state route, and this will probably not in project and completion in 2019, and the last crash was at broadway near rock t stockton, and that crash involved a pedestrian crossing the block being hit by a vehicle early in the morning, and that construction was under completion. [inaudible] >> -- such as the broad case, and then, projects that are pending implementation where we have projects that are coming but they didn't, unfortunately, come soon enough for the fatal that happened. this was a picture that we did on manzell, again, this is --

mansell, this is just an indication that this is not a safe place to pass other people. we are looking at more changes along the corridor, but again, this is a project that had recently been completed, so it had a lot of other projects built into it. like i said, construction can be an issue. this is a case where we worked chosely with public works in the case of the fatality that happened on broadway. we wanted to make sure that the construction was not a cause or a contributing factor to any of the crash details, so public works staff was on the field with police department immediately after the fatality, and i was able to be at the site at well and talk to people about the crash details. so that's the case of a project that is now completed. there was a ribbon cutting yesterday for the broadway project that has additional improvements in terms of pedestrian sidewalk areas. for the second quarter,

fatalities included ocean and victoria which we discussed as a senior fatality last week. we are making a series of changes to ocean in terms of signal timing and markings, and based on your request, commissioner yee, we are also doing a no turn on red for victoria at ocean, so that will be implemented shortly. there was a fatality at 19 avenue and winston, where we visited the site at night where the crash happened and discovered a streetlight light wasn't functioning, so we indicated that to the sfpuc. arthur and cargo way was kind of a case linked to a criminal activity. vehicle ran and crashed into an intersection. we did not feel that there was a lot of engineering things that we could do at that intersection for the crash itself, but we do have a pending project there to make some changes. at 20 and castro was another case of a fatality where a tow

truck lost control of a vehicle and it slid into a work site and it killed one of our fellow city co-workers, a very tragic incident. and this was considered to be a crash, but again, it was more of a work related incident with a tow truck and the work site, so we have not looked at that location for engineering changes, but instead, other parties are following up, including the parties that investigate the tow truck and the work site conditions. and the embarcadero and sansome, this involved a pedi cab driver being hit by a motorist in a corridor that was under study for cycle track and other. . s and staff has also gone out to the site and looked at other things we can do, shorter than the long-term projects. and finally, the fatalities that happened in july, a

fatality happened at 16 and mission, where a pedestrian was walking midblock and was hit at mission. we are doing some changes at the intersection of 16 and mission in terms of extending a transit bulb. we had already done a red lane project on that street. and then, finally, the crash we had just discussed with caltrans at 36 and sloat, where caltrans the prior week had activated a new h.i.c. beacon, and the pedestrian was crossing the street. >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you very much for your presentation. by the way, i'm really happy that we have this response team that's been created so that the different departments can actually share the same information and data and do the analysis together because it seems like in the past, there's been a lack of coordination. from your presentation, i can see that you're doing a lot

more what we call reactive strategies, i guess, after the fact. and one of the things from even last week that i mentioned is that we can't forget to also be proactive in trying to get this -- use the information you're getting to look at other situations to say even though it hasn't happened in the particular intersection, let's be proactive and just go ahead and do the -- whether it's engineering projects to improve the intersections or to put a signal or whatever, you know. i think those are important steps that we take. thank you very much. >> yes. i was to emphasize that my presentation is purely focused on a reactive part of the work we do. i think it's important, but obviously, the agency and the

city are also working on a proactive basis to look at where could the next fatal happen, install traffic signals, signal beacons, additional markers, regulations. we're retiming the entire downtown area, and we're looking at what additional safety recommendations we can do. there's a very proactive component as well, and whatever lessons we learn from the crashes, severe and fatal, we also try to extrapolate and figure out how can we learn from these so they don't repeat themselves and apply them in a proactive fashion where they don't happen again. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much for your work and your presentation, mr. oleja. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee: any public comment on this item? come on up.

>> thank you. kathy deluca. we know that vision zero is just bigger than responding to individual crashes but it matters to people who are impacted, to communities who are impacted, so i just want to thank the sfmta for their quick work and responsiveness. >> hello. commissioners. my name is kristin lecke. in the days following the hit and run on the embarcadero, i was regularly in touch with people who new kevin manning, the pedi cab operator who eventually passed away from injuries from the crash. i am concerned about the people who are impacted by these traffic collisions are not yet being supported. in the days following kevin's death, we were immediately working with his close friends and family for a ghost bike memorial event. where was the c.r.t. then?

then, we turned out for an m.t.a. board meeting. while we appreciate the condolences from director ed reiskin, there was no mention of the rapid response team or the results of their engineering team to bring near term improvements to the embarcadero. time and time again, it is instead up to the friends and family who are grieving after loss to push for more. on behalf of our 10,000 members, we urge the city to do more and to do it faster. if even the loss of life isn't enough for immediate street safety improvements, our city is failing our people. commissioners, thank you again for bringing this to the attention and let's keep pushing our city departments to do more. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. any othermen comments, colleag? seeing none, then, this informational item -- let's move quickly to item six. >> clerk: item six, update from vision zero community groups. this is an information item.

