>> good afternoon, everyone moblgd welcome to the wednesday, april 26, 2017, this is the regular meeting of the the rules committee i'm commissioner safai the chair to my right is

commissioner fewer and our clerk that derrick evans and thank you sdpovd for staffing this meeting marry >> yes. members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. eating and drinking is not prohibited in the greener please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. items acted upon today will appear on the may 2, 2017 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you mr. clerk, call item no. commission. >> term, to the bay conservation and development commission. >> following the pole of supervisors supervisor peskin has been asked to be appointed by mr. coaker any initial comments supervisor peskin recovered to the clerk of the board survey on march first stating healed to serve on the

commission do either of you have questions or statements as to the folks to make about that seeing none, let's hear from public comment any public comment on this item? >> good afternoon david pilpal i'm in support of supervisor peskin i think he'll do an excellent job representing the city an bcdc got lots of experience i happened to be in conversation request the clerk about the manner in which these kinds of appointments of board members to both sides are handed and suggested it should list as information and bottom one seat one applicant line supervisor peskin in the way that public appointments are made because a

member of the public wouldn't know unless we want to the packet that supervisor peskin just read a hearing took place jefferson this will provide more information but on substance fully supportive that have this appointment. >> thank you would anyone else from the public like to comment speakers have 2 minutes speak your name and if you have documents for the clerk please leave them for us. >> is there any additional public comment? >> like to make a note supervisor yee a member of the house so the house has changed commission comments and questions. >> i'd like to continue the conversation that the gentleman brought of normally i noticed that normally the name is there the supervisor at this time was omitted. >> might have been an

oversight. >> mr. chair since this is a the member of the board of supervisors this is done different i'll start putting the names of supervisors on the poll. >> thank you any other comments seeing none, can i entertain a motion to recommend to the with a positive recommendation for sxhooerpz. >> yes. absolutely. >> i make a motion to move supervisor aaron peskin on the bay conservation & development commission to the full board. >> mr. clerk, call item number. >> item no. 2 - motion approving/rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of art torres to the municipal transportation agency board of directors, for a term ending march 1, >> the municipal transportation agency board of directors, for a term ending march 1, 2021. >> great, thank you mr. clerk

unless initial comments from the committee let's hear from art torres mr. torres come forward mraul yes, thank you. >> yes. mr. chair a members a pleasure to be here and honored by this appointment by the mayor i have been in brooefls the last two weeks to get a sense of where this agency a moving and spoken to at least two of you earlier this week as to the issues maybe important to you and your districts as a former legislature i'm incentive nest to the community input that is important as we moved that that agency be sensitive and also a deep commitment from me to vision zero the impact on it in the city of san francisco i first moved here to san francisco in 1996 when i became

chairman the democratic party and have lived in the beautiful city i'm not return to los angeles any time soon (laughter) i'm open to any questions. >> colleagues any questions forces senator torres. >> yes. hello senator not had a chance to meet and had a conversation so did questions will be probably answered from my colleagues so i see this is for the mta the municipal transportation agency and i see your resume didn't have any background in transit at all perhaps i'm reading the resume wrong i reviewed it and see a strong knowledge of

transit especially in san francisco so can you elaborate on to your experiences. >> my apologies wisconsin you were not available to meet a former must be the transportation committee not in my resume i worked with the state and caltrans and clearly as a legislature representing los angeles with a combination of the regular calendar so had consistent relationships certainly not in san francisco other than a rider and others utilization of the system a keen awareness of what is going on around me rind no transit you get a sense and that fresh approach is better than a

transit official i understand your sensitivity. >> what do you think is one the biggest issues of our is facing our public transportation system in san francisco. >> there are many the switch back is i've indicated i'm concerned about the whole issue dealing with the taxi driver and the impact of other legit and vision zero that is very close in fact, i think that supervisor yee was one of the opponents of that was very good to see that action was going to be taken ♪ direction in my opinion had it reviewed much of the data i have already it is clear a lot of the issues could have been prevented by more education and continuing education of operators of vehicles yes, ma'am those that operate during the evening where

month the eltsd have occurred and look at carefully where we deal with the environmental review and how the exception about work for various communities as well and the other is the intensity and the density of the people 200 and 75 thousand parking spaces in san francisco that may or may not be enough there is argument on both sides but the issue we'll have to buy more buses and more light rail vessels and the agency proposing to do this will have an impact in terms of alleviating much of the traffic we drive regularly around the city >> so the biggest mta project we have is the rtc it is controversial from the beginning many of my constituents are for it and the problem is the

transportation has not plan to connect my district with 80 thousand people to san francisco how did table this what are are some of the ideas to context public transportation for the use of public transportation connecting my district to mission bay and beyond on the southeast side of city. >> i'll sit down with w you to get the information i'm not an expert but having drooeven around the richmond district many, many times and spent a lot of time i understand the needs but don't know the solution i believe the formula is talking to people and listening i think that is going took key and the proposal you might have i'm sensitive to because they come from the community if kind of constituent is important to making public policy decisions

and can you comment on the mta budget and i noticed revenue generating can you talk about that the budget and some of the changes i'll make in the budget or you'll recommend to the budget. >> that is prefuture mature to answer i've looked at the budget and seen the revenue sources and looked at how the budget is provided but no time to actually revenue where improvements can be made or additions and subtractions but again, the people that represent this communities are not the members of the board it is you the supervisors and that's why i go back to that as a board member i have to listen as i did when i was a member of the imp listen to the issues from the community voices sometimes they feel neglected and not heard that has to

chance. >> and what do you think about the relationship between the mta and the transportation authority. >> and can you comment on any the projects their currently working on collaborating anticipate if you'll strengthen that relationship or a need for that relationship to be alternated. >> again that is premature to answer i need time to look at the issues and i plan on taking that time i don't come lightly to making decisions and talk with people and then take and glean from that what kind of decisions should be made and thanks thank you. >> further comments supervisor yee. >> thank you there's been thanks for the answers that from the questions of supervisor fewer i think the

