music, so we've taken a look at both to address the feasibility of outdoor events, and it seems like with some moderate controls, those would be -- >> so have you done these tests yet? >> tests? >> yeah, on people noise. >> yeah, we ran calculations. we've been relatively conservative assumptions regarding how loud the speakers would be. >> calculation meaning you have devices that'll measure? you actually set a meter out there and record it, and you have decibel levels. i see your decibel levels. are theed live readings? >> no, those are estimates levels. the building is in its current use. testing -- >> sure. >> testing from the future rooftop, that's something that could be done but it's not -- >> so i have a question.

is this the kind of first time to do a sound test in our kind of jurisdiction where you're near a club where there could be 300 people outside smoking, and there's people noise. or there's -- and which we have no jurisdiction of street performers pounding on their trash cans. those are environmental issues, but what we're concerned about is live readings. so this is an office space which, you know, right now, is probably bare minimum. and i'm pretty sure with the hotel, you're going to have carpeting and a lot of things that go with it. but i think what we've been seeing from other sound consultants is actually live data. and i'm all about live data. >> sure. >> i think it -- in fairness to local edition, a reading should be taken when they're operating at your first level of resident or your hotel floor, and just

get a fair reading if you actually hear anything. they are running live music, but i think you have a deejay, too. so they might be running bass. i remember back in the day, there was a club called mecca. >> mm-hmm. i know that one. >> and they lost their entertainment license because they just couldn't get rid of that bass. is the fourth floor -- no matter how much sound proofing he did, he couldn't get rid of it, and finally, they just pressured the owner to stop it. we're kind of concerned about that kind of thing. there is a bar -- i think there's a bar on the first floor around the corner. i don't know if they're still going to be there when you do your renovations. >> right. so let me clarify. i believe i know what you're asking, but just to clarify, that the the measurements that

we have done are on the exterior. we also have done some measurements on the interior. those were operated during the weekend when local he litigatihe -- edition was operating, and those are data loggers running continuous voice monitoring, and we also have sound identification. >> and so your data is live. that's -- >> so that data's live. what i thought you were speaking about was the rooftop -- >> the only thing about the rooftop is there are four seasons, and a lot of those hotels have high-rise condos up there. >> right. >> and if you're starting to play music on that level, and i don't know what their windows are like, and they probably weren't thinking of it, they might hear you if you're going to have amplified sound. >> right. and we have certainly taken a look at that with respect to the noise ordinance and the place of entertainment noise requirements. you know, assuming no shielding because they can look right

down on the roof. so from a calculations perspective, we are helping the project sponsor identify what -- you know, what elements if any they would need to impose on the businesses who would use those spaces. >> okay. and you have all this ready for planning, right? >> yes. >> okay. and of course, you're going to do the outside lighting. i'm all about the outside lighting, and i know it's downtown, but the security on the street, i just want to make sure that's addressed. okay. so that's -- i have no further. [ inaudible ] >> okay. any -- i'm done. >> any other sound questions? all right. yes. commissioner lee would like to know about your lighting. >> we knew there would be cliffs, so yes.

i took some book handle readings kind of on the baseline. our office is on montgomery street, a block away from the m pyramid, just outside the office, outside the entry of my office, and i'm seeing three to 4 foot candles, but it's pretty dim. typically out in the street, i've seen about 15 foot candle the at intersections where it's better lit. across the intersection through the montgomery street b.a.r.t. plaza, kind of an open area, reasonably well-lit, and that was, like, ten to 6 foot candles, and a little bit of what i expected on market street out in front of the light -- local edition -- got it right. 20 to 15 foot candles. little bit darker around the

entrance of the building, an area we'd like to improve a little bit just to beautify the building. and then on around on third street, immediately where you turn the corner where our supplemental entrance, we'll maintain the main entrance on the corner, but a supplement cal entrance on stephenson street, it's 11 foot candles on the sidewalk. if i cross the stephenson, there's a parking garage there, it's a who it's a whopping 30 foot candles. >> what do you think you need to do. >> improve the lighting at our entrance. just as another kind of note of data, i looked at the plaza

hotel, and adjacent at the entrance, it was about 5 foot candles, and it bumped uch to whole 8 foot candles. so very dim, but till very functional. it's not how brieth it is, but the quality of the light that i think adds character and gives you a sense of security. and then obviously being kind of an upper end hotel, there would be a doorman 24/7 to kind of keep that alley, you know, trouble free. >> so you're thinking that local edition's 30 foot candles is way too bright. >> they're about -- they were, i think 20, yeah, 22 at their front entrance. i think the parking garage, i think historically, the -- the building owners have just put a lot of light out there to, you know, deter, and it's doing a good job? i was out there till about 10:00, and kind of no one around.

