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highest risk. we're looking at the federal poverty line, $24,000 for a single person or $41,000 for a family of three. that means we have 226,500 residents at 200% of the poverty line and at-risk for hunger, which most of us can imagine. what the food security task force has been trying to do is maximize federal programs, community partners, creating a local healthy food purchasing supplement and working to increase residents' ability to access food. and that means we want to increase food security and healthy eating for all the low income san franciscans at home and at school and in the community. we agree and we know it improves health. we know it supports seniors and people disabilities to live at
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home. and it also supports local food business and jobs. we have been, as we know of over the last several years since the 2013 assessment went through a budget process, to highlight programs that were at capacity or we could leverage local dollarses to supplement private dollars and state and local funding. this your for our budget request we're focusing on budget requests for seniors and those with disabilities. we have been able to say exactly how many people are currently being served. how many dollars are in the program. how many people do we actually know that are on waitlists and if they knew about it are eligible and would come to this program. our success, we've been defining that as addressing unmet need
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and malnutrition in san francisco. again, we've been focusing on nutrition programs, meals delivered to homes and also home-delivered groceries for those that are not able to get out and get to a food pantry or grocery store. we do satisfaction surveys so we understand how the programs are working. we have added screenings to address loneliness and depression. we're able to say that we're serving low-income residents all over san francisco in every district. the other is healthy eating vouchers, which has been giving people vouchers for fruits and vegetables. we've targeted low-income families on s.s.i. and s.s.p. and wick and we see that as families that cannot access cal fresh. people on i.s.s. or s.s.i.,
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cannot access cal fresh. same with medical. and lastly, sro food security initiative. there's not a system in place for our sro residents. there as myriad of programs, so we've been looking at increasing public and private funding to create a system to address that need. we have funding to do two pilot programs. our stretch goals -- it's a stretch, but we can do it. we're looking at a policy framework and system priority on how do we really address that unmet need? it comes down to a few things we know we need to attain sustainable funding and infra struck our investment to eliminate the waitlist and barriers to service we've want a client-centered approach to be sure we're using all of our resources to the best of our ability and making sure that collaborate.
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and we want to ensure the accountability to the food safety system. that's making sure we understand where our dollars are going. what are we trying to do over the next few years? we've been working very hard to release a 2018 report. many of us in the room have been working hard on that. that will include, just as did our 2013 report, a city-wide and demographics, that will add on food usage and program analysis and our policy recommendations. we want to add new partners in this, both with the health sector and public and private sectors. we've launched a strategic funding process to make sure that we do the best with the 2018 report that we have coming out and make sure that we can implement the recommendations are there. change any program policy that needs to be done. and in closing i think i'm
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within my 5 minutes, but i think that we as a city, what we've felt is that we're committed to this. this is not anything one agency, one department, one program can do. it takes all of us, local, state and federal and we know that. and i think it's a combination of budget investments. innovative programming and public policy. >> supervisor cohen: good. you got a gold star. colleagues, any questions, wee add like to start with you down here, supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: i'll say something to say something. i guess i really -- i really have grown to understand each year the importance of food security and each year when there's been this asked for, to
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reach more people, and to get food to those that are vulnerable. >> supervisor cohen: supervisors? okay. thank you. i appreciate the slide on the stretch goals, particularly what the department is trying to change over the next few years. is it an attainable goal to get to food security by 2020, i think that's the original initiative. >> i think it's a stretch. it depends on the budget investments. i think with the 2018 recommendation, we're prepared to come back and work with you to look at that resolution again. see if it's 2020. if it's not, what is that date.
