be issues as it relates to the preparation of the findings. >> the preparation of the findings would be to support the additional conditions that the board is imposing. >> president breed: so there shouldn't be a problem based on the intent of what the board would like to do. >> supervisor farrell: i'll remake the motion. motion to table item 23, approve 24 as amended, approvetime 25, table item 27, item 28 as anded. approve -- >> president breed: approved. keeping the findings on both. >> president breed: all right, i think we got it. is there a second? seconded by supervisor yee. madame clerk, the motion to

approve 24 as anded, 25, 28 as amended, 29 and table items 27, and 23, has been moved and seconded. madame clerk on the motion, please call the roll. cohen aye. farrell aye. fewer aye. kim aye. peskin aye. ronen aye. safai aye. sheehy aye. tang no. yee aye. breed aye. there are ten ayes with one no and tang in the dissent. >> president breed: the motion passes. let's go to items for adoption. >> we have a closed session to dispense of. >> president breed: we do, but we have to take public comment.

just for clarity, we're doing with the irving street, congratulations. thank you. now is the opportunity for the public -- >> president breed: to members of the public, can you please take your conversations outside? thank you very much. we still have business to conduct at the board of supervisors. thank you all for your patience and being here. ok. madame clerk. >> clerk: it's now the opportunity for the public to address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the minutes and items 39 and 40. >> president breed: can members here from the public, we still have business to conduct. we ask that you please exit the

chambers quietly. madame clerk. >> clerk: public comment is not allowed when an item has been previous subject to public comment pursuant to the board's rules, direct to the board as a whole, not individuals. if you'd like to display your document, please clearly state such to sfg tv and remove the document. >> president breed: thank you, first speaker, please. >> thank you, president breed, ladies and gentlemen of the board, i ask for your resignations. you violated your oaths of office. you swore to defend the u.s. constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, yet you continue operation of city-wide case management focus here after city-wide, a joint project with the campus of the university of california approximately, $100 million a year. city-wide is a community treatment program, as such it is

responsible for medicating and performing involuntary and medical procedures upon residents of the city and county. it is able to do this by denying its patients life and liberty without -- life and liberty without due process of law guaranteed by constitution amendment five. city wide denies its patients. freedom of association and the right to petition the government with grievances. city wide perpetrates searches and seizures. city wide denies the patients the right to confront the accusers. city wide denies the patients the right to injury trials. city wide compacts cruel and unusual punishment. city wide denies its patients personal security and bodily integrity. city wide uses medicine to

control patients unnecessarily, because it offers no avenue of complaint. city wide denies its patients equal treatment under the laws. you're knowledgeable of the violations, but you do nothing to prevent them, therefore you have violated your oaths of office. i ask for your resignation. you misspelled my name on two of the meetings. >> president breed: thank you. next speaker. >> madame president, i haven't been here for a while, i was on jury duty, a panel of 24 people. i was having a cat fight with other lawyers. i didn't wind up on the jury. but it was on the panel with 24 people and of 24, only one did not have a college degree. there were four ph.d. a bio

chemist on one side of me and engineer on the other. we started to talk before the hearing and we start to talk and the chemical normal says in your time in san francisco there must be a lot of changes. i guess she's talking about the loss of families or low-income people, but i think that you have to stay with the really important things that are actually happening and the really important thing that has been happening the temperature has been going up. you still have to wear a jacket in the winter time. when i came here, you could go down to the beach and catch a bunch of fish, now you might catch one, but you couldn't eat it. that's what we should be focusing on. that our ability to sustain ourselves. i mean that's the most important thing. you know. so.

that's my biggest thing, spending hours about a store front on irving street when there are a lot of bigger things we should be talking about. >> president breed: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi, my first time speaking here. it's not a good occasion. a couple of years ago a law enforcement patrol agent was stoned to death by foreign nationals who crossed illegally. and those killers along with other murderers, rapists, child molesters, human traffickers they're going to a sanctuary city over jurisdictions that don't harbor criminal and respects the law enforcement. i find it incredibly, i don't get it how you can prioritize any foreigner that is in our country illegally and prioritize them over american citizens,

it's a disgrace. i don't think any of you would sacrifice your sisters, daughters, wives and put them on the politically correct sacrificial altar. i'm going to lobby the federal government to come after you to allow this to happen for civil and criminal penalties and i think you have kate steinly's blood all over your hands, you're fake feminists and i'm the only one speaking. her last word was daddy help me, as she bled out. i'm the only one standing up for the poor girl. it's disgusting. >> president breed: any other members? >> president breed: thank you, madame clerk. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i just wanted to make motion to continue item 21 to the meeting of december 12th.