it didn't seem too creepy. you walk around the corner to annie alley, there were a couple people loitering late at night, but stephenson seems pretty safe, aside from some construction areas that create some shadow spots, but i think it'll go away shortly. >> i think what we're here for is the future. if your clients come, and tourists, we're here to protect the tourists. if it's well-lit, people feel more safe. right now, it's just an office building where local edition is. they've got security. probably people leave them alone, but around the corner going to the garage could be a place of muggings or opportunity, and we just want to make sure that there's enough lighting. maybe 30 foot candle's too much because that's the garage, but maybe the same as local edition's 20 is good, but you

haven't really asaid what you decided on, foot candles. >> i was a little shocked in what i found in that i would have expected stephenson alley to be darker than what it actually is, but being there actually and seeing, i think it was they had one, two, three, four, five, six giant flood lights on the side of the building lighting up the street and the adjacent sidewalk. as a new owner and being where the entrance would be, it's really bright. i think it's actually too bright for kind of the character that -- it's brighter than the rest of the neighborhood. it's as bright as the b.a.r.t. plaza. it's less bright than market street or third street. >> but the light at local edition is good with you? i mean you think it's too bright? >> no. i think it's kind of -- >> if you kind of matched that, it would be -- >> it's not just the brightness but the glare from the flood lights, so we want to tone it

down to about 20 foot candles in the adjacent area. probably a little more incident rat -- intimate where the doorman would be. >> you get where we're trying to get to? tourism is our main thing here in the city, and we want to make sure especially in that location with all those hotels, that we don't have problems. and lighting helps. >> yeah, yeah, absolutely. >> we know we don't want you to light it up like a ballpark, but at the same time -- in front of a night club, we want lighting, and parking lots, now, we have lighting. so as a hotel. i know there's a certain style, but i think if you can work in blending with the club next door, not only just the sound in between, but the lighting and the safeties. >> yeah, i think that's our objective, to really create a -- just a better atmosphere. right now it seems like, you know, a parking lot of a home

depot with these flood lights, control those lights and limit the glare but keep the light level there and then enhance the lighting around the entrance. as we open up that finishestration in the new -- finsetration in the new entrance, and as we built it up, it'll have more life and new activity. >> okay. >> hi. i'd like to have an update on some of the outreach you've been doing with the p.o.e. i see an e-mail here summarizing your conversations as of april 26th. i'd like to know where you guys are at today and what are some of the concerns and what kind of support are you hearing from the p.o.e.'s in your conversations. >> my name's kate lynn. i was handling the outreach to the different p.o.e.'s. you guys should have the e-mails and the letters that

were sent updating them. in regards to dada bar, we received positive feedback. they said welcome to the neighborhood, good luck with development. no questions from their end. in regards to ho kr kesan, their contact hasn't been there very long, so i reached out to their g.m. who put negate in touch with their corporate office in las vegas. i reached out to them a couple of times, but i'm sure they have bigger things to deal with. in regards to hawthorne -- let me back up. i've e-mailed, sent letters, via e-mail and also called all of these people. in hawthorne, i actually choke with chadwick who is an -- spoke with chadwick who is an owner or partner in that p.o.e. i said i'm happy to setup any

