to see what the needs are on the ground in the neighborhoods and bring them to the department of aging advisory council and work with people with greater knowledge than myself. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> any questions? i want to say quickly we appreciate all the great work you're doing in district 11 working with the seniors. >> thank you very much. >> we want to expand that. >> thank you. >> seeing no other comments or questions from colleagues go go to the final applicant, ms. allegra fortunati. >> i'm allegra fortunati, a boomer senior living within the district 5. thank you supervisor safai, fewer and yee for hearing my application for reappointment to the aging advisory council. i have served on the council since 2016 and

in the seat of a prior nominee and hopefully to serve on my own and i am secretary to the council and on the membership committee. i am semi retired from the uc system and working if are the oam buds man program. as a field ombudsman i have worked with areas with issues with seniors and with disabilities and several non-profits so residents of the facilities can get the help available to live the best life they can and member of san francisco village which focuses on keeping seniors in their homes as long as possible and hopefully avoiding institutionalization a goal which i am in great agreement. for a couple of terms i served on the san francisco civil grand jury and thoroughly enjoyed the

experience by serving -- to be civically engaged. i want to continue that experience by serving on the council. since october i have attended every council meeting and have already completed four site visit reports on the city and county's congregate meal program. i am hoping to continue that level of service and contributions to the council so it's a better advocate for seniors and adults with disabilities. i believe having an active participate from district 5 on the council is vital. it's the home of some of the lowest income seniors and adults with disabilities in the city and second largest amount of adults with disabilities generally. i am interested and hearing from all programs for the residents. i hope you support my application. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues any questions? seeing none let's go to public comment. are there any members of the public to comment on item number 2?

seeing none public comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues any further comments or questions? okay. seeing none can i entertain a motion? >> yeah. >> supervisor fewer. >> yes, i move that we move the three applicants on to the full board with positive recommendation. >> four. >> four applicants. sorry. positive recommendation. >> for the commission -- >> commission on the aging advisory council. >> sorry. >> great. without objection that order is so moved. [gavel] can we just take a one minute . >> there (recess). there are three seats and three applicants. >> thank you mr. clerk. unless there are comments from my colleagues let's hear from the 5eud

legislative aide of malia cohen and here to speak for keith goldstein and irma lewis respectfully and couldn't be in attendance today because of personal matters. please proceed. >> thank you supervisors. i am here to speak on behalf of two applicants to the eastern neighborhood citizens advisory committee, mr. keith goldstein and ms. irma lewis who under fortunately couldn't join us today. >> >> >> mr. goldstein is active resident of the city for years and vice chair of the [inaudible] and active member of that committee for seven years and resident in district 10 since 1974. he's the president of the potrero hill dogpatch association and the a festival and on the council for the merchants organization and. ms. lewis is a resident for 20 years and resident of district 6 and member of a task force and the dogpatch neighborhood

association and her good is manifest in the impressive resume. on behalf of supervisor cohen i ask for the reappointment of keith goldstein and irma lewis to the eastern neighborhood citizens advisory committee. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues any questions for sophia? seeing none we can move on to the next person. i think we were -- is there a melanie rodrigo here. great. melanie is going to speak on behalf of the next applicant roshann pressman. >> good afternoon sprns. i am sorry that natalie had to go back to jury duty and i am melanie and speaking on behalf of supervisor ronin. han shan a

latino and jewish woman raised in san francisco and unique perspective of the communities and grew up in bernal heights and potrero hill and passionate about the community and the spaces. she has a passion for helping others and works at the mission sro collaborative dolores street services mainly with spanish speaking families. a lot part of the work involves community organizer with sro ten tenants and education and issues and engages with city-wide coalitions and works in our office to ensure that community voices are heard. she is a great candidate for the eastern neighborhood citizens advisory committee because of her organizing work in the neighborhoods and because of her personal experience growing up in this neighborhoods. thank you. >> great. thank you. any

questions? any comments? seeing none let's move to public comment. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 3? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues can i entertain a motion on item number 3 please? please? supervisor yee. >> i will go ahead and make a motion to appoint -- >> recommend. >> recommend appointing the three applicants to the three seats, keith goldstein seat one, irma lewis to seat two and roshann pressman to seat nine of the eastern neighborhood citizens advisory committee. >> second. >> great. without objection that item will be ordered. [gavel] thank you mr. clerk please call item 4. >> item 4 say hearing consider appointing five problems to the market and octavia community advisory committee. there are five seats and five applicants. >> are there any of the

applicants here? i don't think so. so thank you mr. clerk. unless there is any initial comments from the committee let's hear from ms. andrea nelson from the planning department and staff for the committee and here to speak on behalf of all five applicants and all seeking to to be reappointed. please proceed. >> thank you supervisors. i am the manager for the market and octavia crackand we have -- -- cac and we have five members up and mohammed soriano-bilal was raised in the western edition hayes valley neighborhood and worked for 25 years working with under represented communities in san francisco and around the country and the executive director of the african-american art and culture complex one of san francisco cultural centers. paul olsen is -- has been a member of the market and octavia

cac for many years. he also was greatly involved in the process that was better neighborhoods in 2000 and became the market and octavia plan. he's been involved in non-profit work for over two decades working with organizations that support low income families and emphasis on education and joshua marker is a member for the past two and a half years and a only owner within that portion of the market and octavia plan and a parent of two young children and the only member of the cac that lives in district 6 so he represents that community. beyond that the membership in the cac he's active with the brady street neighbors and volunteered around the city and larkin street services and

project homeless connect. krute singa is in the market and octavia and her background has the skills and elevate -- sorry, e.d the market and octavia concepts and challenges and a native san franciscan and rented an apartment for the past 12 years and lastly jason henderson is serving as the chair of the cac and long-term renter and member of the hayes valley neighborhood soanchtz he's a professor of geography and research and teaching and land use and he has the knowledge of city-wide issues in san francisco neighborhood issues in the market and octavia cac and that concludes my -- >> great. so i have a couple of questions. how long you have been a staffer for this particular planned area. >> i have been managing the

cac for the last year and a half and been with the department -- >> how long does the market and octavia plan have to go in terms of implementation? i know it's been a long process. >> yeah, it's a great question. it's hard to evaluate it in terms of years i guess but we still have a significant -- >> how many more parcels? >> oh how many more parcels -- >> no you said in terms of years but are there parcels that haven't been sold or developed? what is the long-term goal of the planned area? >> yeah unfortunately we have two staff members assigned to this so i manage the logist iblgs and and they get the staff they need for the projects but we have another member that is assigned to the epic that maybe matt can speak to. >> hi. matt snyder of planning department staff. i staff the eastern neighborhood citizens advisory committee. i

can tell you our area plans don't generally have a fixed number of sites: we generally give them a 20 year time frame but it's not if we have identified identify absolutely every parcel developed. we do the rezoning and land use policies and then development happens. >> okay. any questions colleagues? no. okay. seeing none let's move to public comment. are there any members of the public wishing to comment on item 4? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] any additional comments or questions? great. so may i entertain a motion on this item? >> yes, i move to appoint the five applicants to the market and octavia cac market

community advisory committee. >> i think we need to call the names or no? >> no mr. chair we don't need to call the name it is because they're stated on the agenda. >> so it's with full recommendation to the board. without objection that item is moved. thank you. [gavel] so on the last item, item 5 colleagues before we continue i have to excuse myself per the government code. >> i make a motion to excuse -- >> all right. >> i second. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you. >> bye. >> madam chair would you like to call the item. >> okay. i call the item of appointing -- >> are so madam chair would you like me to call the item? >> yeah, because i don't know what i am doing. that would be great. >> item 5 is a hearing to consider appointing one member of the board of supervisors to the san francisco international airport community roundtable. we're in a receipt of a memo from the clerk of the board

that supervisor safai would like to be appointed to this body? >> okay. i make a motion -- oh is there any comment from the colleague? >> no. you might need to ask if there is about public comment? >> is there any public comment? no public comment. public comment is closed. would you like to make a motion supervisor yee? >> well, i have to consider this -- >> i know. >> yeah. well, okay, okay. i will make a motion to recommend that we appoint supervisor safai to the san francisco international airport community roundtable. >> and i think i will second that. thanks so we send with a full recommendation -- positive recommendation to the full board. >> thank you madam chair. and we have no more items. thank you very much.

>> we are adjourned >> immigrant rights commission meeting and special hearing on impacts of federal policies and immigration executive orders on immigrant and communities. my name is kennelly chair the commission and delighted to see so many here this afternoon. at this point i like to call the meeting to order. i would

like to welcome commissioners and members the public to this special hearing. we will attend to a few business items first then starting the special hearing on the impacts of federal policies and immigration executive order. we also like to welcome the newest member the commission, mrs. roy. we are delighted to have you for your first commission meeting. recently appointed by the board of supervisors. welcome. we look forward to your par tisitation and leadership with the commission and it is very special this is your first meeting. copal housekeeping items before we begin. cell phone silenced please. invited speakers will be given 3 minutes to provide testimony. members the public receive 2 minutes. there will be a bell that will sound ot30 seconds on the count down to zero and when

your time is up there will be a double bell so ask you to please work within the parameter oz thf timelines. we are excited we have wonderful attendance this afternoon. we have a lot of good information and testimony to get through and want to be fair across dh board with everybody. at this point, will the clerk call the roll? >> fuentes, present. chair quenelley, here. commissioner kong. commissioner maldanado, here. vice chair pause, here. commissioner romanenko, here.

commissioner roy, here. commissioner wang is excused and commissioner wong, here. the commission has a quorum. >> thank you, clerk. our first item of business is approval of the minutes from the march 13, 2017 full commission annual planning retreat. any corrections or edit tooz the minutes, colleagues? if you have not yet had a moment to look at them, they are in your packets. hearing no question

or ed lts, a motion to approve the minutes of march 13, 2017? >> so moved. >> thank you, commissioner. do i have a second? >> sec. >> commissioner wang. all those in favor? >> aye. >> the motion passes unanimously. >> if you speak into your micro phones, make sure they are in front of your--thank you. >> thank you. so, our next action item is approval the amendments to the bylaws. commissioners at the last meeting on march 13, the commission approved minute to the irc bylaws but a few typo squz couple formatting errors were identified so this item is up for approval again this

evening. the amended bylaws are in your packet. again, are there any questions about the edits to the amendsed bylaws and thank you to commissioner romanenko. we know the editing was your skill, thank you for bringing it to the floor. so, do we have any questions or comments on the bylaws as presented? hearing none, is there a motion to approve the edits to the amened bylaws? >> i like to make a motion to approve the amendments. >> thank you. is there a second? >> second. >> commissioner maldonado. all those in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? hearing none, the motion passes. thank you all colleagues. the next item on the agenda is staff updates. beginning with we will be

addressing our commission planning our anniversary event and our may 8 full commissioner meeting. director kong will provide update oznen anniversary event and meeting. >> thank you, chair. commissioners, just two very quick items. planning for the irc 20th anniversary we will contact you and have to notice the meeting and some of you have already signed up to be on the committee, but if you have a interest serving on the anniversary committee please see staff after the meeting. we are targeting june 12, 2017 to celebrate and looking now at venueseter at the board memorial city hall or nearby venue. we will be in touch. i believe commissioner fuji signed up for that committee. and then on the neighborhood

meeting, you had asked staff to follow up. we made request to the district 9 supervisors office to partner with the irc for may 8, 2017 full commission meeting. this is a neighborhood meeting scheduled to be in district 9 and we will confirm that with the executive committee as soon as we heard back from the supervisors office. if yoi have questions please see staff. >> thank you, director. any questions or comments on either of those events? nope. commissioner fuge e, thanks for signing frup the anniversary planning committee. i encourage any other commissioners-this is a big year celebrating 20 years of service and looking forward to recognizing this 20 years in june and looking forward to participation with some of the city leadership also. our elected officials and hopefully or mayor. so, we look forward

to that. at this point, we shall move on to begin the special hearing on impacts of federal policies and immigration executive orders on immigrants and communities. please notion the session is sell vised. if you wish to be speaked but not wish to be televised notify the clerk jamie prier to speaking and sfgov will do a wide angle shot as such. if you need language assistance we have interprets on site for chinese and spanish which were requested in advance. since the election and the start of new presidential administration we in san francisco and many other jurisdictions arounds the country have been disappointed and shauckd by thuproach of level and negativity at the law biding immigrants low income communities and immigrants.

the immigrants right commission will not stand for mistreatment and disrespect of our people who face unthinkable hardships barrier jz challenges while seeking the opportunities to be special lives for them sevl jz families. we are all americans who seek the same thing, safety, freedom, opportunity, and the ability to thrive and con tribute back to society. so, on behalf of commissioner we thank you community service provider jz members who came tonight share storys. you are truly our inspiration. we will begin with invited testimony from community service organizations and experts and this will be fallowed by community members. if you have not already done so please fill out the green speaker cards. melissa is holding one up. if you would like to speak and hand those to staff and you will be called in order of submission. vice chair paz

will cofacilitate with me from this part on. we will call 5 names at a time, so please line up or ready to come the the podium when your name is called and please identify yourself by saying your name before speaking. so, we are going to begin our first five are, odd reyamo moteo from asian pacific fund. loranya [inaudible] from safe action bay area. eliseia [inaudible] from advances justice asian law caucus. [inaudible] and sam moss from mission housing. and carla larsson [inaudible] from lurosamunity resource center. i apologize if i mispronounced your name and stand to be corrected. mrs. yam moteo welcome and thank you for joining us.

>> thank you for having me and you pronounced my name correctly. audrey yom motto and delighted to represent the asian pacific fund. a community foundation dedicated to improving lives of asian pacific islanders. we distriblted 1.3 mill-in in grants and scholarships and feel it is important for the commission to be aware of the unique needs of the api community often hidden from view given the portrayal of the model minorities. 4 out of 5 ethnic gripes with highest poverty is api. have the highest percentage of subsidized housing in san francisco is qu 27 percent have less than high school education. while we are the fastest growing racial gruch less than 1 percent of foundation funding in the bay area goes toward organizations serving our asian communeny. now more than ever we need advocates like all you

committed to insuring the immigrant communities have access >> student support and opportunities. a few key concerns for those who we serve for you to keep in mind during the times of uncertainty are first the impact of severe funding cuts. the scarsty offunding is always a concern of nearly ever non-profit the implication of the budget cuts and executive orders creates anxiety. doing what you can to protect funding for san francisco non-profit community is vital and as a step sharing any information becoming available will help non-profits understand the true impact on programs and services. second, looking for ways to step up civic engagement. last month the fund impartnership hosted convening for 70 executive director and partners thrivejug surviving in the new political realty. a common thread is

increase the ult to mobilize and advocate. know the api community is motivated now more than ever to come together and fight and be heard. finally thrrks is a concern from our youth to continue to commitment for justice and equality. through the signature program called growing up unasian american we receive 500 entries from k-12 stud rnts across the bay-air eye in response to had theme, letter to the senator. this is in celebration of comluharris as the first inian american elected. it is clear our youth are concerned about justice and equality which is captured in a quote from a 12 glaird. we claim to achieve equality, however, while the progress is admirable the journey towards justice is long and ard ws and still a work in progress. i look forward to tat day know is in our future, a day our radiance is unmarred

by injustice rfx the day we as a country can stand together indivisible and invincible. the asian pacific fund is resource as you navigate the uncertain types invincible. >> thank you very much for your testimony. what we will do commissioners, we are going to invite questions of our invited speakers after i'm hoping people can stay. i like to leave us go through the first 10 speaker jz open to questions if people have questions for individuals. if speakers if you can let us know if you need to leave just in case any the commissioners have questions for you, please, do so. we want to have a opportunity to engage with you and further develop the conversation. our next speaker is lorana [inaudible]