they were excellent questions one of the intention that we've been some of us have been interested in and in fact, a study to look at tunneling more of the system underground i know that for mitch the m line on the west side has been some thorough discussions where a potential or going underneath in fact, the circle all the way out and beyond to park merced they're taking it seriously and eventually we'll have to look at funding that's one and i suggest that even studying the issue of whether the k line out of the

west portal tunnel can be also put underneath out to the bart station balboa so whites your attitude about muni having more lines underground like they do in new york and other plays plaza is. >> it is important given the density that is out there and how you move people on a projected and timely fashion sometimes going underground maybe the answer we grappled with that in la i was negotiating with the people who consolidate the mta this was concern it took awhile for the wilshire line because the gas and earthquake issues sfraul first of all, you need an eir that looks at the issues the number one, priority has to be the movement of people waiting 20 or thirty minutes for a bus

is not appropriate when you look at those issues we've talked about that because i used to spend weekend and in west portal in uc that community was very sensitive to transportation issues very sensitive i think you had a lot of professionals that utilized that west portal line to come into downtown san francisco, california be enhanced by looking at more opportuni opportunity. >> i probably wouldn't ask other candidates since you're well round where do you think we can find do billions of dollars to do this. >> well, i know that supervisor president london breed is concerned about the bonds how we implement appropriately those bonds any other hat is vice chair of the california stem governing are

board we operated with the sale of go bond that fund the $3 million of research for cureable disease it is difficult when you look at those those bond revenues will be coming from in the future we laboratory 2018 for bonds for parks or other dams and infrastructure as well as for housing that ballot of 2018 will be horrendous when it comes to statewide issues people say that's a good idea but is have a debt service your luke the ways to finance that's modern an appropriate way to go as long as you balance versus the needs that is out there front of the policymakers. >> thank you great we'll pause for a moment senator

torres and open up for public comment any members of the public that wants to come up to speak you - a reminder two minutes. >> david pilpal i have a long history with mta since it's creation going way back i want to comment on a few thing and reenforces your question and senator torres we have a nominee who go demonstrates independence from the mayor from you really do the right thing by our transportation need certainly broadly but choose independent and listens to diverse voices and issues where there are strong opponent supporter easy opponents this is important to listen to the voices for a look

at people be looked what the mta did don't feel heard by the mta or the board it is important that change and the third thing that the next person serving need to take the time both to hear what staff is recommending and talk with people again from different sides are p having worked with senator torres he is qualified to do all those things and my exceptions and hope that the shared exceptions and certainly having worked with him when he served on the puc that is actually use to be part of puc that involved a lot of complicated issues and city infrastructure so the mta really is not much different in terms of infrastructure and complications i think his service on the puc is well to

serve on the mta board i'm optimistic and hope those comments are heard i look forward to coming to the mta meetings on those issues. >> thank you is there any public comment seeing none. >> before we entertain a motion i just want to say i had the opportunity to meet with senator torres i felt refreshing supervisor fewer will appreciate that having a background and experience from underserved community in san francisco los angeles and his career gain in boil heights and east la and sharing a feeling as though constituent is not served by the governing agencies or the

representative in city government that divide our indict in the excelsior and outer mission in terms of vision zero and schematic safety and public safety and general serve we talked about switch backs i'm not sure those are happening in the richmond by happening in other parts of the city where emergency room is served a major concern it is happening in our district supervisor yee i appreciate that experience and think your experience senator coming to the table and bringing back and the understanding of that perspective and being open to listening to the voices of parts of the city have not felt they've been heard that is a valuable asset i appreciate and thank you for accepting the opportunity to serve on the mta colleagues any other future

comments or someone make agree motion. >> sure before i make a motion i want to say that one of the things that strikes me in regards to senator torress expertise is not so much about transit but expertise how you build the community it is something that i feel could be strengthening within the department and having someone that willing to be a role model and in communities general plan amendments is an important factor for me to when i consider someone rather than if they know how to do tables over and over how to fix a cable car so i'd like to recommend or make a motion to approve the mayor's nominations for the appointment

of art torres to the mta. >> with a positive recommendation. >> thank you chief suhr wanted to make one more comment. >> yes. this is the first time i've had a conversation with the senator that is premature to feel comfortable with a with a positive recommendation before that goes before the full board i hope we talk about more so i request a roll call vote. >> okay. >> roll call vote on a with a positive recommendation for the full board of the appointment of senator art torres to the municipal transportation agency broshgsdz roll call. on the statement. >> supervisor fewer. >> can you repeat. >> this is on a motion to. >> send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> >> no supervisor fewer 0 no

supervisor yee supervisor safai we have two i's would think outside the box no with supervisor fewer in decedent. >> thank you mr. clerk, call item no. 3 - item no. 3 - item no. 3 - item no. 3 - toument toument the police commission, for a term ending april 30, 2020. >> >> mr. hirsh is here i'm honored to be mayor's honoree i'm a lawyer lived in the district for 38 years and haight for 38 years we've raised and family my wife and i in the city and worked as an attorney initially as a labor lawyer

representing unions around northern california and went out and a the firm person we were the largest manager in the city and used the money to create jobs by investing in the real estate and mostly in california but throughout the united states 11 years ago i became a mediator our and an arbitrator when i went out on my own and since that time been a mediator our for the federal court and alameda county and have a private practice i mediate case and done a lot of work in san francisco 2012 i mediated the contract with the building trade and 2013 i negotiated and mediated the drug testing

program for the trades and 2014 the contract between global one between san francisco that was a monumental one and 20 agencies there were one hundred plus people in the room that went on for 2 1/2 months and stilt over arrest transmission since then my work as a mediator our and arbitrator includes work with law enforcement i spent a lot of time working with homeland security on labor issues and worked with sheriff's department and police departments meeting of the and arrest concentrating discuss the if necessary it is clear after doing the work i have a tremendous respect for the did the police officers don't have jobs like the rest of us we spend our lives trying to avoid

