for folks that would help with providing comments, assuming that the council is wanting to move forward with assisting with comments. can you talk for a minute about where we are with that or the best way to move forward with providing comments when we're ready? >> yes. so we've been talking internally because we -- we're at this odd -- in this odd position where the cpuc hasn't set a deadline for that particular track of their rulemaking yet so i think we're still a little bit nervous that if people start submitting comments now that they might not be considered, so we will though as soon as they set a date, sort of mobilize those activities that we talked about and we'd love to have the m.d.c. participate in getting the word out about commenting, if possible. so that's when we would start

distributing any language and sample letters or postcards that people could submit for people to submit their experiences with accessibility issue with the t.n.c.s. >> thank you, is there a general time frame for a comment period? >> it varies and there's 34 sets of comments and reply comments as part of this rulemaking so it's going on for quite some time and it varies in terms of getting notice when the comments are due. but i'd anticipate that we'd have a good amount of time to, you know, before the cpuc gives the deadline and because -- in this current rulemaking there

are multiple tracks and the accessibility track is number five and they're still working on the earlier tracks. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for notifying me. and we'll open up to comments. there's someone on the bridge line and my apologies, we had technical difficulties. sorry bridge line holder, thank you. go ahead. go ahead. can you hear me? i can't.

we cannot hear you at this time due to technical difficulties. we have some speakers here for public comment. first one? >> well, we have mr. lanholt, but can this gentleman go first? >> i'm howard shapner. and two quick comments about this. number one, chariot is owned by ford and i have written to ford several times about chariot's lack of access and didn't really get a response, and i understand that very recently that chariot settled a complaint by the u.s.

justice department, and it's disappointing that m.t.a. would have partnered with ford on the go bikes, they should have done their due diligence and recognized that ford owned chariot and that chariot was not providing wheelchair accessible service and the analogy is that i think that it was back in the 1990s that s.f.o. required airlines and other partners that were using s.f.o. to provide partner benefits which is the right thing to do and they basically said that we're not going to do business with you people and let you land unless you do that. even though that was beyond what the law really required. so i really hope that, you know, m.t.a. or any other city agency would not partner with someone that is -- that owns a company that is basically discriminating against people with

disabilities. that's number one. and the second comment has to do with the hop on/hop off buses and other privately operated tourist type buses. i have written to several of those, and probably half of them are not accessible. and, you know, i have written to m.p.a. and so forth and basically been told -- and i think to m.o.d. a while ago that, you know, s.f. has no jurisdiction and that's california p.u.c., well, again, as the san francisco allows those buses to park, in fact, gives them designated parking spaces and there's other forms of leverage they have. and so even though there may be gaps and there are gaps i believe in the a.d.a., in terms of the coverage of those type of buses, i think that, again, that san francisco has some practical effective leverage in making those companies go beyond what

the law may require and, certainly, if it's a gray area, interpreting the gray area to provide more access, rather than less. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm bob planholt and i want to point out two areas where the public utilities commission is oblivious or neglects to respond to disability access, even when prodded by advocates and first when years ago we pointed out that these t.n.c.s didn't have vehicles that accommodated anybody and everybody, cpuc said, so the t.n.c.s now have to keep track of all of those people who call in saying, i need an accessible vehicle. and right away you say, if you know that they don't have

accessible vehicles, why are you going to call in? the cpuc set up a survey counting system guaranteed to have low numbers and not measure the demand. that was just so grade school obvious. but, secondly, and this goes beyond the cpuc, these t.n.c.s are public accommodations and yet they failed to provide what is required of a public accommodation. public accommodations are supposed to be available to all. if you don't have a smartphone you can't use your home phone to dial or touchtone phone you can't contact them to make a reservation and even a simple regular cellphone, it's not smart enabled, you can't get their service. you can't write a cheque, you can't pay with cash, and there's a variety of barriers that t.n.c.s have that say they're not fulfilling this and cpuc