>> good afternoon. my name is loranya [inaudible] and it is a honor to be here in front of you. i want to thank you for this time and making space for our community to speak about what is happening right now. i work for faith and action bay area. we are part the network and are the biggest national organization that does interfaith organizing. we are in about 22 states and have many many congregations that are members and here in san francisco we are faith in action. i also work as a coordinator for the archdiocese of san francisco's human life and dignity department and so we have been trying to figure what is the correct response so we can do a congregations of different faiths and as the

archdiocese to respond what is happening right now. what we have seen and i have been working on immigrant rights for 15, 16 years doing know your rights and connecting people to resources. we have done that, but what we are seeing now that is different than before is it isn't just the people are anxious or nuvs nervous or confused, the fear turned into panic and literally it is not just the pairpts parents also the children . in our congregation serve immigrant people especially latino, filipino is what we see more in our catholic congregations the story ez from the parent isn't just what they are thinking but what will hap toon my child if i'm detained. when we do had know your rights trainings what

happens if immigration comes to the door or where can i apply for my papers but the number one question now is where is the affidavit of care? what do i do if they come to my door and what will happen to my child. we see kids crying and parents iis aing tell my child it will be okay. not just as a personal work in the community but as a mother i think what we are seeing right now is beyond any of our experience in the past. it will require something more than just the usual kind of response where we have the agency squz the service and legal providers, we need all that, but we also need to create spaces where we proclaim that the city and this county stand with immigrants and not just the city but the whole community and that's why

we not open our congregation to do your know your rights and defend your rights former in collaboration with city and community agencies to do it but decided we open up space for citizens who are not target for immigration to use this energy, this outrage they are showing about the current situation and leaning to the moment and figure ways in which they are act. in all the years doing immigrant rights work i have never seen the response that we are seeing now from the non immigrant community. i think that's what we have been trying to do the most and think what we are building here in san francisco can be a model for the rest the unt country. not just what a sanctuary congregation is or sanctuary city is but what it looks to be

as a sngerary as a people. we invested a lot of time training people regular folks from san francisco to be the rapid responders or work wg the san francisco immigrant legal education network hot line so the people that verify when somebody calls there is a raid somewhere. the first responders that are coming within two minutes are actually regular folks from the community trained so we are creating a space for people not just leave to the agencies or the city but how do we as people in a city can also be the sanctuary. the other thing that we are training peep to do is become what we call a [inaudible] teams, but congregation and by neighborhoods for people to basically be trained to go to court, go to the ice check-ins,

to become familiarized with the family that is either has somebody detained or somebody going through a deportitation so they don't have to go alone. if they need money for rent we don't have to tap all the resources but can contribute toort to figure how to help a family. i just wanted to share that because i think the model we are creating in san francisco will be useful for the rest the country in making a different call that is not just about passing legislation which is very important, but also about how do we as people who have been-are not targeted right now need to stand up and not stand on the side' lines when people are in fear. it is the only way our children need to see squus see citizens proclaiming we are in fact a sanctuary and that is just not a law that stands on a piece of

paper but something we have to live into. so, today for example we went to court with two individuals and then we went to ice check-in. the saddest part of this is most the people walking into the court rooms and they are walking into the ice office, they don't have representation. here in san francisco we have this wonderful model where we represent people either by locost or no cost but the rest the bay area comes to san francisco to receive services and there isn't. we have one or two families and the rest the families walk without representation so encourage us-we are building the model of what a city should look like, what a county should be doing but spread the good news and figure out how to encourage other cities and other counties to do the same and to learn from us. so, thank you so much

for everything and i hope that everything that we build here can not only stay in san francisco but it goes around the nation. thank you very much. >> thank you lorana. i think you are right and we are seeing a very different scenario this time. i think our broader community is feeling the impact, it isn't just our immigrant communities and thank you for the work and trainings you are doing. if there are any people or community groups in the audience who have congregations and community groups who have just people that want to come together do speak with lorana but the know your rights trainings and about the-i forgot the name of the second training, the know your rights training and rapid response, that is my word. thank you. trainings being done. they have had phenomenal attendance with hundreds and hundreds of people attending in

pariss across the city and bay area and encourage any members in the community to attend thmpt next invited speaker is eliseia [inaudible] well when. advancing justice asian law caucus. >> good afternoon. thank you so much commissioners for holding this incredibly important hearing and for your leadership on immigrant rights during these really critical times. my name is aleaka vusay a resident of san francisco. a attorney at advancing justice asian law caucus where we represent asian pacific island rb communities but middle eastern. i am aronian american a daughter of iron immigrant and on the ironian bar association. asian law caucus and council on islamic

relations two hours after the executive order we had client pouring into our office talking about individuals who were stuck abroad making transfers and on route to sfo when the executive orderive signed. since then we had over 40 cases at sfo where individuals have been impacted and we are representing them. those cases range from a elderly ironian couple with valid visas. green card holders watched by over 6 cbp officer whz they were detained and countless yemen ironian syrian families who are here waiting for the visa of the children and family abroad to be grant today be unified. we provided over a dozen know your rights at local mosques in the two to three weeks that

preceding the executive order and part of rapid response teams. the impact on the communities as this executive order are deep and still felt despite the fact that this executive order is put on pause not resolved or deemed unconstitutional by litigationment we see visa holder and green card holders and united states citizens that have a significant amount of fear and anxiety about whether they should travel and how to live their lives fully under the current policies. they don't know if they should travel abroad to visit termally ill relatives or not. they dopet know if family members vizas will go through despite years of already going through a extreme application process. and they have to make these choices about whether to travel abroad or not. the ironian

american bar association. we know to know your rights and need to understand middle east muslim issueerize not just national security they rimgrant rights issues. these communities are predominantly immigrant in the bay area and should be fully addressed and have relationship with the commission. asian law caucus in support with other organizations are working to pass sb fiver 4, the state-wide legislation which is one of the most pro-immigrant and curtails immigrant enforcement from going to libraries and courthouses and so urge the commission to adopt a resolution urging the california legislature and governor to pass sb 54. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. our next speaker if i can get my

cards back in order, will be kiera balk tuand sam moss from mission housing. gentlemen, welcome. >> thank you. got a powerpoint for you. >> excellent. i like you are wearing your giants themeed immigrant rights t shirt. >> [inaudible] buildings last january. the notice tells officer they must get clearance from the corporate office before entering the property even if they have a search warrant. >> it isn't our inteengz restrict or withhold any acsss to our building t. is our intention to protect our tin tonight the maximum of our capacity. >> mission housing would verify each warrant with a lawyer, the

agency runs 35 affordable housing buildings in the city. >> good afternoon, thank you for having us today. i want to first say that when that incident happened january 26, mission housing first thought was for the safety of our tenants and the surrounding neighborhood and we are here today to share the actions we took after the incident to insure that safety. >> so, the number one step we took when this happened is immediately have a conversation with lulasa [inaudible] which is in our building to set up a know your rights training for our staff as well as staff for management which manages a lot of affordable housing buildings and also to get our staff who ever the resident of san francisco to get on the rapid response network and to make sure we are involved in what is happening. we also had set up

workshops and know your rights trainings for our residents. we have done 7 buildings so far and we have been trained by sf [inaudible] to give the trainings to our residents. we also ordered red cards for every single one of our resident to have on them. we also then went and created our own mission housing know your rights brochures and were very intentional not just passing out other organizations we wanted one with our logo so resident have the piece of mind our organization is backing up their protection in the buildings. >> from there, we worked with lurosa and aclu to create signs that they mention in the piece that we put in front of every one of build ings. the sign says no one on site has the legal authority to authorize entry or verify entry document

law enforcement may bring. they have to bring it to the corporate office and i myself as executive drether have to be there are legal council. the last thing is board of directors voted to set aside $40 thousand for the mission housing family stabilization fund and essentially if any of our residents or any the surrounding mission neighborhood if a bread winner or anyone else is negatively effect bide ice or detained we want to set aside funds to help with things likeerant or groceries or diapers or anything else that may we necessary while the family is going through that ordeal. to close, i really just want to say thank you again for having us and that as we said before, the safety of the resident and surrounding neighbor is paraminute and anything mission housing can do to insure the safety or anyone has further

questions or if sthra organization that may be wants to know how to take similar actions to protect the constituent reach out to mission housing and we want to help. >> we also have brochures here in english, spanish and chinese if anyone on the commission or public would like them, we brought a big stack. &thank you. >> thank you very much. thank frz the video presentation and share thg brochures. members of the public if you want to receive one of these there are copies and sure the guys have some to share so please do so. our next speaker is carla lars son santos from lurosa community resource center. >> good afternoon. my nake is carl larsson sauntose, the immigration program coordinator and attorney at lurosa community resource center. we

are a-we immigration consultations every month and have hundreds of clients who are members of immigrant communities in the san francisco bay area. we provide affirmative and defensive immigration service and wide raisk of social services and we have been serviceing the community for over 40 years, so for many san francisco immigrant particularly in the latino community and in the mission we are first point of contact for legal questions. so thank you for inviting us to speak and i will shay shaur of the fears we encountered among the community members we serve. a main issue of concern is around the travel ban. there is a great deal of confusion about this and anxiety that transsends the limitations of the aquil travel ban that the federal government has tried to put into place. immigrants

from all countries seem to be worried about travel regardless of their immigration status. we are seeing lawful permanent resident from countries not named in the ban expressing fear and apprehension traveling for brief travel and emergencies and this has impact in their lives as people are opting not to travel. we have seen a lot of fear aroupd submitting applications for immigration benefits and applying for record requests and this is having a chilling effect on immigrants asserting their legal rights. one of the most disturbing fears that we have seen is arounds public benefits. the federal government threaten-i think there fs a exectchb ive order around means tested benefits and our clients are talking about canceling their benefits,

about not applying for benefits when they are eligible and there is a great deal of confusion about who this will effect and there are so many vague statements from had federal government that this is having a really broad chilling effect around the people who need tees benefits the most. there is a great deal of fear very real fear about reporting to immigration for people who are under immigration ice supervision and going to court whether if is immigration court hearings, family court hearings, any type of court hearings. this is also preventing people asserting their rights. so, it is difficult to allay the fear squz so much earn certainty. we are doing what we can work wg our partners with sf island and other non-profit partners on the rapid response initiative and we are setting

up forums and informing people what they can do for family preparedness and planning for the worst but i appreciate what [inaudible] about the importance of everyone playing a roll to support and defend the bay area immigrant communities and hope the immigrant rights commission can play a leadership roll during the challenging time. thank you and i have to leave at 5, so i appreciate any questions before then. >> very timely comment from you because vice chair and i decided we will take a break for questions at this point so the initial speakers can have a opportunity to go if you need to. i know people have kids to pick up and take care with school being off. firstly, thank you all for the testimony. i think it never ceases to amaze me the range and issues that come to the commission at varying times but never so more than now and

issues concerning the wide gamut and thank you for breaking that down in order of concern within the community you are serving. commissioners, are there any of you that have any questions you like to ask of our initial speakers? i will open the floor to you all at that point. commissioner wang. >> i have a question for yamamoto. >> would you mind moving the microphone closer? you can pull it toward you if you like. >> i wanted to ask you that what is the assessment of how well or poorly are those organizations work together? for example, if there are any kind of essential housing for

the information and its [inaudible] to the advocacy organizations. >> can you repeat the question around-how well who is working together? the different non-profits? >> yes, numerous organizations. >> the numerous organizations? >> right. >> i would say that we are organization at the asian pacific fund sense folks want to collaborate and find ways to work together particularly around civic engagement and some the grant are supporting that work but it definite takes funding. i think a great modfrl effective collaboration is one that-deeply involved in which is san francisco pathway tooz citizenship which brought together a group of 5 or 6 non-profits working together to move the needle on those

wanting and ready to become citizens in san francisco eligible to do so. i think with the right funding partners in place because collaboration takes time above and beyaunds the core work and the right martners and leadership in place we have self help for the elderly and grateful annie chun is the lead organization and know there are folks here around the table involved with it but that is a great model to look to in terms of how to create something that works for non-profits to collaborate more effectively. >> thank you. >> mr. yamo moto, you mentioned you are doing work with youth and one of the issues they are really-focused on is justice and inequality. can you talk more about like how you engage that you live in schools or after school programs? >> great question. for us it really is just one touch point

around our growing up asian america art video contist for the month of may in celebration of apa heritage month so that where over the 500 entries received a very common theme you see from their particularly from the essays is their concern arounds justice and equality and gives me hope for the next generation holding on to those value frz us. then we work with numerous non-profits here in san francisco and throughout the bay area that work with youth throughout the year, so think you will laer from cyc, sarah wong, so work with grants with the organizations that work with youth on a ongoing basis. >> commissioner maldanado. >> please, go ahead. >> this question is for lorena.

i trusting you can help us think through something that you said that i know in my heart to it to be true and also the team i work with every day know it's true and that is, the fact people living outside san francisco are lacking so much support and so many resources. and they come to us [inaudible] and nothing much you can do. so, if you have ideas how this can be solved, or what suggestions do you have we can look towards serving in the future. >> so, something that could be useful especially for the

immigrant rights commission revologing the relationships we have in our position in san francisco right now in this moment is for counties like san mateo county, contra costa county, that i think need additional help in figuring out ways in which to support the immigrant families is if there could be meetings with either the board of supervisors from the conties or different cities to try to do figure how to leverage. if they can put-for example, and this is something i organize also son mateo county and marin, but the board of supervisors in son mateo is talking about a legal and education fund what it will be like if the cities or counties got together and had a more

collective response since a lot of immigration courts are here in san francisco so people have to come here, so figuring out is there pots of money that can be used and collaborated together so people have the resources available. the realty is most people who don't live in san francisco are not being represented and we know what that means for those families. i also know that sf island the folks [inaudible] everybody is stretching themselves to try to figure how to service everyone, but there is only so much we can do, so that is one idea. >> thank you. >> thank you, lorena. vise chair paz. >> i have questions related to the travel ban. to aleaka and carl from larosa community center. i believe

lukeeka-thank you. i think you mentioned of the fear and also confusion that is promoted on travel ban. what do you fear the erflts and strategies the city can engage in to allev this and address it because we know it is a real issue. >> part the challenge is somewhat beyaupd our hands rchlt when you have litigation that is changing the law, week by week, that part is very difficult. one thing that we found helpful is providing space frz community based organizations to come in and do know your rights and have arabic and farcy speakers there creating that space for xoe your rights is huge. also several of the cultural based community organizations we put out know your rights updates in farcy and arabic helping

amplify the updates and helping amplify the know your rights would be helpful as well. but i think as the litigation comes down, having a space to check in again so for example, if god forbid the pause is lifted and fl isn't injungz and moved forward, having a space to come together quickly and do roped response is incredibly important. >> thank you. i think this who issue has brought to light the fact there is a lot of ignoreance in the immigrant community about what the legal contours are of individuals rights to travel and that is rightly so because it is extraordinary complicated and absecure and it's difficult often for attorneys to understand exactly when and how

someone should travel and who is eligible and who isn't. i think it is important that we create these spaces not just to inform folks of who may be effected by this ban, but also what it does want do and who isn't effected by it and take that opportunity to share with folks what exactly they can and can't do because i know in our work we encountered people who due to lack of understanding of their rights as a lawful permanent resident jeopardized their status trabling in ways they thought were okay and so it's a important issue that has come to light even further because of this ban. >> one last thing to add. part the challenge othf fear is we had immigration programs in the past like the national security entry exist registration system

that started with 5 countries and went up to 25, so part of this concern is like, pakistan americans, iraqy americans like we know that it could be expanded beyond the 25 countries. the real concern is united states sit citizen feeling they have to travel the pass ports. that to me signals a level of fear, but i don't think it's ignorant for immigrant communities from other middle eastern south asian community to be fearful they may be added to the list. >> thank you very much. >> one question i have for you, i see reports on the national scale about u.s. citizens from those countries caught up when they are reentering, are we seeing much of this locally? >> locally there is a great rapid response team that is a number of organizations one alc

care monitoring sfo and know the sfo cumanner is fantastic working with us so that line of communication is going through and we are monitoring, but right now we are focused on the know your rights piece and getting prepared for whatever variation can come down based othen litigation. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i first have a comment. thank you to all the speaker thus far for your informative presentation squz all the work you do. my first question is for mission housing for sam and [inaudible] you mentioned you have signs in the front of your housing communities that say that we are unable to allow entry or verify the authenticity of legal documents. i think that is a great idea and like to know if that is adopted by other housing organizations and if not how with can we involved to make sure it happens?