>> president breed: i forgot. seeing no other members of the public who would like to provide public comment, it's now closed. >> supervisor peskin: i would like to continue item 21, the closed session negotiation to our meeting of next week, december 12th. >> president breed: do you want to do it to a time certain? >> supervisor peskin: it was a special order 3 p.m., i think there is another, so both scheduled at 12 -- on the 12th at 3:00 p.m. >> president breed: ok. supervisor peskin has made a motion to continue item 21 to next week's meeting of -- what is the date? december 12th. 2017. seconded by supervisor kim. colleagues, can we take -- oh, supervisor fewer.

>> supervisor fewer: yes, i just have a question. would we be able to move this -- continue this item to the first meeting in january? >> supervisor peskin: this is actually the second, or through the president to supervisor fewer, this is the second in a series of ongoing closed sessions about all of the open contracts, so i think it would be important for the board to have it. i understand that you won't be at that meeting, but there will be other meetings after it. so i think it's important we check in december as the necks are happening -- negotiations are happening and i will continue it to another date certain after the one on tuesday? >> supervisor fewer: ok. >> president breed: any public comment on the continuance. seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take the continuance with objection? it's continued to the meeting of december 12, 2017. madame clerk.

let's go to the items for adoption without reference to committee. >> clerk: there are two items, a resolution to declare september 42017 through december 8 as cancer screening week and establish the regular meeting schedule. >> president breed: item 39, can we take that same house, same call? without objection? the resolution is adopted unanimously. and madame clerk, on item 40, do you need to call that item? >> clerk: motion to establish the 2018 board of supervisors regular meeting schedule. >> president breed: i want to discuss that item. [laughter] look, you guys have been listening, and i want to discuss our schedule for next

year. so, colleagues, this -- you received over the past couple of weeks, a schedule for 2018 and i'm hoping that each of you had a chance to review it. but i want to talk specifically about november and wanted to propose that we make a change to the proposed schedule for november. the reason why our clerk suggested that we have a meetingen the 6 act and the 20th instead of the weeks of the holidays is because there was a desire not to have a two-week gap in between meetings. and i wanted to express that i don't have a problem with two-week gap between meetings, so my preference that we change

the november date to the dates we take off to the meeting of the 14th and the meeting of the 21st. i'd like to make that proposal. i'm looking at 2017, sorry. thank you. so, i would propose that we take off the 13th and the 20th, unless anyone has any objections, but i also want to let you all know, november 6 is election day. and this past year, we didn't necessarily have an election, but next year we will. so november is just all jacked up. so if we want to propose not to have as many meetings in the month of november as possible, i'm completely open to that. so i just wanted to shine a light on the issue so we can make decisions, because from my experience of being on the board of supervisors, over the past couple of years, when i first

joined the board, there was a meeting the week of thanksgiving and that was a little bit problematic because of people's travel plans. there was a meeting during election day, and that was problematic. so you know, i just wanted to bring this to everyone's attention, just -- we don't necessarily having to have all of the meetings in november, but if there is a need for a particular issue that might be delayed for whatever reason, we can always call a special meeting. so i just want to put it out there. and get some feedback from everyone else on what your thoughts are around eliminating a few meetings during the month of november and so with that, i only see one name on the roster. supervisor farrell. >> supervisor farrell: thank you. i'm fine with that. if we want to have two weeks, just because of the calendar and

we want to be here on the 6th and not have a meeting on the 13th and 20th, i'm fine unless people have issue with it. i'm happy to have the motion and move it on. >> president breed: and 6th is election day. i wanted to hear from other members of the board on thoughts around whether there should meeting on the 6th. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: put your name on the roster if you have opinion. i heard all the nos from the sidelines. you have the floor. >> supervisor safai: i'm sorry, i just wanted to say i appreciate you catching that. i didn't realize that in the draft that came out for next year. as somebody that has two school-aged children it's helpful to have the week, now that the schools are shut down in san francisco, it's really helpful to have that week off, so i appreciate you making that change. >> president breed: so you definitely wan the 20th off? >> supervisor safai: definitely the 20th off.