meeting to answer any questions that you have. he seemed positive to that. i reached out a couple times, but i haven't heard back on a good date and time for him, so i'll continue to do so. i'll continue to reach out to hockesan to see if they have any questions. and then in local edition, we've been in constant contact with brian in regards to the project because obviously local edition's in the building and we will continue to do so there. >> but are there any concerns that are coming up in these conversations or is it just all a love fest? >> no concerns that i've seen yet that any of those p.o.e.'s have expressed to me, more just interesting in wanting -- if they have questions, and i said we're more than happy to answer those. >> okay. thank you. >> mm-hmm. >> commissioner bleiman? >> thanks. so i just have some general comments. so the reason you're all here is because of the legislation to protect the night club which is a cultural and economic driver in the city from all of

the development that's happening. it's also really important in the city. and so that's why we have to review this, obviously. so this is a little more unusual for us for a couple of reasons. one, it's a hotel because it's covablely a go cove -- conceivably a good thing. it's a little unusual because there's actually a place of entertainment in the building which is a little rare for us. it also fills me with a bunch of repatrepidation because i o bar that's in a hotel and we're

having to fix a situation right now. i'm positive that everybody has a good relationship with the future bars, guys. they're literally the best or among the best operators in san francisco, and we all know that in the bar industry. but my concern is that there will be some sound that's leaking up through some strange duct or through the building somehow and affecting somebody and it'll somehow come to a head, and i'm sure they won't complain about this, but this is something it's our job to kind of address. you will ai would say if that did come to a head someday, you know, the beiacknowledgements t are signed in this process make it very difficult to do anything about that noise. and the legislation was conscientious to have teeth in it to prevent people from saying it's too loud. it it's debatable if there's any action that can be taken.

my suggestion, short of what we can recommend, is that things can be done to code or maybe they can be done above and beyond, and it might make a little sense to do that now rather than later because later, it could be too late, and that could cause a huge issue that we're having to discuss with you guys, so those are my only comment. >> can i quickly address those? >> sure. >> i think i want to talk about one thing that my colleague, indicate lynn indicated. one, my colleagues one some of the best taverns, present company maybe excluded, in the city. we are working really closely with people not only really on sound issues but just the disruption that a project of this scale might create for him and his businesses. i think the other thing that's really important, i think to address, you know, commissioner lee's comments. we actually are attracted to

the site because of the activity level on this corner. it is two blocks away from moscone, which as mr. sheehy has mentioned, it's going to be a very exciting play for the next couple of years. we expect this -- our first floor, which is above local edition currently will be very active and vibrant, as well, so it won't be -- this is not planned or to be positioned as a -- you know, a hotel where people will necessarily seek out for a great night's sleep. i think they're going to self-select this location because of the activity and the energy that all of these great institutions at this very busy and historic section of san francisco offer. to the last point, i think as we work with mr. sheehy, i think we should think about sound issues and the discussions that we're having. thanks for bringing that up. >> just to bring it up, some of the p.o.e.'s in the neighborhood had serious issues getting their p.o.e.'s because

some of the high end hotel around there, and there's nothing we can do as a commission to compel you or not to act like that, but we just hope that this will be a positive member of the community that encourages night life and entertainment because it is a cultural driver for our city and economics. >> no, again. we're very actively engaged in the community. i met with the homeowners of the four seasons last week, which you can imagine they certainly expressed their desire to make sure their neighborhood stays the same the way they hope it will stay, so very -- you know, very engaging conversation, and we're going to continue that outreach. thank you. >> any other questions or comments? i think this is somewhat unusual in that you're acknowledging that you're potentially going to be a creator of noise from entertainment as well as a receiver of noise. that's somewhat unusual, so i -- we hope that everybody

will be able to live together in peace and harmony and active places of entertainment moving forward. >> of course they will. >> i just want to make a follow up, just a final recommendation. so now that we all have opened up here, it would be great if local he litigation, maybe not their live music, but really with the sound meter and everything and really crank that bass, and really see what the full impact would be. i mean, what happens if he wanted to sell his bar and maybe didn't -- the next owner just wants to do flat out house music? you mean, i know we can't keep people from keeping their business forever. these are things that will be helpful in the future. and since you are saying that this hotel probably similar to like, the w, you know, or even the standard hotel in los angeles where a lot of the