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in terms of the policy framework, to meet unmet need, how would you prioritize the three bullets? >> we would start with the first. that's our number one. >> supervisor cohen: to attain sustainable funding to eliminate waitlist and barriers, what is the strategy? >> local, state and federal funding and private funding and is there any room for any sliding scale? >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. seeing no other questions, we'll continue to mover ahead. thank you. next up, pedestrian safety. we have hava conenberg from m.t.a. hava, i hope you have seen the great gold star examples. >> i recognize that i was 20
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slides. >> supervisor cohen: wasn't going to say anything. >> thank you sore saying my name directly. i'm with the san francisco pedestrian manager and speak on behalf of a number of agencies that are responsible for pedestrian safety and are vision-zero programs. vision-zero is our goal, to eliminate traffic fatalities in san francisco and reduce the severe injuries on our street. we have three parameters -- safe streets, engineering, safe people, education and enforcement, and safe vehicle, and we will get to save people and save vehicles and that's where we have budget needs. i want to acknowledge that it's probably labeled as expansion and i understand the role of this body is not to look at
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expansion. we have on average 30 people dying on san francisco streets. last year was our lowest year with 20 fatalities, but it's still 20 of our neighborhoods. we're asked about pedestrian safety, 20% of the people that will die are people that are walking and that's fairly consistent year to year. 5 also want to know four people died using a motorcycle, 20%. and that's a severe overrepresentation of people that will use a motorcycle, which is 3% to 4%. i wanted to talk about the vulnerable populations. we're talking about people that are over the age of 50, aging populations. those are people that are most likely to die when they're hit by a car. and you can see in this schart
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that the population is lower than the people that died -- or will die last year, rather. additionally, half of the people that passed away were on a high-injury network street. that's 75% of our fatalities -- >> supervisor cohen: is it in a specific part of town? >> great question. you can see the proportion are tenderloin and south of market. you can see the ve-- it's one o the best data sets that we have because it's run by the san francisco department of public health. and for the first time, it was created using injury data that came from our police reports, which we've always had access to, but for the first time, data
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coming from san francisco general hospital. so we're picking up new injuries that were never reported to the police either because someone self-injured and went straight to general or please never made it to the site. or a person may not be comfortable calling the police. that's why we highlight communities of concern. there may be people that are severely injured that will not call the police. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> it's a great data set and nationally leading and great kudos to the department of public health that lead this effort. the reason i'm highlighting this is because the person you see who will get hit, i hear about a kid looking at his phone the kid most likely to die in a traffic fatality is an older woman who is walking across the street. and i just want to acknowledge, we left kendita duazo,
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80-year-old woman walking on ocean on her way back from church. that's who i imagine when we talk about this program. that's who we are trying to save. i'm going to briefly go through our capital programs. our goal is to improve 13 miles a year. it's about $57 million per year. we've worked really hard with your offices and neighbors in developing this list. some of our quick people corridors are things that you know of and here's the funding sources. i'm comfortable that you are familiar with all of them. and our sales tax, of which you are the commissioners of. we're very successful at winning state and regional grants. we're getting money directly from the federal government
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administered by state and region and that adds to our total funding. i'm moving on quickly to safe people, safe vehicles. we have campaigns that have $2 million to $3 million in budget. they're on our buses, in our radios, we've targeted them. the motorcycle safety campaign has a lot of traction. it's state-leading and we're also partnering with enforcement, so we try to lead with communication. it's a street you should not be speeding on. and then coming up with the campaign to those that didn't get the first message that we want to reduce speeding on these streets. two things less visible are evaluations of safety streets
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that started two years ago and i will show an example in a second, to help inform you, our decision makers, future projects, and to celebrate the successes we do have. and, lastly, data transparency. it's run by public health and gives everybody the same access to information that i showed you where injuries and fatalities are happening. it goes with our open data goals of the city. these are one-time grant sources for every program that i listed. it comes from the office of traffic safety, noninfrastructure grants, one bay area, sales tax, and safety council road to zero. of the funds, 80% goes to multimedia. and those that are on the ground that can best communicate that
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to the communities. i have stretch goals. one is to operate as neighborhood. we want to operate in up to 20 schools. thank you for supervisor yee for your work. our next stretch goal would be the hert brartbrea heartbreak c those who lost loved ones. as well as what are illegal behaviors. and our evaluation program only focuses on infrastructure efforts and we want to be more accountable about the safety people and safe vehicle efforts that the multitude of agencies are working on. so we would like to evaluate those programs more robustly, so we can show our progress.
