[inaudible] >> so many reasons to be proud to be san franciscans, and when you hear about the great work in the community, and especially the memory that these children are getting because they feel safe about going to school. it also is a positive thing about staying in school, so thank you for all the work that you do. and with that, anthony, next item. >> clerk: the next item is item 8, discussion of frisk's climate action strategy on sustainable transportation. the commission on the environment conducts public education and outreach to the community on san francisco's

sustainable -- [inaudible] >> and so this item, we're going to hold our question out of the respect for our visiting presenters, but feel free to ask any clarifying questions during the presentations, but let's have the longer ones for after the third presentation. also, a note to the public that we will take public comment at the end of this item, after the third presentation so we're not forgetting about anyone. okay? drof raphael? >> thank you, president bermejo. so again, we're going to be discussing the city's goal from sing of transportation, single occupancy vehicles, that's one person percar to more

sustainable modes, like public transit, walking, biking. that is what we heard in the president's opening remarks. the wonky word for that, getting people out of cars into these other modes is called mode shift, so you will probably hear that word a lot tonight? mode shift, so that's the transportation planner's way of saying getting people out of their cars. and while sustainable transportation has been woven into many of the commission meetings that we've had, it's actually been two years since we had a meeting on this, and so i'm just looking at that, and i don't know if the next slide is -- no, it's not. okay. so what's interesting about this slide is it's out of date. so this slide is our old climate action strategy which is 5-50-100 routes.

-- 0-50-100 routes. as she said, this slide is out of date because we've surpassed 50. the m.t.a., the municipal transportation agency needed to up that number, and they upped it to 80. so now our strategy is 0-80-100 routes, and we're going to be hearing about how we did that and celebrating in that success. so what's interesting is if you look at our greenhouse gas he mission -- so here's my wonk slide. so this is looking at the transportation sector, so transportation alone is 46% of our emissions, and so that's a huge amount of co2 emissions

coming out of the transportation sector. the red on this chart is vehicles. so while b.a.r.t. is about 5%, caltrain is about 2%, really what we're going to have to do is tackle cars and trucks. so in order to tackle the car part of cars and trucks, we need to get pea people out of their cars. and in fact, our department, the department of the environment works very hard on this issue. we are a small but mighty team in the commission on the environment. we support our agencies in another wonky term which is called transportation demand management, so transportation demand, we're managing the demand for transportation and hoping to do mode shift. so you're going to hear tonight about how we do mode shift, how

we get people out of their cars. as we heard in one of the awards, one way you get people out of their car social security to make them feel safe. so we're lucky to have wonderful partners. the department of the environment, this is a very small program, though we are very proud of it, and this is a very large, complicated body of agency who deal with transportation. we have two of them here tonight, the san francisco municipal transportation agency or affectionately known at m.t.a., and the san francisco county transportation authority, affectionately known at c.t.a., and they are the ones taking and moving the needing, and we are encouraging them, and lucky to brainstorm with them. i'm very impressed with the work those entities do, and i'm proud to call them partners. so tonight you're going to hear three presentations to offer

sort of a snapshot of this 80 goal. the first presentation, we'll be looking at what the department of the environment is doing, specifically our outreach efforts. then we'll hear from the m.t.a., what the city is doing in their own programs, and finally admitting that transportation is ultimately a regional challenge. we will hear from the county transportation authority, the c.t.a. so we believe that it's critical to start young. this is not an unusual strategy for the department of the environment. we have a very robust school education program, as you know, on zero waste, and simile, we think about transportation from that same lens. we need to encourage families to walk and bike, take transit and carpool, and we're working with our nonprofit partners and other city departments to do that. we are focusing on the broad range of children so children with disabilities and also who i would call geographically

challenged. as you know, in san francisco, it's very common for children not to go to school in their neighborhood schools, which means that walking and even biking to school is not really an option. they just live too far away. and so what we're understanding is one of the barriers to carpools is that physical match, that ability to be match makers and bring people together. it saves the money on their commutes, and it helps us reach our sustainability goals. so sarah peters from our outreach team has been one of the team members working on the range of programs that we're doing to get kids to school. so with that, i will let sarah take it away and talk about safe routes to school. thanks, sarah. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is sarah peters outreach assistant for department of environment and some of this beginning stuff might sound like a broken record but it's just to give