>> supervisor yee: miss deluca. >> good morning, noonish, good afternoon. good afternoon, chair yee, and commissioners. i am kathy deluca, the project coordinator for walk sf. so first, i'll start with the senior and disability work group. so this group forms in -- formed in 2016, and ad vocates from several departments came together and decided we needed to do something. it wasn't okay that two was

killed. we knew that market was a high injury corridor. so we quickly formed this group, and we actually rallied together and made some changes. we were able to get leading pedestrian intervals on market street after we joined together. we got better turn restriction signage because we know on the safer market street project there are a lot of turn restrictions, and is it ae confusing -- and it's confusing, and we were also involved in the city driver training, so we've been getting a lot of good things accomplished together. the city has been putting in a lot of protected bike lanes, which is really good, but there are a lot of consequences, and so we got a group together to talk about this. basically, when you have protected bike lanes against the curb, you lose access to the curb, so folks who used to pull up to the curb and get out on the curb, which is really

important for seniors and folks with disabilities, that access is gone. and now if you're getting out from the curb, you have to cross a bike lane. so we wanted to really talk about this and make sure that improvements that are really important for bicyclists that should happen could also work for seniors and people with disabilities. so we had a big workshop in march. we invited city staff from all different agencies, advocates, consultants, and we even had folks from oakland department of transportation come. and we had a great day really opening up this conversation and talking about the challenges that these communities face and coming up with solutions. so -- and i just wanted to give you a few examples because i think visuals help kind of understand what we're talking about. so when we have transit islands, when the bike lane's against the curb, and we have a transit island, it could be

harder fore people with disabilities and seniors to get off the island. is it a ramp and only on one end of the island? that could be difficult for seniors and person with disabilities. if you're blind or a person with low sight, and you're used to going to the curb to find your bus stop, and then somehow the bus stop moves out into the street, how are you supposed to find out where that is? so we were talking about how can we make this work? we talked about sidewalk level bike lanes, which is the city is planning in some of our corridors, which again for seniors and people with disabilities there are a lot of concerns with that mixing. we know that those people are more at risk if they're in crashes, so we talked about how to design these so that they were safe. floating parking. so if the bike lane is protected by parking, this is -- this is causing all sorts of challenges for folks with disabilities and seniors. so again, you used to be able to step out of your car onto

the curb, but now you're stepping out from your car into this hatched zone. so sometimes folks find that hatched zone isn't big enough to get your walker or stroller out. sometimes instead of, again, you used to be able to step right onto the curb. now you have to travel down this zone and try to get onto the curb which is a longer distance to cross. and the group also found there were few you are accessibility parking spots. we could go into this forever, and i like to -- oh, again, post protected bike lanes, just an unintended consequence is how are folks who need to get to a destination right at that location accessing it? it's blocked now. so we had this great discussion where we talked all of these -- these problems out, and we came up with a handful of solutions. and so the group really talked about hey, if we had raised

crossings across the bike lanes, that would really help pedestrians be safe and visible. if we had really visible and predictable crossings, that's going to help people find these transit islands. universal design was talked about a lot, which is just making sure a street -- a design of anything, street building, works for everybody, so we talked about that. the group also -- you know, we tried not to get mired in write offs, so this group just thought we needed more space for people. and then, flexible designs where you can try things -- this was a short-term low case transit island that the city put in, and trying these out and seeing how they work. and finally, the group found the need for multiple access and crossing points.

sometimes the island is really long, and there's only one ramp at the end. so that is a ton of info -- okay. that's a ton of info, but i skbru just wants to raise this info because i don't think the group was talking about it, and we want to make sure that vision zero includes everyone. we're continuing this conversation, and the senior and disability work group is -- we're actually going to form a temporary design review group with the city to make sure we're looking athe some of these new designs and really getting some standards down that will work. we're also going to be putting together a toolkit with all the information that's easy to digest that we can handout and share with other cities because we've gotten input from other cities because it's really not happening elsewhere, so that's the power of this group. >> supervisor yee: could you remind me this group, when did