conflict and violence and those folks take an oath to do the exact opposite their job is not that i have tremendous respect for the people that have to do that in the work itself by the same token outreaching i've seen what people see on television a clear abuse of force by police officers and police departments all across the country it is not my view of roaming police officers that is system ethic the way we've involved policing across the united states i do respect san francisco by reaching out to the department of justice and essentially do a top to bottom review of the police department they did that last year and came out with a comprehensive

reporting over 200 pages i've read it twice as an appendix over 200 pages and there are just remarkable recommendations being made i applaud the current commission and the new chief in theirs desire to implement those changes and that's what is happening right now i think i have the right background i didn't want to be one of the people that sits added home and cures at my television the combine of all 3 are the most important i think something i think about and i felt about two years ago i needed to get involved i have the right skills i want to go on to the commission i'll do myself as an independent commissioner, i building in convention and collaborative work but think more myself and want to know

what the different community in san francisco think i'll meet with different communities and want to know with the poa knows and meet with their rank and file there are other employee organization within the police department i want to meet with them and know has much as a i request to make intelligent decisions about the policing i have to say something about the federal government and the administration the trump administration is an o negation i applaud san francisco and sacking and the other cities and counties for staunt up to the fact we are a sanctuary city that your police force is not intended to be used as immigration agencies agent they have a service to perform for the people of san francisco and protect and they're not to be

federal listed i'll hope to be part of a commission that doing everything we can to make sure that the federal government didn't federal listed or nationalize our police department there are big issues i talked with a couple of 3 current commissioners in the past week know the big issues about stun guns and have issues about implementing should find recommendations made and the department of justice and i like to play a part in that the last thing i want to say i found out monday that i needed to ask people to come and speak on my on behalf of i sent a friendly e-mail toubt to my friends many are here not only did that he show up but put on nice clothing i've attended board meetings and watched most or settings of

meeting that took place this year and familiar what is said and what the chief issues on federal issues i watched so i open up for questions. >> thank you, mr. hirsh colleagues questions for that will be hirsh. >> thank you. i have a few questions one of them in regards to staffing of the police department as you may know - well, a number we're trying to reach we've been trying to reach for over a decade and we're i'm hopeful that we'll reach that number in terms of the academy training and sfoeshthd and so part of then is what then?

type of question do we go beyond that number or what should we do that's a question i've thrown out through i'd like to know your views on what the role of the police commission should be in determining staffing. >> number one, we're an independent body the commission is an independent cbo body if i'm on the commission i'm an independent member but for staffing i'll not more expertise an staffing than the chief or than the department or the captains of the stations i mean, i'll dispute they rely on what recommendations are made i think the magic number is 1971 to have 19 hundred and 71 officers on the street we need 22 hundred employed i don't know what it

takes to get there i don't have a feeling whether 1971 is right or should be higher in a chief says to the commission in question need 2000 outline people on the streets see here's why i want to listen and current argument i want to hear those two but hoping 9 money will be there to hire those folks i don't have a better answer i don't know enough to know what the staffing level should be. >> for our information. >> right. >> there's legislation that has been passed to look at future staffing numbers; right? and the police commission was asked and willing to create a task force made up of a variety of stakeholders including range and file for a community process

that is important it doesn't come from the police department that i need so many because then no vetting so that's the process i'm hoping if you're a commissioner you can understand that better and support it. >> i absolutely support my group that involves community input the community policing is critical and i just don't know right now whether the city is - i know you proposed and talked about that personally i know you proposed the legislation. >> it passed. >> right. >> i don't know know right now where the city it in implementing and funding. >> at the board of supervisors more recently, we had debates and discussions around whether we wanted to support too this

funding from the federal government as for the bay area and part of that funding is a project a program or training that alamed or contra-costa alameda. >> they're part of the funding that will fund this training in which the fire department or emergency workers what attend called urban shoe much the criticism of that program is that the training teaches militarization of personnel including who goes there so many of us on the board of supervisors were not happy with that and we're actually finding ways where we could separate ourselves from that type of

training in the future so i don't know, you know you much about this but what would be your attitude before is this. >> i don't know i'm not a fan of the militarization of the police department i i don't think that police department should look like occupying resources i don't know what strings will be attached to the training and money i'll have to know more if you're concerned about that and the board of supervisors is concerned about it i'll be concerned about it i don't know where i come out on the final question but as a city i want to know. >> the other legislation that has been passed this something i authored to look at i had that discussion with you did neighborhood crime units in regards to - there was a

discussion last year around what it should look like whether or not we should be involved as policymakers or leave the police department to its own sort of thinking in this and the legislation that i'm reintroduced because it failed actually didn't fail it passed the board of supervisors by a vote of 7 to 3. >> and it was immediately voted by the mayor and then his legislation or something he supported went to the people and failed so right now, we're really don't have a policy around this and so i've been working with trying to work with the police department and commissioners to talk about what it should look like what is your thoughts on that. >> can i ask you first what is

your concern about the neighborhood policing. >> i think my reaction was the legislation proposition that went forward was pushing for centralized unit taking away that percentage of the police force should be part of centralized unit and triggered at the number of 1971 and again as long as you trigger and get up to that number you'll take away 16 police officers from the police station for the centralized unit so to me someone that cares about my community and taking away officers from our neighborhood is a no no. >> right. >> but then it wasn't i reacted i asked a bunch of people including chief suhr what is the best way to handle that that is

the major concern. >> i know that the commission goes around and meets with all the different departments - all the stations and all the districts i want to do that whether i do it as part of formalized meeting one it meeting a month around the city stations or i do it on my own i want to know for example, from you and the community members in europe districts what are their issued and happening there what problems do you have and take that back to the commission and the best i can tell you i've considered any issues that comes up i can't see ignoring a complaint raised we a number of the board of supervisors i hear you when it comes to staffing that's an issue i suspect that's an issue in all district i live in the haight all i see the