ignores this. but i'm going to say so does our city attorney. city attorney says they can't sue cpuc for failure to enforce, but they're ignoring they can sue the t.n.c.s for violating the public accommodation requirements. so even within the city we have people shying away from and sticking their head in the sand, avoiding, responding to disability access. and i'm going to be very direct because the cit city attorney hs sued agencies on behalf of other disenfranchised and discriminated communities but there's a real low number, almost a silence, regarding continued advocacy through legal complaints and suits on behalf of people with disabilities that is not arising from our city attorney. another issue that maybe the council can take up. (bell ringing). >> thank you. we're going to go ahead and close public comments and go on

to information item number 10. vision zero. san francisco and people with disabilities and i'd like to thank our presenter for waiting and welcome megan l.weir, d.p.a. director and program on health equity and sustainability, co-chair of san francisco vision zero task force. thank you for being here today. >> good afternoon, council, and thank you so much for the opportunity to be here to share more about vision zero and thank you to nicole for the invitation and i hope that this is the first of a longer discussion with respect to how vision zero can increase our engagement and address issues of concern with respect to traffic safety for people with disabilities. again, i'm megan weir and i'm the co-chair and i also work for the public health department.

so traffic injury has and is a real problem in san francisco with respect to public health. recently we've had approximately 30 people killed each year on our streets and another approximately 500 people hospitalized with severe injuries at our public hospital, zuckerburg san francisco general hospital. we estimated that approximately $35 million in medical costs alone per year and our city surgeons respond to a serious traffic injury approximately every 17 hours. we are working closely with the hospital as a part of vision zero and rebecca plevin, a doctor at the hospital, i invited her to come today to just, again, this is an important issue and to better understand the concerns specifically of the disability community. half of the patients at our

trauma center are people injured in traffic collisions and in doing this work and thinking of being here today, from vision zero is fundamentally focused on eliminating traffic deaths and prevention but we also know that many people sustain life-long disabilities in traffic injuries so, again, this is a really important area for discussion. nationally we know -- sure -- okay, okay, i'm sorry. nationally we know that traffic fatalities are actually increasing, so while in san francisco we haven't seen the same increases and nationally we've had 14% increase in traffic deaths in recent years and this is primarily driven by increases in deaths of people walking or rolling, biking and on motorcycles. vision zero was launched in 2014, and it's led by our mayor, with the leadership from our board of supervisors and also with strong partnership by the

city family as well as our community stakeholders and we released our second tier action strategy earlier this year and vision zero really focuses on creating safe streets, safe people, and safe vehicles and i'm going to share a little bit more about that. sorry, i'm like -- i apologize for my lack of sincei coordinath my slides and talking. they focus on prevention and preventing severe and fatal injuries and saving lives and on addressing ecowa equity and focg on reducing fatalities and it leads with designs and creating safe people and safe vehicles and so education and enforcement and education and policy are all important pieces of creating the

safer streets. and vision zero is fundamentally focusing on slowing speeds down on our streets because speed is a predictor of whether or not people are injured and killed. and it's a shift in traffic safety. san francisco was a the second city to adapt vision zero in our country but now there's more than 20 cities in the united states who have adopted vision zero and as opposed to previous traffic safety paradigms which have really focused on individual responsibility, vision zero as i think that janice articulated earlier, focuses on creating a safer system. so we need to anticipate human error and accidents -- and our accidents are not accidents, they're preventable, and we need to anticipate that people will make mistakes and that we need a system where the consequence of a mistake isn't a death.

equity is a core vision of vision zero and so it's not just a social or moral issue but a traffic safety issue and understanding that we really need to consider equity as we design safer streets and that means prioritizing our most vulnerable populations, including the disability community. and our core group took the time to define equity so it's, you know, it's increasingly common term used with respect to policy and planning and program decisions but we need to all be on the same page about what we're talking about. so with respect to vision zero we defined inequities and severe injuries as avoidable disparities and injuries that are from unfair differences and social and economic and

environmental and political conditions. with respect to the communities that we're focusing on that experience or are at risk for inequities and they include seniors, people with disability, youth, low-income people of color, and immigrants, non-english speaking people or marginally housed residents and people walking and biking and as well as people motorcycling. our fourth year on vision zero we're focusing on deepening our work on equity so that means increasing engagement with vulnerable communities and that's an important reason that i'm here today and also maintaining and expanding our data systems that can inform the targeted investments and monitoring impacts and i'm excited to share the developments with respect to understanding disability and traffic injuries in san francisco and implementing targeted initiatives informed by this data.

