>> will be out of our meeting today our clerk is alberto quintanilla. and mr. clerk can you please call the roll. >> clerk: commissioner breed. present. commissioner fewer, fewer present. commissioner kim.

kim present. commissioner peskin. absent. commissioner ronen, ronen prohibit. and commissioner safai, absent. commissioner sheehy, absent. is commissioner stefani, present. and commissioner yee, yee absent. we have quorum. >> we'll skip over items two and three to now and mr. clerk call the consent agenda. >> clerk: items 4-11, consent agenda and 5-11 approved at the march 14th board meeting and are considered for final approval. the remaining items are routine and prepared to present if desired and if a member objects it can be remove removed and cod separately. >> do any colleagues want to remove any items from the consent agenda. seeing none let's open up the consent agenda to public comment. any members of the public that wish to comment on our consent

agenda, come on up. seeing none, public comment is closed. may we have a roll call vote on the consent agenda. can we get a motion? motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by commissioner fewer. and now can we get a roll call on the consent agenda. >> clerk: on the concept agenda, commissioner breed. breed aye. and commissioner fewer. fewer aye. and commissioner kim? kim, aye. and commissioner ronen. ronen, aye. and commissioner stefani, stefani, aye. and commissioner kim. kim aye. >> thank you. and, colleagues, we do have for item 12 an update on our school crossing guard program and items 13 an update on the valencia street implementation and we might lose quorum very soon so i'd like to see if we want to continue those items to our next meeting.

if we if that is without objection if we can get a motion as such. motion moved by commissioner kim and seconded by commissioner ronen. so we will open it up to public comment first and then we can continue those. any members of the public that wish to comment on items 12 and 13? for item 12 i have a calm cards. david kenaan and joel kamishir, and michael wineberg and hector kardanis. please come on up. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. >> clerk: you have two minutes. >> in march -- march 1 of the had year there's a report that highlighted certain challenges with the crossing guard program and one of the number one challenges they expressed to you is that they were having a crisis in retaining and recruiting crossing guards. in one of their presentations

they mentioned that in -- between 2015 and today that they had hired 146 crossing -- 146 -- excuse me -- they had hired 146 guards and lost 130 in that period. and that speaks to a crisis for the schools, for the public, and for the workers as well. and these folks work a minimum -- they work 2 1/2 hours a day and no benefits, no dental, no health care, no pension. and they receive a single rate every other city worker has most -- most city workers have five steps and these folks have some worked for 21 years earning a single rate with no benefits. in february we gave the m.t.a. a proposal to fix the problem and we asked them to convert these positions to civil service part-time positions so that these folks could qualify for medical and pension benefits. m.t.a.'s response was we are not interested in discussing a proposal at this time and didn't

even acknowledge the problem. and as of today we have not received any real response from m.t.a. showing that they're interested in resolving this crisis so that's why we are here today and we are hoping that you can instruct them to resolve this problem. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. please come on up. >> my name is joel kamishir and a crossing guard at 19th and judah and i'm retired so this is just supplemental income for me. and a lot of people think that it's an easy job walking back and forth and holding the sign but it can be very stressful where i am at 19th and judah and we have to be diplomatic dealing with angry drivers who are delayed even a minute when we assist senior citizens moving very slowly. and every day i hold my breath at least once when people dash in front of me and recently i had a homeless man who had some

mental issues and waved a knife at me and i don't bear a grudge against him, he was taken away for treatment. this might be an isolated incident but, you know, there are things that aren't always pleasant. even with the raingear that we wear it's sometimes uncomfortable working in the winter and with the increasingly hot summers we're having and the fires and the air quality and the high temperatures is making it kind of unpleasant, sometimes in the summer. so it's not surprising to me that some people are quitting their job. it just isn't enough money. so i hope that you can have some pay equity there. and, lastly, one thing that i had of concern in the memorandum is that m.t.a. was thinking of using contractors which i guess would be self-defeating because contractors are often anti-union and want to pay low wages. so if you do use contractors i hope that you would hold them to requiring them to have union members and pay the same union wages and if you do that there's

basically no need to hire contractors. so i hope that you will discourage m.t.a. from using contractors. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. anyone else who had submite suba card please come up. >> i'm lashona branner and have i worked as a crossing guard for six years and i'm with local 1021. i work at the corner of ocean avenue and atos and i work mornings from 8-9:30 a.m. and i come back from 3:30 to 4:30. there's an after-school program from 3:45 to 6:00. 4:30 to 6:00 there was no guard present and a student got hit by a car running to catch the k-train. also a couple months prior down at commodore slope a little girl

was late to school running across the intersection of slope and ocean and she got hit also because there was no guard there and they had left already. so i just wanted to say that we need more guards, more hours, and my old partner, she retired with 20 years and she had no pension or anything. and as soon as she retired her son had an accident and got paralyzed and so now she has to take care of him and it would have been nice if she had something, you know, coming to her. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, my name is alberto, and i'm the union rep with local 1021, and i'm also a resident here in san francisco in district 1, outer richmond. and the union rep with the

school crossing guard program, we have -- i have absolutely observed the difficulty of the program maintaining the optimal number of 195 for its staffing. it is a bit of a revolving door. and crossing guards requests easily exceed the supply that's very obvious with the lack of being able to have coverage. there's times where if a school crossing guard cannot make it to their shift, that they're sick, what have you, at times some of these intersection guess without any coverage which then, you know, provides for a pretty unsafe streets just for that small amount of time that is allotted for them to be able to cover a shift. and the fmta is shy of meeting over matters of the school crossing guard program. generally what we hear back is budget, budget, budget.