issues in the parks and neighborhood see south africa staffing is critical and i appreciate that and one probably not a question i just hadal community meeting with district 7 with the chp and several of the the captains that was i wanted to i want to put that out there i felt so again that actually a police commissioner showed up for the meeting also i've never seen a commissioner another any of the meetings with the police captains. >> i'll take that to heart. >> any other questions before we go to public comment. >> supervisor fewer. >> no actually thank you, mr. hirsh for spending time with me

to ask you questions about policing in san francisco and i appreciate your time thank you. >> okay. great so thank you, mr. hirsh open up for public comment. >> okay. thank you. >> any of the members of the public that wants to come up and testify on item 3 please come forward. >> just a reminder state your name and speak into the myself first speaker or please. wasn't my plan to be the first speaker my name is richard butler a media professional of the roughly spent 40 years in the bay area working as a contemporary man and directed a number of projects at the k t d v including one of the senior

documentary on the fillmore i feel connected to san francisco even though i'm not a resident i know bob hirsh personally i met him through our daughters that were that frien friends i found to be a wonderful human being but no more the purposes really been - i know him as someone that looks at any situation from a balance don't get a sense of strong opinion nation out of bob a wonderful sense of humor someone that is keen to defuse tension i've not seen one big civic issue but in the family

context and how he's able to with great ease and grace help people come together i'm proud to be able to speak on his behalf and proud of the city of san francisco to nominate him to the police commission thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you my name is steve i've known bob for almost 50 years went to high school together in new york we participated in a program that now i'm on a board it is a youth leadership summer program that yeah young people from different background and learn democratic ways to create a world that works for all of us encampment for citizenship been around for seven years and bob and i have been on the board for the

executive committee of the organization he provides the most thoughtful, caring and comprehensive solutions to problems that are very difficult to run a nonprofit these days bob is passionate and stepping forward to say i can help to figure out and throughout his life and the service he's done and how he spoke today, the city will be hourjd to have bob that cares about hope and cares about the city of san francisco in a way that i think we all need so i'll strongly recommend and thank you all have bob as part of police commission thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name is david i've been a resident of san francisco for 44 years

and i've been an attorney for 40 years mostly in the public sector and includes law enforcement agencies and i've known bob since our daughters were on the same soccer team when is over 20 years ago and i also know him professionally i'm an mediator our and arbitrator i want to talk about the tools that bob brings to a position like sitting on the commission he first of all, is smart, he gets to the issue quickly and understands issues very easily secondly, he's likeable i mean

by that as you can see a lot of people are jumping in to help him out in terms of professional use of that he gets his colleagues to collaborate and to be coordinate that is an important attribute for sitting on the commission he's fair, he's tough, but compassionate i think you can tell from his speaking earlier today he's sensitive to all positions that are presented from all sides and he's assessable to those that are phil oversee positions and finally has a great sense of humor is funny that is an important tool he has the ability to light even the task as hand and people can see it tasks at a better perspective

i enthusiastically endorse bobs nominees for the police commission. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, members my name is preston a native san franciscan known bob over two decades and known bob hirsh as be fair and just individual but also professionally and each of those venues he's always been fair and speaking with equality as the two gentlemen statistics his compassion for getting to the root of an issue and finding the common ground and trying to find the issue that serves both parties or the party involved he seems to have a speciality in that note to belabor the point

i'm not other about that is a the same thing because of his sense of humor and instead of - he's looking for collaboration in all situations experienced as a mediator and an arrest for rbe able - i believe he'll be excellent for san francisco. >> next speaker >> good afternoon. i'm frank lee worked with consulting firms and manage an insurance practice in oakland i'm here on behalf of my green good friend he's thoughtful and indeed has a

great sense of humor bob. >> i have to be back by 4 o'clock as you can see those are valuable ingredients i lived in san francisco from 2005 and met him my two daughters and his daughters was inseparable navigated 0 bob and his wife are god parents to my son god knows we need improvement from the relationships between our police departments and the people that count on them everyday i couldn't be a cop it as thankless task you have someone to say willing to take on a less dangerous but challenging responsibility that of being a

commissioner no doubt in my mind that bobs contributions will be appreciated by all the constituencies who depended on the guides and oversight and support the san franciscans expect from their commissioners, thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm bill and my professional capacity i head up the equal opportunity commission and have sued a lot of companies in state and local government's but in my personal capacity as someone that was born and raised in and grew up in the fillmore and the haight and lived in the lower haight for the last 24 years been a resident of district 7 known bob since we met in law school in 1976 he's compassionate and

concerned about civil rights and notably bob and i a couple of friends tried to understand civil rights history and traveled to alabama spent a few days there and did the path of the voting march and made it to montgomery, alabama and got to tour the home of martin luther king bob was rooted in civil rights brings this to the police commission and more importantly as someone who was represented unions but now a mediator and arbitrator tried to work would be parties to reach solutions in order to do that you have to be a very good listener bob does and the parties listen to each other and as ashanti arbitrator listens to the disconnections

those are the types of qualities we need the longest resident of the city i've seen the pollination and bob is that kind of person that makes the bridge and make our commission be able to work with all the various communities that find the needs of a solution i wholeheartedly like everyone else recognizes bob is a good person and compassionate thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is karen i'm a native san franciscan and was raised in the western edition and live in the haight ashbury a retired principal of the san francisco unified school district i have known bob for over 20 years i've known him professionally and personally and i think i want to speak to the personal bob that i have seen when we get

together and have discussions about politics i'm amazed at how compassionate he is about the community in san francisco especially people of color i also one thing i remember foufgd when bob and his friend went to the civil rights gathering i was jealousy i wanted to go when i found out what he did i realized how really, really deep bob beverly hills the civil rights movement and community in san francisco so as everyone has said i think he's a perfect candidates for the 0 police commission and want to again endorse his nomination for the police commission thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is sharon will i'm also a native san franciscan and still live in san francisco aim known bob over 20 years a