>> great question. a couple mission base non-profit affordable housing and other similar organizations have reached out and asked if we can help them with the signs and we are happy to help with anyone. if anyone wants to adapt our sign, which we really wrote to not be so much affordable housing owners specific as property owner specific or restaurant-it is anything that has a premises with someone who may need to verify a document and we did that in the hopes the larger community would respond well and want our help passing those out. our website has my and [inaudible] contact information thmpt famplets have our direct contact information and if anyone wants to reach out we are happy to go to your office and talk on a conference call or e-mail and what not and the letter is in amendable

form, so we can help with that. >> the sign is also on our website in pdf form as well. >> great. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you and thank you commissionersism we are going to move to our next 5 speakers. commissioner paz if you can call the names. >> i'll call the names and like to reminds members the community if you are interested providing testimony or speaking today pick up a green card and give it to the clerk. thank you very much. i'll call the next 5 speakers. [inaudible] from the filipino senior resource center. [inaudible] larosa. [inaudible] larosa community resource center. [inaudible] i hope i got that correctly and apologize. asian women shelter and ang leana from san francisco unified school district. please step

forward. >> good afternoon. [inaudible] executive drether of the filipino senior resource center in south of market located at 9 [inaudible] mission street and also the cochair of api community partnership. the api community partnership is a group of 35 agencies for seniors and disabled adults. [inaudible] we are providing servicess to filipino and filipino american seniors and their families and filipino breast cancer clients and survivors. today i'm here to share with you what has been happening in our community. our seniors and families are scared and anxious. every since january some of our seniors have not attended our

programs. they don't want to go out of their homes and the children and the grandchildren are also afraid to go to schools. our breast cancer clients are hesitant to go to hospitals to go for treatments. what we have done so far is we have organized-we collaborated with several filipino non-profit agencies in san francisco, namely, [inaudible] equity cancer [inaudible] filipino community center and we have done outreach and trainings to our full peeno communities about the go your rights. we have been giving cards and we have organized community meetings and church meetings. we have actually prepared and distributed brochures in tugolic and english but we need your

support. we want to inform our community that san francisco is a safe place for them and we cannot do it alone. our community members also need to go where do they go? what are the safe places here in san francisco? thank you for inviting me today. >> thank you. [inaudible] rodriguez. >> [speaking spanish]

>> we will take a brief pause. we will have our interpreter. good to see you. >> [speaking spanish] >> we have so many-we have great need. i always talk to my child and and i see through him all the need for the city in regard to education and

health and housing. i want to talk now about education. [speaking spanish, waiting for translation] for example, in education let's take for example math classes, we have seen issues. there is a difference in the system. we node need more school staff,

-so, we need more school staff to form the kid arifening that are new to the area like math for example. i also wanted to talk about housing. housing in san francisco is really expensive. and i would like to see more projects and grants to be able to apply low housing for low income people. in regards to workforce, we don't have many opportunities.

especially for those just arrived to the city and that are undocumented people. so, they don't have a very easy path like they may have a great capacity to learn and work, but if they don't have documents or papers they cannot access to this workforce. and what is happening is, i'm a volp tear in volunteer in the organization. and i every day you listen about cases of families leaving san francisco and moving into oakland or some

other cities, surrounding cities. you see that most the families are very worried and don't want to back to the organization even if we offer lots of free services and support for these families. and one of the reasons they cannot come back to our organization is because they are not living here anymore, they are live in a different city so are not able to apply for these programs and resources. so, my question

here is, what are-is there any possibility you can help us as a organization and families to be able to access these resources and programs or offer them independently of where these families are living? just like docka for example, it doesn't matter where you live, you can still access and apply to it. that's all i wanted to say. >> thank you. next speaker is [inaudible] gomez. >> good afternoon. [inaudible]

gomez and a social worker family advocate at lalos rosa community resource. we have seen a big increase in clients who need assistance navigating the social services system. not only because the complexity of the system, but because of a growing fear. even though we are a sankerary city many don't understand what this means. mony fear applying for benefits such as medi-cal, wick and food pantries. we have a food pantry and serve over 130 people a week and that's every day people are apply for the food pantry but even then they ask are you sure where it coming from, is it federal funding and sure i want tew ply, i don't want to give my information why do you ask for the information and we ask minimal information but people are so fearful a food pantry is

a fearful think to apply for so imagine what that mean frz families that need the food. they fear applying it may impact them negatively and believe many preechbious speakers addressed that issue that benefits that are not issues of in the past have become something very scary for people to apply. applying for a drivers license and san francisco id which is critical document for immigrant communities to have if they are stopped by ice or the police people are fearful coming to city hall. that is how fearful they are. my role as a advocate and social work squr believe as many colleagues here is educate our families and lesson-i can't be in their shoes but trying to lesson the fear and educate them that certain things yes you shouldn't apply because of x, y and z. case by case situation,

but a lot of the programs are still okay to apply and shouldn't be afraid to apply for those services. others are fearful going to other cities that are not necessarily sanctuary cities even though some may or may not understand what a sanctuary city is they get it is a good thing, so for city they are not sure they are a sanctuary city they are fearful of going out on vacation. i had a clunt who called and said my daughter is on vacation, i think last week and we want to go to the board work in santa cruz, will i have problems? my husband says maybe we shouldn't go. we shouldvent to live in fear we will bedetained on vacation or applying for serbs. we have seen a demand about gardenership for our children in case a undocumented parent is tained ordeported. what will happen to my child if i am

detained or deported is what we are asking and larosa will host forums to address the issue. more than ever the importance of continued support the immigrant community is critical. thank you so much. >> thank you. may i am vite now [inaudible] i hope i got your name right, if not please correct me. >> my name is [inaudible] from the asian womens shelter. a arab woman service coordinator. let's see--so, i am here to speak about the domestic violence survivors because that rr the people we work with and also sexual assault survivors and trafficking. immigration has always be a form of foreign control used by abusers but now it is getting worse. it is

reinforced by the government so our clients are very afraid. they are afraid for the safety and afraid it go to court hearings for their custody and divorce cases and then they are dealing-getting penalized because of that. they are getting their kids taken away. last week we got a caller a person has a student visa and afraid to leave because the fear of deportation, so that's on the rise and her partner has been using trump as a technique now. also i'm a arab and muslim woman service coordinator and so i hold support groups for women in the

tenderloin and also any muslim women in the tenderloin and give skill building classes and many of them are afraid to call the law enforcement when their abuseers are at the door steps because we tell them to call when they have a restraining order. now they are not calling, they are just letting it happen and a lot are in danger. also, my clients-my arab clients formed their own networks on their own and a lot of the nrflgz information they have are not correct when we check in with them. we give them resources but they do not trust that the police department in san francisco will protect them, so they have their own information that they circulate, so we need accessible and accurate information that we can give

our clients and how-somehow we need to build trust with the sfpd. i brought brochures here. i can't stay long but brought brochures and will leave them to the side. thank you. >> thank you. >> our next batch of speakers i will open to commissioners to is can any questions. i'm going to take three maximum of four questions just keeping an eye on time. fellow commissioners do and have questions? >> for the speakers? >> for the speakers, yes. >> this group of speakers talked a lot about their clients or the constituency being afraid to apply for benefits or even show up to court dates and the like and wanted to hear from them or any of the other agencies here have

there been specific incidences where your clients have seen or known somebody who was taken because they applied for a benefit or went public with something? just trying to gauge the fear. there is the general fear, we all know what is happening in the world but wonder if your constituency are seeing it on the grounds like around them because i haven't been hearing that as much so just want to know if that is happening. >> please introduce yourself. thank you. >> i'm going to come back and my name is [inaudible] with the african [inaudible] network. actually there is always confusion in the minds of our community members certainly making the-back in the days between what it is to be a [inaudible] and then take advantage of the services that

are offered. so, that has been going on for quite some time so there is this work of education going on and then we have a new measure and that have come to adapt. so, if isn't something new but say that [inaudible] just worsened and now people are afraid of everything and also someone talked about it--there is the rumors in the community like what people are saying to each other and speaking specifically about african immigrant, when you have immigrants that are from a [inaudible] culture so the only thing [inaudible] talking to each other. most of the time with the-[inaudible] they don't have time to watch the news because they get home late so i think this is definitely something to be worked on and some work of study needs to be done in order to describe the

situation and subsequent come up with some solution. >> thank you. >> thank you. one comment that i have and it is something that comes up again and again when we take immigrant testimony, is anecdotal versus, fact based. we get a lot of anecdotal testimony but the head counts very auch make it easier for us to understand and realize the impact. i know it is a challenge for services providers to have our community come forward and say what the problems are and the issues are, but it certainly is something i would like to throw out to community groups to service providers as to how we can build this bank of knowledge of how the immigrant community is being effected with specifics. we are all in

a non-profit world and you know from a funding perspective your funder will turn and and what about your head count. what is your percentage increase. just if we could start to think collectively and collaboratively as to how we can build this bank of information and knowledge, i see a lot of nodding heads. it is hard to do but think it is something and as we speak with elected officials in the city, it is something they want to knee know also is how we quantify this. we know anecdotally what the fears are, we can feel it, i can hear it in everything that you have said. the one word if we did a word count the one word that kept coming up is fear so if we think collectively and collaboratively how to account

the fear and use in the presentations going forward. any other question snz, commissioner snz >> i have xhaument referring to the original 5 speaks for lurana. i love the question you posed, what does it look like to be a sanctuary as a people. as a law student we try to understand our sanctuary city ordinance legally, what rights does it provide for us as citizens but the way you framed it cause us and encourage us to think what it means in a human sense and think that is a great theme going forward how we all as people come together to create this sanctuary to give each other a hand and come together during these times so thank you for that. >> thank you, commissioner. okay. hearing no more questions i will call the last remaining speakers. derek [inaudible] san francisco food

bank. [inaudible] tran from >> united education of san francisco. >> united education of san francisco. [inaudible] from the african advocacy network. [inaudible] who is a community members. aclu. i believe your two grand daughters from quat got malla are joining you. sairing wong from community center and api council. if we can begin with derek. angy, did i miss you? sorry. angalynnea. derek would you

mind? we definitely want to hear from you. so thank you and thanks for your patience. anga leno romony san francisco unified school district. >> i appreciate the time. ang leana romonee school social worker and program coordinator at san francisco unified school district. since so many community members and colleagues spent time talking about the impact on the individual community members and community at large i want to respond time thinking how it is impacting our school staff. primarily the work that i do is coordinating school services with staff so want to focus on that. more than anything what we have seen along with fear and anxiety is distraction. distraction from the already monumental task of educating the city youth and supporting fam laissez. instead of doing

this teachers and school support staff have to spend time coordinating and organizing know your rights events, dissiminating family preparedness tool kits so families are prepared if a lived one is detained, having meetings to discuss how to balance the prnl and professional ethics with legal requirements, and what they might risk to protect the stud ents. amending the protocol for contact with federal agencies in the neighborhood. amending the lock down lock out protocols to possibly include law enforcement. roll plaiz to tell armed federal official tooz go to 555 franklin with their warrant. brainstorming ways to talk to elementary and middle school children about what to do with ace agents knock on it door, ask questions or take a family member away. thinking about ways to support underdocumented families

without asking about their status and making them more vulnerable or fearful. considering whether or not to cancel rr all field trips for fear of raids. consulting with me about legal questions that none of us are qualified to answer nor should we have to answer. for instance, again with public charge. asking me if special education services or free and reduced lunch could qualify as a deportable public charge. while i appreciate that crisis is a opportunity for all of us to learn our constitutional right jz know the staff would spend time educating rather than planning how to defend student against the state. i hope this gives you a small glimps how this is impacting our school squz thank a teacher when you see one. i knew school staff are looking for reassurance and hope the city and stand up and offer that. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> thank you ang leana. derek,

from san francisco marin food bank. >> i want to thank everyone for their time and holding this space. so, again my derek is poll cua outreach worker for san francisco marin food bank. i work for the cal fresh outreach team and so a lot of the things i heard today have rang very true for us especially. if you did knobet cal fresh is the new name for the food program and we are constantly trying to educate the public around public charge and unfochinately in the past 3 months we had to do that a lot more with a very confused public. very confused administration and we really don't know how to respond other than say nothing has changed and please don't drop your benefit because of your fear. these are people who are

working families. they are working and making really well below the federal poverty line, so that in san francisco isn't much. these are people that are putting them sebls at risk by going hungry because they are in fear of getting deported. as others have pointed out, this is a fear that is not grounded in anything that is necessarily true, but in spanish it is called [inaudible] there is a lot of rumors. thrfs the ice agencies that went to good samaritan family resource sent squr that evolved to ice agent went to the womens build{all these non-profits they never went to. just i think moving forward putting as much information together as possible. we need hard data. the human service agency has that information about how many people are disenrolling because

of the fear of cal fresh and how that might effect their citizenship. i would recommend work wg the human services agency. the food security task force also. collaborate with those agencies, those organizations and really put out the real information and defend our citizens. thank you. >> thank you. >> derek, thank you pr your presentation and for that excellent suggestion. ken from united educational san francisco. >> good afternoon commissioner. ken tray from united educators of san francisco. so, i'm here to represent the all most 6500 classroom teachers and school staff including ang leana who did such a great job describing the situation in our schools. on a personal note, i have been a resident of the mission since

1979 and i taught in schools in san francisco since 1985 and i will say while there have been ice raids and immigration issues, we battled racism and poverty and the housing issue, i have never seen a atmosphere of fear and forboding that matches what our kid face in the classroom but also educators everyone from the custodeians to the principles. there is a atmosphere that is real eup to those of us in the labor movement, at city hall and in the school district to step up and back up our immigrant families. right now united educators of san francisco is engaged in a program based around stable, safe and supportive schools. so, a lot of common senseical

ideas behind that having a veteran teacher in the classroom, having a fully staffed school house, reasonable class size, having progressive restorative discipline policies and the like. but that all gets destroyed in the moment that we have a stud ent come into the classroom who's parent disappeared and in a foreign boarder. fear of what the president and federal government is now creating in washington seeps down to the classroom and think anga leana spoke to a lot the specifics going on in the district. i will say that as a teacher and currently the political director of the union, between housing and immigration, i'm learning a whole lot new on the civic landscape of san francisco and teachers are involved in things we never

imagined we would have to as classroom people. so, march 4 at mission high school, 1300 people showed up for a day long training on how to respond to the fears that we have been talking about today and united educators teamed up with bay resistance and other groups to create the training. thrfs a workshop for teachers and educators and over scribed and over flowing and full of the same type of issues we are talking here today. representing teachers and paraeducators, resource folks, social worker squz the like are asking the city that we make sanctuary city a real real meaningful policy program that will sport the kid in our classrooms and help us do the work we need to do. thank you. >> ken, thank you for your testimony. [inaudible] welcome back. nice to see you.

>> thank you. first of all i like [inaudible] you can see sometimes we tend to forget the immigrant communities is extremely diverse let alone racially speaking. particularly about affric immigrants, i will speak about immigrant from africa. i'm from africa network with the only african [inaudible] in the city providing immigration legal sevices to african immigrants and we have [inaudible] we experienced a very different way. what i mean is that whatever the measure you take, will it be against arabs or muslims, african immigrants are impact ed. [inaudible] you going down

subsahara africa, [inaudible] more than 75 percent muslim so by all means we are impacted. so, and also lately we have seen increasing number of african immigrant arriving through the mexican boarder so that creates another load for the work. being the only entity serving a community where there is no community organizing, serbing your community which is voiceless and faceless, so and for us being given the opportunity to speak here and think if [inaudible] gone is the time when people speak about immigrants everybody thought about mex icans and think today everybody says it is about us all. so, there is fear. a example is a family that wnt to

west africa and the american citizens and where got a call from [inaudible] basically before taking the flight back they were asking me if it was safe for them to take a flight back. so, and they waited about a week and i said it is okay, you come, but i guess they needed to talk to more people. so, for us being part of different platforms it goes beyond the african advocacy network so part of san francisco legal immigration network and part of [inaudible] we also mart of san francisco language access network because we are extremly diverse and speak all kind of languages so that is why we [inaudible] french, asian, creol, [inaudible] so, in this new landscape we have to look at

our community [inaudible] first of all, let's not forget why the immigrants are here. so, for someone from a country where you cannot afford to answer a question from a law enforcement agency telling the person you have to right to remain silent isn't obvious because some [inaudible] you can get killed because you refuse to answer such a question. so, we strongly believe educating the community will talk us going back several times to keep repeat thg same information. i was saying a few minutes ago that people rely on word of mouth and so you know to help them correct and even believe you have the right to remain silent that takes a lot. and also another thing that we notice people feel safe at church or place of prayer so been thinking is

there a way that we can-the commission for instance can bring together all the leaders of religious groups, whatever the creed because we think that these are the people talking to the community on a weekly basis so if they are educated and given the basics that they need to include in the sermons so every sunday they repeat the same thing, i think that can be a change because the pastor-they trust the leaders so these are a few things i want today add. it is extremely important we [inaudible] people don't know unthe country. this is totally new, so what means can we-do we need to put out there to get more people about the hot lines. thank you so much for giving me speaking-the opportunity to speak. >> thank you. >> thank you. please know that your community is not voiceless

and not faceless, we are here to stand and support you so we welcome you to testify with us at any commission hearings, we are delighted to have you back. our next speaker is [inaudible] donovan. welcome. >> thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today and speak with you. i appreciate the fact that this commission provides a clearing house and forum for community engagement, literally, and to get clarity on many questions that people in the movement that i'm currently participating in have. i came here because i attended and volunteered for the aclu people of power action event that was initiated at the end of

february. we had a meeting in march nationwide with more than 200 thousand attendees and over 7500 events nationwide. the small group i'm working with here in san francisco there are i believe over 100 of the organizations small individual house party sorts of organizations activist who have enormous amount of energy and desire to help and need the kind of clearing house and connection point that this system and organization provides. so, the specific action items that the acu l people power movement wanted to present both to the police commission and community engagement organizations are the model state and local law enforcement policies and rules. it is my personal view san

francisco subscribes to these and we would like to confirm. the judicial warrant rule, require a warrant prior to obtaining a individual or manner prolonging a individual at request of ice or cbt. now facilitation rule. shall not arrest detain a individual on detainer or administrative document without a judicial warnlts. the defined access interview rule. unless acting pursuant to court order or law enforcement purpose unrelate today the civil ingration law no official permit ice agencyant access to facilities or persons in custody for interview. clear identifycule, ice or cbt is granted access to facilities individuals with whom ice or cbt engage are notified they are speak wg ice

or cbt and they are require today wear duty jacket and make the jackets visible. we have spoken to the police in community meetings and understand the sheriffs are the folks with most the connection with this particular issue because they are folks responsible for custody and detention so like to bring that to your attention. i realize that you are very busy but have a couple more points i hike to mention. one is that, we are very interested in the possibility of whether this rapid response hot line is expanding to other counties and going to interact with the folks who business cards and documentation i received here today. the other is that these are my grandchildren. they are 16 and 12. they are documented, but they have family members and friend who are not and in other communities it makes a

difference what you all are doing and what the folks and all these agencyerize doing, so i'm very very appreciative of that on a very personal level. from a different perspective i worked for immigration for 11 years in the 1980 and in the legalization program for 5 the years known as amnesty. i'm hopeful that the opportunity for communication and understanding and moving forward to another situation similar to that is available in the future and that san francisco is a leader in that movement. thank you. >> thank you very much. your passion just goes to show this is not about organizations, it is about people so thank you for your time and your commitment and your activity as part of keeping our immigrant

