>> that is that we need to do

this right now. because the wolf is at the door, and the wolf at the door is donald trump and his fcc. and donald trump may not get more than one term and office. so they will try to force communities like ours to accept a continued situation where companies like comcast and at&t give us our internet service instead of us having a true public network that those companies, and other companies, to pay to get on too. i think we are focusing on cost, when really what we should focus on is not the cost but who will pay for it. and as a supervisor if you are indicated, facebook, and amazon and the heads of those companies and microsoft and apple, the ones who deliver us our internet, these companies are run by the richest billionaires on the planet. the idea we can't charge them

enough money to pay for a real public internet system like the one and chattanooga, is silly. we can do this and we need to do it soon. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> think you chair cohen. my name is mike mccarthy. for the past years i've worked on project technology and expanding broadband internet -- broadband internet and san francisco. i'd like to talk briefly at s.f. city opening up, and my opinion, turning to a sales pitch with its board members. at&t and comcast. they are great companies and do a lot for the community. that is completely true. but and san francisco, they are like bud and bud light. those are our choices. it is important for us to be aware of that. for those of us who remember dsl way back when, and the late nineties, you can choose from ten or 12 different dsl providers. a whole long list of providers.

that was an open access network. it was an open access network over at&t's copper wires. and 2,004, some telecom combat happened and that was cut off. what we are seeing here is the exact same thing. but instead of at&t's copper wire, the city and our families, we own that fibrin perpetuity. we can choose, as tim talked about, from 10-15 isps through our internet. it is bud and bud light and we are san francisco. there is microbrew. lots of choices. just a quick question about supervisor cohen. >> overhead, please? >> this right here is a picture of a closet. and that new closet, and all those housing units, there is fiber-optic cable that can provide your constituents with internet access, over five or.

>> that is not going to work. >> that is a picture of phase i by west point, middle point. that fibrin goes into every unit at hunter's view. >> your time is up. sorry. >> thank you for your presentation. is there anyone who would like to comment and public comment. public comment is closed at this time. thank you, mike, i appreciate that. certainly that could have been brought up and the department of technology if that were the case about the fiver connectivity. before we close and go into closing remarks, i want to call up a representative from d.p.w. that i overlooked. i want to call him up. i did not have a chance to ask questions to him. hey,, jeremy, how are you?

it is okay. you can talk from there. turn on the mic. >> its okay. my name is jeremy. i'm a public works legislative affairs member. >> supervisor cohen: i am glad they sent you over because some information came to my attention that micro trenching is actually illegal. >> right. there is, we currently do not issue permits for micro trenching -- micro trenching. there is legislation pending. the file would make it legal, but at this point it is not legal. >> supervisor cohen: who introduce that legislation? >> i believe then supervisor farrell. >> supervisor cohen: do you remember what day? >> i-- >> supervisor cohen: of course you do, you have that legislation. tell us when that legislation

was introduced. >> it looks like march 14th, 2017. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. do you know why it has taken so long and white hasn't been hurt or why it hasn't been assigned? usually you introduce something it sits for a three days and and a week you take action on it. >> i'm not sure. i was not into small and legislative affairs when it came up last. i do know that our department has historically had concerns. as patrick mentioned before with the process of retrenching. >> supervisor cohen: i would imagine that the concerns with micro trenching is a little bit like the speaker before you said. prop it -- possibly jeopardizing any of the utility wires, infrastructure. >> exactly, yeah. existing infrastructure and also the micro trenched fiver utilities would be at risk of being damaged themselves given the density of our utilities. >> supervisor cohen: on the legislation that was introduced, what will it do?

it was trying to make it legal? >> right it was trying to give the public works the authority to issue permits for micro trenching i believe and the sidewalk. >> supervisor cohen: i see. all right. i appreciate that. that is actually really interesting. thank you for sharing. colleagues you have any other questions? we should close out. it's been a really long day. for those of you who don't know, we have been doing this for tenant -- since 10:00 this morning. an incredible shout out to the staff. thank you for being here and to the ladies to my right and to my left, you have been with me since 10:00 am. the only thing that is comforting as knowing we are doing good work and asking good thoughtful questions. on behalf of good hard earning taxpayers. what i see here today is a fairly costly and massive infrastructure project being proposed throughout our city. our public right away and neighbourhoods that i don't know if it is really ready for plant -- prime time. the cost for the endeavour we do not know. the number is swishy but i heard