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lastly, infrastructure programs all over the city and it's hard to understand when we're talking about a planned view on a piece of paper. this is taylor street. we did a pop-up demonstration of the project. we had 1,500 people walk by and interact on the site and get a look at what it would look like. i'm done. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: all right. silver star. it was dense. >> supervisor sheehy: in was surprised you didn't mention school crossing guards. when i look at the needs that is most unfulfilled, it's a school crossing program that has not been able to staff all the requests that you currently have
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and i know some schools even stop asking for them. but walking kids across the street is not happening and it's a huge safety gap. it's disappointing to see that -- we brought this up to the agency a number of times. there's not a plan to do something to fully implement a school crossing guard program for every school that wants and needs them. >> my colleague, dylan, will address that. >> through the chair to supervisor sheehy. very timely question. we are really trying to make the crossing guard program more robust. at tuesday's board meeting, we discussed 20 new positions. and we'll continue to work on
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that in outreach and recruitment and retention. so we're hearing you and we'll continue to work on making the crossing guard program more responsive. >> supervisor sheehy: 20 guards, that will not serve the backlog, much less people that may want to participate and have given up. >> we will continue to work together. i can follow up with your office later in terms of how we're going to address the backlog and the next steps. >> supervisor sheehy: you've been helpful personally, but when the m.t.a. budget comes to this committee, it's not something that i find as a parent of a public schoolkid that i understand. it's just not something that's rational to me. we're not talking about tens of millions of dollars.
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the m.t.a. should be able to provide crossing guards to every school that needs them. it's a matter of principle. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: i just want to remind every member of the public and committee that we have no authority to add money to m.t.a.'s budget. we don't have that ability to add money or take away money. however, i want to note that the department of public health and san francisco police department also get pedestrian safety money and if we are interested in moving in that direction, there's an opportunity through those two budgets. i don't believe this was in your list of priorities. this is -- what you are articulating is news to me.
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i didn't understand that it was a priority for you. >> supervisor sheehy: i've been engaging the m.t.a. we don't have to vote for their budget. we don't have to support their budget going forward. >> supervisor cohen: and there's always one person to go in that direction. i think we'll have a conversation with m.t.a. comes to discuss and we have the analyst report in front of us so we can have a detailed analysis as to where the resources are coming in and we need to make sure that we're budgeting these priorities. i know i cut you off, but wanted to give you an opportunity to finish. all right. no problem. >> supervisor yee: this was one of my priorities. >> supervisor cohen: yes, it was. >> supervisor yee: i appreciate there's even a slide for ed's neighborhood.
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and i'm glad we'll push for that as a strategy. one of the things that -- you talk about the three major campaig campaigns. it looks like we may be on the same page on this, but i want to be sure that we are. as you may or may not know, i asked for a hearing to address what is going on with the seniors and the strategies that we have strategies for the campaign piece going to be focused on seniors? >> we can tailor our outreach and communication to seniors. some of the campaigns have not been developed. we can take that into account.