community safe in the city and county. thank you. our next speaker is carla ports flaum from the labor center of immigrant justice. >> good afternoon. carl los porous a program coordinator at the labor center for immigrant justice. we are one of the community organizations here probably in the [inaudible] one of our missions is to provide and stop legal service and wrap arounds to imgrant union workers and families. we do support all the work that the city has been doing and continue doing to maintain the sanctuary status in the city as well as putting the fund necessary to provide immigration services to all our brothers and sisters in the

union sector. i like to highlight examples of work issues we encountered in relation to our immigrant workers so try to give not my story but folks i work with in the center. [inaudible] union member. a truck driver. he is told by his employer last month after 30 years employment that his employment is terminated because he doesn't have a employment authorization card. even though he submitted a application for a new one. his family has gone for the last 4 months without a pay check. for the last 3 months due in part to the new administration and immigration environment. jose is a hotel worker in richmond california who is unable to obtain a id card

because he doesn't live in san francisco . jose told me i will feel more confident with a san francisco city id card to do commercial transactions in san francisco. urnesto was told by san francisco airport officer he cannot go back to work until he shows a permanent residentcard. lucky for urnesto he submitted a application to get a new resident card and with our help and with legal counseling he was anal to return to work in two weeks. a group of the workers non union are harassed and used in commercial facilities 20 minutes away from san francisco. without legal counseling to inform of their rightathize workers will continue being abuseed and discriminated. marco, for the last 40 days could not work because he got hurt and could no longer afford to pay the rent or union dues and able to

go back to get his jobs. after 3 and a half weeks, marco was able to return back to work. we were able to assist paying some of the union dues and rent and able to go back to work, able to continue making his payments, and getting the benefit health plan back and he is able to take medicine and continue being a positive member of society. [inaudible] non union worker was able to attain legal counseling and released on a bail bond. now he has a fighting chance to fight for his case. this is just a few of the folks that we working in the center and providing different levels of services, so you have hear today. it isn't just all the legal fees, we are trying to

fill the gap, but also health and housing portion, it is additional services that the immigrant workers need, so we appreciate your help and just to close it out,gist last friday i got a new client who was afraid to complete a 5 page application in-take because he was panicked and afraid to provide any sort of additional information to me so i can hook him up with a attorney for [inaudible] about his condition. he was a permanent resident with legal status. that is the fear that our communities are facing today. thank you for your time. >> thank you. our next speaker is sarah juan. community center and api council. >> good afternoon. thank you for the speaking opportunity. i'm speaking today on behalf

the api council. asian and pacific islander council t. is a 40 member organization that we serve over 250 thousand api resident in san francisco. we also advocate for equitable policy and resources on behalf the api community in san francisco. giveren the state the current [inaudible] immigration, religion, lgbt laurching a initiative [inaudible] respond to the threats. first, we like to view power of the api community and increase community engagement strategies. including voter registration and echblgicating api residents on the right jz response to changes in immigration and other federal policies. public attention has focused particularly on the undocumented immigrant population we are eke whael

concern td about federal praulss which impact a larger api population which include potential efts to reduce income our health benefit to legal permanent benefits, housing resource tilegrant status or impose restrictions on all immigrants to healthcare service. we like to start a clearing house for current information on the federal policies which are mornts important to the community. utilize the web sites and [inaudible] utilize relationship with the media and social media to maximize the outletreach. last but not least we hope [inaudible] dem ographic changes occurring in the community due to income and equality and [inaudible] plan for pasticipation in the census

2020. there is a 2016 policy report for san francisco racial diversity declined from the current 58 percent minority population to 45 percent by the year 2040 with the api population declined from 34 percent to under 28 percent due primarily to income and equality housing cost and housing displacement. we vafear under the trump administration that will make the future of san francisco even more racial and economic diversity worse. so, we hope to work together with the department with the commission to counter this coming up challenges and also as a closing i hike to invite all commissioners and public to attend the api council reception on may 17 to review additional story telling prescreening at center for asian american media and talk about members. thank you. >> thank you very much. at

this point i like to open to my fellow commissioners for questions or comments for our last group of speakers were were derek san francisco food bank [inaudible] aclu community, carla [inaudible] labor center for migrant justice and sarah wong from api council. colleagues. commissioner wang. >> this question is for the last speaker, api council. i would like to know do we have statistics and data to demonstrate the substantial effects on society of the governments broad enforcement? lake, how many legal non

immigrants and immigrants have been or will potentially be negatively effected. do we have- >> i don't have think we have collective data yet. it is something we are working on doing data a collection. we know one part the undocumented is api committee but ithereis advocacy group among the members including [inaudible] asian law caucus and members work ing with these population but think it will take more time and efforts to hopefully they collect the data in the future. >> thank you. i'm very glad to hear api wanted to serve as the central clearing house for the information, it will be very helpful. thank you. >> that you thank you. any other questions or comments? hearing none, i would like to

thank all the speakers who came this afternoon. you have been with us all most 2 hours and your time and dedication today and every day is appreciated by everyone on the commission and everybody within the city and county of san francisco. it is your dedication and your commitment to your communities, it is the time that you give that provides so much support, so much care for the immigrant population. we heard so much about fear forboding rumors today that it just highlights how much work we have to do, but also i want to acknowledge how much work you have done and we encourage continued and increased future collaboration among community groups and with the commission and with the city and county as we all strive to the common goal of

keeping our immigrant community safe. at this point, there is a opportunity for members of the public to directly address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdition of the immigrant rights commission. members of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. are there any members who wish to comment this evening? i believe we have one more speaker. >> i just-there is a opponent i didn't have time to touch on is the fact that this entire situation has created a issue which existed before but [inaudible] no more than ever. they have [inaudible] we see

community members telling us i received a phone call and sometimes say calling from the irs. some say they are calling from the ins and others say calling from [inaudible] what i really wanted to add is we really need to keep thinking because this is a ongoing thing and isn't going to stop. in addition to had fear that exists and only god knows how many people are scammed. anything i like to document is how do law enforcement agency react in front of the red card. we keep telling community members show the red card and some of them you can tell that right right, i am not sure i should do that. the think that will be very interesting to find out how do

law enforcement agency react with the police or ice. this is something i think we need to document. thank you. >> thank you very much. we have one more speaker actually that just arrived. anna [inaudible] from deloris street community services. thank you, anna. >> good afternoon. i am sheer to talk about san francisco's rapid response network because [inaudible] couldn't make it today. so, i am here with dolores community services squz the san francisco immigrant legal and education network, sf island and san francisco league defense collaborative working together so it is 21 organizations in san francisco working together to equipt the rapid response network which is built around a 24/7 hot line in san francisco. i think you have the materials in the

pocket. so, it is a 415-200-4528 a phone number staffed in english, spanish, chinese and arabic. someone will always be able to respond and most importantly go out and verify if there is ice enforcement activity or raid within the san francisco city county limits. this has been active sense february and we had i know the first two weeks there was over 200 calls. most of the calls are folks calling for more information so not reporting the raids, but it is important to have the outlet so we verify there isn't ice activity here or there was and we have responded to two ice enforcement actions within san francisco since the hot line

was launched. so, to walk you through the hot line, it's the first step is calling and if someone is reporting a raid, then trained staff are dispatch today the location to verify if ice is in fact there and from then we may contact with the family members or folks who know about someone was detained because once folks are detained they are sent to 630 samson which is the local ice processing center in san francisco and once they are at 630 samson community based attorneys will go to the prossinging center to halt deportitation and provide legal advise so that is how it works. i don't know if folks have any question about the rapid response system here in san francisco. >> i have a couple, if i may.

so, volume of calls that you have seen, i would assume-are the numbers up? have they stayed consistent? was it busier at the beginning and do you have a count on the calls you received? >> i don't have the information because i'm not a agency tasked with handling the call s [inaudible] sf program manager will be back later this week and she can answer because we vareally great soft wear that on undocumented soft wear engineer came up with that tracks the calls and have a good services where we have calls to make false statements or say horrible things. it has a blocking feature which is really good. we can give you that data but from what i can

tell, at the beginning there was a huge amount of calls. i think they have slowly started to taper off rks but still consistent amount of folks calling. they might be not from san francisco. maybe calling from alameda which has a rapid response so we can connect them there sore give some type of services throughout california. limited because not as many areas have as many resources. >> in terms of rumors because i know in community we had a number of phone calls about a ice block aid on the freeway outside sacramento or this, that and the other, how do you handsal rumors and how is that information shared with the public? is this something you have thought of and currently in place? >> yes, that is why the verification is so important. so we encourage before you

click the share button on face book or text your friends if someone told you ice was here you call the hot line for verification before you do that so we can stop spreading the fear in the community because we know there is reports of people see police or muni officers and get confused and that is part of ice tactics as well, which is too bad and something we are working on, but that is important. we want them to call in to dispel a rumor. >> how do you put that out into the community? >> we use social media, twitter, facebook to verify or dispel if a ice raid has been reported. >> okay. excellent, anna. commissioner maldanado. >> i just wanted to get your opinion if you think there is a

need to have more information and education about the number and you know, what has you know, the-discussed or if there is push to make sure that as many people as possible have the number to call. >> yes, when we first went live there was a press release and we had a lot of press coverage, but i still think we should maintain that momentum moving forward so people dont lose the number. so-and we don't have publicity so could use help with that if people wanted to help-if the cityps to help maintain the number so folks know about it. absolutely. >> good question. good suggestion. thank you both. any other questions or comments for anna or any of our

speakers? >> i wonder if you encountered any calls that are redirected from 911 or 311? do those agencies know they can call you guys also? >> i don't know because before we launched the number we thought about how to plug in with 311 but they were not receptive to it and had to strike so launched our own number. i know my ownagy redirected through 311 but don't know how to get in contact with 311 folks. that would be great. >> i wonder if [inaudible] something is happening next door and wonder where that nrflgz goes. >> i will rougher that to director pun. can you shed any

light? >> we are happy tohave our office connect you to 311. we have a close relationship with them and sure we can work something out. >> okay, that sounds great. thank you. >> thank you. >> seeing no more questions, anna, thank you very much. delighted to have you with us. >> thank you. >> i'm going one last call for public comment. seeing none, the next item on our agenda is old business. is there any old business to discuss this evening? director paz. >> commissioners just a real quick item. you have before you a very heavy but really good report of the language access results based on our language access ordinance rirems and a reminder from staff, please don't forget how

important language access is to all the work we are doing today and all the work our community members have shared with us. people can't understand information that is being distributed and don't get timely accurate information. it is critical to their lives, to their safety and the city's safety so please continue to advocate for that. >> thank you, director and i like to congratulate you and staff on this report. having looked through i will say right in detail a number of them over my 4 years on the commission i am very impressed with how quickly accessible the information is by department with the graphics that you used in this so thank you all. there is a huge amount of data that is distilled and published in the report so congratulations to you all. >> thank you and like to give a

shout out to two members of our staff who are critical in helping put this together. we write the narrative squz prepare the reports, and the people that really support it making that happen don't get thanked so want to thank melissa chan, the office manager for really being a fine eyes and ears in catching all our many typos and in-house graphic designer and commission clerk, jamie richardson for being the graphic artist. not only that but keeping us all in track, being the staff's guide through this process, so thank you to the two of your very much. >> thank you, ladies. congratulations. >> any other items on old business? seeing none- >> commissioners, one more

item. i thought commissioner -on april 22 we will have the 24th san francisco pathway frz citizenship workshop. it is absolutely free to members of the public if you know anyone who wants to volunteer all your wonderful aclu volunteer physical you like to help us out or direct friends and relatives interested apply frg citizenship t is 100 percent free. we have lawyers, volunteers, lay people, our office and microsoft head quarters at 1355 market street and have fliers at the table up there. >> wonderful, thank you for highlighting that director and encouragement to community providers to spread the word among your members. it is an amazing opportunity to get top

class, free legal expertise to get your citizenship application filed and in todays world it is important to do so. do we have any new business this evening? seeing none, i would like again to thank you all for sharing your stories and insights. the commission absolutes all of you and the work that you do to care for the very broad and diverse immigrant community we have in san francisco. we also thank the staff at the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs for tonights hearing and sfgov tv and office of city administrator for its support. the immigrant rights commission is now adjourned. [meeting adjourned].

>> shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of san francisco by

supporting local services we help san francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. >> my name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and

neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's

municipal transportation agency and parking authority on tuesday, april 18. can you read the roll. >> brinkman, present. borden here. ramos, present. rubke, present. announcement of sound producing devices during the meeting. the ringing and use of cell phone, pager squz other producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. micro phone set on

vibrate cause interference so please place them in the off position. for approval the minute of april 4. >> do i have public comment on the minutes? seeing none, a motion to approve? >> move to approve. >> a second? all in favor,i aye. opposed? hearing none aproouved. >> communications madam chair i have none. >> iletm 6 new or unfinished business by board members. >> sheer where we get to the bittersweet part in recognition of director tom nolan's last mta board meeting. what i would like to do is i believe we have a representative from president breed's office here? not yet. alright. do we have a representative from either assembly member wiener chu or

tang here? would you like to come up together to the podium? thank you. which ever order you prefer mpt >> i think we will do a combo-thank you for your work and public services throughout your time. not only at the san francisco mew unicipal transportation agency but while director of project open hand and time on the san mateo county board of supervisors. >> your name? >> victor ruease and deputy director for senator scott wiener. >> alex walker from phil ting. >> catty arbona with david chu. >> from all 3 of our bosses who regretbly couldn't be here today they really wish they could because ouf your work here for our city and our county and for the entire bay area. we like to commend you

for your years of service on behalf the entire state legislature. we know you have been a great advocate for the central subway system, you focus on strategic planning for policies like the transit first city. you champion free fair for youth and vulnerable populations, you help expand bart to sfo and the 17 years of spaerns as executive drether of open hands you gave individuals greater agency by providing one the most basic needs, that is food. we thank you for that. we thank you for your services oen the board of pr visors in san mateo county and from three lgbt individuals we also thank you forioadvocacy for the lgbt community and from all our bosses we wish you the best retirement and anyhow you will continue to be active and advocating for the all the ish

issues you spent your life advocating for so thank you on br half of the california senate and state assembly. >> thank you so much. i won't let mr. nolan speak until we really ovwhelmed him with praise. >> i can get it but can't speak. >> that's lovely. [clapping]

alright. tom, next is a plaque, tom nolan drether and beloveered chairman, may 10, 2006 to april 9, 2017 in recognition and appreciation of dedication to improve thg quality of life for sfmta employees and customers and resident of san francisco and resident of the bay area by municipal transporitation agency boferd director. i will hand it over and say what a honor is to serve with you and generous with your time and knowledge and sure when i call you in the future and know you will take my calls so want to thank you again so much for all your service not just in this position about throughout your career. now i want to ask director ramose. >> thank you, madam chair and to your former beloved chair

who will always be our beloved. in our hearts you will be h. i have the honor being able to read a little statement from the house of representatives congressional record from representative jacquie spear, the honorable jacquie spear who you know well and knows your work quite well as articumented in the essay which i'll read for you now. not. i do want to--[laughter] i'll read the best part that grabbed my attention where it says that when our former chairman left son mateo as a supervisors to become a resident of san francisco he decided to take on once again the role and become a leader in transportation issues here. it takes the genius of a heart surgeon and the patience of a saint to serve on the mta board and tom met the standrd with tirely

advocacy with service improvement, sound laker relations, vast bike net work, bike sharing, row placementf odus street, support of straf when the economic downturn brought painful adjustments. she closes by saying there is no did you know downtown in her mind comparing all the improvements that have come with new mobility we always had you and there is no doubt in her mind that that has been more valuable and you have been serving in the modest but influential public service and she want tooz give thanks for tom nolan, the ultimate transportation app rr she called you he doesn't require a smart phone, he is charged battery or good cell phone connection to get the job done and a guy with a big heart and

mighty vision who delivers value to the public the old fashion ed way and he earned it. so, this is on behalf of the representative spear. i just want to say in my own words tom that from the very first day i met you sitting in your office in project open hand evaluated and really appointed or not at that first meet wg the chairman, you always made me feel and think i can speak for everyone in the room and ever been at your meetings where you sharechaired you made us all feel welcomeed and valued and it is a gift you have. you do it so well that you feel like family to us. i think i can say that and we have been honored to be able to serve with you. you feel like someone we knohave known all our lifen jz speaking for myself and want to know you for the rest of my life. you have been able to capture so much of

the integrity and charity that is really needed to drive the work and you have done it in a way that transsends our typical grace that one might find among any elected official or politician. you have done a phenomenal job and certainly hope that i was looking at your background and what to say i found that st. christopher is a patron vaint of transportation workers and catholics we have a saint for everybody but st. christopher is patron saint of transportation workers and hope he watchs over you and the dear lord bless you in your retirement. thank you tom so much. >> director rubke. >> i thought you would let me go last. so, i will follow

director ramos lead and read from the letter from anna esue a member of congress because you bow all the important people. she also congratulates you on your decade of leadership on the sfmta board. i will skip a lot of this but will read two sentence. your plxments reflect gold standard and service to so many. she quolets mike scanlen who once said, simply put, there would be no cal train without tom nolan, so that's huge and she thanks you very much and personally, i know many other people will speak and say wonderful things and agree with all the goolgood things and none of the bad things. [laughter]. i feel so fortunate and honored to serve alongside you and will miss you so much and just want to thank

you for being the kind of public servant that and certainly aspire to be and think all of us do so thank you. >> director borden. >> it is wonderful to honor someone who lived their entire life in services. that is amazing to dedicate your career to others. all the recognitions are spotlighting what you have done that so significant as we face the worst traffic congestion we have seen in the bay area. we can't imageen where we would bree without your achievement. i'm honored toprint from congresswoman nancy pelosi. dear friend, how fortunate for our great city and entire bay area that tom nolan chose to make san francisco his home. we benefited from the grand vision, int lcktd and huge heart. how proud when tom received the outstanding

transportation board member award for distinguished service. over three decades the leadership impacted all most every project in the san francisco bay area. public service insure all people in communities ask safely, sufficiently and affordly transport from work recollect school and home while protect thg planet. a transformative leader of the public transportation system, 4 major agencies tom was able to find consensus in a complicated world of transportation politicsism deeply principle leadership created a safer more sufficient and exwitable transit service for all bay-air eye resident. the gratitude extends to project open hand where he broaden services for those suffering from hiv/aids to critically ill disabled home

bound seniors. project open hand was a model for meal deliverry throughout the u.s. and around the world. with great admiration and tremendous attitude and join tom celebrating his magnif couldn't career and wishing a rewarding retirement. with that she has a special certificate congressional recognition for chairman, tom nolan. recognition of outstanding and invaluable service to the community. i feel so honored to sit next to you now. i think it is so well said by so many others that we very fortunate to have your services and i feel honored to get to serve with you long brf i was on the board. your reputation preceded you tremendously and feel honored i had the chance to spend time with you so thank you. >> thank you, director bolen.