$1.9 billion. it is not going to be finalized until after rfp which will be issued and june and hopefully completed by the end of the year. once we have the rfp results, we will begin to negotiate cost sharing. we would negotiate and begin risksharing rates, connection costs, impact fees for the trenching or it micro trenching and an this case, not to micro tension. because it is illegal unless mayor farrell's legislation can move forward and legalize it, which is unethical if you think about it. figuring out you will pay for the utility poles. these are questions we do not have answers to. we do not know what the responsibilities of the rfp would be. and that actually generally concerns me. we may have a utility tax measure coming before us. you keep your eyes peeled for that. that deadline is going to be june 19th. if there's going to be a tax

measure on the november 2018 ballot, which is, quite frankly, rumoured to be the case. again this is a tax revenue. a tax measure rather than a geo- bond for which we've already missed the deadline on. but that tax, whatever the language is would be determined by the cost estimate and the term, terms of the rfp. there are more questions than answers here and it seems pretty premature to make this capital, or spending, i priority. you heard it reflected and the public comment, is this really a priority? i love the goal of this project, though. and i appreciate mike for pointing out to me the utility boxes that are predisposed already to fit themselves for a fiber. i would love to see the digital divide close but i don't think it necessarily has to do with access, but also with the costs associated with people logging

on and being able to acquire access to internet. but is not clear to me that we've looked at all the options for achieving that. i do like the concept of a subsidy but again that is only half baked, it is not fully discussed. i would like to see us look at a potential revenue or grant sources that citizens and businesses can tap into the access of their internet service provider of their choice. supervisor stefani said she understood that analogy -- the beer analogy. >> supervisor cohen: not just bud light, but bud and what? but we like microbrews, we liked the finer things. we do like variety. that is an excellent point. when i hear about the enormous cost and risk associated with p3 endeavours, and also acknowledging the fact that it has never been done and a city like ours, that is not something

we can turn a blind eye to. this could potentially be abject failure for government's only system, and i think, if i'm not mistaken, only the state of kentucky is considering--is considering bankruptcy from a government fiber system. i'd don't know if it is wise and the direction we should be going and. there has to be a better bang for the buck and i think that is what this whole conversation is about. making sure all of our citizens have access to the internet and we are also an a very cost-effective and thoughtful manner. i want to thank everyone who participated today. i would like to continue this to the chair. maybe when the rfp has been released and we can come back and revisit this conversation. madame clerk? supervisor fewer, absolutely. >> supervisor fewer: i just wanted to thank supervisor cohen for bringing this hearing forward. we all learned a lot today. i want to commend our city -- commend our city for having the goal of bridging the digital

divide, and i also want to let people know that at san francisco unified, we did a survey that shows that, you know, a lot of people don't have internet access and their home, meeting that, or a laptop or computer, but 98 % of our students and parents had cell phones. i just don't know, i mean i think that this is so expensive and i think that it is s.f. city, if they care about the digital divide, then a suggestion would be to have free internet stations all over san francisco where people get access, have computers there, have devices they are, instead of just at your public library. but have it really, really accessible to a lot of people where people can just go and use it. it doesn't have to be and your home, but you can have access to it everywhere. and i think if they want to be a

part of this solution, then that is, considering we have so many billionaires that are living here now, that i think it would be of really generous and great thing to be part of san francisco, and to put that money into actually giving service to neighbourhoods that don't have access to this, and also when supervisor cohen talks about her housing project, they can be putting and computer access rooms as they do at hotels for all the residents there and i think that would be a great suggestion and not on the backs of working folks and san francisco to pay for this. anyway, exciting news, i think but also daunting. i want to really thank supervisor cohen for bringing this forward. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. is there any other business before us? >> clerk: there is no further business. >> supervisor cohen: thank you ladies and gentlemen. we are adjourned. [♪]

