public speakers today. i'm very fearful that someone is going to get severely injured or killed if we just wait to get those protected bike lanes installed. we need to act urgently right now and that means we need to triple, quadruple enforcement and make it known that if you double park on valencia, you are going to get a ticket. and in addition, we need to push these companies especially uber and lift. i know the problem is beyond them. but those companies are a lot to blame for the fact that the corridor in the mission that is supposed to be the bike corridor has become the one to most avoid for bikers. that just makes no sense. it has thrown the entire scheme of how transportation is supposed to work in the mission

up in chaos. and we have to do something about it urgently. so, i'm looking at dillon and would like to schedule that meeting in an emergency fashion. >> chairman peskin: commissioner sheehy. >> supervisor sheehy: it is really an urgent situation. having stood out there, i have personally seen how dangerous it is. what i have is a question maybe for the director and maybe even for mta. having looked at this -- been talking about moving on this, i'm wondering as we get the data from the study, are there things that we can implement because i look at this as really -- there seems to be some really low-hanging fruit, putting barriers up around the bike corrals, the parklets. that seems like a no-brainer.

and from my discussions from mta it seems from 19th to san jose is a place where the amount of work that you need to do in order to move towards that -- there's a lower level of complexity. that's before we get all the overhead wires and the street narrows, it seems like that's something that could move a bit faster. i do know that last stretch as you get closer to market that's more challenging. but is there a way we can think about doing this in phases because every bit that we do will make it safer? and the faster that we can improve -- if we could just get 19th to san jose which is also bike protected all the way around san jose with concrete barriers and get that as soon as possible. i recognize the challenges that exist once we start having the overhead wires. but if we wait to solve for that before we do these other things,

we approach this in phases and take it as we show -- as we start studying. to wait a whole year to start any of this seems -- i'm not sure i understand the necessity there. >> jamie parks with mta. overseeing bicycle capital prompts. absolutely, we want to look at what we can do now to improve safety. part of the plan is coming up with a phase implementation structure towards how we move towards a safer valencia street. and if we identify something everyone can agree on, we can move right away. that's part of our study. >> supervisor sheehy: great. let's be in contact on this, please. thank you. >> chairman peskin: commissioner kim.

>> supervisor kim: i want to thank supervisor sheehy and ronen for seeking improvements on valencia street. having looked at the south of market and the tenderloin with sfmta we have protected parking on folsom street. i doesn't go as far as we would like it to. but just having that from division through 4th street really is making a big difference and was just installed last week. but i have to agree, i always assumed that valencia was one of the safer streets to bike down and i don't bike down to the mission very often. but my few experiences biking down there as left me deciding not to bike down valencia as a beginner biker anymore. in fact, i feel safer on some of our corridors in the south of market now because we do have parking protected bike lanes on seventh and 8th and division as

well as now folsom street. so, i just want to thank all the members of the public for coming out today. i think this is a corridor that is often viewed as one that should be the most biker friendly. so, i really look forward to us being able to continue those extensions into the neighborhood and also want to make sure, listening to the members of what the public said, it did take a fatality for us to move forward on protected bike lanes on seventh street and on folsom as well. we certainly don't want that to be the impetus for any near term improvements going to the ground. you know how quickly mta can act when that happens and how the near term improvements happened on folsom street was almost shocking to me after the fatality we had. within a month we were painting a green stripe down folsom. i encourage the city to continue to act on these major kor dors

-- corridors the way we do when these tragedies occur. >> chairman peskin: thank you. commissioner breed. >> thank you. i have some questions about the bike to work day. maybe someone can answer the questions. i'm not sure who. i missed the presentation since i wasn't here early. >> chairman peskin: we will see what ms. la fort says. >> specifically for the bicycle education classes, is this the first time this program has happened? >> this is not the first time. how many years it has been conducted, i would need to check. we funded it about 18 months ago for one of the semesters. how long has this be in effect? about six years. >> first of all, i think i'm confused about the allocation of expenses. it specifies construction and then it goals into detail --

goes into details about bike equipment and helmets. if the program existed, i'm trying to runs these things that get funded every single time that we support this program? >> yes. >> so, we buy new helmets and bikes every year? is that how it works? >> yes. there's a helmet allocation -- >> could you identify yourself? >> i'm the planning program manager. and we do buy new helmets every year just from a health perspective. the low-cost helmets we provide are given to the students at the end of each class so they have the safety protection. there were concerns about sharing helmets and passing that along to the classes. we don't buy new bicycles every year. the bikes being proposed are the