some contextual background and information on why we're talking about carpooling. so with that, i have your 80 updated slide here, 0-80-100 route. san francisco has goals of 0% waste, 80% trips, and 100% renewable energy. with that, a little bit deeper dive on that 80% of sustainable trips. so for that climate action goal as president bermejo already stated, sustainable trips are everything aside from pretty much a single occupancy trip so things like walking, biking, taking public transit or in our case for this presentation, carpooling. so one of the ways that sf environment does this outreach

is through our safe routes to school partnership. as you can see here, we definitely do not do this work alone. there are many partner organizations, community organizations as well as city agencies that are part of this coalition working to promote healthy and active ways to get to and from school and also after school programs. so department of public health, m.t.a., sfusd, walk sf, san francisco bike coalition, why bike, tenderloin safe passage, which we heard about all earlier, and m.t.a. all funded through the county transportation authority. so why do we want to talk about carpooling? in the past several years, the department of environment has really taken an active role in promoting carpool as one of those ways to reach our

sustainable transportation goals. and a recent study found that 48% of sfusd families do drive alone regularly when they're commuting to and from school. so they actually have a goal of 30% by 2030, so that's going to take a lot of work to get there. so one of the ways we are doing this is by promoting carpooling. as director raphael mentioned, while safe routes promotes all of those four fun ways as we call them of getting to school, many families and children don't live near their school so it can make biking and walking and taking public transportation quite a challenge. so one of the ways we want to do this is letting them know that there might be families who live nearby who are in their neighborhood who are also attending the same public school or same school in general. so in january and february of

2018, we ran a carpool campaign, carpool to school, and this was targeted towards elementary and middle school aged children in san francisco for all across san francisco schools, public and private and charter. so we want to get those single-family -- we want to get those people to know and understand that there is another option and families like them are able to carpool to school. so we ran outdoor advertisements, digital advertisements, as well as social media advertisements and are continuing -- in our continuing grassroots outreach. for this presentation, i'm really going to focus on the advertising portion and not as much on the grassroots portion. so we use three messages to demonstrate the benefit of

carpooling centered around the carpooling allows you to get a sneak peek into your child's life that you might not have otherwise. so when you're driving your kid to school one-on-one, it's usually a quiet ride. but if you're driving and there's a friend in the car with them, they're probably chatting, interacting, and this is your time to see that. so we wanted to promote that way of benefiting from a carpool. so we had -- it's a little bit hard to read here, but it says carpool to school and share in finding a bestie, share the joy of a third grade crush, a little bit risky on that one, and share in an 8:00 a.m. karaoke session. so we took those three messages, and we used them on outdoor advertisements as well as digital media. so because we wanted to reach drivers, we had to find where they were at. so this meant we couldn't use

the traditional bus shelter ad because we don't want people who are already riding the bus to jump in their car. we had to use other modes. so this advertisement, we had 75 different buses throughout the city with those three messages driving around. so if you were in a car stuck in traffic at a stop light, you were going to see this message. we also put them on junior bill boards, which are the bill boards a little bit more integrated in neighborhoods. not the one that you would see on a freeway sign but the one that's above a local convenience store or something. that's one on fulton and masonic, right above the sta starbucks. we wanted to reach parents at our target schools who had high drive alone rates, so we focused the bill boards

specifically around 12 target schools that had those high drive alone rates. so there was 25 bill boards spread closer to those 12 target schools. we also had a pandora radio ad that we created for this, using the same messages. so we took that carpool karaoke message and turned into a fun pop message that would play on the pandora radio, and we target it had to stations that were more like pop music, not things like metal or rock or things that parent would likely not be playing on their community to school or work or whatnot. and then, again, we took that same messages to keep that cohesive message all across platforms, and we promoted it on our social media account. so we used the sf media brand and took the three messages and

promoted them as advertisements directly to a targeted audience of parents with school aged children in san francisco. so they might have seen it out of home, heard it on the radio or seen it on-line through social media. and the last one was facebook. here it is again on instagram, all linking back to the safe routes to school carpool page. one of the unique things we did with this campaign is we wanted to have a secondary message that was coming directly from parents themselves. so we reached out and worked with five parents who had a child in a san francisco school, and we had them share a -- a short paragraph on their own social media accounts to share with their friends and followers what carpooling meant and the importance of it. and we had them take their own photo of their own carpool group. so here, this one, from rowena, when i get the opportunity to