young people go, the lighting outside has to be safe, and if you're expecting that kind of activity, don't skip on the lighting and the security. so that's all on my recommendation. >> thank you, commissioner. is there any public comment on this topic? all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> discussion, commissioners? motion? >> well, i think -- i mean, for the most part, that's going to be a great location for a hotel. i mean, it's going to help, like commissioner bleiman says, it'll help a lot of the local p.o.e.'s that are there. local edition's busy, but hawthorne is also struggling. hockesan is well. they're more of a restaurant,

so i think the whole thing will complement each other. we're just really concerned about the internal sound leaking up, 'cause that's always going to be the hardest thing to do, and if you do get a -- hopefully, a p.o.e. for your entertainment down stairs then we don't have to limit it to, like, 10:00, or you have a noise from the local edition space. so you know that's all i can say. but i mean i'm -- can we put this in some kind of -- i recommend the project, but do we put extra sound -- sound testing, i mean, what do you guys want to do? i'm open. i think they've done a lot, but i'd like to do maybe a little bit more on the internal sound testing. >> are you making a motion? >> no, i'm having a discussion.

i'm discussing, what do you guys think as -- >> i -- the way i. >> go ahead. >> the way i look at this, this isn't somebody who's trying to build condos and then walk away from it. this is a hotel where there -- it's going to be pretty important to them to make sure that their guests enjoy the time there. so i -- i don't see the project manager skimping on anything here. i think that they're going to do their due diligence to get this hotel prepared for -- to be in that area with the places of entertainment there. >> and i feel like it's a little bit different when it's the -- when the venues are within the hotel building as opposed to outside, so there's a lot more that the hotel can do within the building if there

are problems during the road, including from their own -- their own entertainment noise levels. all right. would anyone like to make a motion to move this forward? skbl i' >> i'll do it. i'd like to make a motion to approve this mpermit. >> i second. >> all right. [ roll call. ] >> and this isn't actually a permit, this is just us moving forward the recommendation. >> yep. >> okay. >> all right. congratulations. we look forward to seeing what it looks like, the roof deck and everything else, so... [ inaudible ] >> and hopefully, we never have to have you back here again with anyone's complaints or anything about the noise.

so thank you. all right. moving forward to agenda item number eight. is this you, acting director weiland? >> this is from me. >> okay. >> so i have an update from everyone on the hiring of the executive director, the endless, endless habit. so for reasons that i've not been informed exactly, but are set in stone, we are reopening the -- we have reopened the search for the executive director. i have discussed this with jennifer johnson, and i'm continuing to act as the liaison. one thing that jennifer and i did want to bring up is that if anybody else has any interest in joining me, we'd love to have you. i -- i don't -- i don't have an opinion either way. i'd love to have you, so that's it, and i'm happy to do it

myself. we put the -- we put the -- we posted the ad, i think two weeks ago or three weeks ago, and we've gotten over 40 responses, including many of the people who applied the first time around and some new faces. we're going to go through a less lengthy process this time around. it'll be very much up in the area on whether or not the new director will be appointed by this current mayor or the next mayor, so this is where it gets a little bit gray. we really don't know at this point. so after this process going forward, whomever we recommend to the current mayor, that may be the slate that goes -- ex-mayor, if this mayor decides not to appoint. if that slate goes to the next mayor, that mayor may want a new slate. so a lot of murky area right now due to the elections and things, but it's moving forward, and i think we'll

start interviewing candidates next week or the week after. >> i have a question. >> yes. >> when does the application end? >> i think it ended last week. i think it either ended on friday or this current friday, but i can check for that. >> i'd like to participate in the interviewing process. >> okay. great. >> so you're starting all over again. >> also, we're not going to start all over again. basically, the way we're looking at it is we have some really good candidates for before, so the process that we're looking at before, are any of the new candidates better or equal on paper as opposed to before, where we started literally from scratch, and we learned a lot from all of the resumes that we read and the endless, endless interviews we did over a ten hour day in the city hall about whom ae we'd interviewed and what we could have done in the future, etcetera. so it's going to be kind of a little bit more of an efficient process this time, knowing like, you know, we already have

a pretty good thing going, so we can just kind of see if there's anything that we think would really add to that, any person that we think could add to that that we could bring in for an interview. >> go ahead. >> did we change the qualifications? >> no. >> everything's the same? >> there were a couple little generalizations we tweaked, but everything is the same. what happened is the mayor had chosen someone, and for whatever reason, that person wag unable to start working within a certain deadline, so then, the mayor was no longer with us, and then we went through another mayor, and another mayor, and at this point, they decided in their wisdom to just reopen it and redo it. but the new job description is almost identical to the previous with a couple little tweaks that we learned from the candidates that we got last time.