it finish meeting and come up with these solutions? >> these -- so we met -- this charrette, this workshop was in march. so we have been meeting with the city since then to figure out next steps, and then, we recently decided to form the design review group, and so we're still working on this toolkit, too, so we're going to get that done in the next month or so. so that's kind of a lot of information for you about the senior and disability work group. we're going to keep working on the protected bike lane work because we're not done yet. and then this year, we're going to work on safe streets for people with disabilities. we love the safe streets for seniors program, and we really want to see an equal focus on folks with disabilities. so that is the first group that we are fortunate to be involved with. the other group is near and dear, i know, to supervisor yee's heart, san francisco and bay area families for safe streets. so commissioner stefani, i don't know if you've had a

chance to hear about this group yet, so i'm excited to get to tell you about it. so walk sf has the great privilege of working with this group and supporting this group, which is why i'm here to tell you about it. so sf bay area families for safe streets is a group of people who have survived crashes or who have had loved ones who had have been in crashes or loved ones killed in crashes, and they came together to basically support each other and advocate to the end of preventible injuries and deaths on our streets. so they're an amazing group of individuals, super inspiring. here you'll see one of our members. elvin lester, speaking with acting mayor breed in the beginning of the year to really announce that vision zero victory last year. this group has accomplished a lot in two years. they formed two years ago, and then, subsequently put an event

on in 2016 and 2017, and every year, participation has just gone through the roof. so really great way to raise awareness of this problem. last year, we were super excited, our members -- so we're a bay area wide group, not just san francisco. some of our members live in san jose, and they lunched their first day of remembrance in san jose, so we're really excited to continue that again this year. automated speed enforcement, which we all know about. this group, san francisco bay area families for safe streets was the heart behind getting this bill to sacramento, was the heart of getting this bill sponsored and the heart of getting this bill the furthest any bill has ever gotten for automated speed enforcement. they haven't given up. they're going to keep meeting with folks and keep testifying and keep working so that no one has to die from speeding in this city. they worked a lot with the

department of public health on a traffic fatality response protocol. it's not the one that ricardo was talking about. that's the rapid response. this is when a traffic fatality happens in san francisco, this is a protocol that all of our city agencies work to come together to basically make sure when someone's killed in a crash, there's a quick response, tfamily gets sort of a -- not sort of, gets a quick response. a lot of times, the victim gets blame. they should have had a helmet on. that sort of language does not work for people suffering trauma, so the families were able to work with city agencies, talk to the police department, talk to fire, talk to the department of public health, and the city respond does with this amazing protocol, which i think is really a model for the whole country. the group has been involved with ad campaigns with the

sfmta and john knox white, to really spaed awareness of traffic campaigns in our city. we had our first retreat this summer where we came together and stepped back and start today do some planning, so that was really exciting. and then finally, just last week, the group won the golden wheel award from the san francisco bike coalition which was a really big honor and big deal. so i will end by telling you what we're going to do now. they're going to go to new york in december for the nshl bike cities conference. we're planning day of remembrance, which will be november 18, and we're hoping you'll all join us, and we're doing a lot of foundation building for the group. we kind of got out of the group really quickly with a.s.e., and now we need to step back and get some things in place. but we're really strong and really excited, and so i hope that the group can come -- i

hope some members can come and meet you all. it's hard. some of the members have full-time jobs and they don't live in the city, but i hope you can get to meet some of them in person because i'm just a full-time representative. so that's all. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you for your presentation and any questions? seeing none, any public comments? >> hello, again. i'm kristin lecke from the san francisco bicycle coalition. i just want to take a minute to thank walk sf and the working group for the great charrette they held this past march on how the city can design bike lanes that are safe and accessible for all pedestrians.

through my own work to extend healthy saturdays year-round, i've been lucky enough to work alongside rec and park and the mayor's office on disability in regards to access ibltiblity -- accessiblity issues in the park. we're very excited to be a part of these conversations and we look forward to making more spaces accessible for all ages and abilities in the city. thank you. >> supervisor yee: okay. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i -- oh . okay. so the recommendations from the disability community, i know you're putting it altogether, and i know at some point,

the -- i guess sfmta would look at it, but in our next meeting, i want to make sure it's on the agenda that we get a response in terms of what has -- how sfmta will be utilizing some of these recommendations and -- and whether or not there's a plan to move forward with some of these recommendations. so that should be on our next agenda. okay. thank you very much. so this information item, can i have the item number seven. >> clerk: item seven, bold ideas update and next steps for action strategy. this is an action item. >> supervisor yee: bold ideas.