eavesdrop on their shenanigans on the way to school, i can't help but smile. carpooling is that time where you actually get to spend with their child and see them interacting with friends. here's another one from heidi. it's the small window of time with my kids and their friends that i cherish and learn a tidbit more about them each day. we took an opportunity to display them by using the sf environmental social media account. this was a different parent influencer used on our twitter account. and overall these had a really high success rate of engagement on social media by using that parent influencer approach. and again, we cannot do this work alone. our on-line and out of home advertisements can only work if we're doing on the ground outreach. so as part of the entire school year and every school year, we

have ongoing grassroots outreach by utilizing the department's environment now team along with the safe routes to school outreach ateam, we're able to have face-to-face conversations and specifically talk to them about carpooling. so for this campaign, we were able to talk to them at p.t.a. meetings while they're driving to and from school, so we're actually talking to them in the car where we're at and trying to -- hallie is not here tonight because she was sick, is she was talking to a car driving in car a, and someone behind her was telling her they're in the same neighborhood. so they're doing match up on the spot. this outreach was multilingual, so it was in spanish and c cantonese as well as english.

so how did our campaign do, i should say? we had over 1200 face-to-face conversations throughout the year with parents and caregivers. 21 million impressions, which an impression is basically any time someone may have seen your campaign orthopaedic heard your campaign. so if they saw it as a digital ad on-line or a social ad or out of home, those all count as impressions. 2700 reactions, which is on social media alone, a pool of likes, comments, shares, a general engagement factor. and lastly, we had 11,000 page views during that campaign window in january and february to the newly redesigned safe routes to school website. so last year we actually redesigned the website and made it a better user experience, mobile friendly and were able to kind of simplify the resources based on what mode

someone might be looking for. so we were directing folks directly to that carpool landing page on the website which ended up being 68% of all website visits during that campaign window. so it shows that our outreach and advertising really did work and drives people to that website for resources and engagement. so with that, thank you for listening. >> the next item is item 8-b, presentation on san francisco reaching the milestone of 50% of trips made by sustainability form of transportation. the presenter is tim doherty, senior planner, san francisco municipal transportation agency. >> president, can i introduce? >> director raphael? >> thanks. so in 2013, san francisco laid

out its climate action strategy and set this goal of 50% trips sustainable modes. the goal felt very ambitious at that moment in time but we believed it was achievable. and as you've heard, we surpassed it, and the mayor announced the new goal of 80. and i just want to do a shoutout. at earth day breakfast, as tim, who's here, knows we did a reveal of the 80, and all of the outreach team had to change every piece of branded material we had from 0-50 to 0-80-100 rebranded routes, so thank you very much team for doing that. so tonight tim bother has graciously said he would join us, which i truly appreciate. tim is a huge champion of sustainability within a very large organization, and he

finds himself very frequently in our office as he finds himself in his because there's a vie tight and productive partnership between him and his colleagues and the colleagues that he has in the department of the environment. and in fact last year, in october, tim came to the policy committee to talk about the climate action strategy for m.t.a. so with that, i just want to say that we are incredibly grateful that you took the time, tonight, tim, to be here, and excited to hear, how did you get to 50? >> great. thank you very much for the introduction and thank you very much for inviting me to speak, and good evening, commissioners and director raphael and staff and public. while the bulk of my presentation is going to be sharing some findings have a 2017 travel decision survey. what i'm hoping i leave you with is a better appreciation for the relationship between

cities and how they manage their public right-of-way and our mobility choices and how that shapes our environment. i think there's a very strong correlation between all of that, and so it's an honor to be here with you this evening. so the title of my presentation is transit first in action, achieving the 2017 mode share goal and setting our sights on 2030. i'm going to spend a couple moments just providing a little bit of context on the transportation sector and greenhouse gas emissions, and i know some of these slides mighting slightly are you done dan. -- might be slightly redundant. i want to mention the department of the environment that have developed a really amazing climate dashboard, and some of the data that i'm pulling tonight comes from that. all of this information is available on the web if you want a little bit more information. but i think there's two real