property of sfmta. we would be able to use the bikes year after year. >> the other question i had is what's the outreach process? i know i have heard about these programs being done before and i think the implication that because they are being done at a specific school would be that the participants come from those schools and i don't think that's entirely accurate. i just want to understand what -- with some of the past classes that have been taught, whether or not the students in that particular school have been outreached to and for the participants, what are the percentages of the number of students from the particular schools that they have done it in the past have participated in the program? >> a hundred percent of the students in each class and each school would be from that school because these classes are actually held within the pe

class. >> got it. so they are not after school or weekends? >> no. this is in the middle of this is a partnership with the school district as well. >> okay. and just a little bit more information. can you talk about the feedback for this program from the high schools specifically? >> sorry. can you help me understand, the feedback -- >> the feedback from the students that participate in the high school program. >> it has a very high appreciation. we collect data related to students comfort and knowledge of bicycling before and after they take the class. we produce an annual report with a school by school breakdown of how those numbers change and how the kids have responded to the classes and any feedback that we receive to the class. we could make that available to you later today. >> okay. and so, the expenses for staffing like a program

director, p.e. coordinator, program lead one and two, all these people are needed to coordinate a class for -- >> absolutely, yes. so, the way this program is organized, we work with the ymca, the why bike program, and they coordinate with the school districts p.e. coordinators and with each p.e. teacher, they come in for two weeks. they provide training to the teachers and then also depending on where the school is, let me step back. there's a three-year kind of program in which the first year my bike comes in and shows the p.e. teacher at a school how to offer the class. the second year it is more of a co-led and the third year there are there for support. there are teachers in classes that are now providing their own bikes and their own instruction

with no prop k or sfmta support because the program has gone through. so, it depends on where each school is and where the teachers are. so, yes, each one of these people has to -- there's a lot of coordination that goes into making sure the bikes get on campus and are stored. that the teachers are prepared and ready, et cetera. and then we meet a couple of people on site for the two-week period as well. >> so, why is there no line item for transportation? of the bikes. >> i'm sorry. of all the things i didn't bring. there is a line item that is related to the transportation that we do pay for essentially the gas. why bike owns the van and the trailers so we don't have to pay for those. however we pay for the time spent transporting them from school to school. >> okay. thank you.

can someone answer the questions i have specifically about bike to work day? >> that is also me. >> okay. do you have a breakdown of the budget? because for the sponsorship, the bike to work someday, the $38,547, there's a list of items specifically but there's no breakdown of those items. i just would like to see a budget specifically for those particular items. this seems like a lot of money. i know in the bigger scheme of things it is not a lot of money. but it is a lot of money for one day. and i wanted to -- this has been going on for many years, every year. and so, i just wanted a breakdown of what those numbers actually look like. i didn't see a reason why those couldn't be provided in the report that we got. there's just a generalization of what it pays for. >> this is literally just a sponsorship. we are one of many sponsors for this. we are the biggest.

>> but it is reimbursed. so, it is implying -- >> it is not reimbursed. prop k reimburses the mta for this. but the agreement that is signed with the bike to work day is for us to -- we simply sponsor it for that amount. >> so, it is a sponsorship. >> yeah. >> not -- because, for example it lists staffing and support and then it is listed again as construction and then it has all these things. then it says sponsorship and it outlines what the sponsorship pays for but not specific dollar amounts attached to it. then it says it is on a reimbursement basis. item lees we are award -- it implies that we are awarding -- the impression i'm getting is somehow it is a grant but you are saying it is a sponsorship. >> it is a sponsorship. >> which is contradictory to what i think we have in our packets. i think that's where some of my

contusion -- >> i understand. i think what the staff report was trying to say is we sponsor this. where the sponsorship money goes from us from mtc is to funds the staff time and the activities. both the ta and the mta logos are located on the materials. we are listed alongside all the key sponsors. but there is -- >> why not just call it a sponsorship and take out the line items at not attribute it to construction which i think is confusing? >> the construction, my understanding, moniker is just a part of the art process for prop k. i would ask anna to exmra inthat. -- explain that. >> this is the phase that it fits best under. i suppose it could go under a planning phase. but we have certain phases that we fund with prop k planning

