or having permits issues. half of those, including hunter's point, shipyard, treasure island, and those, which will come over the course of multiple decades. and then we have over 17,000 units under review currently. so it's early for us to say how it will break brought in terms of incomes. there's a minimum 10,500 units of affordable housing in this bucket, but there will be more depending on how things shake out between inclusionary and other agreements over time. with that, i will turn it over to amy. >> i forgot to mention, amy, i'm sorry. amy chen from the mayor's office of housing and community development as well. >> good afternoon. amy chan from the mayor's office of community and housing development. i will present on what existing tools the city has in serving middle-income households. this is a priority for our office and we share the urgency

that commissioner safai has expressed. our office funds and oversees compliance of a number of programs that serve households at 60% of ami and above that sara mentioned before. this includes funding new construction, affordable housing rental projects, preserving existing rent-controlled housing through our small-sites program and home ownership loan assistance to middle-income households and we oversee the city's inclusionary program. so before i go into the specifics of these programs, i want to give you an overview of what funding sources our office has in serving middle income household and constraints for expanding what we can do.

so the primary forces of funding we rely on to serve households 60% above ami, housing trust fund and 2015 housing bond. the housing trust fund allows us to serve households up to 120% of ami for production and rehab of affordable housing. we do set aside 10% of those funds for small site preservation. we also fund downpayment home assistance for first-time homebuyers and a fund for first responders and educators. for first responders, the ami level goes up to 200% of ami. for the 2015 housing bond, this was a source that allowed us to focus on middle-income househ d househol households. we're serving 120% to 175% ami.

$80 million was set aside for middle-income production and home ownership. the downpayment assistance program has a set-aside for educators. we're expecting some state funds to assist us in our local funds, but they won't be coming until 2019. through this year's historic package legislation that was passed at the state level, we have a new recording fee that can be used for rental and home ownership opportunities serving middle income and work force househol households. and through the 2018 housing bond, there is also funds that are allowable to be used -- allowed to be used for home purchase assistance and a veterans home ownership assistance. so what does this mean in terms of creating more middle-income housing? we, the city, we're carrying

most of this funding obligation without any existing state or federal funds to help us in creating middle or low income rental university ichlts -- units. it onliy allows us to serve households at 60% of ami. our city dollars cannot leverage federal tax credits for middle-income households. or 2015 bond, estimating that it will be extending the funds from that by 2020. so we have limited city funds and without state or federal assistance and without the use of federal tax credits, our gap for producing middle incommune its are about $100,000 higher than what we provide for low-incommune its. so these are the funding sources

that we have and it's the funding constraints we're operating under. so what exactly are we doing with our sources of funds? there are two affordable housing rental projects that will serve middle-income households that are in our pipeline. 88 broadway and educator housing. for 88 broadway, we'll have 15% of the units set aside to serve up to 100% to 120% median income. the middle-incommune its are funded with $9 million of prop a funds. and construction for this project is estimated to start next year. 60% of the units, or up to 80 units will serve up to 80% of

ami. and funding that with prop a funds in the amount of $500,000. construction is estimated to start in 2019. we have a small-site preservation program that allows us to fund the aquisition and rehab of rent-controlled units at risk of losing their affordability when owners are talking the units outside of rent control. and this program allows us to serve at an average of 80% ami up to 120% of ami. it's been a successful program. we've been able to preserve 25 buildings with 146 residential units and 9 commercial units. we have 11 additional small sites that are in our pipeline to bring us um to a total of 245

units and 19 commercial spaces. our home ownership assistance programs also allow us to provide a downpayment assistance program to first-time homebuyers. this is a deferred loan program that we're providing to households up to 170% of ami. in the last fiscal year, we've closed on 35 loans for households between 80% to 120% ami levels. and loans between the 120 and 175%. we have a forgivable loan program specifically for educators. and that's called the teacher next door program and we've been able to close on six tnd loans for educators last fiscal year

serving households at 200% of ami. last year we closed on 185 bmr ownership units for initial sale and resales serving between 80% and 120% ami. in this fiscal year, we estimate we should be administering belobelow market rates and closing on another 26 downpayment-assisted loans. and other efforts to serve middle-income housing households thanks to the leadership of this board of supervisors now with inclusionary legislation passed at the rental units and ownership units, we'll see new projects that will have units that are serving households up

to 110% ami average for the rental units and up to 130% for the ownership units. and other city efforts, again, thanks to the leadership of this board, to serve middle-income households through the private market is incentivizing below-market units, as well as creating and legalizing dwelling units to serve our working households. as i mentioned, we do have limited resources, though we have notable achievements in terms of what we've been able to accomplish in terms of providing home ownership assistance, moving forward with the legislated project and continuing to serve households, retaining their housing through the small sites program.