[clapping] director hsu. >> thank you. ia know, i still feel like i wonder if i should take this personally because it is like i just get here and after all these years you decide to move on. [laughter]. i know that with any service at some point you have done your time and it is fair to set you free so we appreciate that. for you i have a proclamation from the mayor 's office. mayor ed lee and i will read this so everybody can share with us. whereas recollect tom snolen who chaired the mta board of directors since 2010 as managed not only navigate the san francisco bay area transportation politics, but overseen projects that will have a lasting impact on san francisco bay area. and whereas, tom nolan respected as a ideal leader, passionate, hard working, with a great sense of humor and regard for the community he gently guides

the board through difficult negotiation to achieve consensus of the budget and translt service and labor negotiation. whereas, tom nolans accomplishments include advocating for the central subway, a focus on goals such as city transit first policy, planning for effective transit and champion vision zero and free fairs for youth and vulnerable populations, and whereas, chairman nolans hand on support and leadership was critical maximizing muni services during challenging time and leadership at local state and national level displayed many times, whereas, under leadership rating service awarded and affirmed the double a long term rating on the san francisco municipal transportation agency. the double a rating is the highest rating on revenue bonds or

certificate of participation in the u.s. and whereas, as the transit effectiveness project champion, tom nolan expressed a vision for the future of public transportation which is the stone for the sfmta plan tooz create a safer and more reliable experience both on and off transit. now, therefore be it resolved, that i edwin lee may orthf city and county of san francisco in recognition of the vision and leadership tom nolan displayed for san francisco do peerb proclaim tuesday april 18, 2017 as tom nolan day! [clapping] let me just add, i wish we had more time but grateful for the time we had. you have already made me a better person. i see the way you work with people, the way you lead and it makes me want to be more like you. so,

i just want to say thank you for everything you have kun as a citizen, a as board member and especially as a father of kids who will grow up in a world that is better because ouf things you have done. thank you for everything not just here but everywhere throughout your career. [clapping]. >> we have been joined president of the san francisco boferd supervisors london breed. >> good afternoon everybody. really excited to be here. sad we will be losing one of our great commissioners here in the city. chairman nolan, thank you so much for your over 10 years of service to this body. i know it's a very challenging department with some the issues we continuously deal with in the city and just want to thank you for being open and communicated and working with people and working with my office to try to deal with some

of these challenges. we have new muni trains coming and buses, we have change s to our infrastructure and 5 rapid and all the cool creative things we are able to goo. we know it isn't enough but headed in the right direction and had to make hard decision squz you have been at the leadership role the body making those hard decisions, listening to members of the public. the volunteers and countless hours to make the city better for all of those who use public transportation and want more efficient ways getting around the city is what made a difference to our public infrastructure scr all the things we dpoo here. i want to take the opportunity not just because you are a constituent who lives in my district, but because you have been a incredible public servant here in san francisco so we know this is your last meeting, we just want to recognize every member the board of supervisors signed a certificate of honor

just expressing our graut gratitude for your work and commitment and leadership on the body and kneyou may be retiring from the board but will not be too far away. we will catch you on 38 geary and other public transportation bus jz walking by foot and doing other thing jz probably sending ed reiskin a few text messages when you notice there is a issue with things you experience as someone who takes public transit. with that, on behalf the san francisco board of supervisors it is my honor to present you with a certificate and thank you for your years of service to the city and county of san francisco. [clapping]

>> thank you very much, president breed. we really appreciate you coming here. before i move to ed reiskin i want to acknowledge squl thank tom's partner, larry freedman. larry i know you shared tom with us more than you wanted to over the year so it is so important to all of us and recognize it probably did place a burden on you knie frz the time you have together so thank you very much and we look forward to at least partial ly giving him back to you. director reiskin. >> thank you, madam chair. i have the honor of bringing a certificate of commendation from the united states senate to honor tom nolan. presented by dinan feinstein united states senator from california. it reads, in recognition and appreciation of tom nolans dedication to insuring safe,

reliable and accessible transportation for all bay area residents as a significant leader in regional transit. tom is a steadfast advocate for local tran portation projects. instrumental bringing bay area rapid transit to the san francisco airport and advocate frd the central subway project. he also led the sfmta board through extensive version of their strategic plan and spearheaded the transit effectiveness project, now muni forward. versatile and passionate leader, tom is also worked on projects for sfmta that focus providing free fairs for yulth and vulnerable population creating a fleet of zero and low emission vehicle jz eliminated traffic death by 2024. tom is involved with transportation boards throughout the bay, serviceed as chair for cal train working to improve bike access, secure

financing and importance of cal train. it is safe to say tom is a boneifyed champion of public transit who boasts a lengthy record of achievements as united states state senator from the state of california and congratument tom nolan and extened my wishes on retirement years. diane feinstein. very nice certificate. very small print. what i will add speaking for myself i say personally and professionally and on behalf of the nearly 6,000 employees of the sfmta, i want to specifically thank you for all you have done for this agency, for this city and for this region especially in transportation but as we heard with regard to your services and project open hand and on

the san mateo county board and a lot of different ways. i know for me personally i also had my first meeting in that same office at project open hand and from the moment that i first had that introduction i have been continually learning from and growing from your leadership and the example you set. i think as we all go off and go to sfgovtv.org and watch the 12 years of video from year chairmanship which i know we are planning to do, i think you'll see not only the professionalism and grace and patience with which you led these meetings for many years and participated in the meetings, but a theme that i think you will see as you go back and watch those tapes is the questions, the concerns, the direction from the chair

from the board always had to do with making sure we were looking out for the more disadvantaged and vulnerable and people who might be impact bide decisions this board were making that was always the theme and that's a legacy that you'll be leaving for the agency among many many others but making sure we look out for the people who need us the most or adversely impacted or benefited by our work. that is a legacy as long as i'm here i will work to carry forward. i want to thank you for your leadership and guidance and friendship and also want to thank larry for sharing time with us. i can see you are glancing at the clock which is my sign i have gone on too long. the one questionable decision you made during your chair was your choice of this director of transportation but

i'll do my best regardless of the bast decision to carry out your legacy. many of the things we are doing today really have your thumb print on them and will for years and decades to come. to make sure that you know that the staff of the mta is fully grateful for and supportive of all the work you did, we developed this sign for you. [applause] you are welcome to use in any public street or right of way anywhere outside of the city and county of san francisco. [laughter and clapping]

>> thank you very much director reiskin. tom, before i let you speak and know i'm getting there, i want to ask if there is public comment that anyone would thrike stand up and share? alright. seeing none, director nolan would you like to say a few words? >> yes, thank you madam chair. members of the board. ladies and gentlemen. i want to acknowledge larry of 40 years. very supportive through all this and frequent muni rider. mayor nusem appointed me to this many years ago and mayor lee appointed me two occasions. the mayor asked me through the years when there is a vacancy about my thoughts of someone who #14d come on and said i want people who work well together. it is hard to do what we do without grand standing and we have been

fortunate and haven't had that and have people with extraordinary talent representing the community and doing it well. i'm sorry malcolm isn't here but he will be later on. you know how i beam beloveered chair? i called myself that. [laughter] it caught on. i want to recognize three former colleagues. ken beach, jerry lee and peter mesey. one thing about can beach and never forget malcome said about cam, he never lost a 92 thuz enthusiasm for training and that was so true. jerry lee to the degree we get rid of overtime he is always remembered for that. peter mesery fs a attorney and very interested with all the case squz did a fine job. as i

leave the board i'm confident in the leadership of this board. it is a very difficult thing do to be on the board and look out for the city. i think we have a strong record and know based on our customer serve vai a lot of our citizens and clients agree with that. thank the staff i work with directly primarily the senior staff but also the staff i see on the street and buses, the people-5-6 thousand people who plake the system work every day and make it work very well. i also want to thank the advocates who come here. the people are very thoughtful respectful, passionate and caring about the city, make their case in a way that is understandable and support it. i appreciate all that. i appreciate the neighborhood groups that have come here that i know for a lault of people come at 2 o'clock and stay fl a long time. i appreciate that active engagement in the city.

and agrees with ed reiskin, probably the best thing i was involved in is bringing you here. the city of san francisco is enormously blessed by your leadership here. your compassionate intelligent leadership. the visionary leadership, strategic plan making the city better for all us, plus you are fun to work with and like your wife too. [laughter]. >> i do too. >> make sure she watchs tonight. roberta bloomer who is very knowledgeable and efficient and provides counsel to the board. a great thing that happened to me is becoming a dear and personal friend for roberta and these friendships with ilgo on here. i won't look at all 12 of the video. i think i will learn how to twitter. i have been tweeting my comments on everything you

do and think that will be helpful. as i conclude 4 statements i like to make. i said all these before, but i think number one is a job of a director or commissioner to look out for the entire city while mindful of neighborhoods and special needs of rez accidents a balancing act. it is a very difficult thing on occasion trying to balance these but i'm convinced by in large the board has done a very good job. they are difficult decisions ahead and that will be the task the board. looking out for the city as a hole and mindful of neighborhoods and different communities. the thing so important to me is muni is for everyone but especially those who need it most. being involved trying to provide that to low income students, persons-seniors and persons with disability. about 80 thousand people are day ride the system and i ride it every day and see the need for that

and how important that is proud and hope we keep that in mind that is what it is primarily for. coming from the background as san mateo county supervisors we need to be mindful we are part of a region. much larger region that just the city. the city is the heart, and love the city but we are part of the region and shows many ways to cal train, mtc things golden gate bridge, all this we are part of that and think we should honor that all the time. the final thing i'll say is that i say this every time i talk about mta, individually smaller group of people or large group that i'm proud to be a part of the organization for all these years. it is a very significant organization. we worked very hard to do had best job we can for the people of san francisco. so much good for so many people and i leave here being forever proud. thank you. [applause] i wish

we would have done this more often. >> once a year. alright. thank you very much. now we will move on to our next item. >> any other new or unfinished business by board member snz ? >> seeing none we'll move on; >> item 7, directors report. >> good afternoon again madam chair, member thofz board. members of the public and staff. have a number of things to catch you up on. the first one related i guess to the last item, the mayor today indicated his intention oo the board of supervisors to nominate art tor esas a new member to fill the soon to be empty seat on the mta board of directors. as

most folks know of art tores, served for about tent years in the state legislature and 15 years for head of california democrat ic party, has a great and long history here in san francisco so he will be at rules as early as potentially next week and possibly should that process go well and efficiently, will be up here joining us on-joining you all on the board so that's hot off the press news. in terms of vision zero updates, this week is bike and roll to school week. it a reminder to be mindful of young riders on the streets and as importantly a opportunity to encourage student and parents to find fun, healthy sustainable ways to get to school. it is done under the umbrella of safe routes to school which a

international movement in 30 countries and all 50 states to encourage safe, healthy and fun way tooz get to school. we started in san francisco in 2009, just a few schools and last year we were up to 83 schools and more 6,000 student taking place. i fsh was able to join despite the weather, able to join supervisor fewer at lafayette elementary school this morning and despite the drizzle in the outer richmond it was a great showing of kids and parent really enthuse astic principle and the best part was the principle acknowledged the second grade boy named bodey at lafayette who at the beginning of the school year decide he would challenge to try to ride his bike to school every day of the school year rain or shine and so far we are all most the end the school year and has done it so far so that was a great inspiration to me. i

need to ride my bike more but for the class rest the class mate jz that is what bike sw roll to school week is about so happy to bike and roll school week. bike the work day is may 11. speaking of trying to make streets more conducive to safe travel by bike and other modes, the folsom howard street scripe project is intended to make the area of the south of market more livable and sairf by make tg more conducive to safe and inviting to safe walking, biking transit for people who live in the area, for people who visit the area or travel through the area. we are hosting twoopepen houses this month at the besy car michael elementary school auditorium, which is on 7th street between folsom and harrison. this will be one april 27 at 6 p.m. and 1 saturday april 29 at

noon. the conitant of boleth of the sessionerize the same, we just do different days and times to hopefully reach as many people as possible and what will be showcase is four possible street it designs. these are designed with the help of hundreds of community members from the project first round of neighborhood meetings in december as well as online questionnaire which showed that people prefer wider sidewalks, streetscape elements financially protected bike ways and landscaping. parking and loading needs were also indicated but to a lesser degree. the designs for near term parking protected bike lane on folsom and howard in advance the larger project is ongoing. the boundaries of what we may be able to consider will be clear as part the central soma eir that should

come soon but trying to work in the mean time and try to get a good handle on what the community wants and the various trade-offs will be so good opportunity on the workshops april 27 and 29. meanwhile intersecting folsom and howard are saevlth and 8th street and safety project will be reaching completion in a matter of weeks. the project is in support of vision zero and a specificicically called out part of the vision zero executive director including new parking protected bike ways, bord r island, traffic signal upgrade, safety zones and redesigned intersection to increase bike and pedestrian safety and the safetyf of everybody travelling on the streets. 7th street is open for full use and this is really between i think market and howard or folsom. 8th street

will be done in the next couple weeks both in time for bike to work day. in addition to engineering work done staff are completed educational activities to insure people know how to use the corridor and follow the rule thofz road. this is different design than we used in other place jz recent experiences taught us we need education not just the concrete poured and paint striped to make sure everybody knows how to use the new infrastruck dhr. great to see those completed. as i said that they will be done in the next couple weeks. one of our most significant policy efts with regard to vision zero is being able to secure state authorization to pilot automated speed enforcement here in san will supplement no

replace enforcement activities of the officer jz given feed is the top cause of serious and fatal collisions, being able to extend that what the police can do in terms of enforcement in order to get people to slow down, that is nothing more important we can do so a lot of effort has gone into getting prepped for todays hearing. hopefully it will be heard and passed and on to assembly transportation next monday. as you have now doubt heard just after our last sfmta board meeting, and after two years

really of extensive negotiation, the california legislature passed and governor brown signed into law legislation that will provide long awaited and sorly needed funding for state and local transportation in california. the overall package is direct $5.2 billion annually. half to states, half to local jurisdictions. the initial estimates for us here would be on the order of $18 million toward our paving program, which is currently largely funded by the cities general fund. in addition to $27 million in state transit assistance funding which flows by formula to support the operating budge squt can be

used to capital improvements and $11 million in state of good repair capital fund, about 2/3 of the-that is where the money is going. where it is coming from is primarily fuel taxes including the state gas tax, diesel tax and diesel sales tax and those increases take place november 1 as well as increase in vehicle fees including a fee on zero emission vehicles which also have a impact on the roads just like lower or other emission vehicles do. estimates show majority of car owners who pay less than $10 per month as a result of these new fuel and vehicle taxes, so if you think about the importance of the condition and safety and reliability of our states transportation system, i know that's notedesy for some people, but it is a relatively small investment for a pretty

big and important return. as you know, where the mayor convened a task force they recommended new local revenue to hope close the gap in what we estimated we need in the city to support our transportation needs, but wasn't able to even with those recommendations wasn't able to fully close the gap so one of the recommendations was we continue to advocate for state and federal and other funding. while this state funding helps close the rest the gap we still need to continue to work on local funding and other measures to really fullyfund the transportation system we are responsible for but that was great news, big milestone up to the final hours wasn't clear it would happen. it happened at eleven p.m. on the night of deadline the governor said so great news from the state. a couple of local issues here. we have-you

approved a contract in december for us to do work at the kirkland yard which is a bus maintenance facility up in north east corner of the city. we need to replace some underground diesel tank tooz bring in compliance with current stanered and bring state of the art fueling to the fustillty. i mentioned this because it will have some impact to service right along the north edge of the kirkland yard around the street car tracks for the enf line. the construction is scheduled begin in a couple weeks and we are going to do what we can to avoid disrupting the services, but there will be a temporary relocation of the stop that is at beach and stockton right at the north east corner of that facility. there will be some