and i'm now focused on some of our current efforts on vision zero, i co-chaired the city-wide task force and we meet quarterly here in the city hall and it's comprised of both city agencies and community stakeholders and i co-chair with the municipal transportation agency, mta and we have partnership with our police department and the public works and the transportation authority and a number of other city agencies as well as rock san francisco and the bicycle coalition and senior and disability action, bob planholt is a frequent participant and many people in the room are there on a regular basis and i invite you all to attend if you're ever interested and we also have a mailing list that i'd be happy to add people to if interested. and the mayor's opposite of disability is an active member of the task force and their work on this, of course, even pre-dates the adoption of vision

zero and prior we had a pedestrian safety task force which the mayor's office on disability was a key member. and san francisco department of public health, sorry, i'm just want -- my brain is not thinking -- apologies. and the san francisco department of public health launched last year this safe streets for seniors initiative and i wanted to share that today because we know that a number of seniors also have disabilities and the focus is on educating seniors and service providers about vision zero as well as getting input to bring back to the city departments. so this includes multilingual presentations to seniors and senior service providers and our program has reached over 730 seniors and staff at 25 locations. and also the program and administers many grants to engage locally more around these issues and address the specific concerns. last year seven organizations were funded and funding was just

announced for eight community-based organizations this year. and in addition to co-chairing, i lead work on evaluation and this map depicts the high energy network and the network comprises of 13% of the streets in san francisco where 75% of the severe and fatal injuries are concentrated and it's important because it really helps us to understand where targeted investments could fundamentally save lives and d.p.h. conducts the analysis and compares it with other departments. and the yellow part of this map is what the regional metropolitan transportation commission defines as communities of concern and these are communities where low-income residents and people of color and seniors and people with disabilities and other populations who are reliant on walking and public transportation are concentrated. and what we can see on this map

is that while those communities comprise about a third of our streets in our city, half of the high injury network is in these communities. so in using the high injury network we prioritize improvements and taking steps to address the historic disparities in the traffic safety conditions on our streets. when the pedestrian safety works that i began partnering with the mayor's office began in 2011, one of the main concerns that was raised was a lack of data on people with disabilities and injury. we know that there's not a category in the police reporting forum to collect data on disability, and that was one of the main reasons that we began partnering with the zuckerburg san francisco general hospital to link the police data on collisions with hospital data on injuries. the hospital is our level one

trauma center in san francisco and that means that the most serious injuries that occur on our streets are transported to the hospitals that we know that are an important source of data to have a more complete assessment of injury. and we know that historically approximately 25% of injuries to pedestrians and cyclists are not captured in police data for a number of reasons and so this year we completed our first linkage of three years of police data with this hospital data, and we now have data that we're working to analyze on disability status and the trauma system collects data on hearing impaired and visually impaired and whether people will use a walker on a wheelchair or a cane at the time of injury and i'm working with the city's attorney office to best understand how we can share that data with the public, while also protecting patient privacy and confidentiality and i hope to

come back to share the findings with the council next year. and we have a summary of the areas that the target safety investments could improve safety for people with disabilities using this new data and we're going to be working with sftma and the community stakeholders to develop recommendations of prioprioritized locations both n and off the main network and i am excited to say that sfmta is working on a new problem am to address the collision patterns with seniors and people with disabilities off the network and we look forward to reaching out to the council and engaging more around -- or engaging more as that work progresses. that concludes the presentation that i prepared today but i'm interested in understanding the

questions or concerns or experiences or interest that you have with respect to vision zero so thank you so much and i am happy to provide my contact information as well for more information. thank you. >> thank you, and open it up to council and council member alex madrid. >> thank you for coming. two questions. and then you have any information on how many people are disability or seniors are injured by collisions. and how -- and i see the map, how do you see addressing those areas with respect to changing