so definitely i stand with the school crossing guards for more school crossing guards in the program and more funding for the program. (please stand by).

>> items to continue 12 and 13. a lot of colleagues want to talk about both items when all of us

are here. there was a motion. can we take that without objection? items 12 and 13 are continued without objection. so at this time we will go back to items two and three together. and we will skip over the chair's report and go to the executive director's report. >> thank you, commissioners. i am kelly chang. the report is on your desk. i want to begin with acknowledging the sad event that happened over the weekend where a pedestrian in arizona was killed, hit and killed by an autonomous vehicle in tempe, arizona. this is very unfortunate loss of life. we express our condolences to her family and the community. it is good that uber has now suspended testing not only in arizona but also in california. another part of my report here mentions that in late february prior to last weekend's fatal crash, the california department of motor vehicles established new regulations for testing and

deployment of driverless autonomous vehicles. this would be the ability to have these vehicles operate without a human driver behind the wheel. the d.m.v. may begin issuing permits on april 2, subject to the permit conditions being met by the applicants. these permit conditions include the manufacturer's submittal of a law enforcement interaction plan. as you may have seen, earlier in march, mayor farrel did issue a call to any manufacturer company who is testing or planning to come in for a permit to please contact the city and demonstrate the vehicles and to engage in a collaborative engagement and conversation about how to coordinate their testing and their deployment plans. we have been participating in that working group along with the state c.h.p. and local law enforcement, first responder community, and very much hope that that will be a productive and collaborative process that

does not rely so much on regulation, but really on cooperation to insure the safety of the public during the upcoming period of testing and deemployment. at the federal level, the senate is discussing the a.v. start bill or senate bill 1885 is making its way through both houses. we would like to thank senator feinstein and other senate democratic leaders for expressing our and other cities' strong concerns about the bill as written. currently it would preempt state and local safety regulations, not necessarily holding these companies to operating in compliance with local traffic laws as they may vary quite a bit from state to state. so we have been on record and through the senator have expressed those to the committees, and hope that will be amended. moving to the regional level, the good news that i wanted to share is the light rail vehicles have the funding for that

through the t.a.'s programming action on our state transportation improvement funds, $13,700,000 was moved forward at the california transportation commission through the staff process. it now faces approval action later this week which we hope will be positive. it allows for 83 actual counters and -- to be improved on the vehicles allowing better frequency in the tunnels and on the many metro testimonies. this is a $14, $15 million action we programmed at the t.a. and lebron james hopefully approved by the c. -- and will be hopefully approved by the c.t.c. late they are week. there will be a project update given to the board for approval prior to submitting allocation requests sometime this fall. we'll also be receiving quarterly updates about all the new vehicles and improvements going into service and improving frequencies for the public.

at the local level, district four, route 66, and again, at commissioner tang's request and leadership s also headed toward hopefully improvements that route 66 service was a subject of a reconfiguration study at the fsmta. and following our board's i a prooufl, the fsmta analyzed this and it is included in the proposed recommendations for the fiscal 18-19 budget. the citizens advisory committee, our t.a. citizens advisory committee will consider the final report at the march 28 meeting. it includes a recommendation of the recommended strategies, benefits, as well as the costs. we do hope that the m.t.a. budget will be able to include all of these changes in the coming year. i want to thank commissioner tang once again for her leadership on that study. improving safety in the soma freeway ramp areas. we are finishing up the vision one ramp study first phase that

was requested by commissioner kim, and we are now launching a second phase, and that is the idea of looking at 10 additional freeway ramp intersections in the south of market area on the vision zero high entry network to improve safety and pedestrian safety and all traffic safety really. we are reaching out to neighborhood groups and stakeholders and developing multilingual surveys and encourage folks to say the survey at our website. and you can sign up there for email updates about this project, and it builds on the set of recommendations that we brought forth earlier this year and will come to the board for approval i believe next month in terms of the initial set of intersections in the youth and family zone in the soma. turning to our general prop k strategic work which is very exciting. i discussed this a little bit last month in the report. this is the five-year process where the prop k team looks an

at the whole program and lays out the potential uses and priorities over the next coming five years. we will be in bringing information to the board in april about our schedule, our outreach, and our overall approach for looking at the five-year needs for the prop k program. this includes looking at the priorities of 20 different categories and several capital projects as well as the setting of the debt strategy and financing strategy as needed to meet the project delivery goal. our citizens advisory committee will also get to weigh in on this topic, so we invite folks who are interested to come to the march 28 meeting at 6:00 in the hearing room at 145 # a market street. and we are also offering a workshop for the board and the aids late they are week. any question may be directed to the policy director for policy and programming and ann and her staff. and then another reminder we have walk to work day. you may already be seeing notifications about walk to work day. it will take place on april 5.