so we got some candidates last time that were under qualified but we were unaware of that until the interview process. so this, we were trying to weed out that wasteful energy, etcetera. >> perfect. thank you. >> so you're going to -- so the process is to screen out our top candidates again and wait till june 5th, when the mayor's -- >> no, no, we're moving straight ahead. it's not that we're waiting for anything, it's just whether or not they are -- the regular machinations of the city hall move fast enough for this mayor or the next mayor. >> so right now it's going to be 40 applicants processed umm canni -- coming back to us. >> no. so what happened last time the

city hr starts the process and then we work together before we start interviewing to make sure that each one of those individuals makes sense to interview. so this time around we don't have such a huge mass of people, and we know a lot more about the process, having gone through it. we actually did two -- we actually had two -- two full application periods last time, as well, where we had to tweak the offering a little bit. so we're a lot smarter now, should be a lot more efficient. we don't know -- we are going to go ahead first into this and get these people as quickly as possible and not take into account the june 10th election or whatever it is, so all right. >> so we could potentially -- you could be coming back to the commission on maybe the june 5th? >> i think that's -- this's not outside the realm of possibility. a lot of this is outside of my hands, so i just kind of wait for them to tell me what's going on, but yeah, that seems reasonable, actually, given that it's a month away, yeah.

>> all right. other comments? well, thank you for heading this up, and thank you, commissioner camino for volunteering to be a part of the process. >> i can say this, too. that part of the reason that this is not making everybody freak out is because acting director weiland has been doing such a good job. >> i know. >> so there's no figure atiati gun to our head, so we're going to take the most time possible and not rush it. >> i know. >> well, thank you, for keeping this process moving forward. we look forward to having a decision made. and that's it for item -- was there any public comment on item number eight? seeing none, public comment is closed. final item, commissioner comments and questions. yes, commissioner perez? >> yeah. i just checked my calendar and looking at the minutes from april 3rd, i was actually in this meeting, and i was not on

the list. you can tell i was here because i made a comment on the minutes. but i was physically here because i spoke, so if you can add that and add me to the roster, thank you. >> correction noted. anyone else? other comments? all right. then let's move forward with an adjournment, and keeping in mind our senior analyst rice's comments, perhaps we should adjourn in memory of larry harvey, any objections? >> nope. >> okay. very good. we're adjourned. thank you.

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>> if we chip in i'm daniel a small business owner in the tenderloin and named in any drain after any boss. >> wear gloves. >> i'm diane this is kay we're in the golden gate hewitt's area and deposited 3 >> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake.

and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about things you can do you don't have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. >> i want to talk about things a homeowner can do. we have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in. let's look at windows. >> let's assume this window is broken in the earthquake. we have wind and rain blowing in. one of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. if you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, we're going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. what i'm going to have somebody do is they're going to have -- this is an old piece of shingle.

you might have -- everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. it doesn't have to be fancy. they take out this rusty screw begun, and hopefully you have one of these. >> there is one at the neighborhood support center. >> at the neighborhood support center. you're going to wrap this plastic around this board, take your screw. and then screw that in. >> you need a permit for this? >> you do need a permit for this. and you can contact the former head building inspector to get that permit. that's it. now when the wind blows, it's tight and it's not going to pull through, having a single point of contact. >> great. what about this door? take a look at this door. what can you do? let's say it doesn't shut tight. what can you do? >> for the sake of argument, we're on the inside. i can't lock my door at night. i have a very similar, very similar idea. i'm going to take my 2 by 4.

i can put it across the jamb in the door. one. two. maybe i want another one up here, maybe another one down there. but i can go to sleep. and that quickly, i can get it off in the morning. >> terrific. what about the roof up here? we see people throw blue tarps over their roof after an earthquake. that seems reasonable. >> i think the blue tarp is reasonable. the things that people want to know that they need to know is if you have multiple tarps, how you overlap. starting from the bottom and moving up so that you're overlapping this way. so, rain running down doesn't slide under your tarp. >> right. >> and the same technique we did over here, as silly as it may sound, wrapping the end of that blue tarp with your board and then securing that if you can underneath, if you have to on top is fine. but making sure that you don't have an area where the wind is going to get under and bill owe that tarp.