>> president breed: and any preference as it relates to the other date? >> supervisor safai: i hear what you say for election date. can we have a half meeting -- a half day. >> president breed: supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: i've never understood why the board meets on election day. we encourage people to engage civically. my preference, although i won't be having election, but instead meet on the week of veterans. i would be fearful of having only one board meeting in the month of november. but we did have a shorter meeting on the election day. i'm open to both, but the preference is to meet on the 13 and 27th? >> president breed: supervisor kim, i would agree with you, it

would be the 13 and 27th >> supervisor cohen: i'm happy to do meeting on election day, but perhaps not a hearing. be mindful of what we put on the forward calendar. >> president breed: i don't know if it's possible, it's what we're required to do by law, it's unpredictable. >> it is, but we can be mindful. thank you. >> supervisor tang: i want to support supervisor kim that we meet on 13th. the first tomb i ran for office, i was two hours late to my own party. so not meet on election day. >> supervisor ronen: i want to echo support for supervisor kim. >> president breed: supervisor kim, is that a motion? >> supervisor kim: yes. >> president breed: supervisor kim has made a motion we meet on the 13th and 27th of november and we remove the 6th and the

20th of november from the calendar. madame clerk? >> clerk: the other thing you have to add to the motion is notion suspend the rules because it is requirement of the rules you meet on the 20th not the 27th. >> president breed: what do you mean? >> clerk: the reason it's list is because the board rules say they shall not meet the week after thanksgiving. >> president breed: who put that in the rules? ok. so i will amend my motion to amend to include a motion to suspend the board rules for the week of november 13th. >> clerk: the week of the 27th. >> supervisor kim: ok, the week of the 27th. i understand now. >> president breed: sounds like something supervisor peskin did when he was president. with that, [laughter] supervisor

kim has made a motion and i think seconded by supervisor farrell, colleagues, can we take that without objection. without objection the amendment passes. on the calendar, colleagues, can we take the same house same call. without objection the motion as amended is approved unanimously. >> in memoriam, today's meeting is adjourned in memory of president breed for the late miss ester laudher and at the suggestion of supervisor cohen and the entire board, for the late ms. lorraine taylor. >> president breed: this brings us to the end of the agenda. madame clerk, any further business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes business for today. >> president breed: we are adjourned everyone, thank you. .

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an >> chair peskin: good morning and welcome to the transportation meeting for december 5, 2017. our clerk is alberto quintanilla. if you could please call the roll. (roll call) we have a quorum.

>> chair peskin: after we hear from the cac and pass the consent agenda i would like to take item 13, the report for the vanness bus rapid transit out of order to accommodate the schedule of mr. ris ken who is here with us this morning. if you could call the next item. >> clerk: information item number two. >> chair peskin: mr. larson. good morning. i am john larson representing district 7. i will present the cac report today. item 67 on the again -- item 7-up date on the san francisco management study brought concerns about the use of the hov lanes. they questioned the issuians of the clean air stickers on the use of the lanes giving

increasing popularity of the vehicles in the bay area. there was concern that private shuttle buses would reduce the lanes effectiveness. this concern was more voiced during the public comment when private commuters buses were held up for the transportation not open to everyone. starting with number 8. the cac recommended approval for the prop operation of the prop k funds. item 9 approval of the local programming, partnership program or lpp formula program funds for street re-surfacing and exchange of lpp funds with prop k funds for the managed lanes. expressing the appreciation the funds could be used right away for street improvements. item 11, the 2017 san francisco

management program raised questions about reporting the findings given the measures of the transit and auto speeds that had not improved. it was to break it down to show the improvements ordeggations on the individual routes. the concern that the transportation network companies on congestion was not adequately captured. the cac felt there should be more emphasis on development of subway and bus rapid transit. tieing other studies together in a more holistic plan as opposed to the separate plans addressing more narrow issues. represents from the west side expressed desire to address not the most congested core but