social work worked for the city over 26 years and seen bob in professional roles and seen him as a lawyer i've seen him as an arbitrator as a mediator but the one thing bob does he sees the each side of the what people are bringing to the table but bob is an independent and speaks his truth which i think that important when it comes to the police commission the other thing i think is very important in the climate of san francisco is that you have commissioners that have emotional intelligent and that serves well when you're working with other communities particularly people of color when there are problems around

police departments across the country so that bob can come to the be table and bring his expertise to everyone feels a fair and just outcome i strongly recommend bob to the commission thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is bill i'm a third generation native san franciscan and i'm here to support the nomination of bob hirsh to the police commission i serve professionally as a contract administrator for the northern california carpenter union master agreement 46 county the northern california and in the last 10 years i've served with bob on our arrebitration - he treats

people with compassionate and you've got a good person and highly recommend him for the police commission thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you my name is jay i'm not a native san franciscan i've moved her 40 years ago and lived in district 4 for the last 20 question live a few mr. cook's away from each other i don't know him from the neighborhood but now job i worked with the u carpenters local 22 and bob is the arresting translator we use when we have differences with our folks bob hears complex disputes between workers and lawyers and listens carefully asked thoughtful questions and rules with judgment the skill set bob

brings will be an asset in exactly what the police commission in san francisco needs i urge you to move forward with bobs appointment thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm dan i'm a resident of district 1 living on clement street and with the local 22 and like my colleagues before me i want to support bob for the police commission and just say i'm confident will bring the honest and thoughtfulness and integrity thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon members of the board i'm timothy a native san franciscan former district 7 resident and current district one resident i'm here this average to urge you to support bob for the nominees for the police commission i met bob at

an arrest transmission i was impressed with the fact that bob left hand and took in both sides of the facility issues and you know he's really trying to get to know the issue before small business activities. discussion item. >> a positive person to put on the commission thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is alex i work with a number of gentlemen who spoke i'm here also to support mr. bob hershey haven't permanent worked with him but saw him in action in a seminar and a couple of things that have been repeated throughout the testimony the compassion and the way to use wise judgment and i want to second that i know when you, your better late than never a

police commission you guys are really basically like two budgets of things you want to - have questions about policy and ask those that's not why i'm here specifically i have not interrogated him but look at questions of terminate time and not just - engaging with the policing in general one of the things we've heard consistently the civil rights the commitment to justice and just the thoughtfulness in reaching the

decisions so as you weigh all those things please throw that in under please consider temperament and from the colleagues that have seen him in action thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is peter i'm a representative for the northern california carpenters regional council represent over 35 thousand journeymen and apprenticeships in northern california and important that 35 member of carpenters local 22 here in the city and county of san francisco before you today for the position as a member of the police commission you have mayor ed lee nominee hirsh everyone calls him bob i call him robert he's a neutral arbitrator from

the carpenters local 22 master labors agreement since 2000 he - his decisions with well-thought-out and shown compassionate for grievance and witnesses that appear before him there is not a man and woman working as a union carpenter or apprentices that has not been affected by a ruling robert hirsh has handed down as an arrest take care he's well replaced private and public corporations have sought his counsel the city and county of san francisco will be well-served having him as a commissioner and the carpenters local 22 urges you to forward his name on the board of supervisors as a member of the commission. >> thank you any other members of the public that wants to comment on this item seeing

none, public comment is closed. seeing additional comments by colleagues seeing none, oh. >> supervisor fewer. >> so i met with mr. hershey agree with everything everyone said i think it is a wonderful person he is likeable and he's kind and i think thoughtful and i think he is probably an excellent arbitrator and perhaps in my husband was a police officer for 35 years and rehired in 2012, the san francisco police officers and my uncle what the first chinese police officer to be hired by san francisco i come from a long line of police officers i know

what it is like and i'm a fourth-generation san franciscan and i like many san franciscans i think i've seen things our san francisco police department actually in san francisco should lead the nation and because we have a legacy of leading civil rights and protecting civil rights and also, however, for this job i think that takes a deep knowledge of policing in the 21st century very, very deep knowledge of what is happening specifically in go san francisco with the police department you need to know the external and the internal politics that happen within at the plod and i know surrounded in order to penetrate internally has happening in the police department it needs someone that

has many of the qualities that mr. hirsh has and the willingness to listen to others it takes a strong belief that we can have the best public safety in the united states and we should your citizens of san francisco actually deserve that i'm unconfront at this point to pass this on with a with a positive recommendation to the board i suggest we forward this to the full board with no recommendation i make a motion to forward mr. hirsh as nomination to the san francisco police commission not full board with no recommendation. >> supervisor yee did you want to say something. >> yes. >> supervisor yee and first of all, thank you to the public for coming out and supporting mr.

hirsh and pointing out some of his fine characteristics of caring for people listening and compassion about community of color i want to thank mr. hirsh for being persist in wanting to an on this commission there are a couple of things that - and this is more procedural rather than the person themselves one of the things i'm a little bit concerned about it in terms of timing of all of this and how quickly we have to make decisions i think he was nominee last week and a lot of times let me back up i potentially will be less concerned if this commission were at as important

as it is there is only a few commissions in san francisco where it escalates to this level such a high-level in terms of its roll in the city when - at that level one of the things i like to do is give the time for that people to react i don't feel like even though our friends came and testified this is a positive thing i also try to wait for reactions and since there is actually generally the procedures that that quickly that people don't hear about it and you're being at a committee hearing in fact, i think you were appointed or nominated april 18th have 60 days to get that 0 approved that is one week

out so that's one thing and i think it is important for me to reach out also to the community that i serve to the community that i hear from and i want to give that process a chance to unfold before i make such an important decision the other factor that - that will cause me to make a motion different hannah motion is that we already know this will be another position for the police commission to be considered and that's been talked about for much longer than this particular one i don't know when that will be scheduled by certainly like to recommend that we continue this item until that item - so we can hear them both together to make a better decision well the only problem