some of the next steps, what we need to focus on, expanding our sources of funding to serve the households, and two legislative proposals in terms of getting additional funding include allowing the state and low-income tax credits to serve above the ami and to go up to 80% ami. this will allow us to get the first tax credits and state tax credits to also serve a higher income level. and also currently, our welfare tax exemption only applies for units up to 80% of ami. if we were to be extending this property tax exemption up to 120% ami, this would allow our projects to leverage more debt and city's gap funding. and so both of these legislated

proposals will help and we need more assistance in terms of expanding our income sources to serve middle-income households. >> don't go away. i want to ask you a couple of of questions. just so we're clear, a couple of the proposals, so support income averaging for tax credits. is that something that needs to happen at the state level? >> state and federal. if we wanted to apply both state and federal income tax credits to go beyond the 60%, we would need tax and federal legislation. >> and lastly in terms of property tax exemption, is that state and federal? >> it's at the state level. >> that's a state-level thing? >> correct. >> is that legislation drawn or something in discussion? >> this is something that we're looking at and we are proposing.

>> okay. a couple of clarifying questions. how much of the prop fee goes to middle-income housing? i didn't see that in our presentation. >> the housing prop fund allows us to produce new housing and/or rehabilitate existing housing for units up to 120% ami. so we apply that to both or low-income production and for middle-income production, no more than 120% ami. the only specific allocation is we're setting aside 10% of the funds for small sites preservation. >> out of the housing trust fund right now, the only thing being done now is small site accusation about 10%? >> yes. >> and how much is that annually? >> um, i can get the numbers for

you. >> okay. and then the rest of it is going to rehabilitation? >> new production and rehabilitation. >> so 10% of the total number, which at some point will grow to about $100 million a year? >> yes. >> and you set $80 million for prop a dedicated toward middle income. >> correct. >> and you listed out about $37 million that was spoken for. where is the other $43 million? >> so for the $80 million, it includes production for the rental side as well as home ownership assistance. so that includes the dolp and tntd program. >> so what about the project -- you mentioned the project out in the sunset, teacher housing. is that the one for $28 million? >> yes, correct. >> okay. so the $43 million, the delta

cannot be going just to downpayment loan assistance so, there are probably other projects in the pipeline. >> we've done one issuance for the prop a funds. and we've allocated the funds for both the teacher housing project and 88 broadway and then on top of that, we have allocated funds for downpayment assistance and teacher next door program. we'll have two other issuances for the bond. so we haven't expended the $80 million. >> so more money could be issued? >> yes. we're at about $30 million. >> we'll take public comment in a minute, but i want to get planning back up. in the production slide, you said, what's going to be produced, but how many in that pipeline is actually for middle income? it doesn't really say, unless i'm missing it. >> you are not missing it, supervisor.

>> hard to tell? >> it's too early to tell. we know of the units that are currently under construction or subject to development agreements what that is, but we haven't had a chance to break it down the entire pipeline of the whole 60,000. some of those we don't know because many thousands of those are in the process and haven't had to declare yet or haven't determined if it's onsite, offsite. >> what would be good as a follow-up to have any idea. i will forget names, but i will remember numbers. once you have something, if you can give me a number, what we're expecting over the next number of years in the pipeline, that would be helpful. >> we can do that for you. >> and then there was another slide on arena targets, but it is hard to pull from that. what is the number that would be an appropriate number to fill the need? i guess it's a question for both you and ted in terms of that missing middle.

what is a number that we should be projecting toward in terms of how far -- to meet some of the shortfall? >> well, if you are going strictly according to arena targets, if you combine 50 to 80 and 80 to 120 -- >> 4102 and 4971 -- >> 9,000 units. >> so we're 9,000 units. >> for the current cycle. >> and up to 2022? >> correct. >> i don't have any additional questions. if it's okay with the chair, we can open up for public comment. >> the we'll open up item 5 to public comment. anyone wish to speak on this item? please come forward.