any stoplights or anything like that? by now or in going forward, do you guys have any plans on improving those stop areas? >> so i would -- i would be happy -- i can share more written information but briefly the -- the search fmta is using the network to inform priority engineering improvements to address the safety concerns using a whole range of changes, depending on the injury patterns and the context on those streets. we have some maps that i can share in more details regarding the specific projects which i would be happy to share. and th the analysis that i just described we'll look deep or that network and as well as

city-wide where people, seniors and people with disabilities are injured and then, again, working with m.t.a., and conducting outreach to better understand what -- what improvements could address the issues that we're seeing in those locations. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> council member sally macdonald has a question. >> i have a question, if neighborhoods have a concern about a particularly bad area, is it something that they come to vision zero or to the m.t.a. or how -- how do the citizens get their input in? >> yeah, i mean, if the neighbor has a very specific concern and i apologize that i didn't say 311 in the last stage, but it's where you can lodge specific concerns and the sfmta will route them to the correct person because there's technically trained staff, that depending on

your issue, can help to address that and vision zero though is another -- the task force that would be a place to come to talk, you know, more broadly i think about safety and city-wide issues with respect to safety and how we can address them. >> yeah, i'm wondering also because you see neighbor against neighbor and a lot of these things are going to be do something at this corner and not that corner and how are those decisions made? >> i mean, i think that is obviously like a project by a project basis and i think that the importance of engaging more in outreach etc. is really important. you know, your comment does bring to mind i think that one thing that vision zero and the high end network has done is to help to orient -- orient the city more towards corridor patterns of injuries as opposed to location-by-location fixes and i refer to that as the whack-a-mole problem where a

whole street has probably had similar issues along the same intersections and if we fix one it might pop up at the other but i'd be happy to connect with you the right person if you have specific questions. >> thank you. council members, okay, sorry. close council member questions. staff, any questions or comments? >> this is nicole, thank you very much for being here and we are looking forward to look to look at what we've done so far with vision zero and to start to line up what some of the specific disabilities are and some of the potential solutions might be and i encourage the council if you have specific desire or an input or thought into that process to please be engaged with this because we really need feed diagnose back from as -- feedback from as many sources in the disability

community that we can have so we can have a really robust response book now. (please stand by)

so fort. >> thank you. >> the interpreters will be leaving soon. i will make this quick. information item 12, any correspondence, staff? 13 announcements anything? okay. i am going to adjourn. thank you for our presenters, public comment people for waiting for our technical difficulties. we ran over. i wish everyone a happy holiday. we hope to see you at the party on december 15th at the mayor's office on disability from 4:00 to 6:00 and or regularly scheduled meeting on januar january 19th, friday. happy holidays, good-bye.

>> good morning, everyone. i am elaine 23 orbes and i am the executive director of the port and it's good to see everyone here today. this is a very important moment for the port of san francisco, for the city, for the dogpatch neighborhood and for the future of our city, and this moment really started a long time ago. 20 years ago, port staff began a master planning process, and i see some of the folks that started that process in the

room today. when i first sat up here seven years ago, i thought interesting place, very beautiful. lot of different maintenance. how in the world will we get this rehabilitated for the public? how will we protect the balance sheet from the deferred maintenance, but we had some people in this room where people saw beauty where others say decay, and that was very important to this place. we have the tenacity and the creativity and the believe that something that takes 20 years to complete and to do it right, so i'm very proud of the collaboration of court staff with all the city departments to make this a reality that we're at the point where we can sign documents today, and i want to say before i turn it over to our vip guest, a very

special thank you to ken from dwd. ken really took a lot of time to understand the port's points of view, and others points of view, the developers and to find solutions when things got hard and you never took your eye off the ball, and you were a great partner, ken, and i am so proud that you were leading this effort and the collaboration between our city departments. so this thing that started 20 years ago is going to result in affordable housing, connection to the bay that's been lost to the residents for 100 years, art spaces, creative spaces, pdr, and primarily, it's going to be a beautiful space for everyone, the kind of thing that you demand our departments create, so we're very proud that we kept faithful to your project for the city, and with that, i would like to introduce