>> the wind can rip it right off. >> and then you're back up there again. >> let's go inside and check out what we can do inside. >> old fun. here we go. >> so, ben, i see you have nails, universal tool right here. >> man's best friend. duct tape. let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an earthquake. this window right here, because it's off kilter, we have open seams all along. i have a lot of air coming through. i want to stay comfortable at night. i want to keep that air out. it's as simple as that, all the way around. >> excellent. >> now i don't have any air coming in. let's say this one is one that would annoy me. everything is a little off. my doors won't stay closed. i take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. and at least it will stay out of my way when i'm trying to live throughout my day. if we're not talking about pressurized water, we're talking about just the drain, sometimes they're going to get a crack here. >> right, sure. >> and you're going to get a leak.

duct tape around that is going to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. let's say we only have electricity in one room, so we're running extension cords across the house. if i'm going to run an extension cord from one room to the other, i don't want kids tripping on it. i don't want to trippon it. i take my trusty duct tape, tape it to the floor, and i don't have to worry about it getting kicked. >> great, great. look at this. let's look at the duct tape here because we see a big -- >> yes. in the event of an earthquake, i don't think we're going to have too many -- too much debris that's safe to put into a plastic bag, even as strong as it might be. these are called vice bags. this is what they use to put rice and things when they ship it. this is something where i take my glass, i can take broken pieces of wood, i can take anything sharp and fill it. and it's not going to puncture and come out. it's not going to fall all over the floor. i've not going to have it sticking out, maybe scratch myself, cut myself or anything like that. these are a great thing to

have. >> you have a little go-to box for emergencies. that's great. thanks very much for joining us, ben. it's really been interesting. and i want to thank you all for joining us here at the spur urban center. and we'll see you again i want to thank everybody for joining me here today for this special announcement. we're all here today because we care about our home. we care about the city of san francisco. san francisco is a world class city. we have world class attractions. world class institutions. we have world class residents. and a world class civic leaders. but we have a world class problem right now. our streets are filthy. filled with debris, litter, human waste and drug paraphernalia.

it's unacceptable. the status quo on our streets today is unacceptable. a child should not have to walk over a needle on their way to school in the morning. a business owner should never see garbage strewn across their store front in the mornings. this is not confined to one neighborhood or district, it's plaguing communities across the entire city of san francisco and affecting residents and families in every part of our city. and we need to act as a city government. so that is why today, i'm introducing our city-wide and comprehensive street cleaning plan. a far ranging plan that seeks to address these challenges across the entire city of san francisco. over the next two years, i'm committing over $13 million in new funding that will make our city cleaner, safer, and healthier for all residents. and i am making clear today that this is a top priority for me.

and i will work every day as mayor to see this plan through. these new investments will include 44 new neighborhood cleaning workers. which means every single supervisor -- and i want to thank supervisor safai for being here, supervisor kim for being here, who has started atlantic lot of the -- a lot of the conversation inside city hall. they will be able to allocate where the street cleaners will go, because it is our neighborhood supervisors and their district supervisors that know their own neighborhoods. that know their own districts. they will target corridors that are most in need of this help. we're also going to have a dedicated cleanup team in the south of market district. the area where we have the most residents, visitors and people working in our city than any other neighborhood in san francisco. if you've taken a walk there

lately, you will understand the need for street cleaning in that area. in addition, we're going to be extending our pit stop system. pit stops which are safe monitored public toilets, or proven model to reduce human waste in our industry. let's be clear, san francisco resume departments, our visitors, the people who work here should not be seeing human waste on our streets. when people defecate and urinate on our streets, the city has to do something about it. we're increasing the pit stop hours at five of our existing pit stops. they're going to be added to high risk communities, where we see the most amount of human waste in the city. we want to make sure people have a dignified place to use the bathroom, in a dignified environment. an environment that will keep our city streets clean.