>> good afternoon. my name is ryan reeves. i work at m.t.a. at our vision zero program lead. i'm going to talk to you very quickly because i know we're the last item about a recent workshop we held for the bold ideas and how that feeds into the next action strategy that we're developing. so we held this some response to the vision zero coalition as well as supervisor yee's office to really think about the longer plan for vision zero. our goal was to talk about what else we needed in the city to really move the needle beyond -- move the needle for vision zero. we had more than 70 people attend, including about half representing community groups or advocacy organizations, and we also offered a scholarship or a stipend for people who wouldn't otherwise be able to taebd to increase our -- attend

to increase our outreach and participation. these are long-term initiatives that we want to advance that might have significant political challenges, perhaps have high costs, perhaps are equity concerns to really think through carefully or might require legislative changes to achieve. so these are the six bold ideas that were elevated by our community groups who attended the workshops, and i'm just going to briefly go through these. we also have a report in more details that we can share with you. so the first is this idea for major street redesign is that we could really continue to do these even more transform ative projects as part of a larger citywide conversation about a lot of the tradeoffs that tend to hold us back. in terms of high visibility community engagement, so this is really thinking about a

culturally per sesive marketing campaign about behavior change? think about something like an antismoking campaign. something we've been thinking about is how we can get our vision zero out more on an informational level? how can we really extend our marketing and -- excuse me or education and outreach to really reach the broader bay area. for automated enforcement, this is building not only on automated speed enforcement but also thinking about enforcement opportunities for things like illegal turns? so this is something that would require legislative change for us to pursue? curb side management, so this is really about how we are currently using our curb space and are we really reflecting the flexibility of the needs of the curb that we're seeing today for pick ups and drop

offs? again, this would require a larger city conversation around parking relative to other needs in the kmubt. the next one is about changing urban speed limits? so this would involve legislative change that would allow you to change the methodology in terms of how we set our speeds, and it would reflect safety and mobility goals a little bit more than our current methodology that we're authorized with? so again this is something that would require political support and legislative change. and this last one is pricing, which is really a demand management strategy that has potential cobenefits for safety? and they're really opportunities to think about this beyond just a citywide pricing strategy but also like a quarter pricing or pricing for emerging mobility services. and so we would need a citywide conversation on the value of doing something like this. so this is just the beginning of the conversation, and these

are the gold ideas that community and citigroups at our workshop really elevated that they're looking at us to think about more. so in terms of how theed bold ideas feed into our next action strategy, we're developing that to release in march of next year as a policy platform for some of these bold ideas. so our first action strategy in 2015 really laid what the vision zero and established public safety as a public health crisis. in 2017 we moved beyond the five e's that are defined at safety and started thinking about vision zero as a safe systems approach? and now we see this next action strategy as a real opportunity to elevate these bold ideas as a policy platform. so just at a very high level, some things that we're envisioning that would be different. again, this policy platform for

our leaders to think about at our next meeting, what can we think about pursuing. synergy is thinking about the cobenefits that we need to achieve our other citywide goals to really accomplish and achieve vision zero. within safe streets, we really want to emphasize engineering aspects, and so thinking about how do we link more of our capital improvement program into our action strategy. lastly, for safe vehicles, our current action strategy is really focused on city fleet, and we've seen with all the emerging mobility trends that we really want to better address how we're going to think about autonomous vehicles and other emerging technology. and across all of these, we

will continue to have a strong focus on equity as a core principle. so we're currently in our outreach process for action strategy, and we'll be developing content in the fall with the goal of releasing in march of next year? and for my last slide, i just want to briefly highlight some of the outreach that we've been doing? so we had a workshop yesterday with the community? we had about 70 people attend a four hour workshop to talk about the new ideas and the things that are important to them as we move forward? we're going to be holding something now that we're doing that we're calling coffee talks in your districts as well as across all the districts in san francisco to really go to the community and to the public to make sure that they are engaged -- people who aren't otherwise to spend half a day with us to talk about the action strategy? so we're going to places like senior centers, food pantries, to really get that input. so we really want to make sure in this action strategy, we're

reflecting what we've heard from the community? and we look forward to sharing more with you as we move through the outreach process. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. could i ask, with the strategy -- not the congestion, but the one before that, with the -- >> yeah, the speed limits? >> supervisor yee: the speed limit. what was the thinking beyond that? >> i -- i think it was -- just from what we heard, being able to reduce speeds across the city, and there's been some state legislation that would look at changing the methodology in terms of how you can set speeds to better reflect safety? that state legislation has changed a bit in terms of the scope, and it's now being

proposed as a state task force to sort of explore these issues more? so we don't see the actual legislation moving forward in its original state, but it's an opportunity to really think at a state level of how do we better think about safety in terms of setting speeds. >> supervisor yee: what's -- what are our restrictions for setting speeds in san francisco? i know -- >> [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: i know if it's caltrans or whatever, it's a little more difficult. it took forever to slow down monterey boulevard, but we were eventually able to do that, and we were able to do the school zones to be 15 miles per hour. is this something that the state controls or can we just lower speeds?