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and what is important is that the people most affected by traffic collisions and violence are seniors, are older adults. so by taking a holistic approach to building safe streets, enforcing our laws and improving our tech follnosequignofollow - we'll have positive outcomes. i hear what you are saying, tailoring the program so seniors understand what i've presented. >> supervisor yee: it's a combination. it is always a combination of educating the seniors as well as drivers in terms of -- maybe seniors are slower to get across the street. one of the reasons why i ask is to fully understand what are the majority issues and what are some solutions to -- if we have
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this problem? what i'm seeing is that i've seen over and over again seniors getting hit. and many are getting hit while in a crosswalk and many of them are getting hit while they're in a crosswalk when the car is turning. we need to study that and find a solution to it. >> i agree. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i have a question. one is about sfpd and the relationship between enforcement and also vision zero. i'm calling a hearing on the traffic division because i've heard there's a reduction in the traffic division and i'm wondering what your relationship is. i know they received some funds for pedestrian safety and wanted to know if you have had discussion about increasing traffic enforcement. >> i will speak to the one-time
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grant that we received to put together communication in our enforcement campaign and i would ask perhaps dylan -- i don't know if we can speak to the overall traffic division. i was not prepared to answer that one. >> supervisor fewer: that's okay. >> specifically, cases like sunset or 19th avenue, leavenworth, we wanted to not just send a message through billboards and the bus, but also wanted to follow up with the enforcement side of things, so the grant funded additional safe hours from the traffic division. so it was on overtime. we have an evaluation forthcoming about the effectiveness of that work. so just to be clear, we did fund the overtime through the grant
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source. >> supervisor fewer: how much is that grant for? >> i believe it was $2 million total, or that neighborhood, and it was from active transportation program. not all of that went to the p.d. it was a breakup between communications and the police officer hours. i will have to give you the exact breakdown. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. it's a high-injury corridor and we see little enforcement on that stretch. are lights, especially across the boulevards that are six lanes or four lanes, like geary -- >> i'm glad you asked that question. we have a public announcement coming on may 9. i don't want to take the wind out of anyone's sails, so if you can hold that question a few more days. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. are we doing any analysis around
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violations around stop signs and -- in my neighborhood, a lot of people run stop signs and run red lights, which is so dangerous because people depend on that if they are crossing at a green light they're safe. have we looked at that violation as well as running red lights? >> absolutely. our department of public health has every single police data we have and we have five violations and two of them are running red lights or not stopping at a stop sign. so we do have a goal for each police district for 50% of them to be on the top five citations. so those two you alluded to are included. the idea being we're trying to direct our traffic division to the most at-risk movements. and they understood that goal
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for a long time. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> supervisor cohen: a couple of questions more. vision zero, as you said, was adopted in 2014. since then, there's been modest reduction in traffic deaths. i want it highlight that in 2017, it was the least deadly year ever on record. so congratulations. i think that's quite an accomplishment. >> we hold our congratulations and we'll wait until we get to zero. >> supervisor cohen: i appreciate that greatly. there are three major programs, street safe, safe people, safe vehicle, particularly safe people and safe vehicles, funded by only one-time grants. is that correct? >> correct. >> supervisor cohen: 80% of the funding goes to outreach, particularly, i think it was page 19 of your slide deck. >> yeah. i can get there. >> supervisor cohen: i just wanted to give you an opportunity. i wonder if you could speak to the 80% of the outreach program.
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how it's working and how -- >> the goal of the one-time grants, to be competitive to win the grants, you have to show community support for these programs. so you have to fund the placement of these opportunities so people see them and that's in media buys, tv, radio, bus shelters, buses. i hope that's where you have seen them all. but additionally, it's an opportunity for us to work with our community-based organizations, so we currently have vision zero hero program. it's going out to every street fair we can imagine to talk about the broader goal of vision zero. in addition, we try to partner individual projects. this is going back to our safer streets a little bit, but taylor street, for example, had c.b.o.s in the tenderloin supporting our effort because those are the people that can best reach the people we want to engage, so
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they understand the project and can inform the choices we're making. >> supervisor cohen: what evidence do we have that the educational campaigns are effective? >> i knew you would get there. we just created a fairly robust evaluation program. when we finish a project, we have before and after data and are evaluating on any proven metrics. that's a program we want to -- >> supervisor cohen: when you say you just created the evaluation tool, does that mean 2018, 2017? >> the evaluation tool, we started to build a handbook, so consistency across projects in the last two years and we just deployed it and we have some of our first project findings that are coming out right now. so for instance, we do have a completed project evaluation on 9th and division, 7th and 8th quick build. so we'll have a robust
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association with it. we want to duplicate that on the other side of the house. vision zero is pretty new. and i think it's a goal for us, it's a stretch goal. >> supervisor cohen: i appreciate that. seeing there are no other questions, we'll keep moving on. thank you very much. our next presentation will be made by the street repair and repaving. that's bruce robertson from the department of public works. are you here, bruce? great. we're going to get the handouts circulated. are you presenting on street landscaping as well? all right. maybe we can get both of those out to us.