>> san francisco building and trades council. in a way, i'm going to be unhelpful, because i'm going to reiterate the problem. for a generation now, we've remarked on the outflow of our members from san francisco. we have a consistent pipeline and have had a consistent pipeline, now fairly formalized from city build from other communities into our trades and we watch those workers as they come to a certain point in their careers, complete apprenticeships, and look for better living situations for them and their families and not find them here. i think, if anything, it's anecdota anecdotal, if anything, the fact that we're hearing that same sort of concern from oth other occupations now shows that the problem is spreading.

apart from the fact that you want to be able to call a plumber or electrician if you need one, i will remind you that in situations such as san francisco will inevitably face, it will be helpful to have folks here that know how to use a cutting torch and handle heavy rigging and it will be great to have them living near the situations. i ask for your help addressing the problem. why have any solutions for you, but i reiterate the problem. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, peter cohen, council of community housing organizations. amy covered everything. i could not think of anything else in the suite of middle-income programs we have.

you must have stolen my notes, amy. that's what we've done. and i think it's pretty impressive, but the difficulty we've always had over the years is the limits of resources, to be able to spread thinner and thinner and also the limitations of leveraging sources for missing middle incomes and supervisor safai, i think you know that. we talk about missing middle. it's a good narrative and i think we all believe in it. but it's a big difference wean it is 70% to 140%. and different programs work well for different parts of that range. i would impress upon you to show what programs work well. we have a lot of trial and error. for example, supervisors peskin and safai, we really nailed on the ownership side the right ami levels because, as our home

ownership counseling organizations know, there's a great absorption of entry level ownership opportunities between 70% and 140%. it has not worked as well above and below that. it's not to disparage, just a reality of how the programs work best. and to be thoughtful about the both/and versus either/or. it's problematic and political. resources should be additive. we've been fighting for that for years, adding to the stack and not being tempted to take from one and give to the other. i think we're all beyond that, but a friendly reminder. happy to work with you on more creative solutions including legislatively. >> thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, corey smith, if i can get the overhead. this is how just for the record these numbers are reported.

you can see the three different numbers there. and we're talking about different ami levels here, historically, that 80% to 100% level there 8 to 18 and we're at 5%. so just really puts hopefully a fire under our butts in figuring this out and trying to make sure that we are finding solutions, both in the short term and the long term. i completely agree with peter's comments here. we need to find additional funding sources, because we're drastically underproducing at all levels. i also want to say that while we do need to be aggressive in our short-term solutions, thinking long-term is not the worst thing in the world either. in that same spirit, we want to do both at the same time. i want to take a couple of quotes from the california legislative analyst reports with helping low-income californians.

it states that housing is less desirable as it ages. "housing that was considered luxury when it was first built declined to the middle of the housing market within 25 years." i know a couple of you have kids, 25 years from few, they may want to live here. in the effort to have short-term solutions, let's not forget to keep building. we know that new housing construction eases the pressure on low- and middle-income san franciscos. also the federal g.o.p. senate tax plan and funding sources for this stuff is under attack and highly encourage everybody to reach out through the california housing partnership and reach out to senate house members in the house of rep -- >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi.

laura clark. i want to add a little more context to the rhna numbers. those were developed when our jobs projections were low because we were having our jobs recession. so it's important to realize that we should not necessarily be pinning our goals to the rhna numbers. they should be four times that. we should think about, when is housing affordable, when people are spending 30% of their income on rent. our goals should be tied to the housing balance and the regional goals, that the entire region has fallen down and maybe that means we should do even more. we should not be stubborn and say, other people haven't done their part, so we won't either. we should double down and say, people are desperate. we should build as much housing as we can. are we going to subsidize all the way up to 150% of ami as our only solution for middle income?

that does not seem reasonable to me. i would love to reveal prop 13 and spend all that money on middle income housing, but that's unlikely. if we as a city are saying the only way that middle-income people will be able to hold on in the city is by us subsidizing middle income, we're looking at a failure of public policy. we need to be building a lot of housing. we need to flood the market with housing. and we need to realize, where is the missing middle? it's missing in the outlying neighborhoods. it's missing where we have constrained what we're allowed to do by creep eighting low-density neighborhoods. we used to convert single-family homes into apartments. and now we don't allow that to happen. the adu legislation is a great start, but we need to upzone our neighborhoods. neighborhoods need to build apartments. those are less expensive. thank you.