take aways from the slide here. you can see here, these are the city's greenhouse gas emissions from 1990, which is our baseline year, to 2016, which is the last year that an inventory was conducted. i think a really great message here and something the city should celebrate is the significant rubbings the city has realized since 1990, almost a 30% reduction while the city has seen tremendous economic growth and has increased in population. i think the other thing to take away from this slide when we look at the transportation sector, which is the blue area on the top of every chart, while this has decreased about 9% over that same time period, it has been particularly stubborn, in large part, because of the sector's reliance upon carbon intensive fossil fuels. when we look at the 2016 numbers, they mirrored some of the earlier slides, you can see

some of those opportunities and challenges. and i think one important story that we need to tell within san francisco is the role of public transit as a strong climate tool. and you can see why i -- i am an -- i'm going to argue for that position. when you think about the million or so people that move throughout san francisco on public transit, which is safe, affordable, reliable, helps us build a more equitiable city, and you realize only about 9% of the sector's emissions calm from that form of mobility, you realize the alignment of public health, environment, economics, all coming together. and i think we're going to see that 8%, which is generally from caltrain, b.a.r.t., and ferries, shrink even more. ferries are moving toward renewable diesel, and our

trains are going to electrify. as director raphael mentioned, some of our biggest challenges come from the private sector, and this is cars and trucks moving through san francisco every day. there's really a couple of pathways we need to pursue. i think we need to pursue some bold and innovative actions if we're going to realize the trajectory and realize some of these midcentury climate goals. so this has also been alluded to. this is sort of our city's climate framework or climate brand. it comes from the department of environment. i think it's very effective for us, when we go out and communicate with stakeholders and the public. what i'm primarily talking about is our mode share goal. this is the 80. this is really a reflection of the city's transit first policy and how that gives us guidance on how we organize the public right-of-way to achieve a

number of transportation, safety, economic, public, health, and climate and environment goals. and i think when you think about when transit first was passed by the voters in 1973, you realize that they were thinking more about just shifting away from single-occupancy vehicles. they were also thinking about some of the environmental implications. so i'm going to spend a couple minutes on slides that come from our 2017 travel decision survey. this is a survey that m.t.a. administers every year. and modes are -- are more or less your form of mobility, so airplanes are a mode, boats are a mode, walking and biking are distinct modes, and vehicles are modes. and so when we talk about mode share, we're really just trying to characterize, how do people move around? so this survey, it basically --

the sample size is about 800 people. we administer it once a year. we ask people to think about the trips they've made in the last two days, and a trip is determined between a point a and a point b, so if you think of your daily travel behavior, you may start in the morning, say in the mission, and walk to 16th street b.a.r.t. that is one trip. you then may ride b.a.r.t. to civic center. that is a separate trip. so you realize over the course of a day, somebody's trips may be about half a dozen trips, and this just summarizes in a fiscal year how san franciscans move around. i think this is quite unique. if you think of other cities you visit, you will not see as many walking trips or transit trips, and i think some of the presentations we saw from the tenderloin, san francisco is a very walkable city. this is why we see so many people walking, and that's not

accidental. some of the programs you administer and some of the work that our city family is doing really are trying to make sure that that sidewalk space and that public right-of-way are inviting places to move and low carbon forms of mobility. so you can see sort of the breakdown of how we move around, and this is a slide that shows how that changes over the city and throughout the region, because the survey does ask people for their trips to, from, and within san francisco. and i think something that's important to note, if you look at the three kind of pie charts that are floating in the bay, the -- the top one is for trips to the north bay. the middle one is trips to and from the east bay, and the last one is for our partners in the south bay. i think something that's really important to take note of is the middle one. you can see that the green area, which reflects transit is

really dominating in the pie chart. i would argue that is because of the investments that the region made in b.a.r.t. in the 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's. it was -- it is paying us a climate dividend now, and i think as we look at the investments that we need to pay today and tomorrow, they pay climate dividends for multiple decades, and that's a really important thing to take note of from this survey. i think the other thing you can kind of glean when you look at the different zones is particularly zone one and two which tend to be a little bit more dense, parts of san francisco. we see that really, a lot of people are walking. so how we shape our sort of built environment and our sidewalks really does allow more people to walk, and walking is a really low carbon form of mobility. we really want to support that