the mayor who has been instructal in seeing this through to the end. mayor lee. >> well, thank you, elaine for not only your leadership, your work here at the port and to all the staff and commission because the port's really an exciting place. a lot of things happening, and i want to let you know that i'll be working very closely with you as we talk to the public about one of the most important infrastructure projects that the port's going to lead, and that's of course the protection and rebuilding of our seawall because that's something that we will find very near and dear if we get information out. but the port has become not just a place for business, it really is a place, because of this leadership, byron and all the others working, ben, mr. benson here, and so many others, that it's now become a place for families and people to really enjoy the entire

city, and our signing today, because of supervisor cohen, because of jack sylvane, because of all the others, allows us to do something that often times we don't get to do. you know when you go down to pier 70, views and access are basically blocked by abandoned historic buildings, and that blockage has not been very good for us, and i know a few years ago when jack was working with kenneth matz, he got me down to a concert of all places, some music concert down there, and then, we walked around the area, and we got excited with made in sf and some of the other events we held down there, we finally for ourselves was discovering how beautiful it was and planning.

and that's why we're here because the role of the port and planning working alongside for the city -- and jack, by the way, wanted to praise him, we worked with treasure island for many years, but he's in that spirit that we really wanted to get things done here that finally opened up access for everybody, and pier 70 project is all about that. it's about rediscovering what san francisco is and bringing all the people in that area together to enjoy nine additional acres of parks and rebuild with a lot of respect those historic buildings, make them useful. there's a lot of quiet artists out there because nobody paid attention, and so we want to bring attention to the fact that they've been out there, and we're going to work with forest city and they've

committed to make sure that there's an arts center out there, community center will be built. and of course as part of my agenda, along with supervisor cohen's agenda, we're going to building a lot of housings in that area, 30,000 units of housing. a lot of commitments that were made by forest city, let me take the opportunity to thank kevin ginter and forest city, making sure that if we were going to introduce a project of this magnitude, its r had to have the amenities that we all enjoy. there's a really basic commitment that we're going to see through, and that is a lot of residents of district 10 are going to get to work on this,

just like we're getting the work on the chase arena center among others. this project is not only going to be great for housing, for land use, for art, for open space, but it also will create the kind of jobs that we want. it'll also create revenue to contribute to the sea level rise challenges and the seawall. in fact, i think we're estimating maybe over the ten years, probably $1 billion of contributions to the seawall, and i think they're going to support us on another ferry service at the end of 16th street. these are all wonderful, wonderful attributes that i have to attribute to the people that have been working on this for over a decade, and i want to say thank you because this is why it was fairly easy for supervisor cohen to get a unanimous vote, because all she had to do was get in there, get the benefits. you know, it's easy, like all

the proms that she does, so i want to say thank you to her, because everybody does get the benefit from this, and i feel strongly about this because we haven't opened up a lot of this area of the southern waterfront to everybody. it's been closed out, you know, you know, later on after this -- and of course, we're looking at treasure island, as well, but we also have other projects that will open up the waterfront. there's mission rock, the potrero power plant to the south, the parklands that we're beginning to identify with the blue-green trails that will dot it all the way through. you're going to see multiple transit opportunities for people to access, along with the housing and the jobs, so we're very excited about this. there's a lot of great benefits, but it took a while, and it took a while to make sure that everybody respected the historic buildings, that everybody used them.

it takes a while tor historic preservation to also catch up with development, and in this area, it's not only catch up, we're going to pay a lot of respect because that is our city's history, and to respect that also means to reuse these buildings and respect the architecture and design of that history. i mentioned jennifer matz's team intentionally because she was part of the team on the port that worked so well and brought so much enjoyment to these projects. jack had a good time working with her on the same team, and that's the team that ken rich came from, all of that team continues to do wonderful work with the port, so they've given me a list of names that i make sure i mention, because i should, as the mayor, to recognize people who have