we're also supporting these additional new staffing and operations with additional equipment. our two-year budget will include over $3 million for new equipment which includes some of these rival street cleaners that you see today. after we're done, there will be a demonstration of the new street cleaners if you would like to be here and stick around. these street cleaners make a difference in our neighborhoods, they make a difference on our streets and that's what we want to do with the funding initiative. these are all great new investments and we're also pairing them with other initiatives. so we have a great fix-it team here in the city of san francisco, led by sandra. i want to thank her for being here today. there she is. [applause] these fix-it teams have been created for a specific reason, to respond to our neighborhood needs and respond quickly. each community in san francisco, each neighborhood in san francisco we know has its own

issues. whether it's broken streetlights, graffiti, needle pickup. our fix-it team is pounding the pavement every day, addressing quality of life concerns in a quick and efficient manner. i know every single neighborhood that has seen a fix-it team has been overwhelmed with response and positive by the effect we're having in the neighborhoods. i want to thank sandra who is here today for leading the team. she does an amazing job listening to our community and coming up with specific plans for every single neighborhood. because of her team success, we'll grow from 25 to 35 teams across the entire city of san francisco. and these new street cleaning investments where we see the fix-it team expanded will build upon the existing efforts we're leading on our streets today. earlier this week, we announced the creation of a new rapid response team specifically dedicated towards picking up our needles and syringes.

they'll be canvassing hot spots, identified by residents, and they will address this health epidemic in our city. we have a needle epidemic and we're finally doing something about it. so together this is an ambitious effort. and i know i only have a few months left as the mayor of this great city of san francisco, but i plan on sprinting to the finish. i know i'm surrounded by dedicated city officials, elected officials and committed people who want to see our city cleaned up and who are eager to carry out these initiatives. i want to thank mohammad, our department of public works director, and your entire team, many of which are behind us today. [applause] again, i want to thank supervisor safai, whose district we're in today, as well as supervisor kim, who has been

pressing on these issues or some time. this is an issue that affects every single resident of san francisco. this will be a sprint to the finish. but i want to make sure that san francisco residents know that as mayor of this city, i am committed to make sure i leave our streets in a cleaner, safer environment than they've been before. with that, i want to thank you all for coming and i'm going to bring up muhammad nuru, head of the department of public works. >> let me begin by thanking mayor farrell for the leadership who has shown in providing some of the resources that we need to clean up all the things that the mayor said. our city is a beautiful city and we have some areas, challenges we're faced with every day. these resources will definitely go towards helping change some of those concerns that we have.

those 44 sweepers that will be in the various neighborhoods in san francisco, i will work with the various supervisors and they'll tell us some of the areas they're concerned about. those sweepers will be block sweepers. many cities all over the world, paris, london, shanghai, it's this model they have used, having someone on the block that takes care of several blocks and that person makes sure it's clean, free from graffiti, but more importantly build a relationship with the people on the blocks so there is communication and dialogue and then we're able to get that back to the department level and bring our partners in to respond. i know this will make a difference, because it's on the block, block by block, we'll take our city back. the additional hours to the pit stops will also make a huge difference. when we started this program,

since two years, 2014, we have seen a huge increase in the number of flushes. so increasing hours will definitely make more bathrooms available to people who want to use them. it's for everybody, not just the homeless or just a certain group of people, all people can use them, they're staffed, clean and they're a good place. when you want to go, there is a new place for you. five new locations also. we will look for those locations all around the city and that will make a difference. our fix-it teams, we're really excited about the work that they do. they're the arm that really gets into the neighborhood and gets to hear the concerns that people have about the city and they work with all the city departments to address those problems. so it's not just the quality of streets, or the trees, it's also the parking signs, the crosswalks. it's all the things that affect the quality of life. all these programs, in addition to the funding for new equipment