sidewalk closures and traffic changes. we have been doing community outreach but want folks to xoe if they see change up there, that is what it is sfr but it is important work and doing best not to disrupt people in the area. dolores street median pilot parking is going to launch this friday at 7 p.m. the red curb painting and the signage that you all authorized is in the process of being installed. obviously there is a lot of interest and activity on sunday, which is the first day when the high demand meets the new pilot. we will be on hand to evaluate and also help guide folks on sunday and we'll continue as we talk with you about when you approved it and as you directed us to do a comprehensive evaluation among which we will be evaluating compliance with a

new regulations impacts on emergency response and then of course the community feedback we will get. just wanted you to know the pilot you authorized will go fl teefect this weekend. at the last mta board meeting, director ramos noted the van ness construction and the fact that we have taken essentially two of the six travel lanes, one in each direction and i think was asking if there were impacts noted in terms of traffic calming because we have done a de facto road diet there. i think you had broader remarks but have been looking at the impact since st. it is a big impact to a significant street in the city and did do therefore a lot of analysis on the traffic before the construction started to compare after. we have been looking

both at our own using the vehicle location devices on our own muni buses and generalized traffic data we can get from a third parbty. what we found so far is southboned delays increased and northbound travel times have generally stayed the same. changing to the street environment are new so these are preliminary findings, but some of the great cataclysism folks thought would happen have not happened. there have big been changes in travel patterns but i think a lot of folks shared anecdotally director ram ossense that the existence of the construction calmed things down. we will continue to collect the dat aand evaluate and see how we were before

construction, during construction and after construction and how well that turned out relative to the modeling we did in advance so thank you for raising that. and then finally, after former chair nolan retires we'll make the reports much shorter. he likes long reports. wanted to provide a update on vicente street because the board may have seen communication about it. like many streets in the outer sun set vicente is a fairly wide street and our staff is proposed changes from 7th avenue going ought to the beach that would realign parking space tooz add more, improve visibility at street corners and add bike lanes. these are just some of the many types of changes that we are evaluating based on feedback that we have gotten from

residents and users of the street. in response to a petition from the neighborss parallel parking spaceerize converted to perpendicular spaces between 44 and 46 which will add 5 spaces, exist front in angle parking spaceerize converted to back end spaces between 39 and 40 avenue. make tg easier for drivers to see other traffic as they pull out. the entirestretch of 17th will get striped bike lanes in both directions similar to what we have done on orfega and kirkm to make it more comfortable so this help round out the network in the sun set. and certain street corners in front of schools on vicente get day lighting to provide visibility to avenue wn at the intersections. so, while this has been already at public hearing there is more outreach

we will do both to those involved to date but as well as the folks on their tear vel. there is a lot of changes to the taraval project already put in place and want to make sure we talk to everybody who could be impacted or things they might be impacted so they understand the scope and purpose and get their feedback. i wanted to give you that update in case you hear anymore from that and that conclude my report. >> thank you very much, director reiskin. that is fantastic news about the transportation funding measure. to clarify the money coming to the city and county oof san francisco, i think you mentioned in here that it will be looking at prospect frz the use the funds. i assume some of that will be more of a city decision, some will be mta decision. do knroi will the

mayor be reconvening the task force sort of with the knowledge that these new funds are coming in and also continue the work closing the funding gap that we'll still have? >> so, there funds come to the city in different ways. a great majority flow through formula. the straight transit assistance formula directly to the sfmta though the street resurfacing dollars come to the city and county. the funds will be the puview oof the sfmta board to determine but the larger question is, i think about how we think about these revenues, potential maybe adverse impacts a that federal level, potential new rev enues from the regional level in the form of bridge tol measure that is being considered. so, the mayor has been in discussions with president breed about

potential for reconvening a task force for exactly that purpose. i am going to a meeting torep with the mayor's budget director so wim have more to report at the next meeting, but i think there is a interest given some the shifting landscape at all levels of government. good on the state side, maybe not as good on the federal side. promising at the regional level for us to take stack of the first task force recommendations and maybe reaffirm those recommendations, think about a potential measure for local measure for 2018 and in light och what we know from the state and what we can expect from the regional government or whatever we dare to predict of the federal level, recommend how those new revenues might best be used so yeah, i think hopefully this year that task force will be reconvened and the news we got from the state with the passive

of sb 1 will inform the discussion squz how that changes the needs for new revenues would be. >> fellow directors keeping in mind director reiskin needs to step out ot2 o'clock, anyone have questions or comments on the directors report? no? seeing none, do i have public comment on the directors report? >> starting with herbert winer. >> mr. winer. two minute, please. >> herbert winer. first, the best wishes for your retirement mr. nolan. but, i have comments on vision zero. it is incomplete. it does not protect people on the sidewalks. it will not protect you mr. nolan from being hit by a disicalest and don't want that to happen. now, one

response when i talked about the danger of the sidewalks that more bike lanes would encourage more people to ride on the streets, but that like say figure we build more housing maybe that persons house won't be burglarized and someone elses house will be burglarized instead. the law should be enforced. it is illegal to ride on the sidewalk, mta has a responsibility to enforce it. for everybody's safety. now, the other thing about children riding to school on bikes, i don't want to see them going through red lights and possibly being killed. that would be a major tragedy. i remember as a kid some school meat was killed by a car and it stayed in my mind every since. now, about wider sidewalks, i don't knee

knoe if police and fire like that especially as they have to save a life. it is a potentially very dangerous for that. as far as reverse angle parking lanes, it is difficult for older people to do that. younger people can do that with ease, but it is going to be very difficult to park with reverse angle parking lanes and you should ask people about that before you consider doing it. it is potentially dangerous. those are all the comments i have about that but vision zero is clearly incomplete. we don't want it to be zero vision. >> next speaker is tom lee and those for topics discussed by [inaudible] >> good afternoon mr. reiskin, you make a very good report. i saw it is really improving

about the roads. the street is public special street car is a lot breter than before. taraval street makes sense because i have been using [inaudible] in order to return my cab every night, but you want to make mission zero is not only infrastructure. most of the kpnt i kpt i accident i look at analyze the elderly people like 65, 70, 7 5. their mind is different from us and before you make a statement many time, you cannot think as [inaudible] never been a asian before. as i see a lot of facts in san francisco, you never send your representative [inaudible] i saw sfpd, the police stations [inaudible]

educated the kid or public [inaudible] you never done that. you are a big agency, you have 1 billion dollar budget, why you greedy to reach out to the public [inaudible] especially to the nob nagive you a lot of opportunity like you training how you being involved. this is only small amount of budget for you, but you can reach out to a lot of people, especially a lot of asian or elderly people. when i speak in chinese, put the bullet in your mind regularly. they know what is happening regularly. when you speak it in-be careful, what is careful. this is the way but you can stop [inaudible] coming to san francisco. you must do something pr. thank you. >> thank you, mr. lee. >> tom gilberty.

>> hoping to catch before he left. construction on van ness, do we have to wait to get van ness repaved before the construction on muni is finished? because it is a terrible route right now. the other thing is supervisor wiener passed a law at the board of supervisors when we tear apart a street that we ceend of put a pipe to use the wires when we are rebuilding. that instead of repaving and digging up the street that we can accommodate new wires for television to communications for whatever without having to dig up the streets see wondering if that is part the

construction. the other thing i want ed to know is 30 van ness is property for sale owned by the city. is there a possible way that key with get when we sell that property if we sell the property we get a elevator in it? thank you for all of your services all the time. thank you. >> thank you, mr. gill burty. i'll ask a staff member to follow up with your questions on the van ness project schedule. next speaker. >> that is it for the directors report. >> mr. nolan. >> i want to say that i asked a while ago for report back on bicycles on sidewalks i think they are clear and present danger for all people and ask the director if he came back with breast practices from other communities around the country. i think it is a serious problem and see it quite often so if we can ask the director to bring back

something at a point. >> thank you, director nolan. alright. that closes drethers report and moving on to item 8. >> citizen advisory council report. the chair of the cac isn't with us so there will be no report. item 9, public comment. this is a opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters within the jurisdiction of the sfmta board of directors but not on todays agenda. first up will be maureen connors followed by rod nee clara. >> thank you, mr. boomer, two minutes pleas >> first of all, congratuless mr. nolan and thank you for your help because the working helped me and have never been here before. thank you for your continued service. i live at 1059 north point and it is fon tana west and i'm here mainly to learn with one of my neighbors but we are very

concerned with the proposed structure that will be put on the island between north opponent and van ness and we are talking with muni, also talking with supervisor farrell's office, but as we learn more about it we are specifically trying to learn the process and make sure we are included because we do object. i think as we learn more about vision zero if is a safety issue. galileo high school is there, there are tourest walking across the street and the safety issues are really a major and very concerned, so we are in the process of taking a look at that and working with-we want to find a solution that will work with for all that is a safe one kwr appreciate the work muni has given us and supervisors office and want to alert the board of director jz appreciate your help and thank you for listening to us. >> thank you. >> rody [inaudible] followed by

tureek. >> thank you very much for allowing me to speak. sorry i have to bring my complaint on your last day here, but i am a resident of 3545 market street, district 8. i was kind of taken aback when i walked to my car and found a ticket for $95 and it is due to parking changes on my street which is the length of this particular space here from wall to wall. none the resident were notified of this change of parking where it says no parking. it is normally you can park all week long and move for street sweeping. i have to tell my neighbors and see them parking there and say don'ts park there. there are two signs, well above visual range. i don't know-i hope by speak toog you that someone here or someone in your offices can reach out to me and residents of our little block and let people know how to fiend out about this change. i don't

think we should get a $95 ticket oo remind us to look very hyphfor a now parking sign. this is the first time rep. at this board meeting i have been active in district 8 in the past and returned back to the city after a couple years in new york, but it just-i was taken aback so like to find out what you all do to reach out to rez kwnt let them know of the parking changes. it seemed it changed over night. i would like to know the process to reach out to my neighbors and let them know. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. i will ask the director to have a staff member follow up with that block to find what the outreach was. thank you. next speaker. >> sureek mu mood followed by george conf and [inaudible] . >> good afternoon. taxi

driver. the medallions of taxi in my point of view are still a golden egg. even without the term oil in the taxi industry. if you can buy back these medallions that will be wonderful. and then leave it to the driver and that gives streamline revenue instead of just leaving them out as they are now. the people who bought it, they are not happy. [inaudible] i think you should find a solution to give the deposits back and then lead them back into the market. as regard to loans, loans-if i take a loan on a house, if i have a foreclosure on my house what happens? after two years it whipes away. thaupg very much. >> thank you mr. mu mood. >> george conf. [inaudible]

>> good afternoon everybody. george cunuf, taxi driver and here on behalf of the drivers fund program. i just wanted to give my opinion. this is the first time for me to be here so dont know the procedure much but will just say my opinion and hopefully you guys will consider it. we as metallian buyers or owners is what we are called when we are sinking in a lot-i dont bow how we are owners but we are actually taking money out of our homes every month to stay in business, which is about roughly $3 thousand and our down payments that actually created the driversfund, or most of it is very much needed for vehicle replacements that will help us stay in business

and you know, keep a roof on top of our heads. our vehicles need to be replaced and that will be a good part we can get back and buy new vehicles to stay in service. in terms of splitting the money into all the drivers which is a proposal i heard about, i haven't seen it on paper, i dont think that's a fair proposal. i would encourage you guys to rethink the whole process and be fair to people that actually invested to be part of this business that is actually sinking. i appreciate it and thank you very much. >> thank you very much mr. cunoof. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] followed by ton squlee those are the last people who have. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. here for the fund

for the driver. my suggestion over here is if you can put into consideration for the fund is [inaudible] 4.7 is-each driver who buys a medallion paid about $4500. they took it from our loan and we pay interest for it. it isn't fair for all the drivers to be divided and should be [inaudible] people who pay that fund-i mean pay for the fund and took it from this loan and or you know put it in a loan so they can reduce our payments or give it to us to afford to buy a reek for the next 4 years to serve the city. i do appreciate it if you look at it and put it under consideration and against divided for all the

driver that they are not driving. they only have [inaudible] thank you for your time and- >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> tone lee, he is the last person who submitted a speaker card. >> good evening. i wnt to the taxi meeting last week, but i will say that this recommendation of these money is [inaudible] not the buyer, it is medallion seller back in the day of 2010 everybody buy the medallion but this is etup for taxi driver who have no benefit. this money is not for the medallion buyer. the sale give away the money to set up this fund. now the office make the recommendation of this money going to the all the driver. it is not to the

medallion buyer or who ever small group of people. there are majority of [inaudible] going to get this a little small amount of money in order to get help. today is not only the medallion owner who ever it is. uber and lyft is happening in two year is the 20, twurt 30 thousand of cars on the roads and all the taxi from the airport nobody want it because the prices cannot compiece with tnc. they can lower the price within second, they can up the price in second by the computer device. we cannot, we are regulated. but this taxi driver fund should not only-very fair to go into the all the driver who are active because a lot of cab drivers today are making very low income. their children there

is no extra money. the $5 thousand go for help of the family because they pay [inaudible] buy stuff for their children. it is not only buying, the medallion, i cannot afford it now. this is not the right way. thank you. >> thank you, mr. lee. next speaker, mr. gilberty. >> um, a moment of free envisioning or city recognizing the realty on the street. um, i complain about the new buses, the 60 foot buses, the 65, 67, 72, now the 66. if you go to mcallister and board the 49 bus, it is the bus i'm complaining about. take it to

chestnut street transfer to the other side, take the 49 back, get off at mcallister then cross the street and take a 47 bus one the older bus said that have been on the street for 16, 17, 18 years. take the same bus and do the same thing. around trip over a hour, you get the idea what i mean, how terrible these new buses are as far as [inaudible] traps. you can have a conversation on a 47 bus, youinate do that. the driver cant hear you. it is terrible what we have done to the drivers and passengers. can we get the street repaved? that is what i'm talking about and my main drag and what i use. taxis-i will say taxis are at the alamo now. something needs to be done. i know that we are contrained

because of state regulations. the city needs to pass their own laws to reclaim their streets and then let the state come after our healthy societies. losing the taxis is not part of ow helty society. maybe we have a medallion, maybe we should have a daily permit for uber and lyft drivers that get 24 hours to drive and they get same amount of medallions permits that the cab companies have. thank you. we need it dosomething. >> thank you, mr. gilberty. anymore public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. go to the next item. >> thank you. we are on to the consent calendar. these items are considered to be retune unless a member of the public or member the board wants to sever a item and discuss it separately. madam chair i

haven't received request from the member of the public severing a consent calendar item. >> move consent calendar. >> do i have a second? do i have a vote? all in favor, aye. any opposed. hearing none, consent calendar is approved and move to the regular calendar. >> moving to your regular calendar. >> actually perfect timing since we have been now joined by director hine ecand this is a perfect someplace. i am talking a lot so you have time to sit down malcolm. since vice chair heinicke missed director nolan's last board meeting i would like to give you a opportunity to say a few words. >> the whole thing about me being in court in la cl is a

lie i just didn't want to come to the terms of the fact tom is leaving. thank you for this. my apologies to avenue wn and the public here for being tardy. i was in los angeles and dealt with a slight delay. i'm sure you all said wonderful things about tom. nice hair cut, by the way. [laughter] it took this--so, tom has been the epetomy of grace and style. a extremely accomplished transit leader and policy maker, but i suspect others spoke to and in addition to the amazing things he has done everyone who came on the body was treated with respect and warmth. it isn't all the accomplishments you see on the bill boards and transit awards, it is every day tom showed up and was classy and

personable and put a great face on the organization so that is what i'll remember about tom and the service not that he is going anywhere just not on the board anymore. i did of the notion it isn't just great transit leadership but leadership with people. the idea of a plaque commemorating tom's service not in one south van ness where it is hidden but somewhere in touch with the people the same way he was so propose that be in the station at castro street, the metro station at castro commemorated all tom has done for the city and it is a lot and tom it is greatly appreciated. [clapping] >> thank you, vice chair. perfect timing and now we can move to regular calendar. >> madam chair, just in recognition of what he proposed we will create and bring a

calendar item to you. >> thank you. moving to item 11 on the regular calendar. approving a protecting bikeway and parking and traffic modification aleast eastbound 13th street between folsom and street and bryant street. i wont go througharve traffic modification. there a few. >> thank you. who do we have presenting director reiskin?