minimally, six to ten years, working on a project and brought to it the final conclusion that has not only the unanimous vote at the board, but a continued for the next ten years, phase development that i think will be honored by not only the immediate residence debts, but the entire city will be welcome to come down here and enjoy all of the assets that have been associated and be part of it. elaine forbes, christine maher, ken matsuda. from the office of economic development workforce, ken rich, sarah dennis philips, cat daniels, mark majors, patrick mitchell, john ram, of course, beg dan siders, job switsy, melinda cooper. city attorney's office, they've

been working a lot on language. a lot of things had to be balanced, a lot of things had to make sure, and in fact, i want to thank them because they just got some lawsuits on this, nothing to delay us, everything to go forward, and so thank you to the city attorneys be there with us and working on drafts. people like andrea ruiz, kriss tom and kate stacey. they had a whole host of other agencies who assisted them. our public utilities agency, our public works, and of course our contract monitoring division all had dedicated staffers that contributed to this project. all in all, the best projects are the ones where there's a tremendous amount of collaboration, a good trusting relationship with the developers so they know we're not trying to rake them over

the coals and take money that isn't from there deservingly, but they will be honored from this project. we can't get projects done without a supervisor who's going to champion it along with the mayor, and let me introduce our supervisor, malia cohen. thank you. >> oh, my goodness. today's wednesday morning, which means that yesterday was tuesday, which means we had a board meeting. i'm still in shellshock right? but good morning ladies and gentlemen. it's good to see everyone today. we've really come to celebrate and kind of pass ourselves on the back. it's been a tremendous lift. this project has been in development for ten years, and i have been a part of it, certainly in earnest for the

last three years. everyone looks good. you look good in a suit. i love it. and but i really wanted to tell you what -- you've heard -- you know about the economic benefit to san francisco, and we're really fortunate to live and to work in san francisco, but i really want to talk a little bit about the community impact, what a project of this magnitude actually means. it means, coming from a native san francisco resident, that we have an opportunity to interface with a beautiful shoreline that really has been locked away. when you go into the dogpatch neighborhood, it's almost like you're relegated to just the 3rd street corridor and maybe one block, block and a half, did he fe depending on what side of 3rd you're on. you can see the water and the bay in the distance, but you can't touch it. you're not able to bring your kids to experience it, and this project begins to breakdown

those man made barriers and open it up, and the significance of pier 70 is it's going to be connecting where we are in the embarcadero all along the southern waterfront past the bayview project into the community. this is a tremendous project to get through, and i want to recognize the mayor already gave the names -- called the names 'cause we remember, but i don't think you guys understand how many hours of public comment, how many hours of neighborhood meetings, and then, just right before you get to a vote, you literally spend the weekend with the city attorney drafting amendments, making changes, and then, that's when you begin to talk to the colleagues -- excuse me, you're incident being with colleagues prior to this because you need to bring them along to make sure they're nothingable about the project so that they will vote for it,

and that is where the challenge really lies, balancing your colleagues' perspective and what they want to see with the reality of what can actually be done, with the reality of what your constituents want to see, and i think that is where the rub is. i'm very proud to be on the team that has steered this ship to make this come to fruition. this is a significant accomplishment. pier 70 will deliver. this project will deliver a tremendous asset in public space, open space, office, retail space, affordable housing, i mean, you name it, and i've got to admit, i wish there were more development projects that got it. this team got it right out the gate. they got it correct. they went to the constituents that were affected in the area, and they said, what do you want to see? how can we help you -- what can we develop that's complementary to your neighborhood?

everything from drawing figures, which was an interesting way to take notes, but it's a new fad, to beating back an appeal. if you all -- most of the people in this room have dealt with development, and you know how challenging it is. i don't want to belabor the issue, but i just want to come out here and to pay my respects because many of you have lost a lot of time in your life on this project. it's the truth. this is -- this was not easy, and i don't know where kevin is. where's kevin? is he somewhere around here? okay. i spent a lot of time on the phone with him as the project lead. the port, entire team and family is phenomenal. elaine, you have a phenomenal team here. mr. mayor, you have a great team with the city, not only the planning department, but your economic development thinkers and workforce builders, and we need this. this change is moving and