supervisors it they'll be some quorum issues at the police commission that's one of the reasons we forwarded this to seat that person so that was the issue of why this was put on calendar. >> there's one empty seat. >> yeah. and two. >> for how many months. >> as soon as i receive the nominations he move on them particularly if they're important i received this nominee and scheduled to immediately know what the quorum issues will be i will not want to continue this item but make sure the commission has the appropriate members to continue to meet since they meet on a weekly basis i know you know that every wednesday meeting and extensive in terms of hours and commitment that's why we scheduled it quickly. >> actually, i'm in favor of supervisor yee's recommendation i think that is important to look at this body as a whole as

i'm sure mr. hirsh will agree we'll be working at a point with a variety of folks and it is a balance of this board that is important so i can rescind my motion to full board without a recommendation and in favor of continuing this as supervisor yee suggested. >> i appreciate. >> go ahead supervisor yee. >> i appreciate about the quorum but i've been to commission meetings and there was no quorum issue i'm not sure if there is another issue we're talking about. >> yeah. one of the other seats will expire in the next few days they'll have a quorum issue. >> i thought the seat expires may 4. >> no april 30th yeah. >> so they'll definitely not have a committee meeting next

week. >> they would miss one committee meeting. >> they'll miss a commission meeting a. >> i think this appointment and the appointment of the supervisor that is coming up there so important i say this also to the people listening today that the police commission is a very different type of commission because of the importance that plays in the everyday lives of the san franciscans and have so many conversation about policing in san francisco i think that is i don't like also for the commission to miss a meeting but in this case it is so important that we appoint the full - a full board to work together if we do this no foundation with the supervisors appointments that actually, i'm in favor of that i think it is such an important appointment and i

think it deserves extra thoughts and warranty us to do a defied and defied i was putting forward a motion to bring this to those full board without a positive recommendation is because i feel that i need to hear from my colleagues but willing to actually postpone my motion to entertain listening also to other candidates for the supervisors actually appointment i see the attorney standing up. >> before can we have mr. paul henderson under the mayor's office speak. >> i was going to exudate some of the facility issues before you no meeting today a lot of the work is being i don't want to say held up but staking up in terms of the police commission

is dealing with the i'm even though representative to going to the meetings and it will be a big deal to miss and meeting due to a lack of quorum there's a lot of issues right now specifically i'm sure you guys follow them by that in addition to the ongoing and important issues and the city that we deal with as they relate to the justice reforms ongoing with the department of justice blue ribbon panel and the civil grand jury and the issues that the police commission has to deal with which very specific timelines in terms of when cases can be brought forward are all discipline cases that is a real concern i want to highlight for your consideration as you elevate what the impact will be on even one missed meeting so if this is not quorum if those discipline cases whenever

in the pipeline can't be met by a deadline it has a severe exclamation for san francisco i wanted to share that. >> thank you commissioner supervisor fewer. >> yes. so mr. henson why want a meeting today you said wednesday. >> they have regularlyly scheduled breaks over the year if it is not every third wednesday they have dark to do administrative things and handle the subcommittees within the commission for people working on different things and budget everyone gets assigned discipline cases throughout the panel their responsible for and they get this wednesday to do a lot of that work so that the following wednesday when their macro presentations from their committee and the decisions are

closed session that is why. >> so mr. henderson it is possible to expend the appointment of supervisors i know that appointments until in lui - until for another week until we can have a full commission and i don't think so i'll have to ask the city attorney you where is mr. gibner. >> are we able to ask the city attorney. >> in my understanding no carry over but get clarification from mr. gibner. >> having experience with a lot of those and the seats have expired in the past i've not seen that done i don't know if it is possible my understanding when the appointment is expired it is expired and the one way to

see that is. >> i don't know if i speak for and colleagues, i feel as though we have one candidate that comes before us and heard about this candidate a week ago now i'm hearing unless we moved the police commission can't do their work i know i've only spent one and 5 days or something on this staff i feel pressured and actually, i don't think that is fair to put that upon us this is important when i hear today, this can't be continued because of the shorted time constraint we had a vacant for how many months now it is almost inaccuseable i feel i'm strong armed i don't know how the colleagues feel but we heard of

you hinder the work of the police commission you'll hear 24 but if you think the work of the police commission is real important, then you must bring a recommendation forward when clearly we've heard that we are - two of us agree the majority on the committee agrees that we feel that the best way to proceed on this would be to hear both the mayor's appointee and the supervisors appointees at the same time i feel that it is i'm a little bit strong armed here i'd like. >> supervisor fewer. >> also i'd like then are we able to take a vote on this chair or is that a matter we're not allowed to take a jorpt vote on this issue. >> sorry. >> before you do that i want

to ask mr. gibner john gibner, deputy city attorney. there is a question there is a current seat about to exterior did they allow carry officers for this commission. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. no hold officers on this commission that doesn't necessarily mean that you, you need to appoint our member that the boards member (multiple voices). >> a vacancy on the commission after april 30th. >> supervisor yee. >> the decision i appreciate supervisor fewer's sort of perspective on this the discussion is if we don't act it will be your fault no quorum which they were seeing this

anticipation for the supervisors seat to be vacant for a while now and that has not come before us the other issue here is generally when i go to police commission it is seldom do you see more than one person not there are you saying to me sometimes two or three commissioners not there so right now even with two seats potentially vacant for a week or 40 two sill 5 members in order to not have a quorum 2 of the 5 members need to be absent in a way the pressure should be if any pressure if you want this done for those existing commissioners to make sure they show up for the meeting i think that is where we need to say to

them this is important don't be missing the meeting and again, i'm not saying what i've seen - i don't fear that there will be only 3 people showing up for a meeting. >> fair we have a motion on the floor do you want a roll call vote on this. >> a clarification mr. chair to continue to the call of the chair. >> to the next scheduled meeting on the motion to continue to the call of the chair. >> supervisor fewer supervisor yee supervisor safai no we have 2 i's and one no supervisor safai in december sent. >> great no other items on the agenda so can i have a motion to adjourn sym