design construction. >> we are funding a -- we are a sponsor for this event. we are giving money for a sponsorship and that's just what it is. that doesn't fit in any other category for prop k funding? >> the only other category is operations and the only operations project is paratransit. >> okay. it is confusing. so, that's why i was asking the question. >> okay. if i could also point out there is some material in the enclosure to the prop k request item that gives an overview of the classes that were conducted at each of the schools last year. >> i saw that. thank you. >> okay. >> i just wanted to understand the responses of the students. >> and there's additional surveying we can provide to your office. >> thank you. >> chairman peskin: commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: i just wanted to request the ta and the chair bring back a report on sort of a near term progress on

valencia street and if mta can report as well. in perhaps three months. is that enough time to come and give a progress report? march 1st? >> that makes sense. >> supervisor ronen: sure. okay. that would be great. thank you. >> chairman peskin: okay. it shall be. if there are no other questions or comments from members, can we have a roll call on item number eight? i would need a motion made by commissioner sheehy, seconded by commissioner ronen. >> clerk: commissioner breed, aye. commissioner cohen, aye. commissioner farrell, aye. fewer aye. commissioner kim, aye. commissioner peskin, aye. commissioner ronen, aye.

commissioner sheehy, aye. commissioner tang, aye. commissioner yee. aye. the item is first approved. >> chairman peskin: next item. >> clerk: item ten. award three-year professional services contracts with an option to extend for two additional one-year periods to not to exceed $400,000. >> good morning. i'm here to seek approval to award professional service contracts for modeling as much ass to two teams. the contracts would be for a three-year period. these would commence after the current on call expires at the end of the year. it would be funded through the other projects they support. the two teams are led by wsp and

rsg or are on our current on call. transportation analytics. additional sub consultants include the university of kentucky and bowman research. representatives from wsp, rsg are here in attendance and available to answer questions. the target 5% for both contracts individually. now about the process. staff issued an rfq in september. a selection panel evaluated and made a recommendation to award contracts to two of the three teams. the current on call has spent about $500,000 in the period between 2013 and 2017. the slide shows what we have used the money for. and for the new agreements we

expect to use the projects for sftp and other modeling improvements and applications as needed by work program projects. thank you. >> chairman peskin: any questions from members? seeing none. is there any public comment on item number nine? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to award the three-year professional services contracts made by commissioner cohen. seconded by commissioner farrell. and do we have the same house? >> clerk: we do. >> chairman peskin: same house. came call. thank you. next item please. >> clerk: item ten. presentation on the san francisco municipal transportation agent 2017 facilities framework. this is an information item. >> ms. la fort. >> i would like to introduce

jonathan from the mta. thanks. >> good morning commissioners. jonathan ruers here to talk about the building progress program and facilities framework. i want to start off very quickly to note the importance of this infrastructure. if you ride the 14 mission here in san francisco or the gary rapid network, you should know that a lot of our services start at the various facilities that we have throughout san francisco where we maintain, where we store and where we upkeep the fleet. this is where the majority of our 6,000 employees work day-to-day, where they change into their uniforms and take their showers. it is an important foundational infrastructure service here. i think everybody is florida with our muni forward with regard to getting a rubber fire fleet. that will go into service this week. and also following through with

our 10% service increase around san francisco. now we need to focus on the next step and that is modern sizing our facility -- modernizing our facility and we have started our community outreach. so, a component of that is our 2017 facilities framework. what we wanted to do is we knew our facilities throughout san francisco which i will show shortly, were in need of reconstruction, renovation and modernization. but what we wanted to do was develop a plan that was both dynamic, allowed us to make continuous immovements across san francisco and our campus and realistically costed out year over year and we were continuously able to make improvements throughout san francisco. you will see our facilities. we do have a number and i do believe still we have more facilities than any other city department in the city and county of san francisco, minus fire stations and police

stations. but significant facilities. so, 20 plus. nine major maintenance yards. this began with the 2013 vision report and when we looked at it as a baseline, what we found was it gave one option for the mta to pursue with regard to the growth of the muni fleet here in san francisco. if years passed or situations change, that plan didn't work for us as well as we would have anticipated which is why we wanted to move to something more flexible. it didn't consider all the operations of the sfmta which didn't include traffic operations. it includes all the operations and sets three important goals. one to modernize our facilities for new and more modern operations. second to slowly move the mta off of leases. so, if we have a permanent