>> next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is georgia shootish. a couple of thoughts about how you could recapture housing. a vacancy tax. a luxury tax. that would give you money to produce more housing. a lot of people that own property don't like rent control, so they keep the property off the market. it's not right, but they do it. is there a way to recapture some of that? give a rebate for property tax, which everyone is downstairs paying now. how do you find if someone has left a unit or a house or several units vacant? you can look at the water bill to see what the -- how much water usage has been there. i think you would have access to that. those are some ideas. there are 5,000 rental units out

there sitting empty. perhaps that would help the missing middle. that's it. >> any other members of the public wish to speak on item number 5? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor safai? >> councillor safai: thank you, mr. chair. one of the things that i wanted to ask maybe the planning department, because i heard in a couple of different public comments an idea -- we have a certain amount of funds set aside for aquisition in small-sites program and land. it would be good to know based on census data where some of the households are that you can look at and map and i'm sure that you have already done that where the missing middle or middle-income housing is beguning to target. one of the slides showed where small-site is being utilized and

it was center to eastern part of the city. and i know that that is not necessarily where all of the -- it's based on the design of the program. and we started conversations with the mayor's office of housing on that. we started that the other day about how we can tailor the program. some of it is based on money, but i know the program's sweet spot is three, four units and above. thinking about knowing where the households are would be hopeful. the reason i asked about prop a and prop c were not to criticize those programs. they were hard fought, that said where the priorities were. but it's clear about 10% of prop c funds are targeted towards middle-income households and $80 million of prop a is toward middle-income households. based on the 9,000-unit number that you produced, there needs

to be strong consideration for additional sources of revenue to add to some of the public speakers' points. it's in addition to, not taking away of. so we're not going to refight any of those battles. we're talking about how can we expand the pie to do that. i just wanted to ask the economist to come back up and speak a little bit more and answer a couple of questions. ted, if you can, mr. egan. so one of the things that is talked about -- one of your slides says the need -- the one on, where we have an abundance of work force and shortage of work force based on your projections. but i guess one of the things that i wanted to ask you to comment on on that particular slide was, even if we do have an abundance in that particular arena, skill shortages, even if we do have an abundance and a shortage in some ways, speak a little bit more what it means in terms of the housing and the

connection of the housing. even if we do have an abundance and there is that demand -- one of the things i'm hearing from the industry that's represented in this in terms of the abundance of skills is that they're starting to come across a housing shortage making it harder to recruit in those are s areas. can you talk about that? >> i think that's true. given how quickly housing prices have risen in the last five years, companies' plans from recruiting to come to san francisco have to change very dramatically. and there are some types of companies that will not be able to pay the salary sufficient to attract people to move here to pay our housing prices or attract the talent they need locally. i think the point about the tech industry today, though is, yeah, it's growing slowly here and costs are a part of that, but

it's slowly down across the country. it seems to have reached the end of one of its entrepeneur cycles. and who knows what the future holds in that. there's another piece of the economy. the particular challenge is that virtually none of the jobs on the right-hand side of the slide pay the salaries that the ones do on the left. so they will have it much harder to recruit people to fill those jobs, if people are not here in middle income housing in san francisco already. in other words, trying to grow the middle income people here is a challenge because of the affordability problem we're talking about. >> councillor safai: i appreciate mike -- appreciate that. michael terio, i worked with,

those in the service sector and trades, have seen their traditional neighbors where -- neighborhoods where housing was available to them, if they didn't purchase a home or weren't here 20 or 30 years ago, the commute or housing available to them as shrunk or lengthened. so the commute has lengthened and housing available has shrunk. so that says a lot, serving in industries that are vital to san francisco. >> i think it absolutely does. for a long time one of the saving graces of being in san francisco is the ability to draw in labor from all over the bay area. to the extent we're seeing the same thing happening across the bay area. you are running out of neighborhoods around the bay where you are able to find, you know, housing that is vacant

that's affordable for them in middle-income occupations. the phenomenon we started to see in san francisco in the erarly 1990s, now we're seeing more. yes, it's certainly true that one of the costs imposed on middle-income people is a long commute. now going into the central valley for a lot of people. but i think the more fundamental change is that we stop to see the jobs in the bay area at all because the costs are prohibitive. >> in certain sectors, there will always be a need for. hospitality, you have to have folks working in the hotels and the restaurants. so the idea is, where does that work force come from and where do they live? >> those businesses have to make it as businesses. the hotel rates in san francisco are quite high. people are willing to pay a lot of money to san francisco. and so that to some extent