>> good afternoon madam chair, directors of the board, director reiskin. my name is jennifer wong and i am a transportation planner from the sustainable street division of sfmta and i want to start out by thanking you all for giving

me this opportunity to present the eastbound 13th street safety project today. my project team and i have been working to bring some vital transportation safety and bicycle network connectivity improvements to this area. as quickly as possible, given the mayor's executive directive on bike and pedestrian safety and vision zero. this project takes place on 13th street in the eastbound direction largely from folsom street to bryant street. this area boarders two bustling neighborhoods, the mission and south of market. the street itself is located underneath a elevated freeway structure for the u.s. 101 and often times the area ask actually poorly lit, it is rather dark and noisy and loud.

but despite that, 13th street is becoming a increasingly well used cycling corridor that sees over 140 cyclists in the a.m. commute and this also connected to north/south routes like folsom and howard street and it provides a direct connection from the mission to cal train and vice versa and it also connects to some other high quality cycling facilities further alangoon division street including the city's first protected intersection at 9th and division. in addition to the providing a comfortable and inviting bike connection, another reason we are doing this project is to support vision zero, a policy that san francisco adopted in 2014 to

prioritize traffic safety and eliminate all traffic related deaths and severe injuries by 2024. in late simmer of 2016 the mayor issued the executive director of bike and pedest ran safety which bols that commitment. we are working toward vision zero by proi oratizing prime uvments on the streets where crashs are occurring the most. on 13th street, it's on the city's vision zero high injury network and those are the 12 percent of streets that account for 70 percent of all traffic crashs. in the past 5 years, 57 fatal injury crashs occurred on 13th street between folsom and bryant street and about a thirfd of those involve cyclist. as part the project we are working toward reducing the potential for conflict between various road users and

we are making these improvements in a quick and effective manner. the primary scope of the project is to implement a new protective bikeways where there iscurrently reamy nothing on the road for bikes. in order to accomplish this our proposal include removing 1 of 3 travel lanes and installing a protected bikeway. this project is also coronated with a future signal project that will install hard scape and signal hardware elements of the intersection of 13th street and bryant street. in order to create room for the bikeway, the project would reduce the number of through travel lanes in the eastbound direction from 3 to 2 and this takes place from south van ness to bryant street. there are currently 2 through lanes both

to the east and west of these extents kw the proposed it zine is hopefully to make it a more consistent through travel through the corridor. the first portion of the protected bikeway which is from folsom street to harrison street will feature a painted buffer along with flexible delineators to discourage motorist from encouraging to the bikeway. the bikeway design here does involve on street parking removal as a trade-off to providing a dedicated right turn lane to the rainbow garage and harrison street. right now when people are riding along 13th street, sometimes they encounter a queue of cars trying to make the right turns and they are on the right side of the cars and potentially

heading into a conflict, or they could be ride toog the left of the queued cars but against very high-speed traffic. in the new design people will be guided to the left of the right turning vehicles and they will have a little more buffer for moving traffic. from harrison street to bryant street the protected bikeway will take on a parking protected configuration and that means the bikeway will be located curb-side along with a floating lane of on street parking and the style of bikeway is really meant to accommodate on street parking while using that lane of parking as greater separation and more solid protection against moving traffic. this type of design can currently be

seen on the ground today on the westbound direction of 13th street. the improvements shown in the photo here were installed in 2015. lastly, this project is also coordinated with a 2818 signal project at the very comp lex intersection of 11th, 13th, division and bryant and now a motest that are trying to make a left turn from eastbound 13th on to northbound bryant street have to wait in the middle of a very large and busy intersection and the future signal project will provide a dedicated green arrow for the left turn duration. the future phase will also provide curb extensions rks which means extending the sidewalk space athround freeway column to

provide people waiting there to cross the street with more room and it also proitsds a little more visibility for those people to other road user jz vice versa. the public outreach for this praunlect has been productive and extensive. reached out to businesses, door to door. we have breached supervisor officers, met can advocacy group jz talked with nearby residents and also vetted our proposals to other city departments as well and i also like to highlight one specific instance is we received feedback from rainbow grocery which is a popular destation and anchor to the corridor and their feedback was instrumental helping shape and

solidify the design next to their building. i met with their board of directors to discuss initial design iteration we had and we also talked about their driveway operations and we were able to come together to a design that was context sense tchb to their location. my final slide is that of the project timeline and just want to say that our project started out with a concepual design phase just in december and if approved construction could take place in early summer of this year, however, given the urgency the mayor's directive, our team is working hard to put these improvements on a ground as soon as possible if approved. and, i thank you for your consideration. >> thank you very much mrs. wong. this is a good

presentation and great project. question, the delineators is what we all in the cycling community call the safe hit post snz >> yes. >> great. at the stretch at the rain bow grocery turning lane, will those delineators be on both sides the bike lane or between the moving traffic on the left and not 24 queuing cars on the right? >> initially we will put the posts to the left because we think that is where we get the biggest benefits. we do recognize there will also be the right turn lane against the curb that allows people to drive into the garage and it is possible we will consider that once we observe how well people are navigating that space. >> good. that makes sense because i agree it seems like it is more crucial to have them between the bikes and cars

going through traffic. i just want to opponent out that i heard a lot from members of the cycling community that is a favorite street when it raining because you protected by the rain so is nice to see a parking protecting and safe hit post bike lane there. any questions before we go to public comment? no. seeing none, thank you very much. we'll go to public comment. >> one member indicated interest. charl, defarj. >> great, mr. defarj. >> good afternoon directors. charles defarj community organize with san francisco bike collation. here to speak between folsom and bryant on behalf of 10 thousand plus members. this bikeway fill as porpt gap in the bike network. now people bike north along

folsom have few options to connect to dogpatch, design district and mission bay. rain bow grocery and the street food park are also difficult to access due to lack of bicycle facilities. the existing stretch of 13th street between folsom and bryant has three lains of fast tafic and dairjs for bikers. many ridesers choose it cut through parking lots and sidestreets to avoid 13th. this will open up the portion the brike network and can connect to existing infrastructure along 15 lth and division. the parking protection offers separation from automobile trachic increasing safety for a wide range of riders. we support the addition and look forward seeing more protected bikelanes in the fuch were. thank you for your time and jen wong and [inaudible] at sfmta on the project. >> thank you mr. defarj. mr.

gilberty. >> rainbow grocery is one of my routes once a week and then i roll to trader joe's. i catch the 47 back. i'm a little concerned, i didn't quite graphic where we do the rainbow line to pull into the garage. are we putting that next to the curb and are they using the same driveway into the garage or going around the corner to where the cars exist? i'm not sure about that, the design didn't work for me but just hope you can make it work because it is a terrible intersection apparently. thank you. >> thank you, mr. gilberty. anymore public comment? no, seeing none, directors? motion to approve. do i have

a second? all in favor, aye. all opposed? hearing none the item is apruchbed. mr. wong thank you very #34u67 for the presentation and congratulations on the project. i know the parking protected bike laneerize what the riding community want to see so well done. madam chair >> item 12, authorize the director to execute amendment 2 to contract with new flier of america to exercise the option to purchase additional 185-40 foot low floor trolley buses with spare parts, training manuals and tools for $244, 618, 583 and not to exseat $395, 0767, 3112 with no change to the term the contract. madam chair there is no member the public here expressing interest on the matter. >> mr. hailey i think you have a presentation for us. >> good afternoon madam chair,

board members. it's a lawner to be here to ask for your support today on what one of the final votes for chairman nolan we wanted to make it a significant one so what we will ask today is for your approval for what's wem may be the largest non emissions electric vehicle contract in north america for to purchase of 185 trolleys that will be introduced to services by 2019. in the spirit of today i do want to mention that this contract does complete a significant program that we played out over the last 5 years and it's as important for the region as a vote that

chairman nolan took on march 24, 198 ailth. 1988. you probably remember it well. mtc resolution 1876, which is significant. many already noted the projects that resulted from that resolution but what is significant about it was the fact it was really not just a series of projects, it was a project plan financing plan that allowed the region to build what is now the backbone of the transportation network and what is really significant about it, is that it want-it was accomplished by taking a group of organizations led by individuals with big vision but also big egos sometimes and to bring consenses on a program like that, that not only was brought but delivered is really

significant. i had occasion recently to talk to one the principles involved with the dlineration that led up to the passage and ultimately implementitation of the mtc resolution and asked him what he recalled about it because he was very much in the middle of it, and what he remembered he said, well, i remember that we could not have gotten the deal done without tom nolan done at mtc. i tell you this was a individual who was not a huge mtc fan at the time. but what it individual said was the way you were able to come to this deal, which was so influential and allowed the region, the bay area region to compete with our colleagues in the south for state and frad federal funding

but said tom nolan is number one a honest broker. number 2, he said he was not strident and was able to really work through. number 3, he also said look, this was a guy who time in and time out said, let rr look down the road, let's make a decision that will shape the quality of life for the future. i wanted to just note that for the record that as has been said earlier your influence on transportation in the region is significant so wanted to give you one more bite at the apple to make a vote today. you may recall a few years ago, we put in place over a 5 year period oo comprehensive fleet overhaul for our 800 plus rubber tire

vehicles. this is the last step in that process. this is taking aa look at replacing the most vulnerable fleet with an all electric which is our current technology and i would opponent out that we areope squn have been to emerging technology. the basis for our whole fleet plan shifted from diesel to hybrid because with our service profile and the need we have, we believed that was the right approach. this is aortstep forward in terms of the overall guiding principles. i think it is important to note here what we did and with your help and support we had a sense of urgency because the fleet is the face of the agency, the way that riders form their first impression of us so we move forward in a number of different ways. this

is a procurement we shared with cung county metro in seattle and that is because we are the two most significant-in fact we drive the market in north america. we have the two bigest systems in the united states. vancouver is comparable but only a hand full of systems kw their systems are very much smaller than ours. this was important to get to leverage that technology in terms of moving forward on our plan, there is tru-minding upgrade both with the buses and the trolleys for the riders, air conditioning in the trolleys, improvements in the strollers and interior. a lot of signage improvements, led rights and number of safety feature s and we continue to move forward working on all of our procurements and improving

the performance of the bus fleet. this is just a quick score card the progress we made and again this one is a significant procurement. it is the final woun so by 2019 under this arrangement all of these 185 will be delivered so you will have turned over an entire fleet of both buses and trolleys over about a 6 year period. and then that will allow us to move forward to get on a steady incremental procurement to keep the system moving and to institutionalize things like mid-life overhauls to maximize investment in the vehicles. this is something-this is just something we fallowed. the plan with your help and support-sthra sense of urgency for this. our existing eti

fleets some 202 that come out of potrero and presidio, they represent a relatively small percent of the mileage and over 40 percent the defects, roughly 20 percent the mileage, 40 percent the defects. all the manufacturers are out of business, they are well past useful life. we have scrapped some and when we scrap some we run a-let's call a salvage operation on those that are going out the door, so that we are able to stock a supply of parts. the other thing from a customer perspective and this is a mark contrast to the new vehicles, they have no off wire capability. north in other word if you are stuck or have a collision like we have a collision on the 33 anything coming behind it couldn't go around because it has no off

wire capability. the battery can go up to 5 miles an hour only for like a block and usually then we have to recover it. these are vehicles that have run 78 million miles as a fleet. they are generally ov17 years old and have served the agency and the city well and it is time for a change. in terms of the technology, the question on the table is well, okay, you're buying electric trolleys, why not just buy all electric buses. are we ready? the answer is while we are very much interested in that, the technology is not-we do not believe the technology is ready and murture for our operating environment t. isn't prove chb. the manufacturers will tell you that it is not ready for

our operating environment yet, but we are pleased that it's improvements ipthe battery life continue to go. so, for us to move away from the current technology at this point will be too risky and require a major capital invest ment to convert the facilities. however, the good news on this is, as we move forward and purchase these electric vehicles, if in fact the technology emerges and comes faster than most of the expert think, then converting these to all electric would simply be as easy as 1, 2, 3. one up grade the battery pack, tworks drop the pole, three, go. the point we are trying to make here is we have a urgent need now from

a performance standpoint. we are leveraging the best technology proven manufacturer and supplier and have a long standing relationship with and so until the technology electric matures and you may have seen the kind of things we are talking about charging station squz retooling facilities, that will take time so we are reming recommending wemove forward now. this is not a risk in a sense not being able to take advantage of best technology in terms of upgrades to batteries should it emerge but right now we are carrying 20 percent of our daily riders on the trolley fleet and there you see the key network. these 40 foot trolleys will go on the 30, the 45, the 1 california, the 2, the 3 key work horse routes in the system. so rks we need to make sure that we

use the best technology but also use proven technology. things that are reliable and make sure we get people from point a to point b effectively. in terms of the design of the new vehicles, not just with the trolleys but all of them, we took from the been ginning a hol istic approach and did outreacher. we have air conditioning and change seating layout, we have extra space and made accommodations for the maintenance people and where we located key components and made changes to the seating and operator compartment to add to the comfort. we made a better appearance as we changed a lot of the features of the bus in terms of the composition of the floor so it is able to clean and those type of things. we are moving forward with a best

technology available. in terms of the operational benefits one thing to note here, in the month of march we did two pimet experiments for two construction projects one in the outer folten and one valencia in the mission ran off wire for significant period of time and had good ruments the existing coaches, so that to us shows we are able as needed to use that capacity and intend to use it a little more and we'll continue to be at the table as the batteries become stronger and technology matures and develops, but i think the features the few bus across reliability as well as the ability to run off wire for the riders is very important. in terms of the environmental benefits, zero emissions, that

is zero as in less than 1, none. that's why i would suggest and go on a limb, it may be zero emission procurement in north america. we will have to check that to be sure, but this is potentially the last trolley procurement anyone will make not just us but the market in north america is small. the other significant city, seattle bought theirs ahead of us. vancouver is in for a few more years bought theirs 2 or 3 years ago, so this will be perhaps the swan song for this type of vehicle. we are ready for it, we think it is a right step forward and also ready to make the adaptations should the technology emerge faster. we believe that by the time 12 to

15 years from now when we stand in front of you and talk about this, that the technology will be electric will be mature and be in a all electric . this is i think a prudent step and right step have us to take in terms of being able to balance the risk of having to carry so many people in a very difficult operating environment. i think from a standpoint of if we were to turn a complete 180 away from electric trolleys now we incur significant capital cost to retool the facilities and create charging stations that will be necessary if woe went all electric so think this meets operational needs and position us to hit the city goals going forward in the future. the schedule is very good from our standpoint. we

work would new flier the last couple years and this is significant. we will basically take overthe production plant for them. they are large bus manufacturer but they have experience for years in building the trolleys as to the key manufacturers so this is-i ask your approval. this is something we believe will improve the transit service for the region, certainly improve reliability, improve passenger service, the safety with automatic polling and depolling among other safety features and again, this takes advantage of proven technology right now but does not preclude us from a more aggressive technology should the market dictate so. so, with that, i ask your support for moving this item

forward. >> thank you, mr. hailey. vice chair heinicke you have a few comments? let's do public comment first and come to questions. >> i have nobody who expressed interest. >> vice chair heinicke. >> thank you very much. director hailey and director reiskin rks thank you for a good presentation. i will talk about the future. if i were challenging my enter tom nolan i would tell myself to shut up but wont channel that tom nolan. so, you spoke to it and think you said this but just want to be clear that if the- i won't say if, when the technology comes around that these buses can have the polls removed and maybe take the wires out in certain places. it will be these buses that we can upgrade to electric without

connecting and have to buy new buses or component or significant new components? >> i will plead guilty as charged. i did say that. that is what happened. yes, they will be these buses. it is a question of, they run off a battery pack now and a pole, if the battery packs are strengthened or whatever the term is so you need a pole, you put the upgraded battery pack in this vehicle, two, you take the pole off and three, off you go. >> i guess my question is, is the time horize frn the ability to update these buses to do that similar to the time horizon anticipated for when electric buses can handle the environment? are we losing significant time investing in these bus oppose said to wait frg the technology to match different bus snz y i don't

think we know. the electric vehicle technology has definitely been improving in the last few years but we are also very confident that it is not yet-hasn't developed far enough to surfb our operating environment. i see one of our environmental managers here and he has been since early 2000 putting us on a course to get to all zero emission vehicles and think the path we are going on by buying these vehicles today by some the hybrid electric vehicles that can potentially be converted when the technology catches up i think is very much the best and prudent course to take. we are at a point where as director hailey mentioned, these buses that we rely on

today for a large portion the ridership are beyond their useful life and if we can retire tomorrow we would do so so the fact we have the opportunity to bring in 185 buses in less than 2 years is a phenomenal opportunity and if the electric technology catches up in 5 years versus 10, versus 15, we can convert at any opponent along that timeline. obviously should the-to the extent the technology appears to be there it will take a lot of time to test and evaluate and assure we get the same level for liability and it will take time to do the conversion, so i think no matter how optimistic your scenario is with regard to how fast the technology catches up , i think this is the right decision to make now and we will be monitoring it market closely and ready to adapt when the

tech knowledge is there. >> i mean that helps because that tells me is that technology upgrade or those advantments will not happen in the life of the contract so isn't in the middle of the contract you say we bought yesterdays technology. you talk about upgrated the stuff we buy and need in the next 2 years. >> the vehicles under the schedule john negotiated with new flier will have all the buses here by the end of 2019 so in a very short-that is from the last one. the first one will be delivered this calendar year. >> that answers the question and obviously do keep a eye on the ability to upgrade. it sound like you accounted for that. two other points, i notice in the accommodation the one for the baby stroller, i am glad you did that. i remember the baby stroller issue was a pain in the neck because in

part something chair nolan said we are showing the warmth and hos pitality that should be shown in the sate and on muni. i noticed as i wnt through the list of accommodations or modifications was the union consulted on that and it drivers have a chance to express their input both for safety and other reasons on the modifications? >> they have. this is i use the term a hol istic approach but from had beginning when before we bought with your approval in 2012 the first new vehicle we brought one down from santa rosa and put it on the apron and we had quite a turn-out. i dont know what they did with tape measures but there were seberal people measuring things. we could have given them the plans but there was a lot of attention. the drivers have not only