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>> all right. so good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us today. you know, for the past four months, as mayor of the city of san francisco, i have from

reside residents across our entire city up and down the ladder about the streets of san francisco. our streets are filled with trash and debris, and it is unacceptable, and i've said from day one the cleanliness of our streets is going to be one of my biggest priorities as mayor of the city of san francisco. san francisco residents are fed up with the conditions, and i am the first to say that i feel their pain, and we are doing something about it. so last week, along with a number of people who are here behind me, we announced a comprehensive budget proposal that we're going to move forward with to aggressively cleanup our streets here in san francisco. we are no -- we know that our conditions on our streets exist across our city. it's not confined to one neighborhood. every single neighborhood is feeling this pain, including right here in the castro district. so this plan that we announced last week includes 44 new street cleaners throughout the

city of san francisco, four in each supervisorial district that will have material impact in the conditions of our neighborhoods, in particular our commercial corridors. we're adding five new pit stops to address the feces and urination issues that we are seeing in many different neighborhoods here in san francisco. and also talked about and announced a dedicated team to picking up syringes and needles across the entire city of san francisco. family members and individuals should not have to step over needles on the way to school, on the way to work. it simply doesn't need to be part of our landscape here in san francisco. and we are also growing our fix it team, sandra, who runs or fix it team, and does such an amazing job. how about a round of applause for her. [applause] >> the hon. mark farrell: we are expanding it to ten new districts in san francisco. because they do such an amazing job in san francisco. when there are areas to be

picked up, when there is anything that needs to be done, they are there doing it, doing such an incredible job. but we need to do more. we need to put our foot on the gas pedal, and as mayor, until i leave office, i am going to do it, and street cleanliness is something i am going to address. we have a big effort to cleanup our streets. san francisco residents do, as well, and now today we're going to have some bigbellys to help us with that effort. and sorry, i had to go there with that line. so today, we are announcing five new bigbelly trash receptacle here in the castro district and 15 others in different neighborhoods throughout san francisco. now these bigbelly trash cans, as you will see, there's going to be a demonstration at the end, are different than your normal trash cans. they have automatic compactors inside, allowing them to hold

five times the amount of waste of any normal garbage can. they tick recycling, compost, and trash, and they're outfitted with wireless technology, real-time technology that alerts those when these are full to come pick them up and empty them. that means no more wasted trips to pick up half full garbage cans. you know, we are the technology capital of the world. we should not be afraid, and you know i believe as mayor, we should embrace technology to benefit the daily lives of our residents, and we are doing that today. we are making this investment now in partnership with our small business leaders. our community benefits districts are the ones that really do the work on the

ground. i want to thank andre who is here today for all of your work in the castro, and we are partnering with them to install these new bigbelly trash receptacles, but also to maintain them going forward. we are going to cleanup our city here in san francisco. we made a number of announcements last week. today is just another step in that direction, and i want to make sure to reaffirm my commitment to the residents of san francisco that cleaning up our streets is going to be one of my biggest priorities, and we will not stop again until the day that i leave office. i look forward to seeing these trash cans across the city of san francisco. we are going to swallow up the trash with our bigbelly garbage cans, once again. so with that, i want to thank everyone for being here. we have a number of speakers, and i would like to introduce and bring up supervisor jeff sheehy, who's right behind me. and i want to make a quick comment about supervisor sheehy. there has been no one, since i have become mayor, who has been more forceful in his advocacy of cleaning up the streets of his district than jeff sheehy.

you can clap. it's great. we have gone on neighborhood walks. we have walked this commercial corridor right here with our department of public works. there's no supervisor more focused on cleaning up the streets of his neighborhood than supervisor sheehy. and with that, i'd like to hear from him. supervisor jeff sheehy. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, mayor farrell. thank you for those kind words, and i really want to thank you deeply for your leadership on this issue. it's been a challenge, but the inno-nateti innovation that you're bringing to this, the resources, it's making a difference, and i know the people in my district, we're grateful. i also want to thank the department of public works because they have been so steadfast, so diligent in cleaning up this neighborhood, in cleaning up the district. it's a struggle because we know that this is an ongoing problem, and i think your new

initial initiatives are going to help us turn the corner on this. we are moving forward on this. i want to thank the community benefits in the castro for their leadership. these things are great. compacts, signals when the trash is full. and i do want to note that recology is here. recology is doing a great job. this is allow them to be enormously more efficient, so as the mayor said you're not emptiying half empty trash cans, you empty them when they're full. we've seen the problem. we have the open trash cans, people rummage in them. they overflow, and sometimes that creates a mess. so andre, thank you for your partnership with recology, with the mayor. i'm going to address you, but