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thank you. so bruce will be talking about streetscaping, landscaping and resurfacing. whenever you're ready, the floor's yours. >> good afternoon, bruce robertson, finance manager, san francisco public works. i will first start with a little background on the program. public works maintains 900 miles of streets in the city and county of san francisco, which equates to almost 13,000 segments or blocks. the goal of the program is to keep streets safe and in good condition for all users and modes of transportation, whether it's pedestrians, bicyclists, vehicles, muni buses and other
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forms of transportation. we want to maximize every dollar received. i want to talk later in the presentation about how we do that. we have a robust model that goes through a determination process of what streets we decide to pave. the next one is, we make sure we apply the treatment to the road at the right time. so we're looking into what are the multimodal transportation. what are the utility projects or m.t.a. projects so we can collaborate together. we look at project readiness and coordination and make sure we have equitable distribution across the city. here's some of the outputs we look at. the paving program, 1 hundr0100
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correlation. you can see the blocks we've treated annual licly. but the numbers have gone down in fiscal year '15 and '16 and there's a simple reason for that. what you want to do, you don't always want to do the worst roads first. if you do the worst roads first, they're more expensive. you have to do the paving, sub structure and get far less bang for your buck. is if you can do a simple grind and pave, you can stretch your dollars further and you can improve your pavement conditions higher and you can stretch your dollar. the reason you see a downward trend, we had seen the improvement on the low-hanging fruit and started to do the more challenging, complex projects with the p.u.c. and m.t.a.
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so here, as i mentioned earlier, there's a correlation between budget and improvement of the road. so the p.c.i. target is 75 and that's a region-wide protocol. it was 70 but increased to 75 based on protocol change. the great thing is, we're on track to meet that target. >> supervisor yee: what is p.c.i.? >> pavement condition index. it's a metric that determines the basic -- it's a score that determined the quality of the road. so it's an overall evaluation for the city. on the next slide, supervisor, we'll put it in numerical grades. we were getting a d minus. we're at a c plus. and i will show you how we get to an improvement score. you can see what goes on here. the pink bars indicate the budget and you can see the improvement in the p.c.i. score. so this is a little bit more of a detail in terms of what's
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going on with our pavement condition score and the budget. and you can see starting in fiscal year 5 and 6, increase in the budget that came from a addition additional, there was certificates of participation, road bond passed in 2011. what i want to highlight and is important for this meeting, if you look at the far right, it's for '17/'18, '18/'19, '19/'20, and that's the senate bill. we have $8.6 million. we're looking at $23 million in the budget year and roughly the same for fiscal year '20. that's an astro nommically important number for us.
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we've continued to improve our work to try to hit our goal, our target, of 75, while not using the general fund. so we've been able to have a new source from the state and the source of that revenue -- primarily it's a 12 cent tax on a gallon of gasoline. there are other small revenues and sources associated with that. >> supervisor cohen: you are at the 5-minute mark. >> stretch goals, score of 81. we're at a b, which is a great goal. anything less -- if we lose senate bill 1 revenues, which there is the likelihood that that will be on the statewide ballot, that would represent $23 million hit to the paving program that would have to be
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either not back filled by the general fund or another funding source that would diminish the great results. my apologies for going long. i wanted that gold star. that's the risk we're facing. >> supervisor cohen: that will be on the november, 2018, ballot, correct? >> correct. and it looks like they will get the signatures to put it on the ballot. >> supervisor cohen: do you have any questions about the resurfacing program? >> supervisor fewer: one question. when you say a p.c.i. of 75, how is it different when i hear moratorium grade? >> sorry. could you repeat the question? >> supervisor fewer: in my district, they will say, we're going to resurface this street and it will be moratorium grade. and there i hear p.c.i.75. explain those two things to me, because people use those terms to me frequently.