weighed in initially but also been up to the plant where they are manufacturing the vehicles to participate in that process as well. so, we are-there are some number as we talked about with there are 50 some changes to the interior design the vehicle that resulted from input from the disabled community. the same thing with these vehicles. >> thank you very much. >> i will mention just one final point because it has come up and feel like i owe you a response. in terms of the vehicles and rattling noises, what we'll do as the calendar permits and bring you to the-certainly ready to go any time, we identified potentially 11 places that can potentially vibrate on one of the new vehicles and cause level of noise and generally-each of them require relatively minor

adjustment, so we will at one of the upcoming meetings walk you through that so you can feel comfortable that we are addressing any potential noise or vibration issues that may be coming but i will say as we were talking about earlier one the common variables in the noise and variation ofz the noise is we have taken bus out is uneven pavement, so we will work together on that as well. thank you. >> thank you, mr. hailey. sorry mr. gilberty isn't here to hear that. directors, any other questions? drether ramose. >> thank you so much for this director hailey and congratulations, i think this is a fantastic move and couldn't be more excited about this vote. as we acquire new buses and as our infrastructure changes on the streets of san francisco as we start to get

more protected bike lanes like the slide we just adopted and other things that make our streets more constrained, our efforts under way to make sure the buses are as easy to steer and turn as they might need to as they navigate through ever more congested streets and as we try to avoid accident in the future with our collisions i shds should say with vehicles or anything else a operator may have to navigate through? >> in terms of the vehicles itself, in each of the now 6, 7 procurements there has been adjustments made. not so much to the steering, but position size of where mirrors could be located. we check the turning radius and make sure-certainly

this is one of the premier bus manufacturers in the world, so we work with them and we had inspectors from the beginning as well as our own mechanics at the plant to participate in the process and they have been-new flier has been very accommodating in any changes. generally i think in terms of you are correct in the both from a congestion standpoint and street landscape and competition for increase space increasing so very mindful of that and work with the folks in traffic engineering and look at all the places location squz collisions that have problems and try to come up with the best remedy. we work with our training department also to make sure the operators have the right kind of training for the vehicles, but the vehicles we continue to take advantage of the best technology we can

get in terms of the features on the bus. >> thank you very much. glad you consider it. >> director hsu. >> thank you, chair. this years little league per aid come to a grinding halt because of a bus that became disconnected so have seen this in practice. one question i had about the new buses is how far they can go without overhead power? >> they were test-the 60 footers in services now were testing vigorously. they have gone across the city from ocean beach to the transbay term inal. that was the test route. also during the-they can go that distance if you will. they also can go at 40 miles a hour, which has become a little problem because the smoothness the ride, the operators tend oo drop the poles pulling out, so

that is something we had to watch, but i think what the key take away from the two pilots in march is the long evty. these vehicles were out and in some cases for 18 hours. the trolley schedules are a little different. the vehicles themselvestened to be on the street longer than the buses or rail cars. so, this was very comfortable and will continue to look at that for periods of time, a couple weeks we had vehicles out there, 18 hours a day running off-wire. i think we are monitoring that very closely and also the battery life to make sure if we run more off the wire we will take a baby here and baby step there and try to run and get the next in addition to running off we like to look fairly soon at running some scheduled service

off the wire in addition to the construction project. we will make note-special note of little league prur parades making sure they will run off wire in the future, but thank you for that. >> thank you, mr. hailey. i do want to recognize we have a representative from new flier here, which i think is really a good recognition of the strong relationship that your company has built with mr. hailey's team so thank you very much for coming here today. i'm sorry, i forgot your name, i know i met you. very nice, thank you for coming. directors do i have any other questions? director borden. >> i take the 14 r all the time and the trolleys are better and look forward to seeing more out there. >> vice chair heinicke. >> i will move this and have

one other question but dont want to step on chair nolans tows. >> i wond er what considerations were given for safety features and driver safety with view toward pedestrian safety. it is a tag along question to director [inaudible] earlier question. >> question is on safety features? >> right, for the driver and their ability to see. >> well first of all, the visual, the two things for the passengers to see the vehicle coming the led lights have been something we got positive feed pm back on so you see the vehicles coming and see the destation sign clear. for the operator everything from the seat to the height and padding in the seat and steering wheel-since all our operators

are not-we went through a process where we were able to get flexibility in the designing of the seats so they had the best lines of site. we also worked with our training department and teaching operators in certain locations how to prevent themselves and present the vehicle to give them the best visibility in addition to the obvious. we are very sensitive to the mirrors have been designed with the operators input at the factory and that's important. the camera features that some of which are on the lrv we think will come to these that will be another safety feature so we are looking at again taking advantage of all the technology and there is in the diagnostics for the operator as you get more and more sophisticated in the vehicles

themselves they have computers where they-sthra computer in the eti, but you know, it's a very different-it is a very computer from 20 years ago and givethen state of computers you know what that means. i do think there is a number of safety feepers. it is something we can committed to do and look at and i think also when you consider what the new radio system, which weopethen tmc in may, the new radio sitsm will be installed on all the buses in may and that gives a whole another set of information. everything from are you on schedule to speed to the operators that will help them safely maneuver the vehicles so excited about all that. >> thank you, mr. hailey. >> i'll make it a comment. as this comes along and we have the new technology i was

surprised by the answer they can run the length the city without the poles. i hope we revisit the protocules for the drivers for what to do when the pole comes off because if the technology is such the bus can keep going i think it can do a lot for efficiency of the line if you have to driver keep going. don't want to say that is what we should do but factor the technology what we tell the drives with the pole coming off. >> some of that is making the policy decision on the fly. i was on a bus and dewired and the bus kept go{kept all the people on the bus and there were a lot from being inconvenienced. >> maybe if we make that a policy and thank you for riding mune muni. >> wasn't there a problem with the pole s coming opand hitting somebody? didn't we have a case about that? >> there was and just another one of inimproved features of

the vehicleicize the poles automatically restract, so on the older ones it is a feature they dont have. >> now the wire snaps down. alright, do i have examine quegdss or comments? i have a motion, i have a second. >> i like to comment i couldn't vote against it after what director hailey said about me. [laughter]. >> all in favor, aye. all opposed? no. hearing none the motion is approved. >> item 13 discussion vote to pursuant to vote whether to go into closeed session. >> all in favor, aye. opposed no? we'll ed session. [board closed session]. >> announcement of the closeed session met in closeed session to discuss the case with the itisy attorney. board of directors voreted to settle both caizs. item 14 is a motion to disclose or not

disclose the information. >> do where is a motion >> not to disclose. >> a second. >> all in favor not to disclose. opposed? hearing none. >> that conclude the business before you today. >> we rujourned. thank you very much tom nolan. come back-feel free to come back and sit in the audience and give public comment. [meeting adjourned]

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>> (clapping.) >> i want to thank some of our special guests mayor ed lee and

assembly david chiu and supervisor norman yee and supervisor fewer thank you for being here we have detrimentally from the sfmta, we have the general manager of rec and park phil ginsburg and i get that wrong change your name the director of the department of the environment deb reaping and we have the traffic commander online suicidal and we have folks from supervisor safai's office the da's office and i think we got everybody thank you for being here. and thank to our sponsors and kelly and others and the bayview

rapid transit and recotton and the sfmta thank you for your support. >> (clapping.) >> so walk to work today is, of course, about walking that is very simple act that putting one foot in front of each other or cheers throughout the streets it is more that an amazing day not only people keeps us healthy and prevents chronic diseases that are plea of not guilty our country but built communities on the street walking is thing helping economically and keeping us healthy for decades to come >> (clapping.) >> and it is an equalizer everyone has equal access to a simple mode of transportation

walking might seem simple for pedestrians it is not we'll wait for the ambulance (sirens) this is not my lucky can i for my last conference between the rain and the - but we'll continue to people choose to live in san francisco and choose because they walk this is to say about every single trip in san francisco starts and end with walk and 25 are solely walking in the city that is incredible and today, we highlighted projects that will help encourage more people to walk and san francisco the most walkable city in the country we

highlighted octavia street opening opened for people right next to patricia ground zero and highlighted did neighbor way that is transforming page street into a more walkable gastrolovingly place for access and now we're here and city hall to celebrate walk to work today those great projects can make us the most walkable city in the country and proud of the work the city has done and the community as you may know is today is my last walk to work to today and the third week i will be your partner across the bay with my new job with the city of oakland one thing i'll good a the three is hiring and we have

a wonderful team at walk sf who will continue our movement going forward so with that, i'm having the loudmageddon phone to our inventor executive director that will continue to have a loud voice and partner with the city to make walking assessable for everybody. >> yeah. wow. >> (clapping.) >> thank you nicole and on on behalf of the pedestrians in san francisco everyone that walks in san francisco thank you for your hard work and dedication and our heart the city it much better because of you so thank you, thank you. >> (clapping.) >> yeah. >> so, now i have the distinct pleasure of introducing our first speaker a long time advocate for people and walking

and pedestrian safety the mayor of our great city mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> thank you educating for the interrogation and big thank you to annual walk to work today, i walk from my office (laughter) i didn't take the accelerator but want to say good morning and add my things to nicole i know that she does great work will be walking across the bay but had loot talent to work together i've enjoyed the walks but the folks we've had to on the streets i know that everybody enjoys the improvements along haight street and i know we have so many departments with the county of transportation us i

think that is one of the most walkable city's in all of the country and more people walking more than ever and even today that is not rain how important is seattle that is not rain but you know a that's why we work together to improve all the streets and make them more walkable and usable and safe who you're walking by or taking carpools or the bus safety is the number one, what we've been working to make everybody's experiences or experience that much more safe we've lowered the speedometers still over 90 miles of bike way improvements and also that's why i'm supporting senator change of venues legislation to add the technology to san francisco to

be the model for the rest of the state. >> (clapping.) >> and that's why traffic calming would the record reflect to make sure that streets are also green connections for all of us the greener we make the pathways the more enjoyable a they'll be so our commitment as a city to make sure that everybody is traveling to our city safe that is enjoyable, that with the leadership of supervisor yee and other members of the board and the sfmta and all the departments wsht we'll accomplish that goal together we'll make sure that we'll continue making the streets safer for everyone so, now my pleasure to introduce a friend and partner in our state legislature david chiu

(clapping.) thank you, mr. mayor for your leadership welcome to sunny san francisco as i've been in the state legislature i realize how much i take for grant walking i used to walk to work i have asked 90 mile commute that would packing take me two days to walk rather than walking through the beautiful neighborhoods running into people in the state of california i recently came to learn how easy to take the physical acts of walking for granted as you may know 200 muscles in the body it takes to walk because of my 13-year-old this weekend started to walk. >> (clapping.) >> he started to run a little bit of a problem but another thing we take for granted when we walk the streets

nothing happens it is wonderful by taking it for granteds those of you in collisions and family members or loved one that have been in horrible tragedies on the streets you, you know this is 0 not something to take for granted i want to thank you for moving with vision zero with the mayor for your leadership and the former colleagues on the board of supervisors for our unwavering commitment all the department head and advocates all over the city we know to our work is not done there is too many people every 18 hours small business smoking gun someone is struck on the streets of san francisco walk sf educated me on a solution we've not tried that worked in over one and 40 community in the it united states that has helped to drop it by 80 percent and helped to end serious and facility collisions because of you we've introduced our safe streets in

2017, 8042 allows san francisco and commissioner dejesus to piloted the enforcements to reduce speeds up on the streets of san francisco this is a challenge i've had more meetings on that bill than another other 20 plus bills i've moved change is not easy he know with the dedication of walk sf with the leadership behind me and the leadership in front of me with the voices that all of you represent we will take the steps we need to make sure that some do soon, we'll actually see a vision of no fatalities on the streets of san francisco thank you for being part of vision and thanks for being here today. >> (clapping.) >> and with that, is my honor to introduce someone who has been a leader on safety and knows just how hard our streets

can be give it up for supervisor norman yee for district 7. >> (clapping.) >> thank you assembly david chiu and mayor for being here and supporting walk to work i'm supervisor norman yee supervisor the district 7 and i take those words from essentially chu seriously in regards to never take for granted that we can always walk ahsha safai in our streets right now, i'm one of the victims a little bit over ten years ago, i was according in a crosswalk a car decided wouldn't have a chance i lost i know how hard it is to be safe open our streets that's why i'm so k34i78d to making sure that we have the vision of vision zero by the year 2024 and it is

going to happen because of leadership from people like assembly chu people like mayor ed lee, people like elsewhere this is standing up here to enforce this what walking is so important i love walking i used to walk to work from chinatown to the castro when i was a kid for 10 years it costs too much to take the muni (laughter) we didn't have free muni for kids then so i love walking why? because i have lake merced i get to see not only the boundary but the outside and i also see literally hundreds of people walking and running and jogging

around there i run into people all the time i love walking in the evening looking at my neighborhood just to see my step outside the box thousand steps a day what is important to medical you continue to would the record reflect in partnerships and it really, really do appreciate what mayor ed lee is doing to get behind vision zero to let's walk walk to work guys and right now another reason we're reaching this vision zero because of the dedication of another learn had the director of sfmta ed reiskin. >> (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor norman yee and assembly simulate chu and mayor ed lee happy walk to work today that is a remembered to all of us what a great

experience to walk in the great city of san francisco everybody took one or two trips they'll otherwise go in a car and did it on foot each week we'll have a less congested city and safer city and cleaner air we'll be individually healthier and more opportunity to make connections with our neighbors it is a win, win, win win all around that's why we at the sfmta with the leadership and support of all our elected leaders the sfmta droekz and all working together with the neighborhood working hard to make walking a better option for more people everyday we're doing that by redesigning our streets to make them safer and doing if by supporting the police department and focusing enforcement on the behaviors liking to lead to serious

collision willow we're pushing with the partners an education to make everybody aware of the fact to slow down and ebay the rules and watch where you're going and that's why we're working hard to support good sound database policy change such as the safe streets act that assembly member chu is leading and make our streets safer and grateful for the support of mayor ed lee and jan to get in legislation through with all of these things in motion we can get to vision zero and will get there by 2024 eliminating traffic kathy's no people should be seriously hurt or killed so why not i want to join in thanking for her great

service thanks everybody. >> (clapping.) >> new supervisor kim. >> yeah. wow. >> yes. >> actually sf walk reminded me this morning that i got to participate in the very first walk to work today back in 2011 there was 3 of us elizabeth and myself and another lady we were accompanied by the san francisco examiner that it is been my honor to walk to walk to work today every single day since that year the very first hearing when i joined the board of supervisors was a public safety he represent my sdrinthd that had the highest injury corridors and the collisions between drivers and pedestrians and this

was an issue that many of my diversifies neighborhood whether the tenderloin or south of market and mission street i mission bay that is something all of our residents understand and relate to and few people if that didn't know someone that was hit by a car going to work or school that is been my honor to work with the constituents at walk sf and our board of supervisors to achieve a goal of vision zero and i wanted to congratulate all the partners here today including sfmta and last year, we had a reduction in pedestrian fatalities here in san francisco from 19 to 15 and while this may not sound like a huge number 4, additional lives that go home to their families and contributing to the community we know that each of those are 100 percent

preventable those deaths thank you assembly member david chiu for taking the stance of moving forward with this this is something we for many years were lobbying the representative ♪ sacramento from other countries addendum speed conformity slows down and achieving vision zero while that was a critical issue we're glad to have a representative ♪ sacramento you most all we'll not move forward without legislation of years of lobbying and want to recognize some of the community leaders in district 6 they will and breath this issue everyday who chair and vice chair the advisory committee and alex rogers who is here and ascends all the

meetings and finally i mentioned elizabeth earlier but want to thank another great leader around this issue and who has really elevated this issue to the awareness that is fera >> (clapping.) >> supervisor norman yee and i wanted to present something so what are we are doing now, now that shows scored across the bay area that is amazing i had nick over a month ago talking about how we need to spread that work in san francisco and actually creating a statewide family we're going on and on and

on and on when he heard that day about spreading the good work of san francisco i didn't mean for her to leave san francisco but spread the work for 4 years in san francisco and she's came across the board as the ed of walk sf about the i became a supervisor i feel we have a strong partnership in creating what we created in san francisco and hopefully by 2024 not only in san francisco but in the east bay we will have a vision zero of no fatalities on our streets so shows a wonderful person that has testified it was amazing when we contact from the conference in new york realizing that two things were really

important that gets you will us to our goals one of them being the automated speed enforcement issue she is an advocate for and the other piece while the voices of the families that are affected by those collisions those project collisions we wouldn't get too far with that and you know what, she went ahead and created that organization and it is the strongest voices up in sacramento to get things done so that is a yes. >> (clapping.) >> so today, we want supervisor kim and myself want to make a proclamation but today is proclaimed march 6, 2017 as the her day.

>> thank you. >> i'm putting this on my wall thank you. >> (clapping.) >> well, thank you so much i feel so loved and i will continue to stay in touch and be your partner across the bay and really, really want to thank everyone today, i love those events it shows how many people care about walking and this movement we appreciate your partnership so i'm honored and really just loves love and keep on walking and moving forward together thank you

happy walk to work >> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that

we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we

worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for

me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.

>> commissioner willie adams. commissioner kimberly brandon, commissioner kounalakis, commissioner doreen woo ho. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor say aye. item two public comment. >> public comment is closed. >> item four executive session. >> so moved. >> we are now in executive >> madam secretary. >> the commission has