sandra zuniga, i can't say enough about you. she comes in, she solves problems, she works so closely with the community to identify problem areas and find solutions. she was telling me, for instance at glen park park, we have a little flower stall that was graffitied up. and you know, she just went and painted it herself. that's the type of attitude she brings towards san francisco. that's how much she cares about this city, so i am honored to introduce sandra zuniga, who's director of the mayor's fix it team. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for that introduction and thank you to both mayor farrell and supervisor sheehy for their leadership in this city. special thank you to mayor farrell for giving me this assignment. being able to work on these bigbellys has been fun. so fix it, i run the fix it team, and what we do z we work

closely with communities, talking to residents, listening to residents to find out what concerns they have, and we want to act quickly and effectively to help address those. in the castro, we've been working here about two years, and we've seen improvements, a lot of great improvements to the castro. one of things that's a great concern is litter and the amount of litter we see around our city, especially trash cans, when they've been rummaged through or overflow especially when the wind blows and blows them away. so we're happy today to show you not just an efficient can but a very pretty tran ca-- trh can in the castro that we hope will bring new life, new energy to people who are shopping here, passing through here to use the handing, throw their

cigarette butt or bottle away in the right place. today's announcement is part of a larger strategy that fix it has to make improvements in neighborhoods based on what we hear about from residents, so we plan to implement new strategies in neighborhoods across the city, and find out what works and when something works, we can replicate it in other neighborhoods with confidence. i really would like to thank all of the community benefit districts who are working with me on this project. of course f andre aiello with the community benefit district, and several others who will see their bigbellys this summer, and a special shout out of course to public works, recology, economic and workforce development and kevin from bigbelly, who will give you all a demonstration soon. so with that, i would just like to introduce a wonderful partner in this who has been

tremendously hard working and really fast at turning around a lot of giving us, you know, ideas, information, feedback, andre aiello, for getting the -- from the castro c.i.d. for getting the first big belly on the ground. >> thank you for that. the castro community benefit district is so excited to be the first neighborhood that will be getting these bigbellys in a special program that has been sponsored by mayor farrell, and i want to thank the mayor so much for his dedication to keeping the neighborhoods clean, not only just downtown but the neighborhoods. and we are -- we'll be working with the city to develop metrics on how do we evaluate and measure these to make sure they're effective.

and as everyone has been describing, the bigbellys work because once you put the trash in, you can't take the trash out, and that includes limiting and preventing overflowing trash cans, which i think we've all seen all over the city. the wind is blowing, and the wind takes the paper or the cup out of the trash can, and there's a mess all the way down the sidewalk, and it blows it all the way down the sidewalk. so we're really excited that this is going to help keep the benefit district really clean. the castro neighborhood benefit district works tirelessly to keep the neighborhood clean, keep it vibrant. we have a lot of different strategies around cleanliness, around safety, economic vitality, greening. we have live performances in the jane warner plaza? the summer every weekend. everything fits together in a

puzzle to encourage more people and more pedestrian traffic in the neighborhoods and in an urban environment. cleanliness is probably the first thing because nobody wants to walk around a neighborhood where there's trash and other things, and worse than just trash in a neighborhood. it's community benefit districts working collaboratively with public works who has been absolutely fantastic as a partner and recology all working together to pitch in and keep san francisco clean -- or cleaner, and a great city. so i want to thank everybody and thampg the city family. they have vust been absolutely great. we've pushed through this contract in like a month, so that's unheard of. so thank everybody. i want to thank the mayor for hez creativity and initiative on this. and now, i think we're going to have kevin give a demonstration on how these wonderful things work. take care. >> one, two, three, go!

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>> supervisor cohen: looks like we are ready to go. >> clerk: okay. yes, we're ready. >> supervisor cohen: all right. ladies and gentlemen, i want to welcome you back to the budget and finance committee. i want to thank our friends at sfgovtv with assisting us with today kazz broadcast. our clerk is mr. victor young. to my far right is supervisor she heavy, to my right is supervisor -- and bringing up the far