going forward. then, this just shows you some trends over time. we've been administering this survey since 2013. you can see we're moving in the right direction. we've been meeting this goal, which is part of our strategic plan, and the which we've characterized this since the 2013 climate action strategy, was we sort of bend them into nonprivate and private. i don't think it's worth getting distracted about how we've characterized that. you could just sort of think about that from a sustainable and nonsustainable way, and you can see we're making progress in the bulk of our trips every year are these sort of sustainable trips. currently, we have a new strategic plan at m.t.a. it's going to span the next two years, and we are actively working with colleagues at m.t.a. and sf environment in determining what types of trips actually are sustainable, and i

think one thing, as you probably are all well aware, the mobility landscape has changed dramatically just in the last five years. we see a lot more choices. not all of them are equal when it comes to their carbon footprint, and we really need to dive into this deeply to understand what types of trips are sustainable so that we can be sure we're lining with some of our policies and priorities going forward. and i think as i have alluded to around the transit first policy, this is a useful slide to kind of illuminate, one thing san francisco is not going to be doing in the years ahead is probably making more streets and more public right-of-way. that's not something cities do. we are really constrained, in particular in san francisco being bound by water on all sides. real estate is incredibly valuable, and we look at this public right-of-way which is basically the sidewalks and the road way, it's a very limited

resource, and we need to do a better job of using it efficiently and making sure it aligns with some of these over overarching policy goals. this on the left, you can see how much space is taken up by 50 people when they travel by bus. in the middle, it's 50 people by bike, and 50 people by single occupancy vehicles. and i think it orients you to how much more real estate and space you have some people are moving in some of these sustainable modes like walking, biking, and transit, and what you can do with that real estate and with that public right-of-way. you can do a lot more when it's not filled with cars that are also contributing to particulate matter. i think it is a useful slide, and hopefully as we move forward and make sure that

we're making investments so in the years ahead we can realize the 2030 goal, you're going to see more and more projects that are captured on this slide. so we, especially with our partners at the t.a. are making significant investments in the infrastructure today. the subway, the salesforce transit center, gus rapid transit, all of those hopefully will pay climate dividends in the years ahead. we also are making sure that we are providing dedicated red lane priority access for our transit and for our bike community so that they have safe networks to travel between home and work. and we want to make sure that we are creating walkable and livable sidewalk spaces and

integrated some of that green infrastructure and sort of that green infrastructure that can make san francisco more resilient in the face of climate impact in the years ahead. we also want to use some policy levers like pricing when we encourage people to shift to different modes. and our own sf park program as we're expanding right now, this is looking at how do we price the curve to really try to drive some change in travel behavior. so that concludes my presentation, and i'm happy to take questions at the end of everyone's presentation. thank you. >> anthony, the next item. >> clerk: next item is item c, presentation on regional efforts to achieve san francisco's transportation and climate goals, including the recent passage of measure 3 of 2018. the speakers of tilly chang,

executive director, san francisco county transportation authority and michelle beaulieu, transportation planner, san francisco county transportation authority. >> so in june of this year, san francisco voters voted to put in place regional measure three, and that raises tolls in regional state owned bridges. when i first heard this, i thought what is the difference between a regional measure and a proposition? they're all on the ballot together. what i didn't realize was how rare regional measures are. so to give you some context, regional measure two was approved by voters in 2004. regional measure one was back in 1988. so these are not that common, and they are way that's we address -- and they are ways that we address goals in money for transportation infrastructure, but they are a real statement of the priority of what the region is thinking when they decide to put this on

a ballot because we know how many propositions they are on every year on every ballot. so this regional measure is something to pay attention to. and because it is so rare, and because it is so recent, we thought it would be very helpful to help us to understand what's in store for san francisco and what's in store for the region now that it's passed. and it turns out that we've got a super hero in our midst in tilly chang, who is the director of the transportation authority. and because we're a city and a county, we have an m.t.a. and a c.t.a., and the c.t.a.'s function is really that long-range planning, the delivery of large-scale capital improvements and undefunding. and so we work a lot with the

c.t.a. on grants. would we work on long range projects together. it's a very complicated landscape, and she has been incredibly generous with our team. last week, her colleague, warren logan came to the policy committee and was talking about their draft he mernling mobility evaluation report. i like to call that what do we do with the network transportation company's report, and it was verien lightening and interesting. she has a lot -- very enlightening and very interesting. she has a lot on her plate, and i just thank you so much for being here tonight. >> thank you for your kind words. president bermejo, and commissioners, i'm tilly chang, director of san francisco county transportation authority. i want to thank you for