allows those businesses to support their workers. but there's a difference between -- i think it's important to keep in mind in this -- the people that have housing and the next generation. one of the reasons that the housing burden numbers that i show are not as high as people might think is those are people that have been living in their house for a long time. if you have owned your house for a long time or in a rent-controlled house for a long time, your housing costs may be managable, particularly if your income is going up as well. trying to get someone to move to san francisco and pay $3,700 or if their family changes and they need a bigger home, will they be able to find a place in the city or even nearby? i think that's the real challenge. so to some extent, industries that are competitive in this city, and we have a strong to tourism, can pay the wages, but i would not minimize the

challeng challenges for the next generation. >> councillor safai: so we still rank at the top in terms of 1, 2, 3, in terms of the price per rental unit or housing unit? commute is factors in. when i think of this -- i brought up the point about san francisco being the second most densely settled, i relate it to new york, even though we're not on the scale of new york city, but one of the things that new york city did 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago, they made a tremendous amount and a significant investment in subsidisu subsidized housing and i agree that part of the solution is creating more, but there is that build -- built-in percentage of their housing stock that is government-owned. and that's a difference between

san franciscan new york city. one of the ideas is, if you can expand the volume of subsidized housing or acquired housing, it can begin to change the course of the overall housing market. >> i think if you can do that at scale, that's true. new york city did that in the post-war decades. they built a lot of housing and a lot of it was subsidized. they had the same debates we had now about, yes, there is a lot of new housing, how how much of it is affordable for our work force? the main thing is, they grew a lot. they built a lot of transportation and built a lot of housing. when you do things at scale and subsidize at scale, it has a big impact. new york city was a very comfortable, middle class city up until, say, 1970s to 1980s, before it gets the same inequality that we see now in

san francisco. >> councillor safai: right. it's not unique to san francisco, by any means, there's been a massive reurbanization of the cities around the united states, at least on the two coastals -- >> there's a number of cities with a similar pattern. the thing about san francisco is that our economy is so much hotter than other places it's probably worse here than any other place. >> councillor safai: and our constraints. that's why i brought up the 49, 47 square miles versus other places. so density and height has to be a part of this conversation. >> i agree with that and i would say it's probably more than 49 square miles. only 10% of the bay area lives in san francisco. there's no reason that 10% should see itself as 100% of the solution. >> councillor safai: right, but that's what we have control over. mr. chair, i appreciate you taking the time. i would close by saying that it

seems very apparent to me based on the numbers is one of the strongest solutions is the and, in terms of adding funding for this source. to reiterate for the record, the low-income housing tax credit goes up to the incomes up to 60% ami. prop c housing trust fund, 90% allocated to low-income households, as a way to fill the loss of redevelopment agencies that was a number of people in the room and others were involved in that campaign and that was a big push in this city. and then prop a, most recently, more was set aside for middle-income households and i know we'll have our first educator housing project, which is significant. so that's three or four different sources dedicated 80% to 90% for low-income. so there seems to be a

significant need and based on this information to push ahead on a conversation about how we can create new sources. i appreciate the presentation about some additional ideas in terms of property tax and averaging out state and federal help and happy to be involved in those conversations, particularly those that we have more control over, which is at the state level. who knows. maybe we'll be surprised at the federal level. it was ronald reagan that created the low-income housing program, but tip o'neal was in congress then and things were very different. who knows if it's a conversation to have. i know from being involved in a number of conversations, particularly one most recently, about the developer and the cost versus middle-income to low-income. the tax credits and tax

exemptions given to low-income are allocated allow a private developer -- it gives them more of an incentive or ability to create those, versus this group we're trying to target. the subsidy is not there. so it's more expensive to build those units in many ways and with less return than market-rate unit. and that's what a lot of investors and investments are based on. we'll continue this conversation. i appreciate the chair hosting this and moving this conversation forward, and we'll work with these departments and members of the public to further an idea on how we can created a ages a -- create additional revenue. >> councillor tang: i wanted to say, maybe even a year or two

ago, it was difficult to have this conversation, so i do want to thank supervisor safai and city staff for working on this. it's a real issue. we have the data to show it's an increasing problem and we're not here to take away housing from other people. we're trying to broaden the pot, as supervisor safai said. so i look forward to being engaged on this issue with all of you. >> thank you, supervisor. echo those comments as well. with that, a motion to file item 5. >> councillor tang: so moved. >> okay. we take that without objection. madam clerk, do we have any other business? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> thank you, everybody. we're adjourned.