transit need this is the rest of the city feeding into the core. the cac approved the item with the statement urging the transportation authority to accelerate planning for rights-of-way investment such as subways and bus rapid transit with special consideration for the west side of the city. that concludes my report. thank you. >> chair peskin: any questions for the cac? is there any public comment on item number two? seeing none public comment is closed. thank you for your work and your report, mr. clerk, please read the consent agenda. >> clerk: four and five were approved at the november 14th board meeting are considered for final approval. remaining are routine. staff will present if desired. if a member objects they will be removed and considered

separately. >> chair peskin: any public comments on the minutes for november 14th? seeing none it is closed. movement to move the consent agenda? roll call please. (roll call) >> chair peskin: those items are finally approved. colleagues if there is no objection as i previously mentioned, i would like to call item 13 out of order. seeing no objection, mr. clerk could you please call item 13. >> clerk: progress report for the vanness bus rapid transit an information item. >> thank you for joining us and

your staff miss mccarthy for being here. >> good morning. ed riskin director of transportation. thank you for the schedule just meant. i want to come to give you an update on the vanness project. when it was here last, a month or so ago, there were a number of concerns raised by commissioner also. i want to try to address those concerns. i am joined by our project manager as well as other agency staff who are working together on this project. in terms of the project, i know you all know people call it vanness brt. it is much more comprehensive. it is a complete streets project with significant safety and state of good repair elements as well as the core bus rapid transit that we are all excited

about and as you have asked us to do when we do these major projects, we are getting the complete scope done to minimize disruption and not come back later to tear up the streets again. it is a very exciting project for a very important street in our city, and it is one because of the complexity and size of the street and duration that we are doing in phases. we initially came in and removed most of the median for the length of the project. we are now in the phase of where we have shipped the traffic on to where the median used to be so we are working in blue areas in the slide, the utility work. this is the big phase of the project. in the end we will see surface improvements. the biggest chunk of time is utility work happening underground. once that work is done, we will

be able to shift traffic back to the sides, build the brt lanes in the center, then finally add the power that will power the electric buses. that gives us a big picture overview of the schedule. this is where we are currently versus what the baseline schedule is, and you will note, as i think saw last time projected for mid 2020 revenue start day, which is about nine months later than our current baseline schedule, apthat is based on the issues you heard previously and something that i think you heard previously we are working with the contractor and city agencies to recover. we now have received a recovery plan from the contract tour -- contractor walsh construction with different elements in terms

of recovering the schedule. what it provides for is up to about four months of recovery of the nine months we are behind to get us half of the way back. there are things, options that we have already accepted. there are others we are reviewing. there are also other options we are exploring in terms of trying to accelerate the schedule so that we can move it back into as close to if not back at the original baseline december 2019 revenue start date. to remind you the main reasons that we got offtrack at this point in the project. one, last year's storms. we lost a lot of time up front in terms of rain delay days, and then, second, procurement for utilities, which is the work starting now. as i mentioned, the longest part

of the schedule was very challenging due to the costs that we got for the utility packages relative to the amount we budgeted and agreed upon with the contractor. it took a lot more time than provided for to get the utility contractor on board. they are now on period and the work has started. so as i said, they are on board. that contract was signed. we have created these two construction zones. you will notice between the last meeting and this one in november we did a couple of lane shifts. in the southbound direction from suster down -- sutter to north of city hall now traffic is in the center lane. on the sides of the streets we can begin utility work and in the northbound direction from jackson north we shifted traffic to where the median used to be

to work on the utilities there. those traffic changes happened and the utility work is underway, which is an important milestone for the project. one other issue that may have been mentioned at the last meeting, generally holiday moratorium is in effect from thanksgiving to new year's on streets with commercial businesses. there is a process through with the unanimous support they can waive that moratorium. we are successful with waivers for most of the project limits to allow the work to continue during the holidays. that will be helpful to our schedule as well. right now, we are just starting that utility work. there is monitoring systems that

we have to put in place for the awff. we are doing some potholing to confirm utility locations. we have found utilities that did not come from our initial notices of inintent from our underground service alerts, from the drawings from the utilities. there are steps to try to understand what is underground and where, and despite that we do and will on occasion identify things that we didn't expect to be there, but we continue to work with the utilities to address those issues adjust the design or move utilities so we can get underway. that work is happening now. really, the main bulk of the work that we are starting is the utility work. currently there is a sewer down the center. this puts new sewers, one in each direction north and southbound. that work is starting as is the