allowing me to present on measure 3, and thank you to your director and her team for prioritizing this topic and really being strong partners with us in achieve be our ultimate goals in reaching our climate -- meeting the goals and challenges of our climate imperative but also being very sort of interdisciplinary because the sum is greater than each of the parts if we do coordinate effectively. i want to appreciate debbie and her team especially for being partners in the climate and leaders, especially, with work that is happening this fall as well with the summit. in terms of our strategy, in terms of how we invest in the public sector and private sector. it's a complex task and we value the partnership. in fact we appreciate things like the programs you're

implementing using the prop k sales tax funds. two parts of our agency are county wide coordination planning and funding. thank you again for this opportunity. i have a few handouts, and i'll present those on the overhead. just by way of background, regional measure three began with the drafting of the legislation by the legislature last summer, so i really have to thank everyone for prioritizing this in the form of sb 595. this was signed by governor brown last year. it really was a banner year for transportation funding. they also of course extended cap and trade, which you all know. we've been successful partnering together with sf sliermt and other agencies and winning from grants from that program. even most recently on the affordable housing sustainable communities pot. but sb 595 and regional measure

three was a way to create some funding for growing pains, growing congestion. as you know, we've been growing as a community and a region. there's a tremendous need to maintain our system, but even as we do that with measures such as the state gas tax, these things are happening at the same time as our growing pains. so regional measure three is our third attempt to go to the voters and seek approval for funding to raise the tolls. the goal was to reduce traffic congestion and approve trafg options in the maiden corridors and the options leading to that. and what we were able to achieve was the toll increase passed by voters in june represents a $3 increase in $1

inkments in the next seven years. it's not at all once. we recognize it's tough. it's a very -- we have an affordability crisis. we recognize that this is -- nobody really likes to pay more in tolls. however, with you do view this as an important investment, and we appreciate and are grateful to the voters for their support this past june. in sum, the program will finance $4.5 billion in investments, and they range from a set of specific regional projects to some operating funds totaling $4.5 billion. i'm just going to flip this over, and this is available on m.t.c.'s website as the metropolitan transportation commission as well as our own website, but zooming in a bit to the bay area core in san francisco, what this will fund is a tremendous enhancement to our core transit capacity. a whole set of transit

programs, including b.a.r.t. expansion cars, b.a.r.t. as you know, is 40-year-old system. we are maintaining it thanks to the voters' prior approval of the b.a.r.t. bond funds from a few years ago but this will fun expansion cars to help b.a.r.t. reach their fleet of 1,000. we also have an expansion of ferry services that will be operated by the water emergency transit agency. muni vehicles and also muni train control and main nance facilities are also included in the program. and most importantly or very importantly, our caltrain downtown extension which will currently extend the tracks that currently end at 4th and king. it will bring the tracks up to the terminal, and service the salesforce transit center, which will be opening soon. all these transit investments will sort of coordinate with existing, you know, bus

services and private services as well on our regional freeways. freeways now adays are looking at creating carpool lanes, so this idea of connecting san francisco to san jose with a carpool system, possibly a quick lane system, that's a potential. we will see a west bay tril connection for bicycling and walking on the connection from treasure island to san francisco's main land? that's very exciting. m.t.c. is leading that work. and of course, to the south bay, some major capital investments will include b.a.r.t. to san jose. dun bart and rail, and some other projects around the region. so they're just going to be starting to be programmed out. the first dollars will start to be collected in 2019, and we're

expected to begin seeking some of those funds with our partner agencies starting this fall. i just wanted to turn attention a bit to another program that was very important that is going to be using these r.m. 3 funds and matching them with state funds. what this overhead slide shows is senate bill 1 projects, and the governor and the legislature worked last year to pass senate bill one, which is the road repair and recovery act, and it raised the statewide gas tax so that we could invest and as i mentioned in the main nance of our system. this was a $5 billion peryear program that will fund a whole host of highway and transit projects statewide. san francisco will actually receive about $60 million peryear of this funding to maintain our roads and repave