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>> go we'll start the meeting tuesday november 21 for the transportation authority. please call the roll. [calling roll] director rubke. you have a quorum. director hineki will not be here. and please be advised the ringing of sound producing electr electronic devices are prohibited and anyone responsible for one going off may be asked to leave and the board respectfully requests they be turned off and approval of the minutes.

>> do you have public comments in >> no, chair. >> do i have a motion. all in favor say aye. >> approved. >> item six, introduction of new or unfinished business. >> do i have new or unfinished business. we'll move on. >> on the director's report. >> mr. mcguire. >> directors, staff and i'm pinch hitting today. i want to start on our efforts we created a rapid response team that can go after the sites of traffic fatalities and identify immediate improvements. when a fatality occurs the public can expect a rapid review and response on site.

it will include an analysis of what we already know about the circumstances surrounding the crash, the crash history of the location and existing conditions and recommendations for any immediate engineering changes that can be made quickly sim to the changes and were the topic of a discussion a few board meetings ago. a key element in improving the rapid review will be to increase our information and coordination sharing with the san francisco police department and key part nor -- partner who investigates every fatality and the protocol is focussed on making sure the city coordinates the services it provides to survivors and families and victims of traffic crashes. that protocol is a collaboration between the medical examiner's office and police department, fire department and direct attorney's office and building the protocol on top of a robust

existing protocol and already helping to build and strengthen partnerships with these key -- [aud [audio difficulties] >> the next thing i want do address is the pilot project. there was an open letter to city agencies about the concern on safety and traffic implications of how tncs and ride-hailing vehicles block lanes. in his letter the mayor called on mta and the companies like uber and lyft to work together on a pilot project. under the mayor's direction we had the meeting to determine how such a pilot could be developed and importantly how it could be implemented and evaluated. no decisions have been made about a pilot program yet. we have made progress on goals and how data can be shared.

the goal is to eliminate stopping in transit lanes and bike lanes and eliminate double parking and impacts on bus lanes and crosswalks and areas of high pick up and drop-off. our initial hypothesis on the mta side was by promoting and enforcing the safe and reliable curb space we can increase public safety for all modes on the street. the city has not determined when, where or how many locations such a pilot might take place. we do know that consistent with instruction we've gotten clearly from this board it must be in an area where there's community support. we're conducting robust community engagement and outreach process before we make any commitments to work forward and we also know and had made it

clear it's imperative to commit to not double parking and making sure operators operate safely in an area. that's the current status of that effort. another thing you may have read about is the audit of the cypress security conduct and there was an audit of an agreement with cypress security services to determine if cypress and the mta complied with the contract and evaluate how we'll we're monitoring the compliance and there were findings in the audit. there were invoiced hours that could not be matched to time-keeping records. the audit found cypress and the subcontractors could not demonstrate full compliance with the requirements on the security guard and some could not demonstrate compliance with liability, insurance, minimum

compensation or health benefits requirements. we take it seriously. they affect not just the quality of the service we give the public but that we provide and support immunity but get to the way the public funds this board appropriated to pay the contractor are getting to employees and compliance is very important to us. we're already addressing most the areas and have been able to provide most the documentation that appeared to be missing during the audit but we'll continue to upon for the accountability practices and compliance more closely over the remaining life. the contract runs through march 31 of 2018 and there's provisions for extending it after that. i want to be clear that as you may know the cypress security services include armed and unarmed guards. none of the training lapse were found in the audit had anything

to do with the armed guards not being trained properly. you may have also noticed new colorful compliant designs are being installed and tested on signs is at platforms that are showing the estimated time of arrival of trains. they're long awaited features. making them work is not as simple as making the switch. there's back-end work to integrate new and old systems so for the next couple months we'll be testing rolling out it out on a station-by-station basis. because they're still in test mode we advise customers to use audio announcements but our goal is to have the signs displaying reliable information by next year. it will be a great step forward in the quality of information we give subway passengers. some other good news, the northern california chapter of