>> hi, commissioners. i'm an engineer with the sfmta. currently in the state of california, we're required to follow the provisions in the california netcd for setting speed limits based on the 85th percentile of flee flree flow traffic, so our hands are kind of kind of tide when it comes to reducing speed limits. we typically do a speed survey, we sample 100 vehicles in free flow conditions, we take 85th percentile of that speed, we then round up our down to the nearest five miles an hour increment, and we can typically reduce that on things such as land use, population density -- we typically take that reduction in all studies that we do given the land use and density in all areas of the city. >> supervisor yee: so i think i heard that same explanation

for monterey boulevard in which they originally said they couldn't slow down because they tested it, and it -- are there waivers to that or is it just just you have to follow that particular requirement area? and then, the question i have, i don't know if you mentioned this, but london, the city of london is exploring or maybe implemented for the city core area, central area, that they're going to slow their traffic down to 20 miles per hour, so is that something that we're thinking about for san francisco? at least, if not everywhere, i mean, in the core area of the downtown and financial district and so forth? >> i can answer your first question. in terms of waivers from the 85th percentile, speed seeding methodology, we can arbitrarily

set lower speed limits, but they're not enforceable through electronic means, meaning sfpd cannot issue citations using lidar or radar if there's not a valid 85 prs tile speed survey. in terms of -- i'll turn the mic back to ryan in a bit, but in terms of setting speed limits as part of our north of market and south of market retiming project that ricardo was describing earlier where we're retiming about two thirds of our signals citywide, we are typically lowering it to 20 miles an hour, so we are trying to do as much as we can under the legal framework that we operate under. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. >> on your second question, it's not something we're currently exploring that i'm

aware of. i think this bold idea that we heard from the community groups is really just about changing the methodology to give us more flexibility and better reflect safety as a real goal in speed setting. >> supervisor yee: okay. which means that we're really thinking of the lower speeds. >> yeah. >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you very much. >> and i think linda from the t.i.d. did have a few comments on connectsf, is that right? >> supervisor yee: what? i'm sorry? more presentations? >> i'm sorry. maybe i misunderstood. no -- then no other comments. thank you. >> supervisor yee: okay. did i ask for public comments on this already? any public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: i guess there's no other comments on this item, so this is an

informational item. next item, please. >> clerk: item eight, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> supervisor yee: no. >> clerk: item nine, public comment. >> supervisor yee: any general public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor yee: and so is meeting adjourned yet? >> clerk: yes, no other items. >> supervisor yee: okay. meeting is adjourned.

>> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban

center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their

homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going

to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after

the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those

buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san

we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining

>> i came to san francisco inng 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the apartment for the program come

along. you wouldn't have believed it. so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn't have been brought back. we wouldn't have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i welcome it. they had to hire a company and they came in and cleaned up all the walls. they didn't paint the whole apartment, they just cleaned up the mildew part, cleaned up and straighted it and primed it. that is impressive. i was a house painter. i used to go and paint other people's apartments and then come back home to mine and i would say why couldn't i live in

a place like that. and now i do. >> my passion for civil service is inspired by a tradition. scda stands for supervisorory control and data acquisition. we can respond to an alarm, store history, so we can look at previous events and see what went wrong and if we can improve it. operations came to scda and said, can you write a program that would run the pumps at crystal springs pump station to

eliminate peak power usage during daytimes, and we performed that function. i love the puzzle. every time there's a problem that comes up, it's a puzzle that has to be solved, and we do it. >> travis writes all the code for the original water system. he is super passionate. he knows every little detail about everything. he's a great troubleshooter. he can walk into the plant, we can tell hem an issue, and he'll nail down what the problem is, whether it be electrical, mechanical or computer. he works very well with others, he knows how to teach, very easygoing, great guy to work with. >> my passion for civil service is inspired by a tradition. i'm performing a task that has been done for thousands of

years. the aztec had their aqueducts and water supply for the city. we bring water from the hetch hetchy reservoir, and we don't pump it. the romans would have been proud. my name is travis ong. i'm a senior i.s. engine

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san francisco iss are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for

them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our stores with you that process helps to divert things it from local landfills if the san francisco area. >> and the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. >> it brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to make sure we're capturing all the value in the textiles. >> with the help of good will

and other businesses san francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us

[ gavel ]. >> supervisor tang: all right. good afternoon, everybody. welcome to our land use committee meeting for monday, july 30,