operation, we want to make sure to have that operation in a permanent facility, not a leased facility. and to prepare for growth and maintain our facilities in a state of good repair. so, with that, the first thing we did was go to the next level of state of good repair. i know all of you as commissioners are familiar with that term when we look at the age of an asset and the year it needed to be replaced. but we took our state of good repair to another level in which we actually sent out a team of consultants to do an inspection of all the systems in all of our building. while something might last a certain period of time, we reset that date and now we can tell you year over year the investment we need in our building up to windows, doors, air compressors. things needed to run our day-to-day operations through 2036 that averages to about a $7.5 million per year investment. we have been slowly moving forward with developing a full

program to do that. but we do start off with about a $60 million backlog. second come poeptd was just -- component was just the growth of our fleet. as you are all familiar with, we have executed the agreements. both trolley coach and motor coach fleet. we have executed agreements for replacement of the light rail fleet. we have six numbers of delivery and we know over a certain period of time physically with regard to space, we will return out of room at our existing yards throughout san francisco. you will see the number 77 vehicles by 2025. about 130 by 2030 and 46 light rail vehicles in the 2040 period. again, this is based on current capacity of the yards as we were designed and this is based on the delivery schedules that we anticipate. we have two options we are currently working off of. one assumes that the mta is successful at securing a new

facility. a brand new facility to store and maintain its vehicles. in that case, we would expand the four acres that the mta has at the east facility for the growth of the light rail fleet. we would modern size the presidio yard both for motor coach, hybrid electric fleet, trolley coach and 40 and 60-foot vehicles. moving towards the convergence of both technology and the convergence of the types of fleet that we have here in san francisco, we would also renovate the kirk land yard to allow for running repair so we don't have to do as much dead heading as we currently do. the second option assumes that the mta might not be successful at getting a new facility. in that case, we would use the four acres currently undeveloped east for a temporary trolley coach division and facility. that makes sense because a lot of electrical infrastructure we would need for future light rail

operations there we would put in phase. we would shut down presidio and po ter ro -- potrero and the back end of the program would include the reconstruction of the kirkland yard. just as a highlight because i don't want to completely focus this on all our transit operations, we are also working to eventually inshert the animal care facility. we have been working with commissioner ronen's office on different housing options and joint development options. we will continue to look at joint development at all of our facilities throughout san francisco to maximize the opportunity for both policy goals at the city and county of san francisco has and both goals we have for our transportation system. we have looked at different uses of the building and now we are looking at expanding the use of that property to see how we can maximize it. here is the overall schedule. i think what i want to stress with regard to this schedule, typically with major programs such as this in san francisco,

we work through a very steady planning outreach environmental funding and construction type schedule. in this case, we have a back end deadline. we thought that the fleet is going to be coming and we thought we need to be able to maintain these new vehicles that are being delivered. we have to meet certain time points and deadlines. we have developed a full schedule for this. we have had a workshop with the department of public works in august to come up with a project delivery methodology. we have our environmental team. shortly ready to execute on an agreement early in 2018 and we have got a joint development consultant contract that will be moving towards the mta board later this month. general next steps. we just began outreach last week. just overall program wide. we will go site specific with regard to potrero in both december and january. we will refine those two options

with the hope we will have finalized which option we will proceed with sometime in january or february. we have done a second set of cost estimates and we have confirmed the costs. i will get to that in a second. in 2018 we do want to have all the technical teams together to begin the design outreach. we hope to begin on 1200, 15th street. we would have hoped to complete 1200, 15th street in 2023 with housing plus the permanent headquarters for our enforcement staff that are currently in a leased facility. and we would begin the reconstruction program. we have developed at least a cost estimate for the overall program. between the state of good repair work and the general redevelopment work, it is in the $1 billion range, if you

consider all costs are in the 1.$3 billion range. the critical path and cost estimates for these three projects have remained steady. muni east 3 million. assuming joint development are just redevelopment of that building 12 oh -- the future regional measure three and we are looking forward to the san fran transportation task force. in preparation for that, we have developed a detailed cash flow and all of you were experts in funding. i know you know the difference between an actual cash flow. this is the most consecutive form. actual cash payments that would have to occur on a quarterly basis. means the last point in time in which we could receive a dollar. you will see that we are completing a significant number of projects this year.

our burke warehouse is being reconstructed with the support of the prop k sales tax to include our overhead lines operations. we will maintain the amount of storage that we have always had at the burke warehouse. plus added operations crating a more efficient use of the facility. fast track is adding storage track for the lrv's that will be arriving and continue to work on operator facilities. the cash flow builds up for design work. promote 1200, 15th street and potrero and you will see it build up for presidio. we are working with the transportation authority staff and city and county of san francisco staff and mayor's office on a full funding plan for this program. i appreciate the time all you commissioners gave to both me and my team to help us prepare for the public outreach.

thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you. and thank you for all of the briefings that you have given each of us offline. with regard to the new facility in scenario one, which obviously is preferable in terms of timing, what is the status of the new facility discussion? >> so, we are continuing to work on negotiation and scoping. over the summer we worked with a consul stand to get performance criteria. meaning any any facility in we were to enter into an agreement needs to meet with our core transportation needs. part of the reason we did the second set of coast estimates in the sum -- cost estimates in the summer was to see if the city went it alone and we decided to go into negotiations with a developer, how far we could go. i think with that information in place, we are continuing to see what is out there in the markets. and hopefully we will have more news on that towards the end of

this calendar year. >> chairman peskin: thank you. any questions from members? seeing none, is there any public comment on this informational item that is going to cost a lot of money over time? at least we are planning for the future. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for that. and we look forward to future updates. next item, please. >> clerk: item 11, introduction of new items. >> chairman peskin: are there any new items? i do, colleagues, want to voice some concern i have relative to a proposal that has just surfaced to stop the california cable car, line an hour and a half early. as our city grows and becomes more late night, i'm not sure why we would want to shut down a cable car that is not only used

by visitors but is a source of transportation in east and west directions. so, i would like to ask staff to work with the mta and figure out why they are doing that. unless there's a good reason, we will use our purse strings to figure out how not to make that happen. are there any other items for introduction? seeing none, is there general public comment? mr. yip. >> public: good morning. the duties of political leaders will be making well being for our people. national character should return to true morality in culture. the true principle will make unity for our nation. [indiscernible] >> public: we have to cultivate justice for civil rights to have well balanced adjustment in our

political system. our protection of the common good for our people will secure the stability for well managed nation. [indiscernible] >> public: a livelihood for our people. they are to take pathway of kindness and wealthiness. [indiscernible] >> public: obtaining social prosperity we have to take the right path for holiness and morality for all that matters to be truthful and righteous for a democratic system. >> chairman peskin: thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed and the cta is adjourned.

[meeting adjourned]..

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and meet signing ceremony. thank you, mayor lee. in the simplest of terms, this asks large grocery chains to disclose the antibiotics in the meat and poultry products that are sold. families and consumers should have the right to know about how their meat is produced. prior to joining the board of supervisors i worked in health care at ussf. it was there that i spend time studying health trends and antibiotic resistance. antibiotic resistance infections are a public health emergency, as they kill thousands of americans each year. and most troublesome is that, in a recent report by the world hem organization, they found out that the world is running out of antibiotics to fight anti-resistant infections. this ordinance will help stem the tide of anti-resistant infections -- antibiotic-resistant infections

about meat sold in the san francisco stores. the response at the federal and state levels is inadequate. in san francisco when we see a public health challenge or problem, we seek to respond to it. this ordinance is about doing what we can as a city to respond to a growing issue and keep more san franciscans safe and healthy. families and consumers should have the right to know about how the meat they are producing -- that they are purchasing was produced. with this legislation, we are doing our part to reduce antibiotic-resistant infections here in san francisco and protect public health. i want to share my sincere gratitude to individuals, city departments, and individuals who have helped in this legislative effort. particularly, i want to thank the national resources defense council for all of their work in tracking this issue and bringing it to the attention of the city, especially avi karr. special thanks to the department of environment, the department of public health for their

collaboration on this ordinance and recognizing not only the environmental health issues, but the public health implications as well, especially for those with immune deficiency. i would also like to thank and introduce someone who has provided enormous support for environmental and public health issues. mayor ed lee consistently works to protect the health of san franciscans and have been great in the fight for antibiotic-resistant infections. please join me in welcoming mayor lee. >> thank you, supervisor first of all, i like to eat. what am i eating these days? i think that is interesting. certainly, supervisor sheehy has done his homework if not

becoming the resident expert on our board of supervisors, i want to thank supervisor sheehy -- safai for being here as well and the other board members who joined in jeff's leadership to focus on a growing problem that he's identified. there are literally thousands of people who are consuming meats and poultry in the food products in the growing inspections that we uncover that are having antibiotics through their evolution grow through misuse and through overuse. and so this is a modest first step, jeff, until we have more information. it is a proven approach. it is a right-to-know approach. it is i approach that the board, the mayor, we all agree we simply need more information to really find out with a the evolution of this bacteria is