changing and we need to make sure we don't leave people behind. that is a fear that people have, particularly a little south of this project, and i think the mayor and team in this project has demeonstrated that we're not going to leave anybody behind, we're allowing everybody to speak and be heard on this project. it gives me great pleasure to be able to come out and to celebrate, to christen this project. it's been an incredible, incredible -- contrary to what the mayor said, he made it sound easy, and i'm sure from his vantage point it was, but i'm here to tell you this stuff was hard. it's hard. it's difficult, but you know, when you have a team of professionals, it makes it a little bit easier, so i wanted to just say thank you to everyone who worked on this

projects, from the lobbyists on down to the person that was at the neighborhood meetings. thank you. >> thank you so much, supervisor, you said so many important points, and you led a process that was not appealed at the end, an actual development project of 28 acres that did not have opposition, so it was hard getting there, but my goodness, we certainly got there, and thank you so much for your leadership. so to do this, we certainly had our vision and our plan, but we absolutely needed our partner to do it, someone put at risk capital up, to find private investments, to endeavor with us through all of those hard meetings and plan a benefits package that i really think is bar none, something worthy for

other projects to see, and i say it's a 20 year process because we did the planning process first, but ten years ago we selected forest city, and that was the moment where everything really got going, and we began to see what was in our heads to something that could be real in the ground, and we're so fortunate to have selected forest city at our development partner, and i'd like to introduce jack sylvan who has led the development project. jack? >> this is really happening. thank you very much for all the kind words for our team. where we've gotten to, this really is a special opportunity, and the chairman of our board, james ratner tried to get out here from new york last night, but he wasn't

able to, but when i asked him, what do you think is really important for you to communicate from you, he said please pass on that we think this is one of the greatest projects, the greatest opportunities in the country. they see some projects as they're traveling around. it's been said, just the -- the amazing amount of people and energy and time that goes into getting the project, a project like this, just to this point. the collaboration, the dead indication, the commitment, the -- the fighting, the haggling, the finding common ground as we get to a place like this, and mostly, i just want to pass on from forest city the gratitude that we feel for being at this point, the opportunity to -- to jump in and take what has been on paper and turn it into a reality.

that started, really, with the mayor, thank you for your unwaivering support from the beginning of the process. it's crucial to get to this point. it will continue to be crucial as we start implementing the project. supervisor cohen, you're right. it was a lot of really challenging work, and your--your commitment and your leadership along the way was crucial, and it actually, i would

>> thank you all for being here today, and thank you, particularly, to mercay for

catering the event. let's give them a big hand. [applause] >> we look forward to the start of their cafe soon. let's have a call for the order. >> this is the november 15, 2017, treasure island authority board special meeting. item one call to order. director sun. >> here. >> director richardson. >> here. >> director samaha. director moss. director giusti. >> here. >> supervison kim. we do have a quorum. >> it's so great to be on the island. i'm so glad that we do this twice a year. it really brings us back to what we're all about, which is to develop treasure island into a real neighborhood, and it's just great to be here. and thank you all for coming tonight. i think we have the next item general public comment. >> item number two general

public comment. this item is to allow members of the public to address the treasure island authority board on matter that are in the subject of the authority board is do not appear on the agenda. members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. you'll hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. prior to making your comments, plead state your name and the organization you're representing, if any, for the record. >> so are there any people who would like to address the board on matters which are not on the agenda? you can step forward. state your name, please. >> hi. my name is jeff cline. i'm an 18-year resident of treasure island and i want to

thank the commission for hearing my public comment. i'm here to inform you during the last five years, john stewart company has signed over 200 market rate households to a controversial post dda rental agreement, and this -- i'm going to abbreviate is for you guys. pdra. it's identical to the addendum rental dwraement which is the john stewart company failed to force on market-rate tenants at start of 2012. the board needs to understand this pdra is contrary to the john stewart sublease, contrary to the intent and practice of tide to follow the spirit of san francisco rent control law and contrary to federal and state relocation law. back in 2012, many residents strongly objected to addendum re. some petitioned the board on the february 20, meeting.