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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 please. >> 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] >> thanks for coming my name is [inaudible] i'm with the city's office of economic and workforce development i want to welcome you all to the ribbon-cutting for the daggett plaza. they say good things come to those who wait. so i think in this case really good things come to those who wait a really long time. this is been a long time coming and were really happy to finally be here. i want to start out by

introducing some various people and organizations within the city and our community partners that made this project come to life. you never knowlooking out at this beautiful park but long ago this part of town was part of the bait another shallow water. because of that, requirements of the public trust for waterfront land we still apply to this parcel about a year ago this was a really challenging project to make happen. but thankfully here we are and there's many important computers to the project that are here today. if you them will be speaking to you and i just want to introduce a few people that don't have a chance to speak that were critical working with us and those include the california department of housing and community development. naomi kelly kumar city administrator. i think we may have here with us kenneth-from the office of assemblyman chu. thank you. and folks from the california state lands commission. the port of san francisco. the planning department the san francisco art commission, including artists adrian kohlberg who

can't be here but we want to recognize her for doing that beautiful piece of art over there by the street. the city's real estate division. the public works department. public utilities commission. as you conceal complicated this project was to get done. and cmg landscape architecture. so without further ado, i want to introduce to you firstspeaker mayor ed lee who's been dedicated to the completion of this project and has pushed us to think outside the box and make sure that we've leveraged this unique public-private opportunity. so mayor lee.[applause] >> thank you for that introduction.i am celebrating. if you're not celebrating and don't have one of these in the your hands are not properly celebrating. there are the newest vendor on the block. thanks to jim kelly and equity residential, we have 453 brand-new units here in

dogpatch potrero hill. [applause]. 20% units of affordable. about 90 units permanently affordable, but today we are celebrating a park. so how many of you know who mr. daggett was? come on, raise your hand. okay i bet [inaudible] students know. kids, from live oak do you know who mr. daggett is? [inaudible / off mic] [laughing] do you know who mr. lee is? [laughing] john daggett, street name after him because he was the superintendent of the united states mint when it was here in san francisco. also a former lieutenant governor for the state of california. so gavin newsom you got something to look forward to. that's why daggett plaza and i'm here today

and no one certain degree of celebration to celebrate the newest park in san francisco that is open for everyone, but also a unique relationship, a public-private relationship, where we actually own the park, but because of equity residential and their commitment, to having spaces for the residence, the people in the neighborhood, and with their conversations that are very long and delicate conversations with everybody including potrero boosters in dogpatch association, all the different neighbors, they kind of said we can make an agreement. it's called in perpetuity agreement, which means forever. they're going to help maintain this along with many other partners for the benefit of the public. that is

a great public-private partnership. so, jim, equity, thank you very much for this. [applause] that is really another reflection of how we do it in san francisco. as rich was saying, there's a lot of entities that he named that are responsible for putting this together. i have the pleasure of working with one of those entities, the board of supervisors, of course supervisor leah cohen who is here in this district but she knows how complicated this was because of it like this. but also because it took no less then 13 separate actions at the board of supervisors with different state and federal agencies in order to have this park happen in this development happen. so everybody persevered. so let me say as the mayor, as complicated with state lands, you know this used to be a little bit underwater? this very place was standing on used to be were all kind of plain noah today to used to be

underwater and were all lifting the land up and because of all that because the state lands, because of the proximity to a very changing area of the city, it took many agencies to get the right approvals and ultimately i think we did as a city, the right thing with everybody's input. i also want to say, thank you, to the boosters and to the association of dogpatch because i think the beauty of this place and getting through all the complications has a lot to do with everybody working in collaboration. this is a very big collaboration to have this daggett plaza open to everyone. you will see a lot of people down here because i can't fathom how these kids will not have fun on real grass running around doing all kinds of athletic things and i want to say that-i want to say thank

you again to the supervisor, california department of housing. i also want to say thank you to parks alliance. cmg landscaping david baker architect. i was talking to david a minute ago and he is again one of these buildings all over the city. he's very proud of this particular one because when you look at it it doesn't look like 450 units of housing. very neighborhood-issue. that's why you get to accomplish in your design. so i want to say thank you for this beautiful design because it complements what everybody wants. and needs. i think this is housing that is absolutely necessary in our affordable housing crisis we have in the city. so congratulations everyone. you have ample time to go do this afterwards but thank you to live oaks. life oaks for all your support. the first kids to play on officially launched

daggett plaza. congratulations. [applause] >> next, we would like to welcome supervisor melia cohen who is been a tireless supporter. i witnessed this many many times trying to work and help us get this done. her office sponsored the enabling legislation at the board of supervisors. her different pieces of legislation and also important, identified some money for the city's budget process to fill a small funding gap we had terms of pain for this. i want to thank her for all her support for providing this infrastructure and to support generally the southeastern part of the city. [applause] >> good morning everyone. i can't believe we are here today but i got to tell you been on the board, this my seventh year. i inherited this project. it's been a heavy lift. so it feels so amazing to stand before you to say, finally, we made it we are here for the ribbon cutting ceremony and incredibly long overdue. as we

begin to we envision the southeast of san francisco, a significant portion of our vision has to do with open space and parks. so this is not the end but only the beginning of more to come. as all of you know, this past has not been easy you heard about the 13 pieces of legislation that we had to introduce. i want to recognize my staff that is helped me from day one on this. first of all andrea breslin is no longer with my office, but she was significant in ushering this project through from start and almost to finish. i want to thank uriel chan is here with us today who's been significant hand in getting this project to the finish line. it's truly taking a village to make daggett park a reality. it's taken years of collaboration a patients, support and advocacy from the residence. from the community, my office the mayor's office has been

incredibly supportive and credible partner. also equity residential, the project has switched hands. a couple of times. since its inception but equity residential is the team that got us to the finish line. we've all played our part in this incredible endeavor and we should be out of ourselves. out of ourselves today. it's great to be joined here by all of you as we unveil yet another piece of open space project for district 10. this is again a critical improvement to our city, to our neighborhood. again, honoring the commitment that many folks open in leadership positions before mayor lee and myself got into position, honoring the commitment that were made before us. and ensuring the growth that's happening, the phenomenal growth that's happening all along the south east of san francisco, that we are not forgetting our infrastructure and most importantly our open space. so there are many people i would like to thank. the community