doing in the market, in the supply chain, and when our kids and our families and ourselves eat these products what is happening with this bacteria? so if we have that information, if we know where it is coming from, we can then hook it up to abuse and misuse that might be happening in the market. we don't know. but we are asking the grocery store to comply with this ordinance and is formed by our medical doctors, our department of public health, our environmental department, natural resources and deep fence council has been working very closely. but it wouldn't come to this point unless we had people doing the research. i want to thank the opportunity to thank supervisor sheehy but his own staff that has worked hard on it. because i'm sure you had to answer a lot of questions before we begin imposing a lot more responsibilities on our -- on our businesses. but we are doing it for good

purpose. and this purpose is a serious one. it's a health-related one we don't mess with our health. we have to have better health outcomes for our people, and if we find data that suggests to us 23,000 people a year in this country are dying and hundreds of thousands are infected by these antibiotic-resistant infections or things that are evolving by overuse and misuse, we have to do something about it. but it begins with informing ourselves. and i know supervisor sheehy has done this before when it came to h.i.v. and aids. he informed us. he informed the public. he informed his friends. and then we became that much martyr about our legislation and the about the things we had to do. then came the resources in order to do something on that disease. on this one, we have to do the same thing. we have to be as preventive as possible

so it doesn't pro live rate. and that's the work of all of these agencies coming together. so it's my privilege to, again, sign legislation that strikes at the beginning of something before it really happens in epidemic proportions. but when it comes to health challenges to be smart about it and to do it early. so thank you, jeff, for your leadership. appreciate it. [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor lee. next i would like to introduce barbara garcia from the department of public health and a natural leader in public health, both our department and director garcia. >> thank you. thank you, mr. lee, mayor lee and supervisor sheehy. the department of public health is responsible for consumer and food safety in the city. so this hard finance really supports our ability to protect the food that people eat. the right to know if your food

has antibiotics is really part of an essential consumer right. overuse of antibiotics we know causes emto stay in the hospital longer. it also impacts their ability to heal from diseases. so our ability to really manage the amount of antibiotics that people use really helps them. there are many medications that they can't use because of that and they have to have the ability to heal and get better from the diseases. so what is in our food, they're food is a protection we can provide to the people of the city of san francisco. i want to thank our director, deborah rafael who is not here today. she's been one of the leaders in san francisco with this, so i want to thank her, and all of the leaders here and those that

are here today. thank you, mayor lee, for signing this ordinance. the city of san francisco and its residents will benefit from this ordinance, so thank you very much. >> thank you. did you want to say? no. we wouldn't have gotten this through. it's unanimous. i want to thank my colleagues and my friend, supervisor safai and thank you, barbara. lastly, we have jonathan kapplan from the resources council, which has been a great partner. there you are. >> thank you, supervisor sheehy. hi. i think this is switched off. can you hear me all right? there you go. so every once in a while a local government stands up and provides leadership for the entire nation. this is one of those moments. the city ordinance that is being signed today would turn a light on in the darkness that has shrouded the industrial livestock industry. for the

first time, san san san francisl have access to those companies using meat safely and responsibly and move away from those who don't. the ordinance, i want to point out, is unique in the nation. there's really no other federal law today that requires livestock producers to disclose this information. there's a new state law in california that's going to require some data of reporting but it's not expected to require individual companies to disclose their own individual antibiotic use. until today, there has been no reporting of antibiotic use by individual companies anywhere in the country. for decades, that that use has been operated in secrecy and that stops here. i want to point out that this need for legislation is more urgent than ever. rising rates of

antibiotic resistant bacteria has threadenned people as we know it. when antibiotics are used again and again, some antibiotic-resistant comes and we have to curb the unnecessary use of antibiotics wherever we can. that's our best hope for preserving modern medicine. the legislation being passed today or signed today will give consumers an important new tool for leverages marketplace forces to drive change in the industry. and, you know, the bottom line, this is a really big deal. so we are really proud to be here. we really appreciate the leadership from the people standing behind me. i want to thank mayor lee, supervisor she, and the directors and staff of the departments of environment and public health. congratulations to all of us.

[ applause ] >> thank you, jonathan, and i think we're ready to do the signing. >> okay. there you go. [ applause ] >> thank you.

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