them. what we'll do is it'll sort of be like a financial sort of puzzle. we put together the limited funds that we do collect locally here through the sales tax, and we that much that money four to seven times with regional measure three and sb 1 funds. what you're seeing on this map is a collection of projects that span through street resurfacing and repaving projects, transit projects for muni, and also some regional projects that will be receiving formula funds as well as competitive funds from several pots. this will include everything from transit inner city rail program that funds b.a.r.t., muni, and caltrain to active transportation projects that fund bike paths and walking -- and pedestrian safety projects. there are a whole host of transit and pavement projects in the neighborhoods, as well. i would refer you to our website at

sfcta.org/revenue/sb1, and we're hoping we can certainly protect these funds. unfortunately there are folks that don't agree with that senate bill 1 revenue source with the gas tax, and there is an effort to repeal the gas tax, unfortunately, on the state built, -- ballot, it qualified and it will be on the november ballot. we feel that it's very important to recognize that these funds are the first in a generation at the stayed wide level that can produce these much needed types of rescue, and rehabilitation benefits. and the protection of the funds i think is something that we're going to need to be educating folks about as to what would happen if we didn't haven ate bill 1 gas tax funds. until the legislation was passed last year, the gas tax had not been raced in california for 20 years --

raised in california for 20 years, and i believe at the federal level, it was about 20 years, as well. so at the fefl and state levels, we had not been investing and we continued to feel we needed to invest those funds. we took the position on no position on proposition 6. we continue to educate the public statewide about the importance of that funding. so in closing, i really want to thank you for the opportunity to discuss some of these important transportation funding measures. we have a $22 billion shortfall. each of these pieces are part of the puzzle of how we're going to get to our climate and transportation goals. thank you very much. >> now we'll have questions for our three presenters, sarah, tim, and tilly. commissioners, questions? commissioner sullivan? >> i have a question for tim, our m.t.a. representative.

it's about sf park. sf park is the dynamic pricing intended to always kind of create 10 to 15% open spots on commercial areas. >> correct. >> what's -- has that now been rolled out citywide, and what's the status? >> yeah. that was a pilot. it was initially federally funded, and just this year -- actually maybe last year, it left the pilot phase and has been expanded citywide? i'm happy to send you a link and that the sort of principle behind that is, you know, the curve in our public right-of-way is an important resource, and it's also an important tool for us to use in order to achieve the mobility system that aligns with some of the policies and priorities we have. and pricing is obviously something that the public responds to. so that -- that's sort of the -- the sort of underlying,

underpinning of sf park is a dynamic pricing. it doesn't fluctuate a whole lot? i'm not an expert on sf park, which is why i'm happy to provide you a little bit more detailed information if that's something you're interested in. >> what i'm saying is it's not -- i'm just wondering if it's gotten to the finish line of what it was planned for. >> i can look and see if they've been collecting data now that it's been rolled out to see how that's kind of increasing parking availability on the -- on the -- on the on-street parking resources that we manage and get back to you on that. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. commissioner wald? >> thank you, president bermejo. first of all, i want to thank all three of you for coming this evening and giving you a slightly over whel with himming -- more than

slightly -- overwhelming, if i'm truthful, but a big thank you for your effort. i have one specific question for sarah, and that has to do with your carpool campaign. clearly, you had a lot of success on social media, and i was wondering if you were able to measure any impact of all the advertising and all the efforts on actual number of people who were carpooling to the schools you were focusing on? >> i will give a caveat that i am more on the outreach team and less so on the safe routes team per se, so i can say -- from what i know, that data has not been collected yet or is still in the process of being collected. perhaps margaret has a better answer on that, but if not, i'm happy to get back to you.

>> can say a longer version of what sarah said, which is the -- obviously, the ultimate goal is not just to do a fantastic advertising campaign, which we did, but also mode shift, the word director raphael introduced at the beginning of tonight's meeting. so the department of public health is the agency that currently conducts all the evaluation for the safe routes to school partnership in this work. they are the lead agency. so in the summer, as we currently are, that's when they go through all of the data that they've collected to do the evaluation from the previous year? so my understanding is that that evaluation is currently in progress, and we hope to have a better sense of what our numbers are before we start the fall. margaret mccarthy, seat belt i don't remember transportation marketing -- senior transportation marketing seenist. >> thank you.