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>> the p.c.i. score is the target. that's what we work to. the moratorium is, i will provide you some information after, but i want to focus on the p.c.i. score. that's the citywide goal we're trying to meet. that's the metric we measure to. it's a pavement condition index. the airport uses it for their runways. it's the standard for all roads and concrete surfaces are measured against i think the takeaway is how critical the pavement condition index score is. it helps determine funding and it really drives where we're doing the work. and we do a five-year plan. block level. so detailed and specific. >> supervisor fewer: i understand that if you do it to that level, then we don't need
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to redo it for so many years. can you give me that year amount? if someone says, i'm doing 25th avenue. we're going to do it moratorium grade, does that mean we'll not have to visit that street to be repaved in how many years? >> i want to give you the year, but i'm not quite sure and i have two years in my head. can i provide it to you after the meeting? >> supervisor fewer: absolutely. >> supervisor cohen: i understand we're on track for p.c.i.75 by 2021. >> correct. >> supervisor cohen: there are multiple funding sources. there are multiple sources for street paving that are diverse. you have the street level, prop k, prop aa and the gas tax. and so how would the repeal of senate bill 1 jeopardize our ability to be on target to reach
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a p.c.i. of 75? >> great question. it would depend on what happens with the repeal of senate bill 1 and what the backfill would be. if there is no backfill, that score would start going down precipitously. if general fund would fill it, we would meet our goal. it depends on the backfill. if it's 100%, i think we would be fine to meet our target. if it's a percentage, it depends on what that amount is. we can run some scenarios if you would like. >> supervisor cohen: are any of the resurfacing programs connected to the capital improvement plan? >> they all are. the pavement program goes through the capital planning
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committee and budget. >> supervisor cohen: any other questions? let's go on with the rest of your presentation on median and landscaping. >> pivoting to street and median landscaping. wanted it talk about a strategic goal. this is core to what we do at public works. we care and build the city's assets for the people of san francisco and improvement in public spaces, build and strengthen partnerships, reimagine and activate public spaces. this program addresses all of those goals. here's a quick snapshot. i'm going to focus on funding. here's a snapshot of what is going on in terms of our landscape maintenance funding. this is gas tax and general funding. it's been increasing quite well
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with a decrease of fiscal year '17 and' sun -- '18. we identified what was available for prop e and there was overlap. so we reduce some maintenance and moved that over to tree maintenance fund. one of the challenges that we have at public works is as part of our paving program and working with our partners at m.t.a. and p.u.c., we've identified far more needs. 15th avenue, cesar chavez, balboa, needs in addition to the ones in existence, such as the embarcadero. you can see the overall square footage. in many cases, it's in excess of 100,000 square feet. as often happens and this
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conovversation happens at capit committee, construction happens, but where does maintenance come from? we've partnered with nonprofit organizations where we've had some work force development opportunities. so we put out a grant and we've done some grants for these areas. so that's how we're currently meeting the needs. the problem can only continue to get worse. if you look at this, the tree establishment funding is going up. these are all great things. it's what it sounds like -- planting great trees. in the budget year, just under $2 million. and it will be over $2 million in fiscal year 2019. not all of the trees are in the medians, but a lot of them are.