the officials named the public agency of the year. it's an award received at the holiday dinner and scholarship award dinner in oakland. it brings together individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in transportation and further the goal of supporting minority youth who wish to enter transportation careers. in the last 13 years the group's awarded nearly $250,000 to students of color. it's an organization some have been instrumental in. some former awardees are now employed in professional roles at bart and other transportation employers. finally, the fourth annual winter walk on stockton street begins this saturday november 25 and will continue through monday january 1. this year to activate the plaza

we'll be working in partnership with off the grid and will have two open-aired beer and wine gardens and holiday-themed photo opportunities. last year 750,000 people attended the winter walk. for more information about it visit the union square website visitunionsquaresf.com and if you're interested in extending it it will be open to 11:30 every night through new year's eve. that concludes my report. >> thank you for the updates, much appreciated. the winter walk i know how popular that is every year. i go down a lot and it's fun to see everybody enjoying the space. i know it's been discussion what the street will look like once the construction is done on the subway. i wonder if we can get an update on how to use that space.

there was talk of having a bus/pedestrian only and having a convertible space to continue to do things like the winter walk. in light of the discussion we had around north beach it seems there is public appetite for space like that if we can simply find good spaces i think it would be a big benefit to the area. the compto award is fantastic. i went online and looked at the work they do. it's a great organization. congratulations to the entire agency for getting that award. directors, any questions or commence for mr. mcguire. thank you, let's move on. >> the clerk: madame share -- chair, we have members of the public. brian and jody mederos. would you like to set a time. >> two minutes. >> i'm the executive director of the san francisco bicycle

coalition. after yet another fatality on san francisco streets this one on slope boulevard on halloween, the san francisco bicycle coalition wrote to demand immediate action to halt the bloodshed and another who died in the middle of the day was 78 years old. another killed halloween night was 47. the deaths follow of another who was hit and fell on baker streets. david was 90. tragically, this list goes on. the response to the recent spate of fatal collisions asked to deliver the leadership needed to meet the goals. having appointed the members of the board and having written the board last week requesting leadership on moving san francisco towards mission zero the mayor is looking to you to

set the tone. not only the mayor but our 10,000 plus members and members of the public at large are looking to the board and demonstrate your unwavering commitment to achieve flag goal. unfortunately i've noticed a troubling trend in recent discussions when public safety is at issue. increasingly the board has entertained the argument that parking should be breaking newsed against the loss of lives. and when the safety improvement project requires this the city does a grave disservice inviting watered down safety improvements by worrying about the loss of an against the community. we'll be watching closely how the board chooses to lead on the charge of eliminating serious injuries and fatalities and our work is to work together as partners to improve safety for everyone who uses the san francisco streets. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> the clerk: jodie medderos. >> good afternoon. my name is jodie medderos and the new executive director of walk san francisco. we appreciate the board commitment to vision zero. we know this agency bears the front of vision zero. it's a very serious public health and transportation safety crisis. the letter from the mayor the asks he makes from the board are a great start to accelerating a pace of vision zero. we realistically need concrete actions that is timely and measurable and need your leadership to make sure it's visualized. here's the steps we recommend to champion the mayor's asks. resolve bureaucratic obstacles and vital vision zero objects including 11th street, the

embarcadero, townsend and the upper market safety improvement project. all unanimously approved by this board. we recommend this board ask the mta staff for regular reports on delayed vision zero projects. this will bring the reason for delays to the open so they can be addressed. the mayor also asked the mta to implement near-term improvements on vision zero projects with a start date beyond one. we can ask the staff to develop a list of the projects by end of this year including a time line for the improvements to go in the ground. the mayor asked the mta and other agencies to develop a rapid response team. again, you can ask us for regular updates and also deliver improvements to these locations within a specific time frame. ideally one month from each death. your renewed commission to vision zero and prioritize safety above all else is the only way we'll reach zero.

we're counting on you. thank you very much. >> thank you very much for bringing that up. i was remiss in not discussing the rapid response task force after he talked about it and we're going to be anxiously awaiting what that will look like, how it will work and how we can all help speed up these projects because we do all agree with you that any loss of life on our streets is absolutely preventible and tragic and i think this board recently in the last few meetings has really shown itself to be fully commit to vision zero and recommitted ourselves to that goal. it has been a tough year in san francisco especially recently. we all feel it and take it to heart. once again, i will personally recommit myself to that vision zero goal and we will focus on safety over everything else. thank you both. next speaker, please. >> the clerk: madame chair, that's the last speaker who turned in asp