replacement of the water maybe and parts of the awff system. three different utilities work is what we are starting now. we continue a very robust outreach process which is really serving as the model for construction outreach for the rest of our right-of-way projects in the city. this slide gives you some of the highlights of that. we are working to communicate well and early and frequently and at the risk of over communicating so folks know the impact to get in put from the business advisory committee about different things such as the acceleration options to make sure we are doing this in a way to work for the businesses and residents, in particular, who live and work along van ness avenue as well as other institutions.

that is it in a nutshell that we are on a good track now with the utility contracts underway. we will continue to look for ways beyond the four months we have been presented to bring the schedule back as close to if not at the end of 2019 for revenue service date and we will be happy to provide updates as frequently as the commission would like. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> chair peskin: thank you. we appreciate you taking this seriously. many of us, particularly those in the districts on the vanness corridor have heard from our constituents. we appreciate you are getting this back on schedule. we have had a robust conversation about this before as has the cac. we have some questions or comments from commissioners. >> thank you for the

presentation, it was very clear. i appreciate that giving that level of thought. it was a little confusing last time. i think this time we have more clear information. one of the things i want you to spend time giving us more detail on was you said you did the time recovery. that was pretty clear. we did the holiday schedule except for the one block. that will buy you time. the one we had a lot of questions about was the contractor and pricing in on the pc and sewer lines. can you speak a little more about that. i know that was a big concern in terms how much above the bid and what that process was and how you ended upcoming to resolution. if you can speak more in detail on that. >> certainly. this is, as i think you heard last time, a guaranteed maximum price contract, and in

establishing that guaranteed maximum price we established the costs that we were agreeing to upfront for the different elements of work. for the utilities work, we agreed upon a price of $18 million based on estimates we had done, the contractor had done and independent third-party estimates. that triangulation gave us confidence that was a reasonable number. the first bids came in double that. $39 million give or take. that was something that the contractor wasn't comfortable with, that we and the puc were not comfortable with so from that point forward we worked with the contractor to repack age age and -- repackage and rebid. they ended up being able to get a price of about $29 million.

significantly more than what we all thought it would be at $18 million but significantly less than what we originally got. that process to rebid and negotiate with really one responsive party is what took the time and accounted for a lot of delays. the fact is that contractually speaking, the $18 million is what they agreed to and they signed on to when they enter interested the contract. understandably the fact we know that $29 million is how it came in creates a pretty big hole for them, $11 million gap they are seeking to close. they don't have a legal resource to close that, but we want to make sure they are fairly compensated for the cost of the project. they have submitted a claim for the $11 million and that is something that we will process accordingly. >> how does that workout?

you also when we met recently a construction management style you are instituting on this project. can you speak a little bit about that? >> through the chair the delivery mechanism that we selected for this project within consultation with public works is general contractor model. it is different where we do the design in house, we put it out to let folks bid on the package and hand the project over to them. under cfgc you bring in the contractor before the design is 100% complete to advise on construct ability to give feedback. the way we did this is maximum price. we agree on the price and they take packages such as utilities and bit that out -- bid that out and subsequently bid out the

tree and landscape package and paving and electrical package. it is a different way of project delivery. it is the way they deliver the larger building projects. this is the first significant horizontal project using cmgc. it took a lot of lessons learned and input on managing a contract in this way that is the contract mechanism we are using, and we will process claims whether related to the sewers or any others we receive and that are par for the course on a large construction project as per the ad min code. >> how do we resolve the $11 million shortfall? they want to be compensated. they put in the claim. the taxpayers were sold a package at $18 million now it is $29 million. how do we resolve that?

>> i don't want to get into this in public forum. there are mechanisms in the contract for reviewing and possessing the claims. we will review and process this like we will any other. we recognize the actual cost of you willtility work is $29 million not the $18 million we thought. on our side we have the guaranteed maximum price we all agreed to. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> commissioner breed. >> i noticed on van ness avenue there is a lot of change and confusion about which way people are to go when driving up and down the street. i was wondering if you had any plans to add parking control officers to those most challenged intersections during commute