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as i move on to the number of trees, you can see that number continues to increase and why this number is a problem, for the tree maintenance fund, it takes three years for a tree to be established before it is moving over to the eligibility of the tree maintenance fund. so you have a three-year gap from when you plant the tree until it's eligible to be worked on. that will help to alleviate landscape maintenance concerns. we have a shortfall in landscape maintenance that even though we're thankful for the voters for passage of prop e, we have $19 million in the current year. $19.8 in the budget year, thought all of the work in the landscape medians is eligible for tree maintenance. what is troubling is many of the
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landscape maintenance projects are on busy thoroughfares, geary, masonic, cesar chavez. so -- we were hearing about pedestrian safety, worker safety is important to us, too. we have to be sure we do that work at night or have proper traffic controls in place. we have some gaps. it's a gap of approximately $1 million. that's why we have community partners on board to help. it's creative for the life of the capital project and see if we can use any capital funds before we revert to the operating fund. i will keep this short to be under 5 minutes and am available to answer if i questions. >> supervisor cohen: very good. that was 4 minutes. you had 1 minute to spare. question about landscaping. how does the tree maintenance fund work? >> so the tree maintenance fund, when we established the tree
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maintenance fund, we had 105,000 trees. we did a census, turned out we have 125,000 trees in san francisco. the tree maintenance fund allows for maintenance of trees as well as the cement and concrete sidewalks where the roots have impacted the sidewalk. so it allows funding for the maintenance, trimming, repairing of trees as well as to the sidewalks, but it's after the tree has been established, so it does not fund new tree planting. it's only the maintenance of existing trees. >> supervisor cohen: i would imagine over three years, six years, or over nine years, the number of trees drawing on the tree fund will grow in aggregate. granted it's staggered in three-year intervals, but is someone monitoring the trees
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that we're planting? a lot more trees were planted this year. we have approximately 839 versus 559 planted last year. so is it prudent to plant these trees when we know that the fund will be drawn down with a compounded number of trees in the future, say, in the next 12 years? >> it's a great question, supervisor. we take that into our work. public works is a data-driven department. so we're being very aware of that and trying to make sure that the types of trees we plant can be established and do not require as much maintenance for the first few years. we've also partnered with another nonprofit and community organizations to help with that tree establishment. we've partnered with them to help fill in the gaps that we've identified. so through that effort, think
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we'll be okay. >> supervisor cohen: specifically to that granting effort, you say friends of the urban forest. the city grants out that relationship or partnership or how can you describe it to me? how does it monetarily work? >> in this case, it would be like dcyf and their nonprofits. so we provide nonprofits the funding source to maintain and perform some of this work. and we have funding in both our operating budget and capital budget. >> supervisor cohen: why is so much more spend on trees as opposed to landscaping? >> mainly, the tree maintenance fund was approved by voters. and cement work is pretty expensive. tree establishment $2,000 pear
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tree from procurement, installation and maintenance of the tree. what drives up the cost around trees, cement work is quite expensive. >> supervisor cohen: you do the cement work, right? >> yes. >> supervisor cohen: so it's at cost? >> yes. we've added a cement crew. >> supervisor cohen: how much is granted out to your partners? >> can i get back to you on that amount? i should know this and apology for not knowing. we'll get you that number this afternoon. >> supervisor cohen: not a problem. colleagues, do you have any questions for bruce? all right, bruce. i think you're off the hook. thank you for your presentations. sorry. one thing back to the p.c.i. breakdown.
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is there a p.c.i. breakdown by district? how do you prioritize street repair project? >> first we look at a little bit of what the low-hanging fruit where we can get the biggest bang for our buck to stretch our dollars further. and we look at other projects in the pipeline. we want to koorpd -- coordinate with p.g.e. because we don't want to do a street and then have a utility company tear it up again. >> supervisor cohen: are these streets in a database? do you check a database or how do you coordinate with them. they're a huge entity. >> we hold regularly scheduled
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meetings. we do better with p.u.c. than p.g.e. we coordinate the paving -- it's coordinated and planned five years in advance. so we are very much looking ahead and trying to plan as far as possible and so we get a sense of what p.g.e., m.t.a. and p.u.c. has in the pipeline. we're not perfect. we inevitably miss some, but we do pretty good. and we look at equity, in terms of what we're doing city-wide. >> supervisor cohen: on the slide breaking down the funding sources over the last few years and this is in your previous presentation, what percenting a of that funding is from local sources, again, we talked about senate bill 1. out of the fund that's available, how much is it coming from the local, general fund?