advocacy and leadership teams. we've got dogpatch neighborhood association. we've the potrero hill boosters that are been with us every step of the way and there's other smaller organizations that are been incredibly helpful to bring us to this point. daggett plaza is no different. this is a positive though begin to bring people together and bridge the gaps that currently exist and connecting the neighborhood to one portion to another. so this is an incredible treasure. i'm excited to be here. this is a space we will be able to recognize as our own for generations to come. the mayor's office of economic development and the mayor's office of real estate, to the permits are probably [inaudible]the potheads might agree but i want to say, i think. i also organized a friend to partners in planningand also in dbi. it's

been incredible up lift and now we can finally celebrate and have a good time. so, cheers. raise a glass to the [inaudible] and we will christen this field properly. thank you. [applause] >> our next speaker is bruce hughey. bruce lives in dogpatch and serves on the eastern neighbors community advisory committee. in addition to the eastern neighbors cac. bruce is present of the dogpatch neighborhood association member the newly formed green benefit district formation committee and has worked on many community open spaces in the area. [applause]. >> thank you mayor lee. supervisor and i'm glad to join you at this event. i want to do a shadow to some of my colleagues on the eastern a bird cac. dan murphy was in the audience. keith goldstein. i also want to thank sf planning, steve wertheim as well as matt snyder who kind of moved along

with us through this process of in-kind agreement for this open space. if i remember correctly, the first time supervisor cohen met his is a candidate for supervisor. seven years ago? leading a group of my neighbors out to a neighborhood nearby street park at night. with a flashlight in hand, and she had a pair of high-heeled shoes on. she got my vote for her courage to make connection with neighbors in the evening next time i saw her at the same street park ribbon-cutting in dogpatch i was with mader lee about four years ago. open spaces important to our city in each neighborhood. i cherish the time spent in a park near a tree with family, with friends. because i live in an area under constant change with a new new parks provide way to meet neighbors of all backgrounds. everyone comes out to a park.parks provide an easy way for us to learn about each other, engage and become more familiar with each other. trust each other and learn to stay

say, hello, neighbor. as noted by sanjay gupta, dr. sanjay gupta on cnn the other day saying hello to neighbors can improve your own personal health. and well-being. parks are key to neighbored livability and personal health. i say bring it on. thank you. [applause]>> >> next, i like to introduce jim kelly was first vice president of development for equity residential. the developer of this whole complex. jim spearheads active element of equity residential multifamily properties across the entire bay area as you heard from her previous three speakers with unique innovative aspects of this project is the important because of made by equity to build and maintain this part. so, jim. [applause] >> thank you. i would like to thank some of the key players that helped make this park a reality and this project a reality today.this park is not

just a showcase of design but it's a showcase of teamwork between public and private partners here. the city has been great to work with in the entire process. this is actually been a very long process as melia reference. some key members of our team, kristi yard, haley waterson, michael d with cmg. these guys have been great to work with from day one. they provided a really fantastic design here. david baker, his team, this stunning building this park sits in the middle of is a testament to david and his team's work. stephen doherty has been a very big part of david's group on this project as well. [applause]. with dpw, [inaudible] and bill lau from dpw, from day one, this has been a very hard project to put all the details together. we've gone back and forth through

many city groups including puc, dpi, and bill have really helped become a reality thank you very much, guys. john malamud, claudia gorham, carol along with city attorney's office. they've been great to deal with even though attorneys. our lead counsel, steve that'll, has been involved with this project for what, 10 years? plus, or minus. steve really cares about not just his clients, but this community in general. he's been a fantastic advocate for us. thank you, steve. steve wertheim, where are you steve? with planning department. he's always giving a us sage advice you. he's been a help great help guide us through a pretty uncertain process. scott smith, gary, mike coryell and devon blackwood and [inaudible] put together a great group of

subcontractors for this building and has also made this 220 milli-dollar dream become a reality. the equity residential team as usual, has been phenomenal here. corey warren, natasha moses, mark tremain, in our community manager, kelly lacher, have not only leased this property off in record time, but they keep it in tip top shape every day as you can see. by the way, they lease this property off in less than a year. 404 units 11 months. it's amazing. amazing. [applause]. from day one, our vp of construction dan katz and dr. has been just fantastic. the provided steady leadership to our group here and dan, thank you very much for all the sleepless nights we've endured her. dan and i both have great respect for the next team member. a man that is juggled all of this and delivered in a

huge way, senior project manager steve danforth. [applause]. steve, we really did listen to all those midnight emails you sent out to us. it's really paid off and a fantastic job. there is one other very special team member that we have to mention. i don't think any of this would have been possible without robinhavens. [applause]. there really was no roadmap to this new process. the new plaza program with a learning process for all of us. when things veered off track we all reach out to one person and that is robin havens. if we need to coordinate three agencies and a developer we call robin. if we need to work through complex legislation, everyone calls robin. even now, when i need personal advice on other projects, i call robin. [laughing]. robin, thank you

very much. you are the best. great to work with. [applause]. the real payoff here is to drive by on the weekends and see this park just completely full with not only people from our community, but from potrero hill and beyond with their families and children and pets. it's truly remarkable place. thank you very much for coming out. [applause]. >> thanks. that was our last speaker and jim took a little bit of funthunder because i have been planning on recognizing again, robin havens for my team. just raise your hand so people can see you. [applause]. i did witness firsthand and she is really the person that made this happen who is the glue and i'm proposing to call her from now on, bureaucracy buster. she is the bureaucracy buster. so, with that, thank you all for attending and we are now going to gather for a photo and cut the ribbon, which these folks over here have. why don't we

gather where they direct us and thank you very much. >> three, two, one. [cheering] [applause] >> >> >>

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