and i believe walk to -- and bike and roll to week will be following in mid april to school. and encourage folks to get ready for this fun and fesive event and take part in the day as well as all the different activities around town. you can find out more information at walk sf.org as well as on the bike coalition's website for bike and roll to school week. t.a. is happy to sponsor both through a funding role as well as a sponsorship role on these events. and in terms of project delivery, the prop k sales tax program is providing match to offset vehicles from the l.r.v.s to muni buses and paratransit vehicles. the prototype for the 40 foot electric trolley buses are arriving in early february m.t.a. took delivery of the first new 40-foot trolley buses and is currently testing that vehicle. they will replace vehicles that have reached the end of their useful life and improving reliability and safety across the system. it will be integrated as well

into m.t.a.'s radio communications project allowing for better reliability and management of the on street service and all 40 of these the trolley buss is expected to be replaced by 2019. finally, on the paratransit van program t good news is the m.t.a. did realize cost savings in the 27 lift equipped para transit vans and with the cost savings, they were able to purchase an additional seven lift equipped paratransit vans to replace vans that had also succeeded their useful live. congratulatio congratulations, m.t.a. thank you. we are glad to see the extra seven vehicles added to the original 27 to improve paratransit access for seniors and persons with disabilities. thank you. >> thank you very much. and, sorry -- thank you very much for that update. i also just wanted to announce that commissioner stephanie has left the meeting, so we do not

have quorum. however, all that is remaining are information items. thank you, director chang. and now, colleagues, we are on to item 14, introduction of new items. do we have anyone who would like to introduce any new items? commissioner ronen. >> yes. thanks, vice chair. i just wanted to talk about our t.a. meeting and attendance at the meetings in general. maybe at the next meeting. i would say for the past few months we have started every meeting 20 to 30 minutes late. and then we are having quorum issues constantly. so maybe this new system of having dissolve the committees isn't working. and i think maybe as an entire body, we should have an open discussion about this. i think it's really disrespectful and unfair to staff and the public to have a scheduled meeting and then not be able to start because of quorum issues, and then

colleague who is do show up on time and also have very busy schedules have to wait while we're waiting for our colleagues. so if we can maybe put that on a future agenda so we can have that discussion together, and figure out what works for everyone's schedule, i would really appreciate that. >> thank you very much for those comments, commissioner ronen. i think all of us who are here agree and would like to resolve this for sure moving forward. okay. so we don't have any introduction of new items besides that. are there any public comment on the introduction of new items? seeing none, public comment is now closed. item 15 will be general public comment, so you may speak during that time. general public comment. >> i'm going to start off -- >> since we have lost quorum, this public comment, the minutes won't be taken for it. >> pardon? >> we currently do not have quorum, and the public comments will not be recorded within the minutes. >> i don't care about being recorded as long as you hear it. >> thank you. >> i'm going to start out with

how, first of all, i object to you not following the instructions in that big bank of information pertaining to mission rock where it says that 15% of the overall apartments is supposed to be for low and below income tenants and families. singles and family members. 15% of 1,500 units means 225 of those apartments are supposed to be for low and below low income levels, ok? and about you, you supervisor who is campaign for mayor coming to our community and talking about you can't pay and you got the most affordable housing in san francisco than anybody else, you're damn wrong. you only put apartments for high income bracket people and your record clearly stipulates that. you excluded several low income class of people t main people out on the street, that's most vulnerable, and you have the audacity to come to the neighborhood and then go to the

talking about the affordable housing for people. that's called price fixing, and price gouging. it's a violation of the penal code and eligible for a $1,000 fine and six months in the county jail. about this $217 million that i demonstrated you waste with twitter and other high-tech companys is called money laundering and tax evasion. it's disgusting. and for you to sit up there and annihilate my nationality and wiping us out of the filmore and talk about the equal housing opportunity organization and fair and each and every neighborhood is a damn lie. you got my nationality number so damn low it's a damn shame. more black people in foster home care than adults that's in the city. because of your racial profiling. and each and every one of you administrations that come out there, justin herman, is an accessory after the fact.

about this immigration you doing, the misappropriation of funds. >> thank you. >> you are not supposed to be practicing law from the public court role. >> thank you for your comments. okay. we are joined by commissioner sayi and we have quorum again. any other member who is wish to speak during public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 16 please. >> item 16 adjournment. >> all right. thank you, colleagues. hope we'll get a quorum next time. we are now adjourned.

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