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>> it represents probably based on the current year, it would represent -- i will ballpark 60%. i can give you the exact breakdown. that includes $8.6 million of senate bill one revenues. we're getting $23 million in the budget year. that drops it below 50%. i can provide you the specific numbers. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. folks, thank you, bruce. it was brought to my attention that i overlooked a presentation that we have to go back to. it's pedestrian safety. this is with the vision zero coalition, community aspect of the presentation. my apologies for that, ms. layman, but wanted to bring you back up to give you that opportunity to make your presentation. >> thank you very much. we're getting it set up right now. >> supervisor cohen: no problem.
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after this presentation, we'll hear from our friends in work force. they will be discussing with us work force development in the pipeline to city jobs. and then after that, we'll hear from the budget justice coalition, who didn't send their presentation in advance, i might add. and then we'll hear from clean and safe parks. all right. are you ladies ready? >> we're having a problem getting it set up, but we printed it out and we can put it on the overhead. >> supervisor cohen: perfect. we'll do it old school style. sfgov tv, if you can look to the overhead for me. we have a slide on the overhead. excellent. all right. take it away.
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>> jessica layman, zero coalition. >> and cathy deluca, group of 40 community-based organizations that work together to advocate for vision zero and we have a senior and visibility work group. we have our presentation coming up for you. >> we want to act knowledge and appreciate the board of supervisors that are making vision zero a priority. as we pointed out, chair cohen, we've seen progress that fewer people are getting hit and killed. we have momentum and it's important to keep that going.
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we are working toward zero deaths. a reminder of the problem that 800 to 1,000 pedestrians are injured every year in san francisco. and most of the people killed in traffic crashes are pedestrians. seniors make up 50% of the pedestrians killed. and we know that's as far as seniors being out and using walking around as a mode of transportation and likely to be injured severely and unable to recover. 69% of people with disabilities injured in crashes were hit while walking. we're going to keep moving. our biggest recommendation ask is for funding for a program called safe streets for people with disabilities.
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the city reaching vision zero. it was the reason the state legislature sponsored a bill for automated speed enforcement because of the family stories. because of their willing necessary to share the pain they have gone through. two more i have for you. i want to get under five. the sfmpa mentioned on taylor street one of the amazing things for outreach. it is so difficult for the city to pull-off. it is a tough thing to do. they did the live street demonstration on taylor. they did a mockup what the project would look like. every day people got to see what a street change might look like.
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we would like to see more money for more projects. we only have six years. we have to do it right from the start. finally, i want to raise up ed's neighborhood. a great program to teach kids street safety. we need money to get it to the schools. those are our main asks. vision zero you are dedicated. we are excited you are calling out the spotlight. pedestrians were 70% of those killed last year. thank you. >> you get a platinum star. you had two minutes to spare. supervisor yee, do you have anything to raise with this presentter? >> everything is good. i support everything. >> i don't have any questions.
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thank you. i don't see any as well. i appreciate the presentations. the pipeline and city jobs. hello to the oewd team. >> director of economic development. thank you for the hearing. i want to thank supervisor fewer for suggests work force development for today. there is nothing more important in the city. we have an unemployment rate at 2.4% in san francisco and more jobs than at any time in the city history. there are real challenges facing residents. a key focus area for us is not in finding the job. it is being ready and keeping the job. for those with jobs, are they earning the money to make ends meet?
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on a career ladder and ensuring they have progressive employment and career pathways to allow them not just to stay in san francisco but to succeed. that is why that is something at the core of oewd's mission if we can get the slides. thank you. to address this, the city has 17 different departments throughout the city family that do work force development. based on the conversation with supervisor fewer. we want a presentation to share our key projects and programs, and our priorities. also some opportunity areas going to the future. i do want to hand it over to our director daniel who will do this portion of the presentation. ly employee available for questions. >> thank you. it is good to be here. as
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