will help us. right now, because of all of the demands, we're getting hundreds and hundreds of calls every day and we're double and trip-shifting our steam cleaners and a lot of our equipmentment with this funding we'll be able to buy more equipment and focus in the many hot spots in the areas that we get calls. and i'm really excited about that. i want to thank the supervisors for their leadership, but most importantly mayor farrell has taken a step in the right direction for this city and i'm proud to lead the department of public works, because we're ready to do what san francisco expects from us from public works. thank you. [applause] thank you. welcome to district 11, i'm supervisor safai. i want to start by saying that this is a real proposal. this is a real solution. i happen to have started my career in the department of

public works working for muhammad and we started ambassador program under mayor newsom. we gave people an opportunity to work and to focus on areas of the city that needed the most focus for cleaning up. it's not just about trash on the street, it's about working with businesses, working with residents to educate them on their responsibilities. people think that it's just the city's responsibility to clean the streets. it is the city's responsibility and i want to thank mayor farrell for the massive commitment in the right direction. 44 people will make a difference in what we see. but they will also be about educating people. in the past year i've worked with director nuru and our former mayor lee. we redoubled our efforts from silver to geneva, we've increased the amount of people cleaning on our streets, but i get calls daily about illegal dumping. i get calls daily about how the

trash has increased all over our city. and particularly in my district, obviously because that's the calls i get the most. but the thing i like most about this proposal and i'll end with this, this is a balanced proposal. this is spreading out resources all over the city, because trash is not just located and the frustration and filthy streets are not just located in one part of san francisco. it's all of san francisco that is feeling this frustration. so thank you to mayor farrell, thank you to director nuru and sandra and the fix-it team, they have made a difference, but this money, street sweepers and pit stops will make a difference and every neighborhood should benefit, so thank you very much, mayor farrell. i'm going to bring up a neighborhood resident, linda, she's going to talk about things from the neighborhood perspective.

>> thank you, supervisor. thank you, mayor farrell. and supervisor kim. and all the other city officials who have worked so hard to make street cleaning and our neighborhoods a priority for this type of life experience. i am just one resident, but i'll tell you, there are dozens and dozens of folks like me who want to see our communities cleanedup and want to pitch in. and want to know what we can do to help. i agree, this is a very balanced proposal and this shows what we can do when we put our heads together. we've talked for years in our neighborhood about anti-littering campaigns through the schools and with the kids. and in our parks. pack it in, pack it out, leave no trace. those kinds of things can work. and those campaigns, but with the extra money and the extra feet behind that, that is going to make it even better. so as a 20-year resident of this

neighborhood who loves our community and wants to see it thrive as we know it can, we need this assistance and i appreciate everyone who is here to bring this together. thank you so much. [applause] >> i also just want to thank mayor farrell for taking a leadership role in ensuring that we'll have the investments that are needed in all of our neighborhoods in san francisco. we know that street cleaning has become an issue and we see it in the e-mails we get in our office, but also when we walk in our own neighborhoods. but the data showings it as well. in 2015, we had roughly 40,000 additional calls for services. and two years later, that number has doubled to close to 80,000. so we know that we're seeing a need for additional street cleaners. so i'm so excited about the 44 new sweepers that we'll have on the block that will be manually

cleaning our busiest corridors. i'm very excited about the machines and the performance that we'll be getting after the press conference. but finally, i'm incredibly excited about the expansion of the pit stop stop. i want to thank mayor farrell for investing the money. we have 18 pit stops currently throughout the city and they started in the tenderloin neighborhood. i was proud to lead that with director nuru and it has been a tremendous success. in every block, we've put one in, we've had reduction of cleaning request, which led us to save water, which is a precious commodity here in the state of california and san francisco. so thank you again to everybody. i want to thank all the men and women at public works. they do the hard job of picking up the trash, the litter, the needles and to sandra, who personally visits our businesses and our residents on a daily basis and responds to a lot of very difficult complaints.

i just want to thank you for your leadership and thank all of the members of your team. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor safai, linda, muhammad, the entire team, everyone helping with the effort, this press conference is over. we are going to a demonstration of the ravo machine, i don't know if muhammad is driving it, we'll see, but i'll stick around for questions after as well. thanks, everyone.

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>> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps. good morning, welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for today's meeting of may 8, 2018. our clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll call, breed present. cohen absent. fewer present. kim present. peskin present. ronen