commissionero commissioner ahn? >> buses seem to be getting a lot of play in terms of how they're going to reshape our public transportation system. i know that the board of supervisors has already approved a program to begin piloting -- [inaudible] >> yeah, thank you for that question. m.t.a. has been a pioneer in using low carbon fuels for decades now. most of our fleet is powered by renewable diesel which is much cleaner than the traditional diesel fuel used by most other transit agencies. the overhead line that you see out on our streets, that's bringing renewable energy from hetch hetchy or other providers such as our partners from the p.u.c. and pg&e. so that's why we only

contribute 2% of the city's emissions because we're already using low forms of carbon mobility? but to your question, yes, we are thinking about the next technology and even cleaner fuels? and so recently our board adopted and is committed to having an all renewable fleet by 2035. that may seem like a long time away? these vehicles that we buy, some of which are blended by federal funds, have a life cycle so thus we need to start piloting new technology with electric vehicles you till we're sure that they can perform in san francisco's tough conditions? but we're pretty confident that with the pilot, we should be able to make this 2035 commitment of all electric transit fleet. >> yes. thank you for the question, commissioner, and to build on tim's answer, we are coordinating -- and really,

department of environment is really taking the lead with debbie's work and jessie's work on how we're going to really promote that electrified technology. a.c. trap sit is another partner with us on the treasure island mobility program, and they'll be the first to use electric bus in their system in the bay area. of course sfmta will be setting their pilot program and will be setting that goal of 2035. weta, the ferry operator in the bay area is partnering with the first electric ferry in the bay area. that's kind of an experiment, and cap and trade it's our goal to aggressively seek and receive those federal funds and fund all kinds of pilot programs in the bay area. >> any other questions? if not, we'll go to public comment.

public comment on the three presentations? okay. i guess, hearing none, anthony, the next item. okay. hearing none, going to the next item. >> president bermejo, if you wouldn't mind, would you miepd to pass the reports? >> no mind. >> clerk: okay. the next item is item 10, director's report, this item is for discussion. >> okay. well, director's report. this could be really long, but i won't do that because our last commission meeting in this formal capacity was in april,

which, when i looked at my director's report, and i saw the mayor's earth day breakfast on, i thought what? how can that be? that feels like ancient history, but to -- for full accuracy, yes, i want to announce that we had a wonderful earth day breakfast back in april. and it feels like a long time ago, but it was, and it was a phenomenal success, and many of you know, we have been very busy since our last commission meeting with our outreach efforts to promote battery recycling and drum circles. we were hoping to do a presentation on that at the operations committee meeting, but we had to postpone that meeting due to scheduling conflicts. we had a wonderful announcement about renewable diesel in our ferry fleets, and that is something that tim doherty referred to, that our ferries are going to be the first ferries in the country to switch to renewable diesel.

and we've been rolling out the new service for zero waste. it's now in the bayview and has had wonderful acceptance. less than 20% of people say they don't want the small bins or we want our big bin back, so it's very, very good acceptance level and environment now, and the zero waste time and recology are out educating people. it's big a huge effort, a big lift for all of us. as you know, we get no general fund money, and so the good news is that we -- our budget was approved, so that is very good news. and the other good news is that we've been pretty successful on grants in the last few months. so we got a grant from the department of forestry and fire protection to work with friends of the urban forest in tree planting, which commissioner

sullivan is very well aware of and all his great work is appreciated. we got a grant from -- i'm sorry. we got a grant from the california energy commission to do a blueprint for electric vehicles, so very much figuring out how we take our draft road map and make it actionable and start to figure out how to get electrical infrastructure in place. and we were awarded from air district, the bay area air quality management district, a pilot that is working with our small business community to help them with their refrigeration, making it more energy efficient, making sure leaks aren't happening and them them maintain it. it's one of those very unsexy sounding projects that has so many magical side benefits with improving affordability because of the energy bill, decreasing the leakage of the short lived

climate pollutants that are so potent and helping people get much more life out of arthur equipment, so all of those benefits from working with our small business community. so those are just a touch of the 15 pages of things from the director's report that you have before you. looking forward, it's going to be a very busy couple months. we have the global climate action summit in sept. y -- september. you will be hearing much more about that in terms of the commissioners' engagement. i would put in there are two great websites if you would like to understand what is going on, the governor's website, which is the globalclimateactionsummit.org. not too catchy, but accurate in terms of what it's representing. that is where all